[Megan]

I posted the link to Ken Wilber's rather amazing article because I wanted to demonstrate that the Spiral Dynamics scheme isn't any more immune to being seized by people for their own ends than the Power vs. Force scheme.

I think we have to be very aware of the pitfalls inherent in treading on this ground--the projection and megalomania, the personality cult tendencies, the elitist thinking, the marginalizing of whole groups of people--as I mentioned, in short, human nature rearing its universal head.

I posted the Omega Point reference because I agree with you that "the idea of a collective dealie turning into a process turning into a thing (the ABC thing) had some potential, along with the levels of conciousness."

But I don't think we make our own truths. I believe in an Ultimate Reality, towards which we all strive, but I think that, at best, we make approximations of truth, which need to be continually upgraded. It's called evolution. Collective evolution.

Any one person claiming to possess THE TRUTH is delusional, and potentially dangerous, depending on how charismatic he or she is, in my opinion.

David Hawkins is pretty charismatic.