energies · VIII / XX · Sphäre B · Körper & Feld · All 20

The eight vMemes are not a diagram.

You walk them — sometimes forward, sometimes backward, often in several domains of life at once. And you return, but never to the same spot: one coil higher. Not a staircase. A spiral.

Do you know the phenomenon of working professionally at the Yellow stage — and falling back to Red in a family quarrel? That is normal. Stages are not identity. They are an access repertoire through which you move.

I — Structure · Measurable

Cook-Greuter (2013, 2024 update) shows via the Sentence Completion Test: adults of the same vMeme stage can act 1-2 stages below or above depending on the situation — stages are not fixed boxes, they are preferred resting points.

II — Flow · Tradition

Sufi teaching: Maqāmāt (stations) on the path the seeker passes through. Hindu teaching: Āśramas (life stages). Christian mysticism (Teresa of Ávila): the Seven Mansions of the inner castle.

III — Breadth · Synthesis

Spiral instead of staircase: growth is not linear. You return to earlier stages — but on a higher coil. In Wilber's phrase: transcend and include.

An ascending spiral ramp of eight coloured bands; small figures stand on different bands. — Plate · VIII Not a staircase, a *spiral*: you return to earlier stages — but never to the same spot, one coil higher.

the great spiral · eight vMemes

1 · Yellow at work, Red in a family quarrel — the editorial desk confirms: reproducible.