The last thing we need in a game of life is a way to measure our progress… and the ability to “Level Up” in Life. The AnWiMoTo gameplay is deigned to help you fight appropriate bosses so you don’t get destroyed by life’s bigger problem until you’re ready.
But this anlso helps you understand the next challenge and gain skills and experience to help you balance and maximize your character and gameplay style to unlock the powers and abilities available only to those who have proven themselves able to handle the resources and help the most people level up themselves.
Let’s dig into Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to understand the basic theory that the AnWiMoTo XP system is built on:
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As you saw in te quick video above- this system was designed to evaluate society and human needs in general, how do we apply them to life to help us figure out the next best “Boss Level” challenge to face? That’s where the Spiral comes in.
Spiral dynamics is pretty difficult to explain and understand. Most of us in America are in Blue/Orange stages- a mix of governance and Freedom. But this is a lot like the teenage years of most of us! It’s liberating but requires you sacrifice and work toward growth.
IF WE DON’T WORK TO LEVEL UP, WE STAY AT OUR CURRENT LEVEL UNTIL LIFE FORCES US TO CHANGE.
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Dig a little deeper…
REFLECT
You’re probably at level 4 (blue), 5 (orange), or 6 (green) if living in relative safety in a modern society with food, shelter, and social connections, along with a safe political and cultural environment for you. (This is hard to discern at lower levels because there is not enough time or experience to form our ideas outside cultural expectations.
With each level, Write down if you think you have these attributes mastered and under control or you want more skill and ability at this level of life.
1.Beige – The Instinctive Self
- Driven to survive. The Instinctive Self is archaic, basic, automatic, and instinctive. It thinks and acts in a needs-driven, wish-fulfillment manner.
- The primary theme of the Instinctive Self is to “do what you must just to stay alive.”
2. Purple: The Magical Self
- The Magical Self wants safety and security. It is tribalistic, magical, and mystical. Looks to the gods and higher powers with rituals for protection.
- The underlying theme of the Magical Self is to “keep the spirits happy and the tribe’s nest warm and safe.”
3. Red: The Impulsive Self
- The Impulsive Self drives for power, glory, rage, and revenge. It is egocentric, exploitative, impulsive, and rebellious. The Impulsive Self believes it can take what it wants by aligning with power.
- The basic theme of the Impulsive Self is “Be what you are and do what you want, regardless.”
4. Blue: The Rule/Role Self
- The Rule/Role Self seeks the ultimate peace, locked in the battle of good and evil. It is absolutistic, obedient, purposeful, and authoritarian. By following the rules and exceeding its given role, it will know the fundamental truth. Most religions and religious values are rooted in this stage.
- The theme of the Rule/Role Self is that “Life has meaning, direction, and purpose with predetermined outcomes.”
Orange: The Achiever Self
- The Achiever Self desires autonomy, achievement, and self-interest. It is materialistic, strategic, ambitious, and individualistic.
- The purpose of the game is to compete and win: material pleasure, acquisition, and the advancement of civilization. How? By learning how to excel at everything it does, setting and achieving goals, measuring success, and so on.
- The Achiever Self builds businesses, advances science, and drives progress in medicine, as well as most aspects of modern society. It creates hierarchies of domination (comparisons, “better than,” etc.). Orange became the dominant wave during the Industrial Age and continues through the technological and information age.
- The primary theme of the Achiever Self is to “act in your self-interest by playing the game to win.”
Green: The Sensitive Self
- The Sensitive Self lives by connection, community, egalitarianism, and consensus. It is relativistic, personalistic, pluralistic, and sensitive. Green appreciates diverse views and focuses on the needs of the many.
- The Sensitive Self wave first emerged during the counterculture movement of the late 1960s. With the “green wave” came awareness of human and animal rights, which gave birth to feminism, racial equality, postmodernism, and other movements. Liberalism and activism are expressions of the sensitive self.
- The underlying theme of the Sensitive Self is to “seek peace within the inner self and explore the caring dimensions of community.”
Yellow: The Integral Self
- The integral self seeks to become whole and synthesize all the levels that came before it by awakening as many lines of intelligence as it can and integrating them into a cohesive whole.
- It is systemic, ecological, flexible, and conceptual. By learning and adapting, it can incorporate the levels that came before it.
- The primary theme of the integral self is to “live fully and responsibly as what you are and are learning to become.”
Turquoise: The Holistic Self
Compassion and harmony guide turquoise. It seeks peace in an incomprehensible world by developing a more profound receptivity of multi-dimensional perspectives without privileging any of them.
SPECIAL NOTE ON “LEVELS”
Levels are not hierarchical, they’re sequential and interrelated to you, your surroundings, and the resources available to you. It’s not “better” or “worse” to be at different levels. As a matter of fact, the higher we go the more complex and challenging life MUST become to let you continue to grow.
THAT’S IT!
At this point you have completed the first beta of the AnWiMoTo Protocol. Thanks for being a part and you can sign up on the front page to learn more about our program and goals! The next page will be a playlist and resources and a podcast to help you understand how this program can help you grow and level up while you maximize your potential!!!
SUPER LEVEL UPS: (phase 2 sneak peek)
Want to SUPER level up? Want to learn more about the simulation and consciousness? Dig deeper here, here, and here.