Salvaging the Green Meme

Okay, this blogging thing is getting addicting(-:  I know I have two papers to write for class but this blog just felt important to write.  Due to time restraint I will only start the seed of the idea here and hopefully continue it in future blogs. 

My interest today surfaced around the need to salvage the importance of the green meme and the gifts that it brings to the spiral.  In this sense, how to disentangle it from the pathological snare it has wound itself in but also to address what I sometimes feel has become a simplistic caricature of the green meme for some people who first start learning SDi theory. 

I'll start with admitting my own background is deeply rooted in the green meme, both its healthy and unhealthy sides so I feel that I know the system pretty well.  I was born into an intentional community in a small town and although I didn't stay there, I grew up being put in and out of such kind of communities so I know the beauty that green awareness and community can offer and yes I also have participated in more endless green conversations than I can count(-:  I also grew up in and around poverty and because of this I know I am naturally more inclined to be aware of green meme concerns such as real structural inequalities and oppression. 

My concern is that the caricature of green meme has become so negative in many SDi circles that the real healing that its system brings has started to be lost and this to me is a true tragedy.  I started studying SDi three years ago and for some reason the first thing that I remember sticking out to me about the green meme was a description I read in one of Grave's writings.  He said that the job of the green system was to cleanse the spiral, to heal the pathologies that had broken out to such a severe extent within the five first tier systems.  It was this cleansing that was essential for a healthy emergence into second tier, one that could properly integrate and transcend the first six systems. 

Now that description hits home for me.  All the healing that I've seen done in green through emotional work and shared community values as well as the sense of universal care that addressed massive inequalities and oppressive systems that the unhealthy sides of blue and orange systems had created.  Of course there is much to say for green's pathological side, but I worry for what I sometimes see in people as a need to "be at the top", to "get to second tier" and they bypass the important green cleanse along the way.  The stop and check point that was designed by Spirit's intelligence as a place to go back and figure out what we've dissociated from and pathologically transcended over in our own development up the first five rungs. 

I watch the gut reaction of laughter and repulsion that some people have when I even mention the green meme and I can't help but feel sad for how its been glazed over as unimportant and ultimately only a block to second tier consciousness.  It is true that it can become that, but that isn't the green that I am trying to salvage here. I'm hoping rather to resurrect green's healing qualities so that yellow can gain the benefits.  

It's so important to honor the tools of all the first tier systems and the reasons for their emergence, and yes that includes the green meme(-:

To be continued....