A bit of motivation for this course; to emphasize how big this is.

Owning Our Minds

If you study spirituality you may find that ‘thinking’ is ridiculed, as in – be in the now, have no thoughts.

Well this is a feminine suggestion: enjoy the now, be in your heart. Etc.

The masculine function has an important role too, though, and a vital one at that. To understand your reality, to know the truth – this is essential and this is the value of Wisdom.

So loosely speaking, Love is the feminine function – to blindly love, to unconditionally love, to be here now – and Wisdom is the masculine function – to discern, to see truths, to act in accordance of what is requisite.

Later on we will suggest that the best physics to date supports this: that the Unity or Oneness or Wave is the Feminine, and the Masculine is the Individuated or the Breaking Apart or the Particle.

The good news: if we are skilled in our masculine function, we can afford to play in a feminine way much more often, and much more joyously.

Thus we seek to know the truth.

Adult Development

Now to set the stage.

Researchers have created maps of human development containing ‘tiers of consciousness’ that adults move through – stages of consciousness.

Which is to say – that all pigs are equal, and yet some are more piggy than others.

This particular plot is put together by the Integral Institute. It aggregates prominent maps to date, from researchers like Robert Kegan at Harvard, for example.

The x-axis names researchers who’ve created maps of adult development.
The y-axis lists the stages of development they found in their research, which for Kegan: goes 1st order, 2nd order, 3rd order, and so on.
The shared y-axis color scale, created by the Integral Institute in Boulder CO, congeals the various maps into a standard calibration – a shared terminology using into a color schema to play off the analogy of light and frequency.

Mind-Body-Spirit

What we are doing in this ‘Software Upgrade’ Course is starting with one aspect of the evolution project: we are focusing on the mental side, on beliefs, understanding, wisdom.

Doing so will accelerate our process.

Hardware Important Too

In our evolution journey as a whole there’s much more than the mental side- upgrading our beliefs, or getting wiser – we find that as we evolve, our body changes too, even our sense of self morphs from say a point in our head to more often being a tingle gestalt of energy that is soma and environment intertwined.

A keen student will note that ultimately our thoughts and body intertwine, and the energy of our mind is always dancing with form. We can look at our emotions and their effect on the chemical state of the body, as an easy example. But categories are categories, and not really much more.

The Beginning

But, making categories – the mind is arguably most important. For what you set as your reality in your mind will filter how you feel and even what experiences come to you, as we will soon find.

And so we start here: with this course, first and foremost, our Worldview. Beliefs. Guided by science.