Jordan Myska Allen - Seeing Circling through the Integral Altitudes

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1		Circling Is...	The developmental pull Circling gives . . .	The Beauty of this level in Circling	Circling could accidentally foster an addiction to...	Circling could accidentally foster an allergy to...	skillful ways of being with someone else in such an addiction (could be translation or transformation)	A better view to adopt, to shake you out of your fixation (to self)

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3	Magenta	What keeps me safe; my tribe	I'm safe enough to act out	Sense of tribe	Safe container	being challenged	Own your desire for touch (modeling)	There's more safety in self-determination
4				Openness to non-sexual touch (ie: Cuddling)	Magical thinking	doing things on your own (outside of relationship/safe container)	Move body to the floor (owning)
5				A sense of magic and awe at life/nature			(Being with) What's threatened? In other words, what current perception of reality shows them that they need safety?
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8	Red	Where I can express myself! (I can do what I want here)	I have to be with the group's impact and notice my part of the bigger whole (without trumping my expression)	Raw expression	Self-expression without care/awareness of the other	Tradition, ritual / pomp & circumstance	Own your power (modeling)	"Owning" always includes feeling your impact on others (we're always connected and already feeling the impact)
9		Where I can gain power, pick up a mate		Reowning sexuality	Power drive to control and set your own egoic agenda	Withholding personal expression	Own how it is for you to be with them, without blame (owning)	Impact is trying to liberate us
10				Unshaming power, desire, dominance	(1st person perspective)		Be with their vulnerability of letting others in which threatens this fragile self-sense (being with)
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13	Amber	The right way to communicate	Requires me/us to challenge authority and share personal opinion different from the norm	Other people matter and are real	Rules of engagement: "I" Statements etc	non-Circling expressions	Own how it impacts you, using the official language (modeling)	"Being with" always includes "I" (how else you can be with them—otherwise you're just merging)
14		A set of norms we all must follow		It's ok that I want people to like me	"Getting someone's world" at the expense of self	"not deep" people	Show the impact of the non-truth of following protocol (owning)	Trusting and Owning Experience against the grain
15		What my friends are all doing		Clear rules of how to live life.	(2nd person perspective)		Imagine why they need this... what current vulnerability has them ....? (being with)
16							Simply don't participate... the silence speaks for you and you aren't bullied by the norms
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19	Orange	The best way to communicate (and I'll lose/be stagnant if I don't get better at it)	Requires me to continuously deconstruct objective reality and see the impact of subjectivity	Working really hard means we'll grow fast and often	Needing to always go deeper and get more	Superficial connection	(modeling)	Nowhere to get
20		The most effective way to see my blind spots		Emphasis on pragmatic - what are we actually acheiving right now?	Rationalizing, analysis, and privileging the mind	Self-compassion	Own your desire without attachment to outcome; own what it's like to own and not need to get (owning)	Open to not-knowing, trust, and sensation
21				Challenging perspectives not based on evidence	(3rd person perspective)		What's bad about now? With genuine curiosity (being with)	Acknowledging blindspots
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24	Green	The most inclusive, welcoming, and egalitarian practice	Requires me to face performative contradiction: "My perspective that all truths are relative is an absolute truth"	Powerful community	Pluralism (Everything is equal) / no perspectives carry more truth or are more loving than another	Structure	Own your perspective and share how it feels to not be seen or included (modeling)	Own your value judgements and owning your relative hierachy is...
25		Finally something that honors all perspectives	I have to own where I think I'm doing this better than you (where I'm already judging)	True inclusiveness	deconstructions	Roles	Honor the value structure and language in a way that shows its self-contradiction (show how hierarchy can actually increase care)	Feeling into your investment into Circling and how much you've put in (versus others)...
26		The least violent way to communicate	I have to see the violent imposition of my non-violent, non-imposing stance	Willing to examine and possibly deconstruct anything and everything	priveliging the heart/gut over mind	Hierarchy	A deep inquiry into what's so important to them about equality/justice? (Being with)	Not including your head is a very heady proposition
27		A paradise of no rules, no hierarchy	See interpenetration (see how I'm also projecting whenever I see someone else projecting)	Appreciates the power of being seen (and seeing others, for the sake of itself)	prioritizing "yin"		Reflect until the contradiction is self-apparent (Being with-ish)	truly yin would have to include yang - "yin first" is a yang boundary on how to be
28			Group's feedback shows the limitations of infinite perspective taking and need for mission/discernment	Willingness to make mistakes, try half-baked ideas, and lead even without a lot of experience	"processing"
29				The importance of listening	(4th person perspectives)
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32	Teal	Developmental rocket fuel	Forces me to integrate head/heart/gut/sex, reintegrate Green, and see the limits of my autonomy	Appreciates the value of disctinctions and how pieces of our being fit together	disctinction making and making sense of things in general	Other practices and their gifts	Make a powerful distinction based on in-the-moment experience in the relationship (modeling)	Embrace the other pole
33		A grounded spirituality	A live, in-the-moment reowning forces one to embody and feel lower levels and shadow material from moment to moment rather than "going to get them" in some later process	Powerful expressions of boundaries and self-determination, even in the face of social pressure	falsely generalizing wholeness (seeing patterns/commonalities when they aren't really there)	The "everyday" work of daily living (the modern-day equivalents of chopping wood and carrying water)	Own your longing for communion—a playmate, growth, desire to be seen, related with (owning)
34		The practice of integrating all perspectives	Doing the work' in relationship forces the the false-self into vulnerability	Highly efficient and effective growth and integration of shadow material	autonomy (over interdependence)		See their complexity and loneliness (being with), meet it at an embodied level	See the illusion of naming and how it constructs experience
35		I get help integrating my shadow and seeing how I'm always projecting		Really wants and values the honest feedback	specialness of the self / personal experience	specialness of the self / personal experience	Show where they're not surrendering (what they're defending, what they're holding on to instead of opening to truer truth)	(I can't name this feeling and actually be with it at the same time)
36					Trying to complete myself through always including more		Speak past the surface expression to a soul level
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39	Turquoise	A practice of surrender	Invites me to the raw experiential flux beyond the language habit	Genuine transpersonal experience and group field awareness	Being with	Direct and decisive action	(modeling)	Choose: Act : Include
40		A felt-experience microcosm of self-organizing intelligence of the Kosmos	supports non-verbal/energetic expression and clowning/trickster	Grounding into infinite change and the power of not-knowing	Surrender without will	Leading from will	(owning)	The ego self must be a part of surrender; surrender requires your self to move
41		A way to experience our interconnectivity	Leading demands a willfulness of the self that can feel anathema to the surrender mindset (but is categorically included); in other words it encourages expression of our unique-self	Willingness to feel and fully embody all the ways of being human	Leveling polarities	Surrendering to a polarity, Cutting off perspectives	What's wanting to be a certain way (or what's wanting to resist)? What's aware of that, and what's that like? (being with)
42		Inseparable whole-part; self-other; self-transcendence and self-acceptance in action	Forces you into simplicity	A genuine appreciation of the beauty of all kinds of people at all developmental levels and walks of life	Believing you could screw it up	self-trust and confidence
43				Learning from anyone and everyone	Uncertainty	Systematizing and planning
44				Full embrace of the relationship and "being made up by" each other (at least partially)	flux/ ever-changing-ness
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48	Indigo	A practice of being	Invitation to not just be in relationship and dialogue with others, but with the Kosmos, life itself moving through and as us	Identifying as the whole - you are all of reality :)	Unique self - full 'being' coming through the individual
49		Opening to new existing realities (that used to subsist)		Feeling the cosmic joke
50		A new paradigm that creates a new world; quite literally in new seer, seeing, and seen
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