The document explores the relationship between complex carbohydrates, consciousness, and the importance of questioning for personal growth. It emphasizes that understanding how we think affects our decision-making and behavior, and highlights emotional intelligence as a key factor in effective problem-solving. Additionally, it presents Spiral Dynamics as a framework to understand human development and consciousness levels, encouraging deeper introspection and reflection.

1. What do Complex Carbohydrates
have to do with Levels of
Consciousness?

3. Its not only carbohydrates
who are having an
existential crisis, each one
of us is asking the same
questions!

4. Carbohydrates may
be complex but
humans are even
more complex.....

5. Carbohydrates are neither
good or bad / right or
wrong… they are a type of
food that when eaten in the
correct proportion enhance
our health and wellness…

6. How we ask questions
determines the quality of
the answer. Asking a better
question give us a more
satisfactory answer, such as:

7. How much complex
carbohydrates can I include
in my diet to improve my
physical fitness?

8. Knowing how carbohydrates
interact with our unique
metabolism is a far better piece of
information than whether they
are good or bad… for what? Right
or wrong …. For who? And When?

9. The quality of life improves with
the quality of our thoughts which
are based on knowledge which
comes from our questions.
Improve question-asking and you
improve thinking….

10. Clarity of thinking begins with
mental hygiene … We need to
understand not only what we
think but how we think and why
we think what we think .. to be
aware of our consciousness ……

11. If you are interested in learning
more about Consciousness and its
various Levels then send a mail to
frances@hitw.co.za for a
brochure on
“Spiral Dynamics and the Art of
Thinking”

12. “Our Shifting
Consciousness ‐
Changing Paradigms
in a Spiralling World!”

13. The World is constantly
changing and so is our
Consciousness

14. We don't see things
as they are, we see
them as we are.
Anais Nin

15. “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the
madness of people.”
― Isaac Newton

16. No man can
walk into the
same river
twice because
he is not the
same man and
it is not the
same river –
Heraclitus

17. Why are we different?
• WHY do we make
decisions in
different ways?
WHY do we respond to
different motivators?

18. Difference?
Level of
Consciousness!

19. Consciousness???
•HOW people think about things as opposed to
WHAT they think
•Why people make decisions in different ways
•Why people respond to different motivators
•Why and how values arise and spread
•The nature of change and the forces of
disruption – everything counts – how to shift
context

20. • Do your current beliefs empower you to be
your best, or do they doom you to live as a
mere shadow of what you could be?
• Can you honestly say that you are doing your
best or very close to it?
• Are you living congruently with your most
deeply held beliefs?
• Whatever your religious or spiritual beliefs,
how well do you practice them?
.

21. • Do you walk your talk?
• If you really believe something, you will act in
accordance with that belief — always.
• If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt
to defy it.
• If you claim to hold a belief but act
incongruently, then you don’t actually believe
it.
• You’re only kidding yourself

22. What makest otherwise “common” people
become uncommon thinkers and visionary
leaders?
not much
cleverer
than the
rest of us
Dim by teachers ?
yet they proved to
be some of the
wisest world leaders
of all time.
One of the greatest thinkers the
world has ever known

23. Albert Einstein’s school teachers considered
him to be a little dim – yet he became one of
the greatest thinkers the world has ever
known.
On paper, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela are not
much cleverer than the rest of us — yet they
proved to be two of the wisest world leaders
of all time

24. What allows otherwise “common” people to
become uncommon thinkers and visionary
leaders?
The ability to approach life and its problems
with creativity and heightened emotional
intelligence, is what we have experienced.

25. High EQ = Better Fit in 21st C
Individuals with enhanced emotional
intelligence are able to deal effectively with
stress, activate their creative thinking and find
new, inspired ways to solve problems. This
translates into improved productivity, greater
optimism, renewed passion and fulfilling
relationships — in both the professional and
personal environments.

26. The ability to develop enhanced emotional
intelligence is available to everyone — all it
takes is a little training and regular practice.

27. LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Intellectual thought processing
Spiritual recognition - Life purpose, satisfaction, and selfactualization
Psychological understanding
Physical - Medically altered states

28. Maslow
Hierarchy of
Drives
Clare Graves
Levels of
Psychological
Existence
Don Beck
Spiral
Dynamics

30. spirals of complexity
BECK
worldview
Ladder twisting into never-ending
spirals, constantly evolving.

31. A Good Story to tell …..
South Africa
Spiral Dynamics

32. Level of Consciousness (LOC)
In a Polychromatic world

33. Holistic Balanced Thinking
Whole View
Systems Integration Thinking Flex
Flow
Communitarian Humanistic Thinking
Human Bond
Entrepreneurial Scientific Thinking
Strive Drive
Authoritarian Religious Thinking
Truth Forces
Exploitative Feudal Thinking
Power Gods
Tribal animistic Thinking
Kin spirits
Caveman archaic Thinkingsurvival sense

34. SD = 2 Tier Values Evolutionary Framework
Tier 1
Tier 2
1. Caveman
7. Systems Man
2. Tribal Man
8. Holistic Man
3. Feudal Man
4. Religious Man
5. Scientific Man
6. Community Man

36. Spiral Dynamics is a tool used to reveal the hidden codes in
our bio-psycho- social-spiritual conceptual system :
 Shows how value systems emerge in societies
 Maps out a program for raising human capacities to deal
with 21st century complexities.
 Introduces the notion of memes , the scientific study of
"dna-like" codes and patterns that lie at the core of
companies, cultures and countries.
 Describes the role of vital signs monitors in profiling human
groupings, and presents a series of design formulas in
crafting natural systems that align
focus, function, form, fit, flow and future.
 Demonstrates how to synchronize the spiral of
technological complexity, business systems
sophistication, and levels of human development.

37. Why
Spiral
Dynamics?
“To find out what is truly individual in
ourselves, profound reflection is
needed; and suddenly we realize how
uncommonly difficult the discovery of
individuality is.” – JG Jung

38. • To learn more about this new evolutionary
framework of thinking as described by the
Spiral Dynamics model
• contact Frances Kazan for next Seminar
• frances@hitw.co.za or 0833950292