1.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice): Illusion-prone quest of systemic lying -- misleading understanding. It is then led astray by the delusions to which it succumbs, such as desire for gain and fear of loss, and is confused by a multiplicity of views of right and wrong, appropriateness and inappropriateness.

1.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Undisciplined exploration of the problematique: Humanity, having violated its own inmost nature, loses track of the problematique and its significance. Although distracted by this confusion, and exhausted by its efforts, humanity continues its search for a sustainable solution.

1.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science): In quest of a fact-based universal explanation -- readily to be interpreted as "looking for the ox"

1.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): Identification of data to be recognized as factual.

1.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance): Defensive preoccupation with detection of potential security issues threatening the status quo

1.6: Governing (politics, management, control): In quest of a viable integrative strategy/ At this time, it would appear that humanity, as represented by the international community, continues to be embroiled in the pre-systemic, single-factor perspectives of this first phase (ozone, acid rain, "health-for-all", substance abuse, illiteracy, terrorism, AIDS).

1.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring): Effort to frame perceptions in a coherent manner

1.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): In quest of meaningful personal significance

1.9: Believing (religion): In quest of credible universal meaning -- something all-encompasingly coherent to believe in

1.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): Persuading other of the value of a quest.

2.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice): Detection of misinterpretation and misrepresentation -- whether in the form of illusions, lying or evil.

2.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Recognizing traces of the problematique as an integrated system: Repeated (and basically unsuccessful) attempts to locate and contain the problematique through uncoordinated initiatives provide humanity with occasional insights into its nature, especially when more integrated approaches are used.

2.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science): Discovery of traces of hard evidence (concrete proof).

2.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): Acquisition of evidence, however circumstantial

2.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo): Discovery of traces of a deadly threat and vulnerability to systemic integrity

2.6: Governing (politics, management, control): Although recognizing that the problematique, by whatever means, is in some sense engendered by humanity as a whole, there remains a basic confusion between truth and falsehood, especially when it seems obvious to some that another particular group can be usefully blamed for specific problems. Environmental and systems insights (tropical forests, global warming) are shifting the focus to this second phase.

2.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring): Collating evidence of the unsuspected

2.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): Degree of recognition of personal implication

2.9: Believing (religion): Believing the ultimate significance of the reality implied by the traces

2.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): Educating others into the meaning of that reality

Phase 3.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice):

Phase 3.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Focusing on the problematique as a whole: Having cultivated a more intuitive insight, enabling it to integrate its complementary modes of perception, humanity focuses directly on the problematique, recognizing its many manifestations as consequences of different forms of inappropriate human intervention.

Phase 3.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science): Perceiving the factual nature of the model

Phase 3.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): Acquiring a sense of the reality of what is perceived.

Phase 3.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo): Defending the coherence of the recognized reality

Phase 3.6: Governing (politics, management, control): There are episodic exercises in focusing on the problematique as a whole (Brandt Report, Brundtland Report), although what they fail to take into account quickly condemns them as sub-systemic and inappropriate and encourages further initiatives of a similar nature.

Phase 3.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring): |Mapping the traces of perceived reality

Phase 3.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): Recognition of implication in the perceived reality

Phase 3.9: Believing (religion): Discovery of traces ultimate meaning and inspiration

Phase 3.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): Communicating to others what is perceived as reality

Perceiving the Facts -- in contrast to the Bull(shit)

Phase 4.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice): Interrogation of reality in an effort to grasp its nature within a framework framework upheld as objective

Phase 4.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Encompassing the problematique: Humanity grapples with the problematique directly for the first time.

Phase 4.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science): Encompassing the perceived reality in a model.

Phase 4.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): Ensuring a measure of possession and control of the perceived reality

Phase 4.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo): Capturing and containing any threatening reality

Phase 4.6: Governing (politics, management, control): The momentum of the problematique, developed over the long periods during which it was uncontained, and the pressures and habitual opportunities of an undisciplined social environment, make it extremely difficult to control. Severe disciplinary measures are necessary. The various development strategies, especially the current attempt at "sustainable development", correspond to this fourth phase, but only to the extent that efforts are made to implement them. On the national level, the structural adjustment required by the IMF is indicative of the political will required -- although typically such adjustment fails to take into account many facets of the problematique.

Phase 4.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring): Integrating the reality into a coherent framework

Phase 4.8: Conscientizing (mirroring):

Phase 4.9: Believing (religion):

Phase 4.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): indoctrination

Phase 5.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice):

Phase 5.3: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Orienting the problematique: Every insight concerning the problematique leads humanity to further insights in an endless pattern. With discernment these will all be of value. But when humanity deceives itself, confusion will prevail and the problematique will reassert itself in an inappropriate manner.

Phase 5.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science):

Phase 5.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping):

Phase 5.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo):

Phase 5.6: Governing (politics, management, control): Constant vigilance is required to discipline the problematique and orient its manifestations within appropriate bounds. The seeds of this fifth phase may be seen in the increasing recognition of the need for a disciplined and radical change of life style, especially on the part of the industrialized countries.

Phase 5.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring):

Phase 5.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): shadow integration

Phase 5.9: Believing (religion):

Phase 5.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): indoctrination

Taming the Facts -- emasculating the Bull

Phase 6.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice):

Phase 6.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Using the problematique as a vehicle for sustainable development: The struggle of humanity with the problematique is over. Humanity is no longer traumatized by gain or loss, which are assimilated as phases in a larger process that is now the focus of attention.

Phase 6.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science):

Phase 6.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): self-possession

Phase 6.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo):

Phase 6.6: Governing (politics, management, control): Rhythms of action in harmony with nature are cultivated. The problematique is used as a vehicle moving in sympathy with those rhythms towards the re-enchantment of the Earth. The old modes of action are not considered viable and their advocates are no longer heeded. Some indications of the nature of this phase are to be found in the writings of the "deep ecology" movement and in the preoccupations of some forms of sustainable agriculture -- although their obvious limitations lie in their inability to deal realistically with the conditions of industrialized, urban societies and the impoverishment of an overpopulated planet. The missing insight would seem to be how to achieve the transition to this stage by benefiting from the problematique itself.

Phase 6.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring):

Phase 6.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): shadow integration

Phase 6.9: Believing (religion):

Phase 6.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): indoctrination

Phase 8.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice):

Phase 8.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning): Disappearance of both humanity and the problematique: The dualistic mindset through which humanity is perceived, in opposition to the problematique and to other species, is itself transcended, as are the disciplines through which that relationship is articulated.

Phase 8.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science):

Phase 8.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): self-possession

Phase 8.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo):

Phase 8.6: Governing (politics, management, control): Confusion disappears. But there is no question of being either entranced by more integrative insights or entrapped by lesser ones. The nature of this condition does not lend itself to definition. Typically, any desire for it renders it unattainable or unsustainable.

Phase 8.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring):

Phase 8.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): shadow integration

Phase 8.9: Believing (religion):

Phase 8.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): indoctrination

Phase 9.1: Questioning (interrogating, evaluating, assessing, justice):

Phase 9.2: Problematizing (blaming, criticizing, condemning):

Phase 9.3: Modelling (explaining, comprehension, science): Expression of essential humanity: Grounded in its essential nature, humanity stands untouched by inappropriateness.

Phase 9.4: Acquiring (possessing, grasping): self-possession

Phase 9.5: Protecting (defending, security, surveillance, status quo):

Phase 9.6: Governing (politics, management, control): Processes of integration and disintegration are witnessed from a perspective that enfolds them. Neither formulation nor reformulation are necessary to ensure sustainability. Change, as perceived, is necessarily appropriate however paradoxical it may appear.

Phase 9.7: Integrating (coordinating, configuring):

Phase 9.8: Conscientizing (mirroring): shadow integration

Phase 9.9: Believing (religion):

Phase 9.0: Communicating (persuading, educating): indoctrination