Everyone Is Right The Highest Stages of Human Flourishing
Oct 17, 2025
Alexander Love, an acupuncturist and developmental coach, explores the fascinating landscape of human growth, integrating Terry O'Fallon's stages model. He dives into how developmental stages shape our understanding of meaning, contrasting concrete and subtle tiers. The conversation highlights the emergence of 5.0, characterized by transpersonal awareness, and the challenges of navigating this stage. Love also introduces the intriguing meta-ware tier, discussing the interplay of states and stages while emphasizing the importance of healthy interdependent growth across developmental waves.
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Person Perspectives Shape Meaning
- Person perspectives are deep structures of how we make meaning and grow through six distinct waves.
- Each wave has an emerging (.0) and maturing (.5) expression that shifts moment versus trajectory orientation.
Point-0 Versus Point-5 Dynamics
- The .0 stages are receptive-in-the-moment and .5 stages are time/trajectory oriented and hierarchical.
- Example: 2.0 kids are in-the-moment; 2.5 children understand punishment should fit the crime.
Stages Build The Four Quadrants
- Stages map onto individual vs collective and concrete vs subtle worldspaces across the four quadrants.
- Third/fourth person perspectives develop the subtle individual and subtle collective identities respectively.
