Tool 8
Day 7
The next day Aziz had not uttered his now famous "Get up everybody". So most of the trainees, even those who had opened their eyes at sunrise, had taken a well-deserved lie-in.
The respite had lasted for about two hours when Aziz called out the equally famous "A table" announcing breakfast.
Aziz had waited to see the cloud of sand in the distance as the 4x4s approached with supplies.
Indeed, the 4x4s arrived at the camp just as everyone was sitting down to eat and the drivers were able to join in the meal.
Everyone expected to see Pierre Duchemin around the table, but he was missing.
When the meal was over, as usual, everyone washed their dishes with sand. The tablecloth on the floor that had been used for the meal was removed.
Everyone naturally went to lend a hand in unloading the supplies and putting them into the various bags and boxes that would be used for transport by the camels.
For this day of rest, the dromedaries had been left free and a nomad made sure from time to time that they did not stray too far.
The sun must have been up for about four hours when Aziz called "Workshop" to gather everyone under the white sail.
When the first trainees arrived, Pierre Duchemin was already seated. He was dressed in a long white tunic that looked more like an Indian suit than a desert outfit.
After about ten minutes, when everyone had arrived, Pierre began.
"Good morning to you all, I am very happy to see you again today, you all look very well, this stay in the sun seems to be working for you, unless it is the liberating effect of the teachings you are receiving.
This morning I am going to talk to you about the Dynamic Spiral, sometimes also called the value system.
Have you ever witnessed or even been part of a dialogue of the deaf, where one person explains their arguments with logic, figures and objectives and the other responds with principles, values and feelings?
Neither of them is right or wrong, yet they can't seem to understand each other, or even get along.
Clare W. Graves, an American psychology professor, has spent a lifetime studying such phenomena. In the 1960s, he established the theory that all individuals, and by extension groups of individuals, societies, nations and even planets, evolve according to levels of consciousness organised hierarchically on an eight-level scale.
According to him, humanity has progressively invented each of these levels in the course of its history.
From childhood to adulthood, each human being moves from one stage to the next until he or she stabilises, usually at the dominant level in his or her culture.
Clare W. Graves tells us:
"...I am not saying that one form of human existence is inevitably and in all circumstances superior or better than another. What I am saying is that when one form of being is better suited to the realities of existence, then it is the best form of life for those realities. When one form of being ceases to be functional for the realities of existence, then another form, higher or lower in the hierarchy, becomes the best form of life. However, I deeply believe that higher levels are better than lower levels and that the first objective of any society should be to promote human movement towards the higher levels of this model of human existence.
I am not here to make you experts on the Dynamic Spiral, so I will try, at the risk of being a bit of a caricature, to give you the main features.
The assembly was all ears, it was the first teaching of this type that they had received.
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