Purple Stage Appreciation

[Davino]

This is one of the best documentaries I've watched and it has opened my mind quite a lot. I used to have a sneaky background judgment of purple and red, like they were barbaric and somehow stupid.

I have been humbled. They are extremely intelligent and adapted to the conditions they are facing. There's immense intelligence in their way of life and traditions. Of course it is limited but it's adapted to their needs and current stage. It remembers me of quote that said cats are intelligently maxed out in existence, there is not a better design to do cat's role in existence than a cat. In the same way, there is extreme intelligence and utter genius in all gear wheels of reality. Its limitation is their intelligence!

In fact, I've come to appreciate the elders more and their important role in society. How that allowed them to survive and how society now disrespects elders and puts them into geriatrics. They have so much wisdom despite their rigidity of mind that should be taken into account. How purple society teaches insane work ethic and hard work, how they explain in great detail the skill and effort required to do a job and to survive out of it. The improvements passed generation from generation, which makes their ancestor's lineage. While also the desire of new generations to expand beyond it and walk their path.

Via these documentaries I've come to solidify theoretical understanding given by Jung, the archetypes, the connection with the unconscious that these tribes have and the very useful initiations they perform. How a man psyche needs this rough challenges and formal initiations to guide him through its life and the positive impact that it has, the meaning it instills in a man. Such healthy purple aspect also seems lost in our societies.

Overall, I've become acutely aware of the intelligence in these tribes. They are intelligent to the given development they are in. It's not like they are stupid: they are not. Biologically they have the same intelligence as anyone in the west, it's just about the maturity and conditions in which this intelligence has to operate within. It has been a wild recontextualization in my sense making. I've also come to be benefited by the advice given in the tribe.

Edited October 8 by Davino

[Nivsch]

They seems here often to express themselves in an intelligent rational manner.

There is no reason to assume that their cognition will really be limited only to the Purple stage in the model. A number of them can develop to higher stages within their own brains. After all, it’s about connecting dots and moving the pendulum between the hemispheres, which can also be done independently, even without manifesting in the classic way that the stages are presented.

Edited October 15 by Nivsch