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1. p. 67: "We will continue to use the research of Spiral Dynamics... actually something we call Integral Psychology... since we have already introduced it."

     Hazelton: "See Integral Psychology for a summary of this cross-cultural research."

2. p. 67: "You can easily see all of this on slides 1.1 [page 23] and 4.1 [page 118]."

     Hazelton: "Much of the wording of the charts is taken from, or paraphrased from, Beck and Cowan, Spiral Dynamics, with the permission of Don Beck."

3. p. 98: "What we really see with the healthy green meme... often extended even to children's rights and animal welfare."

     Hazelton added (from Kim's margin notes): "The green meme is an intensification of the postconventional, worldcentric, universal care of consciousness. Although green claims that all truths are socially constructed, pluralistic, and relative, those items are said to be true for all cultures, with no exceptions--hence, green actually has a universal, postconventional stance. Green makes a series of strong claims that are said to be true for all cultures, such as the fact that all knowledge is culturally situated; multiple interpretations are possible for any event; intersubjectivity is constitutive for all experience; there are no unmediated, pure experiences; knowledge is socially constructed--and so on. Those claims are universally true, according to these theorists, who then claim that there are no universal truths (except their own--hence, boomeritis)."

4. p. 101: "In the end, the only justifications...have the form 'justified for me.'"

     Kim's margin notes: "See One Taste, Nov. 23 entry, for references and extended discussion."

5. p. 102: "And there... is the tragedy of the Me generation."

     Joan Hazelton continued (from Kim's notes): "Another real problem with green is its tendency, as Don Beck puts it, to 'talk turquoise.' That is, it is not uncommon for green theorists, especially ecotheorists, to use the terminology of second-tier thinking and thus appear more integral than they perhaps are. In teasing apart these claims, I have remained close to Beck's memetic analyses, since he has had several decades of experience with this."

6. p. 107: "These nested hierarchies are often called growth hierarchies, such as... ecosystems to biosphere to universe."

     Hazelton added (from Kim's notes): "Students of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality--a book written by one of the members here at IC--will notice that in that series I am not differentiating individual (upper quadrants) and collective (lower quadrants). In actuality, the organism is NOT a part of the ecosystem, but rather individual and collective are correlative aspects of all holons at every level of development. But for the simple example given in the text, the conclusion remains the same." Kim's margin notes say, "See 'On Critics, Integral Institute, My Recent Writing, and Other Matters of Little Consequence,' at http://wilber.shambhala.com/."