Four phases of birth

1. INTERNAL in the Womb – Prenatal phase – Primal unity –  BEGINNING
2. INTERNAL in the Womb – Expulsive phase – Shock – MIDDLE
3. INTERNAL in the Birth channel – Birthing phase – Battle phase – END
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4. EXTERNAL – Severing the umbilical cord – Birth competed – Removal/Turning point – NEW LEVEL of BEINGNESS

See also: Die vier Stationen der Geburt – Stanislav Grof (German)

Four phases of brain development

1. ANIMALISTIC – Reptilian brain (Brainstem) – Unconscious – Delta brain waves
2. ANIMALISTIC – Limbic System [LoC 120] (Mammalian brain) – Subconscious – Theta brain waves
3. ANIMALISTIC – Neocortex [LoC 155] – Daytime consciousness – Beta brain waves
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4. HUMAN – Prefrontal Cortex [LoC 275] – Superconsciousness – Alpha brain waves

See also: The four basic brains

Four consecutive generational cycles

1. Unconscious HIGH – Idealistic Prophets * MAKING
2. Subconscious AWAKENING – Reactive Nomads * REBELLION (Vision)
3. Conscious UNRAVELING – Civic Heros * MEDIATION (Building/Consumerism)
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4. Superconscious TRANSFORMATIONAL CRISIS – Adaptive Artists * INTEGRATION

Sources: Statistical historical demographic research by William Strauss and Neil Howe, Generations (1991) The Fourth Turning (1997) FourthTurning.com
Video interview with Neil Howe and William Strauss, presented by US TV station C-SPAN, 1998, YouTube film, 1:01:19 duration, posted 31. March 2009
See also: Four-stroke cycles of generations

Four levels of Dialogue according to C. O. Scharmer

1. INAUTHENTIC – Nice Conversation
2. INAUTHENTIC – Fierce Exchange
3. INAUTHENTIC – Reflective Dialogue
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4. AUTHENTIC – Generative Dialogue

Source: Lecture by C. O. Scharmer on Presencing. Learning From the Future As It Emerges. On the Tacit Dimension of Leading Revolutionary Change, Conference Knowledge and Innovation, Helsinki, Finland, 25.-26. May 2000

Four phases of team and community building according to M. Scott Peck

1. UNPRODUCTIVE – Pseudo team – Pseudo community
2. UNPRODUCTIVE – Chaos – Confusionary phase
3. UNPRODUCTIVE – Sobering phase – emptiness, zeropoint
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4. PRODUCTIVE – Functioning team / True community

See also: Four stages of spiritual development by M. Scott Peck

Four developmental stages in biologic ecosystems

1. ANIMALISTIC – Parasitic – Viruses – Appropriation and monopolization
2. ANIMALISTIC – Predatory – Predators – "Eating and being eaten" / "Fuck or kill"
3. ANIMALISTIC – Competitive – Mammalians – Survival of the fittest – Non-integrous fractioned mindset
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4. HUMAN – Symbiotic – Cooperating Cell Aggregates – Biotope, habitat – Beginning of Field Consciousness

Source: Video lecture on futurism by Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Sodexho, Annual Meeting, Paris,
the difference between futuring and visioning, YouTube film, minute 19+ of 53:33 minutes duration, posted 6. June 2006
See also: Quotes by Elisabet Sahtouris, geobiologist (USA)

Four developmental stages – in economic systems

1. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Parasitic – Interest and compound interest in the Monetary system
2. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Predatory – Private banking, debt creation
3. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Competitive – International stock corporations (in western societies run by nearly only white male CEOs and board members)
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4. NURTURING – Symbiotic – [Local] Cooperative social economics / Global networking

Source: Video lecture on futurism by Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Sodexho, Annual Meeting, Paris,
the difference between futuring and visioning, YouTube film, minute 19+ of 53:33 minutes duration, posted 6. June 2006
- See also: Conventional Banking (Me) ⇔ Social Banking (No-me / Other) by Muhammad Yunus

Four essential historical ages according to Daniel H. Pink

1. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Agricultural Age – Farmers (produce / food) – Nature – Cultivating the land
2. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Industrial Age – Factory workers (products / goods) Cities – Overcrowded areas
3. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Information Age – Knowledge workers (Facts / Programming / Ideas) –
   Logical, linear, goal oriented left brain dominant Pride culture
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4. GENERATIVE INTERLINKING – Conceptual Age – Creators and empathizers (Inspired holistic flow) – Paradoxical, nonlinear, inventive, heart centered, right brained Dignitarian culture

See also: Information Age ⇒ Conceptual Age ⇒ Changing expressions of creativity – Daniel H. Pink

Four centric developmental levels according to Ken Wilber

1. Potency 1 SEPARATIVE MODE – Egocentric developmental level →
   vPreconventional → [Under LoC 200]
2. Potency 10 SEPARATIVE MODE – Sociocentric developmental level →
   Conventional → [Under LoC 200 and above LoC 200+]
   Prerational → [LoC 200-399]
3. Potency 100 SEPARATIVE MODE – Weltcentric developmental level →
   Rational → [LoC 400-440]
   Postconventional → [LoC 440-499+]
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4. Potency 1000 COCREATIVE MODE – Cosmo/Spirit/SELFcentric developmental level
   Transrational [LoC 500+]

See also: Spiral Dynamics Consciousness model by Ken Wilber

Four psychological developmental stages and quadrants according to Ken Wilber

1. UNCONSCIOUS – Unconscious Heaven – EXTERIOR Plural – ITS (2. Quadrant)
2. SUBCONSCIOUS – Unconscious Hell – EXTERIOR Singular – IT (1. Quadrant)
3. HALF CONSCIOUS – Conscious Hell – INTERIOR Singular – I (3. Quadrant)
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4. CONSCIOUS – Conscious [emerging] Heaven – INTERIOR Plural – WE (4. Quadrant)

Ken Wilber, The Eye of Spirit. An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad, chapter 1
Four Quadrants, en.Wikipedia

Four developmental stages in politics – Forms of government

1. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Monarchy
2. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Fascism
3. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Communism
4. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Pre stage pseudo Democracy – i.e. neoliberal casino capitalism – Fractioned mindset
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5. GENERATIVE INTEGROUS – Democratic dignity culture – Beginning of field consciousness

See also: Spiral Dynamics consciousness model by Ken Wilber

Four pillars of dignitarian culture and politics '''

1. SPLIT – Either-Or – Freedom [of choice]
2. SPLIT – As-Well-As – Equality, equivalency, parity
3. SPLIT – Neither-Nor – Siblinghood [Contextual unity]
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4. UNITED – All-in-All – Dignity for all in culture, economics and politics

Four fields of experience in worldviews

1. SPLIT – Either-Or – BIRTH (Beginning)
2. AMBIVALENCE – As-Well-As – WEDDING (Peak time – Middle)
3. PARADOX – Neither-Nor – OVERCOMING (Crisis – Ego-DEATH) (End)
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4. WHOLENESS – All-in-All – RESURRECTION (Phoenix rising from the ashes)

Four stations of self-evolution

1. EXTERNAL FOCUS – King – Ego Persona, separate self – DAYLIGHT CONSCIOUSNESS (Inner Mother)
2. EXTERNAL FOCUS – Devil – Shadow, tempter (Evil One), overcoming addiction and negativity – UNCONSCIOUS / SUBCONSCIOUS (Inner Child)
3. EXTERNAL FOCUS – Wise One High Self, superego purification via service – SUPER CONSCIOUSNESS (Inner Father)
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4. INTERNAL EXPERIENCE – Christ – True SELF, pure mirror – LEAP IN CONSCIOUSNESS (God Immanent)

See also: Die Wandlungsreise des Offerus → Christophorus (German)

From Ignorance and Error to Heart opening – Quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn

1. FALSEHOOD – In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel.
2. FALSEHOOD – In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor.
3. FALSEHOOD – In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments.
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4. INSIGHT GOODNESS – It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.
   Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian author, The Gulag Archipelago, 1973

Four steps to inner peace – Quote from H.H., 14. Dalai Lama

1. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Money or wealth failed to bring inner peace.
2. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Modern [scientific] education failed to bring inner peace.
3. ENERGY-CONSUMING – Technology also failed to bring inner peace.
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4. GENERATIVE INTEGROUS – In the 21st century we need promote human values, compassion and affection.
   Women are more sensitive to pain or suffering of others. […] Therefore, [women of the Western world] please take a more active role.

H.H., 14. Dalai Lama, Peace Summit, Vancouver, Canada, presented by CTV.ca, clip 2 of 4, last section, minute 14:53-17:59, filmed 27. September 2009

Four Prayer insights – Quote from Richard Rohr

1. EITHER-OR – When you pray, you build your own house.
2. AS-WELL-AS – When you pray, you will discover that there is yet someone else in your house.
3. NEITHER-NOR – When you pray on, you will notice that it isn't your house at all.
   When you just continue to pray, you will notice that there is no house at all that one has to protect
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4. ALL-IN-ALL – because there is only ONE house. And that house is everyone's home.

Richard Rohr, US American Franciscan Father

See also:
- Two versions of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory – Dr. David Loye
- Five types of clusterings in companies and society – David Logan Ph.D. longterm study (10 years)