Ken Wilber – Actualize OS part 1

You’ve landed on this page for a reason. 

There’s a powerful impulse awakening within you and many other around the world. It’s a deep inner yearning to be of greater service and become all that you are capable of being in this life.

It’s the growing awareness that we as a species are not living our lives at the level that you know in your heart we are capable of. The feeling that in spite of all of your success and accomplishments, that there is so much more to express and give, just waiting beneath the surface, ready to emerge.

You may be experiencing this as an unwillingness to settle for complacency and mediocrity, or the rising inspiration to make a greater impact in our world.

If you’ve reached this point, it’s because you’ve already done a lot you can be proud of.

Most of the essential needs in your life are probably met, and from an outsider’s perspective, it may already look like you’ve “made it”. And that’s because in so many important dimensions, you have.

And yet, even though you’ve already accomplished so much, you can still sense that you’re just scratching the surface of what we are, individually and collectively, capable of

The fact that you’re feeling this growing sense of dissatisfaction, and the yearning to become all that you truly are, is clear a sign that you’re on the cusp of one of the most significant turning points of your life.

You are on the verge of making the momentous leap, where your deepest motivations are shifting from what the renowned developmental psychologist Abraham Maslow called “self-esteem” needs to “self-actualization” needs.

If you’re experiencing any of this, it’s a clear sign that you are one of the many people from across the world that are now undergoing a powerful shift.

You are now ready to consciously engage with the process of self-actualization.

And the truth is, not only are you ready, you simply must… not only for yourself but for our world.

The impulse of self-actualization is a deep and fundamental human need, for the rare few that reach it. It is not simply a luxury or another superficial desire that we should brush off too lightly.

According to Maslow, if we ignore or repress this inner call to self-actualization, it will eventually pathologize into neurosis and psychological dysfunction.

It can cause malaise, depression, and an underlying sense of disease. Instead of becoming all that you are inherently capable of being, you instead begin a slow and painful decline into a corrupted, neurotic, and inferior version of yourself.

It doesn’t matter how nice your house is, how much money is in your bank account, what kind of car you drive, how much fun your social life is, or how successful your career is… if you don’t address your self-actualization needs, nothing will deeply fulfill you.

The good news is, that at this time in time in history, there are millions of people around the world undergoing this process too.

Fortunately, there’s also a tremendous amount of research about what you’re going through, and remarkable tools and insights that can help you along the way.

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably already heard about the concept of self-actualization. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is taught in high schools and universities, and it is common knowledge in the academic world.

Every human grows through this hierarchy of needs, and when their needs are sufficiently met at one stage they move to the next.

We all begin with physiological needs, the need for food, water, warmth, and shelter, then we move up from there, to safety needs, belongingness needs, and esteem needs.

Finally, at the highest level, once all of our earlier needs are satisfied, we switch from “deficiency needs” to “being needs”. This is the shift into the impulse for self-actualization, and this is truly the beginning of our new lives discovering what it means to be fully human.

An effective mental model is so powerful, because it functions like software. It changes how our mind functions. It changes how we perceive the information around us, the choices we make, and how we live. And it does this in the background, without us having to try. If you fully install it once, then it functions forever.

To illustrate this concept further let’s take a closer look at the alphabet again. You don’t have to re-learn the alphabet every day. You’re not trying to read. It just happens. And it happens, because the software is psychoactive. It instantly translates the shapes in front of you into words which then trigger a sense of meaning.

This happens with every useful mental model. Every time you install a new mental model, you upgrade your operating system.

One remarkable has dedicated his life to piecing together a comprehensive framework and system of how human beings evolve and develop towards self-actualization.

His name is Ken Wilber.

Ken Wilber, renowned author, teacher and the creator of Actualize OS , is the world’s most celebrated contemporary philosopher.

As a pioneering thought leader in developmental psychology, depth psychology, systems theory, and integrative thinking he has dedicated his life to understanding the mysteries of the human condition and bringing the transformative insights and practices of the world’s great wisdom traditions into the modern world.

Author of over 30 books, which have been translated into more than 25 languages, Ken’s revolutionary insights have transformed the lives of millions of people around the world. His monumental research impacts our understanding of human psychology, medicine, politics, business and virtually every domain of human enterprise.

According to acclaimed author and democratic presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, “Ken is a teachers of teachers”.

Bill Clinton has praised his work as “brilliant” and renowned personal development expert Tony Robbins calls him a “genius” with “a desire to serve humanity that is virtually unmatched”.

Whole Foods founder and C.E.O, John Mackey has said, Ken’s ideas have “transformed” his life” and therefore have transformed Whole Foods Market.”

As an author Ken is best known for his books, “A Theory of Everything,” “A Brief History of Everything,” “The Spectrum of Consciousness” and his opus, “Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality.”

Referred to by some as “the Einstein of consciousness” and the “Plato of our time,” Ken is likely to be remembered alongside the great thinkers of both Eastern and Western philosophy and developmental psychology as one of the most significant thinkers who has ever lived.

Ken is currently focused on writing new books and distilling his life’s work into the most direct and essential training to-date, Actualize OS.

This powerful new 10-part training has been designed from the ground up to teach the essential tools, information, and practices that you’ll need to upgrade your mental operating system, understand the full spectrum of your potentials, and greatly accelerate your journey towards all that you are capable of being.

If you’ve ever asked yourself how you can fulfill your potential in this lifetime, this is one of the most effective ways you can do it.

Self-actualization is a deeply personal journey, so, before you begin, you’ll need the best possible map of your potentials currently available. You’ll need an internal “GPS” that shows you everything you are capable of so that you can chart your own unique path towards the greatest possible version of yourself.

The Actualize OS expands your human operating system with five new software installations (mental models) that psycho-actively change they way you think. In addition to the 5 mental models you’ll be guided through a series of “Activations”, transformative practices and exercises that further accelerate your development though the process.

These 5 mental models, just like the alphabet, calendars, cardinal directions and so on, only need to be “installed” once, and then they forever change the way you experience reality. They fundamentally open the horizon of what’s possible for your life and give a real-time inner dashboard of your progress towards full self-actualization.

If you have a sincere desire to cultivate all the full spectrum of your potential, Actualize OS is the most effective training currently available to help you with that process.

Access And Explore Your Human Operating System To Initiate The Process of Upgrading Your Awareness

In this opening session Ken introduces some important concepts that will lay the foundation for the Actualize OS framework and prepare you for the in-depth training modules that will begin in the next week with Installation 1: Accelerating Your Evolution.

In this session Ken speaks about what Actualize potential means, how to cultivate our true greatness, and what neuroplasticity means for your own developmental evolution.

1. Loading Module Introduction
2. Encountering Your Greatness
3. A Radical New Stage of Human Development
4. Exploring the Terrain of Your Full Spectrum Potentials
5. Accessing Higher Levels of Development to Accelerate Your Growth
6. Engaging with the Actualize Operating System
7. Neuroplasticity and Expanding Your Perspective
8. Reorienting and Retraining Your Default Operating System
9. Weekly Practice: Taking on the Role of Other
10. Loading Module Conclusion

Install a technology for your mind to illuminate the full spectrum of your development, catalyze growth and enrich your understanding of yourself, others and the world

In this session you’ll discover the scientifically validated process of growth and development that all humans evolve through.

When you fully install this simple yet powerful mental model you will have the ability to understand world events as well as personal life events and your relationships in a powerful new way. You’ll improve your ability to understand the worldview others, how it contrasts with your own, as well as large scale developmental paradigms that influence our collective reality. The world will start making much more sense.

1. Installation Module Introduction
2. Introduction to Levels
3. Tools for Growth
4. The Backbone of Development
5. Exploring the Levels
6. The 1st and 2nd Levels
7. Infancy to Adulthood: the Magic-Mythic Levels
8. The Amber-Mythic Stage of Development
9. New Levels Define the Modern Era
10. The Radical Emergence of 2nd Tier
11. An Integral Tipping Point
12. Accelerating Your Evolution
13. The Path of Transformation
14. 4 Important Steps
15. Weekly Practice: Embracing the Full-Spectrum

Illuminate the full spectrum of your skills, talents and abilities to cultivate your true greatness and live your life at the highest level

In this training you’ll explore the second essential framework of the Actualize OS for understanding your “multiple intelligences” and how they evolve through the 8 levels of development.

As you’ll discover in this installation, all human beings have many different “lines” of potential inherent in them, laying dormant, waiting to be cultivated. When you begin to understand the primary lines of intelligence that are already within you, you can begin to consciously cultivate the ones that are most important to you.

1. Introduction to Lines of Development
2. Many Kinds of Intelligence
3. Lines Develop Through Levels
4. The Willpower Line of Development
5. Is an Intelligence the Same as a Skill?
6. Exploring the Cognitive Line of Development
7. Solving the Great Problems of Our Time
8. Emotional Development Versus Cognitive Development?
9. 10,000 Hours of Practice
10. Installation 2 Conclusion
11. 4 Important Steps
12. Weekly Practice: Activating Your Full-Spectrum Potential

Explore your five primary states of consciousness to awaken your highest potentials and discover the dimensions of who you really are

In this third Installation of the Actualize Operating System, Ken introduces us to the five essential states in the spectrum of consciousness.

Beginning with shedding light on the familiar waking state and progressing through ever more subtle experiences of consciousness, Ken takes the listener on a journey to explore some of the most profound potential experiences a human being can have, including a pointing out of the non-dual state.

1. Introduction to States of Consciousness
2. Our Pathway to Transcendence
3. The Gross, Subtle, Causal, Witness and Non-Dual States
4. Progressing Toward Enlightenment: A Profound Shift in Perspective
5. Growing Up and Waking Up
6. The Comprehensive Nature of the Actualize OS 
7. Becoming an Actualized Being
8. The Benefits of Reaching Higher States of Consciousness
9. A Perfectly Balanced System
10. Toward Ever Greater Love, Compassion and Care
11. On The Struggle Between Science and Spirituality
12. The Deeply Psychoactive Nature of States
13. Closing Comments by Program Host
14. The Non-Dual State: a Guided Experiential Contemplation with Ken
15. 4 Important States
16. Weekly Practice: Accessing Your Multidimensional States

Discover the underlying drives and impulses of your personality and sexuality so that you can optimize your life to leverage your unique gifts and abilities

In the forth Installation of the Actualize Operating System, Ken introduces us to Types and Drives. Here, we delve into how to identify and maximize the potentials of our inherent nature as well as the more complex aspects of who we are, such as our predilections and natural abilities.

Ken also introduces us to some of the essential “drives” shared by all humans and indeed all of life. Understanding how to identify and work with our unique typologies and drives is crucial to fine tuning our development and maximizing the results of the Actualize OS.

1. Introduction to Types and Drives
2. Understanding the Uniqueness of Your Nature
3. Finding Yourself in the Actualize OS
4. What are Personality Types and How Do They Work?
5. How Do We Use Types to Achieve Our Fully Potential?
6. Are There Masculine and Feminine Types?
7. Types in Men and Women: Agency and Communion
8. Drives in Men and Women: Eros and Agape
9. The Higher Evolution of Masculine and Feminine
10.  What Does an Actualized Relationship Look Like?
11. Using Types to Propel Our Actualized Development
12. Closing Comments by Host and Upcoming Events
13. 4 Important Steps
14. Weekly Practices: Accessing the Innate Power of Your Typology

Expand your perception to reveal the four fundamental dimensions of reality, so that you can perceive the full spectrum of life and create solutions at a higher level

In this fifth installation of the Actualize OS, Ken describes the four distinct dimensions that make up all of our experience.

By understanding these four dimensions, which are distinct domains of truth, we can clearly see how they impact and influence our daily life.

When we are able to consciously integrate all four dimensions into our awareness, we perceive ourselves and our world in a truly holistic way, and are able to rise above the blind spots and biases that keep us from reaching our full potential.

1. Introduction to Awakening Your 4-D Vision
2. What Are The Quadrants or Why are They Important?
3. How Does Each of the Four Quadrants Affect the way We See the World?
4. What Happens When We See the World in All Four Quadrants?
5. Can Seeing in all Four Quadrants Help Us Find our True Purpose in Life?
6. How Does our Life Purpose Shift as Our Perspective Grows?
7. The Power of Collective Unity in Action
8. Energizing the Psychoactive Map With 4-D Vision
9. Changing the World with 4-D Vision
10. Closing Comments and Upcoming Events
11. 4 Important Steps
12. Weekly Practice: Awakening Your 4-D Vision

Discover the three essential aspects of your human body so that you can express the full range of you physical, subtle and causal abilities

In this module Ken illuminates the framework for understanding and cultivating three primary bodies that every human being has within them.

Our bodies are our energetic vehicles in this life. They are our anchors in the world and our responsibility from birth to death and beyond. Each body supports a different state of being and consciousness.

Taking care of ourselves in large part means taking care of our body and in this