The Sevenfold Epoch – The Five Stories
The Sevenfold Epoch – The Five Stories

Aviv Shahar and Kyriaki Nikandrou

January 24, 2025
Portals Into the Soul Event

 

Welcome to a new year of possibility! We’re starting off with two Portals conversations that illuminate in a unique way the evolutionary human story. In the first, The Five Stories of the Epoch featuring Aviv Shahar and Jeff Vander Clute, and in the second, “The Universalis Project #13” with Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney, and Kyriaki Nikandrou, we explore the Sevenfold Epoch insight and the Five Stories — focusing particularly on Story 4, the Dialytic Story.

From the days when humans gathered around the fire to recount myths, epics, and ancestral heroics; through the early historians like Herodotus and Thucydides; to modern integral and complex interpretations, our perspective on the flow of evolution and the maturation of human consciousness has evolved dramatically.

The word “history” derives from the ancient Greek noun ΊΣΤΩΡ (Histor), meaning a direct witness — someone who has seen events unfold and can discern their causal relationships. What is the historian’s role in a metamodern world, an era of immense change, challenges, and opportunities? Does the history we learned at school truly represent the human story, or only selected and limited parts of an even greater more mysterious unfolding?

What about the untold story of the people and cultures that have vanished? Who will tell their side of history? Why must historians of the future honor those untold living stories?

Is there a way along the reflection of “his-story” to attune to and decode the living membrane of “her-story?” We do not mean the feminine experience of events, but rather the subtle, diaphanous realms of epochal currents — those that shaped the sentiments, values, ideas, behavioral patterns, and art of different eras and cultures.

Imagine for a moment this is not a random universe and that the epoch evolved with a latent purpose. Even as it moves forward and upward, while at times appearing to slip backward or sideways, it nevertheless continues to discover and reveal a developmental, evolutionary purpose.

We invite you to hold three dimensions — or vectors — in mind at once:

  1. The unfolding arc of historical events.
  2. The invisible currents and patterns that influence and shape these events.
  3. A latent, intrinsic evolutionary purpose of life — sometimes revealing itself in the foreground, but more often hidden in the fog of conflicting and polarizing forces.

Imagine keeping these three dimensions in mind as you examine the past 3,500 years, from the time of the King Scorpion Dynasty to today. Now, consider that we stand on the threshold of a profound evolutionary change — one that future generations may view as more significant and consequential than the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, and the Axial Age transitions combined.

In this unfolding era, how can we become dialytic in order to heal and transform the collective traumas and scars humanity carries? How can we preserve what is good, true, and beautiful, while letting go of what is outdated, harmful, or degenerative?

Lastly, in considering the seven wavelength natures and the potencies they each bring online, why and how might we undertake “Yellow dialytic work” to rejuvenate a religious impulse amid the intensification and fragmentation brought about by a Violet epochal shift?

To explore these and more and integrate the five different ways of seeing, reading, and narrating the evolutionary arc of the human story, listen to our new Portals Conversations, “The Five Stories of the Epoch” and “The Universalis Project #13.” Or dive into the following article, which draws inspiration from these conversations and codifies their main threads.

 

A Sevenfold Living Story

 

Over the last five years, beginning in 2020, a global group of friends have embarked on an exploration known as the “Epoch Journey.” Together, we inquired into and studied how this epoch is intensifying and culminating within each one of us. Our Zoom gatherings were choreographed to integrate contemplative, meditative, artistic, and dialogical practices, fostering a whole-person experience from the inside out.

This is not an academic study. Instead, we’ve designed our individual and collective explorations into an immersive mystery school laboratory, intended to facilitate a continuous unfolding of revelation. At the heart of our journey is a vibrant, ever-growing awareness that life has an emergent teleology, continually reaching for greater complexity, sophistication, wholeness, integration, and intelligent expression.

This epochal journey has traced the seven rainbow wavelength natures, each representing distinct potencies and influences that shaped successive eras. These wavelength natures recognized as the seven colors do not follow a linear progression; instead, they emerge as fractals within fractals — a cyclical and organic process of growth, maturation, and decay, where each color encompasses all the others. These wavelength natures and potencies also serve a dialytic or redemptive function, reshaping and integrating the patterns and impacts of previous unfolding cycles.

Let us establish a few core premises of the epoch journey:

Premise One: We are in the midst of an evolutionary step-function change — a non-linear crescendo occurring in many domains of life. Everywhere we look, “today” no longer follows a predictable extension of “yesterday.” The 3,500-year journey from the breakdown of the Bronze Age through successive ages is now reaching a decisive phase. Within this concluding epoch, shorter epochs have risen and fallen with various civilizations. However, what is unfolding now is profoundly different: we have entered a liminal space, a threshold between the old epoch and a new one.

Premise Two: The journey of this epoch is nearing its culmination. For the first time in history, we are witnessing a truly global civilization, supported by shared communication and commerce platforms. In the past, when one civilization collapsed — say, in Europe — another would remain in the East, and vice versa. That dynamic no longer holds; instead, we now have one interconnected, planetary civilization. This reality is part of why we propose that we are experiencing a step-function shift, transitioning from a planetary to a universal culture and civilization.

Premise Three: The epoch is not a concept or a mental framework; it is a living process. It is arising within, between, and all around us and is a process we engage with in our conversations and discoveries. We come together in pods and as a larger network to metabolize, interpret, and integrate emerging developments and possibilities. A community of practice enables us to cultivate a deeper awareness and appreciation of the sevenfold potencies and to discover what each of them represents.

Premise Four: The sevenfold potencies embody a fractal of re-emergence on small, medium, and long-wave scales — a planetary blueprint. We can apply this sevenfold spectrum to a person’s life, to a project or business endeavor, to a developmental or communal undertaking, and beyond. By decoding and mapping the sevenfold potencies, we can identify these patterns in small- or large-scale contexts, including entire cultures and civilizations, and ultimately, the epoch itself. The pattern is not purely chronological; although there are sequential stages, each phase simultaneously contains the full sevenfold spectrum. For instance, we can trace the Roman Empire and discern this sevenfold process within its evolution.

Premise Five: The Meta-crisis is the “below-the-line” expression of the culmination. As this epoch approaches its culmination, we recognize the meta-crisis as a “below-the-line” manifestation. Above “the conditioned line”, where the meta-crisis arises, there are also the “natural-as-was-meant-to-be line” of human expression and the “above-the-line” regenerative evolutionary potential. We have explored both the outer and the mirrored inner facets of the meta-crisis in Portals Into the Soul, Chapter Two. For example, one facet is global warming: as the planet heats up, humans themselves appear to be “heating up” inside. Just as oceanic ecosystems are degrading, human beings are losing the fidelity and conductivity of their own salty interior fluid. Thus, the meta-crisis can be decoded at the planetary level, and within each of us. We see a leadership void in the world that parallels a crisis of self-leadership.

Premise Six: Emergent evolutionary capacities and the breakdown of old structures. As older structures disintegrate, new evolutionary capacities arise, activating latent sense organs and novel ways of transforming ourselves. One simple illustration is that a single thought can alter the course of a day, an event, or even a life. This shows the power of “conductive transmission” from self to self, and then to others — a mere glimpse of the capacities emerging in this epochal shift.

Much of humanity’s inherited history carries layers of conditioning — distrust, pain, trauma, and more. Becoming “dialytic” toward this collective story is a task we can undertake together, tapping into what is naturally available to help us liberate, heal, and redeem. At the same time, new evolutionary potentials are arising in this epochal moment. As we map and codify these developments, we see the awakening of a Universal human — a new evolving expression of our shared humanity.

 

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We will now explore the five epochal stories, then turn our attention specifically to Story Four — the Dialytic Story. Before doing so, let us re-ground ourselves in a way of appreciating the Sevenfold blueprint.

 

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The Sevenfold Blueprint

 

The sevenfold blueprint represents a natural pattern of how processes manifest and express themselves on the planet. We have explored these seven fractals in several Portals conversations, demonstrating how they appear in the development of businesses, community endeavors, and in the rise and fall of cultures.

  1. Red signifies the originating impulse — the spark that brings forth new life, influence, or endeavor. In the context of an epoch, Red is the point of origination.
  2. Orange provides nourishment and support, allowing the nascent impulse to expand into broader territory.
  3. Yellow reorganizes and reorchestrates what Orange has expanded, integrating opportunities and needs around a higher principle. Yellow therefore helps ensure the growing domain does not fragment or lose focus and disperse.
  4. Green emerges atop Yellow, often when the endeavor approaches a point of exhaustion. It brings regeneration, renewal, and a liberation of individuation and artistic expression.
  5. Blue furthers development by balancing, regulating, and systematizing processes. As this fractal evolves, agreements, laws, programs, and supportive ecosystems are established to ensure sustainability.
  6. Indigo acts as a catalyst for merging, integration, and transference, uniting and releasing the full potential of all that has been previously seeded.
  7. Violet unlocks a phase shift — elements die off or transform so that something new can emerge and be reborn.

Examples of the Sevenfold Fractal

  • Red Origination in Transition to Orange Polarity:
    The ancient Egyptian culture began with a highly purposeful impulse (Red). As it expanded (Orange), the integrity of its original purpose gradually became diluted. This illustrates how each color carries both an “above-the-line” manifestation (expansion and support) and a “below-the-line” polarity (exhaustion and distancing from original purpose).
  • Orange Expansion in the Roman and British Empires:
    The Roman Empire’s expansion (Orange) outgrew its Blue system ability to hold its center, leading to its eventual breakdown and transition through Indigo to its Violet sunset. Similarly, the British Empire’s mercantilist approach — exemplified by the Opium Wars — revealed a cunning, subversive side to Orange. Over time, the integrity of British power eroded, culminating in ongoing fragmentation through the 20th century and beyond.
  • Yellow’s Tethering Impulse:
    We observe the Yellow tethering and orchestrating pattern during the Axial Age and the emergence of major world religions. The Yellow element also appears in later organizing faiths and philosophical systems, notably within the arc of Idealism — from Platonic Idealism to Kant’s Transcendental Idealism and Hegel’s Absolute Idealism. While Yellow signifies a unifying principle, the belief systems it inspires may align with Green, Blue, or other fractal natures.
  • Green’s Renewing Influence:
    Green reappears periodically to spark rejuvenation and renewal. Early expressions of the Green fractal include the ancient mystery schools of Greece (Socrates, Plato), introducing a whole new dimension of life. After the Black Plague, the Renaissance also exemplified Green’s regenerative impulse. The modern Olympics expressed the Green impulse with its unifying vision to contribute to the harmonious and well-balanced development of body and mind.

These examples are not chronological. They show core, intrinsic potencies that recur repeatedly through the ages, rather than a linear progression from pre-modern to modern to postmodern or metamodern.

  • Blue as Regulating and Balancing Force:
    Whenever there is a need to stabilize opposing polarities, Blue appears. It builds frameworks of agreement and codifies operational systems that can scale. An early example of the Blue fractal is the Magna Carta (1215), which introduced the idea of rights and constraints on authority. The modern world further rode this Blue wave through the U.S. Constitutional Convention and then post–World War II institutions like the United Nations, IMF, and Bretton Woods Agreement.
  • Indigo as Merging Catalyst:
    Indigo energy fosters large-scale merging, transference and integration processes, such as the rise of metropolitan centers and global commerce. The Dutch VOC (East India Company) expansion (Orange) made it a powerful Indigo commercial agent. The creation of stock exchanges in Europe and America further expressed this Indigo impulse in the realms of commerce and trade. In our time, the Internet similarly embodies Indigo’s technology-assisted postmodern integration and transference. This impulse is now being accelerated by the AI revolution.
  • Violet as phase-shift:
    Violet is the culmination point, where the phase-shift transitions occur, and the cycles of death and rebirth are revealed. An expression of the Violet impulse is seen in various reform movements that intuited a phase-shift and sought to accelerate transformation — sometimes manifesting in revolutionary forms. Endings and transformations can be tumultuous: witness the linguistic closeness of “violet” and “violent.” Yet reaching a Violet epoch does not mean inevitable destruction. By cultivating awareness and higher consciousness, we can harness Violet energy to liberate life into a higher expression rather than eliminate it.

This brief overview demonstrates how the sevenfold potencies operate as a recurring set of fractals in cultures, civilizations, organizations, and endeavors throughout history.

 

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A Daily Sevenfold Rainbow Cycle

Throughout each day, from morning to night, we pass through all seven potencies. Upon waking, there's Red, the spark that initiates us to the day's potential. As we take our first steps, we open ourselves to horizon of possibilities, which is Orange.

Next, we take a deep breath to re-center and discover our purpose for the day — “What can I serve and enable?”— which reflects Yellow. By midday or afternoon, we’ve expended some of our energy, so we refresh and rejuvenate ourselves, activating Green.

Before closing out the day in the evening, we balance, regulate, and reflect on what has transpired, embodying Blue. Then, during the night, we move through Indigo and Violet, with dreams and restorative processes facilitating a rebirth. This cycle allows us to return each morning renewed and ready to dance with life again.

 

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The Five Epochal Stories

Let us now turn to the five epochal stories, before focusing on Story 4, which involves a “dialytic” process — releasing and healing the conditioned line.

Story 1: “His-tory”

First, it helps to remember that, as we’ve seen, the epochal transition includes the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations. This is Story 1; what we commonly call history. Although history (his-story) is vital, it carries several problems.

One key problem is that history is usually written by victors and conquerors, leaving little or no voice for those who were vanquished or have vanished. These groups never had the chance to share their stories, loves, sentiments, or traditions; in effect, they disappeared without leaving a record. Consequently, history is typically told from the viewpoint of the conquerors and subjugators — celebrating their values and aspirations.

This bias is deeply embedded in the way history is recounted. It crowds out other narratives, values, and meaning structures, producing blindness to other perspectives. In more recent centuries, this tendency has only intensified as history became an “academic industrial product,” packaged for mass consumption through modern education systems, often in simplified form.

Furthermore, history today is largely framed through a materialistic lens, rooted in socio-economic measures (like GDP), which excludes or minimizes any interior, subjective dimensions. The central theme of Story 1 is progress conceived mainly in material terms. To address these limitations, we now look to Story 2 and Story 3 for a more integrated understanding.

 

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Story 2: “Her-story”
“Her-story” awakens us to the remembering that there is much more to human experience than what we learn in conventional histories. When cultures vanish or are suppressed, their values, traditions, and energies do not simply disappear; instead, they often persist in a subtle, energetic way and form. By attuning to these layers, we can sense the grandeur of purpose of ancient Egypt in its art, where the absence of smiles or exposed teeth hints at a different mode of communication. We can also explore the philosophical endeavors and mystery schools of ancient Greece, or the great teachings of the East, opening ourselves to their contemplative and meditative currents. In doing so, we realize these traditions are still alive in vibrant, invisible, and diaphanous ways that contain deeper blessings and dimensions of the human story. It is this “Her-story” (Story 2) that leads us toward Story 3.

Story 3: The Evolution of Knowledge
This story is more subtle, particularly because we are so deeply shaped by the post-Enlightenment narrative where knowledge is primarily intellectual, scientific, and quantifiable. Ancient cultures and mystery schools experienced and assimilated knowledge in more porous, multi-sensory, somatic, and communal ways. For instance, a rainbow was not merely a refraction of light in a humid atmosphere, but a sign of a covenant imbued with deep spiritual and symbolic meaning. This integrates a subtle domain where intuitive and mystical knowing coalesce beyond mere analytical understanding, also known as noesis — a mode of cognition through which profound realizations are conveyed to us directly from the experience of living.

Though the ascendancy of scientific inquiry and evidence-based reasoning is vital in enabling profound breakthroughs and developments, the broader evolution of knowledge urges us to recognize how these rational and conceptual capacities emerged from and coexist with earlier modes of knowing. Today, there is a growing desire for knowledge "beyond the intellect," evident in the resurgence of practices like psychedelics and micro-dosing. Although we do not endorse these methods, they signify an attempt to transcend purely rational boundaries. Thus, Story 3 invites us to rediscover and integrate forgotten dimensions of knowing. It encourages us to explore new communion possibilities and frontiers in the evolution of knowledge and its function in human life. By doing so, we can honor and integrate analytical with intuitive and connective capacities, fostering a fuller, more holistic understanding of our world and ourselves.

Together, Story 2 (the subtle, diaphanous Her-story) and Story 3 (The evolution of knowledge), open the door to Story 4 and Story 5, which ask us to inquire beyond history’s usual chronological limits.

Story 4: The Dialytic Story
Story 4 focuses on the intentional healing of what has happened in the past through an updating integration in the present. We can revisit ancient times with conscious awareness that seeks to metabolize their lessons and significance so that their essence may enrich us today. This process lets us rewrite and update the past, release traumas, reclaim wisdom and embrace new possibilities today.

Story 5: The Unwritten Future
Finally, Story Five remains largely undiscovered and unwritten — a “crown” of human evolution to reach for. By engaging in the dialytic work of Story 4, we free up creative and connective energy to shape this next chapter. One might imagine laying the foundation of a “universal human cathedral” within, knowing it may only reach full maturity in future generations. Just as builders of ancient cathedrals knew their grandchildren would one day worship in the finished monument, we now place stones in a foundation that will give rise to the human cathedral within that others will someday see flourishing.

 

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The slide above briefly codifies a dynamic, energetic psychic process, one that never remains fixed in time, where Stories 1, 2, and 3 are alchemized through Story 4 (rewriting and updating the past) and Story 5 (creating the future).

Story 4 begins within — we harness our self-authoring power to reinterpret and update our own personal experiences. A comprehensive set of developmental and healing practices enables us to revisit past events and transform their energetic nature and quality. We will explore these processes further in Portals Into the Soul as it continues to evolve. By reauthoring the meanings of our personal histories, we create pathways to update the collective human story.

This echoes Margaret Mead’s insight about what changes history. Real change happens when we shift our own consciousness and devotional intent. We can bring our focus to any given era and ask ourselves: What do we choose to honor and distill from the endeavors of these people so we can unlock new possibilities and free the future?

In this way, we may discover that the essence of ancient Egypt fortifies us, and the genius of ancient Greece uplifts us, as their spirits emanate through Story 2. Their discoveries and modes of knowledge assimilation live on in Story 3. We can likewise harvest vital qualities from the Middle Ages and the reformers who followed and be energized by their integrity, resilience, and courage, and feel their energy enlivening our present.

The work of Story 4 invites us to deeply appreciate innovators such as Copernicus, Galileo, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, and Florence Nightingale, along with many other pioneers. Rather than merely recounting the facts of their lives, we are drawn into the soul-quality, character, and essence that emanated through their contributions. In this way, the historical record of Story 1 recedes into the background, allowing the spirit of their endeavors to inform and inspire our own time.

 

Generative Dialytic Inquiry

During our Epoch Journey gatherings, we began experimenting with dialytic notations and messages to harvest the best from Red and Orange, while purposely releasing whatever we choose not to carry forward. This practice is rooted in three key realizations:

  1. The evolutionary process aims to enable and foster life.
  2. The evolution of life aims to enable and foster the rise of conscious biological beings.
  3. Conscious life, in turn, partners in the evolutionary co-arising of more enlightened consciousness throughout the universe.

These insights guide and inspire our work into Stories 4 and 5. Our experiment involved entering a quiet, meditative space while one of the musicians played contemplative music. Participants reflected and wrote — or, alternatively, drew, somatically inquired, moved, or danced — to ensure we engaged our whole selves, not just our heads. This whole-person inquiry approach allows us to sublimate, metabolize, and harvest the essence of Red and Orange energies in a dialytic, integrative process.

 

Becoming Dialytic With the Red Fractal

In reflecting on the insights gained from our experiment, we recognized that Red indeed carries the impulse of originating reasons. Yet some of Red’s lower expressions — such as losing that original connection — can manifest as lesser intentions, reverting to control, dominance, and subjugation, including the classic victor-victim or conqueror-conquered dynamics.

To use our own interiority as an “updating lab” for Story 4, we begin with the universal awareness that whatever exists in history or her-story also exists in each of us. How, then, do we become dialytic about these persuasions within ourselves? One approach is to attune to the underlying purposes and first principles of what we’re examining. For example, in Red, we might ask: Where am I asserting control, suppression, and dominance because I’ve lost touch with my deeper reasons and purposes?

Next, we can explore sublimating fear-based, rivalrous instincts by cultivating chivalrous responses — those that can reroute our biological programming and reconnect us with higher, originating causes.

Throughout this process, it’s essential to begin with an appreciative focus on what is true in Red (or any other color). Each color contains its own gift, blessing, and truth; recognizing these natural impulses helps us harness them in more fortifying, aligned, and constructive ways.

 

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Becoming Dialytic With the Orange Fractal

In our dialytic “Story 4” approach, we bring a similar inquiry to Orange:  What is a way we can recognize the nourishing, supportive energy of Orange and see where it calls for dialytic sublimation and transformation?

Through our shared, collective “laboratory,” we observe that Orange provides the sustenance and maintaining support necessary for the growth and expansion of originating impulses and reasons. Yet its lower, below-the-line expressions may include expansionism, excessive power grabs, gluttony, and even apathy, which can arise when an endeavor loses its purpose-tethering.

To become dialytic in Orange, we focus on reasoning, clarity of intent, discipline, and boundaries — establishing what is and isn’t ours to do and being clear about what we will and won’t take on. In practicing dialytic Orange work inwardly, we also invite its healing in the broader ecosystem.

An antidote to below-the-line Orange imperialistic expansionism can be found in an ancient Roman practice, embodied in the Latin phrase Memento Mori (Remember you must die). After achieving a major military victory, Roman generals were honored in triumphal parades through the city streets, hailed as near-divine by their troops and the public alike. Yet, riding in the same chariot — just behind the exalted general — stood a slave whose sole duty throughout the day-long procession was to whisper in the general’s ear:

“Respice post te. Hominem te esse memento. Memento mori!”
“Look behind. Remember thou art mortal. Remember you must die!”

This ritual served as a humbling reminder at the height of glory, ensuring that the general remained conscious of his mortality and guarded against egoic pride.

 

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Becoming Dialytic With the Yellow Fractal

Let us take a closer look at Yellow by slowing down and revisiting its function in the epoch’s development, where we noted that Yellow potency catalyzed and was expressed through the rise of axial religions.

The Yellow impulse helped humanity sublimate the more barbaric tendencies of “kill or be killed.” It called us to transcend the animalistic drives that had permeated human life, thereby liberating us from below-the-line Red and Orange dominance. This new freedom opened space for fresh knowledge and warmed the human to subtler, finer, and deeper feelings.

In a barbaric ecosystem, there is little room for deeper perception or finer awareness and ways; Yellow made these sensitivities possible, shifting humanity toward a higher organizing principle, one embodied by the various emerging religions.

Yellow also prompted us to congregate and discover belonging (from religio in Latin), offering large-scale contexts — through shared mythology, value, and meaning — for communities to gather around. This, in turn, generated new communal identities and possibilities, and gave rise to a different kind of leadership, distinct from the warlords of earlier barbaric systems.

It’s important to note that this Yellow impulse cannot be pinned down to a strict timeline; these influences have often coemerged. We describe Yellow as a functional aspect of the epoch’s development, suggesting that it activated new sense organs and connective faculties in the human. By prompting shared values, deeper significance and meaning, and higher sources of inspiration and intelligence, Yellow helped prepare humanity for the emerging Universalis evolution.

 

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This summary reflects a meditative way of listening — not just to words, but also to the feelings, atmospheres, and resonances in each person’s offering. It was as if each speaker dropped a pebble, and we could sense the ripples traveling through a subtle, energetic field, helping us appreciate and integrate these multiple facets of the Yellow function.

Consider, for example, an ensoulment transcendence leap in this dialytic process. There are many layers to explore when we say, “That Roman Emperor lives in me.” In one instance, it may be Marcus Aurelius, from whose Meditations we still learn today. Yet he operated within a cultural framework and system that requires sublimation and release. While he embodied the aspiration of an “enlightened emperor,” we must examine how we choose to sublimate the very structure of an empire and the concept of “emperor” in our own consciousness. Where do we recognize “emperor-like” tendencies within ourselves? And how, and why, might we disarm them?

Such Story 4 inquiries lead naturally into the emergence of Story 5, where we seek to craft a new operating system that allows us to reach for an “evolutionary crown.” Since the universe favors economy, if earlier epochs encoded practical knowledge and capacities useful to the future, why not distill their essence and sublimate them rather than waste them? Story 4 invites us to “hospice” and release what is no longer needed, while Story 5 asks us to bring forward what can further the universe’s evolutionary development.

So why do dialytic work?

One answer is that each “frame” in the slide and each fractal we’ve explored presents an opportunity to engage in this work right now. Then we might ask: What does dialytic work enable? And finally: How do we actually do dialytic Yellow work?

Here is a brief distillation of the why, what, and how behind a dialytic Yellow endeavor. Let us begin with the why:

  1. Liberate Yellow
    Over time, Yellow has often been “Blued” by being institutionalized — bound up in systems, structures, and bureaucracies. All the axial religions that originally emerged around a potent energetic source, new stories, and new meanings became bureaucratized in various sects and schools. Dialytic Yellow work frees that original essence so it can re-enter currency in an updated form.
  2. Becoming Available for a New Religious Impulse
    The next reason arises by inquiring: How do we make ourselves available for this renewed impulse seeking to access humanity? Rather than arising in one person or one “great man,” it might emerge in a gathering of people, inclusive of both feminine and masculine, including co-arising in the feminine aspect in the man, and in the masculine aspect in the women. Dialytic Yellow invites us to open that shared space so this new impulse can co-arise.
  3. Facilitating the Violet Transition
    Further, an important reason to do Yellow dialytic work is to provide an updated devotional alignment that can help us navigate the Violet conductivities. Violet is highly potent; at one level, it can trigger fragmentation and breakdown. By regenerating and replenishing Yellow, we discover a fresh updated centering meaning and devotion — one that helps us integrate the phase-shift potentials of Violet without bowing to chaos.

What Does Dialytic Yellow Work Enable?

There are several layers catalyzed by dialytic yellow work:

  • Sublimation and Self-Forgiveness
    Engaging in dialytic Yellow work allows us to re-examine our inner landscape and release what needs transforming. It enables self-forgiveness and transmogrification, and a profound shift in how we see and experience ourselves.
  • Inner Rewiring and Integration
    Through this process, we can initiate a “life reboot,” rewiring patterns and integrating fragmented aspects of ourselves, leading to deeper wholeness.
  • Communal Purpose Celebration
    Because humans are inherently social and familial beings, dialytic Yellow work also engenders communal celebration. It creates a space for shared devotion, significance, and purpose — recognizing the power of coming together around a higher principle or calling.

How Do We Do Dialytic Yellow Work?

There are several processes and practices that naturally facilitate this endeavor:

  • Expressive Modalities
    Singing, dancing, theater modalities, somatic practices, and various art forms all support generative dialytic processes. These modes of creative expression bring the Green impulse of renewal into Yellow, opening up new pathways for integration and shared meaning.
  • Meditation, Contemplation, and Prayer
    Quiet, inward-focused contemplative practices and “Inner Conclave” explorations, deepen our self-awareness and help us connect with sources of insight, guidance, and inner transformation.
  • Community Pods
    Small, intentional groups — whether leadership teams, support circles, or healing pods — provide a forum for interpersonal witnessing and mutual regenerative support. By weaving together dialogue, ritual, and creative exploration, these gatherings foster the sense of higher belonging and purpose that Yellow represents.
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The generative healing and dialysis work in Story 4 liberates “frozen” opportunities, paving the way for the Green impulse to awaken latent Story 5 possibilities. Evolution often takes a half-step forward and upward, then a step or two backward and downward before propelling us into a whole new leap forward. By applying dialytic capacities to metabolize these backward steps, we advance the human story toward ever higher elevations and expanded horizons of possibility.

In the spirit of these live explorations, everything we share here is a work-in-progress draft, inviting and encouraging limitless new journeys to emerge from these starters. The intuition guiding this work is that the creation of Story 5 serves as a living summons to all humans on this planet to engage in a participative, co-creative communion and evolution.

Will you join us by leading your own discovery lab?

 

Kyriaki Nikandrou

Kyriaki Nikandrou

When I was a child, staring at the starry night skies, I was filled with awe and wonder, about the mysteries of the Universe, Life, Time, the Human and its place in the Cosmos, trying to connect the dots that link everything with everything… Some years down the line, I still do. I am seeking to be in conversation with others in search for keys, for tools of understanding and application and for the real questions, the ones that become portals to contemplative journeys, leading to uncharted territories that feel like home. I believe we are on a trajectory of multiple and unpredictable changes; it is up to each one of us to rise to the challenge of our times. Now, more than ever before, is the time to be true to ourselves and fulfill our potential.

Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar

Aviv serves as the Portals' sherpa. He curates transformational journeys and is a storyteller of the epochal evolution culminating at this time. Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.

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