Roland Kim

Introduction Throughout history, scholars and thinkers have sought to understand the stages of human development, aiming to define the path toward higher psychological, emotional, and spiritual integration. Two such models—Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and my Five-Stage Theory of Personality and Civilization—arrive at remarkably similar conclusions despite taking different routes to get there. While Wilber’s work is widely known in Integral Philosophy, […]

Introduction Jeffrey Hinton’s warnings about the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) underscore the urgent need for proactive measures to prevent its misuse. As AI development accelerates, the lack of robust global oversight leaves humanity vulnerable to self-destructive outcomes akin to the Manhattan Project. Simultaneously, the five-stage model of emotional and socio-cultural development, derived

Migration is a complex and often divisive topic, with passionate arguments on both sides. To navigate this issue, it’s helpful to understand it through a broader lens. Roland Kim’s Five-Stage Model of Civilization offers a framework for evaluating how societies evolve in their attitudes toward migration. Roland Kim’s Five-Stage Model of Civilization Overview: Anti-Migration Perspective:

An “open society” is a concept popularized by philosopher Karl Popper, referring to a society characterized by a high degree of political and personal freedom, transparency, and tolerance of different opinions and lifestyles. In an open society, the government is responsive and accountable to the people, and institutions are transparent and open to scrutiny. Citizens

The theory of an individual’s emotional/ personality development, proposed here, results from integrating various developmental psychology and psychoanalytic theories. The outlined integration of theories of human emotional development has revealed relative consistency between them. This chapter will review various theories from classical and contemporary psychoanalysis and humanistic psychology before integrating them to derive a theory of