Jean seems to think so. 

Is she right?  Is she wrong?  Why?

Good point though - a "perfectly balanced" ILP, is often not what grows us, but an imbalance can often grow us.

In case you haven't been tracking this, and you are interested in politics, and have some time (three prerequisites!), make sure to check out "Who owns God?" at Integral Options Cafe.

Who Owns God? Part 1
Who Owns God? Part 2
Who Owns God? Part 3

It's actually politics through the realm of Spiral Dynamics, but worth reading in any case. 

What is valuable is the insight that the "God" that people believe in is related to their own level of growth, and that this has been mapped, via (hopefully) large scale and coherent statistical analyses.

I'm still skeptical (or perhaps confused) of this Tier 1- Tier 2 understanding.

Tier 1 is considered everyting the "memes" Green and below.  Tier 2 is yellow and above.

To me, there still seems a confusion between a substantive and authentic "level of consciousness",be it green, orange, yellow - with the whole aspect of "meme", which really is a strictly cognitive development.

A level of conciousness is deeper than a cognition, deeper than a meme, so it looks like a conflation between a particular "meme" or world-view, with a level of consciousness.