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@Shane Hanlon Thanks for the thoughtful ideas. But I am not really interested in going mainstream because what I teach will never be mainstream. And the core of my work is serious epistemology. I don't do the practical stuff to be more popular, I do it because I know it's needed to help people burn through their karma to maybe one day understand my serious epistemic work.

@Aturban Of course, but don't fool yourself by conflating relative and absolute domains. The reason you want to be better, is because you're God

You are never going to logically convince MAGA people no matter how much evidence you provide. That's like trying to dissuade Bin Laden by providing him and his people with scientific facts. All election fraud cases were thrown out by courts and judges because they were pure bullshit. Election fraud in America virtually does not exist.

That could be explained by systemic ethnocentric biases and blindspots of management.

I think Sam's analysis here is very good overall. Yes, he did leave out the factor that the management of the Capitol Police may have had some nationalistic biases or even explicit instructions from the Trump admin. But overall I agree with Sam. I would not call the Capitol Police racist. The simple explanation is that they were outnumbered and caught off-guard. A few of them, individually, were likely sympathetic to the MAGA agenda, but those few are not the majority. The majority of police are professionals, not racists. And systemic racial biases should not blamed on all individual cops.

First of all, there is no obligation to give others happiness. You can't really make others happy anyway. Secondly, God needs nothing at all. Yet God gives everyone everything. This is otherwise known as True Love. Follow God's example

It's very easy for your trip to go sideways if one of those 150 people start acting out and doing something weird. Their freakout will freak you out, and so forth. If you are meditating in a group, that's one thing -- it is dead calm. But tripping with a group of 150 is another thing.

Imagine almighty God nailed to a cross

And a rapist sees no problem with rape.

It stings like a bitch for a week. You feel it and go on with life. It helps a lot when you have built a good life for yourself centered around a life purpose and personal dev. Otherwise you will wallow in despair and depression because you got nothing else going for you. When you are proactive about building a good life for yourself and doing spiritual work, you need other people less and less to complete you. To the extent that your life is not well put together, the loss of people in your life will lead to huge catastrophe and deep suffering -- because you use these people as emotional crutches to avoid doing serious work. If you take this work deep enough, you will not need anyone for your happiness.

Do MAGA know or care about Trump's concentration camps on the Mexican border?

Of course it is, because you're not adding any value to society by doing this. You are looking to steal value. And so don't get surprised if you end up punished. Focus on giving massive value to society. Not being a value vampire.

Ewwww...

Yes, but I see progressive YTers blur that line frequently, calling all police racists or white supremicists. That's not a good look for the progressive left. It alienates good police officers and forces them to side with MAGA dumbasses who at least don't call them racist (which is actually more accurate). Progressives need to be allies of the police so the police isn't sympathetic to fascists. We want the police on our side because the police is directly involved with social justice.

Haha I don't offload my problems onto other humans.

There will be blood. Too late for that.

Again, the police are not white supremacist, but many of them have ethnocentric dispositions and egos. Calling the police white supremacist or racists misses the deeper point for a shallow understanding of the issue. Demonizing the police is not a good strategy because the police are what stand in the way between you and serious devils who would beat you to death with an American flag pole.

A) It will surprise you, but most Nazis are not blood-thristy people. They are good, ordinary, hard-working people who just happen to follow the herd and identify with their ethnicity, riled up by a fascist demagogue. They are slowly radicalized in the same way Islamic extremists are radicalized. B) Nazism is just an extreme form of stage Blue ethnocentrism. C) Every Spiral stage is very broad and can have healthy and toxic manifestations. There are many positive manifestations of stage Blue, and even ethnocentrism, but there are also extremely toxic ones. The problem is not stage Blue per se, it's toxic stage Blue riled up by demagogues, grifters, and devils like the Trump family and FoxNews. Don't forget that approx 50% of the global population is at stage Blue ethnocentric level of ego development. Therefore half the global population is susceptible to Nazi-like ideologies if they are allowed to flourish. The key is that those of us who are more developed and more conscious must steer them away from such extremes and show them a path toward healthy manifestations of Blue and beyond. Republican leadership has failed at this job by playing into conspiracy theories and not standing up against Trump's depraved behavior from day one. Few MAGA supporters are actually Nazis. So characterizing them as such will just make you look partisan. It's important now, more than ever, to be as precise as possible with our terminology and casting of other people -- to avoid demonization, scapegoating, and misunderstanding the nature of the beast. The more accurately we understand the problem, the better we can deal with it.

@mmKay Yeah, all you need to be popular is to be Keanu Reeves. Lol Also, the secret to getting your dick sucked by girls without saying a single word or making any effort: Be Keanu Reeves

The issue here is that stage Orange does not have a sense of collective responsibility because they believe everything boils down to the individual. Of course both types of responsibility are crucial and one cannot be offloaded onto the other.

It's just classic nationalism and ethnocentrism. Stage Blue is ethnocentric. They defend whatever ethnic identity they have, regardless of whether it's Hindus, Germans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, or Muricans. This is Murican ethnocentrism. Trump's entire appeal for the last 5 years has been American ethnocentrism. That's his entire platform, and ethnocentrically-inclined people lap it up. They love it because nobody else speaks to them in that way. To call it racism doesn't fully get the point. It's ethnocentrism. Which of course leads to racism in practice. Ethnocentrism is where racism spawns from.

People on this forum don't need to ask Sadhguru about psychedelics. We know better than him on this matter.

I don't trip often, but when I do, the electricity in my whole country shuts off and goes straight into my skull Good work!

Read, study, and contemplate it more. Read the book Tai Lopez is Orange. People are complex and so is Spiral Dynamics. No, he's Orange. His book is helping people go from Blue to Orange. It's classic capitalist business/financial advice. It has nothing to do with Yellow or systemic concerns about "wage slavery" as a political or social ailment. He's just telling people how to make lots of money. He's much more conscious and his material is not merely about making money. I used to be more Orange. I've evolved a lot in 8 years. Some topics I still cover from an Orange perspective because all the higher stages include the lower stage capacities within them. When you become Yellow, you still have full access to the Orange abilities. If the topic I'm talking about is something like teaching incels how to get laid, then I will use a stage Orange approach because they do not need nor relate to Yellow. I am able to communicate from any color of the Spiral depending on what is appropriate to the situation. I'm not limited to operating from one color.

The title of that book is referring to Dawkins' personal God delusion. So it's very appropriately titled