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@waking_dreams Great stuff, those 10 principles.

@Rilles Excellent! Lots of wisdom packed into 3 minutes.

@tsuki It's not strictly a prerequisite. There are people who I would classify as Yellow who don't know Spiral Dynamics exists. But learning Spiral Dynamics will super-charge your ascent and mastery of Yellow and help open you up to Turquoise. Noam Chomsky is a Yellowish guy, and I don't think he knows about Spiral Dynamics. Yellow just requires a passion for removing all biases from your perception of the world, and being able to explore diverse perspectives with radical openmindedness and neutrality.

@billiesimon Girls love artistic hippie guys. They love the long-haired chaotic musician stereotype. A Green guy can easily steal a girl away from an Orange guy. Girls want emotional connection, not your Orange logic and business-suit. Don't confuse PUA emotional manipulation tactics with true emotional connection. PUAs are not able to build deep emotional connection. They just know how to manipulate her emotional buttons to create drama. Which works short-term, but not long-term. And 99% of Orange guys don't know pick-up, so they are the boring logical nerd guy who cannot get laid.

The map is also the territory

@DoubleYou Yeah, that's very true. Orange looks for love externally rather than internally. Because Orange is materialistic, it treats love as just another kind of material.

Looks like something a rationalist Orange ass hat would post

@Spacious He's trying to reconcile Blue religion/morality with Orange science. Which will never work without direct experience of the Infinite. The Infinite IS the reconciliation. You cannot comprehend the Infinite via the finite. Duality cannot fathom nonduality. A discontinuous leap in awareness is required. All religion is an aping of nonduality.

@tsuki Those are good points. That's exactly right: your perspective is always relative. There is no such thing as absolute stages. Your ability to understand each stage depends on what stage of the Spiral you are at. And you ego will tend to cloud your vision of the Spiral until you get to solid Yellow. Many of the lower stages will no be able to understand Spiral Dynamics at all, rejecting it out of hand, or misusing the model for egoic purposes.

Some good insights there. I definitely could have said a lot more about women and relationships with respect to Spiral Dynamics. That could be an entire episode all on its own. Cliche examples of the Orange woman is a slutty club girl or a gold-digger wife who marries more for security than for love. Then she cheats behind his back with the fun, adventurous, romantic, artistic Green guy who actually makes her wet. Melania Trump seems pretty Orange to me. As is Trump's daughter, Ivanka. The female character in House Of Cards -- Claire Underwood -- is a great example of a manipulative Orange woman. Orange women like to wear business-suits and compete with the boys in the corporate boardroom. Orange women can feel like they have to compete with men in a masculine way, over-arresting themselves. Orange women are different from Blue women in that they often have their own big careers, like men.

Sit down with a journal and break down all your beliefs by asking, "What is really true?"

No, it's a SPIRAL -- which is a vertically offsetting loop.

Blue/Orange triggered by Green.

@Silvester Kriya yoga Psychedelics Deconstruct your web of beliefs

Green at its best.

Beautiful example of a man who transitioned from Orange to Green.

Great example of Green getting triggered by Blue/Orange.