Leo Gura

What you have to understand about such Green people is that they are doing it out of an ideal of equality, in reaction against Blue & Orange. They really care about the animals. So much so that it goes overboard. Green cares too much, you could say. That is its strength and weakness. The life of an animal is worth more than throwing blood on some customer -- in Green's eyes. You can't put a price on life. They are more conscious than you in the sense that they see the equality of all life. An ego-filled person cannot see that an ant is worth as much as a human.

@Girzo Good call on the K-pop. So Orange.

@NoSelfSelf Look around your room right now and notice that everything you see has no meaning. Exclude no object. Just sit with that for a few minutes. Repeat every day for a month.

This one's for you software engineers. When you feel demotivated, you watch this one instead of the Arnold videos

What does anything mean?

Of course, how could we forget our lovable furry-hatted friend: P.S. I'm still waiting for you guys to buy me a Rolls Royce.

@jpcatrib I posted a video on my blog around Xmas 2017 about the amazing potential of Bitcoin for democratizing society in the future. In that sense, Bitcoin could become a Green technology. But there is also a lot of currency manipulation and gambling that goes on with BItcoin. People mining for Bitcoin hoping become overnight millionaires. That is a very Orange phenomena. Bitcoin is similar to the internet as a whole: it has a huge democratizing influence, but with this democratization comes all kind of vulgarity, manipulation, and nonsense. On the one hand the internet gave us Wikipedia, on the other hand it gave us porn and 4chan. Technology almost always tends to be a mixed bag, requiring nuanced sorting of wheat from chaff and wise application. In the hands of a fool, any tool become dangerous. And every stage of the Spiral will try to use new technology to entrench and defend itself. Stage Blue terrorists will not hesitate to use stage Orange nuclear weapons if they can get their hands on them.

@Self-Mastery "I don't remember people ever being in denial of what science is..." -- Niel DeGrasse Tyson I find this statement rather absurd for a scientist to say. Mankind has ALWAYS been in denial about science/reality, including scientists themselves! Scientists themselves deny all new radical scientific discoveries. Perfect example of Orange's lack of epistemic nuance.

@robdl Zen masters accumulate lots of experience. And not just on the cushion. They read and study scriptures too. And they learn from teaching. You're not just going to awaken in one fell swoop out of the blue and have life mastered. The process is both gradual and sudden. Spiritual schools exist precisely because there is much to learn.

@cetus56 Hey! Stop stealing my Green video quotes!

Oh man, you couldn't be more mistaken. Women LOOOOOOOVE Green sex! You will love it too. To you it seems as though they aren't turned on by it because they follow your lead. So if all you lead them towards is shallow Orange sex, that's all they accept without even knowing what they're missing. And you cannot lead a woman to Green sex unless you are first comfortable being there yourself. When you give a woman Green sex, she will love you forever. Most guys suck at sex. Sex is an artform. Like attracts like. Orange attracts Orange. Green attracts Green.

That's the nature of the beast. Even enlightened people argue with each other and criticize each other. It's a very sneaky problem that few people fully appreciate. With diversity comes conflict and a certain degrees of chaos. Infinity is always at war with itself as it radiates infinite diversity. Even Zen monasteries go to war with each other. The wise person sees the meta-dynamic and is able to rise above the warring horde (within certain limits). Enlightened people do not need forums. This forum is for people who are struggling. This is kindergarten

I haven't really watched it, but Dr Phil feels Green to me. Of course all mainstream self-help shows are heavily monetized with an Orange biz model and place a strong emphasis on Orange achievement advice because that's what sells and what people crave. So even if Dr Phil himself is Green, the corporate execs running his show probably push him to go Orange a lot.

Looks like a good primer. Watch my Derrida episode after you're done with this. I get the sense that most people still haven't understood the significance of what was said in the Derrida episode. And I have a really great book about Derrida in my book list. Highly recommend it if you want to understand post-modernism properly. And it's any easy and fun read! (Which is very rare for Derrida books.)

It's not that you cannot be Green without ditching social media. But if you're on social media, it will keep you from connecting with Being and nature and people. The very fact that you are afraid to leave social media because it is integral to your business/career is a huge sign that Orange has you by the balls. You are prioritizing success over other things and you're addicted to it. No one is saying you should never use social media. We're giving you suggestions for how to evolve to higher levels of consciousness. In the same way that you might tell a fat person to stop sitting on the couch. This does not mean you need to throw your couch into the dumpster and sit on a bed of nails.

Disowning reality does not work. The purpose of Spiral Dynamics is to help you OWN every stage. That can only happen when you understand that every stage is necessary to the functioning of the whole. Yes, even Nazi's are necessary. OWN it. Everything is you.

@Romazho Welcome to a little taste of real spiritual work

Cause most people on YT and in the West are Orange. Of course many Green people watch me too. Fully overcoming Orange isn't easy cause it's the predominant culture of our time. Even much of personal dev is Orange. As my channel evolved over the last year or two, I've probably alienated many solid Orange people with my mystical talk. So maybe now I have more Green people. Who can say? The majority of viewers stay silent. The wisest, most Yellow viewers probably don't ever post a comment, which skews my understanding of my audience.

Funny, I thought Russell's position was wiser than Sam's. Sam is still stuck in his mind and defending a rationalist ideology.

He seems genuine, but you never really know with celebrities. What you see on TV is a sliver of their entire lives. And as an ex-addict, it's easy to backslide. I hope he keeps it up.