Leo Gura

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations are Blue at it's healthiest. Although, Aurelius has been criticized by historians for exterminating Christians. Which is not at all surprising.

Hacksaw Ridge is probably the most positive depiction of stage Blue you're gonna find: Not surprising, given Mel Gibson is a stage Blue kinda guy, so he glorifies Blue.

Well... it's a broad generalization. I can't know for sure. But Blue is the type of person who would die in the call of duty for his country/people. Reminds of the movie Ladder 49, which was a stage Blue tearjerker: Same phenomena as jumping on a grenade to save your troops. Classic Blue move.

Hoho! The Blue mother lode.

@the_wanderer That is a metaphore. Conciousness/reality is not a metaphore. It is itself. You cannot access Truth via metaphore. So you're gonna have to let it go eventually if you want to awaken. Reality is not anything but itself.

@B_Naz You are treating this topic too much like philosophy. Rather than speculating, sit down and contemplate: What is a thought? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The answers are all there in your direct experience. Asking us about it will not help you. It's distraction from the work you should be doing. The topic of thoughts or consciousness is not a theoretical one. Thoughts are happening in real-time for you right now! So look at them to see what they are. Don't think about thoughts. Observe thoughts happening.

@WildeChilde Enough of this nationalist nonsense. I don't even understand why you're on this forum. Consciousness is not for you. Nationalism is ego, plain and simple.

Yup

@AdamDiC For 18, you're doing awesome! Just keep taking baby steps. Start a Kriya Yoga practice. It will help you enormously with embodiment.

The practical implications are so enormous you cannot even being to fathom them, and they cannot be easily explained to a materialist such as yourself. Reality does not exist! You were never born! You invented every single problem in your life! Do you realize how significant that is? It seems like abstraction to you because all you're doing is holding idealism as an idea in your mind, while holding materialism as REALITY. But what you fail to see is that to truly realize idealism means that your entire notion of reality will crumble. You're not interested in having that happen, so you merely entertain idealism as an idea. And of course, an idea of enlightenment is a pure abstraction with no practice consequences for your life. It is as though you are a poor man on the street complaining: "But Leo! How is the idea of being a billionaire going to change my life? It's pure abstraction! How is that going to feed me? Ideas don't pay bills." You're right! The idea of being a billionaire will not feed you. But I am not talking about an idea of being a billionaire. I am talking about a cold hard billion dollars in your pocket. Not the idea of it, but the actual thing. Take some LSD and see for yourself what you're missing. Here's a very simple practical implication: An idealist is immortal and cannot die. A materialist will die. And there are thousands more practical consequences of idealism. Like the ability to heal yourself of serious physical diseases using your mind. Which a materialist cannot do.

You might as well ask, "Why did the mirage in the desert allow the desert to exist?" Stop masturbating and go do some self-inquiry.

@OBEler Lol, and his hatred for Jews was what exactly? You guys sure find clever ways to justify your dictatorial leaders. I have studied Hitler. He was the epitome of Blue. He was also zonked out of his mind on meth and other narcotics. If you give someone like Alex Jones absolute power, he becomes a Hitler-like character.

No, I never said that. I knew since my teenage years that my worldview is not absolutely true. I explained this long ago in my epistemology episodes. When I speak of Absolute Infinity, don't confuse that with a worldview. Nothing I have ever said is the Truth. Nor will it ever be. You guys still don't get that. Since the first Actualized video 5 years ago, I have never been under the impression that what I say is Truth. It only seems that way from your perspective. I make a clear distinction in my mind between concept and reality. Most of you guys don't, so you project that paradigm onto my speech and teachings, which is understandable, but it gives you an inaccurate sense of my worldview. My worldview is that all worldviews are false, including my worldview. This has been my worldview since I was about 18.

Definitely The ego-mind uses science to back up whatever worldview it has, and rejects science in those areas where it contradicts the worldview. The name of the game is very simple: defend my worldview come what may, at any cost, because my worldview is absolutely true. The delicious irony is that science uses science & reason in exactly the same manner, creating a circular justification for itself.

That's because your personal lack of development clouds your vision. You cannot understand Yellow until you're at Yellow yourself. As you become more conscious, you will understand that a stage Yellow person would never behave the way Trump does. Trump is nowhere close to Yellow. Not even a little bit. Trump actively hates Yellow. He's the opposite of Yellow.

There are extremely few solid Yellow people in the world. You won't confuse them for others.

This is a place for education. If you don't want education, you're welcome to go sit under a tree for the rest of your life.

This guy's a real good case-study.

Don't turn this thread into a debate about JP. Debate that elsewhere.

Notice the keywords.

Here's a really good example of healthy Blue. Standing up for principles, truth, rule of law, integrity, and decency. Trump has actually fractured the Blue/Orange Republican party. The more evolved and moderate Blues are forced to denounce Trump's Redish qualities.

That will depend on many factors, including your Spiral Dynamics level and what kind of lifestyle you want. My fave places are: Washington state, Nevada, Austin, Dallas, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Florida. I haven't explored the East coast much.