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@NoSelfSelf Yes, if that is your intention.

@Feel Good I will talk about it more in a future Spiral episode. I never finished the Spiral series because people were getting sick of it and starting to tune out. So you haven't heard the conclusion to how Spiral Dynamics really works. There is still much to be said about it.

@Torkys Nobody is solid anything. To say that you are Green, for example, means that 25% of your answers are from Orange, 50% from Green, and 25% from Yellow. Etc. There are also different developmental lines: Cognitive Moral/Ethical Spiritual Sexual Emotional Political Etc. You could be Red on the emotional line but Orange on the cognitive line. Etc. Spiral Dynamics is a nuanced and complex model requiring careful study.

Great example of Orange/Green criticizing Blue:

Here's a really simple rule of thumb test: How much do you care about ecology? If not, you're below Green. How much do you acknowledge that truth, value, and meaning is relative or a mental construction? If not, you're below Green. How much do you care about all living beings independent of their race, religion, gender, etc? If not, you're below Green. How clear are you that material success will do nothing for you? If so, you're Green and above. How much do you think your culture, nation, ethnicity is superior to others? If so, you're Blue. How much do you care about integration all the perspectives of the world, including all the sciences and all the religions? If so, you're at Yellow and above. How conscious are you that the entire world and universe is your entire body and you are identical with all sentient beings? If so, you're at Turquoise.

@kieranperez There is a deeper level

Dr Octavio travels around the world offering 5-MeO retreats. I know he's in Europe pretty often and I've heard positive testimonials. Check him out on Facebook.

@7thLetter Stage Orange pickup people usually have no interest in deep intellectual topics. They want pussy and success, and hardly anything else computes in their mind. "Bro, how is this Spiral Dynamics philosophy gonna help me get more money and pussy?" When you tell him, "It won't", he'll lose interest. RSD guys usually have a very bad case of Orange. Because that's the whole appeal of RSD. It's an Orange fly trap.

@Kosmos The more I listen to JP's nonsense, more I see he's nowhere near deserving of a Yellow designation. He's not an integral Tier 2 thinker. He only might appear to you that way because you yourself have too little experience with true Tier 2 integral thinking and have a soft-spot for JP's ideology. Only a hack would create videos for PragerU, a conservative propaganda arm equivalent to Fox News: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/inside-right-wing-youtube-turning-millennials-conservative-prageru-video-dennis-prager/ JP is not reaching out a hand to anyone. He's building a personal empire off fear-mongering and culture wars. Most of his audience is not nearly sophisticated enough to see it. What JP is doing is playing identity politics, and his fanbase gobbbles it up because they have narrow, weak identities. JP is just an academic version of Fox News. He shows no awareness of any stage beyond Green. And even Green he views as a mistake. This is not a serious intellectual. Why waste your time on this when there are such better teachers to learn from??

@MarkusSweden No, #2 is false even from the relative POV. Quantum mechanics has told you that matter does not exist for over 100 years. You just have a very outdated model of matter and reality. SCIENCE tells you that there is no such thing as physical reality! All there are, are infinite quantum fields. There are no particles! What's stupid are your ideas of reality. That's all. Surrender your ideas, and your stupidity will disappear.

In the Absolute sense nothing exists. You gotta be careful not to conflate relative and absolute statements. If chakras exist, they exist relatively, in the way that your brain exists relatively.

Dude, you'll see awesome stuff long before you get to the end. There is no end. I will always tell you there is more. But at some point you will hit the point of no return and you won't need me any more. Don't forget to enjoy the process of awaking up. This is not a race. P.S. That brain is not yours!

Decided to reshoot this week's video so it will be a few days late.

It is worth making people generally aware that blindly following any guru is a recipe for trouble. Even if he happens to be a nice guru, the only reason you escape unscathed is because you got lucky. Think and contemplate for yourself and you will never get abused by a guru. The ones who end up abused are the ones who are sheep looking for easy answers and an idealized daddy figure to fawn over.

There will be more new topics coming soon. It is a balancing act of getting newbies up to speed and covering advanced stuff.

@Fuku There are deeper levels which are going unnoticed.

It? Which it?

The ego mind is very sneaky. It will use self-inquiry and co-opt it to build up a spiritual ego instead of actually dissolving the ego. I recommend supplementing self-inquiry with Kriya yoga and psychedelics.

If you really wanna blow your mind open, watch this video: Mega-Dose Psilocybin Mushrooms - Beyond The Threshold I don't have the balls at this point to do a 30 gram mushroom trip. But if I ever do, and then you here me talking crazy. You'll understand why.

Reading 100 books is not mutually exclusive with sitting still. People who do not read end up ignorant, regardless of whatever else they do. You can be enlightened, but still ignorant and undeveloped.

Meditation, yoga, and psychedelics are some of the most consistent tools for leaping up the Spiral. Research shows that people who meditate end up jumping 2 stages higher than wherever they started in a few years.

I am not enlightened nor have I claimed to be.

More excuses for not reading books?

To get what you want, start doing Kriya yoga.

All such ideas and expectations will only get in the way. No one knows how you will react. Depends on you. You should not be pursuing a particular reaction, but Truth. Whatever Truth entails is whatever happens. That's the thing, you cannot get a preview of what you're getting into. It is unimaginable. You just have to want the Truth, whatever the cost. If you don't care about Truth you are unlikely to succeed because Truth is what we are talking about, not positive states or anything else. Enlightenment is a pursuit for those you want metaphysical answers. So ask yourself, what do you want?