Leo Gura

Great example of Green getting triggered by Blue/Orange.

@Bernard Start doing Kriya yoga. That will help you a lot.

That's why they feed him 2 scoops of ice cream at dinner while everyone else gets 1 scoop P.S. The ice cream is orange-flavored with chunks of strawberry, to keep his color up.

Every stage has its own favorite fears. No stage is free of fear. Freeing yourself of fear is only possible with lots of enlightenment. If you are in an angry, fearful, or threatened state, you will drop a stage or two from your typical baseline. For example, if an Orange-Green country experiences a terrorist attack, it's likely to regress to Blue for a while.

The reason you're addicted is because you've lost touch with Being, or you are trying to escape something. Psychedelics can put you back in touch with Being. That can be very helpful, although not a guaranteed cure-all. If you are dead-set on being an addict, you will be an addict.

@Key Elements The chess pieces and chess board are one

Played vs not-played is a duality. There turns out to be no difference between the two. Everything that is, is also nothing. From the relative perspective of your ego-mind, it seems to play. From the absolute perspective, it just sits on a shelf. From the relative perspective, there is a difference between the relative and the absolute. But from the absolute, there isn't.

From the ego's perspective, this can seem like a problem. But luckily, the ego will die no matter what, and all your worries along with it. So there's nothing to worry about There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

He's just a Paleo-Intellectual

Eternal already means it exists forever. Imagine every moment of your life is like a frame in a film reel. And this film reel is sitting on a bookshelf, forever. The film reel is never played or repeated. No one is ever going to touch it. It will just sit eternally on the bookshelf. Now imagine a film reel which contains every possible film that could ever be filmed. All of it sitting on a bookshelf, forever. That's you.

@Vladimir It cannot be spoken. You must discover for yourself, or choose not to. Notice, your question is coming from ego. The joy of awakening are beyond your wildest dreams.

@CreamCat Consciousness doesn't have a start or end. It is eternal. This moment you think you're experiencing right now, is actually eternal. It has existed forever and will continue to exist forever. It just requires enormous degrees of consciousness to notice that. Once the illusion of time is cracked, everything in your perceptual field will be noticed to exist eternally. You can look at a pencil and notice that it has existed for all of eternity.

Strict self-inquiry is not about freeing your beliefs, but focusing your attention like a laser-beam on the "I AM" or "the self" until enlightenment dawns. But spending some time deconstructing your materialist web of beliefs is very helpful. That and self-inquiry synergize nicely. Maybe spend 20 minutes in the morning deconstructing your web of beliefs using a journal. And then spend 20 minutes in the evening doing self-inquiry. Something like that is a good place to start. Psychedelics are very helpful for deconstructing the materialist paradigm.

The True Self is infinite and eternal and cannot ever die. But don't confuse that with "you". "You" is ego, and that will die because it's just a figment of the mind. It can die at any moment, without even the body dying. If fact, you are already dead right now. Take a look. You were never born.

No self, no problem

Only relative to your ego. The point is, that so-called "reality" is not a reality at all, but a dream. Horrors do not really exist in the world. But the ego cannot fathom that. Hence the need for awakening. As long as you're stuck inside the dream, you will believe it is real and that the stuff happening inside of it matters.

@Joseph Maynor Like I said, I've seen the Absolute.

@CreamCat There is no you! So this notion "my consciousness" is deeply misguided. Consciousness is not yours. That's the illusion of duality. Consciousness is happening without you. Death means: no more you.

@Emerald Of course you'd say that, you're an emerald-colored Neo-Feminazi

If you can do that, then you've got something cool going beyond my understanding. But that itself is not what enlightenment is. I don't want people to get the idea that enlightenment means seeing 360 degrees. That will get them chasing something else.

Well, firstly, you have no idea what those people experience or know. And you never will. You can only know what you know. Secondly, I am not enlightened, although I have seen the Absolute. I imagine those folks are enlightened, although how deeply, we will never really know.

@Clayman Green is not yet conscious enough to be tolerant of intolerance. That comes only later. Judgment of "evil" is a very sticky thing. Very hard for the mind to let go. You're only gonna be able to let it go after some enlightenment experiences. And Green is not there yet. The reason you're confused about this is because you're expecting Green to perfectly embody its ideals of empathy, love, and peace. Which of course Green cannot do because that would require total enlightenment -- beyond anything you can imagine. If you're expecting Green to be Jesus, you'll be disappointed. And even Jesus would be a SJW in your book. Stop listening to the likes of Jordan Peterson and stop using the label "SJW". It's holding you back. Imagine if I referred to all Blue staged people as "Nazis", all Red staged people as "Rapists", and all Orange staged people as "greedy pigs". And then I kept wondering, How come I don't understand them? To understand a thing requires that you first stop judging it.