Leo Gura

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.

You don't need an expensive test. If you watch my 6-part series, by the end of it, you'll know which colors you resonate with.

@lmfao We'll start a separate thread for Red in the future. So save your Red examples for that one.

Inside the mind of average Blue folks.

Classic Blue

This one is great for showing that the Blue mindset sits so deep, it's unconscious, like a body reflex.

Jim Bakker is another Blue doozy that just boggles the mind. It gets extra-delicious when you read his criminal record on Wikipedia.

He's a toxic mix of Blue/Orange and probably has some legit mental issues. It's very easy to believe your own bullshit when you start making millions of dollars every month selling your ideology as he does. At stage Orange, there is nothing beyond success and money, so when ideology becomes profitable, it's a killer combination from which Blue/Orange cannot escape. Money appears like the perfect validation of God's truth, creating a closed feedback loop of bullshit which feels very real to the person inside it.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. Alex Jones makes this too easy and too amusing.

@Ether If you are squashing a cockroach, you are squashing yourself

Of course. Unity = multiplicity. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. You are your wife. You are me. Evil is good. Hate is love. Yin is yang. God is the devil. Illusion is reality. Enlightenment is non-enlightenment. Life is death. Infinity! ONENESS

@ChimpBrain Seattle area and Oregon are very liberal places, and beautiful scenery with mountains. Washington state has zero state income tax, which is a great bonus.

A) Many true hippies from that era remain hippies to this day, and are really into self-actualization and spirituality. Most modern self-help is thanks to the human potential movement of the 60's. Many of today's enlightened teachers were hippies in the 60's. Like Shinzen Young. B) There was a strong, deliberate crackdown on stage Green by stages Blue and Orange. Capitalism outlawed psychedelics and shut down the counter-culture movement. Because it was a deep threat to capitalism. If the US government did not crack down on the counter-culture revolution and outlaw psychedelics, our culture would be much more evolved today. C) May of the people partaking of the counter-culture movement were just dabblers. Going to a few music festivals does not mean you're at stage Green in your heart. Most people today don't recognize how much of an impact the 60's revolution had on modern culture. Its effects can still be felt to this day.

@ChimpBrain You complaining about Texas? Lol I lived in Texas for 5 years. Texas is a pretty diverse place. Sure, you got some cowboys, but the big cities like Dallas are not Blue. Very livable. And Austin is like San Francisco Green, with a yoga studio on every corner. Move to Austin and enjoy all the hippies you can stomach. I might move to Austin next year myself. Great town.

Pope Francis is another pretty good example of Blue. Although he too has some percentage of Green which gives him compassion and the value of equality. Blue + Green make for a very nice combo. Green tempers out Blue's harsh moralizing and us-vs-them thinking.

Perhaps, but that's hard to do. It would require a separate platform and most people wouldn't know how to use it.

Here's a what a very healthy version of Blue might look like. Of course Comey isn't pure Blue. He's got Orange and Green too. But his entire book and way of talking and carrying himself is a list of Blue keywords. Notice that Blue can be very stable and reliable. A good judge or executor of the law. A good defender of decency and ethical standards. Solid, like a rock.