Leo Gura

@tsuki Those are good points. That's exactly right: your perspective is always relative. There is no such thing as absolute stages. Your ability to understand each stage depends on what stage of the Spiral you are at. And you ego will tend to cloud your vision of the Spiral until you get to solid Yellow. Many of the lower stages will no be able to understand Spiral Dynamics at all, rejecting it out of hand, or misusing the model for egoic purposes.

Some good insights there. I definitely could have said a lot more about women and relationships with respect to Spiral Dynamics. That could be an entire episode all on its own. Cliche examples of the Orange woman is a slutty club girl or a gold-digger wife who marries more for security than for love. Then she cheats behind his back with the fun, adventurous, romantic, artistic Green guy who actually makes her wet. Melania Trump seems pretty Orange to me. As is Trump's daughter, Ivanka. The female character in House Of Cards -- Claire Underwood -- is a great example of a manipulative Orange woman. Orange women like to wear business-suits and compete with the boys in the corporate boardroom. Orange women can feel like they have to compete with men in a masculine way, over-arresting themselves. Orange women are different from Blue women in that they often have their own big careers, like men.

Sit down with a journal and break down all your beliefs by asking, "What is really true?"

No, it's a SPIRAL -- which is a vertically offsetting loop.

Blue/Orange triggered by Green.

@Silvester Kriya yoga Psychedelics Deconstruct your web of beliefs

Green at its best.

Beautiful example of a man who transitioned from Orange to Green.

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