Leo Gura

Getting rid of corporate lobbying is a great idea. But you are insane if you think any progress on that will happen in a Trump admin.

Don't compare Clinton and Biden to Trump. If the Trump admin is not corrupt, then nothing is corrupt.

Of course. All science assumes right vs wrong science. Otherwise you're just making shit up. The point of experiment is to distinguish right from wrong. Truth leads to doing philosophy. You can't even know what truth is, or why it matters, without philosophy.

It's more tricky than that because you also create what is.

Never trust an artichoke.

As long as you apply that logic to Hitler.

Look at it this way: Cook-Grueter's model tells you that the first 4 stages are about building up the ego and the next 4 stages are about deconstructing the ego. So what happens at the end of 4 stages of ego deconstruction? Where does that lead?

There is something profound in the Spiral Wizardry approach. I could be better at that.

But Wilber is the lord of these stage models. His own model has something like Unitive at the top. Don Beck even chastized Wilber for including awakening in his model. You are more parroting Beck than Wilber. Beck, who called Trump good for America and Wilber a stage Red psychopath

I expect better thinking from you.

Just to goad the right the left should add AI rights and unicorn rights to their agenda. #UnicornsToo

Yup

Yes, of course this is crucial. Go to Zimbabwe and see how many Construct-Aware people you meet.

That is a function of insufficient philosophy and misuse of philosophy. Obviously any field can be misused. Philosophy doesn't gurantee truth. It's not enough to do philosophy, you must also do it well. Just like it's not enough to crunch numbers you must crunch the right numbers. Philosophy is also badly corrupt, like most human things are. Corruption is a problem for philosophy as it is for science, as it is for spirituality. Also, I will take Einstein over Prof Dave any day. Einstein was a serious intellect who used the power of philosophy to do groundbreaking science. What science has Dave done?

Your doubt doesn't make sense. Just ask yourself, If stages of development exist at all, what must the highest stages look like? Obviously it must include Awakening, ego-transcendence, God-realization, and construct-awareness in some capacity. We can argue over degree, but these elements are essential for any serious mind in its quest to make sense of reality. There are stages beyond Unitive, but going through Unitive is essential if you are aiming high.

No. Those are 3 different things.

But many New Agers do have spiritual experience. So it's not so easy to dismiss them. What they lack is intellectual rigor. And it's not like my rigor is even so high. I only care about rigor so much. There's more to this work than rigor.

My approach is cerebral/intellectual. It is not suitable for everyone. But cognitive development requires doing lots of thinking. If you bypass that you can still be spiritual but your mind will fall into error. Which is why many of these New Agers end up pro-Trump and RFK anti-vaxxers.

I am not remotely autistic.

Hearing damage from loud sound. Make sure you wear earplugs around loud things. I have shared earplug brands on my blog.

No. They need way more than that.

If you attempt to do science without taking philosophy seriously you will misunderstand reality and your science will become retarded and corrupt. Which is the current state of science.

Daniel is the exception that proves the rule. Very few people are Daniel.