Brittany

Yellow stage lessons from Renee Amberg

I don't have a favorite book but I am currently reading "A Course in Miracles". Every day, this book is giving my ego a smack in the face and kick in the gut. LOL The writer basically is trying to attack the ego from every angle that it can. haha It's like a war zone for the ego. I heard a lot about it but never expected the book to be this good. There are so many hidden karate chop moves in this book that when I tried to read this book in the past, I completely overlooked them. It is not a good beginners book. I am fascinated with any author or creator who sees the moves of the mind with such clarity.

Go where tons of millenials live. LOL And I am being serious. Go where millenials are the main population and you will see "green stage" elements.

Timers are king. When you consume content, use a timer. Everything I read, listen to, and watch is on a timer. This prevents you from falling into a "trance state". Also - time yourself on the forums. Time everything and you won't fall into "trance states" of procrastination.

I do this too. If the quote is really mind blowing, I will place it on my One Note.

I use kindle primarily and I highlight and take notes directly unto the digital book. Since it's digital, you can remove the highlights and notes whenever you want. And kindle also takes all of your notes and places them in a central file if you want to view all of the notes at once.

I literally read about this yesterday in Adyashanti's "The End of your World" book. LOL Here is a copy of the page from my book:

Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs

I think this is linked to the "cultural appropriation" debate.

I don't think it is. The good feeling in romantic love is because we "temporarily access truth" -- not of any choice of our own, but through biological chemicals forcing us into alignment with what is true. For a moment, your mind is forced biologically into a non-judgmental state. LOL The chemicals force you to have full acceptance of the present moment -- which is love. But it's not .... lasting love because we always return back to ego mind. So I would argue that you can "fall in love" with someone of any stage. But when you return back to ego-mind, the stages of each person might impact how long the relationship will last. But I don't know. I could be completely wrong on this. haha

I don't know anything about the monks from Mount Hiei. But Blue stage has glimpses of infinity and turns it into dogma. So it's not that they don't have glimpses. It's how they "react" to the glimpses.

Jealousy is the thought that "X person has more consciousness than me". How do you measure this? "You have more consciousness than me" is an error and impossible. There are 4 techniques that really help with jealousy: - Metta: wishing good will to others in all areas of their life (their health, their safety, their happiness, etc.) - Gratitude: giving thanks for what you already have - Grace : you hurt me but I will bless you - Non attachment: I own nothing in this world, not even my thoughts and emotions belong to me

Christian churches, in the U.S, fluctuate between blue, orange, green and yellow.

Spiral Dynamics teases the ego - in general. It is a method to evaluate the "separate self". Similar to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. These are methods for measuring the health of the "ego" and the individual "psyche" When you leave the maya, spiral dynamics and the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs disappears.

I don't talk about self-help or spiritual subjects to people unless it comes up naturally. However; if someone is about to "fall off a bridge", I will lead their mind to safety.

I experienced the same thing recently. I was a mess. LOL Romantic Love is a fire that burns away bullshit. It is a great spiritual teacher. The two most painful thoughts of romantic love (in my opinion) are: "beauty is in this but NOT that" and "love is in this but NOT that" This is the lie of romantic love. The lie of romantic love is when the "ordinary" is not beautiful. But the "special" is the source of beauty. The lie of romantic love is when the "ordinary" is not the source of love. But the "special" is the source of love. The embrace of the darkness and the embrace of the ordinary will heal this type of pain. The glorification of the "special" causes the suffering. Because glorification of the "special" is conditional love. Romantic love shows us where we are loving conditionally. You are loving yourself conditionally - this is where the suicidal thoughts, the feelings of worthlessness, the feeling of low self esteem is coming from. But I also assume that you probably love the whole world conditionally too. Because how we love ourselves usually reflects to how we treat all things that are "ordinary". We have to return to loving the "ordinary" and seeing the beauty in the "ordinary". In loving both the dark and the light. In finding love and beauty in seeing poop on the sidewalk haha This is unconditional love. This is where life wants to take you. The fire burning in your heart is grace.

Advanced viewpoint on desire

I resonate with all of the stages (even beige when I was in the hospital and could barely move haha).

and this lol

What do you guys think of Teal Swan's new teachings on human connection being the path towards enlightenment? That all suffering is due to our inability to connect to other people. And the only reason spiritual people are even on the "spiritual path" is due to relationship bonds that were broken in their past that split their psyche into parts. And so through healing connection with other people (other people are YOU), the human psyche will repair itself and it will end suffering and separation on the planet. Her advice is going in the opposite direction of the "monk" path. That instead of going on your own into solitude to meditate and heal --- to go in the direction of connection with other people. Since I guess the idea is that "there is no other" and "the other is you". So if you heal your connection with people, you heal it with yourself. I am worried that even though this is true and can be done --- it will make many people , especially someone in stage blue or stage orange, become stuck. And cause them to fall into rabbit holes and traps on the journey. Because it is through aloneness and silence, that you usually spot bullshit. And through connecting with the other, your mind gets noisy and unclear. Can people reach stage Turquoise with this method?

+3 haha

This is all love. Unconscious love. But love nonetheless. It is love dancing in an ocean of darkness and shadow. The "unconscious love" in your post is the: - fear - possession - feelings of lack - separation - ego - quantifying love. aka the idea that "someone can have more or less love than me". as if anyone has held love in their hands. it is an error. love can not be "counted". this thought causes a lot of suffering. - good vs. bad - self hatred - love needs an object to exist - the idea that pleasure is more holy than pain But the shadow doesn't mean the love isn't real. We don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water.

A lot of this is grace - more than choice and freewill.

Yes. But be honest about "why" you want charisma. What are you trying to get? And what are you trying to use people for? What needs are you trying to fulfill? Be honest about your intentions for why you want charisma. Charisma, just like confidence, has a shadow side. It's not black or white.

+1 I feel the same. Relationships are filled with so much paradox. It's an unsolvable puzzle. Once you think you've solved the puzzle, there is still mountains more to learn.