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One useful method is to separate conceptual time from karma. The crystallized ego is a bundle of karma attached to conceptual time. What is conceptual time? My definition is that conceptual time is time as thought. What is karma? My definition of karma is the concept of a separate self attached to actions. So removing karma from conceptual time means to remove the attachment of a separate self from time as thought.

A powerful meta perspective of the ego is calendar time. Remove calendar time and the whole foundation of the modern day ego collapses like a house of cards. We can't remove calendar time, and besides, it's useful. What can be done is to observe one's own thoughts about calendar time, how it dominates our lives. I will experiment with observing calendar time and also practice detaching my attachment to calendar time. And the idea is that I will still manage to do things on time. It's related to the nondual causality idea. The real cause of an event happening at a certain date for example is not our own planning or someone else's plan. The true cause for every event is infinite.

The G20 summit 2020 has started. I will track the progress of a global digital currency. I found this older article: I see technological progress together with globalization as a key for integrating the collective personal stage with the transpersonal stage.

Another realization I got from Leo's video is that it should be enough to just observe the crystallized ego in oneself. And the self that is doing the observation is itself the crystallized ego. Like a meta perspective on one's own ego structure. It's even possible I believe to create a distinction that way between the transpersonal stage and the personal stage. The crystallized ego cannot by itself transcend itself, however the distinction made with the practice of observing the ego allows the transpersonal stage to emerge.

Oh, I usually criticize the idea of selflessness, but Leo gave a good explanation in his new video. There is a fake version of being selfless and a genuine version of being selfless, he said, something like that. I think of the transpersonal stage as genuine selflessness. Why? Because that stage transcends the self! And the self becomes the Self, meaning oneness with everything. At the personal stage selflessness is always phony in my opinion. The same with self-sacrifice which even Teal Swan said is BS. And I think of self-sacrifice at the personal stage as a disregard of the self which only strengthens the sense of separation. Self-sacrifice at the transpersonal stage on the other hand is the sacrifice of the ego that Shunyamurti has talked a lot about. But then what about integral transcend and include? I'm myself still at the personal stage so I don't know for sure yet, but a possible scenario is that the individual self will be preserved as an aspect of the Self, not as something we exclusively identify with like in the personal stage.

I will check out Leo's new video about goodness. Before I do that I want to start with my own take on it and then compare it to Leo's explanation. Of course my current view is probably already influenced by Leo's other videos but my view is that from a nondual perspective everything is good. And then there is a big contrast between the personal stage and the transpersonal stage. At the personal stage there is a lack of goodness compared to the transpersonal stage because of all the conflicts that the crystallized ego is made of. So that's my initial simple explanation.

In this new video Shunyamurti talks about the ego being toxic. That's interesting because my experience of inner body awareness work is a feeling of toxicity! It's natural at the personal stage yet it's also incompatible with the transpersonal stage as I imagine it.

One powerful strategy in theory is to make a distinction between the personal stage and the transpersonal stage. At the personal stage we have conflicts all over the place, internally and externally. And at the transpersonal stage there is harmony because of the larger holon structure where the whole world is one being. It's only a theory. In practice the conflicts will remain as long as we are in the personal stage of development. I still find it useful as a theory because it allows conflicts to continue, even one's own conflicts! And the long-term vision is to switch into the harmonious transpersonal stage, which will happen according to the evolutionary progress of the universe.

Someone asked recently in a chat if there is anything more frightening than the idea of living forever. Very good point! I have been describing how at the personal stage we have chronophobia which means fear of time, and that question is a perfect example of that. The crystallized ego is trapped between the fear of death and the fear of living forever. A pretty nasty situation! And I have experienced that kind of dread myself when contemplating endless time. My guess is that this kind of deep fear will dissolve when we move into the transpersonal stage.

Wait a minute! Mindfulness practice is personal development, meaning personal stage development. My strategy is to move into transpersonal development. So instead of mindfulness practice of confusion I can just drop all that effort. My idea is that it's enough to understand how things like confusion and agitation work and to have done enough personal development work to then be able to basically just sit back and wait. Sounds lazy but it's mindful laziness.

I find mindfulness practice of confusion very uncomfortable and at the same time confusion is something that needs to be converted into inner peace. Therefore I will try to come up with a method where the mindfulness practice is more pleasant. Conscious suffering is probably effective but not in the long run I think, because suffering is an indication of inner conflict. Maybe I could fake till I make it, lol, and pretend to like my confusion. Well, at least I will do some more mindfulness practice on my confusion because that's an important key I believe.

Wow, there may be truth to the claims of massive voting fraud after all. Because these Trump tweets are NOT labelled as disputed by Twitter. The last tweet is very recent but the second tweet is from around a day ago, so Twitter would likely have market it as disputed in case there were doubts about the claim. Still, I'm not sure if the legal judges will regard it as evidence, but my own prediction now looks at least a little bit stronger.

A person who knows what to do is always confused. That can sound like a contradiction to the crystallized ego. The explanation is that understanding is always limited which means that the person who knows what to do is acting from a rigid set of memories. Life is more nuanced than that. Causality has infinite degrees of freedom. And since the crystallized ego always operates based on understanding it is always confused, and therefore always agitated, even when distracted by activities or temporary has the agitation covered up with things like drugs and sleep.

Another problem is how science is taught to students. In a childish way science is prompted up as an incredible fortress of authority while virtually all the unsolved problems in science are conveniently swept under the rug to give students the impression that science has the answers to how reality works. No teacher mentions for example that the three-body problem in physics cannot be solved analytically, or the coronal heating problem of the sun or as Leo mentioned in one of his videos that causality is an unsolved problem in science and in philosophy.

I think I have done enough personal development and believe that the next step is collective development. Personal development will only improve that level and cannot by itself lead to the transpersonal stage. And this includes a radical transformation of society and of our whole world. One interesting possibility is that the frustrating situation with the coronavirus crisis is the beginning of the end of the personal stage collectively and globally.

Will it be possible to lie at the transpersonal stage? Yes, if there is transcend and include of the personal stage then that means including the ability to lie. The difference will be that the lies are constructive at the transpersonal stage instead of as at the personal stage where lies are used for manipulation, corruption, disinformation, protection and attack. What then is a constructive lie? I see two (at least) types of constructive lies: 1) to keep things in order and 2) lies as a layer on top of truth, for example in entertainment and in competition where it's known that lies are used and agreed on by the participants. For example all the legal systems, which are necessary and useful at the personal stage become irrelevant at the transpersonal stage! So the shift from the personal stage to the transpersonal stage is an enormous leap. It will be a gradual process so the leap is spread out over decades. Will the leap take centuries? I doubt that since evolution is an exponential (accelerating) process and we are at the moment already in a very fast period of evolutionary progress.

Aha! I found an interesting possibility, that confusion and the sense of free will go together. They are both a result of a mistaken perspective. If anything, confusion is the more correct perception since free will is completely wrong according to nonduality. And confusion is also a delusion since reality as a whole is never confused.

I wanted to make an analys of the U.S. election in relation to the transpersonal stage. I listened to both sides on YouTube and it's somewhat of a mess. And there seems to be some evidence of voting fraud but what I have heard so far, it's puny! Way too little to change the current result, except perhaps the voting machines but that seems unlikely to me even though I don't know for sure yet. So frustratingly enough I will have to wait for the actual result in case Trump pulls out a white rabbit out thin air, or ends up in the history books as a sore loser. After the result has been officially confirmed I can make an analys based on the actual situation. My prediction that Trump will win remains, although I have to confess that the chances look very slim at the moment.

In addition to nasty emotions plus numbness another problem is that the crystallized ego is very sensitive to stress, so in stressful situations the mind goes instinctually into a fight or flight mode of consciousness. That makes consciousness go down from the everyday personal stage. Another problem is confusion. When I practice to feel instead of thinking then confusion comes up. For significant progress into the transpersonal stage I think it's useful to work on one's lowest states of consciousness in stressful situations and move consciousness up from there to make the mind much more stable and robust. Confusion is related to fear it seems, so that's something to watch out for too. And to use mindfulness to observe both fear and confusion and how they operate together.

In my experience dreams during sleep are much less consistent and more flimsy than reality at the waking state. It's the same akasha though! Everything is akasha in consciousness according to my current view. And one thing I have noticed is that some feelings during a dream can be more advanced than most of the feelings in the waking state. And also different kinds and new kinds of emotions. That may be a hint that even our emotions will change a lot when moving into the transpersonal stage. I will add that as a possibility in my feeling-only practice and be open to my feelings being changed, even upgraded is one way of thinking about it. The ordinary emotions will remain I expect, because of transcend and include of the personal stage.

I have only managed to practice my feeling-only method occasionally. My mind easily forgets about it and gets trapped in thinking instead of direct feeling. And I don't want to turn it into a scheduled practice because that's too forced I think. I want the practice to happen organically. One way of making the practice more effective is to cultivate pleasant feelings such as inner peace. Easier said than done. The crystallized ego basically runs on agitating emotions plus numbness, not on inner peace.

@Consept If Trump is right then that would be an incredible shock for the whole anti-Trump world. It would make the Watergate scandal look like a picnic in comparison. It would to me prove that Trump is on top of the whole drain the swamp idea. Otherwise I will put Trump at mainly stage Orange.

@Consept I'm on the fence regarding Trump at the moment. If it turns out that all Trump's claims of voting fraud are false or at least vastly exaggerated then I will support Biden. On the other hand, if, against basically all odds, Trump pulls off this incredible stunt I will put him at Spiral Dynamics stage Turquoise. An outrageous claim, I know, but anyway.

In this new video Shunyamurti said that the brain's function needs to be reconfigured. And the ego mind defends against that change. So that would almost mean an entirely new kind of mind. And with my idea of a collective consciousness that will certainly be the case.