Anderz

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    Socialism tends to be more Spiral Dynamics stage Green than capitalism which is more Orange. So what we will see I think is something more like socialism than capitalism. Evolution will lead up in the developmental spiral, leading to global integration and governments taking real control over money instead of the facade of control we have today.

    And even COVID-19, tedious as it is, can be seen as an evolutionary force that has allowed governments to swiftly introduce a precedence for a universal basic income (UBI). I do NOT see a UBI as the solution, but it will be a necessary tool during a transition period which can span several decades. A long time for us individuals but a very short time from a historical perspective.

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    Socialism vs capitalism is just a phony conflict to give the appearance of people having any choice. They don't. Politicians are lying through their teeth. In the U.S. for example almost all taxes go to paying the national debt. This means that taxes have virtually no effect or consequence. And politicians make people believe that the government creates most of the money. It doesn't. The vast majority of money is created by commercial banks.

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    I noticed a nasty aching feeling when my ego tensions become detected by conscious awareness. And even the tensions themselves can be felt as exactly that. And it's really horrendous how deep the tensions go.

    The good thing is that there can also be a release of a peaceful feeling as the tensions start to dissolve. And instead of inner peace having a certain location such as in the guts or in the heart, it seems to be distributed throughout the whole body-mind. And that it's "just" that the crystallized ego has to melt.

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    Why the need for a collective consciousness? I think of it as the difference between a single cell in the human body compared to the whole human being. And the single cell questioning the need for being a human being. The cell will ask: why not remain a separate cell, what's the purpose of being a human being? Of course the human will think the opposite, and recognize that the life of a single cell is very limited.

    And it's even worse than that. As spiritual teachers have pointed out, what we call personal relationships are just fake mental and emotional constructs. The whole personal stage is based on a false foundation in the belief in being separate, and so all social relationships become fake facades.

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    My guess is that psychedelics can be useful as a catalyst for transcending the crystallized ego. But something Sadguru said was to not mess with the mind. That's mindfulness! That's how I see it. To not engage with the thinking mind, with the intellect.

    Of course, at the personal stage we are totally trapped within the intellect. Mindfulness practice is to still use the intellect, but it's a form of meta perspective so it's possible to use mindfulness to as Sadhguru said not mess with our minds.

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    I discovered something really tricky. Acceptance is judgment! Being nonjudgmental means neither accepting nor rejecting something.

    Then what about obvious facts, such as 2+2 = 4? One way of being nonjudgmental about such things is to observe the thinking mind. Just to observe without judging true or false, good or bad.

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    How can questioning everything be a nonjudgmental position? The answer is that questioning everything as an open-minded state. It's free from preconceived ideas. It's a deliberate form of confusion.

    I suspect that in mindfulness practice when we claim that we are nonjudgmental, we are actually not. Because there are deep layers of subconscious social programming coloring our supposed nonjudgmental observation.

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    The transpersonal stage is sneaky. It's because it's a sinful construct. It's a lie, albeit a necessary one, for the purpose of unique growth and development. And when we run around with our own crystallized ego we tend to miss the fact that our ego is a result of society. The belief in separation builds into a separate ego in the person. And we believe we are that separate ego!

    We are thus in reality the collective social structure and do its bidding. And the ego tension we have are collective, not personal. It's only the content that is unique for each person, the structure is the same and it is a part of the whole society and nature, not separate from it. Inner peace is in theory possible through dissolving the crystallized ego within ourselves.

    And here again mindfulness practice is useful for identifying the sneaky construct of the personal stage. Nonjudgmentally. And that includes questioning everything! To just observe like a skeptic on steroids. Why do I get angry? Why the irritation, the sadness or the joy even? Question everything.

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    "Washington (CNN) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said for the first time Sunday the House will move to impeach President Donald Trump if Vice President Mike Pence does not remove him.

    Pelosi said the House will attempt to pass a resolution by unanimous consent Monday morning calling for Pence and Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office." - https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/james-clyburn-impeachment-senate-trial-biden-cnntv/index.html

     

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    I wrote earlier somewhere that personal responsibility is sin. I think that's a funny and still true observation. At the personal stage such claim sounds outrageous, so it needs to be explained. Sin means to miss the mark, and the root error is the belief in separation. And the personal stage is grounded in the belief in a separate self. So personal responsibility is sin! Haha.

    From a nondual perspective the whole of reality is "responsible" for everything. And one idea to bridge the personal stage with a transpersonal realization is to be personally responsible for being mindful and only that. To try to transcend personal responsibility while still at the personal stage doesn't work. Because the separate ego is still there doing the rejection of responsibility. And that rejection is a form of inner conflict. By focusing the responsibility on the mindfulness practice the ego is still there as well, but with personal responsibility intact instead of being opposed.

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    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    It's a grave mistake to assume that a Yellow person is beyond ego.

    That's a good point. It's only at Turquoise where there is a global awareness. Every us-vs-them mentality is ego consciousness, every nation is a collective ego, every ideology is an egoic structure. Of course second tier also includes the first tier stages, so a person at Turquoise transcends the ego yet also includes it.

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    I like to experiment with ideas that come to my mind. A recent one is to develop a seed of inner peace and letting it grow. In my experience the ordinary state is of zero inner peace! At least not enough peace to allow my attention to rest inside the peace without effort. So the idea is to use effort initially through mindfulness practice to build the initial seed of peace. And then the seed will attract my conscious attention into it making the peace grow.

    I will also check out this video about different types of mindfulness practice. It may be useful to learn from already existing techniques.

     

  16. Posted

    I have started to treat mindfulness practice as a skill to learn. Even though I believe it's true that I as a crystallized ego really have no actual free will, it's also true that the ego is also a part of reality, not separate from it. So a perspective I can take is to think of my choices as the universe's choices. They are one and the same!

    And my practice at the moment is very much like the introspection development described by Leo. And I aim for mindfulness practice of all my experiences such as thoughts, emotions and physical sensations. And my target is a feeling of inner peace in both body and mind.

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    A simple example of capitalism vs transcending money mentality is if I for example only would post in this thread for money. Let's say that I earned $1 for each like of my posts. In such situation, if I was dependent on that money for survival I would make sure to make my posts as popular as possible, not in terms of general quality but in terms of how many viewers I would get together with maximizing the likes for my posts.

    To me such scenario would be horrible, and that's how I'm starting to see all of capitalism. It has been useful and is still useful, but capitalism is a suboptimal system, especially in the information era. Some may argue that money incentive improves the quality, such as forcing me to make many people like my posts, but it's a narrow and simplistic form of quality based on quantity and popularity, not a general metric of quality.

  19. Posted

    In this video Leo mentions an interesting distinction between personal responsibility and collective responsibility. As I see it, the personal stage is about developing personal responsibility and at the higher personal stages also collective responsibilities. And the transpersonal stage transcends both types of responsibilities! The transpersonal stage is according to my view a collective consciousness which inherently has both personal and collective responsibility integrated within it without the need for individuals trying to be responsible.

     

  25. Posted

    Why is the love of money the root of all evil? My answer is because money is the primary structure that binds the personal stage together. One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

    Money in itself is just a tool, and that's neutral. It's the love of money that is evil in the sense of treating money in separation. Singling out money as a separate force of power results in insufficient requisite variety which in turn leads to conflict and thereby to evil.