Apparition of Jack

I kind of feel like it's part of my Life Purpose to help "re-spiritualise" the West, since for someone as spiritually sensitive as I am living here has been horrific at times. While I appreciate what Western culture has done in terms of law, technology, human right's etc. I feel like we're still missing out soo much that other cultures just know intuitively because we've just kind of forgotten about it or suppressed it for the last 500 years or so.

Yes, I'd imagine this is the case. Just look at how Hollywood willfully ignored Harvey Weinstein's abuses for several decades until the #MeToo movement eventually created enough moment to finally punish him for it. The entertainment industry has a lot of corruption. Systemic changes need to be made to stop cases like this from occurring.

@AtheisticNonduality The dad was making out with the son, LOL!

@Nak Khid Trumps ego is too dense for this to happen. If he did have a spontaneous awakening the experience would be so awful that he’d probably end up doubling-down on his devilry instead.

@Epikur I feel your problem seems to be that you seem more interested in making the world fit your paradigm than accepting the world for the way it is. Would a stage blue Republican be able to run New York if it was all white? Yes, probably, but the problem is that it isn’t all white, and hasn’t been for centuries. All the black, Chinese, Haitian, Lebanese, Puerto Rican, etc. New Yorkers are simply too embedded into NY society for anything other than multiculturalism to be feasible. And this is a growing reality across the whole world. Cheap travel, population growth, intertwined economies and migration have all made the world far more multi-cultural and multi-racial than its ever been. You can walk down a street in Toronto and pass a Sikh community hall, an anarchist library, a Chinese temple and a Christian church all within a few blocks of each other. The idea of mono-cultural nation-states is a dying idea that has to be abandoned if we’re going to meet our collective needs. And the point is this trend is inevitable. Non-duality makes it so. There’s no going back from this reality, so it’s either we adapt or die.

@Akemrelax The entertainment industry seems to be ripe with this kind of stuff. This particular example is disheartening but honestly not all that surprising, so while I can't speak for others I personally just don't have the energy to get worked up about it. I chalk this sort of behaviour down to an excess of unhealthy Orange attitudes towards sex and fame. There's enough people out there all trying to get shallow gratification based off their fame / status that eventually abuses like these are bound to happen.

Is this really a stage Green issue? Being opposed to child sexual abuse doesn’t really have to do with a specific stage tbh.

The good thing about this is that a lot of Blue/Orange football fans will watch this who would otherwise dismiss BLM, but then take a moment to think about the message more critically because it’s coming from a source they put authority in.

Consciousness, consciousness, consciousness! Any policy that helps both individuals and collectives raise consciousness will always be preferable to ones that don't. This can include things like: - meeting everyone's basic needs (so they can then focus their efforts on growing consciousness, not meeting these needs), - promoting health and high-consciousness nutrition - teaching systems thinking and meta-awareness of social issues - teaching people how to find their life purpose And so on. Also, being pragmatic and non-ideological about policies tends to be superior to being stubborn and ideological. You should be willing to work with conservatives if you're a progressive and vice versa, since you're never going to have a government full of people who 100% agree with you. That's not to say don't have values, but it does mean you shouldn't resist the good because it's not your version of the perfect. Although it's important to keep in mind that as you yourself grow in awareness, you will begin to see how everything, even the stuff that looks mean and nasty on the surface (like poverty, war, rape, genocide, etc.), is in fact still the unfolding of universal Love, so in a sense perfect utilitarianism is already happening.

I think he's genuinely stuck at that level of development and can't see problems through anything but a "black vs white" perspective. When he asks "do you support killing babies?", he doesn't understand that someone might find abortions abhorrent but still accept the need for them because of all the unfortunate social / economic / pscyhological implications of unwanted pregnancies. It's either you enjoy killing unborn babies or not in his mind, with no middle ground.

Leo, this is one I gotta disagree with you on. Not that I disagree that death metal isn't generally pretty bad (I've never listened to it in my life for the exact reasons you've pointed out), but the way you're making fun of something so personal and expressive to people is counter-productive, IMO. Unlike say, political opinions, there's little immediate, explicit harm that music choices can have on the world, so it just seems kind of callous to tell people off for liking what they like. And yes people will naturally grow out of it the more they grow and develop in consciousness, but that's a choice they have to make themselves, not one that I think can be forced on people.

Big cities are run by Democrats because they have to be in order to balance all the competing social forces. Democrats, as a rule, are more open-minded and compromising than Republicans. Republicans would have a harder time running a big city without creating more social problems than they fix. As to why there seems to be so much crime in big cities? Well, this is a function of American civilisation as a whole, not any one party. You could have Jesus Christ himself at the helm of a big American city and he’d still have a hard time fixing all the crime and poverty because it’s just that entrenched in the American psyche.

Even conservatives seem to be growing a Green consciousness these days. Yes, it's still obviously very undeveloped and tempered by a lock of Blue nationalism and racialism, but I feel like just over the last few months a lot of Blue people have really had to wrestle with just how unjust US society and history has been.

Noam Chomsky would support progressive policies but I’d have a hard time calling him a “populist.” I’d say populism has less to do with the specific content of any one ideology and more to do with the structure of how it’s promoted.

@Leo Gura Hopefully he grows out a better haircut as be slowly becomes a hippie

@Leo Gura You have to admit though, that in the last few decades the divide between the haves and have-nots has grown, almost exponentially, and that the increasing power differential is causing a lot of problems? Even if it's mostly due to ignorance, it feels like more and more money is just being funneled upwards for no long-term benefit for society. I understand that your average hedge fund manager or tech billionaire is more evolved and conscious than your average person, but even an undeveloped construction worker or nail groomer needs to eat food, have a secure place to live, etc.

Sometimes you just won’t feel horny for a while no matter what you expose yourself too. Horniness comes and goes depending on life circumstances, dating situations, mental health, current preoccupations, etc. If you felt like you’re no longer attracted to feet, give it a few months and see how you feel then. It might come back when you’re feeling a bit better about things.

Being a turmeric

Maybe use this as an opportunity to try out new things that aren’t composing. Yes it sucks that you can’t do that since it’s your passion, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t find other passions too. Maybe try learning languages, or researching interesting topics, or getting real good at film critique, or hell just listen to music yourself and be inspired by what others have created. Maybe take up another way of expressing yourself, like drawing or writing. Music is your one love but it doesn’t mean you can’t cheat a little while she’s out of the picture, and I’m sure there’s plenty of other frisky hobbies waiting for you to fool around with them, haha ?

I think he’d have a heart attack and die due to being unable to process the completely alien industrial technology we’ve used to terraform reality since his time

Covid exists. It’s dangerous and deadly. If you’re asking this question because you feel fear about the current situation, then that I understand. Some part of the ego-mind always wants to deny the parts of reality it finds uncomfortable. But the solution isn’t to dig your head in the sand and look for ways out of accepting this fact of life. It’s instead to look at the situation, cooly and calmly, and try and understand how what is unfolding is the work of Love. Even a global pandemic has useful lessons for us to get us to grow in awareness and Love. Wisdom abounds if you know how to look for it.

No, astrology is astrology for smart people You should go to a certified astrologist and see what they say about you. You’ll be surprised.

I wonder if a similar thread for INFPs/INFJs would be useful. I would imagine that they’d also be pretty common here, since these types are very into spirituality, self-discovery, creativity, etc

First of all, ask yourself what is it that each stage values, and then see if you can reframe your argument to better fit within those values. Take universal healthcare for instance. A Green argument for universal healthcare is that no one deserves to go bankrupt (or even die) because they can’t afford healthcare. However, this argument falls on deaf ears to Blue and Orange people because their circle of concern isn’t large enough. If they hear that, they’ll just think “well that’s life, tough shit” and not think about it any further. So instead, you could sell universal healthcare using Blue and Orange values. These stages view fiscal responsibility as important and prefer policies that make it easier to conduct business, so you could sell it by saying that it removes a huge unnecessary burden on businesses who currently have to pay for their employees health insurance. It’s basically a tax on business that wouldn’t exist if a large number public health services existed. Hiring and firing employees would be much more simple which would make businesses more competitive. This is something they can understand yet is still advocating a stage Green policy. Basically, get good at understanding what each stage values and doesn’t value and sell your ideas using that language. Also don’t forget that some people just don’t want to change. Some people will be stuck in their stage their whole life and that’s ok. You just shouldn’t waste your time on them.

Australia, 25 million Spiral Dynamics: Anywhere from Late Red/Early Blue to High Green, both mostly centered around a Late Blue/High Orange with some sprinkling of Green (and some small Yellow elements) in select areas. Dominant cultural trends in 2020: - Anglocentric nationalism as a result of increased migration / diversity. Anglo-Australia used to be closer to High Orange but has been feeling an ego backlash at changing demographic realities, so many are now dealing with an unhealthy Blue shadow. Fear of the growing power and influence of China and the weakening influence of the US is adding to this. Of course, it's not exclusively Anglo Australians who feel this way, and many Australians from different backgrounds share the same sentiments (especially if theyre at a Blue level of development), but its mostly centered on the "core" Anglo demographic. - Strong progressivism influenced by US / EU progressivism centered in the major cities. A lot of Australians, especially the youth, and especially those in the major urban centers, are reacting against the Orange/Blue cultural dominance and are being pushed up into True Green, which triggers a lot of the Blue/Orange Australians. Having nearly a full decade of Orange/Blue governance by the Liberal Party is adding to this, which is a party that denies climate change and Green is mobalising as a response. - Dominant Orange mindset: Despite the previous two trends, Australia is still mostly an Orange country. Most people, regardless if theyre conservative or liberal, wish to have a nice house by the beach full of designer furniture, most people value material status as something to strive towards, and since our country is so rich on the whole indulging in hedonism is seen as acceptable and even desirable. Growing inequality is making this harder to achieve for many Australians however, especially the young, which is pushing many up towards True Green, but overall people are still at Orange. Things are changing though. Education: Like most things, this is being increasingly privatised and is being geared towards accommodating rich overseas students, so the quality is overall declining and people are finding it harder to find value in their education degrees, especially if they're not studying STEM, law or business. Religion: Mostly secular, a few holdouts of Blue Christianity, as well as Blue Islam, Buddhism etc. as a result of migrant communities. Most people aren't religious at all, and in fact will find it weird if you show yourself to be overtly religious. People celebrate Christmas and Easter but these are more an excuse to eat lots of food and get together with family than any real religious celebration. There are some prominent Christians with influence though, including the Prime Minister who is a member of a prosperity-gospel evangelic Church (which ties into the unhealthy Blue backlash I mentioned before), but on the whole this country takes a rationalist and secular Orange stance to religion.