TheAlchemist

This is where an integrated stage red/purple is very important. Learn to draw your boundaries and don't let anyone step inside them or break them. If someone breaks your boundaries, warn them and if they keep pushing you should push back. I mean verbally or even physically fight back. This is the most loving thing you can do towards yourself. If you're in prison and a stage red gang is harrasing you, you don't just avoid them. That's how you get raped and treated like compelete human trash. You speak their language, you confront them at the level they're at. If a stage green hippy who hasn't integrated stage red gets bullied, he will just be passive and stage red people WILL take advantage of that for their own gain. We should keep in mind how important these first stages are as well, not just trying to run up the spiral as fast as possible. Many of us (including myself) haven't completely integrated stage red for example, and that's partly why we've been pushed around and bullied by red people.

@Farnaby Check out Metta meditation, you will learn to cultivate that feeling of love within you. You begin by feeling love towards things that you already love (conditionally). Then you can expand that love to eventually include everything in the universe, including your worst enemies and all the things you hate about yourself (unconditional). "May all beings be happy" is a great mantra to bring about that state of absolute loving acceptance, at least for me. But you have to do it very sincerely. Realize that deep down you really want EVERYONE to be happy, realize it and see how you feel. If that's too difficult at first, imagine everybody you know, also people you hate going through extreme suffering. Horrible diseases, cancer, aids, chemical burns, extreme depression, suicide etc. Now it should be much easier to feel the compassion, then just expand it to include more people, including yourself. Imagine yourself comforting yourself, hugging yourself for going through so much unnecessary suffering. Hope this helps mate

So this morning I had some kind of sleep paralysis experience. I woke up very early for some reason and decided to do some body awareness exercises and relaxing my body to maybe fall back asleep. When I finally started falling asleep again, I suddenly found myself stuck in some state between sleep and wakefulness. I was filled with absolute terror as I heard someone moving around in my room. I was absolutely convinced that some man was in my room and he was just about to kill me. I couldn't really move my body and I felt the man walking behind my back in my room. This felt like absolute true reality, not at all like a dream. As I was being filled with this powerful fear of death I remembered some of the advice I had been given in regards to psychedelic trips and Leo's videos on Death. I just said "fuck it" and decided to compeltely let go and dive in to the terror and let the man kill me. I just trusted what I had learned about death and what happened was truly magical.. Immediately after giving up the struggle, I was filled with this powerful sense of bliss. It was similiar to the the deepest peace I have ever experienced through meditation. Everything kind of dissolved into this white light of pure being and all of the fear immediately vanished. In an instant, I was no longer afraid, everything was perfect and at peace. After this I quickly woke up to my everyday consciousness. This experience gave me a powerful insight into death and I realized these nondual teachers are right. There's nothing to fear except fear itself. Once we give in to the fear, no matter how terrifying it is, we will be released from all the suffering and it will lose all of its power. "This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed." — Terence McKenna

Genghis Khan was arguably one of the fiercest warlords to ever live. He raped and pillaged his way through Eurasia, but also paved the way for Blue to eventually emerge.

There's no official right answer to this question that someone can just hand out. This forum is just a collective of people who are all on different stages. Try to analyze different posts yourself and maybe that way you can understand spiral dynamics better. You can analyze it at the content level, what is the content like that people post here? But you can also analyze it at the structural level, how is this forum set up as a system to enable fruitful conversation?

Nothing really beats 1on1 contact with serious emotional troubles. Professionals can provide you with something to lean on and someone you can trust. Self-help is best left for when things are more stable. I truly wish you make it through these struggles. God speed my friend ❤

"We're all just walking each other home" like Ram Dass used to say ❤

People don't primarily have kids so they can spread their genes. If they would, the sperm banks would be lined up with men to spread their genes everywhere as much as possible. People have kids to experience love and meaning. The children can open up their heart valves and let them feel the deeply fulfilling love that they crave. That's what relationships are about as well, they allow us to bring the love in and bathe in the love. We are all like love addicts, constantly searching for a new hit of that delicious love. What we don't realize is that there is an infinite spring of love within all of us if we just open up to it. So we keep chasing these external things that allow us to open up to love without ever turning inward. Having kids is just another method to feel some love.. If we were to consciously have children from a place of already abundant love, it would be a radically different experience for everyone involved than the traditional way of having kids to feed our own need for love.

Radical Love is loving them despite all what you said. A very big part in embodying yellow is to be able to understand people on different stages without getting triggered by them. Understand where they're coming from and realize that if you were in the same exact position they're in, you would think exactly like they're thinking. If I'm being honest I got the vibe that you somehow think you're better than them because you see yourself as "higher up" the spiral. That's a major mistake. You are not any better than them if you have more "developed" values. They can't help thinking the way they do and when you fully realize that you can have nothing but compassion for them. And this is not the pity kind of compassion, but true compassion where you accept them the way they are right now and don't require them to change for you to accept them. So maybe this is something to consider.

You are consciousness aka. God doing whatever the fuck it wants. Things are just happening. Life happens on it's own, whether "you" think you're somehow doing things or not.

It's quite advanced in many areas, there are some policies that have been implemented there that are even more green than what you would find here in the Nordic countries.

You can completely ethically and sustainably trade value and gain money. So yes, it's possible to consciously become a billionaire. It's just not very common because the market mostly does not care about ethics, so the ones at the top can take shortcuts with unsustainable practises and hurting people.

With this recent war mongering and the assassination, if you feel yourself getting angry at Trump, try this. Can you love Trump as a part of reality, as a part of your Self even at the depths of your despise? I think practicing compassion for Trump is a great exercise in Self Love. It doesn't have to be Trump, it can be anyone you strongly despise. Try feeling some love and compassion for them. Try to love them with the same depth as you would your new born child or your own mother. If you can do it, you are beginning to unlock a force that not many humans ever have had access to.

Any of them can become an addiction if you don't like your current reality and find a way to use them for escaping your everyday reality. That being said, psychedelics that have empathogen qualities such as MDMA or the 2c-x compounds probably have more potential for addiction than traditional psychedelics like dmt, psilocybin and lsd.

Maybe some of the 2c-x compunds?

#1 Stop buying shit you don't need. And be honest, you don't need most of the shit you have. If you buy things, buy quality, especially with clothes.

This is to be expected, I'm surprised that there hasn't been a big media fiasco or some kind of bigger backlash yet.

If all our senses were to be just interpretations, how could we derive any truth at all from the world? Isn't everything you know based on your experience regardless of if you trust your senses or not? Wouldn't every interpretation be just as valid? Wouldn't there be an infinite amount of truths, thus no consensus truth at all?

Why should we trust our subjective experiences and our senses to be a good source of what's true? Our senses are not adapted to see reality as it is, they are adapted for survival and gettting our genes forward as efficiently as possible. Also, our senses fool us all the time.

A human is not any "further" evolved than a bacteria, there is no final frontier with nature, just optimization for survival and reproduction +expansion.

Low barrier of entry = most coaches are useless

Probably has a lot of potential in shadow work if used in the right type of environment

His conversation with Sam Harris in Sams Waking Up app recently was very interesting, it did go into a bit of a debate on if anything outside of consciousness exists though

We should also keep in mind that the human mind has a tendency to assign meaning to things. Sometimes times a "synchronicity" is just confirmation bias.

How to overcome the feeling that I can never truly transform? It feels like I can never actually change myself, I seem to always slip back to old patterns despite making massive changes in short time frames.