Tim R

Yes. People who want absolute freedom don't seem to understand that it's equivalent to "no restrictions". And "no restrictions" not a sustainable state of affairs. I think that's also where stage red transitions into blue, since red is so keen on living the lawless, warrior-individualist life, until it gets out of hand like in the video about Liberia, and then law and order need to be instantiated.

That's not real open-mindedness though. That's simply "I want to hear something about this and nothing about that". What I meant was that your values can't oppose each other when they are as far apart from each other as fro example blue and yellow or red and green. You can't be a Hippie and a Warlord simultaneously because both hold (strongly) opposing values. Of course people have opposing values, but that's because they aren't properly conscious of either one of them. If you'd formulate your values (which is what you do in therapy, I assume) you become conscious of your values and find out that they might contradict each other to some extent. The more conscious you become, the more transparent do your values become to yourself.

@Yamak9889 I like the presentation. I'm in my last year as a biology student and I'll graduate in (probably) biochemistry this year. I also plan to somehow connect my degree with psychedelics, mysticism and nonduality. I'm also not quite sure yet if I'll add a master's degree or PhD, but it's probably useful especially because then you have it easier and people respect you more in the scientific community. Where do you study?

You won't get rid of stupidity in human beings anyway, ever.

The colors aren't strict categories. The question is not "are you this or are you that" but rather "which colors are you to what degree?". Spiral dynamics describes a spectrum that is representative for the state of development of your values. Blue and Yellow are pretty far apart from each other and don't comply. You can't like and dislike the same thing simultaneously. Equally, you can't hold two opposing values at once. You can't be dogmatic and open-minded at the same time, you see? It's something like this: when you build a house, you set the ground stones. Those are e.g. blue and orange. Then you keep building until your house is more or less complete and you're at yellow - there, in a sense, the ground stones themselves have disappeared and what is there now instead is the house. But you can't build a proper house when your ground stones are all crooked and out of place, in other words; when the aren't integrated - therefore you will probably never get to a healthy or well-developed state yellow in the first place. Which is why you won't find yellow and blue at the same time. You can get away with being mostly orange without having properly integrated blue, but only because they are so close to each other. Yellow understands blue and can see though its eyes, but in a detached way. Without thinking that this is the right way of looking at the world. So you won't find a nationalist yellow person, only someone who understands why somebody else is a nationalist.

I don't think you can compare Covid and its severe consequences with a stupid ass movement like QAnon.

Good point

Some people say they're archetypes, what do you think about that? Why should DMT open the doorway to a realm inhabited by other entities?

In moments like these I can really understand why Osho looked at politics the way he did...

@The Don What God-given rights? Liberty must be touched when people misuse it to touch other peoples liberty. That's where liberty goes full circle. Nobody forced Trump to tweet from his golf range. If you're going to use my platform, I am perfectly free to control the platform. Liberty u wanted, liberty u got.

What do you guys think? Delusional? Definitely. Psychopath? Probably to some extent, yes. Why can't they declare him unfit for his job? Who would diagnose him?

That would create a bubble so incredibly shielded from the world, it's gonna be a last resort for those who believe Trump to be their president no matter what. A place where MAGA can flourish and either become no threat at all because it's more or less underground or a real threat - in the sense that they could attempt to infiltrate/undermine existing structures. They'd become radicalized if they aren't already.

Man, I really liked the scene with the cow, the cricket and Gepetto. The cow is the best. I set a timestamp Does somebody of you know who all these dudes are? I could only recognize Shapiro and Copeland

@mmKay This is f*cking incredible, thank you for sharing!!

In Leo's video "Outrageous Experiments in Consciousness" he said: "For the first time in my life I said 'thank you'. I realized that I've said 'thank you' thousands of times in my life, but it was all perfunctory. It was all just mindless 'thank you'." I found that very moving and would really love to hear you elaborate on the topic of gratitude.

@DocWatts They could spend twice as much, doesn't matter in the least.

Oh, look! "[...] it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!" Really? Is he saying that he will run again in 4 years?

@StarStruck It is most certainly not like that. It takes 2 minutes of research to find out that you maybe shouldn't do psychedelics if you suspect your psyche to be fragile or unstable. There's always gonna be people who aren't cautious enough and therefore screw up somehow, but that's on them. Don't blame others. Leo doesn't give anybody "a gun". He talks about his experiences with psychedelics and gives advice.

And what's Leo supposed to do about that? In the end it's completely their own responsibility.

I think doubt is the most effective tool on a conceptual level, paired with direct experience.

Haha, he was tripping in his living room listening to Mozart, great!?? It's a real pity that he doesn't just come right out saying that he dropped 150µ or however much it was. Boy the world would benefit so much if he'd become a bit more of a hippie, I already said it and I'll keep saying it goddammit!

Very light and easy-going.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-resignations-25th-amendment/2021/01/07/e131ce10-50a3-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/trump-capitol-impeachment-25-amendment/index.html https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/533058-officials-discussing-25th-amendment-for-trump-following-violence-at Looks like impeachment is being discussed.

I bet he's throwing a temper tantrum rn

@Intraplanetary "Physical body" and "human" are also just ideas. Both are thoughts, both are illusions.