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  1. Posted

    I'll be a lower secondary school (teaching 7 to 14 year olds) teacher in English as a second language, and social sciences. In the past half a year to a year, I've had a dilemma, or an inner debate:

    Are interculturality, democratic values, egalitarianism etc, (aka. Stage Green values), something that is learned due to development or education? Or both? And does the answer to this question say anything about how these values should be taught to 7-14 year olds?  There's no doubt that these values should be taught, but how should they be taught if it's more of a developmental challenge rather than an educational focused challenge?

    If any teachers here can shed some light on this with their own experience, I'd highly appreciate it :)

  2. Posted

    It's funny how the saying "with great power comes great responsibility" hits on so many levels (individual, collective, implicit, explicit...). So my first thought would be that yeah, the times we live in are pretty rough, in a sense. Yes, there's more loneliness, depression, anxiety, fear of death (I am guessing here, but it's a reflected guess) and other things that are more explicit. But I think there's something to be said when considering societal and of course personal problems. Let's take this one area at a time:

    Societal challenges (I don't think problems is accurate, it has a negative connotation): these, yes, they can be rough, and create some pretty nasty stuff, but then again, who creates this? It's all YOU. I guess both You and you. If we can for a moment picture the process of socialization to have a specific direction (society--> individual), there's another process, that I don't know the word for (or even know if there's a word for), which goes from individual--->society. The word would be influence? impact?

    Also, Remember the whole "God forgives devilry" thing. So yes, on one hand, make this illusion we live in the best (constructive - damn, I sometimes wish language was a bit more helpful with such explanations haha) illusion we can imagine it being, by being selfless, caring, giving, loving. At the same time, on the other hand, remember that life is messy, everything is messy, yet so orderly. Mess vs order haha, an orderly mess. That takes me back to a video of Leo's. 

    Personal challenges: What makes you feel this way, personally? What makes you feel empty about the world today? What is it that you're lacking, or think you're lacking? What do you want? Like REALLY WANT? (You probably know what You wants, but what do you want?)

    For example, I'm striving to be an elementary school teacher, to help us all face the societal challenges. That will also fulfill me personally, cause you could say I get off on pulling people up. In addition to that, I am writing a book at the moment, and that's also giving me a sense of purpose, both to face the personal challenge of finding purpose, and the societal challenge, by showing ideas, inspire. 

    All the best,

    Soulife

  4. Posted · Edited by Soulife96

    I'm going to be a teacher for the 7th to 9th grade in English as a second language, social sciences and cooking classes. I live in Denmark and will be teaching in Denmark. As a whole, at a societal level, I would categorize Denmark as a very solid green and a possibly yellow emergence. Here are the thoughts I have gathered, specifically for the subjects I will be teaching. These thoughts will be integrated and supplementary in most cases, to the school's an national syllabus and curriculum. 

    ESL (English as a Second Language)

    - explaining how Language is not only based in rationality and emotionality - language is not objective

    - Making students aware that language as well as culture forms the way we perceive reality (linguistic determinism)

    - Pointing out that Universal Grammar (explained simply for the sake of the target audience)  combined with linguistic determinism shows how we are different expressions of the same Thing. 

    - interculturality - how we need to accept all perspectives as valid to the conversation, but that this also includes also being critical of our own perspectives

    - culture is a verb

    Social sciences: 

    Sociology:

    - approaching the material holistically with regards to the various extents to witch identity reaches out (including spiral dynamics)

    - connecting material to relativism and reflection on own opinions, beliefs...

    - excercieses and practical experiments and activities linked to how methods in social sciences aren't as rational as one would think 

    - culture is a verb and constructed and in constant development

    Politics:

    - politics is made to become each time more inclusive

    - beyond the voting power - how individuals and collectives have a say in society beyond their voting right

    - Ecology combined with personal- and trans-personal responsibility  and integrity - and how we can possibly contribute to this in and out of the school boundaries 

    - Reflection on the school culture, and how this impacts them and others - is it a culture where everyone is given a voice? Is it a culture that is equally teacher- and student centered? is it a culture that creates emotional regimes (term coined by my ex professor - følelsesregimer), where there's an outer- and inner group? how does democracy play out in the classroom and school? 

    Economics

    - how growth hierarchies are not the same as structural hierarchies (growth hierarchies is the Wilberian term)

    - how capitalism works, what the down, and up sides are, and what it expects of them- and then ask them critically about what they personally think about it

    - How economic growth and economic development are interdependent and not necessarily interconnected - and ask them if they consider these as a healthy way to qualify society

     

    Cooking classes

    - connection between eating habits and health

    - Food consumption and its environmental impact

    - aesthetic development through cooking - how cooking is a way in which culture is a constructed verb

     

    Added very important question: how to tackle what I call the pluralistic paradox - the paradox of tolerance. For example: how does one explain to students that racism, is intolerance, but that we should meet racism with love, not hatred, and not play the racist's game, without being misunderstood? Or should that not be even brought up with this age group?

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    8 minutes ago, Ilan said:

    There is no such thing as too rarely. Don’t rush with psychedelics. The moment you decide to start your psychedelics journey. Even if you do it very rarely. You’ll rush your spiritual journey compared to those who don’t do psychedelics. There are no rules to say but to be safe I would say 2weeks minimum between each trips. And if you do it every two weeks for 2/3months don’t hesitate to make a 3month/6month without any psychedelics if you feel your mind is eroding. Watch out for that. If yo are more neurotic on your every day life. You feel ego backlashes. Shadow from your childhood that pop up, it is the sign you need to chill out on psychedelics for a while.

    Hmm well I definitely don't have a problem of overusing but I sometimes hesitate and wonder if I take too long between trips cause I feel as if I over interpret it and my memory of the experience gets very vague. I've never taken two trips with a lesser interval than 6 months. 

     

    Thank you :)

  10. Posted

    Using psychedelics: with what frequency is it most effective for spiritual development? I know there is such thing as too often, but is there a "too rarely"? 

     

    I also know that it probably depends on the person and stage but would you say that once or twice a year is too infrequently? I feel as if I really try to get the most reflection and "mental digestion" out of the trip and therefore wait 6 months or more. Any recommendations? Experiences? 

  11. Posted

    @WonderSeeker

    On 27.7.2021 at 3:26 AM, WonderSeeker said:

    There's no "trick" to integrating perspectives and fitting them together neatly. It just takes time, trial, and error. For me, noticing and accepting deeply that 'reality is paradoxical' on some of my earlier psychedelic trips helped. Then learning and applying contradictory perspectives through lots of action made the difference (and still is).

    Bingo.

    Thank you! 

  15. Posted · Edited by Soulife96
    Correction

    On 19/04/2021 at 1:54 PM, Carl-Richard said:

    Good example of why ENFP and INFJ are considered a best match; the dance of divergent and convergent intuition (Ne and Ni).

    Ne takes one topic and connects it with other topics in a movement of expansion, and Ni takes those topics and strings them all together into a narrative. Then Ne uses that as a springboard to other subjects and the cycle continues. This is the essence of the dialectical movement (constructive and complementary discourse): divergence and convergence, elaboration and condensation, analysis and synthesis, fragmentation and integration.

    JBP is an INTP from my observations :)

    But I'm guessing the dynamic you describe that comes about when these two get together is due to the Te-Ti balance. 

  16. Posted

    I guess this corresponds to Spiral Dynamics stage yellow. In stage Teal in integral theory, among other things, one holds many different perspectives, and can hold many different opposing perspectives, that might be contradictory to each other. I guess I have two questions:

    1. How does this work when working on becoming more integrous? 

    2. Is having both a more "hippie" and idealistic facet while having a more "squared" and "conventional" facet, an example of this? Any tips on how to integrate both in the most healthy manner?

    thanks in advance 

  17. Posted · Edited by Soulife96
    Mention

    8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    They are not absolutely mutually exclusive. But there is definitely some serious trade-offs.

    Which is why the most successful people in the world tend to be spiritually clueless.

    Right

    I am not saying success is not important in the relative domain. For me it was and still is important.

    And when I talk about success I don't just mean something as shallow as chasing money. I have never chased money. For me success is about artistic work, life purpose, impacting mankind, mastering certain skills, and building a foundation for my life. This is important.

    Creativity is core to my life and it conflicts enormously with awakening.

    Of course it gets harder to chase illusions once you know too much.

    @Leo Gura So chasing success is upper second tier, and "necessary" to integrate, in order to transcend and go up to third tier (spiral dynamics)?  You can't skip achiever stage? 

  18. Posted · Edited by Soulife96
    Reflection

    On 15/07/2021 at 7:58 PM, Flowerfaeiry said:

    What are some of the traits of a high quality woman? 

    Here's a few I came up with:

    • Takes care of and nourishes her body
    • Dresses nice and clean
    • Able to laugh and enjoy herself
    • Is kind to people and animals
    • Has hobbies
    • Is in touch with her own spirituality and wildish nature
    • Is confident in her sexuality 
    • Knows what she likes 

    Good list. I would add

    - is willing to understand, even if initially doesn't

    - is okay with not understanding everything people feel, but makes room for the feelings anyway 

    - can distinguish between healthy (is there such thing? I'm not sure now) sexualization and toxic or destructive sexualization of her body (and others' for that matter) - hmm is this part of what you meant with your second to last point? If so, then ignore this point haha. 

    There are probably other points but can't think of any from the top of my head. If I come up with others that are more unconventional, I'll come back to the post. 

  22. Posted

    8 minutes ago, RendHeaven said:

    Context matters, so I cannot say definitively.

    Generally I'm in favor of setting social boundaries without any festering resentment;

    - as opposed to setting social boundaries with festering resentment.

    The difference is the amount of inner work you've done on yourself. Inner work shouldn't get in the way of social action.

    You can do both!

    Thank you, I think I understand now. I need to do more self inquiry still. But I'm slowly chipping off bullshit. 

  23. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Hulia said:

    What? It´s a dangerous way of thinking. You would let all the wicked things happen in the world. Because you´d think: Oh, it´me, only my projection, no assholes around, only pinky unicorns and undeveloped me projecting them to villains

    Wow. Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. So is it just a matter of knowing when and when it's not projection and using your own intuition to tell which?

     

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  24. Posted

    27 minutes ago, RendHeaven said:

    The feeling of annoyance is legitimate as a sensation arising - the fact that it is happening at all gives it validity.

    Just be careful to notice the active role you yourself play in maintaining this feeling/sensation.

    The mistake is to pretend that you have nothing to do with it - to ascribe the sensation to an "external world."

    In fact, you had everything to do with it. It's fully within your power to literally erase all trace of annoyance instantaneously.

    Counter-intuitively, you erase it through acceptance - embracing that it is happening, and respecting its validity.

    The more you deny it or spin circles in your mind about it, the more fuel you add to the fire, and the more the monster rages and the more you start thinking that the external world must be encroaching on you.

    Would you say that "standing up for yourself" and setting healthy boundaries is part of the latter option you mentioned? (Adding fuel to the fire, etc)