Spiritual Warrior

6 months from now you are going to make yourself so proud

I am also proud of you 🙂

Great advice

The point of the post is to spread positivity.

We can always find something to be proud of in ourselves

Here's your answer right here. We humans like to overthink things. We drive ourselves crazy analyzing all possible scenarios when all we have to do is shut off our brains and listen to our hearts to find the path we're meant to go down. You already have the answer you seek. Don't waste you're time overthinking it.

Yes! That is a good recommendation if he really wants to get into stage green. Just start meditating.

That is wonderful to hear!

Why are you forcing yourself into stage green? In my personal opinion, you should be aware of the spiral in depth and then just live your life. Spiral Dynamics is not a step by step guide to how to live the good life, it's just a model. You also probably have lower stages that you haven't integrated fully, such as the "conquering" red or the "moralistic" blue. Just live your life man, let go of control and walk the path that you're destined to walk down.

I have a house out in the woods that I meditate in and do meditation walks. It has a fireplace that keeps the house warm. Electronics are sparingly used. I have a high quality, highly conscious girlfriend. We have a healthy and loving and supportive relationship that is based upon honesty and truth. We have lots of un together and I am able to act completely myself around her. I am a full time dance instructor, making a sustainable income doing what I love. I create beautiful and inspiring dance solos and impact my students lives. I have reached and continue to reach levels of consciousness that allow me to access the hidden truths of reality. I have a muscular and strong and shredded physique. My chest is chiseled, I have six pack abs, I have large tree trunks for thighs and defined calves, my biceps are shredded, my shoulders are broad. I am an objectively hot man. If you want to create this kind of life for yourself, you will need to create a structure that will support its growth. Good luck.

It has been boggling my mind recently, how can I form a picture inside of my head that looks very real. I can describe it's properties. I am able to access this picture "inside of my head" while also looking outwards intro the world. What is this thing, this picture in my head that is in my head, on a metaphysical, it doesn't make sense to me that it can even exist. Let's take this example, I can see a "gremlin" in my head. He has big, sharp teeth. He is holding one of those old fashioned tape recorders that he is manually rolling. He is smiling in a most devious way. He is rolling thoughts into my head. This is my inner gremlin, as described by Richard Carson. Now, why and how can I conjure up this picture inside of my own head? From my perception, I am clearly seeing this "gremlin," however, he is not in any way shape or form out there in the real world. Is this because out there in the real world isn't actually real? So there is no difference between the thoughts that I conjure up and the things that my eyeballs see outside of this body? How do I know what I'm seeing with my eyes is a real thing? What is the difference? And why can't I grasp this picture of the "gremlin" while I can reach out and grasp this water bottle in front of me? Therefore the water bottle is a real physical object, correct? and the thought of a gremlin is not real. Then again, what makes something real? Is it the fact that it can be grasped? That's what makes it real? If something were real then I'd have to be able to grasp it, otherwise I cannot possibly be able to tell if it's real or not. Culturally, we consider things that are graspable as real physical objects. But does that mean that the air around you isn't real? I cannot hold the air, my hand would go right through it. But it is there, isn't it? Maybe everything is real and me labeling things as not real is a complete waste of time. Or nothing is real. And how would I know the difference? Ughhhhhh I am so confused.

The Difference Between Self and Being I'm about to start reading the next chapter in Peter Ralston book "The Book of Not Knowing" where it talks about what the difference is between self and being. Before I start, I'd like to theorize to get the blood flowing. Feel free to join in. The Self: the self is a combination of thoughts/pictures that describe who I think that I am as this human being that navigates through life. For example, I have a name, I have blonde hair and a red beard, I am a short guy, I am well intentioned, I once drove my car past a stopped school bus and received a ticket, I sometimes act like the victim. In conclusion, anything and everything that has happened to this self are things that I identify with, this is my personal story and it all plays a role in who I am. Or so I think... The Being: Now, here's the juicy one, what is being? The being that I am is the part of me that is able to perceive and experience things in life. It is NOT the experiences themselves which is what the self is identified with, it is the thing prior to the experiences, it is the part of me that makes experiencing these things possible. And it has no properties and no characteristics and no location, it just is, it is just "being." This is what I actually am. Conclusion: We can confidentially say that the self is a false sense of identity and the being is the true identity. The self is made up of mental constructions that are... I was about to say fragile.... But to the self, they do not feel fragile at all. And here lies the issue, the constructions in my head that I identify with feel so very concrete in my life. I have been living like this for 30 years! I have to find a way to dis-identify with the false self. I want to take a bat to this self that I have constructed and smash it into a million pieces.

I am truly sorry to hear about your situation. I don't know exactly what is going on in your life, but I can tell that you have a very pessimistic outlook on life. This will only lead to more negative outcomes to arise. The only way to get out of this cycle is to find something to be hopeful about. Hopefulness will lead to getting yourself out of the rut that you are in and onto a brighter path. Find something positive that you can work towards and find a way to believe in yourself to get there, whether it be landing a job or living in an apartment or meeting a girl. Envision yourself enjoying this luxury and your mind will naturally find ways of moving you towards your vision. Good luck.

@Leo Gura thanks

A lot of good answers here. For me, I would rather navigate through life with an understanding of Truth, rather than being blind as a fucking bat and swinging at things randomly. It's nonsensical to me to live like this. And I do think that it will make my life experience more enjoyable in the long run.

I'm sorry that you had such a dysfunctional family dynamic growing up. You didn't deserve that :/. And you're right, kids are fragile and should be nurtured with love. As an adult, you're quest will have to be finding ways to give that love to yourself, the love that you didn't receive as a kid. And now that you are aware of this dynamic, you could even make a life purpose out of it and find a way to help other kids or families that are in similar situations. Best of luck to you.

I can't wait for this realization

I am currently contemplated what Nothingness is metaphysically. If you'd like the exercise, attempt to explain what Nothingness is on a metaphysical level. Thank you

Transcending the Spiral, Entry #19, The Quantum Crawl into Stage Two Thinking, April 6, 2025 I would like to journal about where I am at in the spiral nowadays. Since my last post, I broke up with my girlfriend and I started working 60+ hour weeks as a substitute teacher and a ballroom dance instructor. I want to make ballroom dance my career path and this is what I have to do right now to make ends meet. There is no possible way that I could have balanced my intimate relationship with all of the working that I'm doing. I am sorry *****, I really did love you and I wish you the best through the rest of your life, you deserve anything and everything that you want. As a recap, back in March of last year, I started to take a look at what it is going to take to make the quantum leap into stage two thinking. At that time, I was convinced that I was ready for the leap but I was sorely mistaken, I had many blind spots to fill first (or selfish desires we may want to call them.) In September, I had just broken up with my girlfriend and also had an "animalistic" shrooms trip in which I was fully unleashed, barking and saying anything and everything I wanted. I then started feeling like I wanted to integrate stage red into my system. Since then, I have calmed down quite a bit. Nowadays, I am getting a handle on my finances, very much in stage orange mode, being strategic in order to get out of debt and create a nice financial foundation for myself. I always work a lot and I have pulled back from socializing with my friends. A lot of my free time nowadays (which is very little) is being used to read spiritual books such as The Book of Not Knowing and I am a Strange Loop. I don't see the benefit of socializing right now. I don't see the benefit of dating either. Both things seem like a waste of time given the strides that I would like to make in my spiritual conquests. And socializing is EXTREMELY distracting. It completely clashes with my spiritual pursuits and I am keenly aware of this. I honestly have come a long way on the spiral in the past year. I used to be a lot more concerned with my status as a man, posting things on social media to get attention and being overly concerned with how women see me. I don't care so much about these things anymore. My attention is more focused on being a more loving person, on being a more mature personal, on being someone that is capable of making a large impact on the world. This is more my focus and it feels great, it is very liberating to not think about my own success so much. The spiritual work and most importantly gaining the insight that the self image that I hold of myself is completely fabricated has allowed me to not worry about myself as much. Of course I still have lots to work on but I can clearly see the limitations of thinking about how I am being viewed. It's as if I can look out into the world now and go about my business without having the need to manipulate my environment so that others see me in a positive light. These thoughts don't cross my mind so much anymore. I am acting more authentically. And if I act inauthentically I can usually see it happening and it frankly grosses me out. This is you transcending out of the needy- orientation and into the being-orientation. Congratulations-fuckin-lations. You are on your way. It hasn't been a quantum leap into stage two thinking, it's been a very slow crawl and I have much farther to go.

Wander around! I did that for a while, it was a great experience. You will learn a lot about yourself and about reality. Godspeed

Lol

Interlude: Wat am I Really? What am I really? I am a collection of thoughts. These thoughts create a story of what this person is and identifies with. For example, I am a dance instructor. I am popular, always have been. I am well liked. I am a good looking young man. I am athletic. I have blonde hair and a red beard. I am funny and witty but like my alone time. I am a high quality individual and any woman would be lucky to have me in their life. But these are all just beliefs about myself. I don't know what I truly am, at a metaphysical level. I don't know what anything is really. What is a chair? You can point to the chair and say that it is called a chair and that it is used for sitting, but that does nothing to explain it's real nature. Here lies a problem. We don't know what anything is at a very real level. Now what do we do about this?

Ballroom dance instructor

Interlude: Why do we want to escape? I mean how can I blindly trust the scientists and teachers of the world, they are the same as me. What makes their contemplations any different than mine? We are all blind to the Truth. No human can possibly understand the entire scope of Truth, it is just too massive. It's beyond comprehension.. yet this is what we strive for. Spirituality is a mastery process, it never ends, it goes on forever and ever. The Truth goes on for infinite times in infinite directions. The human mind cannot possibly fathom this in its entirety. The awakenings that we have are experiences of looking through a tiny peephole into the True nature of reality. But it is just a peep hole. We are limited by our bodies and especially by our minds. Now how do we get out of this cage that we have willingly trapped ourselves in? And why would we want to escape anyways? It's cozy in here

Fail 1000s of times, then we can talk The best book Ive read about this topic is The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. Awareness alone of the ego backlash will get you through the changes, it just takes time.