Spiritual Warrior

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

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

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.

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.

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.