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One of Carl Jung’s sentiments was something along the line of 100 years from now, what would be considered “good” and “moral” now will be considered “evil” and “deplorable” then. Vice versa. (The Spirit of This Time vs The Spirit of The Depths talked about in The Red Book) Back then, hangings in public were considered good. Now obviously it is not. Same with red stage’s view of pillaging and raping a village for their own benefit. I study psychology to be a therapist, and obviously all the lobotomies taken place back then were considered “good”. Not so much now. Today a future possible “evil” can be produced by, for example… CBT, for all we know. Something we thought was good and for the best at the time. The future will only tell what the present can’t see yet. Today, everyone is doing something “good” that tomorrow’s people will find “evil”. It’s inescapable. Entirely so? Not sure…maybe loads of self-awareness can help break away from some of it, though doubtful. The harrowing thing to deal with is you already are evil in some fashion… It’s all subjective and perspective based.

I have followed this Youtube channel for years now, while the majority of my friends and others still thought highly of him at the time. The channel helped my friends see through him at the least. This video and lots of the content is much before he got into politics and Twitter too. This entire channel is dedicated to calling him out. I highly recommend it. Years worth of info.

I was taking a 10am Psychology of Sleep class once in my early 20’s…I had to drop the class cause I kept nodding off and couldn’t pay attention. It was interesting though! I could handle the class now since I go to bed @11pm instead of 2am 😌 Yes, that was a great synopsis of the importance of sleep that you shared. Sleep is absolutely the best thing you can do…next to fasting after certain times…which I don’t do but heard wonders of. Fasting sounds a lot harder to incorporate unfortunately.

Thoughts on the ballistic missiles from the other day? The response the admiral made?

In sum, I think @Beans is saying it is distasteful that some immediately write off Kendrick’s song as frivolous, when not attempting to understand it first. Maybe beans thinks the rules of communication here is what is encouraging people to think negatively of Kendrick’s music right off the bat. It’s a song, an art form, so it’s obviously not going to have the same rules of communication as this forum. That doesn’t mean the song is unintelligent of course. We could assume Kendrick would write a forum post differently than he would a song…so I’m hoping everyone could understand that point at least. I don’t think Leo would compare the grammar of a forum post to a song either…

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Yes…AAVE was also covered in the administrator/professor’s presentation as well that I mentioned earlier…and yes she was a Black American emphasizing Black student’s plight in the university system.

One of my favorites... I can feel my heart physically ache every single time

It's interesting because we had an administrator/professor come into my university classroom last year to talk about how many do not have English as a first language, so they get marked down on papers due to grammatical/punctuational/spelling errors etc., even though you could technically still understand what they are trying to say. They would argue lots of poor education standards in certain areas of the U.S. also account for this, even in English speakers. So unless the class is purely an English writing class, the professor will not be allowed to mark someone down in let's say... a history class paper for grammar/punctuation/spelling etc., and if you do you can dispute the grade with the dean. Of course, every body of system, whether a university or a forum, can make up it's own rules about stuff like this. I would argue that in this forum, if you specifically highlight that your post is an "art form", you should be able to forgo the rules of punctuation and capitalization. Obviously a Kendrick Lamar song, or any song, doesn't need to follow those rules...

True yes. Though l feel like most people have only experienced mere touches of what that is like, and embodying it in your everyday existence is a whole other thing. For some, those limited experiences can be enough to make some drastic changes at the least, and it seems to be what Kendrick is contemplating.

@Hojo I was introduced to him as a teen by someone who really broke down his lyrics for me, and it opened my eyes to how outstanding his writing is. He is the first rapper to receive a Pulitzer prize-- for his album DAMN. I would at least read his lyrics if you cannot follow it in a song. A lot of his songs touch upon morality and spirituality. Though I'm not so sure if it's a blue or yellow stage view of things...honestly I think he touches upon red through yellow in the spiral... still great.

I really like the back and forth of whether or not he loves "war" when he claims to want peace. Peace would require consciously knowing "every individual is only a version of you", and as we all know, fully consciously being aware of nonduality at all times is not exactly easy. Therefore, even if you do claim to want peace, it really will always be a surface level understanding of it. Being in duality will always technically mean being in love of war since others are separate from you, whether or not you like it.

Me🙋🏻‍♀️ It’s in the high 80Fs this week over here, and it’s messing with me mentally. I thrive in the cold!

https://doubleblindmag.com/dogs-on-lsd/ But there's more....the dogs supposedly have autism too... What do we think of this study yall?

@Keryo Koffa I remember he went on a tangent about all the different kinds of palm trees in one video, now I notice the differences in palm trees more heh. Yes it would be fun if Leo made a random video talking about corals or palm trees etc for hours

@OmniNaut amazing share, thank you!

Watch the Paprika(2006) film if you haven't, Inception is actually based off it and much better.

I have not watched any of the movies, because I end up falling asleep somehow, so I cannot actually judge them. I did however finish reading The Hobbit this past summer. Adored Tolkien's writing style, eager to the rest of the books. I have not read fiction in a long time, so it was pleasant.

Go on the r/aita reddit and every week there’s a major post on there about their partner asking to open up the relationship. See how well that goes for them. The ethical rule in the polyamory/open relationship community is that you have to be honest from the beginning. Not waste people’s time and hurt them in the middle of a relationship. A brief threesome is entirely different from having a permanent third woman.

@Ampresus Did Beck in the podcast mention her multiple partnered relationships before, or after, you started the visualization?

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Literally this morning after my yoga class, this older lady started talking to me and eventually asked if I was a Christian. I said no, and she was like, well do you know Jesus Christ? I was like "yeah, he's cool". lol. Started going on about heaven and hell and encouraging me to go to church. I just politely nodded along and smiled, while politely declining at her offers. She told me a story of how she was late driving to her new job, when she needed to cross 6 lanes to make her next turn. She just closed her eyes and prayed to God to blindly swerve over 6 lanes to make it. She made it, hit no cars, and said that was proof that God is real. oof. She was very sweet overall, it's just hard to find an out when they start their rant, I had to ask about going to the bathroom to end it after 20 mins.

I watched this video as a homework assignment, and essentially this person found his way to recovery from addiction through spiritual experiences that he had, despite many other addiction treatment modalities he went through. He was introduced to CBT, outpatient groups, 12-Step meetings every day, church every Saturday and Sunday, bible study every Tuesday, and frequented an MMA gym. None of these ultimately worked for him, it was his personal encounter with a spiritual experience. Personally, I never really suffered from addiction, but I suffered from suicidal ideations from the ages of 9-21 years of age. From 18-20 I was atheist, and it was my spiritual experience that got me out of it. At the core of what stopped my suicidal ideations was the spiritual experiences I personally had, whether through psychedelics or dreams. I did go to therapy and other things, but what I truly believe keeps me going from falling too down a dark hole, even through hard times, is my touch with spirituality. My goal is to eventually become a therapist myself, and currently I might be taking a job as a case manager for previously homeless individuals who are still actively using drugs (harm reduction/housing first methods). If I personally feel that spirituality has helped me the most, and my clients have never had nor thought about spirituality, where is my ethical boundary in nudging or not nudging them towards it? How deeply can someone truly change without a spiritual experience?

@BlueOak Funny how I have not come across anyone else in my field who is aware of spiral dynamics yet. I wonder when it will get taught, and especially used as a tool in practice.