Joseph Maynor

Now, what's wrong with Republicans? This looks like a lock.

So true. Two very different solutions can bring about the very same fix.

Are you addicted to being smart in life? Believe it or not this does have pros and cons. You wanna apply the Paradox of Knowing and Not Knowing. You create a lock when you white-knuckle cling to the Knowing side of this paradox. Ditto for white-knuckle clinging to the Not Knowing side of this paradox.

Ultimately, Personal/ Interpersonal Development Work should be thought of as a career that has the best kick-back benefits. If you can think that way about this work, you'll be so far ahead of most people. But this is only for the very advanced and very motivated in this work. This is the teacher path, the Brahman path if you will. Brahmans make a career out of teaching and doing Personal/Interpersonal Development Work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

You only use what benefits your life and the relationship connections you choose to create and develop for yourself, but those relationship connections can become very large, as in a community or even way beyond that. But it all starts from you being highly-developed, knowing what you want, taking massive action, and that spreading outward more and more as time goes on. You're getting a kiss back from reality due to what you put into reality. It's what I call an Upward Spiral.

Actually, you wanna integrate (integrate the pros but leave behind the cons of) Jnana, Kriya, Karma, and Bhakti Yogas, along with all other teachings available in the Collective Conscious and the Collective Unconscious.

I think I'm kinda Karma Yoga. Karma Yogis focus on taking action in the first instance.

I feel like my Crown Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra have been painful in the last couple of weeks. But I've been really using these lately, so I'm beginning to think Chakras can be overused as well as underused. What do you think? There were many times where I would feel a pain/fatigue at the top of my head (Crown Chakra) and also in my belly area (Solar Plexus Chakra).

Sorry. I will re-read what you wrote.

Good

@Aakash The Law Of Attraction is a fundamental observation of how the Interpersonal World tends to respond to the Personal World from a systems standpoint, not some airy-fairy thing. Law of Attraction Work can be done as an aspect of Personal/Interpersonal Development Work.

Good for you. Write down those calories! I estimate the calories for everything I eat. I keep a list of everything I eat with a calorie estimate to the right. I can tell you at the end of each day how many calories I consumed and burned through exercise.

Love your videos man. You have a good energy to do personal development videos. I love your video on losing fat. People will make all kinds of rationalizations around Fat Loss Work I find. Lots of limiting-beliefs, excuses, blocks, fears, self-fulfilling prophesies, death-wish dynamics, locks, etc. going on with Fat Loss Work as an aspect of Personal Development Work.

Yep. But I've always have a good energy read on things. My perspective is worth taking seriously by smart people. But of course, I'm just a perspective. But I'm a wise perspective. I've done a lot of work on the Personal/ Interpersonal Development Path. Be more gentle, soft-spoken, kiss people more, give more overt appreciation in words to people. Then reality will give this energy back to you through the Law of Attraction. It's a minor tweak in what you're already doing actually. if people made just this one minor change, their relationships and community-building efforts would transform.

You said the same thing about me too Leo. The exact same thing in a private message. I found it to be hurtful, biased, closed-minded, controlling, and wrong when you said it to me. Are you here to learn too Leo? Seems like you really want your perspective reinforced above all else which is a huge trap in this work. You want everyone to get in line with your perspective. That's the energy I get from you. You should celebrate diversity of point of view as a mature teacher. I would also think you would show more compassion as a mature teacher for different perspectives. This is why before you venture into Interpersonal Development Work (including Political Work) you need to get Personal Development Work mastered first. Before you worry about solving political problems, learn how to be a better leader for your community first. There's an order in doing these things. You don't become a black belt because you want to, you earn it.

Can you add one more to these? Substance Metaphysics Idealistic Metaphysics Process Metaphysics Energy Metaphysics

If he's an INTP, then it suits him to be a philosopher. In that he's functioning from his strengths. Each personality has a different set of strengths.

Careful with the hand-waiving, dismissive generalizations like this. One can readily deceive one's self with too much generality and not enough detail in their cognitive style. Not enough nuance. Not enough sensitivity to detail. This is the final post I'll make in this thread. I'm trying to be nice and helpful in my tone and style. There's no need for me or for others to be rude on here.

Now we're talkin'. Good list. Now you're gonna do something about these problems yourself Leo? This is what you think you're gonna solve with your time and efforts?

First of all you gotta find a political problem that you can help solve. Then you gotta create and develop a force that can sustainably solve that problem. You gotta select a political problem to solve just like you select your wife or your work colleagues -- very carefully. Maybe you can list 10 actual political problems that you can help solve in your life with your time and energy. You need to select those problems vary carefully; this is called the selection process. This is Political Work as an aspect of Personal/Interpersonal Development Work.

I've already studied Communist ideology. I don't think I need to study Alt-right ideology because I've already studied Conservative ideology. I have to admit I'm still interested in studying Hitler and Nazi culture though. Yeah. Good conversation though Leo. My bud!

I study theories and idea systems in order to practically integrate them and use them in my own personal/ interpersonal development work. I don't really care about ideas as much as I care about applying them. There's a reason the collective unconscious is what it is. The ideas that are around have survived for some reason. You wanna take the good from those and leave the bad behind and that's where you frankenstein sustainable solutions to particular problems you've identified that you wanna solve. You don't wanna re-invent the wheel; you wanna optimize the wheel that's already there with more wisdom drawn from the world (the collective unconscious) not from the mind alone. First you gotta identify an actual political problem that you wanna solve and turn that into a project. Then look at the entire idea-field in order to help you get a sustainable solution to the problem that that project is addressing. What is your Political Work project that you're implementing Leo? What is the actual problem that your project is trying to solve or help solve?

What if we looked at Libertarianism point by point and checked each point. We need to apply the paradox of the details and the general. The general only takes you so far where you get locked into the habit of hand-waiving and dismissing entire systems without getting into the details of those systems at all. No, you gotta get into the details of Libertarianism and see how those details can help solve specific political problems that you're made it your project to help solve.

What if one were to integrate the pros of libertarianism and leave the cons of it behind? What if we were to integrate all the major political theories in this pros and cons type way to sustainably solve actual political problems? So, in that case, you don't wanna exclude or throw anything away, you wanna frankenstein solutions that make use of all the pros of the ideas we have but while simultaneously leaving the cons out. So, libertarianism has pros and cons to it. We don't wanna throw the baby about with the bathwater by thinking linearly about systems. We wanna be more integral in how we look at political theories.

But a monastery is run my a tried and true master.