Joseph Maynor

Your Ego wants solipism because then it never has to take other Egos into consideration. Your Ego also wants to be God for obvious reasons. The problem with these is that this is just the Ego-Mind bullshitting itself.

Me me me, I I I. I am God like I always dreamed of being.

Religion is the Ego-Mind clinging to Metaphysics.

This is a really good question. Here's a good analogy: Take the DSM which is called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Psychologists. Now, any schlub off the street can buy a DSM and go around diagnosing everybody he wants to. But that's gonna be very different from how a trained Psychologist uses the manual. Spiral Dynamics is no different. There's an old saying that a little bit of knowledge is dangerous. This is true in the case of Spiral Dynamics. But someone who is really solid in Spiral Dynamics realizes that it's just a model that's more or less useful depending on the context -- and it can be abused, misinterpreted, and used to demonize just like any other categorical label or "box" can.

What is is that wants truth?

You can create any idea you fancy.

Nobody meets that standard so here we are.

What is a healthy body? How can I get a healthy body? We act as if we have no idea what a healthy Ego looks like.

Even the question “what is there?” is a question of the Ego-Mind. Being has no need to ask “what is there?” E.g., When you’re watching the sun go down on the beach just being — it’s the Ego-Mind that intrudes “what’s the significance of this?”

But see there’s gotta be an Ego-Mind that makes the truth/dream distinction. Being doesn’t make or cling to distinctions. Egos cling to distinctions. Minds cling to distinctions.

If it’s true and the Ego doesn’t like it — it becomes false. If it’s false and the Ego likes it — it becomes true.

Learn to live the cave at home. You don’t need to physically be in a cave. What you need is time to do your Enlightenment Work. You do need time. Even now I spend time every day meditating.

Ignorant is something that no Ego can tolerate thinking it is regarding a subject that it cares about. E.g., You say I’m ignorant about Enlightenment? Hehe. The Ego doesn’t wanna be a dummy.

Wow. You got a good insight here! I frame this as utility as a criterion for reasonable acceptance vs. truth as as a criterion for reasonable acceptance. People get so hung up on truth. Truth isn’t always relevant unless you’re making it so. You’re clinging to truth.

No, because the media is corrupted by corporate interests.

It’s our media. Our media makes a lot of money stirring up distractions basically. My life changed when I just unplugged from all of it. I still look at CNN.com like this once a day but then that’s it — i don’t look twice.

Non-duality is an understanding. Enlightenment is a being.

Wow. Thanks for all this great information!

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You’re embodying No Ego more and more.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Every Ego wishes to be God. Strategically that’s in the interest of every Ego.

I saw it, but I decided to use the less flattering interpretation to make a point.

It doesn’t click right away. Also it depends on what you’re looking for. At different stages of the Path the object of attention varies.

It’s intersting. These models all have their limitations and pros and cons in different contexts. That said — I like to think of the mind as the best friend of the Ego — the guy who’s looking out for the Ego. Ego is the you that has preferences of reality. The mind is the warner, foreseer, and planner for the Ego.