Joseph Maynor

My progress report is a different thing from my accountability report. The weekly accountability report tracks the weekly goal list point by point. The weekly progress report is a narrative paragraph that is written at the end of the week summarizing the results of the week and putting those results into the whole context of my overall mission moving forward.

Anthony Hopkins' character in the movie "The Edge" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_(1997_film)

You can do both and should do both. I run my own business and do this work. But I'm also super organized too. You gotta appreciate being organized, it's not something that just comes naturally. The more organized you are, the more you'll get done with your time. Organization is like a measure of density. People that are highly organized are much more dense than people who suck at being organized. There's more stuff in there and more stuff comes out of there. What you want to do is learn how to make yourself a daily schedule and learn how to manage your daily tasks. Aim to become a highly organized person. Yo, I think I'm organized, but I've seen people that are way more organized than I am. So, it's something you that can work on for the rest of your life and keep improving. Weekly goal list Weekly accountability report Weekly progress report Daily schedule/ daily routines Current task list Large paper calendar to write in deadlines Organized room and office

Seeking to like one's life is Ego. What you want to do is live in the present and allow reality to be the way that it is and not to want to change it into something it's not. People who spend a bunch of time trying to manipulate reality to get what they want are in the worst kind of Hell. The best place you can get to is when you can accept reality exactly as it is, all the painful stuff included. None of it is yours, that's the main insight. It's just what is, but the mind likes to disown parts of reality and sets up a Thought about a different reality. But that's getting lost in illusion, lost in the Maya of Thought. And that's how you get mindf*cked by reality because you've set up a barrier between what you want to see from reality and what you don't want to see from reality. The best place you can get to is when your eyes and ears are placed squarely on reality accepting reality exactly as it is in the moment. Even when a family member is dying, there's no sense in getting angry or upset, that's just reality. Getting upset by reality is one of the most Egoic things you can do. The Enlightened person wants to be intimate with reality and fully accepting of reality. That's what gives you liberation from Ego, liberation from Maya, liberation from the illusions of Thought and Experience. For example, I have really severe allergies and am in a lot of pain during certain times of the year as a result. The other day I became mindful that that pain is just a part of Experience, a part of reality. It's part of what's here. To expect pain not to be part of what's here is setting up a fantasy about what should be here instead of accepting what's actually here. Reality is a matrix of all kinds of stuff, and to try to mold reality into one preference of your perfect little life is unsustainable. That's why clinging to Ego causes suffering because you set up all kinds of Thoughts about reality that aren't reality. And then reality comes around and bites you repeatedly in the ass! That's because you weren't really looking at reality and got caught off guard in your fantasies.

If you're gonna make a conclusory statement without any support, at least make one that makes semantic sense.

It could be! What a cool name that would be.

Misagh I would like to see more details about your own Enlightenment. You describe Enlightenment as if you've abstracted it from any particular case and are describing it in the most general of ways. What I'm curious about is what it's like to be an Enlightened Misagh. I need the theory to be interwoven into your own stories, essays, and anecdotes. It's like someone knowing a bunch of law but they don't put the law into the factual contexts where the law actually functions and lives. Ditto for physics. We can imagine someone who knows a bunch of principles of physics but lacks understanding of how those principles of physics apply to actual contexts. We need the context of Misagh to make the principles come to life. That said, after reviewing your ideas, it looks to me that you resonate with a Turquoise metaphysics. More detail from you would help to clarify this matter. Don't strip yourself out of the conversation. I feel like a lot of people think they need to strip themselves out of the conversation to get at the essence of what is true. No no no no no! For Enlightenment Work, theory don't mean squat unless it's a shorthand to something you've observed yourself. What you say has to have a basis in seeing in this work -- namely, you self-observing and having a very alone insight that you then clothe in language and bring to show and tell with others. Theory has to come out of seeing in this work. Theory without a basis in seeing in this work is hearsay conjecture. And people trade around Thought in this work that all sounds the same to me, like somebody else's Thought. When you have your own Thought, your Thought won't sound like everybody else's Thought. That's because your Thought arose out of your own seeing and has your own fingerprint on it. That's what creates uniqueness in Enlightenment theory. The more uniquely I hear people describe Enlightenment, the more my ears perk up and listen. The more jargon I hear, the more I assume that person is just clinging to a bunch of theory which is not grounded in their own self-observation work.

This is hilarity taken to the next level Nahm! It would be fun with swapping different out pictures like Saddam Hussein haha, Ghandi, Barack Obama.

Should you get undressed before taking a shower? Should you open your mouth before you take a drink of water? Should you put your foot on the gas in order to make the car go? Don't be averse to shoulds across the board, that's a Thought that's being clung to. And we all should too, even now is forever is shoulding in his own way by challenging me. Not all shoulds are moral shoulds. One should know the relevant law as a lawyer before taking on a client that has a legal issue that requires knowledge of those laws. One should have a degree in biology if they want to be a biology professor (I assume there are a few very tiny exceptions to this). One should do self-observation work as part of their Enlightenment Work. One should back up what they say in a critical context with evidence, detail, and/or support. You saying is not or is too is easy, anybody can do that. Substantiating what you say is a little bit higher level, and it's a virtue to be cultivated. Most of all, it will get you mindful of your own B.S. What's actual and what's art are like night and day -- two totally different things. It's the literal-minded person not the artistically-minded person that has the advantage in progressing from Turquoise metaphysics to Coral metaphysics.

One of the problems that we have is too much creativity and not enough contemplation. Truth is not art. What's actual is not art. Most people are averse to backing up anything they say which is a real problem. Everything you say in Enlightenment Work should have an anchor in your own experience, and you should be able to say what that is if asked. And most importantly, you should want to say what that is. That's a value that has to be developed or otherwise attained. This is what prevents talking out of one's ass. I'm not saying you need to neurotically place premises before conclusions in some kind of mechanical way. But I sh*t you not, I've observed this on the Forum -- and people will say things and have no desire to back them up at all, and that's a real problem. I've observed the full extent of this problem.

I make post it notes for every pending task I have, and then I organize those post it notes on separate sheets of paper which further categorize it. Here's an example: (1) Make all your post it notes for all your pending tasks. One task per note. (2) Find the categories of post it notes you have and get out a sheet of binder paper for each category. (3) Now, tape the post it notes on each binder page where it belongs. (4) Tape the separate binder pages to your wall. Make sure each category has its own separate binder page. (5) Cross off each post it note (project) as you complete it. // E.g., "Chores" (write title on binder page) (Tape these on the page) "Project 1:" (write project 1 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) "Project 2:" (write project 2 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) "Project 3:" (write project 3 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) "Project 4:" (write project 4 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) // "History Class" (write title on binder page) (Tape these on the page) "Project 1:" (write project 1 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) "Project 2:" (write project 2 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) "Project 3:" (write project 3 on binder page) (tape Post it note here) "Project 4:" (write project 4 on binder page) (tape Post it note here)

There are no other people. Not in the way we typically think. Let me post you some stuff here: (but see I post stuff like this and nobody ever does the work. You’re not gonna understand Coral metaphysics until you do this contemplation work for yourself) I. Start to contemplate these: What is Ego actually? What is Maya actually? Is Ego larger in scope than the Egoic self? What is actually there versus what the Mind takes to be there? What is the true Self actually? What is Experience actually? Are other people separate beings? What is external reality actually? What are Thoughts actually? What is the part of what’s there that never changes? Ii. Start to contemplate these: How many minds actually exist in reality? In what sense do other people actually exist in reality? In what sense does the mind sort of assume stuff is there but it's not actually really there? You gotta be very literal and actual. How many awarenesses are there in reality? Is external reality more Thought than it is seeing? What's the percentage? How many beings actually exist in reality? What are other people really, in terms of Thought and Experience? What is that part of your reality that never has changed? What happens when Awareness refuses the illusions of the Mind? How does life proceed after that? What if you were the only being that exists in reality and you exist all alone? What if reality is like you watching a movie and thinking its real, getting lost in it as if it's real? And also discovering you're the watcher, you're not really in the movie at all? Leo is getting at this in his Actuality video where you look at your hand. When you look at your hand, can you appreciate the difference between what is actually there and what the mind takes to be there? What's the gulf between those two. III. This is a good exercise: Look at your hand. Write down the gulf between what is actually there and what the mind takes to be there or otherwise augments to the the raw and actual Experience. See, you gotta become very literal, very mindful, very actual to reach Stage Coral. Coral is very no B.S. to the augmentations of the mind. So, look at your hand: What is actually there? What is being experienced? What is experiencing? What does time have to do with things? It appears as if time is a factor. Change is a factor too, the information received (seen) is not static. What Thoughts is the mind associating with this changing Experience? What sensations is the mind associating with this Experience? I.e., feeling myself move my hand. Wiling myself to move my hand. What is the Thought "this is my hand"? Or even "my hand"? Or even "hand"?

Maya is the illusions of Thought and Experience, namely what the mind takes to be there vs. what is actually there. There’s a real part and an illusory part to all Thought and Experience, the question is, are you aware enough and literal-minded enough to see that for yourself. You don’t think your way to understanding what Maya is -- it’s a seeing for yourself what’s actually there vs. what the mind takes to be there.

Donald Trump is Thought and Experience with nothing behind the scenes. Can you separate out what’s real and what’s illusory with Trump like you can looking at your hand? It’s the same exercise as looking at your hand.

All is not an illusion. God Awareness is not an illusion. There’s a part of Thought that is and is not an illusion. There’s a part of Experience that is and is not an illusion. And you don’t get at his by more Thought but by seeing what’s actually there vs. what the mind takes to be there.

The Devil is the lure of Awareness into Maya. Ego is not the Devil, Ego is Hell. You are God who’s in Hell because you don’t fully realize the illusion of Maya. This idea that you or anyone else is the Devil is false. The Devil is a seductor of God Awareness into illusion. Calling people Devils is false and counter-productive Stage Blue talk.

Keep in mind that the 5 senses is just a model. Experience is prior to designation into this or that cubbyhole of sense.

You’re free to disagree with me. No skin off my back. And I’m free to disagree with you. I write what I write because it’s true to my experience. If it doesn't resonate with you, so be it. I dislike your use of the word ‘nonsense’ though and I think it’s rhetorical and a bad habit. What I wrote has sense, you just disagree with it. That’s a different issue than lack of sense.

There is a part of Experience that is real and a part of Experience that the Mind sort of assumes is there. Ditto for Thought, which is a type of Experience. What is "pure present experience"? I don't understand that terminology. I'm not separating myself from anything, I'm realizing that something that is taken to be there is an illusion. I consider myself to be a non-dualist. The insight is not everything is Consciousness, that's a Thought, a belief. The insight is everything is in my consciousness, and that is confirmed by seeing. But it also has limited use too. I. Some contemplation questions: How many minds actually exist in reality? In what sense do other people actually exist in reality? In what sense does the mind sort of assume stuff is there but it's not actually really there? You gotta be very literal and actual. How many awarenesses are there in reality? Is external reality more Thought than it is seeing? What's the percentage? How many beings actually exist in reality? What are other people really, in terms of Thought and Experience? What is that part of your reality that never has changed? What happens when Awareness refuses the illusion of the Mind? How does life proceed after that? What if you were the only being that exists in reality and you exist all alone? What if reality is like watching a movie and thinking its real, getting lost in it as if it's real? And also discovering you're the watcher, you're not really in the movie at all. Leo is getting at this in his Actuality video where you look at your hand. When you look at your hand, can you appreciate the difference between what is actually there and what the mind takes to be there? What's the gulf between those two. II. This is a good exercise: Look at your hand. Write down the gulf between what is actually there and what the mind takes to be there or otherwise augments to the the raw and actual Experience. See, you gotta become very literal, very mindful, very actual to reach Stage Coral. Coral is very no B.S. to the augmentations of the mind. So, look at your hand: What is actually there? What is being experienced? What is experiencing? What does time have to do with things? It appears as if time is a factor. Change is a factor too, the information received (seen) is not static. What Thoughts is the mind associating with this changing Experience? What sensations is the mind associating with this Experience? I.e., feeling myself move my hand. Wiling myself to move my hand. What is the Thought "this is my hand"? Or even "my hand"? Or even "hand"?

In part. Enlightenment is God Awareness (1) discovering Himself, (2) realizing that He's aware of illusory Maya, and (3) liberating Himself from the illusion of Maya. God is Awareness, but it's an Awareness that fully understands who He is. Most people don't know who God is because their Awareness is stuck in Maya, which creates the phenomenon of Ego. Maya is the illusions created by Thought and Experience that aren't actually real in reality. So, Enlightenment is really the discovery of the true Self and seeing through the illusion of Ego. And Ego is much broader than the Egoic self. Ego is Awareness being trapped in the illusions of Thought and Experience. How do I support these claims? My own Enlightenment work and awakening experiences. Of course I didn't always think of Enlightenment this way. What I've presented here is a very Stage Coral view of metaphysics. Stage Turquoise has a different metaphysics which is actually quite common for them I find. Turquoise tends to think of Consciousness as including everything and thinks of everything as part of Consciousness. Turquoise thinks of Consciousness as a grab-bag that includes everything. Coral thinks of God Awareness as being aware of illusory Maya. Really the issue of Maya comes to the fore at Stage Coral. Turquoise doesn't really talk about Maya. Turquoise and Coral think very differently as to what "everything is one means" as my Journal Vol. 7 (Turquoise) and Journal Vol. 8 (Coral) attest to. Everything changed for me when I moved from Turquoise to Coral, including but not limited to my metaphysical understanding of non-duality. Non-duality means something very different to a Green, Yellow, Turquoise, and Coral person. When I hear Turquoise people talk about non-duality now it kinda makes my ears cringe. When Turquoise people talk, it's not long before my mind starts screaming, Ego! But Turquoise it not a selfish Ego, it's all the parts of Ego that aren't selfish but are still Ego -- like clinging to Experience. Turquoise understands the illusion of Thought but they are blind to the illusion of Experience, which Coral fully understands. Clinging to Experience is Egoic too not just clinging to Thought. Turquoise doesn't really fully grok this.

Care to add reasons, detail, and/or support to your conclusory statement?

Paragraphing? Gotcha. Paragraphing is something that I've had to kind of warm up to. I'm finding that paragraphing is really appreciated by readers. For me, because I'm so in love with my own writing, one big block of ALL CAPS writing looks really nifty. But writing is not just for me, it's for my readers too. So I've had to kinda train myself to write more conventionally. My post here exhibits paragraphing. Don't think of paragraphs as being multiple sentences only. A single sentence can be a paragraph. A paragraph is simply a single idea separated out from other related but different ideas.

You're speculating. When it happens to you, you won't be speculating. That's the difference. Spiral Dynamics is a model to organize your personal development around, and also a useful lens to look at other people and other societies. But of course if you have no interest in the model, it won't have any practical significance to your life and it will be useless to you. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy that you continue to fuel by your Thought about the model. Spiral Dynamics isn't even considered as a viable possibility to you. So, case closed. Ego doesn't go away post-Enlightenment. And you can have a Stage Red Ego or a Stage Coral Ego. Which Ego would you rather have? Do you want a Stage Purple Ego? Ego has certain paradigms that it progresses through, and that's what Spiral Dynamics tracks. The question isn't whether Spiral Dynamics is true. That's a red herring. The question is -- how can Spiral Dynamics be a useful model for my own personal development?

What did he say that you think is right and what reasons do you have for thinking that?

The elephant in the room is not being addressed at all in all this talk — namely, the you who’s taking offense in the first place. For one to take offense one must be triggered. That’s the real issue. What’s causing that triggering? That’s the real question. When we lash out externally it’s because we’re projecting our internal issues outward. “Lemme tell you who you are” is really “lemme tell you who I am.” You gotta see this in yourself which takes mindfulness and high-consciousness. This is why watching ourselves deal with conflict is so instructive and is a great self-teaching moment. Most people never stop and say, “it’s me — the problem is me. What am I doing?”