Joseph Maynor

Wow. That’s pretty cool. You got yourself a nice model to try and fit into the systems of your life.

No problem. I'm not against theory, I'm against interpreting theory in unsustainable ways.

What's a sub personality issue?

Start a project.

The Ego wants to define itself and its Conceptual Understanding at the top of the hierarchy of Egos. That’s one of the dangers of Spiral Dynamics I’ve noticed. I get to define Turquoise in my self-image and now all y’all are by definition under me. Sounds too good to be true! That’s a real risk. I appreciate that risk. The Ego is sneaky like that.

Please elaborate on your last sentence.

Even more important than goal is intuition. Goal is still too conceptual. You’re gonna get yourself in the weeds with goals alone.

That’s right.

I see your point. It’s a good one. But how do you grow without models? Isn’t education based on the principle that models are useful to our growth?

It’s a useful framework for personal development.

After a while you don't have to try to be mindful, you just do it automatically. Noobs have to try though.

Thanks for posting this. There isn't enough stuff on YouTube on real Indian Philosophy, just the frou-frou stuff.

Next to finding Existential Truth and embodying Existential Truth, Mindfulness is the third most important thing to Enlightenment.

I'm so happy for you. You sound like you're growing. Watch this one too:

‘Know thyself’ is tricky because that leads to a lot of tail-chasing. What you wanna do is embody BE-ing. Find BE-ing, and then spend the rest of your life embodying and integrating with it. Don’t try to conceptually know BE-ing. Embody BE-ing instead. Clinging to conceptual truth about reality only holds you back from embodying and integrating with Existential Truth. If you’re clinging to a bunch of limiting-beliefs, you ain’t gonna let the Universe act and speak through you. You won’t be open enough to let that happen.

Don’t turn it into an ideology. Follow your bliss doesn’t mean you ideologically cling to that. It just means that you slowly accept your authentic self and authentic life.

Nice. That's how a lot of people choose to introduce Philosophy. It's a classic entry point. Philosophy is like a pool where there is no real shallow end. You just have to jump in and figure it out. It's like coding in that sense. Somebody has to throw you into the pool and you have to learn how to swim on your own. And you just keep absorbing more and more by cracking on it day after day and sooner or later you're building Web Apps or creating and discovering your own original Philosophical views.

Maturity is growth. We can model that as ascending the Spiral. Or you can make up your own model. That's a good idea when you have the best model. And the best model comes from synergizing thousands of Perspectives. That's why Shore of Reference is so important. That's why Course of Study is so important. Where I am today at 40 is not where I was at 30 or 20. But you can grow faster than I did because you have access to information I didn't. You don't have to be old to be wise. Prove that to us.

Looks like a great document. Thanks! I'll use it.

If Yellow is a pile of systems, Turquoise becomes the system. Turquoise doesn’t get hung up on systems for or against, and just lets the universe be and act through them. That doesn’t mean that Turquoise doesn’t try to change systems, they do. But Turquoise isn’t trying to design systems for everything — they just pragmatically do systems thinking when the need arises by letting the Universe flow through them. Turquoise is way more intuitive than Yellow is. Yellow is much more conceptual and in their head than Turquoise is. If Turquoise shares systems, they’re likely to be sharing their own actually embodied systems. But remember, Turquoise can access all the lower Spiral Stages to maintain the flexibility needed to advance their Life Purpose. But this is done intuitively and naturally in Turquoise.

No. The Paradigm of Morality is a more or less useful conceptual system, just cling to it loosely and don’t interpret it as conceptual truth. That’s how Yellow thinks. Yellow likes to think in paradoxes. Yellow would like the paradoxical statement: there is no morality but then there is morality too.

Growth leads to fulfillment. There's a sense in which we want to grow. And there's always more that you can grow. The more you grow, the more fulfilled you get. We can gloss it and say the happier you get, although 'fulfillment' has a deeper meaning than 'happiness' does. So, growth leads to happiness. What we want to do is evolve well for ourselves.

Discipline is entirely an Orange and lower than Orange concept. Yellow doesn't use discipline as a motivator. Yellow is much more intuitive and adaptive than that. Yellow is not forcing himself or herself to do anything. Yellow understands how to go directly to the systems themselves and make much more sustainable tweaks and change than discipline can. Discipline is unsustainable. Discipline is way too mechanical for Tier-Two.

No. That would be mistaking Yellow for Orange.

Focus on creating, developing, and evolving your Perspective by being open to influence from other Perspectives. But realize that your Perspective is all you really have.