Joseph Maynor

The word ‘mentally unstable’ is such a slippery-slope term

That’s awesome!!

I don’t get that impression. What aspect of the site in particular are you referring to?

Slow way down in your life. Become super-relaxed. And then you will become more mindful of creativity as it comes out of you in drips and drabs — on its own timetable.

Would it be weird for you to accept the paradigm that maybe this conceptual system is not conceptually true but rather just a useful system for you? In other words, it works for you — but it’s not necesarily the ‘one right’ conceptual system for everybody.

It’s a conceptual system that inspires you. Great. That’s what we all do. Just don’t take it literally.

Wow, this is a great question. Lemme take some time to answer it. You’re a smart dude. I was tapped into spirituality but less consciously. I am so much more conscious now than then. I didn’t have the kind of advice I needed to grow deeper.

Hey, it actually looks good with no period. Sometimes I like the look of sentences with no periods in a bulleted list. It looks cleaner sometimes.

You do realize that this is all a thought-story that you invented right? Now, is it an empowering thought-story, a useful thought-story, a hopeful thought-story? Why cling to such a disempowering thought-story? Why assume your thought-story is conceptually true? Why cling to the paradigm of conceptual truth? See? You’re here because reality wants you here. You’re here because you’re growing. You’re here because you’re smart. You’re here for positive, not negative reasons. Those are more empowering thought-stories to try to assimilate with, right. Never enslave yourself to thought-stories. Pick them up when they're useful, but put them down when they’re not.

Do daily practice on skills that will cause you to master and ace your life purpose.

Why do you have a need to cling to Christianity?

Find your Life Purpose first and then your goals will become much clearer.

Oh good. I’m glad. I was concerned about where you were.

You split for a month too? Like Leo.

Hey, I don’t mean to be Socratic and provocative haha — but what the hell does it mean to be ‘loving’? That’s just a word, right. And what practical benefit does this kind of question serve to your life? Sorry to be so blunt. These kinds of questions don’t have good answers. I see why you asked it, I think. You’re pushing categories, which is good. As Dewey would say ‘good’ is a vision for the future, it’s a pragmatic goal. It’s not a fact, a truth. It’s a ‘what problem does this help us solve’, right. Trying to define ‘the Good’ without what we might say ‘being in the world’ or simply actual context — is a pipe-dream. Though has got you by the eggs at that point, so to speak. You’re not gonna get a simple objective context-Independent Socratic definition of what a ‘loving teacher’ is! Or even an objective example of that. That puts the cart before the horse, because thought-stories (ideas) are secondary to BE-ing.

That’s fine. All this stuff is metaphor really. What matters in a theory is utility, concision, scope of applicability, etc. Once you know Existential Truth, theory-building becomes art much more so than science. We’re not looking for truth in words anymore. That’s the paradigm-shift. As I think the great John Dewey would say — we’re adapting to our environment as part-and-parcel of reality, and solving problems that actually arise for us as we go throughout our existence. This in your head business is taken way too seriously, right. People look for truth in concepts! There’s a higher truth that’s pre-conceptual — and people call it all kinds of things. The job of Enlightenment is to teach you this higher truth. And it’s not a conceptual truth. It’s more (I hate to use the word) fundamental than that. You gotta be able to separate awareness from meaning — awareness from thought stories — awareness from conceptual systems — whatever have you, right.

Me too. It’s funny, you said in one sentence what it took me a gaggle of sentences to say! Nice

Green — Create a noble life purpose, learn about holism, sustainability, cosmopolitanism, pluralism, and altruism. Yellow — become enlightened and learn how to create systems to change systems sustainably — this will enable you to become a Sage with an individualist bent — the teacher, right. Yoda. Turquoise — become a benevolent Sun of influence within a synergistic network of Perspectives, where influence is going in all directions in the network — Turquoise is the manta ray.

WHY THE ACTUALIZED.ORG FORUM IS SUCH AN AMAZING TOOL FOR GROWTH One word — Synergy. You can grow so much more from learning from many perspectives. Synergy is like hitting the nitro button or afterburner button. It’s exponential growth — if you use the Forum optimally, that is. This Forum is very special and useful. And I think moving forward into the future it will become more so, as more and more people discover Personal Development. And as we get out of that Stage Orange-style teaching paradigm of Personal Development. Leo is right in the pocket leading the way there! Synergy is one of Covey’s 7 Habits and it’s also analogous to Napoleon Hill’s concept of a Master Mind group. You can only learn so much on your own — if you want to get insane growth — then you gotta learn from hundreds and maybe even thousands of Perspectives. You gotta be in a Master-Mind Network of Perspectives — that’s the Forum! see. That’s what synergy is. This is one way that technology is helping us — it allows us to network with people all over the world on very niche issues. They didn’t have one of these back in the 1700’s, I can tell you that! They didn’t have anything like the synergy possibilities we have today. So, we’re very lucky to be alive today.

You’re good at spotting issues. Very good for discussion. Sometimes you gotta use a system to change a system, almost always in fact. If you’re trying to teach, you gotta give people something that they can relate to — you gotta kinda meet them where they are. I can’t speak for Leo, but I understand the situation he’s in. He can’t just assume his audience is Enlightened and speak to them that way. He’s gotta communicate with people in a way that they can relate to.

Existential Truth is pre-conceptual. BE-ing is only one thing — or more accurately, what this language points to or refers to, right. BE-ing being Perspectival is already a though-story within BE-ing.

For each bad habit you’re doing, try to see what else in your life is reinforcing that bad habit. Then realize that to quit the first thing you gotta quit or restructure the things that are reinforcing it. Get pen and paper and do a bit of reflection. I do A to help me with B. To quit A, I gotta quit or restructure B. If you try to quit A without dealing with B, you’re gonna get a backfiring mechanism PLUS a craving for A every time you wanna do B. If you eat Cheetos to make watching TV fun, if you quit the Cheetos but still watch TV, you’re ensuring that you’re gonna get cravings for Cheetos every time you watch or think about watching TV. You gotta quit or restructure the TV component to quit the Cheetos sustainably.

Create and develop your own Course of Study.

Enlightenment work