Joseph Maynor

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  1. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    This explains Coral well: Stage Red feels like they need to create themselves into God in the world.  Coral realizes they already are God without a need to create themselves into God.  Stage Red is an aping of Stage Coral.  Actually when you get to Teal you'll realize that the pros of Red need to be integrated with the pros of Coral. It's not one or the other it's one and the other.  The 'exclusive or' gets replaced by an 'and' at Stage Teal.

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    16 hours ago, Mezanti said:

    @Joseph Maynor

    the guy in the video explains it like its a way of behaviour in certain situations, but its much more than that, its an entire way of being.

    I watched that video hoping for more to say the least.  When I was going through Coral I tried to find guidance and I realized Coral is kind of an uncharted territory.  Plenty of people have hit Coral though, it's just the vMeme hasn't been defined yet in Spiral Dynamics very well.  That's video is not good for Coral.  

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    3 hours ago, TheAvatarState said:

    Yes, you have to understand who you're talking to, and their notions of God. For instance, I would not use the word God, ever, when talking to a stage Blue person, because I know they hold a narrow, dualistic understanding of the word God. So that means saying "God" to them would actually lead them further from the Truth, to confusion. Language has such power because of all our individual and collective stores surrounding the words. You have to be mindful of that. :)

    Nice insight.  Each Spiral Stage has their own characteristic or stereotypical set of archetypes for filling the human need of spirituality.

  12. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    3 hours ago, abrakamowse said:

    You are creating that story Joseph. We create everyone our own story. It's not bad to say God. I don't mind what others think about that word. IMO.

    All I'm saying is be mindful that there are many stories of "God" not just one's own white-knuckle clung to story.

     

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    3 hours ago, jim123 said:

    @Leo Gura

    But how does one discover himself to be God? God is omniscient and omnipotent. So tell me how to know all things and create a universe out of nothing, then we'll talk.

    Is that the only definition of the word "God"?  That particular definition of God has a history to it.  There are many concepts of God; why assume that's the "one right one"?  

  15. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    Welcome to the forum.  Keep putting yourself out there.  We're all growing on here.  I've said plenty of stupid things and made a fool of myself on countless occasions on here.  That's part of the personal development path.  Nothing is bad if you learn from your mistakes and your foolishness.  It's like being a kid walking around and getting burned by things and learning "this hurts" and not repeating those mistakes again.  You can clean up your Ego in the same way on here.  It's a rather messy and long process but if you hang in there you can make massive progress.  I just recently did a psychedelic trip and came face to face with how gnarly, dodgy, and seedy my Ego can be often right under my nose without me being conscious of it under normal circumstances.  But just seeing that allows me now to fix a lot of that stuff.  So, you wanna let yourself shat and vomit all over the place so you can see what's there -- and then you can engage in clean-up and repair once you see what's really there: what you normally work so hard to conceal even from your own view.

  18. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    I fit mine.  Take the official test:

    https://www.mbtionline.com/TaketheMBTI

    My results were like this: 

    There's (very likely, likely, and somewhat likely) for each letter:

    E (Very likely)
    N (Somewhat likely) -- this means that I have strong S too but a tip toward N
    T (Very likely)
    J (Very likely)

    ENTJ

    Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.

    These are the four Cognitive Functions for ENTJ:

    Te 
    Ni 
    Se
    Fi 

    Ideal Intimate Relationship Partner for ENTJ is INTP (It's good to have the NT in common so you have more to talk about):

    Although two well-developed individuals of any type can enjoy a healthy relationship, ENTJ's natural partner is the INTP, or the ISTP. AN ENTJ's dominant function of Extraverted Thinking is best-matched with a personality type that is dominanted by Introverted Thinking.