Emerald

Though suffering is an integral part of reality, it is wise to aim to reduce suffering as much as is feasible for an individual human being. It is the integration of human-heartedness and God-mindedness that allows for wisdom to flourish. To pay no mind to 'down to Earth' wisdom of the human-hearted bias towards reducing suffering is the folly of those hyper-intellectuals who are rich of mind but poor of heart.

Morality means making an a priori assumption of "This is an absolute good" and "This is an absolute bad"... and is treated itself like a premise. And it can get very arbitrary where the moralistic values have nothing to do with harm reduction. So, if we use the logic axiom of "If this, then that"... moralistic thinking is like "If wearing green hats is bad, then no one should be allowed to wear green hats." So, morality is totally arbitrary and based on the assumptions of a particular culture... or a particular individual. Because of this, I think it's wise to forgo all forms of moralization. Instead, I prefer to operate off of an ethical framework, where the premise I operate under is to cause as little suffering as possible as an individual. So, if we go back to the logic axiom of "If this, then that"... ethical thinking is like "If my intention is to cause as little suffering as possible, then I am wise to avoid engaging in actions that cause unnecessary suffering to others." And that's really my only one and only ethical compass. Moralism leads to arbitrary judgments and demonization... and losing sight of the reason why setting boundaries on our behavior is helpful. Ethical thinking leads to wise discernment based on the value of loving kindness toward all. This is useful. But do not fall into the trap of being moralistic about morality and ethics.

That's an interesting example. It really embodies Christ's statement of "Forgive them for they know not what they do." But one of the things that brought me to this conclusion is what happened in one of my Ayahuasca journeys. In this journey the medicine shared with me is my purpose, which is mercy and showed me how it had always been that... and why that was the case. And it was explaining to me that this entailed being this mediator figure between society and the mystery to help people work through spiritual, psychological, and practical issues that keep them stuck in suffering by giving them smaller insights that they can handle as an individual. And in this explanation, it was clear to me that this tendency was only given to those who really want at the deepest level of their being to play that role for their community. And it was given as a both a gift and a burden. So, most people genuinely don't want the burden of the exposure to deeper levels of gnosis, and thus are not given that gift. And it showed me how much of a mercy it is to allocate that job to a few people so that the many don't have to shoulder that burden. And the many can come to the few to reap the benefits of the work done by the few. Similarly to how, in a village with a great baker, the village people can simply rely on the baker for their baked goods. And they don't need to shoulder the burden of baking their own bread every day... and get freed up to do other things. And my estimate is that this that was shown to me in my journey, describes 1 in every 100 or 200 people... who may become medicine people, priests, priestesses, psychologists, and other helping professionals that help people explore the labyrinths of the psyche and the Self. But that is just one specialization out of many. And it is not superior to being a great baker or candlestick maker.

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That's because higher spiritual and psychological capacity isn't what nature is attempting to develop. Like, if fur evolves into feathers over time... it isn't because feathers are better than fur in the eyes of nature. It is just an adaptation. The same is true with higher vs lower spiritual and psychological capacity. Evolution doesn't inherently mean becoming better at those things... as spiritual and psychological capacity is values-neutral in the eyes of nature. It is just a neutral adaptation like any other adaptation. So, asking this question is a bit like asking why humans haven't evolved echolocation. Well, we haven't needed echolocation to survive and reproduce. The same is true of humanity thus far. We haven't needed the populace to have a higher spiritual and psychological capacity to survive. In fact, at earlier phases in human development, these qualities might be a hinderance to our survival if most average people possessed them. Instead, there have always been 1 out of every 100 people to act as medicine people, priests, priestesses, etc. that have bore the brunt of that job for their entire group. That way, the average person isn't burdened by such things... and they can focus on hunting or baking bread. So, we have evolved for the purpose of specialization because that benefits our survival and reproduction.... and higher spiritual and psychological capacity is one of many ways people are build towards specialization. But there is no need for the general populace to possess higher spiritual capacities... in the same way that not everyone in the populace needs to have stellar athletic ability.

It's a great game! I replayed it 13+ years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter to kill time until her due date... and she was two weeks later than her due date! I found it on the internet and replayed the Silver version, and it brought back all those nice nostalgic feelings associated with the music of the game.

If you've ever played any of the old Pokemon Gameboy Games like Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, etc., you will understand this metaphor. In these games, you'll sometimes run across a character that doesn't present themselves immediately as a member of Team Rocket. But they'll be wearing similar clothes to Team Rocket, have the same personality vibe as Team Rocket, and they'll send out similar Pokemon to the ones that Team Rocket uses. And you pretty much know right away that they're actually a part of Team Rocket, even though they don't say it outright. I feel like all these people "suddenly" supporting Trump: like Joe Rogan, Audrey Marcus, Aaron Abke, and others that we've talked about on here of a similar vibe... to me they've always come across like secret (not-so-secret) members of Team Rocket. It's always been obvious. And yet, some people get surprised. Did you NOT see them using Koffing and Ekans in their Pokemon battles the WHOLE time?

Definitely a Team Rocket thing to do... to disguise themselves in obvious disguises.

I remember it being a clear part of the game play where you were in a random Pokemon battle. And once you won, they revealed themselves as a Team Rocket member.

I think so too. I think they were selling Slowpoke tails or something like that.

They weren't subtle to me. You can usually taste the flavor of it on someone just by watching them for a few minutes. It just tends to be mixed in with positive and neutral Masculine qualities. And so, those who are prone to admire positive Masculine qualities and be in more Masculine environments might be quite acclimated to that flavor and miss the aftertaste of poison in the elixir.

@AION @Leo Gura Maybe my mind is making up memories. But I feel like there's some situation where you have to battle someone who doesn't initially come off as a Team Rocket grunt. Like usually they'll have Rocket in the name somewhere. But this one doesn't an later reveals themselves to be on Team Rocket. I'm going to have to look it up to see if my brain is tricking me with some Mandela effect about this memory from the game.

Easy... human nature is not evil. That's a common misconception that leads people to come to the conclusion that we need some top-down authoritarian force to control us and brainwash us out of our evil nature. This misconception is where a lot of authoritarian thinking comes from that reviles human freedom and sovereignty... and clamors for dictatorship to come in and limit and control our "fundamental human evil". I was shown this several times in my medicine journeys where things like hatred and evil come from... and I was also shown the pure love sitting underneath even the most mangled and twisted of wills. So, there is nothing there to reconcile. Just help people work through the things that keep them misaligned from their truest deepest will... which is pure unconditional love and oneness at its core. It is only a matter of our pure will becoming mangled by ignorance, trauma, unmet needs, and disconnection with personal sovereignty... which are shaped by nature and nurture factors outside of our will that leads to misalignment. So, it's a matter of un-brainwashing people and removing the obstacles that obscure us from our light... and helping people get more in touch with personal sovereignty and the capacity for self-governance that will help us collectively transcend many of the problems of human evil.

I'm sure it exists. You can find examples of all kinds of crazy people on the internet. But it's mostly randos with no power that get used for brand jamming. The same thing happens occasionally with lefty influencers who look up the worst people imaginable and show them as an example of conservatives. Like, in one video a couple lefty influencers got this video of a guy who lived out in the woods and was super conservative and was using his hyper-conservative beliefs to justify his attraction to pubescent girls. And he was claiming it was most natural for grown men to be the most attracted to 11 and 12 year olds because of a variety of different ideologically conservative reasons... and that all men are most attracted to 12 year olds. And he would post all these videos that were all about this topic. But the guy had like 10 followers. It wasn't like he was Ben Shapiro of something. (Though to be fair, Matt Walsh has shared some creepy pedo-ish perspectives on teenage marriage in the past before he became a conservative influencer.) But in this instance with Vaush and the other person, are you saying that Vaush is the unhinged woke lefty for continuing to ask for the pronouns? Or that the other person who was refusing to give their pronouns for some kind of woke ideological reasoning? I ask because Vaush doesn't really fit the stereotype of the crazy blue haired woke SJW image that the right tries to evoke to brand jam lefties. He's too intellectual, stoic, and Masculine to be an effective target for that. His vibe doesn't match the vibe that conservatives use to repel people from the left.

If I were specifically going to try to find a conscious compatible partner or even conscious compatible friends, I'd try to make myself a magnet to them through building a social circle that people who crave depth might seek out. So, I'd probably create some kind of weekly meet-up group in my area... like a Jungian dream group or a Shadow Work group (because those are my interests). (This is actually something I'm considering doing because I have few compatible friends in my town.) And then, there's a strong chance that I will be able to meet quite a few friends and maybe a few potential partners. And then, I'd just show up fully as myself and let things unfold however they unfold. And I'd try to show my peacock feathers from time to time (which are whatever natural advantages that I have in that environment) to raise my status within that group. And the better you can become at cultivating a compatible community around you, the more this opens you up to the possibility of meeting compatible women... not just in the group, but through the friends of friends. Or you can just find this type of group, and do the same thing. Otherwise, you have to do the pick-up thing. And I can't imagine that's going to be very good for finding someone compatible because it's random. And I suspect that women who are more conscious, might be less inclined than the average woman to be receptive to pick up and might tend to be more likely to choose a guy from her wider social circle.

The conversation from a few months ago was about Trump and Elon having low integrity and low consciousness. And then, Leo came in and told us all off because we were mentioning Elon in the same breath as Trump when we were talking about low conscious, low integrity behavior. And I recall that that wasn't really the focus on the conversation (I think we were just using them as examples or something), but it was a foot-note in the conversation that Leo homed in on. He chalked it up to us being biased Lefties because we were equating Elon and Trump... and that we see him as lacking in integrity just because of his views... and seeing him only through the biased lefty lens. Then, I retorted by listing off a lot of things Elon's done that shows his lack of integrity. And Leo told me that I don't understand him and that I had to watch 10 hours of Elon videos to get a less biased take on him. But he wouldn't support his point beyond that as to how these interviews would show me that my conjecture that he's low integrity would be overturned or changed by watching them. I feel like, no matter how many interviews I watch, this isn't going to convince me that Elon is a person of integrity. And I'm not the one that's sitting here surprised that he gave millions to Donald Trump's re-election campaign.

All of that is consistent behavior for him. He doesn't have integrity. He wants power and admirers and will do whatever it takes to get that. And whether he gets that through building rockets or buying elections... it's all the same to him.

The term Woke has always been an imaginary boogeyman of what a leftist is like, as a means to brand jam the left so that the general populace never considers their perspective as worthy of consideration. It's just like a company might attempt to brand jam their competitor to discourage people from ever considering doing business with them. It's kind of like if McDonald's put out a bunch of ads that showed a bunch of unhinged crazy people eating at Burger King. And then, they advertised McDonald's as "The place where sane and logical people eat." This brand jamming of "wokeness" discourages people who may otherwise hold Christ-like Golden Rule values from continuing to support them and from coalescing together with others who support them. This means values like accepting your neighbor, wanting people to be treated fairly, being kind to the foreigner, and embracing the principle of non-judgment. And it's especially to make sure that they don't join the left because... you wouldn't want your friends to see you as an illogical little effeminate snowflake, would you? And it even encourages them to get more mean and anti-social, because the more mean and anti-social you are the less illogical and unhinged you are... and the more sane and logical you are. And the more sane and logical you are, the more you will be accepted. And it's easiest to find cringy examples of 18 year old college kids with blue hair. So, they work very well for the brand jamming to convince open-hearted people to close their hearts to those who are different from them in order to avoid being like the cringy 18 year olds going through a phase and screaming that speaking Spanish as a second language is cultural appropriation.

Our discussion a couple months back was in regard to whether or not Elon Musk has integrity. Use basic common sense and discernment, and you will see that he doesn't even care about integrity. He cares about power and about being admired. That's it. You don't even need to be a "biased lefty" to notice that. And you don't even need to be paying all that much attention to him. It's obvious. And Elon Musk hasn't degenerated any in the past couple months. This is the way he's been for years... and he hasn't been hiding it. And giving Trump all this money is 100% consistent with his previous political behaviors. Elon clearly wants power. That's why he purchased Twitter and turned it into a political propaganda machine for the far right. That's also why he's given the Trump campaign all this money... in hopes of buying his way into being a Shadow president. That's also why he proudly owns the label of being "the George Soros of the Right". People who like him and see him as aspirational tend to be partially or wholly in Stage Orange, so they don't want to see the negative about him because he represents the pinnacle of Stage Orange success. There are too many stars in their eyes to see the corruption. So, they're biased and don't want to see that about him. They want to maintain the image of him as the super genius who's helping the world. And it's easier to point the finger and call Green lefties biased about Elon, as opposed to recognizing how correct they are (and have been) about how he really is. You don't need to be in Tier 2 and totally unbiased to be correct about someone's character. Like them or not, Stage Green Lefties have been right the entire time about Elon. They just may not have Stage Turquoise perspective of seeing all things (positive and negative) as inter-connectedly working together to create something greater than the sum of their parts. So, they may not recognize that Elon is integral to the structure of now. But they're right that he's a far right oligarch who has no integrity.

If you paid attention to the content of the things he's said in that Twitter shitposting... you would not have been so surprised about him campaigning for Trump. It's been pretty obvious for several years who and what he supports. Supporting Trump isn't even the slightest bit out of character for him.

I sense that I do understand his perspective and worldview, as well as what's making him tick. It's quite human and relatable, especially for an entrepreneurial type like myself. He wants to be the hero and save the world using his gifts. And undoubtedly he's developed certain skills to enact this goal. He just has a lot of power. So, his neuroses and feelings of disconnection turn into collective positives and negatives on a large scale. And the negative part of it is that, he craves acceptance and admiration because he sees it as an antidote to feelings of alienation... even though it isn't. And people who are most willing to give that to him is the far right echo chamber. He gets to feel like part of the cool kids club. He proudly owns the label of being "The George Soros of the right" because he gets to be celebrated and appreciated as an asset. And I very much disagree with your second point. The only thing that's changed in the past couple months is that he's associated himself more closely with Donald Trump. He's been holding these viewpoints and patterns for quite some time... and not in a private way. All of this has been very predictable for the past several years. If you were surprised by his Trump sycophantry, then you weren't fully paying attention to Elon Musk's public behavior before.

Oh but Leo... what about all the wonderful Elon Musk interviews you wanted to have me watch a couple months back to support your point that he's more than just a douchebag oligarch? And when I called him out on this very thing, you said it was a something like it was a leftist caricature of what he actually is and that 'Go watch 10 hours of Elon Musk videos, and you will know better.'

You're thinking too short term. "The wise man plants the seeds to trees that he will never sit under the shade of." It's only when you set your vision for humanity outside of yourself and connect it to all the people of now and many generations beyond our own, that you can find motivation and meaning to move towards a vision for a better world. Also, you're not seeing the cyclical nature of collective happenings... and that things always arise out of their opposites. Things will ebb and flow within a proximal range during our lifetimes changing a lot in some ways and a little in other ways. Right now just happens to be an ebb period, which will probably last a few years or a decade. And it could be incredibly destructive... or more mildly destructive. But it is in these catabolic ebb periods that momentum gains for a pendulum swing towards the flow. In the tale of the Chinese Farmer, there is a series of SEEMINGLY fortunate and unfortunate happenings. And with each successive happening, the positive event seems to turn into something negative. And the negative event seems to turn into something positive. It starts with the farmer's horse running away. And the farmer goes to his neighbor and says "My horse ran away." And the neighbor says, "That's terrible!" And the farmer says "Maybe." Then, the farmer's horse comes back home, along with several other wild stallions that the farmer comes to own. And he tells his neighbor. And the neighbor says, "That's wonderful!" And the farmer says "Maybe." Then, the next day the farmer's son is riding one of the wild stallions, and it bucks him off. And the farmer's son breaks his leg. And he tells his neighbor. And the neighbor says, "That's terrible!" And the farmer says "Maybe." Then, the next day the army comes to draft to farmer's son to go to war. But because his son's leg is broken, the army decides not to draft him. And he tells his neighbor. And the neighbor says, "That's wonderful!" And the farmer says, "Maybe." If you want to preserve the current system for as long as possible, elect a Bernie Sanders progressive type. He has been the most conservative option out of anyone running in the past decade because he would make the current system a lot more livable and sustainable. If you want to shake the system apart and introduce chaos and change, elect someone like Donald Trump. If his power is unchecked, his Narcissistic ways will erode the system away and in the chaos, the problems will become harder or impossible to ignore. And change will happen. And the Shadow of our current system will be laid bare for all to see and integrate. We're getting the latter option. And it will suck in the short term. But if we're going to wake up and solve global problems like Climate Change, the current system has to become totally untenable.

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