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Hi everyone I thought this video was very well done and plan to integrate these points into my life. Below I've copied the list as well as some bullet points regarding each list item for your convenience, in case you want to print these or put them in your commonplace book. (((((EDIT: I just realized that the forum won't let me keep the format of my OneNote entry so I've attached a Word document as well as adjusting the format here on this post))))) 65 Core Principles Of Living The Good Life 1. No ideology and no dogma of any kind - Most teaching is filled with ideology and dogma - be wary of this - Very easy to fall into some kind of ideology - Work on undoing the ideologies you were imparted with - You are after freedom of your mind. Ideology is anchoring - Very ideological people can't change themselves 2. Big picture thinking is greater than technical knowledge - Don't get lost in details, keep the big picture in mind - People who are extremely focused on the details have dysfunctional lives 3. Direct experience is king - Experience is the only thing that is real and exists - Everything else is imaginary - Ground yourself in present, direct experience 4. Self-experimentation - Everyone is different so you have to figure out what works for you - Get good at troubleshooting 5. Radical open-mindedness - We enter this world not knowing anything - We need to fully explore every nook of reality - The ego mind prefers to be closed-minded - Doesn’t mean you believe a bunch of ridiculous things but you are open to experiencing them and don't judge them prematurely - You may need to deeply explore topics until they make sense 6. You do not judge things which you have not experience personally - Don’t think you understand something that you haven't experienced - e.g. judging someone without knowing their story or background - Recognise when your mind is about to judge something 7. Question everything - There is nothing too sacred to question - Question and be mindful of underlying assumptions - Look for assumptions being made - Keep in mind that the burden of truth is on you, not on the other person 8. Care about philosophical and metaphysical matters - These are more abstract but they do have practical applications - There is more to life than the transactional/pragmatic business of everyday life 9. Genuine intent at Truth at whatever cost - You've got to pay whatever cost it takes - Without this you will keep falling into falsehood and delusion - Worldly pleasures are pursued through falsehood 10. Genuine intent to understand every point of view - Average person stays in their POV and judges other POVs - Learn to jump into other people's POV - The world IS the collection of people's POV 11. Integral thinking - Every POV or perspective contains a kernel of truth, even the most atrocious POVs - Combine all POVs, don't limit life to just your POV - Discover what the kernel of truth is in every perspective. What is the other person passionate about in their POV - Every point of view, even your own, is partial 12. Everything basically boils down to inner-game - All problems and all suffering is self-created and self-inflicted - We live in a reality of consciousness not material - Be aware of the limits of your current paradigm - To solve everything, master your mind 13. Life-long learning and self-education - Take ownership of your education - Learn about life proactively - You have no information about the world when you are born - 200 books over the next 5 years - Books, online workshops, courses, in-person workshops - Don't be cheap - Develop a system for taking notes 14. Observation - The key to learning anything - The power of observation is enormous - The antidote to being lost inside your own mind - Observe everything to learn about yourself and the world - Pure direct experience 15. Plan to meditate for one hour every day - A cornerstone habit, you must install it - It will take you a while to start enjoying it - A form of observation - You can't buy spiritual advancement, you have to do the work 16. Ego is the root of all evil or suffering - The sense of you - The story of how you were born and had all these problems and how you are sitting there as a material creature 17. Self-deception - The biggest thing you need to be worried about in life - You deceive others less than you deceive yourself - Get good at seeing your own self-deceptions - All your problems stem from self-deception 18. Self-bias - Need to see how ego distorts perceptions for its survival - Conflicts of interests and self-bias - Everything is biased by your needs - All of this is preventing your form accessing the truth 19. All fear all judgement all evil all anger all suffering are delusion - Truth removes these and lets you enjoy life 20. Do not demonize anyone - All demonization is delusion 21. Reality is perfect - Can only appreciate this when you have good inner game and consciousness - Your level of being bothered by external things is a good measure of your growth - How am I creating the imperfection from the perfection that is already there 22. The purpose of life is to raise your consciousness 23. The purpose of life is to raise your capacity to love 24. The purpose of life is to take in the beauty of life - Of everything including mundane things and the ugly things - Don’t just go through the motions of life - It's hard to see the beauty in things that are affecting your survival 25. The purpose of life is to feel alive everyday - Be less robotic and mechanical - These four help you orient yourself 26. Build your metaphysical connection to reality - Pursue/be spiritual - You are existence itself 27. Counter intuitiveness - Often you have to do the opposite of what you thing will work initially, especially if you are inexperienced - Do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Most people get mediocre results in life 28. Non-duality is the ultimate truth - All boundaries, categories and distinctions are relative and ultimately collapse - Nothing will hold if you follow it all the way - The mind constructs all these distinctions and they are all false 29. Absolute truth exist but it cannot be thought, believed, imagined, spoken, written proven or argued - Absolute truth is unlimited - Proof is limited - Truth is broader than proof - Can get there through spiritual practice, stop wasting time thinking about it, just stop it. 30. Reality is not material - Reality is a giant mind - Things that appear physical are all one mind. Imaginings within a mind-scape - Psychedelics help with this 31. Life is a dream - There is no external world beyond this dream - Can awaken from the dream, and disidentify with your attachments to the dream 32. Reality is infinite and god is a real thing - The word god points to infinity 33. You are god - You created yourself, the entire universe, and everything, and you are everything - Realising this will help you take responsibility for your life 34. God is the devil - God and devil collapse into a unity - Stop being bothered by evil, it is a part of infinity, and there is intelligence behind it - You need to understand the illusion of reality/maya - The dream is hypnotic and self-deceptive - This is not something to ignore it is something to embrace 35. All identity is relative and fluid - There is no absolute identity in reality - Your identity has been changing all the time - Same for collective identity - countries, companies, political parties - You can change what you identify with - Identify with the absolute and death is no longer a problem 36. 99.999% are deluded and asleep - Don’t get lost in the delusions of other people - You won't get a bunch of confirmation from others on this work 37. Society is still in the dark ages - The 21st century is not some kind of advanced society - We are still very dysfunctional as a species - Don’t get seduced by the façade erected by society, we know very little - Society won't just give you answers about how to live a good life 38. Development and awakening - You want to awaken from the dream but you also need to master living in the dream - Two core avenues of growth in your life - To seriously awaken you need to also be developed to be in a position in life to seriously pursue awakening 39. Figure out who you are and what do you want out of life - Hone in on your purpose - As much clarity as possible, will take a lot of time - Will help you make decisions - A good life does not happen randomly 40. Authenticity - Strive every day to be more authentic - You get happiness and fulfilment from being authentic - Inauthenticity is a survival strategy - Strip away your fears, worries, and social conditioning - Your relationships need to be authentic but you have to discover who you are and what you want 41. You need to develop a life purpose - A sense of what you're doing in your life - Merging your career with what you want out of life 42. Take 100% responsibility for your life - Don’t blame anyone, observe yourself blaming people and stop - Assume the burden of solving the problems that come your way - Allows you to stop being a victim, gives you self esteem 43. Be a leader - Lead yourself, be proactive, take risks - Lead others around you 44. Be a creator - There is so much stuff you can create - Create things you enjoy - Provide massive value to mankind - People who lack life purpose are sucked into the life purpose of another person 45. Reason and rationality cannot be trusted - Truth is transrational - Every criminal, con artist, dictator etc. work through reason. The mind backwards rationalises what it does, self-deception to justify egoic agenda. - Any time you hear appeals to reason, be suspicious. Same as any person trying to be extra moral 46. Embrace paradox confusion and not knowing - The person who thinks he has everything figured out perfectly is deluded. Models are finite, reality is infinite. - Truth is larger than proof 47. Emotional mastery - Observe and figure out how they work - This does not mean being hyper-rational and suppressing emotions or outbursts of negative emotions - You experience emotions deeper and are more conscious of what they are - Emotions drive reasoning and are more powerful than reason for your motivations 48. Integrate the masculine and the feminine - Go deep into your masculinity but don't create a shadow of the feminine. Dive deep into feminine as well and integrate it. - Doesn't mean you need to be 50/50, be what you feel life but don't polarise yourself extremely 49. Non-manipulation - Ego manipulates everything - The less manipulative you are as a person the better your life will be 50. Everything is relative - Anything except the absolute is known in relation to something else - All conventional experience you have is relative - All truth claims are relative - All morality is relative - Science is relative to the human mind. Change the mind and science flies out the window - Changing context changes your outlook 51. Context over facts - Facts are dependent on context and are relative 52. Pull from hundreds of diverse sources - Diversify your portfolio of knowledge - In order to avoid getting trapped in a paradigm and get locked in it - By learning a lot of things you learn about the traps as well - Can't take Leo as your only source either 53. Satisfy your base needs so that you stopped craving - Use Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Handle the needs stuff so you're not craving it 54. Master your basic survival and livelihood - Figure out how to survive in the real world - Learn how to hunt before you dive into enlightenment - Learn how business and money work - May need to forget about enlightenment for now and learn to make a living - Learn the skills needed to survive - Become independent and self-sufficient - This will break the cycle of fear and let you do the higher stuff - Try to get this sorted by 30 55. Mastery - Need to be a master in at least one thing - Stop dabbling - Doesn't mean you don't have hobbies - Enjoyment in work comes from mastery - Takes 5-10 years to become a master - Millennials don't pursue mastery - Start by mastering one thing that you enjoy - The older you get the harder it is to master things 56. Beware of distractions - Distraction is the ego's favourite tool - Watch the distraction video 57. Systems thinking - See systems at work everywhere - There is an ecological connection between everything - Problems are not black and white, everything is interconnected - Feedback loops 58. Be a good citizen and be conscious of your ecological footprint - You are an ant in a colony and have an impact on the colony - Think about what you are contributing to - Be conscious about how your actions impact the world - e.g. eating meat, buying stuff made in sweatshops, polluting etc 59. Be strategic - Think 5-10 years down the road and plan how you will get there - Go through multiple stepping stones to reach goals 60. Happiness is only possible with enlightenment 61. No material possession will ever make you happy - This is like a law of physics - Includes relationships, family, knowledge, travel - Accept it and work towards enlightenment 62. Be happy all by yourself - Train yourself to be happy sitting doing nothing - Doesn’t mean you shouldn't socialise and have fun with friends - Most titillation is distraction 63. Keep your life simple and spartan - Be mindful of filling up free time with distractions and social obligations - Have several hours every day to work on spirituality - Focus on the inner game 64. Without practice, exercises and techniques there will be no results - Theory is important but alone it will produce 1% of results - Go beyond theory and do the work - Psychedelics, meditation, meditative yoga, journaling, contemplation, visualisation, solo retreats are powerful 65. Do not turn Actualized.org into an ideology - Don’t violate principle 1 - Don't turn it into another religion Be intelligent about how you implement the above, be strategic. 65 principles.docx

@Sahil Pandit Ah ok. I'm currently focusing on the ones centred around life purpose, mastery, and survival (38, 41, 42, 44, 53, 54). Basically trying to integrate all the Beige - Green spiral dynamics stages so that I can move on to Yellow without leaving something behind. I feel I am somewhat developed spiritually but I need to be strategic and get myself into a financial position to be able to actualize more yellow and turquoise values without creating a shadow of the lower stages.

Dan Arnautu recently posted a list of healthy role models for each stage if you are interested in diving deep into embodying the stages:

Well, all of these eventually.

P.S. Attached Word doc is at the bottom of the first post.

Hi @Heaven , can you please elaborate on what sort of rejection you are facing.

@ivankiss Hahah yeah exactly. Hard to get around the semantics when talking about dualistic notions from a non dual POV of reality. 1st world problems @seeking_brilliance The dream journal technique is pretty ubiquitous in the lucid dreaming community. The 432 Hz I actually picked up from Ralph Smart (Infinite Waters, on Youtube). It helps me get really relaxed and forget about the day's worries. I found it's best to be focused on intending to do the dream work as you drift off into sleep, rather than just having monkey mind about the day's events. That way, you sort of drag conscious awareness as far as you can into your sleeping state. The self affirmations came from a video on Youtube bout reprogramming your subconscious mind (sorry I'm not sure what it was called). The gist was that your subconscious controls your autopilot mode, which is what you're in for 95 % of the day, unless you are good at mindful awareness throughout the day. And since most people's subconscious centres around fears and worries about survival etc. rather than a growth mindset, you could in theory, modify your subconscious mind by recording an affirmation and playing it back over the course of the night to develop a more growth-oriented autopilot. BUT, I used this primarily as a trigger to induce lucidity rather than as an affirmation. My recording just says "focus" on repeat, and this was what actually led to my short lucid dream. I was in the dream state on autopilot, as most dreams go. Then a thought "focus" came into awareness (Keep in mind I play the audio for 10 min before bed rather than the whole night). And I thought about it and mulled it over in the dream, and then BAM! I became conscious of the present moment in the dream. Given that I've only ever had one other lucid dream in my 22 years, and this one happened pretty much two days into my dream work, I'd say it has potential, so I will investigate further and post here.

@Shroomdoctor Everything is one. Pursue enlightenment and pursue play, there is nothing else to do but suffer.

Hahahaha, beautiful! I feel like a lot of the replies to newbies on this forum look like this though haha

Just say "I know you are, but what am I?"

Had a weird experience today. I was walking around a mall today just doing some mindless shopping and was entertaining the idea of wearing a bulketproof vest and driving around in a 4x4 looking very manly (yes I still have a lot of growing to do hahaha). Now it's not the sort of thought I have every day, it just popped up. All of a sudden I see a group of guys in their late teens walking around wearing branded clothing and being fashionable I guess. And one dude is wearing like a light stab-proof vest just for the fuck of it. I don't know, I guess he was trying to look cool. But wtf. It happened about 5 min after my thought. Feels like a glitch in the matrix or just a coincidence. But at the same time can't help feeling like it's a synchronicity/ near-future-prediction paranormal ability. I get these frequently when driving, I always predict people doing the wierdest things and maneuvers on the road but I always put that down to having a lot of driving experience and having had many driving jobs. I can always spot an idiot going to do something stupid in a car before they even do it. But this I obviously can't put down to having experience. I don't usually think about bullet proof vest and I don't live in an area where people would notmally wear them. In the materialist paradigm I would just put it down to coincidence but from a non materalist paradigm I think this was my first glimpse of universal mind etc. What do you guys think?

I saw a post here a few days ago ( I think it was 11 stages on enlightenment) about how you begin to see these things more often. Anybody have any similar experiences?

@Dan Arnautu This is a great resource! Thank you

Every quarter or so I do the '16 Personalities' test because there will be something that pops up that reminds me that it's important to know your personality type. My results are usually very close to the 50% mark for the 4 main categories. My 'personality' type, therefore varies between one of 8 options, the only thing being consistent is that I am usually more weighted towards assertive. Here's an example: Anyone else have similar results? Depending on which side of the 50% I'm on for the first 4 categories, I could be one of 8 options. I recognise that taking the test multiple times can skew your results but I do this roughly every quarter, not twice in a row. Not sure what to make of the results, I guess I'm balanced but I'm not sure what that means in terms of the categories they talk about in the write up (career, relationships, etc.) ლ,ᔑ•ﺪ͟͠•ᔐ.ლ Not taking it too seriously :), Just figuring out the dream

Wow, sounds powerful, will definitely look into these!

I had a similar experience with SDS. I lasted 60 min but remember that once i started feeling pain, I felt more into it and it turned into pleasure

Interesting, thank you. I wasn't aware of this. Always hear people mentioning it, even Leo around on the forum. Yes, it does seem like a limited map. I guess people are more likely to take a 60 question test and buy a surface level product than take a very comprehensive personality assessment that might take hours.

@TheAvatarState Nice! Make sure to keep your spiritual practice up despite this. I had a big ego backlash after I experienced this which pushed me off course.

It shows that science can measure certain things and call them something which they are not

I just want to point out that, while the OP may be misguided in their original post, lets not attack them for it. They are a new member and we don't want to alienate them from a forum that can help them and everyone else grow

Its not a matter of them being gullible, its a matter of them being naive. As OP mentioned, the girls had no experience of anything but stage green, for the sake of the discussion. I was thinking about a similar topic yesterday, which was the refugee influx into European countries. From a stage Blue/Orange perspective: There is an influx of uneducated savages who are breeding like rabbits and raping people in the street, and are asking the government for money, which the taxpayers are paying for. From a stage Green perspective: There is an influx of victims of war and violence and we need to provide them with love and shelter. They are victims of oppressors who started the war there and we, as a county with more resources should share them with the oppressed. From a stage Yellow perspective: There is an influx of Purple/Red/Blue victims of violence into predominantly Blue/Orange/Green countries. Where there is a match in level, say Blue refugees into a Blue/early Orange city there is potential for a "my religion is superior" conflict. Where there is influx into an Orange or Green city there is potential for a value conflict to arise. We should aim to raise the consciousness of everyone but the risk is that the mismatch in values between Red/Blue and Orange/Green could lead to an ego backlash, preventing transition to and through Green. Like Leo said, the stage of the culture is a big driver for individuals. When you dilute an Orange/Green (entering worldcentric) society with Red/Blue (ethnocentric) there can be a regression back from green into Orange as the ego gets threatened. It's important to help the refugees but also prevent an ego backlash from the people living there. I personally don't live in Europe anymore so I am free to armchair philosophise. But from friends and family living in Germany and Poland I can see that they do have backlash against this. Germans because they sway towards Orange ("why are there refugees in MY neighbourhood, breeding like rabbits, my taxes give them free money") and Polish around the Blue/Orange stage ("why are there so many Muslims and blacks on the streets") Even though I can look at it from this perspective, I can predict the parts of me that are Orange would ring bells more, if there was an influx of refugees into my city. The question is how do we evolve both groups, while limiting a collective ego backlash.

A good place to start is to sit with a journal and pen and meditate on this for an hour a day for a week. Write down healthy, positive points about how you want to proceed forward. You will notice new energy come to you as you move from a mind pattern of negative motivation to a mind pattern of positive, creative, constructive motivation, as others have mentioned.

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Meditation can be difficult, uncomfortable, tedious, and feel like a waste of time. I recently got back into meditation and committed to meditating for at least 20 min every day for the rest of my life. I had an insight the other day which greatly improved my meditation sessions: -It reduced my monkey mind greatly -It helped me stay focused and not indulge in the thoughts that arise -My meditation sessions have become much more pleasant and enjoyable, I look forward to meditating now Essentially, what I do is I give up control. I set the intention that I will meditate for 20 minutes, I sit down, and briefly focus on the breath. Aside from that I don't 'try' and focus when thoughts arise, I don't will myself to avoid the temptation of thoughts, etc. 'Wanting' the meditation to go right only makes it more difficult because you think that you are lacking control when thoughts arise or you lose focus. There is no one in control. Surrender perceived control and let the body be as it will. Counter-intuitively you will notice how awareness shifts from an egoic point of view ("I'm thinking too much, there are so many thoughts, why can't I concentrate for more than 10 seconds straight" ) into itself. Let me repeat. By trying to control the session, your awareness gets stuck in the limited point of view of the (non-existent) controller, or ego. By letting go of control, awareness is free to be aware of what is, which is things like bodily sensations, thoughts, sights and sounds, etc. WITHOUT being wrapped up in it, so to say. (ok, finer distinction time:) This takes 'you' from thinking that 'your' awareness is 'your' mind and 'your' thoughts, to You experiencing all as awareness. There is no need to control the mind or body, there was never anyone in control. Let reality flow on its own and just be aware of it, not via mind, but via awareness of all, including mind. A deep sense of release and flow will be felt, the body will be relaxed, and the mind will quite down like a singing person who thought they were alone but found out they weren't

@VictorB02 I had the exact same experience. In the past I would struggle a lot to get 20 minutes in, but letting go helped my meditation and strong determination sits go (surprisingly) smoothly. I feel as though my body gets to a very relaxed state, where I almost melt into the couch/chair or someone puts a heavy blanket over me when I decide to let go of control. And when the body is still, the mind tends to follow.