Carl-Richard

Good luck advertising your pro-death stance to your fellow citizens.

I suggest simply starting a meditation habit and trusting fully in what you feel. Don't entertain beliefs like "death is not real." Just listen to yourself and see what truly resonates for you.

I would love to believe that. It's just weird that I can't remember ever having had a dream with tornadoes in it, certainly not being chased by them. I haven't watched any tornado videos recently either. You also have to factor in that the dreams happened literally parallel to the real world events temporally speaking (although I can't actually confirm the PsychedSubstance one, it's a highly probable given the dates he provided).

Thank you Yep – holarchies: the unit is both a part of a whole and a whole in itself. Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory puts this brilliantly: the individual is surrounded by intersecting systems with different types of influence (direct/indirect, local/distant, small/large). For example, here is the definition of "exosystem": Yup. Real systems are incredibly complex and the abstract systems (models) are really insufficient.

I remember Nahm explained it as taking what you've learned at Yellow and sharing it with the world. You can draw parallels between learning about enlightenment and actually embodying it, or going from being a recluse forest mystic to a social Bodhisattva. So it becomes less about actually theorizing and working within one's own life (one's own mind and local environment) and more about manifesting the theory in practice and working in the collective space, hence it's more collectivist. Doing this definitely requires additional refinement on the level of theory as well. Other than that, I'm generally unsure about the "essence" Turquoise. Maybe because Tier 2 is already about inclusivity and holism, the "essence" of the higher stage is not as distinct or particularized, but simply about expanding the systems view and making it more holistic (it's only Tier 1 that is about maintaining a particular set of values and excluding others).

Yes. God is all there is to be aware of.

God let's you be him by him being you. Is that selfish?

You are God in an absolute sense. You are a finite human being in a relative sense. God does what god does, and humans do what humans do. There is no contradiction.

Yeah there is so much more. I won't add any more points though. It's already long enough

He probably saw it coming as well

Seems right Thank you!

Here is your delivery

Yellow has a mature systems view that isn't merely a compilation of the previous stages. I will make a thread about systems thinking soon. Consider it my magnum opus ? EDIT: Here it is.

What do you base this on?

Persistent Non-Symbolic Awareness with either Emptiness realization, God realization, or Complete Liberation.

When the result is there, there is no you to fear. When the process happens, there is a you that fears the result, but as a result of the process.

Death is a process with a result. You fear the process, not the result. It's a process of loss. The result is stillness.

Based on his latest videos where he is talking to people in person, it's clear that he has problems with affective empathy and tuning in to other people's state. There is a marked incongruence between his emotional state and other people.

Just smelling weed sends me into an existential crisis lol. I guess I got some work to do.

You can't study systems theory without studying the actual systems. It's like trying to learn algebra before learning arithmetic.

I'm sorry. I'll reiterate: if you don't know how to represent statistics accurately and if you don't understand the reasoning behind minimizing risk, we can't have a discussion about COVID-19.

Let's say you want to help people and you study to become a psychologist. You need to learn about how the healthcare system is structured, which means you have to learn about how the government works, and the government is influenced by politics. Let's say you work as a truck driver. You need to know about various regulations pertaining to your vehicle, the road and traffic in general, and this is tied to government and politics. Let's say you want to buy a house. You need to learn something about how property taxes work etc., and this is politics. This is what your environment looks like: Everything impacts everything else. Learning about politics is not an exercise in futility.

To survive, you need to know your environment, especially if you're aspiring to do something productive.

"You" as in me? ?

I don't think I need an interpretation here.