Carl-Richard

Pride crosswalk in front of my local university in Norway:

Lol no?

Do you feel like you're dying when this happens? Do you ever fear for your sanity when this happens? Do you lose all control and sense of reality? Then you're 0.001% of the way there.

Sit down, close your eyes and observe these thoughts for a while. Just watch them like you would when watching a movie. They are simply thoughts; birds chirping in the wind, leaves falling from a tree, dogs barking at a car, cars driving down a road.

One word: ego backlash.

Survival is based on the proliferation of differences, the truth of impermanence, the evolutionary impulse, the ever-changing nature of the universe. Without differences, without change, without evolution, the universe cannot express itself through form.

It's the Jordan Peterson mentality: if you love yourself just as you are, you have no incentive to become a better person. It's a result of stage blue, conventional, masculine, black-and-white, absolutistic thinking. What they don't understand is that the only way you become a better person is actually through self-love. They just don't want to do it consciously, because they see it as two contradictory perspectives. It IS possible to love yourself and still be striving to be a better person. They're actually the same thing.

Doomer

Express yourself.

Red strategy: war. Orange strategy: winning.

You forgot to quote Leo.

It's exactly like that. It's the ultimate feeling of nostalgia. It's the most familiar thing you've ever known. It's you.

Not going to brag, but I've also done that a couple of times before and I wrote it all again word for word. If it really is a truthful expression of yourself, then you should be able to reconstruct it (or atleast that is how I work. Idk if it's an INFP thing). You have to die. "The suffering of school" is nothing compared to letting go of everything you've ever known. You might have heard about Dr. Alok Kanojia from https://www.twitch.tv/healthygamer_gg. He told the story of how he became a psychiatrist, and before he decided to start med school, he travelled to India to become a monk, because he thought he was a loser with a video game addiction, had bad grades and nothing going for him. The monk's were all highly trained academics and they recommended him to finish med school and then see if he wanted to pursue enlightenment again. They said that pursuing enlightenment is harder than going to school. He did his residency at Harvard medical school and never went back to India. https://kanojiapsychiatry.com/about/ You will not get enlightened just because your life depends on it. It only comes when you don't need anything. Becoming an uneducated homeless person is only to shoot yourself in the foot. It gives a veneer of simplifying your life but actually it just complicates your life. You also seem to have a romanticized picture of homelessness which is a combination of your privilege and your spiritual beliefs. I'm from Scandinavia myself so I'm not saying this to shame you or anything. Just realize that there is a reason why people don't want to be homeless. Maybe you can try it out for a while to teach yourself a lesson, but please don't skip school. I did as little I could to pass high school and I regret every second of it now as a 23 year old who has barely started going to university.

You shouldn't exit society when you haven't even entered it yet. Becoming enlightened is harder than going to school.

Light it up but don't burn it to the ground.

I want to be clear that I have done very little research and that I'm just mostly going on intuition. You should be aware that this is also true for most people on here who talk about SD and systems thinking, and I'm not saying that is necessarily a bad thing, but it's something to keep in mind. These things are afterall grounded in higher intuitional domains and not necessarily bound to any explicit concepts. I think Ken Wilber is my biggest influence if we discount Leo. Of course the mandatory philosophy curriculum in university also helps (Kuhn, Feyerbend, Lakatos etc.). If we're talking about people who don't often speak about systems thinking as a concept but still embodies it, then I would mention Daniel Schmachtenberger, Rupert Sheldrake, Terrence McKenna, Noam Chomsky, sometimes Eric Weinstein.

You did elaborate in your last comment so it's alright. I just saw a pattern based on my earlier observations of how it's easy to use terms like "systemic", "integration", "construct-aware" etc. without referring to anything specific that has any relevance to systems thinking.

Videos with most views and sponsors get promoted on the front page. Not so much non-hierarchal any more than individualistic: less restrictions on the individual but still only within the confines of a meritocratic framework.

At which point does this not just become empty talk?

Don't put yourself in challenging situations. He was obviously under a lot of stress that could've easily been avoided had he not gone to that rave.

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If you live close to California, I would assume that you have a good chance of finding a kundalini teacher nearby.

That is also a danger of ignoring your body's signals. For me, it also fueled my tendencies towards repressing emotions. I was able to numb out physical pain, and that made me more able to numb out emotional pain without processing it. The way I solved that was by doing crying meditation, which is essentially you just probing for tensions in the body (primarily gut area) and trying to provoke a discharge of stuck emotional energy. You do that by facing the emotion head-on and willfully feeling all of it in its fullest form. Releasing pent-up emotions is like pouring love into your body, and it leaves you in a much more peaceful and conscious state of being. The energy from other forms of meditation will only go to waste if you put it inside a broken body, and infact it can become detrimental to your functioning in many ways.