Carl-Richard

Openmindedness describes the tendency towards entertaining a lot of different ideas from a diverse set of perspectives, and that of course correlates strongly with intelligence. If you're closeminded, you essentially put your mind in shackles, but that is also an important survival strategy. Being closeminded grounds you. It's like being a solid: it's stable state of matter, but not much happens. If you're openminded, you're like a gas: there is a lot of action, but it's chaotic. You want some balance where you're able to be dynamic without completely evaporating, like a liquid.

The finest piece of blue propaganda I think I've ever seen lol:

Sit in meditation, quieten your mind, and focus on the thing you want to let go of and imagine what it would be like to live without it, and try to accept that. See if you notice any emotions that arise as a response and let them come up. Really feel those emotions and accept them. A key sign of having an attachment is that you're having unsolicited thoughts about it, and these thoughts are often fear-based. See if this practice makes a difference in the amount of thoughts. If you notice the same thoughts arising in your daily life, you can easily let go of them again once you've done it once already.

Hug people.

How non-libertarians run the government: How libertarians run the government: Ok I think it's time for me to go to bed hahaha

Might be due to the Marxist-Leninist one-party state government

Suffering arises from certain circumstances. Consciousness helps you deal with those circumstances, both internally and externally. On average and very generally, people living in the same society will face the same types of circumstances. Having a higher consciousness will therefore generally lead to less suffering on average. My feeling is that lower consciousness makes you more vulnerable to a myriad of different forms of suffering, and when you work through those, you evolve to the next level. When you evolve past one level, you discover newer levels of suffering that will make you evolve even further. However, the types of suffering that you experience become more focused and purified (existential, spiritual), and less random and coarse (behavioral, moral, egoic): For example, a stage red person who runs into authority (or a superior) will generally suffer more than a stage blue person (rage vs restraint), than an orange or green person (competition vs compliance), yellow or turquiose person (analysis vs. acceptance). Remember that we're talking about averages and generalities here I would agree that higher consciousness opens up for higher order forms of suffering, but that arises in tandem with the ability to deal with them. If you can't deal with them, you will naturally regress to a lower level where they're no longer accessible. For example, the dark night of the soul can cause a lot of suffering, and you can either evolve past it or regress back down depending on how you process it. When I think of "more suffering", I'm thinking mostly in terms of diversity and quantitity, not necessarily "depth" or "quality" as that is much harder to define. That's why I mean that the higher order suffering doesn't outweigh the lower forms: it's almost a pure numbers game in that sense. More types of suffering = more suffering, which happens at lower stages. You can also argue for difference in quality in cases where they seem more obvious, like starvation (beige) vs. self-esteem issues (orange), and like I did earlier (different stages in the same type of conflict). I also feel that the more severe forms of suffering mostly cluster around the lower stages (a combination of the quality/quantity argument). (I would take all this with a grain of salt though. This is pushing the limits of what I can muster at these very late-night hours )

Oh my god this is so funny So fragile.

If I were to guess, it's because they're an island like Australia.

Oh brother

Isn't this a semantic trap? "Deal more easily with suffering" just sounds like they experience less suffering. I don't see the distinction there.

A gentleman holds the door. A people pleaser is the doormat.

It might also be done as a pragmatic solution. I would imagine that performing proper arrests takes much more time and resources, and there might be a lot of potential targets that they have to deal with.

You seem to be conceptualizing higher states of consciousness as being more "needy" than the lower states of consciousness. I believe it's the other way around. When you're higher consciousness, you're more apt to deal with different situations, and that avoids many aspects of suffering that the lower states struggle with. I believe you're talking about niche cases where highly developed people feel like misfits or outcasts, that they don't feel like they belong or get outside validation from their immediate surroundings. I don't think those cases are in anyway comparable to something like a stage orange person who struggles with constant self-doubt, self-hatred, jealousy, cravings, attachments etc..

Will a stage turquoise person experience more suffering than a stage orange person in today's society?

Tier 1 is when you believe that English is the only language that exists, and you keep trying to speak English to non-english speaking people, and you think the reason they don't understand you is because they just can't speak English. The reason you don't know that they're even speaking a different language is because you're not actually listening to what they're saying in the first place. You also believe that English isn't merely useful for communication, but you also believe it's "the truth". Tier 2 is when you realize that English is just one of many languages, and you start to learn to communicate with people in their language. You learn to listen instead of talking all the time. You also stop hating people for being less familiar with a certain language. You recognize that different languages belong to different parts of the world and that they're only useful tools for managing different situations (they're not "absolute truths"). In short, you basically turn into a high school foreign language teacher

I've heard about sungazing being an ancient spiritual practice. Buddha also starved himself to death. I just think some things are not worth the risk. You're literally playing with fire. Your retina doesn't have pain receptors. Be careful.

My dad has bipolar type 1 and has been hospitalized a couple of times. I did LSD 3 times at 18 years old, and I didn't have a psychotic break (atleast officially haha). I would say my frequent cannabis smoking brought me closer to that territory than LSD ever did. Still, be careful.

Aren't we talking about a developmental model here? Suffering drives evolution. That is obviously the case. How can your level of consciousness be too high for your surroundings?

It stops existing. Time is based on distinctions. When distinctions fall away, time falls away.

Interesting. So essentially, the evolution from lower stages to higher stages is driven by the dissatisfaction that the outdated survival strategies bring to yourself, and aligning yourself with this ever-increasing need for expansion will eventually lead you towards a perfect frictionless state where your capabilities completely lock on to your circumstances (nirvana, Infinite Love etc.). One's own spiral development is essentially a building project: suffering is the currency for buying the raw materials, and the next SD stage is the building plan. The perfect building is built when it's totally transparent and identical to its surroundings; a strange loop. Seems like your concept of suffering and Buddha's concept of suffering are both compatible with the mechanics of SD development

HAHAHA that's hilarious

Define "suffering" and "mind" please

The only thing I knew about enlightenment back then was that it was a thing. Literally nothing else. I had spent a week doing active mindfulness exercises, and then I decided to meditate for real. On the 3rd meditation, I reached a state where my mind became totally silent and it started to feel like my body was turning hollow and that I was going to disappear forever and never come back. Very blissful, but terrifying, so I stopped it out of fear. I then started googling what was going on, and I didn't think that it had anything to do with enlightenment, but I was wrong. I didn't turn into a saint or anything, but it changed me forever. Weed stopped being fun, I had less cravings for stimulation, less boredom, less fear, social anxiety almost disappeared. What really happened after that is that I became acutely aware of what I later learned is called "dukkha" in Buddhism: the fact that every moment is filled with an innate sense of dissatisfaction, and you're always trying to alleviate the subsequent pain by seeking new objects and events. It intuitively showed me the path out of that endless cycle, and it gave my life a new sense of purpose and meaning. It was only later when I discovered people like Sadhguru, Alan Watts and Rupert Spira that I started to conceptualize the experiences I was having. I entered the experience of nonduality essentially ignorant, only having watched like three of Leo's videos and listening to Sam Harris talk about meditation.

Flirting with yellow != being fully established in yellow . I was having some deep insights into relativity, but they were infrequent and didn't stick. Notice I'm trying to be careful with the words I'm using: "flirting with", "introduced" etc..