Carl-Richard

Infinite imagination must include temporary limits within itself, or else it couldn't be infinite. That's why you have to measure your doses, that's why you have to take psychedelics, that's why you're not enlightened. You're currently experiencing some of those temporary limits. However, that doesn't mean that the totality of the universe isn't infinite imagination. That would be arrogant to assume

One way to get a better picture of how an abuser can also be the victim, try to remove the victim of the abuser from the analysis. We have to drop all types comparisons to other people who may have it worse. It creates an unnecessary constrast and directs the focus away from what we're trying to investigate. Let's also make the example as non-extreme as possible to really pinpoint the issue: Let's say a person grows up as a totally average person: no childhood abuse, no economic struggles, decent upbringing and social life. This person is by all means a well-functioning member of society, but one day, he realizes he has an unsatiable urge that he cannot control. He tries all he can to fight it, but he ends up acting on it. This eventually ends up having a very negative impact for the person. Is this man a victim? What if I told you he is not a pedophile but instead a person suffering from severe OCD and cannot stop himself from performing actions that eventually have a very negative impact on his life? On what basis can you honestly distinguish between these two cases, OCD and pedophilia, in terms of victimhood of the "perpetrator"?

"Love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power without love is abusive and corrosive".

Phillip Agnew brilliantly puts the distinction between true stage green and stage orange merely adopting green values to further its own agenda (the "what" and the "why"):

It's in many ways a stage yellow project. I'm not familiar with the history of wikipedia, but it's a fascinating thing

Differentiating between stages, states and lines is useful in this case. You won't suddenly know about democracy and civil rights if you're born in say Sudan no matter how spiritually gifted you are. You may be more inclined to accepting those ideas once you're exposed to them, but you're still stuck with the survival tools of your immediate society.

This is a fault of stage blue thinking: dividing people into offenders and victims and focusing on the offenders. The law is supposed to protect the people, not punish them.

Whatever you do, never ever stare directly into the sun, no matter how many spiritual youtubers tell you otherwise. Some of these people get permanent black spots in their visual field and interpret it as a sign of spiritual progression... Yes - really.

"I'm the chosen one!" OMG that made me laugh so hard

I see.

Essentially Christians making a deal with the devil, albeit unknowingly

Who are you?

The survival strategies of a society arise as a response to its unique survival situation. Personal development isn't a concept worth having when you're struggling to keep the wolves out of the farm. It's not your fault for growing up in any particular society, and it's not society's fault for not being evolved enough to suit your survival needs.

"The relative/absolute fallacy": conflating the relative with the absolute. Most contradictions and confusion of terms in spirituality stem from this.

You can slice your arm off and not even notice it.

You don't literally kill yourself. You just give up on fighting death.

If you master orange (get rich), you can use it to power your green^ values.

Blue mistaking red for friends.

She being naked isn't why you're offended. She breaking the social norms is why.

Are you afraid of naked women?

That's not a chainsaw, Cruz...

Not sure if green or just weird. Eric Andre is a madman.

Go to a nude beach. Spend time with nude people . Being nude in a public place goes against social norms, and that will obviously upset a lot of people, both emotionally and morally (which is the point). It's an effective way to provoke people and show that you're not willing to conform with the system. It also doesn't harm anybody