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28 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

This is very common outside the west. Men prevent women from attending religious sites because they don’t want to be distracted by a woman’s beauty and the sexual desire caused by looking at a woman. Classic stage Blue repression.

..which is why the Buddha wasn't Enlightened.  Stage Orange at best.  


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11 minutes ago, nitramadas said:

..which is why the Buddha wasn't Enlightened.  Stage Orange at best.  

Enlightenment and spiral dynamics are more or less separate. You can even be stage Purple and enlightened, for example some African medicine men.


"Not believing your own thoughts, you’re free from the primal desire: the thought that reality should be different than it is. You realise the wordless, the unthinkable. You understand that any mystery is only what you yourself have created. In fact, there’s no mystery. Everything is as clear as day. It’s simple, because there really isn’t anything. There’s only the story appearing now. And not even that.” — Byron Katie

 

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@nitramadas I remember Sadhguru talking about his yoga centre, when he started a program for serious yoga pursuit. He said that a group of young men who were determined to work hard in yoga came, but the women (also doing the program) were too pretty and the men ended up leaving to get married.

Of course Sadhguru will not segregate men and women, but for stage Blue people (majority of the planet), the above scenario would be reason enough to ban all women.


"Not believing your own thoughts, you’re free from the primal desire: the thought that reality should be different than it is. You realise the wordless, the unthinkable. You understand that any mystery is only what you yourself have created. In fact, there’s no mystery. Everything is as clear as day. It’s simple, because there really isn’t anything. There’s only the story appearing now. And not even that.” — Byron Katie

 

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43 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

Enlightenment and spiral dynamics are more or less separate. You can even be stage Purple and enlightened, for example some African medicine men.

You need to be challenged to actually know where you are.  Under no pressure everyone appears enlightened.

You need to raise the ego before it's worth the effort of killing it.  No one wants to be around an enlightened idiot who doesn't value anything/anyone, and can't give you a good debate.  If you hang out with people who consider themselves incompetent fools who've made that their reality, over time, forces will balance out, and you'll become like them.  Nothing wrong with that, but you're the director, and no choice is still a choice, so you might as well make the choices you want, and you better be as selfish as you can. 

"No good deed goes unpunished."

 

Turquoise is the bare minimum for being enlightened.

The stages don't e.g. start at "normal" and ascend into "something".  They end at normal, and begin at dysfunctional.

Don't let its rarity make you think it's something special.  It's what should be the standard.  Ever thought about how people people hundreds/thousands of years ago were unbelievably primitive with their IQs of ~70 or even ~30?  Humans used to be as dumb as dogs, and it was normal.  And now stage Blue is normal.  It's common for people to speak of Turquoise as something great, something abnormal & Blue/Orange/Green as something standard and ubiquitous, but that's just bias people have when looking through their own specific perspective.

So, yes, anything below Turquoise is inadequate.  Even Yellows are too immature, though I'm not sure I've seen a single one of those on this forum..

 

That said, any stage can have an enlightenment experience.  But that's completely unrelated and I've probably written an essay or two on that here before..

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36 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

@nitramadas I remember Sadhguru talking about his yoga centre, when he started a program for serious yoga pursuit. He said that a group of young men who were determined to work hard in yoga came, but the women (also doing the program) were too pretty and the men ended up leaving to get married.

Of course Sadhguru will not segregate men and women, but for stage Blue people (majority of the planet), the above scenario would be reason enough to ban all women.

Surprising words from someone with that many posts..

Sadhguru is a well known bullshitter.  That's just how the most advanced Turquoists are.  They don't give a shit about being factually accurate, consistent, logical or well studied.  You'd need a Guru for that.  Sadhguru, etc. say whatever just to make some dumb old analogy.  Analogies/metaphors are like a whole other language for them, and they speak it instead of English.  You'll never know if Sadhguru's BSing or not, so take nothing he says literally, EVER!  Surely, you must've noticed how he laughs at everything he says, yes? *chuckles* Hello?!  Is this making sense? Hello?.. yes? *chuckles*

The man is fucking possessed..

 

Even if that crazy story is true, it would not warrant a statement such as:

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The Buddha famously didn't think women should pursue enlightenment.

The Guru could always just separate them into different classes ..problem solved.  That story you mentioned is no different to me saying:

"lmao, they used to call me the town rapist as I had this habit of getting drunk and raping like 20 girls a night, lol amirite? but, like, I said to the judge: Well it's their fault for dressing like that! They expect to walk around WITHOUT having their face covered and NOT get raped? dafuq? right? The judge was understanding, and now I can legally rape them if they're without a face covering (or if I just rip it off, lol).  And that's why women should not be allowed to go outside unescorted."

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the above scenario would be reason enough to ban all women

..Mmmhmm.  Well.. that's a perfectly good & rational opinion I guess; just as valid as mine..

 

lol.  You see the problem here, yes? *chuckles* ..Hello? 


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2 hours ago, andyjohnsonman said:

Basically anything Rebel Wisdom produce is yellow

I haven't seen too much of his stuff even though I've been subbed to him for a while. Gonna check out more of his videos. 

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Dr. Khaled ElSherbini is combining Spiral Dynamics Integral with enneagram. I would also peg him at turqoise, but he seems to be a chameleon in that regard.

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Dr. Khaled ElSherbini is the founder and chairman of “Enneagram Egypt”, the first and largest IEA accredited Enneagram school in North Africa and the Middle East. He is also the founder of “BeCon, the Consciousness Academy” a dedicated academy focusing on human development and spiritual transformation. Dr. ElSherbini is an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional, and the founder of the IEA Accredited Training program “Awaken through Enneagram”, the only IEA fully accredited program in Africa and the Middle East.

 

Dr. ElSherbini obtained his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo, his Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from the American University in Cairo, his Doctorate degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University, and his MBA degree in strategic management and innovation and technology management from the German University in Cairo. 

 

Thereafter, Dr. ElSherbini obtained numerous certifications in the field of human development, including: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Level, Reiki Universal Energy Master/teacher, Life Coaching practitioner, Systemic constellations practitioner, Mindfulness and Consciousness practitioner, Enneagram practitioner, and Integral consciousness.

 

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Following is a brief list of Dr. ElSherbini’s main milestones:

 

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· PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   West Virginia University (USA)

· MBA in Strategic & Innovation Management  German University in Cairo

· MSc in Environmental Engineering   American University in Cairo

· BSc in Mechanical Engineering   American University in Cairo

 

Human Development and Communication

· Enneagram  IEA Accredited Professional

· Integral Consciousness  Member – IntegralLife (USA)

· Mindfulness Teacher

· Certified Coach  Practitioner – ICI (Germany)

· Universal Energy  Master Teacher – RAND (USA)

· Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)  Master Practitioner – INLPTA (USA)

· Systemic Constellations   Practitioner – CSC (UK) 

 

Areas of Human Development Training, Coaching, and Consultation

· Enneagram

· Spiral Dynamics

· Integral consciousness

· Consciousness Coaching

· Mindfulness

· Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

· Executive Coaching

· Life Coaching

· Human typology and personality analysis

· Career roadmapping

· Effective Communication

· Shadow work and Psychological assessment

· Systemic Constellations

· Consciousness development

· Strategic Management

· Human Energy Management

 

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48 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

I can't pinput exactly on what YELLOW is. It seems so airy fairy, impractical, and far removed from every day life. 

Basically everything Leo teaches... Openmindedness, Epistemology, Systems Thinking, Chaos theory, Non-linearity, Philosophy of science, non-binary thinking, Open-ended thinking, Going Meta, Multi-Perspectival, Going where noone dares to go, Non-judgemental, Investigating the Shadow, Body-Mind synergy, Intution, Psychedelics for inner discovery etc etc etc

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The early Greek philosophers were neccesarily non-yellow, the sd-paradgm functions only insofar as the world it tries to reflect has the sets of attributes with which the paradigm were assigned to model.

Most of academic philosophy even today is below yellow, in that much of it is a semantic game IN that it contextualize like phenomena fundametaly different, never understanding the isomorpich nature with which context emerge, out of neccesity. The "absurdity" ofcourse, is that as soon as you disagree with more then half of another's propositions you'll behind the curtains agree just the more; the less axioms you have in common.

And that is the integral discovery. It is not that those supersets are perfectly negatively proportionate so to constituate an isomorpic agreement, but that particular subsets therein has that effect.

Presumaby, this is why the importance of linguisitcs as John Searle pointed out: became the philosophical discourse. I am yet to read much Postmodern thought, but it surely must have been the discovery of Derrida aswell


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I don't know if they've been posted in this thread yet, but the books, "The Listening Society," and, "Nordic Ideology," by Hanzi Freinacht are specifically Stage Yellow. They outline Metamodernism, a Stage Yellow philosophy, politics, psychology, etc. 

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23 minutes ago, Elevated said:

I don't know if they've been posted in this thread yet, but the books, "The Listening Society," and, "Nordic Ideology," by Hanzi Freinacht are specifically Stage Yellow. They outline Metamodernism, a Stage Yellow philosophy, politics, psychology, etc. 

Post-postmodernism, or the New Sincerity, is another term for this. Found this great description on the website linked below:

We see this manifest as a kind of informed naivety, a pragmatic idealism, a moderate fanaticism, oscillating between sincerity and irony, deconstruction and construction, apathy and affect, attempting to attain some sort of transcendent position, as if such a thing were within our grasp. The metamodern generation understands that we can be both ironic and sincere in the same moment; that one does not necessarily diminish the other.

http://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction/


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@DocWatts Yes exactly! Hanzi uses that as part of the definition. I should add that the book puts forward a more refined version of Spiral Dynamics. He removes turquoise however because he feels that there just isn't enough development in Metamodernism to really say what would come next. It's too speculative at this point. I'm agnostic at this point in my education, but I do think anyone talking about Choral or the higher stages of Integral Theory are mentally masturbating. 

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@Husseinisdoingfine I'm in same boat with you friend, as I believe I fall under green or at least have green values. I do think though that what we are doing here is sorta what yellow is, going meta on life, society, the mind, the ego etc. examining what's true and what's not true for us, keeping an ultra open-mind etc. 

 

any Yellow correct me if I'm wrong: but I think going meta on shit is really what the stage is all about. 

 

I would say though that I couldn't tell a Yellow person for the life of me unless someone points them out. I'm just guessing they probably have a wardrobe full of black shirts.

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On 1/7/2021 at 11:14 PM, nitramadas said:

Turquoise is the bare minimum for being enlightened.

Do not spread misinformation on there. Educate yourself about the distinction between awakening and development.


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5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do not spread misinformation on there. Educate yourself about the distinction between awakening and development.

I did say "being enlightened" and not "becoming aware of yourself as God" for a reason.  Purple may be more likely to have an experience of God than Yellow, but not to actually become enlightened, as a person.

..wait, omg, I think I've got it.  You may just have a fundamentally different interpretation of SD.  I had just automatically assumed you've moved past this, your ..older content.  You view going past stage Orange as literally just getting rich and becoming successful?!  And, to you, Yellow is.. using wealth gained from Orange to fund sustainable solutions in whatever industry your company works in until you retire as a Turquoise billionaire?  Seriously?!  I guess, considering how you started this business, I shouldn't be surprised.  This really is nothing but a continuation of your "get your ass to the gym! Fuck bitches! Get rich!" videos.  If that's seriously the case.. I'm disappointed.

To me, at least, the stages are "milestones" in lowering one's entropy.   The descriptions are just symptoms, common manifestations of an expanded awareness.  Getting rich isn't what progressing from Orange to Green requires.  What it requires is a level of awareness sufficiently high for one to see that money/possessions/status/skills aren't that important. 

SD measures one's level of awareness the only way possible:  Indirectly.  Through the visible consistent manifestations of each stage.  Those manifestations are not the stages themselves, just tools that allow us to work with the abstract.  Orange may have a proclivity for wanting success/money/status, but that's just because its awareness has expanded enough to see the possibilities visible from level Orange.  All it is is expansion of awareness. 

Now tell me, wise Gura, what's at the top of the spiral?  Is it maximally expanded awareness (aka enlightenment)?  Or is it being "an ultra successful, ripped AF billionaire guy who's getting all the pussy ..on his yacht (leftovers from his Orange days) and says he doesn't need any of it & that's just what integrating Orange looks like", as you so boldly claimed?

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@nitramadas  Y o u're   the one who's  orange (or blue-orange) here mate, I don't think Buddha was. People can have certain values of a lower stage and be on a higher stage in other aspects of their life. This isn't a 2D model, it has dimensions and I think even the hours of explanation doesn't completely cover the entirety of it. Also it depends on how much you personally absorbed from those videos, so you most definitely have a very tiny slice of all there is to know about spiral dynamics, just like all of us here. 

There's truth in your perspective tho: Don't blindly follow or make role models out of people.

As for Sadhguru, I also think some of the stuff he says is BS but discarding him completely is like turning off the light to a big room in the house. Yes there are an infinite amount of rooms but there's still a lot of value to be gained from the one called Sadhguru.

 

The segregation of women thing is a bit more complicated and I'm not gonna get into that. At least not before I see how you respond to this one, and see whether it is a waste of time to talk about it or not. 

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27 minutes ago, Kamran said:

@nitramadas  Y o u're   the one who's  orange (or blue-orange) here mate, I don't think Buddha was. People can have certain values of a lower stage and be on a higher stage in other aspects of their life. This isn't a 2D model, it has dimensions and I think even the hours of explanation doesn't completely cover the entirety of it. Also it depends on how much you personally absorbed from those videos, so you most definitely have a very tiny slice of all there is to know about spiral dynamics, just like all of us here. 

There's truth in your perspective tho: Don't blindly follow or make role models out of people.

As for Sadhguru, I also think some of the stuff he says is BS but discarding him completely is like turning off the light to a big room in the house. Yes there are an infinite amount of rooms but there's still a lot of value to be gained from the one called Sadhguru.

 

The segregation of women thing is a bit more complicated and I'm not gonna get into that. At least not before I see how you respond to this one, and see whether it is a waste of time to talk about it or not. 

I'm afraid you've completely misunderstood what I was saying about Sadhguru.. and everything else.

I love Sadhguru, I've learned what I could from him, and from countless other similar personalities.  Surely you could see I wasn't being serious when I suggested he is possessed? 

And it has been many years since I was Orange.  I make no effort to appear serious, and often open myself up to public criticisms/judgements.  I find it fun and educational.  I mean.. you have any idea how EASY it would be for me to fake any stage?  I could just say what everyone wants to hear, get everyone to like me, etc., and as I've already explained in many previous posts:  That would do no good.  Why would I want to get people to restrict themselves in any way?  That would not be leading by example.  You think Sadhguru takes himself seriously?  He's trying to be an example for others.

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This isn't a 2D model

Yeah, it is.  SD isn't just some collection of traits.. did you even read anything I wrote?  How many times can I explain the exact same concept..

 

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The segregation of women thing

That's such a simple and boring matter I'm not gonna repeat myself again.  Trivial stage Blue problems that will solve themselves soon enough.

 

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Y o u're   the one who's  orange (or blue-orange) here mate

jfc, if you're gonna make random accusations, at least make an effort, and have at least one point of evidence.  Read what I wrote if anything's still not clear.

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@nitramadas  I did read it mate. A fish won't know anything about the fact that it's in something called water. As I said, I won't continue if I felt like it wasn't something that made sense, so I'll leave you with the fish analogy. I don't expect you to suddenly become open minded of course (not unless you can stop bullshitting yourself), but maybe in the future when life forces you to think a bit deeper and you re-evaluate things, you might get it. It ain't my job to facilitate your growth, so I won't sit here and try to do that, you can take the win... 

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