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  2. Apothecary diaries is on Netflix, it's quite good. It's about a girl who gets kidnapped into the Chinese Imperial palace and starts out as a regular servant and gets elevated to the inner palace due to her proficiency in herbology, medicine and potion making. All kinds of court intrigues and the grandiosity of Imperial China! The main character is a funny chick who ends up being a detective ala Sherlock Holmes on the palace grounds, quite unique character design.
  3. I don't understand the root of the objection nor do I think the surface level explanation you've offered of it is correct. I'm open to your arguments but it seems perhaps actually you're sitting in that stage green bubble where natural hierarchies make you uncomfortable and you refuse to believe there are innate differences between people? Which I think is the root of your objection but I wouldn't say its correct; the truth is even worse! Most people don't want to grow and improve even if they can. Their limitations are perhaps real but are self-imposed on top of that! I think almost everyone can teach themselves a much higher level of thinking and cognition but it's basically impossible because they don't see the benefit, are too lazy, are too egoistical or maybe just there is legitimately no reason for them to. I have never taught myself astrophysics or how to play Hockey. Maybe I could've been a great hockey player who knows. Rest up, and when your head is clear, feel free to elaborate more on your points. I think it's a worthwhile topic to explore and not just take Leo's word on it. Models can either survive the stress test or by invalidating them we can find an even superior model. To be honest though throughout this exchange so far you've mostly solidified to me how solid the predictive ability of spiral dynamics is.
  4. Just watched this…Oh my God, absolutely heartbreaking 💔
  5. I originally posted this in the Politics section, no idea why it was moved to Spirituality. This is about political systems not enlightenment.
  6. Brain: __/\__/\_____/\______/\_____/\/\______/\/\_______/\________
  7. That's because you're myopic but think you see the world through a telescope and you're cool because of it.
  8. No. I'm saying that "yellow" requires something most people don't have. And there are massive implications to that. You're a sharp dude. You can get to the bottom of it if you want. I'm not sure how to articulate this to you at the moment. I've been drinking. But I sense you're reluctant to see the truth of what I'm saying. It has nothing to do with the mystical aspects of reality. It's totally derivable from logic alone, if you have the courage to go there. And I know you do! You just have to do it! lol You're one of the few on here that has that innate courage. So I'm hoping you go there and dismantle what you spent years building. Or at least see the validity in what I've said.
  10. Brain: __/\__/\_____/\______/\_____/\/\______/\/\_______/\________
  11. Yes, and that’s why the fall of the LordFall was his own downfall. Falling down, down, down, all the way down to the bottomless bottom, endlessly free falling on this groundless ground, infinitely for eternity.
  12. Today
  13. Your voice is all you have. Embrace it!
  14. Voice in the head: Brain, am I doing it right? Brain: __/\__/\_____/\______/\_____/\/\______/\/\_______/\________ Voice in head: come on now, work brain,work…work for me, I need you to work for me, right now.

  15. Your Recent Movie Picks

    Joseph Maynor replied to Nemra's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    Terminator 2. Saw it today in the theater in 3D.
  16. Yes I think I understand your position. You're saying that spiral dynamics is too intellectual to be a truly accurate model of reality/enlightenment for all humans? I sort of agree but I think perhaps that doesn't invalidate it but it does show some limitations to the model. Perhaps not all humans are capable of highly advanced cognitive development, certainly not all biological creatures are right? To me where yellow and turquoise make a lot of sense is that they are more complete versions of seeing the world. It seems pretty obvious to me that tier 1 stages are myopic in their understanding of the world. Orange is more rational and effective than blue but selfish and destructive if it lacks the kindness and empathy of green. Green is more holistic but is quite limited in its perspective and always thinks they are right and has a massive blindspot as to the utility of stage orange so its not a really effective stage. Yellow seems to be the first stage where people are really able to question their own judgement and even if they find themselves being right can understand the perspective of others at lower stages whereas green for example views people that disagree with it as corrupt or evil and orange sees people that disagree with it as dumb or ineffective. Turquoise takes it a step deeper and understands that there is a flow to the universe and different beings are meant to experience the world in different ways and that's what the universe and consciousness is. I think a lot of stage turquoise gurus seem to have found themselves in the flow of the universe aren't really systematic people but they intuit through meditation or whatever way they found to understand the multi-perspectival nature of life and how they are just one of the many perspectives experiencing reality without having the intellectual rigor to really break it down into a science.
  17. I going through the core concepts part of the course. There are book and documentary recommendations. Should I watch them all? Its quiet a lot of extra material, thats why I am asking. I'm ready to do it if it's necessary.

  18. Academic jazz game

    Joseph Maynor replied to Human Mint's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    You're right. One of the things I always hated about working on Jazz is the idea of playing like someone else or copying someone else. I love to play Jazz but I have always insisted on doing it the way I want to do it. This is how you develop your own voice.
  19. You're literally describing me here. By "systematizing predisposition", I meant having the raw materials that would lead to the capacity to hold several parts in mind at once and work your way to figuring out how they relate to each other, accurately. It doesn't matter if you primarily use intuition first or analysis first. I go to "predisposition" first because capacity is downstream of it. The capacity will never develop without the predisposition or very strong environmental pressure. But it will almost always develop naturally on its own with a strong predisposition, which is what you see here in this community and within yourself. It makes sense to me because I understand psychological distribution. The ability to hold multiple parts in relation varies between people early, and it isn't produced by development. It's not something you arrive at by working through blue and orange and green. Some people have it at age 8 and some will never have it. So if yellow has it that the ability to do this is a hard prerequisite to be considered yellow (and it does), then access to yellow is gated by predisposition. So it's trying to sort people by a trait, while acting like it's a personal advancement. And if you think about what "yellow" is, it's not just about systematizing anything. It's about understanding minds as systems. Something like 15-20% of people have a systematizing predisposition, according to the literature. Of these 15-20%, the majority will point their systematizing at engineering, math, code, markets, ecosystems, etc. Only a small percentage will point it at minds/psychology. And conveniently, those are the "tier 2" people. Does that make sense?
  21. That's how I often speak about the Masculine and Feminine polarity as well. No on can fundamentally add or take away Masculinity or Femininity from themselves, as it is the "binary code" that acts as the foundation of one's being... or even the being of both organic and non-organic systems in reality. And it informs but supersedes human dynamics like gender expression and sexuality. And it doesn't change. (That's why things like conversion therapy are ineffective) And I like to think of a person's inherent Masculine/Feminine signature like an light. And then, the Persona is like a lens through which that light can shine out. So, the light of the Masculine/Feminine signature never changes. But the Persona lenses can be changed in a way that either allows more of that light to express outwardly... or that blocks that light from external expression. So, if for example, a woman has a predominantly Feminine 'Masculine/Feminine signature' but she exists in an environment where only Masculinity can exist and flourish and Femininity is seen as weak and bad and is given no space, she's only going to allow the Masculine qualities to be expressed through her Persona lens, as that's the more adaptive for the context. In fact, she may even grow her identity and worldview to exclude her Feminine side altogether... despite it being her dominant energy. And there are many contexts that exist (especially male-dominated contexts, where the men are trying really hard to minimize the Feminine portion of their signature) where it's not wise or even possible for the Feminine to be expressed there. These are spaces that repel the Feminine and require a Masculine way of expressing to exist in. And it will chase most women off who don't want to operate in a Masculine way. And then of course, men in those spaces are often complaining about women not being Feminine enough... or how they're struggling to attract women. (This may sound like a familiar place ) But think of an individual's Masculine and Feminine signature as a flower seed. And think of the context as the soil. And think of the flower as the Persona. The seed never changes. It is the core personality. And let's say, there are three types of soil... Acidic soil that Feminine-dominant flowers thrive in, Basic soil that Masculine-dominant flowers thrive in, and then there's a type of soil that's similar to, different from, and greater than both the acidic and basic soil where all flowers can thrive. (A bit like type O blood is in comparison to Type A and Type B) And most contexts in the world at this juncture in time are like giant plots of Basic Soil. And there are a handful of specialty niche 3rd spaces that are like plots of Acidic soil. And there are VERY FEW niche 3rd spaces that are like the third kind of soil. So, there isn't really a lot of space for Feminine-dominant flowers to grow to their highest level of development. But they can grow the Masculine parts of the flower quite well by planting themselves in Basic soil. However, that doesn't make the flower a Masculine-dominant flower. A Daffodil doesn't turn into a Sunflower just because the soil wasn't ideal for Daffodils. But the yellow part of the Daffodil might be the parts that grow better. And the Sunflowers might go... too much yellow! These Daffodils are more like Sunflowers. But that's not accurate.
  22. Maybe you're not doing it right.

  23. Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

    Raze replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

  24. Telling yourself the truth

    Carl-Richard replied to felixk_priv's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    To lie to yourself is to cognition like covering your eyes is to perception. If you cover your eyes enough, eventually you will not see what is right in front of you. Lies eventually obscure your view of reality.

  26. Are you an outfit repeater?

    Yimpa replied to Natasha Tori Maru's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    Sweet, I'm an outfit repeater too I have a few items I really love, like a special interest (shoutout autism!) I really LOOOVE the texture of this dress (pic below)... it feels so nice running my fingers over it... it's srsly sensory heaven, like floating on a cloud 🥺 but alsoooo... I'm gonna weep sm when this dress inevitably dies one day..... oh well. i gotta enjoy it while it lasts 🙂‍↕️ OH, and I can't forget about Ms. La-Beary... she on my head a lotta times! We go on many, many adventures together! She keeps me safe from weirdos and creeps.. If they come too close or say mean things, she go RAWR1!1!1! >:D Oooo... I looked at my results from a few years ago. Says I am an INFP! Not too sure what that means, but we share the same two letters. Neat!
  27. Fair enough, looking forward to seeing it!
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