Leo Gura

No, Ramaji is at stage Boomer

All rights are imaginary inventions of the ego. No one has a right to anything, ever. I have no problem with Israel being a state. But the idea of a state only for one ethnicity or religion is absurd. That's called an ethnostate and is exactly what Hitler wanted. That results in evil. For a state to be conscious, good, and sustainable it must treat all of its citizens equally well, regardless of their ethnicity or religion. Zionists are making exactly the same mistake Hitler made in running his state. Israel should not be a Jewish state. It should just be a state for whoever likes to live there. Imagine how absurd it would be if we founded a white Christian state within America that treated everyone else as second class citizens.

I wouldn't bet on it. His survival and identity is totally wrapped up with this. It will be very painful for him to admit to himself that he was so wrong. Trump supporters will sooner triple down than admit any wrong-doing.

He rejected Zionism too. Which just goes to show how thoughtful he was.

Not necessarily. If you were a conscious and independent-minded German who took epistemology and philosophy seriously, you might be like Einstein -- who was very outspokenly anti-Nazi and anti-nationalist. He was even against Jewish nationalism while being a Jew. Did you know that the Jews nominated Einstein to be the president/leader of Israel but he declined? Why did he decline? Because he said Jewish nationalism was as dangerous as German nationalism. And he was right. Today Jewish nationalism is leading to all sorts of evils. You don't have to fall into the delusions of your culture. But in order to do that you must truly contemplate reality for yourself and have the courage to stand for your convictions, not just being a sheep. Most scientists, philosophers, doctors, academics, and intellectuals are sheep. A few aren't. That is what distinguishes a true genius.

5-MeO-DMT will be just like that but on steroids.

Because enlightenment does not guarantee an developed mind. Developing the mind, and proper use of the mind, is a very separate thing from enlightenment. You can be enlightened and still use your mind improperly. I've seen many enlightened people do that. The trap here is that once you become enlightened you get the silly idea that now your mind doesn't matter and that you can use it flawlessly. Nope! You cannot escape the mind and its trickeries no matter how enlightened you get.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/07/hannah-arendt-the-banality-of-evil/

It's probably so core that I don't even consider it core. It's just the air I breathe as I go about my day.

You won't deeply contemplate everything you study. You selectively contemplate those aspects of reality which seem important. But in general, any time you learn or read something you should be contemplating it at least a little, if only for 10 or 60 minutes. Otherwise you'll just adopt a bunch of beliefs and act like a fool. Pickup/dating/communication certainly needs to be contemplated. I've spent 100s of hours contemplating that stuff and deriving important insights. If you just mechanically follow some rules someone else has told you about, I guarantee your results will not be optimal and you will fall into delusion at some point. There is a lot of bad advice within pickup that you should not be following. How will you distinguish that without contemplation? Contemplation is also faster and easier and safer than field testing. You can contemplate a lot more stuff than you can field test. Field testing is just an extension of contemplation, really. Contemplation >> Field testing >> More contemplation >> More field testing >> More contemplation That is the cycle. Obviously, although basically everything is made better with contemplation. The question isn't whether you should contemplate a thing, but which things to prioritize contemplating. Life is all about being picky and prioritizing your time and energy well. Contemplate especially those things which are of highest significance to you, those things which you will spend a lot of time doing. Like life. Life is a good thing to contemplate because you'll be spending 80 years living it

Beyond Order: How To Turn Order Into Neurosis -- By Jordan Peterson, professional neurotic

It matters because these commentators influence culture and they are a sign of the development level of the culture. And if your political culture isn't Yellow then your society isn't Yellow and your Yellow doesn't really matter. And politics is very influential on how your society does things. So if your politics isn't Yellow then your society is not behaving in a Yellow manner. Right now in America we have a 3-way Mexican standoff between Blue, Orange, and Green, while Yellow hasn't even entered the chat.

That's the stage Green backlash we've been seeing for the last 5 years. I bet he consumes a lot of alt-right social media which constantly demonizes Green, and he sees Green as undermining his masculine identity. The easiest way to get young men to buy into alt-right ideology is by telling them that Green wants to turn them all into queer soy-boys. A few years of such propaganda will turn a young guy hard right. That's the whole Proud Boys game.

Hannah Arendt famously interviewed and studied Nazi officers after the war. What she discovered was the shocking "banality of evil." None of them was really evil. They were just being good profressional stage Blue rule followers. Mike Pence types. Your average Nazi was just a pawn in Hitler's schemes. Similar to your average Trump voter. Many German intellectuals, scientists, and philosophers were supporters of the Nazi party. Like Martin Heidegger. Because few people think for themselves about anything. Even awakened people are fucking sheep for the most part. You can be awake but social pressure will still drive you to delusion. People underestimate the power of culture and ideology. Awakening does not make you immune to cultural biases. In 500 years spiritual people will be asking, How could someone have been enlightened and still a capitalist? The same way ya'll asking about Nazis.

@satyajit Other psychedelics can be equally profound and revealing.

Your experience clearly shows you that you are less conscious during some parts of your day. When you are sleeping, watching a movie, sick with the flu, drunk... you are less conscious. Notice this.

Experience it, then let's talk

Be careful not to conflate conceptual frameworks with understanding. Understanding is a much deeper thing than concepts. You can understand beyond concept or knowledge. You will always need knowledge if you care about living or society. I wouldn't want to live a life without learning. That's not an addiction, it's just something I love about life. But also, understanding goes way beyond learning.

Well, any such line will be arbitrary and relative. You can be as theoretical or practical with your work as you like. This will be different depending on what you value most. Be careful not to dismiss theortical work as "merely mental masturbation". Einstein's work would have seemed like mental masturbation to most people in his day. Yet it had enormous applications decades later. And Einstein's work would have suffered if he cared much about practical application. The less practical a thing is, the more universal it can be. There is a trade off here. Being practical is not as great as it seems.

Democracy is increasing -- this is a general long-term global trend. This becomes a problem if consciousness and education does not keep pace. It's analogous to the problem of when technology increases but consciousness does not. Democracy redistributes power into the hands of the many, but if the many are ignorant, this leads to disaster. Which is why democracy did not exist for most of human history. What people don't understand is that democracy did not exist because it couldn't exist -- because people were too dumb to govern themselves. You cannot have democracy in Syria because the people are too ignorant to handle it. They need a brutal dictator to keep them in line through raw force because a dumb person doesn't understand things other than raw force. To have nice things requires first curing your ignorance. Which requires a robust education system.

It actually makes them more rigid, since they are steeling themselves against a communist takeover. This is modern conservatives in a nutshell. It's very problematic when you have 10% of the population who is very high in development but 90% which is still stuck in Blue/Orange. It creates a civil war -like situation because the value sets are so different and the ones in power tend to usually be from the upper 10%. Dumb and selfish people are not content to be governed by wise and selfless people. Dumb people expect the freedom to act out their stupidity.

Psychedelics are not going to reliably raise your baseline level of consciousness. You can't live in a never-ending psychedelic high.

Add Sean Carrol, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennet to the idiot column for completeness And add Newton, Leibniz, Godel, and Cantor to the real scientist column.

I've never claimed to be enlightened.

A) You have to remember that most Nazi's are not putting babies heads on pikes or burning Jews in ovens. Your typical 1930's Nazi was basically like today's Neoliberal corpo professional class. The pop-cultural image of Nazis as these evil murderers is not true to how Nazis actually were. Your typical 1930's Nazi was like your grandma who would bake you cookies. Need I remind you guys that Ramaji and Ananda were/are Trump supporters? There's your enlightened Nazis of the 21st century All that Nazi really means is nationalism/stage Blue. And you can certainly be enlightened at stage Blue. Most of Japanese Zen masters are like that. B) The binary label of "enlightened" in this case is very problematic because again it removes the many degrees and facets of consciousness which are possible and are highly important. When you use the word "enlightened" in such a binary and simplistic manner it leads to all sorts of absurdities. The bottom line is that being "enlightened" doesn't mean as much as you think it means. It's a very low bar to clear. The mistake here is that people hear that someone is "enlightened" and then they automatically assume that this equates to perfection and sainthood. Not. At. All. Imagine if we called all boxers "boxers" without any further distinctions in the quality of their boxing. So a kid at your local gym is a "boxer" and Mike Tyson is a "boxer". So they are equal. That's how absurd this "enlightened" label is. Or imagine if we called everyone who went to school as "educated". So your kid who finished 5th grade is "educated" and Albert Einstein is also "educated".