Leo Gura

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Green thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Green. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Green thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Green. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Green Values: Love, heart, soul, empathy, intimacy, kindness Compassion, mercy, leniency Humanism, liberalism, social progress Equality: gender, race, economic Everyone is equal Egalitarianism/Democracy Anti-materialist, anti-consumerist, anti-greed Social conscience Supporting humanitarian causes Activism & protests Live-and-let-live attitude Diversity, multiculturalism Cosmopolitanism Flattening hierarchies Cultural relativism Relationships, bonding Pacifism, peace Finding common ground Harmony Human well-being Interpersonal skills Warm interaction, hugs Pleasing everyone Sensitivity Femininity Teamwork Dialoguing Sharing ideas and feelings Mind-altering drugs Exploring altered states of consciousness Spirituality Spiritual but not religious Communal spirituality Environment, ecology Back to nature Sustainability Recycling Human-centered, heart-centered communities Protect the vulnerable, help the downtrodden Redistribution of resources, level playing field Inclusiveness, everyone gets an opportunity Don’t exclude anyone Tolerance Openmindedness Free love, intimate sex Sex education Cooperation vs competition Animals, children, the disabled, minorities Creativity, beauty, art Gurus Bringing people of the world together Socialism Crying, expressing vulnerable emotions Intuition over logic Right brained Health food & exercise Stage Green Examples: Burning Man, hippies, New Age, Green party, Greenpeace, vegans, vegetarians, liberals, progressives, Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Obama, TYT, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Sam Seder’s Majority Report, John Oliver, Democracy Now, “liberal news media”, Vox, VICE, New York Times, MSNBC hosts, CNN hosts, Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore, Al Gore, Donny Deutsch, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, Al Franken, social workers, community organizers, spiritual meet up groups, university culture, SJWs, political correctness, LGBTQ rights, gender pronouns, protecting minorities, post-modernism, feminism, “Neo-Marxists”, abortion rights, planned parenthood, pacifism, ACLU, #MeToo, Antifa, support groups, tree huggers, bleeding hearts, Care Bears, animal rights, anti-war protests, Occupy Wall Street, charities, non-profits, NGOs, organic farming, organic food, recycling, global warming, music festivals, flower child, 60’s counter-culture, Haight Ashbury, Woodstock, the Beatniks, The Beatles, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, marijuana legalization, psychedelics, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass, psychotherapy, progressive school teachers, liberal supreme court judges, 9th circuit court of appeals, socialists, redistribution of wealth, drum circles, neo-shamans, communes, Doctors Without Borders, universal healthcare, sensitivity training, non-denominational churches, health food stores, Wholefoods, Wholefoods rabbit meat, Western yoga, Reiki, Western Buddhism, massage therapy, chiropractors, naturopaths, meditation as a fad, TM, crystals, yoni eggs, juice cleanses, detox, green smoothies, colonics, spas, scented candles, burning incense, aromatherapy, tie-dye shirts, Kombucha, probiotics, soy, gluten-free, farmer’s markets, non-GMO, Fair Trade, Che Guevara, Oprah, Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis, anti-vaxers, Hollywood politics, save the whales, Esalen institute, humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, co-ops, Montessori schools, Scandinavia, the Scandinavian prison system, California, San Francisco, Oregon, Austin, Mass, Sedona AZ, NY, Seattle, Hawaii, Canada, Northern Europe, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, denuclearization, equal pay, free college for all, basic universal income, amnesty, affirmative action, gun control, assault weapons ban, pro-Union, pro-EPA, cutting defense spending, open borders, higher taxes, lenient penalties, abolish death penalty, drug rehab centers, homeopathy, astrology, hypnosis, the Bill Gates Foundation, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, MLK, JFK, RFK, life coaching, children’s rights advocates, protecting endangered species, mentoring programs, helping the elderly, cleaning up the environment, back to Earth movement, cotton clothing, minimalism, Peace Corps, plot of Avatar, civil rights, human rights, watchdog groups, Prius, Tesla, Smart car, electric scooters, commuting on bicycles, solar power, wind power, renewable energy, corporate culture at Google & Apple, warning stickers, safety codes, talk therapy, grown men crying, Utopian communes, Mind Valley, Into The Wild: Chris McCandless, the UN, cultural appropriation, activists, local co-ops, mental health professionals, teachers, the Ultra Spiritual guy, Tantric sex, ayahausca retreats, conscientious objectors, yin-yang & peace tattoos, Osho’s ashram, Russell Brand

State always returns to baseline. With very rare exceptions.

@Joshe As I told you, you have gotten lost. What you are saying is not the work, it is self-deception. But you are already lost enough that you will not listen to me. I warned you guys many times how self-deceptive this work is. Every year there is another guy on here thinking he's too cool for school, thinking he has outsmarted these teachings. No you haven't. I am here precisely to keep people on track from this kind of thing. But I can only help you if you are willing to learn. I truly am here to help you, not to play ego games with you. But I can only say that so many times. I hope it is understood. I have seen dozens of people here over the years think they have outsmarted the teachings, and they were all wrong. Don't become one of them.

@The Fetus Blesser Nice! Hi to Martin.

@Rafael Thundercat Of course that level of caring about truth is rare. You don't proactively go out looking for people to push your work on. You create your work and wait for people to come to you. Philosophy is a niche thing, period. Always was.

No. Please don't expect any specific time-frame. The book will take however long it takes. If it takes me 10 years, it will be 10 years. I will not release it until I am fully satisfied with it.

There cannot be a formula. You just need to want it bad enough, have a very open mind, and then roll up your sleeves and start doing research and experimentation. Do lots of deep research and experiment until you eventually find the perfect thing.

The practical answer to your dilemma is: You need to find a more intelligent way to making money. A more intelligent way will require less work, not harm your health much, and generate lots of money. Put simply: work smarter, not harder. There are many highly creative ways to earn lots of money which require relatively little work. But it requires a lot of creativity and intelligence to find those ways.

Truth should not be pushed on people. There are still people who want truth, and that's enough. You don't need to force it.

Nope. As consistent as anything else. More consistent than vaping.

There are many ways to make money. Some involve sacrificing health and some do not. Health is necessary for success though. It is hard to be successful with poor health.

I don't tell you what to do. I just describe how reality works.

That means you don't care about it enough. You have to truly care.

You get what you care about. If you care about money, you get money. If you care about sex, you get. If you care about fame, you get fame. And if you care about nothing, you get nothing.

Don't overlook that you don't know who might know. It's not so simple.

AAA video games. Both the consumption of them and the making of them.

No. Watch out for sloppy thinking.

@Joshe Be careful. You are starting to get lost. If you don't correct course it will get worse, until up becomes down and down becomes up for you. Truth exists. Truth is not whatever you want. Truth does not care what you want. What you're talking about is not truth-seeking but human mind games.

@ZenSwift Sure

If Murica means liking pussy, sign me up and give me a MAGA hat.

Of course. That's the bare minimum you get on psychedelics within 5 minutes.

No because I like pussy. Stage Blue has plenty of good ol' common sense, which is lacking these days. Kids don't even know what it means to be straight anymore

I made an OP Leo card with a feral guy's pic on it

@Rafael Thundercat That makeup actually looks quite cool. I need to start wearing some Darth Maul make-up.

I spend a lot of time explaining reality to myself. So by the time I have explained it to myself, explaining it to you guys is trivial. I write a lot of bulleted lists and outlines of the key points for any question. Whatever topic we are talking about or trying to answer, there is always a key question that is motivating it. For example, a question might be: What are all the limits of science? So I will focus on a core question like that, and then my mind will generate answers and I will write down a bulleted list. I don't write in long paragraphs, I write down the key insights. A key insight does not require a paragraph but a sentence. So I end up with long lists of key insights to any question. And then I spend a lot of time polishing and organizing the bullet points in the list, to create a good logical order to the points, because some points build on top of others and require coming first, and other points require coming last. I also get lots of random insights throughout the day which don't pertain to any specific topic or question. I always write those down in a miscellaneous notes document. So I have thousands of pages of misc insights which I can always look over for inspiration or as the need occurs. Organizing the insights into a logical sequence is the most time-consuming and laborious part of my work. Insights never come organized, you have to do the work to organize them. My days are unstructured.