Leo Gura

The ego hates equality when it is on the benefiting end of an inequality. Any move towards equality will be perceived as unfair by the ego who stood to benefit from the inequality. That is selfishness 101. If you take away a slaveowner's slaves, from his POV, he's losing something. And that's perceived as unfair.

Please tell us how many books on feminism you've read. This is a legit problem. But it has little to do with feminism. You could blame video games. Video games certainly have a lot more to do with it than feminism. Why don't you target video games instead? This is false. This is exactly the kind of ideology that toxic masculinity promotes to avoid dealing with the root issue. Notice the blaming attitude here. Traditional roles were not erased by feminists. Those traditional roles were never sustainable to begin with because they were built upon collective mental fictions and norms. Those norms had to break down with rise of various technological advancements. You also underestimate how stiffing and limiting those roles were. People got sick of fitting into such narrow and artificial roles. Society was never going to stay at Spiral Dynamics stage Blue, nor will it ever go back to those roles. Evolution marches forward. If you really care about unity, then stop parroting this ideology and go read some books on feminism with an open mind. You need to step outside your male perspective and look at society from the POV of women. Which is precisely what you won't want to do. And this is what's creating your perceived division. If you would see the world from the POV of women, your projection of division would cease and unity would result. You would also become happier and you'd be more successful with relating to women. Remember, women in America could not have a line of credit from the bank until the 1970's. Just think about that! Stop being so goddamned self-centered. The world doesn't revolve around you.

You should watch the Netflix documentary: The Family That will change your understanding. Stage Blue can be extremely genuine in its devotion. That isn't the problem. The problem is that they cannot recognize that their devotional path is just one out of many others and not the best. This leads to a monomaniacal devotion which never doubts itself, where the ends justify any wicked means. You are not yet properly understanding stage Blue. Study up on it.

@Jed Vassallo Daily visualization for a couple of months straight. Make visualizations intense and emotional. What you're talking about in your example isn't a belief per se, it's a goal / intention you want to have.

How would you describe the actual process of shedding subconscious and instinctual defilements? What causes that to happen vs not?

@RendHeaven Evolution step #1: Mushrooms Evolution step #2: Catholic Confessional Evolution step #3: Psychotherapy Evolution step #4: Mushrooms

I like it.

To relieve the devil of his guilt so he can go back the next day to being a devil?

@winterknight I just had a mini-epiphany. When you recommend psycho-analysis to supplement this work, that's exactly why I recommend psychedelics. Just like psycho-analysis the psychedelic's function is not primary to enlighten you but to clear out lesser blockages, shadow issues, and to show you what is getting in way of awakening. The benefit of psychedelics is that it's faster, cheaper, more direct than months of talk therapy, and gives awakenings as well. But of course for those who cannot access psychedelics, I can see the value of psycho-analysis. I've not done formal psycho-analysis but I'd guess 3-12 months of psycho-analysis = 1-3 psychedelic trips. The cost savings would also be very significant. I've noticed that most people who take psychedelics don't have very deep awakenings on them because first the psychedelic must clear out psychological baggage (AKA, psychoanalysis). The existential insights require a purified mind and heart. The deep existential insights tend to come in later trips, after the mind has been purified a bit of its human baggage. Just a useful insight I thought I'd share with you guys. The oversight I made in the past is that I tended to think of the psychedelic purely as a gateway to nondual states. But that's only half of their function. The other half is the psycho-analytic resolution of psychological baggage.

I found that when you start this journey it tends to be quite neurotic and not very effective. But at the same time, you can only start where you're at, so neurotic practice is better than no practice at all. You problems could be answered with a couple of deep psychedelic trips, where you would face the real existential root of your dysfunctions and let them go. Then you could proceed with a more organic spiritual practice. The value of the psychedelic is not so much in that it enlightens you, but that it clearly shows you what is preventing you from awakening, what is holding you back. Otherwise you could waste years chasing your tail in circles. One of the biggest challenges of the spiritual path is what we get in our own way. We all have unique ways of getting in our own way. Psychedelics help you understand your unique ways of getting in your own way so you can stop doing it. It tends to not be enough to just intellectually know how you get in your own way. You need a deep mystical experience of it to learn the lesson and change your ways. Intellectual efforting here just tends to be very slow and needlessly ineffective compared to a few psychedelic trips which will just bombard you with all the answers in a way that no book, therapist, or guru could. Really, once you learn how to properly use psychedelics, you will never need a teacher or book. The most powerful answers are in your trips. Everything else is weak sauce that literally wastes years of time and thousands of dollars in money.

Oneness is not a belief. Oneness is an Absolute.

I don't remember what he completed. I'm sure Sadhguru has some very advanced students who are deeply enlightened. But that's probably pretty rare given how mainstream Isha has become. Most people doing it are dabblers who don't even know what enlightenment means. They are doing it for personal health benefits or whatever. Overall I don't have any problem with Sadhguru's teachings. I'm just not the type who will ever follow a single guru. No

I don't know much about the Israeli left, so I can't speak to those internal politics. I'm more looking at Israel as an outsider and criticizing it from an outsider's perspective. From an outsider's international perspective is seems that Israel's conservative party has hijacked the country and behaves unfairly towards Palestinians by trying to make a two state solution impossible with sneaky settles. I see this is a right-wing collective egotism which lack empathy for Palestinians. So my only point is that just devilry should be called out and not encouraged (the way the American right-wing likes to do). It's not a matter of belief. You are God, you are One, and you are all things. It's not that I'm talking to myself, it's that you're talking to yourself. If it seem like you're talking to me that's because you've adopted the belief in separate human beings. Oneness is a radical thing.

@Aeris To pull off something like that would require a social organization of some kind. At first this organization would seem noble and good. But over time thing would spiral out of hand and some giant spiritual ego would take it over, thus turning 5-MeO-DMT into a tool of the devil. You cannot get away from the devil. The devil corrupts everything. The purer you try to make a thing, the more the devil will seek to co-opt it.

@Revolutionary Think Don't forget Actualized Forum politics

I hear what you're saying. But I just wonder, when the Nazi's were coming to power in the 30's, what would you have proposed? The trick is that when you negotiate with fundamentalists they take and take and take and give nothing in return. I'm curious how you would negotiate with conservatives in America. Obama tried to appease them and it didn't work. They still smeared him as a socialist and undermined him at every turn. How would you deal with Trump and his evangelical base? You think they are going to negotiate with you and give any ground to stage Green? Would you advocate not to put pressure on the migrant concentration camps at the US border & on Trump? Vocal outrage can be an effective tool for social evolution as most people are complacent and unaware of what's really happening in society. The outrage can make people aware of the issue. I have read Elza Maalouf's book. I am really curious how you negotiate with people who precisely do not want rise above their worldview? Sometimes I feel like Integral Theory is too naive and idealistic about how ruthless politics can be. What do you consider the solution to Trump? Is it better to elect a centrist Democrat or a far left one like Bernie Sanders who will put pressure on the corporate domination of US politics and drive hard towards Green? I feel like Obama's approach towards the conservatives was somewhat stage Yellow, yet it did not work out so well because the conservatives just took advantage of of his moderation and willingness to compromise. When one side is acting like a devil, what do you do according to Spiral Dynamics? Because the devil is certainly clever enough to take advantage of a moderate Spiral Dynamics approach.

Notice how tricky such things are. Which is why politics is so messy and dirty. Don't forget, all politics is survival.

There is no such line because everything is relative. Remember, 150 years ago millions of people believed they had the right to own slaves. That's relativity. What's even crazier is that since you are all beings, you were one of them! So your judgment of slaveowners is itself self-bias! How do we get everyone in the world to acknowledge that he/she owned slaves at one point? LOL, good luck with that one.

@Nivsch Unfortunately ideals and flowery rhetoric often mask the true nature of the beast. Our Statue of Liberty says, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." yet we hold asylum seekers in concentration camps right this minute. Zionism may have good intentions, but the practical result of such an ideology results in putting Jews first, above all others. Which is problematic. I know there are many Jews who don't support the right-wing Israeli government. Good for them. Be more vocal.

Study & awakening solves that. Awakening solves that. Find your life purpose and learn some business & career skills. Awakening solves that. - - - - - - Psychedelics will directly address #1, #2, and #4. And they can even help you find your LP for #3.

The body is a hallucination, just like everything else. There is no fundamental difference between your body and your thoughts -- if you are conscious enough. The body is actually being willed into existence by Universal Mind. God's Will made manifest creates every cell in your body. The body is made out of Infinite Consciousness. But none of this will make a lick of sense unless you're in a nondual state of consciousness. So go do some psychedelics or Kriya yoga or whatever.

Then again, mushrooms can be deadly serious.

Depends on your goals. What do you want?

Some psychedelics make one very humorous. I get that on mushrooms mostly.

Excellent! Let's keep building this list. There must be even more such programs.