Leo Gura

@Outer Hippies can have a libertarian streak as well. There are left and ring wing versions of libertarianism. There are even anarcho-communists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism The problem is that doesn't work at scales of tens of millions of people. Yes, a handful of farmers can get together and build a local farm road. But they can't build an interstate highway or stop giant corporations from pouring toxic waste into a lake or running nationwide high speed 5G wireless phone networks. Modern governments with 100+ million people require massive infrastructure to maintain. You can't get that by living in tent villages and bartering homegrown lettuce with your hippie neighbors. Warlords will certainly enslave your hippie commune if there is no strong federal government to protect it. But even more realistically your hippie commune you will self-collapse from greed and sexual and other scandals. A sociopathic narcissist will hijack your commune and turn it into a criminal cult.

I'm not sure. Throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

@OneLittleHumanMind Sounds like you might want to clarify what your goal or intention is with this meditation. What are you trying to know or understanding? What am I? What is reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is God? What is consciousness? What is love? What is another? What is the mind? What is ego? How do I end suffering? You want to be clear about what insight you want. What the fuck do you want?? If you want nothing then be clear about that and just sit in peace without effort (the do nothing technique). Psychedelics help a lot too.

@Rilles Those might be too New Agey for him.

No, meditation is going to surface emotional "stuff". It only becomes calm after years and years of heavy practice. For a Zen monk with 20 years of daily practice, yes, it's now calm. But that ain't you. Although sitting still should still be doable for you. Not sure why your legs need to be flailing around.

That's really my only criticism of the Majority Report. As Green, they are too adversarial against Orange & Blue, thus deepening the polarization. But that's just how Green is. It ain't yet Yellow. I thought about sharing Spiral Dynamics with them, but they would probably demonize me for it. Green does not want to give up its hatred of Orange.

@CreamCat Watch 100 of his videos. 1 video is nothing. The higher up the Spiral you go the more nuanced the work gets, the more study it takes to appreciate. Sam Seder would tear JP apart like a rabid dog JP will not be interested in that.

That's because the higher your development the easier it is to awaken because the higher your perspective-taking ability is and the more openminded you are. But be careful with your generalizations. All of these people are different and they lived long lives which involved lots of unseen development work. You probably cannot imagine how much work such people did on themselves. We're talking 10s of thousands of hours of work and study. Don't confuse humility and simplicity of teaching with lack of work. Just the opposite. Most of the people on the Turquoise list are world-class masters.

If you want to get a fair sense of Green politics I suggest you check out the YouTube channel, Majority Report. They are the epitome of Green, but notice that they are not some kooky student activist with utopian ideas. Their political analysis is sharp, nuanced, pragmatic, and intelligent -- despite their biases. They are smart socialists and if you listen to them long enough you might become a socialist yourself. Of course, they are not Yellow. So don't expect them to be as wise as Yellow or the stuff I share on Actualized. Nor am I suggesting you should become a socialist. Just make sure you are getting a fair assessment of each stage. Look for the best examples of each stage, not the worst. You can find monstrous and kooky people at each stage if you look hard enough. For example, I could smear all of stage Orange as being like Trump. But that would be very unfair to Orange. He is like the worst of the worst of Orange. For another great example of Green see Bernie Sanders. He's not some kook. He's got a very sensible agenda and his value system is very advanced. Good luck finding a politician with a more advanced value system and higher integrity.

Well, how to start a business is a HUGE topic & skill set all on its own. There are thousands of books, courses, videos, seminars, workshops, and trainings available on this topic. It would be relatively easy to set up a web programming business where you get clients to pay you so that your small team of programmers can code their website or app. There is a near endless demand for high quality web programming teams. If you were smart you could manage such a team remotely. You could have a 100% virtual programming business by hiring good programmers from overseas like in Eastern Europe or India. Of course all of this requires business & project management skills. But that's not too hard to learn if you are serious. You could easily make 6 figures like this. And that's just one idea.

Yes. The intention of such Green people is fairness for oppressed minorities. Which is a fairly evolved set of values. It is much more evolved than those who cry "white genocide" or complain about the war on Christmas or white males. The problem is that people like JP and the alt-right media have created a demonized stereotype out of these post-modernist Marxist types. They do not really exist. JP and his ilk have taken like 1% of the most extreme Green folks and smeared all of Green with that. They've created a straw man out of Green and of course the straw man is easy to knock down. But Green is not that straw man. There are many very serious, sane, sober, lovely Green people. And they are higher than JP and his ilk. Radical feminist activists in universities DO NOT represent the majority of stage Green. Imagine if I smeared all of stage Orange as greedy capitalist pigs who exploit children in sweatshops and kill polar bears for fun. I could create a whole YT channel about that and get millions of followers to agree with my selective outrage. I could create 100's of videos of children in sweatshops, big oil spills, and corporate corruption. That's analogous to what JP and the alt-right media is doing to Green. The reality is much more nuanced. The biggest tragedy is that JP and his ilk are missing several key lessons from post-modernism. Regardless of any excesses or faults, post-modernism made crucial intellectual discoveries which are being denied by JP. Like the relativity of all cultures, all value systems, and the socially constructed nature of all categories and paradigms. This is very important to understand into order to create a peaceful and well-functioning world. You are not a serious intellectual if you think that the white race's value system or the capitalist value system is objectively superior to others. The acknowledgment of relativity is vital to the development of higher levels of morality. Stage Orange sorely lacks the understanding of relativity. It also fails to appreciate the importance of collectivism -- since we do live in a community. We are not individuals who get to do whatever we please. Is it an accident that JP is a climate change denier? He's even in denial that he's in denial! This is not going to cut it in the future. We need a lot more ecological awareness if we want to thrive.

@caelanb It can be tricky because the ego is always self-biased and self-deceptive. It will tell itself it knows more than it does. You can count on this. But if your intent for truth is genuine and you are forcing yourself to self-reflect and question all of your beliefs, that should ultimately lead you closer and closer to the truth. You have to be brutally honest with yourself or else you will settle for wishful and self-biased delusions. Psychedelics help a lot too. On psychedelics you clearly see what genuine insight feels like. It is undeniable and transcends all belief, ideology, or speculation. It also helps to have great teachers and great books to keep your egotistical fantasies in check.

@EternalForest You have a very specific type of job with very specific skill set. So all you got to do is build up more of those skills and build an awesome portfolio which showcases your skills. While you are job-hunting, spend the rest of your time building your audio engineering skills & portfolio. If you end up working at Walmart, keep building your audio engineering skills on the evenings and weekends. After a few years of that you'll get your desired job. If you can afford to take 6 to 12 months off to focus solely on building your skills, that would be ideal. In 12 months of full-time skill-building you should be a very solid entry-level audio engineer candidate. That's how I got my first job as a video game designer. When you are applying for jobs, you should be applying all around the country, not just in your city.

@EternalForest It's actually not that hard to get a good job. But it requires that you offer value to the employer rather than being a leech. What job do you want? What skills do you have? Are you showcasing your skills well with a portfolio? These days training yourself and building skills is easier than ever. You must train yourself and then show evidence to your employer of your skills and your willingness to learn further on the job. Building a great portfolio is a MUST as far as I'm concerned. With a great portfolio you will eliminate all your competition. People being more experienced than you is not a significant factor because those people also demand a higher salary. Employers are always looking for people with low experience because they need people to do grunt work and those who will work for lower salaries. You are not competing with people with 5-10 years of experience. You are competing with people who have 1-2 years of experience, which you can provide for yourself. "Experience" does not have to mean that you were a salaried employee during that time. Experience could mean: you working on a project in your mother's basement.

That was a little glimpse of no-self. A little glimpse of Truth. There's much more. So keep digging.

@Cudin Well, the more conscious you become, the more you will start to notice synchronicities. So nothing surprising about that. Perspective is everything. The divine is all around you, if you have the eye for it.

Well, the devil is in the details of course. You'd have to brainstorm some solutions, informed by your understanding of Spiral Dynamics. Maybe you'd want to help reform the system and relationship, or maybe you'd just move on to greener pastures It all depends. Generally, you cannot change a thing which doesn't want to change. So you could work with your girlfriend so long as she was open to growing and learning about Spiral Dynamics. Changing an Orange workplace is probably a no-go. You'd be better off finding a Green workplace or starting your own.

@karkaore This was already explained in earlier videos. You can be enlightened and still a racist. Because your level of Spiral development might be ethnocentric Blue. Awakening is not development. And development is not awakening.

The research is not called "spiral dynamics" per se. What we're talking about here is the entire field of Development Psychology which includes hundreds of researchers. Ken Wilber does a good job of integrating and mentioning many of the researchers. Here are but a few names: Jane Lovinger Piaget Kurt Fischer Robert Kegan Susanne Cook-Greuter Kohlberg Gilligan Jean Gebser Maslow Clare Graves, Don Beck It takes work on your part to integrate all this stuff and see the bigger picture. Do not expect the current state of science or academia to give you the big picture. It gives you tiny fragments which you must piece together.

@Annoynymous I already addressed how to climb the spiral in each of the color videos. You were given a list of ways to move beyond each color in each video. Now you must actually do it.

It sorta is. A spiral is an upwards moving circle. Overall reality seems to move towards greater and greater complexity. Society is becoming more and more complex. There can certainly be collapse, but the idea that humans were more evolved 10,000 years ago than today strikes me as wrong. I do not see how the chaos and egotism of modern society can be avoided through collapse of society. We are more likely to pass through it by growing society, not by abolishing society. I like Shunya overall, but the apocalyptic aspect of his teachings I do not agree with. I once asked him about ancient Rome and he told me how great it was back then without acknowledging that 40% of the population were slaves. Not so great methinks. I will take post-modernity any day.

Ahahahahaha! That Agency and private court would already be owned by the dictator and his cronies. When you come to them to report the crime, they will spit in your face, take your wallet, and laugh you out of the building. Libertarians have no idea how human nature really works. There is no such thing as "without government or rulers". Without rulers, the strongest most ruthless narcissist becomes the ruler, enslaving everyone to his whims. What you are describing is worse than modern day Iraq or Afghanistan.

Blue LOVES to hate Green. Green LOVES to hate Orange.

There are various versions of anarchism as an ideology. There are flavors of it in Orange and flavors of it in even in Green. You have to distinguish anarchy as a political ideology vs actual anarchy, which nobody actually wants. Most ideological anarchy is just mental-masturbation mixed with naivety and inexperience with how the world works. When your daughter is being raped and your mother enslaved, your high ideals of anarchy will fly out the window. The ego is actually terrified of actual anarchy as that means lack of control, disorder, and death. In an anarchic system all that would happen is that the strongest, most ruthless, more power-hungry would enslave you and you family. Order would be installed to serve the dictator. Only you would end up at the bottom of the hierarchy as one of the slaves. Unless maybe you were willing to claw your way to the middle by stabbing people in the back. This is stage Red.

It's like you're saying that 1st grade is closer to 3rd grade because both are odd, while 2nd grade is even. So what? 2nd grade is still closer to 3rd grade. In a sense Green is further away from Turquoise because in its own mind it already thinks it is Turquoise. The similarity actually makes it more self-deceptive and therefore harder to ascend. At least Yellow understands that there is a Turquoise above it. Green often doesn't. There is a big difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2. In this sense Yellow is much closer to Turquoise because they're both Tier 2. The biggest thing Green lacks is the meta-perspective of Tier 2.