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@Vladimir Great work! But there's more. Much more... Keep trippin', keep contemplatin' Why is there something rather than nothing?

@mkrksms It probably just failed to post. This happens sometimes due to server lag or if you have a lapse in your internet connection. We rarely just delete posts unless they are pure spam. Usually a Mod would issue warning points if your post violated some of Forum Guidelines. In which case you would have received a warning message explaining your violation.

Seems to me like you're thinking about this too narrowly, too externally. In the case of boxing your goal is not really to beat some opponent, your ultimate goal is to become a good boxer (let us say). In which case, you start to strategize on that goal. How do you concentrate your limited time, energy, and resources to make yourself a good boxer over the next year? Perhaps you identify that your greatest undeveloped asset is stamina. You sense that you could outlast other boxers in the ring. But you'd need to train up your stamina to do it. And so that's where you decide to focus your energy. So you do lots of cardio training, etc. Alternatively, you could determine that the best strategy would be to hire an exceptional boxing coach. So you spend your energy and resources looking for the best coach you can find, in the hope that he will give you that extra edge that you need to win. When it comes to competition, you need to find some unique thing that will set you apart from everyone else. Maybe that means you train twice as long each day, or you develop amazing legwork, or you find an exceptional rare coach, or you do lots of visualization, or you learn to meditate in the ring, or you study lots of boxing videos to learn new moves, or you do yoga to raise your baseline level of consciousness, etc.

Lol This is true of all categories and all human thought. Ironically, you are stereotyping Spiral Dynamics. Your critique is self-defeating. It would be wise for you to contemplate what a category is. You're still not fully grasping it.

@Space Find an experienced wing in your city who you can roll with. Ask him to show you the ropes. London is like the most the over-populated city of PUAs and you are complaining about limited options?

The principles of successful dating are timeless. They do not change. The larger question is, why are you dating at all? For what purpose? That's where things can start to change. If all you care about is hooking up, the methods for that are well-documented across the internet.

What is the point of your business? Why does it exist?

You can make a copy-cat business but it's a bad strategy. It will be hard to market and eventually you will go out of business unless you bring something new to the table. A Seth Godin says, you must create a Purple Cow. The bigger picture of business that people fail to see is that marketplaces are constantly evolving and self-optimizing. If you offer something of genuine value, then you will be optimized out of the marketplace by evolutionary forces. You cannot go copy Bill Gates or Elon Musk. You must bring something new to the table. Practically what this means is, you cannot create a good business using a cookie-cutter business-in-a-box plan. This is why get-rich-quick-schemes and multi-level-marketing schemes fail. What you cannot do is follow a 1-2-3 step formula for creating wealth, because if you could, everyone could do it, but that cannot happen by definition because wealth depends on a disparity between you and other people in society. So you must offer more genuine value than other people offer. You must differentiate yourself from the poor and maintain that differentiation. I say this specifically because there are a lot of tempting business-in-a-box plans out there. But the ones who get rich off those are the ones selling the plans, not the ones buying the plans. No one can sell you a plan for how to create something like Actualized.org, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Uber, Ebay, Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, etc. Because the plan itself is the whole value of the company. And the plan is always time-sensitive. You cannot create another Amazon today. That ship has sailed. The more original your plan, the more money you stand to make, the greater your competitive advantage. Of course you can still study all these great companies and learn lessons and gain inspiration for building your own.

@Jcent Not daily

Yeah... I thought that way too. I still basically feel that way. But life also forced me to learn what is necessary for survival. Business is a survival activity. It's the modern-day equivalent of hunting in the forest for squirrels. Squirrels are smart and you have to learn how to outsmart them or you will go hungry. Just don't go using your skills towards devilish ends. Do it in service of your art, in service of raising consciousness.

If anyone evolves to Yellow, it should be them. I have no idea how long. Probably not in our lifetime. You categorize and group reality all the time. That's pretty much what all knowledge, language, and science is. You just take it for granted. You group people in male vs female, black vs white, conservative vs liberal, moderate vs radical, conscious vs unconscious, sane vs insane, friend vs foe, etc. What you're really objecting to is a new set of categories which you are not comfortable with yet. For some reason you have no problem when a scientist groups subatomic particles into quarks, leptons, antimatter, etc. Ken Wilber is enlightened and he talks about Spiral Dynamics and other groupings all the time in a very healthy and reasonable way. Without grouping, there is no science or math. Spiral Dynamics is a complex and nuanced set of categories which requires many hours of study to understand. It would help if you distinguished between healthy and unhealthy application of categories. And also if you remained mindful that all categories are human projections.

@Brivido Once you become conscious enough, you can pick up a book, read a few pages of it, and you will immediately know the quality of the mind who wrote it and how conscious it is. I read a few pages of Maps Of Meaning but couldn't bother reading any more. It would be a waste of my time. Hundreds of pages of academic talk which sound deep but are actually pretty shallow. I have hundreds of books on my bookshelf which I have to be very selective about. These days, most of the books I buy I cannot read because they are just written by people who are too low consciousness for me. I read a chapter or two and basically throw it away. Once in a while I stumble upon a really brilliant book written by a genius. But this is getting rarer and rarer. I sometimes wonder why I even read at all, since at this point I can basically derive all the deepest truths of life simply through contemplation using my journal. But I still read, holding out hope for some rare brilliant gem. It's possible to know and not read, and to read and not really know. Most of modern academia is just book smarts without any deep wisdom. Just consider, the time you invest watching JP videos about Biblical myths might be better spent contemplating your direct experience. Or not. Discover what works for you at your level. If JP works for you, have at it. Personally, I have bigger fish to fry.

I understand where you're at. I was in a similar place about 10 years ago when I started doing business. It's not really important what my business was. Business is basically all the same: you look for new opportunities in the marketplace which are emerging, and you seize on them. It's not a good idea to copy others in business, since your success in biz depends very much on you innovating and finding new opportunities. You cannot do the things I did 10 years ago today. You need to find new opportunities. There are always tons of new biz opportunities emerging every year. But people get so preoccupied doing what everyone else is doing that they miss it. They overlook that simple point that business success is about leadership, not following the herd. Those who follow the herd in business ultimately fail. The whole key to business is to do lots of research and be creative and original. You must connect new dots. You can take various seminars, workshops, and video courses to learn the fundamentals of biz, sales, and marketing. That is very important. But then you must have the courage to go find your own unique niche. Business-in-a-box solutions do not work. If they did, every fool would be a millionaire. The whole point is that you cannot do that. You must bring something truly new to the table, which takes cleverness, which is rare. Be very careful doing business purely for money. Find a way to align yourself with your life purpose as soon as humanly possible. You'd be surprised! People actually can pay you to sit in darkness. Ever heard of Dark Room retreats? Someone's making money off that. You can literally earn money locking people in a dark room as long as you know how to convince them its good for them The best advice I can give to entrepreneurs is: learn the theory of biz & marketing and then do tons of research. If you do enough research, you will eventually stumble upon your niche. P.S. The highest income I ever earned came AFTER I fully aligned myself with my life purpose, not when I was chasing money. P.P.S. I have a video about Small Business advice: https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-psychology-of-small-business-success Starting a business will be the one of the hardest things you'll do in your life. But the rewards more than compensate for it. Business is not for everyone. To succeed in business you must be a bit of a wolf and you must have ambition.

With stuff like this, you will never know until you try it. That's what experimentation and research is. It always involves risks, but also potential for great payoffs. I do use colloidal silver and colloidal gold. Not sure about the above product though. In this case it would be very easy to validate or falsify this product. Buy it and try it for a month and see if you notice any changes. If your mindfulness skill is high you should notice some changes. If not, then it doesn't work and you can move on to testing other stuff.

You have to distinguish between verbal/conceptual truth and Truth as Being. There is no opposite to Truth as Being. Falsehood is a concept, which results from the imagination imagining something which is not currently present in direct experience, without being aware that that imaginary thing is actually an existing object (an idea) within direct experience, and is therefore technically a part of Truth. The only reason you can say that a unicorn isn't true is because it is True, but your mind is confusing what a unicorn is. A classic example of confusing the map for the territory. In Truth, there are no maps. There is only pure territory. The pure territory is the Truth.

No, hippies are not Blue at all. They are Green. Blue dresses formally, properly, in uniforms and clean cut suits and dresses. Blue is all about maintaining up-tight order. Green is much more laided back and easy-going, wearing flip-flops and loose clothing.

@How to be wise Very roughly, happiness should increase as one goes higher up the Spiral, but this won't be the case for every individual. It's a rough average and depends a lot on circumstances. A stage Yellow person could be diagnosed with cancer while a stage Green person might find a great job, etc. Scandinavian countries rank some of the highest on the world happiness index. There are no stage Yellow societies or governments so we don't have a ranking for countries above Green. The prediction is they will rank higher than Green when they do emerge.

@Brittany It's obvious to me that Peterson does not have a direct consciousness of God/Absolute. He speaks of God way too theoretically and indirectly. As if he read about it in a book. He is not a mystic, he is an academic with some Christian leanings.

This one's a real doozy:

@Emerald Getting quality backlinks is hard. That's the whole point. It's a full-time job and it's quite tedious to do. I would focus more on content and other forms of marketing. For example, getting on popular podcasts is good for getting your name out there. Or writing guest blog posts. Or giving public speeches. There is no easy solution to marketing. Marketing is hard, time-consuming, and expensive because it is so valuable. It's also very hard to market something which isn't Purple Cow. Make sure you're bringing something new to the table. Success in business requires extreme creativity. You cannot just copy what other people did. You must innovate. You are being paid to innovate, and if you cannot do that, then your business will not succeed. Your job, as CEO, is to come up with new original strategies. That's why they pay you the big bucks (or at least they will if you succeed). This is why only highly ambitious and extraordinary people can start businesses. Most people only know how to paint by numbers and follow others. Entrepreneurship is about leadership. You gotta find cutting-edge emerging opportunities in the marketplace and creatively exploit them. No one can tell you what these new original strategies are. Because if they knew, they'd have your job. You gotta do lots of research and connect dots.

It was my passion and purpose for many many years. Then when I actually started doing it, I saw that it didn't quite suit me. I had a thirst for something deeper. Game development is fun and very interesting (and I'm still passionate about it to some extent), but I needed something deeper. Which turned into my quest for metaphysical understanding, self-actualization, and enlightenment. Life purpose evolves. It never starts out clear and perfect. You start with your best guess, you pursue it, and then you adjust on the fly. Sometimes large adjustments are needed, like quitting your entire career. Which is what I did. Twice!

@CreamCat That's right, Orange will only care about price, not about gallons burned. Because he has not yet developed eco-consciousness so the health of the environment is beyond his circle of concern. Green's care for the environment goes beyond just saving money. Green actually cares about the environment for its own sake. Green has developed heart, which Orange cannot understand because Orange is too self-centered.

No point in asking us, contemplate it in your journal. You cannot become aware by talking about it.

Building artificial backlinks is not a good idea these days. Google is smart about catching you and penalizing you for it. You can actually get your website blacklisted forever if you build too many artificial backlinks. That era to do that kind of stuff was 10 years ago. Google has gotten a lot smarter. No-follow links don't count at all, and making links on blog comment sections is a no-no these days. Google knows what you're doing. Quality links must come from the body of the page, not the comment section. These days I would assume that almost all social media links are no-follow. Which means they don't count.

You are misunderstanding Green. Don't give Green a bad name. Green can be very healthy. In fact, mostly it is. Only in rare exceptions does it get toxic. These days people in the political sphere love to demonize Green and over-exaggerate Green's excesses. If you use the news or YT political commentary to judge Green, you will get a very distorted picture of Green. 80%+ of Green people are moderate and easy-going.