Leo Gura

Yes. Contemplation can involve speculation. But contemplation is more about generating insights whereas speculation is more like imagining random nifty scenarios. Speculation is more like a brainstorm that isn't grounded in anything.

That's a tricky question because it depends on how you define feelings vs intuition. If you regard intuition as just a feeling than yes. But usually feelings are a lot more than intuition, and intuition is something more sophisticated than just some run of the mill feelings.

I don't really see what you're asking. You can ask the same question many times and get many different insights and depths of answer. So it's not a waste of time. Sometimes you gotta questions your answers more and more. Sometimes the answer is already good enough. It just depends. The quality and clarity of your answers will vary. Sometimes the answers will be good enough but most of the time they will be vague and unclear, or even wrong.

This just sounds so wrong. If you don't respect them so much then why are you there at all? It's you who's coming off like a creeper here. Those folks are just trying to help themselves and you are lurking in the shadows like a vampire.

I don't know of any Jung model that is better than Spiral Dynamics.

I'm pretty sure a gun kills 6ft people as easily as it kills 5ft people.

I do see wisdom in it, especially Jung. It's just not relevant to this topic.

I have talked to somewhere close to 5000 girls. I have never been in a fight.

Off the top of my head I cannot think of any philosopher who understands reality better than Ken Wilber other than me. No one has suggested you only use one model. There's room for dozens of models. But I have not seen anything within Nietzche or Jung that is remotely as accurate and useful as Spiral Dynamics.

So? Deal with it.

So what? They still have no problem socializing. It is no girl's job to be good at flirting with you for your sake. Has it crossed your mind that the reason she isn't good at flirting with you because she's not even interested in you?

In practice that's exactly what it means.

You laugh and tell them that you're a convicted murderer.

Ken Wilber has done amazing work though. He's one of the few philosophers who have a clue what reality is. Anyone who would dismiss the insane value in Ken Wilber's work is not serous. You just have to never forget that all models are limited. As far as explaining general human behavior we have no better models as far as I have seen. So really the burden is on any critic to provide a better model. If you think Spiral Dynamics is bad, you tell us a model that's better, or pipe down with your whining.

In practice hot girls will never have a shortage of socialization opportunities unless they happen to be exceptionally introverted or dysfunctional.

@gettoefl That's true if you develop serious spine and you completely free yourself from the opinions and judgments of all humans. But that is a very rare thing which almost no one here has developed. And my job is to help you develop it. Expecting people to just have that developed is an absurd expectation and a disservice to many students. It's been challenging even for me to handle all the spiritual gaslighting I've gotten. It can drive you crazy. So it's a very serious and important topic to cover. My new course will include a whole training just to counteract all the spiritual gaslighting you will receive if you attempt to go all the way.

He's not wrong about that. His mind barely works. The reason no scientist takes massive doses of psychedelics is because they would be UTTERLY DESTROYED.

Here's the thing: if stage models are BS, how come they do such a good job at predicting how humans behave? Especially in political matters. You can use these models to predict humans like zombies. It only starts to break down at Tier 2. Tier 1 is super predictable though. So it is for this reason that I taught these models. Even my some of my sharpest critics say that my Spiral Dynamics videos were genuinely helpful to them. The model is so useful it would be negligent not to teach it.

Who ever relies soley on feelings? Even girls are not that crazy.

I do that but it has nothing to do with my gender.

Of course girls are online and play video games too.

It's not that he holds back truths, it's just that given his role he doesn't even have the intellectual curiosity to pursue deep truths. Because if he found them and then started talking about them it would tank his career. It's not like McDonalds does not know how to cook a gourmet $20 burger. They could easily make one. But their audience wouldn't want to pay for it. So McDonalds chefs don't even bother making quality food. Many people in media are deeply audience-captured. Few people do what I do, which is deliberately piss off half my audience.

Spiral Dynamics certainly is over-simplified and has it's problems. But the 9 Stages Of Ego Development is really phenomenally accurate as far as individual development stages go.

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Standing me for that long is quite the achievement. Personally I'm only at stage 3 of the Leo spiral.