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Post artists in this thread who have qualities associated with Spiral Dynamics tier 2

@SirVladimir if language is part of what allows us to construct reality, writing is a way to engage with it You are a writer, right? Who are your major influences? One more piece from Olafur Eliasson:

Olafur Eliassson

In the effort to build my business, these books have been crucial for me: A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger (about inquiry, how to ask better questions, it's helping me design better products/services) Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design (will help you design better products/services and understand the process of infinite creation at the same time) Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (detailed descriptions of squalid living/working conditions, lit a fire under my ass to escape wage slavery) Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne (exactly what it says on the tin, provides a framework to help you craft a unique and powerful value proposition so you can provide massive value to others) The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling (If you struggle with procrastination and following through on finishing projects, this book is for you. Works for both individuals and collectives/companies)

@Happy Jay On top of the things mentioned so far, I've heard that sauna use has the potential to reduce the severity of tinnitus. Pretty sure I heard Dr. Rhonda Patrick talking about it at some point, but I don't remember the exact video. I also recommend getting your genetics tested through a company like 23&me and then running your raw genetic data through Dr. Rhonda's genetic report tool. Doing that revealed that I have an expression of the HSPA1L gene that makes me more susceptible to hearing loss due to loud noise exposure. Knowing about this and other genes is a great tool to have under your belt.

This is what a stage turquoise relationship can look like.

Frank Yang and his guru girlfriend are stage turquoise. He recently woke up, and uses his film making skills point to the nature of infinity in interesting and beautiful ways!

@modmyth you reminded me of another great resource, Radiorunner's Curriculum for the 'Solo Artist' - The one-stop-shop for structuring your self-taught art journey. It contains some of the resources you mentioned above. I've attached the curriculum as an image to this post, and in case it compresses to become unreadable, here's the link to it on imgur as well: https://imgur.com/gallery/RXJ2nmH

@CoruptKirin I have a couple great resource for you! This is The Draftsmen Podcast made by 2 experienced art educators, and much of their 2nd season has been dedicated to the topic of how to reproduce art education for yourself! In their art education episodes, they cover what you need to reproduce in case you aren't going to art school or what to do to get the most out of it in case you are going. They did an episode for each of the big important benefits of art school including Knowledge, Structure, Mentorship, Community, and Workspace & Equipment. The Draftsmen are Marshall Vandruff and Stan Prokopenko, and while they're primarily focused on picture-making types of art like illustration, animation, portraiture, etc, the principles they discuss apply to other forms of art too. Even though I'm not a picture-maker, their content is so good that it transformed how I pursue my life purpose of helping people raise their consciousness by experiencing my large scale 3-dimensional works of public art installations and sculpture. There's another powerful resource to mention as well. Marshall Vandruff has a lecture on his website called "How To Design Your Art Career With A Whiteboard". It's a spiral dynamics stage yellow approach to plot a course for your creative career, one that balances making money with staying true to yourself creatively. The first 18min of the lecture are free and the rest only costs $4, which is a steal for the value. Here's the first 18 minutes of it: And the rest of it can be bought for $4 here: https://marshallart.com/SHOP/all-products/all-videos/how-to-design-your-career-with-a-whiteboard/ I hope you find these resources as helpful as I did!

Here's the Wikipedia page for the religious group Amy Coney Barrett is a member of, check it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Praise What aspects of People of Praise are cult-like? What further questions should we ask?

@cetus56 Hey there, I tagged you because you're the mod who saw my spongebob thread yesterday about the dangers of spiritual work. I had a very frightening experience tonight, may have awakened my kundalini and then i realized I am not ready for this at all. I am asking for any pointers or guidance that you or anyone here may have on how to put a lid on it. Here are the things that I am doing to put a lid on it: Grounding myself in my sense of physicality and materiality Connecting to the things that make me who I am as an individual Here are the list of things that I was doing that got me into this situation (these are the things that I will stop doing effectively immediately): Micro dosing (10ug of 1P-LSD) once every 3 days for almost a month now. Self-inquiry, specifically pointing the finger at the self Meditation, attempting to observe the observation Kriya yoga breathing during meditation, only for the last couple days Noticing the dream-like nature of my direct experience Questioning and poking at the nature of reality in general Sometimes in the morning I do bio-energetic wake up routine which involves slapping the surfaces of the body to wake up the nervous system for the day. This includes one point referred to as the jade pillow which involves simultaneously slapping the forehead and the back of the head when it's "done right" I can feel energy shoot down my spine from where I slapped the back of my head. In hindsight it feels like I was really dumb messing with stuff I was not ready for. Just like Leo said in his last video, I have to ask myself if I really want to give up the self and the honest answer is no, I am not ready to do that. My concern is that I triggered something that I don't have the skills or desire to follow through on. Again I am stopping all the activities that contributed to this happening in the hopes that my energy will calm down and be able to regulate itself properly again. I am not convinced that I have a full kundalini awakening though I can't be sure as this has never happened to me before. Can anyone offer advice? Thank you so much.

@Michael Paul I didn't read your thread last night as I was too distressed, but I read it just now and it gave some perspective. I followed the link you gave to lovebliss.eu/kundalini and what I read there makes me think the energy was absorbed at a blockage at the 3rd knot at the base of the skull. While the energy was very intense, I didn't feel orgasmic bliss, more like a trance-like disorientation similar to a fainting feeling but with a metaphysical flavor to it. My heart has really begun to open this year, so the kundalini seems to have had little trouble passing up through the heart towards the brain. When this happened, I was holding on for dear life. You asked if I feel kundalini awakening symptoms in the head now and the answer is no. At worst, there is a slight dull pressure left over at the base of my skull/highest vertebra and a slight ringing in my ears (maybe just tinitus, but the ringing became very intense during the 2 waves of my experience last night.) I'll take my foot off the gas completely for a while to integrate the experience and find stability again. Thanks so much for reaching out, I'll send you a DM if something serious happens regarding all this. @khalifa Hey man, thanks for your kind words and describing your experience. You're right, I'm going to do my best to not worry. No matter what happens, it helps to know that "This too shall pass." Just like you suggested, I decided to spend time over the next few days grounding myself by connecting to the people and things that I love and that make me feel like who I am. Good luck on your path, you got this! @cetus56 Thanks, this is sage advice. Sometimes, any amount of a thing is too much and that may be where I am for now. But I'm going to be more gentle with the work going forward, and I'm looking forward to shorter daily meditations as the first thing that I pick up when I feel I'm ready again. Hopefully that will be soon. @Red-White-Light As it turns out, Kundalini works just like the jukebox in Happy Days. All it needs is a good hard slap to get going! Thanks again everyone, this was quite the challenging experience and I'm so grateful for everyone's assistance.

While sitting today, some of Leo's last video was bouncing around in my head and I remembered this episode of Spongebob. It's a surprising how well this seems to fit with what Leo was talking about! It's all fun and games... Until someone loses an I

So I had a big Ah-ha! moment last month and realized I want to become a life coach! This post is to ask for your input about life coaching education. I'd be grateful for anyone who is or was a life coach to give their input and share their experience with their training. Of all the places I could do my coach training, my preference is Integral Coaching Canada https://www.integralcoachingcanada.com/ Their curriculum is based on the work of Ken Wilber and he endorses their program as well. For contrast, I'm including iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching) https://www.ipeccoaching.com/ They seems like one of the more well known coach training organizations. If you have opinions about the two coach training institutes or any other organizations, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks in advance everyone!

@Alex Paul Chek recently released a 7-part series about the Chakras, I learned quite a bit from it! In these videos, he also lists some books on this topic and some of these books are required reading for his students. The Book of Chakra Healing by Liz Simpson The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy by Cyndi Dale The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

@Himanshu i’ve been contemplating tier 2 art lately as well. One of my favorite artists lately has been Marina Abramovic whose work often does not exist without direct experience from the public. Her life’s work is a meditative process of preparing for long duration performance art, and when i read her autobiography she talked about having done several meditation retreats of varying lengths which informed her work. Leo’s video “What Is Perception?” also gave me an idea for an art installation/performance art piece called The Doors Of Perception. I’d love to talk art concepts and ideas if you’re still around the forum!

@Sahil Pandit glad I could help, let me know what you come up with. If you consider the term "art" more generally, these questions can be applied to anyone's life purpose. These are also probably not the only question each stage can ask, they're just the first ones that came to mind.

My life purpose is to raise consciousness with public art. Leo got me excited with his latest Spiral Dynamics video when he brought up the idea/question "What would a stage turquoise artist look like?" Knowing that higher stages transcend and include previous stages, I came up with the following questions a tier 2/turquoise artist might answer with their work: (red) - What kind of barriers stand in the way of this art being made? (blue) - What kind of disciplined practices would be required to create the art? (orange) - How will the art market itself in order to create a living for the artist? (green) - What kind of community would the art create? (or) What kind of community would have to exist for the art to be created? (yellow) - What different perspectives would have to be integrated in order for the art to be the best it could be?

And of course, as @MsNobody pointed out, Burning Man is a great place to see all kinds of high consciousness art. David Best and the Temples he created have become an annual fixture at the event. People use the temple to grieve for and celebrate the lives of lost loved ones before the temple is burned at the end of the weeek. This, combined with the stunning beauty of the building each year, have made the Temple the second most important piece of art at the event after the titular Man. If you want to see the possibilities stage yellow/turquoise architecture, the Temple is a great example.

Currently, my favourite tier 2/Stage Yellow artist is Marina Abramović Some of the themes in her work are the limits of human physicality and consciousness, the relationship between masculinity and femininity, and reconnecting with humanity through the direct experience of being in nature, slowing down to do things, and connecting with natural materials like quartz, bronze, wood, and iron. Her work lately is what she describes as immaterial art, art which only exists as it is happening and then vanishes after the performance is over. For example, in 2010 she had a now well known retrospective show at the MoMA in NYC where she sat in a chair for 8 hrs a day for 3 months and allowed the public to sit across from her to hold eye contact with her for as long as they would like. Marina’s medium of choice is long durational performance art which involves repeating a task while being as present as possible on a moment to moment basis for many hours at a time. To be able to do this, she has done numerous meditation retreats. After leaving Ulay, her romantic and professional partner of 12 years, she did a 3+ month retreat in Tibet where the goal was to repeat a single mantra 1,111,111 times. She has also tried other retreats and practices including Vipassana upon which her Marina Abramovic Method is based. This method is the distillation of her life’s work and is used to teach and prepare artists to take on long duration performance art pieces of their own. The workshops that teach her method are like a meditation retreat: 4 days of no talking, no eating, doing meditative exercises in a hot or cold environment The workshop teaches: Endurance, concentration, enhanced perception, self control, willpower, and confrontation of mental and physical limits. Here are a selection of exercises from the workshop: Counting Rice (6hrs): Dump a pile of white rice mixed with black lentils onto a table, sort and count them and arrange them however you like. Blindfold: Leave home, go to the forest, blindfold yourself, try to find your way back home. Learn to see with your whole body. Looking at Colors (1hr each): Sit in a chair, look at the wall with a paper with one of the primary colors printed on it. Repeat for the other 2 colors. Walking Backwards (4hrs): Walk backwards while holding a hand mirror. Observe reality as a reflection. Slow Motion Exercise: For the entire day, do everything very slowly. Walking, drinking water, showering. Peeing in slow motion is very difficult, but try. Opening the Door (3hrs): Very slowly open and close the front door of your house, neither entering nor exiting. After 3 hours, the door is not a door anymore. Here is a video Marina had made documenting one of her workshop retreats. This one took place in Brazil, so they also had an ayahuasca ceremony at this retreat.

Frank Yang - Frank is the only "fitness YouTuber" I still follow. He's been going through quite the transformation in the past couple years, doing his first vipassana, trying 5-MeO-DMT, and using his film making skills to make incredible vlog style videos about consciousness, his self actualization work, and his crazy antics. He also watches Leo's videos, and it shows. Here's his video he made about his first vipassana, it's one of his best works imo. The Art Assignment - This is a PBS YouTube channel devoted to Art, of course. They have early episodes that give you an art assignment to try for yourself, as well as newer episodes where they discuss everything related to art. They're really good at providing context to the art they show so that you can develop a better understanding of what's being shown and not left scratching your head as to what it all means. Templesounds - This guy's name is Emile and he's a passionate collector, importer/seller, and most of all, player of fine handmade singing bowls. His videos are mostly of him playing the bowls, gongs, and other such instruments in compositions ranging from 15min to an hour or more. The sounds are really excellent for meditation, and he even has some guided meditations which are quite good. FoundMyFitness - The future of healthcare will be completely personalized to the individual. If you agree with that statement or you have a curiosity for deep nutrition and lifestyle design as they relate to preventing and fighting disease and promoting longevity, this channel is for you. Dr Rhonda Patrick interviews cutting edge research scientists on these topics and communicates the information with on screen notes and images that make these complex biological science concepts digestible and actionable.

+1 for Toronto I’m down for the workshop as well

Sharing the perspective of a friend from Brazil. He's beginning to show signs of stage yellow, the job he crafted for himself is definitely stage yellow, and despite personal reasons for him wanting to not elect Haddad, that outcome seems to be his lesser of two evils based on the following reasoning. "Well, to me the decision is somewhat simple. One candidate [Haddad] wants to burn the Constitution, the other [Bolsonaro] explicitly states he wants to uphold it. No matter what Bolsonaro does in his 4 or 8 years, if we have the Constitution with its cláusulas pétreas, and our democratic institutions and checks and balances, we can go restore whatever he fucks up. You have to keep in mind the executive is only one of the powers, and even if the legislative branch is compliant, we have the judiciary which can do a lot if we have the constitution. Do you know why they [workers party] want to make a new constitution? It's because the Workers' Party 16 years of corruption have been unveiled and they are being judged and sentenced one after another, and they've been ratting each other out. They want to rewrite the constitution because all their other efforts failed and they want to incarcerate the opposition. They destroyed the country, are being punished for it, and want to disassemble the whole judiciary to stop [their punishment]. It's an oligarchy killing the country because their crimes were discovered. So no, I have absolutely no faith in them to write a constitution. They might as well begin with a state of emergency, martial law, and then who knows what's gonna come afterward. [The intention of the workers' party to rewrite the constitution] is functionally identical to a coup."

"This is a dream" for potentiating lucid dreaming and now goes with hand gazing, too "Even if it kills me" for settling into Vipassana/strong determination sitting @Consilience Sunflower is a creative choice, never thought of using such a word for mantra.

I see @PhilGR's thread and other similar ones asking for book recommendations. If anyone wants to take the matter of their education into their own hands, here's a process to help do that. Here's how to compile a good book list for yourself without having to ask a forum for advice. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that. You may get some great recommendations, but the list will not be as well rounded as you'll want. STEP 1: Run a Google search for "best books about X". In @PhilGR's case, it was "books about critical thinking" STEP 2: The first page of the Google search results from your query will likely have several blog posts/articles recommending the best books on your desired topic. Open several of these pages at once. STEP 3: Go to Goodreads.com. If you don't have an account, make one. STEP 4: Systematically go through each of the articles/lists from your Google search and look up each book on Goodreads one by one. Read the description of each book on Goodreads, note the community score, and decide if you want to put that book in your book list. STEP 5: Do this for every book on the lists you found on Google so that you can compile a book list about your topic. STEP 6: Once you have the book list, put them in order of most to least important/useful. STEP 7: Start reading your book list by starting with the book you identified as being the most important and helpful. Work your way down the list. Take notes on all of them. If you learn something new from a book and it changes what you think is important about what you're learning, you may want to reorder your book list according to your new priorities. You also don't have to read every single book on the list. That's why it's good to rank order them by perceived utility and read starting with the most useful to you. You can use this process to help you get good at anything. Business, Psychology, Spirituality, Communication, Music; the possibilities are endless. If you feel you are a slow reader, most of the most prominent books in most fields can be found on youtube and audible. Have fun.