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Those graphs and models ARE constructs that will be seen through at the construct aware stage as constructions of the ego to feel secure, in control and permanent. (Read this: https://integral-review.org/issues/vol_14_no_1_cook-greuter_construct_aware_stage_and_the_fool_archetype.pdf )

That doesn't mean it can't go to absolute shit in the meantime.

@Actualising Be honest. That's all.

You for real? Angel numbers? That's the bottom of the barrel as far as spirituality goes.. And what does that Nietzsche quote have to do with anything? This has to be a joke right?

There's a lot of repressed sexuality which leads to a "virtuous" facade on the one hand and extremely brutal, misogynist, rape fantasies on the other side. That's not all there is but it's surprisingly hard to find something between (it exists of course, but it gets drowned out by the other stuff). Demonizing porn is just one symptom of that. Porn is dangerous (drugs are another example) and can lead to very unhealthy views of women and yourself. But to call it evil doesn't solve the problem, it perpetuates it. It could potentially be treated as a form of art — though that's few and far between the other stuff, granted.

I despise that form of porn. But there’s different.. maybe you haven’t found it

You wanna say the highest act of love on the physical level is ugly?

So what do you prescribe? I had that phase of nihilism (in a megative way) and lack of motivation with feelings of emptiness and hopelessness. But that’s gone now and I feel more motivated than ever. And no I’m definitely not manic, I’m working on the foundations of my life and am making good progress in terms of stability and sustainability. While still having the great vision of my life purpose in mind.

@The Crocodile Well I think I‘ll rather just focus on my life purpose instead of trying to control the fate of the world.

What do you achieve exactly? I'm genuinely interested.

Do you achieve something by doing that or does it just feel nice or does it bring you into other states of consciousness?

I don't know if I would want magic to be true. That would make this all a little too unstable I think. As soon as I'd realise that I'm omnipotent (the true form of magic if you will) this dream in this form would be over. I think its limitations enable its deepness and beauty. If magic would be real it had to be extremely limited to avoid that.

That doesn't seem to be part of this reality to me — but I'm open for the possibility. Though I've yet to see any sign, that that would be true. Oh it does But magic is such a lazy storytelling technique

@The Crocodile You want to win at chess by just breaking the rules.

Beautiful.

In my book demonizing means to make it out as the root of evil.

I'm amazed by the way he communicated that in this brief way while being very concise and straight to the point without losing someone, who's not heard of spiral dynamics before.

Exactly. Both (awakening and survival) have their place and together something beautiful gets created. With only survival life becomes dull and mechanic. With only awakening you become void of ambition and suffer in a different way. But with both at the same time you can begin to see the beauty in this human drama and play within it, knowing that you're playing (sometimes more, sometimes less, as it should be). Because survival (and therefore suffering and what's called 'evil') isn't merely an inconvenience, it's the greatest invention of God, allowing him to experience his own BECOMING. What an adventure it is indeed

Porn tends to skew your perception towards the visual aspect of sexuality. You can explore your sexuality on your own without porn (by using your imagination), but that gets harder as you grow more accustomed to that easy dopamine spike porn gives you.

I'm against demonizing things. There is good, sensual and beautiful porn as well as a lot of really bad porn.

No you misunderstand me. Toasters don’t break the laws of this reality, they bend them in a way to benefit us. That’s exactly what I said we should do. Toasters are the real magic. What you propose is child’s play.

All this is about defining what it means to be HUMAN. That's what this whole reality is about. Do we really want to milk and butcher all those animals just to feed our insatiable hunger for meat? Is that what it means to be human? This is the reason I became vegan. But I don't pass any judgement on people who eat meat, because what's the point? I myself eat meat from time to time nowadays and it's completely fine - I have nothing against it. It's the way it gets mass-produced without regard for the suffering of everything that isn't human is what I critique. What does it mean to be human? I think we're able to make the lives of every living being on this planet better. Animals could BENEFIT of our being here. We could make this earth a literal paradise if we just chose to do so. So what's stopping us?

YOU created all of this and you could do that within a single moment. But you don't, because that would defeat the whole point. What do you want to create when you possess infinite power? Something that's as REAL as possible. What we take for granted, the mundaneness, the stability and so on, is actually the greatest achievement of this universe. But it doesn't stop there, because now it's about breaking out of that mundaneness WITHOUT breaking the laws that make this real. By becoming a law-bender. God is a tightrope dancer.

No. Being cold and real is the most amazing feat of this reality. Just Magic is too easy.

I do not have kids of my own and I don't plan to. My life purpose is kind of my child.