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It's possible that we all have some Red stage of Spiral Dynamics in us when we are in ego consciousness. For example fits of anger can cause impulsive and reckless behavior. How to transcend the Red stage? My question is: how to transcend all stages? And that's done through transcending ego consciousness. And it's integral transcend and include, so in the higher level of consciousness we can still behave impulsively yet in safe ways. Why? Because the higher state includes all of reality! So we become the whole planet as a self. And a healthy self doesn't cause harm to itself.

Are the accusations against Trump justified? No, I believe all serious accusations against Trump are false. And my prediction is that Trump will win the 2020 election, because things he has talked about such as draining the swamp will happen, and need to happen. Trump said that the Clintons are criminals. Is that true? I doubt that, but big politics is like staged WWE wrestling matches. And I do believe that the DNC made it look like their emails had been hacked, which is serious corruption which I hope the Durham report will point out. And with the Durham report released before the election, Trump's popularity will increase. If my prediction turns out to be wrong I will still believe that Trump is innocent, but is replaced by some other staged plan. And if I'm right, then all the mainstream hugging normies will end up with egg on their face, haha.

Is QAnon also at stage Turquoise in Spiral Dynamic while appealing to lower stages? I believe that's the case. Q has hinted at problems with both COVID-19 and climate change claims. Aren't those just outrageous right-wing conspiracy theories? Could be, but I don't think so. According to my estimation COVID-19 is a ridiculous prank-demic where even the existence of a virus is a hoax. And the human-made climate change trumped up ivory-tower "fact" through voting, and by academic science urged into frantic action by established politicians, is a silly smokescreen for a global peak oil problem.

We should anticipate Wanderers throughout all of society for heterogeneous integration and as per above rumination expect to find Wanderers at the least attractive positions, among the lowest criminals, the poorest homeless people and in the most corrupt environments. For the beings of light in our fallen world regularly appear as the least of us in a conventional sense. These are Wanderers of sixth density. Those are the fallen angels, bound on earth until the day of judgment. They are the Nephilim, heroes of old, men and women of renown.

But if Trump really is at stage Turquoise in Spiral Dynamics, isn't it a failure then for him to oftentimes be an impulsive and egocentric person at stage Red? I think we need to look at it from a big picture of humanity and top level politics and development. The Law of One says that many people today are Wanderers who are people often actually in sixth density. That's an incredibly high level of development, way above even Spiral Dynamics second tier. The Wanderers are trapped in third density, like the rest of us. So what I suspect is going on is that Wanderers pretend to be at lower stages of development and from there help humanity to move into higher levels of development. I'm not saying that Trump is a Wanderer, but the principle is the same. Trump needs to communicate on a "no stage of development left behind" level. And from that level guide humanity to higher levels of development. Those already at higher levels of development cannot pull the rest of us into higher levels by interacting with us on that higher level. We have to develop on our own. And parroting higher levels of development isn't the same as real development. So what the Wanderers need to do is to play at the lowest levels of development! And thereby they form a "mirror" for us that reflects our own level of development and we co-evolve through that mechanism.

Is Donald Trump stage Red in Spiral Dynamics? On level of optics (if I have understood that QAnon term correctly) expect a lot of Red behavior before the election, because he needs to resonate at the lowest common denominator level of fear, protection, aggression and egocentrism. But my impression is that Trump is at stage Turquoise in Spiral Dynamics. Some people may think, whoa how can you even compare Turquoise to Red? Well, remember that second tier transcends and includes the first tier levels, including Red. So Trump can use Red behavior and ace at it.

Is eating meat stage Red behavior? Not exactly, but in a way sort of because it's not much care about the animals we eat, except how they taste. So I think that in the future we will grow and cultivate meat instead of killing animals. Someone at stage Red would laugh at the idea of being concerned about animals, except as property or means for domination. Leo mentioned that for example narcissism isn't necessary a psychological disorder and can be a result of level of development. Interesting point and I think there is truth to that but also that there is a collective level of development of humanity that we all are at globally.

Wow, Leo's video soon made me realize that Spiral Dynamics stages can be applied to counties! Because countries are collective egos. China today I think can be considered a developed nation (I even suspect that China at the moment is leading the development of information technology). And the U.S. is a developed nation. And look at the childish, narcissistic and egocentric behavior of both nations in the ongoing U.S. - China conflict. U.S. and China are, in their totality, totally at stage Red! Haha, that explains the ridiculous mainstream news about the ongoing conflict, and why leaders and experts seem to behave like little children.

Oh noes! Leo's new video is about Spiral Dynamics stage Red. I was hoping for a video about holons. Well, I guess stage Red is very much ego consciousness so it can be interesting from that perspective.

Shunymurti talked about how emptiness is fullness. In Buddhism they have something similar (or the same) where they say that emptiness is form. And many spiritual teachers talk about reality being emptiness. Does the claim that reality is emptiness fit into my model? Yes, because the emptiness is infinite fullness. If something is finite, it's not fullness. And infinite fullness that at the same time is a no-thing is in my model the unmanifested! That's Brahman and Para Brahman, Indra's net in unmanifested form. Brahman is the infinite Father, and Christ is the finite manifested Word. And Christ and the Father are one. So even though seemingly very different from Buddhism, the Christian terminologi here is exactly the same!

Yay! Shunyamurti has this new video with what seems to be a very interesting topic to me.

I still have the belief that reality is 100% certain. And the ego is almost always uncertain! So what does that tell us about the ego? Surely the ego is completely delusional. I'm not sure yet, but I strongly suspect that's the case. And I found this ACIM paragraph that says the same thing:

That was fast. I had only listened to a few minutes of Leo's video when an idea came to my mind. Instead of systems thinking it's even more high level to use holon thinking! A holon is simply a whole that also is a part. So holon thinking can be kept on a very high level. And especially in my spiritual approach, our whole planet can be seen as a single holon. And it's the development of that planetary holon we are entering into historically now according to people like Bruce Lipton and Shunyamurti. And instead of complicated thinking it's possible to boil it down to simple principles. For example the difference between fear and love in A Course in Miracles. Fear obviously causes separations so that no planetary holon can form. And love causes integration so that a planetary holon does form!

Instead of using mindfulness practice to observe one's thoughts, I came up with another approach. Because observing thoughts seems too tedious to me. A better approach, for me at least, is to focus on high-level thinking. And not in a complicated way. Instead my idea is to learn all kinds of high level concepts and then just let my mind absorb and digest it subconsciously and turn it into a higher level of thinking. Leo has a video about systems thinking which seems like an advanced and complicated principle. But I will take a look at this video again and listen mindfully and see if it can be turned into something very simple that still retains the high level power.

Notice that ego structures such as individual personas and PR departments are valuable. It's only when we have reached a high enough level of development that the ego structures can fall away and be replaced by a higher state of consciousness. The ego structures are valuable because they produce creativity and unique development because of all the strife, friction, deceptions, lies and manipulations they produce. But we can also see that the ego structures produce a lot of suffering, and also it seems to me that we have reached a point in history where the ego structures can start to dissolve, not only for a few sages as in the past, but for our whole civilization.

Hmm... does ACIM say that we should drop our whole persona? Of course, the persona is a part of the individual so the removal of the persona needs to be a result of understanding instead of some attempt by the ego to modify itself. But yes! I think removing the entire persona will happen. Because the persona keeps the individual phony, and it's impossible to build something truly genuine on top of something phony. It's however possible to add all kinds of phony personas on top of a genuine self. And the inner ego always has fear as a foundation, for it is a construction made out of fear and desire. So ego self-esteem is in realty a phony state where the ego has developed to itself agreeable special relationships with the outside world. The self-esteem is phony since the fear remains under it.

Leo also mentioned that egos, both individual and collective, have a lack of transparency. I came to think of how the ego has a persona. And the persona is the facade of the ego. Even a collective ego such as a corporation has a persona which is how it presents itself to the market. Leo mentioned that people can become trapped in low consciousness of collective egos. That's especially the case I think when the ego has a very different persona than his or her inner ego. Then the collective ego allows the individual persona to drop and nasty behavior can result if the inner ego is very much in selfish survival mode and the persona is a whitewashed facade for the purpose of appearing more angelic than the devil inside, haha. It's easier to have a lighter persona which is more in alignment with the inner ego, but really it's the whole ego structure, including the persona, that needs to be transcended. Improving the persona removes fear but only a part of it. As A Course in Miracles explains, the whole defense mechanism of the ego is insane, and that includes the personas used in special relationships.

Leo mentioned how the ego struggles against entropy. I found an even deeper truth to that! At least based on the idea that entropy is actually complexity in disguise. Entropy means disorder and complexity means order. The ego, because of its belief in separations and its limited perspective, perceives entropy as always increasing in the world. And it does! But with deeper realization, the entropy is recognized as complexity and not as disorder at all. In practice this idea can be tested by expecting entropy to dissolve, not by struggling against it, but by dissolving one's own ego instead. Since the world still is in ego consciousness, there will of course still be entropy in the form of dirty dishes and cars breaking down, but actually even that is complexity that in the future can be revealed by household robots and self-healing cars. What technological progress does is to reveal more of the complexity that already exists hidden beneath the entropy. And personal spiritual development is something similar where higher consciousness is reached by turning entropy into complexity. Evolution is a process of turning entropy into complexity.

One tricky part of the ego is that the personal ego is a result of society, which is a collective ego. Or more precisely, society is made of a bunch of different collective egos. And the tricky part is that we are very much trapped in the collective ego structures. So it's challenging to transcend one's own personal ego today since the whole society is still dominated by ego consciousness. But if it's true as I believe that a collective consciousness is emerging, then it will deal with the collective egos since it's more powerful than them. And without conflict, because the collective egos are a part of Gaia already and it's just that they haven't been integrated into wholeness yet. I think it's useful to recognize even the collective ego structures, especially since our personal egos are very much a product of them. Leo has this video about collective egos:

ACIM says that what becoming meek means in the Bible means gaining strength. That might seem puzzling from an ego perspective. But it's logical. When we are non-meek or what to call it we struggle against 7 billion people in ego consciousness. When we instead join with 7 billion people as a collective consciousness, then we gain enormous strength. The ego cannot do that. It's difficult for a couple in ego consciousness to to join and that's only two people! So it's a huge shift in consciousness needed to form a collective consciousness which means that the individual ego needs to first become meek to remove the conflicts and from there a higher level of consciousness can emerge. The ego needs to struggle, compete, manipulate, dominate and in other ways deal with others through conflict in order to maintain power and control. Imagine what will happen if the person instead joins with the collective field. Then the collective will support the ego in all decisions and actions. That's a huge difference.

@kagaria Shunyamurti has amazing knowledge. I especially like how he goes beyond the mainstream view of the world. And I now found this video which I will take a look at:

Then what about individual sovereignty and personal integrity if the world is to become one big planetary organism? Here I think is where the cell analogy breaks down. If we as individuals just become "cells" in a larger planetary organism, that would be a destruction of individuality. That's a non-integral scenario. Ken Wilber has talked about how integral development means transcend and include. This means in the cell analogy that we will not become like the hive mind Borg in Star Trek without individuality. Instead each individual will become the whole planetary organism! That's why I sometimes call it Gaia consciousness. Gaia will not be a goddess ruling over us. Instead, we ourselves will become Gaia, with our personal individuality and willpower preserved. And the ego conflicts are transcended by Gaia being one being. So it's a both/and approach to unity and individuality. And A Course in Miracles talks about the Atonement which sounds like the integration into a larger whole:

The world is still dominated by ego structures, based on the belief that things actually are separate. This applies both to individual egos and to collective egos, of which the U.S. and China are the biggest ones. I think Leo mentioned that he will make a video about holons, wholes that at the same time are parts. And evolution, not just biological evolution but also social evolution, is a move towards larger and larger holons. And there is also a process of creativity so evolution is a very complex process that not just repeats the past and mechanically produces larger structures. There is complicated integration going on with old structures falling apart and new structures emerging. Some things are preserved and used as building blocks for larger and more advanced structures. For the whole world to become a larger holon requires that much of the ego structures first need to break down. But I think this mostly applies to the individual ego and not so much to collective egos although there will most likely be external changes of society too. The personal ego is a necessary development but it can't form a larger holon by itself. It's like how individual cells are unable to form a multicellular organism without some higher guiding principle that unites the separate cells into a larger whole.

@kagaria My take is that it was necessary for humanity to "fall" meaning become split from unity so that we could develop a unique civilization. So our entire human history is separate factions within humanity struggling and fighting each other for dominance. And this struggle is still going on. What happens is that the separate parts of civilization grow larger and larger, from small tribes, to villages, to cities, to regions and countries. And it seems to me that this ongoing U.S. - China conflict is the last conflict that needs to be resolved in order to reach global unity.

@kagaria No, but I have looked into Ray Kurzweil's predictions and he has shown how technological progress is exponential, meaning accelerating and even though AI research has been slow in the past centuries things like machine learning are now improving at a fast pace. Is China leading the AI development? Maybe not, because the U.S. has superior military technology. However, China is focusing on integrating AI in a massive information infrastructure. And that kind of integration is what I believe will make a huge difference compared to the western technologies.