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@Don Wei I really liked hippies in US. They're at Green and above. There are some actualized spiritual people who are at Tier 2.

Here's my take on why Collective Egos are ideological and why they cling to their ideology so much : The group the ideology represents gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of community. We feel the urge to find some group to fit into because we have an unmet emotional need for belonging. Lets say we have an ideological group, say a religion. Now lets say a scientifically-minded/atheistically-minded person comes into the room and starts dismantling and tearing apart the religious ideology. How will the people respond? Will they say 'Oh man! I'd never considered that! Thank you so much for opening our eyes to new ways of thinking about our religious texts.' No. They will be judgemental as hell, deny all the blindspots of their religion, rationalize the shit out of the challenger's claims and do everything in their power to push the challenger out of the room, mentally and physically. The religious ideology gives them a sense of belonging which is why they will collectively turn a blind eye to obvious blindspots/contradictions/ambiguities of their ideology. The problem with this situation is that this is a very mechanical collective survival mechanism which tries to meet their needs for belonging, but fails. The ideology is only able to serve as a crutch because we don't have a better strategy to belong with a group at this time in history. My take on how this can be resolved : People work on mastering their emotions. This can help them gain consciousness of this fundamental survival mechanism of collective egos. This can also help them feel more empowered relative to their need for belonging, as a result of which the strategy won't be so mechanical anymore. This may seem like a very tall order, but I think SD Stage Green and above is capable of doing this. This won't get rid of ideology entirely as that's one of the fundamental mechanisms of our mind, but collectively we won't be so attached to ideology anymore. This may be 500 years into the future though, but we gotta start somewhere! If we're able to pull this off, it'll become much easier to be a socially responsible citizen and there won't be so much confusion on what to believe. Thoughts?

We can roughly categorize countries on the Spiral. There are no Turquoise countries in today's time. In fact, there are no fully Turquoise institutions/organizations/collectives! You can only find Turquoise individuals in a collective that's at a lower stage. The center of gravity of say America is Orange, same goes for most first-world countries. There is a lot of Green in them though. Similarly, the center of gravity of South-east Asia is Blue. There is a fair bit of Orange there as well.

Psychopaths are physically unable to prioritize acting according to a moral ideology over reacting to their emotions. This is what keeps them from moving up from Red to Blue. It would take some emotional mastery for a Stage Red person to actually be able to be a good person without having to rely on a morality, i.e. they would have to awaken to the Truth of Oneness.

@Leo Gura, you kept coming back to this point about 'Reality wants to choose the most energy-efficient way of being'. Why would Reality care about energy-efficiency if it's Infinite?

It's 2020. Anything can happen. The next thing we know a meteor strike happens somewhere.

From a natural perspective, everything is fair. You can do whatever you want. From a non-dual perspective, everything is Consciousness. So the question of 'When does the embryo become conscious/living' becomes irrelevant.

Yupp! Until we really start to introduce meditation and question the materialist paradigm, it's gonna be predominantly Orange.

@Rasheed means unconscious parenting backfiring on parents.

I didn't get you. How would it backfire? My bad. What you're saying makes sense.

I agree with you on the fact that school does not care about its students. We have to understand who the school is catering to, i.e. who the consumers of school really are. It's not students. It's parents. Parents want an obedient child who obeys them and 'does all the right things'. Parents then hand their kids over to a school system which teaches them exactly that through reward and punishment. So, in order to have a conscious schooling system, we first need conscious parenting. Which is it's own can of worms.

Here's the thing about progress - it's chosen. When people really resist progress with all their might, some magic will have to happen! Things will have to get really ugly collectively before people realize that this isn't working anymore. If people don't pay attention to the systemic failures, there is only one way forward. That is for the systems to fail and the rug getting pulled from under our feet. We don't choose for this to happen. Evolution will happen, whether we get on board with it or not. If we don't, well..... things can get ugly.

I feel you. There's a few ugly realities of our society - one being that the fundamental basis of it is Blue. The whole notion of society is constructed at Blue. Things like property rights, rights in general, systems with specific roles, bureaucracy, civilization, family, routine, order, etc. I wonder what a society that would be based on a higher stage would look like. Here's a few points on that: We'd want to channel the next collectivist Stage, aka Green to do that. Green voluntarily chooses community, as opposed to Blue getting indoctrinated into it, or being trapped in it. Green chooses to commit to the well-being of society in general, as opposed to Blue where people are indoctrinated into roles which are perceived by the indoctrinator to be good for society. Green chooses to create the kind of society it wants to create, as opposed to Blue which believes in the society it's indoctrinated in in an absolutist manner.

Introduce meditation to classrooms. This will be the single most important step forward. There's scientific backing to meditation. Then, as we become more and more conscious of the illusion of 3D physical reality, we can then start to question the materialist paradigm and look at it critically. That's where Pandora's box can open and we can start teaching kids to do awareness practices.

In first place, we have, the one and only, ho(no)rable Emperor Donald Trump, King of the Universe! In second place, we have Alexander the Great.

I hope we don't stop having children! The world needs consciously parented children who can go on to create a world that's really worth living in. Imagine the kind of life you'd have had if your parents taught you consciousness work. They taught you how to face your fears, what Truth is, how money actually works, how to have good relationships, about life purpose, etc. Conscious people have the opportunity of having children and providing this kind of an amazing childhood to them.

@Jennjenn Collective survival is brutally vicious. When we try to understand why there's conflict out there, the only way to really do that is to own the conflict inside ourselves. The only real way to resolve what's happening out there is to resolve it within ourselves. Right now, the world is in a state of battle. It's gonna intensify. We haven't really started the blame game of who is responsible for the covid outbreak. The world will start pointing fingers at China. This could potentially lead to a dangerous war. No kidding. The fact that Trump can fire a nuclear weapon whenever he wants doesn't help. I'm not saying it will happen, but the possibility is absolutely in the air.

Lol!! Nice attempt to put it in a nice little nutshell. As far as his 'crooked endeavors' go, Leo is a political cult! Cult! CULT!!! 'LEO DEBUNKED!!!' If you're being serious, my take is that you're over-over-over-simplifying it.

Your intuition is the most unbiased arbiter of truth. Not your beliefs or worldview, your intuition.

If you can be insensitive, I can too. Welcome to the insensitivity Olympics. My point is that you can't get away so easily with being an insensitive prick to male rape victims.

Ikr!!! I'm waiting to see how down and dirty he's willing to get to rationalize what he said.

How about we say the same to female rape victims? Equality bruh.

Why can't we say the same for women who get raped? Equality bruh.

When their predictions go wrong, you gotta doubt their expertise now, don't you? That's when you say 'Okay, clearly something is up. I gotta stop blindly believing them, use my own brain and figure out wtf is going on.'