Apparition of Jack

I'll start by saying that I think Marianne is a very healthy stage Green-Yellow individual, and the fact that such a person is getting even just some politcal limelight today has shown you just how much we've advanced politically even within just the last few decades (emphasis on the "some", though.) With that being said, I will say that, as someone who hasn't fully tranisitioned out of Green, she is still dealing with an Orange shadow, which is probably where you're getting the "iffy" vibes from. Her desire to "fight" Donald Trump (in a very personal, one-on-one way, not a broad, communal way), the fact that she, a person with no previous political qualifications, has decided to run for President, etc. all point to this shadow, in my estimation.

Modern Western culture on one hand allows overt sexualisation of people (usually women) to exist in its public sphere (usually through the forms of advertising, Hollywood movies, pop music, etc.), usually for the sake of corporate profit (sex sells, after all), whilst also having latent Catholic/puritanical/Victorian underpinnings of being ashamed about our natural urges and wanting to keep it all "hush hush" around "polite company." The result is, in my perspective, a society of people who are constantly having their sexual urges subtly evoked, but then feel subconsciously ashamed and hateful about them. I'm convinced that trends like the incel movement and even alt-right chauvinism are in a good part caused by this. Sexual desire is one of the most powerful and forceful energies in the human being, and if not properly understood and controlled it can cause one to fall into all sorts of deeply unhealthy thinking. Go onto some place like /r/nofap and a lot of the guys there seem to be struggling with deep feelings of guilt and unworthiness that they have, in my opinion, erroneously attached to masturbation as the cause. A good start to fixing these deep psychological wounds would be to fight against the weaponisation of sexuality in the name of corporate profits. Sexuality is a wonderful and beautiful thing, and should be celebrated, but it should not be used as a cheap tactic to siphon money from sexually frustrated men and women. You let this run rampant and you end up with societies like Japan, where something like a third of all young people aren't even interested in exploring the joys of romance and intimacy (along with all the demographic and social impacts that such a thing brings.)

@Keyhole My apologies.

@Keyhole Don't let anticipation of bad things prevent you from learning more about the world, friend. In fact, getting a very deep grasp on sociology and human dynamics can actually make any future occurrences less scary and more manageable. Besides, that fear you feel is ultimately just yourself. An enlightened sage could wake up in a utopia or wake up in hell on earth and neither would bother him, since he knows all is Love and that reality is exactly perfect as it is right now. Chop chop. Get to it. You've got much to learn.

I would say so, but we'd still have to go through a lot of suffering and civilisational re-adjusting in order to get to that point. If North Africa, the Middle East, India, etc. become uninhabitable due to climate change, along with all the crop failures and diseases that will result from such an unstable environment, then you can bet your ass we can say bye-bye to things like cheap goods, stable borders, complex food chains, everyone owning a car, etc. A human being born in the year 2100 will probably have to be taught farming and crafting skills that us modern humans have forgotten about for the last two hundred years.

The Chinese officials carrying out this cultural genocide have given their authority over to "communism," the "Chinese language," and so on. The Uighurs being persecuted have given their authority away to "Islam", to the "Uighur language", etc. which the Chinese officials unfortunately see as being "in opposition" to "communism", the "Chinese language", etc. Both are instances of people giving authority to things outside of themselves, which will always be based on ignorance, since everyone, as God, are their own highest authority. With that being said, the practical, down-to-earth effects of this are that the Chinese officials are causing so much needless suffering, as they haven't realised they have given their authority over to illusions, and that the Uighur identity isn't actually a threat to these illusions at all. What's going on in China is a lesson of the incredibly unhealthy manifestations of giving over your thought-making capacity to external authorities that serve nothing but their own selfish, short-term egoic goals, at the expense of universal human decency, compassion, consciousness and love. We see similar things happening elsewhere in the world, such with reactionary Americans or Europeans who, having given their authority over to the idea of "America/Europe" and/or "whiteness", are treating desperate Hispanic or Middle Eastern refugees as "criminals" and "thugs." The solution is to always investigate your assumptions about authority, to continue with self-actualisation work, and to always, always be sceptical of anyone making any sort of cultural, social or political "truth claims." You cannot reach enlightenment whilst thinking that the Truth, in no matter what context, exists "somewhere outside of yourself."

@Identity For the record, Leo isn't saying just because science is relative that makes it "bad" or "not worth it." Science is still a useful tool for understanding the base, causal mechanisms of this physical mind-realm we inhabit, and if applied smartly can have a lot of healthy benefits for a community/society. It's just that science can in no way shape or form point to the way reality actually is, when all too often too many materialist-minded people claim that it does just that. If this single-minded obsession with science gets too strong it can even have negative consequences, such as drugs being used as a "cure-all" for physical and mental ailments (when more often changes in diet, lifestyle and spiritual mindset are far more effective), or incredibly destructive arms-races between nations to see who can use science to come up with the best ways to murder millions of people in an instant. If you want to self-actualise, to liberate yourself, and to return to Godhood, your conception of knowledge is going to have to move way, way beyond the way science conceives of it.

My understanding is that saying someone is in stage Blue or Green or whatever else doesn't mean they're always acting in a Blue/Green/whatever way, just that, given all else is stable, they will predominately display behaviours and thoughts associated with that stage. A blue person sitting under a tree during a nice picnic will be having blue thoughts. A green person sitting under a tree during a nice picnic will be having green thoughts. This also means that people can devolve in behaviour if situations change. A predominately-green human rights activist might suddenly become a stage beige or even red devil if they find themselves on a sinking ship with not enough life boats. A stage blue patriarchal father might display a rare green-like tolerance to his daughter telling him she's dating a guy from a different civilisation, if he's in a good mood and feeling particularly secure about his life situation. People are multifaceted and have many many dimensions to their psyche. The goal isn't to try and "finish the blue level so you can collect your power-up and move onto orange", it's to gradually integrate the many parts of yourself so that you, by nature, start to exhibit higher-stage ideas and behaviours.

@Elham When I was a kid, I was always upset that adult characters in movies would at first dismiss the children characters who told them about the ghosts/monsters/aliens haunting the area, only to have their minds blown when the adults saw these things for themselves. Looking back, I think that was my childish way of telling myself that there are other realities to this universe that most people (the "adults") simply dismiss due to lack of faith / lack of conviction / collective denial. So yeah, I understand how you feel. Children are often more perceptive and open-minded than grown-ups who've had collective memes implanted in their minds.

Not all discussion is equal. If that was the case, your loud-mouthed uncle who loves ranting about politics and sports after a few cans of beer would be enlightened in no time, and yet we know for a fact that his hilarious rants often cement his delusion and ignorance, not draw him out of it. You have to be way more discriminating with the words you're putting out into the universe.

I hear you man. Up until just this week I was always dismissive of the idea that aliens had visited our world, but now thanks to Leo's blog post and me questioning my own existential assumptions I'm beginning to see that may not be the case. Still, this brings up even more questions than it answers. God certainly makes things interesting for itself.

Hey everyone, So I'm something of an empath/shaman, in the sense that I'm able to feel very strongly and even "bond" with the thoughts and feelings of those around me. This presents a problem for me though, since the people around me tend to be very logic-centric survival-based materialists (philosophically speaking), which then causes me to act like a logic-centric survival-based materialist. However, such a way of living/being is totally unnatural to me and I find my soul being crushed pretty much every day because of it. The problem is then compounded by the fact I have a hard time explaining myself to those around me without feeling fear and anger arise, which then only makes the problem worse, leaving me feeling even more trapped. Basically what I'm asking is, how can I find a way to explain to the people around me what I'm experiencing / what I go through / what are my spiritual needs without coming across as sounding crazy (to them) or "irrational"? What can I say or do that may help them to listen to what I'm saying in a way they can understand, but also ensures I get the space and support I need from them? Thank you for any replies

Interesting time for this thread, in all honesty. Perhaps a little tangential to your point, but if I may ask, how do the people around you feel about the US's current aggression towards your country? I'll be praying that you and your country stay safe throughout all this.

Nice to meet you, Miss G.

Being open-minded doesn't make you a pushover that rolls over to whoever wants to stubbornly push whatever narrative they're selling. I quote Leo here from just a few days ago: "Notice that visionary leadership is not meek or neutral. It is bold and decisive. It is not afraid to challenge cultural norms and call out devilry." Leo and the mods have a very specific vision for this place, and low-quality and troll-tier threads are not part of that. You can accept that and join in the discussion, not accept it and move onto the countless echo chambers that will reinforce your worldview, or not accept it and get banned for not following the rules. It's not rocket science.

History happens in stages and phases. For every two steps forward of progress and evolution, there's always one step back of regression and fear. This was and always will be the case; wisdom comes in knowing which step of the process you're in and knowing what to do to navigate your world to the other side.

Grah to-omlaan om-creiazay. Un-erelaan jux-omlaan creia-yu?

Here's Matthew Fox, someone I consider embodying a healthy yellow approach to the Christian theological perspective

I like Sadhguru's take on this topic. He says both theists and atheists make claims about things they don't know about. Once you investigate reality and know (rather than just believe or theorize about) the true essence of reality for yourself, then the question of "atheist vs theist?" becomes meaningless.

Who says sitting in a temple doing nothing but meditating all day isn't implementing visions and garnering respect?

The motherfucking AZTEC NON-DUALITY one was an absolute masterpiece! I don't know why, but something about the combination of the aweomse Aztec metaphysics and Leo's teaching method/spin on them really resonated deeply with me. It also helps that it came at a crucial point in my life, too.

I'm not sure real sure what this has to do with stage green. In all honesty, it kinda sounds like you just had your ego hurt and wanted to come here to vent.

I would bring back devotion and public displays of the sacred. Things like leaving offerings to deities, people praying / chanting / doing yoga in public, communal festivals honouring certain figures or ideas, and so on. In such a secular, post-religious world I don't know what this would effectively look like nor do I know how to get people on board with such a movement, but it's something my heart longs to see nonetheless. Our left-brained, rationalist urban environments could do with a healthy dose of spiritualification, if you ask me.

I can't answer any of these questions in depth, since I'm still figuring them out myself. One thing I've found that helps a lot is to have an attitude of courage and gutso, however. A lot of us are socialised (by the media, by our peers, by civilisation at large) to essentially be passive desperates always hoping for a magical "big break" (no matter whether that's the the perfect partner, the perfect job, sudden social acceptance, etc.) This isn't going to come, and if it does, its only because you manifested it yourself. You need to take risks, stand up for yourself and say provocative things if you're going to get anywhere or change anything in this life, especially in a society as corrupt and complex as our own. Of course, I'm not saying you need to be reckless and needlessly endanger yourself and others, and there's a time and place to keep things quiet too, but on the whole, developing character and gravitas by challenging yourself and others is something you should be aiming to achieve. People love someone who's sure of themselves and has the experience to back it up - even people who are opposed to your ideas will begrudgingly respect you if you demonstrate you have both a good heart and a good mind. Now of course, developing these things is a skill like any other, and starting out it will be quite hard, especially if you're just first waking up to the gravity of the predicament us modern people find ourselves in. Compassion exercises help well (metta meditation, for instance) as a way to ground your motivation and ideas in love for all (INCLUDING and ESPECIALLY love for yourself), and act as a safeguard against your own / other's egoic impulses. Finding the right people to challenge you and support you can go along way too. And finally, an attitude of carrying with you the heart of the warrior, being a champion of light and truth, someone willing to let go for the sake of others, can be an incredible narrative tool to give you the energy / inner security you need to say and do the things that need to be said and done at the times they need to be said and done. I hope all of this makes sense. Again, this is not advice to be foolhardy and self-destructive, but rather brave and pro-active. If you want to do anything truly great in this world, you will need allow yourself to be vulnerable and spontaneous when the times call for it.

Turquoise wisdom from an enlightened tortoise