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@Bernardo Carleial I'd say she's some combination of trauma + potential mental illness + SD Green group think. She can barely stay out of jail, let alone solve deep systemic problems.

Good lord, Giuliani is delusional. Self-deception never ceases to amaze me.

This election is definitely a test of America's level of development. Do the people choose to double down on ethnocentrism or evolve more into world-centrism? Those are the options on the table.

There's been some change, sure. But ethnocentrism still dominates a significant percentage of the population. It's possible Kamala loses just because American isn't ready for a woman of color to be president.

Side note - did anyone seeing that ad in the video hawking ivermectin? Wow. I just did a dive on the company, called quite literally, The Wellness Company. Textbook alternative health grift. And a presidential candidate is pushing this stuff.

Maybe. I don't buy that it's going to have a big impact. Many independents and moderates are going to be somewhat racist. That's the trouble with lefties assuming that racism should lose Trump the election. Racism wins you an election when most people are racist.

Absolutely not. Racists jokes mostly upset leftists who were never going to vote for Trump anyway.

1) I'd say enough people do to make it worthwhile. You could work the language and phrasing to make it more accessible. 2) If people don't know, that's also data that we want. The point is to get the data about where we are at, not to get a specific result. 3) You wouldn't be propagating billions of surveys. Surveys work by selecting a smaller population and then extrapolating from there. Surveying an entire population is basically never done.

We are not getting an EEG of everyone's head. Surveys are a great place in science to start research. They are budget friendly, convenient and easily translate to practical data. Very pragmatic. The fact that surveys also have a lot of flaws doesn't really matter in this case. The point is not to do perfect science, the point is to get momentum and build the science over time. Let future researchers improve things and do better.

It's a multi-generational project. We just need to improve it over time. A real simple way to start would be international surveys on non-dual experiences. What percentage of people report having an awakening? This could be done today with enough will to do it.

Re: Global Peace Index I agree with @Davino in that I’d like to see an index that is more holistic in its assessment. A meta-index, if you will. I have some statistical training and could probably make something like this. The biggest limitation I see is that our data collection for spiritual development is woefully inadequate, with the Global Spirituality Index being the closest thing I could find. This is expected but also unfortunate from our POV. Really someone here could make a whole Life Purpose out of improving our data collection around spiritual development. Many of the people tracking these things don’t know what to look for, or that its even worth collecting data on.

The problem with what he's saying is not that it's "weird". Truth is not a function of weirdness. The problem is that he's just making shit up.

Such spiritual nonsense.

Guys who look like Chico are going to do just fine. They just need to date women that have similar level of good looks.

It's order of operations. Without a baseline of physical attractiveness and energetic polarity, I can't appreciate her "higher qualities" like intelligence or maturity. She would just be a good platonic friend.

TIL the witch cartel exists.

@KoryKat Sounds like a good summary of Tier 2.

Awesome job! Writing specifically about construct-awareness is a cool niche. Not many people understand it that well, we need more people talking about it.

@Rasheed I think the real question is how satisfied are you in your current relationship? If you’re satisfied, keep doing that. There’s plenty of ways to grow through having a long-term relationship that are unique. You want experience in that area as well.

@Ayham be careful because being overly-paralyzed is often just more self-deception. You are taking a position by attempting to stay neutral. Neutrality is a position. So you’re not truly “not-deciding”. Notice that you cannot not take a position.

It’s an accurate summary, just woefully inadequate to really understand anything. Reading the book and watching Leo’s series is the best place to start. Otherwise you’ll have a sort of Dunning-Kruger “false knowledge”.

Respect to Ana for branching out. The circumstances are different, but the disillusionment with Green and the desire for ideological freedom feel very familiar to me. The challenge for her now will be if she can maintain this newfound freedom without botching it. She’s intellectually off-roading now, and that comes with some risks. The first one being that she overcorrects and pulls a Jordan Peterson on us. Fingers crossed she’s not Dave Rubin 2.0.

She probably could have got a lighter sentence, but she just repeatedly shot herself in the foot. I have almost no hope prison will reform her. What a sad way to close out a life. Respect for the judge too. Don't forget that there are many reasonable people still working in government, they just are behind the scenes and don't make nearly as much noise.

1) Just about, except for the very early ones 2) Unless it is technical and specific, note-taking is not my style of learning. I find it too distracting. I'd rather just listen, absorb and sort it out later 3) I've read a fair amount from the booklist but many I have not. There is simply too many books to read everything I'd like to, and quite frankly I no longer feel many of them would benefit me. 4) Yes 5) The sprawling nature of the way Leo operates is perfect for someone like me. I always need to be pushing my understanding, otherwise I get easily bored. If Leo just talked about the same things over and over, I would have left a long time ago 6) I've not taken the course but I do feel on track for my LP 7) I'd like to understand extreme states of consciousness that are probably only available via psychedelics. But I'm also not a big psychedelic user, so that has been challenging to figure out. I suppose at some point I'll just have to bit the bullet.

An insight I had while watching the video on Voodoo in Benin: stage purple culture use deities to ground law and order. Reality is essentially epistemological anarchy. You can believe anything, regardless of the truth of it. There are no “objective” truths written in the universe that could not be denied or challenged. And this presents a deep challenge for organizing human survival. Who is to say whether we should cut down the mangroves or not? And why should your opinion be the right one? What if someone else has a different one? This is a recipe for chaos and dysfunction. Thus, human societies do two things to ground law and order: 1) Appeal to some sort of higher authority 2) Enforce that appeal with violence You have to do both of these things, because just one is not enough. Without the appeal to a higher authority, you have no way to justify law. And without violence, someone could still always just disagree. So force is necessary. Modern liberal democracies do with the power of the judicial / legal system. You appeal to a higher authority (in this case “laws” that have been passed by government) and back it up with state-sponsored violence (police, national guard, military etc). But in stage purple societies, courts do not exist. And there really is no need for them to, given the size of these tribes vs modern nation states. Instead, law and order is grounded by appealing to the higher authority of supernatural deities. This solves a big chunk of the problem of epistemological anarchy, as there is now something considered beyond human opinion that we can point to and say “this is what’s true”. And of course it is still backed up with the second criteria of threat of violence. It really is an ingenious survival strategy. But of course in order for this to work, people must actually believe in the authority of these deities. Everything hangs on this. Thus, challenging the existence or authority of these deities would not just harmless critical thinking. No! You would be potentially threatening the entire survival strategy of that culture. It’s that serious.