WisdomSeeker

Needs to be suppressed. https://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-protests-planned-50-state-capitols-fbi-bulletin/story?id=75179771

@Leo Gura Makes sense and you have mentioned before that a person can be at different stages on different things, so I will revisit spiral dynamics and integral theory to better my understanding. Thanks for always being extremely thoughtful and concise with your answers.

@Leo Gura so are you saying you no longer think he is stage yellow/green or are you saying you can be stage yellow/green and still have aforementioned egoic tendencies? Yes, I think hes had aspects of this prior to, but this has really come to light in the last 1 to 2 years.

@Leo Gura Why is Joe Rogan included in here? I've heard you refer to him as stage green. I do realize he brings the likes of Jordan Peterson onto his podcasts and entertains his stupidity, but all in all, is he a funnel to the right-wing? Perhaps, I dont know Rogan's ideaological nuances enough.

@Leo Gura well done... great point.

@Husseinisdoingfine ride on. I'm 5 mins from it in VA.

@Leo Gura would you argue some parts of the world have already transitioned to Green i.e. Scandanavian countries?

@Sempiternity Agreed. To me this looks like the closest the US has been to a coup and noone seems to care.

This to me the writing is on the wall for a coup attempt. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/pentagon-policy-official-resigns/index.html What are Dems doing about this... to talk about anything else is stupid and naive. We can talk about healthcare and trivial crap like that after this is taken care of.

@Michael569 Solid post. Agreed. I'm 34 and although I've downshifted instead of taking a promotion, I realize I need to downshift more. I've waited and quit with a plan before, I haven' done so with a life purpose, yet. But your post about being 50 and no longer being able to leave, is one of my biggest fears. It's the quintessential example of "most men living lives of quiet desperation." I will say not finding life purpose in my career, but having time to invest in things that ground me spiritually, walks in nature, time to be present, etc., is just as important. I say this because I see many who follow their life purpose, but won't have time for these things in the forseeable future. So having time to BE, as oppossed to being consumed in the success of your LP, seems to be the biggest obstacle, and one I see many fail on. Many people's lives are run by their business, instead of them running their business. So, I say how you get there (non-neurotically), is just as important (if not more) that you get there. Those who have succeeded at this, seem to be the rare ones, and the ones I consider truly successful.

yup and wasn't like it was unconditional. "If you don't vote for me I will be upset with you." To a terminally ill man. lol

@Leo Gura and it's a long shot, but GA maybe. One can only dream.

@Leo Gura I assume Dems won't be taking the senate?

solid response.

exactly

Is there such a thing as absolute morality or meaning?Not subjective meaning or morality with a lower case m, but absolute meaning and morality with a capital M. If the purpose is life is to raise levels of consciousness and if the highest level of consciousness is oneness and pure love, is that not an absolute meaning of life and even a part of an absolute morality. I say absolute morality, not so much in a good or bad paradigm, but in a serving and non serving way or selfless selfish sort of way. If we are meant to unify with love and god, doing things thay get us closer to that vs things that take us further away is that not a cosmic morality, perhaps its semantics Im tripping up on.

@Inliytened1 thank you. This was the answer I was looking for.

I think this is it and not just western I think eastern as well. Honestly, I think the east has more to offee than the west in terms of psychology, spirtuality and trauma healing as it pertains to Indigenous peoples.

@Leo Gura I was pretty disappointed in your comment about Native Americans in your Stage Purple video. You seem to be pretty progressive and open- minded, but to suggest that had native americans assimilated more they wouldn't have experienced and continue to experience institutionalized genocide, is a gross over simplification. As knowledgeable as you are, I think your ignorance on native americans really showed in that video. Do you care to elaborate?

I wouldn't say worse than natives. you'd have to hit 60-75% unemployment. 50%+ alcoholism. Highest rates of being murdered by of police, sexual assaualt, victims of violence in the US. Some of the worst poverty rates in the US and all sorts of diseases as a result of culinary genocide and introduction of carbs, excessive meats, excessive sugars, dairy and grossly reduced fiber intake. Not to mention horrendous medical care and crippling poverty.

This was a toss up to include in this forum or the political one. Also, I realize Deism is Deism, there is no American Deism, but I am more curious for the sake of this question how Deism impacted America/the US. I find it interesting how most of the founding fathers were Deists as opposed to Christians, I question whether they were even truly Christian-Deists. I also find it interesting how Deism contributed to the Western enlightenment period (not to ne confused with eastern enlightenment). I think spiral dynamics would be a great model to explain the implications of Deism on American spiritual, intellectual and government/societal evolutions. We still have a far way to go, though, lol and have taken some steps back, but I'm hopeful for the future. Does anyone know about this subject?

Can you do a topic on Deism? How most of the founding fathers were Deists as opposed to Christians, and how Deism contributed to the Western enlightenment period (not to ne confused with eastern enlightenment). I think you could even include spiral dynamics and how using that model explained American spiritual, intellectual and government/societal evolutions. We still have a far way to go, though lol.

@Intraplanetary Don't think... BE...

@peachboyI love it.. great answer.

Yup, that's why I downplay how much I think I know, not out of the appearance of humility, but because I really wouldn't trust myself to even be able to gauge what I know. It's only in deep meditative states where I just know, and when I'm not in this states that I have to cultivate, then I'm in states where I'm not even conscious or connected to what I know. So, on any given day I'm in flux of these states. Knowing and not knowing.