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NYTimes article about how Green is deconstructing the term "white supremacy" and expanding the label's usage. Reading the comments are interesting - lots of backlash. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/white-supremacy.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

I've been thinking about this a lot but have concluded that it's fairly easy to see through an Expert/Achiever who has Green values but is still at SD Orange. For example, a lot of college kids are pro environment but eat factory farmed food and shop at Walmart and don't really give a fuck beyond their Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. You could say they have "Green" values, but I think this often is a surface level political analysis not a true investigation of their personal values, like actually putting their money where their mouth is and buying local, organic, vegan, etc. Also, despite the rhetoric, their thinking and priorities likely don't fully align with Green like consensus decision making, community-centric, truly having empathy for all living beings, etc.

Have you tried really letting yourself grieve? I don't mean a few tears here or there, I mean full on grieve. I find if the energy of grief is still stuck in my system that it becomes a constant reminder of the pain rather than allowing it to move through my system.

@Forestluv Can you write us a paragraph in Yellow language? That would be a fun way to break down SD by writing the same paragraph using different language representing each stage

@Heart of Space I think it's both/and. Thinking POC struggle because of their own actions is Orange thinking. Yellow sees that both Orange and Green have truths and is able to integrate them. Reparations may be a part of the overall package to help those who are ancestors of slavery, but it would be one of many ways to help POC not a magic cure-all.

There's already a thread about Green to Orange regression.

@Opo Yeah, "conservaties" are not one group of people as I'm sure you know. They are millions of people all over the country who live vastly diverse lifestyles ranging from Amish to Wall Street to trailer parks to suburbia. It's tricky business to generalize.

@Opo Many very traditional, religious and conservative communities like the Amish have some of the highest rates of happiness in the US. Why? They have community, meaning, purpose, connection to nation, traditions, culture. So many of the very things that many liberals living in urban areas lack. I recommend reading the book Tribe by Sebastian Junger. https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381

@Nahm Thank you for sharing your story. It really helps to hear in detail your path and journey. I appreciate the substance and care you (as Oneness) put into all your posts Much love!

@herghly Yes, eventually, but it's important to first learn the skillsets and practice by doing it with a trained professional first, IMO.

Just watched "I Am Greta" documentary. Very intimate portrait of her journey. Great access by the filmmaker.

IFS is fantastic and has been very helpful in my journey. I highly recommend giving it a try! A similar approach that is a bit more systemic and integral is Bill Plotkin's "Wild Mind." Lots of overlap with IFS but more expansive. https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Mind-Field-Guide-Psyche/dp/1608681785

Well written. Thanks for sharing. Is the "even bigger firework" what some refer to as the singularity? If so, are there an infinite amount of singularities that have all already taken place in the "split second" that all of creation was created?

Write down your insights as you begin to come down.

@justfortoday Bingo. Thank you. You have a talent for teaching these concepts. Thanks for sharing on this forum

@justfortoday If you are not presently in my Awareness, do you still exist?

Yesterday while on a psilocybin journey I was looking at my sister and could not tell if she actually existed as a conscious being in the Dream that I AM, or if she is just an optical illusion that my Dream character is projecting onto the illusion of "reality." Is my conceptual assumption that she is a conscious being with thoughts, emotions and unique individual experiences a "real" part of the Dream, or are all those assumptions just concepts arising in Awareness, and she is actually just an illusion that will disappear when I return to infinite consciousness, aka once my Dream character dies?

@LastThursday Because it's fascinating to contemplate, that's why! Obviously I'm not going to start treating my sister as if she's not real. I just find it super interesting to deconstruct my mind and the Dream that this is

Thanks, yeah, this is how it seemed at the time, and it's what resonates now as well.

@SirVladimir Thank you, Dream brother. That is exactly what I needed to hear today. Love you.

I had a pretty intense journey yesterday on 3.5 grams of psilocybin. It's not a huge dose, so I was not expecting the journey to be so...not even sure what the right word is. Pure Love. Here are 10 insights: I AM. I AM everything. I AM anything that arises in Awarenesses and Awareness itself. I AM the entire Dream. There is nothing else. It’s all right here right now. I am Nothingness experiencing Somethingness. The separation of Nothingness into Somethingness is Love. Love wants to experience itself in infinite ways. This is the Dream of Separation. Everything is the Dream. There is nothing but Nothingness and Nothingness experiencing itself as Somethingness. Whatever is arising in Awareness is what Love wants to experience. All of this is so Nothingness can experience anything and everything. The Dream is infinitely complex to create depth and diversity of experience, which is infinite Love. Every single thing that this Dream character called Tucker experiences is exactly what wants to be experienced. Everything. Every thought, every sensation, every emotion, every moment. It’s all happening for no other reason than to be experienced. To experience is to Love. Nothing exist unless Love wants it to exist. If I want to experience a hurricane, then a hurricane exist as a concept in Awareness. Otherwise, a hurricane does not exist. The construct of Time adds depth and complexity to the Dream that Nothingness is experiencing as Somethingness. Time infinitely expands the possibilities of experiences in the Dream. Every single thing that I as Nothingness am experiencing is because I want to experience exactly this. Everything that is unfolding in my awareness at this very moment is exactly exactly exactly what wants to be experienced. Everything is perfect. Knowing this is the greatest freedom, because even experiences the Dream character Tucker feels that are “bad” like sadness, pain, or even forgetting that he’s Nothingness is all part of exactly what Love wants to experience. It’s like a game that you can never loose. Accept everything that arises in Awareness as Love because that’s exactly what it is.

Anyone know of a stage Yellow critique or analysis of socialism as a political model for the US? By “socialism” I mean social democracy. Is Scandinavian-style socialism the inevitable next step for America (assuming all hell doesn’t break loose in November and we keep evolving as a nation)?

I just watched this Leo video about Self-Actualization, and it sounds like there's a ton of overlap with Stage Yellow in Spiral Dynamics. My question is: Can somebody be Self-Actualized (as described by Maslow) and be at a lower stage in Spiral Dynamics? I'm presuming the answer is yes, but it does seem like S.A. and Yellow have a significant amount of similar characteristics. Thanks for any thoughts.

@Loving Radiance Climate change, collapse of economies, potentially collapse of all of western society, ever-increasing polarization leading to civil war, etc. Not saying any of this is guaranteed to happen in our lifetimes, but historically speaking it wouldn't come as a surprise given the way things are trending.

@hoodrow trillson I was speaking more broadly to their overall campaign strategy, not specially Harris' debate performance. As I said in an earlier post, I thought she did exactly what she needed to do (and I think Pence did as well). Maybe consider that your perspective is coming from only one vantage point and that the entire country doesn't see things the exact same way you do. You say authoritatively that Trump is imploding on himself and is "coming off as a meek, incompetent president." That is your perspective, but literally millions of other Americans have the exact opposite perspective as you, and they have the same voting power as you do: one vote. This isn't about some objective truth, it's about how the 200+ million voters in America subjectively feel about the candidates. After 2016 when the media and polls and most Americans were somehow left shocked, we should perhaps humble ourselves before proclaiming such definite declarations, IMO. These are uncluttered waters the country is swimming in, and nobody knows how it will play out. There's still an entire month before the election - anything could happen.