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    I recently spent three months at this healing and transformation community called PachaMama in Costa Rica. It's as Stage Green as it gets. Would highly recommend it for anyone looking to dive deep into mediation, trauma healing, breathwork, dance, celebration, "plant medicine" ceremonies, body cleanses, amazing vegan food and music, and a community of likeminded Green (as well as Orange moving into Green) individuals from all over the world. Feel free to message me if you have any questions about it. It's heaven on earth especially during COVID when so much of the world is locked down.

     

  3. Posted · Edited by tuckerwphotography

    I've been compiling a list of Stage Green (or higher) communities ranging from eco villages to spiritual ashrams. Please add any to the list and share about your experiences.

     

    Tamera Peace Project, Portugal 

    Mooji Ashram, Portugal 

    Findhorn, UK

    Auroville, India

    Osho Ashram, Poona, India

    Amma Ashram, Southern India

    Sadhguru Ashram, India

    Plum Village, France

    InanItah, Nicaragua 

    Momentum Collective, Central America

    Hridaya Yoga, France & Mexico

    Hridaya Family, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico

    Refugio Terraza de la Tierra, Oaxaca, Mexico

    Tribal Village, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala 

    Krishna Village, Australia 

    Osho Risk, Denmark

    Karme-Choling, VT

    Monastic Academy, VT

    Possibility Alliance, Maine

    Dancing Rabbit Eco Village, Missouri 

    Ananda Village, Nevada City, CA

    The Abode of the Message, NY

    Yogaville, Virginia 

    Sivananda Ashram, Bahamas

    Angsbacka, Sweden 

    Future Thinkers Smart Village, Canada 

    Anuttara Ashram, Canada 

    Sadhguru Ashram, Tennessee 

    Arcosanti, Arizona

    Lama Foundation, New Mexico 

    Osho Afros, Greece

    Punta Mona Center, Costa Rica

    Finca Mia, Costa Rica

    PachaMama, Costa Rica

    Shunyamurti Sat Yoga Ashram, Costa Rica

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    Spent three months at this healing and transformation community called PachaMama in Costa Rica. It's as Stage Green as it gets. Would highly recommend it for anyone looking to dive deep into mediation, trauma healing, dance, celebration, plant medicine ceremonies, body cleanses, amazing vegan food and music, and a community of likeminded Green individuals from all over the world. Feel free to message me if you have any questions about it. It's heaven on earth especially during COVID when so much of the world is locked down.

     

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    My friend wants to start a retreat center that combines Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Step Program with psychedelic treatments to help break addictions to street drugs and alcohol. It would be a longterm residency program. He is a recovering addict himself and has had success with Ayahuasca and Iboga to help uncover some severe childhood trauma that was likely one of the root causes of his addiction. 

    I told him I would ask on this forum if others here have had success breaking their addictions via psychedelics and would be willing to share their stories and advice for others looking to do the same. Feel free to message me privately if you'd prefer.

    Interestingly, apparently Bill who founded AA used LSD to help him overcome his alcoholism, though it isn't talked about much nor is widely known. Many (perhaps most) people in AA feel psychedelics are breaking sobriety, so it is heavily frowned upon, perhaps in part for good reason as obviously they can be abused. My friend is hoping to prevent this by creating a strong container with a holistic treatment approach in a longterm residency setting. Curious to hear peoples thoughts on this. Thanks! 

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    @erik8lrl Love your thinking! One of the big challenges I see is that especially thanks to the internet we can all create our own reality, so Orange has its own bubble, Green has theirs, and Yellow certainly has their own, too. It's so rare for healthy cross-pollination amongst the stages, and when I have seen it, it usually ends in bickering and further entrenchment of one's current worldview. I just had a Green person quote Daniel Schmachtenberger back to me as an example for why his outlandish conspiracy theory views should be taken seriously. Everyone sees and hears what they want, cherry picking this or that to fill in their existing worldview. Yellow, at least, is aware of it.

    So my question is, how can Yellow folks appeal to other stages in a way that invites people up and through the spiral? Leo seems like a rare example of someone who has been able to do this, and I suspect it's partly because he started at Orange and brought his audience alongside with him as he himself evolved. Curious to hear others thoughts on this...

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    1 hour ago, Dryas said:

    @tuckerwphotography I don’t think that’s it tbh. I’ve seen a few Trump supporters pretend and some hardcore conservatives pretend to be spiritual too. 

    @Dryas These are some of my good friends I'm talking about, not random people I briefly met. They're not Trump supporters nor "pretending" to be spiritual (whatever that means)...though I do know some of those folks too :)

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    @tuckerwphotography Perhaps although I have to ask how old the people you're talking to are? I just don't see what you see so maybe possibly those folks still have some boomer-ish ideas depending on the age.

    @Dryas Young, 20-35 mainly, similar to the women featured in the film in my original post. But generally these are folks who have done a good amount of inner healing transformational work and are spiritually attuned to some degree, so that might be a factor. Not sure, tbh.

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    @Parththakkar12 @Dryas I think you're both pointing to aspects of the full picture. Part of the discussion I've seen is about deconstructing gender roles and other parts involve flattening/deconstructing any differences between men and women, which feels somewhat like a pathology of reality, which people like Jordan Peterson and others have made a living out of attacking. 

    So, is it possible both of you are partly accurate? 

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    8 minutes ago, soos_mite_ah said:

    Separating masculinity and femininity from a gender binary is important to be able to integrated both polarities instead of limiting ourselves based on what we are told to be by gender roles. 

    @soos_mite_ah This was exactly what I would say to my Green friends at this spiritual community, and, to my surprise, the women kept saying to me, "Ya ya, we all have the masculine and feminine energy within us, but at the end of the day the guy I desire to have by my side should embody his strong masculine energy because what I really want is to fully bask in my divine feminine energy." I found it refreshing to hear, basically acknowledging that the different genders do offer a polarity to each other that is "sacred" and shouldn't be flattened or discarded in the name of social progress, which is often the dialogue that I encounter online. 

    @Lyubov Agree, these are just personal anecdotes, and I've certainly had conversations with more "radical" Green activist friends that have a more hardline view about the topic. So yes, it's a diverse spectrum of perspectives - good point. It's interesting to think about which of these perspectives will win out in the long run or if they'll be integrated together into a cohesive whole, as @soos_mite_ah is suggesting. 

  19. Posted · Edited by tuckerwphotography

    While living at a Stage Green spiritual community the past few months, the topic of masculine vs feminine energy came up on a nearly daily basis. From the discussions I had, it was surprising to hear how much Stage Green women re-embrace the differences between the two genders and actually desire men who embody what might be considered "traditional" gender qualities and roles. Based off MeToo and so much of the online social commentary, I would have suspected the opposite, that Green women would further flatten the differences between men and women and balk at any notion that men provide something women cannot (or don't want to provide), and vice versa.  

    What I'm realizing now is that much of the mainstream feminist commentary is perhaps more grounded in Orange than true Green. Orange brings this idea of universal rights and women being able to do everything men can do, including all the gender qualities more typically associated with men (like being a dominating corporate executive embodying masculine energy qualities). Green, on the other hand, seems to value authenticity over conforming to the mainstream masculine society, and they seem to re-embrace celebrating the differences between the two genders in a way that almost feels closer to Blue than Orange.

    It's also interesting to think about how this further evolves with Stage Yellow once that comes more online. Currently it feels the most prominent Yellow voices out there are all men. 

    This video interviewing Green women does a good job highlighting my findings. Curious to hear others' perspectives, particularly any women on the forum.

     

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    3 hours ago, aurum said:

    Totally, I see that in some of my new age friends as well. Seems like you and I always end up talking about Green traps, we must both be spending too much time around greenies xD

    @aurum Haha perhaps! Though to be fair I started this thread talking about Yellow traps! ;) I guess the traps are everywhere...it’s almost like God boobytrapped his own game ?

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    3 hours ago, aurum said:

    My perspective is that he is still solidly in Yellow. He has been doing this for years and years and has consistently demonstrated that integrated awareness over time. If he did legitimately backslide, I’d be pretty shocked.

    I don’t think he’s backslid in terms of his actual level of development, I just suspect he might be writing from a slightly shadowy aspect of his intellect / intuition rather than his usually clear cognition. But of course, that’s just my perspective. Maybe I’m the one projecting the shadow, and he’s bringing the clarity ;)

  22. Posted · Edited by tuckerwphotography

    13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    The people ARE the system.

    There can't be a wise system when fools make up a majority of the base.

    The people are as much to blame as the elites.

    Which is why democracy requires well-educated people. The American Founding Fathers said this explicitly and they knew what they were talking about.

    An overly simplified perspective: The People created the System which created the Problems that the more evolved People are now complaining about and blaming the System for when in large part it's the People themselves that are ultimately responsible. Green wants to solely blame the System because blaming the People isn't very kind ;) And perhaps it's easier to play victim than to take responsibility for our collective reality. 

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    @aurum Well said, I resonate with your comments. 

    Again, it's super subtle, but I'm perhaps on the lookout for these types of one-sided-leaning arguments as I recently spent three months at a Green-centric spiritual community in Costa Rica where conspiracy theories about "the system" were rampant and out of control. When I read Charles' essay, I feel it subtly gives fuel to this fire which is burning down logic and reason, which like you said is ironically something Charles normally delivers in spades. I feel we/society need his balanced Yellow-leaning perspective more than ever, and I worry his burnout and disillusionment with the world is shadowing his perspective in an unfortunate way. But okay, life goes on. There are bigger fish to fry :)

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    9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Haha

    No, for that they would have to be open to stage Green. Which they aren't.

    Be careful not to romanticize ignorant people. An ignorant person is not capable of love and harmony.

    @Leo Gura Yes that's my point. I'm saying that I felt Charles Eisenstein was subtly suggesting this in his latest essay, which I take issue with, per your point.

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    38 minutes ago, aurum said:

    What do you feel was an example of his perspective shifting to a more radical green?

    This is what I sent to my friend when we discussed the topic last week:

    What I found off about Charles’s latest essay is the implication (which perhaps I’m constructing and is not what he’s actually saying) is that if it weren’t for “the system” Q supporters would be environmental hippies advocating for love and harmony. But because of “the machine” these humans are victims to conspiracy theories. I see this perspective as failing to take into account the evolutionary nature of human psychology. Most Q supporters are also Evangelical Christians, so even before Trump they believed crazy shit (from our postmodern perspective). Q is just a new iteration of the same mythic level beliefs that people at that level of ego dev and consciousness tend to believe. For me the question is how to help people evolve in their worldviews rather than blaming the worldviews they hold on the powers that be, since ultimately the powers that be are just a reflection of the people they serve. For me this perspective is more empowering and creates agency rather than despair, which I sometimes sense in his writing lately. Both perspectives contain an aspect of the truth, but I feel he’s veering too far in one direction while losing the more meta perspective which he usually holds.