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    On 3/25/2021 at 0:36 AM, BettyStreet said:

    @Slade Hi, I've read/watched quite a lot of stuff re Dave Goggins and Eckhart Tolle.  Both very different men, but both indicate that suffering is essential for growth and awareness.  What I can't quite get my head round is whether we should be striving to improve ourselves as people (as Goggins suggests), or whether we should accept who we are, which is more along the lines of what Eckhart suggests.  Both men tell us that facing up to things in life and dealing with them will involve suffering at some point, which will lead to growth and awareness.   But the Goggins "way" - is this merely for the egoic mind, the drive to become the mentally strongest person that you can possibly be?  Is it necessary?  

    @BettyStreet

     

  5. Posted

    I'm contemplating taking an integral coaching course with New Ventures West. I've done informal coaching before and feel I would be a good fit for it, but I'm questioning whether I need to spend $14,000 on a certification process. My niche would be Purpose Guiding helping others (mainly late Orange and Green) to discover their Soul's purpose. Basically guiding people on a similar journey to what I went through over the past few years. It would be more of a supplemental side gig for me, not a full-time vocation.

    Would be curious to hear from others who are coaches and their advice on the necessity of certification vs creating a clever niche and attracting clients via word of mouth. 

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    2 hours ago, RossE said:

    Another of mine is getting too caught up in categorising people and theorising about their worldview rather than really listening to what they're saying. I think this is possible at many other stages but when at Yellow you can intuit other people's level of consciousness and can see vMemes "talking through" them, this theorising is much more potent. Can be useful, can also be harmful. 

    @RossE I do this, too! I try to stop myself, but on some level it's just happening whether I want to or not. 

  8. Posted · Edited by tuckerwphotography

    @jjer94 Glad you're safe, brother. Thanks for sharing your account. Not that I know you or anything, but feel called to say that it might be wise to meet with a therapist once the dust settles. PTSD is real in these types of situations, and better to work with that material while it's fresh than to have it get buried deep in your psyche and surface years later. I suspect trauma itself is ultimately the root of these shootings, which only causes more trauma, and the cycle goes on and on.

    Sending love your way and to the entire Boulder community.

  9. Posted · Edited by tuckerwphotography

    @Flyboy Sounds wild! I'm curious to learn more about how the flowing between planes experience is for her. It sounds like she's a bit more far out into the Subtle/4D world than I tend to experience. 

    One of the main aspects of it for me is that I am aware, in the moment, of every thought that surfaces as being groundless aka only a microcosmic aspect of the truth, and that all of it is constructed and based off infinite numbers of other variables a tiny fraction of which we're only aware of in any given moment. Essentially each thought I have can be easily deconstructed back to Nothing, which makes everything feel groundless. Sometimes I wonder what the point of saying anything at all is, while at the same time wanting to create highly dynamic maps and understandings of life which is paradoxical to the groundless nature of that which is being mapped in the first place.

    The consequence of that for me personally is that it sometimes feels like everyone is talking about a movie as if it's real life, but I observe it as just a scene in a movie, but I don't yet feel like the audience watching or the pixels creating the movie, I'm still stuck as the character inside of the movie, but I know and feel that it's just a movie. I've experienced myself as the audience/pixels many times, but always fleeting, which makes it hard to go back to being the actor knowing that I'm acting, like Truman going back to The Truman Show after he finds out it's a show.

    I started identifying with Ego/Construct Aware in the past year after a few major psychedelic blastoffs combined with deep study of development psychology and the evolution of consciousness (stages of awakening), as well as mediation, etc. The time I really identified with it and realized that I'm starting to have my center of gravity mostly at this stage was when I read this book which uses EDT as a framework for psychotherapy. This was about five months ago. I started crying while I was reading it because I felt like somebody finally articulated my lived experience of the world, and despite living at a spiritual community, I hadn't met anyone else who could relate to this experience. 

    Culturally, I still most identify with green/YELLOW values. I sometimes find it silly how seriously everyone is taking their own reality. Yet another part of me is deeply envious, nostalgic for a time in my life when I could be super passionate about something because I felt in my bones that it was "right" and "the truth." I see through that all now, which is so freeing but also ungrounding. I'm most passionate about observing others and mapping in my mind different people, ideas, beliefs, systems, world views, etc. It's all new to me, and yet at the same time I've always enjoyed people watching and was a documentary filmmaker, so it's same same just with different software running through my brain, so to speak.

    Would be curious to hear more about your experience and how it's all unfolded for ya!

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    I don't see a Yellow nation as being pacifists. That's more extreme Green. Yellow would probably use stealth technology and elites forces to take out key leaders and dismantle the structures in covert and overt ways that are allowing the regime to operate, followed by a humanitarian response via a coalition of nation, NGOs and organizations with the specific qualifications to do the job in an efficient, competent and thoughtful way. It would be a multi-pronged approach aiming to minimize civilian loss while ensuring multiple backup plans to prevent quagmires. 

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    In addition to what @Parththakkar12 said, Stage Blue folks also tend to be very principled, to stick to their guns (for better or worse), and to be motivated by something larger than their own ego, in a sense. Yellow shares these values, motivated by a larger mission or life purpose and sticking their their highly refined principles rather than conforming to mainstream society. Blue also gets shit done while Green far too often just spends hours talking about it, which Yellow values. 

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    The map is not meant to be a linear pyramid. Maslow never intended for this...the pyramid concept was actually created by an ad agency to help market it, without Maslow's consent.

    That said, in generally the more that lower needs are met the more one can grow to meet higher needs, but even those at Self-Actualized can have unmet lower needs, like Love, Community, Money, etc. And those who are "poorest" like tribes and those in developing nations might have a strong sense of community and have esteem needs met but are lacking in safety or physiological needs. 

    I recommend this book if you're curious to read more about Maslow. 

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    31 minutes ago, Flyboy said:

      It's hard to see beyond this unless you have experienced it... and while I am not there yet myself, I have a housemate who is at the "Ego-aware" stage, and it is just a different ballgame.  She is in "flow" always.  Her entire world is flow.  It's a quantum leap.  So, that's where I see the distinction between Yellow-ish and Turquoise.

    @Flyboy My personal experience of Construct/Ego Aware is not always as glamorous as being in a constant state of flow. I'd caution using your roommate as a descriptor for everyone at this stage (though I'd love to meet her and hear more about her experiences). 

    In my experience, Ego Aware can be a pretty existential mindfuck that is at times destabilizing and ungrounding. Almost like one foot in two worlds - not fully "inside" nor "outside" of "the ego," a no-man's land of sorts. Can often feel lonely and isolating to not have anyone in my life (except for one friend I recently met) who can relate to the way I often perceive life. There's certainly a lot of flow compared to earlier stages, and that comes with a deep trust in the universe which vastly reduces anxiety, etc. But it's certainly not all roses all the time. 

    Below are a few quotes from EDT that highlight the challenges of this stage:

    “Ego-aware individuals start to pay attention to their own emotional and rational processing patterns. To watch oneself trying to make sense is intriguing and absorbing and can become all-consuming. Living at the edge of meaning and meaninglessness can be exhilarating at times and frustrating at others. Whether individuals at this level focus more on the liberating aspects of their awareness or more on the disillusionment and sense of loss that come with this mindset probably depends on many factors: among them personality type, the company of understanding others, and general life circumstances.”

    “One must learn to live in the tension of the paradox that as a human being one must embrace one’s need for meaning while, simultaneously, understanding the futility of such an endeavor.“

    “Ego-aware individuals report more often than people at earlier stages that they are watching or witnessing the parades of thoughts and feelings come and go without trying to direct them. Thus, they experience moments of freedom from the ego’s constant efforts at control and self-affirmation. Yet, at this stage, such experiences are short-lived. As soon as one evaluates and judges them, the magic is broken.”

    “Sometimes Ego-aware folks express a sense of envy at the simplicity of earlier periods because their own world is experienced as so complex. However, given their ego maturity, most are capable of arriving at a dynamic and hopeful balance within these fundamental conflicts: They fulfill their perceived or chosen destiny independently and courageously in full realization of their basic despair and aloneness.”

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    @Flyboy Yes agree. I’m familiar with EDT - just said Yellow as it’s more commonly referred to here. 

    2 hours ago, Flyboy said:

    Yellow is roughly the equivalent of the "construct-aware" phase just prior to being "ego-aware", which is where all the really high velocity spiritual growth starts to happen.

    From my POV, both construct and ego aware are a fairly high level of ego dev, and the majority of Yellow is more Stage 5 Strategist/Autonomous. Does this align with your understanding?

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    Something I've noticed about a lot of the beloved Stage Yellow thinkers out there is that they sometimes tend to critique and complain about everyone and everything. Yes, Green can be overly optimistic to the point of naivety, but Yellow seems to go into these dark meta perspectives which fail to see The Miracle of This Present Moment which Turquoise embodies. There's very few Turquoise people I've seen who tend to critique as much as Yellow, which leads me to believe this is a shadow aspect specific to Yellow's worldview (and the perhaps lack of embodied awakening). 

    I recognize I might be projecting my own shadows onto this. That said, do others feel similarly, or is it just me?

     

  18. Posted

    Love the concept of UBI but have two questions about it:

    1. I’m not an economist so sorry if this is a dumb question, but if everyone gets free money wouldn’t the entire currency inflate and prices of goods would increase to match the increase in capital people have? If so, how to address this?

    2. Our government hasn’t even figured out nor agreed to have medical care for all Americans. How likely is it that the federal government could implement UBI in a way that doesn’t blow up the federal budget by trillions without a major reshuffling of our national values and expenditures? Perhaps UBI is most realistic as a state-by-state measure until enough of the population comes on board and then it scales up federally?

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    Agree that for now eco villages are a bit of luxury for the privileged few (much like universities were in the past and to some extent still today), but I also see them as laboratories and incubators for new ways of living combining time-tested practices and ancient systems with modern technology, which creates a globalized yet decentralized platform for emergent solutions to organically arise. Similar to how the Google campus creates an ecosystem for prototypes that have the potential to scale globally and drastically alter the ways in which humans interact. Some eco village in the middle of nowhere can come up with a new practice or method for x, y or z, and with the power of the internet it can go global in days, something the government in most cases cannot pull off due to the complexity inherent in that system. And something corporations are not incentivized to do (yet) due to capitalism’s competing values.
     

    Will be interesting to see how the Future Thinkers project evolves. They definitely have a lot of smart people helping to make it happen. 

  22. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Chris365 said:

    Until the separate individual is realized as illusory, it needs stories, to make the conditioning more transparent and conscious. Which seems to happen there "it gives me a sense of mission that makes me feel as if there's so much to Do (must awaken!) ". Ask yourself, who must awaken? The person that thinks it must awaken, won't make it ;)

    @Chris365 That's exactly what I'm getting at...that these stories have a shadow side, which is that they make the ego think there's something to "do" which ironically could prolong the need for the story in the first place. Know what I mean? I'm not suggesting that we don't need stories or shouldn't use them, just highlighting something I've experienced on my own journey, as I'm sure others can relate to.

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    12 hours ago, Moksha said:

    Every story is fiction. The only truth is directly realized. Even these words are narrative in the story, but maybe they can help point you to setting down the book, and being.

    @Moksha Isn’t everything Truth, including truth? Doesn’t Truth with a capital T transcend and include everything below it, so in a sense, isn’t truth (however one defines this) also a part of Truth? If so, how does one define the difference for practical purposes, knowing ultimately they are One (if that’s true)?

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    @Chris365 @Moksha Yes, I get it. I just wonder sometimes if the story about waking up to Life/Spirit/Infinity is just adding another layer of Doing that is distracting from Being in the name of Becoming. I hope that makes sense.

    I listened to this podcast about Conscious Evolution yesterday and felt very resonate with everything that was said, but I couldn't help feel it created simply a higher order story with attractive labels like "meaning" and "purpose" that overshadows the awakening part. Obviously both Being and Becoming are necessary, I think it'll be interesting to witness what happens when more and more people start capitalizing (literally and metaphorically) on the story of Life Awakening to Life. Of course, I'd rather have people conforming to that story than any other, but I also witness in myself how it gives me a sense of mission that makes me feel as if there's so much to Do (must awaken!) rather than "getting" the deeper meaning which is to Be and allow Life to flow naturally. Don't worry, I see the holes in my own narrative. I'm just sharing for the sake of conversation with you...I mean, me.