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Don't tell anyone, but I rented a room for 10 days for half a dollar per night. It was very poorly equipped but still it was an incredibly cheap retreat. I could live there forever, but unfortunately I don't even have enough money to cover such a low rent.

For males, Alpha is overly masculine and Beta is overly feminine. For females, it's the other way around. Although, it gets nuanced depending on the environment. Basically, Alphas are the ones with the highest status within any given hierarchy. That's the rule of thumb here. For example, Leo here is the most Alpha among us. However, compared to teachers, it's different. Compared to self-help/spiritual teachers, Leo is much more Sigma than Alpha. Within another hierarchy, like being a YouTuber, Leo is somewhat Alpha and somewhat more Omega. https://themindfool.com/alpha-vs-beta-vs-gamma-vs-omega-vs-delta-vs-sigma-personality

This, Or the other way around.. You can work on your self in isolation and discover who you truly are, and who you truly are is an attractive social genius entity.

Drop all the BS advice and don't do anything at all. Self-help implies changing yourself because you hate yourself. The only reason you'd be listening to any advice is because you hate yourself as you are and want to become something else. But examine exactly what you are, and what you want to become. And see that you really don't want to become anything else other than your current self. You want to be at peace, and peace is found right here and now, not somewhere else in the future when you become "better". Notice the subtle difference between being and becoming. Notice that you are already what you seek. Notice that you are already whole and don't actually lack anything at all, and that no amount of change/becoming can ever change that, neither up nor down.

Time is an illusion created by the mind. Awareness is not aware or unaware. Awareness does not even exist. That's how empty it is.

Turning off the monkey-mind after it's done its work, that's all, cuz the mind is a workaholic.

Only problem is that it works both ways.

@SpYITB Infinity is not really as mysterious as it sounds. It just means lack of limitations. Have you ever experienced a limitation? Another approach; This reality we live in, is it limited? Why would anyone even assume it to be limited? What is a limitation, really? And aren't all limitations imposed upon reality by the mind?

It could be both. Non-existence refers to a thought that does not refer to a certain direct experience (i.e. absence of a certain phenomenon), and rather refers to any other direct experience (phenomenon) except that one. In other words, non-existence refers to the direct experience of a something else.

Congratulations @Leo Gura

Honestly, I don't see a difference between the two.

This is interesting, although does not resonate with me. What is being a human exactly? And can someone not be a human per se?

Nope. I mean not from an external source. This is very important to contemplate. Only you can love yourself. All external love is imaginary by you, and it never substitutes for your own love. Imagine a scenario where you love someone very deeply and they love you back. But then at a certain point they turn out to be an imposter. You'll realize that they never loved you, not even a bit, and in fact they were using you as means to an end, even though you were feeling the love regardless of their truth. How's that possible? Well, you tell me.

By using a third-party, or an external objective observer, like a clock.

I can totally see the validity of their way of being! It's crazy that to me, Blue is the same as Orange and Green, and even Yellow, only in different flavours and levels of complexity. I see them all in the same way, ideologies.

It's okay, I always liked watching people riding the roller-coaster. I never desired trying it for myself out of curiosity, even though I did try it somehow partially against my will. Sorry about that. Lesson acquired. Take care.

Well, first of all, labelling it as "regression" is already a mistake. Because who determines what progress is and what regression is? The model? But that's the thing that we're questioning here. Second, now that we're clear on point number one, we can't use the model in question for our new possible explanations. And we certainly have to find other models or ways of thinking to see if it makes sense. Third, I believe this is how people at SD tier two view things, but perhaps much more complicated than just this, so congratulations myself for starting to glimpse that lol. That being said, I don't know where to go with this, sorry ? Yeah, actually there's this other developmental model that Leo talked about recently, it's called the 9 stages of ego development. It focuses on the individual trends, but it's kinda similar to SD in its line of thinking.

Life is a bipolar experiment, no? ?

You selfish minx

It's both refreshing and mind-opening to see some potential evidence against Spiral Dynamics. It makes me wonder if the developmental models are biased by the progressive agenda.

"Soon" - out of infinity - could mean a billion years, or a billion times more, or more

It depends on how much control you want to have over your life. And control = neurosis. The more nuanced you get with your thinking, the more neurotic you probably are. You could always just let things go and be okay with life. And at the same time you can still keep your boundaries. There's no need to be neurotic over boundaries. Whoever likes me as I am, they're welcome. Whoever doesn't, there's 7 billion minus two other people to try their chances with. I will not change for anyone for whatever reason and I will never negotiate my boundaries unless I want to. If people aren't happy with that, they're totally free to find themselves some other friends. Believe it or not, this attitude is actually more attractive than the needy/negotiable/lacking self-love attitude.

Sure, if you're not aware enough. Nice.

@Martin123 Sorry dude, but it's the exact opposite. We don't actually have any emotional needs, not on the most fundamental level. Emotions are delusions created out of desire. They're the reason why everyone is not enlightened. Emotion = desire = attachment. It's extremely toxic to have emotions, but that's not to say we have to suppress them. Instead, we have to become aware of them until they vanish and disappear.