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@tuckerwphotography Nice I'm only slightly familiar with Jim Rutt, haven't heard of the others. Thanks for the suggestions!

He has a ton of amazing content on the Stoa YouTube channel. His "Dharma Inquiry" talk is one of my favorites. Check out my notes here: https://www.notion.so/pranab/Dharma-Inquiry-with-Daniel-Schmachtenberger-1b6fdfa69a674e4fa9dea37f804ab06b There are a few interactive talks with him on Stoa.ca every now and then! Also highly rec the podcasts Emerge, Rebel Wisdom, and Future Thinkers (in that order) for similar meta/"stage yellow" content

Peter Wang, the ceo of Anaconda.com is a highly conscious thinker. Slightly familiar with integral theory/spiral dynamics and would probably mostly in stage yellow

No, it's not possible. More dangerously, by striving to achieve pleasant emotions and vilifying unpleasant emotions, we're putting greater distance between ourselves and the present moment. Ironically, by learning to let go of that need and just accepting what we're feeling fully, we'll actually probably feel better after (but that's not the focus). Reality is impermanent, and living with reality more fully is what i consider Truth. That doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy pleasant emotions and generate them when you can. There are a lot of great meditation practices (metta, pleasant body sensation focused shamatha) that actually encourage this, and they're very useful when you are feeling difficult emotions. But they help because instead of "ignoring" or suppressing the unpleasant emotion, you're fully feeling them until they pass. Getting started with a habit of meditation is the best thing you can do. Later on you can start focusing on different styles of meditation that cultivate different things. Check out Sharon Salzburg and Kristen Neff for the metta/compassion stuff and Michael Taft & Shinzen Young for nondual/awareness meditations. Best of luck!

Awesome takes and discussion - Thanks Leo & Milos!

Interesting stuff! Seems useful to study for a new generation. A lot of Democrats often think that they're purely "smarter" than Republicans. While that's often partially true (blue -> green), it's useful IMO to break that out with Ken Wilber's waking up and growing up. Even with stage green complexity (postmodern deconstruction of systems), you can get people like Bannon that understand what's going on but have a completely different and (imo) devilish take. Seems like it comes from a lack of waking up - their spiritual dimension is stuck in a lower rung, there's some narcissism going on, obsession with power, etc. Your cult videos explain some of it too probably. Anyway, too much to kind of conceptualize in a comment. I think it's useful for others on the forum to watch so we can increase our understanding, expand our perspectives, and reduce our stereotyping/labeling of the side we don't agree with. Seems like it's necessary for collective yellow 'preciate the response Leo! Watching your videos from high school on have changed my life and made me how I am.

I highly recommend watching at least the first 20 minutes of this Steve Bannon interview with PBS: I kind of just wrote off Bannon and Breitbart as crazy racists. While he's definitely corrupt, manipulative, and (probably) xenophobic, he's also got a pretty solid grasp of the systems that have run American life and the excesses of neolib/neocon capitalism. His description of what's been happening sound like they could've come straight from Bernie or AOC. Later you see that his values & solution to the problems are far, far different, it definitely broadened my perspective. A few quotes that explain this: "The voiceless working class and lower middle class had no representation. Theyve been voting for Republicans that work exactly against their economic interest". "Here's the joke: Amerian elites have allowed the nation to decline. They've managed the decline with benefit to them and unacceptable outcomes to average citizens because they [elites] don't have to bear the brunt of it" "There's left wing populism and there's right wing populism. They're about more state involvement to solve these problems while we're about tearing them down". The day to day sensationalism we see in the news about events and Trump's personality (while important) somewhat distracts from bigger things that are also valuable. Questions like - how did the neocons recon with right populism? How should DSA/left populism address neolibs? And more personally - how can we set aside our personal biases and reactions to learn from someone we may despise?