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@Buba No, I never know when to shut up.

Self care, distraction, laughter, time with friends. Mindfulness is great but you need some joy in your life. Everyone does. Hugs.

@Marc Schinkel Why specifically not Esther Hicks? @Truth Addict Still water reflects but can never be broken. I had a dream/insight that the "fountain of life" and a black hole are the same thing. You throw a rock into a lake and water shoots upwards from the force trying to equalize itself again. You can make quite a splash though, or a tsunami.

Oh shit.

@jbram2002 YOU'RE RIGHT! I have to forgive him the man cold don't I?

@jbram2002 There was that one video Eckhart Tolle I saw where he had a cold, and I think he was pretty annoyed with the world.

We're all like radios, we have to tune into a channel. It's not that you can be enlightened or not. You can be in tune or out of tune. Sometimes you'll talk to your Mom and she will be an enlightened master. Other times she will be very unconscious. Our own state of consciousness also somewhat determines states of consciousness or attunement from other people. We mirror them, and them us.

That was last year.

You're stage green. Otherwise you'd appreciate my ever so slightly racist jokes and let me watch Trump speeches and documentaries without screaming at me for it.

What if I enjoy getting frustrated and throwing my phone more than learning new technical skills? You didn't consider my feelings.

My OCD was just the voice calling me to go down the rabbit hole. I thought I had made such spiritual progress in getting it to shut up for years.

Well, I mean, if he wasn't Illuminati, why would you want to listen to him?

It means NO WORRIES, for the rest of your days...

It's a paradox. It does happen naturally, life wants to awaken you, but you are also life. I know the framework from Leo's videos, the "programming" I did with Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual teachers and my desire for the truth, and help from people here on this forum were instrumental. But when I consider that I did no real consistent meditation practice, no psychedelics or drugs, no retreats, it's hard to understand how I got this far if life didn't want me to awaken for some much bigger reason than my own.

I had similar experiences when I went through an awakening a few weeks ago. I woke up with insights, intense energy and needed to write them out. As I wrote they kept coming. I went for days without sleeping more two hour stretches. Yours sound much more peaceful. Some of them were peaceful and I could sleep after the insight without the intense energy and need to write.

I still fall into that trap but not always. Often it's in selecting which people or things I think have the potential to teach me. Then when something that I don't think has any value for me teaches me a huge lesson I wasn't expecting, I realize that I fell into the spiritual ego trap again.

AI becoming more sophisticated and a part of everyday life will create a striking difference between machine and human. What is that difference? Consciousness. If consciousness is highly valued, better understood and we have robots to take care of everything for us, we can spend our time on art, human connection, being one with nature and being. The whole world can be enlightened.

We must have not been ready for it.

I see a lot of different reactions. The primary elections here went to Cruz and Bernie, so everyone hated the candidates. A lot of people wouldn't vote for either. There is also a big mistrust for politicians in general. Some people are disappointed but he hasn't made a big enough mess for them to notice. The tax cut is going to come back to bite us, but it's not going to hurt for a little while. The ones who really supported him with the stickers and T-shirts are still just as happy with him. They love having someone who can talk on a level that that they can understand. Hillary Clinton was too proud to understand how important that was. I have seen some of the more intelligent, loyal Republicans turn away from the party. Trump has irreparably damaged the Republican party. Before, the party stood for Evangelical and traditional values. Trump has made a mockery of it. @ValiantSalvatore There are a lot of problems with using community as a safety net, but there are just as many with using government as a safety net too.

Do what makes you happy. The thing about addictions is that we keep on doing them even after they stop bringing us pleasure. If you can stay conscious you'll know when you've reached that point. This is good advice. I should take it.

That's something I think about a lot. One thing about rural America is that those community tribe values don't get let go of. This is because a smaller community, especially in a poor area just can't let go of the community thing. They get forgotten about in a city really quickly. I don't think a rural area ever truly can or would embrace orange. They are too tribe like, too close knit and too small to every deny that fact. I just went to the funeral today for someone who did odd jobs, he choked on his food while hauling scrap metal and crashed his truck and died. No life insurance, leaves behind a wife (my friend) and kid. The community will raise that child for him. He worked hard and was well loved. Yeah sure, he was an asshole Republican. Who cares? He was part of a community. When someone's house burns down and they don't have insurance they are flooded with gifts and donations. People in the community give from their hearts, to people they know and love in person. They don't like writing a check out to the IRS. That doesn't mean that they aren't giving. When you have support like that from a community, you don't need to embody stage orange as much.

Woooow. I love that quote. That stupid in love, can't eat can't sleep feeling is so short lived. That's why the butterflies are lucky. People think that they want the perfect partner. They don't, they want to be in love. You can't be in love more than a few weeks if you don't know that you are love itself. You'll always be blaming your partner or the lack of partner in your life until you realize that. The nature of romantic relationships is designed to make us insane, they are designed so that we will do stupid things out of love. That stupid in love is how you have to live everyday if you want to live for God. You have to let go of logic and your own understanding.

Yes, I live in redneck country so I understand that part of the US quite well. Rednecks, rural America is struggling because they badly want to move to stage orange but other people (like Trump) got here first and they can't skip ahead to green or see that voting green would help them out most. So many of the blue collar jobs are going, going, gone. I really believe that they thought Trump would give them what they wanted, from the spiral dynamics perspective, that he would help them get through stage orange. I think stage yellow and stage turquoise are responsible for figuring out how to reach blue and orange where they are. We have so much stress and limitations on "owning" things. The minimalist movement is huge. Owning things is not freedom. Where I live there is a lot of property that is privately owned that should be parks. It's ridiculous. People are liable for something bad happening to someone there, so they can't give people permission to use or enjoy the property. If you have money, if you have a business, you can be sued. That's not freedom at all. The native Americans thought owning land was absurd. It truly is absurd. In the end it doesn't matter at all what stage you're at or what political party you vote for. If we cannot love and meet people where they are we will only do harm and make things worse. There are highly conscious right wing people. Check out Charlie Munger. Would Warren Buffett be who he is without him?

@ValiantSalvatore Yes, I agree. I'm also aware that I'm making a lot of generalizations. The US made independence a huge value, people risked their lives and gave up everything for religious freedom to come here, and then we doubled down on freedom as a value after the Revolutionary war. World War II being so remote to the US meant that after the war our economy exploded and other powers had so much damage that we rose as a superpower. The American dream was born. Being naive is part of America's great success I believe. Our values line up with the Law of Attraction pretty well. Stay positive, have a big dream, don't take no for an answer. It's not a grind, good things come out of being passionate about them. We're creative, we innovate. We've been blessed, and then blessed and blessed again. And now we're starting to become stage green and we're feeling really guilty about it all. We've been given a gift and now we feel like it's too much and we don't want to accept it. It's too late to go back in history and right the wrongs of stage red and stage blue. People sense that America may lose it's unique beauty and those unique values if stage green takes over. The rigidity of the Democratic party is scary. It often doesn't honor America's roots, or that fiery naive passion that is unique to us. It tells us to stop flying the American flag. The flag is racist, the flag is ugly. We need to find some way to honor our character and integrate the past instead of trying to bury it and telling Veterans that they should be ashamed of their actions instead of honored. Stage green preaches love but isn't brave enough to extend it to everyone.

Romantic/sexual relationships are also secretly about enlightenment.