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Thanks, any chance you will make one for Stage Red and Purple?
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People that are doing well from a stage orange paradigm don’t have much incentive to evolve themselves. Let’s say you are full stage orange and you have financial freedom, a job you at least tolerate, you can get all the sexual partners you want, people look up to you and your lifestyle etc. Most people would be happy maintaining that status quo in their lives. According to the mainstream narrative they have achieved the “American dream”. Actually evolving past stage orange can put all those things in jeopardy. And the ego will come up with infinite reasons to stay put and maintain. So that person has to take a big risk to keep personally evolving. There’s simply no external or societal pressure on stage orange people to keep going. Whereas for a stage red person, for example, there is. Stage red behavior will be less and less acceptable as societal virtues increase and evolve. In that instance they have to evolve themselves to maintain basic survival.
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Challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone. Realize that you will never know everything, you can't master everything. Realize that humility is a virtue. Learn new things, expand your mind, not only spiritually, but also intellectually. Don't think that engaging in spiritual matters makes you better than others, but view it as something that will help you connect better with your true authentic being. And focus less on your self image. But have a purpose in your life. When you are engaged with something that is bigger than yourself, you put less pressure on the self through a surrender.
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It comes down to a lack of consciousness, it's that simple really. Deep down; junkies know that what they are doing is wrong and won't make them happy or fulfilled. Addiction can be healed through awareness and consciousness when junkies have the proper guidance. Counseling can help them gain consciousness. Along with some structure and a support system in their lives. The experience as the human as a meat puppet is a low conscious experience. The animalistic part of us gets addicted to substances. But the divine part of us will always know that addiction is hurting us. Through consciousness we can get more in touch with our divine nature and put the animalistic part in a more holistic light. It prevents the animal from running wild. It eats when it needs to, sleeps when it needs to. No excesses and no lack.
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Yeah the solution is awareness. Through awareness and consciousness you will notice that your bad habits of avoidance and escapism are hurting you. "Objectively" it seems innocent, but through awareness you will notice that you are hurting yourself in the moment by not being conscious in the moment. Laziness is really just a lack of awareness. Notice that there is a difference between an hour of conscious meditation and an hour of lying on the couch watching netflix. You expand roughly the same amount of calories in both activities but they affect you differently in the moment - and over time. A conscious person is aware that lying on the couch just being a vegetable is toxic behavior. An unconscious person sees no difference between an hour of meditating and an hour of lounging on the couch.
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Negative entities? Psychic attacks?
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I don't think this generation is dumber than the previous ones. It's probably the perception because we are globally connected now through the internet that we become more aware of the dumbest people in the world through the internet all the time. The dumbest people seem to get the most attention. Just look on Youtube and TikTok. We see stupid videos all the time and a lot of people have a morbid curiosity to see stupidity. And we are also way more away of the less developed countries because of the globalization. The more developed countries will get more into contact with the less developed ones which will also affect the culture and views of the more developed societies.
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Stage Orange = Anarcho-capitalism
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Some areas where you can find Stage Green'ish people: Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Social Studies, Animal Welfare, Nutritional sciences, Holistic health, Climate science
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I personally do believe in monogamy. But any kind of measures taken to control the dating market can only do more harm than good. And I don't even think it will work. It's like trying to ban pornography from the internet, good luck with that. Banning and/or regulating it seems to only create sexual repression in people.
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I really don't know about Frank Yang. I watched a couple of videos of his but a lot of it seemed like incoherent manic ramblings without a real solid intellectual basis. Maybe that's just the way he expresses himself but I will stay skeptical of his claims and his methods.
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I think Joe Rogan is very happy and content exactly where he is in life. The last thing he wants is an existential crisis or even get closer to 'truth'.
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I personally think that affirmations or just hearing certain things externally doesn't much affect your subconscious mind. The thing that really changes your subconscious minds are your daily habits through your actions. So if you are able to change your actions, you are able to change how your mind operates. I do think that affirmations, reading things and hearing things can plant the seed in our minds. But effectively, the seeds in themselves don't do much unless you make them come to fruition with your actions. So listening to certain content can steer you to a certain direction, but for it to have any meaningful change you have to follow through on it.
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vizual replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You can only know when you look death right into the eyes imo. In my daily life it feels like i don’t fear death at all, but that is in my mind. When i had a few close encounters with death i was surprised how much fear of death is hidden from me in my normal state of consciousness. -
Most ideologies come under the supposed notion that they are at a higher consciousness than the other. Like how communism is all about solidarity, love and compassion for the fellow man. But we all know how even the best philosophies, in theory, can be use in sinister ways. Or they just weren’t that in accord with the higher truths of reality after all. The problem with electing someone on their level of consciousness is that it can’t be quantified in any way.
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It’s true that Fox News is not a news media outlet. But rather it seems to be a medium for viewers that have a lot of frustration and anger inside of them. It gives people things to be outraged about, it acts as a temporary outlet for that anger. People feel their anger is justified and verbalized through what the people on Fox say. Of course this strategy doesn’t help anyone in the grand scheme of things. It just breeds more hate and demonization.
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vizual replied to PurpleTree's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
For me, the answer to the question is resonance. If i feel that an answer resonates deeply with my inner being and that resonance can stand the scrutiny of real life obstacles, trials and tribulations. Then I can accept it. I am aware that this is not fool proof, there is a good chance for self-delusion and manipulation. But there is no real alternative. I think this is the art of life, finding the ultimate internal unshakable resonance which can stand every external situation. And this is not a linear and logical process, but it's the most spiritual process imaginable. This does not mean i don't factor in linear and logical thinking. But they are part of the decision making process, not the end all be all. Robots can do specific tasks very well, but they don't make for good leaders. -
I still think that our collective consciousness has a very unhealthy relationship toward sex, it's highly fixated. And a lot of addiction, shame, fear, guilt, anger is attached to it. People that have too much sex are demonized(players, pimps, sluts etc.), people that have too little sex are also demonized(beta, virgins, incels etc.). And there is no solution to this problem by trying to whipe out one side of the equation. In the extreme form, we historically know what happens when a side of the equation is forcefully whiped out(Nazi Germany). Like, forcing a society to become very celibate. Let's say where people can only have sex after marriage, and if they cheat they are stoned to death. Or the alternative, an anarchic society where rape and public sex is encouraged, and everyone that doesn't want to have that much sex gets stoned to death. Both of these options will obviously create problems in society. There are strong parallels with the obesity epidemic in the western world(especially the USA). Serving people only donuts, greasy food, candy etc. isn't going to help. Nor will putting people on a restricted low calorie diet for the rest of their lives. The solution lies deeper, not on the surface level. And the solution is the same just for most other problems in life. Raising the consciousness of the population. We don't do that by demonizing people. But we try to understand them and think with the people. An enlightened master doesn't shame and judge his students they aren't enlightened. He understands where they are, and slowly lifts them up.
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I'm going to offer a different perspective and say you should not change yourself out of insecurity. There will always be people that won't like you, won't think you are good enough. They will want you to conform to their agenda, to how they think you should be. That's the way of the ego. And this mindset will hurt you in the long run. Because you are covertly a people pleaser. You are trying to please people at the expense of yourself. An alternative for you to do is to focus on becoming your best authentic self. And even when you are at your best, there will still be people that will dislike your, and like you. But the commonality all people have that are at their best is that they don't let their feelings and sense of self worth be led by what other people think of them.
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I’m trying to empathize and understand the people for whom this is normal, but it’s hard. I don’t believe the Faroer Islands are an impoverished part of the world. So it’s not an necessary slaughter for survival. It’s especially hard to understand they hunt for such beautiful and intelligent animals as dolphins.
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So you think sadhguru actually thinks meat and eggs are healthy for people, but he lied to them because he doesn’t want them to think badly of him. How do you know sadhguru is purposefully lying to the people?
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And you are not biased?
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Let's send her to Afghanistan
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All of the dudes videos are exactly 10:00 minutes long. It’s basically one big clickbait channel, quality content be dammed
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vizual replied to SamC's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I see consciousness as a helium balloon that automatically wants to go up gently and be free. But it’s pretty easy to tie down with your own inner resistance. So it’s your own blunt force resistance -which you are identified with- which is preventing your consciousness to go up. But this is just a word game. You need to actually experience it to get a feel for it