Nilsi

It's not that you identify as nothingness. All identification will naturally stop when you are in absolute Being.

This is not the kind of thing you look for. It will be self-evident once you drop your questions and objections.

Just contemplate reality so much, until you realise there is nothing holding it together but Love.

Notice that you do not actually know that you're existence itself. As long as you're in the business of knowing, you will not be immortal. When you are absolute Being, there is no such thing as death. You thinking about this, is the very thing that stops you from realising it. That's why it's so bittersweet. When you are absolute being there is no one there to think "I'm immortal, cool, I can't wait to tell all my friends about this." But I guess that's more the No-Mind experience im talking about, so take it with a grain of salt.

"Look at that one random place at the other side of the globe - move there." This is just nonsense man. Don't get hung up on this shit, develop yourself and be the change you want to see. These secluded communities notoriously come crashing and burning at some point. This will never work and furthermore is not the solution to our collective problems, running away from the problems will not fix them.

I'm not wasting more time on your nonsense.

If such a society would even survive for one day, it would be gamed by people acting out of self-interest and will to power, and those people would enslave the rest of society and procreate. What you are describing is not an evolutionary stable strategy.

Wow, talk about being judged. It's always funny when someone gets so overly defensive and dismissive, makes you wonder why they feel so threatened.

How is that the case? There are dramatic differences in how a stage blue person and a Tier 2 person would use language, and if you believe Chomsky, the underlying structure of language is universal anyway. So all that is happening within language is higher abstractions are emerging and that is not threatened by many people speaking the language, it is actually enabled by that.

I suspect that you do not understand what stage green actually is, although again, we are interpreting a model here so there really is no definitive right or wrong way. There is no way in hell that Baden-Württemberg is at green. Just because we elect the green party, does not mean that that has anything to do with developmental stages. There are no regions in Germany at Stage Green, and I doubt there are any anywhere. What you see as green is mostly just a reaction to orange. You can be at blue fundamentalism and believe in all the green memes. These people do not actually want egalitarianism or are relativists and have deconstructed science and materialism. It's just a new set of values to believe in to be able to demonize others while not having to work on oneself. You have no idea how bad it is. It's near Impossible to not be in orange as a German that is on social media or is watching public television. All these people are completely brainwashed into scientific materialism and their modernist values. The only differences are in the degree to which one believes in libertarianism, and to the degree that one does not believe in it (which is usually the degree to which one is a have-not), one either goes to the populist alt right or adapts the green equality MEMEs, but that's all coming from a place of fear and is a pure reaction to orange. Nothing about any of this is actual development and personal growth.

I obviously don't mean you personally. I think there will be a lot more Tier 2 people in positions of power and influence over the next few years, but mostly it will be a bottom up process of individuals and local communities living in an integral way, and that will inevitably stay under the radar of anyone for a long time before a critical mass of 10% or whatever is reached. This will take multiple generations to spill over into the general public. Of course AI and other unpredictable technologies could potentially shift that overnight and the immense progress in the current development of these technologies basically makes all predictions about the future nonsensical and silly anyways.

Even that I find overly optimistic. If you don't make a conscious effort to develop yourself on your own terms, you will be sucked into orange by the vortex that is social media and public television. And even if you are into personal development, that will be 99% stage orange stuff and thus just reinforce your worldview; vertical development is basically unheard of outside of spiritual and intellectual circles, as there is no obvious appeal in it to most people. In my opinion Wilber and Beck are way too optimistic in their assessment of where humanity is at. Social media really is the bottleneck of humanity's evolution right now.

Exactly. You should be more worried about, first of all ACTUALLY reaching and living from this stage, and then embodying it in your relationships and community and helping others in their development by being a good leader and inspiring them.

These surveys they do, do not accurately reflect reality. Even in the original SD book it said something like 5% of the population are in Tier 2, which is obviously horseshit. Even finding someone at a high green level is near impossible outside of academia. I've been to a bunch of places in europe and there is no city that i would even consider green. Even Berlin is mostly orange and the green hotspots are just a bunch of lefties that intuit and herald all the green wokester MEMEs, but that's mostly just a front and not grounded in any real development or transformation. It all depends on how you interpret this stuff of course but even Wilber seems to be blind to the reality, that these surveys don't mean jack shit.

Ya, focus on networking. Seriously, this is the most important part in this industry. I've seen extremely talented musicians not go anywhere because they neglected that part, while mediocre musicians that were networking and growing their brand got to work with major labels and artists. Play at wedding parties and shitty festivals and talk to all the musicians and managers there. The Rolling Stones were playing their first gig for 5$ or something like that. Just treat this like a good character arc in a movie. As much as I can't stand the guy, Gary Vee would probably be your best bet to learn about the kind of marketing and networking that you need as a musician.

Go and act out your will to power for some time and you will realize how pathetic and hollow that is. Actually do it, so you don't get hung up on all the "what if's."

All W.E.I.R.D countries are roughly the same when it comes to how "conscious" they are. There will be no felt difference in consciousness between living in Norway or Italy or America. Just look for what fits your goals and values. I moved from Germany to the Austrian Alps. There really is no difference if the country is more orange or green or whatever. The west is so interconnected and it's mostly social media and the internet that influences culture and values anyway. There is no country or city that is above orange/green on this planet. "Tier 2" people or whatever you imagine to find in your "conscious" country will not be clustered anywhere, they are randomly sprinkled all over the world and it will be pure chance if you find some people on this level or not. The only way you could actively seek out these people is through work.

I used to be in the music business. It really is one of the most competitive and cutthroat fields if you really want commercial success. You will basically have to live from stage orange and drop all your lofty ideals for now. There is always a guy that wants it more than you, and you will have to keep that motherfucker in mind all day and night. But what I found is that if you're just trying to make a living and have artistic freedom, it's actually quite doable, almost inevitable if you put in enough work and create an authentic, niche product to grow an organic audience. So assuming you're not trying to reach the billboard top 100, you should be good as long as you focus on your craft and don't lose your motivation. Just make sure you grow an audience via social media and network with other smaller artists, and try to play as many little gigs and festivals and whatever you can, there you will create your first little core audience and make a name for yourself. It's a really tedious, slow growing process but I've seen it happen so many times, and all that these people had in common was that they used every opportunity to network and most importantly stayed in the game long enough for an audience to grow.

That's bullshit. I grew up in Germany and in the big cities you will find pseudo-spirtual, psychedelicy, rave subcultures that are quite stage greeny (that's really the best you can ask for right now). Just make sure you don't mention the big G in these circles

Go to your local vintage store and buy a ridiculously fancy outfit that you would never wear in daylight. This shit works like a magic spell on me. You will feel so free and loose and not be as stuck in your usual neuroses and insecurities.

Depending on where you live, you should be able to afford a small flat or share one with some roommates while working a sidegig. I got my own place when I was 18 (I know I'm fucking privileged and I was able to save a lot of money until I was 18 and in europe your parents get money from the state to support you, which they will have to give you once you no longer live with them) and it was one of the best moves in my life. At your age it shouldn't be too hard to make some friends if you really try, you might have to put some work into it, depending on how social and charismatic you are. Bro, you can show up in the world however the fuck you want, you naturally will not have a clear sense of personality and identity at that age but that's great news, just pretend you're an actor and put on a good show and see how things go. And hey, maybe you actually meet some people you really fuck with, with whom you can actually be real and authentic and vulnerable and that's really top tier stuff. That's really all in the realm of definitely doable. You are so young, you can basically do whatever the fuck you want and not lose much. You have no obligations, no family to feed, no friends to please, no job to lose. Go out there and make as many mistakes as possible, that's how you grow. You got it friend

As for the values, that is probably one of the most important things you will do in your life. You are basically choosing what kind of a person you want to become and how you want to show up in the world, so take that seriously, but also don't overthink it, just choose what feels most alive for you, you can always make adjustments later. Once that sheet is on your wall and you really work with it, you will notice over weeks and months how you're literally getting molded into the kind of person you had set out to become. Really amazing stuff.

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That sounds very cool

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