Spiritual Warrior

Burning Man highlights! Id love to go this year. It looks super cool and it will help me better understand and embody stage green.

Shout out to @Bernardo Carleial for posting this beautiful scene in the stage red thread. But as the moderator pointed out, this is more of a stage beige act than stage red. Although the human is displaying signs of being a warrior, being tough, and conquering one's enemy, he is not doing it to inflate his own ego. He is doing it in order to survive, plain and simple. The human even shows empathy for the mammoth at the end of the brutal mauling. He did what he did because he had to, not because he was power hungry. And that is the difference between beige and red.

@mmKay I think that these cats are in stage Beige instead of stage red. Stage Beige's main goal is to survive and reproduce. The cats in this video see other cats as encroaching on their territory, i.e. encroaching on their ability to survive and reproduce. Stage red is more power hungry and has more of an ego that I don't think that cats have the ability to embody just yet.

I watched season 1 of You on Netflix recently, and Joe is a classic example of a negative version of stage red. He is manipulative, controlling, and puts his own desires above everyone else's (with the exception of his relationship with a 10 year old kid Paco, who it seems Joe has genuine compassion towards.) In regards to his relationship with Beck, he steals her phone and stalks her, kills her current boyfriend, and also kills her best friend. He does all of these things "for her own good". What he fails to realize is that he is not doing these things for her, he is doing these things for himself. This is a very twisted form of love that he has established for Beck. And to top it all off, he kills Beck off as well because she finds out all of the things that he's done. I would have continued watching this show if Joe had some more complexity to him, but I don't think Joe is going anywhere on the spiral.

A charismatic stage red character