ValiantSalvatore

That is a great insight. No, it does matter otherwise you can't see the perspective or conversate appropriately. I used to think voting in a country which forces democracy is hypocritical in a sense. I enjoyed that perspective, since forcing people to vote in a country which is ruled by people is hypocritical. It would be another form or enforcing guilt induced behavior or oppressing others... How can such a situation ever be improved I never understand it besides, generating some source of income. Ohhhh I'll definitely buy books about Warren Buffet in the future. Rather in a given time.

Very true I notice this a lot too. Like they say you are what you eat. Take care of your information intake it will be reflected in your thoughts. You can even feel that they arise as phenomena.

@Devansh Saharan Not sure what the focus of the Kriya technique is. I use labeling techniques to deal with thought, basically vipassana. Internal chatter. Knowing what your technique does would give me more insight and potentially others. You could test a do-nothing technique and test that it is inevitable to stop thoughts, even if you know it intellectually after a couple of sessions of do-nothing for ideally 1h you will notice ok this does not work. After doing my 1h session today I noticed the same, lack of progress. I get very angry about posture for example. Thoughts come and go don't worry too much. Training in daily life with a couple of seconds here and there can help to deal with constant rumination and having a journal to write down meditation sessions or thoughts about rumination can help tremendously and give you insights and feedback. That your system already provides you with. Potentially you did not see this video and it can help. In the end, it is training.

America is mainly orange. IMO. I don't intend to let it look or perceive it as some "redneck" country. In case my post came across like that.

@mandyjw I can see what you mean. For me, it is a totally different world. I used to go with my father into the military zone here in Germany, solely occupied by the u.s. Seeing big guns, people playing football, vast spaces, arcade games, and fast food..., it always gave me a feeling for vastness. Not freedom but vastness. The point I want to make is when I read that people from "my" region came over to America and people calling them peasants bors in latin. It's no wonder for me now, that they appeal to traditional not secular oriented values, the same with this Netflix show modern family. Which just shows modern stereotype thinking. I never watched one single episode. I can't tell the democratic party never seemed rigid to me and Republicans are quite stigmatized in the west. I don't live in the U.S and do not know history well enough to come to a conclusion. Many of my professors look up to America as a place of freedom and innovation either in a more libertarian view or a scientific view and even science fiction. Our campus is an old military base from Americans. After ww2. There is so much history in this region it's insane. German Romans and what not. There is no shame to war imo potentially to one's deeds... Considering my father served in the military. The point is rather that value clashes and systems of abuse cause damage. Green is great, and in a self-expressive country, it can do much good. Decriminalization of weed and psychedelics opening up universities for all people, a general stance to be more pluralistic and egalitarian may open doors in politics or has even opened for Pete Buttigieg. I grew up very different from most people in a German/American culture and my aunt being a lesbian and being exposed to homosexual people who are from a more conservative people from a young age. It's all so normal but people are too stupid to realize it. Amusement and entertainment rules. Which is just a form of decadence at one point. All of this blue talk never made sense, and I sniffed it out since I was little. I don't think America would lose its beauty. I don't get Americans sometimes. It's a country of immigrants, not embracing their multiculturalism. In a sense and diversity. Same here for instance with the flag. We also have an eagle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany Which expresses freedom, the point is conservatives don't easily change. There are millions who could debate me and win. Still, it does not make sense to segment the world into fragments. An interconnected service of services could serve to provide more value to humanity than the great wall of Mexico, yet immigration is a real problem. But, basic needs are not provided. Then people complain about their country first, same with self-help if you can't help yourself you can't really help someone else. Trump is just horrendous. He is funny but it's more of a reality show and power displays. What would be lost of America becomes greener? Nature would be preserved and creativity and freedom are valued at green. More equality for financially restricted families for their kids. A health care system which is not crazy, from what I heard. I went to a doctor for free who operates a professional sports team repair my knee, because I kicked in the air while playing soccer and tore my lateral-minuscule. In America, I would ruin my family? There would be no need people asking for reparation if the system would actually care for them more. Yet, some green leftist will most likely abuse this. Not sure. Conservatives are necessary, yet they could advance a bit more and use their hard work and diligence to provide value to the world and not only for their family and security. When I see conservative families here and how they behave blue/orange families, it's just decadent they could provide something for their community, but if people have money then they start to rely on the system and want to pump more money out if it and abuse it. Internally or externally. Most of them are modern so classic stage orange happy family. It's really nothing bad or good. Stage green lacks action and still reverts ultimately to their selected tribe. Green would appeal to most blues if they would actually go for it, especially in an open country with open and extraverted people like America. I bet this would be loads of fun. We will move into the world of automation at one point the world will be yellow or needs yellow, incompetency would be devastating to a degree. Yet, all of this is mostly speculation and assumptions or a frame of reference.

My opinion is Trump is funny watching his interview with Kim-jong un and how he handles it. I am a bit amazed, yet behind doors and the way he talks and the Trump family. It's more like a reality show I watched when I was 14 years old. Tbh, it's rare to meet someone who is not baffled that Trump became president. Now it is just a given. Which is bad. I still don't quite understand how populist agendas can so strongly entice people. Same thing with the chatbot history and the Mueller report. Nobody, f*s with Russia. Mother Russia f*s you. My first name is Russian so excuse my language. (hidden *cough* techniques)

@mandyjw Your values are influenced by your country. Yet, the meaning can change easily when you actually question what you value or one goes with it and is another sheep in the herd, instead of building one's own farm. Abusing systems will come back at the end. It's way more intelligent to build systems that leverage your success and provide value, instead of abusing systems and stealing value. Or to increase a certain skill like crafting etc., you can't survive in cold climate stealing firewood from the family. Chopping wood and getting water, would be one way to survive outside in the cold and would be a "system" of supply at one's disposal. Then you could go for a hunt. No value is worthless, it depends on how you express it and what you want to provide in the first place. Context is important. Humans have values. Values are concepts. Human create concepts. Language creates duality. You could look at the Sapih Worf Hypothesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity When I looked into American history a bit I was surprised that the Republicans were the ones who fought against racism and the Democrats were in the south continuing it. Also, the people from my region and a total of 4-5 million people went to America ( Pennsylvania) because of political differences, scarcity of food, horrible economic conditions and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans 1 third of American people have German ancestors value are based on human differences. Where the big 5 model explains more which is scientifically validated how humans express their behavior. I think wisdom is something completely different or special whatever cultural concept that might be?

@Eric Tarpall He would be rather low since his state would not be consistent. Of course, the situation matters if a person cures diseases and hurts others it would depend on how he hurts them and what his intentions are. He technically has no right to rape her going by the law or even by moral conscience. Why do you ask the question out of curiosity? If he would be high in consciousness he can totally renounce sex drives, monks even say that the sex drive is easier to conquer than the need for socializing, which is a necessity. Residing in that place is different.

@Aeris No, I just have a hard time figuring out if you are being sarcastic or not. I worked together with a French person for half a year funny times, very sarcastic Parisian guy. The zen dojo where I did retreats is also in France. So, no it does not answer my question.

@Aeris I never know if u are trolling or just u. But fine whatever.

@Aeris Do you even meditate? Hitler was the non-dual master of the cosmos. Creating wormholes to transport troops to other planets.

@CreamCat, In the end, I like the perspective of zen anything that falls in line with disturbing ones practice is considered a devil. Take the omnipotence paradox. Or reading about intelligent design could answer your question. That is what I was shooting for in LSD trips. Without a devil, there would be no god. All of this talk is a distraction and intellectual entertainment, yet insights still constitute advantages in day to day practice. That is why I am even writing, without knowing one's own agenda, you can never know your opponents and be abused if we look at them from a power perspective.

@now is forever What is meant with icd10. I know what it is yet, what is meant? Are you being sarcastic? A little anomie or fewer rules would be nice yes. Yet, it is horrible we would basically have a group of power-hungry people wanting to rule. In a society where there are no means to self-actualize anomie will happen and people will revolt if the regime does not suppress it. If there is only stagnation what can be done, besides strolling around doing dumb stuff. See Emanuel Dürkheim or how is name is written, showing how it happened in England through people not adhering to the cultural standards the church imposed, the less these values where available the more society succumbed. Now, contrast it with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglehart–Welzel_cultural_map_of_the_world http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp?CMSID=Findings When there are no concrete rules or values inside a country that are being expressed, it is doomed to die. The point I want to make is that values dictate the development of a country, I love Germany for instance, yet sometimes they are very rigid making it impossible as a German who grew up as a German with German family solely, to understand German culture, even if I speak and embody it perfectly. It's like you constantly break the cultural norms, without even trying. Simply because you look different since I am half Afro-American and see how dogmatic their ethnocentrism is, while other folks have their own ethnocentrism. It's like you are constantly floating in a grey area, speaking each cultural code. Questioning your own norms, you see how religion formed a society since you are basically a devil not fitting within the "white" paradigm. Contrast this in America where black kids get made fun of in the "ghetto" for talking white coming back from school. Value codes like spiral dynamics make much more sense or the map above, it's like you are reading a script depicting how human behavior is driven by their values, etc. As if privileges aren't real. For instance, green germans who grew up solely with German parents are freaking awesome, very vulnerable and emotional from a middle class. I swear to god, I can cry and do how nice these people are regardless of class. Yet, stage orange is just freaking retarded, I still feel socially and psychologically disparaged by stage orange beings, having to adjust to their value code, healthy versions are fair and competitive, see soccer. So, it's fair you don't hurt your teammates and you want to win. Stage orange just puts you down, while many Germans just abuse their advantage of being the dominant folk inside their country. Which is their right, and then complain that they when they are accused of colorblind racism, seeing everyone as equal, when they are not. Quote: Researchers also offer alternatives to the color-blindness discourse. Reason and Evans call for people to become "racially cognizant", that is they need to acknowledge the role that race plays in their everyday lives. Being racially cognizant also demands a continuous examination and reinterpretation of race and how it affects our lives. It is also important to balance looking at a person as an individual and acknowledging the role their membership to a social group plays in their daily lives.[22] Researcher Jennifer Simpson proposed that "in setting aside color blindness, Whites must learn to see, accept, and experience their lives as raced and to explore the possibility that some of the good, ease, or rewards they have experienced have not been solely the result of hard work and just effort but of a system biased in their favor." This conscious exploration of whiteness as a racial and social identity and the acknowledgment of the role of whiteness is connected to modern whiteness studies.[26] However, the field of whiteness studies has been criticized for its focus on reprimanding the white population, whereas similar fields such as Black studies, Women's studies, and Chicano Studies celebrate the contributions of the eponymous group.[27] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness_(race) For instance one of my older friends we went to a restaurant, he is becoming a doctor and is Vietnamese the waitress hugged him and just touched him and "cutified" him making him a diminutive and treating him as a child or a puppy, which can be fun with friends. Or women treating me even worse, since I am half-black, people asking me if I sell drugs, my doctor (female) not assuming that a black person can study, assuming that I am some playboy male exotic prostitute, leave me dumbstruck. Like what now? Sex? No No No my Name is Jeff. Like you treat it with humor. Yet, it is sad, movements like feminism or feminists I meet are much easier to deal with then some stage orange princess. You feel human, not objectified. So, self-expression values could be a bit more embraced by conservative parties. While all of my black friends are studying and did study. Besides a couple. It's just stupid. THE POINT IS FOR ME MOST WHITES DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW INSPIRING IT IS TO SEE ANOTHER BLACK MEN FOR ME STRIVE, IT IS INSANE IT MAKES ME HAPPY THAT PEOPLE HUMANS ARE FREE WHICH 99% OF PEOPLE DO NOT; YET I COULD CRY WHEN I SEE THE GERMAN WALL FALL AND PEOPLE UNITE. IT IS LIKE YOU ARE ALL ALONE MOST GERMANS HAVE GERMAN FRIENDS THAT I MEET. OTHERS CULTURES ARE BEHAVING LIKE SHIT. WHILE COUNTRIES ARE OPENING DOORS YET PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE AND SURVIVE. IN THE END, IT'S JUST EGO AND I AM A MAMMAL. LIKE READING FRANCE DE WALL explains human behavior mating behavior etc better than most things I've read or seen. It's very ignorant that these topics are not discussed with a plethora of refugees and people from other countries. Especially with a legit model. Yet, for instance, there is this very famous cohort study showing when people working for a common goal, they overcome differences. Like what happened in 9/11 etc and people united. The value codes have to change. Same with talking to half and half friends from other ethnicities. You feel very special and different, a lot of people even get jealous which is sometimes unfathomable. One good friend of mine mentioned that it will basically take 100 years or so to decrease this since people will ultimately mix when the globe unites. Making people look more similar. I often think to think about race, color, gender, etc. Is a waste of cognitive resources when there is no need to consider them and I am very good at that. A more secular and self-expressive value system would be nice, so anomie would be counteracted be more self-expression and traditionalists could even express theirs. Anyway now I ranted for a way too long. I am a bit tired of this standpoint. Talking with girls my age it's either feminism, food, gender, equality, emotional problems or it is ted talks, novels, and tv Netflix. Multiculturalism is just taboo they feel devalued and criticized and guilt is induced or it is talked about in relativistic terms. It's very rare I meet one person who I can talk with it about it more systemically, otherwise, people still revolt because they want self-expression. Which is even quite high considering the map above + freedom of the press in Germany is rated high ( see sprial dynamics in action book). I would love to see entrepreneurship being more expressed in Germany in more green and not stage orange freedom terms, most people don't even care about politics and just complain and want holidays, holidays, food and sex. It's just very lame. I can't even join a political party in this small town since the infrastructure is bad and 3 people are interested in the student council in politics. So, I thought the effort is not worth it when I explain concepts like spiral dynamics or systemic racism and oppression. People fall on deaf ears social justice warriors are just boring to talk to I'd rather talk to artists.

@universe Thanks for sharing. I will test the Sedona method potentially in October. I see the visualizations are working but slowly since it is a loving-kindness technique, not a pure visualization imo. Yet, I generate a lot more positivity from the place I feel pain from. So, I understand what releasing emotions mean sort of. My body reacts strongly to that I always get goosebumps when meditating and feeling a strong experience like now even writing about it lol.

How effective is visualization or deliberate visualization about one's vision for a long period of time? Did anyone try longer than 90 days of the recommended visualization from Leo's lp? I first had a couple of 30 days, 60 days and then one 90 day streak and another afterward approx. 90 days+- . Yet, I also did this with the how to be funny video from Leo and it helped a lot. I've become more funny, even if I rarely do it. Is it wise to practice a 10 min visualization about ones lp? @Leo Gura I am doing a loving-kindness practice from shinzen which involves visualizing. Yet, I struggled with success with visualization and it is difficult to quantify my progress. I always imagine abstracts or notion of things, even if my imagination is vivid in this area. It's like I am sucked inside my skull with a transparent colorless movie running inside my skull. It never feels real but is affecting me. Any advice for ways to visualize? I know from mico-retreats some stuff which I did wrong.

@Elisabeth A report would be awesome! I am a bit scared of getting 5meo dmt since it is illegal, so I was hoping to go to some ceremony in another country. Are there many ceremonies in Czech?

@Joseph Maynor Thank you for sharing. This helps to think about coral. Teal is off hands for me currently, and turquoise my next goal. I see more that the universe is currently some sort of holographic pattern, repeating itself. So, I am going to read on turquoise. Especially if it leverages LP. As you described a bit. From what I can make out coral seems to be that it is a 1-2-3 awareness of god. You are god awareness, I am god awareness, we are god awareness. Completely disregarding the ego, as a central processing unit and seeing it as a place forgotten of the True Self. With a capital T. The insight about absolute infinity being the veil of Maya. To make a reference to a band. Is conceivable, I think during my last trip I went into this infinity veil absorbing questions from infinity itself by asking. That is now almost one year ago, so I am basically preparing myself to have an immense trip. Yet, working on lower stages makes more sense for my current pragmatic live situation. Lifting weights increase stages because it sets the body alert to growing, cells, fibers, etc.. According to Wilber, in case this has been forgotten. So, I am doing that with body-focused exercises.

It's anomie, not anarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie Anarchy is a legit system that was applied in Spain in the 1930's during their civil war and is governed by the overall consense of people wanting to get rid of their monarchy and let people rule. They even traded crops for heavy farm vehicles without the use of money and completely abolished money. It is a system ruled by the overall consensus of people wanting basically to give power to the people and especially production goods are owned by the people and supplied by demand. It's been some time since I've read the book, but Joseph pier Proudhon was my homie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain Anarcho-syndicalism is the correct term for what happened in Spain.

@CreamCat Why do you say that? The devil was a fallen angel, a neutral being that responded to request of the living in exchange for something.

@CreamCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus A guy in hell having to roll up a stone a hill each day as his task to be free for the day. From Greek mythology.

@Joseph Maynor Holy post of posts.

@CreamCat Thank you for the compliment. I resonated with the topic a lot for some reason. I like the Avengers and the superhero hype + north mythology! I would recommend that you purchase Leo's booklist, especially if you are into science all of the topics there I will most likely catch up in the future or in a given time to some degree. Since I assume from responding that you like science a lot. A lot of PD seems basic, yet somehow it is a Sisyphus task. Or a pleasant version of it. The only thing that I am consistent in is reflection and meditation, which helps a lot. Now, gym and nutrition more which aids discipline, especially with meditation in the morning. Having a daily pratice is key, a meditation retreat is the best practical solution. If you like the theoretical aspect I would recommend listening to shinzen young, so you won't most likely not get bored. P.S Yes you are god. In training... with reference...

@theking00 You can test techniques in case you are open and still testing. Otherwise, if you like self-inquiry you could buy a book or watch the neti-neti video from Leo in case it is that. I only tested self-inquiry for two or 1 and a half months. It was too much in the current situation and I switched techniques. Yet, it was extremely powerful. I was stuck in analysis constantly. How long do you do self-inquiry? I did it for an hour and the meditation sessions themselves where quite pleasant. Yet, I tried to maintain it daily, which just hindered a clear thought process.

http://www.perspegrity.com/papers/STAGES background_Murray.pdf This is pretty much everything that is known by research. Most reading the about the pre/trans fallacy can help. Spiral dynamics is only one part, focused on values. I could value bioengineering and become an a.i driven human, yet it won't matter if I am not actually one or working on something like this. This is stage purple magical thinking in la la land. Speculating is fine, the article was nice to read, but the map is not the territory. ... the finger that points to the moon is not the moon.