Joseph Maynor

Do daily practice on skills that will cause you to master and ace your life purpose.

Why do you have a need to cling to Christianity?

Find your Life Purpose first and then your goals will become much clearer.

Oh good. I’m glad. I was concerned about where you were.

You split for a month too? Like Leo.

Hey, I don’t mean to be Socratic and provocative haha — but what the hell does it mean to be ‘loving’? That’s just a word, right. And what practical benefit does this kind of question serve to your life? Sorry to be so blunt. These kinds of questions don’t have good answers. I see why you asked it, I think. You’re pushing categories, which is good. As Dewey would say ‘good’ is a vision for the future, it’s a pragmatic goal. It’s not a fact, a truth. It’s a ‘what problem does this help us solve’, right. Trying to define ‘the Good’ without what we might say ‘being in the world’ or simply actual context — is a pipe-dream. Though has got you by the eggs at that point, so to speak. You’re not gonna get a simple objective context-Independent Socratic definition of what a ‘loving teacher’ is! Or even an objective example of that. That puts the cart before the horse, because thought-stories (ideas) are secondary to BE-ing.

That’s fine. All this stuff is metaphor really. What matters in a theory is utility, concision, scope of applicability, etc. Once you know Existential Truth, theory-building becomes art much more so than science. We’re not looking for truth in words anymore. That’s the paradigm-shift. As I think the great John Dewey would say — we’re adapting to our environment as part-and-parcel of reality, and solving problems that actually arise for us as we go throughout our existence. This in your head business is taken way too seriously, right. People look for truth in concepts! There’s a higher truth that’s pre-conceptual — and people call it all kinds of things. The job of Enlightenment is to teach you this higher truth. And it’s not a conceptual truth. It’s more (I hate to use the word) fundamental than that. You gotta be able to separate awareness from meaning — awareness from thought stories — awareness from conceptual systems — whatever have you, right.

Me too. It’s funny, you said in one sentence what it took me a gaggle of sentences to say! Nice

Green — Create a noble life purpose, learn about holism, sustainability, cosmopolitanism, pluralism, and altruism. Yellow — become enlightened and learn how to create systems to change systems sustainably — this will enable you to become a Sage with an individualist bent — the teacher, right. Yoda. Turquoise — become a benevolent Sun of influence within a synergistic network of Perspectives, where influence is going in all directions in the network — Turquoise is the manta ray.

WHY THE ACTUALIZED.ORG FORUM IS SUCH AN AMAZING TOOL FOR GROWTH One word — Synergy. You can grow so much more from learning from many perspectives. Synergy is like hitting the nitro button or afterburner button. It’s exponential growth — if you use the Forum optimally, that is. This Forum is very special and useful. And I think moving forward into the future it will become more so, as more and more people discover Personal Development. And as we get out of that Stage Orange-style teaching paradigm of Personal Development. Leo is right in the pocket leading the way there! Synergy is one of Covey’s 7 Habits and it’s also analogous to Napoleon Hill’s concept of a Master Mind group. You can only learn so much on your own — if you want to get insane growth — then you gotta learn from hundreds and maybe even thousands of Perspectives. You gotta be in a Master-Mind Network of Perspectives — that’s the Forum! see. That’s what synergy is. This is one way that technology is helping us — it allows us to network with people all over the world on very niche issues. They didn’t have one of these back in the 1700’s, I can tell you that! They didn’t have anything like the synergy possibilities we have today. So, we’re very lucky to be alive today.

You’re good at spotting issues. Very good for discussion. Sometimes you gotta use a system to change a system, almost always in fact. If you’re trying to teach, you gotta give people something that they can relate to — you gotta kinda meet them where they are. I can’t speak for Leo, but I understand the situation he’s in. He can’t just assume his audience is Enlightened and speak to them that way. He’s gotta communicate with people in a way that they can relate to.

Existential Truth is pre-conceptual. BE-ing is only one thing — or more accurately, what this language points to or refers to, right. BE-ing being Perspectival is already a though-story within BE-ing.

For each bad habit you’re doing, try to see what else in your life is reinforcing that bad habit. Then realize that to quit the first thing you gotta quit or restructure the things that are reinforcing it. Get pen and paper and do a bit of reflection. I do A to help me with B. To quit A, I gotta quit or restructure B. If you try to quit A without dealing with B, you’re gonna get a backfiring mechanism PLUS a craving for A every time you wanna do B. If you eat Cheetos to make watching TV fun, if you quit the Cheetos but still watch TV, you’re ensuring that you’re gonna get cravings for Cheetos every time you watch or think about watching TV. You gotta quit or restructure the TV component to quit the Cheetos sustainably.

Create and develop your own Course of Study.

Enlightenment work

Maybe Donald Trump uses the Forum, who knows, right. It would be a great place for him to work on Personal Development, just like the rest of us. This would be a great healing place for Donald Trump, if he were willing to put in the work a little bit everyday, just like we do.

Buk is one of my top 5 poets no doubt. I wanna share this with you — the best lecture on Sartre I’ve ever heard.

Discovering Existential Truth Creating and developing your Life Purpose Creating and developing your Conceptual Understanding

I hope you can get some peace soon. Each person gets these kinds of life crises. Control what you can. What you can’t control, don’t stress about it, it’s pointless. Exercise very well all the control you have to bring peace to yourself and to resolve the crisis.

I’ve learned so much from listening to music. It’s amazing. I got a lot of exposure at a young age from listening to music lyrics.

Welcome back Leo! I hope you had a relaxing break.

Existential Truth is one. It’s not conceptual. BE-ing is not two. It’s one experience. You only get duality when you start creating thought-stories. Then you create all these schemes, right. But BE-ing reality is a single experience. And I try to maintain that Holism in how I conceptualize reality too. For example, I like the scheme of thinking of reality as a Network of Perspectives (the entire Network being the ‘one thing’) , I find this scheme useful. But I don’t mistake this scheme, this conceptual system, this thought-story for Existential Truth. They’re two entirely different animals! But they work together, once you learn how to SYNERGIZE them.

Existential Truth sees all talk as thought-stories. You can’t carve up Existential Truth with concepts. BE-ing is just BE-ing — It’s what this language points to.

For about a year it did for me. During the time I was going through Enlightenment. All your furniture is gonna move around with Enlightenment. It’s a good investment. You gotta kinda think of it like this — Enlightenment is like hitting the reset button on your whole life. It takes a while to go though that. But it’s a true investment for the rest of your life. You will live a more ‘wise’ life, for lack of a better adjective at hand at the moment. Video on point to watch