Joseph Maynor

There is no nuance in your assessment. That's always a red flag for me. Reality is nuanced, so when I see a black and white thinking Mind, my gaydar antennae goes up. Although in this case it's not measuring gayness, but it's the same kind of intuitive recognition. It's one of those, "Ah!" recognition moments.

Bingo. It's just like Zzenn will tell you, "eat the grapes and spit out the seeds" with teachers and with teachings.

This is a good example of "knowledge signaling" when I get around to writing about it in my journal. Knowledge signaling is basically intellectual virtue signaling -- it's saying, "you lack the superior knowledge that I have, so you lose and I win."

I think Zzenn is a smart guy with a unique perspective. I've learned a lot from being exposed to him. No need to demonize him. If you resonate with him, great. If not, great. It's just like he'll tell you himself about teachers and teachings, "eat the grapes and spit out the seeds." It's like George Carlin used to say, "there are two knobs on the radio, on and off." Nobody's forcing you to listen to any teacher. If you don't like Zzenn, ignore him, plain and simple. There's no need to try to demonize him. That actually makes you look bad -- to try to demonize a teacher that you don't don't resonate with. It's like you're saying, "if I don't like the guy, you shouldn't either -- if I don't like the guy, nobody should like the guy." That's extremely arrogant and reactive. That's a kind of "my way or the highway" attitude.

What is that which wonders how much of your life you're in control of?

I agree 100%.

Check out how I do my daily accountability checklist in my Journal vol. 13. Also, it really helps to have an accountability partner where you're both doing this together. That's the ideal way to do it I've found. You share your ongoing list with them and they share their ongoing list with you. That really helps I've found.

Until you're dieting and exercising every day do not accept any limiting beliefs about weight, including but not limited to the limiting belief of obesity being a metabolic disorder.

Communism seems more like a Green thing to me than a Blue thing. It's Green run amok. It's like letting the students run the university.

Ignorance can also be conceived as doing or clinging to something dumb that you think is worthwhile.

The Mind.

I don't think Spiral Dynamics is necessarily tied to the Ego-Mind's urge to feel superior to other Ego-Minds. You can have the motive to grow be an independent and distinct motive from the motive to feel superior to other Egos. One's desire to grow can come from within, not necessary from a desire to artificially fill a kind of interpersonal deficiency need.

Start to get yourself on a daily routine. You might benefit from having an accountability partner.

I feel like I'm in the space in my life where an intimate relationship with a woman is really causing me a lot of growth. But think this depends on the particular Path of the person.

I agree with this. Bingo friend. I see many Stage Blue, Orange, Green folks thinking they are much higher up on the Spiral than they really are. They're deluding themselves. You're not at Yellow unless and until you can learn to think paradoxically and know what that really means and practice that in your actual conceptual understanding practice and interpersonal conduct. You get my award for the best insight of the year so far. If you're still stuck in linear, black and white thinking, you're not at Yellow -- you're probably some combination of Blue, Orange, and Green thinking you're much higher than that.

I think it's important to realize that we all get triggered if the right set of circumstances present themselves at a certain time for us. That should cause us to be more humble and lenient, which I think it does do that when we really sit down and think about it. Enlightenment does not make you a morally perfect human being. It's the Mind that idealizes Enlightenment into a kind of moralistic perfection.

Ignorance is when you have yet to discover being and do significant work to transcend the Ego-Mind.

People are not illusions. What is that which says that people are illusions? That's the Mind saying that. The Mind is that which says things are this or that.

You need to compose a diet. Here's mine. Diet.pdf

Just be straight up with her and tell her asap. Don't delay telling her. And make sure you talk to her as much as she needs to talk to you. She will be disappointed, but that's to be expected.

I don't think Yellow or Turquoise necessarily synthesize many perspectives. That's not really a condition for Yellow or Turquoise in my view. Yellow and Turquoise appreciate perspectives but that doesn't mean that they necessarily synthesize or integrate perspectives.

Please. I haven't posted a question on the Forum in a while so please be kind to this question. I want your list; don't post me someone else's list or even be so much concerned with someone else's list.

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