Joseph Maynor

Nice. That's how a lot of people choose to introduce Philosophy. It's a classic entry point. Philosophy is like a pool where there is no real shallow end. You just have to jump in and figure it out. It's like coding in that sense. Somebody has to throw you into the pool and you have to learn how to swim on your own. And you just keep absorbing more and more by cracking on it day after day and sooner or later you're building Web Apps or creating and discovering your own original Philosophical views.

Maturity is growth. We can model that as ascending the Spiral. Or you can make up your own model. That's a good idea when you have the best model. And the best model comes from synergizing thousands of Perspectives. That's why Shore of Reference is so important. That's why Course of Study is so important. Where I am today at 40 is not where I was at 30 or 20. But you can grow faster than I did because you have access to information I didn't. You don't have to be old to be wise. Prove that to us.

Looks like a great document. Thanks! I'll use it.

If Yellow is a pile of systems, Turquoise becomes the system. Turquoise doesn’t get hung up on systems for or against, and just lets the universe be and act through them. That doesn’t mean that Turquoise doesn’t try to change systems, they do. But Turquoise isn’t trying to design systems for everything — they just pragmatically do systems thinking when the need arises by letting the Universe flow through them. Turquoise is way more intuitive than Yellow is. Yellow is much more conceptual and in their head than Turquoise is. If Turquoise shares systems, they’re likely to be sharing their own actually embodied systems. But remember, Turquoise can access all the lower Spiral Stages to maintain the flexibility needed to advance their Life Purpose. But this is done intuitively and naturally in Turquoise.

No. The Paradigm of Morality is a more or less useful conceptual system, just cling to it loosely and don’t interpret it as conceptual truth. That’s how Yellow thinks. Yellow likes to think in paradoxes. Yellow would like the paradoxical statement: there is no morality but then there is morality too.

Growth leads to fulfillment. There's a sense in which we want to grow. And there's always more that you can grow. The more you grow, the more fulfilled you get. We can gloss it and say the happier you get, although 'fulfillment' has a deeper meaning than 'happiness' does. So, growth leads to happiness. What we want to do is evolve well for ourselves.

Discipline is entirely an Orange and lower than Orange concept. Yellow doesn't use discipline as a motivator. Yellow is much more intuitive and adaptive than that. Yellow is not forcing himself or herself to do anything. Yellow understands how to go directly to the systems themselves and make much more sustainable tweaks and change than discipline can. Discipline is unsustainable. Discipline is way too mechanical for Tier-Two.

No. That would be mistaking Yellow for Orange.

Focus on creating, developing, and evolving your Perspective by being open to influence from other Perspectives. But realize that your Perspective is all you really have.

Fulfillment comes from growth and expansion. When you integrate your Life Purpose with the systems of your life and the world, that creates powerful fulfillment.

Read multiple versions. I like the version by Red Pine. That’s the one I started with. But I’ve read several versions. And I summarized the entire thing in my Journal Vol. 1.

Let a real Muslim tell you.

Green is ideological like Blue is. That’s why they fight so much. They both cling to the Paradigm of Morality.

Find some resume examples online and use them to design a really kick-ass resume. Make it look awesome from a formatting standpoint. Maybe have a black and white photo of you on the resume too. There are ways you can leverage examples to create an awesome resume. If your resume sucks, you’re gonna end up in the shit-pile with all the other mediocre people. Make sure your Writing is error free. Make sure your resume is pleasing to the eye and well-organized.

Meditation is a great tool in the toolbelt. Use it to help you gain mindfulness and also as a way to help you accept yourself. Meditate as much as possible. But when you meditate, you need to let your monkey mind do what it wants to do, don’t try to stop it. After a while, your monkey mind will become friendlier and friendlier to you. The reason why your monkey mind is angry is because you’re not living an integrated life. You’re not living an authentic life. That’s why you get those backfiring mechanisms in the system. So, the more integrated you become, the more constructive your monkey mind becomes for you. And you will get to the point where you appreciate the monkey mind. When you’re really advanced in this work, your monkey mind becomes your friend.

To me, it’s irrelevant. I didn’t need it.

Good job. You learned a lot my forcing yourself to make this list. I like your list of cons. It’s important to understand the cons of Green. Green has serious cons.

A lot of the reason they say ‘renounce knowledge’ is because they don’t have knowledge. It’s easy to renounce something you ain’t got. These people should renounce their renouncing of knowledge. They don’t know what to say to that. You’ll get a ‘deer in the headlights’ look from them.

Nice post! You never escape Ego, you just become more aware of it and watch it evolve as you move up the Spiral. The Ego gets healthier as you move up the Spiral. That’s why your happiness and fulfillment also increase as you go up the Spiral. There’s less ‘artificial interference’ as you go up the Spiral. You become more evolved, more flexible, more authentic, more constructive.

No. But when I meditate insights come to me quite a lot. I just do Do Nothing Meditation.

How many people do you think actually accept the fact that they’re a lying, manipulative, asshole?

It's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of utility.

This book will answer your questions. I read it twice. https://www.amazon.com/Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Genius-Ray-Monk/dp/0140159959

Music is the Universal language. Even non-human animals appreciate music. Birds love music. Birds are natural musicians.

Yeah. The Course is specifically set up to guide you to crafting your life purpose. It’s very good. Trying to find your life purpose without doing the Course is no good. I tried to do that too. The Course has many exercises that have you come at life purpose from many different angles. Leo did a good job on that course. I’m surprised schools don’t buy it.