Joseph Maynor

Yes. You wouldn't be free otherwise. I see you are integrating more freedom. But you are doing it in a backhanded way still IMO.

Aesthetics is central to all of experience at a very high level, not just with respect to the past.

Alien consciousness just means me right?

"Fight for truth" is not always completely understood. We just assume there's the truth. We don't appreciate "power" in relationship (or relation) to what truth passes (gets big) and what stays silent (stays small), and how that matters and so on. Contemplate this one.

I wouldn't typecast conservatives with such an extreme counterexample, but I see where you are going.

I call this the "wonk factor" when I interact with people more and more.

We all suffer. Suffering a breakup is one of the worst forms of suffering. Especially if you love the person deeply.

But localized empathy is still empathy. Like calling a family member to check up on them.

The Odyssey

So how does this help you avoid pain?

Yes. But notice too how stage green can be seen as unempathetic especially with a more stage blue person. Stage green looks like empathy in theory sometimes, which is -- holding a principle that is not actually honored in practice. Stage blue is more concerned with simple acts of empathy without all the intellectual stuff added on.

I feel like empathy is expressed differently with stages blue, orange, and green. It changes shape. It is not one thing that increases as you move up the spiral. It is expressed in each stage differently. We tend to think empathy is one thing, which is already a bias. Conservatives can be very empathetic in ways that I really appreciate.

Sometimes the forum is too intellectual for me too lol.

It is good. Saw it today.

The assumption that there is always one right answer for a problem, and that this always has to align with truth. Sometimes you find that gap where you realize in this context trying to make it more truthful will actually make it more false.

These ones from the list are pretty insightful: Attachment to an ability that is not actually an ability — identifies with a pervading capacity he does not possess. Attachment to a wrong idea of permanence — takes what he has reached to be permanent. Attachment to an awareness that is not actually awareness — mistakes a residue for pure awareness. Attachment to birth that is not actually birth — mistakes an arising for genuine origination. Attachment to a refuge that is not actually a refuge — takes a resting place for the destination. Attachment to an unattainable craving — fixes on something that cannot be had and calls the fixation attainment. Attachment to truth that is not actually truth — takes a partial truth for the whole. Fixed-nature hearers — settles permanently at a real but lesser attainment. Fixed-nature pratyekas — settles at solitary realization and goes no further.

I prefer seeing through rather than letting go of one's mental structures, because reality contains the mental structures.

But this kind of relationship is super painful too. It's not worth it.

Any reason for the highlighted ones lol.

People get really confused about this topic I find. You are on to something.

The next question is now much is this epistemic therapy necessary?

Hardcore spirituality displacing us out of years of life.

Gold is high now apparently but it might not be forever.