Joseph Maynor

One of the easiest strategies for the Ego-Mind to feel superior to others is to criticize others at every opportunity. If I can be sadistic to others, I must be superior to everyone. These people are fundamentally insecure about their status and their Ego-Minds are using that strategy to place them at the top of the Totem Pole of Egos in their own heads. If I get to be the chicken that pecks all the other chickens, that must make me the superior chicken (or so they think).

Make sure you weigh yourself every morning and keep a log of your weight by date. Install this habit -- it will keep your awareness higher.

I hope more people will chime in on this question. I'll take a crack at answering some of this question myself soon. I need to gather my thoughts somewhat. Great question!

One tactic is to take the original argument/question and blow it up into 50 side-issues to confuse the original question/issue. Certain people are adept at that. I'm not saying the side-issues aren't important, but it can leave someone like you who is arguing with everyone at a disadvantage if you lose sight of the issue and/or control over the argument. You get my props for hanging in there. You'll learn something from this either way with all the hard work you put into it. What you work hard on is what you'll improve.

The reality is that there are pros and cons to both liberalism and conservativism, and the Stage Yellow and above person keeps the pros but ditches the cons and gets away from being ideological one way or the other. People get so entrenched in ideology that it thwarts your ability to be open and to solving problems where you need the best idea for the job no matter what it's labeled as. Sometimes it's best to be a little more liberal and sometimes it's best to be a little more conservative, it depends on the context. You can see how you do this in your own life too. So, don't pooh pooh conservationism. We all appreciate and use conservativism in our own lives in certain contexts -- you just gotta notice it. Sometimes it's wise to be conservative, it just depends. But don't white-knuckle cling to either liberalism or to conservativism in some kind of context-independent way. That's a very limited Tier-One way of thinking about things. There's a kind of Yin/Yang aspect to liberalism and conservationism. You wanna balance liberalism and conservativism in a healthy way that's sensitive to context. I call this context-dependence. In contrast, people wanna have these context-independent ideological views that they white-knuckle cling to which is very limited. You do your ideas, don't let your ideas do you!

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Here's another good book to read along the same lines. Highly recommended: (Get the audiobook from Audible) A fun book to read. Don't use this to become a fool though or to entrench into ideology. This is gonna give you another perspective if you read it with the right attitude. This should be required reading for those moving from Stage Green to Stage Yellow. This is like a closed-minded book to read with an open mind if that makes sense. "The Closing of The American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished The Souls of Today's Students" by Allan Bloom https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-dp-B00005459C/dp/B00005459C/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1555886252

A fun book to read. Don't use this to become a fool though or to entrench into ideology. This is gonna give you another perspective if you read it with the right attitude. This should be required reading for those moving from Stage Green to Stage Yellow. This is like a closed-minded book to read with an open mind if that makes sense. "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness" by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Psychological-Political-Madness/dp/097795630X

"Systemic inequality" is such a Stage Green buzzword. I'm not knocking it, just pointing this out. "Systemic racism" is another one. It's the Man holding us down dude. It's not my shitty attitude, it's the system. Green is like a child blaming its parents for all its ills. It's never us, we're good. We gotta change the system to be more like us. I gotta change the system to fit my morality. That's Green. Green loves to blame everybody other than itself for all ills -- and the more general the better for Green's Ego. Green loves to play the role of the long-suffering social martyr.

Lol. Yep.

Think about this: duality is a duality too, see. You have to transcend the Mind 100%. It's useful though to go through all this duality material though, don't get me wrong. Duality vs. Non-duality is a duality. This is why you need the Zen Mind aka Satori. Recommended reading: study this carefully https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Suzuki-DT-Introduction-Zen-Buddhism.pdf

This video is golden. Keep reading those books. It's easy to get into the trap of thinking you don't need to read more. You need that theory to percolate into practice and into growth. Theory is also good for getting you to experiment and to goose you out of whatever box your Ego-Mind has constructed for itself to feel safe, secure, and superior. Get yourself a daily routine to read books, listen to audiobooks, or watch/listen to YouTube videos. Watch with your friend, girlfriend (boyfriend), accountability partner using Watch2gether. You can listen to audiobooks together too using Watch2gether. This will allow you to do Relationship Development work as you soak up new theory, which is like killing two birds with one stone. https://www.watch2gether.com/?lang=en

Anybody interested in relationships should get this audiobook and listen to it very carefully: "The Thriving Self: Expressing Self-Esteem in Work and Love" by Nathaniel Branden https://www.amazon.com/Thriving-Self-Expressing-Self-Esteem-Work/dp/B00RVRFI8Y

When I was moving from Stage Green to Stage Yellow I went through a short period where I really resonated with Conservativism. It's like my Ego-Mind needed to re-integrate with my Stage Green Shadow, including but not limited to re-integrating Conservativism.

Goodbye dude. Feel free to come back around.

Yeah. That's one of my daily practices. "Do Nothing Meditation" helps you locate being and learn to watch the Ego-Mind from kind of a corner in the room without identifying with it. This is a good video that goes with this kind of practice.

Leo's new video on dualities is amazing. I watched it three times. Good stuff. Authenticity goes like ham and eggs with transcending Mental dualities and integrating the Shadow.

Ironically, you will love yourself most when you lose your self. This is one of the fascinating paradoxes of Enlightenment work.

One day we're gonna get a simple answer from you haha. A one-liner answer from Scholar.

The Ego-Mind loves to feel safe within the delusions of religious-like thinking. The Ego-Mind is bullshitting itself though which is no good for one's personal development in the long run.

Please identify, list, and describe these stages to extent that you can.

ON SPIRAL DYNAMICS STAGE TEAL (written by me) (1) 100% Transcendence of the Mind -- including but not limited to transcendence of white-knuckle clinging to metaphysics and white-knuckle clinging to Truth Teal, unlike Turquoise and Coral, has completely (100%) transcended the Mind. Teal has reached Satori (or the Zen Mind). Teal is not white-knuckle clinging to metaphysics or to Truth. This means that Teal is not not clinging to metaphysics or to Truth either. Teal realizes that it's the Mind that clings to metaphysics and to Truth, and Teal has seen through the Mind completely. Teal allows the Mind but is no longer ignorant of the Mind making itself seem more important that it really is -- this includes but is not limited to the Mind making thought seem more important than it really is. Teal is able to live their life without being trapped inside the Mind-Matrix while also picking up the Mind when it's useful to do so and putting down the Mind when it's no longer useful. Teal knows how to do thought without thought doing them. (2) Focus on real relationships rather than abstract metaphysical love Because Teal has transcended the Mind, Teal is not clinging to any concept of metaphysical love. Teal values real relationships, however, and places their focus on nurturing real relationships that they care about. This doesn't mean that Teal is selfish though. Teal continues to express interpersonal compassion and contribution, but Teal is not clinging to any metaphysical love or abstraction about love being part of Truth or anything like that. That's all white-knuckle clinging by the Mind which Teal is well aware of. Teal is ok with not liking everybody. Teal is also ok with being interpersonally reactive when it's authentic and doesn't try to repress, suppress, or demonize Ego or Ego flare-ups. (See No. 6 below) Teal is very relationship-focused and uses relationships to do personal development work. (3) Authentic expression and authentic being -- full integration of the masculine and the feminine Teal realizes that both masculinity and femininity express itself in all persons. Teal watches their personas change and is mindful of their personas changing throughout the day. Teal can identify when they're in their masculine and when they're in their feminine. Teal is all about authentic expression, healing traumas, reducing shadow, recognizing personas, and following your goose-bumps (or following your bliss) whatever that might be because that's what your Ego-Mind needs to do to grow and to become more authentic (even if your Ego-Mind needs to go in a negative or destructive direction). Teal has integrated the masculine and the feminine completely (100%). (4) Drops down from the Mind Space into the Heart-Mind Space -- this doesn't mean you lose intellect, you just don't have any ignorance regarding the Mind anymore — this is another masculine feminine integration -- full integration of the Heart-Mind Because Teal has fully transcended the Mind, they no longer have ignorance regarding the Mind. This allows Teal to descend from the heights of the Mind down into the Heart and to integrate both into the Heart-Mind. Teal has integrated the Mind and the Heart completely (100%). (5) Drops down from the Mind Space into the Body-Mind Space — this is another masculine feminine integration -- full integration of the Body-Mind Because Teal has fully transcended the Mind, they no longer have ignorance regarding the Mind. This allows Teal to descend from the heights of the Mind down into the Body and to integrate both into the Body-Mind. Teal has integrated the Mind and the Body completely (100%). (6) Realizes the Ego-Mind has pros and cons -- and doesn't demonize, repress or deny the Ego-Mind in a black-and-white kind of way Teal doesn't white-knuckle cling to the idea that the Ego is bad or an illusion. Teal doesn't white knuckle cling to the idea that the Ego is not bad or an illusion. Teal doesn't try to repress, suppress, demonize, or dissociate from the Ego or the Mind. Teal realizes that the Ego-Mind has pros and cons, and Teal wants to maximize the pros of the Ego-Mind while minimizing the cons of the Ego-Mind. Because Teal is relationship and connection driven (real relationships and connections), they are not likely to be as selfish and solitary as Coral. Teal doesn't think they're God because they've transcended this kind of white-knuckle clinging to metaphysics and to Truth. Teal allows both the light side and the dark side of the personality.

I don't understand what you mean by God has infinite intelligence and love. Do you have infinite intelligence and love? What is that which thinks something has infinite intelligence and/or love?