Peter Zemskov

What frustrates me the most is that many things that can be done in order to prevent the rise of the far right are pretty obvious but they're still for some reason not being done. It seems like centrist parties both in the US and in Europe just can't get shit done even though they say the correct things. The political system is so inert

In the end it's quite likely that the US is gonna end in a civil war of some sort where it will just be fought out. But that doesn't really address the root issue. These Trump voters are reacting to objective social problems that are a product of the liberal democratic system. Even if you manage to win the civil war and restore the current system the core issues will still be there and eventually the cycle is just gonna repeat itself. We need some structural societal change to fix those core issues

So the solution you're proposing is basically more education? I think that just making politicians pass an exam won't do it, we need a massive education system reform to make people more intelligent. Democracy just can't function with such a dumb population

Yh, I think that's quite on point. This woke stuff ends up discrediting real social justice concerns that it's trying to defend

I think you're right. Realistically people won't understand the sheer scale of what they got themselves into with the far right until they feel it on their own skin. But still, I think there needs to be some kind of alternative to the current system that we can present to them. Because ultimately Trump is just a symptom that the current system isn't working. Hardship caused by Trump and his administration isn't gonna be enough (even though I agree it's a necessary condition), we need new ideas

There's a lot of talk about how horrific Trump's presidency is, but I see very few suggestions of what should be done to effectively fight the far right tsunami that is sweeping over Western countries. This situation isn't just a random turn of events, there are objective reason for why Trump won: liberal democracies have a serious crisis of trust in institutions, economic inequality and exclusion, untethering of social bonds, breaking down of old social identities due to globalization, lack of societal vision for the future, etc and on top of all that an extremely dumb, spoiled population that doesn't even recognize that it's shooting itself in the foot. Trump is just a symptom of underlying problems. If the causes of this crisis aren't addressed leaders like Trump will become the new normal. So what can we do about all this both at the individual and societal levels? How do we protect liberal democracies against people like Trump?

And how can we implement spirituality at a societal level? I agree that spirituality is part of the solution, but practically speaking, what a truly spiritual society would look like for you?

Also, at a practical level how do we deal with all those stage blue people in advanced societies? As we are moving towards green they seem to feel more and more left out and betrayed as they no longer have anything to cling to. I don't really see a way to integrate them and that's a huge social problem

I agree with Nilsi on this, stage green values are based on the deconstruction and criticism of the old oppressive identities, but offer little proactive meaning. Sure, we need to create a fair, peaceful, free and equal society, but what do we do after we are free and equal? Freedom is only as good as what we make of it and if we don't have any vision of what to do with it, we will fall back into our old toxic ways. The rub here is how to combine freedom with some sort of identity and social cohesion. Even though individuals should be able to chose their own identities and meaning, there are clearly good and bad ways of doing it. Freedom shouldn't lead us to the ever increasing atomization, like what is happening now, but we also can't impose a single ideology on everybody either. What I feel we need is a more inclusive, cosmopolitan kind of identity that is going to apply soft cultural pressure on individuals so they become more conscious. Nobody should force you to be any particular way, but at the same time you should know what's possible. For example in our current society, even though we are free to chose our meaning, there's a cultural expectation that we should focus on our materialistic desires. Nothing prevents us you from going higher, but it isn't really acknowledged as something worthwhile. Because of this, most people don't even know that it's a possibility. This is what a higher consciousness society should focus on changing.

Currently, there's a clear trend of rising authoritarianism around the world. In the West this can easily be seen in the increase in popularity of hard right populist parties and politicians within democratic countries, such as Trump in the US, AfD in Germany, National Rally in France, etc. The interesting part is that many people seem to be actively rooting against democracy in favour of a downright authoritarian right wing government that is going to uphold traditional values. While I think that the reduction of the living standard acts as a trigger, I also believe there's another deep underlying root cause to this problem that often goes unadressed: a lack of vision in western democracies. After we have been liberated from the old collective identities, we seem to be left in this nihilistic void with nothing to pursue, defend and fight for. As a result people feel extremely alienated, directionless and desperately cling to old identities, even if deep down they know that they're just constructions. They simply don't know what to do with their freedom and want to bow to some sort of strong ideology that is going to give them concrete instructions on how to live life. I think that in order to solve this crisis we need to create a new vision of where we are moving towards as a society, a new, higher consciousness identity that will give us a sense of direction. But how do we combine freedom with some kind of collective high consciousness identity? How can we obtain social cohesion without going back to reactionary brainwashing? What new forms of society should we strive for beyond liberal democracy in its current form?

I'm not very flexible but don't have any flexibility problems either. And I don't have any spine problems. If it's kundalini than how much more time will it last and what is going to happen when it fully awakens?

Easy to say but its extremely hard to meditate when you're twisted in souch a way that your back hurts as though somebody stabbed you in the muscle. I literally have back pain for 15 minutes after a meditation session. But what is positive is that my willpower has grown enormously because of those sensations. I feel that i'm a lot more resistant to suffering than before. Also it sort of deapend my meditation. In those rare days when I have less movement than normal i'm meditating a lot deeper than I did before because now i'm acostumed to meditate in "hard" conditions

Well kinda yeah. But I meditate usually about 20 min. I could've meditated for an hour easily if it wasn't for those sensations. Now about the technique. I think I gain a lot from this do nothing meditation because out of many techniques that I tried it works the best for me.

I also have tickling sensations in my shoulders sometimes. But I never had any emotional breakthroughs after mediation. Well I had it once after the first deep meditation but since then (2 years have past) I never had any.

I use the do nothing technique