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From my POV, this seems like a mind creating a story that itself is incomplete and believes becoming complete is found outside of itself (e.g. from a girlfriend or a successful career). This can lead to seeking energy toward things like acceptance, validation and people pleasing. Or a mind can become contracted and disengage. Neither work and both lead to suffering.

I wouldn't assume that. Women can be very intuitive. Some women with more developed intuition may be aware. Some of those women may subconsciously or consciously act on that intuition. Others may consciously distrust the intuition and dismiss/repress it.

Good question. I'm still trying to solve it. I'd say The Game is similar to how Leo describes The Maze in his video. I'd consider SD to be within The Maze and The Maze to be within enlightenment.

Gotcha. I like SD as a framework, yet I can see how it can add unnecessary complexity. The idea of Orange-level thinking was unnecessary for my point and it would be more efficient to leave it out. Going one step further, my point would be clearer if I focused on the thinking rather than the person. The person actually has nothing to do with it and adding in personal critiques can give a scent of arrogance or superiority on my part. My original statement might have an underlying tone that I am a higher level conscious being looking down upon the lower Orange level guy. It would be better to rephrase my statement as: "This is a good example of pure rational thinking that does not integrate relative thinking. There is a limited rational definition of "happiness" and an assumption that the rational idea of happiness is normative. (It applies to the person and everyone else). Everything heard goes through a rational lens of what happiness means. Without relative thinking, one becomes rigid. It is no surprise that in this situation a limited rational view is associated with feelings of disgust."

I would agree that thoughts and concepts are closely-tied to distinctions and dominant our perception. Yet, I'm not so sure they are limited to thoughts and concepts. I've been to absolute nothingness of Mu. No distinctions, absolute nothing. The first "something" that appeared was not associated with thoughts, concepts or vision (I was blind to the external world). An observer appeared with the first something. This was the first distinction. Then there where more distinctions that arose. No thoughts or concepts. Many more distinctions arose before the first thoughts/concept distinctions arose. Based on this experience, I would consider thoughts/concepts to be a relatively advanced form of distinction. There were plenty of distinctions prior to thoughts and concepts. Although, I suppose one could say there where subconscious concepts present which allowed the observation of the early distinctions.

@Robert You post stimulated a couple ideas: All theory (including SD) is *within* enlightenment. All theory (including SD) is part of The Game.

A couple things I consider: Act from Love, not from Fear Which path can lead you to expansion, rather than contraction?

@7thLetter Perhaps there are better ways to revisit a child-like mindset than video games. I'm in my 40s and I climb trees

@AstralProjection I haven't experienced anything quite like 5-meo. I'd say Ayahuasca is in the ballpark. And I concur with others - beware of taking a high dose of LSD in hopes of mimicking 5-meo

It's relative to your definition of truth. The moment you write a thought down it is no longer the gaziliba. True of false?

I'm curious about your subjective interpretation. What is it that you *think* I am doing with SD?

Orange loves to sell image and illusion without substance. Orange lust for Orange can become delusional and they buy it up.

A great example of overcoming adversity to rise to personal success - lots of wealth, women and fame. That would be plenty of Orange on it's own. Yet, he goes double Orange. He didn't just attain wealth, women and fame - he did it HIS way. He rubs it in to Blue and Orange faces. He didn't achieve his success through god, self-restraint, college degrees, science or traditional hard work. He smoked weed, drank and made kick ass rap music. He even dedicates the song to overzealous cops (blue) and teachers that said he would never amount to anything (Orange). Being a rebel is Orange. Having the money to buy and do anything you want is Orange. Succeeding your way, boasting and rubbing it into your critics' faces is Orange.

Using technology (artificial intelligence) to make more food.

This the best example of a healthy Orange-Green hybrid I've seen. It will resonate with someone transitioning from Orange to Green. Orange aspects: The underlying message is developing personal skills to maximize results. It has a lot of Orange keywords including success, failure, goal setting, defining objectives, execution, defining key results. The speaker tells a story of a woman who overcame personal adversity to achieve. He describes how ambition and passion fuels hard work. When combined with an effective action plan and effective management, we maximize our potential and achieve results. He also mentioned how this can lead to higher profits for a corporation. Green aspects: The speaker integrates plenty of Green into the story. He includes the story of a Korean woman. He highlights her human emotions and she suffered and overcame adversity. He highlights how the social program of medicaid (green) can open up opportunities for people to reach their true potential (orange). . . He talks about how we should develop and use our skills toward a "higher purpose" or helping humanity. He spoke of the value of being a team member. The goals included helping cure global disease, debt relief and universal access to health care. He dropped a feel-good Green line of "magic is right around the corner". His methodology is Orange and his "higher purpose" is Green. "Higher Purpose" is a key term for stages Blue to Green. For blue, higher purpose is god. For Orange, higher purpose is self. For Green, higher purpose is humanity.

My understanding is all caps is ok in journals, but not in community sections

I’ve been playing the enlightenment game for a looong time and this idea has never come up. I’m surprised it hasn’t since the idea is so fundamental to personal identity

@Joseph Maynor Reminder: No ALL CAPS posts.

A wonderful video! Creative and humorous!

@Betterself From one perspective there just “IS”. All the interpretation and assigning meaning is just mind activity. So there isn’t a “better”. If there is no absolute meaning, why would someone pursue anything? Well, because that’s what appears. Personal will only takes a person so far, there is something deeper

How would you advise someone to “experience” Godel’s theorem? I think you are conflating direct experience understanding and theoretcal understanding.

Very insightful! And as they blame others - they insist others take responsibility. It’s a vicious spiral downward. I’ve tended to be on the other end - taking too much responsibility. I dated a narcissist and she tormented me in this area.

Very nice! ??

Mu!