Carl-Richard

If I was enlightened, I would not be here

Because I'm a naughty nice boy

I'm so tempted to post the naughty videos in my recommended (but I won't because I'm a nice boy)

I become an animal at 5 days.

You can make your own model which is inspired by SD without any of the empirical research or theoretical grounding, but then it's no longer SD.

Now is a good time for Leo to post interesting pictures on his blog again Up the difficulty level. Show me that "transmutation" in action ?

Weed. My recovery was mainly due to my spiritual awakening. It changed how I experience all hedonistic pleasures. They're literally less enjoyable and literally feel empty. I remember making a frozen pizza like I've always done, and when I bit into it, I didn't get that same rush of "hell yeah – pizza!", and I was actually shocked over how profound it was. Same thing happened when I tried weed again a month later. It was just very empty and hugely anti-climactic. But despite that, I actually forced myself back into the habit, because the habit was safe and comfortable. However, when I actually did end up quitting for real a year later, it didn't have the same grip on me, so I could let go of it easier. While the high itself is one factor, in the bigger picture, it wasn't really the high that was driving the addiction. I used it as an escape from my surroundings which had caused me a lot of stress and existential despair for many years. I had very much anxiety around everything; people, school, my future; and when I found weed, I was given an escape. The way out of that escape was first of all thanks to my mother who didn't give up on me and forced me to give school another shot, Leo's channel who initiated my awakening, and some old spirituality discord which was coincidentally anti-drugs.

It's one thing to use jargon. It's another thing to write like you're trying to birth a new language out of your left nostril.

@DocWatts I get anxiety halfway through that text ?

Obeying your conscience makes you care more. Speaking as an ex- drug addict who played hide-and-seek with his conscience for 3 years.

He did have a psychic who told him what he thinks his spawn count is. That is not a joke.

No, I mean your conscience: the inner voice that tells you what is the best thing to do in a given situation. It's what makes conscientious people conscientious.

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You can't be serious.

Do you feel that you are able to listen to your conscience?

This performance is just insane 24:25 - 30:33

Who is more evolved: a creature with wings or a creature with fingers?

Which animals do you want to observe? Birds? Monkeys? Tardigrades?

Tier 3 is a construct in Wilber's Integral Theory, and it transcends (and includes ) cognition. Its highest organizing concept is "developmental altitudes", i.e. simply which stages follow each other (in other words, very abstract). As for making the case for "Tier 3 cognition", you can say Tier 1-2 cognition deals with "personal cognition" (e.g. "normal" psychology), while Tier 3 cognition deals with "transpersonal cognition" (e.g. transpersonal psychology, parapsychology). Personal cognition is what Spiral Dynamics and mainstream science in general means with cognition. 4E cognitive science might deal with concepts like distributed and embodied cognition (which stretches the "personal"-ness of the concept), but it's nevertheless in the realm of personal cognition (it's not intrinsically tied to transcendental psychology or parapsychology). ...maybe I should just revert to a more intuitive approach to words ?

You're mixing up stages from Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory and placing them in the wrong order

No. You can do that.

Spiral Dynamics is an ontogenetic theory, not an evolutionary theory. It works with the development of individuals and cultures across their lifespan, not across different species. Besides, the idea of an evolutionary stage theory is problematic, because evolution is highly contextual. Depending on the environment, a species will evolve in very different ways. This is by the way one of the weak spots of Spiral Dynamics, because it's not based in cross-cultural research, so we can't say for sure that all people across all cultures will follow the same trajectory of development. Spiral Dynamics is for all intents and purposes a cognitive theory. Mysticism goes beyond cognition. It doesn't make sense to put it along the same axis of development, unless you're making a more abstract theory (like Ken Wilber's Integral Theory). So you can make something "like" Spiral Dynamics with mysticism on top, but then it's not Spiral Dynamics.

Music.

One time I did that, and I managed to rewrite the whole thing word for word. If it's an important post, you should be able to do it

Amma