Carl-Richard

Feces ?

@Twentyfirst JP has had legitimate mystical experiences, but this isn't what he is describing here, although it's certainly related.

I used to think like this, but recently I found out I really like femdom

You don't need to zoom out to the Absolute to justify piracy. It's generally pretty harmless stuff. It's a bit like using AdBlock. If anything, zooming out to the Absolute to justify human actions is potentially much more harmful than piracy

@Roy

There is a distinction between organic and synthetic states, and you can't translate between them. It's analogous to how giving a pre-pubescent child steroids does not make them into an adult. The very basis on which the state is produced is different. Likewise, there are differences between different types of organic and synthetic states. Persistent non-symbolic awareness (PNSA) might be radically different from a temporary glimpse, just like 5-MeO-DMT might be radically different from LSD. These are all incommensurable realms of existence, but with regards to measurements of spiritual maturity, my heart lies with PNSA. There is something about having a central aspect of your most organic state be a reflection of truth that resonates with me more than the movement between temporary peaks. That said, people who claim to have PNSA, still speak of a continual process of refinement (call it different aspects of karma) that "tests" their commitment to truth so to speak. So to claim that there are no levels to these things is a bit inaccurate, but certainly in the organic realm, these levels are largely sub-ordinate to the greater shift between pre- and post-PNSA.

Own it.

This is false. Lying has an ultimate significance from the bigger picture. It's the denial of reality. It creates conflict within your psyche (neurosis), and it corrupts your sensemaking faculties. It's probably one of the unhealthiest things you can do. The time in my life when I lied the most, my life was collapsing both internally and externally. The amount of stress I was experiencing started snowballing out of control, and I was on the verge of insanity. If there is one ultimate advice for self-development, it's "do not lie". The reason lying feels so wrong is because your higher self (your conscience, your inner ancestral voice, God) is telling you that this behavior is in some way antithetical to your survival. Even if it is beneficial in the short term, you have a feeling deep down that this is unsustainable, and that's true. The best thing to do after you have lied, if not to tell the truth, is to do whatever in your power to not let it happen again.

Pre-EOC RuneScape and Oldschool RuneScape. Thousands of hours on that game. Probably made over 30 different accounts over the course of 17 years.

Infinity.

Are you saying we should stop using blanket terms and be more inventive in our speech?

When you're truly alive, this question doesn't arise.

Not worrying about being low consciousness.

If you have absolutely no idea, then you just have to try out something. You can adjust course later.

Yup. Up and through, not up and out

Somebody had to teach Michael Schumacher how to drive a car. Somebody had to teach B.B. King the blues scale. Theory and strategy is different than practice and embodied movement.

What kind of paper are you writing? Do they expect you to use models from developmental psychology? For instance, I'm currently writing a psychology paper on how cross-cultural studies challenge the field of developmental psychology, and I'm mentioning SD along with many other models, but that is of course directly relevant to the topic.

You don't get there by instantly reinventing yourself overnight. One tiny step at the time. It all makes a difference in the long run. Be methodical. Focus on only one problem, make small changes that require barely any effort, then one day, it's solved by itself, and you go to the next problem. This eventually builds up momentum and makes other problems easier.

What exactly are you using the model for?

When I say he has figured out 4 new stages, I mean that he has literally made a model with 4 new stages, so yes, by definition, that is what he has done. Likewise, when I say what I think Turquoise is, I'm just trying to present what the model is literally saying to the best of my ability. On the other hand, when you say "figured out", it sounds like you mean he just discovered the ultimate reality, and that you're projecting your idea of the ultimate reality onto whatever is the highest stage, which used to be Turquoise. If so, then that clears up so many things. If you don't think it's actually the ultimate reality, then it's just my old point: you're mixing your own maps with other people's maps (i.e. you're not talking about SD, but something else).

That could be one aspect of manifesting the lessons of a mature systems view in the collective domain, yes.

Either being swallowed by career responsibilities, still trying to prove myself to my mother, still struggling with accepting my true self, or having accepted myself and possibly jumped off to do something alternative. I had a vision of me being just another guru after an awakening I had at 19.

Enlightenment is more or less literally about distancing yourself from your physicality, from compulsive cycles of being. Mahasamadhi is the ultimate version of this. Why do you think you can't operate your body and simultaneously maintain the level of awareness of seated samadhi or breakthrough 5-MeO-DMT states? That said, you shouldn't hurt your body to the point of systemic failure. Transcendence, not destruction.

That makes zero sense. Turquoise in this model is Turquoise in SD.

I just liked Nahm's description of it, because it explains the collectivism aspect, but the "content" (the integrative value structure) is not categorically different from Yellow, which also kinda makes sense (because what more is there to integrate?). Before that though, I agreed with the people over at Nordic metamodernism who believe that Turquoise is an ill-defined and unnecessary stage (in that it's not different from Yellow).