Carl-Richard

Nuance, brother.

That was your idea. Most people don't think like that. You're making it very hard to not be facetious about this You can't save people from their own stupidity. When I was younger, I used the saying "live in the moment" to justify not investing in my future

Then you also have to factor in that there exists actual connections, be it metaphorical or metaphysical, that get filtered and watered down through the strainer of pop culture. You start with the clear streams of scientifically literate mystics in the upper echelons of academia and end up with the sewagey bong water of some socially privileged teenage stoner . It's the same with pop science: carefully formulated statements reduced down to absolutistic troop signals.

@Bernardo Carleial Beige

Gratitude is a practice in context awareness. You tend to get habituated to stable external conditions, and when you're constantly fixed on your own contracted personal perspective, it invokes a feeling of stagnation. If you take a look outside your own immediate conditions and contrast it to some other perspective, you can temporarily unveil this sense of stagnation and regain a sense of direction.

This is going nowhere. It's the same people rehashing old points that have been made in other threads.

Ever heard of the internal monologue?

If you lean too much backwards (or forwards), your spine will not be relaxed. That doesn't mean you shouldn't sit in chairs. You just have to sit right.

The statistics are all over the place. Australian statistics tend to count only those over 16. Do you have a source?

Melbourne and Australla at large is at around 70%. Are you only counting people over 12?

10% of Melbourne's population is half a million people.

Yes.

Unvaccinated people put a lot of unnecessary strain on the healthcare system.

It's true that it's hard to imagine a vastly different universe than this one from your current state of consciousness, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

It's insecurity that creates the divide. When there is a recognition of shared being, laughter always happens with and at you.

@EmptyVase Eric Andre is my spirit animal

Certainly poorer and less educated on average. "Traditional/religious", it depends. Religion at Purple/Red is more earthy and embodied than Blue religion which is more abstract and behaviorally restrictive. It's an interesting dynamic, because the poorest are usually the least developed, which means that in Somalia, the poorest are Purple/Red, but they are attracted to the societal benefits of Blue. In USA, the poorest are Blue/Orange, but they want the benefits of Green. You therefore don't have to actually embody a stage yourself to be open to its benefits as long as you live on the extremes and experience the worst downsides of the status quo.

I got into spirituality because of Terrence McKenna. I started meditating because of Leo and then had my first awakening. When I started having consistent meditation-induced awakenings, I was mostly into Jan Esmann, Sadhguru and Martin Ball. When I started having spontaneous awakenings, I was listening to Alan Watts and Rupert Spira every night while falling asleep.

Psychologists are generally aware of some systems theory, but the main difference is in the practical approach to solving problems. Analytic psychologists work within the therapist-patient dynamic, which creates change within the individual. They can use systems theories like the Transactional Model of Development to provide nuances to that process, like "therapy might be ineffective due to surrounding structural factors", but they won't work on directly solving those factors. Community psychologists work by creating systemic change, which can involve health reforms, policy adjustments, organizational management of institutions (e.g. schools), shifting societial values through NGOs etc. So what Jordan is lacking is not so much the ability to understand this approach, but it's rather the unwillingness to see its potential in practical application. He is of course biased when he says that there are downsides to taking a structural approach ("it pits groups against groups"), because there are obvious downsides to the analytical approach as well (reductionism, victim blaming, viewing everything through the lens of dysfunction/pathology etc.).

Let's just say if I was a girl, my ass would be a 10 ?

Spreading heresy?

"Primitive" is a bit harsh, but yeah. Poor people in USA are experiencing the downsides of capitalism, and the democrats at least pretend to care about that. Poor people in Somalia are experiencing the downsides of chaotic tyranny, and that's where conservative values like order and purpose (religion, law and morality) come in.

If there is a hell, Dawkins is definitely going there

The way I see it is that people in the West usually approach karma deontologically while I believe its mechanisms is actually more akin to consequentialism. Acting like x will cause you to act more like x in the future. If you prefer not-x, then x is bad and you should avoid x.