I do laugh at the funny comments which I have read quite a bit of. If I had come across this video in my freshmen-junior year of high school I definitely would have also said things like this is all garbage or horoscopes. It's funny to see the development of myself through others. Of course, those who think it's all mumbo jumbo are just as right as those who think it's meaningful =)

Peak states are free. There's a lot to let go of in order to solidify forgiveness as a more permanent trait. Not sure I'm doing it right, but so far, lots of crying.

@unthinkme_Adam realize the chains are self imposed, that's where your freedom lies Chains make a wonderful weapon, tame them before they slay you. This may have came off harsh, but I mean no ill will. Just sharing my eyes.

Thanks! Me too, absolutely. I've come to accept and even enjoy being an outsider. While emotional wiring and my own foibles are a sort of virus, it's another sort of virus to feel unwelcome or unworthy. I'm really trying to act as though everyone, even me, can provide value and be accepted, and doing so has really helped me to find the venues and spaces where it's actually true! 💚💟🖤😘

Maybe my "Spiritual" Line of development finally caught up to Orange. The secular can be very spiritual even while dismissing traditional and mystical notions.

A particular peculiarity of Nondual is that yes, it is forever, it always has been. You were never not free. Recognizing that, and embodying it, is a State, and can be a Level if the recognition is permanent. Be wary of people who claim ownership of the state, though. It sounds contradictory, but a common metaphor goes: the Nondual enlightenment turns on the lights. When the lights go back off, you still "know" what's in the room, even if you can't see it now. Wilber does touch on these topics, mostly in the sense of organizing them. The actual sources for this information are coming from a comparative analysis of the esoteric contemplative core of all major religious/spiritual systems. Good old Buddhism, at its core, integrated with good old Western psychology.

Mine was the 6th. ;)

Me too!

I think you might be disassociating dude, are you alr?

Lol i second this 😂

lol we need to join forces. She has awesome production quality, I have anything to say.

That's a very uncommon mindset. I'm absolutely sure that you will get to die eventually, but in the meantime, maybe it would be enjoyable to spend more time out of body, like astral projecting, or in nirvana. I doubt it would be the same as an NDE, but a lot of people experience those states as a form of liberation from the experience of mortal waking life, and from suffering.

Everyone has the same brain as a child. Any old baby. It develops by learning memes.

You're an integral developer, Harry!

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. ~ Ken Wilber

Naw, I think you're nailing it. Totally, totally nailing it. In a sense, every religion starts with some person, either real or folk tale, who has a State of consciousness that uncovers our true nature as the spirit of the universe pretending to be an individual person existing in time. That fundamental is-ness, the "being" of us, through it's urge to exist, "created" this world by evolving from more primitive to more complicated expressions of consciousness. Now, as a person sees this, they go to teach it, and everything is lost in translation, but the people see that there's SOMETHING here that needs to be preserved. And so the history of religion is people getting better and better (or worse in many cases) at understanding what that thing is - that perennial wisdom, that universal spirituality. They understand it at Levels. Those Levels form civilizations. Of course, it's easy to totally fake sacred spiritual knowledge, to exploit religion, and there's always some element of that as well. Kind of in step with what you're suggesting, Darwinian evolution is truly a more evolved "spirituality" than concrete-literal creationism. It requires a humbling of the self, an acceptance of the nature of reality, and a more discerning intellect. It requires the "sacrifice" of enduring the discomfort of not being special because a guy named God created your body physically in the center of the heavens, but instead having the grace to recognize that you are special because Spirit inhabited an unfathomable number of creatures from single cells to fish to lizards to rodents and all the countless generations of ancestors fighting tooth and nail in this accelerating process of matter coming to life and learning to sing and dance. I mean, what kind of maniac would be ashamed of that? No, not me, I'm a tinker toy. My purpose is to marry a lady and follow the instructions to get into heaven. It's incredibly ironic.

Integral Theory.

Thanks!

Is that the guy from Reno 911?

People were saying James looks like Jay, and he didn't know who that was. He looked it up, and the first thing that came up was "noted internet douchebag Jay Bauman." Also, yes, he is 100% the guy from Reno 911

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Perfect! We need Turquoise. I did a terrible job of describing the stages after Turquoise anyway. I'd be very happy with more Turquoise.

Yeah, I nailed a couple of those stages. "Turquoise be spittin hard." A couple stages, I didn't do so well. Kind of embarrassed about Indigo and Magenta.

I feel like your 1-6 are better than my script. Your descriptions of 7-11 make me feel like my script was so bad that you don't get what the stage is supposed to be. Particularly 9, lol LDS, that's hilarious and probably accurate. Your description of 12 is exactly what I would call 9. Your description of 13 is exactly what I would call 11.

@unthinkme_Adam well, to quote a friend of mine, the last level is realizing that there are no levels :)

@JackNowhere Yes, and actually, MOST of the Levels are realizing there are no Levels. Level 7 is realizing there are Levels.

I'm assuming this is sort of an ecological position? Amber begins the process of successful colonization, industrialization, people living in fear and out of touch with their body-mind and spirituality, disconnected from nature, and this continues until perhaps one day we regain our holistic nature as integrated psyche beings at Indigo. This is what Integral Theory would call romanticism. Like, valuing the "Garden of Eden" of ancient cultures or the "innocence" of young children. And this isn't a criticism; those are legit dignities to be held in the balance. The thing is, though, the child will never "go back". Society will never "go back". The good news is, we can integrate the inner child, and we can create an environmentally sustainable global tech base. The bad news is, the way out is through. The tanks will roll over the villagers with spears. The kid has to get a job. Currently. But we create the Future.

In Magenta, you believe in the unseen. In Indigo, you perceive it. Not "see" in the visual sense, but comprehend. Like, for example, "I am not Adam, there is no 'I', those are imaginary constructs. There is just this awareness which contains Adam and this environment and these thoughts and feelings." That's not visual, but it's something I directly experience as real right now. And Magenta might repeat those "holy words" as some sort of mantra or incantation, not realizing that they are meant very literally, but they require a level of abstraction that Magenta is incapable of.

That's really cool! It's like, present-day political theories that are heavily concentrated expressions of Altitudes. It seems like you're bucking the trends of typical interpretations of the model with a more conservative-leaning analysis. And I think that's very creative and very called-for.

Heartbreak and betrayal can be a prime cause of regression, just as love can be a prime driver of growth. I found myself regressing to Amber and saying things like, "She's just plain evil, just a bad person. She makes no sense, too stubborn to follow the rules. Literally her only goal was to deliberately hurt me." And yeah... maybe for a couple of weeks, I did get down into that Red zone, but probably best not to talk about that here. 😆

Right? Internet culture radically distorts the perception of Ken Wilber.

Teal.