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[Music] you welcome to the next installment in this mini-series on spiral dynamics where we will be talking about stage green make sure you watch the prior episodes stage blue and stage orange so the progression that we're dealing with here on the spiral is beige purple red blue orange and now we're at green which I will be giving you many many examples probably over a hundred different examples of in this episode and this is another one of those episodes like orange which is gonna be very useful to you because the majority of you are probably within stage green somewhere now I know I said that within stage orange as well but you know what upon thinking about a little bit more what I came to realize that many people when I started off actualized or and five years ago resonated with me who were orange because that's the kind of stuff I was talking about success space achievement oriented sort of self-help and then I transitioned into more metaphysical topics more stage yellow topics and that probably alien at a lot of stage orange people because they would have found these metaphysical topics to be very impractical so anyway is probably many of you are stage Orange or I mean sorry stage green and actually just like most people in first world countries you're probably stuck somewhere between orange and green and very likely you are 50% orange 50% green or some combination thereof that's what a lot of people in developed first world countries are in especially if they're not in the rural areas not in the country but in the suburbs or in the urban areas and especially those people who would have gone to college and have college degrees and are from sort of a middle class and well-educated sort of areas because your level of development corresponds to your level of education so this stage is going to be very important for you to hear about because you're gonna hear about all the limitations of stage green and how to go about transcending it into yellow which is tier two thinking which is going to be some very advanced stuff so this is going to be exciting again I want to give credit to Claire graves dawn Beck and Christopher Cohen for developing the bulk of this model but I will be supplying a lot of examples and insights here that I sort of developed myself by thinking about this a lot just in trying to understand this model for myself what is the essence of green we could say that it's relativistic caring communal and environmental so the pendulum has swung once again as it does with every stage it alternates between serving the self versus serving the collective and this oscillates back and forth so blue was serving the collective orange was serving the self and now green swings back to serving the collective but in a more elevated way a less dogmatic way than blue was doing it so for green were now sacrificing the self not for some afterlife ideal of heaven but we're sacrificing the self to create a more human community here on earth and to be accepted by this community be a part of this community green recognizes the validity of other cultures and species which blue had some real problems with Green recognizes the validity of different races it's very multicultural and cosmopolitan in this manner and green is all about equality and peace for all world peace justice for everybody so green is sort of reacting to the in justices of blue and of orange green is a rejection of shallow materialism which came with orange and it's return to humanity and to spirituality which also orange rejected so green is sort of shifting away from just the cold logical rationalist scientific metaphysics into a more new agey hippie sort of semi spiritual but not religious in the dogmatic sense that blue is religious and green is all about love for your fellow man if you want in caps all of green into one word it could be either peace or love well that's two words so when does Green emerge why does green develop well like we were talking about in the previous episode about orange is that orange takes capitalism and materialism and rationalism to its pinnacle and it turns out that when you do that you start to see some nasty limits and then green starts to emerge as those limits become obvious and we see that we can't solve all of the world's problem by more money by more economy by more factories by more pollution by more Wall Street shenanigans right that's not going to solve the world's problems so Green emerges when materialism and success success fails to feed the human spirit you got a bunch of money in orange but then you realized money doesn't buy me happiness and there's still a hole inside of myself I thought I would be happy and complete after I got my trophy wife and after I got my big house and after I got my fancy sports car and after I banged a bunch of girls and after I got myself a Rolex and all this but then I discovered that's like man this is very disappointing it's so Hollow so I've chased success I've achieved success and now I'm asking myself is that all there is could there be more to life what am I missing here wait a minute and then I start to realize that hey wait a minute science and technology and capitalism are not all there is to life and that actually I've been chasing the wrong thing I've been chasing success when really what I should have been chasing is I should have been chasing connection and relationships life is not about things life is about people it's about relationships it's about deep human bonds that's what's really satisfying and that's when I'm starting to move into green and as orange I was always in this sort of competitive dog-eat-dog world of business and now I'm starting to find that that gets weary and competition is draining it's actually bad for your health wouldn't be nicer if I just was able to cooperate why don't we all just cooperate rather than competing with each other is that a smarter way to live since we're all part of this community see green is waking up to the sense that hey it's not just about my own success it's about the success of the whole community and now for green the community the sense of what community means has expanded beyond blue because blue if you remember was also about promoting the community except for blue is more about promoting the civilization my civilization and so it was my civilization against all the other civilizations but for green this has been softened and now the sense of community is not just my race it's not just my country or my state it's the entire world we're all human beings there's no real boundaries between this is matter what race you are what gender you are does it matter we're all part of the same community we all basically want the same things we want happiness we want love we want to live peacefully with each other everybody basically wants this so let's give it to them that's what's Greens about so green develops the sort of desire for human connection and love or rather orange develops that desire and that's what moves orange into green there's recognition of this larger global community and now as this happens green starts to notice all the inequality and oppression in the world that was caused by blue and by orange materialism and that starts to disturb green it's like wait a minute why is there so much poverty and why are there these sweatshops and why are you being exploited so slavery in the world this is this is a travesty we need to rise everybody up we need to equalize the playing field also orange as it's moving into green starts to realize the environmental impact that orange has been having and this starts to disturb orange and that's what turns it green because orange didn't care about the environment didn't care about drilling for oil in Alaska didn't care about oil spills didn't care about pollution didn't care about global warming know this stuff mattered because all that mattered was how much money I could get so if I could pollute a little bit here and there on who cares I'm just cutting corners to advance my success that's what orange is about but green now develops sort of social consciousness and now Green says wait a minute were destroying Mother Earth so there's this sort of sense of ecology now and now or instructs I feel a little guilty about all the collateral damage that orange has done and that moves them into green there's a realization that orange is unsustainable we can't keep doing what we're doing forever we can't keep polluting we can't just keep fishing we can't keep killing all the whales because everything's everything's gonna die and we're gonna live in a in a sort of bleak dystopian future we need a more human heart centered approach and also what moves orange into green is sometimes a health crisis because orange was working so hard and eating all this toxic food and living in this toxic environment that a lot of times Orange has serious health issues some kind of disease gets poisoned gets overstressed gets burned out from overwork and now orange realizes no I got a I got a chill out a little bit I've been too neurotic with chasing success and I got to start to enjoy life because look I've been working 80-hour weeks that I've been acquiring all this money but I haven't even had time to enjoy my money I haven't even had time to go on a nice vacation or to spend time with my children I spent 10 years working my children went through their through their early childhood years I didn't even get to them because I was working so hard on Wall Street now I'm gonna take some time off and spend it with the kids going to the zoo it's that sort of mentality if you really want to understand the core of green think of green as a shift from the heavy left brain thinking of orange now into right brain thinking or think of green as opening up of the heart that's really what it is it's a flowering of your humanity it's the flowering of empathy and compassion and a sense of community within you also you could think of green as mellowing out orange because orange was just too addicted to work and success and achievement and was not engaging enough with actually enjoying the journey and savoring the human qualities or aspects of life now let me give you a list of green values this is all the stuff that is near and dear to Greene's heart if you're green all of these are gonna resonate with you you're gonna feel like this is what life is about this is what reality should be about this is what our politics should be about this is what education should be about this is what the books that I read be about this is what the videos I see on YouTube should be about so here's green values and you can use these key words to really make a deep rapport with a green person love heart soul empathy intimacy kindness compassion mercy and leniency humanism liberalism social progress equality gender equality racial equality economic equality social equality green fundamentally believes that everyone is equal Galit arianism and democracy these are huge for green Green is anti materialist anti-consumerist and anti greed Green values having a social conscience green values supporting humanitarian causes green values activism and protests Green has a live-and-let-live attitude Green is sort of chilled and laid-back although not always remember that these are generalizations and so don't expect every single green person to fit this list perfectly and don't expect yourself to fit this list perfectly this is sort of green distilled down to its essence green values diversity and multiculturalism green values cosmopolitanism green values flattening of hierarchies which were developed in blue which blue valued so much green values cultural relativism which just means that green values all sorts of different cultures and green doesn't believe that its own culture is superior to every other one the way that blue did green really values relationships and human bonding pacifism and peace finding common ground amongst people so rather than fighting what we should do is we should sit down and talk it out and find common ground green values harmony living in harmony with your environment and also harmony between people green values human well-being interpersonal skills warm interactions hugs when you see green people hugging each other and it makes you uneasy that means you're in orange you're not comfortable with hugs with human affection and for a lot of left brain thinkers that's a that's something that you need to get over so you're just warm interaction that's something that's foreign to many autistic type of people who sit at home playing video games all day yeah of course if you spend 10 20 years playing video games then you don't even know how to hug a human being it feels uncomfortable to you but that's what green is all about when you see a big convention of green people gathering together how do they greet each other with big warm hugs and kisses and and this sort of stuff which you don't see in the business setting can you imagine a corporate boardroom in orange corporate boardroom where everybody walks in and hugs each other no it's all formal and stiff and mechanical so Green is bringing the humanity in the heart back into human interactions green values pleasing everybody in the group we're trying to build the consensus here we're not trying to exclude anybody green values sensitivity femininity and this one is huge because stage blue well really even even before that stage red and blue and orange were all very patreon patreon and sort of an exhibition of alpha male values it was all about power and dominance in various different ways and green is finally where femininity is allowed to flourish and again a lot of left brain dominant autistic type men and nerds have a big problem with this because they're sort of hooked on this sort of alpha out alpha everybody else mentality you're trying to be alpha he has a young man you haven't found her identity yet and so you have a problem with being feminine you think that that's somehow emasculates you or makes you weak when actually in fact which you realize when you go to the bottom of I mean to the to the top of orange you realize that actually if I add femininity in with my masculinity that's gonna strengthen my masculinity that's actually gonna make me a stronger man so green also values teamwork dialoguing sharing ideas and feelings mind-altering drugs psychedelics and weed so forth exploring altered states of consciousness which is something that blue was too scared of that was taboo for blue and orange didn't care about either because in oranges mind there's only hard physical reality so exploring altered states of consciousness this is some sort of woowoo stuff that orange doesn't want to do green values spirituality Green can be spiritual but not religious in the way that blue was and especially green values a communal sort of spirituality so you see people coming together in your in yoga circles meditation circles and doing spirituality it's sort of communal way green values environment and ecology going back to nature learning lessons for mother nature the wisdom of nature green values sustainability recycling human centered and heart centered communities rather than cold heartless machines where the human is just a cog in the machine here every human in this little organization that green creates is gonna know each other there's gonna be connections it's sort of a social network rather than a top-down hierarchy green values protecting the vulnerable and helping the downtrodden because when you're empathetic and your heart opens up you realize that's who I should be caring about I should be caring about the poor and the hungry and the diseased and the crippled and and and all this because the rich people don't care about them so who's gonna care about them other than me green values - redistribution of resources and leveling the playing field so everyone has an equal chance because Green is sad to see all the gross inequality that capitalism has created green values inclusiveness so that everybody in the group gets an opportunity to express themselves and to speak their agenda so Green doesn't want to exclude anybody and Green is very big on tolerance green values open-mindedness being open to new ideas green values free love and intimate sex sex is deeper for green than for orange for orange sex was just like blowing your load and then getting on with life it was about the excitement of it whereas for green sex is gonna be more about the intimacy and the connection that's the difference between I guess left-brain sex and and right brain sex green value sex education because Green is not shamed by sex the way that blue was Green is comfortable talking about it green values cooperation versus competition green values animals children the disabled and minorities unlike the prior stages green values creativity beauty and art for art's sake not art to make lots of money but just art for the sake of doing art so for green art is more true because art comes from the heart it doesn't come from cold rational business strategy green values gurus there's a lot of guru worshipping going on with green green values bringing people of the world together green values socialism green values crying and expressing vulnerable emotions green values intuition / logic the right brain like I said and green values health food and exercise more than the prior stages so here are some characteristics of green Green is about we the accepting versus I the capable orange was I the capable I am the capable one and now it's not know what we as a community are going to be accepting and loving of everybody green is sacrificing the self for this social network community for green feelings and caring's superseded cold rationality green is about joining a community to experience shared growth together so that we're not just growing individually I'm not just doing partial developed by myself that I'm doing personal development together with the community and that enriches the entire process of personal development green reached reaches decisions through reconciliation and consensus which sometimes can take a long time Green is all about getting together and voting on stuff and talking it out rather than somebody just handing you down orders from up on high because there's no hierarchy in green or a flat hierarchy Green is about dialoguing and mutual understanding Green defines goals and objectives in human terms so rather than judging my success or progress based on next quarters profits or rise in GDP or some cold quantitative metric like that Green is you gonna use some kind of qualitative metric like happiness or love or peace something soft and fuzzy like that which of course drives orange mad because orange wants to quantify everything into orange doesn't make sense how a goal or an objective can be something like love or happiness this is fuzzy stuff for orange doesn't compute so if you want to think of orange like data the the robot from Star Trek it's kind of like that he can't really understand emotions even though he tries to he's trying to use his logical left brain to understand emotions but really the only way you can understand emotions is through the heart Green is characterized by seeking personal growth and introspection so there's more emphasis on personal development than there was even in orange because in orange personal development was just like personal development to improve my skills so I could be more successful whereas in green personal development is oriented more how do I make myself more aware of my emotions my shadow side how do I become more loving and compassionate human being it's sort of softening of the orange style personal development Green now is open to new age concepts that used to freak orange out stuff like the soul spirit reincarnation Buddhism the Tao yoga shamanism karma consciousness love intuition EQ or emotional intelligence energy Qi finding God within alternative medicine Reiki past live psychedelics astral projection channeling channeling mist mysticism Indian gurus healing crystals all sorts of organic stuff veganism Gaia mother earth as a living being all of these concepts which were antithetical to oranges metaphysics now become very acceptable for greens metaphysics and green loves this stuff and actually green tends to go overboard with all this New Age stuff which is where we get this sort of stereotype of the New Age hippie green is characterized by connecting with nature green is characterized by development of compassion and social networks green is taller and accepting of different views green seeks to communicate not just content but also feelings and again this is something that's different from orange because orange didn't care about feelings when orange people talk to each other they're very pragmatic it's like two computer programmers talking with each other what do they talk about they just talk about the cold hard facts and then they move on to their computers right they don't talk about their feelings about the cold hard facts it's like just give me the cold hard facts whereas green is like no let's take the time let's make the space to discuss our emotions how do you feel about this which can drive orange nuts it's sort of the difference between the way that in a relationship a man and a woman might talk to each other you know the man is gonna talk more from a left-brain perspective just give me the facts and the woman is gonna talk more from a emotional perspective like how do I feel about the facts I don't care for the facts as a woman I care about how I feel about the facts the story behind the facts Green is characterized by entrepreneurship but tempered now with heart and humanity so it's not that Green is against business entirely there are many entrepreneurs who are green or moving into green there's actually many entrepreneurs for example in Silicon Valley who are right at that cusp between like 50% orange 50% green they have one foot in both worlds and so this is the type of entrepreneur maybe like a good example would be L on Musk someone who is very success or II nted and still all about money and technology and all this stuff but still he's now thinking about how do I create technology and how do I use my business in a more responsible manner such that I'm actually advancing mankind and I'm creating the kind of technologies that are actually gonna help sustain the planet rather than destroy the planet so that would be the difference between an entrepreneur like Elon Musk and an entrepreneur like someone who runs some big oil company or a giant bank on Wall Street Green is characterized by nurturing employees for orange employees were just cogs in the machine for green green actually cares a green CEO will actually go he'll talk to his employees he'll actually ask them how they feel he'll ask for input it'll be a more democratic process Green is characterized sometimes by being emotionally needy that can be a weakness Green tends to reject displays of affluence so green isn't so much about getting the fancy Rolex and the gold chain and the sort of stuff it's more about developing yourself on the inside for green it's not what's on the outside of a person that matters it's more what's on the inside that matters and this is very different from orange so an orange person like it when an orange man pursues a woman it's all about her appearance how hot she is and so he's gonna rank her on a scale of one to ten and if she's above seven maybe he'll sleep with her and below that he won't so this is how an orange guy thinks but a green guy is gonna actually sort of start to abandon that whole notion see the toxicity of that and say you know what it's not about just them the outward appearance is also about what's on the inside it's about her psychologies about how compassionate she is how much she cares about animals in the world and all this how good of a person she is what kind of energy and find but she give me so it's it's it's a deeper connection and Green is characterized by being individualistic in a conformist way which is an interesting paradox individual in a conformist way and of course this is definitely possible you see this in high school all the time is you have high school kids like certain subcultures like the Goths or the punks or something like that which are trying to be individualistic but they do it in a conformist way so Green is also sort of doing it that way in blue conformity was very strong and everybody wore uniforms and it basically everybody conform to the to the strict dictates of their culture whereas in green it's all about yeah there's different cultures we can pick and choose a little bit here and there Green everybody will dress differently and be individualistic but still they do it in a conformist sort of way so they will all dress and they will all wear you know like feather or jewelry or some sort of hippie tie-dye clothes or some sort of natural cotton fibers or Lululemon yoga pants you know something like this you ever you ever see that every girl in in Whole Foods wears Lululemon yoga pants I mean it's not a problem but it's just it's funny it's like you're trying to be individualistic but really in a conformist sort of way all right so let's now get into all the juicy examples of green right at the top of the list I have for you perhaps the epitome of green if you take green to 11 and you still want a healthy functioning green Burning Man is the perfect example if you haven't heard of Burning Man I highly recommend you check it out go to YouTube Google some Burning Man videos watch some documentaries about it's a pretty amazing pretty amazing little community that event well it's a large community so it's this giant hippie City that gets created every single year around August time in the northern desert in Nevada it's just like in the middle of nowhere up north almost bye-bye Oregon in a corner in the north west corner of Nevada everybody in the world comes together and they create a makeshift city in the middle of the desert and it's like 50,000 people they have photographs from AirPlay aerial shots from airplanes of the city it's gigantic it's like a and they bring everything there because there's no facilities nothing it's just literally in the the desert and this whole thing is like a a celebration glorification of all of Green's values it's all these hippies that come there and they're all doing psychedelics and drugs and and mute there's music festivals and they're they build these artistic sculptures and all sorts of wacky costumes everybody is dressed like Birdman and feathers and flowers and and lights and flashy stuff so like it's crazy and they do this for a week and then they leave and of course as they leave they pick up every scrap of trash and litter that they left behind so they leave the desert completely clean the way that it was when they first arrived because these are green people so they're environmentally conscious right they're not gonna trash a desert so look at that that's a really really good example of healthy green and in fact if you want to really grow into green and to know what green is all about I recommend you go to one of these Burning Man style festivals they have the Maine Burning Man which is in August every year tickets can be hard to get they tend to be expensive because they so many people want to go there it's just this like this amazing cultural phenomenon every year it's getting hard to sustain it but but they also have smaller Burning Man type festivals all around the world in different states around the US and all different countries all throughout the year so Google for those check them out and go there and just see what it's like meet those kinds of people and see how they think they will think along this whole list of values that I'm talking about here they're gonna be very anti Orange so of course other examples include the hippies the entire New Age movement and all the New Age stuff that there is that you've heard about the Green Party Greenpeace vegans and vegetarians liberals progressives Democrats Bernie Sanders is a really good example of Green President Obama was definitely an example of green I put him at somewhere between green and yellow he had those sorts of qualities he also of course had orange qualities but the reason that the conservative right hated Obama so much was precisely because blue reacts very negatively against green because green is sort of a letting loose and this is kind of free love and it's a lack of discipline whereas Orange was all about discipline and conformity and Dogma and kind of like sticking to to cold hard like biblical scripture Green is kind of like letting your love loose and that freaks blue out blue is not comfortable with that so that is the difference between if you want to boil down the difference between a conservative and a liberal is that a conservative skews more blue and a liberal skews more green whereas the businesspeople are sort of in the middle and so the American political parties the Republicans and Democrats the Republicans are mostly halfway between blue and orange and the Democrats are mostly halfway between orange and green and so they are in this sort of Perpetual tug-of-war with one another and the more right-wing you are the more blue you skew and the more left-wing you are I feel like a radical progressive than the more full-on green that you skew so a great example of this is TYT The Young Turks YouTube channel everybody there is very progressive they have a very progressive political ideology and so they're a really good example of Green Bill Maher The Daily Show Jon Stewart Stephen Colbert also sam cedars the majority report have you watched that one it's a smaller sort of progressive youtube channel about politics actually really good I highly recommend it sam cedars is a really good example of a healthy version of green because he's not one of these green people who's just like totally radically unrealistically idealistically liberal and progressive but it's sort of progressivism and liberalism which embodies all of the green values but in a still in a rational manner such that the policies are mostly rational and and very well explained very reasonable so it's it's a perfect blend between like right brain and left brain so you can check that out John Oliver of course Democracy Now is on the YouTube channel which is of all the liberal news media that the the Fox News and the Conservatives are are up in arms about like CNN MSNBC these of course skew green and the reason that they skew green is not because they're bleeding heart liberals many of them are really I mean not that far away from orange because you can understand CNN MSNBC first and foremost these are orange companies because they are out to earn money they are not radical progressives that want to equalize and level the playing field no they're they're very corporatist and in that sense they're they're rather conservative they're there to preserve the status quo but they appear like a liberal news media to people who are within the blue orange range you see how you view other people will depend on where you are in the spiral so it looks liberal when you're very conservative so it's relative you see these judgments are relative you've got Vox vise these organizations who talk a lot about politics they're quite progressive the New York Times MSNBC host like Rachel Maddow and Chris O'Donnell CNN hosts Keith Olbermann Michael Moore Al Gore Donny Deutsch Noam Chomsky no chump he's a really good example of a green intellectual like really top-notch top-notch green a healthy green example Sean Penn Al Franken social workers community organizers spiritual meetup groups university culture so when you hear about universities being very liberal and progressive that's what I'm talking about the social justice warriors political correctness LGBTQ rights gender pronouns protecting minorities post-modernism feminism all of this that I'm talking about here now is getting into the Jordan Peterson territory what he calls the neo-marxists now just very quickly the problem with this Jordan Peterson is a complicated figure again I can't really go into all the nitty-gritty details here but just so you kind of understand the big picture a lot of the scientific stuff he talks about he talks a lot about psychic all psychological studies and and Jungian archetypes and all this sort of stuff that's fine it's not a problem most of that stuff is accurate and you can learn some good lessons from that the problem is that trade pearson sneaks in his sort of sort of conservative political agenda into all of that in a sort of sneaky way and what he does is he actually demonizes all of green he takes this green category which is this very broad category of all sorts of people and most of them are very sane very rational very down-to-earth people they're not crazy radical leftists right most people are not that but he demonizes them because of some negative experience that he personally has had within universities fine he had a few negative experiences okay I'll grant him that but that doesn't mean that now every green or progressive person is a neo-marxist the problem with calling green people neo-marxists is that the people who are listening Jordan Peterson tend to sit in the blue to orange end of the spectrum on spiral dynamics so when they start to hear nero marxist they start to think of marxist the soviet Marxists the Communists so that triggers in them that sort of stereotype and now they have this knee-jerk reaction against all the green stuff now Jordan Peterson Innocents radicalizes in these people and now these people get more stuck with in blue and with an orange and they start to cling to that and they are now not opening up to the next stage they need to pass through see Green is not the end stage Green is the stage you will pass through does green have excesses and dangers of course of course are there unhealthy manifestations of green of course every stage on the spiral has unhealthy manifestations the danger is to overly focus on the unhealthy aspects of the stage above you because when you do that you demonize that stage you judges so much that you can't actually pass through it and so Jordan Peterson himself was suffering from this because what he would really want to do if he wanted to develop himself to the highest levels and to actually connect with the God that he talks about so much in theory if to connect with it in practice is that he would actually need to let go of his political agenda against the neo-marxist let that go and then go and actually like go to burning and hang out with these people realize that these are these are fun-loving cool people they're not crazy radical leftists and you will realize like oh there's something I can learn there I need to open my heart I need to open theirs I need to open the the intuitive capacities of my body in my in my mind and I need to become much more right brain than left brained I need to see the limitations of orange and blue that I was stuck on and then I will go into green I will join green and I will ultimately pass through green and so or into yellow and turquoise and so forth you see so the problem is that there's sort of this barrier Peterson is creating the sort of barrier for other people not to pass through including for himself and that's a shame so that's that's my gripe with Peterson and Peterson has some elements of yellow as well but he can't fully enter yellow because he's still so busy judging and being angry you can see the anger and the bitterness just in his tone you can feel it there's some kind of deeper shadow side anger issue that he hasn't resolved and that's why he's got this ax to grind against the neo-marxist so what I recommend is that you drop this label neo-marxist because really Green it's a real disservice to call them neo-marxists because Marxists were actually blue and red those were Soviet Marxist these green that we're talking about they are not going to create some sort of radical revolution to destroy society the way that Jordan Peterson paints it out to be it's not gonna be like that that's not what they want what they want is they want a softening of this just stifle and capitalism they want a softening of that and you may agree or disagree with the politics there and you may have your opinions about how far green we should go and that's all fine and you can criticize some aspects of green because there are some excesses of green that's fine but the main thing is that you want to whoa into green and past green rather than waste your time criticizing it and the more you start coming up with these stupid labels like social justice warriors and famine Nazis and all this and neo-marxist you come up with these labels it doesn't help you to develop yourself it only hinders you other examples of green abortion rights Planned Parenthood pacifism ACLU it's a me-too movement and Tifa that would be a sort of unhealthy radical example the prob will be to think that everything I'm talking about here falls under the label anti feh that would be the big mistake that's the problem if you see for example on Fox News whenever something with an Tifa comes up they will use an Tifa as a way to smear the entire green stage of the spiral which of course is a big problem because they're in a blue orange stage so really they have more growing to do to just to get to Green but of course the ego-mind loves to demonize that which it is afraid of and that which would force it to grow and to evolve to a higher level of consciousness other examples support groups tree huggers bleeding hearts Care Bears animal rights anti-war protests Occupy Wall Street that was a very green movement charities nonprofits NGOs organic farming organic food recycling global warming music festivals flower children of the 60s in fact the entire 60s counterculture movement of the hippies that was a very Green Haight Ashbury Woodstock the beatniks the Beatles John Lennon Bob Marley Willie Nelson of course marijuana legalization is a very green topic psychedelics Timothy Leary Terence Mckenna ramadasa C psychedelics are not effective on blue people because blue people are so closed-minded they won't be able to to really appreciate the insights that psychedelics deliver because they're not open enough and they won't really work on orange people because orange people are so set on success and personal achievement and sort of selfishness that they're too busy to really delve into psychedelics in fact what will happen to you as an orange person if you start to take psychedelics and this is what happen to me is that you're gonna be in this sort of business phase where you're doing business you're working really hard then you take these psychedelics these psychedelics open you up and if you fully surrender to them you'll really like holy all this work and business and money chasing sex that I'm doing all this stuff is so shallow compared to what the psychedelic showed me and so what's gonna happen for you maybe for a year or two like what happened with me is that your productivity is gonna tank and if you're not prepared for this you might think oh no this is a problem my business is crashing I'm learning less money I'm having less sex I'm having less sport I'm buying less sports cars your productivity is tanking right but that's just because you're working less you're realizing that working is so hollow compared to connecting with the metaphysical aspects of reality and the soak the the psychedelics what they do is they sort of slow you down which is actually a good thing that's exactly what you need but for orange who doesn't realize that that's exactly what he needs that can create a problem so watch out for that psychotherapy progressive schoolteachers liberal Supreme Court judges the 9th district Circuit Court of Appeals socialists the redistribution of wealth drum circles neo shamans communes actually let me make a point about socialists so again the Conservatives and blue-and-orange will make a big boogeyman out of socialism again this conflate s' the socialism of the Soviet era and the Chinese socialism which is actually blue it's a dogmatic ideological hierarchical form of of socialism and actually that's why I failed versus socialism at Green socialism at Green is not interested in for example eliminating private property and confiscating all your wealth that's not what it wants to do yes socialists want attack two more yes they want more government programs yes they have liberal policy positions you may or may not agree with yes of course but don't paint them as this boogeyman like they're gonna come and they're gonna take away all your private property no look at how socialism works in northern European countries for example uh they still have private property sure they have high taxes and stuff and maybe you don't want to go there maybe you don't want that kind of politics in America that's fine that's your prerogative that's your perspective as blue and orange but don't paint this out to be a boogeyman socialist societies definitely work we see examples of them working in many ways they work better than American societies those societies have better access to health care they generally have more equality they have benefits for for mothers maternity leaves vacation and all this so there's a lot of good stuff that comes from those kinds of policies so be careful into falling to the sword and Peterson trap of painting the Socialists of green with the Socialists of blue because Jordan Peterson will tell you like oh but look at all the evils of the twentieth century and how terrible that was and how many tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people died under socialism that is what I mean by creating a boogeyman that is not what happens with green socialists leaning policies now of course there can always be excesses at every stage there can be excesses at every stage policy can be damaging in different ways to different segments of society so of course there can be excesses I'm not saying that socialism should just be let you know free rein to do anything it wants of course if you do that there will be excesses and dangers but that's true of any policy whether it's conservative or liberal you always need moderation you always need balance you always need harmony other examples Doctors Without Borders universal health care sensitivity training non-denominational churches or green health food stores Whole Foods of course a good bastion of green people go there one thing I would say about Whole Foods is that it's really sort of a a blend of half orange half green it's not it's not pure green by any means it's still a business and a lot of people who go there are sort of upscale businessí types and you know um yuppies and entrepreneurs like to shop there a lot of orange people like to shop at Whole Foods just because it has good food an interesting example about Whole Foods which illustrates perfectly the mindset and value system of green is the following I read that long ago in Whole Foods early history they used to sell rabbit meat at the meat section at the Whole Foods but apparently the the green customer base who visits Whole Foods were so offended by this because these were bunnies basically chopped up bunny meat was lying there next to the cows and the chickens of course there's no reason why a bunny is is any more valuable or deserves more compassion than chicken or a cow but but in Green's thinking because it's sensitive because it's more emotional when it makes that connection with seeing bunnies butchered at the at the butcher counter it gets offended and so there was such a brouhaha about this that Whole Foods was forced to remove rabbit meat from its shelves and you know I don't know I haven't gone to all the Whole Foods all around the US but the Whole Foods that I have been to in my area in California in in Nevada in Texas I have not seen any butchered rabbit meat there so I guess that's their policy but that shows you sort of how Green thinks and a little bit of the hypocrisy of green so if you are blue or orange and you feel that Green is being hypocritical we'll get to that we'll get to that at the end of this video I'll be talking about the unhealthy and excesses and dangers of green yes there definitely is some hypocrisy within green but of course you gotta also recognize that there's hypocrisy with every stage every stage has its own forms of hip ah cracy so don't be too smug and too self-righteous other examples western yoga reiki Western forms of Buddhism massage therapy chiropractors nutri paths meditation as a fad trans oh no meditation crystals Yanni eggs juice cleanses detox green smoothies colonics spas scented candles burning of incense aromatherapy tie-dye t-shirts kombucha probiotics soy gluten-free products farmers markets non GMOs Fairtrade che guevara Oprah Winfrey Nelson Mandela Pope Francis he's an interesting character because to me he looks like he's got one foot in blue and one foot in green which is actually kind of cool I actually like this Pope because traditionally I wouldn't like a pope because he would be all blue but this Pope actually has heart like he comes out and he has some very liberal positions on certain things he cares about global warming he cares about the environment he cares about children and this and that now of course there's still a lot of corruption in the church so I'm not saying he's he's flawless and he's perfect there's still a lot of dogma in the Catholic Church which I'm sure is imprinted in his mind for the rest of his life so there's definite problems there but as far as Pope's go he's a pretty good example because his blue is tempered by green when religion starts and religion and church groups start to move more into green they become a lot more healthy and a lot less susceptible to the criticisms that orange had of fundamentalist religion because they stopped being fundamentalist and they actually start to embody more the the core teachings of Jesus or other spiritual teachers which was really just about love it was about caring for poor people caring for sick people it was about social justice I mean that's fundamentally what Jesus was preaching it was social justice Jesus was a social justice warrior flipping over the moneylenders table what is that but social justice I mean Jesus was a socialist or a communist in the most in the most like basic sense what just so ironic because when you look at the fox news audience and fox news anchors and they talk about Jesus as being uh as though Jesus was a conservative a conservative capitalist that's not what Jesus was Jesus was a radical leftist he was so radically leftist that if he were alive today he like the right would completely tear him apart they would demonize him to no end which is so ironic but of course that's exactly what brew religion does because blew religion cannot deal with the freedom and the radical open-mindedness and just a radical openness of a deeply mystical spiritual person that runs counter to all of the religious dogmas you see but that's a topic for another day other examples anti-vaxxers Hollywood politics which like I said in the orange episode is distinct from Hollywood business Hollywood business is orange Hollywood Pollock's politics that you see the actors giving those Oscar speeches with very liberal values those are the Hollywood politics I'm talking about for for this list saving the whales the Esalen Institute but also that's or that's that's also a yellow humanistic psychology transpersonal psychology cooperatives coops Montessori schools Scandinavia Scandinavian countries the Scandinavian prison system which is very lenient and liberal places like California San Francisco or again Austin Massachusetts Sedona Arizona is a bastion of green super green but also really cool City New York Seattle Hawaii Hawaii Green Canada Northern Europe Germany Germany is doing some very green stuff with their renewable energy which is cool the Netherlands Switzerland Iceland so these are all the countries and noticed these are very healthy countries by and large or countries states or cities generally they're they're very well functioning and in many ways they're more successful than their orange and blue counterparts so that's the that's the counter evidence to what or Peterson is preaching to you about these radical neo-marxists you know they have they have pretty good living conditions other examples of green denuclearization equal pay free college for all universal basic income amnesty affirmative action gun control the assault weapons ban green tends to be Pro Union Pro EPA Pro cutting the defense budget they are very much against the military industrial complex open borders higher taxes lenient penalties abolishing the death penalty drug rehab centers homeopathy astrology hypnosis the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation tends to skew green because trying to help the world with vaccines and so forth dr. Albert Schweitzer is a really good example of a religious person who was heavily green in a time when where very few religious people were green this was over well almost like a hundred years ago Martin Luther King JFK RFK these skewed green life coaching tends to be a very green career choice children's rights advocates protecting endangered species tends to be a very green cause mentoring programs helping the elderly cleaning up the environment the back to earth movement people wearing more natural clothing cotton clothing natural fiber type stuff minimalism the Peace Corps the plot from Avatar with those blue alien creatures cat creatures who were supposed to like be the embodiment of well actually they were they were purple sort of purple leading but but the humans who were fighting on behalf of the the blue cat aliens they like the main the main character he was basically green and his friends who were fighting the evil orange corporation civil rights human rights watchdog groups the Prius Tesla the smart car that little car they see driving around that's a green type of car electric scooters commuting to work on bicycles solar power wind power renewable energy the corporate culture at Google and an apple tends to be more green so if you're looking at examples of what does a green corporation look like is green about abolishing corporations no not necessarily there are green corporations you can find and Google and Apple represent a couple of really good examples of that now again be careful here I'm not saying that Google and Apple are totally green they're still very corporatist they still do a lot of manipulative and shady stuff they're still very materialistic there's still a lot of you know they're earning billions of dollars so and they have abuses like Apple has those famous abuses with with iPhones being manufactured in China and people jumping out of windows and all this because of the cruel working conditions yes that still goes on but still when you compare apples culture and Google's culture here in America at least at their campuses even though either campuses are structured when you compare that with more traditional corporations like a giant oil company or something you will see that they are much more green in their values for example Google Offers all sorts of socialist benefits neo-marxist benefits to its employees like a free child care free cafeteria with healthy organic food and like all this sorts of stuff right so all this stuff you know that's what people love working at Google and in fact Google has the or I don't know if they still have it but they used to have this slogan don't don't be evil that was Google's slogan it's like we can do business but we don't have to be be evil and cutthroat in the way that we do business which which which is which is right there I would say Google and Apple I really like half half orange half green and if you take a look for example at Tim Cook Apple's CEO he's the first openly gay CEO I believe and and you can tell in his value system a lot of his value system the way he treats his employees the way he thinks about the future of the company they the way he thinks about how Apple serves a certain a certain role within society not to let it be abused by the government to spy on people that sort of stuff these these are green values he's espousing so he's got his social conscience other examples warning stickers safety codes talk therapy grown men crying utopian communes the personal development company mind valley are you familiar with that one they do a lot of self-help courses it's a very green sort of company the movie into the wild with the main character Chris McCandless that is a great example of the green mindset Chris McCandless was a very green idealistic sort of guy so he abandoned his his fancy college career and he just like abandoned his car he just went hitchhiking and vague-abonding across America and ultimately ended up I think in Alaska where he got caught and trapped between some river that that melted and he got trapped like on this little island all by himself like camping in a bus abandoned bus and then he ate some poison berries and basically he starved to death but it's a really touching story of sort of the idealism of green but then also how green can be so idealistic that it goes wrong which is what happened to him so it's kind of tragic and that is a theme for green is that Green has all this heart but there's also some some tragic access to green which will we'll talk about in a little bit here the United Nations scuze green although it's got plenty of oranges as well cultural appropriation or at least people being upset about culture appropriation is very green thing activists local coops mental health professionals teachers have you seen the ultra spiritual guy on YouTube so he is criticizing he's basically making a mockery of all the excesses of dream that's what he's doing and that's why his channel is so popular so the problem with it though is that I get the sense that a lot of blue slash orange people watch the ultra spiritual guy and of course they laugh it's super funny and everything he says this has a a ring of truth to it but the problem is that if you're at stage orange or orange blue and you're watching these videos and you're laughing and you're ridiculing green the problem is that again it's going to create this sort of Jordan Peterson style demonization stereotype in your mind of green and then you're not actual gonna be able to grow into green because you've been laughing at it for three years solid you see the problem with that so I mean you can definitely make fun of green but make sure that you're not taking that too seriously like make fun of green but don't actually think that green is bad because you should see yourself as becoming green and then of course transcending green tantric sex since very green thing ayahuasca retreats conscientious objectors very green yin-yang and peace tattoos the peace symbol what is a peace circle in it how about Osho Osho Ashram Osho himself was was pretty advanced but his ashram if you seen the documentary that I posted on my on my blog and we talked about on the forum Osho's ashram the Raj neecy's and in an Oregon that was if you watch that entire documentary I mean Sheila was sort of an outlier she was kind of a crazy character but if you just look at the the vibe and the culture and the the the values of that community that was a very green typical green example Russell Brand if you like him he's really good at embodying green and then lastly again we come to Sam Harris now I said in the orange video that Sam Harris is a complicated figure and he is and the reason I bring him up here again is because his metaphysics in a sense of very rationalist and materialist which makes him orange in that sense but I think that Sam Harris is a liberal I mean he's got a lot of liberal positions he's open to a lot of liberal ideas and values generally so Sam Harris definitely has lots of green in him as well even though he has a lot of criticism against the excesses of green which some of those are certainly valid and we'll be talking about them here in a minute so notice that's the end of our list of examples so notice all the different shades of green there's a lot here a huge diversity all right so be careful about stereotyping this or pigeonholing people or calling all of these people neo-marxist also notice that in our society today if you live in a big city in a relatively liberal state in the US for example at California in New York or Oregon or Washington this sort of stuff Florida you see a lot of orange fused with green in the sense that you have orange consumerism which is fused with green values so you have values like meditation and spirituality and yoga and all this sorts of stuff but then you see it sort of cheapened by this mass-market consumerism which is a little bit of sort of like what Oprah does and I'm not really criticizing this I think it's a it's a necessary step in the evolution because our culture right now really is evolving towards the sort of orange half half orange half green stage and so of course you would expect that orange consumerism and business would fuse with some of the higher ideals of green but you also have to understand the danger of this is that it sort of cheapens and takes the hard edge off of things like yoga it's really hard to find a yoga teacher these days especially in the West who will teach you a nice strong form of yoga that's actually designed to enlighten you Moshe okay in the West is about bending yourself into a pretzel and doing some some weird stuff joining a class being part of a community I mean and they don't even talk about enlightenment nobody in those classes even know has a clue of what enlightenment is even conceptually or if they have a conceptual clue they certainly haven't realized the radical depth of what enlightened really means and they've never really actually experienced it to them it's it's just a belief so watch out for that for that problem green consumerism all right let's take a quick intermission here and we when we come back we'll talk about some of the excesses of green and then how to transcend green all right let's talk about some slogans that epitomize green love conquers all sharing is caring make love not war everyone is equal everyone is beautiful in his or her own way every one is right in his or her own way we're all in this together live and let live give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free can't we all just get along and now let's talk about what triggers green every stage you have to understand has its own trigger points people on the right and conservatives like to criticize green because they say all green are snowflakes they get triggered but the truth is that conservatives also get triggered stage blue gets triggered stage orange gets triggered by its own stuff and of course stage green gets triggered now because Green is more emotional and it's more sensitive to the the oppressed and minorities and civil rights issues and human abuses like this then it it is more sensitive in a certain sense to getting triggered but again you know it just all depends it's very easier to trigger a blue fundamentalist religious personally extremely easy and you can also you can also trigger orange people as well so don't think that triggering is somehow exclusive to green so here's what triggers green though injustice and inequality oppression of minorities the status quo and hierarchies of power especially if the status quo is some sort of old hierarchy which is fundamentally unfair or unjust to certain groups of people like you might think of for example the Indian caste system that kind of caste system would be very upsetting to Greene because it marginalizes so many people and keeps them down Green is also triggered by when religion is used to justify oppression like when someone in a position of power justifies their oppression of minorities or children or of animals or something like that by quoting scriptures from the Bible or in the name of Allah that that can trigger green human rights abuses racism bigotry fascism neo-nazis the KKK the Charlottesville example that happened in America here last year incidents like this can be very triggering to green which is why green will then go out and will want to protest and will want to go to these to these like white supremacist rallies and do a kind of a counter protest thing because they want to stand up to that because they're standing up against human rights abuses in their eyes that's what they're doing Green can be triggered by unchecked capitalism so sometimes in the news we see these situations where some drug company puts out a drug that they know wasn't safe that kills lots of people or poisons lots of people that sort of situation will trigger green or when some company will get price gouge some children for their drug that they need some cancer medication they raise the price by 500% because they know they can make the money or something so stuff like this also Green can be triggered by consumerism various forms of corporatism corporate greed Wall Street CEOs getting golden parachutes while their companies tank sweatshops exploitation especially around the world in many third-world countries there's a lot of instances where first world countries especially America because of its capitalistic ambitions are exploiting third world countries in making situations their much worse than they would have otherwise been Green can be triggered by invent or environmental destruction and pollution Green is triggered by lack of empathy and cold-heartedness just generally speaking animal cruelty is big for green that's a big trigger point Green starts to develop a special connection with nature and with animals that a lot of blue and orange people just can't understand and you know a stereotypical example of how to trigger a green person is to take a basket of kittens and lower into a pit of lava that would trigger green and that's something that an unhealthy version of blue or orange might do just to amuse themselves just to spite green you also notice this this phenomenon happening with with orange blue people is that they sort of want to stick it to green there's just sort of this this idea that oh let's just do something to piss green off to trigger green and because Green is sensitive they know that oh if I just do something cruel or I say something ugly or say something racist or whatever then I can trigger green in this way and you can but the cost of that is is that if you're participating in that then really what you're doing you're participating in a sort of very childish juvenile behavior there and you're just entrenching yourself deeper into your blue and into your orange when really you should be opening your mind up to green because you're gonna have to pass through green to get to yellow green can be triggered by war genocide rape torture abuse school shootings mass shootings and poverty fascism and authoritarianism the exclusion of people from the group like if you don't let somebody speak because you just want to exclude them Green can be triggered by libertarians of course Donald Trump triggers green people a lot he sort of is the antithesis of everything that Green is about this kind of selfishness this narcissism and there's this pandering to blue conservative Supreme Court that's triggering triggering a lot of of green people these days and just in general progressives are triggered by the backwardness of society what progressives see is they see fifty to a hundred years into the future of what society could be like but because a giant chunk of the population is stuck in blue and is also feeding into orange that uh progressives are never really able to get the kind of progress that they know we're capable of as a society and so the frustration for many progressives is like it's like we know what society could be in 50 or 100 years and we know that really if people were more open-minded we would have that Society today and it would be a more fair more democratic more egalitarian society and it would be better for everybody on the whole but of course there are elements of society which are holding us back because the ego wants to maintain homeostasis and in my episode where I talk about collective ego I talked about how every political system every social organization including of course all the progressive ones they also have collective ego they are trying to maintain their position but a feature of the progressives or the greens collective ego is progress and evolution where as a feature of the blue collective ego is maintaining the status quo and so there's always this tension in society and there's always more people in society who are stuck in traditionalism and traditional values than they are in the future and in progress and so this is not just some recent development within American politics for example that I'm talking about this this has been going on for 2,000 years there was always in every single society and every single culture there was the large majority of the culture which was generally traditional and conservative and was just kind of like satisfied with the way the culture is and they would just want to preserve it and then there were a few people a smaller segment who wanted progress and you know there's there's a there's a range some people want a little bit of progress some people want a huge amount of progress some of the progress that people want could be completely unrealistic can be unattainable in the timeframes that they envision but nevertheless you know there's always a progressive ailment that's kind of pushing society forward and so there's this tug-of-war between how fast should we be going forward the problem for conservatives in blue is that everything in reality is always evolving so you can't stay the same place forever because you're gonna go extinct but then the question is okay so we're moving forward but the question is how fast do we want to move forward and the problem is that if you move forwards to fast then you get ego backlash so it's this careful balance every system now I'm not just talking about politics here I'm not just talking about America I'm talking about every single system whether it's your mind whether it's your life whether it's your family unit or your business or your your whatever your a political party it's always fighting this tug-of-war between how fast should it evolve and if it involves too slow it could die and also if it involves too fast it could encounter all sorts of problems with that as well so that's the that's the balancing act that life plays out for us now let's talk about the unhealthy manifestations of green and also its excesses this is what happens when you take green too far Green can get too easily offended and too sensitive it would help green to develop a thicker skin because not always will people play to your sensitivities and sometimes reality is brutal and harsh and green can can be a little bit unrealistic in terms of that green can be too idealistic and too impractical sometimes Green has too much heart and not enough head it cares a lot but it doesn't really create a strategy or a plan or it lacks the discipline to actually act out on the feelings Green likes to talk a lot and to get a consensus but just talking and sharing feelings and getting a consensus and having a dialogue does not actually produce the result which can be a problem for green so it can be a little bit up in the clouds and not grounded enough and so with green you can get social revolutions but then they don't actually last this turn into fats another excess and unhealthy manifestation of green is a sort of groupthink or mob mentality that happens green can be ideological in fact every stage is ideological in its own way ideologies not reserved only for blue orange has its own capitalistic ideology those are the libertarians and Green has its own sort of progressive ideology and it can also kind of just kind of get wrapped up and caught up like maybe you're a student on a college campus and you're just gonna get caught up with some feminist movement that's going on there or some civil rights movement or something else and maybe the movement overall it's a good idea and it it had some some good intention with started but then it can go too far right you join a protest group and then everybody starts doing something breaking windows whatever and then you kind of get sucked into it and kind of go into it and you just kind of buy into it because remember Green was a shifting of the pendulum into a sort of a collective attitude from away from the orange individualist so of course the pendulum always overcompensates over reacts and swings too far which is why this Willem the pendulum then needs to swing back and so with green yes conservatives sometimes criticize green because they can be like a herd or like a mob and that's true of course conservatives also fall prey to that exact same problem just in in different ways so watch out for that if you're green another unhealthy manifestation is that Green tends to demonize materialism because Green has swung away reacted against orange and oftentimes Green didn't actually fully integrate orange it just reacted as a knee-jerk move away from orange and so now Green thinks that all business and corporations and money that that is the root of all of our problems if we could only stop corporations then everything would be solved for society that's not true of course the situation is much more complicated and nuanced than that and the fact is is that Green is a stage that's built upon orange so Green doesn't replace orange that's a big mistake Green is is the next step up it it includes and then transcends orange so it's it's not right to think of business as being evil because then you're gonna start to judge it and then what's gonna happen is that you're gonna have a dysfunctional relationship with it and the fact is that society needs business we're always gonna have business it's not whether we should have business or not have business or whether we should have capitalism or not have capitalism we will always have capitalism it's a question of to what degree how do you medicate it how do you soften it how do you properly regulate it the devil is in the details there so be careful not to demonize another problem with green is that green tends to not appreciate the necessity of the lower stages like I'm talking about blue and orange are necessary those are the steps you take to get to green sometimes what green will do is Green will try to go to some third-world country which is quite backwards and undeveloped like maybe in the Middle East somewhere where many of the people in the Middle East are enough even a purple and an in a red not not even blue yet purple and red much of their population is still there a very low level of development very tribal culture they're just starting to move into blue and orange and green tries to come in there and tries to spread green ideals of animal rights and civil rights and women's rights and all this and it doesn't work it doesn't work because you're you're preaching a level of development that cannot be sustained because there's a lack of just basic fundamental infrastructure both cultural infrastructure but also actual physical infrastructure you know like people in Africa and in the Middle East many of them just like need basic government utilities and functions they need to be able to get a job they need to be able to get vaccines for just like very basic stuff they gotta fix that stuff before they can start to care about animal rights and world peace and global and green energy and so green can be so idealistic that it fails to see that fails to appreciate those stages and green might want someone from some like African nation who is in purple very deeply tribal you know like village society they want them to jump to green but that's not gonna work and so if you go there you try to maybe build a school or some charity organization that tries to get those African kids to green it's not gonna work you need a much more smarter approach which once you get to yellow you start to see that oh the entire spiral is necessary every stage has a reason for being and so it makes no sense to criticize the lower stages nor does it really make sense to try to speed up the process too much because if you try to get people to move up the stages too quickly they won't fully integrate them and actually it'll backfire and fail to work and that's one of the problems that a lot of NGOs and charities and nonprofit groups that try to work in the Middle East or in Africa they face this problem they try to they try to help from a green stage when really they need to be working with the needs of the people you got to meet the people where they're at not where you're at which can be difficult for an idealistic person to do Green can fail to appreciate the complexity of economy of the economy sometimes green thinks that off we just if we just raise taxes or if we just do this or we just corporations that that will solve the problems when in reality the economy is a very complex thing and you have counterintuitive repercussions so your policies need to be either very carefully tested Green can be to relativistic which leads to a sort of false equivalency effect where Green says all well all cultures are basically equal they're all in the same playing field and so therefore the culture in America is it the same level you could Leo you can't say that American culture is more developed than Middle Eastern culture African culture that's not politically correct or right that's that's you setting up a hierarchy and you may be Green might even say that spiral dynamics you need to destroy this hierarchy well the fact is is that there are different levels of development and human beings and different cultures have different levels of consciousness some are more developed and more complex than others and that's not a moral judgement I'm not saying that's good or bad I'm not saying Africa is worse or the Middle East is worse than America or Europe it's just different levels of development from the biggest picture perspective there is no good and bad here it's all just a very complicated bootstrapping process that is unfolding its evolution unfolding within human societies and so you don't you don't criticize the dinosaurs for being dinosaurs and not being Birds or not being mammals or not being Apes it's like you've got different animals who occupy different niches and they need to be that way you know we still have crocodiles and alligators and you might say well the crocodiles and the alligators are so backwards because they existed 100 million years ago and they still exist today so how come they aren't more advanced creatures how come they aren't Apes well because there are still niches in the world where being a crocodile or an alligator is the perfect fit and you as a really good zoologist need to understand that and then of course apply that to human societies another excess of green is a sort of naive pacifism sometimes green because green loves peace and love so much that they fail to appreciate some of the hard and brutal realities of conflict they think that love and peace can solve all problems when in reality it's much more complicated than that love and peace cannot solve all problems and so taking just this kind of attitude that all we should just abstain from all wars abstain from all intervention to Spain from all violence and that will be the perfect scenario well actually counter and totally what might happen if you do that is that actually you will bring upon more war or even more violence so you have to be careful takes complex thinking to really understand how conflict works sometimes green wants to flatten hierarchies too much sometimes a hierarchy is necessary to have a functioning government or a functioning organization or functioning corporation you flatten it too much then there's no clear decision-maker there's no clear leader in the organization and so the whole thing is just kind of this this mushy mess decision-making takes a long time and takes a lot of resources and so you have a lot of dialogue and consensus building but in the end of that no action gets taken sometimes green is not action-oriented enough not pragmatic enough that can especially happen when Green hasn't fully integrated Orange because really if you properly integrate Orange you will learn the lessons of pragmatism there and in fact you'd probably go overboard and in that case you move into green and everything will be fine but a lot of people these days they get sort of imprinted with green values early on in their development and education especially if you grow up in a progressive area or with a with a liberal family but then you you have not integrated all of the orange lessons and even some of the blue lessons and this is where you get some problems arising like you get the phenomenon of the the deadbeat hippie who can't have a job and who can't manage his finances and he just kind of goes and mooches off his friends even though he has high ideals of love and peace but he can't even keep a job pay his bills that would be an example of someone who fails to properly integrate Orange so watch out for that trap Green can green can have extremist elements because Green has that mob mentality a bit it's collectivist so sometimes you get involved with a group and like I said in my collective ego episode individually as humans we tend to be pretty nice and kind but when you get us into a mob all sorts of mayhem happens it doesn't matter if it's a a blue mob or an orange mob or a Green mob so examples of extreme elements of green might be PETA some of the actions of Greenpeace or an Tifa but remember that these these are by and large rare not all green people fall into this trap Green can be too touchy-feely and too emotional sometimes greens emotions don't allow it to do the things that need to be done sometimes green is so compassionate that it falls into the trap of only seeing compassion as feminine compassion I have an older episode where I talk about the distinction between feminine masculine passion and both of these have a need depending on the situation feminine compassion is when you you kind of Carla person and you kind of try to soothe soothe them and and help them as much as you can and then masculine compassion sometimes when you deliver the brutal truth and sometimes that's what you need is you need to deliver the brutal truth you need to speak something harsh but then that harshness is actually what gets the solution it actually helps the person and it can it can actually be more compassionate the reason it's more compassionate is because well like look for example a lot of women had can have this problem in a relationship like a woman can be in a relationship with some let's say guy who's a jerk but because she's very compassionate and she doesn't want to she doesn't want to disappoint this guy and she doesn't want to you know she doesn't want to not love this guy by leaving him so she just justifies in her mind staying in this relationship for another 10 years and so it just keeps dragging on and on they keep fighting and he keeps abusing her and being a jerk to her and this whole thing you know it just turns into a giant mess when the proper step there would have been to realize in year one that this guy's a jerk it is not gonna work and so let me utilize some masculine compassion here and let me just leave him let me just sit down and tell him this these are the facts you're disrespecting my boundaries respect my values I'm cutting you off that's it don't call me I've blocked your number and we're done but see a lot of women might feel that that doesn't fit their sort of ideals of love and they've been taught they should love and they should be supportive and all this and so and so actually in dragging it out you make it worse you have to find when the right kind of compassion is necessary so you got to be flexible and not rigid in your notion of compassion also for green caring too much can lead to burnout you care so much about about helping people maybe you're a nurse in some Hospital and it's like you're trying to help everybody you're helping this guy and that guy that you're working overtime and all your patients and you're just overworked you're and then eventually you care so much you burn yourself out Green can be overzealous about social causes Green can care so much about global warming so much about animal rights so much about the Supreme Court or so much about some issue that they either go overboard they become extremists they can even go to the point of doing violent acts although that's pretty rare for green but it can happen you know you just got caught up with it or you maybe if you don't even do anything violent or extremists you just care so much about this cause that eventually it backfires on you and it starts to hurt you emotionally it's like you care about something so much but it's not getting fixed just because you care about it and maybe you want global warming to end but hey the fact is that we're in this world where a lot of countries are underdeveloped right now and we're not gonna end global warming anytime soon because new countries are coming online new factories note new coal electric power plants those are still coming online in China and in India all over the world so those are some just brutal realities and sometimes green doesn't want to face those brutal realities because it's filled too idealistic another excess of Green is green guilt guilt makes a comeback blue if you remember had a lot of guilt in it it was a sort of puritanical Catholic version of guilt then in orange orange moved away from guilt and in some sense orange orange becomes guiltless and shameless which is a problem because it's very individualistic now the pendulum swings back towards the guilt direction of course a different kind of guilt for green the guilt is a sort of failure to live up to its ideals of equality and justice for all so maybe you feel guilty because you are wasting food or you're not recycling and that's you not living up to your lofty ideals or maybe you feel guilty for driving a gas car and for helping to support the the big oil industry or the pharma industry or something like that or you feel guilty for the company you work at because your company earns dollars or money and and maybe your your company exploits some third world country labor maybe it has some sweatshop so you feel guilty about that now of course Green will say well Leah but I should feel guilty about that well that's the whole problem with guilt is that people who feel guilty they believe very firmly that they should feel guilty for not living up to their ideals but the problem is that that that actually that robs you of your power and guilt is not a very resourceful emotion from which then to act and to change so rather than feeling guilty it's better to release that guilt and then and then do the right thing anyways Green can be a little too reactionary reacting to situations that are happening rather than following through on its own agenda on its own goals in its excess Green can stifle independence and it can stifle entrepreneurial spirit I've heard examples of this happening for example in Scandinavian countries where in Scandinavian countries the culture there is such that if you try to rise above the average like in your school or in your university you try to rise above average you try to be a little bit of a maverick then the culture there is design such that people will look down on you and maybe you're an entrepreneur and you have some brilliant ideas but then the culture you're growing up in it's a little bit too socialistic and so what happens is that they stifle your your creativity in your independence there can be a sort of green restraint of individuality through harmony Green tries to get a consensus and a harmony so much that it actually ends up killing healthy forms of individuality as it seeks to get everybody to a sort of Green mob sometimes in its excess green can love to talk about spirituality but actually be unable to embody it this is a problem Green can go to yoga classes Green can go to sot songs and listen to gurus and watch mooji videos and talk about love and how wonderful the world is and and peace and all of this but green is not actually able to attain the deep non-dual mystical states that are necessary to truly be a vehicle of a very deep form of love unconditional love Green doesn't yet understand conditional love Green's heart is not yet fully open that will only happen at turquoise with deep mystical experiences which green generally isn't disciplined enough to attain because true spirituality requires enormous discipline and in a sense that was a very nice strength of blue but that has been sort of long left behind and now with green there's a sort of uh there's a sort of up in the air quality about green where it's airy-fairy it likes to talk about aliens and UFOs and chakras and crystals and all of this it talks about this it burns incense and it maybe does some meditation practices but it's not real like hardcore meditation it's not hardcore yoga which is what enables true spirituality Green can be too entitled a lot of green people the reason they're green is simply because they grew up in a culture and in a society which is rel the affluent first world countries European countries in America we have elements of green in our culture because we've gone through all the other stages and green can sometimes forget that green can forget that green is built on top of orange and it can feel entitled to things and it can seem like everybody else in the world should have what green has but everybody else in the world can't have that unless they go through all those steps that your ancestors had to go through to build all the infrastructure both the physical and psychological infrastructure to get you and you know the economic infrastructure to get you to where you are now most third-world countries do not have the political infrastructure to allow green government's that has to evolve through a painful process and green can be so entitled that it forgets that green can deny differences too much this is one of the things for example that Jordan Peterson will rant about is how Green will deny deny the differences between men and women between the different curves there's curves and there's outliers and outliers can be really extreme and very significant and that's true because greens overarching bigger picture is that everyone is equal now of course a concerted will say oh that's so ridiculous everyone is not equal there's truth in both perspectives there's a partial truth in both perspectives of course everyone is not equal of course not all cultures are equal of course not all races are equal of course not everyone has the same IQ of course not all the features and characteristics and strengths and weaknesses of men and women are the same men and women are asymmetrical they have different strengths and weaknesses but what Green is saying when it says everyone is equal is it saying that everyone should have an equal right to basic you know health care housing economic prosperity so it doesn't literally mean that men are equal to women and so there's a sort of us up a false debate that then gets set up between like blue and orange and green and they start to argue and then like the blue and orange side argues no we're all different and the green side argues no we're all equal well they're really just talking about the same thing in different ways and a lot of times they they fail to see that because they're too stuck in their own perspective the problem with green is that it is too stuck in its own perspective this perspective of equality that's an admirable perspective it's an admirable intention but again you can't cling to anything too much and when you start to turn it into an ideology or a philosophy what it does is it restricts your creativity it restricts your fluidity and then that creates problems the name of the game here is to have a flexible mind that's always been the name of the game that's what I've been trying to teach you with actualize dot org all this time when I talk about epistemology I talked about freeing your mind of webs of belief it's all about freeing your mind liberation that's ultimately what you're going to you're trying to liberate your consciousness from every single mental construct that holds you down whether it's a blue construct an orange construct or a green construct Green can have a sort of naive altruism that it turns into a trap this idea that you can just help everybody and the problem is that you can't help everybody you can't just let every homeless person into your house feed them clothe them take care of their medical expenses give them a therapist for their mental illnesses and help them with their drug addictions you know you can't you can't do that for everybody and sometimes Green doesn't realize that Casilla too idealistic Green can be too trusting of red red can exploit greens empathy and greens tolerance and so can orange to a certain extent Green can romanticize stage purple too much green might look at tribal cultures in Africa or the Middle East or other places and tribalism is like is when I mean by tribalism is is staged purple which is a very very basic early stage in the spiral it's basically sort of the way that natives live and in the Amazon or certain tribes in Africa and it might seem like those people live in harmony with nature and look they have medicine men and and they live healthy the healthy food and they treat animals nicely you don't have factory farming so in Green's eyes that can seem like oh that's the ideal but of course you can't have modern society at the scales we have it at now also at purple we it needs to develop to something different purple doesn't work you're romanticizing it too much there are evil things that happen within purple that green for example fails to see for example purple is very tribalistic so if you have two tribes living in the Amazon they will have no problems whatsoever of butchering each other and holding each other as enemies because they are tribes and that's where we get the world tribal from their extreme they can be extremely tribal tribes in Africa can be extremely tribal and brutal to one another tribes in the Middle East is that's one of the biggest problems they have in the Middle East is that they actually don't have a sense of individual nationhood because they have different tribes literally the different families they have they're just like different tribes maybe they fight with each other and so they're there's too much disunity to actually just build a solid blue civilization nation that has order and and hierarchy because it's tribal warfare greens empathy can be exploited and manipulated and that can be a problem for Green Green can fall into the sort of doormat syndra where you become a doormat and you let people walk over you Green can be bad with finances Green can over regulate and over tax Green can eliminate boundaries too much some green people think that all countries we shouldn't have borders at all just let all the immigrants in let let anybody go anywhere they want but of course the problem is that life is more complicated than that survival of every organism depends upon having some kind of boundaries so it's not a question of having a boundary or not having boundaries the question of how much of a boundary the devil is in the details of what your boundary should be for example if you just let every single like I said poor person walk into your house and do whatever they want they would destroy your house they would steal all your stuff so you do have to set some boundaries the question is what kind reminds me of what happened with Osho Ashram or road osho's commune in Oregon if you saw that documentary then what happened there is that at one point they started to actually hire buses to drive around the entire United States and pick up homeless people in every city United States by the hundreds and thousands and to bust them into the commune well one of the reasons they were doing that is because they wanted to manipulate the local elections so that they could they could win their political and and sort of real estate battles there with the zoning laws so that was sort of an orange move but still they were trying to get these bums and these homeless people in these mentally ill people and they started to try to care for them they actually tried to rehabilitate them and give them food and shelter and take care of them and they tried to show that these people can be loving members of the community so this was a very lofty sort of high go uh ideal of green but the problem that they ran into eventually is that they didn't think through the fact that many of these homeless people they weren't just homeless because they were lazy or because they didn't get a chance by society it's because many of them were hard drug addicts many of them had serious mental issues psychosis many of them were violent many of them were criminals and if you know and it didn't really have a sense of ethics or morality and so when you bus all those people with your commune then these bums started to fight and they started get so rowdy that eventually the leaders of the of the Osho commune a had to actually put tranquilizers and sedative drugs into the beer that they gave to these homeless people to kind of keep them tranquilized and calmed down so there wouldn't be all this fights and all these violence so see that's that's an example of green being too idealistic and not not not really thinking through some of its some of its well intentioned and heart-centered ideals it's it's it's nice to be able to help homeless people but you also have to think through what are the actual circumstances that lead to homeless people being homeless how can we create systemic solutions that's what you'll start to get to it's day George or sage yellow how can we create systemic solutions to actually address those problems in a way that's gonna be sustainable not just because we love them and we care for them because you know love and care doesn't feed a homeless person and it doesn't solve a homeless person's mental illness although sometimes it can you know sometimes all the homeless person needs is just some love and that can cure him and that's great and green is good at that which is why green makes for good nurses and social workers and and psychiatrists professions where you need a lot of empathy life coaches but empathy doesn't solve all problems sometimes you have a more fundamental you might say a more material problem that your compassion not just gonna solve maybe these mentally ill people actually need some medication more so than your empathy or maybe what they need is they need a job more so than your handouts in its excess green can lie because it doesn't want to hurt the feelings of other people Green can be unable to tell the brutal truth and another potentially big problem with green is at it it it becomes a lesser jihad I've talked about lesser versus greater jihad in my understanding Islam episode and it's a very important concept the idea here being is that all of these lofty social causes these political causes that green can have of civil rights or saving the whales this sort of stuff it can become a distraction from the inner work that you have to do on yourself first ground yourself deeper in true spirituality and mysticism have the non-dual insights become enlightened then from that position you will be able to go out and to spread love and and happiness and change all throughout the world you can become a bodhisattva if you want to but if you get too involved with the political stuff you get into these mobs and you become a feminist or this or that and you get so wrapped up into that you care so much about that that you forget to actually work on yourself the greater jihad is what you should be really concerned with and you should be very concerned with anything that distracts you away from that here's some statistics about green about ten percent of the adult global population is green with up to 30 percent in Western Europe and in America it especially depends on states and cities for example within America Northern Europe tends to skew more heavily green and about fifteen percent of the total world influence the cultural influence is green so this is the influence that happens through the media through entertainment through politics through business through charities through non-government organizations the style of government under green is a social network it's human centered it has a flat hierarchy decentralized its socialist / capitalist hybrid not purely one or the other it's liberal its globalist it seeks to create a global community and it's a melting pot of different cultures and different ideas with tolerance for all the different elements of the pot whereas blue doesn't want the melting pot blue wants to preserve its national identity its heritage its tradition which is why blue is so against Green the green elitist globalist what is this this this is a triggering point for blue because blue wants to maintain its identity of course the whole point of conscious development the whole point of self-actualization is to destroy your identity you see any identity you have was it's a blue identity in orange identity a green identity all of these are false identities your identity as a physical body is a false identity your identity with your personal history your story the idea that you were ever born so false identity your self-image is a false identity all of your cultural associations whether you think you're a feminist or whether you think you're an all right conservative or whether you think you're a Jew whatever race you think you are whatever gender you think you are whether you think you're gay or transsexual or bisexual or straight or anything alpha male beta male insel female male it doesn't matter all of these are false identities if you think you're an American if you think you're a German if you think you're an Arab if you think you're a Muslim all of these are false identities and of course that is very upsetting to the ego the ego is identity it's all about identity it's about individual identity but also collective identity your individual identity is very much tied in with your collective identity no matter what stage you're at pretty much so of course what I'm saying here is gonna be unpopular with sage blue stay George sage green it only starts to make sense to you when you get to the really high levels to yellow and really even to turquoise and you start to have some non-dual experiences where you start to realize that all of these identities are just masks they're all just roles it's all just programming you have to leave it all behind don't cling to any of it so how do you transcend green well first of all read in-depth about green as you read about green you realize its limitations and that's important also reading depth about yellow because yellow is the next stage you need to start to distinguish the difference between green and yellow and you need to start to see how much more wise yellow is than green and if you're stuck in orange and blue and maybe you don't like green because you feel like there are neo-marxists and that they are too idealistic and they're too collectivist well remember that the pendulum is gonna swing back in the opposite direction with yellow it's going to go more individualistic and so in a sense orange will resonate with yellow much more so than with green but it would be a mistake to try to skip over to yellow without going through green first so for green read about yellow which I'll talk about in the next episode so I won't cover that much here also very important that green stopped judging orange blue and yellow like with every stage the biggest obstacle for you growing into the next level is that you judge it too much what green judges about yellow is that Green will think that yellow is too dispassionate it doesn't care enough about social causes and that yellow is too neutral green doesn't want neutrality green wants to to to mobilize to go protest to go be an activist whereas yellow steps back and yellow says wait a minute let's think it through before we start to protest and take all these actions and become activist let's think through this very systemically which is something that Green doesn't really know how to do and doesn't appreciate stop demonizing corporations stop demonizing money stop even izing conservatives stop demonizing religion this is a problem that you will see for example with some of the progressive YouTube channels that talk about politics like with the Young Turks TYT you also see a little bit with sam cedars majority report and democracy now they demonize orange and they demonize blue too much and so what this does is it creates a polarization you get this polarization happening in our society now between between green and blue orange and and that that creates a sort of stalemate creates a nasty sort of politics where nothing really gets done so we've got to be careful about that sometimes green can fail to see why demonizing orange and blue is a problem oftentimes the progressive will say leo but if we don't demonize them and we don't speak out against the fascists then we're not being proactive enough and they're just gonna use their fascist tactics against us and they're gonna steamroll us and then everything is going to go to hell no actually that's a trap that's a trap when you think that way what's happening is you're getting polarized and the sort of polarization is actually the thing that is keeping society in a stalemate so there are a lot of counterintuitive mechanics here that go into really changing society for the better and if you really care about that you really care about making progress then try to get to yellow as quickly as you can because it's at yellow where you start to really be able to solve society's problems you know in a systemic systemic manner which tends to be much more effective than green stop caring about social issues so much yes social issues are important but also you need to see the other side of the coin that they're not important at all society is progressing at exactly the rate that it needs to be progressing at society is perfect for this exact moment in time that it is in that can be hard to swallow notice that politics is still ego just because you have some lofty green politics of of saving Mother Earth and saving the animals and this and that and whatever else this is still ego its collective ego sure it's a better form of ego than maybe read politics or blue politics and orange politics but it's still ego and it's still gonna distract you it's gonna be a red herring from doing the real inner self-actualization work that we need you to do to go higher acknowledge that business is necessary acknowledge that Green is not the highest stage that there are higher stages beyond you acknowledge the problem with Green mob mentality notice that green goes overboard with its collective networks start thinking more for yourself start seeing the world more from the lower stages points of view start to understand why blue is blue and what are the legitimate aspects of blue and white orange is orange and what are the legitimate aspects of orange start to empathize and see why people aren't each of these stages and why they can't just instantly break out and become green that will move you into yellow as you start to look at reality from multiple points of view and you start to see every point of us as having a partial truth to it acknowledge that most of the world wasn't as lucky as you they're not as educated as you most people were not born in a first world country and they did not go to a world class or even a you know even any kind of university not even world class any kind of university most people didn't even go to a progressive liberal elementary school middle school or high school like you did so that's huge because education correlates with your level of consciousness and your level of development very strongly here so you know most people didn't have that privilege which means we need to educate more people but educating people is difficult because once you get the wrong education that education makes your mind rigid such that then we can't educate you for the right education for the more open-minded sort of education so acknowledge that that's a very deep problem that you're not just gonna solve by protesting or by telling people that they're that they're close-minded or by telling them that they're evil or they're fascists acknowledge that bigots and racists can't help what they're doing people who are biggests and racists they are acting out of ignorance as are criminals as are all people we all act out of ignorance this is not an excuse it's just the way that it is so this is a sort of meta understanding which helps you to understand and also stand at a distance from some of these human rights abuses that you see happening all over the world then you'll stop you'll stop being triggered by bigotry and racism now of course green will say ollio but I don't want to stop being triggered by bigotry and racism because that will just enable the racists and the biggest know what you'll realize that stays yellow is that when you stop being triggered and you actually understand everything including all the evil in the world the so called evil this doesn't enable the evil this counter-intuitively actually is the solution to the problem you don't stop evil by fighting evil with evil you stop it with love and with understanding and green have a problem with this because green still hasn't learned the lesson that you need to be so loving and so tolerant that you can even tolerate intolerance the problem with green is that green is intolerant towards intolerance there's a lack of self-reflection there a lack of fully understanding what intolerance is a lack of fully understanding what ignorant is and why conflict happens it's very important as Green that you seek to understand the deeper causes of war violence cruelty and conflict these things don't just happen because of evil corporations or evil politicians there are much deeper dynamics beyond any individual at work that caused these things in fact what you will ultimately realize is that all of these things are the direct manifestation of the very fundamental structure of reality God itself is the ultimate cause of war violence cruelty abuse hatred genocide bigotry rape and all of these things that you hate and that you protest against and in fact all of these things are a part of you you are it you are all of it because reality is infinite and so it must include all these things but you won't understand that until you get much much higher up in your level of consciousness but it's good to start to do a little research to start to to see the complexities of all this sort of stuff you can't you can't just react against it with protests and with violence with with demonization so stop hating the haters that's really tough to do that's very counterintuitive start studying systems-thinking that's huge I have a whole category on a book list called systems thinking with with some really good books there as you start to read about systems thinking you will start to realize the limitations of green and that will move you into yellow acknowledge that greens political actions are often very ineffective there's a lot of commotion a lot of yelling and screaming and emotions but nothing really changes so maybe there's a better way acknowledge green hypocrisy what is green hypocrisy well it's when you you demonize the big oil companies for polluting the environment and yet what do you do you drive a gas car and you go to the Chevron gas station on the corner and you fill up with your gas and maybe you also demonize giant corporations for corrupting the political system with their lobbying and all this sort of stuff but then where do you get your paycheck you work for some company like AT&T or you work for Verizon or you work for coca-cola or you work for some other company and maybe you're in some low position of your secretary or maybe you're just a store clerk but nevertheless you're part of the problem that's green hypocrisy stop acting self-righteous and Superior Green can develop that problem in its excess there's a sort of like air of morality about green in the same way that blue also have this kind of air of morality and self-righteous indignation but that's holding you back in your development you need to see that we're really all in this together we're so together in this that even all the stuff that you see that's going against your social justice warrior values that even all that stuff is still you it's the all part of reality you can't just have the good side of reality you can't just have mother nature and rainbows and butterflies and unicorns and peace for everybody but then have conflict and violence and war and genocide and rape and theft they come together they come as a package which doesn't mean we can't improve the situation but if you're always triggered by it emotionally that's a problem because when you're emotionally triggered you're not thinking straight you're not really conscious and so you can't really come up with the solutions necessary and also it disturbs you on the inside you don't have peace of mind which is ultimately what you're after just in general be more idealist I mean be less idealistic and be more nuanced and how you think about these sorts of issues start practicing some serious meditation not as some group setting but like really serious all by yourself series meditation serious yoga not the stuff you see in in gym classes self inquiry self inquiry can really help you to go beyond green cuz it's it's it's a hard-nose to practice there's not a lot of happening within self inquiry you're sitting down it's just you you and the truth and reality you're just breaking everything down breaking your identity down breaking down all your beliefs and all your social cause is breaking all of it down start reading yellow and turquoise books and if you're looking for a good list of those well check my book list I have a ton of yellow and turquoise books on my book list start reading spiral dynamics just reading about spiral dynamics in depth can be enough to shift you from green to yellow because spiral dynamics is the epitome of yellow thinking this model to see all the stages how all of them are necessary how all of them work together how complex and nuanced it all is how tricky it all is that's what moves you into yellow start to study non-duality that's gonna be important to move you up start to deconstruct meaning value and purpose ooh that's a big one people have trouble with that see my episode about understanding meaning value and purpose I have a whole episode about that which tells you that you can be constructed because your mind invented it and that is what is ultimately underpinning your social causes and your fight for equality and liberty and justice make sure you fully integrate Orange and you don't just react against it or deny it and one of the best ways to do that I think is to start a business if you're green and if you struggle with finances there's nothing better than just starting a business and learning to deal with all the challenges in reality to starting a business to have a successful business and to maintain it that requires some some real skill some real pragmatic thinking that a lot of green people haven't fully learned how to integrate so that can be great and once you do start your own business you will understand why business works the way that it works and why it's so problematic and why is so difficult to get these corporations to stop doing all this selfish and evil stuff because really wish you start to understand when you really understand businesses to understand that Oh what business is is business is just like survival of the fittest except before two thousand years ago we would be slitting each other's throats and now what we're doing is we're just polluting a little bit and we're suing each other in court and we're we're having some little corporate disputes that's that's peanuts compared to the way that business used to be done business used to be someone slitting your throat exterminating your entire tribe and enslaving all the women and children and raping them that's what business used to be so uh-huh business has evolved a lot in the last 2,000 years and it will continue to do so and it helps for you to start to understand that because you know what business is just survival and you know what as long as you're alive you got to survive you got to pay the bills if you're green you fleu got bills to pay you still gotta pay your rent and buy your food and buy your gas buy your car and all this sort of stuff pay for daycare pay for medical expenses how do you do that by participating in Orange but the problems and a lot of green people they participate in Orange but at the same time they sort of deny that they do it they just say Oh leo I don't do anything evil I just go and work for my corporation what is that that's contributing to all the evil all the corporate lobbying all that stuff if you work for a giant corporation even if you're just like flipping burgers at McDonald's and you fancy yourself a green person because you don't you don't you're not some big wig CEO who gets some big corporate golden parachute or some severance package or takes home hundreds of millions in stock options you don't get that flipping burgers at McDonald's but you're part of the system you're serving the system that CEO couldn't exist without you being part of the system so you gotta ask yourself how do I break myself out of the system if I really want to be truly green then I will make myself financially independent and I will create my own job my own business which is actually serving the community in a positive way because if I have lafi green ideals but then I go work for a corporation like coca-cola which which basically sells sugared poison to to children all around the world and is destroying their health then what you're doing is you're participating in that but you tell yourself all but I have to because if I don't do that then I got no job right because you haven't taken responsibility yet for creating your own job that's difficult to do and to create your own job in such a manner that you don't do it by exploiting other people or exploiting the environment that's that's really hard to do that's really hard to do very few human beings have undertaken the task of creating a career for themselves that does not feed off the exploitation of other human beings or the environment so take on that challenge and if you want some help with that check out my life purpose course that's what that is about helping you to design that because that's a that's what I did and man is that rewarding that's so rewarding that's so much more rewarding than having your lofty green ideals but then working for some shitty multinational corporation so much more rewarding to transcend green practice more neutrality it might seem that neutrality is a bad thing but actually it's much superior to being polarized neutrality at yellow you will learn true neutrality true neutrality is not what you think it is I will talk about it in the next episode on yellow notice that protesting is not enough in many cases yes sure sometimes protests work in the civil rights movement protests were great they were important protests definitely have a function I'm not saying never protest but also realize that there's there's a lot of problems that exist in the world that go way beyond protesting and that talking dialoguing is not enough love and peace is often not enough we need to think about these problems in a much deeper systemic manner become a spiral wizard what does a spiral wizard well if you read the spout that AMEX book you will learn about what a spiral wizard is a spiral wizard is basically someone who's at yellow it's someone who who knows how to communicate and jump back and forth between the spiral all the different stages and knows how to design systems that accommodate all the stages on the spiral rather than just advocating for his own stage the whole problem with stage blue orange and green is that they're all blind to the fact that they're just one stage of a larger whole and so when they advocate some sort of policy or a governmental program or some sort of religious or spiritual teaching they they they only advocate it as though they are the right stage it's like Green is the right one or orange is where I want or blue is the right one and that whole thing misses the point there's a larger higher meta point to see when you see the whole thing from a bigger picture you realize oh the real solutions need to not just be from my stage they need to be for all the stages on the entire spiral and that's when you become yellow when you really grasp that and lastly the master key as with all the other stages for transcending a stage is contemplation and self-reflection carefully sit down and think through all the stuff I talked about read the books check out my book list take some notes and then contemplate Oh about it journal about it think about how you're falling into these traps thinks about the limitations think about which elements of orange or blue maybe you skipped over you didn't quite fully integrate think about what more within green you need to act out in order to to to be at peace with it so you can move on to yellow I am not advocating that you skipped through green as quickly as possible make sure not to make that mistake people might get the sense that oh well the whole goal of this model Leo is to become turquoise right that's the best one so what I need to do is quickly skip through all the stages to get to turquoise no that is not the goal first of all turquoise is not the best stage there is no best stage so that's number one number two is that even if turquoise was the best stage you can't get to it by skipping through stages never mind skipping over stage right now I'm talking about skipping through a stage that means sort of just like speeding through it looking for a shortcut don't look for a shortcut look to master the stage so if you're in orange right now and maybe you're only halfway through orange you got a mast or the other half learn all the lessons that orange has to teach you both its strengths and its weaknesses when you're deeply intimately familiar with its strengths and its weaknesses then you can move on to green same thing with green now you're in green maybe you're just 1020 percent green that means you've still got a lot left to learn from green so go into it spend a few years fully mucking around in green read Greene books go to Green seminars go to green music festivals talk to green people befriend them join Green Facebook groups do all that sort of stuff but as you're doing that also keep an eye towards yellow so you don't get stuck in green that's the danger with going too deeply into a stage you can get stuck in it so fully exhaust greens such that you naturally then want to evolve into yellow all right so that's green in a lot of detail in conclusion I just want to give you a couple of caveats number one be careful about stereotyping people using this model that is not the point of this model notice how complex this model really is it's a lot more complicated than you can even fathom even now and you might already think it's complex because I spent so many hours talking about it and we've only covered three stages in like five or six hours of talking so that tells you how complex it is and we're still just scratching the surface as you read the book and so forth and you read different other books that supplement it you think about systems thinking you will see more and more of the complexity so this is not a simplistic model where you can just walk around town and label people all that guy's blue this guy's red that guy's orange oh look at that stupid a green personal no that's not what this model is for this model is also not for advancing your political agenda in these episodes it might seem likely oh you're talking about politics so much we're against so political I'm getting political because first of all these are great examples and I want you to actually understand what is going on in politics but the reason I'm getting political is not so that actualize that organ personal developing a political thing but actually the opposite so that you can start to see politics from a meta perspective so that you can start to see politics from an ego perspective you can start to see the collective ego operating within politics and all the forces and then you can rise above the fray that's why we get political here it's very dangerous to mix personal development with politics because politics is a huge distraction and like I said politics is ego and personal develop is all about shedding your ego so mixing these two together makes for a bad combination so in the future I will I will be sometimes talking about politics but again always when I talk about politics is to get you to rise above it because otherwise what happens that people just get into a mud flinging contests like a giant food fight you're either on the left or the right and you're just throwing throwing food at each other this this is not this is not gonna grow you this is this is not gonna solve society's problems you need to rise above that you need to see why is there a food fight to begin with what's really going on why are people throwing food at each other and why am I getting sucked into the fight it's really hard not to get sucked in because you do have certain positions and there are certain things you really care about maybe you really care about abortion rights or maybe you really care about stopping abortion and that's fine you know whatever position you've got there that's fine but also realize there's a deeper point is that you're clinging to it and that that's an agenda of your ego and that is ultimately something you're gonna have to surrender and you probably don't like hearing that and that's why whenever I talk about politics people criticize me and say Oh leo but but look you you're for this position your gets that position no of course I mean I do have my personal political biases and positions but that's not what I'm trying to imprint into your mind I'm trying to show you something beyond that much much much beyond that so that's green for you yellow is the next stage which we'll be talking about in the episode to come alright that's it for this please click the like button for me come check out actualized org that's my website I've got resources for you there check out my blog check out the forum check out the book list check out the life purpose course all of those can can really change your life in one way or another even just a little thing that I post on my blog can contribute in sight in you or can be a resource that you follow-up on a book that you read or a video that you watch that changes the whole trajectory of your life you know it's the little things that add up and make a difference and lastly just stick with me we still have more stages to cover stage yellow is going to be a really important stage a very advanced stage many people not be able to understand it but you know if you're watching actualised org then chances are you're already around green and maybe you have a healthy amount of orange or I mean oh sorry I have yellow but you you haven't fully grasped what yellow is yellow is such a deep and profound thing as I was studying and preparing for all these episodes my understanding of yellow has deepened even though I feel like I've been at yellow for a long time I really love yellow so yeah we'll talk about that next time and oh one last thing I want to tell you is help me to build a giant list of examples for each one of these stages so on my forum I'm creating a mega thread a special thread for every single color of the spiral we've already done a blue one an orange one we're gonna start a green one just after I release this episode here and we'll have a yellow and a turquoise one where we we just post examples of YouTube videos that are like the perfect epitome of green or blue or orange and someone can just go through watch those videos see those examples and just really clearly get a strong sense of what that stage is all about so if you want if you if you know some cool examples of green that you want to share you can post that on the forum there or if you don't want to post you can just go read it and you will learn about what green is just from reading that long mega thread you