maybe if you have a speech disability don't narrate shit?

Of all eight thousand million persons currently residing on this planet, you are undoubtedly the MOST holy, wise and enlightened of them all, Sir! So obviously, you are VEGAN, since it would be extremely incongruous for a great sage such as yourself to be an animal-abusing criminal, correct? 😁

@@ReverendDr.Thomas I am vegetarian, but not vegan, because all vegetarian things can be produced without causing suffering, being vegan is like not using words, because others use words in order to cause suffering, it's pompous and pretentious, unless vegan is someone's actual taste. I'm not sure what does that have to do with this comment section though.

@@ricardosantos6721 The term "VEGAN" refers to the philosophy of avoiding undue harm to any animal life, as far as practical, whilst "vegetarian" is merely someone who consumes a plant-based diet. Therefore, veganism is NOT a diet but a moral or ethical position against animal exploitation of any kind. 🌱 So, you ADMIT that you’re an animal-abusing criminal, Mr. Cow-teat-suckler? 😬🙄😬

Nope, I don't.

Haha that's a good way of putting it Eternal! It's something that always stuck with me from Wittgenstein - combining snapshots to form the fullest sketch of the truth which is the closest we will get - the more perspectives the better (if we can organise them of course)

I appreciate objectivity and care put into this presentation. My first experience with his work. Subscribed.

🐟 03. CONCEPTS Vs THE TRUTH: The term “TRUTH” (“satyam”, “tathya”, “tattva”, or “siddhānta”, in Sanskrit) is one of the most greatly-misused words in the English tongue. Anything that has ever been written or spoken, by even the greatest sage or Avatar (incarnation of Divinity), including every single postulation within this Holiest of Holy Scriptures, “F.I.S.H”, is merely a CONCEPT and not “The Truth”, at least in the Absolute sense of the term. A concept is either accurate or inaccurate. Virtually all concepts are inaccurate to a degree. However, some concepts are far more accurate than others. For example, the personal conception of Ultimate Reality (God or The Goddess) is inaccurate to a large extent (see Chapter 07). The concept of Ultimate Reality being singular (“All is One”) is far more accurate. The transcendence of BOTH the above concepts (non-duality) is excruciatingly accurate. However, none of these concepts is “The Truth” as such, since all ideas are relative, whilst The Truth is Absolute. A BELIEF is an unhealthy and somewhat problematic relationship one has with a certain concept, due to misapprehension of life as it is, objectively-speaking. Attachment to beliefs, particularly in the presumption of individual free-will, is the cause of psychological suffering. It is VITALLY important to distinguish between relative truth and Absolute Truth. Relative truth is temporal, mutable, subjective, dependent, immanent, differentiated, conditioned, finite, complex, reducible, imperfect, and contingent, whilst Absolute Truth is eternal, immutable, objective, independent, transcendent, undifferentiated, unconditional, infinite, non-dual (i.e. simple), irreducible, perfect, and necessary. Absolute Truth is the ground of all being (“Brahman”, in Sanskrit), and is prior to any mind, matter, name, form, intent, thought, word, or deed. Good and bad are RELATIVE - what may be good or bad can vary according to temporal circumstances and according to personal preferences. For example, there is absolutely no doubt that citrus fruits are a good source of nutrients for human beings. However, it may be bad to consume such beneficial foods when one is experiencing certain illnesses, such as chronic dysentery. ‘One man's food is another man's poison.' Because of the relative nature of goodness, anything that is considered to be good must also be bad to a certain degree, since the extent of goodness is determined by the purpose of the object in question. As demonstrated, citrus fruits can be either good or bad, depending on its use. Is drinking arsenic good or bad? Well, if one wishes to remain alive, it is obviously bad, but for one who wants to die, it is obviously good. However, beyond the dichotomy of good and bad, is the Eternal Truth, which transcends mundane relativism. Therefore, the accomplishment of life is to rise above the subjective “good” and “bad”, and abide in the transcendental sphere. A qualified spiritual preceptor is able to guide one in the intricacies of such transcendence. Such a person, who has transcended mundane relative truth, is said to be an ENLIGHTENED soul. When making moral judgements, it is more appropriate to use the terms “moral”, “amoral”, or “immoral”, rather than “good/bad” or “right/wrong”. As the Bard of Avon so rightly declared in the script for one of his plays, there is nothing that is INTRINSICALLY either good or bad but “thinking makes it so”. At the time of writing (early twenty-first century), especially in the Anglosphere, most persons seem to use the dichotomy of “good/evil” rather than “good/bad” and “holy/evil”, most probably because they consider that “holiness” is exclusively a religious term. However, the terms “holy” and “righteous” are fundamentally synonymous, for they refer to a person or an act that is fully in accordance with pure, holy, and righteous principles (“dharma”, in Sanskrit). So a holy person is one who obeys the law of “non-harm” (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and as the ancient Sanskrit axiom states: “ahiṃsā paramo dharmaḥ” (non-violence is the highest moral virtue or law), and “ahiṃsā param satyam” (non-violence is the highest truth). See the Anuśāsana Parva of “Mahābhārata”, 13.117.37-38. The ONLY Real Truth in the phenomenal manifestation is the impersonal sense of being, that is, the sense of “I am” (“aham”, in Sanskrit). Everything else is merely transient and unreal (“unreal” for that very reason - because it is ever-mutating, lacking permanence and stability). This sense of quiddity is otherwise called “Infinite Awareness”, “Spirit”, “God”, “The Ground of Being”, “Necessary Existence“, “The Higher Self”, as well as various other epithets, for it is the very essence of one’s being. Chapters 06 and 10 deal more fully with this subject matter. Of course, for one who is fully self-realized and enlightened, the subject-object duality has collapsed. Therefore, a fully-awakened individual does not perceive any REAL difference between himself and the external world, and so, sees everything in himself, and himself in everything. If it is true that there are none so blind as those who don’t WANT to see, and none so deaf as those who don’t WANT to hear, then surely, there are none so ignorant as those who don’t WANT to learn the truth. Obviously, in the previous sentence, and in most other references to the word “truth” within this book, it is meant “the most accurate concept possible”, or at least “an extremely accurate fact”. For example, as clearly demonstrated in Chapters 21 and 22, it is undoubtedly “true” (accurate) that a divinely-instituted monarchy is the most beneficial form of national governance, but that is not the Absolute Truth, which is the impersonal, never-changing foundation of all being. So, to put it succinctly, all “truths” are relative concepts (even if they are very accurate) but the Universal Self alone is REAL (Absolute) Truth. “In the absence of both the belief ‘I am the body’ and in the absence of the belief that ‘I am not the body’, what is left is what we really are. We don’t need to define what we really are. We don’t need to create a thought to tell us what we are. What we are is what TRUTH is." ************* “God is not something ‘out-there, looking-in’, but God (or Source) has BECOME all of This. So, God is the Underlying Principle of all of this - the Energy or the Consciousness. The (psycho-physical) manifestation has arisen within Consciousness as an imagination in the mind of Source.” Roger Castillo, Australian Spiritual Teacher, 15/07/2015. “I am the TRUTH...” “...and the TRUTH shall set you free”. Lord Jesus Christ, John 14:16 and 8:32.

thats the m goal for me

We need to hang out like minded. Individuals. The ones who are wierd are the most interesting 🧐

libertarian left is nooooooot a thing. see mr irish men theyre racist, keep freud out yo mouth hes daddy to the surrealist who unfortunately claimed anarch socialist but died millionaires while members starved, where's my 3rd mansion bernie

poser

damn 😂

me too

Funny because everyone is wrong

How is general relativity a part of Individual system?

You're very right. I really wish this had been taught in school

I think this should be thought in school, but not to go into one direction but to concider all of them while thinking

It is taught in some places (first semester for my bachelor of psychology in Denmark, the leader of the institute focused on wilberts quadrants in order to give us a better way to organise different viewpoints)

The objective is an abstraction of the subjective, not the other way around;)

I know right! And I think that is the newest field to really be penetrated by consciousness. In many ways that work only seems to have begun in the 20th century. It's so hard to grasp and I think the reason for that is that it is still so new to consciousness, we still haven't planted enough flags in this domain to really feel good there. And with the people working in this quadrant we find that a lot of their is dismissed because it's not clear enough but to my mind that's just becuase they are the pioneers into new intellectual territory and just as the first pioneers into the farther reaches of consciousness obviously lacked accuracy definitely doesn't mean that their efforts should have been dismissed

@@TheLivingPhilosophy I feel that the times our societies have spent primarily in SD Blue and Green are most focussed on Q3 over Q1. And amongst individuals, I see the bias of self-oriented & Thinker types tend towards Q1 whereas tribe-oriented & feeler types lean more to the collective Q3 (interesting that Feeling / valuing seems to draw upon collective wisdom in a memetic way, where as logical processing seems to emphasise the individual more strongly). So I suspect that Q3 is not so much novel, as it is lost. Which is why we're now (in our culture) refocusing on primitive (purple) cultures to reclaim a connection with the Q3 collective consciousness.

@@ADHDMoneyandBusiness Dang that's absolutely fascinating Tristan. And actually you are spot on with Green and I guess with the Blue idea as well. I wonder then if it could be considered that the oscillation between the individualist side of the spiral and the tribal side of the spiral could then also be seen as an oscillation between the emphasis on the upper and the lower quadrants

@@TheLivingPhilosophy I would agree with that. I think that mechanic explains the 'culture wars' quite effectively. And is a common and constant part of civilization - you could even expand on it to say that's what enables complex cultures to grow and evolve more rapidly (the increased friction, like iron on iron, or the battling of ideas). It's also sadly a large cause of great wars, and likely very strongly at play in Russia right now. But more personally, it plays out in marriage a lot, and amongst peer groups.. or philosophers.

@@ADHDMoneyandBusiness Absolutely! I'm reading a lot of Foucult at the moment and he's talking about how war is the central mechanism for how culture evolves. Knowledge is (funnily enough with your choice of metaphor) the sparks that come off the sword - something entirely different to the iron of the swords that clash - and so the power evolves. It makes sense in the context of family, society and philosophy

An easy search: BIBLE + FREEMASONRY, through which lies and truth becomes easy listed. So far i have listed 28 lies and 28 truth. Have you started to dig? What have you found? What do you know about masonry club? About the evil rulers of this world, masons, what you know about them?

we're forgetting somebody 🧑🏻‍🎨🖼️

Freud was Austrian.

Ah wow thanks a million Richard that genuinely means a lot!

Good and bad are RELATIVE. 😉 Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

With a meta-compliment, I have to compliment your KZfaq handle! It exudes the grace of a nomen abstractum, rare in the intellectually demagnetized world of social media, where vulgarity is virtually a letter of introduction, an imperial emissary, an embossed professional card of less civilly roughshod times.

We'll all be vegan soon brother

Ah good stuff! I was just reading an article by him this morning. I really enjoy the guy and am looking forward to learning more about him in future but as of now I still don't know enough to say where he fits so I appreciate the comment and it makes me want to study him all the more

​@@TheLivingPhilosophy hes a great read! definitely puts something new on the table when it comes to philosophy and culture criticism--not just his ideas in themselves but the way in which he arrives at those ideas is totally mindboggling. every page makes you scream to yourself, "how could i be so dumb, this stuff has been right under my nose and i couldn't see it until now!". shilling for zizek aside, your video was amazing and one of the first videos ive actually given a thumbs up on in a good while. keep it up, good shit man :)

@@amgroblin5898 haha amazing!

Book name?

@@mrkipi8074 Watch the video, the author has already suggested 2 books. Theory of everything and Sex something, both by Ken Wilber.

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality… it’s a thrill to read.

Thanks a million Indrani!

Knowledge Origami huh?

@@jose.montojah yeah lol

@@jose.montojah hahaha, good one.

Can you give an example to explain?

@@MW-me7vn the interdisciplinary subject of cognitive science is basically what I'm talking about. All four of the quadrants are represented there.

I've been seeing you on so many philosophical videos. Didn't you time stamp the entirety of Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

Yes right! There's gold in his work for sure but yeah some of it just needs a bit of touching up or something. Thanks for noting the graphics I spent FAR more time than I intended working on them but I'm proud of how they turned out it definitely makes the information go down easier when it can be done right

Why do you care so much about colors?

@@_VISION. It's a reference to another model that Wilber uses a lot called Spiral Dynamics which is a developmental model comparable to Foucault's Traditionalist/Modernist/Postmodernist sequence but with more stages of evolution before and after

@@TheLivingPhilosophy I'm aware of what that is but what's the guys problem with it?

@@_VISION. ah I see. No idea. I wasn't too keen on wilber changing the colours after he fell out with Cowan but personally quite like the colour system in general so Peter will have to answer that himself

Haha delighted to hear it Axel and thank you for the kind words!

Thank you! The metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht actually developed out of Wilber's work and I would even describe it as a secularising of Wilber's work in a more generally appealing and relevant form - though it's more focussed on the developmental part than it is on this map but yeah delighted you enjoyed it and it is indeed a great merging of all I've been talking about! It took a while to put it together but it was worth doing so to get it right!

Your intuition hasn't misled you. Culture is not our friend and there is no need to play along with it.

Hahaha I've gone full Wilber Tobias 😂

Delighted you enjoyed it!

Great video but he didn't mention what transcends and unites and all the quadrants, i.e. pure Spirit. Only when you get a taste of 'that' can you really start to balance out all of the separate quadrants.

Thank you! I would say that the production value on this one is higher and something I'll be striving for more in future. The tone seems to be the same though (or so I think anyway)

@@TheLivingPhilosophy Good enough for me. Hope your channel grows and your new videos do well!

@@user-dn6ht6bo7r Thanks a million!

Thanks Dean! Was it the one with David Fuller? Glad this could be a resource for you

@@TheLivingPhilosophy yes, exactly! Yes, thanks so much!

@@doyle6000 Ah good stuff. Not sure what Wilber was thinking with his hair in later videos but it's certainly distinctive and his chat makes up for it

Seriously true, exceptionally articulate!

Awesome Dylan delighted you enjoyed it!

Thanks Christian!

Thanks Mark glad you got so much from it!

Wow high praise thank you!

Deligted to hear it Michael thank you!!

Thanks a million Amir! There are podcasts on the horizon I am excited about getting into deeper and longer chats but I'm just trying to get in control of the creating videos bit for now because I'm still running into a lot of my personal hangups around creative process in this work but I'm hoping next year I can start dialoguing with the great minds out there

Damn

Ah that's great I'm delighted to hear it Nancy!

Delighted to be of some assistance Aziz!

Ah awesome Blake!! Welcome aboard!!

Glad it was helpful!

Wow Jay thank you so much that means a lot!

Delighted to hear it rick that brings me a lot of joy

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it Julia thanks a million!

Good point Jim and that's on me I'm afraid. In Wilber's work the model starts with atoms and with the internal experience of bacteria and passes through the human as part of a greater evolution but for the purposes of the channel I thought I'd hone in on the human side of it. That beings said you are very right that the map should not be confused with the territory and we must never forget that a map is always just that. If it makes the territory more accessible then that's good news but it is never a substitute

Ah amazing! Perfect timing then!

So, Buddhism is “western”?

you can narrow it down even more: 4 german speaking man 🤣

@@Simon-qy7ow literally!! didnt even catch that they were all german! 😭🤣

you hate humans?, image watching a video about philosophy and care about that

@@platinum4 quit pullin shit out ur ass im just pointing out the irony between “ALL KNOWLEDGE” in the title and 4 germans in the thumbnail

Thanks a million!

Delighted to hear it Arpit!

Haha yeah it's rather ginormous Kontrbrzytwa 😂

@@TheLivingPhilosophy I will be more than happy to use this categorisation for my own bachelors in sociology. You’ve really helped my piece out some missing puzzles. Thank You 😊

@@EMlNENCJA ah awesome! I can totally see how this would help in sociology. It just gives a good way of mapping out the different perspectives