Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delight

From very early on he employs Jordan Peterson as a crutch:

most people agree that Peterson usually backs his ideas with very solid experimental and scientific research. So we can assume that his opinions will be backed by considerable evidence.

In fact, several meta-analyses of tests of paranormal capacities (ESP, clairvoyance, precognition) have concluded that the existence of these paranormal events is “virtually certain.”

Unlike the way many modern Western thinkers want to see them, myths are not profound metaphors or analogies with deep meanings—they are simply, literally, exactly what they say they are—accounts of historical events: God really did rain locusts down on the Egyptians; Christ really was born of a biological virgin; Elijah really did go straight to heaven in his chariot at death; Lot’s wife really was turned into a pillar of salt; and so on: there is nothing deeply metaphoric about any of that, it’s simply mythic literal.

Christ had moved beyond a mythic-ethnocentric realization to a universal-worldcentric realization beyond ordinary words.

This certainly happened in the case of Buddha, and it very much looks like a similar opening occurred with Jesus Christ, when he opened to a turiya I AMness that was one with Spirit itself.

But Campbell doesn’t know the half of it. Every myth produced by the amber mythic-literal stage is taken literally, as its name implies.

However, Campbell (and apparently many others) failed to realize that “as if” phrases emerge at—and can be understood only by—the formal, operational cognition stages (that is, orange rationality). In other words, “as if” (and “what if”) are themselves the products of rationality, as has been demonstrated by Piaget and many other developmental psychologists. That means, as Campbell himself maintains, that only myths held in the space of reason can be authentic. And with that, gone is the notion that myths offer some sort of transrational wisdom. Only myths held by reason are authentic.

Jesus Christ himself was so pure it was as if he were born from a biological virgin.

Almost no myths are originally metaphoric or symbolic. They are just what they say they are—they are literal; there is no hidden meaning.

Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt” means exactly what it says it means—she was literally turned into a pillar of salt.

Abundant research makes it very clear that, in many instances, altered states reveal genuine realities—real realities that are dimensions of this world, just rarely seen or felt. For example, baseball players regularly report that when they are at bat, they can count the number of stitches on the baseball as it speeds toward them. They are in an altered state. We don’t doubt the reality of the baseball or that it actually has a certain number of stitches—those are genuine realities. But very few people can count the stitches of a baseball while it is speeding 100 miles per hour at their face.

At this orange rational stage, the notion of evolution itself often becomes reinterpreted by spiritual intelligence as something like “Spirit-in-action.”

As only one example, the probability of correctly producing a single protein chain containing 150 amino acids in the correct order—by chance—versus incorrectly doing this is 1/1077; that is, several times greater than the total number of organisms on the planet.

This drive to create “order out of chaos,” according to Prigogine’s Nobel Prize-winning work, is an inherent drive of the material universe itself, which started with the Big Bang.

Given that evolution is ultimately driven by Eros or Evolutionary Love—and given that God is Love—this is exactly why anybody as brilliant as Peirce could easily see evolution as being Spirit-in-action.

Broken green dominates the liberal arts fields in academia—and is increasingly invading the STEM fields as well, as Jordan Peterson reports—entertainment, and the media.

For example, when you find somebody to project your own adulterous impulses onto—say, your partner—they will seem to possess the projected trait and you will seem to be completely lacking in it. Then you will begin to uncontrollably suspect your partner of wanting to fool around. You might even accuse them of doing so. Even if they deny it, if you keep suspecting and accusing them of it, this might actually contribute to them being unfaithful, or at least thinking really hard about it.

a satori causes a change in brain physiology

So when I am making love and I start to feel a oneness with my partner, or our bodies start to merge and fuse together, or the love for my partner becomes so intense that begin to dissolve as a separate self, then I let that love spill out of me and move beyond my partner till it embraces the entire World.

Yup, a terrific way to really appreciate sex. No doubt. No effect whatsoever on performance. Nope. None at all.