transÆpocalyptic Oasis
transÆpocalyptic Oasis
Marshall Æon
Integral Theory, Sensemaking, Culture War
Layman & Marshall Save the World! • Guidance • Embodiment • Eros • Mystery • IQ Tests • IQ and Race • Jordan Peterson • Hedonic Intelligence
Layman and Marshall save the world by shedding layers of both the Mystery and their own clothing!   1:36 Realizing inner guidance 2:49 How to unplug from pseudo-guidance? 4:15 How to become embodied? Is embodiment natural, then unlearned? 5:00 Are infants embodied? 6:04 Are animals embodied? 7:12 Are chakras hierarchical? 9:49 Do less advanced animals have fewer chakras? 11:48 Embodiment as the blending of centers (chakras) 13:05 Scheduling the dick chakra 15:15 The experience of embodiment 16:19 Leading embodiment from the mind 19:49 Eros as a form of guidance 23:37 Marshall's salty Eros 24:39 Are we encoded with desires to have a particular experience? 29:12 Other forms of guidance: Adult and child "commands", Intuition 30:46 Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning • Integrating multiple scales of desire 33:57 Following intuition and embracing the Mystery 35:29 Getting comfortable with blind faith in intuition 37:36 Are we born abiding in mystery? 39:30 Mystery as absence of knowing vs presence of something 40:51 Mystery in the Diamond Approach (The Absolute) 42:41 Unknowabilities 48:13 How can we embody mystery now? 53:25 Do we really need so many practices to live a true life? 1:01:45 Diachronic unity 1:03:18 IQ Tests and profiling others 1:09:22 Jordan Peterson on IQ Tests 1:11:43 Marshall is basically useless, and a sociopath with a heart of gold 1:12:03 Do you have to have a high IQ to do integral? 1:14:03 What does it mean to "be integral?" 1:17:10 Right-wing views of IQ and Race 1:19:11 Racial disparities due to systemic racism or IQ differences 1:24:39 How the robotics and genetic modification revolutions will affect IQ disparities 1:27:40 The interface between technology and Essence (spiritual nature) 1:34:30 Transcending the natural mode of reproduction via technology 1:34:37 The major rupture from uncoupling sex from reproduction 1:36:40 Why should we become magicians? Embracing practices disowned by modernity like the magical & shamanic 1:41:35 Does magic require hyper-individuation? 1:43:19 The "hyper-personal" 1:47:05 The merits of occult communities: sexuality, Eros, individualism, magical transformation and development 1:48:35 Fasting and the Sobriety Crisis 1:48:53 Why fast? 1:52:04 Giving away our power to the collective 1:54:16 The merit of struggle 1:55:39 Making your bed: Following rules vs. desire for order 2:01:14 Marshall's amazing Jordan Peterson impression 2:01:54 What does Jordan Peterson get wrong? 2:04:11 Teaching hedonic intelligence to children
Nov 8, 2021
2 hr 6 min
Josh Leonard » Pandemic Reality • Post-Progressive • Decline of SF Bay Area • Ethnonationalism • Omni-American • Epistemic Humility • Memetic Tribes
0:00 Josh Leonard 0:47 What is the Institute for Cultural Evolution? 2:31 Are they saving the world? 3:30 Is the pandemic real? 4:15 What does it mean for the pandemic to be "real?" 5:09 Lab leak or natural origin? 6:19 Dr. Fauci - cool guy or lame dude? 9:15 Is the world too alarmist about the pandemic? 12:22 What is Post-Progressive? 13:36 Treating stages as types to avoid pitfalls around discussing developmental stages 15:29 Josh's evolution from virtue signaling NPC progressive to Post-Progressive 21:26 Decline of the Bay Area • Carter Phipps 26:00 Josh's transracial adoption of his African American son 28:02 A white person raising a black son in an anti-white culture 31:54 American identity as a hybrid of white and black • Albert Murray's Omni-American 33:38 Wokeness as awakening to racial disparities 35:15 Why does Institute for Cultural Evolution focus only on the far left and not far right? 36:03 How does Post-Progressive integrate right-wing views? 38:20 Rights vs Responsibilities 40:07 The merits of racism? 41:46 Ethnonationalism • When does diversity go too far? 46:22 The Post-Progressive approach to immigration 56:42 The Four Americas • George Packer 58:14 Caring Values, Fairness Values, Liberty Values, Heritage Values 1:01:56 How Josh, as a progressive, came to embrace nationalism 1:06:15 Mandatory civil service – The solution to polarization proposed by Corey DeVos 1:12:27 Turquoise is bullshit 1:14:00 Is Teal just a cognitive, individualistic Green? 1:16:41 Transcending perspectival polarization 1:18:16 Is Civil War inevitable? 1:19:59 Amber always wins 1:20:16 Jonathan Rauch – Constitutional Knowledge • Plato's Republic 1:22:59 Dismissing others as "Amber" • Multiperspectival overload 1:25:19 Moral and epistemic humility 1:26:30 Peter Limberg's Memetic Tribes 1:30:14 Transexual vs Transgender culture war 1:38:36 Meta-hovering • the trap of Teal 1:43:01 The three meta-lines of development 1:46:29 Tom Warner's Early and Late Postmodernism 1:48:46 Josh's spirituality: Nondualism • Rupert Spira 1:49:55 Neo-Advaita 1:51:16 Panentheism • Are we gods? 1:55:06 Wheel of Time series 1:56:53 Josh's Enneagram and MBTI types 2:00:32 How Introversion and Extraversion are commonly misunderstood
Nov 4, 2021
2 hr 5 min
Layman Pascal » Gurdjieff • Magic • Saving the World • Pyramids • Sexual Marketplace • Racial Slurs
0:00 Layman Pascal 0:12 Layman's tragic case of Tourette Syndrome strikes again 0:44 How much of a lame man is Layman? 1:10 Is Layman his real name? 2:08 Integral Predators 2:24 How much does Layman regret interviewing Marc Gafni? 5:00 Marshall's beard 6:31 Our sponsor: Earpy's Integral Saloon 7:03 Egyptian Pyramids 7:28 Who made the Sphinx? 9:53 What's the deal with Gurdjieff? 12:51 What is the state of the Gurdjieff work today? 15:18 Wtf is Layman drinking? 15:39 What are the fundamentals Gurdjieff's teaching? 18:58 Life practice in the Diamond Approach 20:20 Super efforts in the Gurdjieff work 22:39 The Citadel in the Diamond Approach 24:38 What does Layman think of EJ Gold? 26:58 What the hell is going on with the world? 27:20 What is Layman's IQ? 30:27 Is Layman an alien? 30:40 Do we need integral consciousness to save the world? 31:12 Why tf are we trying to save the world? 32:15 Will Layman save the world? 32:51 Developing a post-doom personality 34:38 Dropping the future as a construct 35:27 The hyper-individuation trend 36:12 Magic! 39:20 Relationship between magic and energy 44:36 Law of Attraction 45:34 Are we gods? 48:02 Andrew Cohen 50:09 Manifesting intention / Whim fulfillment 54:50 Experiences are now mediated by technology 56:58 Get rid of smartphones? 1:00:16 What the hell is the purpose of the Great Pyramid? 1:07:43 DaVinci's Vitruvian Man • Robert Edward Grant 1:10:17 Vector Equilibrium • Buckminster Fuller 1:14:12 What is Layman's Enneagram type? 1:15:36 MBTI • Extraversion vs Introversion 1:19:57 Shitting all over typology 1:24:37 Is Layman getting laid? Is he a sex addict? 1:25:52 Sexual marketplace • Breakdown in traditional constraints on sex 1:32:59 Will Layman reproduce? How does he make money? 1:36:08 Layman worships the Elephant God 1:40:07 How tf does Layman function with all this thinking going on? 1:40:53 Whiskey for breakfast 1:42:27 Layman and Marshall start stripping 1:42:42 Marshall looks like a magician • Magician vs Wizard 1:46:42 What are the merits of racial slurs? 1:49:39 What is Layman's race? 1:50:15 Layman's racial sexual preferences 1:54:29 White vs Black magic 2:00:59 What is Canada?
Oct 8, 2021
2 hr 2 min
Ryan Nakade » Racism • DEI Activism • Diamond Approach • Polarity • White Supremacy • Asian Privilege
1:45 Ryan's Harem of Men 😉 3:16 Titanium Man 4:28 Feminism • TERF 7:10 Ryan's race fetishism 7:40 Transcending and including intersectionality 9:05 How Jordan Peterson transcends & includes intersectionality 11:40 Mediating between Antifa and the Proud Boys 11:56 Portland Peace Team 14:54 Marshall's transracialism 23:30 DEI Activism in the Diamond Approach 34:40 Viewpoint diversity 40:45 Polarity Man • polarity management • psychological splitting 45:50 Inner triangle of the Enneagram • Law of 3 46:00 Four turnings of the Diamond Approach teaching 50:40 Unilocal realization • Vajra Body 53:31 William Blake's Auguries of Innocence • Nonhierarchy • Runaway Realization 58:27 Vajra Man 1:03:36 Considering audience vs. Speaking truth 1:04:50 Okun's White Supremacy characteristics 1:05:16 Japanese culture • conflict aversion • Enneagram point 9 homeostasis 1:07:17 Marshall's talent at triggering people 1:08:34 How triggering is held in the Diamond Approach 1:11:14 Shadow alchemy • Caroline Myss • survival archetypes (child, prostitute, saboteur, victim) • rejecting object relation • psychological splitting 1:16:13 Ryan asks people talking about racialized trauma about what has helped them move past it, which moves them out of disempowered victim identity 1:18:20 White Supremacy in 4 Quadrants • Postcolonialist colonizers 1:21:20 Blaming White Supremacy for Black on Asian violence 1:23:07 The disempowerment of White Supremacy theory 1:25:40 Framing the problem as Black Disadvantage vs White Privilege 1:28:21 Why Ryan doesn't talk about white supremacy 1:28:45 Ryan acts white 1:28:51 Can Jews be white? 1:30:18 Racism in Japan 1:32:34 Woke racists 1:36:18 Inquiring into one's power and privilege 1:38:41 What race is Ryan's wife? • How racist is this discussion going to get? 1:41:00 Holy shit this convo is getting racist AF 1:42:32 Jewish Privilege 1:44:01 Antisemitism • Jewish group strategy (according to the alt-Right) 1:48:50 Reverse colorism in Hawaii 1:55:57 Ryan growing up in a Buddhist temple
Aug 30, 2021
1 hr 57 min
Alex Pfeiffer » Wokeness • Pandemic • Conspiracy Theories • Food Supply • Sexual Marketplace • Yoga
0:00 Why is wokeness winning? 0:14 Derrick Bell (Critical Race Theory), Kimberlé Crenshaw (Intersectionality) 1:40 Why are spiritual communities susceptible to Applied Postmodernism? 4:00 Is gravity relative? 6:25 Lived Experience vs Subjectively Interpreted Experience 8:19 Marshall Goes Green 8:55 The Woke Trojan Horse 9:35 Racial Conscience of Americans 10:14 The Day Them Propertarians Came to Earpy's 10:25 Marshall's Ethnocentric Regression  12:50 Wokeness Weaponizes American Racial Conscience  15:09 Amber regression is bliss. 16:48 Spiral Dynamics is LL (duh). It's not what you are, but what you participate in. 17:38 Higher-developed individuals regress by participating in lower level movements for the goodies. "Social Media rewards people for participating in regressive movements" –Marshall 25:00 Important practice: disengage from likes. Teach your kids not to do drugs OR likes. 26:00 The moral narcissism of the woke 27:00 Spiral dynamics of the anti-vax movement 27:50 Conspiratorial Totalism (the conspiracy theory of everything) 33:13 The Blue Church, HCQ, Ivermectin 35:20 Captured Media?
Jul 21, 2021
1 hr 41 min