Thanks, it is so hard for people to understand my point of view. I have been making the same arguments for years. However there isn't one argument I have made here in the past ten years be it with the los crew, sam, tom, gypsy or a plethora of other big names and personalities in the business that wasn't in the interest of ALL PARTIES INVOLVED including the person I was arguing with.
This isn't a hippy parlor trick, as the same dynamic played out in the upper echelon of the IT industry I was apart of and the very same insight turned out to be true, the fruits of which either made people rich or destroyed them based on how they received the information.
It very much has to do with my mind, my decisions and my action applied to a very specific set of circumstances, the insights of which gives me a view of hte world and human nature that most people are detached from
The is no intelligence I bring to the table that is elusive of less capable minds, I wouldn't push people to recognize what they did not have the capacity to see.
Rather my insight has everything to do with the human condition and how the perception there of is biased with desire and how that influences outcome.
A life spending my life working with logic and integrating, supporting people and technology was a good basis for understanding the paradigms of the mind and how we engineer them through out own behavior.
Add to that the challenge of managing extreme physiological mental illness, the decades of experience I have doing so both in classical/formal settings and as a shaman whose relationship with the plant has been cultivated throughout my life as well but more importantly 25 years of direct experience growing for medicinal purposes.
Every bit of science I reference I observed first as a phenomenon and simply sought research that verified it. From business to horticulture the experience I bring to the table is vast.
People confuse income, even substantial income as validation of success in today's world and not the outcome of efforts applied. Same with growing, most people use very shallow metrics to judge their own works when you compare their determinants that they use to value their own success versus the ultimate potential of the plant.
There are so many facets to being successful with this plant and with the legalization of cannabis that haven't been able to be discussed because of the awful conduct here by immature and inappropriate personalities.
I appreciate they have a place to go but they are keeping everyone from reaching a full potential including the plants in their gardens as long as they don't take ownership of their ownership of their delusional and detrimental mindsets and the limits they impose on this forum.
Me, personally I rise to top in the chaos of the human condition which only helps establish value so in contrast to a lack there of so at some point trying to get people to take their heads out of their asses doesn't promise to keep my life so easy it takes no work to compete.
Yet I still haven't abandoned the notion that it would better if everyone raised the bar even if it meant I had to work more to maintain it.
Hard to understand how someone could maintain a mindset like mine until of course you reap the fruits of said mindset, which for me are measured in the results they have on elevating the human experience beyond the lowest limits of the human condition. First for myself, then for others and not for the benefit of all humanity.
Basically altruism pays off more than narcissism but most people can't leave the one realm long enough to see the benefits of the other.
Of course it isn't easy to go against the grain especially in a counter culture but if it really is about humanity and the way of the world is narcissism than going against the grain is part and parcel of elevating humanity.
However don't confuse altruism with selflessness, because it really requires that humanity as a whole benefit from the behavior including ourselves so it really is a sum is greater than the parts of the whole.
The concept itself is also revealed in the lotus sutra and is the basis of the buddhism practiced here.
Thank you for the support, it is never easy to go against the grain when your ultimate outcome is harmony because there is no reward in how it makes me feel, the only reward is in harmonious outcomes.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo this thread most certainly needs/deserves it
