The Merk Diez Podcast: Recent Episodes
Merk Diez
I read to my Grandma more of the Quadrant Model Book transcript from my 2013 lectures. I would like to read it to my Mom and Dad too. I don't think they have ever even looked at my stuff and maybe if I read it to them they would see it is legitmate.
I read to my Grandma C some of the quadrant model book. She asks me what position I take in the four ontological positions of reality. Here is the closest to my position
The fourth transcendent ontological position is neutral monism. Neutral Monism says there is neither mind nor matter. Many philosophers say that neutral monism is impossible. The fourth quadrant never belongs. How can there be no mind or matter? To many that doesn’t make sense. Spinoza is a sort of neutral monist, however. He says that everything is God. Thus he argues that reality is neither mind nor matter, but reality is God. Leibniz is sort of a neutral monist. He says everything is monads, and he sees monads as God. Monads, he states, are neither mind nor matter. The quadrant model is somewhat neutral monism, the fourth quadrant position, In the quadrant model, the fourth quadrant always transcends yet contains the previous three quadrants. Existence is just predominantly patterns of the quadrant, with differentiation association patterns between the four quadrants in variance. Things exist insofar as they are an aspect of the overarching quadrant scheme of relational demonstration. The quadrant is the All. Thus, I would say that, sure, there is mind, and sure, there is matter, but also, mind and matter are only existent, as everything is only existent, insomuch that it relates to the quadrants manifestation of existence in relational coordination of all events in systemic, systematic, and coherent, structural unity. So really all that exists is the quadrant. Mind and matter are just consequences and necessary components of the quadrant’s presentation in wholesale sovereignty. The quadrant, in my view, is God. In a sense my position, associated with the fourth quadrant, neutral monism, transcends yet includes the first three positions. The fourth quadrant always transcends yet includes the first three. Existence is the quadrant/God. And mind and matter are inevitable, necessary constituents of the quadrants omnidirectional, omnidimensional emmanation and articulation.
I talk to my Grandma C about the quadrant model. My Purple Grandpa did not let me finish reading the quadrant model to my Purple Grandma and she died. I was kicked out of Washington before I could read the whole book to her. I hope I read to my Purple Grandma enough but I think what I read to her did help her. But I hopefully plan not to let a similar thing happen with my Grandma C so I am reading to her the quadrant book now.
My Purple Grandma is smarter than my Grandma C and she got more out of the quadrant model I could tell when I read to her. Too bad I didn't read to her more when I had the chance. Hopefully I read to her enough. But even though my Grandma C is not as smart or bright as my Purple Grandma I still plan to read this to her.
I gave my Grandma a personality test. She got the Artisan on the Keirsey test. My Grandma and I always got along very well. She was very spontaneous like me and loved watching me play basketball. She was very big with kayaking and cross country running and marathons and she would take me out all the time to get lobster and all types of awesome food. From the answers she gave I'm pretty sure she got ESTP.
Out of everybody in my family I always got along best with my Grandma and my Grandpa C who also died. That's why for the last week I have been crying non stop. My Grandpa is INFP idealist. My Mom Dad Sister and my other Grandma are all SF Guardians. I don't know what my Grandpa C was. I would have liked to test him. I always got along with him very well but I'm not good enough with these tests to say what he was. Wish I would have given him the test
Ever since I got to Washington my Grandpa has been treating me very disrespectfully. I did not record like the first 15 minutes of this conversation when it was very very disrespectful. But I want to talk to my Dad and for my family to treat me with respect. I discovered the theory of everything.
On a side note- for an update I told my Grandpa I am not going to change my Grandma and all of that but I will help lift her and all of that. He told me that is ok.
But I'm done with being treated with disrespect. I discovered the theory of everything and being treated with disrespect pisses me off. And I studied videos recently and I lost swag flow for months but hopefully I am getting artificial swag flow back again. But I want to talk to and see my Dad
My Purple Grandma is dying because she has terminal liver cancer. I am reading to her the quadrant model book which she has never read before. She does not know how to use FaceBook and stuff
I talk with Michael Mossad. He is the first person I showed the quadrant model to my Sophomore year of college at UCSD in 2010. He is my best friend from college. He is in medical school now
My Grandpa and I talk about Dan Miller, Henry Hazlitt, DK, Jason Jennings, Kaplan, and Grant
My Grandpa and I talk about Ritchie Robinson, Kenneth C Davis, AC Grayling, Kendi, Walter Isaacson, and Akerlof
My Grandpa was a psychologist at the Chrystal Cathedral in Orange County. My Grandpa was a Christian minister from the age of 20 to 40 and at around the age of 40 he went to New York and met Dr. Thomas Hora the founder of metapsychiatry. Metapsychiatry is a psychoanalysis that incorporates Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, existential philosophy like of Nietzche and Sartre, and psychiatry. My Grandpa got a PHD in transpersonal psychology learning under Dr. Hora and my Grandpa became a marriage counselor and he became a psychologist who worked at the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County. While he was at the Crystal Cathedral he told me that he studied "A Course in Miracles" book. We talk about that book today. My Grandpa told me that he is not that interested in studying with me right now, because he says he is just not interested in studying period anymore. But I told him it is helpful and beneficial for me for him to study with me so he is still studying with me. It will be helpful when the quadrant model hopefully takes off and gets popular because he will see how big the quadrant model is and that will give him more incentive to study with me and hopefully to study with me more.
My Grandpa made up a strange rule that I was not allowed to talk about the quadrant model and he would just talk to me if we talked about the book and didn't talk about the quadrant model