Consilience

He’s already semi retired. His apprentice Brendan facilitates the workshops but is also extremely good at it. Super funny guy too... Id say a solo retreat would yield more growth but Ive never done one. Only workshops.

Smh alright dude. Cling to your paradigm then.

Start with yourself. Prove Leo’s point by becoming it. If you had an unlimited reservoir of discipline, concentration and vision, what behavior would you be creating? No go do that and watch as you become a super human, or more accurately, trans-human. It’s not too complicated or mysterious best I can tell. The mysterious part is that no one in society does this, so the idea of becoming super human is... a mystery haha. It’s an available path, especially if actualized.org resonates with you.

When you realize you are literally are a psychedelic, when you eat a mushroom or eat a tab of lsd, you are literally eating yourself, notions like “you must do it yourself” lose all meaning. That’s just my pov though. I also practice meditation and yoga pretty relentlessly and I find they make me trip deeper, and tripping deepens the meditation and yoga.

@Nak Khid as long as you THINK love is a feeling, you wont understand what Leo is referring to. There exists a formless quality to the universe which is rightly defined as Love. Imagine this, if you loved something you would allow it to be exactly as it is. You would not need this thing to be a particular way at all, you would allow this thing to fully express itself without your influence, you love it completely as it self after all. This is the nature of existence, in case you've missed it. Existence is so loving, it fully accepts the manifestation of form, in all forms, completely and wholly, even rape and murder. It is radical and completely transhuman. You cannot comprehend this Truth through the lens of humanity. As an ego, we think “how horrible murder is!” But to existence, murder is like a single raindrop creating a ripple in an ocean. Less than that... it’s heart wrenching really. But its the truth. The universe is so loving, so unconditional, even atrocities are permitted to be, freely expressing themselves. Why some dont use the word “Love” I cant explain. All I can say is when your heart opens up to this truth, you will understand. Perhaps many spiritual traditions see the risk of the ego taking snd running with the word love. I mean look at how Christianity, a religion based on the teaching of love, has completely bastardized the teaching. But our concern is not with Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Cheng Hsin, Advaita Vedanta, Neo Advaita, Non dualism, Actualized.org or anything that can be turned into a teaching, our concern is with Truth. I hope you can find Truth = Love in this lifetime but even if not, we have eternity.

Love is formlessness. First time I really realized this I balled my eyes out in appreciation, sadness, happiness, joy, terror. Crazy stuff. The emotional state you refer to is a contracted form of love, but not existential love.

The psychedelic experience is the equivalent of yellow. You cannot explain it with science and hope to communicate the experience accurately, or even effectively. Until yellow is experienced, you wont know it. Until psychedelics are experienced, you wont know it.

What counts as “hardcore”?

Maybe try listening to emotionally provocative music next time. Having your emotions cracked open can help gain insight into what you really authentically care about in life.

Ive experienced awakenings into love outside of what Leo says. In fact, the deeper I go into myself the less I follow Leo or any teacher’s content. You get to a point where you begin to outgrow the need to conceptualize about things like Love or Truth and realize that the embodiment, integration and awakening are your responsibility. Independent of Leo or any other teacher, Love is a word I would use to describe the nature of existence. This is not something an ego or mind will ever understand. Get off a forum philosophizing about it, get out of your mind conceptualizing about it, and do the work. Side note - if you use Leo’s work correctly, it falls more into facilitation rather than teaching. Don’t believe a word he says. Just learn from numerous sources and figure it out for yourself in your direct experience.

You’d be surprised... The ecstasy is a lot calmer and clearer than a trip but its pretty mind blowing what happens when you commit to this work. Tripping helps give you contrast to a state heavily steeped in mind vs a state where mind is gone. The contrast helps when we return to our sober state.

@Meta-Man Thank you ??

The blog post discusses the “non dual state,” but Ive seen you explain in other posts enlightenment is not a state. In this context, what is the difference between a non dual state and enlightenment?

You dont need a psychedelic or drug to realize reality isnt made of material nor to see how love imbues all of existence but yes, for someone who isnt serious about pursuing awaking this will all sound crazy.

Very interesting! Even though i don’t specifically perform shadow work, through regular consciousness work Ive definitely become increasingly conscious of my shadow and psyche... Ive felt similar feelings regarding being more bipolar. It’s as if everything is just felt more deeply because of the increased awareness. What does a shadow release in a dream look like?

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@TheUniverseIsLove I should conserve the logs, you’re right. Damn now I gotta chop more wood (and carry water). And back at you, you are an amazing source of love and spirit as well. Thank you for your words and reminder.

@James123 Your projections continue dude, except now aimed at me. Incredible. Alright well Im done replying. All judgements, projections, and criticism are a projection of your ego. Too bad you aren’t willing to acknowledge that

@James123 So because Ive heard Ralston point blank tell me in person “I know because of my level of consciousness.” I should assume he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Yeah that’s horrible reasoning and would get you know where trying to learn from others. No thanks Ill pass. @remember your “sense” that should is struggling could very well be your own projections. I remember getting into disagreements with an ex girlfriend Id introduced Leo to. Literally exact same line of reason “Something about him just feels off, I don’t trust him.” Thank god I didnt listen to her. If she doesnt resonate that’s fine, but own up to the fact that all your judgements are projections of your mind you DON’T know. Perhaps she’s deluded, perhaps not. But her message is solid. It’s literally just Advaita Vedanta type material. The fact that someone is spreading that type of philosophy and not some new age bullshit or religion is a win as far as Im concerned. And her audience gets a lot of value from her if you read the comments. Like damn you guys are haters haha. Of course she still has ego, but we all do. Not sure why you’d automatically assume she’s manipulating her audience.

You know, Ive heard a lot of similar “I don’t like this guy, my gut is telling me something is off” about Peter Ralston before and I consider him to be a great resource. Anna is great if you’re willing to listen. I think she’s a bit energetic and eccentric but... why not? Truly none of us know how awake she is, but her message is spot on. Ive been moved by multiple of her videos and I have nothing but respect for someone who is pursuing their purpose and spreading an authentic, no bullshit, non religious message of spirituality. I get a much better vibe from her than most of the big new age youtubers.

@Razorback you’re right Im pointing to something along the lines of his incompleteness theorem although in my humble opinion, it’s a fairly basic observation of logic. I havent studied the theorem in depth. The thing, absolute truth does not require axioms. Even if there were a material universe, what grounds the existence of material? In other words, what is it that is allowing there to be the existence of material at all? That is Truth. That is Enlightenment. Find that, but not as an intellectual notion, find it in your direct experience. Materialism, even if true, has nothing to do with Absolute Truth. But please understand materialism is just a belief. The manifestation of perceptive experience is not and the “truth” in which existence itself is derived “out of” is not a belief either.

What is misidentification exactly?

@Razorback You’re technically correct. What you’re describing is scientific materialism which is a model of reality that is *can be* supported by logic and reason as well as evidence regarding things like brain states correlating with perception. This is not proof though. We have to be very careful with observation. What do we observe? Perception or material? Even if materialism is the correct answer, we observe perception. As such, perception is undeniable. It’s totally in our face. Yet this idea of material requires extra steps. The idea of material reality must always be concluded out of that which we are aware. In other words, the only way to even conceive of a material world is to first have consciousness and a perception. Now all of this doesn’t “prove” that there is no such material world; what it does prove is that we are directly experiencing perception and critically, that “material” requires us to conceptualize about our perception, as perception is all we truly have access to. We must perceive and then conceptualize about perception to conclude the existence of physical material. When it can finally click that materialism is a concept about perception, you must then begin to investigate the metaphysical nature of concept. What is a concept? Strictly speaking, a concept is made of mind. Literally, without a mind, there could be no such thing as concept. Mind and concept are one in the same. Yet even concepts are perceived and as such perception. So literally materialism is a perception explaining perception. We might then ask, well what gives rise to these perceptions?? Doesn’t material reality give rise to them? I.e. brains. Well... funny thing about concepts: all concepts require axioms. Just like our math example. All concepts require a priori beliefs or assumptions in order to be true. At some level if you examine ANY, and I mean ANY line of reason, you’ll find an axiom/assumption required in order for the premise to hold true. These axioms must either have more lines of reason to prove they’re valid or must be acknowledged as BELIEFS. This either turns into an infinite chain of regressing rationality, having to prove out every single possible axiom infinitum, or we admit we are taking something on as faith. Truth, enlightenment, absolute reality, has nothing to do with beliefs or faith. It is absolute and therefore absolutely true under any and all circumstance. Perception as itself, Being itself, is true. The existence of perception being is unfalsifiable and thus more fundamental than any idea like materialism or a simulation theory of reality. Not perception as a product of the brain, the actual being of the perception, the actuality of it. Concepts are relative, direct experience is absolute. Now I know this is all very complex stuff. If you are still concerned with the question, “well what if there is a material reality outside producing perception??” You still haven’t become conscious of what beliefs are driving this idea nor what the metaphysical nature of a belief really is. I hope this helps in your contemplation.

Math rests on the axiom of duality. 1 + 1 = 2 requires that there are distinct sets of objects “1” and “1” which may come together and be “2.” Yet if it were true that there was no such thing as separate or distinct objects, there was only ONENESS, one unified conscious field without separation or room to create the objects “1” and “1” all math completely dissolved and loses meaning. In other words, if existence is indeed non-dual, math loses all meaning. The fact that math requires axiomatic assumptions at all is a big red flag as to math being fundamental. Absolute truth must be so true, it requires no axioms hence why it is absolute. Also just look at your direct experience. What comes first? Conscious perception, or math? Math arises out of your perception, this is a direct observation of reality.

Been going through a similar energetic shift actually.. The past week has been a massive shift in this direction. It's like the thing that keeps pushing me to pursue a purpose is itself being seen through.... There is nothing to do, no where to go. Reality is right here, perfect. The striving for success is just so... empty. I'd be curious what other forum members think about this. I get wanting to escape wage slavery and live a life where you're contributing your highest strengths to humanity, but then again, that is more ego speaking so it's odd. Yet on the other hand, the ego will use any excuse to succumbing to fear and resistance, so it's difficult to know what is authentic and what is ego projecting a hidden fear.