AMA: Consciousness Apprentice Program Graduate - Peter Ralston

[ougyarg]

I did a 8 month long program called the Consciousness Apprentice Program (CAP) with Peter Ralston/ Brendan Lea and finished the program in 2022. My experience of life has improved and I have became more conscious as a result of the program.  

I know many people in this forum are familiar with Peter Ralston's work and are probably curious about the work. Happy to help answer any questions to help others. I'm not here to gossip, tell stories, or do anything socially like that. I want to empower others and help them get more conscious.

Edited Saturday at 06:44 PM by ougyarg
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[Leo Gura]

Tell us all the dirt and evil.

Don't be shy 

Edited Saturday at 07:07 PM by Leo Gura

[Salvijus]

Are you AWAKE? 

[Sugarcoat]

How much of your self structure did you manage to dissolve would you say?

[UnbornTao]

What did you take out of it, specifically? What principles did you get a handle on? What insights did you have? 

What would you say contributed to your growth the most? 

Also, how do you see communication and listening now? 

[samijiben]

Worth the price?

[aurum]

What is God?

[AerisVahnEphelia]

Ralston is a scam but he is a genius at it which makes him legit. 

Leo too, the art of selling nothing is an art.

You really just need nothing anyway, go get some more nothing. 

[Thought Art]

@AerisVahnEphelia You are very wrong.

[samijiben]

Another question I have is this:

I was thinking along these lines: What if you sent an entire NBA team to Peter Ralston for a week (or a month, even better), and they worked with him on consciousness and body-being related matters — Don't you think they would play so much better?

@AerisVahnEphelia what this man said above is partially true because Ralston is literally selling nothing, and for a price, for what that's worth. But what distinguishes him from a scam artist is that he does not claim or promise to sell something that he isn't. He never lies to his students that they will gain anything in particular.

On the flip side, his teachings can be super helpful and valuable in martial arts or creative art or really any discipline in the world.

If I was an NBA GM or coach, I would have my whole team study from Ralston, take a week in Hawaii for "team bonding" where they trip together naked and learn who they really are, and then introduce a new system of Basketball called "spontaneous play." We won't play with premade plays in mind, or systems or offman-bigman screen-right type of shit. 

 

We will be utterly fluid on the floor, and, having no plan, the defense could never prepare for us. 

 

Lol, just a sneak peak here at some of my fantasies. 

 

Who thinks this would work?

[Yimpa]

Ralston taught me that I can just buy a MF'in toaster!

DUH!

Edited Sunday at 06:18 PM by Yimpa

[Yimpa]

10 minutes ago, samijiben said:

If I was an NBA GM or coach, I would have my whole team study from Ralston, take a week in Hawaii for "team bonding" where they trip together naked and learn who they really are, and then introduce a new system of Basketball called "spontaneous play." We won't play with premade plays in mind, or systems or offman-bigman screen-right type of shit. 

We will be utterly fluid on the floor, and, having no plan, the defense could never prepare for us. 

NBA Porn here we come 

Dribble the ball, faster

Edited Sunday at 06:27 PM by Yimpa
OK I'm done lol.

[Yimpa]

10 minutes ago, samijiben said:

just a sneak peak here at some of my fantasies.

[ougyarg]

@Leo Gura haha nothing like that to report 

[ougyarg]

23 hours ago, Salvijus said:

Are you AWAKE? 

I did not have an enlightenment on my true nature. I did become directly conscious of who I am. 

[ougyarg]

23 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

How much of your self structure did you manage to dissolve would you say?

I got free of some of my patterns and my overall suffering is less. But I'm still pretty much the same person. A lot of the work I did was becoming more conscious of what was there already. Pretty much everyone has reoccurring patterns they act to fix some part of them selves that they think is broken. It's good to become conscious of what those patterns are in oneself. 

[CARDOZZO]

Share your practices and core knowledge about the program.

[ougyarg]

23 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

What did you take out of it, specifically? What principles did you get a handle on? What insights did you have? 

What would you say contributed to your growth the most? 

Also, how do you see communication and listening now? 

There's so much. The work isn't limited to Peter, it's about becoming conscious of what's true, and so it's a lot. 

In terms of principles, listening was a big one. It's about hearing another person's experience, what they experience, not what you think they mean. It's getting their experience, and recognizing the difference between their experience and my reaction to them.

One insight was that my experience is already complete. There's nothing broken or wrong with me. All I need to be happy is already there. My experience is whole and complete as it is. When something just "is", there's nothing wrong with it. It's just existing. Wrongness is something I apply with my mind. 

What contributed the most to my growth is being honest about what's going on and communicating it to others. Not hiding and telling someone exactly what's going in your experience was scary and hard for me, but it made a difference and pushed me to confront uncomfortable truths about the person I am. 

Communication is having someone get your experience and for you to get their experience. It's something I use a lot of in my intimate relationship as it build a sense of connection.  

 

[ougyarg]

22 hours ago, samijiben said:

Worth the price?

It was worth it for me.

[Sugarcoat]

11 minutes ago, ougyarg said:

I got free of some of my patterns and my overall suffering is less. But I'm still pretty much the same person. A lot of the work I did was becoming more conscious of what was there already. Pretty much everyone has reoccurring patterns they act to fix some part of them selves that they think is broken. It's good to become conscious of what those patterns are in oneself. 

Yea everyone’s goal isn’t to dissolve their self. But yea when we get rid of old patterns it can include shedding a little of the ego (I’m not sure but I experienced it like that). But it sounds good what you’ve done! Very cool. There’s a lot of depth to ourselves so there’s a lot to become aware of and with greater awareness we can lessen our suffering through changing ourselves!