Ask Peter Ralston A Question

[Spiral Wizard]

I have the opportunity to ask Peter Ralston a question for you. Ask your question, if it’s appropriate I will ask him for you and report back his answer. 

Keep in mind that he is easily dismissive of most questions so if it’s conceptual he probably will not answer. Questions relevant to practice/contemplation are more likely to be answered. But you never know, so feel free to ask whatever interesting question you got. 

[Leo Gura]

Ask him when he will smoke salvia with Leo.

[theoneandnone]

20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Ask him when he will smoke salvia with Leo.

“Hey Peter, Wanna turn into a couch cushion for 50 years with me?”

[theoneandnone]

Question for Peter,

Hello Peter I’m curious what is the purpose of this experience what am I supposed to be doing? Is there any objective or is my purpose to find my own objective/meaning? Thanks!

[Natasha Tori Maru]

"What is the relationship between relaxed power and consciousness? Is it simply that as consciousness increases, our identification relaxes? Meaning the mind-body no longer resists itself?"

[Hafiz]

When are you going to release your next book?

[AerisVahnEphelia]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Ask him when he will smoke salvia with Leo.

Ralston is not enlightened enough for the real question

[OBEler]

Ralston, can you consider to take 5 Meo to see how far you can go? Your experiences with LSD are not enough to dismiss all psychedelics.

[How to be wise]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Ask him when he will smoke salvia with Leo.

When was the last time you met him in person?

[UnbornTao]

How do you write your books? How do you approach communicating an insight or a direct consciousness? What do you pay attention to so that it gets across - that it's conveyed in a way you find satisfying?

I suppose, in one form or another, this might boil down to: What is the art of facilitation really about? What makes a facilitator or author masterful?

A bit too generic, perhaps.

[Spiral Wizard]

On 23/10/2025 at 0:07 AM, Leo Gura said:

Ask him when he will smoke salvia with Leo.

On 23/10/2025 at 6:00 AM, OBEler said:

Ralston, can you consider to take 5 Meo to see how far you can go? Your experiences with LSD are not enough to dismiss all psychedelics.

@Leo Gura when I talked with Peter, he actually acknowledged that there are different degrees of consciousness. An analogy he made was: you can experiance one drop of the ocean, or a big chunk of ocean, or infinite ocean, etc. so there are different ‘levels’ you can comprehend yourself AND/BUT it’s all ocean / the nature of the ocean-ness doesn’t change (no matter how much you comprehend). That is the absolute nature (never different). 

Now, he still seems closed around the topic of psychedelics. I know you have contact with Brendan (not sure if with Peter) but I encourage you to have a genuine conversation with Peter about the topic of Absolute Consciousness & psychedelics. Your understanding has grown significantly since your interview with him and I think now you could really speak with him on eye level. Do it!

I wanted to ask these questions for fun but since I have no experiance with 5 Meo or Salvia I can’t push back on his defense from experiance. 

On 23/10/2025 at 0:29 AM, theoneandnone said:

Question for Peter,

Hello Peter I’m curious what is the purpose of this experience what am I supposed to be doing? Is there any objective or is my purpose to find my own objective/meaning? Thanks!

I didn’t ask this question directly but we went deep on this topic throughout the workshops and it’s clear that Peter’s stance on this is that all meaning, emotions, stories, and cosmologies is something you do/make up because it helps your survival.

On 23/10/2025 at 0:45 AM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

"What is the relationship between relaxed power and consciousness? Is it simply that as consciousness increases, our identification relaxes? Meaning the mind-body no longer resists itself?"

Peter’s response to this questions was that people are trying to map it out/make a cosmology about it but that’s not how it works. He encouraged to grasp the truth directly without any attempt to map it out as any type of cosmology cramps/stifles the ability to openly look into the matter/wonder/contemplate.

On 23/10/2025 at 2:23 AM, Hafiz said:

When are you going to release your next book?

It’s basically finished & going to be published around March 2026 if I remember his words correctly. 

On 23/10/2025 at 4:21 PM, UnbornTao said:

How do you write your books? How do you approach communicating an insight or a direct consciousness? What do you pay attention to so that it gets across - that it's conveyed in a way you find satisfying?

I suppose, in one form or another, this might boil down to: What is the art of facilitation really about? What makes a facilitator or author masterful?

A bit too generic, perhaps.

I didn’t ask this question directly but he said that a lot of times when he had a breakthrough, there was no self to communicate it so he didn’t even think of communicating it. He wasn’t hiding it, but there was no impulse to communicated at all.

He also said that sometimes, after a breakthrough, he purposefully, doesn’t try to articulate it because once the mind gets a hold of it, it can kill the afterglow - if I understood him correctly. 

His approach to teaching: a lot of experimentation has taken place. Initially he thought he could just whisper the truth to someone’s ear and they would get it, but people would not so instead he started to push people into contemplation, but he noticed that just pulling people out of ignorance didn’t work so now he’s pushing them into their attachments/survival/self/etc. so they can see it clearly. By seeing it clearly, you also become conscious of what’s true and become free of it. Like when you realize you are clenching your first you can stop clenching. Rather than just ‘surrendering’ without being conscious of what’s going on. 

Although he said neither forcing it nor just surrendering would work. He said nothing really works. You just have to get it/do it. 

He told the story of the Buddha: he said it’s impossible to communicate therefore I will not teach but then his friend said but maybe one person will get it so then the Buddha started teaching. Bottom line: it’s worth teaching for decades even if maybe just one person gets it.
 

Edited 19 hours ago by Spiral Wizard

[Yimpa]

Stop asking Peter.

Ask YOU!

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Not surprised at all by most of the answers! But happy these were addressed!

Really appreciated @Spiral Wizard 

[cetus]

2 hours ago, Spiral Wizard said:

He also said that sometimes, after a breakthrough, he purposefully, doesn’t try to articulate it because once the mind gets a hold of it, it can kill the afterglow - if I understood him correctly.

This is so true. Like sitting in the warmth of the sun. No need to brain work it.

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Spiral Wizard said:

so there are different ‘levels’ you can comprehend yourself AND/BUT it’s all ocean / the nature of the ocean-ness doesn’t change (no matter how much you comprehend).

Of course the fact that it is all consciousness doesn't change. No one is disputing that.

High consciousness or low consciousness is still consciousness. This is like arguing that hot soup and cold soup are both soup. Yeah! Duh! That's why it's called soup.

[OBEler]

@Spiral Wizard "Now, he still seems closed around the topic of psychedelics. I know you have contact with Brendan (not sure if with Peter) but I encourage you to have a genuine conversation with Peter about the topic of Absolute Consciousness & psychedelics. Your understanding has grown significantly since your interview with him and I think now you could really speak with him on eye level. Do it!"

Do you really believe Ralston would be open for a real open discussion about psychedelics with Leo ? That would be awesome. But the question remains if Leo is ready for a discussion with him.

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, OBEler said:

Do you really believe Ralston would be open for a real open discussion about psychedelics with Leo ? That would be awesome. But the question remains if Leo is ready for a discussion with him.

He is not open to any discussion.

And frankly there is nothing to discuss.. Shut up and smoke DMT.

[Mellowmarsh]

On 23/10/2025 at 5:04 AM, Spiral Wizard said:

I have the opportunity to ask Peter Ralston a question for you. Ask your question, if it’s appropriate I will ask him for you and report back his answer. 

Ask him from where does he get the answer to a question? 

[Terell Kirby]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Shut up and smoke DMT.

Hey Leo- if / when you do the psych retreat, how will word get out? Mainly thru forum?

[Leo Gura]

9 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

Hey Leo- if / when you do the psych retreat, how will word get out? Mainly thru forum?

I'm not sure yet. I would probably announce in a video. It would also be on the blog and forum.

The first retreat may be more exclusive and under the radar since it is experimental.