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What Peter Ralston Gets Wrong

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1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Man I hope not!

Hope is a hopeless word. 


 

Grief is Love with Nowhere to Go 

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1 hour ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Hope is a hopeless word. 

Um Hm.  

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4 hours ago, moonawakening444 said:

 

 if you don´t mind elaborating on these i will appreciate it!! 🙏

Just that consciousness is the reality being aware of itself, not the reality. It's an emergence not the foundation. Consciousness is the reality in a determined structure, but the reality is not consciousness, allows consciousness 

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I finished reading the book. It was overall really good. His writings and communication are deep and direct.

Some things though that he gets wrong is he doesn’t advocate calling Existence God, he doesn’t address why Existence should be called Consciousness. And he seemed to use physicalist arguments to argue for the non-existence of the ego. In addition, he did not go deep into Absolute Beauty/Love. But I loved his writings on time. I think contemplations on time are what is missing from actualized.org.

I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it. So many great exercises. In some ways, his communications on Existence make more sense than actualized.org. Peter Ralston still holds the idea of an external world and other minds. But he just calls it Consciousness instead of “external world”.


“Our most valuable resource is not time, but rather it is consciousness itself. Consciousness is the basis for everything, and without it, there could be no time and no resource possible. It is only through consciousness and its cultivation that one’s passions, one’s focus, one’s curiosity, one’s time, and one’s capacity to love can be actualized and lived to the fullest.” - r0ckyreed

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50 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

In addition, he did not go deep into Absolute Beauty/Love.

He uses the word “beauty” a total of 2 times in the entire book.

Dafaq!


Beauty is all around Infinity

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51 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

he gets wrong is he doesn’t advocate calling Existence God

Thank you for the review.

Why do you think that's wrong, though?

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1 hour ago, Jirh said:

Thank you for the review.

Why do you think that's wrong, though?

It’s not wrong per se. God refers to The Infinite and that was what Ralston was pointing to. He just avoids that word.


“Our most valuable resource is not time, but rather it is consciousness itself. Consciousness is the basis for everything, and without it, there could be no time and no resource possible. It is only through consciousness and its cultivation that one’s passions, one’s focus, one’s curiosity, one’s time, and one’s capacity to love can be actualized and lived to the fullest.” - r0ckyreed

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6 hours ago, r0ckyreed said:

I loved his writings on time. I think contemplations on time are what is missing from actualized.org.

Could you elaborate?


God-Realize, this is First Business. Know that unless I live properly, this is not possible.

There is this body, I should know the requirements of my body. This is first duty.  We have obligations towards others, loved ones, family, society, etc. Without material wealth we cannot do these things, for that a professional duty.

There is Mind; mind is tricky. Its higher nature should be nurtured, then Mind becomes Wise, Virtuous and AWAKE. When all Duties are continuously fulfilled, then life becomes steady. In this steady life GOD is available; via 5-MeO-DMT, because The Sun shines through All: Living in Self-Love, Realizing I am Infinity & I am God

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So for instance, Peter Ralston discussed time in his book. He went into depth on it. But basically he says Absolute Existence and Now are identical and that Now is all there is. Any truth is always about Now/Existence. Now is not an infinite string of moments but is One Eternal Moment imagining past and future. He says that Now is eternal and change is occurring in the Now but our minds conceptualize time out of it to make sense of reality.

I just notice that there is no specific video or teaching about time from Leo Gura. He has one on impermanence but not on time.


“Our most valuable resource is not time, but rather it is consciousness itself. Consciousness is the basis for everything, and without it, there could be no time and no resource possible. It is only through consciousness and its cultivation that one’s passions, one’s focus, one’s curiosity, one’s time, and one’s capacity to love can be actualized and lived to the fullest.” - r0ckyreed

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51 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

I just notice that there is no specific video or teaching about time from Leo Gura. He has one on impermanence but not on time.

What about this one?

 


Beauty is all around Infinity

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1 hour ago, r0ckyreed said:

I just notice that there is no specific video or teaching about time from Leo Gura. He has one on impermanence but not on time.

I've always noticed and wanted this, badly. Wishlist 


It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them they have been fooled.

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34 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

What about this one?

 

That isn’t about Existential Time. It is about investments. I’m talking about answering the question: What Is Time? Of course, I don’t need Leo to make a video. I can contemplate it myself, and I have already come to some insights on the matter from my contemplations. I just see it is a core missing part. When you contemplate what is time? You are run into the question of what is Eternity. 

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“Our most valuable resource is not time, but rather it is consciousness itself. Consciousness is the basis for everything, and without it, there could be no time and no resource possible. It is only through consciousness and its cultivation that one’s passions, one’s focus, one’s curiosity, one’s time, and one’s capacity to love can be actualized and lived to the fullest.” - r0ckyreed

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