What Peter Ralston Gets Wrong

[Mellowmarsh]

1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Man I hope not!

Hope is a hopeless word. 

[Joseph Maynor]

1 hour ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Hope is a hopeless word. 

Um Hm.  

[Breakingthewall]

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 

[r0ckyreed]

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”.

[Yimpa]

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!

[Jirh]

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?

[r0ckyreed]

 

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.

[Davino]

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?

[r0ckyreed]

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.

[Yimpa]

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?

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

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 

[r0ckyreed]

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. 

Edited 32 minutes ago by r0ckyreed