Peter Ralston On LOVE - Newsletter Response

[Joseph Maynor]

7 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Love is Good. Good is Love.

= Truth.

 

 

I've had this debate many times already.  If this feels right to you, I would say keep on keeping on with it.

[No1Here2c]

4 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

This is not Love.

What exactly is Love?

Edited Sunday at 11:12 PM by No1Here2c

[Joseph Maynor]

4 hours ago, No1Here2c said:

What exactly is Love?

Absolute Love is Divine Feeling.  This is just a pointer.  You have to find this for yourself.  But you asked me, so that's my pointer.

Edited Monday at 02:25 AM by Joseph Maynor

[No1Here2c]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Absolute Love is Divine Feeling.  This is just a pointer.  You have to find this for yourself.  But you asked me, so that's my pointer.

How is this different from Truth?

[BlessedLion]

On 5/9/2026 at 0:31 AM, Leo Gura said:

Anything Ralston disagrees with is a belief to him. Which is quite self-deceived.

You are never going to get Ralston to understand Love. So stop trying. This issue is settled.

You guys gotta stop emailing him about this.

That newsletter has misled so many people at this point.

who knows what he's actually conscious of, it's all speculation

Edited 9 hours ago by BlessedLion

[Mellowmarsh]

Maybe the “Love” word is just another form of trickery nature played on itself to get you to sire a desire to play the game.

A game of life that ends up killing you off. Sounds like a fun game, not. But that’s the golden rule of the game, it can’t be anything other than a two player game where one player plays the role of the ‘liver’ and the other player plays the role of the ‘dier ‘ 

And we call that game the game of Love. 
 

If the game is just the play of maya, an illusion, then so must love be part of the same illusion.

Edited yesterday at 08:37 AM by Mellowmarsh

[gettoefl]

Even A Course in Miracles leaves love well alone:

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In-1. This is a course in miracles. 2 It is a required course. 3 Only the time you take it is voluntary. 4 Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. 5 It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. 6 The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. 7 It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. 8 The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

In-2. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

2 Nothing real can be threatened.
3 Nothing unreal exists.

4 Herein lies the peace of God.

 

[Breakingthewall]

On 11/5/2026 at 4:21 AM, Joseph Maynor said:

Absolute Love is Divine Feeling.

Absolute love is just the absence of contraction. You could call it openess, oneness, absolute being , creative power, god . You perceive it as a divine feeling in comparison with normal contracted state, but it's just being without limits.

We are closed to absolute love due evolution. It's necessary to be closed in order to move to greater complexity. Alive beings divide the reality between good and bad in order to self preserve, reproduce, evolve. This division is closeness, and it's natural and necessary. Enlightenment is just removing this closeness in some moments, and perceiving always that this closeness is just a temporary structure with a purpose, being able to see through it easily 

Edited yesterday at 11:10 AM by Breakingthewall

[Mellowmarsh]

1 hour ago, gettoefl said:

Even A Course in Miracles leaves love well alone:

 

Nice one.

 

God is Good with an extra zero 0️⃣ 

 

The extra zero must be the duality of God. The other side of the one whole coin, the opposite side which is the same side because a whole split into the many is still the whole, the many of the one.

 

G ♾️ D 

Edited yesterday at 12:08 PM by Mellowmarsh

[Grateful Dead]

2 hours ago, gettoefl said:

Even A Course in Miracles leaves love well alone.

The Course states that it cannot teach what love is, but it constantly emphasizes that love is the generative principle behind reality and that God is Love.

Ralston says he doesn't talk about love because, for him, it has nothing to do with truth.

Edited yesterday at 01:47 PM by Grateful Dead

[Mellowmarsh]

I guess if it wasn’t for Love then nothing would ever desire to be. So everything is because of the desire to be, else there would just be nothing at all.

So I agree with Leo, that there’s nothing that is not you, and you are Love. That’s amazing.

Heartbreak, hate, and despair, it’s all you. The default is always Love, not hate, not evil, everything returns to Love, because Love is what nurtures you, without it you wouldn’t exist, you can’t go on indefinitely hating or torturing yourself, because your natural desire is to want Love. Love wins every time. God wins the battle between good and evil every time  because God can only be good, which is Love. 
 

I think that’s what Love is.

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

I think Ralston could be getting old, ossified and curmudgeonly. Doubling down. Not that I don't adore his body of work!

Cognitive flexibility tends to decline as we age. And he is what, 76? Not super old. But old enough for this to be a distinct possibility.

And hey - it may not even be age. Too much flexibility can mean our thoughts are polluted by external pressures, that openness can be adaptation.  There is a required amount of firm conviction when innovating and making unique breakthroughs. It strongly facilitates creation. 

Edited 20 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Eskilon]

20 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I think Ralston could be getting old, ossified and curmudgeonly. Doubling down. Not that I don't adore his body of work!

I think so too. 

This is why I don't fully like the advice of pursuing spirituality "later" in life. Imagine pursuing something so meaningful, energy intensive, and cognitive intensive when you are not at your peak years. You need huge intelligence for this work. And I don't think the "pursue" when you are older is a universal truth like people on this forum seem to believe.

I think if you are on this forum chances are you are more intelligent than the average person, and I don't say this with arrogance at all, it's just my observation. If you are here I don't think you need to wait that much to pursue deep stuff. One should use, one's vitality, intelligence and freshness while one have it because tommorrow may never come.

Just my 2c 

Edited 20 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[BlessedLion]

10 hours ago, Eskilon said:

I think if you are on this forum chances are you are more intelligent than the average person, and I don't say this with arrogance at all, it's just my observation. If you are here I don't think you need to wait that much to pursue deep stuff. One should use, one's vitality, intelligence and freshness while one have it because tommorrow may never come.

 

That's why i find it so silly when people say they are holding off on conciousness work while they pursue material reality. Its' like "yeah, i prefer to suffer and remain ignorant during my peak cognitive and vital years." 

Then there is this idea that at age 50 or 60 they are magically going to have all this free time and energy to do long intensive meditation retreats like bro at that age your biggest goals will be an afternoon nap and daily excercise. Also, the mind will be so deeply rutted into it's ways that changing anything will require 10X the work and effort.

 

That said, for the record, Ralston is no late bloomer, he had his first enlightenment in his 20s and spend his whole life pursuing consciousness. 

Edited 9 hours ago by BlessedLion

[Eskilon]

4 hours ago, BlessedLion said:

That's why i find it so silly when people say they are holding off on conciousness work while they pursue material reality. Its' like "yeah, i prefer to suffer and remain ignorant during my peak cognitive and vital years." 

Yeah, it's really silly when you think about it.

 

4 hours ago, BlessedLion said:

Then there is this idea that at age 50 or 60 they are magically going to have all this free time and energy to do long intensive meditation retreats like bro at that age your biggest goals will be an afternoon nap and daily excercise. Also, the mind will be so deeply rutted into it's ways that changing anything will require 10X the work and effort.

This always seemed stupid to me. Like you are gonna meditate, do psychedelics when you are old, tired, prob have some disease or 2 and less sharp? C'mon. There's a reason great master bloomed at the 30-40 range. Some at their mid 20s but its rare. At the very least in your late 20s and early 30s you are good to go balls deep if you want, waiting beyond that is just delusion in my view.

Edited 6 hours ago by Eskilon

[Ziran]

On 5/12/2026 at 8:38 AM, Grateful Dead said:

The Course states that it cannot teach what love is, but it constantly emphasizes that love is the generative principle behind reality and that God is Love.

Ralston says he doesn't talk about love because, for him, it has nothing to do with truth.

Which begs the question?  What is Truth lacking a generative principle?  Can truth exist without any motive of outward expression?

[No1Here2c]

40 minutes ago, Ziran said:

Which begs the question?  What is Truth lacking a generative principle?  Can truth exist without any motive of outward expression?

If Truth were to have no mode of outward expression, precisely that would be Truth. Truth is, no matter what it is.

Edited 5 hours ago by No1Here2c

[Grateful Dead]

1 hour ago, Ziran said:

Which begs the question?  What is Truth lacking a generative principle?  Can truth exist without any motive of outward expression?

Then truth would be dead or limited.

For me, truth is alive. It is not a static thing or a concept, but living being. And the nature of being is eternal expansion because it’s freedom is total. 

[Human Mint]

On 5/8/2026 at 3:16 PM, James123 said:

A quick test, out your hand on fire. And see, that you are the fire 😂 

I tried and experienced ecstasy. Stop spraying horseshit.

Edited 1 hour ago by Human Mint