Peter Ralston On LOVE - Newsletter Response

[integral]

On 5/8/2026 at 9:45 PM, Leo Gura said:

Well, this is a problem. How can I give you something stronger than weed if you can't handle weed? That would be irresponsible of me.

I can take massive amounts of LSD but if I take any weed at all it's nothing but hell and anxiety, and none of it is a mental thing or can be meditated away, it's a physiological response to the substance.

Maybe Related to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Edited 4 hours ago by integral

[Grateful Dead]

1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:

Love is other than unity in an actual sense. Unity is unity.  That's the whole issue here.  

Unity is not a sterile fact. When all separation is abolished, what remains is not just an empty unity. The fundamental quality of perfect unity is love. One could say love is the heart of unity.

[Hojo]

1 hour ago, integral said:

I can take massive amounts of LSD but if I take any weed at all it's nothing but hell and anxiety, and none of it is a mental thing or can be meditated away, it's a physiological response to the substance.

Maybe Related to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Thats what weed is for. You get anxiety because you think you are the voice in your head. When you smoke weed your ego goes crazy, it says im dying im dying. Do enough and you will realize the anxiety is just made up BS.

Psychological is mental. So this is contradictory.

You can meditate it away.

Weed is like a drug that turns your ego on fast mode, you can then see what it is.

Weed isnt giving 'you' anxiety its giving your ego anxiety and you are believing that to be you.

When I first try weed me brain say Im dying, my brain is glitching out, im looping, im dead over and over and over. It was just a lie.

Edited 3 hours ago by Hojo

[Inliytened1]

1 hour ago, Grateful Dead said:

Unity is not a sterile fact. When all separation is abolished, what remains is not just an empty unity. The fundamental quality of perfect unity is love. One could say love is the heart of unity.

So then it is a fundamental quality of unity not unity itself? Or it is the heart.  So what is the heart?  Is it feeling, emotion, desire, euphoria, all of these things. Or is it ineffable? find out by awakening.  Well then you could say it is Truth. It is God.  It is Awakening.   If you call it Love notice now your definition of metaphysical Love no longer resembles what the word Love is.   So why use it?  I am just pondering.  I am not asking for an answer unless you want to.  

So back to unity.  What is empty unity vs full unity.  If you mean Love is what fills unity and completes it then you can say it is both a facet of unity and the whole of it, depending on perspective.  Thats fine.  It is a facet of the Absolute but also the whole of it.  Just as the finger is the hand.  But it can thus be looked at as a distinct facet or the whole.  I have been asking what it is as a distinct facet of the Absolute (Oneness).  But no one seems to know or want to answer that. Other than saying it is Unity.

Edited 2 hours ago by Inliytened1

[integral]

2 hours ago, Hojo said:

Thats what weed is for. You get anxiety because you think you are the voice in your head. When you smoke weed your ego goes crazy, it says im dying im dying. Do enough and you will realize the anxiety is just made up BS.

Psychological is mental. So this is contradictory.

You can meditate it away.

Weed is like a drug that turns your ego on fast mode, you can then see what it is.

Weed isnt giving 'you' anxiety its giving your ego anxiety and you are believing that to be you.

When I first try weed me brain say Im dying, my brain is glitching out, im looping, im dead over and over and over. It was just a lie.

Thats possible, but most people that do weed get a body high and just relax, have sex, they even go to bed.

I know alot of weed smokers, they definitely dont have anxiety from it, like at all... none.

They have no spiritual concept or even any emotional development, there just random people. 

And dont tell me its the strain, what im saying goes deeper then that.

Edited 1 hour ago by integral

[Willy Phallicus]

2 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

I have been asking what it is as a distinct facet of the Absolute (Oneness).

Its the same question as "what is the absolute? or what is oneness?" - a question that can only be answered by the individual who goes beyond choronzon where the doors of perception are cleansed and everything is revealed.  When that individual comes back, they can't tell you what it is in a way that can be truly understood by someone who never experienced it.

It just is and you just know it.  Love is Infinity and vice versa but saying it as concisely as that still wholly fails to do it any kind of justice.  You need the experience not the answer to a question.  The experience shows you are the answer to the question and there was never any question to begin with.  Total mindfuckery. 

Its like when people go 'i just had this realization and felt this type of way' and you tell them they are God.  Its true but most of them will never believe/embody it so they doubt it like Ralstons doing.

The quote provided from Ralston from Unborn Tao shows where the fly in Ralstons ointment is.  It sounds like he caught only a glimpse (albeit a real good one) of the mystery so he was never really transformed or touched by it and then used his brain exclusively to say something completely redundant (and derivative) about the nature of being but with a closed mind.  

Basically, he didn't turn into a living depiction of Jesus Christ upon reveal so in his estimation there's no way Love can be the heart of this matrix. 

 

Edited 9 minutes ago by Willy Phallicus