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 20 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 19 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 18 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 17 hours 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 15 hours ago by Willy Phallicus

[Ziran]

 

8 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

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

Unity lacking love isn't unity.  It's subjugation.  It's conquering.

Edited 12 hours ago by Ziran

[Inliytened1]

4 hours ago, Willy Phallicus said:

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. 

 

 Consciousness is mysterious - can you describe what it is or are the definitions circular.   If Love is a quality of Consciousness - then this is not necessarily disagreeing with Ralston because Love is a part or an aspect of Consciousness.   If it is identical but also a facet  (2 sides of the coin) the what is that side. I guess you can't really explain either without using circular definitions as other stated it is just via Being that one truly understands.  

Anyone who has gotten a glimpse of Absolute love please let me know what made it distinct from Consciousness/Being/Unity/Oneness/Infinity for you .

Edited 11 hours ago by Inliytened1

[Grateful Dead]

There is no distinction between love and being. The point is that being IS love. So the realization is that the substance of being is love. Consciousness IS love. You can't differentiate them further, as they are inseparable.

I believe you can actually overlook this realization if you have a very clinical Zen background like Ralston. He simply didn't connect the two points; it's not that absolute truth is something different to him.

We use the word love because it perfectly captures what it's all about: the profound openness and infinite fullness of being and the absence of fear, separation, and defensiveness.

[tsuki]

 

[Breakingthewall]

20 hours ago, Grateful Dead said:

Furthermore, he says that the self (ego) is a construct created by the mind. If you confuse your true being with this mental construct, you live in an illusion.

Let's see if I can explain it. Ralston sees everything as truth vs. falsehood. Those are just his opinions; it's a completely superficial (and misleading) view.

The ego, the self-image, isn't an illusion created by the mind; it's a reality created by millions of years of evolution and a lifetime of social interaction. You can transcend the ego, meaning you can not care that your penis is 4 cm, but that doesn't mean the fact that your penis is small is "false."

If you're going to have sex with women, they'll think: "Oh, his penis is small." This isn't false. And this reduces your chances of finding a partner and reproducing, and your operating system is coded to say you should have sex. This isn't false. Perhaps it's a basic level you can transcend, but your 4 cm penis is small, period.

20 hours ago, Grateful Dead said:

He says, just like you, that the state of not-knowing, which you call an empty mind, is merely a prerequisite for opening oneself to absolute truth. By not-knowing he means a radical removal of all conceptual frameworks so that it becomes possible to open oneself to the absolute truth. 

The state of not knowing, the silent mind, when you only feel physical sensations, is not more true that the state where you interpret reality, it's just another level of processing. In fact he's interpreting the reality thinking that this state is true and the other is false. 

20 hours ago, Grateful Dead said:

What is true is that he sees only formless, pure, inseparable, unlimited being as absolute truth. Which I can well understand, as it is also the highest truth I have realized. What Ralston may not have understood is that the perfect unity is love, and that this is literally the substance of reality.

This is just the zen paradigm, and it's, let's say, false. The empty mind is lot empty, it's full of sensations, perception of your body, could be pain, pleasure. It's just another level. Empty mind is necessary to open yourself to the totality, but it's not equivalent to open yourself to the totality. Empty mind and open heart. Open heart like Christ , Ramakrishna . How is the Ralston heart? 

How Ralston explains the creative power of reality? The universe and that? He would smile like implying that you are retarded and saying very happy of being Ralston: you can't know it! . No, you can know it, but not Ralston because he's closed to the source because he's a narcissist. What you are is the absolute power, the tao, the unlimited source, God. 

What kind of teacher would ridicule 5meo DMT without having tried saying toad juice? It's the way of expressing of a narcissist. He's not humble, he prefers be the one who's right that open himself to the absolute. 

Edited 25 minutes ago by Breakingthewall

[Breakingthewall]

Love is not unity, it's the absolute creating power that emerges from the unlimited, the source of the reality that creates universes and life. You could call it absolute being, but it's not tranquil empty being, it's fire. It's the creation of the galaxies, the power that is making your brain interconnected like a magic machine in the middle of the abyss of the reality. It's expansion, big bang, birth and death, intelligence, openess. It's the positive drive of the unlimited. Positive in the sense of affirmation, existing, expanding. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Breakingthewall

[Grateful Dead]

32 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

The ego, the self-image, isn't an illusion created by the mind; it's a reality created by millions of years of evolution and a lifetime of social interaction. You can transcend the ego, meaning you can not care that your penis is 4 cm, but that doesn't mean the fact that your penis is small is "false."

If you're going to have sex with women, they'll think: "Oh, his penis is small." This isn't false. And this reduces your chances of finding a partner and reproducing, and your operating system is coded to say you should have sex. This isn't false. Perhaps it's a basic level you can transcend, but your 4 cm penis is small, period.

I never got the feeling that Ralston denied the biological reality of the body. He practiced martial arts for a long time, which is a good example of this. The evolutionary survival instinct is, of course, a fact, and he often talks about it, but the judgment and the mental construct that the mind builds: "I am inferior because of my small penis" is not a fact; it's a mental construct, an illusion that can be deconstructed. So, the assumption that the "self" is a fixed, independent entity is the conceptual illusion.

33 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

The state of not knowing, the silent mind, when you only feel physical sensations, is not more true that the state where you interpret reality, it's just another level of processing. In fact he's interpreting the reality thinking that this state is true and the other is false. 

No one is saying that this state is truer than an active interpretation of reality. But you're more likely to have a breakthrough when your mind is clear and focused, or do you see it differently?

33 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

How is the Ralston heart?

Yes, I agree on that point; I also think Ralston's heart is closed.

38 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

How Ralston explains the creative power of reality? The universe and that?

Ralston says the diversity of the universe exists because consciousness draws boundaries and makes distinctions. The creative force is, so to speak, the universe's ability to bring form out of formlessness. Physical reality is not a construct separate from absolute Being. It is absolute Being itself, which makes itself perceptible as form through the activity of the mind. He wrote an entire book about it, 'The Genius of Being'.

38 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

What kind of teacher would ridicule 5meo DMT without having tried saying toad juice? It's the way of expressing of a narcissist. He's not humble, he prefers be the one who's right that open himself to the absolute. 

Again I kind of agree here. However, I don't think I would describe him as a narcissist. Perhaps somewhat arrogant or closed.