Leo Gura

More nonsense. The amount of misinformation you guys create about Consciousness is wild.

Of course you can. Just replace coffee with DMT. That's exactly how it works. Btw, self-inquiry is just coffee. Ralston acts like his retreats are not coffee but DMT is. But both are. There is no fundamental difference between attending a Ralston retreat vs smoking DMT. Only the DMT is more direct and powerful. If Ralston's students had access to DMT Ralston would be out of a job.

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Not him. He is a lost cause. You!

The counter-argument is to smoke DMT. There is no argument here.

Ask him when he will smoke salvia with Leo.

No, just intelligence in general.

Hippies were not doing serious epistemic or ontological work, they were just chasing spiritual group-think and that is still common today. That's the whole New Age movement. Also, some of those hippies did go into serious spiritual work, so it didn't fail. Very few people are serious about anything.

Peter Ralston Lolz

@Schahin That is not a doorknob, that is a human/God dreaming it is a doorknob.

Ralston's greatest weakness is that he has isolated himself from everyone else. He lives in his own world and does not study or take ideas from others. His own mind/life/consciousness is very powerful but it then becomes its own island, so anything that exists outside that island is like it doesn't even exist. He does not listen to anyone but himself and that leads to blindness. He is too dismissive of the spiritual experiences of others, acting like they have nothing to contribute. He is not willing to learn from others.

Those two for sure. He is also wrong about yoga. He thinks that Kriya yoga cannot produce enlightenment/Awakening. He also believes meditation cannot produce enlightenment. He's also wrong about the role genetics play in consciousness. Consciousness is genetic.

The high quality of Ralston's work is precisely what makes it so deceptive. You will be so seduced by the quality that you will completely overlook the falsehoods in it. I don't expect any of Ralston's students to be intelligent enough to spot the falsehoods. It's extremely tricky. It took me years to understand where he is wrong and I was only able to do it because I took enough psychedelics to kill an elephant.

I struggle every day to find books worth reading. Most books I start I have to quit because they are just not worth the time. These days when I find one great new book it feels like Christmas morning to me.

A confusion happens between Consciousness and having a mind. A doorknob is Consciousness but it does not have a mind so it cannot do what minds do. When humans say that a doorknob is not conscious what they mean is that the doorknob does not have a mind.

On the other hand, it is great that this issue forces you guys to test this matter for yourselves rather than believing either one of us. I don't want you to believe me, I want you to test if psychedelics raise consciousness. This is a simple empirical test.

@SimpleGuy Dude, women don't think in terms of shit-tests. That's a pickup concept.

I started at 27.

The answer is simply Intelligence. At the end of the day Intelligence decides everything.

That's not my problem. I am after truth, not science.

It's okay.

You probably can cure some people that way. But that doesn't mean it is right for everyone. Scientists make stupid average generalizations because they never deal with an individual. All they know are averages.

Just because it doesn't work on him does not mean it doesn't work on others. A basic epistemic mistake.

Of course. Beauty is all there is.

Ralston is doubly wrong. Not only do drugs absolutely raise consciousness, no sober effort of any kind can raise your consciousness as much as drugs can. It is not just that drugs can, it is that those who haven't taken drugs can't even imagine what drugs can do. I have seen Ralston's students. None of them are conscious of what I have become conscious of and they never will be. Self-inquiry is a joke. Ain't nobody at Ralston's workshops conscious to the level of DMT. Nobody!!! Stop this BS. It is hard for me to even recommend Ralston any more because of how wrong and dogmatic he is on this issue. He is misleading all of his students about psychedelics. One breakthrough DMT trip is worth 10 Ralston workshops.