Except my claim is that awakening IS a state. Some states of consciousness are awake and other aren't.
I disagree. Satori is a state and you can only achieve it precisely because you lost it to begin with.
If satori was truly permanent, you could not have been born as a human ego. The whole point is that God can lose consciousness of itself. In fact, that's mostly what it's busy doing.
You can argue that you never lost it, that you've always been awake. But to me this is silly. You were not born God-realized. Of course you were not born at all, but nevertheless, you believed for most of your life that you were born. Thus you were asleep. If you were asleep, then you weren't awake. And if you weren't awake, then whatever "permanent" satori you get in this life, you will lose at some point.
God forgets itself, God remembers itself. This cycle has no beginning or end.
The only reason there are unenlightened beings is because some enlightened being lost his permanent state of enlightenment.
Same goes for with it.
Yes, I don't dispute this at all. By all means pursue a stable 24/7 satori. I am.
But also open your mind to something beyond that.
Like I said in my Outrageous video, it's not about me being more woke than others. It's about reaching the highest understanding of reality. If you don't question the wokeness levels of your teachers you will simply never reach the highest levels of understanding possible. You will settle for less.
My concern is understanding/consciousness, not comparing myself to other teachers. The comparison is only there in order to show you that there is a deeper level possible, not to put myself above others. Ralston is very masterful, much more so than I. So I don't hold him as some inferior person. I respect him a lot and value his work. But what he says about 5-MeO-DMT is simply incorrect. And you can easily verify it for yourself. 5-MeO-DMT will give you a deeper awakening than you will ever get at one of his workshops or enlightenment intensives. This much I would bet $100,000 on. With that said, I still enjoy his workshops. He has a lot to offer. But you won't understand most of it until you do 5-MeO-DMT.

The question is, to what degree?
5-MeO-DMT can give you a such a satori that you will not even be able to walk around.
Just because something is stable and functional doesn't make it the highest.

It's way deeper than merely talent.
It's more like I'm telling you that you cannot fly because you weren't born a bird. The bird isn't simply talented at flying. The bird has hardware that you don't have.
Likewise there are many things you are not conscious of because you don't have the hardware.

Yes.
But, they will not be enough to increase your baseline level of consciousness.

Peter Ralston is part of your dream. So is self-inquiry and contemplation. Watch your biases.
It's absurd that some of you guys with the anti-psychedelic position don't realize that your "natural" awakening is mediated by serotonin. No serotonin, no awakening. So really you are talking about serotonin awakening vs lets say DMT awakening. And you are foolishly claiming that serotinin awakening is real but DMT awakening is not.
There is no such thing as awakening without chemicals. Get that. And get that there is nothing special about your current set of chemicals.

You will never reach thru manual practices the levels of consciousness I have reached. No amount of meditation will get you there.
To think you have or will is delusional and misleading to students.

I am talking about Absolute Consciousness. Not anything relative.
Psychedelics produce absolute consciousness. End of story. You cannot weasle your way out of this with clever words and definitions.
Peter is wrong, wrong, wrong about all this.

Doesn't have to be, but often is.
A fool understands nothing but suffering.
The wise awaken by seeking out Truth directly, for its own sake.

Ralston's awakening came from intense self-inquiry retreats where me contemplated "Who am I?" for 3 weeks non-stop.
And Ralston is a freak of nature. None of you here have his contemplation or focus abilities.
If you only knew how much work Ralston has done, your jaw would drop.
He's done over 10,000 hours of retreats.

@ivankiss I honestly think what you need is #1. You're way too insecure for #2.
You have that boundary, so you should communicate it to her properly. There is no need to deny that you have this boundary if you have it.
And if she said she has a history of cheating, then she actually needs you to set that boundary for her. She might even be thankful. Don't expect a girl to take charge on such matters. You are the man, you set the rules. Lead her. It will be easier for her if you are strict. Teacher her how to block flirting. Don't expect her to figure it out.

Here are two ways to handle:
1) Sit her down and tell her this: If I am dating a girl, I am not okay with her flirting with other guys. So if a guy comes up to you and starts to flirt with you, you need to shut him down within the first 30 seconds. You tell him, "Sorry, but I have a boyfriend." If I see that you are flirting with guys beyond this, we are breaking up. This is what I require from my girlfriend. If you are not comfortable with this then no hard feelings but we are not going to work out. So take some time to think about it and let me know your decision. I will be okay with whatever decision you make. I have no desire to control you, but if you are want to be my girlfriend then I expect it to be exclusive.
2) Just stop caring. Surrender your desire to control her. Let her do whatever she wants and you work on being a stronger man who isn't needy but detached. This should make her even more attracted to you.

Just cause you love a girl does not mean you gotta have her in your house every day. This is not healthy.
I love ice cream but I don't eat it every morning. And if I did I would get sick of it.
If you like a girl, create space for the chemistry to recharge. It's like you're draining a battery and never giving it time to recharge.
Not to mention that as a man you got other things to be doing than babysitting your girl. You need space to work on your life purpose and she should have something she's working on too, not just middling around your house.
Obviously do whatever you want, but I would urge you to think about how you might be shooting yourself in the foot by unconsciously following the "normal" path without thinking it through. Why do you need a girl living in your house? Think about it. Is that really wise?

Tell her to move out.
Don't allow distractions like that. Your space is divine and should not be given up for any girl.
Living together is only gonna make you two hate each other soon.
If you love a girl, the best way to ruin it is to see her too often. And everyday is the worst.

99.9% of women I would not touch with a ten foot pole.
God isn't a fool

This is bad advice.
Do not expect God to just give you things which you can work to create for yourself.
God is not going to change your flat tire for you.
And God is not just going to give a lame ass man a quality woman.

I don't really actively talk about it unless they ask me, which they rarely do.
My Mom is pretty tolerant of me doing whatever, even though she basically thinks I'm crazy.
My brother is pretty open to it because his wife is pretty heavy into spirituality and he's had some mystical experiences on psychedelics. But mostly he's stuck in stage Orange materialism and scientism. He's open to it in theory, but not motivated to do any actual practices. Recently I introduced him to the Spiral Dynamics model and he found is interesting from a sort of scientific and historical POV.
My Dad I don't communicate with at all for others reasons.
My ex-girlfriend was a bit into it but the metaphysical stuff was just way over her head. Although she loved the psychedelics.
It doesn't really matter. Just do your spiritual work and mostly keep it to yourself or some close friends who are also into it. Definitely do NOT expect your family to be into it or to understand it or to support you in your spiritual journey. Your family wants you to be the old you. They don't want you to be enlightened because it would freak them the fuck out. They cannot handle the mindfuck of you becoming immortal. It is just totally outside their reality. They want to feel like The Matrix is real.
A great way to scratch the itch of sharing is to find a girlfriend or boyfriend who's also into self-actualizing and spirituality. Then you can go real deep with it together. That will be a wild fun ride. But it requires the right person, not just some rando.
There is no cure for closedmindedness. Other than to open one's mind.

I do dates in outdoor shopping mall areas with lots of shops and activities.
Never stay in one place longer than 1 hour.
Most of my dates are walking around outside.

Nightclubs are really bad places for dates. Don't agree to that kind of date. Invite her elsewhere.
For the love of God, do not entertain any girl for 4 hours in a nightclub. This is insane. Worse case scenario you meet her in the club, dance around for 30 mins, and then bounce out.

It's all about how you set the frame. You want to set the frame that you are a highly social and extroverted guy who frequently goes out and has a lively social life. Don't frame it as: "I go out to hunt for girls", frame it as, "I'm an attractive social guy with many friends, both guy and girl friends and I'm out every weekend. Join me if you wish or miss out on the fun."
Don't make it all about sex. Just become a social guy who likes to have fun socializing with guys and girls, without even thinking too much about sex or dating. And then if some girl decides she wants to date you or sleep with you, it just happens and it's no big deal. Take all the seriousness and expectations out of it.

Yep. This works. Been doing this for the past 2 months and my life is unrecognizable compared to what it was not too long ago, in the best possible way, and it's only getting better. For the first few weeks, every Friday was rough but Saturday I would be in the swing of things. Didn't move to a big city but it's a pretty decent college town. All the bars close at 2 except one and that's where everyone goes at 2 and it's almost impossible not to meet cool new people there at that time especially. Might be moving out to a bigger city in Texas soon with my female cousin who is extremely beautiful and has a lot of connections, living together (yeah it's a little weird but we both have it going on with the dating shit, or at least I assume she does too, and we are first cousins who respect each other as friends and family members).
I used to be really intimidated by approaching girls in groups, but now any time I see a group of girls where each one is "YES/10" I'm practically unable NOT to approach because I've gotten such good results by just saying "hey you" to the hottest one like I know them already, and if she or any of the other girls respond well soon after, I put my hand on the small of her back (the most interested one), flirt, get the number, and set the date. A lot of the time they'll say "we're lesbians" but if I just ignore that (or give them the noncompliance face; Mystery's "disallowing-frame face") or say to them "why you being weird?" they quickly drop the act and start saying shit like "Are you for real? (Rubbing my chest) Wow you are SO handsome!" (I'm very fit because I started doing more serious lifting 2 months ago and I'm getting strong fast because I've been strong before, and so there's muscle memory there, making for quick gains, it seems.) (You need to be careful if you're good looking and going out solo though -- pretty sure I've almost been kidnapped on at least one or two occasions! )
I'm a natural introvert, and a couple nights ago I led a ~30min discussion on the street on camera... like, holding the microphone and everything... about relationships and sex positions with a bunch of hot girls, and got a bunch of numbers, and hit a dab pen very hard that one of the girls handed me mid-conversation and just continued -- they were blown away by how much shit I knew; when you learn game you have a lot to offer in the way of relationship advice... so then they started looking to me to lead the discussion! That was fucking WAY outside my comfort zone -- 2 months ago, that would have been utterly unthinkable... I might even start playing guitar in public and/or sing in a band next. I'm just pushing it in some way, every day.
Sometimes I cry because of just how happy I am now -- it's kind of like "what the hell just happened..." And shit's just barely getting started.
In fact that's why I haven't been posting much here lately.

38 is not that old. You still have so much time to build a great life.
When you're 60 you will realize how foolish you were for thinking 38 was too old.
I understand exactly what you mean, but the deeper truth is that what you really want is to love yourself. You want to discover the fundamental Love at the core of your own being.
The worst part with identify yourself in Incels is not that women don't love you, it's that you don't love yourself -- and THAT is why women tend to not love you. Women LOVE men who LOVE themselves!
You're an uncut diamond.
Nobody is ever bad.
Only Good exists.
Your opportunity here is not just to get laid or to get a girl to love you. Your opportunity here is to realize the infinite well of Love that resides within your own spirit. Begin the spiritual work to truly heal yourself. It's doable, you're not too late for that, it requires no money and it requires no car. As you make yourself whole you will attract quality people into your life with little effort. But you will also not need them.

That’s perfect. See if you can get invited into the VIP section or DJ booth. That’s usually where the most high status guys and attractive women are.
Sartain is the real deal. For better or worse, he’s taken game to a level 99.9% of guys never will. And he’s done it without being a celebrity or compromising ethics too hard. It’s impressive.
Sartain will not teach you pure cold approach though. He focuses almost exclusively on status and social circle building. So he’s a good source if you’re into that.

By going out and learning to socialize with girls.
With that girl, no.
With other girls, of course.
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See, the problem in this example is that you wanted something for nothing. You expected a threesome for zero work. In real life if you want a threesome you will have to work your ass off for it. I have friends who do threesomes. They hustle for it. While you are at home on your PC, they are out there socializing. One guy I know here in Vegas had a threesome with two virgins.

Your "high quality" girl still wants fun, emotions, value, and leadership. A high quality girl has options. She won't be attracted to some needy inexperienced ass.
For a guy to get a good relationship requires hundreds of approaches.
You are assuming attraction. But that cannot be assumed.
A guy needs a lot of "customers" to get the experience necessary to be the kind of strong man & leader a high quality girl expects him to be.
Every girl wants the sausage but doesn't want to know how it's made. As it turns out, being a man tends to be a dirty business.

I'm sure some girls can pull that off, but I wouldn't count on it.
Again, she is not having sex for logical reasons. She is not sitting there calculating which guy is most suitable for her long-term health and well-being.
If your strategy is to get into a girl's pants using logical objective facts about yourself, you're going to be extremely disappointed with your results.