Terell Kirby

Hopefully you’re familiar with Play-Doh and had fun with it as a child. Consciousness is like play-doh, it molds itself into any form it wants. Now-When you play with actual play-doh, you are the on molding it into form. But now imagine if the play-doh molded itself, not needing anything outside of it to shape it. It would also be the underlying substance of everything-form within it would be distinct, but non distinct as it relates to what it’s made out of. Not only does it mold itself, but imagine that the Play-Doh was the only thing in the Universe that existed, to the point that it was the actual Universe -that there was no “other to the Play-Doh. It’s also indestructible-Infinite. Now, in your direct experience-you recognize Play-Doh as Existence itself, which also the same as recognizing it as Consciousness. Finally-you merge with the Play-Doh, so that you no longer are separate from it. You BECOME the Play-Doh, recognizing that you always were it- Infinitely. This is what it mean to become God-the Infinite shape shifter, and craftsman- it’s Beautiful ❤️

Why do we kid ourselves? I’m finding this position is the best ground to do deep contemplation about what’s true- prevents you from taking on biases of teachers and humans in general. Pick up a topic, and admit to yourself that nobody knows anything about it. Until we personally validate truth claims about any aspect of reality, it is hearsay taken on faith. For example- The sky was blue before you knew that others “knew” about the color of the sky. Our experience is prior and fundamental than the idea of some “other” knowing about it.

yet another display of male weakness trying to intimidate / dominate a woman (on top of it a woman of color). Props to Rep. Omar standing her ground. Our political situation in the US is shit- it's really a shame what's going on

Guys, it's no use arguing over. We can either investigate for ourselves if God is Love or refuse the call. But notice that refusing the call and defending a position gets you no where in this work. Anything Leo has claimed, as arrogant and bombastic as it may sound, i've tried to go on a personal investigation into it myself to validate or invalidate it. He's never asked us to believe him

This NXIVM cult stuff is insane, it amazes me how the human mind can be manipulated into all kinds of twisted crap:

I dont know how do you know that ?

That’s heartbreaking.

How about an episode on ‘How to Not Idolize Peter Ralston’ ? But in all seriousness, you have a point-any teacher or teaching we idolize creates a distinction in reality between us and him- In Truth however, our Minds are all constructing Peter Ralston and his teachings. They are high consciousness-but still partial and limited in that they are coming from a human:

Ralston is strong at cutting through spiritual fantasies and bullshit, which is also a strong suit of yours. Doesn’t seem like he’s explored many higher states of Consciousness outside of his sober state, however a lot of his dictating comes from a Truthful place I feel

Huge waste of time focusing on personality quirks of Leo- the man isn’t here to offer us pleasantries-he’s here to get us to Truth. Try not to kill the messenger, you’ll fail to get the message

Certainly a worthy endeavor to deconstruct such labels and categories:

gender aside- how tolerant are you in terms of being socially isolated and misunderstood? That's the central question for any human seeking Awakening. It was stated a while back that woman's survival and sense of self is often shaped by her social bonds. Cutting all that off for Truth poses a bigger risk to survival than men in many cases.

A good Book reference: Ending Unnecessary Suffering-Peter Ralston

Wonderful. i am rewatching your episode on conformity, probably my 3rd or 4th time. The ideas in this are so profound, I’m looking forward to these being introduced on podcast forum, hopefully reaching a broader audience.

Geez that would make it worse I’d assume

Of course. You Cant land an 8/10 girlfriend without first developing social skills, and social skills require you get out of the house to socialize. So yes, there is a tradeoff in that one takes away time from the other, but also can be done across different periods of your life.

That’s not actually verifiable across the board. Of course you could say to hell with humanity and cut off all friendships, that would prevent any potential drama and fallout. But that’s not always healthy either. Well that’s cool, but still is an introverts bias

Talking and bullshitting are essential skills to making friends and developing relationships of all kinds. Without negatively framing extroversion as a whole, I’d argue that there are many introverts who envy the skill of bullshitting and talking in others. I’d also argue the skill of bullshitting and talking doesn’t necessarily signal one’s core capacity or lack of capacity to be intelligent. Note: I’m an ENFP, I’m a huge fan of your work and have many insights/Awakenings that I don’t find many here have had-of course this is my assumption, and can only go off what I read

The illusion of my, me & mine. What stands in its place is Nothing proper.

When I finally understood what Allah was, the last thing I wanted to do was wage war against the infidels.

Hmm . It’s not like extroverts aren’t capable of deep thought or existential thinking- they just spend less time engaged in those pursuits

First time was in 2020 during COVID. Learned a lot, and it was helpful- but feel as though my values and direction have changed (given newfound sobriety and awakenings). I'm at a different place and life i think taking the course again could help redirect. Anyone have experience in taking the course more than once?

How’s the retreat looking? Realistic to expect in 2026?

Yes- some people are dogmatic about the principles of the 12 steps. But also, NA and AA pull many people out of addiction and into recovery. You can’t reap any of the benefits by just criticizing. Get a sponsor and work the steps. Then you’ll know if it’s really worth it or not. Taking care of Survival is not some evil, it’s important to healthy living. To mods: this thread needs to be moved to the mental health discussion section of forum please

Totally .. 2Cs are important and add perspective. We need to be cautious when speaking on the topic of addiction, its sensitive and requires either deep education or lots of personal experience interacting with addicts or those who have recovered, I don't really get this from Leo on such topics- (of course I could be wrong).