Questions on Ralston’s Retreats

[kieranperez]

I’m considering saving up money I’m going to earn this summer for one of Ralston’s retreats (preferably the upcoming Fall one). 

I know some of you on here have gone to his retreats (some of you I’ve met... shoutout to my man @Juan Cruz Giusto).

My main question I have is, as funny as it is, does Ralston go in deep with questions? I mean, in the end, he does play coy with a lot of the questions he gets and in the answers he gives. To me, I think this is for good reason, as frustrating as it can probably be. 

When I listen to Ralston on YouTube it blows my mind because it’s like ‘I can do that?!’ I really slow down to try to comprehend what it is he’s communicating and it blows my mind because there’s so much fucking depth that I feel like the average attended of these retreats or reader just overlooks so easily because he’s so clear. In yet, when I listen to the questions he gets on say his YouTube videos, nobody really seems mindblown or is asking anything really deep?

How does Ralston help facilitate and asnswer questions?

As an example: one of the things I think is missed in his work that I want more clarification on how to do is how he contemplates “outside” the domain of pure consciousness work. So how he used “Zen contemplation” as he puts it with say contemplating domains of running, or the body, or evil, etc. and then do something with that to create something. 

I’ve emailed him in the past (and I suggest you guys do to... the fact that you can email this man and he responds in a couple hours blows my mind) but I don’t want to be some pest lol otherwise I’d be emailing him every single day LOL