🌱 Welcome to the Consciousness Path Skool Community! We’re a group of real people dedicated to becoming internally free and happy, and externally effective and powerful. We’re glad you’re here — we’ve laid out a simple path to get you started. 🔍 First steps - Step 1: Take the free Foundation for Consciousness course by Brendan Lea This short course explains our goal in these efforts. - Step 2: Join our Consciousness Monhtly Session (Sundays) Meet fellow members, ask questions, and deepen your practice together. See the upcoming event in the calendar. - Step 3: Explore other courses A great next step is Peter Ralston’s Increasing Consciousness course, but feel free to browse the full catalog and follow your curiosity. - Step 4: Attend a live or online workshop If you’re serious about growth, Ralston’s live workshops are incredibly powerful and they will put your journey on a different level, we guarantee that. 💬 Stay engaged - Share your questions, insights, and breakthroughs in the discussion feed. - Let us know what resources or topics would help you most and also share any feedback you have. - In case you have any questions or would like to reach out to us, please contact Brendan Lea or myself. “Increasing consciousness is the most important pursuit any human can undertake. Generally, people are stuck in a great deal of false realities that produce struggle, suffering, and discontent. Increasing consciousness frees us from this falsely limited world so we can access greater freedom and happiness, not to mention gain more effectiveness and creativity. Becoming more conscious takes investigation, learning, and contemplation. We provide these tools and support.” — Peter Ralston

I would like to share some insights I've got during the Spring Retreat, to inspire people to participate themselves, and perhaps to spark some insights in others. I want to open with a "haiku" I wrote as a summary of an insight I have got during the Experiencing the Nature of Being (ENB) workshop, even though it relates more to suffering than to anything else: I am I do my best It's enough. Let it sink in. Now, obviously, "my best" is not always "enough" to achieve particular results. I can't fix everything, and especially not all my relationships. Life will do what life does, and it will do things I don't like. At least until I transcend liking and disliking. Yet, it is enough nonetheless. I won't always get my way, and it is fine. I do my best, and I can't do more than that. So it is enough, no matter the outcomes. Do you hear the whispering of the part of your mind that tells you that no, this is not true, that you could have done more if only you tried harder? Kick it in the nuts! This is clearly impossible. No matter what you do, you could always imagine doing it better. It's a trap. Now, I don't want to excuse slacking off. Continue doing your best, growing and developing. But don't try to do more than that (which is impossible) and don't beat yourself over the outcomes that will arise. What will arise will arise. I also try to see others this way. No matter who they are and what they do, they are trying their best. Even if objectively it is not very good. It is just the best they can do, and they have not made themselves. They are just trying to be happy, even of they are trampling over other people and sabotaging the very happiness they aim for by their actions. They haven't chosen to be clueless and to have the personality and beliefs they have, and if they understood and could, they would certainly gladly switch with a more integrated person. I like to think of one man-baby famous politician. He is lying, self-aggrandizing, with little to no honesty and integrity and little care about truth or others. Yet, it seems to me, he's just trying - and failing - to prove (primarily to himself) that he is not a worthless piece of shit, doing the best he can. Sadly, his best is pretty bad. But again, he hasn't chosen to be this pathetic piece of crap.

Thank you June for the organization. We had another great workshop in Barbon with a bunch of wonderful people. 😎

I'm running the Four Principles immersion again on May 23rd, and I want to tell you why I think it's worth your Saturday (also: many bonuses until sunday, see below) As much as I love Consciousness Work, my main problem with it is that it's often too broad. People tend to feel lost in all the material we offer. But since we also preach clarity and effectiveness, we've decided to build an actual framework, for actual practical results. So in a way, this workshop is "Consciousness Work but structured". Now, the word "framework" can mean many things. IMO there are good and bad ways to build a framework. The bad way is: - Pick a bunch of techniques that you like - Put them together at random - Move them around until it feels "good enough" - Sell a workshop about it The good way to build a framework is more like: - Build from the ground up, with as few assumptions as possible - Let the main distinctions emerge by themselves, until you discover the structure at play - Test it in your life. Iterate x1000 - Run a workshop about it, cause now you're excited to share it (and because it works) That's how the 4 Principles workshop was built. It's a structure you can act from. It functions as an actual guide when the situation is unclear, when you're triggered, when there's no time to figure it out. And before you ask: YES, the goal is still to aim for experiential insights :) The framing just makes it more powerful. This is 6 hours of live work with exercises, dialogue, real participation from you. Not a lecture about some theory or model. If you join before May 17th (the founding participants window), you also get the follow-up sequence I put together to keep working with the principles after the live day; plus Brendan's course and 2 months of private group coaching with him. Workshop is online, on May 23rd at 10:30 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time. You can sign up here: https://chenghsin.link/workshop/4p See you there :)

Hey group, Peter just dropped a new podcast episode on why following, believing, and looking for answers outside of yourself won't make you conscious. I still remember the first time I heard him say something along the lines of "I don't want you to believe me! Believing me does nothing for you! It won't make you conscious. Listen to what I'm pointing at and go find it in your own experience." I was like, "God damn it... finally someone who actually means business." This was one of the main reasons I got into this work in the first place. Would love to read everyone's thoughts on the topic. Hope you enjoy the episode.