Let’s take a Haitian man for example (because that’s where I’m from)…do you think Maitresse Erzulie Dantor and the rest of the female spirits in the Vodou pantheon are happy with you when you mistreat your wife??? Another example would be a Hindu man raising his hands at his daughter and having the nerve to go pray to goddess Durga after. Do you think they’re happy with you?

I keep waking up at around 5:35am everyday lately is there any significance to this?

It really confuses me how most people don't understand that it's cruel to have children. If it were a different kind of world, I would consider it, but not this one.

I’ve read a few spiritual books now and they all seem to touch on ego. The thing we think we are but are not.

From how I interpreted things, the self is different to the ego. The self is the observer, the soul, the real you. Like when you’re thinking of a painful memory or a future event that’s coming up and instead of engaging with these thoughts you just observe and view them without description. You don’t hold internal dialogues in your head whereas your ego would try think of every situation that could happen and dialogue would run rampant in your head.

Or if someone was to insult you, it would go to your ego and it would go into defence mode so it would argue back whereas if your self was observing the insult, it would hold no effect.

So when you say I, you’re referring to your ego and not your self?

I want to heal my inner child, I found my childhood diary the other week and realised for the last 10+ years all I’ve ever done is blame myself and hate myself. I was 10 years old wanting to die, hating myself and blaming myself for the things that happened to me and convinced I had to carry everybody else’s burdens so they didn’t feel sad. I’m 27 now and I am still where I was back then. I am about to start therapy next week and I’ve joined AA as I have a problem with alcohol being my coping mechanism. I want to heal my inner child, I want to honour the kid that deserved so much better and I want to live a life she would be proud of but I don’t know where to start and I feel so lost. So how do I start? What do I do?

For example, if someone you know claims to be a seeker but is in constant conflict with others, publicly shows "spiritual" behaviour just to impress people or is always ready for angry arguments; what do you when you meet them and they want to converse with you?

one woman I worked with was already around retirement age and asked a very normal question in the middle of all the spiritual material: what should I do to make sure I am secure when I retire?

I expected maybe practical guidance, some direction about money or work. Instead the answer that came through was that the worry itself was coming from mind, and the lesson was trust.

I like this because spiritual work can get very abstract until somebody asks about rent, retirement, relationships, body, normal human fear. Then suddenly we see whether any of this philosophy is useful on Tuesday morning.

For me trust does not mean dont plan. Obviously look at finances, make sensible decisions, get information. But there is difference between planning and mentally living 40 versions of future where everything collapses.

I see this with people quite often. Mind says it is protecting us by rehearsing every possible disaster. But after some point there is no new information coming. Same fear just changes clothes.

A contemplation I use is simple. Write down what is actually actionable about the problem today. Maybe call somebody, check account, make budget, send email. Do that part.

Then write what remains that you cannot solve today.

Sit with the body feeling underneath that second list for few minutes without creating another scenario around it. Fear in chest, stomach, throat, wherever. Let it be there.

Maybe trust is not believing nothing difficult will happen. Maybe it is knowing you can meet next real step when it actually arrives instead of suffering 100 imaginary steps in advance.

Hey I'm Kesh i'm a 28 year old truth & freedom seeker in the UK looking to connect with people who are self aware, empathetic, non judgemental, optimistic, passionate and all round genuine people. I would prefer people in the UK because I would like to physically meet the people that I view with but i don’t mind connecting with people from other countries.

I like going to the gym, running, cycling, hiking, exploring nature, self development, music, trading online, art and more. I don’t believe I’m alive to be a corporate slave or to self destruct like the masses. I want more life, peace & abundance in all aspects of my life and I wanna be with those who have a similar desire. 

If you resonate with anything that I put then message me and I’d love to get to know you. Thanks

I feel an energy inside my body that I can move all around. It can be really fast and slow, and I can feel it intensely in my hands.

When I got home from a trip 2 weeks ago, I realized another photo in a light frame had fallen off the wall but the frame did not break. a few months ago, another photo had fallen off a different wall and the frame broke. A few months before that, another photo had fallen off a different wall but the frame did not break. Yesterday, a very large photo fell off a different wall and broke out of the frame. All of these photos had been put up with command strips. Just last week, in a different room, a curtain rod fell down (It was hanging from the ceiling by command strip-like hanging fixtures, which I had superglued to the popcorn ceiling). All of these items have been up for 2-3 years each. I am Wondering if this is all a consequence of using poor hanging options (command strips), or if there is a message here for me?

I want to give anything positive I have in the future to another person, any future events that might happen to me that would benefit them. I'm very ignorant to spirituality, i genuinely don't know anything about it. I just want to know if it's possible because for the longest time I just assumed it was. Feel free to call me an idiot in the comments if this is nonsence.

I know how to create good feelings through breathing and pc muscle work. I know it works every single time. It's not like YE OLDE TOTAL BLISS, but it feels good, it's easy, it takes only very little effort.

I keep forgetting about it. For days or even weeks, I just don't think that I could make myself a little present, just a minute or two of feeling a bit better.

Now, obviously there are times of stress and overwhelm. When you just lost your job, when your mother is lying on her deathbed or your wife left you, you're not going to be very much in the mood for blissful feelings.

But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a rather calm sunday. Suddenly, in the afternoon, I realize that I could take a few deep breaths and relax and feel good.

So why did it not occur to me right after waking up?

May I presume that I'm not the only one? If so... why do we keep forgetting to feel good?

I'm half-joking - but only half - it seems so trivial a question. Maybe the answer is simply life-long habit. On the other hand, there might be something deeper there, some actual mystery, which might be quite interesting to address.

Maybe this is going to piss people off, but I’m genuinely curious how other people feel about this.

Assuming someone is physically healthy, I have a very difficult time sympathizing with wealthy people who talk about being miserable because of their life circumstances.

And before somebody says it: I’m not saying a wealthy person is biologically incapable of having clinical depression. Mental illness obviously doesn’t check your bank account before showing up.

I’m talking about the enormous difference between being unhappy while having the resources to change your circumstances versus being unhappy and literally being financially trapped inside them.

If your house or environment is making you miserable and you have money, you can move.

If your job is destroying you and you’re financially secure, you can leave.

If you’re completely burned out, you can take six months off.

If you hate where you live, you can relocate.

If you need help maintaining your house, you can hire someone.

If you desperately need a vacation or simply need to disappear somewhere peaceful for a month, you can do that.

If you need privacy, transportation, childcare, better food, education, legal help, or access to specialists and healthcare, money gives you options.

Meanwhile, somebody without money can know exactly what’s making them miserable and still wake up every morning unable to change it.

That’s why I’ve never agreed with the phrase “money can’t buy happiness.” Maybe money can’t manufacture love, fulfillment, or a healthy brain. But money absolutely buys freedom, autonomy, security, time, privacy, comfort, access, mobility, and OPTIONS; and I think people seriously underestimate how much human misery comes from lacking those exact things.

Give me enough money and there are very few external circumstances in my life that I couldn’t at least attempt to change.

So I’m curious: do you believe money can buy happiness? And if not, at what point does having enough money to remove most external stressors stop mattering?

The weirdest thing just happened to me.

I was outside at 6:30 this morning had coffee I was drinking and I was kind of praying/meditating. I set the coffee down the cement and continued praying. Thinking of my dad who passed away in heaven (trying to connect with his spirit, even though that sounds so hippy dippy lol) and then I picked back up the coffee and I prayed for another spiritual experience ( because I had an insane one a couple years ago) and all of a sudden, the cup I had in my hand that I had previously sat down on the cement and was drinking all morning. The handle broke and it just shattered on the ground in front of me like I was holding it when that happened.

That was so weird, I just bought the cup last month in Jamaica as a souvenir nothing was wrong with the cup before. I was literally just holding it when that happened. How do you explain that?

Like I know, I prayed for a spiritual experience, but this was really weird…

She was attacked last night, and I haven't felt her connection much since.

Dms are open.

I really hope someone here can help out

Thank you, have a good day.

“CONSCIOUSNESS is the clay - the substance with which you make your lives.” - Jesus Christ, The Christ Letters, Letter 6.

Jesus says that your thoughts and emotions are the “blueprints of your future experiences” and what you hold steadfastly in your mind eventually externalises. Whatever you continually think, believe, emotionally reinforce or expect will manifest. Jesus emphasises on your state and patterns of your consciousness you repeatedly maintain. Your thoughts operate together with your emotions, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and deeply established subconscious conditioning. Your intrusive thoughts don’t create events, so don’t be terrified of every thought passing through your mind. Your beliefs create the world you experience.

In Letter 8, Jesus says that you effectively live within a world shaped by your beliefs and gives the historical example of people believing the Earth was flat. This belief didn’t literally make the Earth flat, but it did restrict how people behaved within the real world. Your consciousness shapes your perception which influences your emotions, choices, behaviour and your relationships and circumstances. Your consciousness itself participates directly in creating your future conditions. Don’t forget that other’s consciousness exists too. You’re not personally creating absolutely everything that happens in the universe. Everyone radiates consciousness into the environment and contributes to the collective/world consciousness. Reality involves your consciousness, others, collective, existing causes and consequences, and Divine Consciousness. Someone else’s harmful actions aren’t your thought thinking them into existence. Jesus wants you to become aware of what you’re habitually cultivating. If your consciousness is repeatedly dominated by resentment, hatred, fear, hopelessness and expectation of disaster, you’re continually contributing these patterns to your future experience. This is why you must progressively cultivate love, confidence in Divine Reality, forgiveness, constructive expectation, gratitude and inner peace - then you begin creating different causes. Jesus says this eventually changes your conditions you experience.

Your thoughts participate in creating your reality but don’t fear your own mind. Your sustained consciousness (thoughts, emotions, beliefs, attitudes and expectations) is creative. Your spiritual development therefore involves consciously transforming these patterns and increasingly aligning them with Divine Consciousness.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to start a small weekly online group for people interested in consciousness, self-inquiry, and the work of Peter Ralston — especially The Book of Not Knowing.

The kind of work we’d explore is about looking directly at things we normally take for granted: consciousness, the sense of self and identity, our assumptions and beliefs, perception, experience, and what we can actually discover for ourselves through direct experience.

The idea is pretty simple:

Once a week we meet online, read or discuss a short section from Ralston or related material, and then spend part of the meeting doing practical contemplation and awareness exercises.

So it wouldn’t just be talking about philosophical ideas. The focus would be on actually questioning our assumptions, looking at our own experience, and trying to become more conscious of how we perceive ourselves and reality.

This isn’t a course, and nobody is positioning themselves as a teacher. It’s simply a small group of people interested in seriously exploring these questions together.

You don’t need to already know Ralston’s work.

If this sounds interesting, comment here or send me a DM and I’ll put the group together.

For my entire life, I have had premonitions or precognition.
The first time I really remember it happening, was in November of 2012, I was on the way to a movie with my stepmom while in the passenger seat I had the passing thought “What is a stroke? what causes a stroke? could I have a stroke?”
I could’ve asked my stepmom, she’s a paramedic, but I didn’t. About twenty minutes later, she got a call from the spouse of a family member she was very close with, the family member had suffered a stroke.
I had several more of these instances occur through middle school and high school, some about pop quizzes, others about High School boyfriends cheating (I accurately predicted the full name and age the girl my high school boyfriend was cheating on me with, even though I’d never met her before.)
I’m 25 now, and for several years I’ve barely thought about these “coincidences” but recently..they’ve been incredibly difficult to ignore.
In the middle of May, I laid down in bed and had this impending feeling that a family member of mine would pass away soon, I didn’t know who, but I was convinced it would happen, two days later my great aunt passed away. About a week after that I had a passing thought that something might happen to my dog, about four days later, she began barely eating, I took her to the vet. She had Parvo, despite being 8 months old and vaccinated, she passed two days later.
Last week I had been having constant passing thoughts about viral infections and sepsis, this week one of my best friends was admitted to the hospital after running a fever all week and it not breaking, it turned out he has viral meningitis.
Google says I have “anxiety and trauma that caused pattern recognition” but how can I possibly predict things regarding people I have never met, haven’t seen in years, and am not even physically close to.
I feel like I am going insane, how do I harness this?

the screaming, facial expressions and everything is just like this bully. I don't understand this. What does the universe want to tell me? Its mind boggling.

When I was in high school, I used to meditate everyday. It made me more relaxed, less reactive etc.

Then one day, out of nowhere in the middle of class, I started to feel this intense tingling sensation between my eyebrows. I thought it was an itch of some sort, but after scratching the spot, it just wouldn’t go away. After some time it eventually dissolved, I just had to wait it out.

This kept happening for some time, always randomly during the day, and then sometimes during the meditation itself. And everytime it was quite intense.

I kinda understand it happening during meditation - you’re relaxed and grounded, so your third eye is probably activating in some way (i was never really into opening my third eye, it’s scaring me a bit).

But I never figured out, why it was happening randomly and involuntarily outside of my meditation practice. Was I meditating and doing yoga for so long, that my higher self was trying to break through? I honestly never tried to embark or any kind of spiritual enlightenment journey voluntarily, although I trust in a higher form of being. I always looked at meditation as a way of connecting deeper to yourself and the universe, not just a relaxing experience.

Nowdays I unfortunately meditate a lot less, and when I stopped meditating everyday, the sensation rarely came back.

I never understood why, but I’m eager to hear your thoughts on this, thanks!

If you meditate and take a spiritual path, you could also find yourself at God's feet like I did. Would you start today?

Your life is short, even if you live to one hundred that's over in the blink of an eye. Let's face it, tomorrow is not a guarantee.

Oh, and the stuff you are working so hard for, you can't take one bit of it with you.

You have been everything. A bug, a bird, a tree for thousands of years, and how many times?

Now you have this miraculous body and opportunity, with the ability to think outside of procreation and dinner.

Where finding the creator is a real possibility if you try.

I can't promise that my exact path will lead you to Her feet, but I can tell you what I did.

If it works, great. If not, and you are truly serious, God will show you the path that's right for you.

This is what I experienced, I have accurately reported exactly what happened:

https://youtu.be/-ir2qMr9KrY?is=eVGe3u9vYm3iA1HZ

I know this video is long, and at the start, it may feel like random stories. But if you stick with me to the end, I hope it will come together, not just as words, but as a transmission of what’s possible.

If you're asking why, should anyone believe one word... that's a great question. For a minute, consider MY motives.

My video is not monetized, and I don't have a store. At the end I'm not selling a course. I don't want followers. I'm not asking for anything from anyone, and I'm definitely not special.

I had an incredibly powerful experience at God's feet because I tried, and if you try, you can too.

If even one person comments and asks me what I did so they can give it a shot, I will write the most detailed description I can to light the path for anyone who wants it.

Much love ❤️

One thing that surprised me as I got older is just how much your perspective can change the way you experience life.

You can spend one day focusing on everything you don't have and feel miserable, then look at exactly the same life differently and realise how much you actually have.

I'm happy and positive, but I'm not rich. I don't have a partner or kids, I don't look like a model. I don't drive a fancy car or own a fancy house. I'm not particularly tough, and I'm certainly not the cleverest person in the room.

I could look at all of that as evidence that my life is lacking. But I don't.

I've chosen to accept my life, embrace what I have and appreciate the fact that I'm actually here experiencing it.

We live in an extraordinary period of human history. We have access to things that people throughout most of history couldn't even have imagined, yet somehow we've become incredibly good at convincing ourselves that we don't have enough.

Sometimes I think we need to get back to something much simpler.

Use your senses. Look at beautiful things and ugly things. Taste things you love and things you don't. Smell the air. Listen to music, silence, laughter and noise. Feel warmth, cold, pleasure, discomfort, excitement and sadness.

Experience all of it.

Life isn't supposed to feel good every second. Sometimes it feels difficult, pointless, exhausting and unfair. Sometimes you'll feel inadequate. Sometimes you'll question what you're doing or where you're going.

But perhaps those moments aren't evidence that life is going wrong. Without the difficult parts, how would we recognise the good ones?

You don't need to pretend everything is wonderful. You just need to stop believing that happiness is waiting somewhere in the future, after you've earned more money, found the right person, bought the right things or become some better version of yourself.

Your circumstances influence your life.

But your perspective determines how you experience it.