🌱 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 Weekly Session (Sundays) Meet fellow members, ask questions, and deepen your practice together. - 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 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 found the experience I had in the Ending Suffering Workshop very eye-opening and different. It offered a fresh way of observing what we call “thoughts,” and I found myself seeing how surprisingly not-real they are. Instead of treating them like precious collector's items, I began experiencing them as a passing activity — more like a habit than a truth. Ironically, the sum total of these habits is what becomes our personality, as well as our daily life and story. Even though I’m still early in The Book of Not Knowing and Ending Unnecessary Suffering, the workshop gave me an experiential foundation that clarified ideas I’d only encountered intellectually, and it even answered questions I hadn’t yet formed. I also want to acknowledge how accessible the workshop was. At a time when finances are severely tight for me, the fact that I could attend without stretching myself thin says a lot about the intention behind it. It was also because I was at this juncture in my life that I needed to question "what the heck brought me here," and this was a safe space to do so. It’s rare to find something this valuable offered at a price point that genuinely supports people. Thank you to @Brendan Lea and any other team members for creating such a thoughtful, honest space for exploration.

I just want to express my deep gratitude to everybody I met and got to know yesterday in the Ending Suffering workshop. I had an insight into the nature of thought - it’s an Activity, and it’s made up!!! I’ve heard that a million times, and yesterday, I got that for myself. So now I’m exploring what this new freedom entails, and I’m so excited. The way everybody communicated, and the spirit of the work were strikingly different from any other setting I have experienced. Special thanks to @Brendan Lea for your skilful facilitation and the team for making it possible. I feel so proud to be part of this.

I think I am falling in a trap, lately. I tend to have a hard time relating with people when they talk about their struggles and problems. I feel like I can clearly see through their crap and often point out ways of how they are being dishonest to themselves instead of taking responsibility. I tend to do this instead of showing acceptance and compassion towards them. I am assuming that I know how they would be better off and that I have to behave as their teacher. I think that I am being honest, yet at times, this behaviour makes it hard to relate to people. Has anybody else experienced this at some point? I think the broader question is, how to effectively balance honesty and compassion?

During the exercice of "Cutting the thoughts" I realized that I dont't actually need to think to speak. I had the unconscious belief that if I don't think / elaborate and train my thoughts and my intellect, I would somehow loose my ability to speak and be smart. During this exercice, I experienced that it wasn't connected and that I can have a totally coherent talk while cutting my thoughts off. Thank you Viktor for the insight. Great exercice 👌