Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

WIZARD: Yes.
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: A benefit of getting up there in years [Laughs], I’m skipping
around, but okay. I'm going to ask this question and maybe… I
don't know why I ask these kinds of questions but they come up
for me. Why is it do you suppose than when you spend an hour
with someone, and I see you lead these group discussions, and I'm
watching the videos, and I'm looking at the questions these folks
are asking you. Why is it that you spend an hour with someone
inquiring into them the point that they are not a separate person,
but rather consciousness pretending to be a separate person?
They will then ask you a question like, “is consciousness playing a
game with us?” To ask a question like that after having received a
thorough explanation of why there is no us to be played with, I
mean what does that say about… is that consciousness itself
enjoying keeping the game going, or does that speak to like the
human mind and its inability to grasp? What is that?
Because I'm just astounded by the gorgeous, gorgeous information
that a guy like you is able to share with these folks in these group
settings, and after you've downloaded a month’s worth of it, they'll
come back and they'll ask again, they'll ask a question which shows
obviously that in the structure of the question they totally bought
into the idea themselves as a separate person, even though you've
been hammering on them for a month about that. What does that
say?
ALBERT NAHMANI: Well it says that on the tree some apples are
riper than others.
WIZARD: That's good.
ALBERT NAHMANI: Trip, yourself, I've read a little bit on your
wonderful website that you yourself it was unbeknown to you, but
you were already quite ripe when you walked through John's
bedroom and you had a glance of I think Ramana Maharshi, if I'm
correct. So you see when one is ripe one doesn’t need much. It
may be something somebody says, or something somebody wrote,
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