{"id":1659,"date":"2026-09-29T07:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilofu.com\/sobre-mi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:18:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rilofu.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243;][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<style>.rp{font-family:Poppins,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#1d1d35;line-height:1.75;font-size:16px}.rp *{box-sizing:border-box}.rp h1,.rp h2,.rp 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class=\"rp-lead\">Psychology graduate, explorer and fairly curious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<p class=\"rp-crumbs\"><a href=\"\/en\/\">Home<\/a> \/ About me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec\">\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<div class=\"rp-split\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rilofu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Diseno-sin-titulo-2.png\" alt=\"Ricardo, fundador de RILOFU\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in a simple question, although the more I chase it, the more complicated it gets:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rp-quote\">What are we, and what can we become?<\/p>\n<p>My path has taken me through psychology, psychedelics, philosophy, spirituality, meditation and the exploration of consciousness. Not because I believe any one of these disciplines holds all the answers, but precisely because none of them has seemed enough on its own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RILOFU was born at that crossroads.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec rp-alt\">\n<div class=\"rp-in rp-narrow\">\n<h2>Between psychology and consciousness<\/h2>\n<p>I studied Psychology and Criminology and later kept training in different approaches related to personal development, consciousness and human experience.<\/p>\n<p>But my training hasn&#8217;t happened only in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>It has also happened in hours-long conversations, meditating, travelling, taking part in communities, exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness, accompanying experiences and, above all, learning to live with the uncomfortable certainty that many of the things we think we know are far more complex than they seem.<\/p>\n<p>Over time I found a territory that interested me in particular:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rp-quote\">The space between the psychological, the scientific, the spiritual and the experiential.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where RILOFU began to take shape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec\">\n<div class=\"rp-in rp-narrow\">\n<h2>What is RILOFU?<\/h2>\n<p>RILOFU doesn&#8217;t claim to be a school, a religion or a collection of definitive answers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a space to explore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp-tags\"><a href=\"\/en\/explore\/the-mind\/\">The mind<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/explore\/emotions\/\">Emotions<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/explore\/consciousness\/\">Consciousness<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/explore\/relationships\/\">Relationships<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/explore\/non-ordinary-states-of-consciousness\/\">Non-ordinary states<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/explore\/the-meaning-of-experience\/\">The meaning we give to our experiences<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:24px\">Sometimes through psychology. Sometimes through education. Sometimes through contemplation. And, in certain contexts, also through psychedelic exploration and its integration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec rp-alt\">\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<h2>How I understand accompaniment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rp-narrow\" style=\"padding:0\">\n<p>I don&#8217;t think accompanying someone means telling them how they should live.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do I think everything has to become a diagnosis, or that every extraordinary experience necessarily has a spiritual meaning. I try to stay somewhere in between:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-grid4\">\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Curiosity<\/h3>\n<p>without naivety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Spirituality<\/h3>\n<p>without dogma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Science<\/h3>\n<p>without reductionism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Experience<\/h3>\n<p>without automatically turning it into truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-narrow\" style=\"padding:0;margin-top:28px\">\n<p>When I accompany someone, my intention isn&#8217;t to hand them a ready-made answer. It&#8217;s to help them look more clearly at what they&#8217;re living through and find their own answers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"rp-btn2\" href=\"\/en\/support\/\">Learn about the support I offer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec\">\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<div class=\"rp-split\">\n<div>\n<h2>My relationship with psychedelics<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rilofu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rilofu-contemplacion-atardecer.jpg\" alt=\"Persona contemplando el atardecer desde la monta\u00f1a\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Psychedelics interest me because they can produce psychological, emotional, perceptual and existential experiences of enormous intensity.<\/p>\n<p>But precisely for that reason I believe they need more than enthusiasm. We need to talk about context, preparation, risks, expectations, integration and critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>An experience can be deeply meaningful. It can also be confusing, difficult or simply strange. And not everything we feel during an experience has to automatically become a truth about ourselves or about the universe.<\/p>\n<p>For me, one of the most interesting parts begins when the experience ends:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rp-quote\">What do you do with what you&#8217;ve lived?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where integration comes in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec rp-alt\">\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<h2>Psychology, consciousness and experience<\/h2>\n<p>RILOFU tries to get worlds that often live apart to talk to each other.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rp-grid3\">\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Psychology<\/h3>\n<p>To understand our mind and our behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Science<\/h3>\n<p>To tell apart what we know from what we&#8217;re still investigating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Consciousness<\/h3>\n<p>To explore our subjective experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Philosophy and spirituality<\/h3>\n<p>To ask ourselves questions that don&#8217;t always have a simple empirical answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\">\n<h3>Psychedelics<\/h3>\n<p>As one of the possible ways of exploring non-ordinary states, always from a place of responsibility and harm reduction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-card\" style=\"background:#000dff;border-top-color:#29cb8b\">\n<p style=\"color:#fff;font-size:18px;margin:0\">I don&#8217;t need all these worlds to agree. What interests me is precisely the dialogue between them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec\">\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<div class=\"rp-split\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rilofu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rilofu-circulo-grupo-hierba.jpg\" alt=\"Grupo sentado en c\u00edrculo sobre la hierba\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>RILOFU also exists outside the consulting room<\/h2>\n<p>RILOFU isn&#8217;t limited to one-to-one support. It&#8217;s also a community.<\/p>\n<p>I organise and take part in gatherings, conversation spaces, educational activities and experiences around psychology, consciousness and psychedelics.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m developing new formats of retreats, immersive experiences and collective spaces to explore these subjects in a close, human way, without too much cosmic incense.<\/p>\n<p>Because some things are better understood by talking to another person. And others, simply, by living them.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"rp-btn2\" href=\"\/en\/community\/\">Discover the community<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-sec rp-alt\">\n<div class=\"rp-in rp-narrow\">\n<h2>What I try to offer<\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t promise to transform you. I don&#8217;t think anyone can.<\/p>\n<p>What I can offer is a space to pause, observe what&#8217;s going on and explore new perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we need to understand. Sometimes we need to feel. Sometimes we need to question what we&#8217;ve taken for granted for years.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes we simply need to allow ourselves to have no bloody idea for a while. For me, that&#8217;s part of the process too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-cta\">\n<div class=\"rp-in\">\n<h2>Welcome to RILOFU<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve made it this far you probably have a question. About yourself. About your mind. About an experience you&#8217;ve had. About psychedelics. About consciousness. Or maybe simply about what the hell we&#8217;re doing here.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to have it figured out to begin. We explore from there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px;justify-content:center\"><a class=\"rp-btn\" href=\"\/en\/support\/\">Learn about the support<\/a><a class=\"rp-btn\" href=\"\/en\/psychedelics\/\" style=\"background:#fff;color:#000dff!important\">Explore psychedelics<\/a><a class=\"rp-btn\" href=\"\/en\/community\/\" style=\"background:transparent;border:2px solid #fff;box-shadow:none\">Join the community<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243;][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243;] About me I&#8217;m Ricardo Psychology graduate, explorer and fairly curious. 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