Philosophical Speculations

quant-um ... Well, all such analogies are limited, and so best not extend them too far beyond the simple point they are intended to make, which in this case is that an apparency of two sides, upon deeper investigation, can turn out to go beyond mere apparency, ultimately arriving at the nondual rea...

Being of a mythopoetic disposition I prefer compound neologisms that describe a formlessness><form state ~ not arising from any prior state, but as the fundamental, uncaused, irreducible state ~ a not-two duet, such as emptifullness or Scott's mumorphism, keeping in mind that as Lao Tzu put it, &qu...

I would agree with you. Substance monism is a possible but not the only variant of non-dualism. Even within the Advaita tradition there is a non-monistic approach, which can be described as "not-two, not-one". Similar approach it taken in many Buddhist schools (Zen for example). Basically...

I also like the mobius strip analogy, whereby initially there can be the apparency of two sides, but further along in the process of investigation, reveals there to be only one side. But even in this, "side" is just a concept...and would you consider the edges sides as well since they als...

I found a better word than Anekantavada...Pyrrhonism!

@Peter - How does one "prove" substance monism though? Isn't part of the premise of nonduality that we cannot know anything, for doing so is within duality...aka thought/feeling/senses are all in duality/illusion and cannot escape it...meaning that any "knowledge" is still an ill...

SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:47 pm Advaita / non-dualism has two basic classical interpretations:

Advaita is one flavor of many nondualism belief systems right? It is basically substance monism from what I recall.

That's why I said "in theory" but that doesn't imply actuality. So God ends up becoming consciousness, which then created and keeps creating the all.

Ah ok, we're talking the primacy of consciousness then. My personal opinion stems from pandeism, suggesting that our creator being/energy/thing became what it created and then ceased to exist as a separate entity. This solves the problem of evil as well. On top of that I theorize that the creator cr...

The version of non-absoluteness I refer to is that every conscious entity has their own reality and they co-create other realities together. I have my reality, you yours, the money tree in my living room has its, I share one with my dog, my dog shares one with my cats, the big tree in my backyard sh...