Philosophical Speculations

I hate you... :lol: Give it 10-15 years and you will definitely find yourself more interested in spiritual musings. Probably sooner hanging around this crowd. Well, I wouldn't say I'm not interested in spriitual musings. I actually have had a deep interest in esotercism, name Hermeticism, Rosicruci...

Some days I'm feeling optimistic about the progress toward a paradigm shift into recognizing the primacy of consciousness, and other days I'm feeling more pessimistic at the incremental pace of change, depending on where the attention is focused on any given day. Still, I have no doubt that the par...

Some days I'm feeling optimistic about the progress toward a paradigm shift into recognizing the primacy of consciousness, and other days I'm feeling more pessimistic at the incremental pace of change, depending on where the attention is focused on any given day. Still, I have no doubt that the par...

Idealism is resisted because people subconsciously feel that the far reaching consequences of it, leading to spiritual reality, threaten to destroy the sweet Maya that we hate and love so much at the same time. And here we should also be very vigilant of the wave of spiritualism that floods the wor...

It depends who they are trying to reach out to. You’re right that there is a large hardcore materialist element within academia, but you could argue that most of them are unlikely to be swayed by any kind of organisation like this. Peer reviewed papers are their ‘scripture’, and science journals an...

Cleric wrote: Idealism is resisted because people subconsciously feel that the far reaching consequences of it, leading to spiritual reality, threaten to destroy the sweet Maya that we hate and love so much at the same time. And here we should also be very vigilant of the wave of spiritualism that ...

I think it's just concerning that a seeming majority of idealists have a strong bias towards sprituality. It's hard to make the case we're coming to our conclusions based on reason and evidence when things like paranormal experiences keep getting brought up. I think that under an idealist metaphysi...

I'm saying this as someone who is deeply interested in idealism and would like it to gain more prominence on the academic stage, I'm concerned about the Essentia Foundation. I believe its purpose is a good one and one that is necessary if we're going to progress towards a post-materialist ontology i...

Another thing to keep in mind is that idealist philosophy, at its best, is aimed at questioning our unexamined axioms about the world. It is not so much about arguments over what metaphysical position can better explain this or that phenomenon (except phenomenal consciousness). One of the deepest a...

This just isn't sufficent however to satisfy rational and evidence based inquiry which is what everything will come down to if we want more than just feelings to base our views on. They're not just feelings. They are experiences. We're not talking about irrational fleeting subjective feelings and m...