Philosophical Speculations

Alan Watts is a good way into intuiting nondualism. I recommend The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are as a good place to start. You can find an audiobook copy here , and you can find his lectures all over YouTube. Hello from Portugal again. I have read Allan Watts, The Book: On The Tab...

So consciousness is a space, not a substance? I use "space" (and temporal language) because it cannot be avoided for the most part, but I am not talking about "physical" space. Consciousness is not physical in essence - it is all mental ideating activity. The basic point here is...

So consciousness is a space, not a substance?

We are not "ripples" on the waves of an ocean of Will, or "whirlpools", or anything similar to that imagery. We are not each "enclosed" spaces of consciousness, but there is only one space we exist in and we are all different perspectives within that one space and the ...

Materialism claims that consciousness, including any and all experiences and sense of self; are generated by the brain, and perhaps other organs and tissue in the body. So, if the brain dies, consciousness and any sense of self dies. Materialism is very easy to understand - until one stops to think...

Advaita means simply non-dualism. Anatman , literally "no-soul", is a complex way of saying in the long discussion of Indian philosophy that beings/things/phenomena don't have inherent and independent existence, but exist relationally, like nodes in a network to loan a simple metaphor. Th...

All perspectives are provisional, what they all share in common is not. Thanks again Soul_of_Shu, don´t give up on me. :D I think I can understand this statement, but when we talk about "alters", are we referring to different perspectives, or not? For me, confusion arises when we connect ...

Ultimately it comes down to some inquiry into what is this 'me' that is being referred to, for if it is some entity entirely dependent upon its identification with a corporeal expression, then once that expression is turned to dust, then what remains of that provisional 'me'? However, if this 'me' ...

Friends, my name is Eduardo, I'm 40 and I'm from Lisbon, Portugal. I've read "Why Materialism is Baloney", "Rationalist Spirituality" and "The Idea of ​​the Wold", watched the 7 videos of the "Analytic Idealism Course" and the conversation with Curt Jaimungal...

You'll get different points of view here, but for Kastrup, what you really are is not Eduardo. Eduardo is an "alter," or a dream character, or something like that. What you really are is what he calls Mind At Large, which is the "Dreamer" or the dissociative identity disorder pa...