Philosophical Speculations

I’m in agreement with your analysis that there can only be reciprocation between the spirit (unity) and material (multiplicity), so neither can exist in totality without the other. That was my point when I mentioned that unity is held together by multiplicity and that multiplicity is made real by u ...

The physical body is the symbol of spiritual influences, but I wouldn’t call them the same thing. An apt way to describe the body is “multiplicity”, whereas the spirit is unity, and these are opposite, contradicting categories. However, it is important to understand that unity is held together by mu ...

Our mind identifies with our physical body and our spirit, but it cannot identify with both simultaneously. Our physical body and spirit are incompatible and irreconcilable aspects of our being because our physical body is a subjective aspect of our being, while our spirit is an objective aspect of ...

Hey all, I wrote a logical theory for how we have free will, and I'm interested in feedback. There probably isn’t much new information here for you guys. But I am attempting to write a logical proof that would be engage the average reader, and be convincing to even the harshest critics of free will. ...

These are very intuitive insights, Grant, as usual! We should be wary of trying to generalize these things too broadly. One thing I have learned is that there are always exceptions to the 'rules' when it comes to higher spiritual realities, such as those connected with how our soul-spirit element ...

That’s an interesting point about how we develop illnesses within dysfunctional organs that are obstructing spiritual clarity in our phenomenal experiences in order to rejuvenate our spiritual outlook therefrom. If we understand our body as an apparatus woven out of our own will before we are born, ...

I genuinely enjoyed the songs, but maybe your impulse to create and share the music is also serving a higher purpose in the deepening of your spiritual life? It's another thing to think about. That is absolutely the case, and kind of the point I was trying to get across. It is an alternative means ...

Hey Frederica, I appreciate your feedback. I can see how you drew comparisons to both those songs, especially with the vocal melodies and the rhythm section of Wicked Game. I'm a bit worried that the song kind of "floods itself" (for lack of a better phrase) with all the slow tempo soaring vocal ...

Grant, True, reflection is simply one of many concepts we can use to speak of the relation between spiritual and physical-perceptual. Sometimes we speak of the physical as a shadow of those forces (like in Plato's allegory), or as negative images, or as a Maya dream state. I like the way you ...

[/quote] I genuinely enjoyed the songs, but maybe your impulse to create and share the music is also serving a higher purpose in the deepening of your spiritual life? It's another thing to think about. [/quote] That is absolutely the case, and kind of the point I was trying to get across. It is an ...