Philosophical Speculations

Paul ... You may have already checked out this before, but once upon a story time BK offered this version of the function of the body, which may be of interest still ... Thank you Soul_of_Shu, I hadn't seen this yet. I really like what Bernardo is saying in this video. It rings true to me. This ide...

Not only this spectrum of consciousness exists but when we penetrate there we already know that at the same time we glimpse at the evolutionary process that led us from there to our present state - that is, this high form of consciousness is also something that was the natural state in the deep pas...

Not just food...what about sex? Most unnecessary.

The main reason that mind at large created alters is so that it could finally have some hot sex with itself ofc.

Hi Paul, I hear a lot of people make this sharp distinction between a dissociated alter in the 'material' realm and completely non dissociated Mind at large which we seemingly dissolve into at death. I still think the jury is out on that. For instance in eastern religion there is a subtle realm bet...

In most places, BK gives the impression that "meta-cognitive" is an absolute state, as we see clearly reflected in the understanding of people who follow him, and that we can think of MAL, which would be the totality of all relations, meta-cognitive or not, as purely instinctive like an a...

In most places, BK gives the impression that "meta-cognitive" is an absolute state, as we see clearly reflected in the understanding of people who follow him, and that we can think of MAL, which would be the totality of all relations, meta-cognitive or not, as purely instinctive like an a...

Here is how I would answer the question -- not sure if BK would agree with it. It is that it is not quite accurate to say my legs are the external representation of a portion of my subconscious. Rather, one might say that I, as long as I have legs, have "borrowed", so to speak, various th...

We don't have private inner lives. It is precisely that which differentiates a consistent idealism from every other nihilistic philosophy of the modern age. If we maintain those artificial hard boundaries of the "personal" psyche, the metaphysical conception is practically no different th...

Just forget about the concept of "alter", "dissociation", etc. I used to give it a bit of credit for being a useful "low representation" symbol, but now I am coming to realize it can't even be given that much credit, because it causes so much confusion of the sort you ...

Doesn't Bernardo literally associate certain brain activity with the meta-cognitive part of our psyche? So you disagree with Bernardo when he does this? Because in these cases he is certainly associating one part of the body to a part of the psyche. His whole idea of an alter is that there is 1:1 co...