Philosophical Speculations

I want to share some comments from a Substack discussion with JW (his stack is found here ). I believe it is also quite relevant to the discussion in the other thread. It seems that many diligent thinkers in our time, sooner or later, make their way to the bottleneck of cognitive life, as they ...

The big question arising from this is whether a rigorous spiritual science phenomenology — a concentration which yields experience structured as vertical Time-Consciousness, coherence and decoherence, stability and differentiation — generates veridical historical and cosmological content. One may ha ...

Hi Ashvin, Of course, the question of Being is implicitly present in Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom, but it is approached from the perspective of the subject in its act of thinking, in the constitution of mental images. Being is measured through thinking. Thinking brings its object into Being, ...

Accordingly, his Philosophy of Freedom is problematic in that it thinks too exclusively from the direction of the subject. While this is necessary, it misses the dimension of the object, which is treated merely as material to be processed by the mental act. This one-sidedness can then lead to ...

hi Güney, In 1900, Rudolf Steiner began to speak openly about his clairvoyant views and launched anthroposophy (first within the framework of the Theosophical Society). Before that, he wrote 3 main philosophical books (including "Truth and Science" and "The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity") of ...

hi Güney, I'm new to this forum but very knowledgeable about Rudolf Steiner and his books, and can summarize some main ideas. First and foremost, Anthroposophy is a spiritual BUT monistic worldview that claims that there is only one reality but this reality has layers: e.g. our physical world, the ...

Rodriel, How do you think the Catholic conception of Christ and the Incarnation can be reconciled with the anthroposophical conception? The Church radically rejects the idea that there were two Jesus children or that the Incarnation was only complete after the baptism, among other things. This ...

You're right - we most definitely need to account for the evolution of consciousness in our reckonings of the future. I'll look forward to learning of this example you mention. What do people do when they need to solve certain issues that concern larger groups? They arrange a meeting, forum ...

As everyone is aware, there are very few people, even among the spiritually inclined, who truly manage to develop a deep connection with anthroposophy. I personally found it easier to engage with Heidegger’s philosophy and find grounding in it than to study Steiner’s spiritual works and truly und ...

> While the experiences themselves are mystical, they cannot claim scientific status —neither universally applicable nor verifiable. It follows that so-called “spiritual science” can only be psychologically convincing on the basis of faithful endorsement by a particular group of people, and objec ...