Philosophical Speculations

Thank you for pointing this out. I think maybe I skimmed over this aspect too quickly, both in contemplating and writing it. Maybe the confusion comes because I am characterizing it from the Ego-"I" perpsective of the spiritual pole in that quote? I am thinking of it as gaining momentum t...

Thanks, Ashvin, for another exciting essay! You wrote: Then, we reflect into an ascending phase back to the domain of spiritual meaning. The descending phase is mostly subconscious (instinctual), as we stumble towards the bathroom still half asleep, and the ascending phase is mostly conscious (self...

Upon reflection, it is obvious that we traverse many different realms in consciousness and spirit in a manner that is analogous to, but not identical with, that by which we move between physical locations with our limbs. It is possible to set up an analogy between worlds despite that it is a perilo...

Thank you, Ashvin, for another rich and stimulating essay. If I have grasped your argument correctly, Hell is a sort of Ahrimanic enchantment in which we continually project truth and agency outside of where it can possibly be experienced. Have I followed you adequately? Of course, if it is true, t...

I find myself immensely moved every time I return to this poem; clearly spoken out of the very heart of the world: Please Call Me by My True Names – Thich Nhat Hanh Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow — even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Sprin...

Thank you, Ashvin, for yet another masterful reflection on the possibility of transcending the "camera-man" flatland. All of your talk of "spiritual seeds" cannot but invoke in my mind the images presented in the Parable of the Sower: [4] And when much people were gathered toget...

Cleric, on 2 March of last year, in describing your process of initiation, you wrote: Then the Angels played their role and I got acquainted in a very unlikely way with a person who introduced me to anthroposophy and another very important spiritual stream that I'll speak about some day. (https://m...

Cleric, on 2 March of last year, in describing your process of initiation, you wrote: Then the Angels played their role and I got acquainted in a very unlikely way with a person who introduced me to anthroposophy and another very important spiritual stream that I'll speak about some day. (https://m...

This new article by Robert Pippin is interesting. https://iai.tv/articles/the-return-of-metaphysics-hegel-vs-kant-auid-2032?_auid=2020 I generally agree with the author, but it gets unnecessarily complex (as Hegel's own formulations do). Another way to put Hegel's critique of Kant is, logical think...

This process gets magnified greatly in the case of streaming imaginations without enough reasoned conceptual 'resistance'. In the context of the physical organism, I think it would take a pretty extreme and bad 'trip' to make one feel there is no longer even a centralized "I" who is exper...