Philosophical Speculations

The Dasher metaphor, at least in my experience, helps to see how thinking can be experienced , and thus we discover our inner process to be one with the World process. Yes. I was reviewing this 2022 post on the same topic - how concentration of thinking is brought about - to see whether I could ...

Great part, Ashvin, thanks! Stated in this way, I believe this can make the novice reader dizzy: Modern science also recognizes this polarity and conceives of the intuitive pushing pole as invisible ‘forces of nature’ or the ‘unconscious’. Modern philosophers likewise conceive of it as ‘things themse ...

Good point, which reminds me of a way to adapt the 'volume knob' exercise in the context of giving up. When we feel like our inner efforts are exhausted, and are getting ready to activate our limbs and return to 'normal life', we can allow ourselves to really live in that feeling of 'giving up ...

I think it's always helpful to remember what Cleric pointed out previously, that practically every physical movement we make currently utilizes bioelectric black magic. Of course, that still applies to those of us who have shifted our cognitive perspective on the experiential flow. If anything, we ...

Thanks for the sneak peek of a future post! It’s an uplifting vista that you share, of the redemption of all decadent human activities, of which Chess is one example. In the meantime, yes, one can get hooked on anything (as I exemplified above). Interesting that there are these top players who coach ...

Thanks, Ashvin, for this precise treatment of what it concretely means to rotate the perspective to face the event horizon and watch how our intuitive perspective condenses. The simplified (compared to life at large) framework of Chess definitely helps make the necessary cognitive rewiring ...

We may feel this ‘static noise’ if we try to pour our will through our facial muscles right to the brink of smiling, but without any noticeable movement of the face. If we can prolong that concentrated pouring of the will for some time, our inner gestures may feedback as a dim tingling sensation in ...

Thank you, Cleric. That’s been a fantastic continuation and deepening on the task of concentration and meditation. The Dasher software works like a sort of baby fractal - signposted - and I think it’s an ideal metaphor for the sense of continuity of flow, or increase in stroboscopic rate. For my par ...

Raffaello, Resurrection, ca 1502

Easter Sunday The symbol for this day is sublimation: https://i.ibb.co/kVMQ9pgd/Sublimation-GIF.gif On Easter Sunday, the entire sequence of Easter events is sublimated in Resurrection. As Steiner says, Resurrection is arduous to grasp from the general perspective of our perishable physical body ...