Philosophical Speculations

The discussion got a few more back and forths, but going nowhere so far - tyvärr (too bad). Though I've borrowed various expressions from Cleric's and Ashvin's vocabulary, I've tried to come up with some new ones as well, and so I submit: "the smorgasbord approach", and spirituality as &qu...

I finally decided to add this as a comment to the geoengineering essay : Marco, supposing there’s agreement that, from the perspective of a post-material worldview, reality at its core is of ideal nature, and the material world - including the climatic events Earth manifests in time - is the densest...

Later in the same video (minute 41-42) Angus shares a graph he drew, with notes on it. He says (from the transcript): "I would like to share how I like to process what is a really dense 20 pages of matter, not because my method is good, it's just my method. The reason for doing it is I'd like t...

Regarding the latest Urphänomen discussion - the seventh - on Steiner's Secret Science, I notice that Matt Segall (towards the end of minute 25) asks, speaking of Saturn (from the transcript): "..and just another thing to note about the strange inversion here this isn't the evolutionary process...

Regarding the supposed formulaic content of your posts, for what it's worth, my feedback is, this is in general not at all how I perceive it. I do find a consistent experiential character in your comments, though they are consistently different in nature from Cleric's and others', despite often tre...

Federica, I think you are correct, it is better to delay any explicit references that could be taken in a religious way as much as possible. I only decided to bring it up once it was clear that he would not engage in the phenomenological considerations of spiritual activity, but would continue thin...

Meanwhile, because of this inner discrepancy that leads to lack of spiritual insight and pride, purely physical 'countermeasures' are envisioned as the best way to deal with environmental problems. Instead of harmonizing our soul rhythms with the Earthly and Cosmic rhythms, truly submitting our sou...

In the first lines of this older post on the Redemption of Thinking, ML recommends two short documents with exercises implicit in PoF, chapter by chapter. One is for individuals, the other for individuals and groups, by Timothy Nadelle. The documents are freely downloadable: https://anthroposophy.ca...

Yeah, I think that's correct and we have already encountered it a few times here, and I have encountered a few such minds on Discord as well. It is a real catch-22, because the failure to notice the discrepancy between the content of their thoughts and what is inherent in their own thinking quest i...

MM: "Dear Federica, as I already said, I don’t think it is constructive to establish whether this or that Avatar stood apart. Whatever the truth, I feel there are much more urgent issues that nowadays need to be addressed if humankind wants to progress. So, forgive me if I don't comment furthe...