Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, I apologize, I inadvertently edited your McKenna post, instead of quoting it. Do you happen to still have the original text? No, but it's ok, there wasn't much additional text. I will try to add some more thoughts on that topic in response to your post tomorrow. Ok. I am sorry. Here are the ...

Ashvin, I apologize, I inadvertently edited your McKenna post, instead of quoting it. Do you happen to still have the original text?

This is a very useful method to bring the intuitive background into awareness. Nonetheless, I think the crux of the problem is sensory perception. When it’s a matter of recognizing the intuitive curvature guiding mathematical inner activity, I guess Kant could agree. Those mental pictures are still ...

Revisiting the topic of psychedelics, which I have been trying to contemplate more deeply as a means of phenomenological orientation to our spiritual structure and dynamics, I'd like to share this discussion between JP and Dennis McKenna (Terrence's brother). It fits in very well with the topic of ...

Federica, You say there is "crucial work that needs to be done". Do you have any interest in discussing those parts of the essay that can help us orient toward and do the inner work, or will you keep preaching to us about "pharmacological materialism", or whatever other flattened arguments you wish ...

Let’s recontextualize, Ashvin: you write an essay on spiritual exposure therapy and how this therapy, in your words, absolutely needs to be an expression of courage and volition. And your first example - paragraphs on paragraphs - of free, courageous, willed stepping into active thinking is…… ...

Why is it that all of your comments lead away from phenomenological exploration They don’t. For phenomenological exploration over the last few days, see here and here , which of course is extensively invited by this essay, toward the exact kind of abstract opinionating and argumentation c ...

In my opinion, the following is the "harmony with the infinite", "semblance of inner peace" - Openness, in the language of psychedelic therapists - effectively brought to man by psychedelic therapy: The reason people do not want to know about the concept of Christ attained through spiritual science ...

The most in authority of the three - Roland R. Griffiths - was a professor in pharmacology of hallucinogens, himself a psychedelic user, as he describes ( no bias? ) and, a practitioner of no-self meditation , convinced that, quote-unquote, “ thoughts are transient appearances of mind you needn’t id ...

Federica, We have been over this before. Im not too interested in arguing it again. Just a couple things: - On what basis do you conclude pyschedelics create a new unconscious "alter" that experiences the mystical state, and therefore the waking personality has no significant experience? - On what ...