Philosophical Speculations

I was wondering why, speaking of the pictorial consciousness of the young child: “At first, this thinking still unfolds entirely in mental pictures rather than verbal concepts. The pictures reflect objective relations in the environment which bring pleasure or pain, which attract the soul through s...

When you mention the craving for gregariousness, it also makes me think of hedonism . It's interesting how so many philosophical, scientific, political, and religious frameworks seem to have been attracted around the kernel of justifying the pursuit of personal pleasures, free from the interference...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 3:29 pm But I am curious, how would you title it? Maybe your input will help me title future essays.

Oh I didn't reflect on the big picture of coming essays and their titles, which you perhaps will group in larger collections with titles as well, so that was not a very considerate comment I'm afraid!

In Part I, we laid out some broad principled foundations of the instinctively developed mental, emotional, and physical spaces of life and started to discuss the principles of spiritually retracing these spaces. To start this section, let’s first be clear that exploring this foundation is not entir...

I haven't watched Session 9 yet, but I'm seeing an interesting note from Matt Segall, that also connects to the quantum theme on the other thread . MS calls the collapsed 'wave function' a "cake that has already been baked" (what a romantic way to say it :)): I wanted to reiterate my appre...

If it wasn't dangerous, one could call this 'quantum reversed or negative solipsism'.... :geek: :?: Then, scientific discoveries can perhaps be understood as cognitive synchronization events... Like a sort of squaring of the shared space of possibilities? That's an interesting way to put it. Much o...

When we get insights all the way into the red, we are aligning the layers, that's what I mean. Because, the thing is, we need to make choices and take action in the red, in our every life . Examples: Should we accept mRNA vaccines? Should we vote for doubling governmental military spending? Should ...

I wouldn't call any of this 'knowledge' :) As usual, most of the benefit comes, not from reaching firm conclusions about the 'right' connections to be made, but simply from moving our thinking through these archetypal soul configurations that are so prevalent in the World right now, and therefore, ...

Thanks for these thoughts, Federica. They have helped me to see how it isn't so easy to lump these characteristics into definite categories or influences, as I initially thought it may be. There seem to be many complex overlaps at work between the archetypal influences and that is to be expected in...

My present investigations lead to the view that the fossil record, for example, takes shape precisely in the way of the negative questions. As human consciousness crystallizes in the Earthly sphere, together with it crystallize the physical states of the Earth that are consistent with our state her...