Philosophical Speculations

It seems you have started delving into Steiner, so let me ask directly - what do you make of his spiritual scientific research so far in this lecture , which you quoted in the first comment? Is it coherent and an objectively reasonable way to understand the means through which spiritual activity st...

Aloha Everyone, I have a general question about what I perceive as an "accent bias" >>> Why do we assume in our models that every soul is on an achievement trip seeking greater awareness? Is it not possible that some more evolved souls are descending or grounding (in Bodhisattva-like fash...

Experience alone can say, and unity, if it exists, will appear at the end of the search as a result; it is impossible to posit it at the start as a principle. Furthermore, it will be a rich, full unity, the unity of a continuity, the unity of our reality, and not that abstract and empty unity, whic...

It is through the gradual perfection of our willing-thinking organism that we can begin to comprehend our own immediate soul dynamics, which we generally don't comprehend at all with undifferentiated planar conceptual activity. Then we can gradually enter into the "I"-consciousness of hum...

Eugene, In the understanding that you have described here, how would you intend the peculiar individual perspective that each of us holds? In visual terms - the unique perspective, angle, or point on the surface of the Deep MAL sphere (one of the faces emerging at the surface of the sphere, in the ...

All that appears in this realm of forms Is alone the Atman, indivisible Self, selfless. Immutable, auspicious, One I am that God who is the Self of all; Pure, indivisible, like the sky. All is verily the absolute Self. I indeed am immutable and infinite - of the form of pure Intelligence. I am the ...

"Jesus said, " I am the light that is over all things . I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attaine d. Split a piece of wood; I am ther e. Lift up the stone, and you will find me ther e." The Gospel of Thomas "Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my ...

We are lapsing back into a planar conception of "self" here, where it is 'one form among many'. It is better to conceive the individual self as a fractal image of the higher, macrocosmic Self. Our sense of individual creative thinking agency gives us the most direct intuition of this high...

If the human being wants to prepare himself for Inspiration, he must so develop his inner nature that this selflessness is his very own, even when nothing outside compels it. He must learn to create inwardly, but in such a way that his “ego” does not in the least way play an arbitrary role in this ...

We only attain the 'Selfless' through the Self whose sphere of interest has expanded to encompass the soul-life of all Earthly beings That's exactly right - through realizing the Self that permeates and contains the whole universe where our individual self is only one form among a vast variety of b...