Philosophical Speculations

Do you recognize that such a danger indeed exists? Namely, that if we overlook it is time to go deeper into the concrete reality of existence, we are in danger of clinging to our inner imagery of choice. And most importantly, do you recognize that in such a situation, the veil could actually be a ...

Let's consider the implicit view again. Individual agents modulate the common spiritual environment. I still don't know your exact position on this, but to me, in such a paradigm, it seems necessary that the more 'real' or 'substantial' phenomena should be those energized by the attentional ...

This unveils a hidden polarity in this view - the phenomenal screen/space whose qualitative 'pixels' the agents energize, and the pure agents themselves. This raises an interesting question. Let's say an agent has cleared all entanglements with the screen, thus he's not drawn to incarnation again ...

But anyway. It's difficult to argue about these things because one can always say that in the end we can't be certain how the ancients experienced reality and whether it felt different from modern consciousness. Fortunately, everything of prime importance can already be found in our real-time inner ...

Also, qualifying Democritus philosophy as panpsychist would be a real stretch, I think. "According to Democritus, the world consists of nothing but atoms (indivisible chunks of matter ) in empty space (which he seems to have thought of as an entity in its own right). These atoms can be imperceptibly ...

It should be noted that these developments started to occur only around the first millennium BC, which is not surprising since the spirit was descending deeper and deeper in the physical spectrum. Additionally, these philosophies were still not what we today consider as materialism. If we have to ...

Makes sense, right? Now tell us it doesn't : ) We can only hope that this downward path is coming to an end hopefully sooner than later. But I understand that it's an inevitable and necessary evolutionary stage to go through. Still the fact that those materialists philosophies were developed in ...

They could experience it, naturally. And so the practices the Buddha initiated for them were ideal for a body-mind that had a much easier, almost automatic, not independently willed, access to spiritual realities . Our physical body is much more of a tyrant with respect to the etheric body than ...

Federica wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:03 pm Are we sure the Lalitavistara Sutras and other Buddhist quotes are not actually from satsang by Mooji?
(joke)

Yes, that's for sure

It should be pointed out that Meister Eckhart and Eckhart Tolle are not at all the same individuality :) Of course, every modern mystical seeker wants to imagine they are a Buddha or a medieval Christian mystic, already reaching the foundational depths of Divine knowledge, but that convenient ...