Philosophical Speculations

Thanks, everyone! If it is of interest to any of you: When I discovered this state yesterday, it feels like as if I have been doing it all the time. Hence, I wasn't even sure for a moment whether I was doing it right or not :lol:, and I almost was about to overthink it again. Fortunately, Cleric's ...

I would like to write to both of you, Cleric and Ashvin : -) But also to you, Frederica. I had to cry today, not out of sadness, but out of joy, because I actually managed to discover the “inner space” and “inner stretching” today. Perhaps it is because I am completely overwhelmed right now, intern ...

One method that seems to improve working memory is called Dual N-Back. Basically, Dual N-Back training is a mind training exercise that aims to improve working memory and concentration. "Dual" means that two different types of stimuli must be processed simultaneously: one visual and one auditory. "N ...

Interestingly, I just found this:

PS - We have reason to believe that Scott has crossed the threshold. Oh no :( That would be a signficant and saddening loss if it turns out to be true. I just took a look into his profile page, it seems he was last online in July 2024. I want to be more optimistic and believe that maybe he just ...

Unfortunately, I suffer from a disadvantaged working memory. By this I mean the difficulty of keeping several pieces of information in my head at the same time. This presents a difficult hurdle for me in everyday life, but also in understanding spiritual and philosophical topics. I have observed ...

I think it's important that we first note how, especially in our time, the evolutionary process is not linear or uniform. There are many rhythms of evolution that are superimposed and occurring simultaneously. There are ascending and descending movements across various scales from the individual ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Koyaanisqatsi_%281982_poster%29.jpg/330px-Koyaanisqatsi_%281982_poster%29.jpg "It is up [to] the viewer to take for himself/herself what it is that [the film] means. [...] These films have never been about the effect of technology, of ...

If humanity keeps going the way it does now, we'll be representative of a hypothetical Tarot card called "The Unmade", the very opposite of "The World". The negative initiation ends here in total disintegration. Man has not become one with the cosmos, but has become a shell, fully merged with ...

When reading Barfield's work, Steiner, etc., I find the general idea very convincing: consciousness is not in a fixed, static state, but is apparently evolving. Even materialists would probably not deny this, since Darwinian evolution (materialistic evolution) strongly implies that consciousness ...