Philosophical Speculations

"Once upon a time there was a poor lad who had a clever cat. And this clever cat helped the poor lad—who owned nothing apart from himself—to a great fortune. This is what she did: she persuaded the king that the poor lad owned a great, wondrous and remarkable estate, which the king himself wou...

Mike, could you be more detailed how you go about it when you start with feelings? Could you give an example? My wife likes to tell me everything in lots of detail - lots. And I always used to get impatient, sometimes internally, sometimes externally. I used this exercise, and still use it, to get ...

Again as a matter of technique, the only way I can really move into this feeling is to start from a position where I am relatively separated from myself. If I think that this is my feeling, it’s literally too terrifying. If there’s just the perception of the feeling as a sensation, equivalent to fe...

Hi Eugene I do this type of exercise often, and I find it works sometimes. Other times, the resistance is too strong. Patience is a virtue, it takes practice. As a matter of technique, I find it best to start with feelings. Starting any other way, especially with the idea of a separate self, alread...

Hi Eugene I do this type of exercise often, and I find it works sometimes. Other times, the resistance is too strong. Patience is a virtue, it takes practice. As a matter of technique, I find it best to start with feelings. Starting any other way, especially with the idea of a separate self, already...

This is a great explication, Eugene! It seems you really put in the effort for Mike :) The bold is especially a key insight, which Cleric has also illustrated through the hysteresis rhythm of thinking-perception. Indeed it is difficult to verbalize these nondual experiences, but clearly there is a ...

Cleric, this is your misunderstanding, see my answer to Anthony. Intuition, Inspiration and Imagination may work in both dual and nondual modes (I clearly remember that I said that in one of my older messages, but it would be hard to find it now in 20 pages of the topic), so it may already be explo...

Eugene, You’re killing it for me, my friend, and you’re very patient. Until there is the actual experience of the non-dual, the Demiurge rules. While you are experiencing the non-dual, there is no dark cloud. The dark cloud is manufactured by the Demiurge. And when you return to the dual from the no...

Eugene, I’m happy you are back, and I hope that your future participation will be denser than you foresee today. Browsing the forum, I’ve come across some of those old debates. For me they have been, and still are, an invaluable resource to approach the key topics, explore them in depth from all an...

Mike, I am reading Knowledge of the higher worlds, and I want to report another excerpt that could hardly be more clarifying of Steiner's attitude to race: As I know you know, becoming aware of unequivocable advice like this should prompt us to humbly reconsider, firstly by unbiased inquiry and sin...