Philosophical Speculations

Hey, I have a simple question :?: As I am reflecting on Ashvin's idea here about the trinity of Perception-Thinking-Intuition having value of general principle in human transformation, I have stumbled upon this, in Steiner :!: :idea: If, however, the memory and the remembrances were bound up with t...

OK, so you are really talking about an individuated agency here (which I never denied), but you are associating it with your intuitive sense of self. What I'm trying to say here is that the agency is not a "subject" but rather it's an "action" (as much as we can describe it with...

Well, I think it's just one of the innate abilities of consciousness to be able to cognize changes or permanence in the stream of experienced phenomena. Our cognition compares the current phenomena with the memory recollections of the previous ones (and a memory recollection is itself a phenomenon ...

Seems like we are lost in linguistics here. To me everything present in the direct experience of sentient beings is real just as it is present (by "sentient beings" I mean streams of direct conscious experiences). Awareness is present as awareness, thinking as thinking, willing as willing...

So, it seems that you are suggesting that each sentient being has an ontological entity that you call "I" which is "that" which "connects the many experiences of a particular human into a particular stream of awareness", that which is the agent of actions etc? And each...

If you look into your direct experience, you will not find any "real I" other than your idea of "I". The idea that there is some "I" behind the actions that cannot know itself "just like an eye that cannot see itself" is only an abstract idea that we have bee...

This seems as a very useful clarification. Thank you. Would you also think that the individual 'me' of different types of 'insanity' might usefully mix en route toward a species level collective 'we' in an ongoing process? Offhand, I'd say no. Why would one want to mix insanity types? In any case, ...

Interestingly, Scott, A Course in Miracles thinks the world of Maya is insane too., because it sees the idea of spiritual separation (in effect, dissociation) as ridiculous. Whilst what you say about mindful activity may apply to a tree, I don't so easily see how we might say this about a rock. A r...

Scott, If you look at the comments below your essay, you will see that I read it and enjoyed it at the time. But I now think that “final participation” is a promissory dream. Even if it’s not, I choose what I perceive or currently experience over what I’m sometimes asked to believe. For instance, I...

Cleric, the whole point of science is that speculations such as "there may be life on Saturn but we can't see it" are rendered irrelevant, like Bernardo's "there may be a teapot orbiting Saturn, but it is not a useful subject of enquiry". Lorenzop is implying that if life does n...