Philosophical Speculations

True, and I can't help but think of veganism and Gaia-style environmentalism in the context of spirit-porn. That stuff sells like hot cakes! Somewhere down the line you happen upon antinatalism, which is the most fetishistic of them all. Yeah. Many of these movements emerge from half-understood sen...

Now this is a great place to start exploring Steiner's 'esoteric' ideas via video. JDE places Steiner in a continuity of German idealist thought starting with Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, moving into Schopenhauer (he mentions Goethe was one the few people who really appreciated Schopenhauer's Wor...

My dream avatar could never be smarter than me simply because in reality he is me. In the same way, an alter of the ground of being cannot be more intelligent and reasonable than its ground. If we are apertures through which mind at large is observing itself, then mind at large must be at least as ...

our collective subconscious has evolved so that they are more readily absorbed by myself and others who are genuinely seeking Nicely said. Yes, there's change in the last 100 years. In certain sense the water level in the room is constantly rising and it is decisive for humanity to know where the o...

which already brings in a fair amount of concepts most Christians would balk at :shock: Yeah, I wouldn't recommend The 5th Gospel easily. Simply because there are things that must first be well understood and lived through. It's like being a mathematician in a world where math is nonexistent and yo...

Incidentally, on that last note above, if everyone on this forum would go to Sam's website and submit a request for him to have a "Waking Up" dialogue with BK, it might help get this closer to happening. I did so some time ago. [/i] I've suggested this as well to both Sam and Ananka via t...

JDE has started a video series on Steiner's Fifth Gospel lectures (18 lectures between 1913-14), which has been very insightful so far and seems promising (I have only finished Part 1). He starts by differentiating Steiner from the more 'extravagant' and 'materialistic' claims of Theosophy with Mada...

I believe that this raises an interesting dilemma for the model of BK, which stresses mentality although the Integral is somehow not the Mental. [/i] Indeed, we're still stuck with the outmoded praxis and lingo of the preceding stage. The integral is just that - integrating all previous structures:...

Jung, on the other hand, also gave into his mystical experiences wholesale, but somehow managed to break on through to the other side. I'm sure having Nietzsche as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale helped. Jung was a family man, Nietzsche highly romantic ascetic who bottled up and channeled...

Nietzsche rebels against the Apollonian (Harmony and Order as ideals of Christianity, Buddhism, etc.) by going Dionysian full way. Here's interesting reading of N. as gradually intensifying possession by Dionysos, reading Nietzsche's text as word of a god (who's name in Greek is Son of God ): That ...