Philosophical Speculations

This is a wonderful connection, Ashvin. Thank you for sharing. It highlights from another angle the core insights of PoF, namely that as of the late 19th century humanity has emerged into an era of radical freedom and unprecedented responsibility. Our increasing awareness of the gap redoubles the ...

This goes hand in hand with the phenomenon (which I'm sure folks here have encountered) of the non-Christian Anthroposophist. "Who needs all this Christ stuff? Just give me my biodynamic farming and shut up about the spiritual world." Along with this, and although JVH doesn't mention it explicitly ...

I wrote down a thought today and figured it might be pertinent to this thread: At its core, Christianity is concerned with the manner in which eternity relates to time and what this means for the fact of embodiment. In traditional Christianity, the way to salvation is framed as a "closing-of-the ...

So, the efforts we are invited to make cannot be resolutive as such - because we are still fully active within the realm of mental pictures. However, they hopefully evoke the existence of another, much vaster realm of experience, worth striving for by gathering all inner and outer means and aids we ...

Previously, we saw that by trying to pin down the way in which we interact with the game flow, we were led to the elusive ‘event horizon’, where it feels as if our instinctive, yet intuitively oriented, willful pushing toward a future state (input) seems tightly correlated with the lighting up men ...

Here I am doubtful, because I would say that the larynx gestures are rather outputs. When we use the vocal flow to dictate the post rather than typing it, we still rely on the same inner voice out of which we usually think. When we use typing or writing or reading, that's also still based on that ...

PS: about your wrist, sorry about that. I've just heard great comments about this app, in case you want to try it: https://wisprflow.ai/ Thanks! Funnily enough, most of my above comment (and this one) was written with exactly that app :) I do highly recommend it as well, as it is the best one I ...

Yes, I read the book and appreciated it. Yet, getting what HHU - or sound common sense - really means in Steiner is not so easy. It's a thin line. For example, in this lecture (1922) it appears clearly that sound common sense refers to someone who has not developed clairvoyance. And so the question ...

I'm not sure if we have mentioned this before on the forum, but I've recently been reviewing Kuhlewind's book " Working with Anthroposophy ," which is extremely relevant to our ongoing discussions about the bridge from ordinary intellectual experience to a living understanding of spiritual science ...

In most cases, these mental rehearsals have an iterative character. It is like exploring a “what if” scenario. This is very clearly experienced in games like chess. Here in the background hovers our ideal – to win the game. Now, of all the possible moves we could make, we are only interested in thos ...