Philosophical Speculations

Thank you Ashvin for creating new opportunities to grow! For myself it is not easy to follow your essay completely. I understand that the word-concepts serve as a understanding point for our use. When we hear the concept freedom, we immediately understand what is meant, but there is still the oppor...

I wouldn't call any of this 'knowledge' :) As usual, most of the benefit comes, not from reaching firm conclusions about the 'right' connections to be made, but simply from moving our thinking through these archetypal soul configurations that are so prevalent in the World right now, and therefore, ...

In Part I, we laid out some broad principled foundations of the instinctively developed mental, emotional, and physical spaces of life and started to discuss the principles of spiritually retracing these spaces. To start this section, let’s first be clear that exploring this foundation is not entire...

Thanks for these thoughts, Federica. They have helped me to see how it isn't so easy to lump these characteristics into definite categories or influences, as I initially thought it may be. There seem to be many complex overlaps at work between the archetypal influences and that is to be expected in...

Yes, Ashvin, I do see a throughline. In short: since the birth of the third-person perspective, at about the midpoint of the past millennium, science and philosophy have more and more predominantly evolved into dualistic conceptions. Initially the dualism between spirit and perception was assumed, ...

I may not have been clear in this and other threads, I believe that a hierarchy of beings exist, such as angels, my position has been that the pursuit of these beings is not spiritual growth as these beings simply exist in the finite world as do all beings. More specifically 99.99% of people have b...

Ok, let's approach this from the other direction. Your post listed a few things that stood out to you as characteristic of those who we have encountered that strongly resist lending a serious ear to the living thinking path of modern esotericism: - Galactic loneliness - Hard dissociative boundary -...

Again, I think we can leave aside the liberal v. conservative categorization (which I admittedly employed first) for now and focus only on the phenomenological characteristics. In other words, I'm not trying to establish an encompassing theoretical model for what it means to be 'cynical of the Chri...

...As Murch says, “a complex vortex of decision making is set up, a logical but unpredictable chain of ifs and thens.” Yet somehow this steady improvisation finally leads—though not always, there’s the tension—to a final answer everyone can agree with, despite the odds. At a very basic level, I don...

Again, I think this and many of the other aspects you expressed also deeply relate to cynicism with the Christ impulse. I'm not using that to mean synonymous with seeking the Good, but rather the specific way it has manifested in the course of the last 2,000 years through Western civilization. This...