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- Sun May 19, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
Thanks for another brilliant and rich installment, Ashvin. I will add a few personal comments. These are essentially about the choices of narrative flow, not about substance. The one slightly more substantial question I have is about the choice to present a conceptualization of imaginative cognitio...
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 148
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Re: This forum
Of course, there are quite different individualities here, but how this is relevant to the question I asked, I fail to see. And I thought it was agreed that, in what you and Cleric attempt to convey, there are indeed clear facts to understand and integrate. Besides, Ashvin, you have often warned pe...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 148
- Views: 5362137
Re: This forum
And I thought it was agreed that, in what you and Cleric attempt to convey, there are indeed clear facts to understand and integrate. Sorry, this part was pretty clear. The facts on this inner path are ones that cut across everything we have been conditioned to think about 'how reality works', 'wha...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 148
- Views: 5362137
Re: This forum
Of course, there are quite different individualities here, but how this is relevant to the question I asked, I fail to see. And I thought it was agreed that, in what you and Cleric attempt to convey, there are indeed clear facts to understand and integrate. Besides, Ashvin, you have often warned pe...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
It is no shocking revelation to anyone paying attention that humanity has become alienated from Nature and the Cosmos to the greatest possible extent in modern times. That is because the thoughts through which we perceive and think about the World are not felt to be a concrete part of that same Worl...
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 148
- Views: 5362137
Re: This forum
To Cleric and Ashvin: As I read Cleric's last reply to Lorenzo, as well as Ashvin's last reply to Anthony, it strucks me that the entire series of countless attempts, a series that tends to infinity to the naked eye, has an unbroken history of falling on deaf ears, and to this day it continues to f...
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symbolic thinking, Anthroposophy and Transhumanism
- Replies: 123
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Re: Symbolic thinking, Anthroposophy and Transhumanism
Cleric, Sorry for the delay in replying - I've had successive overseas trips. Of course any response to what is meant by particular words in the bible has to be prefixed with the question of provenance. Critical scholars generally agree that few words in the gospel of John can be ascribed to Jesus....
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A few definitions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 475
Re: A few definitions
On a side note, I've been meditating and attending retreats and etc. for 50 years, and it's only in the last 5-10 years I was aware of Idealism\Physicalism etc. I bumped in Bernardo's book (Materialism is Baloney) and was off to the races. That's fine, Lorenzo. I think it's clear and you have confi...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A few definitions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 475
Re: A few definitions
Samadhi may be explainable or compatible with Physicalism, that's OK, Physicalism is not evil . . . if someone can explain Samadhi to a Physicalist in their terms - all the better. This explains a lot. You say we are redefining 'spiritual', that it can't be understood what is meant by 'spiritual', ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A few definitions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 475
Re: A few definitions
Samadhi may be explainable or compatible with Physicalism, that's OK, Physicalism is not evil . . . if someone can explain Samadhi to a Physicalist in their terms - all the better. This explains a lot. You say we are redefining 'spiritual', that it can't be understood what is meant by 'spiritual', ...