Philosophical Speculations

No one is being pushed or punished here, unlike when you privately whined to BK and suggested that he ban us from the forum. That's just not true, I never suggested that. I only made him know that the forum's main content no longer has anything to do with his philosophy and it is hijacked by the gr...

Eugene, Why is it that the non-dual approach does not sensitize you to cognitive dissonance? I am genuinely curious. I have no objections against what you said, Cleric. It is indeed important to expand our reach of knowledge to ideal activity of these higher orders and its curvatures. It is these c...

This forum is exceedingly one-pointed (cultish) with a particular POV, and no other POV's are tolerated. I keep forgetting this - and keep making the same mistake of returning. This is on me . . . I now sense I have achieved escape velocity . . . That is exactly what it is. And moreover, if we look...

Lorenzo, please take note: in my message, I stated: 1. verifiable facts 2. my opinion that the lack of expressed engagement with the object of Cleric's and Ashvin's "countless" posts - that is, living thinking - signals that one is not interested in living thinking, when this goes on for ...

I already added some sentences to these concluding paragraphs, see if this makes it any clearer (edited back into the original post, beginning with "the sensory landscape"). Yes it does, and the other comments too. Only this: By intensely focusing our concepts as testimonies to the proces...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...