Philosophical Speculations

I am again behind - I have only browsed the video of Session 12 (close to the end of chapter IV). But I wanted to pin down the following. A participant - Bruce - pointed to Steiner's "wrong claim" about radioactivity (starting at about minute 40:00) Steiner said it has existed only for th...

It seem necessary to make it pedantically precise. In my initial post, I prefaced the thoughts about the brain like so: " I haven't clarified my thoughts well enough to support what I tentatively mean " and: " At this point I feel more like ... However, as I said, I don't take these ...

if we prematurely decide the brain must be Ashvin, I thought I'd been especially explicit about that: I do the opposite of prematurely deciding. I know well there is inevitably a connection, etc. etc. I wonder, what makes you lean towards such interpretations? (I've seen this before) Because despit...

ooooh I suspected this would come :) The third eye is in "the head region" but not in the convolutions of the brain. There is actually a connection here with the pineal gland. The only point here is that we will struggle to understand these facts of spiritual research if we prematurely de...

I wanted to add, on this image of 'convolutions', we could make a comparison with the major 'lobes' of the brain with their convolutions, which I briefly referenced in the essay. The functions of these may not be exact correspondences with the 'rungs' or aeons, but nevertheless, I think it gives a ...

Ashvin, I'm not sure where you've previously used Cleric's IK metaphor. It's not important though. I'll return back to my 30% likelihood of Cleric=Ashvin :lol: Yes, one can identify a unique depth and insight in Cleric's writings. He is also less likely to make sweeping statements about other peopl...

Then, as I said, when you explain the rungs of the four convolutions, not everything is clear to me, it sounds abstract. I understand the described evolution as an arc, but I am not sure I grasp how that consists of convolutions . And that the new rung is said to unfold from within the context of t...

I discuss the IK metaphor previous to this. Do we finally have definitive evidence that Ashvin=Cleric, something many of us have suspected? The linked post belongs to Cleric. I have been thinking that Ashvin's posts and essays have increasing evidenced a familiarity with scientific/mathematical tho...

A great project is taking shape through the parts of this series, Ashvin. Thanks for another insightful part! This time, it took me some more effort to get into the ideal flow. First, I had to proceed carefully through the paragraph on the “relative perspectives” and then I got clearly stuck in the...

In the last part, we explored how the imaginative state makes the inner rhythms of the soul space more objective, focusing primarily on our personal rhythms of thinking, feeling, and will impulses. Yet we also briefly touched on how these personal rhythms are experienced as being contextualized by b...