Philosophical Speculations

Speaking of Imaginative cognition and the objective observation of soul it leads to, I have recently read this lecture , whose first words are: Today we will go somewhat further into what we considered here last Friday and Saturday, and I would like to draw your attention particularly to the life o...

Yet if we try to also observe what we are doing to perform the calculation (Y axis), to observe the ‘thinking-gestures’ the spirit is making to move things around in the process of solving for X, then we objectify the thinking process and behold it as space-like pictures, superimposed in our imagin...

Woah... this part is the one where the architecture of the series is revealed in its original character, and is brought to fruition, to enhance high-level understanding for the reader, as well as practical usefulness - thank you, Ashvin! I hope the specific and detailed character of some of my comm...

In the previous discussion, we explored how the integrating experiential flow of the purely intuitive Spirit folded in on upon itself, casting reflections within reflections, introducing new levels of indirection into the experiential flow with each new reflective ‘rung’. We can imagine the first ru...

Yes, I have suggested that offering development of astral vision, clairvoyance under the guise of spiritual development is the offering of a shiny golden calf and calling it spiritual growth - I stand by that claim. There is still the question of whether there is anything , other than 'adding unbou...

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 ...