Philosophical Speculations

In that case, your own summary and impressions will suffice. Overall, it was a productive discussion, I would say. Rodriel and I joined via Zoom, and 4 others attended in person at the Steiner Library. They started by lighting a candle and reading a poem: The apparition of these faces in the crowd ...

I was recently invited to a Zoom discussion that will be anchored in this essay. It is this Friday, 8/14, at 4 PM PST. I was told I could invite others to join, so I wanted to bring it to attention here in case anyone is interested in participating. It is hosted by Michael Draskovic, and he should ...

Anyway, I didn't mean to say here that biodynamic agriculture fails to work or seldom produces any physically or biologically verifiable results simply because of "skill issue", but rather that this serious work isn’t just about some newly learned technique, like the four-field system, which r ...

I certainly recognize the presuppositions baked into modern science and the fallibility of it. In particular knowledge of the deep past rests on a number of metaphysical assumptions, i.e. uniformity of law the projectability of present regularities realism about unobserved time It leaves the ...

I was recently invited to a Zoom discussion that will be anchored in this essay. It is this Friday, 8/14, at 4 PM PST. I was told I could invite others to join, so I wanted to bring it to attention here in case anyone is interested in participating. It is hosted by Michael Draskovic, and he should ...

We could certainly try to delve deeper into some of the points you made about the 'claims found wanting', but from my perspective, all of that would be meaningless unless we first explore the question of what spiritual science is , at its root. This question is what we have been exploring on the ...

I was recently invited to a Zoom discussion that will be anchored in this essay. It is this Friday, 8/14, at 4 PM PST. I was told I could invite others to join, so I wanted to bring it to attention here in case anyone is interested in participating. It is hosted by Michael Draskovic, and he should ...

"Properly played, chess is a mirror of the soul." - Svetozar Gligorić More Characteristic Results of Meditation Loosening the Soul Flows As previously explored, meditation expands our cognitive aperture into more integrated states of becoming, beginning with deeper soul states that shape and guide ...

... How do others deal with this? It's nice to see that you are still here and contemplating such questions, Anthony. I believe Kaje's indications have honed in on the most important point. If you find a somewhat profound value in working with PoF and the phenomenological essays, as we all do, you ...

So I still don’t quite understand exactly what I’m misunderstanding here. Basically, this is how I see it: Intellectual thinking attempts to grasp the totality of reality with the help of mental models, in the sense of a "formula for the world". As you correctly pointed out, this primarily involves ...