Philosophical Speculations

Anthony66 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 2:50 pm Fuck off. Have you considered how your presence and manner on this forum and elsewhere has driven away just about everyone? Desist with your uncharitable ways.

Anthony, please, let's use language below PEGI 18.

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...

Re your analogy of disassociated alters - it is as clear as a bell, however I don't see how it pertains to anything I've (or you) every suggested or claimed. Is this an analogy to suggest why and how 2+ souls may share inner experiences (a suggestion from Ashwin)? It's likely your analogy has too m...

It's clear we don't communicate together very well - not sure how you came to the conclusion you did . . . Lorenzo, I'll try to make the whole situation very clear. We can use Bernardo's metaphor. Imagine a person with a dissociative disorder. Two personalities alternate. They don't know anything a...

'absorbed in unboundedness' , Samadhi - the mind is still, no thoughts, no sensations, no emotions . . . and thus no perspectives All-World or otherwise. There is no experience in Samadhi, nor is Samadhi an experience. Re the Soul . . . since it is the innermost process of an individual inner activ...

Here and in your writings you are using the term 'soul' as the ever evolving process of inner activity, thinking and feeling. In the 'East' or 'Perennial Philosophy', the soul is named or referred to as the Separate Self. The Separate Self or Soul is not an entity that has will, thinks and feels, t...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 3:32 pm Were you referring to this post, Cleric? If so, the quote link is in the post.

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Cleric, I was wondering whether you have since come across any work from others along these lines of the 'anthropic continuity principle'? It is also surprising to me that this intuition would not have been developed and fleshed out by others to some extent. I have not. Which is strange because it ...

Cleric, why does it take place every time we incarnate and not at every moment? Besides, this must mean that the usual philosophical starting question: “Why do we perceive the same world?” is actually a wrong question, because we don’t. :shock: What is a discovery then? Probably something much more...

I may not have been clear in this and other threads, I believe that a hierarchy of beings exist, such as angels, my position has been that the pursuit of these beings is not spiritual growth as these beings simply exist in the finite world as do all beings. More specifically 99.99% of people have b...