Philosophical Speculations

Unfortunately it's too late, I don't believe anyone would return. But the point it - this forum was created as an open platform for philosophical speculations. Anyone who is/was interested in specific practical ways to explore the reality deeper than just philosophical speculation (and there is a l...

Cleric - Your lumber metaphor and use is the exact definition of 'cultish' - odd that you can't see it. You're suggesting that you (and Ashwin) see and speak of wood in the only correct and reasonable manner. A more useful metaphor would be that you and Ashwin see wood as a Sentient Being, and the ...

When multiple persons suggest a manner of communication is toxic - perhaps take your own advice and "It’s best to try to introspect first, and try to sense what your soul feels like, then put it in some words, it doesn't matter if it feels approximate and arbitrary. It will be your experience,...

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 ...