Philosophical Speculations

Anthony66 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:43 pm Who or what is the Lord in your polytheistic universe?

It's LUCA! (but upside-down)

Since the following thought has just come to me in a roundabout way (not from the daily thoughts) I'll share it here :) Bless, thank, consecrate: a rule of life "Do you want to make your life ever richer and more beautiful? Bless every creature you encounter, every object you touch. Thank the L...

Cleric, please go to Substack, and start posting your essays and ideas there. This may happen at some point but right now I'm trying to put the essays together. I would much rather share them here first in a smaller circle. That's also why I'm taking so long with the next part. Thanks to some of th...

Regarding the right conception of karma, I admit it challenges my understanding. Because I can’t see the symmetry. And how chance and causality can be randomly mixed in karmic events. And I struggle to see what a future compensation for undeserved suffering even means. What it might consist of for ...

Curiously, it was a few days ago when I read something about Semmelweis, and that early 1800s 'women epidemic'. It makes one wonder what this unlucky man must have carried in his karma, to be forced through such a painful life path. And it makes one reflect, as you say, how we wrongly tend to belie...

What would be your suggestions in this domain? Ashvin, I will wait until tomorrow to post my reply. In the meantime, on the topic of the noble scientific impulses of the first scientists versus what the worldwide reality of academic research has become in the present day - through interference with...

As Ashvin hints, I feel that the main trouble today is that the depth aspect of existence is simply inconceivable for most. And the greatest trouble is that people can't even realize that there's something to be conceived. It's as if the inner soul layers exercise magnetic repulsion and throw the co...

On this forum we have often used the QM analogy of 'wavefunctions' of holistic spiritual intents which constructively or destructively interfere through our (mostly instinctive) spiritual activity, thereby manifesting states of the intuitive potential in our stream of becoming or those states remai...

Another relevant material: The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports Thanks Eugene, On one hand, it is a symptom of the times, how we can already speak in imaginative ways about our inner experiences. Today it takes very lit...

Thank you Cleric. I have to admit, I'm not able to distinguish physicality as you describe it here from the rest of spiritual experience. It seems to me that objectivity is the essence of phenomenology itself, the quality one wishes to find in all things spiritual. I don't see the difference betwee...