Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, Sounds like the pot calling the kettle back so I won't respond in terms of how you seem to mischaracterize my view. I've watched you and Eugene run those circles long enough to say "no thanks" to the ride. I agree that I do not respond to your philosophical argumentation because I...

Eugene, I'm surprised you are still debating Steiner. I thought you had abandoned that. My impression of Steiner has been that he an unoriginal thinker who just mashed together a bunch of esoteric beliefs and Eastern philosophy (misunderstood in places) . Any claims of clairvoyant knowledge hardly ...

When we imagine and cognize ideas that we sense and intuit from observing the world of forms, how do we know if they are not only our individuated or group ideas, but indeed have any relevance to the way these forms were created/manifested by those high-level beings who actually manifest them? This...

As for Jordan Peterson, had it not been for your frequent extolling of him, I probably would have picked up a copy of PoF long ago As in * Jordan Peterson is Bad. * Ashvin likes Jordan Peterson * Ashvin likes PoF Therefore Pof is Bad. ? yeh, that's logical. </sarcasm> More along the lines of: * Thi...

Thanks for your thoughts Cleric, and the great quote from Steiner's autobiography.

When we imagine and cognize ideas that we sense and intuit from observing the world of forms, how do we know if they are not only our individuated or group ideas, but indeed have any relevance to the way these forms were created/manifested by those high-level beings who actually manifest them? This...

In closing summation, you have ignored every direct Steiner quote I provided, instead responding with brief letters, fragments of quotes, and tables of contents from another person's book, and it's still not even clear what your argument is , other than "I don't like the idea of higher cogniti...

In closing summation, you have ignored every direct Steiner quote I provided, instead responding with brief letters, fragments of quotes, and tables of contents from another person's book, and it's still not even clear what your argument is , other than "I don't like the idea of higher cogniti...

AshvinP wrote: We cannot possibly understand what serves "the greatest possible good of mankind" until we expand through the spheres of deeper imaginative, inspirative, and intuitive meaning which structure our inner experience and our relations with other humans and non-humans (plants, a...

Here are some more comments on previous posts (not very comprehensive as I have not had a change to reread PoF yet as I intend to): AshvinP wrote: We have one person (Cleric) who is extremely familiar with both PoF and Steiner's writings and lectures on SS and higher cognition, and has arguably deve...