Philosophical Speculations

When we think in this way, about, say, Old Saturn as a spiritual fact, in flexible, spiritual concepts, we are not loosening the bodily context, we are not concentrating, but we are still liberating our thinking-will from the limits of the physical brain, right? Yes, and that's why I believe even s...

Yes, it’s an inner ‘click’ in thinking mode that initially sounds mysterious, feels veiled. I believe those optical illusions in which two distinct images are concealed make for a good metaphor for that ‘click’. Most people naturally see one image, struggle to see the other, but can work it out, wi...

What is meant by "ordinary, healthy human understanding" may be confusing. It reminds me of a recent discussion about "practical thinking", what Steiner meant by it. Here again, ordinary human understanding could be interpreted as the intellect, but it's not so, right? Maybe it ...

Here is also an interesting lecture passage from Steiner to contemplate: Today's thought of the day also speaks of this: As the physical eye must be acquired in the pre-earthly life, so must the eye, for the perception of the spiritual world, be acquired here on earth through spiritual science, act...

It might be of use to have some intuitive orientation about where this work Secret Science in Outline stands in the historical development of man. Here are few quotes from The Inner Realities of Evolution : If you now turn to the accounts given, for instance, in my Occult Science about Saturn, Sun a...

I noticed that I live in my normal 'mode' of consciousness, and can enter into a more 'phenomenological' mode. But I only get in there if I think or write down what has been shared a thousand times in this forum by Cleric and Ashvin. I must be active in concentrating that intuition in thoughts, to ...

Thanks, Lou! Cleric, I wonder how you managed to get these multilevel pictures - they are fairly complex! Please don't reveal your prompts, in case we end up picking a theme to do a sort of image generator lineup :) Have you already created something like an image of, say, the etheric body? I have ...

I like how you put it at the end, that we can 'stress test' our thinking elasticity using the supersensible, cosmological facts narrated in the book. It comes to mind that AI picturing can probably be used to this effect, to see how much it takes before one is shocked (but also stunned, or inspired...

I thought I would open a thread to collect thoughts specifically arising from this book, that I plan to read along with the online reading group Urphänomen (since I can't attend their Tuesday meetings). Chapter I seems to have a continued introductory character. Now reading Chapter II - The nature ...

In connection with this discussion, I would like to add the following illustration. The first one we have seen before: https://i.ibb.co/G0DGvN6/image.png Now this: https://i.ibb.co/zrdyCps/image.png In our ordinary consciousness, we feel ourselves mostly in the head area. This is because the most re...