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- Sat May 11, 2024 12:29 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
- Replies: 54
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Re: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
At this point I think it is more appropriate to conceive of ... Which one? :D :) Joking aside - thanks for the reminders. The question below is the one I asked, and Ashvin said: "Yes it does". To clarify, what I meant was that our storied 'history' of the Cosmos, for ex. the whole concept...
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3885
Re: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
... I'm speaking about what in our Darwinian conception looks like the chain of mutating species that transform from chemical soup, through single-celled organisms, all the way to a human being. An interesting question that science and philosophy are concerned with, especially after the discoveries...
- Fri May 10, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
- Replies: 37
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Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
What I was asking was to be pointed at some current/past philosophical developments that take time in the sense of the metaphor. My thinking was that we don't experience the time flow in certain direction because of some external law (like increasing entropy, etc.) but because this is the only way ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A few definitions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 582
Re: A few definitions
There are words and phrases bandied about - and I'm wondering how folks employ them. For example the word 'soul'. Some regard the soul as the immortal aspect of an individual, perhaps the inner-most thoughts, desires and feelings of a person. Does the soul evolve, or, is the soul the highest\purest...
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3885
Re: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
When you mention the craving for gregariousness, it also makes me think of hedonism . It's interesting how so many philosophical, scientific, political, and religious frameworks seem to have been attracted around the kernel of justifying the pursuit of personal pleasures, free from the interference...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 393
Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
I was wondering why, speaking of the pictorial consciousness of the young child: “At first, this thinking still unfolds entirely in mental pictures rather than verbal concepts. The pictures reflect objective relations in the environment which bring pleasure or pain, which attract the soul through s...
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 393
Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
In Part I, we laid out some broad principled foundations of the instinctively developed mental, emotional, and physical spaces of life and started to discuss the principles of spiritually retracing these spaces. To start this section, let’s first be clear that exploring this foundation is not entir...
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 393
Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
Thank you Ashvin for creating new opportunities to grow! For myself it is not easy to follow your essay completely. I understand that the word-concepts serve as a understanding point for our use. When we hear the concept freedom, we immediately understand what is meant, but there is still the oppor...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3885
Re: Essay: Spiritual Retracing - Principle Overview (Part I)
I wouldn't call any of this 'knowledge' :) As usual, most of the benefit comes, not from reaching firm conclusions about the 'right' connections to be made, but simply from moving our thinking through these archetypal soul configurations that are so prevalent in the World right now, and therefore, ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 393
Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part II)
In Part I, we laid out some broad principled foundations of the instinctively developed mental, emotional, and physical spaces of life and started to discuss the principles of spiritually retracing these spaces. To start this section, let’s first be clear that exploring this foundation is not entire...