Philosophical Speculations

I confess that I know nothing of Brian Rose but what you say seems classically cautionary. I read somewhere that there's a Tibetan saying about the spiritual path: "Better not to start but if started better to finish." I too am skeptical of one-shot workshops, indeed I'm skeptical of one-...

Quite synchronously, Dana, during the locked pause I stumbled upon this one, which has a lot of interesting twists and turns in it: I've watched that one before, but may revisit it out of curiosity. Speaking of twists and turns, given what became of Brian Rose and his infamous run for the mayor of ...

How about the essential "I" which has remained? Apart from the fact that you can obviously sense the continuity from childhood to adulthood (and I agree "personal identity" in the static sense most speak of it is not real), you keep asserting " I am not the same person"...

Traveling is a different scenario altogether. I am not the same person that left one city that arrived in another city. My atoms and neurons have changed. Since the duplicate is freezing and I am not, we are obviously not the same. Forget about the freezing, let's say you are copied atom by atom/ne...

Nope. That would be my duplicate freezing. I'd still be here in Atlanta. So if you travel to another city, it's not you anymore ? If you are copied atom by atom, neuron by neuron, what's the difference between you and your duplicate at moment t under materialism ? Traveling is a different scenario ...

If an exact copy of you were created in Antarctica right now would you find yourself sitting in your office and freezing your butt off at the same time in some superimposed reality? Nope. That would be my duplicate freezing. I'd still be here in Atlanta. So if you travel to another city, it's not y...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/can-science-explain-near-death-experiences At the end of Plato’s Republic, the philosopher Socrates shares the myth of Er, a warrior who was killed in battle. Twelve days later, the man comes back to life to tell of the other world he had seen. His soul, he says...

Papanca, Regarding the secret code and NDEs. They have tried that and nobody has seen the code so far. Of course, we would also need to rule out some experimenter collaboration, deliberate or inadvertent, if somebody did claim to see the code. A veridical OBE would still show the primacy of conscio...

In the other thread Eugene dismissed Western thought because of the look in the persons' eyes. In this one simply overlooks that he is already seeking a specific look. Let's consider a child. What is it more likely? To like the look in the eyes of a parent that allows it to eat all the candy it wan...

There are healthy and unhealthy ways to search for a Soul. Often the eyes speak more than philosophical books about the essence of what is being communicated. In that respect I find the photos of Steiner and Jung very telling. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Steiner_um_1905.jpg ...