Philosophical Speculations

... Great stuff, Ashvin! I quite enjoyed your treating of the Self and the attractor metaphor. I think we can safely bookmark this essay and simply link to it next time something about the self or formlessness comes up. The part about science urges me to get to work and finish the Schrodinger essay...

Oh God... You are busy with work for 2 weeks and when you come back there's 10 new pages of essay-lenght comments to read in your thread :lol: Ooops... sorry... +1 essay-length comment above :D I may need to speculate some more to inspire 10 more pages ;) Amazing content to contemplate, thank you! ...

Now imagine what it would be if the animal-man was fully convinced that pleasure is the true grounds of reality and meditated day and night on it, never allowing the inner organism to develop the finer structures able to reflect more manifold knowing and ultimately the "I am"? This is the...

I began trying some of the exercises you mentioned and, especially with the pronouncing sounds with mind for 5-10 seconds, there is unmistakeable sense of novelty and aliveness of ideating activity and meaning. It is fantastic and I will definitely continue practicing with this exercise daily. Thank...

For those who are still confused about this "reversal" Cleric writes of above, as I initially was, I want to comment two things: 1) In general, for modern intellect, "reversals" of all sorts are very difficult to comprehend. Even if we do comprehend it for a little while, we jus...

For those who are still confused about this "reversal" Cleric writes of above, as I initially was, I want to comment two things: 1) In general, for modern intellect, "reversals" of all sorts are very difficult to comprehend. Even if we do comprehend it for a little while, we jus...

https://i.ibb.co/LS1x72d/Strange-Attractor.png “I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the Self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the Self." - Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962) We began speaking of the essential " I &qu...

Grant, Thanks for the response, and no worries on the timing. The manuscript you shared reflects my position well. I think I should reaffirm that — as per my view — the mind doesn’t “recreate internally the total perceptual content which exists externally”, but falsely assumes that it does…(Hence wh...

This is not a simple symmetric reversal. When the process is reversed we have the chance to differentiate something which otherwise is always fused together. Some months ago we had long conversations with our friend findingblanks who turns PoF into a grotesque caricature for the simple reason that ...

A comment: I think we are getting confused with labels again. "No-thing-ness" and "I" are the words pointing to the same Reality. "I" is exactly "no-thing-ness" because it's not a "thing", it is "formless" because it has no form but it is ...