Philosophical Speculations

@Ashvin To be honest, I keep re-reading your question #1 and cannot figure out what it means. it's difficult for me to explain because I forget my source and am not familiarized with the science but let me try. I've heard of neuroscientists being absolutely sure that they know nothing is affecting ...

Yeah. This is key. The immediate conception of clairvoyance for most people is that a kind of extra layer of perceptions is overlaid on top of our ordinary senses (for example we begin to see shiny auras around people). This of course implicitly assumes that the relation of the thinking ego towards...

Hey monkey, Is there a reason why you ignore my responses to your comments like FB also ignores my responses to his comments? Not that it hurts my feelings, but it's a very strange thing to do when the responses are directly addressing what you are commenting re: Jung, don't you think? In all my ti...

I saw this movie (without ever reading the books), and without giving anything away, it fits the esoteric, archetypal Christ involutionary-evolutionary journey to a "T". It is definitely worth the 2.5 hrs (3 with previews) to watch in IMAX theater. It is true, all imaginative stories, esp...

This could go in the Art-forms section, but perhaps warrants some discussion here, on the power of story-making ... I saw this movie (without ever reading the books), and without giving anything away, it fits the esoteric, archetypal Christ involutionary-evolutionary journey to a "T". It ...

Anil starts by presupposing a material base, therefore what he genuinely sees as solutions won't actual address the real issues. That said, Steiner would write long glowing missives about people's ideas that we steeped in materialism. He wouldn't even necessarily spell out the deep problems with th...

Anyway, seems like we can put most of that aside as well and just play it by ear. Outside of my serious differences of opinion when it comes to percepts and concepts, there is still much fascinating ground to cover when it comes to Barfield and Steiner. I'd propose we could still use this space to ...

Brilliant all round! Thank you, Ashvin! The "laminal space" concept is very useful and very well illustrated in your examples! Keep them rolling! Hi Ashvin, Captivating as ever, thanks. Thanks, Cleric and PZ! I just came across "liminal space" when researching perceptual limits ...

I can agree that this means we're a continuity of consciousness. But the question that my existential angst is yearning for an answer for is whether or not we have a contiguity of meta consciousness, that is to say something that satisfies the criteria of 'inheritance', (my chosen answer to the Shi...

Hey AshvinP, to Monkey you said: "Again, I am wondering because I just find it very odd for two different people to carry on what appears to be a 100% personal dialogue between themselves about Steiner, Jung, BK and their spiritual ideas (or potentially spiritual for BK) on a public thread.&qu...