Philosophical Speculations

About our activity is meaning, which expresses itself in thought form. My first question is, if thoughts are part of my world content, and are not separate, but only come about through thought, and the thoughts are expressions of meaning, then who am I? The thoughts are there. Who thinks? isn't thi...

I'm not sure if you've addressed my concern. For example, at https://metakastrup.org/viewtopic.php?p=10263&sid=dcb8c4b11cef887c55f017e216d3dbaa#p10263 you say: This is not the end however. Anyone who honestly thinks about this will have to admit that even though we feel directly responsible for...

Hi Cleric I don't get this at all. In the first state I mentioned in my last post, Self-Remembering, you're not at all getting rid of willing. Actually, and to the contrary, if you are not in a state of self-remembering / mindfulness, you are not really willing or acting . You are responding comple...

I'm saying, as I just said to Hedge, I'll try different words, it's a feeling of unity, bliss, and happiness. And it's all encompassing, which does not mean it's an experience of the One World and everything that it experiences. It's non-dual, because there's no duality. Again, words fail. OK. Now ...

When I contemplate/meditate upon Reality, I don't find any feminine/masculine sentiments Maybe because you still see things as purely abstract concepts, divorced from any 'direct experience' as you call it. The whole video game analogy was intended to make things as directly experienceable as possi...

Cleric, What confidence can we have in our logical reasoning faculty? If I am currently in an "unliberated" state, unaware of the nature of the forces pulling my cognitive strings, is not my thinking to be viewed with great suspicion (by my thinking :? )? Interestingly, I've often tried t...

Re stepping out the ‘movie’ it’s not difficult or counter intuitive. Essentially, begin with your life right now as it is and add unbounded knowing presence of being. There is no stepping out or banishment of thought, etc., it is simply adding unbounded knowing presence of being. We’ve all had glim...

Thanks Mike. I can fully relate to the examples that you have given. So I'm actually mystified why you think it should be possible to see the movie from any or all others' eyes. If there's duality, there is one's own eyes, and if there is no duality, there are no eyes. Your very framing of this ques...

So i am still unclear of what you are suggesting, if one wanted to do what is right and good, you are saying there exists in the World forms and ideas that can guide us - appreciating and utilizing these forms and ideas - isn’t this what you meaning by ‘thinking’? Phrased like this it is much more ...

Cleric, making sure I understand what you are saying . . . If one’s aspirations were to do what is right in all circumstances, it is possible for the human intellect/mind to compute the proper course of action? For example, in a new edition of Bhavagita, when Arjuna dropped his bow due to not knowi...