Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, Perhaps “consecration” isn’t the best word. Nonetheless, it’s the word you have chosen here again. Since, for my part, I merely quoted your (continued) use of it, I understand your remark as a commentary to yourself. Besides, I have barely enough endurance to add that I don’t drink the hot ...

It looks like this is another case when I have not been able to express myself clearly, Ashvin. One thing is to trust the Masters and follow their recommendations and exercises, like in the example of hot water. Even if I don't clearly understand the ways in which the hot water works positively in ...

When we get insights all the way into the red, we are aligning the layers, that's what I mean. Because, the thing is, we need to make choices and take action in the red, in our every life . Examples: Should we accept mRNA vaccines? Should we vote for doubling governmental military spending? Should ...

When we get insights all the way into the red, we are aligning the layers, that's what I mean. Because, the thing is, we need to make choices and take action in the red, in our every life . Examples: Should we accept mRNA vaccines? Should we vote for doubling governmental military spending? Should ...

Ashvin, are you saying that the tragedy of Fall was undeserved and the opportunity of uniting with the Christ impulse is its later compensation? It is more nuanced than that, but that is the gist. This isn't my original insight but taken directly from Steiner's lecture, GA 127. We originally follow...

Though I think it’s important to clarify: because the phone, computer, home appliances, cars, etc, are simply the exterior forms of some technologies, they are external tools - they are hardly very dangerous per se The question is, how do we know how harmful they are? I think as our inner sensitivi...

Thanks Ashvin, for elaborating. Regarding your example of a future adjustment, I would ask the following. If the broken ankle is the undeserved event, the fact that it bestows a specific character on your flow of becoming, that you then have the opportunity to take the most of, is typical of any tw...

Regarding the right conception of karma, I admit it challenges my understanding. Because I can’t see the symmetry. And how chance and causality can be randomly mixed in karmic events. And I struggle to see what a future compensation for undeserved suffering even means. What it might consist of for ...

In response to these illnesses-accidents that are not directly generated by inner habits, but enter our reality from outside, so to say, we should maybe venture into less proximate layers of being, as if maintaining a large front of intents, where we aspire to become ‘polymaths’ of the fight agains...

Ashvin, I also skip through Gabriel’s videos by now. For my part, I believe he is being influenced and pushed in the direction of trying to package and market his experience (that I only partially understand as Anthroposophical) in ways that flirt with catastrophism and with inciting feelings of fe...