Philosophical Speculations

Oh man, it appears our concerns about PoF-reduced via GPT have been realized.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3qNcmtS3U-p ... m-chat-bot

It requires a paid version so I haven't tested it out yet.

This paragraph right in the middle of Chapter II is not clear to me: If we say that man is aware of his memory by looking into his own inner life — a method he obviously cannot apply to the animal — we make a fatal mistake. Man is of course aware of his own faculty of memory, but he can not derive ...

Now coming to animals: To attribute memory to animals is an error still easier to fall into than the mistake of ascribing consciousness to plants. It is natural enough to think of memory when a dog recognizes its master, whom it may not have seen for some time past. Yet in reality the recognition d...

Brief note to give an example of what you said on the other thread: In planar thinking , we try to click the concepts of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and so forth only between themselves , to figure out some abstract system in which they seem to all make sense quite independently of our own inner ideal conte...

The task of Steiner has been extraordinarily difficult. In this book he had to disclose some of the secrets of Initiatic science to the general consciousness of the time, which could hardly conceive of anything other than substances and forces. We can only imagine how painful it must have felt to t...

Here is also an interesting lecture passage from Steiner to contemplate: Today's thought of the day also speaks of this: As the physical eye must be acquired in the pre-earthly life, so must the eye, for the perception of the spiritual world, be acquired here on earth through spiritual science, act...

I noticed that I live in my normal 'mode' of consciousness, and can enter into a more 'phenomenological' mode. But I only get in there if I think or write down what has been shared a thousand times in this forum by Cleric and Ashvin. I must be active in concentrating that intuition in thoughts, to ...

I noticed that I live in my normal 'mode' of consciousness, and can enter into a more 'phenomenological' mode. But I only get in there if I think or write down what has been shared a thousand times in this forum by Cleric and Ashvin. I must be active in concentrating that intuition in thoughts, to ...

Sure, everything unfolds on a gradient over many iterations. We can say for sure that Steiner's physical body was not as exhausted as it would have been had he not developed his higher spiritual consciousness (assuming all else is equal, whereas things are rarely that neat - for ex. initiates begin...

By “sharper” I meant to include conscious orientations toward higher ideals. I couldn’t find the passage you evoque, however from the lecture I have referenced, and in general, I understand that consciousness, even when experienced as concentric with moral ideals, uses up physical forces. The ideal...