Philosophical Speculations

So yes I think the quoted text from Brennan seems to sum up the majority views / concepts held in "mainstream" science right now-- the Cartesian "time and space container" view. But as you say Federica, perhaps we are seeing higher spiritual impulses starting to appear more in mo...

Ok, I understand. My purpose wasn’t to question this author in particular, but because you started you post saying: “About the criticism given here for linear time”, I just wanted to point out that the criticism given here and the one elaborated by Brennan, seem to be two different sorts of critici...

When I have done the control of thinking exercises, I feel the sensation in the head that Rudolf Steiner mentions. But he suggests spreading that sensation throughout the body. Is that necessary? Or is it an optional addition for deepening the mental focus? I don't understand fully why he is suggest...

Luke, These are very important exercises to practice. As Federica pointed to, they only still our personalized subjective feelings so that higher, archetypally objective, and sublimely moral feelings can flow into our conscious soul life. I don't know if you are a sports fan or have a favorite team...

Luke, I think the nature of time that emerges from an anthroposophical, or more generally an esoteric, approach to reality is different from the one appearing to lie in the background of the quoted text. In the quoted text it is suggested that time can be experienced as space-time, as non-linear, s...

About the criticisms given here for linear time. It seems that even modern physics has challenged the old Newtonian time concepts e.g. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (which I think was confirmed through many experiments). But that being said, the linear time concept does have it uses in some...

Thank you, Federica. That is helpful. I haven't found Steiner's lectures on Esoteric Lessons before, I only know these exercises from the books, which are basically exercepts from different lectures compiled together in a flow. "Six Steps in Self-Development" and "Strengthening The Wi...

Does anyone have clearer understanding of Rudolf Steiner's exercises on maintaining emotional equilibrium? I'm not always sure how to do that without numbing or blunting feelings. I think one way would be, say I am frustrated and impatient with something, I could take a moment and focus on the breat...

Thanks everyone for the detailed replies, that brought clarity and makes sense.

Does anyone here have better understanding of this statement in Rudolf Steiner's book The Philosophy of Freedom (Spiritual Activity)? I will highlight it in bold what I am referring to. But concepts certainly do not stand isolated from one another. They combine to form a systematically ordered whole...