Philosophical Speculations

Cleric, yes I'd already gone through your post to Eugene before I saw your response here. I feel like it is one of your most significant and I'll have to read it through a few times to really grok what you are saying about the absolute state. Of course your focus there was the "final" sta...

I wonder how the depth reality you depict here relates to what is discussed in: In short, Westcott Louden here and elsewhere argues that the structure of DMT experiences mirrors that of the 4-fold state - waking, dreaming, deep sleep void, formless awareness - described in the Mandukya Upanishad. H...

All of this certainly does require meditative effort! If we speak in terms of "frames" and trace these back, is there a "first frame" or "alpha point" of frames? Again, here I'm exploring God-like concepts viewed from a SS perspective. Anthony, please consider my previ...

This is a very good question, Cleric, and I do not know the answer, but it's one of the questions on my "to find out list" once I get out the body. This has been gone through many times but it's precisely this tendency to wait for death in order to find the supposed truth there, which sup...

3. Why does Steiner's name have such a negative connotation? Most people think he's a weirdo. Just as Ashvin noted, anyone who dares today to speak of depth of reality will be condemned as a weirdo. This is the reason also why BK prefers to stay on the borderline. This is the reason why most spirit...

Cleric, I would add that the curvatures of potentials and meanings are not something that is pre-destined to us and only created by higher-order beings, but that they are constantly being reshaped by all beings involved, both higher-order and lower-order. Beings on higher levels of development cert...

How do we understand the source or origin of thinking? What initiates a movement of thought? If we peer "behind the veil", how far back can we potentially go? Or will there always be a receding horizon that we can never reach? Our spiritual activity (thinking) is always at the tip of beco...

I've put something on my blog that relates to this post on the Institute of Art and Ideas Jim what is your view on the place of wave phenomena? I'm asking in the following sense. Seen classically, wave phenomena are simply the macro picture of particle interaction (usually depicted as small balls c...

Now wondering what the russian term for 'slavic' folks is, what they call themselves, as opposed to a name imposed upon them. Google translate comes up with славянский, which when pronounced comes out as slavyanskiy , so seemingly still the same derivation. But perhaps Eugene knows another more col...

So if we take the first cause cosmological argument for the existence of God, where does it break down? Essentially we trace a series of cause/effects backwards and given that a concrete infinity can't exist (or so it is argued), there must be a first cause, a.k.a God. But if we trace back a tempor...