Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, You say: It's not the socialist who is responsible for the con... it is the underlying over-materialized or over-spiritualized worldview which drives that ideology and all ideologies. It is the same ideological forces of the Christian fundamentalist, the Islamic fundamentalist, the Eastern ...

When I wrote: "What I might worry about is that we'd make an exception for a good person who works within Anthroposophy. I know that isn't your intention." I just meant that in starting with the 'yearning' you pointed to, I want that to include any and everybody. We'd recognize it even wh...

Like I said, I am talking about the movie Dune, directed by Villenueve, not the books or Herbert. But also this sounds exactly like a retelling of archetypal Christian story of Western civilization (I am sure the word "jihad" is never used). It sounds like you (or your article) are trying...

Lou, It's not the socialist who is responsible for the con... it is the underlying over-materialized or over-spiritualized worldview which drives that ideology and all ideologies. It is the same ideological forces of the Christian fundamentalist, the Islamic fundamentalist, the Eastern mystical non...

It's interesting to me to observe that the christian and the socialist always see the other as responsible for the con. My personal naive take is that everything created has an 'evil twin' (for example essential self / false self) and this is what makes meaningful worrying about trickster satanic f...

It is really sad to see how the author's own cynicism is projected onto a great work of art, when there is nothing in a fair viewing of the movie which lends credence to anything written above. There is definitely the archetypal descent into the underworld, by the Charioteer of the soul (I am sure ...

This could go in the Art-forms section, but perhaps warrants some discussion here, on the power of story-making ... I saw this movie (without ever reading the books), and without giving anything away, it fits the esoteric, archetypal Christ involutionary-evolutionary journey to a "T". It ...

Cleric expressed a consistent idealist perspective on compassion very well when commenting on "spiritual change" recently: Let's consider an example. At some point or another we have all come across a beggar and we gave him some change. Our motives for this act are not always very clear. O...

Yes, j.joerg, DID is an extreme example, but we all have dissociated minds... I completely agree with all what you are saying. I just cannot see how this can be used as an argument for idealism. We do have associated minds just as much as dissociated. The recognition of a dissociated mental process...

Might we that M@L itself is fundamentally the blind, instinctive, eternally inhabiting all of it's living potentialities, but that it isn't until a very special 'kind' of potential is actualized in the form of an alter that M@L has the kinds of qualities Jung is attributing to Abraxas? In other wor...