Philosophical Speculations

We don’t get to choose what challenges we’ll face, but we do get to decide how we face them. The first thing we need to do is let go of the idea that life will ever be normal again — elsewhere, I’ve called this “learning how to die.” What is the story or collection of stories that might carry the h...

Yeah I understand and agree, my impatience just gets the better of me. I am also kind of hoping that, 100 years or so on from Steiner, Jung and others laying out these paths, our collective subconscious has evolved so that they are more readily absorbed by myself and others who are genuinely seekin...

David, I can relate to Seth's vision. I have not read Gebser but what I grok intuitively of his analysis is that the 'coming' is an integration or melding of the Magical, Mythical and Mental into something new. Learning from mistakes, indeed the necessity of error, has long been recognized as the v...

Sure David, :) It hasn't been my point to quibble.[/quote Izzatso? 🤔 I take it in Hegelian sense - to every thesis we can find an antithesis and their synthesis leads to higher unity. Which itself would have to find its antithesis and so on. That's how we agitated our soul bodies and moved up the t...

Here is Seth's 'vision' of humanity's future (excerpted from Seth Speaks): " John and the historical Christ each performed their roles and were satisfied that they had done so. Paul alone was left at the end unsatisfied, and so it is about his personality that the future Christ will form. The e...

The hidden message of the post was "You can't infer the existence of free will by measuring complexity of behavior". Simple machines can exhibit complex behavior, as it is well known from chaos theory, double pendulums, cellular automata and ... washing machines. Point was - I can only fi...

I must (?) say, " No Free Will"-ers strike me as being as ignoring of facts and self -'encapsulated' in a sub -'world' of very limited/limiting mental constructions as "Flat Earth"-ers. To any and all "No Free Will"-ers out 'there: If the dance- play of Intelligence (i....

Response continued: :?: And finally, how do you resolve the problem with the "one and the many". If the Macrocosmic Ego is one , how do we imagine the process of becoming many - from first person experience . And the reverse process, which is probably even more interesting, how and when se...

if one believes that one's 'self' is a living extension/expression of All -Creating / Ever -Flowing Brahman, one's thinking and choice/decision-based actions will be calm/secure/easy-flowing/seemingly-happening-without- personal -'effort'/at-' home '-among-others/etc. I would like to ask you someth...

PS: I'm genuinely interested to hear what exactly you envisioned by the 'spurious' rabbit-holes :) Delighted to experienced and report being 'on the same page' with you, metaphorically as well!, Cleric. I 'totally' resonated with what you articulated in your response. IMO, the discussion entertaini...