Philosophical Speculations

"When I look outward during this time in search of the Christmas spirit, for its reality, it hovers mirage-like as a dim, dull, and distant dream. The outer world cannot give it me, this gift of Christmas. But wrapped in a soul of earthly cares and concerns and consternations, there lies hid the ...

The more our inner activity becomes accustomed to the familiar movements, and feels these familiar movements expanding its mental tableau in a satisfactory way, the less it feels any burning need to move orthogonally. By the way, I think we all have intimate experience with how this trajectory ...

I made the distinction before. In the example of the experience of the “translucent inner voice” I understand it to mean that there is no attrition between the inner voice and the thinking context from which the voice emanates. There is symbiosis. The inner voice is translucent because it lets the t ...

Kaje977 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 2:22 pm ...

I came across a timely post on r/Anthroposophy which may you find helpful:

"When I look outward during this time in search of the Christmas spirit, for its reality, it hovers mirage-like as a dim, dull, and distant dream. The outer world cannot give it me, this gift of Christmas. But wrapped in a soul of earthly cares and concerns and consternations, there lies hid the ...

Thanks for the quotes. I guess the sticking point is that for me some phenomenology is accessible for the intellect. Not all phenomenology is higher phenomenology, as I called it in the post you quoted. The exceptional state is accessible to ordinary cognition. The gesture to try and recognize the ...

Hello, Ashvin. Yes, that's right. Exposure is really what seems to have been going on within me. Although yes, it was gradual. Like a back and forth. At some days, I would fall back into old habits. On other days, I would sit down and approach the introspective exercises (although, right now, it's ...

You are right, it's vague. I definitely have to come up with something more detailed and concrete. Surely, I do not suggest avoidance strategies. I suggest a sort of conceptual scaffolding, to be removed once the scaffolding has created a sufficiently familiar and supporting context for the soul to ...

I see things differently when it comes to the one who believes that matter is the origin of everything. In that case I am not so sure that the inner dynamic of the "why" is precisely as you describe. Because, as soon as the materialist is able to recognize that the entire knowledge at their ...

I don’t think your last two paragraphs offer a fair comparison. You are mixing up the Catholic project referred to in Cleric's pointing on the one hand - based indeed on a double game, and a premeditated split of life for souls of first and second category, the John-like and the Peter-like - and t ...