Philosophical Speculations

Anthony, I don't know if subsequent comments addressed your question in this post. I am also not really sure of the answer to your question. It may help to hear what meditative exercises you are doing and how vivid is the imagery? One thing to perhaps consider is how the fractal imagery hearkens ba...

Re a simple camera . . . 1) a pinhole camera has no headset, has no design, and, 2) it's extremely unlikely a pinhole camera image is really chaotic and our headset instantly\simultaneously evolved to properly read this camera image nearly the same as we read the actual landscape. Are you suggestin...

Reading some of what has been written here and listening to some Steiner talks on the topic of imaginative cognition makes me wonder whether I actually have attained it to some degree if it is essentially characterised by the formation of images in the absence of sensory objects. I would be very su...

Is the highlighted the end of the road? You speak of these spiritual beings, perhaps lofty spiritual beings, but what about the perspective of the highest of the high, God himself? As you know, there are plenty of individuals who have claimed to have reached such levels. Heck, many a born again Chr...

Reading some of what has been written here and listening to some Steiner talks on the topic of imaginative cognition makes me wonder whether I actually have attained it to some degree if it is essentially characterised by the formation of images in the absence of sensory objects. I would be very sur...

If I remember correctly, you are quite astute with mathematical thinking, so it somewhat surprises me the concentration is so difficult for you (although I do remember you had mentioned it before). Have you worked with the mathematical transformations that Cleric has suggested elsewhere, i.e. start...

If I remember correctly, you are quite astute with mathematical thinking, so it somewhat surprises me the concentration is so difficult for you (although I do remember you had mentioned it before). Have you worked with the mathematical transformations that Cleric has suggested elsewhere, i.e. start...

Sorry I should have added that I'm leading a study on "Experiencing God" next month where I intend to talk about higher knowledge but I'm struggling how to connect "God" to higher knowledge. My simple answer is that the experience of God is an "asymptotic state", approa...

I believe the Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition stages (as defined by Rudolf Steiner) is describing that process. If I understand so far, the Imagination stage is where one can start seeing spiritual imagery (which might be symbolic images for example?), or maybe seeing the forms that underli...

Cleric, Does the following article and associated journal paper suggest you need to reassess your assertion I have bolded? Personally I'm unsure as I don't have the biological training to fully understand what the researchers actually achieved. But on the face of it, it seems like they were able to...