Philosophical Speculations

Honestly I view this as a means of setting a standard for the foundation of "authentic" spirituality which you know, or should know, will never be met. It's the easiest way of making sure no one will take nondual Western monotheism seriously again, ever. It serves as an anti-theory to pra...

I am just repeating what you already admitted - that you don't read JP's books. I think what I said is that I didn't plan to read the book that was the subject of that discussion. Then you channeled John Lennon in your response to Cleric - " Imagine if most people knew that the doctrine of Upa...

SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:44 pm Calculus has been a sick infant from it's birth. We do need medicine of philosophy to heal the baby, so that it can grow strong and wise.

This seems an important point, but a big topic.

What would change his mind is JP renouncing Christian faith and endorsing Buddhism or certain forms of Hinduism. What would change my mind is if he gave up faith and concentrated on knowledge. I couldnt care lees whether he calls himself of Christian, a Buddhist or a Hindu since I see them as the s...

I would agree with you. Substance monism is a possible but not the only variant of non-dualism. Even within the Advaita tradition there is a non-monistic approach, which can be described as "not-two, not-one". Similar approach it taken in many Buddhist schools (Zen for example). Basically...

@Peter - How does one "prove" substance monism though? Isn't part of the premise of nonduality that we cannot know anything, for doing so is within duality...aka thought/feeling/senses are all in duality/illusion and cannot escape it...meaning that any "knowledge" is still an il...

I wouldn't go quite that far. 20th century philosophy, academic or otherwise, has been tremendously insightful and important, as long as we keep in mind that many of the philosophers are only approaching from one angle and there are many other angles out there to consider. The insights which can be...

This does raise an interesting inquiry. Like Bernardo, JP deeply respects and refers incisively to Jung, who was arguably a realized sage in the sense of a being modern 'western' shaman, and as BK makes the case in DJM, indirectly pointed to the primacy of consciousness. Yet, Rupert Spira, also arg...

Well this is silly... I imagine if you had any philosophical arguments to back that claim up you would have made them already. And based on your response to Cleric, it looks like your criticism of JP boils down to the same tired criticism which started off this thread - a vague distaste for Western...

Excellent!: https://philpapers.org/archive/JONTCE.pdf Some comments, if I may. We have every right to define the continuum for mathematics as we currently do, and if our idea is paradoxical then it is only a problem when we investigate the foundations of analysis. Well not every right, at least fro...