Philosophical Speculations

So that Ra guy (as he said himself on another page) convinced the pharaohs to build pyramids for the purpose of doing some "energy channeling" or whatever, and because of that thousands of slaves had to work and suffer for decades in unthinkable heat, dust and living conditions. That makes...

In my TP essay I said that formlessness should be regarded as a force, not a state. If so, then, with this modification, one has (b), and not (a). That is, names for formlessness are 'power', 'force', 'action'. These concepts are meaningless without form, e.g., action requires something to act agai...

I am not denying the existence of an ontic prime (OP), just disputing that the OP can be formlessness without form. The existence of gold essence is also dependent on the existence of forms of gold. A formless essence must be instantiated in forms to be real - in fact, formlessness strives for fixi...

Related to that, it comes down to whether we accept there is a fundamental discontinuity between the primal mode of being and our normal everyday spiritual activity of thinking. I don't accept that and such an assertion should give any idealist-monist a lot of pause. Right, you are free not to acce...

That would imply formlessness can exist without form, for ex. our thinking activity can exist without thoughts. We know from experience that is not possible. I can testify from my personal experience that it is possible. And any advanced (and many not so advanced) yoga, Advaita and Buddhist meditat...

Equally confusing: Bernardo has described the deep fear that idealism gives him because upon death his personal existence will be reabsorbed into universal consciousness and, therefore, can never get away from unpleasant feelings. Note that there is a range of versions if idealism, and BK's is only...

And this is an off-topic, but it's just too beautiful to resist posting here ...

If we recognize the Kantian trap we should really exert effort to evade it at all times. I'll give some descriptions that derive from the Imaginative consciousness which we either can develop in full self-awareness on Earth or we fall into in unfree 'trip-like' manner after death. Upon entering thi...

Wow, Cleric, you described almost exactly how the Buddhist compassion works. It's exactly when we empty ourselves from the self-centered and ego-centered garbage, and spiritually develop to become ultra-sensitive and responsive on the subtle levels of intuitive consciousness, we can resonate with an...

Good questions. My response is that we don't need to assume all ideal content of any object, such as mathematical ones, is identical for everyone, regardless of whether that happens to be true or not. We just need to acknowledge that the ideal content can be the same for multiple people in some ins...