Philosophical Speculations

It's not about what BK is consciously proposing, but how his 'objective idealism', with 'dissociated alters', functions for all intents and purposes. As the OP says, it makes the exact same abstraction of materialism-dualism, but in the form of "atomized subject beholding ideas of Big Subject ...

Now I fully agree that becoming painfully identified with our dream character, chains the spirit to the transient forms, moods, likes, dislikes, beliefs, ideologies. It is of utmost importance to recognize that deep beneath all these layers there's a thinking core which can always find itself to be...

If we take the limits of the rational intellect very seriously, that Ideas have people and not the other way around, then we also need to question our firm intellectual convictions about various world outlooks and what is the "worst a human being can express". Absolutely. In a sense, your...

As Jung keenly observed, " People don't have ideas, but Ideas have people. " That is the stage of spritual evolution we are in - we are mostly vehicles for the ideations of higher living forces. This includes all of us, across most dimensions of our thinly conscious, rationalizing existen...

The criticism is not meant to demean BK's efforts but only to point attention that we need to be vigilant for something. I'm fully aware that most people would say "BK's mission is to simply take the first step - show the inconsistencies of materialism. Others will continue the work further.&q...

This is a continuation of our discussion with Mike from here . I wanted to further elaborate on the different ways we can think about thinking. The reply turned out to be quite substantial so I'm posting it as a kind of essay in a new thread. Vowels exercise I often mention the exercise "I thi...

And for how long should humanity keep strictly separated the world of academic thought and the world of Truth? Who are we serving by keeping these 'good manners' by not disturbing the secular world through the implications of the given facts? This is also why simply trying to prove materialism wron...

Eugene I. wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 10:28 pm

Ok, but this is just a restatement of your initial comment. You don't address one of the points I've made in response to it...

To address your point I would say: maybe, but how would you navigate to that conclusion?

This critical question is about Bernardo’s choice to introduce the idea of dissociation as a way to explain the de-combination of universal consciousness into each of our personal psyches. First, I would notice how Bernardo proceeds to reject a common objection to idealism, namely the natural order...

[/quote] In private conversations BK is usually open to the idea of the "persistence of a sense of ipseity after death". He is aware of a large body of NDE accounts supporting this idea, however, he does not take them as scientifically valid evidences, so, in his academic-level works he av...