Philosophical Speculations

The struggle that you speak of is real and it is one of those contradictions that should motivate us to go further and further. The problem is when concepts remain floating in the air. We can understand frequency very immediately when we look at a pendulum. Then the concept of frequency relates dir...

And the Steiner quote is revelatory! It speaks precisely to what Cleric is coming to in the other thread... Steiner strikes a resonant chord here too ... And this musing is about the 'man of today' a century ago. Wonder what would be made of the 'man of today' a century later, let's say at a party,...

(and I take it you're not a fan of the conventional Lord's Prayer) Actually I am a fan of the Lord's Prayer :) It is one of those things which are multilayered and have something for everyone. It's like Star Wars :) There's the layer of flat jokes for the kids to laugh. There's romance and adventur...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:07 pm

Happy I could activate your chuckle chakra

For what it's worth, I didn't read it that way ... I'm just grateful that you started, or at least revived and extended an interesting thread, and then actually participated in it ! : ) Thank you so much, Shu ! Just a brief aside ... it's interesting how language works: when we notice the distincti...

Some advice from a therapist about overcoming the thinking of problematic, undesirable, fear-based thoughts ...

Reading again what I wrote this morning: 'As I said, I am not good at quilting intuitions together, and if this is childish, be it, but hopefully not as childish as to believe that I can sit down, meditate a bit, take the door out of spacetime, then get back on planet Earth in time for afternoon te...

So even though much of the journey, the stages of metamorphosis and so on, are currently determined by forces greater than us, it is within our jurisdiction to have clear vision for the path we would Love to experience as evolutionary journey. On this we can agree. Putting aside any 'factual' claim...

Now of course it can be argued that human creatures are a different case, because they have free will, and thus can resist any given stage-specific work, such that, even as it may be do-or-die, they can choose to die, or at least languish their lives away, avoiding their destiny. However, given the...

Federica wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:43 pm You make it very clear, your dreamscape retreat could start feeling exceedingly tight any moment...

True that ... as surely the chrysalis must feel when the time is ripe to emerge