Philosophical Speculations

Mike, I am reading Knowledge of the higher worlds, and I want to report another excerpt that could hardly be more clarifying of Steiner's attitude to race: Other qualities which, like anger and vexation, have to be combated, are timidity, superstition, prejudice, vanity and ambition, curiosity, the...

Scaligero, not Scalifero

Thanks Federica! From around 9:45 for around 10-15 minutes he discusses much of what I sent to you in my PM, and he expresses it very well. He even used the same phrase "an unexamined life is not worth living" lol. Edit: I'm very fond of the New Thinking channel, there is a lot of value t...

Thanks Federica! From around 9:45 for around 10-15 minutes he discusses much of what I sent to you in my PM, and he expresses it very well. He even used the same phrase "an unexamined life is not worth living" lol. Edit: I'm very fond of the New Thinking channel, there is a lot of value th...

Mike, Yesterday I was thief-reading (as we say in Swedish) in the Steiner archive and came across this. I wanted to include it in the post above, but I forgot. If we didn’t know they were spoken in 1917, we could think that these are today’s words. It is dawning on many people today that materialis...

Hi Ashvin
I replied to Frederica on the other thread, and it covers what I wanted to say here.
I wish you all the best.

I thought I would add a comment to your note, Mike, as Ashvin mentioned he disagrees that the confusion is inherent to the subject matter itself, and that I would probably disagree too. I have been prompted to jot down my thoughts, I hope you don’t feel like you have to read them! It’s a kind of ex...

Hi Ashvin Thanks again for your time on this topic. I feel bad, you really don't need to work so hard at it! In what follows I'm speaking purely about myself and how I experience things. You may not agree or experience the same, so please don't take offence. I spent almost 50 years living simultaneo...

Just a quick note to Ashvin, re our discussion in the Eating Light topic. I think this is a good example of why "clear and precise" is hard to achieve in ordinary language. To describe really new things, we need a new language. Repurposing existing words, however, can create a lot of misun...

It sounds like Gurdjjeff was hanging onto some regressive occult practices. Certainly I think Ouspensky was correct to criticize the unnecessary crypticism. These higher realities should be communicated clearly, plainly, and precisely, amenable to our scientific cognition. What does "clearly, ...