Philosophical Speculations

Throwing mud on personalities can never resolve anything. I guess that whoever reads Schopenhauer is interested in the ideas themselves and not so much in his personality. I'm pretty sure people examine even less strictly (if at all) the personalities of mediums (or more fancily - channelers), who ...

I understand, but IMO that's not a good way to go about it. For people who wrote so prolifically, like Nietzsche, Jung, Steiner, etc., you will always be able to find a passage here or there which can loosely support a charge of nationalism or racism, even if those are not the views they actually h...

David, What Cleric said. And I invite you to judge whether Steiner was a racist, not from a tabloid, but from Steiner's words (Chapter 14 of The Philosophy of Freedom, "Individuality and Genus"): https://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA004/English/RSP1964/GA004_c14.html The subject is complicate...

Accuse me of being an egoist but I simply don't have neither the time, nor the energy, nor the nerves to feel anything else but Love for everything and everyone :) This is the most natural state. And you know it - your philosophy is built on that. Sticking to my original, not addressed to 'you', po...

Matthew 18:3 Being like little children (i.e. love-joy/playful) doesn't (IMO) mean being as ignorant as 'children' generally are. I'll leave it to you to not "get bummed out by the current state humanity is in." From my POV it would be better to look clearly, feel the sadness, grieve the ...

So, let me ask: If, as an Idealist, you were planting a different dream in a child, what would it be? Please respond as if talking to that child rather than (for example) saying that you'd send the child to a Waldorf School. How would you express the dreaming seed to the child? What vision would yo...

may be too much for 'children' to take in etc, etc Might be. What I shared was 'aimed' at those here who (I imagined) might be ready to go 'beyond' being 'children' - the above part of my statement which you quoted was just a 'nod' to those (here or elsewhere) who weren't (ready). If I had a 'child...

(continued from my preceding post) " I see the reception room of the Pharaoh—a strange hall and an unknown Pharaoh who is not an initiate like my father but who has a radiation of a very low degree. Before him are two handsome, dignified men—two brothers with noble, magnificent features. From t...

So, let me ask: If, as an Idealist, you were planting a different dream in a child, what would it be? This 'meta' :) dream -- the 'vision' given to Elizabeth Haich in the context of her past-life as an 'Initiate' in a 'higher', astrology oriented, pre-Biblical civilization -- may be too much for 'c...

David, it does you no honor to go against Steiner with such a cheap shot. One does not form an opinion on a subject by only examining the views of its opponents. The 'opinion' I shared was, as clearly stated, pertained to the level of Steiner's soul development. I think this has implications which ...