Philosophical Speculations

In relation to the previous comments, we should see here how there is nothing "impersonal" about our own Thinking activity, in the sense of a nebulous force-field that we are somehow tapping into. That is unfortunately how modern people are habitually inclined to perceive their own spirit...

I like that Starbuck. Makes me think of comments by Steiner when he goes out of his way to make clear that the nefarious aspect of 'materialism' is the style of thinking rather than the content of the thought and that he'd prefer a world of creative materialists than dogmatic anthroposophists. The ...

"So I would analogize that to the materialist coming up with all sorts of speculative theories about the world phenomena - no matter how absurd they get, some aspects of what they are putting out there will be genuinely thought-provoking for that reason." Well put. Great example of the ho...

What can you say about the "highest Spirit"? :) What can I not say about it? All is Spirit. I think what is most important for our purposes here is to recognize the function of the Spirit in our immanent experience. For that, I will quote Steiner. In thinking [activity of Spirit] we have ...

re: prayer - I am sure Cleric can expand on this (*now I see that he already did in post above), but in general Anthroposophy does not deny the existence of personal agencies of spiritual beings (including the highest Spirit) to which we pray. What is denied is that each being, including ourselves,...

I do think those other people we mentioned experienced what you are calling the noumenon. I do not believe that a person has to have already a linguistic or conceptual framework about the noumenon in order to participate any aspect of it. I think there are advantages and disadvantages to having any...

I do think those other people we mentioned experienced what you are calling the noumenon. I do not believe that a person has to have already a linguistic or conceptual framework about the noumenon in order to participate any aspect of it. I think there are advantages and disadvantages to having any...

Does this silence say : "you don't know what you're talking about, young Padawan" ? * I thought about my own questionand why it might sound irrelavant, and here is my two cents : Bernardo's model is an ontological one, it's not an "explanatory model". Science is an explanatory m...

Hi there, "I know a whole lot of people have perceived and described the evolution of consciousness..." You added: "I am talking about the accounts of what was directly perceived after those 'higher' modes of consciousness were attained." and then: "Has anyone gone beyond t...

In Kastrup's model we can say that qualities don't exist until a dissociated alter is created. The qualities 'fall out' in the living interaction and interpenetration of M@L and the alter. Before the alter exists, those qualities might be thought of as potentialities of M@L. Might we that M@L itsel...