Philosophical Speculations

This is a very good question, Cleric, and I do not know the answer, but it's one of the questions on my "to find out list" once I get out the body. This has been gone through many times but it's precisely this tendency to wait for death in order to find the supposed truth there, which sup...

3. Why does Steiner's name have such a negative connotation? Most people think he's a weirdo. Just as Ashvin noted, anyone who dares today to speak of depth of reality will be condemned as a weirdo. This is the reason also why BK prefers to stay on the borderline. This is the reason why most spirit...

Cleric, I would add that the curvatures of potentials and meanings are not something that is pre-destined to us and only created by higher-order beings, but that they are constantly being reshaped by all beings involved, both higher-order and lower-order. Beings on higher levels of development cert...

How do we understand the source or origin of thinking? What initiates a movement of thought? If we peer "behind the veil", how far back can we potentially go? Or will there always be a receding horizon that we can never reach? Our spiritual activity (thinking) is always at the tip of beco...

I've put something on my blog that relates to this post on the Institute of Art and Ideas Jim what is your view on the place of wave phenomena? I'm asking in the following sense. Seen classically, wave phenomena are simply the macro picture of particle interaction (usually depicted as small balls c...

Now wondering what the russian term for 'slavic' folks is, what they call themselves, as opposed to a name imposed upon them. Google translate comes up with славянский, which when pronounced comes out as slavyanskiy , so seemingly still the same derivation. But perhaps Eugene knows another more col...

So if we take the first cause cosmological argument for the existence of God, where does it break down? Essentially we trace a series of cause/effects backwards and given that a concrete infinity can't exist (or so it is argued), there must be a first cause, a.k.a God. But if we trace back a tempor...

Thanks Cleric for such an expansive response to my question. At some level, I get what you are trying to communicate. The big challenge here is to take the spatial metaphor and translate it into experiential knowledge. Yes, it's challenging because it requires us to exercise our whole being, not ju...

When we have recorded Jesus praying to his Father, how do you understand that? Is he directing his attention to the "Center", to a specific higher being, or to a generally to the higher world? These are really the questions that can become fruitful points of departure for great advances. ...

You're on the borderline and you equally consider that: 1/ the Cosmos is a dark abyss and lost sparks of thoughts bubble up and coalesce in quasi-stable formations before they sink back into the void 2/ the Cosmos is of Thought-nature, like Goethe's Idea which is inner Light, and our current existe...