Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, I also skip through Gabriel’s videos by now. For my part, I believe he is being influenced and pushed in the direction of trying to package and market his experience (that I only partially understand as Anthroposophical) in ways that flirt with catastrophism and with inciting feelings of fe...

And the other way round, I guess we can say we are still a mirror, in our soul consciousness, for the higher beings who reflect their ideal activity in our 'lifeless' intellectual thoughts (for a still predominant part). And, imbued by this powerful force of thinking, we have a chance to start evol...

Think how unintuitive from a classical perspective this is. Imagine that you’re going to the mall. You can go through the park or through the city square. You choose the former. You arrive at the mall and spontaneously decide to go to the store on the right to buy a new dress. Now most people would...

Hi Ashvin, Thanks for clarifying your point in the above two posts. I definitely understand and agree with the expansive support and reflective potential enclosed in scientific conceptions, which, as you say, is exemplified, for instance, in the numerous mathematical and scientific analogies Cleric...

I agree with the overall spirit of your post, but I want to clarify what I meant by 'expanding our states'. A simple question we can ask is, what can't we do now that we could do previously? Does modern technology make it impossible for us to explore more spiritual states of being or does it actual...

To start with, I would attract attention to the fact that modern technology, rather than a way of expanding our states, is a way of altering them. It restricts them just as much as (if not more than) it expands them. Of course, these states are not only perceptual in the sense of sensory-like, but ...

Regarding the scenes from Holy Week - Yes! I am following them closely and appreciating them very much. Actually, I have prioritized these guided reflections over all else this week, and I'm trying to start from these scenes to improve my very poor knowledge of the Christ events (intellectually, bu...

Yes, I surely recognize all this. Obviously a lacking experimentation is at the foundation of many struggles, which is absolutely my case. It's my current struggle to reconcile an increasing involvement with everyday life - more work, tasks, preoccupations, etc. - with keeping up the most important...

... Thanks, I'm sure these characterizations help to make better sense of for example this: As regards its original essence, man's astral body has its origin in the higher world, in the spiritual world proper. Within that sphere it is a being of the same nature as other beings whose activity is exe...

Ashvin, Here you seem to say that manifestation (not only mineral but all phenomena) equals being conscious, and we should understand physicality as that?? Are you saying that there is for example a true and a fake astral body, the true being the truly-true astral and the fake being the physical as...