Philosophical Speculations

Yes - the question of whether or not (and how) anything proper of the whirlpool persists after bodily death is, to a big extent, yet to be tackled in BK's system. The little we can gather - strictly dependent on his use of the concept of DID - seems to be that, DID being a "discontinuity or di...

This critical question is about Bernardo’s choice to introduce the idea of dissociation as a way to explain the de-combination of universal consciousness into each of our personal psyches. First, I would notice how Bernardo proceeds to reject a common objection to idealism, namely the natural order...

The intellectual self doesn't disappear but we realize that it is only a more limited aspect of a higher self. If we don't want to merge with the thinking of the dream self, we can never become lucid for the thinking of our waking self, since they are concentric, one within the other. Our intellect...

It's not the same, Eugene. There are things which are indeed function of karmic circumstances, like being born as the king's son or being born blind but what we speak of is really the ability to deepen our experience of thinking in order to recognize it as the most 'in focus' part of the flow of re...

If you want to make an argument against the existence or importance of 'higher cognition', you must first understand what is meant by it. How could it be otherwise? How can I understand what is meant by it if I have no direct experience of it? It's like asking a blind person to understand what it m...

So basically what you guys are saying is this: all you are saying is you lower-cognition conceptualizing of your individual ego-minds, you actually have no idea and no direct experience of what higher-cognition is, so all your arguments are irrelevant to what Cleric is saying. Well ok, but this make...

This is at the core of the issue - the individual soul life is seen as atomic element confronting a Natural/Heavenly world. Cleric, I think you still grossly misunderstand what I'm saying. I can give a simple analogy: an orchestra where there is a musical score - the global constraints, structures ...

Let's refocus on the main point of TCT, given your last post. You say, "(1) creative activity and direct experience of the creativity is what I do every day in my profession and my hobbies..." and then "(2) in no way preludes us from evolving and developing higher order abilities of ...

The question is, how do we stop merely speculating about "creativity" and actually become creative ? The quote was, again, a symbol pointing to what capacities beyond our current 'organic development' we can actually realize. The intellectual desire of, "I want to experience everythi...

It points once again to the absurdity of the old adage 'nothing is new under the sun’ invoked to discredit the limitless drive of creativity.[/i]” - Hermann Scherchen, On the Essence of Music (1946) That is exactly my point. Creativity evades any rigid structures and attractors imposed by any highe...