Philosophical Speculations

Cleric, such exploration of the "layers of higher self" is perfectly fine, that's what people do in many spiritual traditions, and I've been doing it as well. On the other hand, how can you be sure that what you are approaching is some highest "Self"-entity and not just more laye...

The other issue is this - how can we say the qualitative experience is "real" and "illusory" under idealism at the same time? If the story of our "selves" navigating a world of qualitative experiences is an illusion, then everything which is experienced within that sto...

Well, I both agree and disagree. I agree that this is all part of thinking (in a broader sense, including many forms of non-rational and even non-mental thinking if it makes sense). In a way, we can say that, because at the end all we do is thinking, then all we progress towards is also only a direc...

Curiously, one can say much the same about Gabor, whose own shadow work is still ongoing, and that his 'energy' doesn't come across as one who is at complete unrepressed peace with himself ~ which I suspect he would admit to. So I see both he and JP as wounded healers, and no reason not to listen t...

First, not all development paths converge, even in principle. Clearly, there can be many paths that go in completely different directions and by definition can never converge. Now about the claim of "only a single highest 'Divine' realm". Can there be two or three highest Divine realms? T...

PS: And, as the consciousness progresses and expands, we may find that it's not just quantitative progression and acquihiring more experiences of the same kind along the same venues of progression, but qualitative expansion with the discovery of previously unknown dimensions of progression and hiera...

I would agree with Gabor. What strikes me about Peterson is not what he is saying, but how he is saying it, his psychological and spiritual/energetic state. He speaks about meaning, faith, love and peace, but the spiritual "wavelength" of this message is so toxic, it's full of rage and ang...

Well, I'm already unsure if what I say is being intentionally ignored or simply not grasped :) In such situation of lack of conclusive data we are forced to cope with a variety of co-existing versions of knowledge and metaphysics. The whole point of the essay in the beginning of this thread was to ...

It can objected that it's not certain that such a Spiritual Sun exists. ... If one is fully aware that in this he or she is holding a belief , placing a bet - I'm OK. But if we want to move towards actual knowledge, something that can be grounded into the facts of experience - sensory and supersens...