Philosophical Speculations

Do you agree with this depiction? 🌗 We certainly can have the sensation of a separate self, the sensation of being a separate unit of consciousness - and if we wish to feed that sensation we have that option. Having the sensation of a separate self we should not deny that - we should behave and thi...

So, with that clarified, do you understand the distinction being made in the quote above, how there is a qualitative difference between our experience of phenomena that proceed from our inner activity, such as the thoughts/words when we're telling a story, and those that we confront passively, such...

Well, what you say, in itself explains why after two years, there's still no notion of what spiritual activity is. I'm not sure how you are using the term 'spiritual activity' as it seems to be applied to just about everything. It looks like the dream metaphor got way out of hand - a life of its ow...

Well, what you say, in itself explains why after two years, there's still no notion of what spiritual activity is. I'm not sure how you are using the term 'spiritual activity' as it seems to be applied to just about everything. It looks like the dream metaphor got way out of hand - a life of its ow...

Lorenzo, try in quiet meditation to multiply two numbers together, entirely in your mind, say 11x27. Even if you can't reach the answer, at least try. Try to feel and observe what you are doing in your inner world in order to approach the answer. Would you say that the answer just 'appears'? Or you...

Is he not aware of the spiritual activity that gives rise to tought images, or is it like you said that it is too rooted in the mission or impulses they try to embodie? Another question, the (thinking) process you described in the essay as an actual world process, is only known intuitive as somethi...

Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter. “A Great Wagon” by Rumi So little is understood re NDE’s that virtually all belief systems can ‘explain’ them Same with o...

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:24 pm Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.

If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.

“A Great Wagon” by Rumi

So little is understood re NDE’s that virtually all belief systems can ‘explain’ them

To spiritualize the world means to perceive the world as Being, to perceive the world as self. The Upanishads speak of evolution as non ending. A possible progression is detailed as: “I am That, thou art That, all this is nothing but That” It begins with the essential realization of self as unbounde...

As I said, nobody denies agency and responsibility here, it's just that agency does not need the "agent" to be able to act. I wish that were true, Eugene, but the pattern of comments shows otherwise. This is why you feel the Earthly kingdoms cannot evolve to more spiritual stages through ...