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- Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Symphony of Minds
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Re: Essay: Symphony of Minds
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...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Symphony of Minds
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5382
Re: Essay: Symphony of Minds
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...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Symphony of Minds
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5382
Re: Essay: Symphony of Minds
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...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:42 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: BK's 'Phantom World' Hypothesis for NDEs
- Replies: 37
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Re: BK's 'Phantom World' Hypothesis for NDEs
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...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: BK's 'Phantom World' Hypothesis for NDEs
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4041
Re: BK's 'Phantom World' Hypothesis for NDEs
So little is understood re NDE’s that virtually all belief systems can ‘explain’ them
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
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Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
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...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:19 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 23637
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
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 ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 23637
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
This opens the question: if you somehow see an image of the riverbed of your character, temperament, interests, preferences, etc. and this image cannot be the reality, then what is the reality of this riverbed and how can it be known in its true nature? The landscape of one’s character, inclination...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 23637
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
This opens the question: if you somehow see an image of the riverbed of your character, temperament, interests, preferences, etc. and this image cannot be the reality, then what is the reality of this riverbed and how can it be known in its true nature? The landscape of one’s character, inclination...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 23637
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
So which is it, Eugene, is the 'direct method' sufficient or not? Is it sufficient for developing the love and compassion to simply treat each other more kindly? Then what is the purpose of the intuitive and imaginative abilities of thinking? Let's remember, St. Francis of Assisi didn't simply go a...