Philosophical Speculations

The idea of a moment of time, a present moment, is a convenient construct no less than the idea of a thing. So my question would be, ‘Do we actually experience the present?’ and my answer would be: No. I agree with what you are saying, though I would put it that the problem is BK's definition of 'p...

Thanks, Moon and the Melodies is in my top 10 albums. Liz Frazer is the perfect vocalist for his music. I need to explore his other works!

WB Yeats once wrote "Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it". Do you think he was being verbose or obscure? What would you read into those words?

There is a practice in Crowlian magic in which a 'sigil' or magical symbol is strongly concentrated and empowered with the intention of the practitioner. This is done at the point of sexual orgasm. From Bk's work, we can argue that orgasm is a period of intense reassociation in which we access MAL. ...

I would say the water includes but transcends the ripple. In the same way, meaning is a dynamic metacognitive process and therefore analogous to a ripple. It can never reference its water-ness. And yet the nature of the 'all that exists water' is to ripple and vibrate. Meaning is build in but only ...

I would say the water includes but transcends the ripple. In the same way, meaning is a dynamic metacognitive process and therefore analogous to a ripple. It can never reference its water-ness. And yet the nature of the 'all that exists water' is to ripple and vibrate. Meaning is build in but only a...

Mind at large does not experience death, and dissociation and qualities are only apparent. Nothing ever happened as Ramana Maharshi said.
Yet thanks to Mind at Large we are not talking nihilism here. Only the real survives, that which can die never existed in the first place.

Well that's a slightly better way of putting it I suppose, because that means from MAL perspective there is eternally Self-aware Willing, Feeling (Love, etc.), and Thinking, which is not altogether different from the meaning we can all experience now. Not sure how those characteristics follow. Woul...

It's only incremental from our perspective as alters. From the perspective of M@L its all happening now in one big thought orgasm. Well that's a slightly better way of putting it I suppose, because that means from MAL perspective there is eternally Self-aware Willing, Feeling (Love, etc.), and Thin...

It's only incremental from our perspective as alters. From the perspective of M@L its all happening now in one big thought orgasm.