Philosophical Speculations

Anyway, as much as I revere Steiner, I also see him as a great example of how complex spiritual 'vision' is and I take him very seriously when he said that his mistakes need to be noticed and understood. Most importantly, I appreciate that he stated explicitly that such corrections of his errors ce...

Oh, to your point: I can imagine lots of reasons a person would respond to "enthusiasm about Steiner" that way. It just so happens that those aren't the only responses I can imagine. That's why I like to unpack what is actually going on to some extent. Again, that probably is meaningless ...

But, please, it would help if you could take a minute to just clip out what I said that, for you, came across as so dogmatic. Thanks. I never felt, or said, you were coming across as dogmatic. I'm simply suggesting that if you don't want to deal with doubts about the accuracy of recollections from ...

Why don't you provide us links or files to the two separate lectures cycles so we can see exactly what Steiner said and the context in which he said it in both of them? Good point ... Being curious as to Steiner's take on the ontic essence of these 'guides' (which I'm assuming are akin to so-called...

Yes, indeed. Because there was that study group that looked closely at the two separate lectures cycles that Steiner gave on Angels, each within I think ten days of each other, one to a group primarily of clergy and the other to a group primary of physicist. Fascinating! Because of course Steiner w...

:idea: The question of morality is also completely clear in Deep M@L. Morality is not some arbitrary rules decreed by a Divinity for humans to follow. Instead, it's the measure for our spiritual activity and whether it leads to greater harmonization and integration of the Cosmic perspective or the ...

Ashvin and FB, I'm not keen to contribute to any hostilities (not yet anyway ;) ). I do enough of that on other boards. I'm purely trying to learn stuff here at this stage. You may have heard of some fairly recent research where brain imaging is combined with machine learning in order to infer what...

In Steiner you can find when he speaks of the 'father-principle' and this is often the a-causal realm from which 'the son principle' issued forth. Barfield hardly goes further back than about 2000 years in his research of how consciousness evolved. From his findings there, he simply notes the intri...

"So Anthony should be clear, there is absolutely no logic to your arguments here, only thinly veiled antipathies which get translated into posts such as the one above, under the guise of having deep knowledge of Steiner, Schop, Barfield, etc. In reality, you are using the little you have learn...

Anthony, feel free to DM if you want to chat. The section in PoF when Steiner speaks about the way a percept is always 'hiding' its cognitive aspect, is golden. This is was already illuminated in great imaginative detail by Cleric. I invite you (FB) to actually read this full post and think through...