Philosophical Speculations

: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...

Hi FB, Fascinating and funny too. Does this use of information from guides conflict at all with the injunction from Spiritual Science not to use information from the guides for personal gain? They don't take money and they're obviously wary of notoriety too. What rules do they use to decide who to ...

Anthony, "and still the ontological character of a percept remains elusive..." That's such a good sign. "From what I've read (which is limited), Steiner doesn't come out and say that percepts are ideal." In 1916 when he began to try rearticulating some of the fundamental concept...

Ashvin has got a lot of pushback for the prolific nature of his posts. I felt the need to push back as well, not too long ago (although there was a definite curiosity too). I think he may have mentioned the ego once or twice. This 'I' here was still (temporarily, it came and went) largely merged wi...

Thanks Ashvin. From what I've read (which is limited), Steiner doesn't come out and say that percepts are ideal. But I'll lock your response here as part of the jigsaw puzzle. I look forward to your next essay. Anthony, I am not sure if you saw it, but the essay was posted, "Solipsism: Facts a...

In the idealist perspective, reality is consciousness. So how can it evolve? It can't evolve from less consciousness to more since it was presumably already perfect consciousness in the beginning. How does consciousness evolve in a timeless world? There is fundamental contradiction between idealism...