Philosophical Speculations

We can watch our thoughts, not just have them. And if we do (watch them) deeply, note how they are conditioned by desires and dubious beliefs. Yes, indeed! And this has happened for the shaman and mystic as well as for the artist and the scientist. My point is that we no longer need shamanistic or ...

In our mundane state we only know thoughts, so in order to realize that, we need to realize the Eternity "side" of the Oneness-Manyness, and that will bring together the Oneness-Manyness into Super-Oneness. That was then, i.e., in Buddha's time, and many centuries after. Now we can know t...

At the deepest level of discernible thought there is a thinking that flows of itself. In its purity it employs none of the concepts that could be captured in definable words. It is fluidic rather than granular. It never isolates a definitive divided part, but everlastingly interblends them all. Eve...

The oneness that Steiner or you speak is not at all what Christ and Buddha and all nondual traditions point to. For Steiner, oneness is "the thoughts of all the hierarchies merging into one another", and for you, instead of or in addition to, it is "a spiritual soup of existence with...

A simple method (nothing to do with Steiner, I just find it helpful) to train our mental energy in this direction, and gain control over distractions is the five minute rule. When a distraction impels us to consider it, we can tell ourselves that we will give in, but not now, only in five minutes. ...

When reading forum posts I am constantly distracted. Because of that, it takes me a long time and uses up lots of mental energy. Here I may throw a practical hint. It's no secret that in the last decades humans have been forced to use their senses and cognition in ways which were nonexistent before...

It always warms my heart when a moment of convergence is attained. But I wonder how this polarity, or continuum of Manyness/Oneness really works in light of some aspects of experiential reality. A polarity (at least in the sense I am using) is not a continuum. The two poles are simply opposites. Th...

As for spiritual way forward, I think it is just keeping working on gaining more control over my thinking. When reading forum posts I am constantly distracted. Because of that, it takes me a long time and uses up lots of mental energy. Scott, I wonder if you have experimented with the various will ...

Oh, thanks for counting me on the side of those who delve into actual spiritual science! The reality is, though, that I also don't have a great focus with exercises. But I know I can improve, and you probably mean something similar, and future-oriented, when you say " I seem unable". Inte...

You don't see a "hard problem" because you have already arm-waved it away with your "thinking ability", Well, "thinking ability" is fundamental, it's not "arm-waving", it's just applying the ontological approach. You declare the Manyness as fundamental, I dec...