Philosophical Speculations

These reasoned concepts are symbols for higher spiritual realms

Ash, I don't understand why higher spiritual realms are not, in your view, abstractions.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2022 ... of-reality

Interesting article. I hadn't realised David Chalmers was in two minds about whether we live in a virtual reality.

I am not very optimistic about the near-term trends of human culture either

I would very much enjoy reading your medium and long-term prophecies, Ash.

Looking forward to this!
In preparation, BK has just written a critique of SH's Superdeterminism:

https://www.essentiafoundation.org/read ... terminism/

Dsamson - thank you for your post, and I hope you are coping as well as you can with your profound loss. A couple of thoughts to add fuel to yours: Love is an attractive force, and thus akin to its sensory-limited cognates gravity and subatomic bonding. Love released (freely given) seems akin to ene...

Going in scary directions? Yep, it can be a scary world. Of course, you could just join the Aetherius Society and take comfort in the knowledge that there are ascended masters who have retreats under various mountains like Grand Teton, Mount Shasta and Castle Peak in the USA; Luxor in Egypt; Mount K...

Lovely stuff!

But what happens when it all falls apart?

I guess you're assuming that the mind of MAL is tied to the representation of it that we can perceive. It's likely much more.

I think one of BK's ideas is that MAL absorbs all our insights and thereby goes on to imagine it better.

Are you worried that MAL wants to end it all by stretching its synapses till they break? Perhaps the current model of heat death just reflects our own thinking - our cultural bias towards a pointless and meaningless universe. Other scenarios for the end of the universe haven't been disproven. But wh...

I offer strong appreciation from my storyteller view.
Appreciation does not mean I agree with everything said.
It means that I see its value.

Indeed! Else if something is not understood to be wholly true, it must be wholly consigned to hell. This would be a fundamentalist approach.