Philosophical Speculations

This may be relevant: The urban dictionary defines lawyerese as "the idea that lawyers frequently speak and write in such a way that is difficult, if not impossible, for laypeople to interpret".
Ash is a lawyer.

Ashvin, the archetype of self-sacrifice has found no home in your psyche. I understand.

It's much easier to excuse yourself from all knowing responsibility by saying, "I am going extinct with 99% certainty", but it's also unmitigated arrogance and pride. No pride felt here! Extinction is quite natural - the dream ends, and, in the cold morning light, a dream avatar is transc...

The human ego simply can't stand the prospect of not being the top tier container of all existence. I don't recognise this description as applying to myself. Personally, I don't want to be the "top tier container of existence". My ego recognises my irredeemable faults and accepts that, li...

Come back as a golden artefact -a deathless golden bird singing to eternity, as Yeats said he would. Much prized and unable to suffer. This was apparently inspired by his disagreement with Rilke's image of a poet's death as annihilation - wood consumed by flame.

I'm sorry Ashvin, but I never seem to be able to understand what IN PRACTICE these things, like "redeeming XY through higher thinking", and "qualitative thinking rooted in a living logic" mean. I read the words and they don't mean anything to me. Everybody has this problem! It's...

However, I have also come to realize these things are not up to any individual, they unfold according to... the great Wisdom of the Cosmos

I have to agree with this!

I haven't listened to whole thing yet and have no idea whether my pre-submitted question was asked. I also submitted a question on behalf of Ben. Your question was not asked. The question about Kant may be misplaced, because in the session, intriguingly, BK suggested that Kant was not actually an o...

Actually allows a format for the kind of highly nuanced, in-depth, prolonged interactive exploration and/or refutation of a critique It's good on BK's detailed answers, but not so good on in-depth interactivity. The questioners were mostly not very articulate and the format was clunky, often failin...

You see, it is a vicious loop with no exit possible

Well said. Perhaps that's a good description of Consciousness itself?