Philosophical Speculations

How do we learned the concepts which structure our thinking live, and which we take for granted like Truth, love, energy, wisdom, forgiveness...... ? I can't remember the learning process, and I don't know if it is possible to remember this childhood memory's, but empirically it could be experienced...

Ps When we think about Ss concept our generally about concepts likes love or harmony, which aren't sense perceptible, aren't we meditating when we do this? We think thoughts which are free from sympathetic, ideological, sensory currents. And we are active in some way when we do this (most of the day...

Ashvin, The astral body is 'that' which we have in common with animals, this means it must be something which differentiate us and animals from plants. Somehow that comes with the ability to move trough space, and having sense organs. If you want to stay in the given, wouldn't it be right for you t...

I think this part here is good, because it realy is talking about the basics. So how would you study-meditate this? How does studying this, gives you a explanation of the currents of your metamorphosis? And how do you can be sure if it's reality, without being clairvoyant (I understand that this is...

Ps:
I'm very open and sympathetic to steiners esoteric work, if I wasn't I wouldn't try to figure it out for the last 2 years.

Don't take this as criticism.

But sometimes I start believing what steiners says because it feels right, but this shouldn't be the basis of knowledge

Ok, let's go trough the lecture I currently read We come now to the third member of man's being, to the astral body — the “Soul Body” in Rosicrucian terminology. Man has the astral body in common only with the animals. The astral body is the bearer of feeling, of happiness and suffering, joy and pa...

If we think about the idea of synthesis and analysis, we focuse the meaning of the idea into certain words (intellect), which elucidate the relation, the law so to say. The idea is eternal and we can't change it with our thinking, we can glide trough its meaning and focus it. This is pure thinking ...

Thank you Ashvin. To have a concrete example, how would you picture karma or reincarnation? Or the human being in the process of taming his animal (astral)? There are many concept in Ss which are temporal, how should you flatten them out into pictures? Aren't pictures in a sensory manner still coup...

I would like to share a quote from Sergei Prokofieff that fits well with this pictorial thinking topic and what we have been discussing on the forum recently, in terms of approaching spiritual science with the inner gesture of 'study-meditate'. *** In order to show how far the stage of study can le...

I wanted to share this , it helps.me to think more clearly sometimes.