Philosophical Speculations

I associate the "one pointedness" of zen or diverse forms of mindfulness meditation with a very calm expansion or deepening of awareness and not a scattering or a closure. Exactly. But that correlates with increased brain activity, not reduced activity, which is the opposite of BK's argum...

I'm pretty much in agreement. I don't see any evidence of a more porous alter whatever that actually means. I think the experience certainly can open a person up to new viewpoints and approaches, possibly reset things, but I don't see that arising from a mind at large seeping into the alter but rat...

Perhaps it throws our internal world into chaos or turning it off shows us more about what's actually going on versus the world the mind creates for itself. Either way I think looking at "is the brain more active or inactive during a trip?" is kinda missing the point. The DMN aspect is th...

Gramski's anthropocentric intersubjectivism can be expanded to intersubjectivism of new animism, ie. perspectival multinaturalism and planetary (etc.) ecology of their/our social relations. Surely the octopus and the ant perceive an external environment. Is it merely the degree of dissociation that...

What if reincarnation (incremental evolution) occurs within a species state and one-shot-only (punctuated evolution) occurs as the species becomes extinct? Somehow, I grok an intriguing drift. What do you think of it? I duno... may be :) My personal experiential view is that the Jesus in my heart l...

There's no need to be obsessed only with obvious physical correlations. This only reduces Idealism back to gross materialism. Here's a metaphor. For example, we can imagine that the whole brain has a holistic quantum wavefunction. In normal beta brainwave activity, our experience is closely tied to...

At both extremes, touching each other as the ouroboros, the formative causation and the formless potential would join, being the formative the FATHER, the formless the HOLY SPIRIT and the in between the SON. All the spectrum would be the SELF, and the process of individuation would be the deep unde...

"Collective personal ego" Can you see the formless potential, the empty spaces between words? The i-dentity element of strings of symbols, ie. the i-maginary number. Self: <> Self with identity element: < > "Collective personal ego" equivalent to "species"? Does anyone...

Why does what you wrote here necessarily contradict what I wrote? Yes, I believe a person can lose a great deal in this world. And that the original spiritual nature inherent in him is to avoid such a loss. And as I mentioned, a true winner is sometimes one that all he can do is doing good solely b...

Ben, the "dmt spirit molecule" is already within and rather than seeing the quest as transpersonal it can be seen as getting more deeply personal. From a shamanic pov one can argue for "depth animism" as Santeri does. Can Idealism argue that spirit (consciousness) is both within...