Philosophical Speculations

Don't know about Simon, but I'm suggesting we take a recess

Do you really think that anyone here is so blindly ignorant so as to be incapable of googling this article, or many like it, and sharing it on social media, if so inclined. What exactly is your point of sharing it here, supposedly implying that we all live in some ivory tower of metaphysical specula...

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:25 pm...and rest my case.

Not sure if Ashvin is the prosecutor or defence council, but are we ready to take this to the jury?

Really, when it comes right down to it ~ or is that 'up' to it? ~ isn't all ontology rendered as story-making, given the ineffability of "___" (enter preferred name for the nameless)

I'm certainly not qualified to speak to any causal correlation between gamma activity and mystical nondual states. However, while I've never tried 5-Me0-dmt, derived from a desert toad (my own 'trip' in this regard being an utterly inexplicable spontaneous event, with no psychedelics involved, notwi...

Further to my last point, I would go so far as to say that insofar as shadow-work goes, show me a guru who has transcended it all, with no more shadow stuff, whether individual or collective ~as they are inextricable ~ left to resolve, and I'll show you maybe a fantasy character in a work of fiction.

Another point I feel inclined to make here, is that the apt comparison is not between JP and Rupert Spira, but between JP and Bernardo, or even Gabor, none of whom would claim to be in Spira's category, and indeed each of whom have conceded to being very much works in progress in that regard, with m...

Yes we should! The hard part of course is finding a way to get BK and his work on JP's radar. Perhaps the other JP (Pageau) will be useful in this regard, as he had agreed to a discussion with BK on Twitter. We just need to periodically remind them both to actually follow through. [/i] Worth a try,...

BK does not make the topic more precise. He avoids making the connections to mysticism because it would not serve his agenda and might actually do damage. Compare his mate Rupert Spira with JP. and ask yourself who has a better grasp of reality. [/i] This does raise an interesting inquiry. Like Ber...

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:55 amHow's that for a CONTRADICTION?

Rather than 'contradiction' I prefer embracing seeming paradox, as in the formlessness><form fusion of the Heart Sutra, or Lao Tzu's aphorism that "true words seem paradoxical" ... emptifullness comes to mind