Philosophical Speculations

Does this mean that if in a week I have an exam, I can rest assured that if it was meant to be I cannot avoid success even if I forcefully try to fail (that is, not study at all)? In this sense, is it possible for one to exercise (or fail to exercise) their freedom in such a way that they actually ...

So there is a spiritual reality supersensible to waking cognition, we are immersed in this reality in our sleep and dreams, we can figure out that much of our waking knowledge and inspiration is seeded in these normally subconscious states, and we use certain techniques to perhaps become lucid in o...

It cannot relate to a reality that you will not allow it to perceive. It can poorly help you to survive when you do not allow it to use its abilities to discover those true conditions in which it must manipulate. You put blinders upon it, and then say that it cannot see." That's very interesti...

Oh dear dreamscape artists, if you only knew how far more dynamically and co-creatively involved you are in vastly greater dimensions of Reality than you re-cognize or give yourselves credit for, if only you could remember doing so upon re-focusing in this oh-so-limited slice of your infinite existe...

Intuitive thinking begins with the humble realization that in our spiritual activity we've never been apart from the archetypal world. It has always been the essence of what we call idea or meaning. It's only that for a long time we've been oscillating within a horizontal layer of mineralized intel...

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that people simply don't even try to understand what it's meant with 'intuitive thinking'. In our popular culture, this is instinctively equated with thinking driven by mysterious feelings. We stand at a crossroad and say "My intuition tells me that I must turn right&...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:43 pm But if I ask you or Dana or myself, how exactly does your consciousness take non-spatial dynamic activity and spatialize it in three dimensions (or four including linear Time-experience), we can't answer that.

I'd just write a poem

Anyway, the only thing I wanted to point out is that neither BK nor Pageau are pursuing intuitive thinking as a spiritual path . These things have very precise meaning and we need to be clear on that meaning. Whatever path they are on, and however useful it may be, it's not that one. Well, we seem ...

I don't have such experiences to share at this point. This is the issue. As Cleric often points out, he has only been writing about the same one or two topic from various angles since the inception of this forum. And I have only been writing about sub-topics of those one or two topics. What is the ...

Referenced and recommended in the chat between BK and Jonathan Pageau, the film A Hidden Life , from Terrence Malick, is a beautiful exploration of the human condition ...