Philosophical Speculations

AshvinP wrote: So if we must look to immanent experience for this "prior to", the only conceivable place to look, quite literally, is our own Thinking. Berdyaev wrote: The problem is in this, that the way of Steiner and the way of the Steinerians have little in common between them. The wa...

The key insight for me was that everyone directly or indirectly involved in this discussion - JW, BK, and whoever else - is searching for what is "prior to" everything else. We all basically agree that it is very important to identify this "prior to". And JW goes further to say ...

The key insight for me was that everyone directly or indirectly involved in this discussion - JW, BK, and whoever else - is searching for what is "prior to" everything else. We all basically agree that it is very important to identify this "prior to". And JW goes further to say ...

I think this attempt to present spirituality as some elitist club that exploits the ignorant souls has worn out. And I'm not saying that this hasn't been the case all over the world, in the past and today, in Churches and Ashrams. But to present this as an excuse for not pursuing deeper understandi...

No. I'd rather not. But I did not go down the easy path.

"Healthy" tradition is always concerned with experience and knowledge of the Truth and Reality. The difference between healthy traditions and cults is in a way how they do it. But Cleric, the more you exercise twisted logic, the more I'm getting convinced that you are representing a cult....

Eugene, JW, BK, and many others are trying to find the continuity of cognition within the abstract representations , where it will never be found, instead of within the higher order spiritual processes from which the representations go forth. Those processes weave together through a world consistin...

Also, I think the writings of existentialists can be a useful antidote to tendencies to regard Steiner as almost omniscient or more than human. Berdyaev's crtique of Theosophy and Anthroposophy ( http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1916_252b.html ) is worth looking at, as is Kafka's brief but...

Also note that Cleric literally said " everything in the soul-realm results from the spiritual activity of beings" and not " everything I have experienced in the soul-realm results from the spiritual activity of beings". Guys, you need to be clear and consistent with what you ar...

AshvinP wrote: Marx famously remarked that he "turned Hegel on his head", and I would only add that he used Kant to do it. Ashvin, Marx used Feuerbach, not Kant, to invert Hegel (and in the process of doing so also refuted Feuerbach's materialism). In any case, Hegel's philosophy led him ...