Philosophical Speculations

There is a small chance that my ignorance of history and vicissitudes here, my inability to judge, inability to even comprehend the whole story, can somehow paradoxically help. What is lent to me by trying to sink into the moments of this story is, exhaustion and respite, asking to be seen by every...

You haven't yet pointed to any precise spiritual knowledge you have gained from experience, not even with metaphors or analogies, only some vague inspirative connection with the Oversoul. Can you point to anything more tangible than that? There's the lawyerly persona demanding just the facts again ...

But what if it hasn't changed in a flash? Well, what if it has? What could I offer in words regarding the ineffable that would act in lieu of someone knowing what I have known, beyond any doubt whatsoever, that the lawyer in you can't counter with making some case for plausible deniability? But go ...

... I get what you're getting at Cleric, and understand that this is all fine for one at a stage-specific point in the process. There was a time when this human expression was content with being transfixed by the maya state, could not have cared less about the ideas you express above, which might a...

I admit, I don't remember a more difficult post than this from my experience here :) I wrote and discarded the text many times and I finally surrender. There's a thick wall and there's nothing that I can say (which hasn't been said before) which can make any difference. Well, this is disappointing....

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:44 pm ... we gain the possibility of actually becoming 'awake' through the whole thing, instead of being stuck on repeat and becoming ever-more resentful that we can't remember who we truly are.

Perhaps learning from the futility of resentment is also a crucial and integral step.

That's why I'm curious what in your view the spiritual journey and its poetry, consist of? It consists of creating 'poetry', that being the teaching from the Oversoul. Never felt any need for some intellectual analysis or deconstruction. No advice was sought or taken. No concerns about ruination. S...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:39 pm

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To rephrase the question, as the eternal validity of the soul is reckoned, how is any given expression of that validity doomed to ultimate ruin, however problematic the mistaken attempts may be? Where is some time limit placed on figuring it out?

What is this sphere of spiritual poetry which is completely independent of our shared dream flow and thus requires nothing outside of itself? What I was trying to convey—notwithstanding the shared dream from which such inspiration flows—is that I'm not seeing how the mistaken attempts, being pretty...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 12:06 pm Briefly, how do you know the failed attempts were crucial and integral?

Because they taught me what doesn't take flight. I'm surely not seeing how such failed attempts, being pretty much inevitable, can ruin the calling of becoming the poet. Indeed, one is all the more compelled to carry on.