Philosophical Speculations

"1 - How do you think of this forum? I know you commented once it is like a "front porch" with people relaxing, chatting about this and that, etc. Do you feel there is any deeper value to be gained, in terms of personal spiritual evolution and/or philosophical-spiritual knowledge to ...

Although I very much appreciate the way Bernardo's Analytic Idealism challenges the materialist reductionist dominant paradigm, his very conceptual analogs and metaphors are not inspiring to me . Only when I'm in deep suffering do I feel like a Dissociated Identity Disorder or an isolated whirlpool...

"Yes, of course. Maybe it will help if you give a concrete example from Steiner's articulation which you feel needs to be "challenged and widened and corrected", based on your own evolved knowledge at this time." I sense a 12% invitation to shadow dance in the above comment. If ...

I'm morbidly curious, because I've at least read enough to agree this school of thinking is cognizant of many logical non congruities that materialistic positions don't suffice to explain; will it ever be possible to mathematically measure some of the phenomena you might have experienced or the way...

I must concede that BK seems to revert to some degree of aporia here, as he continues to insist in his most recent interview that there is no evidence that any sense of some transcorporeal state of individuated selfhood persists when the corporeal expression of the dissociated alter dissolves. In w...

Yes, I can look at a tree, contemplate it, and not see that energy. Most people who are honest with themselves will say the same thing. Perhaps you and Ramana are the rare cases, which means you are very fortunate. The rest of us perceive everything from trees to the very dimensions of space and ti...

Lou, I am not sure where you got "not wanting to protect and defend" trees from my post. If that's all Maharshi said, then yes he was ignoring the concrete spiritual which is the living energy coursing within the tree, but I have a feeling he said more. I didn't get not wanting to defend ...

Genuine ethics is a hope to look forward to, just like peace and freedom, not a fixed reality which has existed from time immemorial. It is born from the integration of the physical (separated plane with self-consciousness) with the spiritual (unified plane of moral intuitions). If a philosopher, s...

I must concede that BK seems to revert to some degree of aporia here, as he continues to insist in his most recent interview that there is no evidence that any sense of some transcorporeal state of individuated selfhood persists when the corporeal expression of the dissociated alter dissolves. In w...

Post by bkastrup » Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:13 am In proposing that our individual minds are mere segments, or aspects, of an all-encompassing mind, analytic idealism offers solid ontological ground for compassion. The idea that, when you and I die, I'll experience the memories of your experiences, and y...