Philosophical Speculations

This is a continuation of our discussion with Mike from here . I wanted to further elaborate on the different ways we can think about thinking. The reply turned out to be quite substantial so I'm posting it as a kind of essay in a new thread. Vowels exercise I often mention the exercise "I thi...

And for how long should humanity keep strictly separated the world of academic thought and the world of Truth? Who are we serving by keeping these 'good manners' by not disturbing the secular world through the implications of the given facts? This is also why simply trying to prove materialism wron...

Eugene I. wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 10:28 pm

Ok, but this is just a restatement of your initial comment. You don't address one of the points I've made in response to it...

To address your point I would say: maybe, but how would you navigate to that conclusion?

This critical question is about Bernardo’s choice to introduce the idea of dissociation as a way to explain the de-combination of universal consciousness into each of our personal psyches. First, I would notice how Bernardo proceeds to reject a common objection to idealism, namely the natural order...

[/quote] In private conversations BK is usually open to the idea of the "persistence of a sense of ipseity after death". He is aware of a large body of NDE accounts supporting this idea, however, he does not take them as scientifically valid evidences, so, in his academic-level works he av...

Cleric K wrote: ↑Sun May 29, 2022 12:43 am

Thank you Cleric K,
This is very helpful, and not the least aggravating.
I also think the current times must be evolution’s kindergarten, suffice it to take a look at the state of the world and alas at some personal thinking patterns as well. Now taking time to get closer to these ideas.

If there is one critical question you could ask Bernardo, or one critique you could offer him, what would it be? I’m hosting AMAs on my Discord server and there is a good chance another round of questions with Bernardo is coming up in which we like to focus on criticism of analytic idealism (or Ber...

At best, this is a re-imagining of some point about corporeal death/dissolution being indicative of the end of the subject><object dynamic of the dissociative separate-self state. At which point, in BK's model, there is no discrete 'person' left to be a subject in relation to an object . To some ex...

I have zero knowledge of Rudolf Steiner. Until coming to this forum, Steiner was for me some sort of eclectic thinker somehow connected to alternative medicine and alternative education. That’s how far it goes in my books… So I want to read The Philosophy of Freedom and I can’t do it in German. Goog...

Hi findingblanks,
The initial BK statement is not crystal clear to me/I can't recall it from the books/videos I'm aware of. Could you please link it or give a more detailed report?