Philosophical Speculations

You described a progression of self-similar states where a given frame contains embedded within itself the patterns of others. Stated differently, a successor state doesn't have a discontinuity with respect to prior states....except when it comes to the absolute state. The absolute state doesn't se...

There are definitely structures/curvatures/attractors in the universe of meanings just like there are laws and structures in the physical realm. Yet, in both realms these are only frameworks, they shape but do not pre-determine the process of the unfolding of life. There is so-called "butterfl...

I'm trying to understand the dilema here . . . For example, as I sit here and look out my window, over the course of a few minutes, there are a large number of impressions, configuration of birds, plants, joggers, visual and auditory, etc. Is the question: Did each of these impressions already exis...

Did you really mean "infinitely many conceivable states"? I was expecting the absolute state to encompass all the states that were actually temporally realized. We had a progression of self-similar states which imposed a constraint on the sequence and then we have an absolute state which ...

Cleric, yes I'd already gone through your post to Eugene before I saw your response here. I feel like it is one of your most significant and I'll have to read it through a few times to really grok what you are saying about the absolute state. Of course your focus there was the "final" sta...

I wonder how the depth reality you depict here relates to what is discussed in: In short, Westcott Louden here and elsewhere argues that the structure of DMT experiences mirrors that of the 4-fold state - waking, dreaming, deep sleep void, formless awareness - described in the Mandukya Upanishad. H...

All of this certainly does require meditative effort! If we speak in terms of "frames" and trace these back, is there a "first frame" or "alpha point" of frames? Again, here I'm exploring God-like concepts viewed from a SS perspective. Anthony, please consider my previ...

This is a very good question, Cleric, and I do not know the answer, but it's one of the questions on my "to find out list" once I get out the body. This has been gone through many times but it's precisely this tendency to wait for death in order to find the supposed truth there, which sup...

3. Why does Steiner's name have such a negative connotation? Most people think he's a weirdo. Just as Ashvin noted, anyone who dares today to speak of depth of reality will be condemned as a weirdo. This is the reason also why BK prefers to stay on the borderline. This is the reason why most spirit...

Cleric, I would add that the curvatures of potentials and meanings are not something that is pre-destined to us and only created by higher-order beings, but that they are constantly being reshaped by all beings involved, both higher-order and lower-order. Beings on higher levels of development cert...