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 everyo...

... Thanks for sharing Ashvin. I gather from the passage that, at a first level, he is talking of what you would call living experience, correct? But with a specific accent on sensations. There seems to be an ounce of dualism though? When he separates understanding as imagining in a few brain cells...

Thank you, Cleric, for your words and encouragements! I agree with your conclusions, there is only one point left to clarify. We can certainly give examples that can be classified as feelings. For example - gratitude. We can certainly say "I feel grateful". And of course - Love. Here of c...

Now you say it is difficult for you to see feeling as an expression of spiritual activity. It is true that for most part feelings are quite independent of our activity "I feel good, I feel sad" and so on - we just register how we feel. But we can be active in feeling too. Think of forgive...

Oh dear dreamscape artists, if you only knew how far more dynamically and co-creatively involved you are in vastly greater dimensions of Reality than you re-cognize or give yourselves credit for, if only you could remember doing so upon re-focusing in this oh-so-limited slice of your infinite exist...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:20 am ...

Thank you, no worries! Not to diminish my appreciation for this benevolent post, I’ll for now refrain from asking about the new insights here. I will admit that in my case work is being quite busy at the moment on the other thread and tracing back : )

I will let Cleric address the issues around the asymmetry of W-F-T and your last paragraph. But we should really appreciate how, the moment we relegate Logic to abstraction or postulate, we are back to dualism - to a realm where Logic is essential to adaptive behavior and survival (the sensory worl...

I wonder if we can refocus on what really matters here and pick up the discussion there, with whatever further thoughts or questions you may have? Ashvin, In fact what's just happened on the other thread, where you and Cleric said ‘how strange you don’t realize your point is ultimately in line with...

You picked a difficult essay here, Federica! I wanted to point to another recent post by Cleric which also explores the nature of Time-experience from another angle, which was also easier for me to wrap my head around. https://metakastrup.org/viewtopic.php?p=17151#p17151 Also a couple preliminary p...

Well, I'd say memory is an archive of my previous experiential states, organised in order of their perceived significance or usefulness by some faculty of my mind. Things that had a great emotional impact, for example, will be easy to recall, while the name of a small grocery store I walked by once...