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by Cleric K
Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:36 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Rudolf Steiner's Fifth Gospel by John David Ebert
Replies: 118
Views: 15438

Re: Rudolf Steiner's Fifth Gospel by John David Ebert

:)
Just think what the very same authors that come up with these articles, would concoct, if they had to write something about your own stuff.
by Cleric K
Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:29 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

Nice try :) , but I'm still not convinced. Yes, our field of awareness has a mysterious quality of wholeness, all our experiences, thoughts and perceptions are always inseparably integrated into the oneness of consciousness. Yet, this does not mean that such wholeness represents a noun ("entit...
by Cleric K
Sun Jan 31, 2021 3:11 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

If it is never seen how it is possible to prove that it exists? I think we already agreed in another thread that what we know from our direct conscious experience is the definite presence of the "causative spiritual activity" in our conscious experience, which we linguistically can label ...
by Cleric K
Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:40 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

OK. However, thinking does not precede everything we can be. That's what the previous post was about. We awaken into our life as ready-made beings. We don't create consciously our physical, etheric, astral bodies. All this was created for us. Our "I" simply gets into the driver seat. That...
by Cleric K
Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:37 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

That's why thinking (as far as we are cognitive beings) is primary. Because even the word "I" is already a product of thinking. As soon as we produce "I", we create the split in the World. We oppose this "I" to everything else, that now becomes not-I. These splits come ...
by Cleric K
Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:08 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

The "I" is the thing that sees but is never seen. Common analogy is "just as the eye sees but can never see itself" (assuming no mirrors). The thoughts that we ourselves produce (for example the words of the voice in our head), when consciously observed, are the only thing within...
by Cleric K
Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:31 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

OK, no problem.

It all boils down to our ability to observe thinking - the voice in our head. If you can pronounce slowly "I think" in your mind and be able to observe what you are doing, you are basically observing your own thinking.
by Cleric K
Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:09 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

I don't understand, can you elaborate plz ? OK. Before this and the things below, can make sense, one must make the effort to observe one's own thinking . The thing is that normally, when we think about something, we experience the meaning of what we think but we are not conscious of the thinking p...
by Cleric K
Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:23 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo
Replies: 103
Views: 14822

Re: Metaphysics - Idealism without woo-woo

OK, my bad, probably the word 'absolute' is inappropriate. To be honest, I have no idea how exactly it is used in strictly philosophical context :) I had something fairly simple in mind. Think of the words "thinking exists". Not just as something external but the actual experience of prono...
by Cleric K
Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:55 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Idealist vision for 2050?
Replies: 122
Views: 14450

Re: Idealist vision for 2050?

Thank you, Lou :)