Philosophical Speculations

Hi Ashvin, Thanks for clarifying your point in the above two posts. I definitely understand and agree with the expansive support and reflective potential enclosed in scientific conceptions, which, as you say, is exemplified, for instance, in the numerous mathematical and scientific analogies Cleric...

I agree with the overall spirit of your post, but I want to clarify what I meant by 'expanding our states'. A simple question we can ask is, what can't we do now that we could do previously? Does modern technology make it impossible for us to explore more spiritual states of being or does it actual...

To start with, I would attract attention to the fact that modern technology, rather than a way of expanding our states, is a way of altering them. It restricts them just as much as (if not more than) it expands them. Of course, these states are not only perceptual in the sense of sensory-like, but ...

Regarding the scenes from Holy Week - Yes! I am following them closely and appreciating them very much. Actually, I have prioritized these guided reflections over all else this week, and I'm trying to start from these scenes to improve my very poor knowledge of the Christ events (intellectually, bu...

Yes, I surely recognize all this. Obviously a lacking experimentation is at the foundation of many struggles, which is absolutely my case. It's my current struggle to reconcile an increasing involvement with everyday life - more work, tasks, preoccupations, etc. - with keeping up the most important...

... Thanks, I'm sure these characterizations help to make better sense of for example this: As regards its original essence, man's astral body has its origin in the higher world, in the spiritual world proper. Within that sphere it is a being of the same nature as other beings whose activity is exe...

Ashvin, Here you seem to say that manifestation (not only mineral but all phenomena) equals being conscious, and we should understand physicality as that?? Are you saying that there is for example a true and a fake astral body, the true being the truly-true astral and the fake being the physical as...

re: physical-etheric bodies without the Fall - this post by Cleric was very illuminating for me. I am struggling with that post: Actually the physical body is not the source of evil but it has become what it is (and the whole environment) in the process of the Fall. In spiritual sense, the physical...

Ok, I understand in broad outlines. From your initial post I had received the impression that this work was achievable here and now (the Kingdom is at hand). But In the context of the whole solar evolution, it's less difficult to picture this progressive work. I am still not clear what the physical...

Thank you for your kind response Federica. I understand what you are saying in fact I just watched his analytic idealism course regarding the unconscious. What I am wondering is this: What is aware of my unconscious mental states when I am not meta-conscious of them. Do my unconscious mental states...