Philosophical Speculations

I get what you're saying, but I'm one of those folks who can't imagine/picture stuff in my head, so no imaginary bird for me. But even so, the thought-image of a bird, or the promotion of a memory to consciousness - there is no evidence I generated or produced or even chose these images, they simpl...

Bad materialism. Let’s look at it. What I think is missing in your account of the havoc of materialism is the most important reason why materialism is bad. No worries I am not about to resort back to those philosophical mannerisms longing for axiomatic elegance and parsimony. No need. The worst out...

Question re the phrase 'production of a thought' - - Do we produce thoughts? For example, perceptions (seeing, hearing, touching, etc.) . . . we don't produce them . . . the world appears and there is appreciation of these perceptions with what level of clarity (of perception) there is, and, there ...

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. Goo...

- the developmental paths are not deterministically shaped by Karma, but rather are an interplay of Karmic curvatures and the free will and creativity of conscious beings on all levels. Yes, that's why I wrote: We should immediately say that this structure is not fixed, it is not like GR's block un...

The criticism is not meant to demean BK's efforts but only to point attention that we need to be vigilant for something. I'm fully aware that most people would say "BK's mission is to simply take the first step - show the inconsistencies of materialism. Others will continue the work further.&qu...

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 wrong...

The question is, if we look at it from the higher-self perspective: if the higher self already has all the higher-level powers and knowledge, then what is the purpose of its human incarnations and individuation into intellectual sovereign lover-selves? Does the higher self learn anything new or acq...

I understand (I hope) the point as illustrated here. It is about seeing the apex of the cone from the inside, which equals calling it out, and so getting ready to overcome it. Ok. Now I have a question. Striving to own the first-person perspective also requires that we consider this path from insid...

Can one go anywhere free from speculations or postulates of any sorts in philosophy? I don't know about philosophy but we can certainly do that in phenomenology. When thinking is kept completely distinct from the spectrum of phenomena, we have the inner duality between the philosopher, knower, who ...