Philosophical Speculations

... Watching animations like these leaves one wondering how could it be that molecules which are supposed to wiggle in their statistical Brownian dynamics, exhibit such orchestrated behavior. And indeed, the idea that the laws of physics, as we know them when studying isolated particles in highly c...

So we need to find where God lives in our experience - in what activity does He come to expression? One could label this activity many things - in our activity of love, conscience, devotion, hope, upward striving, etc. But to express it in a way that encompasses all those, we could call it thoughtf...

I'm not really sure what you are speaking of anymore. I am not interested in conditioning my thinking to sectarian debates about Covid that are in vogue these days, because I know nothing positive for spiritual development can come from that. That was never the topic of this thread, so let's keep i...

That's 6 decades of abstract intellectual training, Anthony, based on physical facts. We all need to come to terms with the fact that such training is practically useless when confronting spiritual realities. It is only useful in so far as we can redirect the power of that thinking into orthogonal ...

Practically anything relating concretely to spiritual reality is going to sound "nutter" to a person still thinking abstractly, i.e. who only wants to build a neat theoretical system out of spiritual concepts that 'feel right' to our 'BS detector' rather than trace how they actually perme...

The quote is nutty in itself but I have listened to Powell with all his Covid conspiracy theories which we know are utterly out to lunch. Steiner's PoF framework is rock solid. His broader esoteric musings take some time to get your head around but for the most part appear to be on the mark. But th...

Do you have a sense at all that Powell is a nutter? For me, the words that he utters sound like they come from an AI engine trained from Deepak Chopra's collection of works. I know Steiner recommends one keep an open mind to new ideas but surely there must be some limit to garbage we expose ourselv...

... Do you have a sense at all that Powell is a nutter? For me, the words that he utters sound like they come from an AI engine trained from Deepak Chopra's collection of works. I know Steiner recommends one keep an open mind to new ideas but surely there must be some limit to garbage we expose our...

... Here, therefore, we see that, owing to the nine spheres of evil inserted between humanity and the realm of the Mother, the path to the Mother is beset with difficulty; however, this path is possible with Christ. Indeed, Steiner emphasized that opening the way to Shambhala is the central meaning...

Anthony, I should have been more clear. It seems to me that many people will start on an inner path without a deeply rooted sense of reverence, devotion, love, etc. for God, in which case we can meditate/concentrate on many other symbolic images to enter into the flow of our attentive activity wher...