Philosophical Speculations

I see a perfect plan that was there from the beginning, a plan that is instinctually self-correcting via lots of beings performing the trials-and-errors that result in the corrections.

Carrying the discussion further might be possible by looking at the struggle for independence from colonial rule in India. Two stellar saintly examples were Ramana Maharshi and Mahatma Gandhi. RM sat it out because the result was fated and thus there was no reason to bother. MG said "Be the cha...

I feel like the old gelding sitting in the barn. I've lived a life full of observations, decisions then concrete actions now I spend my days sitting in a barn mostly. When I look at the present state of affairs I see humanity living solidly in the world of the "Peter Principal". As amazin...

It 's an interesting question whether changing minds and views makes all that much difference. Personally I'm not sure of the exact answer. It seems like there is a huge amount of inertia in the trends of history. Many minds can do little more than go with the flows. Possibly even many minds can ch...

Doesn't that imagery of plant striving up towards its Source lose a lot of potency when we add, " but, alas, it never shall reach ..."? It does for me. No I don’t think it does. The plant that wants to be the sun thinks that the sun get’s it’s energy from photosynthesis. The wise plant ke...

Aka panentheism ;) Haha ... yes I’m happy with a weak panentheism. The challenge is that many flavours of panentheism are fairly strong where the universe (mind/substance/forms + matter/representation/things) are god. To me that’s a bit like saying the sun is shining on some plants, so the plants a...

Good for you. Any sense of being among the rather privileged few? [/i] Not at all, I've a sense of being among everyOne else who are not intrinsically incapable of grokking this, except for being indoctrinated into a mindset that serves to thwart it. If it were just a function of being 'privileged'...

Well, given what I understand constitutes actual idealism, rather than some quasi version that doesn't really grok the profound implications for the here and now, if I were to suddenly find myself homeless and hungry, it would not lessen the indelible knowing of the primacy of consciousness one iot...

Well, given what I understand constitutes actual idealism, rather than some quasi version that doesn't really grok the profound implications for the here and now, if I were to suddenly find myself homeless and hungry, it would not lessen the indelible knowing of the primacy of consciousness one iot...

Yes! And there's no necessary conflict with the Judeo-Christian notion of a Creator if one understands Nature as an expression of God's glory. After all is said, can anything be not God? For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still ...