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- Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:23 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A Disconnect
- Replies: 30
- Views: 39676
Re: A Disconnect
Cleric, I've read your response here a number of times in the days since you posted it and it is finally started to resonate. Much of what you write is irrefutable. But the connection between spiritual activity and thinking would be challenged by the average theist who would want to maintain a sepa...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: The basics again
- Replies: 22
- Views: 39870
Re: The basics again
Hello everyone, I wanted to post a little Essay wich I have written 2 days ago. It is nothing new to many people in this forum, but I want to share it to get a clearer idea myself. Maybe it will help somebody unfamiliar with this topic, to understand the direction of this things. ------------------...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A Disconnect
- Replies: 30
- Views: 39676
Re: A Disconnect
One thing that has been animating me of late is what I perceive as a disconnect between various elements of esoteric/SS spiritual practice. On one hand we have the classical spiritual practices of prayer, devotion, ethical/moral development and the reading of spiritual texts. But then when we turn ...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:38 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A Disconnect
- Replies: 30
- Views: 39676
Re: A Disconnect
One thing that has been animating me of late is what I perceive as a disconnect between various elements of esoteric/SS spiritual practice. On one hand we have the classical spiritual practices of prayer, devotion, ethical/moral development and the reading of spiritual texts. But then when we turn ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A Disconnect
- Replies: 30
- Views: 39676
A Disconnect
One thing that has been animating me of late is what I perceive as a disconnect between various elements of esoteric/SS spiritual practice. On one hand we have the classical spiritual practices of prayer, devotion, ethical/moral development and the reading of spiritual texts. But then when we turn t...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 270
- Views: 170155
Re: Meditation
Anthony, I don't know if subsequent comments addressed your question in this post. I am also not really sure of the answer to your question. It may help to hear what meditative exercises you are doing and how vivid is the imagery? One thing to perhaps consider is how the fractal imagery hearkens ba...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
- Replies: 37
- Views: 41754
Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Re a simple camera . . . 1) a pinhole camera has no headset, has no design, and, 2) it's extremely unlikely a pinhole camera image is really chaotic and our headset instantly\simultaneously evolved to properly read this camera image nearly the same as we read the actual landscape. Are you suggestin...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 270
- Views: 170155
Re: Meditation
Reading some of what has been written here and listening to some Steiner talks on the topic of imaginative cognition makes me wonder whether I actually have attained it to some degree if it is essentially characterised by the formation of images in the absence of sensory objects. I would be very su...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:30 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 270
- Views: 170155
Re: Meditation
Is the highlighted the end of the road? You speak of these spiritual beings, perhaps lofty spiritual beings, but what about the perspective of the highest of the high, God himself? As you know, there are plenty of individuals who have claimed to have reached such levels. Heck, many a born again Chr...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:32 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 270
- Views: 170155
Re: Meditation
Reading some of what has been written here and listening to some Steiner talks on the topic of imaginative cognition makes me wonder whether I actually have attained it to some degree if it is essentially characterised by the formation of images in the absence of sensory objects. I would be very sur...