Philosophical Speculations

A couple of random questions have popped up for me in my continued research of Anthroposophy/Spiritual Science (ASS :D). What is the understanding of God? Steiner seems to say some things about this which seem to be in tension. At https://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com/Rudolf_Steiner%27s_Epistemology.php...

I'll read all of this carefully, thank you very much for the reply. Our impasse may be a consequence of how inhibiting words are. I view my desires as important but I do not view them as a 'truth' or of any substantive relevance to how one should pursue growth. Correlation isn't causation in that s...

I can't consider that truth as good or bad though. I don't think that'd make sense. To presume that there's an idealistic superposition over our materialistic reality as BK justifiably does in the face of certain absurdities is understandable. However, to extrapolate from this that our consciousnes...

Would higher consciousness enable me more self control and inner strength? I definitely consider the, not only materialistic, but 'typical' way people are taught to conceive of problems to be suboptimal even within the boundaries of what's considered mundane understanding, as if cultural paradigms ...

@Ashvin To be honest, I keep re-reading your question #1 and cannot figure out what it means. it's difficult for me to explain because I forget my source and am not familiarized with the science but let me try. I've heard of neuroscientists being absolutely sure that they know nothing is affecting ...

Yeah. This is key. The immediate conception of clairvoyance for most people is that a kind of extra layer of perceptions is overlaid on top of our ordinary senses (for example we begin to see shiny auras around people). This of course implicitly assumes that the relation of the thinking ego towards...

Hey monkey, Is there a reason why you ignore my responses to your comments like FB also ignores my responses to his comments? Not that it hurts my feelings, but it's a very strange thing to do when the responses are directly addressing what you are commenting re: Jung, don't you think? In all my ti...

I saw this movie (without ever reading the books), and without giving anything away, it fits the esoteric, archetypal Christ involutionary-evolutionary journey to a "T". It is definitely worth the 2.5 hrs (3 with previews) to watch in IMAX theater. It is true, all imaginative stories, esp...

This could go in the Art-forms section, but perhaps warrants some discussion here, on the power of story-making ... I saw this movie (without ever reading the books), and without giving anything away, it fits the esoteric, archetypal Christ involutionary-evolutionary journey to a "T". It ...

Anil starts by presupposing a material base, therefore what he genuinely sees as solutions won't actual address the real issues. That said, Steiner would write long glowing missives about people's ideas that we steeped in materialism. He wouldn't even necessarily spell out the deep problems with th...