Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, Just briefly in response to your last post, the single/multiple streams is indeed a massive topic and is something I intend to explore in some depth going forward. Christopher Bache's book, "LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven" had quite an impact on me. I'm not ...

7. The role of collective subconscious forces which drive human spiritual evolution (and therefore all cultural transformations). We are in the home straight of fleshing out a few details of your original list! I actually feel I'm starting to grok Anthroposophy at a basic level and I thank you for ...

In your last response, you quoted Steiner where he offers a symbolic depiction of the unified configuration of reality. This parallels the blind men trying to describe the elephant analogy. The problem evident is that while reality may well be unified, the perspective of the individual appears const...

We've hit the halfway mark! 5. The role of imaginative cognition, i.e. "image-consciousness" which is reflected in all mythology and aesthetics, as applied to our current perception-cognition of the world. I've read the last few of your essays and I think I have a reasonable handle on this...

Ashvin, I wish there was some form of thumbs up mechanism I could use to let you know I have read your prior responses. Be assured I have and I thank you again for them. Note, it is not my intention at this stage to provide any significant push back - I'm in an understanding phase. I think the next ...

Let us move along to point 2. 2. How that relation has evolved ("metamorphosed") over time, particularly from ancient Egyptian epoch to modern age. I guess the main issue raised here is the understanding of the individuated/dissociated unit of consciousness. Is the model individual, somewh...

This seems as one of those forever unresolvable conflicts. Yet it is resolvable but through inner experience. Outer words can sketch the path to the experience but it can only be walked through the good will of the individual. I must admit to being a little wary with respect to resolution through i...

Thanks again! ... (7) Sight-sense "In seeing we take into ourselves more of the properties of the external world than we do with the sense of smell." ... The physicalist model of visual perception has the physics of light, the optical processing, the receptors, the nerve impulses, the neur...

Ashvin, I'm going to continue to ask a clarifying question or two in relation to your list. 1. Inseparable relation of perception and cognition as it manifests in our current experience. I think this one is reasonably clear. What are the objects of perception you have in mind? Are they confined to t...

Thanks for the link Herger The Joyous. I have to admit I'm on the fence with respect to Steiner at this point. I've started reading PoF and I'm finding him to be a very incisive thinker. However some of his work (as encapsulated in the video you post) lights up my BS detector to near max at this sta...