Philosophical Speculations

If I remember correctly, you are quite astute with mathematical thinking, so it somewhat surprises me the concentration is so difficult for you (although I do remember you had mentioned it before). Have you worked with the mathematical transformations that Cleric has suggested elsewhere, i.e. start...

Sorry I should have added that I'm leading a study on "Experiencing God" next month where I intend to talk about higher knowledge but I'm struggling how to connect "God" to higher knowledge. My simple answer is that the experience of God is an "asymptotic state", approa...

I believe the Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition stages (as defined by Rudolf Steiner) is describing that process. If I understand so far, the Imagination stage is where one can start seeing spiritual imagery (which might be symbolic images for example?), or maybe seeing the forms that underli...

Cleric, Does the following article and associated journal paper suggest you need to reassess your assertion I have bolded? Personally I'm unsure as I don't have the biological training to fully understand what the researchers actually achieved. But on the face of it, it seems like they were able to...

... 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...