Philosophical Speculations

How do we know or establish the sense world is a 'disconnected chaos'? This seems more like a Materialist position - the world is a-swirl of sub atomic particles or probability waves. I think the point is to draw our attention to the fact that stimulation of the sensory organs is a necessary but no...

You are definitely correct to tie it in with sacrifice (delayed gratification), which was really the discovery of 'the future' by our ancient spiritual ancestors. This is the task: to transform our abstract concept of "the future," conceived linearly as a series of states, into the concre...

Ashvin, thank you for your thought. What you say sounds good, all our movements would be a permanent connection and, in that sense, a prayer. I made the question because usually what is understood as a prayer is a set of words, I thought that may be there is in SS a specific prayers or method to sa...

Lots to ponder over here, Ashvin. I will pick up on a point that I hope you won't consider trivial: Our thinking ideations are manifested in the world when they meet the resistance of our willing organism. The less resistance those ideations encounter, the more degrees of freedom they have to manif...

To build on what Ashvin wrote: I think another way to think of it is to say that the creative principle, sometimes called The Logos, that is responsible for the existence of the world is also present in us, as us in the deepest sense. Insofar as we are not conscious of this presence (i.e. perhaps it...

I don't know if this applies to this thread, but I was watching a video of a woman who claims to have studied Anthroposophy and Steiner, speaking of an exercise she does where she schedules a meeting with herself in the future, beginning with something simple such as, I will touch my ear lobe tomor...

Thank you Ashvin, and Cleric, for the responses to my queries. To simplify it, we can say that we'll have one experience if we anchor ourselves in feeling and experience how thinking goes by, or if we anchor ourselves in thinking and experience how feeling goes by. This is quite vaguely put but it ...

Thank you for the response, Ashvin, and for sharing your insights so eloquently and concisely in the excerpt from your essay. The formal archetype of music is immensely illuminating in respect to trying to grasp the essence of time. One statement that you made invited yet another question that I hav...

Hi all, and thank you for the lively discussions on these topics. I also wish to extend a special thanks to Cleric. I have been trying to bring myself up to speed on some of these conversations and I have found myself consistently impressed at Cleric's ability to draw attention, in descriptions tha...