Philosophical Speculations

I agree with the notion of an advancing expanding enhancing human Spirit endlessly running new experiments to see what works or fits best and see a multitude of religious and non-religious paths unfolding and enfolding in an ongoing process without a singular gate. P.S. Yah, there are a 'multitude'...

David, pleeeeze! I am religious. I do not "pooh-pooh labeling them as 'religious'." Oh! Then, so I may better grok where you are coming from and intend to go to, pleeeeze define what you mean by 'religious', smoke-and-mirrors- mystery wielding sha man. :D The Me-to-We challenge we face is...

For those who are too young or whose exposure has been too 'provincial' to be familiar with Aldous Huxley and/or his book, The Perennial Philosophy (free pdf download available here , here's a relevant blurb (copied from http://www.freepdf.info/index.php?post/2012/07/10/Huxley-Aldous-The-Perennial-P...

For those who groove on intelligent interviews, here's one by Mike Wallace interviewing the author of The Perennial Philosophy



Enjoy!

I agree with the notion of an advancing expanding enhancing human Spirit endlessly running new experiments to see what works or fits best and see a multitude of religious and non-religious paths unfolding and enfolding in an ongoing process without a singular gate. P.S. Yah, there are a 'multitude'...

David, pleeeeze! I am religious. I do not "pooh-pooh labeling them as 'religious'." Oh! Then, so I may better grok where you are coming from and intend to go to, pleeeeze define what you mean by 'religious', smoke-and-mirrors- mystery wielding sha man. :D The Me-to-We challenge we face is...

Cleric, I suspect that the 'root' disagreement is that you may see development as a individual process, which would naturally align with a singular 'gate' whereas I see an "I-Thou" or "Me-to-We" or species-level step in which many gates opening for separate individuals may occur...

What's more reasonable/possible a) solipsism being the case b) consciousness being derived from something non-conscious An attempt at 'forced' choice? My answer is: (c) Neither! 😁 Consider the analog ical idea of a 'seed' or 'root' that is 'Conscious'. Are the branches and leaves that grown from IT...

findingblanks wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:35 pm What's more reasonable/possible

a) solipsism being the case
b) consciousness being derived from something non-conscious

An attempt at 'forced' choice? My answer is:

(c) Neither!

Brilliantly en visioned and eloquently said, Cleric! Through the efforts of beings from on all stages of evolution, the complicated biological gradient has become possible which allows the Spirit to experience itself ... ... Now the Spirit locked in all these mineral, plant, animal and human forms w...