Philosophical Speculations

It is really sad to see how the author's own cynicism is projected onto a great work of art, when there is nothing in a fair viewing of the movie which lends credence to anything written above. There is definitely the archetypal descent into the underworld, by the Charioteer of the soul (I am sure ...

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 ...

Cleric expressed a consistent idealist perspective on compassion very well when commenting on "spiritual change" recently: Let's consider an example. At some point or another we have all come across a beggar and we gave him some change. Our motives for this act are not always very clear. O...

Yes, j.joerg, DID is an extreme example, but we all have dissociated minds... I completely agree with all what you are saying. I just cannot see how this can be used as an argument for idealism. We do have associated minds just as much as dissociated. The recognition of a dissociated mental process...

Might we that M@L itself is fundamentally the blind, instinctive, eternally inhabiting all of it's living potentialities, but that it isn't until a very special 'kind' of potential is actualized in the form of an alter that M@L has the kinds of qualities Jung is attributing to Abraxas? In other wor...

In relation to the previous comments, we should see here how there is nothing "impersonal" about our own Thinking activity, in the sense of a nebulous force-field that we are somehow tapping into. That is unfortunately how modern people are habitually inclined to perceive their own spirit...

In relation to the previous comments, we should see here how there is nothing "impersonal" about our own Thinking activity, in the sense of a nebulous force-field that we are somehow tapping into. That is unfortunately how modern people are habitually inclined to perceive their own spirit...

I like that Starbuck. Makes me think of comments by Steiner when he goes out of his way to make clear that the nefarious aspect of 'materialism' is the style of thinking rather than the content of the thought and that he'd prefer a world of creative materialists than dogmatic anthroposophists. The ...

"So I would analogize that to the materialist coming up with all sorts of speculative theories about the world phenomena - no matter how absurd they get, some aspects of what they are putting out there will be genuinely thought-provoking for that reason." Well put. Great example of the ho...

What can you say about the "highest Spirit"? :) What can I not say about it? All is Spirit. I think what is most important for our purposes here is to recognize the function of the Spirit in our immanent experience. For that, I will quote Steiner. In thinking [activity of Spirit] we have ...