Philosophical Speculations

I just remembered this band, having listened to them some time ago and really liking their music. This time around I also read their lyrics, and found that they all deal with metaphysics and spiritual existentialism. The music itself is top notch, 10/10 in my opinion and doesn't resemble anything a...

During your exercise (with the vocal ones), I noticed that when I consciously transform my thoughts(aeiou), I don't know exactly how I do it, it just happens through my intention or will. I couldn't find out more. I cannot describe this will. This is perfectly normal. Our spiritual activity is alwa...

Cleric, Thank you for your time and effort in making these things easier to understand for me. I read your posts and find them very instructive, especially the trilogy "the center of the central topic". Kind regards Thank you Guney for your positive feedback. You're really at an age where...

About our activity is meaning, which expresses itself in thought form. My first question is, if thoughts are part of my world content, and are not separate, but only come about through thought, and the thoughts are expressions of meaning, then who am I? The thoughts are there. Who thinks? isn't thi...

I'm not sure if you've addressed my concern. For example, at https://metakastrup.org/viewtopic.php?p=10263&sid=dcb8c4b11cef887c55f017e216d3dbaa#p10263 you say: This is not the end however. Anyone who honestly thinks about this will have to admit that even though we feel directly responsible for...

Hi Cleric I don't get this at all. In the first state I mentioned in my last post, Self-Remembering, you're not at all getting rid of willing. Actually, and to the contrary, if you are not in a state of self-remembering / mindfulness, you are not really willing or acting . You are responding comple...

I'm saying, as I just said to Hedge, I'll try different words, it's a feeling of unity, bliss, and happiness. And it's all encompassing, which does not mean it's an experience of the One World and everything that it experiences. It's non-dual, because there's no duality. Again, words fail. OK. Now ...

When I contemplate/meditate upon Reality, I don't find any feminine/masculine sentiments Maybe because you still see things as purely abstract concepts, divorced from any 'direct experience' as you call it. The whole video game analogy was intended to make things as directly experienceable as possi...

Cleric, What confidence can we have in our logical reasoning faculty? If I am currently in an "unliberated" state, unaware of the nature of the forces pulling my cognitive strings, is not my thinking to be viewed with great suspicion (by my thinking :? )? Interestingly, I've often tried t...

Re stepping out the ‘movie’ it’s not difficult or counter intuitive. Essentially, begin with your life right now as it is and add unbounded knowing presence of being. There is no stepping out or banishment of thought, etc., it is simply adding unbounded knowing presence of being. We’ve all had glim...