Philosophical Speculations

Hey AshvinP, to Monkey you said: "Again, I am wondering because I just find it very odd for two different people to carry on what appears to be a 100% personal dialogue between themselves about Steiner, Jung, BK and their spiritual ideas (or potentially spiritual for BK) on a public thread.&qu...

Hi, Great article. Let us understand what came first reality or language and words in the language. I am sure everyone knows that reality was there first. Coexistence as a reality of the form and the formless expressed itself slowly as evolution progressed. In the material world there was just nois...

Bravo on all the time, effort and vigorous thought that went into this fascinating essay! FB - thank you, especially for reading it! I know we have been at each other's throats, so to speak, since the Steiner-Schop thread. It's safe to say I grew very frustrated with your approach and you with mine...

https://i.ibb.co/LQFyYKv/Blackboard-art-year-4-Bogong-Moth-e1565143493862.jpg “We must not forget that nine-tenths of the words comprising the vocabulary of a civilised nation are never used by more than at most one tenth of the population; while of the remaining tithe, nine-tenths of those who use...

Therein, I feel, lays at least one description of Jung's unfolding distinctiveness: " When we distinguish qualities of the pleroma naked glory, we are speaking from the ground of our own distinctiveness and concerning our own distinctiveness . But we have said nothing concerning the pleroma na...

Yes, TF, I did say direclty that "Steiner made mistakes" and, yes, I did claim that he was wrong that red is what causes a bull to go wild. I directly gave other direct examples. In short sentences. Some of the resposnes where that I am deceptive and guided by evil beings. Yes, P.M., I di...

... Then asking if Kastrup is speaking of the same thing, just in different terms, when he suggests that Mind (I prefer this to consciousness in this context) is the ontological primitive and the one thing we must assume because we can not reduce any further. So we can't get 'behind' it to observe ...

And, yes, to those who were wondering. I can reach a point where I feel a person's antipathy is so entrenched that I can't find any value in trying to keep a conversation going. You've seen that with some of the folks here. But I like Soul, probably for several reasons. I think it is a respect for ...

>>>For that idea to be coherently asserted, it must exist and correspond to something in observational experience.<<< Nope. Harry Potter is, as mentioned earlier, a counterexample. Harry Potter does NOT exist. Redness and any other color does not exist, either. Each is NO-thing but assigned, ascrib...

"To exist" merely symbolizes "causes its awareness=is-ness=existence=no-thing) by - an observation process (see, hear, touch, smell, taste) - a detection process in a technical device. If you doubt that an apple exists, then you are merely trying to re-define. For this reasion i chal...