Philosophical Speculations

Anthony, feel free to DM if you want to chat. The section in PoF when Steiner speaks about the way a percept is always 'hiding' its cognitive aspect, is golden. This is was already illuminated in great imaginative detail by Cleric. I invite you (FB) to actually read this full post and think through...

Hi FB, Fascinating and funny too. Does this use of information from guides conflict at all with the injunction from Spiritual Science not to use information from the guides for personal gain? They don't take money and they're obviously wary of notoriety too. What rules do they use to decide who to ...

Anthony, "and still the ontological character of a percept remains elusive..." That's such a good sign. "From what I've read (which is limited), Steiner doesn't come out and say that percepts are ideal." In 1916 when he began to try rearticulating some of the fundamental concept...

Ashvin has got a lot of pushback for the prolific nature of his posts. I felt the need to push back as well, not too long ago (although there was a definite curiosity too). I think he may have mentioned the ego once or twice. This 'I' here was still (temporarily, it came and went) largely merged wi...

Thanks Ashvin. From what I've read (which is limited), Steiner doesn't come out and say that percepts are ideal. But I'll lock your response here as part of the jigsaw puzzle. I look forward to your next essay. Anthony, I am not sure if you saw it, but the essay was posted, "Solipsism: Facts a...

In the idealist perspective, reality is consciousness. So how can it evolve? It can't evolve from less consciousness to more since it was presumably already perfect consciousness in the beginning. How does consciousness evolve in a timeless world? There is fundamental contradiction between idealism...

Bernardo clearly grasps Barfield's most general points, but hard to know if Bernardo agrees with Barfield's key insights regarding an evolution of consciousness; which, by the way, implies that nature-man evolved only-always together. Sometimes Bernardo talks about non-idealism metaphysicis as if t...

And from the beginning Sam Harris has articulated why 'new-atheists' is a horrible term. He's articulated why 'atheist' isn't his preference for framing his particular arguement against the notion of a God up in the Sky who controls things. And, to boot, Sam Harris has explained in detail why he ch...

Lots of posts are missing here, but I just wanted to update things: Bernardo is now publically claiming that Sam Harris is acting free from an Eastern tradition and just teaching that meditation is to make us calm and feel good. Trust me, you can love Bernardo and his work and be very curious as to...

Must this dead horse really be beaten again? We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times. Rudolf Steiner Context. Thinking. Discernment. The borders of these other special sciences must be cr...