Philosophical Speculations

But isn't it possible, even likely, that the more one feels the metaphysical exercise is valuable and satisfactory, the less one is motivated to pursue any experiential Gnosis? I would say the last few centuries has made this likely possibility into a confirmed reality. Of course it is possible and...

Thanks Cleric, yes, I also share this view and that's why I said in my previous post " the melding of such philosophical paradigm with the spiritual practice and spiritual and intellectual development of our consciousness beyond the boundaries of the human level of the intellect", and by t...

Cleric, so, what's your opinion on the self-causality hypothesis? Do you think it is plausible within the framework of the Steinerian idealism?

Can you now be more specific about what you support and what you agree/disagree with? Cleric, I agree with #2, and from my own experience I can confirm that we have access to different levels of the developmental hierarchy even in our human form according to the individual level of the spiritual an...

To elaborate further: however, even though the Buddhists had that insight into the self-causality of the ontic Prime, they, as well as Avdvaitists and Christians, missed an important aspect of it, namely the fundamental role of the highest Intellect and its ideas (Logos in Christianity or Thinking i...

Adding to the root post, it's interesting to note that the idea of the self-originating reality was also discovered long time ago in Buddhism, see below a quote from the Tantra of the Great Perfection dated to around 8-th century. Needless to say, the Dzogchen school of Buddhism where this tantra be...

It is indeed difficult to get a proper experience of this verticality of Time, its integration. The reason is that we can't do that simply by arranging thoughts in some clever sequence. We need completely new cognitive skills. I'll use your reference to the block universe (which has also been used ...

Stranger, Be it as you state that this scheme closes some open questions, the scheme also seems to originate and leave unanswered just as many, if not more. A couple of them: We are approaching a mystery here that likely cannot be fully understood with our current human cognitive capacities, so the...

This forum used to be about many things. It is now only about one thing. One thing which has been repeated ad nauseum. Cleric outlined the central thesis of Structured Idealism very coherently and clearly a long time ago. For some reason we haven't - from a scientific perspective - been able to mov...

I would like to share a metaphysical hypothesis within the framework of idealism. This hypothesis addresses and resolves a number of fundamental metaphysical problems such as the problem of the prime cause (“why there is something rather than nothing?”), the question whether the MAL is metacognitive...