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- Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What causes bad trips?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 9473
Re: What causes bad trips?
For those who are still confused about this "reversal" Cleric writes of above, as I initially was, I want to comment two things: 1) In general, for modern intellect, "reversals" of all sorts are very difficult to comprehend. Even if we do comprehend it for a little while, we jus...
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What Do "I" Know? (Part B)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 316
What Do "I" Know? (Part B)
https://i.ibb.co/LS1x72d/Strange-Attractor.png “I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the Self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the Self." - Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962) We began speaking of the essential " I &qu...
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 1:15 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Principles of Mind and Philosophy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1724
Re: Principles of Mind and Philosophy
Grant, Thanks for the response, and no worries on the timing. The manuscript you shared reflects my position well. I think I should reaffirm that — as per my view — the mind doesn’t “recreate internally the total perceptual content which exists externally”, but falsely assumes that it does…(Hence wh...
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:43 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What causes bad trips?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 9473
Re: What causes bad trips?
This is not a simple symmetric reversal. When the process is reversed we have the chance to differentiate something which otherwise is always fused together. Some months ago we had long conversations with our friend findingblanks who turns PoF into a grotesque caricature for the simple reason that ...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What causes bad trips?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 9473
Re: What causes bad trips?
A comment: I think we are getting confused with labels again. "No-thing-ness" and "I" are the words pointing to the same Reality. "I" is exactly "no-thing-ness" because it's not a "thing", it is "formless" because it has no form but it is ...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What causes bad trips?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 9473
Re: What causes bad trips?
So, I only see two possibilities: a) I don't understand what Cleric is saying, and he doesn't understand what I'm saying. b) I do understand what Cleric is saying, and he doesn't understand what I'm saying. To get out of this conundrum, I guess we need to ask Cleric: does he think I understand what...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What causes bad trips?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 9473
Re: What causes bad trips?
Look, guys, none of what Cleric is writing will make sense if you don't choose to have a little bit of humility, self-awareness, open mind, and see how your egoic prejudices are influencing all of your thoughts on this topic. Adur, you are especially projecting your own egoism onto Cleric here - &q...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What causes bad trips?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 9473
Re: What causes bad trips?
Thank you Eugene! I totally agree with you here. I haven't read all your exchanges with Cleric and Ashvin (I simply can't keep up with the volume of posts), but in general I think I agree with your view. I usually try to take a non-confrontational stance, but I must admit in that post I got a littl...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Are there any SIMPLE books refuting what Bernardo calls "The materialism of qualities"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 6599
Re: Are there any SIMPLE books refuting what Bernardo calls "The materialism of qualities"?
Actually the "truth" is evident in Hoffman's desktop analogy. The icons for files on my desktop really do represent underlying files stored on disk. Depending upon the nature of the file, the icon may tell me about the structure of the file (PDF, Word Doc, etc). It may have a title which ...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Are there any SIMPLE books refuting what Bernardo calls "The materialism of qualities"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 6599
Re: Are there any SIMPLE books refuting what Bernardo calls "The materialism of qualities"?
Actually the "truth" is evident in Hoffman's desktop analogy. The icons for files on my desktop really do represent underlying files stored on disk. Depending upon the nature of the file, the icon may tell me about the structure of the file (PDF, Word Doc, etc). It may have a title which ...