Philosophical Speculations

Hey Soul, I'm sorry that this isn't yet definitive but since you want to read these and seem to have a bit of time, I figure you might get to them faster if I inch you along with me as my friends get back to me with ideas. My friend Max thinks that the lecture wasn't explicitly about physics but th...

That's Jung for you. ' The evil one is holy .' it sent shivers down my spine as I nodded my head and exhaled. It's what I meant by beautifully terrifying and is one of the things that stands out for me about him and his work. His capacity to embrace 'darkness' and 'light', to gain insight from both...

This is really great feedback and I agree, thanks. “Unconscious” is a bit of a misnomer anyway. Do you have any book recommendations for this? I do, but, since you are already familiar with BK idealist framework, I think it would be best for you to check out Cleric's essay on this forum - Beyond th...

My first thought is that the human that produces that is obviously producing something incredibly specific and particular. Our abstracted tendency might be to notice elements that we experience as abstract patterns, but we have added those. Standing in the artist's shoes, we experience a very speci...

I like that. I find that my materialistic friends (those who deny free will) are just as good and just as bad at mustering up their will power as my idealist friends. So far I simply don't believe we have any evidence that the content of one's intellectual stance on free will helps us predict a per...

I know I just wrote a post elsewhere that I never bring up Steiner first... Tsk-tsk ... Sometimes I get the feeling that I could start a topic about the pros and cons of using the bongcloud opening moves in chess, and there would be a Steiner lecture somewhere that pertains to that too :D https://t...

I know I just wrote a post elsewhere that I never bring up Steiner first... BUT, I just came across this tweet from Matt Segall and it seems too relevant here to pass up sharing. As usual, Steiner takes a spiritual evolutionary understanding and integrates it with sociocultural dynamics. We have a h...

Life is short. We have to find those thinkers that we connect to even if we don't agree with them completely. Agreed and could we also agree to have at least a number of posts which do not mention Rudolph Steiner? I'd be interested in your response to my earlier post where I gave you my answer to y...

"Does anyone know if Steiner actually slept?" You are going to hate/scold/doubt me for this, but I feel it is at least okay in this dancing of shadow's context: There is an account from somebody who knew Steiner personally that Steiner had mentioned teaching this person a meditation that ...

I am not an atheist, nor even an agnostic. Keep that in mind, because I am not saying that the Bible promotes atheism. Quite the opposite of course—but there is a passage in the Bible that helps us Jews and Christians to understand why some people are atheist/agnostic, and why we cannot persuade th...