Philosophical Speculations

I'm a direct first person experiencer of the process known as 'active dying' in medical circles. No, I'm not Lazarus returned from the dead to tell you all. I'm just going through the late stage of heart failure. It's not a bowl of cherries, no one likes to suffer on the material level but fear on t...

I made no comment about not being judged. Francis would say true happiness would be having a peaceful heart no matter what is happening. OK, because you said "which feels (even momentarily) as a freedom from judging or being judged " , I wanted to clear that out. Please excuse me Cleric b...

Great question. Thanks Cleric. Imperfect as I am, I'm surely no authority but I'll give it a shot... The final step is forgiving one's own self and thereby transcending into a new way of being, which feels (even momentarily) as a freedom from judging or being judged. With this large stone removed f...

Interesting speculations, Cleric, thank you. Given your starting assumption I follow through to your conclusions. Let me offer just for contemplation another plausible assumption that it's simply a learning process of right or lawful action without a necessity of personal remorse. When the remorsef...

Being that this is the Lenten season I became curious about the word 'penitence' and checking the disctionary discovered curiously that it has about 35 strongly-to-loosely associated synonyms but hardly any antonyms. Please speculate as to whether you feel this reveals something about the word bias...

Being that this is the Lenten season I became curious about the word 'penitence' and checking the disctionary discovered curiously that it has about 35 strongly-to-loosely associated synonyms but hardly any antonyms. Please speculate as to whether you feel this reveals something about the word bias ...

I assure you that, at 86 years, I'm not a fan-boy of pop music. I do believe that some folks work with texts, others with sounds or pictures and that there are analogs or parallels among the seemingly separate ways. I find especially fascinating how JC is mainstreaming his creativity, evolving from ...

For comparison, here is how Jacob Collier views his own musical thinking.. I find the evolution from 'me' to 'we' especially interesting.

Some might appreciate this. I surely do. Have a listen.

I'm surprised by this take, since for concentration it's nonetheless necessary to be able to create and hold a mental image. Even more so for the first of Steiner's subsidiary exercises, or the ones in the Seer's Handbook. If the inability is as stated - that is a complete impossibility to create o...