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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:05 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Serious Question Related to the Unconscious
- Replies: 6
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Re: Serious Question Related to the Unconscious
Thank you for your kind response Federica. I understand what you are saying in fact I just watched his analytic idealism course regarding the unconscious. What I am wondering is this: What is aware of my unconscious mental states when I am not meta-conscious of them. Do my unconscious mental states...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
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Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
I would phrase it differently and say the Lucifer temptation was fundamentally a burning desire (in the soul body) to live separated from Cosmic spirituality, to cultivate an inner life that feels to be a reality-in-itself (inner life including sensations). In other words, the core spirit no longer...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
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Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
It can get confusing because it is often spoken how we need to liberate thinking from the body for higher cognitive development. That is absolutely true. But the main purpose of that liberation is to draw on moral intuitions that can provide holistic insight and purify the soul body . If the latter...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19204
Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
Hi Ashvin, Reading goes slowly - I've had less free time than usual this week, been reading small bits, often having the read them again the next day. Now in the middle of Chapter III, Sleep and Death. I feel I absolutely need this reading, and feel called to come back to it every time I can, but s...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19204
Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
... Thanks, Ashvin, this clarifies the thing. With what you have added, it seems to me he means that memories are not stored and picked up again at will, like books from a library shelf (by pure introspection). Rather, what is stored is an etheric-bodily mirror-image of any percept that remains ava...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: ChatGPT answers metaphysical questions :)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 9710
Re: ChatGPT answers metaphysical questions :)
Oh man, it appears our concerns about PoF-reduced via GPT have been realized.
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3qNcmtS3U-p ... m-chat-bot
It requires a paid version so I haven't tested it out yet.
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3qNcmtS3U-p ... m-chat-bot
It requires a paid version so I haven't tested it out yet.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19204
Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
This paragraph right in the middle of Chapter II is not clear to me: If we say that man is aware of his memory by looking into his own inner life — a method he obviously cannot apply to the animal — we make a fatal mistake. Man is of course aware of his own faculty of memory, but he can not derive ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19204
Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
Now coming to animals: To attribute memory to animals is an error still easier to fall into than the mistake of ascribing consciousness to plants. It is natural enough to think of memory when a dog recognizes its master, whom it may not have seen for some time past. Yet in reality the recognition d...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
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Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
Brief note to give an example of what you said on the other thread: In planar thinking , we try to click the concepts of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and so forth only between themselves , to figure out some abstract system in which they seem to all make sense quite independently of our own inner ideal conte...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19204
Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
The task of Steiner has been extraordinarily difficult. In this book he had to disclose some of the secrets of Initiatic science to the general consciousness of the time, which could hardly conceive of anything other than substances and forces. We can only imagine how painful it must have felt to t...