Philosophical Speculations

Starbuck wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 12:19 am I jest greatly. And calling Kastrup a nihilist is as absurd as calling Rumi a nihilist.

Everyone who does not agree with Ash is a nihilist.

Speculatively , I suspect that M@L-God-Great Mysteriousness will continue to create diversity despite whatever philosophy-religion-ideology accompanies the diverse views generated. I base this speculation on the ample evidence that Nature consistently pushes toward diversity and against monoculture...

lorenzop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:47 am This about the opposite of what I wrote, I’m thinking you and can not communicate at all

Any meaningful or productive communication with Ashvin is impossible, so I quit trying a while ago.

How would we know since we can only ever be conscious of a subjective reality? Leap of faith? Similar question can be directed towards materialism, or "relational philosophy" or any other metaphysical or ontological scheme. They are all based on assumptions or leap of faith, there is no w...

Yes, I hold to a Western idealism which does not add abstract "consciousness", which no one has ever experienced Consciousness is not abstract, it is the reality most intimately and directly experientially known to each of us - our ability to consciously experience, will, think, imagine, ...

Instead of answering my question re ‘meaning’ and ‘world content’ - specifically giving an example of what you are talking about - you throw up another wall of nonsense including nuggets like ‘thought-bubbles’. I think you are suggesting that the world includes a layer of meaning- ok -can you provi...

The meanings and ideals do exist as forms of consciousness and like any other forms of consciousness - perceptions, imaginations, acts of will, thoughts etc. They are all creations of consciousness, and they are all experienced by consciousness. There is no nihilism here. But they do not exist somew...

Ashvin wrote: Some here clearly dislike anything which hints that their own spiritual approach could be better.

You guys do for sure

Great article actually. Nihilism is negating the fundamental freedom and the ability of consciousness to recognize this self-deception and break free from it. Such "break-free" is not breaking free from the dream, but from a naive-realistic belief in a mind-independent reality of it. This ...

Regarding BK, I would suggest that although the transcendent God is instinctive, that we, as God's dissociated alters, are more. We tend to forget that we are (at least capable of becoming - a process in progress as you say) God Immanent. This is the myth of the Incarnation (God as Christ becomes M...