Philosophical Speculations

Now wondering what the russian term for 'slavic' folks is, what they call themselves, as opposed to a name imposed upon them. Google translate comes up with славянский, which when pronounced comes out as slavyanskiy , so seemingly still the same derivation. But perhaps Eugene knows another more col...

So if we take the first cause cosmological argument for the existence of God, where does it break down? Essentially we trace a series of cause/effects backwards and given that a concrete infinity can't exist (or so it is argued), there must be a first cause, a.k.a God. But if we trace back a tempor...

Thanks Cleric for such an expansive response to my question. At some level, I get what you are trying to communicate. The big challenge here is to take the spatial metaphor and translate it into experiential knowledge. Yes, it's challenging because it requires us to exercise our whole being, not ju...

When we have recorded Jesus praying to his Father, how do you understand that? Is he directing his attention to the "Center", to a specific higher being, or to a generally to the higher world? These are really the questions that can become fruitful points of departure for great advances. ...

You're on the borderline and you equally consider that: 1/ the Cosmos is a dark abyss and lost sparks of thoughts bubble up and coalesce in quasi-stable formations before they sink back into the void 2/ the Cosmos is of Thought-nature, like Goethe's Idea which is inner Light, and our current existe...

Is there any sense of the prophet bringing back the Divine truths from the mountain top to the masses? The reformed Christian speaks of the inner witness of the Holy Spirit which enables them to commune with God and discern the true meaning of scripture. The Pentecostal has the inner filling of the...

How then should be approach the divine or deep mind? We need to understand how our subconscious processes precipitate into consciousness and how we should relate to them. It's clear that what we think at any given moment is only the focal point of a flow through the invisible riverbed. The material...

I'm not sure why you often require the questioner to demonstrate their worthiness before addressing an issue, asking them to repeatedly draw Excalibur out of the stone so to speak. I can assure you my questions are genuine and I'm trying my very hardest to understand a framework of reality which is...

I know you've touch on this subject from time to time, but how does SS approach the topic of God? From what I understand, such a being would be one with the unfolding reality, approachable via the gradients of our thinking activity. He would not sit on the other side of an unbridgeable chasm that c...

Sorry if this text is too short but I wrote a very long text and somehow the website could not load and my entire text was gone My point is that suffering will affect everyone because it is simply embedded in the material world, the material world does not care if this is my 1000000sth incarnation ...