Philosophical Speculations

Cleric K wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:43 pmI hope that this also answers why in visionary states higher beings are experienced as luminous. This reflects the way their life reverberates in the whole spiritual environment.

Cleric ... Thanks for the explication, much appreciated ... need to reflect further upon this

Good 12 page essay on Paul Brunton's take on idealism, available as a PDF here

More on the query about the correlation between light and Consciousness, as expressed by Paul Brunton ... Brunton’s experiences with Ramana as detailed in A Search in Secret India culminated with an episode of mystical absorption under Maharshi’s influence in which he was drawn into the heart and ex...

One is also reminded here of the Tao Te Ching premise that the names that can be named are not the eternal names ... so just what is meant by an eternal 'name'?

I asked this question elsewhere, but it didn't get any traction ... Under idealism, what do we make of the idea of the cosmological constancy of the speed of light, being not provisional, but constant under all circumstances. And with that in mind, as idea and percept are inextricable, not-two, why ...

Define suffering and what we should be doing as individuals to alleviate it. And even more important how does that suffering translate into being important to mind at large. In other words if it doesn't impact mind at large does it matter. If mind at large doesn't hear the individual cry in anguish...

Does what we do here matter and if so why? Answer that and not in large nebulous words but specifically why. And if it doesn't matter and the only thing that matters or is worthwhile is "out" there then why not take a large opioid overdose and get to it. Of course it matters, because if w...

Please elaborate. I'm not sure if get your drift. Is it like asking if humans or ecosystems are individual alters of M@L or God? [/i] To rephrase, I'm not sure how one would tell if a singular alter-mode ipseity associated with a corporeal form, e.g. a squirrel, would also apply to a forest. And if...

This one ranks up there as one of my favourite chats with Bernardo, unpacking his book Decoding Jung's Metaphysics.