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- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Pictorial Thinking
- Replies: 75
- Views: 2515
Re: Pictorial Thinking
I will do a post à la Lou here :) and pin an article on aphantasia, the inability to think pictorially. My impression is that it's a gradient that can be developed, and I have a hard time conceiving that for some this faculty is entirely missing with no chance to be awakened. I may be wrong. In any...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
I wrote a whole response to this (within the forum instead of on gmail like I usually do) but I wasn't signed in and then it got erased when I went to post. I don't think I can rewrite it again now, but I see Cleric has posted something in the meantime. For now, I will just share the questions I po...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
Instead of enumerating what the higher self is not and how to free it from the lower, please tell me what makes it individual behind the veil of all the severe misalignments. There is not a word about that so far in this discussion. I wrote a whole response to this (within the forum instead of on g...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
We can't really snip such phrases out of context We do it all the time, we always and only quote snippets, we never quote entire oeuvres. Here I only highlighted the co-incidence of the content of OMAs daily meditation - that in itself is a snippet-based practice - with the question at stake. I onl...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 14118
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
I'm sorry, Lou, but I came across this humorous comparison from Owen Barfield and want to share it : ) *** But let me give a brief example of what I mean by the gap. There are among us those who by their own mental effort have arrived at a position which is quite in harmony with one or more of the g...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
PS - I was reading some articles on the Anthroposophical section of Barfield's website recently and the following quotes stand out as relevant to the discussion. *** https://www.owenbarfield.org/read-online/articles/destroyer-and-preserver/ In these matters, to perceive what is wrong is to have gone...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
I read this after writing the above, OMAs daily meditation: "we are no more than a reflection, a non being, an illusion". Where is the individual perspective, or point of balance? How is this not a mortification of earthly existence? Is the only aim of all degrees of freedom, the only pur...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Pictorial Thinking
- Replies: 75
- Views: 2515
Re: Pictorial Thinking
I will do a post à la Lou here :) and pin an article on aphantasia, the inability to think pictorially. My impression is that it's a gradient that can be developed, and I have a hard time conceiving that for some this faculty is entirely missing with no chance to be awakened. I may be wrong. In any...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
Well on second thought, this attitude doesn't seem to be possible for me at this point. This is a work against nature, squared. Or x-ed. Where is the point of balance? I can't see it. Why not go to sleep on a bed of nails at this rate? A soft bed is highly consumptive and incredibly passive. What i...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Symphony
- Replies: 80
- Views: 1915
Re: Symphony
Well on second thought, this attitude doesn't seem to be possible for me at this point. This is a work against nature, squared. Or x-ed. Where is the point of balance? I can't see it. Why not go to sleep on a bed of nails at this rate? A soft bed is highly consumptive and incredibly passive. What i...