Philosophical Speculations

Mine too, are there any other non duality teachers you particularly like? Yes, Adyashanti Adyashanti - What Is Enlightenment? Adyashanti - The Experience of No Self He's great, I saw him in London a couple of years back. He was standing outside the venue smiling at people just before the event, no ...

"What we see as the universe is a reification and objectification of the limitations of our own mind".

It is therefore both entirely subjective and yet mediated by something 'out there'. Thousands of years of philosophical speculation resolved in one sentence.

Eugene I wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:58 pm Yes, Rupert is amazing, my favorite among the modern teachers, 5 stars!

Mine too, are there any other non duality teachers you particularly like?

Something clicked very strongly for me when I heard this new clip of Rupert discussing perceptions and dimensions.
Even if idealism is bullshit, even just temporarily and voluntarily entertaining that view brings great joy and wonder.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKccjnvgkU

It’s a shame that these terms get conflated as in the ancient world they had specific meanings. Spirit is the all encompassing essence, which is impossible to communicate (it is that which knows communication itself, and is a totality so one cannot be outside of it to communicate it). However what w...

I pour one chemical into another chemical and watch the massive changes that result. Within BK's model, we take each chemical to be a partial image of the one experience that is the Cosmos as a whole. So we have two partial images of the one experience that the Universe is undergoing. We have names...

Beautifully expressed. But a bit wordy. Now what we need is some kind of symbol - perhaps an interlocking vertical and horizontal axis to represent the integration of those world views. The vertical is the ontic primary, so we could make that slightly longer. If the axis was metaphorically some kin...

A summary from my side: There are two limited perspectives and one all-encompassing perspective on the reality. Limited perspective #1 is to only know the forms and disregard the formless aspect of reality, in which case we get lost in the world of forms taking them as the only reality there is. Si...

Wonderful way of picturing it thank you. My chosen metaphor is Nucleic Acid. All of the information of the complete being is stored in potential in the DNA, but can only be sequenced and expressed one chain at a time by an 'external' device which we call RNA. It turns out that RNA is 'made' by DNA i...

After listening to quite a few interviews with Kastrup, I'm still having some difficulty understanding his take on freewill. Perhaps someone could clarify this more.. In BK's recent interview with ZDoggMD, it sounds like he rejects the notion of freewill in its strong sense (i.e., the ability to do...