Philosophical Speculations

Yeah, I think that's correct and we have already encountered it a few times here, and I have encountered a few such minds on Discord as well. It is a real catch-22, because the failure to notice the discrepancy between the content of their thoughts and what is inherent in their own thinking quest i...

MM: "Dear Federica, as I already said, I don’t think it is constructive to establish whether this or that Avatar stood apart. Whatever the truth, I feel there are much more urgent issues that nowadays need to be addressed if humankind wants to progress. So, forgive me if I don't comment furthe...

OK - I added: Marco, it seems to me that there is tension between an eminently evolutionary perspective on the one hand, and a feel-good decree of spiritual par conditio on the other. I apologize if this sounds ironic, I am just trying to be as clear as I can in a few words. Every Avatar paved the w...

Ashvin, are you going to reply to MMs latest? I am drafting a reply but may post it tomorrow. Probably a final post to close the discussion, assuming he doesn't suddenly take an interest in the higher cognitive path :) Did you want to suggest something? Just that I think I see where his stance come...

Ashvin, are you going to reply to MMs latest?

About thinking in Aurobindo, there's this passage in Life Divine, from p. 322. I haven't inquired more about Overmind Consciousness, however it seems clear it goes well beyond the subjective witness in silent awareness: ...we do not freely determine our thinking according to the truth of things, it ...

In connection with this point at page 10 of the Cell Intelligence thread, where it is question of the spiritual path proposed by Sri Aurobindo, I thought I would try to render a passage from Scaligero's " From Yoga to the Rose Cross " in which he shared his understanding of Aurobindo. My i...

Since the following thought has just come to me in a roundabout way (not from the daily thoughts) I'll share it here :) Thanks, Cleric :) I appreciate the advice, tough it sets the bar high! But then I've wondered: "What consecrating actually means in this thought, more than blessing, sending ...

Now in response to: "...yes, all introspective approaches can be thought about as having some sort of cosmology behind them. Nevertheless, the only ones that are true - the only ones that are real in today's evolutionary phase - don't have a cosmology behind them. Rather, they literally are the...

More comments on Part V - From a coarse-grained idealism to a multi-modal conscious universe : My comment : More introspection is surely needed, which points back to the question of practice: how to understand introspection so that it achieves its purpose to bring knowledge to life from the inside ...