Philosophical Speculations

Let us move along to point 2. 2. How that relation has evolved ("metamorphosed") over time, particularly from ancient Egyptian epoch to modern age. I guess the main issue raised here is the understanding of the individuated/dissociated unit of consciousness. Is the model individual, somewh...

This seems as one of those forever unresolvable conflicts. Yet it is resolvable but through inner experience. Outer words can sketch the path to the experience but it can only be walked through the good will of the individual. I must admit to being a little wary with respect to resolution through i...

Thanks again! ... (7) Sight-sense "In seeing we take into ourselves more of the properties of the external world than we do with the sense of smell." ... The physicalist model of visual perception has the physics of light, the optical processing, the receptors, the nerve impulses, the neur...

Ashvin, I'm going to continue to ask a clarifying question or two in relation to your list. 1. Inseparable relation of perception and cognition as it manifests in our current experience. I think this one is reasonably clear. What are the objects of perception you have in mind? Are they confined to t...

Thanks for the link Herger The Joyous. I have to admit I'm on the fence with respect to Steiner at this point. I've started reading PoF and I'm finding him to be a very incisive thinker. However some of his work (as encapsulated in the video you post) lights up my BS detector to near max at this sta...

Thanks Cleric. I certainly plan to try, as time permits over the forthcoming weeks, to further understand the list Ashvin provided . I tried your: "I think the speech" exercise but found myself gravitating to the "I" and not being able to locate it. This is likely due to my Buddh...

Thanks Ashvin for your response. Your list is helpful! Let me start working through to hopefully put some meat on these hooks. I'll start with: Spirit is the essential Thinking activity - Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition - all beings share. It is what integrates all experience through shared qual...

This is my first post on this new forum. I admit to being a bit of an eastern mystic type. I've been following the raging Steiner debates here with some interest but struggle to grok Steiner's ontological scheme. It seems a very foreign landscape. I feel like I'm late to the party. There is so much ...