Philosophical Speculations

For ordinary people, language is not that abstract. Many of our ordinary verbal thoughts actually embed quite well with the primary flow. ... When we deal with our practical matters, our language is not that abstract, even though it might act as a filter (like the African tribe and color vision ...

Ashvin, Because of the attachment you have many times demonstrated to your preconceived ideas about me, which prevents you from paying unprejudiced attention to my written words, you are starting to sound like that thing. One last time: I don't deny that we need to realize and cure the linguistic ...

When you write further on this, I ask that you provide some more concrete indications/examples for how LaaS influences you in spiritual life, for example when reading through Steiner's lectures or essays on the forum. What within the structure of language consistently derails you from approaching ...

the abstract, almost self-generating character of prosaic, especially written language (which I tried to describe in the post above) is always in ambush. It's almost like a word is able to pull the next one 'by itself'. We could pause effortful and practical thinking, and the sentence would still ...

I intend to add a few more things later but now that you have given some more context about your personal experience it could be interesting to examine the following. In the post before your last, you quoted your elaboration: As a modern habit, it boils down to treating words as mere verbal symbols ...

So to enter in greater concreteness, can you identify something in the present structure of language that prevents you from approaching the deeper musical reality of the Logos? I want to add some more personal observations. To be clear, the "structure" of language - not in itself, but in how it is ...

Stumbling upon a Euler's disc, I though it makes for a good sound-metaphor for meditation/concentration:

PS: I hope it's clear how LaaS is something distinct from "the grammar of our modern soul life". It's more like an Ahrimanic spell conjured and added on top of it, as an additional means of diversion, to drag us further away from the Logos.

So to enter in greater concreteness, can you identify something in the present structure of language that prevents you from approaching the deeper musical reality of the Logos? I think I already expressed that quite clearly, for example in what I proposed to call LaaS, Language as a Service, here ...

Also, if the access to spiritual realities were so easy and automatic for ancient men, why the materialist philosophies were developed in ancient Greece (Leucippus, Democritus, Aristotle)? Since it's recently been question of the philosophy of Democritus, and how it does or doesn't express a ...