Philosophical Speculations

I see that one can't force a permanent state of exercise into everyday life, but I was referring to the naturally occurring (after spiritual development is pursued) loss of demarcation between perceptual and soul realms described by Ashvin: Our natural consciousness indeed changes in time. The simp...

Stranger wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:31 pm Good info on the latest reincarnation research. Also, interesting remarks at 12:00 about the difference between the imaginary and imaginal realms.

Eugene, do you agree with Mishlove that 'more data' is needed? If yes, what kind of data should that be?

Interesting speculations, Cleric, thank you. Given your starting assumption I follow through to your conclusions. Let me offer just for contemplation another plausible assumption that it's simply a learning process of right or lawful action without a necessity of personal remorse. When the remorsef...

So there's no real-time awareness of the meaning of the Phonograph metaphor for me, as I walk down the street, or do everyday work. If I want to recall that meaning - with effort - I have to pause and detach from the sensory spectrum. This is what is missing. Not that I don't get how it makes sense...

That's illuminating. Or at least I have the impression that it's giving me a better and better sense of what will be going on from a certain point onward, and how to navigate it, in that passive-active balanced intention you have spoken of before. Making this into an experience is a whole different...

That is an entirely new approach to me, thank you for going into such a level of detail and clarity, Cleric. I certainly don't do any of these progressive steps when trying to concentrate, but they are very clearly fleshed out - anyone can follow these indications, so I should be able to. I am a bi...

Being that this is the Lenten season I became curious about the word 'penitence' and checking the disctionary discovered curiously that it has about 35 strongly-to-loosely associated synonyms but hardly any antonyms. Please speculate as to whether you feel this reveals something about the word bias...

Of course, all these indications shouldn’t be taken one-sidedly. Otherwise, it would lead only to the lower kinds of visionary clairvoyance. The fact that we keep our concentration, already sets our activity apart from the more atavistic states. As long as we keep firmly that higher-order intuitive...

Thanks for elaborating, Cleric. I am clearly very far from all this. I was just wondering about ways to help rewire the experience of music in general, in much more basic terms, having in mind that it's soon the end of music that stirs feelings, as you recently said. Let me first remind of what we'...

Thanks so much Cleric. I will have to keep these ideas in sight for much longer, before I can say I am satisfied with how I grasp them. For now, it's about digesting that all our individual perspective ultimately is, is a co-responsible dissonance. And that what freedom ultimately is, is the abilit...