Philosophical Speculations

Federica wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:32 am ScottRoberts, where have you been all this time?

Watching you, Ashvin, and Cleric delve into actual spiritual science in a way that I seem unable to do with any great focus (I'm not good at concentration and meditation exercises).

Any ontology has to pose some fundamental saying that "somehow" that fundamental is what it is. Ah, but your view requires two ("Being/Experience" is the first, to which "thinking ability" must be added to (somehow) account for our experience), while mine just requires...

Manyness, as part of the Trinity, is Thinking ability , not the products of Thinking (forms). Thinking ability (Manyness) never stops, it is intrinsic and timeless, it is an aspect of the fundamental Trinity of Beingness-Awareness-Manyness. The reason for not placing Oneness as the ontological prim...

As you said, God can choose not to Think, I didn't say that, in fact I deny it. I said that you are saying, or at least implying, that. So, we have distinct ontologies. Yours, I am saying, is off the Middle Way, in that you put Oneness as prior to Manyness. Or to put it in more or less Heart Sutra ...

Of course ,Cosmos is of idea-nature. What else can it possibly be if it all exists within the Divine Consciousness? But the Divine Consciousness itself is not an idea, it is THAT which creates and which is aware of all ideas, but which is not reducible to only its ideas. All Cosmos as a whole of al...

If my conception of idealism is incorrect, please forgive me. However, from "satchitananda," it seems that idealism is chit in absence of sit and ananda. What I mean is that consciousness is not its own free-floating thing, yet is part of a triple world that is a unification, a whole, it ...

That would assume that mind "is" receptor cells, electromagnetic waves, chemistry, and biology. Idealism does not hold that this is the case. The apple's circumference is not "the" apple, in fact the circumference is determined by the real being, the real apple. Similarly, recep...

The two most obvious aspects of reality are 1) your consciousness; 2) material objects external to you. What distinguishes material objects from mind is the fact that material objects have BOTH a spatial and temporal existence, whereas mind LACKS a spatial location (there is no thought in centimete...

Whether pure mathematical modeling constitutes as science or philosophy is another discussion - the question at hand is 'is spiritual science a science'. No one in this thread has presented any arguments for spiritual science being a science, or offered any of its findings, or any evidence or datap...

I think the analytic idealist would respond by saying that its only "miracle" is that there is consciousness. The "universal mind" and "dissociation" are necessary inferences from that starting point, not additional miracles. Of course, one might question just how 'nece...