Philosophical Speculations

What is mind? The most natural and obvious answer to this ancient question is simply this: mind is the medium of everything you have ever known, seen or felt; everything that has ever meant anything to you. Whatever has never fallen within the embrace of your mind might as well have never existed a...

I'm totally in favor of spiritual science being a science - so bring it on - show me the good stuff!!!! The point I tried to make was to contrast the pre-modern concept of 'scientia sacra' - meaning 'sacred science', and almost an exact synonym for 'spiritual science' - with modern science starting...

I agree that this character of unrelenting, super hard-working, paradigm-breaking academic with diverse background is admirable, but are you more interested in the figure, and his academic affirmation from odd outsider to mainstream, than you are in his philosophy? No, I'm interested in the substan...

Hello all, new member here. There is an ancient term, 'scientia sacra', which means 'sacred science'. Of course nowadays such terminology would generally be dismissed, but in the relevant domains of discourse it is a meaningful term. I think I first encountered it decades ago in Herman Hesse's books...

I am wondering if you have browsed some of the ongoing threads on the forum, and what your first impression is? There is actually not much ongoing discussion on BK's philosophy anymore, as you might have noticed, although I am sure some would be happy to engage in such discussions. Personally I arr...

This is basically an intro post, as there doesn't seem to be a thread for self-intros. I briefly visited the original forum several times over the years and also participated in discussions of Kastrup at thephilosophyforum.com (under the same username) where I'm no longer active. I've recently finis...