Philosophical Speculations

Jerome, when you say, "nothing at all to do with the thing in itself", you seem to be suggesting that the dashboard of perception has nothing whatever to do with what we might see through the windscreen. But it does - it's a representation, which is to say, a partial image of reality. Acco...

Thanks Cleric, that does put it in perspective, and gets at why I found it just a tad anachronistically provisional. Strange how what you got from Cleric's post and what I got are diametrically opposed, when so often I see things in a similar way to you. What I got from it is "a mind not to be...

I've upgraded the OS from 4th density to 5th density and now have the capacity to live as a breatharian. Yes, a breatharian would be a good example of an upgrade. There was a video by Thomas Campbell where he told of giving up food and water for quite a long while, he said without getting hungry or...

what are we to make of the notion going around in some spiritual circles now which suggests that with the evolutionary phase transition into a greater bandwidth of collective ideation, an upgrade to one's operating system is required, and that without such an adjustment then any given individual wi...

Although I'm not now a particular fan of TC, I think he is worthy of respect because of his multitudinous explorations of the larger reality. I think perhaps, Cleric, you misrepresent him a bit. It's a fine example of the intellect going wild and practically building a sci-fi universe. The good thin...

with human dissociation there is a complex associated mind to begin with. With M@L that isn't the case. OK then, although a human mind has apparently evolved from earlier animal minds, when it comes to an amoeba, which can display much of the behaviour of a complex animal, what would you say that i...

Very interesting, Steve - a very useful metaphor! But where you say MAL is undifferentiated and "there is no association to be dissociated from", it seems to me that you are creating a problem that need not exist. A whole rubber band can be chopped up. If you're suggesting that a rubber ba...

Isn't that what pipes and valves do? Allow separation and alter ation of the flow of water? But in any case Dissociation is simply known from experience - it does actually happen, as where DID is explored by neuroscience. The association of pipes and valves or computer circuits into Conscious experi...

Thanks Adur and Hedge for sharing your experiences and describing them so well (people so often give up and say, "it's beyond words"). Brilliant!

Well, I originally responded to what Ashvin said simply because he expressed profound disappointment at why people can't or won't follow his drift. But the explanation is simple. He (or his mentor, Steiner) change the meaning of ordinary words. This puzzles people. Most people understand thinking is...