Philosophical Speculations

Seeing it you immediately go for it. Done deal! My sense of "no-thought/no-self" is like this and not an elevated mystical state or spirituality. Right. There is actually nothing mystical about it. But it may take someone to go through a long path of "mystical experiences" or sp...

So within the totality of experience we find perceptions, feelings, will, thoughts, concepts, ideas. All this is given as an amalgamation of experience. Everything moves and shifts. How do we make sense of all this? Where do we start? Is there anything stable within the given that we can anchor the...

But couldn't it be that thinking activity is only a more limited form of a higher form of spiritual activity of self-reflective quality? It certainly could. And even more, thinking self-reflective activity can be only a more limited form of a higher form of spiritual activity of non-self-reflective...

In regard to the question of telos/meaning of life, there seems to exist these two opposite extremes that I sketched below. Apart from the metaphysical side, there is definitely a strong psychological aspect of this problem due to humans deep psychological need of and yearning for the meaning of lif...