Philosophical Speculations

I'd be glad to be a cog in a good cause, so long as the good cause respects its cogs.

News flash from Essentia ... Now apparently we're like 'nuclei' of Mind in The hierarchical structure of the universal mind

Thanks, Dana - very interesting article!

"The refusal of modern 'enlightenment' to treat 'possession' as a hypothesis to be spoken of as even possible, in spite of the massive human tradition based on concrete experience in its favour, has always seemed to me a curious example of fashion in things scientific. That the demon theory (n...

Oh, I thought that was Lumania? Thanks for setting the record straight.

No, no, I stand corrected!

Hey if you feel Steiner's case is definitive, so be it. I'll keep an open mind. Yes indeed! And let us not forget Lemuria, peopled by a civilisation of beings that came mainly from Sirius, Alpha Centauri, Pleiades, and other planetary systems who interbred and lived in the fifth dimensional frequen...

I too enjoyed Justin's paper "Liking What's Good for You". Very nicely done. I'd point out that BK has addressed the argument about our choices forming before we are aware of them - it's just a question of not being metaconscious of all our mental activity (reference to the no-report parad...

'Fraid this Seth stuff, turning the past into the future, exceeds my boggle threshold. But hey.

So did Atlantis exist on some kind of astral plane or did it exist in the same way as America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica and Europe now exist?

BK has referred often to the idea of being conscious that we are conscious - or layers of metacognition (I know that I know etc. that I am metaconscious). I seem to recall the metaphor of a light bouncing around inside a mirrored sphere, because the alter's thoughts are imprisoned inside his dissoci...

after reading the preview of Zinser's book, I've decided to order it, so thanks for the recommendation.

It's definitely eye-opening, Dana. It also gives his insights into the Void and the origin of evil.