Jim Cross wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:40 pmThe world-stuff exists in my experience. Prove it doesn't.Eugene I. wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:09 pmThat's great. This is Zen. But note that you would also need to drop the assumption of the existence of any non-conscious "world stuff" existing beyond your experience, because all you know and can ever know is only your conscious experience.
My personal take: I'm ok with taking assumptions as long as I understand what they are. I'm a "possibilian" and don't want to block myself from exploring different possibilities of how the world could be, and block myself from the spiritual development that those possibilities may offer. If science would not make any assumptions and models of reality (and those are also only hypotheses), no science would be possible either. But science dares to make assumptions, and that is how it progresses.
The Steinerites can have their hierarchies and astral planes too if they want.
Explore away. No need to convince me of anything.
Can this be split off into a separate thread, perhaps called, "I know nothing and never will"? Then you guys can debate each other about who knows less and who will win the race to the bottom of denying all conscious experience