Protagoras

@"Noble Dust" To be honest this leads to the notion of extended conciousness. Beyond the body. Which is something I have experienced in a heightened f...

@"Noble Dust" I've never really looked at my astral projecting as an OBE,because that term normally refers to an experience of vibrating and seemingly...

@"Noble Dust" We both practice meditation in numerous different ways. In the period mentioned we both talked a lot about astral projection and practic...

@"Noble Dust" My Wife's.

@"Noble Dust" Walking is a great meditation. As can be any activity if one focuses on it. You could try to induce an OBE whilst walking. I know of a s...

@"Noble Dust" Yep,my bad. Of course a lot of people might like the brink of sleep state and lying down meditating. With that said,sitting or even movi...

@"Jack Cummins" I just read through your thread on "Freud the great philosophical adventure." A very interesting and relevent thread. Do you or anyone...

@"Noble Dust" There are meditation techniques to help induce OBEs,maybe Monroes book has some techniques he recommends.

@"Joshs" You are right. I would say however the use of freud for woke discourse or critical race theory or feminism is something I generally deplore. ...

@"3017amen" Maslow is a very interesting thinker as well. Especially his "peak experiences". Which kind of cognitive science? I don't expect miracles ...

@"Noble Dust" Have you ever imagined something in the day or day dreamt at length? This phenomenon is related. Its about focusing on a certain facet o...

@"3017amen" It's nice to see a religious poster appreciate freuds thinking. Psychology as per freud and James especially relates to the existential hu...

@"Jack Cummins" Those are very interesting symbolic dreams! Yes,taking thinkers ideas literally is incorrect. With imagination and tinkering one can t...

@"baker" The state has never been democratic. Its always been champagne socialism. Political double speak,the bread and butter of the media and politi...

@"Jack Cummins" Yes,I take on board and agree with a lot of what you are saying here. I think he is the most important modern thinker to grapple with,...

@"Noble Dust" I haven't had the specific experience you mentioned. But I do have a great interest in this phenomenon. I think it is related to dreamin...

These constant debates on morality are interesting. They veer into the abstract and the ivory towers. Morality is really a word for a code of conduct ...

@"baker" So if its that restricted its not freespeech then is it.

@"baker" Many countries claim freedom of speech and press and yet censor freespeech. So I need a printing press to have free speech?

@"baker" Not if you hold that your country has a free press.

Why do people use irrelevant extreme analogies to try to prove a dubious point. Freespeech is in no way similiar to having a door on your house. A con...

@"Kenosha Kid" Don't need to. I get your interpretation. Anything outside scientism is not valid. Proving my point of course,that justification is aut...

@"Kenosha Kid" By idiosyncratic of course you mean anything not accepted by scientism... Wonderful display of circularity and authoritarian thinking.

@"Kenosha Kid" That is not what is meant by common sense and you know it! That is the Elitist justificationism that I was talking about.

@"Kenosha Kid" Show me some philosophers or scientists who proved their ideas with common sense?

@"Tom Storm" I personally recommend feel. Faith only if you really trust that person. Yeah,common sense is sometimes an abused term,but I think it doe...

Any religious text worth its salt can be used for some kind of psychological exploration. And really all philosophical explorations are really psychol...

@"Kenosha Kid" But the exact same applies to justificationism. When was the last debate or post you saw settled by common sense?

@"Tom Storm" Well science,philosophy,academia,religious apologetics,public debates ,the legal system and politics are replete with discussions which a...

Justification is an expression of authoritarian views. Does one have to justify one's pain? Life is not a court of law. A whole science has sprung up ...