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True. Here is where I think you conflate "commonsense" and materialism. Most of us humans don't traffic much with the "isms" of the intellectuals. You...

That's the genius of the Incarnation, it seems. That great, distant authority (whom it was death to look upon) became a living, particular man in time...

For me it's a collision of the infinite and the radically finite. There's an intuition of something "deathless" , "eternal","primordial", radically at...

Yes, indeed. This is almost everything, really. The past exists for us, not us for the past. The desire to freeze time is the desire for "undeath" or ...

That's true. I don't want to insult believers. I do think it's acceptable to profess one's lack of belief though, and to reason from that -- at least ...

Yes. It's already just scientism and politics once we leave the guts and the heart. Religion is all too often (in my view) bad metaphysics, clumsy pol...

Well that's what I've read, but it really doesn't matter to me. I understand the Gospels symbolically. I'd guess that people who believe in it literal...

Respectfully, there's an immense arrogance in this. It implies that you know the "real truth" about the lives that indeed are not yours. Your worldvie...

Indeed, I sort of remember something like that. Then I believe he made some bold hypotheses about archetypes being physically manifested, which Pauli ...

You're quite welcome. These are fascinating issues even if one is happy. For me the "dark" thoughts have become (more or less) toys for the intellect.

For me, anyway, there's a huge difference between Jesus as symbol and Jesus as the sort of being that can wash away "sin" and provide an afterlife. I ...

A little more, since, well, it's Whitman, America's new and improved Blake. Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, compla...

Here's some great 'mystic' poetry, though perhaps too carnal for some tastes:

I think that's what W was saying, though I'm thinking he sees it as more of a bad thing. We've been having quite the discussion in the "Mysticism" thr...

It's a fair and profound question. But let me stress this: youth doesn't know. If an old man is dying of brain cancer and wants to go out on his own t...

It's a beautiful thing to just dare to see with one's own eyes. Lots of folks may nod at that concept in the abstract, but a little later they will ap...

Let's reframe this. There's a beautiful girl (or boy or whatever) who likes you and you like her. Unfortunately, she has to move to the other side of ...

I sort of neglected this before, but I've had a vision along the lines of everything being art. I used to want to write a book, etc., and crystallize ...

In the U.S. there's not as much pure atheism/scientism to be had. I know people with degrees who will talk of ghosts. How do ghosts fit in with atoms?...

I agree. There's something "holy" or "eerie" about concepts. There's something at the heart of math, too. We have to recognize a symbol as the same sy...

I was looking into Rescher lately and it opened my eyes a little bit to just how much of experience is mediated by the rational. Look around the room ...

I enjoyed your post. I had a sense like that about Taoism, but I haven't heard much about the other antimonians of the East. I don't know that atheism...

But, Agustino, this debate about who is legitimate or not is hardly a footnote. It is exactly the sort of "Law bringing" narcissism (which I partake i...

I quoted Stirner, not Sartre. As I see it, Sartre was still trapped, though right on the edge conceptually. He's a great writer on alienation, on cont...

I hope to see this at some point. Maybe the internet will help.

It's OK if you disagree. This kind of disagreement is thousands of years old by now. Paul happened to be a Jew, but (as I understand it) he took myste...

An unexpected juxtaposition:

Well said. Philosophy (if it's loyal to Socrates at all) is going to try to give a "reasonable" account, as reasonable as possible. This. Yes. Though ...

Great lines. I was exposed to some Eckhardt in Caputo's book on Heidegger and mysticism.

Oh, I see that Sartre is anything but most folk's notion of a mystic. But this perception of existence beneath essence is profound. There are books th...

The law of custom, imposed by force, will always be with us. And, yes, that creates the space of individual freedom. But I'm thinking something more a...

Actually I just read about that ambiguity. I think goal and end are both appropriate for my purposes, since I see the Law in its evolving manifestatio...

Here are few oneliners I hadn't seen before that seemed to fit with the theme.

It sounds like you've got something good going on. I can't help but interpret this "A" and "B" as names for different mental states. I don't believe i...

But why bother defending this word? Is the word itself sacred? Is it the sort of thing that needs to be defended and kept pure? You're welcome to the ...

As I understand it, Sartre saw (the spirit of ) man as a futile passion to identity itself with something fixed and substantial, something unfree and ...

We can't leave out this. I'd call it mystical, or mystical enough, but that's secondary. And this is why "sensation and emotion" are important to me. ...

We can (among so many other options) envision God as the totality that is just radically there and Christ as a conceptually elaborated "primordial ima...

But are you so sure that you understand what I've been saying? Do you perceive me as someone who lives in the "normal" way, even as I share a passiona...

But surely you see that the "Being" of our lives is largely conception, emotion, sensation. If we are talking about states that are radically other th...

I won't say that others don't have wordless raptures. I won't pretend to believe in "round squares," though. I've had some "peak" experiences that I a...

That's why it's called 'mystical'! X-) But that's also why we have words like "mystification."

For me the Gospels are a profound "wisdom writing." Whether or not they have any truth (and I certainly don't believe in an actual resurrection) is, f...

You mention "understanding," which I associate with the conceptual. There's a conceptual "seeing through" of separate existence in Hegel and an emotio...

Good points. Both of these point together toward a self-consciously pursued ideal of staying within the limits of intelligibility. I remember being yo...

This one too.

Nice!

What can I say? I'm skeptical. It sounds like someone saying that they saw a round square in their dreams. Feeling and sensation can be nonconceptual....

Thanks for jumping in. I like your mention of laughter. I'm guessing individual experiences vary, even if they are similar. I really can't know. I'm w...

This is great, too. Not an authority, but definitely an influence.