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Daniel
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Discussions (13)

Mysticism

September 18, 2016 at 07:12 238 comments Philosophy of Religion

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In: Mysticism  — view comment
Interesting how people vary. Yes, I've always felt "yang" and intensity, so maybe my spiritual view (not far from Blake's) is founded on that. These d...
September 24, 2016 at 07:29
In: Mysticism  — view comment
Oh, man, there was nothing like that at the end of the night. I've seen some wild parties, nasty and glorious and yet sacred. The sublimated lust in D...
September 24, 2016 at 06:57
In: Mysticism  — view comment
The love, goodness, and beauty were intense, to put it mildly. I didn't get a sense of a temporal origin, though I'm tempted to speak of eternity or t...
September 24, 2016 at 06:48
In: Is asceticism insulting?  — view comment
Perhaps you'll agree that the "problem" is that everyone tends to think that they are right. Hence the quest for some neutral referee (pure reason or ...
September 24, 2016 at 06:34
In: Is asceticism insulting?  — view comment
That is indeed true. From the action alone it is difficult to discern self-conscious posing from genuine enjoyment or genuine empathy. In case my own ...
September 24, 2016 at 06:30
In: Lacan's Split Subject / Hegel's Master / Transactional Analysis  — view comment
Thanks for your comments. I'll look into some the leads. Re recognition, I'm trying to "dig deep" like all of them, I suppose, at least as this thing ...
September 24, 2016 at 06:21
In: Mysticism  — view comment
I love Portishead. I'm a huge music guy, a damned hipster. Those "red nights" featured Dummy quite often. These days FKA Twigs sometimes touches that ...
September 24, 2016 at 06:09
In: Mysticism  — view comment
When I was younger (starting at 10), I would occasionally get the type of experience mentioned by Sartre (sober ) with a positive feeling, wonder. I w...
September 24, 2016 at 06:07
In: Mysticism  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BqwONm4TE To me that's sacred music. We just live in an era of negative theology. The millennials (the best of them)...
September 24, 2016 at 03:08
In: Mysticism  — view comment
I respect what you have to say. Still, I currently can't make sense of that which is neither linguistic nor sensual nor emotional (or viewed through s...
September 24, 2016 at 03:04
In: Mysticism  — view comment
To my the best psychoanalysis looks into the radiance of myth, the transformative power of symbol. I know of the Freud and Jung fallout. I took more f...
September 24, 2016 at 03:01
In: Mysticism  — view comment
I'll answer you guys in just a moment. But I think this belongs here, because it's just about exactly what I've been getting at in my own, weird way.
September 24, 2016 at 02:43
In: "The laughter of the gods"  — view comment
This is too good. Is it over the top a little? Yeah. Un-hip? Prolly so. But here lies that radical old time "religion" I was sniffing around for. http...
September 24, 2016 at 02:40
In: The Philosopher as Analyst (as opposed to Master)  — view comment
Actually,I love that quote. Thanks for sharing. I still value McMahon's interpretation, but I think we aim at something more than mastery. We want to ...
September 24, 2016 at 02:35
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Try not to fall in love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T9Q1uKl-Qg
September 24, 2016 at 02:09
In: Is asceticism insulting?  — view comment
I like what I know of it. I discovered this lately, and it reminds me of what I've read about Buddhism. The end (about the analyst) is especially good...
September 24, 2016 at 01:54
In: Mysticism  — view comment
Perhaps, but how can that dimension be linguistic? Which is to say meaningful beyond feeling? I thought you'd like the notion of the barred or split s...
September 24, 2016 at 01:37
In: Mysticism  — view comment
September 24, 2016 at 01:27
In: Mysticism  — view comment
But why must we have this gap you insist upon between psychology and "actual spirituality"? What of "know thyself"?
September 24, 2016 at 01:21
In: Is asceticism insulting?  — view comment
It isn't just asceticism that steals or attempts to steal thunder. It's the general structure of imperial personality. I'm (one of) the best. I think ...
September 24, 2016 at 01:14
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Here's a great new Warpaint song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BqwONm4TE
September 24, 2016 at 00:49
In: Death and Nothingness  — view comment
But, C, why not explore something like a synthesis for personal use? Why be bound by previous uses of strings of marks and noises? We stand as readers...
September 23, 2016 at 21:20
In: Mysticism  — view comment
I want to elaborate (via a quote) on an earlier point: I've quoted this same different paper in three posts. That's how rich I find this content. In s...
September 23, 2016 at 21:15
In: Death and Nothingness  — view comment
This for me ties in with a reading of Job, which is a vision of God/Life/Nature as unjust, unfair --and yet to be affirmed nevertheless. I like we can...
September 23, 2016 at 19:54
In: Death and Nothingness  — view comment
I like this. We can frame the original sin as the belief in sin itself (knowledge of good and evil). I associate this "belief in sin" with sitting in ...
September 23, 2016 at 19:47
In: Death and Nothingness  — view comment
This is how I see it. That which all apertures have in common is therefore deathless. "Mask" dies. Mask is beautiful. It provides for the massive vari...
September 23, 2016 at 19:40
In: Mysticism  — view comment
This looks interesting. Thanks, John. https://books.google.com/books?id=DR_IAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=f...
September 23, 2016 at 05:23
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
Oh, of course. I wasn't trying to accuse you or anything. It's just strange to contemplate how badly programmed we can be by our home communities that...
September 23, 2016 at 04:45
In: Illusive morals?  — view comment
I do find those ideas fascinating. I also like metaphysics as thermodynamics. It's not my game in particular, but it's nice to see something new. I do...
September 23, 2016 at 04:42
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
Wow, this is my cup of tea, man. The blood become voice! The "demechanization" of the spiritual...
September 23, 2016 at 04:34
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
Well, hell, I may have to look into that book myself. (I'll google it now) I love Bosch. On the maggots: I despise their position, but I remember bein...
September 23, 2016 at 04:22
In: Mysticism  — view comment
I'm not complaining here, but I would like to point out how hard it seems to be to keep even talk of mysticism from becoming political. Personality is...
September 23, 2016 at 04:08
In: Illusive morals?  — view comment
I can't tell if you got where I was coming from. I was trying to paint a picture of world-denying, world-accusing morality as an expression of what is...
September 23, 2016 at 03:42
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
I never said otherwise. The Incarnation idea is profound. Generally, religious myth is profound. It's a deep well, worth serious consideration. But it...
September 23, 2016 at 03:35
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
I agree that we can err on the other side, too. But I wonder whether the sophisticated defender of religion really wants to hang out with an evangelic...
September 23, 2016 at 03:31
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
Never said you did, but let's not pretend that religion has been so innocent.
September 23, 2016 at 03:20
In: Illusive morals?  — view comment
Yes, "life is sin." Movement is sin. There's a religion of stasis in our guts somewhere that just reaches out and grabs us now and then. Not life-deat...
September 23, 2016 at 03:18
In: Illusive morals?  — view comment
Good points. I'd say the freedom is also about being able to change these self-given laws. Philosophy at its best is just this sort of freedom at work...
September 23, 2016 at 03:08
In: Illusive morals?  — view comment
I don't think this identification with moral leadership and a vision of the world as not worth the trouble are the least bit separated. If one desires...
September 23, 2016 at 03:03
In: Illusive morals?  — view comment
It's not self-consciously egoistic, but you are talking about individual compulsions. In the end, it's a matter of I want it this way. But usually the...
September 23, 2016 at 02:58
In: Majoring in philosophy, tips, advice from seasoned professionals /undergrad/grad/  — view comment
Awesome post. Thanks for joining to share this. I thought about that path once myself, decided to go for math, afraid that it would kill my joy in phi...
September 23, 2016 at 02:37
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
I've been directly exposed to Catholicism and Pentacostal slain-in-the-spirit Christianity. I was told as child of a place of eternal torture created ...
September 23, 2016 at 02:28
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
By "idolatry" I just mean a state of mind, a clinging to or identifying with some concept as sacred and universal. As I see it, earnestly accusing "id...
September 22, 2016 at 08:05
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
I'm having fun. It's the "seriousness of a child at play." I really don't mean to offend, but perhaps the imp of the perverse grabs the steering wheel...
September 22, 2016 at 07:52
In: Mysticism  — view comment
As we enter the game of discourse, yes, we are impinging on the world. In a minimal sense, you can call this politics. But in that sense Keats was a p...
September 22, 2016 at 07:38
In: "Life is but a dream."  — view comment
Wild and beautiful thoughts. Yes, life is dreamlike or dreams or lifelike. It's possible (I guess) that we could wake and find ourselves in yet anothe...
September 22, 2016 at 03:51
In: Mysticism  — view comment
Indeed, it's really the only kind of "sin" I can make sense of. My Jesus strides on an ocean of blood. Empathy and generosity are beautiful, but altru...
September 22, 2016 at 03:45
In: Mysticism  — view comment
Very nice!
September 22, 2016 at 03:40
In: Mysticism  — view comment
Not that this is directed at me, but I think "right" is functioning here in the realm of politics or the Law. We are all endlessly guilty before the i...
September 22, 2016 at 03:39
In: Jesus Christ's Resurrection History or Fiction?  — view comment
For me, the problem is that the New Testament is a massively mixed message. The book itself contains both genius and madness. I keep reworking my own ...
September 22, 2016 at 03:25
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