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We are clones from a common ancestor (small group of pre-mammalian predecessors)*. One continuous living lineage. It would be surprising if we saw dif...

You’re flirting with solipsism a bit there. I’ve no problem with a bit of that, but it might not be of much use here. We largely speak a common truth....

Yes I agree with you. I was making a point about our ability to understand the truth about existence. That the idea that the answers are complicated, ...

Interesting, this reminds me of the triadic use of ‘I am’ in Theosophy, which can be tabulated this way. I am————Personality———— Matter——————-Individu...

The only hope that humanity has is the transfiguration of our natures, otherwise we are doomed to become extinct due to the overstretch of resources a...

Then we have bleak future ahead of us then.

Yes, we are cumbersome and slow to learn new tricks. But this trick might not be so difficult. I think part of our problem is we have convinced oursel...

How fortunate. If only we could all behave sensibly, we could throw off all this physical stuff we are wearing like an old coat and hang out in peace ...

But in the example I gave, I was not addressing the likelihood, or possibility that an alien would come along who could tell us. I am assuming that. B...

Or to me neither. Thanks, a useful word.

I don’t know if this has any bearing on any of this, but it plays a role in my thinking. The idea that each being is a pure consciousness (or spirit) ...

Yes and that is a big problem within mysticism in the current world. It is taught in different ways in many different places. There is no common accep...

Yes, I know this and I agree. This is the starting point from which we can begin an enquiry. But unless we dare to go beyond this, then we are stuck, ...

I don’t know. There are perhaps two likely reasons for this. The brain is still active for a while, the soul remains somehow with the body.

Because the brain anchors our consciousness in this physical world. If this weren’t happening our consciousness would be somewhere else entirely and e...

Yes, I know what you are asking. What I was implying in my post about looking at the railings from the vehicle. Is that we see a picture in the standi...

It is not as clear cut as that. Some people know a little more than that and can infer a little more again, some can intuit this. Also some can seek g...

I agree, the way I see it is like we are fellow travellers, continually on a journey. What we see are things in motion. If the motion were to stop, th...

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

What I was thinking of is that there is the ability (in us) for us to witness something inconceivable to us, which we are entirely unable to comprehen...

Reminds me of that word, “proof”.

This passage chimes with me, I have found that there are thresholds or veils in the mind, which blind us to what, what possibilities, are beyond. That...

Thanks, I largely agree with that. Although soul has a lot of baggage and definitions, roles played vary a lot. We are grappling with something intang...

Does a fish know what it’s like to be wet?

Animals and plants are pretty much identical to humans when it comes to the cellular structure. So how come their soul is markedly different to that o...

As far as I can see, you are talking about how gravity works. Well Einstein gave an explanation, that in the fabric of spacetime there is an effect li...

Not necessarily, as I suggested, experiential worlds are and can only be this way. The different kind of something, (if it’s there) uses the experient...

Consciousness emerges out of a subtle interplay of electrical states and processes within the cells of the body. This life then animates the body (a c...

Yes, we are a colony of cells which readily (it seems) organise into complex organisms and organisms with rational minds. Minds in which reason can fr...

I think there is something else going on, but that the causal relationships in our experiential world are the way they are because that is how experie...

We don’t, normally, we just get on with our lives. I’m just identifying that all is in motion. Although I think we talk about things happening, in mot...

Yes in the way animals perceive, is what I was getting at. This is also present in a human, because we are also an animal. There are circumstances in ...

Thanks, I’ll give it some thought and get back to you. Apologies, that’s just how you came across to me. I did say that a “proof” (which is what you w...

I work with the notion of anchors (crosses), a series of which the being transcends throughout their development. From primitive life forms to the tra...

Yes you are right, I should have qualified my statement to the effect that I was considering pure being. Being unhindered by conditioning and social p...

Care to elaborate?

I just got obfuscation. If you start to pin him down he will miraculously agree with you.

To witness something you only have to be present, you don’t have to think, or know anything. The best way to describe what I mean is in regard to reve...

“Subject to”. Is there something absent change, or would that be nothing at all. Or there could be no thing, other than change. This would suggest tha...

Thanks for an insightful post. Something I contemplate at length is how being is somehow static and mobile. Neither one nor the other. A static being ...

Don’t you mean perceived, rather than identified. To be perceived, something merely needs to be witnessed, this does not require identification.

I agree with your point here, but I think it is necessary in a discussion about consciousness to delineate consciousness and mind, or mental activity....

I note you didn’t answer my question, what sort of proof do you require? You do understand, I presume how hard it is to prove something. I have put fo...

You are dismissing the ethereal being because it can’t to demonstrated physically to exist. To the extent, perhaps, that a chemical reaction is a form...

You have just re-asserted your claim that anything that can’t be proved to exist is a figment of my imagination. You have proved my point for me. What...

Ok, this fits for my ethereal body. A change in the ethereal body requires an alteration in the physical body, (including mental alterations). But the...

Thanks, a new word for me. I’m of the opinion that this is going on in the human body, as there are layers of complexity. There are lucid dreams and i...

Yes, here is the language game (in bold), because you are requiring something non-physical to be demonstrated with physical apparatus/experiment. I ca...

Yes and I’m hoping to learn something. I’m not a philosopher so can’t use the terminology much and might not be familiar with the arguments. I would s...

Yes and this issue is a good example, it’s quite a simple issue when one realises that causes regress to a first cause. Unless they are the result of ...