lol, reminds me of an occasion in my teenage years. I could be found squirrelling away in dusty old secondhand book shops. I happened to be in one in ...
We are human, faith is important in how we got to this point and even beyond this point, it is still important because one is still reliant on the nat...
I know it sounds counter intuitive. It was a way of seeing it, that I was describing. The reality would be more nuanced. This is something I have been...
Quite, and a good way of seeing this is that there is no difference between the aspirant before realisation and after realisation. Or the sum of knowl...
We all know why, to stroke Trump’s fragile ego. He want’s his pram to look extra shiny. No worry if some more blood is shed, it’s already in the hundr...
There is plenty, but whether it is useful, or not depends to a large part on who we are saying it to and whether they think it is useful. We can say t...
It’s looking like he’s going to invoke the insurrection act on the 14th of June. Protests are organising in all major cities for Trump’s birthday para...
Yes, I can see that*. I will continue by addressing the attributes attributed to the ego and the role it plays in a person’s behaviour. Rather than ma...
They are not rioters, they are demonstrating in protest to bands of anonymous vigilante groups abducting people without due process, in their communit...
This can become complicated when we use phrases like ego. Ego can mean different things, not only different aspects of the self, but it could be the w...
This is the most crucial crisis in the life of someone who seeks to serve (in these terms), to follow a spiritual life, or to seek the divine. To be a...
This is one of the crosses to bear, for the believer, or mystic. They have beholden truths which for a number of reasons they cannot impart to their f...
If God doesn’t fall within these and the more established definitions of God, then it is not God, it is something else. If it’s something else, well t...
By definition. God is something which may have created us and the world, may be with each of us and every animal and plant, every planet. May be perfo...
Yes I see this explanation and I see how such an openness is a receptiveness to what is there to be disclosed, whatever it is. I see this and am aware...
Alongside the more sinister role being adopted by our media in recent times. Of spreading populist lies and disinformation. Spreading the propaganda d...
Yes, very much so. One can see human evolution as a devolution in many ways. All this meditation, prayer, self development that religious, or spiritua...
Yes, I know what you were getting at with empirical evidence. I reacted because I felt you were cracking a nut with a sledge hammer. There are many th...
We don’t realise the importance of cellular life for the ground of our sense of being and consciousness. After all we are a colony of cells. As you sa...
I haven’t spoken about other realities, only realities outside our field of view, which I qualified here; These are the questions that phenomenology m...
That’s odd, you seem to be asking for empirical evidence in guiding one in how to live one’s life (governed by self reflection) While excluding eviden...
Thank’s for this it has focussed my mind a little and reminded me about the specific experiences of participating in puja. I like this definition; “ I...
We in our western society and with all the scientific knowledge we now have, seem to have reached the view that we are minds and that our body doesn’t...
I too have had experiences like this. One which had a similar conversion like experience, although I would call it more like an epiphany. I was attend...
The simple answer is that one knows God via the body, rather than the mind. Rather like the way a plant knows soil through the roots. The flower, or f...
Yes, it’s easy to say this though, a different thing to do it. I recognise what you describe, which mirrors quite well the narrative I have followed v...
I don’t think we can rush to this conclusion, in a very real sense we are one being, so any so called personal experience may not be as personal as we...
Firstly there is the evidence of the lives lived of earlier people of self reflection. Secondly, implicit in living a life of faith one has faith in t...
Yes, I agree. It depends on the person, although I would point out that we are on a site frequented by deep thinkers, who often look into these issues...
That’s not quite what I’m trying to get at. It’s more that the answer to our origin, the reasons why there is a world like this etc, might be really e...
Yes, something’s don’t make sense, although most things do. We know that the sun will rise tomorrow and that when we sit down to lunch, we will eat it...
I tend to avoid threads about God, but this isn’t so much about God as about how we discuss God, or think about the issue. My position hasn’t been lai...
Thank you for your considered response, it’s appreciated. You covered a lot of ground and I may only focus in on one or two points for brevity. Firstl...
It is a phrase I have coined, there is no peer reviewed scientific establishment, or body of literature. However all the schools that I have looked in...
Well yes there is a role for the intellect in these refinements. But what I am alluding to is an interplay between the intellect and being, or self. T...
I see the distinction, I wasn’t thinking of lifestyle as a choice so much as a direction of travel that one had arrived at. That lifestyle, or practic...
Yes, for the religious, the aspirant, faith is the touchstone of their lives. For these people faith is with them all the time and becomes a connectio...
Quite, but not just the questions, also posture, practice, direction, communion. Faith is a broad brush phrase in this kind of discussion and needs to...
Forgive me, I have a satirical bent. I would engage more, but I don’t have the breadth of reading in philosophy, or in Western philosophy. I come from...
I know, I guess they are a broken force now. They may have disintegrated as a coherent force. They might be holding on to the remaining hostages as so...
I doubt it would slow down the ethnic cleansing at all and Netanyahu would claim the credit for getting them released. The reality is that Israel can’...
Two days ago during a White House press briefing, Trump showed a video of a what he described as a mass grave in South Africa. There were hundreds of ...
They have literally done that today, at the wailing wall rather than a stadium. It’s being broadcast on the world media. They’re dancing and chanting ...
Yes, reality could be very simple and yet we don’t know it. We could be staring it in the face and still not have a clue. Maybe we know it, but not wi...
It’s interesting to consider how much we don’t know, while seeming to know a lot. Indeed what we do know is tiny compared to what we don’t. But it’s e...
I’m not sure that Apustimelogist doesn’t understand transcendental idealism. But rather he’s continually testing it from a positivist standpoint. But ...
Yes, but this whole conspiracy has been cooked up because the oppressed people in an apartheid state are now in charge. Fuelled by people sympathetic ...
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