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Until someone thrusts your finger into boiling water. You forgot to take away your body. So if someone takes away your feelings, sensations, thoughts ...

Can you give me a thought that has been proven to be true? Surely truth needs legs, feet and a rock (emotional or not) to stand on.

Truth is a high barrier. If we confine ourselves to what we have established is true and what can logically be deduced about our bodies, then we are n...

Mystics may also have the desire to know, however realise that there are necessarily things which are unknown, or can't be known. Also that the proces...

But you wrote this in your previous reply; So were we to consider these things we don't know, we would be writing science fiction then? You can't bani...

What exists beyond what can be tested for, or observed is up for debate. Our hopes can be narrow minded, confined to the conditioned reason that we ar...

Its more subtle than that. We don't actually know everything about matter. It's true we have worked out what can be determined and measured using scie...

I don't see the need myself, but I would like you to explain it some more so that I can understand what you are getting at. Also, as I said initially ...

Well I suppose the media could have exploited an underlying xenophobia in the population. But once the ball was rolling they just threw more and more ...

Here in the UK, it's the rightwing media which drives racism, to boost their readership and make a bit of profit. Not to mention, as a driver for Brex...

Yes, I haven't given it all that much significance for two reasons, firstly that it is a human invention and as such cannot be verified. Which is fine...

Forgive me, I am not trained in classical philosophy, I simply looked for a definition and this seemed to fit. Wiki, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Well eternity is reality which from our perspective is all things to all men. It is heaven, or nirvana, for example. This I think is described as the ...

You're in the dilemma of the gymnast who feels she is only really alive while spinning on a rope. The choreography is so melodious, ordinary life seem...

Ok, that's of interest, you realise now don't you that I will provide a revelation for discussion. Yes this correlates to mystical contemplation, but ...

You've deemed to apply a little oil (quick silver) to your nib. The trouble is the skies the limit now and if you fly beyond the end of your nose, the...

Thanks, Augustine refers to it as eternal and incorporeal, so that would fall into what I describe as eternity. All things truly real are there, inclu...

Oh I see what you mean now. To me this equates to the Akashic record, in theosophy. "Henry Steel Olcott's A Buddhist Catechism (1881). Olcott wrote th...

Heaven? I prefer the word eternity, because it offers a direction in that there are things there which are without end, inviolable, transcendent, real...

Yes, that sounds good for me. As I said, I am happy to accommodate a recognised metaphysics as I don't want to get into the mysticism of physical mate...

And traditionally those who had an affinity would gravitate to the monastery. Yes, the most mystical person I have met, was, at the right moment, the ...

Nice, but one must remain aware of the mystique employed by false prophets and religious leaders who seek to control the populous, generate wealth, or...

I have tried to find the significance of this quote for the philosophy of mysticism. All I can come up with is that people who discuss the philosophy ...

Sounds good. To start with one puts one's house in order.

What I mean by chitta chatta is all dialogue with other people, or with one's self and all conscious thinking. Also all unconscious thinking which eme...

Well I can easily distinguish between conversations I have with other people and those I have with myself, my inner narrative. Mystical practice can i...

Yes, although, as I was saying, I don't think it's unique it might have happened a few times before on earth and many times in the cosmos. Quite predi...

Yes I agree with that. The way I understand the fall and the story depicted in the bible is just that. That the development of thinking in early human...

I'm portraying it as a bad thing, part of the fall of man. You make a good point though, all sorts of people can talk good words and the like. But tho...

We are about to see what happens when there is not a lockdown, but chaos instead, in Brazil and the whole of Latin America.

It is a widely used practice in meditation and particularly Raja Yoga. The aim being to regulate and eventually tame the mind through coming to terms ...

Thanks for the link to the Allman Brothers. Yes what they produced on that album was something. It was sad to hear the story of Eric Clapton's life, h...

Nothing but straw. As I said there is a debate about these issues. Vacuous twaddle. Perhaps it's time for Britain to invade Europe, it would be the Br...

Well as you say, there are many kinds of mysticism. The majority I find would agree with Nuke, to the extent that trying to work it out with the mind ...

I agree with all of that. Education is the way through I think, but it will be a slow process. I can't speak for the US, but here in the UK recent pro...

I know, people are asking should the statue have been removed by the council by now. Should statues be removed by public consent etc.

Yes, there were large amounts of compensation paid out to the traders and businessmen who would loose out in the UK too. Nothing was paid to the slave...

There is a debate raging in the UK about which statues should be pulled down and if it is justified to pull them down and how to determine which shoul...

I happened to watch a documentary on Eric Clapton lastnight. It was interesting to learn that Duane Allman collaborated on his Layla album. It was app...

Yes, I would say also of extension. I appreciate your focus on time, I prefer to lump space and time together. But also to allow for the presence of t...

Yes I reached the same conclusion via a different route many years ago. Also Bhuddism says as much. However I went further, I realised incidentally (w...

Yes, I agree, but this freedom and development of bodies is a further evolution within this physical system within which we find ourselves (as beings)...

yes, it was like a kind of electricity between them, almost telepathic, words fail me. A magic, like pixy dust, which made things happen.

Well this is what I observed, I may have been mistaken in assuming that everyone had to be in on it for it to be real. It just was, and appeared not t...

I don't wholly disagree with your thoughts about human instinct. But rather I view how we got into this predicament differently. In your comment that ...

Yes they did, although it was as a series of small glimpses of how reality was for them, rather than one intense experience. The way I saw it was in t...

The mystic is attempting to go nowhere while realising that she has not as yet arrived there. She knows where she is going (nowhere) but realises that...

The UK hadn't lost its sovereignty. Now on 6th of June 2020, we have a speech by Michel Barnier, in which he points out in detail how the British nego...

The official Covid death figures in the UK on Wednesday (3rd June) was 359, for the same day the Covid deaths for the whole of the EU was 330. On the ...

The point is, once the instinctive behaviour is lost it is lost forever, it is permanent, there is no way back. Hence it is a fall, a fall into an aby...