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I don't want to speak for Wayfarer here, but the way I see it is that it is a situation where one can't see the wood for the trees. It is "impossible"...

A perfect opportunity for the populist, the population feels desperate at the relentless economic decline in their area, while noticing a gradual incr...

Interesting, yes I think hallucinogens found in the environment have been made use of by shamans in human society for a very long time. They may have ...

I am not familiar with the theology around Satan. The analogy I use is the fall, the mystery of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and how humanit...

I could get into the experiences I have had on mushrooms, but critics may devalue them as hallucinations caused by the drug. Ok, I take your point. I ...

Yes, such jewels of wisdom really can leapfrog a lifetimes teaching. I find now that if I read some passages in the bible, where Jesus speaks, his wor...

Yes, there is a lot of New Age dross around making a serious enquiry difficult without having to waste a lot of time wading through it. The problem as...

Chester is a working class Tory, an oxymoron, but real, there are lots of them in the UK, they helped to get the Brexit vote through. I tried to expla...

He was a good example of where England is going wrong.

I think the problem is your surrealist turn of phrase. It can catch people out and they think it's something else.

He hid in a bunker and is demonising anti-fascists. Sound familiar?

So you had to have that one last pint before closing time. Now your going to spill out onto the pavement and waddle all the way home.

I am not familiar with Plato's description, but I can say where 6 becomes 7 in The Hindu traditions, We have two trinities the lower (physical body, t...

I agree, but I don't see why we can't do both. Religion, which is a formalised version of mysticism, is treated academically, indeed theology is taugh...

You really don't know what you're talking about. You're just that loudmouth shouting in the pub after one to many drinks. 180 proof summed you up. You...

Benkei is right. It was embarrassing to watch the Tory party pulling their own hair out and scrapping like cats in a sack over what they want out of B...

Precisely. And what about the voters who can't get to the polling station, or are away from home etc? I am a polling officer and I see plenty of coupl...

How many husbands are beating their wives into voting differently then?

Whatever works for you. I dont see a problem here, The system I refer to is a tool, of use from time, the use a botanist makes of the biological class...

That's a Brexit party meme, it's weird the way they convinced themselves that democracy in the UK is under threat from bullying husbands. So Faridge s...

Quite. The precious.

Through pursuing some kind of service, this could be doing good works and/or offering oneself as a vessel to convey divinity of some kind for acts of ...

Yes these are all valid concerns. What I am describing is a structured mystical teaching developed within Hinduism.Which just so happens to be the str...

Nicely put, I keep coming up against this like a brick wall when trying raise this issue.

It is probably going to be quite complicated to interpret different parts of the self into a more philosophical interpretation. I can categorise these...

You seem to describe an experience of observation, "baring witness", and an experience of growth, "the fully awakened mind emerges from the bud", with...

I agree with this, humility and the realisation that you are in a sense already where you wish to be, if you could but see it. There is also the path ...

Your going to get what you want now. Cummings and Johnson have trashed the lockdown now anyway. Although not through careful strategy, but rather a La...

Chester just blames everything on the left, you know the commies. It's like when someone blames everything on the Democrats.

I'm not trying to impose something here, but rather refine the discussion to be about what actually concerns a mystic who has progressed past the init...

We are not talking about the practice, or the mystical experience, but how to talk about it, or at least I am. So the points are preconditions for a d...

But Chester is using his common sense, this is the new government policy. The common sense thing to do like what Dominic Cummings did is to bend the r...

I have had numerous mystical experiences, but we are trying to find a way of talking about mysticism with philosophers in this thread. I too am a litt...

Interesting, I don't have time today to reply, I will tomorrow.

I agree with all of what you say here. I would tweak this though. What I was referring to when I said ground rules is as set of stages, or accepted co...

Well if I had to sing from the Johnson government hymn sheet, I expect I would be impatient and bored.

The ground rules (this is my phrase and may not describe what I am referring to very well), could be viewed as a set of preconditions before spiritual...

I sometimes think of time along with space (extension) present in an ooze, generating its own reality as it extrudes.

They may require a mandatory test to see if you have any virus. This might even involve a quarantine period while the test is being processed.

Yes. It is distinct from a revelation in that it is a growth, through stages. Also, by describing it I am referring to bodily processes rather than in...

Yes, those dastardly Eastern Europeans stealing our jobs and benefits at the same time. Nice U turn though, Johnson had no choice, it wasn't a change ...

The purpose or reason for why a mystic chooses to follow the mystical path are unique to the individual. Generally they have a calling of some kind. A...

It's ok, they were following their common sense. The new policy of the government. So if they die, it's their fault because they didn't use their comm...

This was Southend beach in the UK today, it barely made the news today and now that the government has absolved responsibility the lockdown is crumbli...

Not only are you hypocritical, you're topsy turvy. "Modern nationalism is intensely democratic" That's actually the opposite of the reality. You reall...

Here's your hypocrisy again. You assume the Scott's won't fall in behind nationalism, while people like you and most Brexiters did just that and you w...

Yes it has gone quiet, I expect the SNP are giving all their time to the Covid crisis and biding their time regarding Brexit. In the knowledge that Jo...

Rather tenuous and not a requirement. The mystic is free to work out, learn, take an interest in an understanding of anything they like. This understa...

Times like this happened after the referendum. And all those immigrants who came here before the end of Jan 2020 from Europe will be able to stay and ...

Yesterday Priti Patel said in reference to the immigration bill, "It will end free movement and open up global Britain". Today Mat Hancock said the se...