Punshhh

So let's say we have a devout vicar who is interested in mysticism as part of his service. If he didn't know, or understand what God is upto, Gods pur...

Its about time he got back in his turdis, lol.

What you are saying about the intellectual understanding of the consequences of the mystic's action (during practice) makes sense, but from my positio...

I don't see the requirement for the lower being to truly know what they are doing. Provided this being is happy to and able to, carry it out there is ...

It looks like the government is now descending into chaos. There are rows in cabinet around plans to unlock, some schools refuse to open and many dist...

I didn't say that the lower being can conceive of the purpose of a higher being (except in the exceptional circumstances I refer to in the second to l...

I don't disagree with what you say about the purposes of an individual as in the example you give. I should have been more precise, I am only referrin...

I hope you don't have it and if you do that it is mild. If you do need to contact the authorities you have to sharpen your elbows, I have heard storie...

It's more about continuing a lifestyle in which mysticism is to a degree a part of everyday life in the community and the mystics, the sadhus and guru...

Duh! You've just agreed with me, that car manufacturers need to manufacture in the market they need to sell into to be cost effective. Renault obvious...

But only 220,000 people have been tested positive in the UK. Maybe if there were 50,000,000 infected there might be a million dead, but we're not ther...

Thanks for your summary of western mysticism. I am familiar with most of it, but am not widely read, or formally trained. I have a copy of Timaeus, bu...

The ONS figures which came out this week estimate the death toll in the UK to be about 50,000 as of last week. The government has been massaging them ...

Yes, the economy was going to tank because of Brexit. Now they can blame it on Covid, so they will push for the hardest Brexit possible and head in th...

Look at it this way the US manufactures its cars for sale in the UK actually in the UK, so as to avoid the costs of importing them from a third countr...

I wanted to explain this a little more, it may be difficult to put into words what I mean, but for me being is present where there is life, in a certa...

But they have to look incompetent at this point, otherwise people will Rumble them. They will reveal the solution soon, any minute now.

There you go again having a rant about the Labour Party, while the clowns in government are going to drive us of a cliff in December. Oh yeah it's all...

I may have been vague in my use of intellectualisation and academia, normally this is not an issue, but here I think more explanation is necessary. By...

You don't seem to be able to link a post to its response. I was agreeing with you that a few old people will die, but being a bit more realistic. Near...

The EU would happily give the UK a Canada like deal, they've said that all along. They were waiting two years for the Tories to fight it out amongst t...

Yes this is a great idea if you're Dominic Cummings, or a Tory Grandee. It solves the problem of the demographic time bomb which was going to bankrupt...

Nicely put.

Yes, but that is a label, just like the label, this thing, this cat is a being. One is referring to a property and the other is referring to a thing. ...

Oh have you got the new slogan from the PM for releasing the lockdown, it's just use your common sense. Cummings's master plan to blame the victims of...

That's bullshit, the draft agreement sets out positions so that the Britain can have its cake and eat it. All Barnier wants to do is maintain the inte...

I think we need to see if we can agree on what being is here. By reducing it to a concept we limit it to a product of intellectual deliberation. Or if...

A parody of Johnson's speech lastnight about easing the lockdown lol. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WDzqCUbUQW0

You say being is the starting point and is of interest and then limit it in your view of it as a concept and therefore subject to time. This seems to ...

I'm not, as I said it's globalisation what did it. Google globalisation.

It's globalisation what did it. Wages went down in other countries outside the EU too.

I will try to address your concerns here. But first I want to put in context what I have been talking about in this thread. What I am referring to is ...

Somehow I don't think an asshole would fit through the eye of the needle. Nicely put. This would suggest to me that we are not going to figure it out ...

I accept that time is involved in these processes to quite a fundamental degree. I want to draw you back the what I am aiming for which is a relation ...

I agree, I see the overcoming the self, negating, or losing the self, narrative as one of a number of practices developed in a school which has become...

I am cool with stream of consciousness expression. What I write will also be like that, although some formulation has already been composed. I find it...

Curiously my wife has this even stronger than I have and she is not spiritual, mystical, or anything like that, but an atheist. Well she says so but I...

I hear you loud and clear, it doesn't need to be either/or though, it can be both, or a creative synthesis. Tailored to the nature of the individual.

Nice, I'm envious. I mentioned animals in particular, they have a special significance to me as they are in a sense me without the ego. Or at least th...

Yes what you bring up is an important aspect of the mystical/spiritual quest (I realise that the use of the word spiritual has baggage here). The figh...

Just a quick thought, I will give a longer response later. The aspirant when surviving the ordeal of the destruction of his/her conditioned self reali...

Yes, England is going to hell in a handcart and people who have been conned like Chester want to bring it on asap. Note he doesn't agree with the UK l...

Well we will know soon as Pakistan is going to unlock tomorrow and their death rate is still increasing. Also India will be an interesting example, th...

Yes, like a communion with animals and plants. One might remember that one is an animal too.

I agree with the distinction you make, however as I see it there are many subtleties and nuance here. Perhaps in the case of religion "power over" is ...

Have you done your reading yet?

Quite and the body which decides which drugs are procured for the NHS and which are to expensive, meaning many people don't get the treatment they cou...

In the UK, the hawks and the rightwing media are gunning for lifting the lockdown. https://i.ibb.co/VDD4RRD/IMG-9181.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ykgCpCF/IMG-...

This correlates to my experience. There was what seemed like an extremely bright( but not bright in the sense that it lit up the room), but when you l...

One sea, many waves.