Nice work there. Yes my photography was a bit spontaneous, also I didn't crop them to show that they are canvases. The wide landscape is supposed to b...
Thanks for the links, I'll listen to them later today. And thanks for giving some idea of what you're about, it's interesting. I know a guy like you, ...
But who has died, was it the badges of personality, was it the I that never changes?if the former, I would argue that that wasn't the person anyway, j...
In reference to what WhiskeyWhiskers is saying, it can be described in a different way by analogy. If one imagines that when a being is reborn, the bo...
Yes it is a complex subject and the truth of it is currently veiled from us. For me what is of interest is seeking a broader wisdom of the nature of e...
Yes and considering a spiritual cosmogony is quite reasonable, provided one remembers that it is not known to be the case other than through the perso...
Banks should seperate the gambling wing from the primary role of the bank which should be to provide banking facilities to their private customers etc...
Thanks Metaphysician Undercover and John for rehearsing these ideas. As I see it one would have to include animals in our passing time and present, in...
I also had memories of a previous life, well more feelings of emotional atmospheres and certain Victorian furnishings and effects would have a strong ...
Aha! I was once under the influence of something very strong in a quiet valley in the Himalayas. I was told shortly afterwards that that is where Timo...
Quite that's what I thought you meant. I tend to refer to the Theosophical or Hindu tradition as a framework to work from. As I am not well versed in ...
Yes, I am not familiar with "intergral spirituality" are you using it to describe spirituality in general? Anyway I agree with the emphasis on the tra...
You've lost me, in both paragraphs were you mention sophomoric. I just can't work out what your saying. Anyway as I said, what I am doing, while it co...
Try telling someone who believes in God that it's a sophomoric misunderstanding. Justified true belief is an analytical device. I don't use it and I h...
Nice post, pointing out the primary goal of what I would label "Western mysticism". This self actualised being is I expect the mystic who "becomes one...
There are many people who don't conclude that the limited perspective given to us by science and the fashion for scientism based common thought, is th...
It is something like the "one thing" of Parmenides*. Or spacetime reduced to one point rather than extended, rather like it might have been at the poi...
I do buy "Justified true belief", but I think the use of the word "belief" is technical and precisely defined. In reality the belief in this use is eq...
I don't see the relevance of politics in mysticism other than in its absence, apart from ecological concerns. Surely any mystic would be a member of t...
I don't believe it, it's just an idea, expressing some concepts arrived at while contemplating time, along in this case with a unity. Actually I don't...
Yes I am aware of those perspectives, also the phenomenological interpretation provided by John. I suppose my perspective as I am presenting it here i...
Yes, the final work of art is one's self. Yes the realisation that all is art, or what someone says is art was a coming of age. Before this point I ha...
It is the conception of the moment as a series of nows which is incorrect. From my perspective it is one continuous period, continuous in an eternal r...
To know or experience the transcendent might be rationally incoherent. But this does not mean that both don't happen in the life of a mystic. In human...
Yes A and B are different brain states, there may be some difference other than the fact that one is internally directed and the other externally, but...
Yes, we each take what we find around us in terms of concept, to weave into our "coat of many colours". I would point out that along with the perspect...
No I don't see you as someone who experiences side B. I was trying to explain the distinction between externally orientated being and internally orien...
I concur with Wayfarer on this point, that what mysticism(the practice) is concerned with is a different way of seeing, of thinking, experiencing, the...
It strikes me that this is speculation on Voegelin's part. How do we know that the human mind, or body is not designed to experience transcendence and...
Yes, I agree with this. My point is that most animals communicate, often in complex ways. Also they can be very good at learning and understanding of ...
There is experiential learning and knowing, in which the mind is a bystander looking on. You know the laughing thing, well it's the same with art, sud...
Yes, I know it is a difficult thing to think about. The way I think about it is that there is space in the moment, of a second or two, rather like the...
Yes we are probably using mysticism in different ways. I was going to make this distinction at the beginning of the thread, but have had a busy weeken...
Yes I agree. Also the western society glibly rushes over the cliff of climate change and destruction of the ecosystem like lemmings. Although this iss...
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