Indeed, it is a necessity for developing a relationship with the transcendent. If God (gods) were to appear before us, how would we know that it was G...
My perspective is from the angle of maintaining a hospitable environment. The ecosystem has developed in such a way that it doesn’t disturb this equil...
Well a new power has just ridden into town. Plenary powers. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/plenary-authority-stephen-mi...
It is our sapience that got us into this fine mess. The ecosystem was getting along swimmingly, everything was in equilibrium, flourishing diversity a...
This is unhinged. The far right and the racist populists in the U.K. are trying their damnedest to import this anti woke narrative into the U.K. Even ...
What philosophers do will be ignored by those in positions of power and the population at large. So they will be engaged in an internal talking shop. ...
Perhaps, but that’s what it boils down to. It’s just a few small groups of child abusers. Just like in the British white community. Maybe there isn’t ...
Yes, there is a large cohort of cognitively challenged people in the U.K. There is a legacy issue here, alongside the media issues. The political cult...
The grooming gang scandal is a social problem, due to the cultural differences between the British population and the Asian, mainly Pakistani and Bang...
I don’t buy newspapers, haven’t done for a long time. I follow a broad range of news outlets and commentators on Twitter and Bluesky and rely on U.K.,...
Bad timing, over the last few years (since the Brexit vote in 2016) the conservative leaning press in the U.K. has been going through a nervous breakd...
Yes, there is a disconnect between the people and the politicians. It’s coming up more and more in European politics too. There is a growing feeling i...
The problem isn’t the size of the population, it’s with capitalism. Which requires ever increasing growth and productivity to stand still. When econom...
Shouldn’t that be Labour, Reform, Lib Dem. Thinking in threes helps one get away from seeing things in black and white. Blackist’s are dead against wh...
I find it helpful to compare it to the trinity. Which works in the same way, father (god), downward constraint, mother (Holy Spirit)upward constraint,...
But I come at this from the opposite direction, it is the constraints of the hard physical world which restrict my strong free will. Take that away an...
I’ve come to the thread late as I’ve been enjoying a vacation. I agree with the OP, I would point out though that in the past, when these practices we...
Nicely put, (I’m not familiar with Plotinus), I would go further. There are a constellation of souls including some who instantiate matter from pre ma...
Yes, just read it again, it is good. I like the implicit suggestion that planets and stars are conscious beings and that each act has a deep creative ...
This was the emphasis I was thinking of, while not coming at it from a philosophical perspective. What we encounter, fully formed in our world is what...
I have extensive experience with using psilocybin, so might be able to help explore the effects of hallucinogens. I would categorise it into two effec...
This is not necessarily insurmountable, although it would require professional help to unravel. We all have inner conflicts like this of some kind. I ...
This crisis, or inititiation is foundational in the mystical life. Along with the other crisis I referred to in an earlier post. The one where one rea...
Yes, there is a lot going on there. I could tell you a story or two about such things. Like when I was half way through writing the word, evil, when a...
I wasn’t thinking of the the American voter particularly, as this is a global problem (I’m in the U.K.). I agree about the complacency of the American...
Yes, there is a logical trick and various techniques. Were you involved in the New Age movement at all? Because these techniques would have been avail...
Shhhhh, you might want to keep quiet about hearing voices and talking to yourself around here they might think you’re away with the fairies (just joki...
Yes, although, I am focussing on the personal angle of a being. Which is actually quite limited, on a small scale and only covering a small number of ...
We are all still in kindergarten, but don’t realise it. We are playing with our shiny toys and passing them around in our own little worlds pretending...
I think we can learn quite a lot from these sort of experiences, it’s like a window into hidden parts of our world that we don’t ordinarily see*. For ...
Yes, we are, but I would point to the driving force being climate change and to a lesser extent, competition for rapidly depleted resources. Big corpo...
Let me describe the event (that happened 30yrs ago), because there we two people who experienced it and it involved an exchange of glances between ano...
Yes, reminds me of realisations about separateness. If only I could go back to that point in my memory. What I would do, or say differently if I could...
Yes, and there are different kinds of knowledge. Something that interests me is knowledge acquired through the witnessing of events. This doesn’t requ...
Do you realise that you have just said that we know nothing, in particular. Well apart from what we have evolved to deal with. I would go further and ...
Quite, and it’s a good way of thinking about it, in order to free ourselves of hard materialism, or something. But it’s more complicated than that and...
The title of the thread is* (in a nutshell), to tease out a blindness in the view that, supported by science etc. the physical world**is what exists a...
So what? I can’t (Kant) see a disagreement between us, it’s more a difference of emphasis. That looking through different ends of the telescope thing ...
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