Isn’t the term ‘meta-narrative’ just another word for a belief system? Lately I’ve been pondering this idea of being ‘addicted’ to a paradigmatic mind...
In some meditative state of thought-free non-attachment, I've tried keep the identity to 'I am-ness' -- without optional add-ons, attachments, tight-f...
@"Wayfarer" ... Interesting ... This no doubt explains why I’ve always resonated with those metaphysical/spiritual expressions, even before being incl...
This really does speak to the most profound implication of Idealism: that there is no ethereal substrate producing any substance. That which emanates ...
Once again there is some misconstruing, and a misquotation. I'm pointing out the difference between logical deduction and felt experience. I said that...
Well no, if you were to recall accurately I asked: "Is not the 'recognition of things' entirely relational?" -- rather than making a claim -- to which...
Again, this offers no explanation or theory of conscious awareness/experience whatsoever, so isn't of much interest to me -- and indeed does feel quit...
Well actually I referred to an apparent or seeming duality. In any case, how is saying 'there is no actual boundary' different from saying that any bo...
You seem to have overlooked the word 'apparent' -- which I did italicize for a reason, but perhaps the 'bold' will help too -- or I should have said '...
Really, when it comes down to it, all of these conscious machinations are doing nothing to address the 'hard problem' -- i.e. what is consciousness? W...
No, what I am is not a thing at all. There's awareness ... There's the contents of awareness ... but there's no actual boundary and no 'out there.' So...
Mind-at-large was coined by Aldous Huxley to refer to some unitary state of Mind, which may be made clearer in the context of this statement: "In the ...
Well then this may be one of those cases of having to agree to disagree. I fully concede that, not being a formally educated philosopher, I am coming ...
Yes, to elaborate, it implies that what a 'finite' locus of mind can only know as experiential phenomenal appearances, by definition, is a limitation ...
... @"jkg20" Perhaps the descriptor 'apparently' distinct realms would be pertinent here. The realm of mind being not other than its phenomenal, exper...
Yes, I see what you mean. In terms of Idealism it seems it can only be resolved by positing a 'real' Mind that emanates 'real' ideations, which immane...
Well, as just a teaser from the blog post, what do you make of this? ... "Badiou simply gives "this nothing" a name (namely, "the empty set"), et voil...
This Leibniz question of 'why is there something rather than nothing?' it seems can't be answered unless we first agree on what precisely is meant by ...
This does sum it up in a nutshell sort of way, does it not? When considering how much about such educational institutions is about indoctrination, as ...
Again, I'm not advocating mixing psychedelics with your current medications, which would be clearly ill-advised and outright foolish. Also, I'm assumi...
By the way, I should state the usual disclaimer here that I am not a medical professional, or healer of any kind, so any advice taken here should be d...
Maybe there is some way you could get into one of those clinical trials I mentioned. If not, one can only hold out hope that they will bring about a m...
Well supposedly there's much optimism that these so-called entheogens will be approved for clinical usage in the psychiatric field in the near future ...
I tend to agree about the over prescribing of anti-depressants, and other chemical masking of the underlying trauma and other unresolved emotional iss...
Yes, salient points. Some suffering can seem like a call for attention from the obfuscated, unresolved 'stuff' deeply repressed in the subconscious. W...
That thread did get moved to 'The Lounge' -- presumably not philosophical enough for 'General Philosophy'. It is curious how often things go missing i...
Wonderful poem ... I must seek out more Brautigan. For sure, suffering while dying, with all of the fear, grief and despair that can entail, is anothe...
To be sure, it is just the fact of life while firmly entrenched within the current prevailing paradigm, that our higher education systems, dependent u...
@"Londoner" Further to your point, having peaked my curiosity, I now recall that some of the staff and students of that art college, bemoaning the sta...
Yes, very true ... My academic college 'sojourn' amounted to a couple of years of art college, attended and taught by many counter-culture types, and ...
Would it be fair to say then that academic philosophy has succumbed, or surrendered itself to the prevailing materialist paradigm/ethos -- using the d...
@"frank" Somehow I missed this snippet last night. These days, as the physicalist paradigm seems to be melting away before my eyes, I must concede tha...
I wonder if perhaps the meaning of it all is to create the meaning of it all. And it seems quite unconditional that way. When the meaning I create is ...
Not sure we're on the same page here, in terms of what I was trying to convey. But that may be that I didn't make it explicit enough. I don't have tim...
Thanks for the suggested article; I will get around to it. I actually read More Than Allegory a while back, and don't off hand recall the mention of Q...
I concur ... What I enjoy and appreciate about this forum is that it compels and demands that one be exacting and eloquent in the expression of very n...
In the variation of Idealism I lean toward, Unitary Mind is the ontological primitive, so there can be no 'prior to' that state -- being trans-spatiot...
Ok, fine, sit on the fence -- may be a wise choice. In my case, it may well be that metaphysical curiosity will kill this 'cat', so to speak. But then...
Yes, I may well buy a ticket and venture along that intriguing track. Worth noting here that Kastrup draws the line at metabolic expressions, and does...
Yes, I have delved into Schopenhauer, though not as deeply as one might. Since we're sharing links, you and others inclined toward Idealism may be int...
I do have to concur that I'm not sure of any necessary relevance to tying in QM with Idealism, except insofar as any given theoretical physicist, play...
Yes, in this version of Idealism, Mind becomes an apparent plurality of individuated, 'dissociated' loci or iterations of itself (mini-minds?), an ess...
This might be better suited to the BK thread, but I'll carry on here, so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle ... I suppose one idealist interpreta...
@"Kym" ... Ok, now I recall the events you're referring to all those many years ago. Not sure that it's even relevant to the OP, and I could of course...
I'm not familiar with the case you're referring to, and so hesitate to comment. I may look into it, and get back to you, but in the meantime, here's a...
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