Interesting. If you would like to read about the idea of the "calling" it was important in Calvinism, where it reached a very material form. Weber loo...
Academic writing aside, where the term is (I won't say arbitrarily but) specifically defined, I think that ego is a pretty nebulous concept, and, in m...
If living in accord with the constraints of external reality without any kind of internal or external deception or equivocation is egoistic. In the pe...
I think that you have already answered your own question: authenticity. This is both an intuitively and comprehensively satisfying concept. If your th...
I don't think it's a problem when scientists do philosophy, only when they conflate philosophy and science. Fermi's paradox is an example of trying to...
Unless you place any validity at all on subjective experience. Which is essentially what any humanistic science from history to sociology to anthropol...
It isn't a common word, and your online sources are just someone clunking something together. I have encountered the word in texts, a quick survey of ...
You wasted your own time. By the way, with all respect to your prestigious online internet sources, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which is 2 ...
Right now so called AI can perform specific tasks based on extensive programming. At the height of its complexity, these tasks can be generalized to w...
Compare it with the search for extra-terrestrial life then. No evidence for life of any kind has ever been discovered anywhere in the universe beyond ...
This is misleading. Scientific consensus is measurable and quantifiable through the findings of accredited organizations, national and international. ...
The prefix trans- means across, beyond, or on the other side. So transphysical encompasses and extends the physical. Since 95% of the universe is dark...
I am familiar with classical S-R theory, but nowhere have I ever encountered the concept of identification with respect to it. I googled, but couldn't...
Right now my current problem is deciding between Fichte's Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy and Cassirer's Philosophy of the Enlightenment. The...
As soon as the play, which was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, began, Partridge was all attention, nor did he break silence till the entrance of the ghost;...
I think this is your main question? I think that this has been an historical dividing line. However the trans-physical can encompass the physical, but...
As mentioned, you really can't teach someone to appreciate the beauty of something. If the idea of a cosmic consciousness doesn't simultaneously satis...
That seems too basic a point to contest. The concept of universal mind is ubiquitous in the collection of writings on animism, panpsychism, the whole ...
Yes, I'm all-in with peak-experiences Jack. I was an ultra-runner until I my knee gave out. Running 24 hours straight and finding yourself completely ...
I think, in the context of my post, the whole thing is about conceptualizing consciousness; I would say that is the point. Whatever we are experiencin...
In the field of evolutionary biology progress by leaps is known as "saltation" - there are some interesting phenomena documented with respect to popul...
But doesn't reason actually work in the direction of transcending one level towards another, as I attempted to describe? A highly trained musician can...
I think that to the extent that our understanding expands, our awareness likewise expands, in the direction of transcending the boundaries of the phys...
Yes, it is all going into GICs (which are the highest rate long-term deposits in Canada). I'm actually pleased to find that, other than expanding my l...
Ok, so in a sense you want to de-mystify mysticism without denying or contradicting it? That works for me as it is consistent with a naturalistic phil...
Ok. But yours is the first mention of epistemology in the thread. Are you suggesting the mysticism isn't rational? As I see it, spirituality/mysticism...
Too, I think, perception and awareness are essentially integrated with action. In a sense, we only perceive that which we "push up against". Which rai...
DId you know the phrase "perennial philosophy" (the title of that book) came from Leibniz and referred to the fundamental reality underlying our own e...
ok. well if we're adapting to nature, and there is more to nature than fits in the current scientific worldview, then it wouldn't be so virtuous. Sinc...
Reasonable suggestion. But...this also depends on the criteria of what is considerred "adaptive," which to a large extent are enmeshed with the object...
Seriously though. Even if so-called mystics are reasoning in a domain of ambiguities and uncertainties, the values they espouse are concrete and pract...
The theme of this thread is pretty much addressed by the book I'm currently reading, The Intelligence of the Cosmos, by Ervin Laszlo, a pioneer in the...
Well, I happily endorse mysticism within the context of philosophical naturalism. So I would say that philosophy can encompass mysticism. However I fe...
I would assume anyone who authentically asks whether mysticism has a valid role must have had at least one experience that qualifies as mystical. So a...
Yes, I understood this to be the entire point of your OP. For me, what you are describing as absolute truths translates to "fundamental beliefs". Coll...
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