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Of course there is. Everyone knows there is.

Rabbit holes can be so warm and cozy. It's a jungle out there - in the Real.

No, I don't. But I agree: set beside humankind - "How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! ...in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of th...

He's a monster. No question. But with moments of mad illumination. Like Isaiah; like any prophet: Utopian visions breed "the greatest thing ye can exp...

You might say a blinding brilliance or a humbling brilliance. The kind of brilliance that makes a person happy to go silent.

It could go either way, as I see it. It serves admirably as the latter. Its unnamability allows it some form of existence as originary X. My mind boun...

Not the same: but ambiguity creates uncertainty.

Gotcha.

I had another thought: In a number of translations, the Tao is said to exist, to perhaps exist, to seem to exist, to perhaps seem to exist. I take tha...

What do you find unmeaningful about it?

I'm good. Cheers. :smile:

I agree we disagree. No problem. To my view, in light of the age-old controversy surrounding the Tao, the Tao must in some sense exist. Just not in th...

I can only understand this as a deployment of paradoxical language designed to assist the mind into a state of contemplative stillness. It works admir...

We would have to take a look, then, at your definition of the universe. When I think of the expression "the universe," I take it to refer to that whic...

I saw that. Kind of a hyperabstract Predator. Perfect mystical koanic focus point.

A confrontation with anxiety is a fork in the road: there are two possibilities: a neurotic distortion of the real or a creative transformation of the...

A confrontation with anxiety is a fork in the road; there are two possibilities: constrict the personality to avoid the anxiety-laden circumstance or ...

That's true of any question. If you don't know you're a p-zombie you have no justification for saying you're a p-zombie.

So you don't know you're a p-zombie?

I was confused. My question: You say you're a p-zombie. How do you know you're a p-zombie?

Proof that you're a p-zombie or proof that you know?

Proof that you're a p-zombie or proof that you know? You're being evasive.

Proof of what?

How do you know? :smile:

The mysticism of some X thought to predate the universe: A perfect koanic point of focus to still the mind.

Not competent to speak on the subject - but it's still fun. It seems the particles must be either, in some sense, the same particle or, in some sense,...

A song I wrote about a mystical awakening I had in my late twenties, twenty years ago. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/Jwlok6tIYqc

A morsel of traditional Christian altruism.

This brings to mind what might be called the wisdom of the flow state. The hallmark of the flow state is a diminished sense of time.

A life-affirmative statement suggesting loving acceptance, by the eternal, of the Tao's ten thousand things. A nirvana-is-samsara sentiment.

Affirming the power of Mind to color or transform our experience of objects.

An anti-puritanical revision of wisdom.

A violently irreverent attitude toward the past. The slogan of the fearless iconoclast or innovator.

By all means continue. It might remind me of some wordsmith thoughtsmith genius drowned in my personal noetic chaos. :smile:

Here's the confusion: incoherent 1. (of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear. "he screamed some inco...

Already done. :smile:

Not sure what you mean but those are pretty words and I'm happy to add them to my vocabulary list.

Good to know you (and the dictionary) see what the problem is. :smile:

Not "understood," "understandable."

Not really set on making a point. Just want to understand what's going on in the dialog. The dictionary defines "incoherent" as (among other things) "...

in·co·her·ent /?ink??hir?nt/ Learn to pronounce adjective 1. (of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclea...

We must be working with different definitions of or usages for "incoherent". Above, the sentence "I drew a square circle" was presented by Jackson. Th...

Spot on to my lights.

Moving on: Blake as reactionary against the budding ascendancy of reason is here on full display.

This phrase kills me. What a wit. :lol:

As to lineage I see something like: Isaiah (and friends) to Milton to Swedenborg to Blake. Probably a few names between Isaiah and Milton - but if I r...

I'd link you to it but I don't know how. To which Jackson replied: Focusing on the incoherence claim. So what's happening here?

No problem at all with the above. The problem arose in the Nagel thread when Jackson said he understood the phrase "what it feels like to be me" but t...

I agree. Believing is easy.

I've never tried a flotation tank but it sounds like a good time. Glad you shared.