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It's likely crucial to include the potence of the emotions here. A good part of why rape is considered so heinous is doubtless the way rape, and repor...

Moral emotions may play a guiding role as well. But do I dare speak fondly of feelings on this forum? Feelings and reason - it can be a healthy partne...

So then we might examine an historical It-ification of the Thou.... I'll check out that Weber reference, thanks.

But certainly the notion of the sacred and of the sacralizing power of the human mind is as stable a starting point as any for this sort of dialogue.

Your call. It's just an idea. If Kaufman and the SEP don't care for it, I suppose it's some kind of bunk. Or is that more of a religious view? Yes, Bu...

What to call it if not (informed) personal conviction? And what's so awful about (informed) personal conviction? I'm sure most scientists also have th...

Just filling in the blanks. Not a peep from our public school system about the American Empire, the blood on our hands. They talk about a city on a hi...

The transition from the I-It to the I-Thou relationship may reflect a universal access to the sacralizing power of the human mind. In short, one's rel...

Key to this question is the notion of the sacred. What is it that makes an object, a person, a behavior (a ritual), etc, sacred (in the eye of the beh...

From the I and Thou wiki: In Buber's view, all of our relationships bring us ultimately into relationship with God, who is the Eternal Thou. Martin Bu...

You might say God happens when the universe apart from the I - the universe as a whole - is experienced as a Thou.

The Buberian I-It versus I-Thou dynamic looks like a good starting point for a broad analysis of religion. The confrontation with the self by way of t...

Are not the varieties of conscience as much a cultural construct as our Western, 21st century proscription of and aversion to rape? One can fancy a fa...

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Is 'notion' less problematic than 'concept'? Or do you use the word 'notion' here tongue-in-cheek? Even if tongue-in-cheek, here you demonstrate knowl...

I did a Google search, looks like a good time. I'll have some time soon to take a closer look.

So indeed this old dead horse. Couldn't your flog be put to fruitfuller use? If you know how to use the word 'concept', why do you need to know what i...

Interesting. Thanks for the link. :smile:

We have to include psychical doings, if that's not a problem. I assume you accept that minds do things.

What's most interesting to me here as a psychologist is how out of character it is for you to include in your phraseology what in the past you've deem...

Gotcha. :cool:

Not interested in this old dead horse. Just noting the game-religion parallel.

Does the concept of a game refer to nothing? Eschewing definitions, as is your preference: if playing a game is something we do, religion is also some...

The connection between ecstasy and flow is addressed here. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12741/orgasm-ecstasy-and-flow-merleau-ponty

Thanks for the insight. :smile:

While I enjoy and appreciate your description of ecstasy, I don't believe it's accurate to treat enlightenment and ecstasy as in any way interchangeab...

The experience of a limit situation within the everday - this seems to be the very difference you claim the distinction lacks. A difference of experie...

Irvin Yalom is an existential psychiatrist at Stanford. The OP quote comes from his book, The Gift of Therapy.

Gonna need to append some evidence to such a farfetched claim. If you want to be taken seriously.

Right. The subtlest form of propaganda is simple omission.

Sure, lenses, filters, out there and in here. We see our psychical filters through the lens of our psychical filters. Excision would require lifelong ...

Take a jet to Ukraine and see the war with your own eyes. Any other source is, in some sense, filtered.

This definition seems fine. Mystical 2. Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination.

Joshs seems to be having some fun with I love chom chom's typo. No need to focus only on women. :smile:

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, crea...

Nah, I enjoy the nonsense almost as much as the philosophy. Words are pretty.

Reduced to philo-foolery by apathetic mods.

A skull a day makes a towering tzompantli. "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."

The chickeggen separated into chicken and egg.

It's not solipsism if the self-perceived perceiver believes in the existence of other persons.

No need for an ad infinitum. It's a circle, not a line. A perceiver can perceive itself. Two perceivers can perceive one another.

That's some stale-ass Kool-aid you're nursing. Reminds me of Petronius's slow bloody suicide in the tub.

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Sweet. :) Small doses only for me. About once a week and I have no desire for more.

Dreams and the Ways to Direct Them Saint-Denys, 1867 A classic. Maybe the first attempt at a book-length scholarly analysis of lucid dreaming. (Not su...

I'm thinking of psilocybin. Yes, completely different from THC. Weirder, more spiritual or - for the strictly secular - more self-revelatory. Equally ...

There is a paralysis in REM sleep so it can be a little strange to sustain awareness as paralysis sets in. Probably panic vis-a-vis paralysis colored ...

I got into meditation via J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey. What resonated most in Franny's experience was its faithlessness: repeat any name of god ...