Jack Cummins

I was glad to hear someone else on this thread talking about art they make rather than just as a philosophical way. One aspect of the matter, which I ...

[reply="Athena;481393" Actually, I think it was easier for me to talk about religion with patients than people who had fixed views because I was able ...

I agree that we need to wake up from the everyday unconsciousness of daily life, as Guirdjieff suggested, rather than even begin to worry about what h...

Thanks for the link on logotherapy. It sounds an interesting form of therapy. The one area of therapy where there are jobs is cognitive behavioral the...

I think that we all live out contradictions in life, such as the one you make about eating meat while disliking cruelty to animals Perhaps it is about...

When you speak of people being made homeless by their own freely made poor decisions,' I think that you are ignoring the fact that we probably all mak...

I have already made my point, and it is ridiculous for us to keep discussing it endlessly. So, setting the word you used aside, and focusing back on h...

The reason why I seem to waver in between an apparent ambiguity over whether I am misinterpreted you or not, is because I don't really follow the logi...

You said, 'I imagine it's possible with someone with schizophrenia to apply their reason to their problems, and it would make sense to them, one step ...

As you seem annoyed by my thinking you used the word schizophrenia out of context, perhaps you could clarify what you were meaning by the use of the w...

I am sorry if you think that I misinterpreted you. I just did not understand how the idea of schizophrenia, fitted into what you were saying at all. I...

A couple of posts above, you brought in the term schizophrenia,for no apparent reason in the middle of an argument about irrationality. It just seemed...

I would just wish to add that in choosing the idea of 3D for my title, I am not wishing to limit the specctrum of known realities and awareness to be ...

I would imagine that some groups which get together to discuss philosophy remain shallow and err in the line of popular philosophy. I am certainly not...

Perhaps, I should say that I am both being serious and, at the same time, being both playful and surreal in the post I created. I do wonder what would...

I just do not understand what you are trying to argue. Are you a depressed artist? If you are, I do empathise because my greatest love is creating art...

My first writing of this was a bit long, so I have edited it to make it an easier read, for relaxing on a Friday evening.

I see that you have written a serious and very appropriate site, while I have just been writing one which is probably frivolous and fantasy. But perha...

When I spoke of art as being the source, and not simply the result of creativity, I was speaking of how others' artistic creations inspire us in our o...

I just recommend the Waterboys song, The Whole of the Moon, to the Madfool as an ultimate philosophy song, and I would also recommend The Alarm's, Abs...

Having been one of the people who began a thread about the subject of truth on this site recently I think your question depends on psychological persp...

I think that your point that ,'the need to unite is a divine directive and the need to divide is a demonic desire,' captures an important aspect of tr...

Strangely enough, when I read your idea last night I was thinking that God and the devil is the most fundamental paradox. It is the whole issue of opp...

You just don't seem to understand art or creativity. Why do you place 'originality' as supreme over all else? However, the main reason I am posting yo...

I definitely feel that the linguistic approach of twentieth century philosophy was rather shallow. I have mixed feelings about postmodernism. In the w...

But I think that you are missing the whole spirit of the artistic quest, which I don't see as being limited to the visual arts. I think that each arti...

I would suggest that Fritjof Capra's systems view is a model which is about the most expansive model, as far as I have made of the scientific views an...

I can't believe that you are trying to dismiss the whole profession and experience of art therapy as not being 'creative.' I am wondering what is your...

I was interested that you explored the area of theosophy. I have read some of the writings of Rudolf Steiner as well as some of the writers who formed...

It is interesting to hear about your own experience of feeling possessed at one stage on your life, although I am sure that it must have been for you....

I am talking about art psychotherapy. I was undertaking the training, although I did not complete the training. But art therapy is a profession in it'...

Art can be away of dreaming and you only have to think of the surrealist painters. I studied art therapy and I saw that it was a way of tapping into t...

I agree with you that the philosophers should be involved in decision making, rather than matters just being decided by politicians and scientists. I ...

Yes, I see your point and agree that 'wilful intentionality' may be important for determining what is considered to be narcissistic

Precisely, we don't all want to be treated in the exact same way. That is where difficulties of social contracts come in. In speaking of universalisat...

I think it would be a big mistake to regard reflection upon our consciousness as being narcissistic. That is because consciousness is the core and dep...

I got into the whole area of the debate of 'original' with many on my own post on the idea on original ideas a week ago. One theme which emerged was t...

I think that science, philosophy and religion are distinct categories of experience and methods. They can all converge at some points and probably eac...

Yes, I think that your idea of ego makes a lot of sense, especially when you say that, 'egoism comes into existence with existence itself'. Here, it c...

Perhaps the scientists are just standing on the shoulders of the philosophers who thought out the questions for the scientists to investigate. The phi...

Probably by even communicating on this forum we are social animals. If we did not respect others at all, life would be constant war and conflict every...

I think that your question is a good one, and it was one I have thought about a lot when making visual art. Often, I have taken photographs in the str...

I do agree with you when you say that the 'process is broken', regarding the whole issue of proof. I think it is hardest still if you are brought up w...

Yes, I think your argument is correct really. We cannot know truth in the absolute sense. As you state, 'Real truth is subjective, as authenticity, wh...

In your last post, you make a valid point, that, '"Relativism" brings in the cultural factor and we were not always an amoral society,' and you add, '...

Perhaps ugliness is the most supreme form of beauty, in all its manifest forms, when we look at life under the microscope and go beyond the shackles o...

I think it is about self interest, but with a need to respect others. Right now, the rules are that I can buy a drink if I buy food. So, reading a boo...

I noticed your comment about the 'real' and 'meaning,' and believe that the questions about these areas are very real, despite the apparent cultural r...

I think that you are going to feel bombarded by all the responses you have, and all the startling, offbeat ones. I had noticed that you had not posted...

As far as I am aware, I am not sterile or lacking in empathy. I am not suggesting that we, as individuals, should be totally detached from others, wit...