Some people do regard dreams as psychological 'garbage', whereas I am inclined to the view that they represent so much more. In saying that I am not g...
I wonder to what extent the experience of dreams is related to a different kind of consciousnes and memory. It may be different from the conventional ...
I am not wishing to dismiss the value of empirical understanding and evidence, in favour of a form of skepticism. It is possible to get carried away w...
Thank you for your detailed reply. You speak of the inner world and outer world, which is the main dichotomy between waking and sleep/dream consciousn...
Reading your response, makes me wonder about the specific division between 'sleep' and 'dreams'. It may be a commonsense one but it is not absolute, e...
Your reply seems a little simplistic and not embracing the dilemmas of transgender individuals. I have worked with people who are transgender in menta...
The division between sex and gender is complex because a person's identity as being male or female involves so much, including reproductive functions ...
The nature of dreams may raise the scope of 'mind' and 'consciousness' beyond daily life experiences and understanding. There is a twilight zone, espe...
One aspect of the idea of ghosts and spirits would be the idea of disembodied 'minds'. My initial understanding and reading of philosophy incorporated...
In the first place, my linking ideas of the esoteric with philosophy is meant to involve critical thinking about it as opposed to complete acceptance....
I am not sure that the risk of being seen as an outsider is the biggest risk of following an esoteric philosophy. The risk would be of being mistaken ...
I am inclined to agree @"Pantagruel"about the limitations of 'the mundane'. It seems such a 'flat perspective'. Of course, I am not wishing to go into...
The binary is the essential basis from which mood is assessed. I know whether I feel 'good' or 'bad' as a basis for assessing one's own wellbeing. Whe...
I didn't mean that it is not possible to work out the actual effects of thought. In particular, the ABC model of affect, behaviour and consequences is...
It is difficult to know to what extent emotions help or hinder in thinking. In some ways, it can end up in a picture of 'bias. Emotions may tinge the ...
a Absence of emotion is an interesting area. In particular, the philosophy and spectrum of autism, raises this question. However, if does come down to...
The idea of anger as 'frustration' may be important as it can involve so much experience of being 'put down'. The emotion of anger may involve so much...
What is a philosophical 'bitch'? Is it the absolute of opposition of thought? Also, to what extent do ideas which challenge us, represent 'enemy" thin...
Your point here about anger and philosophy discussions, including philosophy forums, is especially important. It may show aspects of investment and at...
I will look into Sartre's idea of anger and hatred as it seems particularly relevant. It may be that some people on the forum have looked into this wr...
Concepts of pathology may come down both ideas of 'normality' and 'disease'. Going back to ideas of physiology, some such thinking involves the basis ...
I am not wishing to get into unhelpful kits about the nature of 'pathology' but where it seems to me to be most complex is in the construction of idea...
The question of 'asexual love, involves the question of what is sexuality and how does it come into play in human relationships. What is the differenc...
Your full consideration of the spectrum of human emotion is very important. It is such an important area of the phenomenology of emotions. Of course, ...
The concept of hatred as opposed to love is a complex area of human life, ranging from varying perspectives of human nature and motivation and values....
You may be right about common sense of ideas about what constitutes anger. However, pathology in itself is a construct. Here, I am not trying to sugge...
I wonder to what extent anger is a response or something more. You may be correct to point to the significances of a response, especially in terms of ...
I find that life and ideas have become rather shallow and 'trivialised' in the information age, with clicks of smart phone, Wikipedia and links. It se...
The question of the esoteric and default issues of meaning is a good question. Meaning, or lack of meaning are arbitrary and objective, and esoteric i...
Derrida and Foucault are important as means of perspectives of critical thinking. If anything, what I see as being the worst possibility here, is wher...
The concept of the 'esoteric ' has indeed covered so much and been used and disbursed in so many ways. Its use probably goes back to Hermeticism and P...
I also wonder how how much of understanding of the esoteric, as opposed to the exoteric, stands in relation to the information age. Knowledge as 'out ...
My understanding of Kant is that he saw epistemological basis of knowledge as being a complex interplay of both the empirical and the nature of reason...
Thanks for your reply and the whole issue of the esoteric and academic are an interesting contrast, especially in relation to the development of knowl...
I have read 'Phaedo' a few years ago and did read some of the thread on it on this forum, which I found helpful in thinking about the book. The entire...
I find it hard to know how Socrates and Plato thought of immortality. I was taught by a tutor on the philosophy of religion that immortality may consi...
Misconceptions and blindness may have variable effects for people, depending on circumstances and intention. Fantasies and delusions may inspire great...
At the moment, I don't feel overwhelmed by questions, and the actual existential aspects of life are greater. However, there have been times in which ...
The movement of freethinking is a useful one, in spite of its link with freemasonry. As far as the idea of flourishing despite the presence of mysteri...
Your post raises the whole question of what is trivial and what is not in the understanding of life. The approach of the esoteric or exoteric may or n...
As far as forum writing goes, it is so different from so many other forms. The reason why I have used this forum is because I find that the dialogue w...
I used the term 'esoterica', which is a rather vague one, as used in the magazine published by the Theosophical Society. But, in relation to your ques...
Regarding the idea of the whole and the parts, it may be a mixed issue. To go beyond academic thinkers it is a bit like the song by the Waterboys of s...
I am sorry that I do not quote in my replies. It is because it does not seem possible on my particular model of phone. I would probably need to be abl...
Jaynes' theory is also important for thinking about psychosis itself because it also suggests that people heard voices. Even within psychiatry there i...
The way you describe the difference between the Gnostics and Plotinus, demonstrates the divergences in esotericism. In particular, it points to the wa...
It is possible that in everyday terms people often muddle the idea of esoteric and obscurity, even to the point where philosoph itself is seen as esot...
The way in which you combine Hegel and the idea of Hegel is especially useful for considering the concept of the 'supernatural'. It may have led to so...
Your way of understanding 'concrete' is useful and important, and another approach which is particularly important in relation to esotericism is the u...
I guess that even the idea of concrete thinking has varying meanings and associations. I have come across it's used mainly in psychiatry, when referri...
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