Imagination is an important factor in navigating the processes of flow. One suggestion which I have come across by a few authors is that of living one...
it is true that the past is more fixed than the unknown of the future. I am aware of the idea in neurolinguist programming that the past can be remade...
In some ways, the idea of living in the moment is a best-selling idea because many would like to do so but cannot. Part of the problem is that the pre...
I haven't read the book the book by Ram Dass but maybe the album 'Be Here Now', by Oasis was named after it (the album was released on a critical day,...
It is hard to know how much is about splitting the past and future, or how much is holding on to the consequences of what has happened and likely occu...
I wonder to what extent fear of the future is fear of death. Psychoanalytic thinkers have spoken of the idea of the 'nameless dread', which may be so ...
Having written this thread, I am wondering how this issue relates to the nature of evolution of consciousness. For some lifeforms the survival instinc...
It could be seen that way, but if analytical aspects of philosophy are viewed above experience, including the sensory, philosophy could be seen as obs...
The difference between self-help and philosophy may be about the analytic concepts of philosophy and the pragmatic aspects of life. This is most obvio...
I am not sure to what extent the problem which I raise fits into the philosophy of time, or as an aspect of how one lives and living wisdom. I have re...
Pantheism is so different from most forms of theism, because it emphasises immanence and processes. The 'God' is not 'out there' as a supreme judge, b...
It does seem that the idea of 'God' is often accompanied by ideas of divine justice, especially the idea of punishment for wrongdoing in the afterlife...
Thank you for your concern and friends tell me that I need to find somewhere else to live. It is not easy to find accommodation though and I have move...
I guess that my reference to brutality and violence is because it has come so much more real for me. I have been attacked 3 times in the last year and...
The discussion bounces because there are so many possible choices in values. It is also hard to know how useful it is to lament the loss of human valu...
Exactly, that was my initial starting point. Every detail counts significantly in the whole. Even on this forum, every member plays an important part ...
I have come across British people who have been to Australia and loved it for that reason. In many ways, individuals' experience of how significant th...
The Christian value upon each person as special and beloved by God was problematic insofar as it led to exploitation of other beings, mainly animals. ...
Grandiosity may well spring from low self worth, with the need for pretence of one's importance. It can often swing into the sense of 'failure' and a ...
The culture of individualism gave rise to an inflated sense of the worth of the self, even grandiosity. It came with an emphasis on personal expectati...
I like your full consideration of your own personal significance. Each person exists for oneself and others. There is the question of one's own inner ...
Of course, from the standpoint of one's own ego consciousness, if one does not exist it would not matter. But if Wayfarer had not existed it might mak...
Yes, conceptualizing a world without oneself is a cognitive problem. It is possible to imagine a world after one's death, but that in itself is fantas...
I am inclined to see time as cyclical, so both past and present are about about dynamic patterns. In that respect, it is potentiality and actuality, a...
I am glad that someone else has thought about this question. While it is speculative reflection, it is not completely abstract. It is true that no one...
I guess that I am just imagining oneself as negative space, which is only fantasised projection in the sense of removing oneself from pathways of caus...
Seeing oneself at the centre of everything, or as having a peripheral role can be a shifting aspect of perspective. There can be extremes of inflation...
The ripples of desires and actions are complex. I have come across suggestions like it can be useful to determine the significance of a life event if ...
It may be dark.rumination to wonder about what could have been different, with regret. I probably started out conceiving of my own existence during ch...
Generally, there has been so much harm done by religious beliefs although some find great comfort in them. It is not just religious wars but religious...
I wonder what Spinoza, and many of us philosophers would have made of quantum physics. I won't deliberate on this because it comes down to models of '...
Telepathy, like premonitions, is an interesting phenomena. There are science explanations but they only show the hardwiring. They may point to the way...
Language may not capture the full nature of the divine or numinous experience. The silence of meditation experiences may capture this, as does those w...
Epicurus is correct to see the gods as representing moral ideals. This is the foundation of mythic reality. Within Christianity, for example, the 'imi...
Yes, in thinking of the idea of God, it is worth considering what that would entail. When I was a teenager (Catholic) I conceived of it as the Trinity...
In the two scenarios which you describe it is possible that there is no difference. So, it may be that the idea of an afterlife, which often is associ...
Obviously, I am sure that many people in philosophy circles would scorn the process superstition. For those who pray, it is to whichever God one belie...
Whether one's ideas about reality are 'delusions' or not is culture dependent. The standard idea of delusion is if one's ideas are not shared by other...
Yes, who is or what is your god? That is a good question if the capital G of God is removed. It doesn't matter if it is nature or a higher, transcende...
The idea of God as the first cause is one amongst many others. This is so different from the idea of a personal relationship with God which is held by...
I do agree with you that the idea of 'God' varies in meaning, or meaninglessness, from person to person. The definitive arguments for or against the e...
I updated the thread title. It was a thread I started some time ago in the past, which resurfaced. I have updated the title to reflect the direction i...
I am aware that the angle which you come from is a slightly different one of asking how important the question is. This may really be the central one ...
The question of separation from 'God' is interesting and I also can relate to Eastern metaphysics. For example, Buddhism doesn't speak of a specific d...
It is interesting that Bohm's model may be nearer to Spinoza's model than to that of Plato. I do struggle with reading Spinoza and it is possible that...
I agree with both mind/matter as essential and wonder about how this totally may be 'God', Human beings could be conceived as cells of consciousness, ...
With the question of God (or gods) as a Being, that is where the idea of the supernatural realm comes in. Some religious thinkers even posit the idea ...
I am trying to square the circle for myself of the issue of non-duality with Platonism. That is why I am in the midst of reading Murdoch's interpretat...
Fuererbach's 'projections' raise the question as to whether God created man in his own image or vice versa. Ultimately, this is a matter of speculatio...
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