Jack Cummins

Thanks for your latest post.What you are saying, and Hadot's book does sound interesting because I think that we probably do need some kind of exercis...

I like your sets of reflections, and I find the one which stands out is 'we are not what we think we are.' It seems likely that human beings probably ...

I think that what you are saying is a similar kind of thought to what I was thinking about when I began the thread a couple years days ago. It is the ...

Strangely, even though I am aware that Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Mind ' is not phenomenology in the sense that most people understand it I have a copy...

I was fairly lucky in the start of my philosophical studies because I studied Social Ethics in Lancaster, and it covered many different areas of philo...

I had not thought about it as schizoid, but on some level it involves splitting. It is interesting though how people who become psychotic really go in...

While there is a division between the empirical and the metaphysical it is a bit of a knot because one has to think in some kind of metaphysical conce...

I think that philosophers have to remember that reality is lived rather than just about reading and writing. I also have to remember it myself because...

In a way, I see such a process of selection as connected to the philosophical approach, because it is meant to be about really exploring ideas to thei...

I am not sure that it is really possible to go beyond the empirical and metaphysical division, but have wondered about it. Really, I am not sure if on...

I think part of my own mind is such that when I read a book, from many perspectives, ranging from atheistic nihilism, to Christian, Greek or many kind...

Thanks for your contribution. I agree that 'Reality ...Life...is beyond any rationalization ...because...it's a paradox.'

I think that your question is to me, and I would argue that my answer would be neither a,b, or c, and probably more like: Believing that x, y, z are p...

Yes, I am a bit of a seeker.

Yes, I agree that the question of reality may be more of a central question which all may ask at certain time, and not one which has a clear answer. I...

I think that both of us, and probably a few other people are hopping around the issues of physicalism and perception in many of the threads which we a...

I am not sure that I agree with your picture of the human condition, but I think that we have already touched on this slightly. However, what I am int...

I have read your post and find it interesting. I think that I may have seen some of the quotes, but certainly not all of them I would imagine that Ein...

I think that I do see it as being more important to look to original sources, rather than just the plagiarism of others, such as Blavatsky. However, t...

Of all the various groups and movements, Scientology is one which I am less familiar with. However, I am familiar with various new age kinds of ideas ...

I think that the psychology of why some people choose to adopt religious beliefs and others don't is extremely complex. Freud spoke of neurosis, and I...

I am a little unclear when you say about poor quality threads you are talking about the threads simply in terms of the topic and the introduction. The...

I have met all kinds of unusual ideas about aliens, fallen angels, devils and God, because my own work background has been working in psychiatric hosp...

I did read 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' when I was at college. I have read a certain amount about Hinduism when I was a student, but I after that ti...

I have looked at what you have written and I do agree with the gist of it, and what Philip K Dick says. I think that there has to be certain basic str...

I am not aware of actually having said that I think belief in Zeus is silly at all. I do have some appreciation for accounts of the Egyptians and many...

What I was trying to say was that I believe that there have been some metaphysical accounts which suggest hidden realities, including those of Kant, P...

I have just read your thread discussion and found it interesting, although you have not raised any questions. So, I am imagining that you are leaving ...

Strangely, I have always been far more attuned to reflection than facts. I always had far more difficulty with rote learning than speculation. I think...

I moved it back to the front page because Madfool wrote a good detailed reply, just about the time I moved it to the lounge. I think that his discussi...

I think that your answer is extremely interesting and was the kind of discussion which I was hoping for, but I will not attempt to answer it just now ...

After thinking it through, I don't really see the ideas of religion coming from a distinctly different place to those of ones such as Zeus. I believe ...

I am going to try to move this to the lounge because if it seen more as personal reflection that may be more appropriate really.

I After reading the various responses I got I have realised that I am asking the question wrongly, and should be asking about personal view reality. I...

Really, I think that your understanding of the numinous may be part of what I was trying to discuss in my thread on transformation. Perhaps, my discus...

I really like your reply because it is honest, about your own view. Of course, my question was rather abstract, but I do believe that an important par...

I think that one that stands out for me was probably about two months ago, the one on 'The Limitation(s) of Language' and that was probably because at...

I am not sure what your purpose is. Is it to try to improve the quality of the threads or, if you believe that if the majority are of such poor qualit...

I have only just noticed your comment, and the good little quotation from Emerson. Generally, I do think that opposition is at the centre of reality, ...

I suppose that I am partly asking what it all comes down to, but I am also wondering how different people see it, or whether it is commonly negotiable...

I woke up in the night and looked at the answers and I am choosing yours to answer because it suggested that the understanding of reality depends on d...

I agree that there are all kinds of notions and that the subjective slants often get in the way. However, that is not to try to simply look to objecti...

Hello, I hope that I have not gone over the top this time, but it is what I have been thinking about in the last few hours. I really see my threads as...

I realise that a 'shaped reality is subjective', but as far as I can see that is what we are left with individually, to work with, for better or worse...

But, we don't have things simply dumped into us, because we can work with them and interact with our experiences. Even now, as I am writing I am sifti...

Okay, my question for clarification would be what is your basis for believing that we are merely 'a bundle of experiences' and that the 'human mind is...

You have not really given an argument at all, other than say that what I am saying is 'non-applicable'. You are suggested in your previous post that '...

I am not sure that I would agree with Jung that we should follow the path of our own culture. I think that I remember coming across that idea in his w...

You are fairly new to the forum, so probably are not aware of some things which people say on the forum which are really racist, or loaded with prejud...

I hope that you are okay! I do feel completely demoralised by many aspects of life in our current world. It does seem to be becoming rather technocrat...