It does not that we share similar areas of interest, although coming from different perspectives. I come from a far more esoteric angle. I prefer sayi...
I do agree that academic understanding of life does not really approach the experience of mysteries fully. However, I do think that reading the ideas ...
I read your ideas about consciousness in the thread on metaphysics. They are interesting from what I read. What I am wondering is do your ideas on sel...
Yes, it is interesting that the woman in the link saw differently. I do believe that we do all see a bit differently, depending on how we choose to de...
I think we base certain needs as 'necessity' sometimes by habit. For example, we often care about popularity and care about what others think of us be...
Your profile pic is the album cover to Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon, a fantastic album, with immense light and dark symbolism. Light is so ...
Thanks for your lengthy, detailed replies, especially about Goethe. I believe that he was familiar with esoteric thought, and the question which I hav...
Your statement, 'There is some light. There is a lot of darkness' may well be true, and that it may be that darkness is the background from which ligh...
Thanks for replying to my question. After I had written the thread, I was rather worried that people would think that I had lost the plot entirely.I a...
I am not getting impatient with your discussions at all. You have made good contributions. I created the thread with the aim of opening up any possibl...
Your link idea looked interesting, but I am not sure if you typed it in properly, because I was not able to access it on my phone. Anyway, thanks for ...
I am aware that the question which I raised about light and darkness is probably extremely complex, but I am also asking about how we understand the v...
Of course, it is true that the needs of the person in Maslow's hierarchy, cannot be seen in isolation from the social ones. We are interconnected, and...
I think it is also interesting to think about the denial of instincts and the bodily side of existence in our current time. As far as I can see part o...
I agree that 'understanding what we are, how our mind works and then seeking how that relates to the broader world and others' is very important. Howe...
I do think it the anthropology of religion, is an extremely interesting area. Apart from the question of ideas prior to God, or gods and goddesses, so...
The question as to what we would do if we reached higher states of consciousness is interesting. Perhaps, we would create more art and write more, wit...
I didn't know that Telhard de Chardin saw categorised life in that way, but it seems similar to the theosophists. My own feeling is that I sometimes f...
I think that you make a good point when speaking of people who have different perceptions being, or viewed as unwell mentally. Obviously, there are th...
I definitely believe that we need to understand our own selves, and perspective, as a starting point for our higher individual and shared consciousnes...
I am definitely suggesting that it is possible to see miracles in all things, as Blake spoke of seeing heaven within a grain of sand. I do also believ...
Perhaps, you are forgetting that I am not talking about my own life, which I have not disclosed, because it is a public forum. I am sharing the ideas ...
Of course, there are no shortcuts and we cannot go beyond the limitations of who we are, and what we may become..But, I do believe that it is worth us...
Obviously, we lack Shopenhaurer's genius but, perhaps, through greater understanding, we can make a certain headway in penetrating beyond the superfic...
There may not be any outward criteria for thinking about effort put into meditation and other practices. It may be that we are empirical practitioners...
I certainly hope that peak experiences go beyond entertainment. As much as I love music and the arts, I do hope that this dimension of experience is c...
I have read your post, and it is extremely interesting. What it makes me wonder about is just how death stands as an inevitable prospect we face. We f...
The question of simplicity of truth, or otherwise, arising in meditation and other practices, opens many areas for considering of experience. I am cer...
It may be true that certain outsiders are in danger of presenting their ideas as absolute. This is a big problem as we read the writings of particular...
You may think that I am opposing you, in what I am saying against reductive explanations, and I am not really trying to do that, because I come with s...
Thanks, that is reassuring because it does seem that in many ways the philosophical questions seem to becoming mere questions of language. It almost a...
I appreciate your quote from Schopenhauer, and I have managed to download a copy of his, 'The World as Will and Representation', which is one of my pr...
The question of whether Jung was a mystic is one that has been debated a lot by many writers. He disliked the idea being applied to himself. Part of t...
It is interesting that Aquinas thought that it would be better to be in hell than not exist at all. I think that I would prefer not to exist. I rememb...
Your answer seems to be in response to mine, and I will say that I would certainly say that the holocaust was evil. Here, I am thinking that we are us...
I think that great harm can be done in telling people that they are evil. I think that your quote on the shadow may be taken from Jung, you do not say...
Definitely Calvin's perspective is important, and when I questioned my religious beliefs it was with a view to how religious teachings can be used for...
Generally, sociologists have pointed to the potential biases within news, mainly due to the way in which those who own the news companies have a role ...
Your long entry is good. When you think of the brain and the mind as you describe, it seems like the brain is a transmitter. I am not saying that you ...
I think that fear of death is at the centre of meaning making. However, I think that human psychology is complex, and we may think that all our meanin...
I think that 'beyond the material' usually means that the world is not simply physical. I think that most people believe that the mind and body are co...
Do you think that it is possible to quantify consciousness.? Obviously, we know that it is linked intricately with consciousness, especially with neur...
I am interested to know in what way you think that the 'raw world and our feelings' are hidden amidst an emphasis on progress and civilisation. I am i...
You seem to be querying about people who see the world better through seeing life from a Jungian perspective. I would say that I found his writings mo...
I actually only have one room to myself in a shared house, but I probably have about 3000 CDs, so perhaps I am really crazy. I have narrowed my paper ...
'Today we live in our heads rather than in our bodies because we have so many words' you said and I can recall having a supervisor when I was on a stu...
I am not sure that we are just restricted to isms. For example, one can be a Jungian and that is not an ism. Generally, I think that isms are about pu...
Your statement about, 'those who see everything as animated and those who are are believing that things are only matter, have very different conscious...
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