Jack Cummins

One author who I came across in anthropology is Chris Knight. I don't have any work by him but he tied together the ideas of symbolism, especially the...

The whole idea of the flood is extremely interesting. My own reading has often been in esoteric literature, and some of the writing is of questionable...

Sorry to keep playing around with my title, but it didn't feel quite right to say 'without a body' and I think that beyond seems to make more sense in...

I am probably spending too much time, 'Alone in a Room', like Leonard Cohen.But, I do believe that we don't really know what comes after death. Many p...

You say about 'regaining the body' and the question is whether one would wish to do so. It may depend on the bodilý existence one had prior to death a...

It is a whole area of speculation and even though I am not sure that the idea of not having a body has been discussed as such, I do think that certain...

I am answering your response first because it is the most rational one. Your point about it making you think about not being born is relevant because ...

I see the problem of awareness this raises because we would be without the senses, as we know them. Or, would we have some kind of multisensory awaren...

I have just updated my thread question because I am not really wishing to ask if there is actual life after death. I think that is such a difficult qu...

Yes, in some ways I think that the experiences of life after death, by its very nature, could be a form of punishment. However, I am aware that many p...

I think that the question of rights is complex because I certainly wouldn't be wishing to go out and interacting with people and spreading the virus. ...

I think that you are mistaken to see listening to music as simply a means of not having to think. Probably some people use it in this way. I listen to...

I see the term non binary as a way of embracing the whole continuum concept of gender, rather than being boxed into the categories of male and female....

That is impermanence. I believe that we can take nothing for granted and that we are often taken aback by the unexpected. Many people try to develop a...

It is probably true to say that we often choose to overintellectualise, but I am also sure that you have going too far to say about not understanding ...

I think that each of us has a black hole within our consciousness, to work with and climb out of, and perhaps we need to find our own inner philosophe...

I think that it is great if you enjoy the trees, but please don't let the trees think that they are so important that philosophy simply doesn't matter...

I am interested in reading Kierkergaard, but not necessarily expecting him to provide answers, but just to encounter his voice and perspective. Both h...

It is hard to know if the various scientific observations could have brought us the technology to maintain civilisation because we are dealing with th...

I just found a quote which I thought perhaps is useful for reflection, by an author called Bruno Scattolin: 'Truth is relative, reality is absolute. B...

I have looked at the quote you gave from Kierkergaard and not sure what to make of it out of context. I am sure that the idea of spiritual trial makes...

I still think your system is one which completely reinforces the status quo. Your last paragraph points out the potential danger of this. It does give...

I can see that your approach is one which tries to see the importance of all views rather than any one, but the problem which I see is that it places ...

I planned to look at it in the morning, but started thinking and dashed off a reply, so I have to admit that I hadn't paid full attention to the quote...

You speak of two forms of truth, relative and absolute. I am not sure that it can be divided so distinctly and think that there may be a whole spectru...

The quote from Kierkergaard is interesting to me because I do remember reading that he worried about the unpardonable sin. Regarding the book, 'A Cour...

I really don't think that you should see your liking for black men as problematic. It would be as absurd as seeing your liking for men as sexism again...

This is a question I think about a lot, and I even started a thread on relativism and truth. I believe that it is a question which is central to the w...

One viewpoint which I think is worth considering in relation to the dialogue of selves is that of RD Laing. I know that the antipsychiatry movement is...

I do believe that the question you raise is an important one, especially with the inclusion of both the cultural and personal elements. Our cultural b...

I think that your distinction between describing the world through science and explaining it through religion is an important one. I think that you ar...

One outlook on the idea of the Holy Spirit, as overseeing the ego, is in, 'A Course of Miracles'. Here is an example passage: 'The ego speaks in judge...

After I wrote my reply to you I thought how thinking in itself could be seen almost as a magical process in some ways. Sometimes, like today, for inst...

That is absolutely fine, because thinking what to write requires time. Sometimes, when I get posts sent to me I start to feel pressure within myself t...

So do you think that truth can perceive, because surely that would turn into a conscious entity, more like a god, even if only in the sense that the p...

I notice in your post previously to this that in relation to vibrations and energy, you asked are we more than that? That is a big question and I am i...

I am afraid that I haven't come across it, but I am interested to know if you think it has particular significance, and even that is why it may have b...

It is interesting that you were concerned about the passage in the Bible about the unforgivable sin, because I have only ever come across one other pe...

I think that the word psychedelic and hallucinogenic are not identical, although in some books people do use the word psychedelic substances. I would ...

I am afraid that I am not a physicist and as field of thought it is enormous because it is a whole paradigm in it's own right, including the ideas of ...

I have to admit that I explored psychedelics briefly. I can empathise with the whole idea of needing to 'focus my corrective lenses', because I someti...

I see that the two you were speaking of the passage in the Bible, which I think is the hardest of all, or certainly it really worried me. That is the ...

Certainly, I won't be trying to put down anyone's personal beliefs, but would just be trying to offer thought for reflection. The thread may just die ...

I don't know why people get nasty with others in such discussions. Perhaps the threat is the whole idea of uncertainty which emerges, and it gets proj...

I am certainly not wishing to start a debate that becomes nasty. To some extent, it seems that all debates on this forum are heated and there is a who...

I am not sure that your three degrees of Christianity are definitive. I don't feel that I fit into them, and probably would consider myself as post Ch...

I think that I am familiar with the attention to such practices as holy days and prayers, as certainly that was the Catholic background I was brought ...

I have found being in groups extremely difficult at times, due to the whole herd factor. I do think that my own social skills are deteriorating in loc...

I do think that the whole question of 'prophetic experiences' is one which raises questions about scientific determinism and it is questionable of how...

I am in favour of looking for the most rational ways of looking at all matters, but it does just seem to me that some of the most conventional explana...