Nikolas

It is just the way it is for human "being." The majority disagree on what to do and how to react but only a relative few contemplate what we ARE and w...

Science and mathematics knows how to measure quantity and often defines reality by quantity. However we have our subjective definitions of quality but...

Music by itself cannot result in transformation or evolution of a person's being like the transformation of the being of a caterpillar into a moth. Ho...

Thanks Athena. A lot of my ideas are influenced by what has been called Esoteric or inner Christianity which is not the same as the exoteric or outer ...

Malcolm Muggeridge said: “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” The salmon fights the stream to escape Plato's cave and return to it...

The best we can do is go against the flow and ACT with the greatest skill possible. Dogs mechanically react while human beings have the potential for ...

Curious! A dog does this all the time. It just "is" and sees things as they are without conceptual thought. Yet it takes a lot of effort for a person ...

What you refer to as the real world is the world of dualism on which all these interactions of life take place mechanically on one level of reality. I...

I'm aware by experience what it means to not be human. I also know there have been those seeking freedom from Plato's cave in order to become human. L...

"Do you wish to know God? Learn first to know yourself." - Abba Evagrius the Monk. When I awaken to experience that I live in the prison of Plato's ca...

The middle can be understood as a balance between extremes and is often the secular perspective. Dr Nicolescu is describing the middle in the law of t...

You underestimate resistance. As soon s a person begins to do something they begin to interpret or they wouldn't know what to do. If the value of the ...

True, but I have two essential questions Zen by definition cannot answer. The first is the meaning and purpose of our universe and the second is the m...

It's not right to discuss the meanings of the tripartite soul and its repercussions from the corruption of our lower nature on your thread but how IYO...

Plato's description of the tripartite soul is easiest to understand. As explained in the chariot analogy, the horse on the left refers to our lower pa...

Slow thinking requires logically developing critical thinking from the need to problem solve. The law of the excluded middle or non-contradiction is n...

The problem isn't a lack of reasoning but the inability to look; to consciously see. Simone Weil explains in this short poem. Without the ability to l...

A person doesn't have an experience through conceptual thought. An experience requires the simultaneous cooperation of thought, emotions, and sensatio...

How do you define an experience? Experience can be interpreted into fantasy just as easily as reason and they both become partial truths. Socrates wro...

What kind of sensory experience can one have to respond to the need for objective meaning? Does sex with the right partner reveal it?

I understand what you mean but for me, without being exposed to a certain quality of ideas including a sense of scale and relativity that allowed me t...

There can be only ONE Absolute. The Absolute is NOW. While existence within NOW is a process. We can become aware of a quality of reality within creat...

Nikolas wrote responding to Synthesis There are some who have experienced the inner vertical direction beginning at the relative level and concluding ...

We have the potential to remember the big picture through awe and wonder from the influence of a certain quality of art. However as you've suggested p...

I was bothered by this question also until I realized that only exceptional people who understand the power of the Holy Spirit could sin against the H...

But Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She acquired knowledge of evil. Why should God deny this knowledge when Jesus des...

Is seeking knowledge evil and remaining ignorant the good? This doesn't make sense to me. Why would a God create knowledge and call it evil? If knowle...

Granted there are as many sects in Gnosticism as there are in Christendom. Is the universe evil as some sects of Gnosticism believe? If not, what IYO ...

True, but who believes? We don't have inner unity but the human organism is a plurality. We are many. We believe one thing for an hour and then forget...

Maybe this would be more understandable when compared to becoming a classical pianist. The first thing a person needs is the wish to be a classical pi...

I don't think Christianity is a matter of tradition but of desire. Can we follow in the precepts of Christ? Do you believe that at one time you were a...

Italians are racist. They live in a country called Italy and celebrate their distinctive nature. No diversity and proud of their culture. How racist c...

There are three degrees of Christians: Non-Christians, pre-Christians and Christians. A Christian is one who follows in the precepts of Christ. Non Ch...

I would have liked being a fly on the wall during some or their talks but I urge you not to bring Gnosticism into it. Gnosticism speaks of the duality...

First we would have to agree on what Christianity is as opposed to the well known Christendom functioning in society. Kierkegaard was aware of a diffe...

Does the macrocosmos produce the microcosmos through involution or does the microcosmos produce the macrocosmos through evolution? Does a drop of wate...

Morality is the normal devolution of the atrophied human attribute of conscience so it must be subjective. Morality is conditioned values while consci...

We can agree that a text book on physics can enable a person to learn about an aspect of physics. Yet the idea that art of a particular quality serves...

I've been a working musician and done my share of piano bars while enjoying some of the humor that goes with the right people. I've avoided drugs but ...

But suppose humanity is not human but just potentially human. Humanity needs an attitude by some to lead the way. Simone Weil and Thomas Merton were b...

You are describing personally perceived subjective qualities of beauty but Plato indicates a person is more awake when they see beauty as a "Form" Pla...

Plato provides an interesting perspective in Book V by associating the difference between recognizing beautiful things as opposed to the reality of be...

Now that would be good discussion: What is Light? What provides the light above Plato's divided line. We know the Sun provides the light below the lin...

There is no hidden knowledge. It is all well known and published material. It just wasn't understood. It requires thinking out of the box to know the ...

Of course they are related but which path does beauty attract you more?

I've been banned on several sites not for any rule breaking but defending the ancient philosophical ideas such as those included in Plato's cave analo...

I am an Aries male. That is the essence type I am a part of. However it doesn't make me a God and Simone Weil explains why "We can only know one thing...

Yes this is the human condition. Some people are destroying and killing while others throw flowers. Then after a while the destroyers start preaching ...

Hi Nagel You seem to be describing the effects of imagination which is often worshipped in ignorance. Simone Weil describes what I mean in these three...

I had to look up the meaning of bigotry. obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a per...