Since we are as we are, everything is as it is. If this is true the knowledge of the internet and philosophy debates are meaningless since they are on...
You seem to be describing mechanical faith which is instilled in someone by adapting to society or indoctrination. Expand your example to the question...
You can be part of a very important minority who will help to keep the great ideas alive in the world. It beats complaining about Trump IMO Who were t...
Simone Weil wrote: Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I ha...
What we do is an expression of what we are both individually and collectively. Since we are as we are, everything is as it is. What we are is witnesse...
Mechanical faith is what you were taught to believe. Emotional faith is belief based on fear which is why it is considered the blind faith of slavery ...
Which quality of faith do you refer to? For example Gurdjieff taught that: Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is...
It is true that lacking consciousness we cannot prove that conscious humanity exists. But we can verify the human condition as it exists in us by maki...
True, but all this happens at the exoteric level. But what if it is possible to consciously develop from being fixated on fragments to experiencing th...
Maybe so. Do you believe that all the ancient traditions initiating with a conscious source exist at the exoteric level and devolve into opposing opin...
You refer to the attractions of the exoteric level of reality and the rewards of cave life and I refer to the small minority attracted to what is nece...
Suppose the transcendent unity of religions is a reality as described in the following book. They all disagree at the exoteric level but can unite at ...
Directed attention which is our ability to concentrate on one desire with one part of ourselves is a secular skill. Consider all these people enchante...
Simone was not well known before her death. I think there were only seven people at her funeral. Now she is loved around by those who admire her intel...
Simone Weil is known as the Patron Saint of Outsiders for all who feel like outsiders. Many feel that there is great value in the Catholic Church but ...
Can the Beast described by Plato and the Great Beast described by Simone Weil also refer to the ID described by Yung? If so we can't deny it but must ...
I think this will be more clear when we read (3) (3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds o...
As I understand it the universe is sustained by both mechanical laws and consciousness. Each of the seven layers of reality within creation is a disti...
It is possible that you like many others have never experienced esoteric or perennial Christianity but just turned off to literal man made secularized...
What if we are all crewmen on the Ship of Fools from many paths who have taken over the ship? They argue over who knows the way home. They are all equ...
Jack, I remember reading once that rat poison is 98% good corn. It is that 2% that gets them. Many worthwhile ideas begin with good intentions but nat...
It could be tht you are commenting on what Kierkegaard called Christendom or man made Christianity. Christianity as I understand it is a perennial tra...
Do you accept the possibility that perennial philosophy has always existed? Those who do believe that conscious evolution is not the result of learnin...
Why do people need religious beliefs and ideas? Plato defined Man as " - a being in search of meaning" What gives us meaning differs between people. M...
We are not that far apart. Years ago when I had my first mystical experience I was a musician who drank too much. I assumed life was meaningless. Then...
Plato distinguished between knowledge and opinion. Socrates said "I Know Nothing." What then is knowledge and what does it mean "to know?"? Knowledge ...
As I understand it, there are levels of religious understanding beginning at the exoteric level or the Man of opinion. Once a person experiences the f...
Can the seeker of objective truth through science and/or religious psychology make progress without first experiencing either satori in Zen, Metanoia ...
We are fortunate that there are some in the world who have a similar need though at different intensities. Yet there are some with a great need for tr...
Time in Buddhist cosmology is measured in kalpas. Originally, a kalpa was considered to be 4,320,000 years. Buddhist scholars expanded it with a metap...
Of course. Most questions invite all sorts of BS to avoid controversy and invite peace and love.. Seriously discussing the implications of Plato's Cav...
This question is better avoided. It is both disruptive and corrupts the youth of Athens. It is asking why we are in Plato's Cave. It is too insulting ...
From Book VI of Plato's Republic (here Plato critiques those who are "wise" through their study of society): I might compare them to a man who should ...
The closer deeper philosophical ideas are to being objectively true, the more they will be hated. Consider why Jesus and Socrates had to die. They rev...
Why time can be defined as the repetition of a moment is really another deep topic but I do believe that karma describes what takes place below Plato'...
Many years go a group of intellectuals formed a committee to learn which is the most hated of all machines. After weeks of deliberations it was finall...
Quite true. The whole meaning of Plato's cave analogy is that Man is asleep in the Cave and attached to the shadows on the wall with the potential to ...
There is good movie on this idea called Groundhog Day" In this move our hero is an obnoxious weatherman. For some reason he is forced to relive Ground...
The purpose of philosophy is to enable a person to experience the path to meaning that otherwise mindlessly accepts absurdity. I like to find people w...
Can modern civilization become able to accept the complimentary rather than the divisive relationship of science and the essence of religion? That wou...
Are you referring to self awareness or being self conscious? For me self awareness is the conscious experience that the human organism has a mechanica...
From the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed b...
I see valuing liberty is on the way out in favor of the promises of socialism for three main reasons. The first is the different ways society values e...
Before deciding on the purpose of human life it seems we have to decide if the universe is here to serve Man's needs or does Man exist to serve the un...
Human psychology interests you. You want to understand the human condition as it exists in the world and why you are as you are and can believe any ol...
You've raised several question important if philosophy can have any higher meaning other than the secular. First of all do you agree with the four mod...
Searching for and combining related facts is the process of inductive reason. Einstein is referring to the value of deductive reason or combining unre...
Since Einstein and others seemed to agree with Plato and the value of noesis, at least I'm not alone in a world dominated by inductive reason. 1930 "M...
Interpretation normal for the visible realm we experience through our senses are not the forms. The forms are universal ideals. A perfect circle would...
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