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I like psychoanalysis too. Just discovering Lacan, didn't know he was such a big figure in the field. I understand the link with shamanism. Travelling...

I don't know what classifies as a sage. A monk? A guru? A mystic? A witch? A shaman? etc. Perhaps I hope to find out through this post what it is. It ...

It's okay. We don't live in the same house anymore. It was different back then. Same here, there's only one store left in the neighbouring town. They ...

I'd love to talk about U2. Growing up my parents told me: "we don't listen to such music." But then 'All that you can't leave behind' came out with Be...

I understand. Similarly to cult leaders they seem to have a certain superiority, being able to impose their truth on others. The difference though is ...

Perhaps the modern-day sage is the psychologist, who comes up with theories about consciousness that cannot be located within the body (just yet). Per...

Okay, I'm probably going to cut myself here (or be cut by others) but let's do it anyway. My family was put into prison camps in Indonesia during WW2....

Apparently a Greek guy named Democritus already argued that we are made up of tiny particles. However, it was Aristotle who dismissed it. He argued th...

Thank you all for responding and for the Original Post. We are all blessed, really. I like the posts about music. It has been instrumental in my own j...

I guess I'll have to get used to the snideness of people on the internet. It's not like I'm such a saint myself either. If it makes you feel better

During covid I quit mainstream (social) media. The facts were being spinned and twisted, it was just not credible anymore. People started saying: "Thi...

I agree with Manuel. I used to have a friend who went to the gym 4-6 times a week. We were sort of best friends for a while. I failed university, but ...

And contemplation is where meditation and philosophy meet. Without biting each other like vampires.

Thank you. I think emotions can be reasonable too. Maybe it depends on the situation. I like the idea of personal truth. Formed by one's own experienc...

I think the challenge is to move past such notions. If the pursuit of knowledge is a wondrous thing, then the realization of ignorance brings even gre...

and Kindle isn't available on Microsoft 10 in the Store. Talk about modern warfare. Anyway, congrats on the book. It looks good. Who knows I'll read i...

well you don't. have you ever seen how daoists move? it's non-fighting Don't do what you hate and makes you miserable.

Well I once did a Bible study on the miracle of the breaking of the bread. When Jesus multiplies bread to feed 5000 people. I told them that this was ...

Why does everything non-biblical have to be a heresy or heretical? I prefer to see the trinity as Father, Mother, Child. Why do I need to defend that?...

It's interesting. It does invite to study Buddhist philosophy more.

'All is fair in love' and 'nothing is fair in war' seems to more sensible I think.

I'm trying to look at it from a sociological point of view. Sociologists have noted that during times of great societal change people lose a sense of ...

I apologize. I must have misunderstood. What is it then?

Being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal Thomas Szasz

wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Bless you

Everyone in Europe used to believe in God. It was the public opinion or popular belief.

This is how my dad and I used to get caught up in endless discussions. Fine, I'll contemplate on it once more. Chances are the discussion ends here.

I don't think anyone or anything is stupid. We all have different beliefs. Questioning divine authority might very well be a sign of intelligence.

I don't know. Honestly, perhaps it cannot be defined. But does it help you to know that the Vedic Mystics already knew that the Earth's diameter on th...

I think both psychology and sociology started out as philosophies and developed into their own respective sciences. Yet psychology is becoming increas...

Thank you Jack. This website is one of the better interactive experiences if you ask me.

Well perhaps the mystical experience was already present before homo sapiens. It's just an artificial line historians drew to define when apes became ...

As far as I know it depends on the tradition. Christian mysticism has been focusing on interaction with God, Christ or Mary. Jewish mysticism on recei...

I never experienced life that way. You know, there always have been problems on Earth. And there probably always will to some degree. The question for...

it remains interesting and fascinating. How much we don't know.

sure

Imagine waking up blind. You'd be in the same sheer panic as the day you were born. When you first saw the light. This is because of a sudden loss of ...

Thank you for your time and expertise. Yes, technology should relieve human suffering. Of any kind. Evolutionary speaking we apparently needed all emo...

Holisticness or holisticism barely seems to exist as a word even. Perhaps it's the way for the future. And I find the term 'world' confusing, since hu...

I think in contemporary Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) that point is set after the Big Bang, between the first supernovas, before the formation of the fi...

I meant flow as in 'the trend'

Perhaps god/gods can be viewed as consciousness. So there are different layers: unconscious, subconscious, conscious, superconscious etcetera. Looking...

Well christendom, the new testament has given the revelation that God or Allah is love. But since most of humanity cannot accept this simple fact I ch...

what if we see time as a spectrum with the present in the middle? And we connect the ends of the spectrum to form a circle. See, eternity. And God sti...

The first noble truth, 'life is suffering' is outdated. Yes, it used to be that way. Nowadays if you hold on to it you create suffering. Same thing go...

we used to listen to this song driving to Switzerland and Italy with my parents and brothers. In a time without internet and mobile phones, can you im...

David, a current theory is that we can only experience joy and love because of the experience of their opposites, misery and hatred. So if you were bo...

I think I was lucky in a sense to grow up as a chess player. Although I'm completely done with 'the game of failures' now. The skills I learned were h...

Thank you all. My take on it is that the sex industry best is regulated. I need to come to terms with myself. Take care

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