Philosophical Speculations

I think much of the confusion particularly for newcomers to BK ideas arises from how we normally use the term "consciousness". In BK's philosophy, your consciousness and my consciousness is the consciousness of an alter. An alter is a part of the mind at large that has become dissociated from the ...

Speaking of Pauli, this quote taken from this article , certainly is not out of sync with BK's or Jung's approach ... “It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile r ...

OofieMCM, It's really hard to tell from what you posted when you are quoting BK, when you are quoting BK quoting Jung, when you are quoting Jung, and when you are writing yourself. For myself I never thought of Jung as an idealist. His interest, of course, was in the psyche I don't think he was ...

Oofie, I appreciate your detailed critique here, which quoted generously from BK's book (I may use some of those going forward, as I have been too lazy to extract them myself!). Everything you quoted above still makes great sense to me as it did when I read the book. I do not think he is ...

Hi all, I'm curious to your opinions of BK's new book called 'Decoding Jung's Metaphysics'. Especially the claim that Jung was an idealist. I feel like BK kind of nitpicked a few quotes from Jung's work and interpreted as idealist. I think he might very well be biased because of course he himself is ...

So either mind at large is meta-conscious and somehow dissociates into different alters. Or the theory can't be correct. There are no proofs of course, but I also think that MAL is meta-cognitive. BK's objection to meta-cognitive MAL is rather ethical: in BK's view a meta-cognitive MAL with a ...

If I remember correctly BK says in his theory of the mind at large dissociating in different alters (we as subjects) that mind at large is not conscious of itself, i.e. meta-conscious. However it is shown that dissociation (Dissociative Identity Disorder, schizophrenia etc.) only occurs within ...