Philosophical Speculations

Yes, I read the book and appreciated it. Yet, getting what HHU - or sound common sense - really means in Steiner is not so easy. It's a thin line. For example, in this lecture (1922) it appears clearly that sound common sense refers to someone who has not developed clairvoyance. And so the question ...

Thank you very much, Cleric, for Part 5! I can also see the similarities between Chess and the way how proving a mathematical theorem works. Although not the same, there's also this certain intuitive activity, the imagination, that plays through the different "inner movements" allowed within a ...

Hi, Kaje, sorry for the delayed response. I wrote the above simply in contrast with the alternative of neglecting Earthly affairs. We do need some kind of way to provide for ourselves and those we are responsible for. And I think that your education is both a way to do that in the future, and also ...

However, within this wonderful text there is also a deficiency that troubles me. By adopting a semi-phenomenological position and taking thinking as the starting point of his investigation—attempting to show how (objective) experience is synthesized through thinking—Steiner remains, in a certain res ...

Kaje, I want to assure you that you are not alone in such experiences. However, we need to be clear what genuine inner development - as suitable for modern man - is about. I fully understand your concern about finishing education, and this should by all means take priority at your stage in life. It ...

--Essay-- Thank you very much, Cleric, for this very vivid second part. In fact, thanks to my previous experience with the Inner Space Stretching exercise, I can now feel a certain familiarity with what you have explained. I haven't gotten very far yet (unfortunately, the stagnation of my Soul due ...

Summarizing the quote about the White Lodge, I basically came to the conclusion, similar to what other occult authors and practitioners have said: The "safest" way to know whether a magical operation is allowed to be performed depends on the authority given by the spiritual guides of Mankind ...

One thing I'd like to add here: As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), anthroposophic medicine does not work directly with magical charges, i.e., magnetization. It probably happens more indirectly, for example, when the love and health of the patient is considered during the production of such ...

I think what you posted from Bardon (impregnation or consecration of water/food) can be non-atavastic, when it is a means of devotionally interfacing with supersensible reality through fully conscious, expanded degrees of inner freedom. As you point out, that is the basis of many Christian ...

I am aware that the core of this forum often revolves around spiritual development. Accordingly, it is clear that the following topic can, in a sense (if pursued in practice), be understood as a kind of distraction from the path, since pursuing the development of such abilities ultimately delays the ...