Philosophical Speculations

This shared imaginative atmosphere then becomes the temporal undergirding of the future earth sphere that you are pointing to. Interestingly enough, I just came across a helpful Facebook post outlining the undergirding nature of Time-rhythms from the spiritual scientific perspective. *** "Time does ...

I would take Ashvin's reply to this post further, and back to the Steiner quote above. In order for that unfolding to continue upward into higher spheres of our own creative-willing influence, it’s nowadays necessary to create one’s own ‘liturgy’ - through an individually crafted rhythm of daily exe ...

Rodriel, in your metaphor it's all about developing skills. Which is certainly a thing, at varying degrees, in all arts. But the point is precisely that there are no pre-requisite skills in order to participate in the essays in question (or in any other discussions here) provided that the interest ...

I must admit I don’t see how, because Ashvin and Cleric are incredibly thorough writers (which I agree they are) one can be left with nothing to say, while being quite interested in phenomenology at the same time. I don't get how these two things could be ever so slightly correlated, for anyone who ...

This is a wonderful connection, Ashvin. Thank you for sharing. It highlights from another angle the core insights of PoF, namely that as of the late 19th century humanity has emerged into an era of radical freedom and unprecedented responsibility. Our increasing awareness of the gap redoubles the ...

I would like to add another thing, Rodriel. It's an invitation. As it seems to me, you have grown disinterested in foundational phenomenological work. It would be great if I'm mistaken, please correct me if appropriate, but when it comes to this forum, you have shown clear disinterest in the ...

After some reflection, it seems to me that this vision of the "heralding" task of Rudolf Steiner (in alignment with other remarks you previously made) is an instance of what JVH described: It's interesting because, just yesterday, I came across a book by Judith von Halle that addresses this exact ...

Thanks for sharing this thought, Rodriel. What you have described also reminds me of what we have discussed before as the 'attractive lure' of our archetypal goal state (union with the Godhead). There always remains a 'gap' between our compounded intuition of what 'we' are and what existence feels ...

I wrote down a thought today and figured it might be pertinent to this thread: At its core, Christianity is concerned with the manner in which eternity relates to time and what this means for the fact of embodiment. In traditional Christianity, the way to salvation is framed as a "closing-of-the-gap ...

Rodriel, I get that you are not interested in debate. What I then do not get is how one can use rebuttals to reinforce one's original points while being uninterested in debate, but let's not fiddle, I agree this would lead nowhere. Regarding the "subtle posture of superiority", it has nothing to do ...