Philosophical Speculations

There is one kind of presuppositional 'mesh' that ensure a surprise if Steiner had said on his death bed, "In the last six months I've become aware of a certain kind of error that worked its way unawares into my research. This ruins nothing, but it changes everything. This will need to spotted ...

Cleric, I counted around 11 paragraphs and I'll use that information in figuring out where to put them in my pile of 'important' things to get to once I can. My other creative approach would be to just scan it very quickly and respond to one element that stands out; but I'd only do that if you felt ...

"I'm sure you already fully grasp the huge difference between doing that as a personal meditative practice and doing that as a way of conveying inner realities to other people." I'm not sure you do, either. We can join our uncertainties together to find our blind-spots. Or: Teach with passive ...

"I hope you understand that..." Seth's thanking me in the thesis is somewhat connected to his belief that I grasp that. But, hey, Seth can always be wrong, too. Part of why Seth and I get along so well is because we are very deeply aware of the way we distort experience and how that is baked into ...

Missed the point. Seth's quote: "This is a subtle point, but is worth explicit repetition: it is not enough to have first-order knowledge of the second order; what invites lasting epistemological transformation is a recursion between first-order knowledge of the second order on the one hand and the ...

I come into these sections during small breaks in daily activity. When I have longer periods designated for reading, I have materials stacked up. It will take a special arrangement of variables to make it so that during a longer break, I'll be reading that post. But I will if and when I can. Other ...

Some people don't realize that it is impossible to imagine a married bachelor. They think that by changing the meaning of one of the terms, they are then succeeding in the imagination. Constraints of all kinds are build into the nature of reality, not as limitations but as expressions of realities ...

For some people, it isn't enough that somebody has direct evidence of the reality of spiritual science. If that person doesn't share the forms, ideas, practices, and conclusions of the Steiner narrative, you will notice an endless loop of 'teachings'. One of the indicators that this has to do with a ...

Some Anthroposophists believe Steiner is correct in claiming that we can not take the first step forward until we vividly imagine all experience as relationless percepts. There are presuppositions as to why this seems like the only way the cognitive path can begin.

I won't be able to read through that example for some time. I'll let you know once I do.