Philosophical Speculations

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:04 am Just some further thoughts on this ... I very much doubt, given the level of thinking in this forum, that anyone here would dispute, or need be constantly reminded, that dysfunctional, us-vs-them politics as usual, as a function of a deprived and foundering paradigm, is clearly not serving us well. And as can be readily observed and shared, if one needs any blatant examples of this then just read or watch the mainstream news on any given day, never mind it being copied-and-pasted all over social media by the second. Surely there are valid articles to be written and read, and discussions to be had, about how a given metaphysical premise can have implications with respect to addressing the above ~ e.g. how might a paradigm based in the primacy and unicity of consciousness make some significant difference, or not as the case may be? And so those would be the kind of metaphysically nuanced articles I feel would be most pertinent to share here, rather than just rebroadcasting yet another glaring example of what's not working, coming from a perspective still deeply mired in the mindset at the core of the problematic 'news', however well researched it may be.

As an offering of such a nuanced article, resonated or argued with, consider this ... Source Temple and the Great Reset

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:46 pm Nice essay from CE. Consider this twist. CE says, "Spirituality, in other words, is not about that which is beyond materiality; it is about what the modern worldview does not recognize or cannot see. It therefore has everything to do with economics." Transformed, it can be read as, "Idealism, in other words, is not about that which is beyond materiality; it is about what the modern worldview does not recognize or cannot see. It therefore has everything to do with material science."

SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:25 pm

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:46 pm Nice essay from CE. Consider this twist. CE says, "Spirituality, in other words, is not about that which is beyond materiality; it is about what the modern worldview does not recognize or cannot see. It therefore has everything to do with economics." Transformed, it can be read as, "Idealism, in other words, is not about that which is beyond materiality; it is about what the modern worldview does not recognize or cannot see. It therefore has everything to do with material science."

Very interesting. I have been wondering, why European modernism and materialism has been called 'Enlightenment philosophy", in clearly different sense from what "Englightenment" means when associated with Eastern philosophies of non-dualism.

Now I see that, In simplest terms, European "Enlightenment philosophy" means focusing on the visual sense, the physical aspect of light which comes from the past, reflecting the visual aspect of the phenomenal world, which in the concrete sense of reflecting light is always purely historical object.

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:53 pm The question then arises as to how to insure that past is not prologue?

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:45 pm Oh, High Linguist, you travelled way beyond my paygrade.