I wonder if it would be true to say that there is no connection between mysticism and existentialism, but that nevertheless an existentialist may also be a...
They want to control. Poor guys. It's because we don't chat, I think. One day we might, if the mystical king returns. As philosophers and existentialists,...
Central Misouri has never been known for wealth. Sure there are many rich people at Lake of the Ozarks but back from the lakefront things get grim. It was a...
When? You guys seem love and live for telling us what you think, what you believe, what you feel. Fine. But when are you ever going to tell us about what you...
This is my first attempt to explain what until now has been only inchoate intuition. Why did I declare a psychiatric diagnosis (of schizophrenia) in my very...
Tom, I did not come into this world to be approved of or loved. I am here to do a job, and I have done it as best that I can; and despite all the slings and...
Tom/Joyce, Valid??? How is mysticism valid, in any sense of the word? How does it relate to existentialism or philosophy? Quine said "To be is to be the value...
Mary, I direct this at you knowing I am preaching to the choir. We see the problem you outlined in your last post cropping out throughout human discorse. The...
The Happy Chappy Quest. If the question is asked to most people, all those whom you meet on the street every day of your life, then by far what the majority of...
The reason I shared some 'true thoughts' here is basically because I saw that it was accepted and observable in other members' quite ideocentric postings....
So, I have found that honesty and humility is not wise. I shall discard all my attempts to communicate in gentle and subtle manner, and assume that I failed...
We all know Nietzsche's ideas on the will to power. When he met Lou Salome he was in his late thirties and she was in her early twenties. She was a very...
Mysticism for the record. Mystical experience (generally but not always called Mysticism) has nothing do with religion, beliefs, theories, hypothesis, mad made...
OK, one more before I quit this group – I came back on because you were talking about Mystics and Mysticism, a subject and phenomenon I know very well...
Re Economic Meltdown. (Thursday September 24th 2009) Hello Asa, Greed is a symptom not the cause. Well, me old mate, they are viewing all this not only through...
Jim, My interest (concern) here does not compound daily, nor does it congeal (maintains consistency). I'm more concerned with whether reality is fundamentally...
The Mystery of Life. What is life beyond that which even the deepest of inner mysterious conscious experiences can even reach? I do not know obviously, and ...
The Well Analogy of THE SPIRITUALISING PROCESS Dick Richardson 1991 and 2007 Originally for the Exceptional Human Experience Network: North Carolina USA...
Pragmatic Existentialism. Pragmatic Existentialism is simply a term to denote ones outlook, understanding, a personal way of being in the world and reaction to...
Mysticism and Academia. Contrary to popular opinion it is not Science, Psychology or Academics who castigate the claims, assertions, and the experiences of...
A Correspondent Asked (1999 CE) A correspondent asked as to what does one have to do to come to known one's Real Self in the Ground of our Being (The Mystical ...
Mystics and Sentimentalists [ Mystics and sentimentalists are not trying to prove a transcendent reality, because theirs is personal experience not easily...
Hypocracy includes dichotomy. It also suggests motive. Modernism rejects hypocracy and suggests that dichotomies be avoided when possible. Statistical...
I was riding up an elevator in the Principal tower and Jay Rockefeller was in the car. He commented that his family owned several beautiful buildings but...
Science is the quest for dependable, testable knowledge. Where legal barriers to scientific enquiry do not pertain, that enquiry may be fruitful and free....
Been reading a bit of Quine and discover that, for the moment anyway, I'm most aligned with his "naturalized epistemology". Don't know why it's important,...
Just finished reading Quine's "On Simple Theories of a Complex World" and began thinking about the problem nonlocality creates for special relativity. Bill...
Shareholders have become disenfranchised. Tree hugger radicals who hated capitalism caused boards of directors to wall off decision making from stockholders. ...
Just a suggestion, this, from an amateur thinker who is entranced, from time to time, by the art of film. THESIS Dialectic - the heart fights the head. ...
