I think Obama likes being president. He is very good at it and seems a natural in the role. Philosophically he is very clean with little overt religion and...
... A person such as you mention is also most interesting . She seems very close to my perspective and melding Sarte and Camus and science is a laudable...
Bil, I've never had the scientific background your education has provided you, but I do follow my interests. One of my offspring has found a way to merge her...
Cymatics? [ I have an interest in Cymatics; and as to how vibrations can effect matter. Also mystics claim that sound waves, or music, is a portal to the...
Ancient Mystics? [ Do you think that there was more of a chance for people of ancient times to become mystics than there is today? ] Mystical experience does...
Could a non mystic teach it? [ Could a non mystic teach somebody to be a mystic? ] Oh I love these trick questions. They keep you on your toes :- ))) A non...
SERENDIPITY (Dedicated to William A. Taylor-Fraser) When the insubstantial pageant fades and leaves not a rack behind of things that come and go in time, other...
Sporadic or Steady State? [ How do you feel about the question of movement in an evolving process of becoming. Some kind of sporadic movement or more like a...
... It is why I will not study religion or mystical foolishness as they do nothing to keep you alive or make your life easier. It is why I renounce faith...
Combining the Inner with the Outer? [ ...... and you mention about a harmonious combining of the inner sensitivities and emotions with that of the rational and...
Have to disagree somewhat with you on this, Bill. While science definitely influenced the this philosophy, literature was probably of at least equal...
The Blue Hills Arrived Dear SuZ. Your book, The Blue Hills Diary, arrived safely yesterday (31stOctober) at mid day. Many thanks. Owing to being busy for a ...
Thank you for the birthday wishes ma'am, that is very kind of you. Sorry to hear about all that, and the pain. I too was awake early due to pain in one of my...
The preexistentialists were serious fellows. They came from mathematical backgrounds and demanded a rigor to their philosophical renderings. The later...
Thanks for your input, Bill. I think your last statement is most relevant. Is it really possible to build an entire philosophy from such disparate pieces. I...
... Now as to the reality of these altered states if you require three demensional happenings in temporal sequence for a situation to be real then most of...
When I wrote, "Normalizing peoples' experiences seems reasonable and has no philosophical grounding either," I meant that attempt to normalize experiences...
The reasonable proposition, state or case in the world is the number of people who say they've experienced an "afterlife." It seems that a religious context is...
Jealousy? [ It is said that jealousy is one of the major human problems. How do you find this? ] I am no expert or authority on it :- ) Never really had it....
Absolute Disbelief? [ There is a sort of continuum in which on one end we have absolute disbelief and on the other complete commitment to the truth of a ...
The Content of Broadcasting? [ Consciousness and its content must be much the same as broadcasting and its content. Or a good analogy at any rate. You cannot...
Big loves and devotions? [ And what have been your big loves and devotions Richard? ] Oh bloody hell mate ! My wife and kids. Life. Psychology. Physics. ...
I would say that reasonableness is all that can be justified in an epistemology. There is a sort of continuum in which on one end we have absolute disbelief...
A Devotion To? [ These are interesting points. Why is somebody devoted to the study of what it is they study. A temporary or lifelong fixation for analysis on ...
Psychic Phenomena? [ Consciousness is a property not a "thing" or an object. NDE are not subject to the material sciences though they are of interest to the...
Reasonability is a social or legal criterion, whereas truth and reality fit psychological and phenomenological criteria, in other words, philosophical. Some...
Many of these sorts of questions are more easily addressed by examining exactly what is our criterion for truth or for what is "real". Maybe a better approach...
Consciousness is a property not a "thing" or an object. NDE are not subject to the material sciences though they are of interest to the psychologist. NDE are...
The love in eternity? [ Try and find anybody talking about the love in eternity on the internet. I looked and found nothing. Gurus and mystics don't seem to...
Angels in the Eternal Paradesium? [Are there any angels in the timeless eternal paradesium Merlin? ] Yes, of course there are. I was one until I got the boot...
