Excellent; thank you Thomas! Co-creative agency, yes indeed, Kathryn ... From: Thomas Mether To: neoplatonism@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010...
A little known, but extremely valuable, document in the debate over the "physicalist" view of the mind is an essay written by none other than Thomas Henry...
Thomas and List, I know the authors of Irreducible Mind quite well and I can tell you this book is a treasure trove of fascinating data and analysis. The...
This sounds very much like Democritus's view taken in his lost On Images, preserved in Plutarch. Not necessarily a material reality, but certainly a physical...
 Group:  I am writing in response to Greg Shaw's comment "...the later Platonists had a body that "we" don't believe in: the ochema, subtle body, augoeides,...
Greg, Â I know a number of people who describe themselves as Neoplatonists who are serious practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism because there seems to be a...
Hi Kathryn, Â The direction I'm thinking of reading up on is Henry More and Myers. Â I'm thinking of digging out my Henry More. Myers is credited with saying...
Yasas all, I am unfamiliar with this book, but my interest is now peaked. One of the crucial points of thought for myself has always been Ennead One and...
Some may be interested in a recent paper of mine, in which I make use of the Tibetan parallel. Charms and Counter-Charms: Conceptions of Philosophy: Royal...
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John Dillon
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Dec 3, 2010 11:17 am
... How about this? The physical universe is perhaps best regarded as a vast hologram, and we are holograms within it. One hologram can presumably shake hands...
... The ancient Stoic view was that anything that exists must be a "body", while at the same time, they held that all bodies everywhere throughout the Cosmos...
Curt, Thanks for the references, Buddhist, Stoic, and Plotinian. The notion of interpenetration of subtle bodies is one that intrigues me. I checked Gerson's...
Fascinating thread on all accounts. Not responding to Curt per se here, but rather the overall corpus of discussion. Another provocative juxtaposition in...
Hello John, Â You write: Â How about this? The physical universe is perhaps best regarded as a vast hologram, and we are holograms within it. One hologram...
Curt, Greg, John and List, Â In Vedanta and Buddhism, it is the collective karma (the moral consequences of past actions) of a group of sentient beings...
... One advantage that the Buddhist approach has is that it does not appear to be concerned with physical v. non-physical dualism to any great extent (if at...
Dear all, Thomas, thanks for your fascinating exposition of Brahman etc. ... However, who explains (in detail) "the origins and constitution of the body from...
Bob, The first step, I think, in resurrecting teleology is to ask whether there are wholes that are greater than the sum of their parts in contrast to mere...
Dear All, Yes, it's interesting how there is always a human need to tell ourselves these stories over again in a new contemporary voice, hopefully one that ...
Well, Thomas, I think you know what savvy materialists will reply to your question about wholes and parts: No, wholes are not greater! I doubt that this sort...
Dear Kathryn, Yes, I think we are carrying on a sort of intellectual Yoga here. God knows, we (I, at any rate) need it. Best, Bob ... Robert Wallace website:...
Kathryn, Â I suggest that there is something to be learned from my Chinese students in San Francisco. Namely, there is something profoundly odd about "getting...
Kathryn, Â I do think that the competence of a mystical tradition requires expert scholarship of its history to keep it on track but it is always going to...
Curt, Â You wrote: Â One advantage that the Buddhist approach has is that it does not appear to be concerned with physical v. non-physical dualism to any...
List, My wife asked me again what I want for Christmas. I carve tree trunks (dead trees) and need a new Merlin set for the rough carving before hand...
PS, Maybe I need to expand the request to one of what books do those who are sincerely Neoplatonist have enjoyed because of that. ... From: Thomas Mether...
Thomas, I particularly enjoyed your post describing Mahayana Buddhism's "Experience-Only" absolute idealism. Offhand, all I can offer for your Christmas Wish...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Dec 5, 2010 3:42 pm
... Well, I presume you have Greg Shaw¹s ŒTheurgy and the Soul¹ - and the various works of Pierre Hadot translated by Michael Chase? JMD [Non-text portions...
