How can a perception suggest anything beyond itself?
knowledge is the perception of an object identical to the object itself. seeing something clearly as it is, for example.
Just for fun, I think I will play the devil's advocate, defending God, which is an odd twist. If we could look into the origins of the concept of...
the tendency for people to believe that objects are identical to their perceptions of them is a rather remarkable observation. Not that they can...
It is very difficult to prove a negative. Is it up to an atheist to "prove" that god doesn't exist? I don't ask a theist to prove that god...
No person unfamiliar with such concepts can then be affected by the negation of those concepts. There would have to be some other variable in the...
There are no "rules" to syncronicity interpretation, one association can lead to another and so on. It is all personal, psychological, full of...
in the land of the sighted, only the king is blind. the world is what you have made it, but is the inability to accept this and our continued...
I would say you hit the proverbial "nail" on the head
I am impressed by the questions you are asking and would like to recommend a book that has helped me understand the psychedelic experience. It is...
I won't argue that in some times and places there are perversions of justice and that the utility of certain actions toward the good of society...
good and bad are sentiments that all humanity share. It interests everyone, individually, and as a society, to act in way that is of utility, to...
everything is an illusion, held together by the mind, which is an illusion also.
nothing exists, whether it is of the self, others, or nothing at all nagarjuna
If you had the "choice" of jumping off a cliff or not and "decided" not to, would that be an example of 'free will'?
identity is a lie we create to comfort us with the illusion that we continue to exist, separate and apart from our objects of perception
Syncronicity is the language of the unconscious. Perceptions enter our consciousness. The mind is a collection of perceptions. We use words to...
I would agree with you that unknowable might be putting an unnecessary limit on our ability to know the unknown. What I was trying to explore was...
I would put forth that it is perfectly acceptable to acknowledge that the ultimate workings of our perceptual world may in instances be unknowable...
can we turn the question around and ask why people believe in the existence of a deity. Because I base belief in perceptions of which I have had...
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