IndieAgora

…to old concepts and old approaches to new concepts

It is recommended to study “A Thelemic view of Consciousness” in order to become familiar with the concepts underlying the following proposals ...

Sharpen up your teaching skills?


...could be taken as a reminder for fair game -
as Don wrote:
"All is a manifestation of Consciousness just as dream characters and ambience are manifestations of brains as mental processes." - which has little to do with your reply:
"Reality is ...

Dear Don, seems like we are stuck with a western and a eastern consciousness.
I - and i think all of us here - understand, that the reasons for it is the reasoning.
Lamentably it does not only separate east and west, but the mind of brainman as well, and thus impedes his Selfrealisation.

A few days ago i discovered in "ilovephilosophy" the following text by Don Schneider - who graciously agreed to share this flower with us.
Thank you Brother! (hope you like the title grown in my garden ...

There are the convenient truths of emotions, the truths fabricated with the help of the intellect (i.e. reasoned truths) ,the truths which are deducted from the belief in, or to prove an objective/absolute reality. There are traditional truths, religious truths, and many more truths smudging the ...

I am not against playfully imagining possible decivilized worlds. But for such imaginings to be truly playful and to have experimental potential, they cannot be models worked out from abstracted conceptions of either past or future societies. In fact, in my opinion, it is best to leave the ...

A parable:

On our flight to nowhere, we notice that our civilisation vehicle is having serious problems.
We may play blind, deaf & dumb (or accelerists) and crash - or try to land it, with the help of common sense, as smooth as possible.
In both cases the flight of western civilisation will have ...

or collapse ?
In the beginning of the twentieth century Oswald Spengler predicted “The decline of the Occident”.
Hundred years later Oreskes predicted “The collapse of western civilisation”.
Spenglers work was mostly based on the histories of past civilisations, while Oreskes study bases on ...

Don't seek from others,
Or you'll be estranged from yourself.
I now go on alone -
Everywhere I encounter It.
It now is me, I now am not It.
One must understand in this way
To merge with being as is.

In my daily life there are no other chores than
Those that happen to fall into my hands.
Nothing I ...

All our deeds, emotions, thoughts, creeds – and whatever else we are trying to relate ourselves with


This is all social and hence to do with power relations, will and desire, discourse.

When you say consciousness, are you talking about basic self-awareness, or of something more ...