Re: Life & Death

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by debyemm in One Light Many Windows

Science of Mind / Religious Science Life - The animating Principle of Being . . . that Inner Something that makes everything live.  Life and Power are necessary attributes of a Limitless Being, and go... More »

Re: Peter Sloterdijk

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Mark in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Thanks for the update theurj. You know I tend to be a bit of a nit-pick at times. However, if Sloterdijk had the experiential framework that we have, he might instead have said this: Here... More »

Re: Peter Sloterdijk

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by theurj in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

I forgot to highlight the following in Sloterdijk’s “the operable man” so will add a snippet here. Speaking of homeotechnology he said:     Here a way of thinking germinates…and which now awaits to be... More »

Re: The next Buddha will be a collective

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Nickeson in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

P2P is not just for open source software or networking computers anymore. That's tantamount to saying that socialization by one's peer group is not just for adolescents anymore. It is for the entire herd, from... More »

Parental Medical Rights

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by business voodoo in Electric Moms: Holistic Parenting

By now, I imagine, most of you have heard the story of Daniel Hauser and his mom Colleen in Minnesota .  A court has ordered that despite the teenagers desires, his parents' decision and belief,... More »

Re: Gary Madison on Rorty, Derrida, and Gadamer

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

I appreciated his summary of Gadamer as well.  Here is a passage from the second essay I linked above that I also enjoyed: The main charge that philosophers of a traditionalist ("modernist") sort generally level... More »

Re: Peter Sloterdijk

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by theurj in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Sloterdijk was mentioned in the “next Buddha” thread as well as the topic of cynicism. Then I came upon the paper “In search of lost cheekiness, an introduction to Peter Sloterkijk’s ‘Critique of Cynical Reason’”... More »

Re: Gary Madison on Rorty, Derrida, and Gadamer

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

GADAMER Disregarding the standard (i.e., pre-postmodern) narrative ordering according to which, as Descartes insisted, one should always begin at the beginning, I turn to Gadamer last. Even though his work antedates both Derrida's and Rorty's,... More »

Re: Gary Madison on Rorty, Derrida, and Gadamer

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

DERRIDA Derrida is one of Rorty's cultural heroes, and it is not hard to see why. As a fellow postnietzschean who also proclaims the demise of philosophy and the end of "man," Derrida has all... More »

Gary Madison on Rorty, Derrida, and Gadamer

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Coping with Nietzsche's Legacy: Rorty, Derrida, Gadamer Full essay here . ~*~ ....When the "real world" at last becomes a myth, a simulacrum, we are witnessing the death not only of Truth and of Science,... More »

Jacques Derrida about Animals

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by unlimited

The master of deconstruction speaks about animals and how the general terms animal for all kind of very different species leads to violence against these beings.  "If one says animal one has already started to... More »

And The Blind Shall Lead

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by TeresaSilverthorn

A strange, new thought struck me yesterday while listening to a man who claimed to be color blind .  He told me how it ruined his chances of being a pilot, and that he had... More »

Traditional Japanese Reiki

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Lisa

Reiki is a complimentary healing technique that originated in Japan in the early 1900's. The word comes fr om the Japanese words rei, meaning spiritual or unseen, and ki, meaning energy. Reiki is also a... More »

In what areas of your life do you feel you're running?

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Hillora

I am running head-on into a glorious, fulfilling future, full of promise and satisfaction. My life changed for the better when I started college last Fall, and I have been going full-tilt ever since! I... More »

In what areas of your life do you feel you're running?

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by sanmugan

Running to nothing. Running from nothing. No runing at all. I am unable to run like others at my age. My Philosophy is 'slow and steady winning the race'. There is no competition on this.... More »

Buddha's unfinished business in Indonesia

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Deepak

Buddha's unfinished business in Indonesia Craig Warren Smith ,  Magelang, Central Java   |  Fri, 05/08/2009 1:21 PM  |  Opinion Article from the Jakarta Post, 8 May 2009 On May 9 the moon over Jakarta... More »

IMI Indigenous Media Institute of Alberta Canada

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by WayOfTheSpirit

  At IMI, we believe in the teachings of the Elders that say to be successful in today's world, one must know both the Indigenous and contemporary Western ways. IMI's "wholistic" education curriculum is designed... More »

Synnervation - 16 Ways - Dylan Newcomb

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Alain

  CHE Synnervation now constist of 15 Synnervators interconnecting and vitaliseing people, organizations and communities. One of them is Dylan Newcomb . Dylan is a professional dancer and choreographer who has been doing research on... More »

Document: Philosophy of Liberation

Posted on May 8th, 2009 by SantMat_Mystic_(James)

Document: Philosophy of Liberation Sant Mat Fellowship: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SantMatFellowship {"Repeat the Name of your Beloved, day and night, again and again. With care in thought, word and deed, you will cross to the other shore." --... More »

trying on a puzzle piece

Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Paper. Sun. Magic.

          So here I am, and I am not quite sure why but somehow things make sense, even though they do not.I am glad I am here, I hope you are too.            I am always... More »

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! - how consoling in the depth of affliction! Many versions of this story exist. Another one is: "The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, 'This also shall pass away.'" - Edward Fitzgerald, Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances, item 112, p. 80 (1901). The words In neez bogzarad, which can be translated, "This also shall pass," appear in the Diven of the twelfth century Persian poet and philosopher, Sana'I of Ghaznl, ed. Mazahir Musaffa, p. 92 (1957).

We resent a philosophy of government that tells fairy tales in November and ghost stories in January.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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