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Mikhail Rogov
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When I was six, I often asked my parents and relatives what happens after death, and those typical Soviet atheists and materialists of the time always said that nothing happens, nothing at all. …

Philosophy

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Introduction
Introduction
Philosophy

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Oct 4, 2021

Why Bernardo Kastrup’s version of idealism is baloney

“It seems to be the Deity’s own will that every way of seeking after truth be dared at the risk of error. We need not fear unveiling what it would conceal; what we have to fear is falsehood. Yet this daring all, and saying all, is limited to my own…

Idealism

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Why Bernardo Kastrup’s version of idealism is baloney
Why Bernardo Kastrup’s version of idealism is baloney
Idealism

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May 30, 2021

Природа реальности

“В известной поэтической картине Платон сравнил людей с узниками, закованными в пещере, которые могут смотреть только в одном направлении. За ними горит огонь, и они видят на стене только тени своих собственных тел и объектов, находящихся сзади них. Так как эти узники ничего не могут видеть, кроме теней, то тени…

Философия

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Природа реальности
Природа реальности
Философия

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Jan 5, 2021

Eleusinian Mysteries

“[A]mong the many exceptional and divine things your Athens has produced and contributed to human life, nothing is better than those [Eleusinian] Mysteries. For by means of them we have been transformed from a rough and savage way of life to the state of humanity, and have been civilized. Just…

Psychedelics

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Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusinian Mysteries
Psychedelics

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Nov 5, 2020

Buddhahood

“The existence that characterizes such things as your body, your possessions, and the world around you … is the interplay of the grasping and the grasped of [transcendental] consciousness (ālayavijñāna). … Meditation, meditator, and object of meditation … are nothing but [mental] projections. … Nirvāṇa is the cessation of [transcendental]…

Philosophy

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Buddhahood
Buddhahood
Philosophy

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Oct 13, 2020

Brain

“The whole problem of neuroscience … is how to connect brain activity with consciousness, and all we can say in general is that these processes are running in parallel.” — Oliver Sacks* What is consciousness? They say it is a product of the brain. What is the brain? They say…

Philosophy

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Brain
Brain
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Dec 19, 2019

Ultimate lessons

“Mysticism has been called “the great spiritual current which goes through all religions.” In its widest sense it may be defined as the consciousness of the One Reality — be it called Wisdom, Light, Love, or Nothing. … [T]he reality that is the goal of the mystic, and is ineffable…

Philosophy

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Ultimate lessons
Ultimate lessons
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Dec 12, 2019

What is your God?

“Even in the bareness of abstraction, our relation to Transcendence can take on a crucial seriousness. But as men in our world we seek support for our certainty in the concrete. Man’s supreme achievement in this world is communication from personality to personality. Accordingly, our relation to Transcendence, if we…

Religion

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What is your God?
What is your God?
Religion

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Dec 8, 2019

Time

“[F]rom the succession of ideas and impressions we form the idea of time… [T]ime cannot make its appearance to the mind, either alone, or attended with a steady unchangeable object, but is always discovered by some perceivable succession of changeable objects.” — David Hume “I do not feel alive, psychologically…

Consciousness

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Time
Time
Consciousness

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Dec 6, 2019

Good and evil

“There is nothing it is possible to think of anywhere in the world, or indeed anything at all outside it, that can be held to be good without limitation, excepting only a good will.” — Immanuel Kant “In being things have a rank, but to rank low is not evil…

Philosophy

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Good and evil
Good and evil
Philosophy

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Mikhail Rogov

Mikhail Rogov

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“Pure immanence without Transcendence remains nothing but deaf existence.” — Karl Jaspers

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