GENIUS FORUMS

The truth is that already you're a memory of a former self. Most of your time and energy is geared toward keeping that idea intact, keeping up the appearance of continuity for the sake of functionality. Who knows, some might even keep it up after death and haunt old houses. That's actually very eas...

It is the substance of the sage's dream of oneness - it is the currency of all of human commerce - our first experiences forming, and forming the nature of all experiences to come. It is fleshly through and through. There is no mind-world. It is all the expression of flesh. Everyone knows this who ...

One major problem in this article is the clear elitism. Our society drifts on simple labor: roadworks, steelworks, plumbing, putting pipes or cables in the ground and so on. Most of it is rather mindless in terms of ambition. What have these masses of people, many good, honest folks to do with brin...

it turns rational conversations into FUN.

what is necessary?

It's our choices that are caused. It's not the choices that are free, if the choices were free, 'we' could choose anything. To have true free-will one can't be relative to anything - because being relative to something, then your will must be determined by something else. in that way, only the infi...

If the infinite is nowhere, and the finite is in the infinite, where's the finite: Here, or nowhere? It just makes more sense for the finite to be here, and 'nowhere' to be "in" here.

Ataraxia wrote:Meanwhile, the person who understands that it could never have been any other way - often easier said than done (at least in my case) - is truly at peace with himself.

Or, there's no need to be any other way. It could be different, but what's wrong with this way?

In this case and in all cases it's the trading of ideas. I love participating in relationships, exchanges - it is fascinating, the power balance that CANNOT be escaped in them. The concept of power is INHERENT with our dealings in the world. Capitalism is REALITY. It does not matter how open and fo...

Even science attempts to tell a story (albeit very unexciting up till now). It seems to excite a great many of people. Why doesn't it excite you then? It did at one point, that's true. The logic didn't add up eventually. First of all, there's so many hypotheticals and unobserved phenomena that's ta...

Cool.

The map is useful to chart progress, and learning to understand the map may itself enspire growth. I have to encourage all of this to be done with a focus of attention on whatever you are engaged in currently. That is, seeking not to chart the future actually but to see your present situation in a ...

OK. :)

Broader science is actually the way of it since the deeper or more accurate you get, the more of the whole you can see. Some people like complexity, and since there is complexity, it is useful. Everyone doesn't focus on the same things or in the same ways. Without everyone's different perspectives,...

Why speculate about or anticipate what's after that? If you don't know where you're going what good is a path, a map, or a step? Nothing, if you ask me. Do you need to know? If the step (or stair, as it were) leads you constantly to good things and valuable experiences, you know it will continue. T...

But the focus should be in the baby steps and not the end This is bullshit. There's nothing wrong with taking careful baby steps, but where's the rule that says one can't focus on all aspects of their goal, both the steps and the end? There is no end. The 'baby step' is the end! Why speculate about...

Imagination pulls in thought from beyond perception. This is not the same as thinking about being somewhere. Even if imagining, I would have to *think* that I *am* somewhere, wouldn't I? You can imagine being somewhere while knowing that you're still physically wherever you are (or in both places)....

Wilber appears to be using in a rather impressive way the reli-science symbols of the age (well, to each age its prophets of course): systems, integration, theory all the while building on the scientific method yet he proposes a 'broader science' - a plain contradiction, as science is meant to be r...

'Conception' can also be considered the imagining or potentializing of an event, which is also not the same as perception. Let's say that I am thinking about A=A. I have to be able to perceive a thing "A" - by whatever means, in order to do so. Another example - I'm imagining that I'm in ...

Personally, I have no choice but to be interested in the progression of science and technology, the psychology of the ego, world events through the eyes of political and economical analysis, and all the rest of it...It all seems like a sort of passion to me, an uncontrollable interest... And what i...

What we perceive must occur before we think about it, but we perceive simultaneous to the occurence. The present is not in 'time.' It is simultaneous 'timing.' It can't be said that anything occurs at all before we perceive, because the primary requirement for an occurence is the perception/concept...

Time always has to be two moments of time at least. Only after the passage of two moments of time can we perceive time. Therefore, what we call "time" is only the time that has passed. It is never the present, and never can become the present, because the past cannot become the present. W...

True.

"Cosmic" Kramer?

Some "rare" relationships exist to promote healing.