tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post114954924906038376..comments2023-07-19T01:47:37.907-07:00Comments on philosophy autobiography: No Objective View: 5th InstallmentJeff Meyerhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-56153442131280340332008-09-07T05:32:00.000-07:002008-09-07T05:32:00.000-07:00As far I know, NDEs' aren't mystical experiences, ...As far I know, NDEs' aren't mystical experiences, but they can trigger a new spirituality. Some hard-nosed atheists hostile to religion and spirituality have been converted to religion (or some type of belief in God) after a personal NDE:<BR/><BR/>http://www.near-death.com/storm.html<BR/><BR/>Carl Jung had a NDE too:<BR/><BR/>http://www.near-death.com/jung.html<BR/><BR/>Other atheists haven't change their view about God after a NDE, but most of them have been more prone to spiritual knowledge.<BR/><BR/>I don't discard that NDE be a special type of spiritual experience, only a more extreme one.Zetetic_chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06520593161180787019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-1160700063338447922006-10-12T17:41:00.000-07:002006-10-12T17:41:00.000-07:00Oh, I didn't know you'd refer to it as a "near dea...Oh, I didn't know you'd refer to it as a "near death experience", I thought it was a spiritual experience (not involving any nearness to death). No, I've never had one. I have had profound spiritual experiences on long meditation retreats, but nothing that qualifies as some touching of the Ultimate.<BR/><BR/>The Jungian stuff is good. There's a lot to discover using the idea of the shadow.Jeff Meyerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-1160094319995984162006-10-05T17:25:00.000-07:002006-10-05T17:25:00.000-07:00That's quite an experience. Did it permanently al...That's quite an experience. Did it permanently alter your way of experiencing everyday life? <BR/><BR/>It's very Eastern in the experience of past and future lives.<BR/><BR/>Regarding all of us being connected at the deepest level, do you connect that to the origin of everything in the big bang at all. I guess we were all physically connected at that time.Jeff Meyerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-1159722796115840352006-10-01T10:13:00.000-07:002006-10-01T10:13:00.000-07:00Yes, that Reality or the Absolute is ineffable is ...Yes, that Reality or the Absolute is ineffable is a common view.<BR/><BR/>Another view is that language allows us humans to have a meaningful, humanly conscious world, that other animals appear to lack. That language can be seen, not as an obstacle to viewing, but as what allows any, distinctively human, viewing at all.<BR/><BR/>Can you describe your experience of the Absolute. (I know that's contradictory - describing the ineffable - but maybe the circumstances. People do use words for It, like Oneness, bliss, all is love, no me anymore, etc.)Jeff Meyerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-1155975644402344972006-08-19T01:20:00.000-07:002006-08-19T01:20:00.000-07:00In debate, the question of who's right, when two d...In debate, the question of who's right, when two disagree, matters to me, and it is a guiding interest of most intellectual debate. <BR/><BR/>It can be thought important in two ways: discerning the truth - if we assume there is one truth, and if we are to carry out a project and have to decide how to proceed.<BR/><BR/>Certainly people debate for other reasons, but I'm not focusing on those debates.<BR/><BR/>I think I mention in the piece that I'm not referring to all the debates in which people are using the debate for other motives: gain power, etc.<BR/><BR/>But you're right what I'm writing about isn't practical.<BR/><BR/>JeffJeff Meyerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-1155484136511655732006-08-13T08:48:00.000-07:002006-08-13T08:48:00.000-07:00You seem more focused and sincere here. Yes, be l...You seem more focused and sincere here. Yes, be less wordy. Don't ramble tangentially. Try interacting instead of (monologic) acting. <BR/><BR/>I give a short account of the origin of some of my beliefs in my article entitled "Arguments Beyond Reason". You can google it.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to be such a rigid prig, but I don't like to deal with people narcissistically depositing their logorhea on me unless I'm getting paid to listen or if I have to be polite in a social situation.<BR/><BR/>My prediction is that any response I give will trigger a rambling monologue. Please disappoint me.Jeff Meyerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.com