Voidmatrix said:
Tomtegubbe said:
Voidmatrix said:
I came with an idea (though someone else may have come up with it before me) called phenomenalogical skepticism. If I don't "know" jump in, uninhibited, and see what happens. It's a thought method that seems to bring a lot of understanding and potential insight.
Well put!
The next level is to transcendent these philosophical concepts that are incredibly deeply put into our mindset.
Love it! My background is philosophy (in a broad sense, not purely relegated to the Greeks or western philosophy, but also religious and esoteric philosophies (with esoteric systems is where phenomenalogical skepticism is a wonderful tool)), and it's what my degree is in and I continue to study. But my aim is of a parodixical nature in the use of philosophy (in its broad sense and as a fundamental to most formulated thought, esoteric (at least verbally of dialectically for the purpose of elucidation (which it's hard to elucidate the ineffable) or not) to transcend philosophy.
Hence my love of your statement.
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We seem to have very similar background in this regard. I tried quite successfully shift my perspective a little away from the Western perspective when I ordered The Bhagavad Gita translation and commentary by Eknath Easwaran.. You don't have the speculation there. There is just crystallized knowledge that speaks for it.
I have begun to question our Western culture that is built on religion that has many problems. At some point people began to protest against this and then came materialism that these people accepted as their new Lord.
I read a book about the influences of Plotinus (the neoplatonian) to the Saint Dionysus the Areopagite. I thought that this is mildly interesting, probably as far as you can get by Greek philosophy. Maybe.
Best knowledge is intuitive.