Ideas
How to purify our life
15/10/2007 Filed in: Personal Development
So much in our lives is intoxicating. Toxic eating habits, toxic emotions, toxic thoughts, toxic beliefs. Not to mention what TV, radio, and the internet throw at us continuously. If we decide to take a break from all that and to purify our lives for the healthier and happier, it can be difficult to know where to start. Though identifying the source of the filth may give us some valuable clues.
We are all fundamentally made up of the same stuff: bodies, senses, emotions, and thoughts that all overlap to a certain extent. And the way each of those parts interact with the others and with the outside world determines to a great extent our health and happiness. Maintaining a good balance is key to leading the most fulfilling life in the physical, emotional, moral and intellectual realms. Read More...
We are all fundamentally made up of the same stuff: bodies, senses, emotions, and thoughts that all overlap to a certain extent. And the way each of those parts interact with the others and with the outside world determines to a great extent our health and happiness. Maintaining a good balance is key to leading the most fulfilling life in the physical, emotional, moral and intellectual realms. Read More...
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and Plato: Where do our ideas come from?
22/07/2007 Filed in: Martinism | Platonism & Neoplatonism
Do ideas originate in the brain, or from the input of the senses, or are they independent of any individual brain? Do we depend on external stimuli to form ideas, or are we born with a set of ideas that just kick in independently of our environment? Is consciousness the product of nurture or nature? How interdependent are our ideas and our consciousness?
These questions may seem very outdated today, as the debate appears to have been settled by the neurological argument, according to which the brain is the origin of our consciousness. The question has now shifted to how consciousness arises, which is a similar problem to how ideas are produced.
However, the hypothesis that the brain is not the origin of all our ideas, but merely a “transducer”, can still be made: can one discriminate between a brain that only analyses and translates a raw input into a given output and a brain that is the actual source of the same output? Read More...
These questions may seem very outdated today, as the debate appears to have been settled by the neurological argument, according to which the brain is the origin of our consciousness. The question has now shifted to how consciousness arises, which is a similar problem to how ideas are produced.
However, the hypothesis that the brain is not the origin of all our ideas, but merely a “transducer”, can still be made: can one discriminate between a brain that only analyses and translates a raw input into a given output and a brain that is the actual source of the same output? Read More...