How do you think that we can go to the heart of this issue authentically, but without being bound to intellectualisation? — Jack Cummins
The truth of the matter is always quite simplistic, — synthesis
Sounds more like a principle of action than a result of consideration. — Valentinus
But you are speaking to intellectuals on a forum set up by such people to talk about stuff.
Where are you going with this thought? — Valentinus
↪Nikolas
Yes, I think that we do need to consider the whole question of what it means to turn 'inwardly towards the light'. However, I come also with many questions. Even within the more esoteric part of Christianity, we have the whole question of the Luciferan emphasis on light and how this led to the 'fall' of the angelic and human kingdoms. We can also consider to what extent is this symbolic, but this does lead to the larger question as to what extent are all religious perspectives mythic representations. Even the non religious and scientific paradigms can be seen as models, so, even those, are representations. — Jack Cummins
I wonder how your background still affects you, and whether it affects you as you go through the day to day experience of life. — Jack Cummins
Except for pathological types (e.g. psychotics), I don't think we have a choice.Perhaps we should not recoil and evade such horrors. — Jack Cummins
Read much Poe, HPL, Ligotti & Eugene Thacker, huh? :scream:Perhaps, the reality of Thanatos on a subconscious level has not been acknowledged, and this is a hindrance when we begin to encounter the unknown dimensions.
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