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Last vestige of thought

By fom | Published: July 29, 2011
Imagine yourself in a situation where you are reduced to your very last vestiges of thought. You have one thought, one point of awareness in front of you, and nothing else. Is this possible ? There is no value in contemplating such a situation if it is only an abstraction.  We can imagine singularity of [...]
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Causality

By fom | Published: June 29, 2011
The human intellect ‘operates’ or ‘functions’, or ‘calculates’, one way or another, almost entirely by means of the concept of ‘causality’. It is fascinating to stop and look at this. When we seek to understand something, we always look to find the cause, which somehow makes us feel this explains the effect.  If I do [...]
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self & salvation

By fom | Published: November 10, 2009
If a religion is to save me, I must possess an unproblematic self. If my self is problematic, then which bit of me is to be saved ? All of me, presumably. But how would that work ? I would have to be all that I was, all that I am, and all that I [...]
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Metaphysics

By fom | Published: October 14, 2009
Preliminary booklist on Metaphysics Melhuish, George:  THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF REALITY [St. Vincent's Press, Bristol, 1973.] Kelley, C.F.:  MEISTER ECKHART ON DIVINE KNOWLEDGE [Yale, 1977]
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the start

By fom | Published: March 4, 2009
Where do we start ? We can take as our starting point, our human situation, our here-and-nowness; that which is referred to as our human condition. Why do we start with that ? Where else is there to start ? We could begin with a belief system, but if the system is in any way [...]
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