This document summarizes a discussion between Phil and JB about different perspectives on nonduality, consciousness, and spiritual experiences. Some key points discussed include:
- Nonduality is complex with many varied experiences and approaches, not all of which can be equated or differentiated in simple terms.
- While certain nondual experiences may feel accessible, they do not encompass all nondual engagements with reality which are varied.
- Duality is not inherently bad and both dualistic and nondual perspectives have their place depending on the context and aims.
- Different ways of knowing like intellect, affect, and nonreflective awareness can all relate to experiences of oneness or unity. Pitting them
This discussion forum post discusses nondual Christianity and human spiritual development. It references concepts like intra-subjective integrity, which refers to stages of faith, moral and personality development. The post discusses how spiritual growth involves an ongoing process of conversion facilitated by divine love and cooperation with the Holy Spirit. While human authenticity and spiritual growth are important, the highest good is found in the unitive life of inter-subjective intimacy with God and others. Spiritual development is a complex, ongoing process that varies between individuals.
The document discusses several topics:
1. Potential investment strategies in light of currency devaluations and quantitative easing, including holding some cash, investing in MLPs, metals, municipal bonds, and mutual funds focused on dividend growers and emerging markets.
2. The impact of currency devaluations, including a transfer of wealth from lenders to debtors and those with cash to those with commodities.
3. Political and economic trends, such as declining standards of living in northern countries and growing wealth in southern countries.
This document discusses different approaches to spirituality, religion, and epistemology. It argues that:
1) Our realization of values is informal and based on love, common sense, and participatory imagination, not just logic.
2) Religious and spiritual lives are more pragmatic and existential than logically argued.
3) Encountering others' spiritual lives holistically through their desires, beliefs, and communities is more informative than any individual belief or practice.
4) Dualistic thinking provides reductionistic accounts of human experience; storytelling better conveys spiritual depth.
Bad Epistemology is Killing Us - deploying the abductive virtues of Peirce an...johnboy_philothea_net
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise stimulates the production of endorphins in the brain which elevate mood and reduce stress levels.
This document summarizes a discussion between Phil and JB about different perspectives on nonduality, consciousness, and spiritual experiences. Some key points discussed include:
- Nonduality is complex with many varied experiences and approaches, not all of which can be equated or differentiated in simple terms.
- While certain nondual experiences may feel accessible, they do not encompass all nondual engagements with reality which are varied.
- Duality is not inherently bad and both dualistic and nondual perspectives have their place depending on the context and aims.
- Different ways of knowing like intellect, affect, and nonreflective awareness can all relate to experiences of oneness or unity. Pitting them
This discussion forum post discusses nondual Christianity and human spiritual development. It references concepts like intra-subjective integrity, which refers to stages of faith, moral and personality development. The post discusses how spiritual growth involves an ongoing process of conversion facilitated by divine love and cooperation with the Holy Spirit. While human authenticity and spiritual growth are important, the highest good is found in the unitive life of inter-subjective intimacy with God and others. Spiritual development is a complex, ongoing process that varies between individuals.
The document discusses several topics:
1. Potential investment strategies in light of currency devaluations and quantitative easing, including holding some cash, investing in MLPs, metals, municipal bonds, and mutual funds focused on dividend growers and emerging markets.
2. The impact of currency devaluations, including a transfer of wealth from lenders to debtors and those with cash to those with commodities.
3. Political and economic trends, such as declining standards of living in northern countries and growing wealth in southern countries.
This document discusses different approaches to spirituality, religion, and epistemology. It argues that:
1) Our realization of values is informal and based on love, common sense, and participatory imagination, not just logic.
2) Religious and spiritual lives are more pragmatic and existential than logically argued.
3) Encountering others' spiritual lives holistically through their desires, beliefs, and communities is more informative than any individual belief or practice.
4) Dualistic thinking provides reductionistic accounts of human experience; storytelling better conveys spiritual depth.
Bad Epistemology is Killing Us - deploying the abductive virtues of Peirce an...johnboy_philothea_net
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise stimulates the production of endorphins in the brain which elevate mood and reduce stress levels.
This document discusses various perspectives on an "impersonal" or "intraobjective" experience of reality that affirms a radical solidarity between humanity and reality. It touches on concepts like panentheism, distinguishing between describing experiences versus reality itself, and references traditions like Taoism, enlightenment, and Hesychasm that speak to a similar notion of subtle or uncreated energy. The document provides caveats about humanity's limited ability to articulate such ineffable experiences and suggests they derive ultimately from a supremely personal being.
Johnboy discusses Bernardian Love and how it begins with self-love and love of God for self's sake, and then moves to love of self for God's sake. Johnboy notes that true self-realization allows us to discern when we are acting for God versus for our own agenda. This realization may be gradual rather than sudden. Johnboy also discusses how some experience a fuller realization known only to God, and how our faith becomes more certain though also more obscure over time.
The document discusses several complex issues regarding morality, justice, charity, and the role of governments and religions. It makes the following key points:
1) There is a distinction between moral norms of justice and the more robust norms of charity that exceed justice.
2) Governments generally lack the means to meet even basic needs demanded by social justice, and are constrained to providing public order rather than co-opting individual rights and responsibilities.
3) While governments and religions may share desired ends, they differ in their means - governments use coercion while religions do not, and virtues advanced through coercion are not truly charitable.
This summary provides an overview of a pneumatological philosophical theology perspective. It describes reality as consisting of raw materials that are processed through various methods and systems to produce goods that realize human values. The secular order represents humankind's current pneumatological consensus oriented by the Holy Spirit. All areas of life, including the historical, cultural, social, economic and political, can be understood as spiritual processes of realizing truth, beauty, goodness and freedom.
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metaphysics, natural theology, philosophical theology, theology of nature, john haught, joseph bracken, philip clayton, david ray griffin, a.n. whitehead, charles sanders peirce, charles hartshorne, john milbank, catherine keller, thomas oord, monica coleman, tripp fuller, panentheism, john caputo, process theology, evolutionary epistemology, fallibilism, john sobert sylvest, malunkyaputta, nominalism, essentialism, univocity of being, analogy of being, god concept, epistemic indeterminacy, ontological undecidability, entropic erasure, problem of induction, godel's incompleteness theorems, infinite semiosis, self authenticity, self transcendence, self actualization, soteriological trajectory, sophiological trajectory, polydoxy, radical orthodoxy, radical hermeneutics, homebrewed christianity
This document discusses various perspectives on an "impersonal" or "intraobjective" experience of reality that affirms a radical solidarity between humanity and reality. It touches on concepts like panentheism, distinguishing between describing experiences versus reality itself, and references traditions like Taoism, enlightenment, and Hesychasm that speak to a similar notion of subtle or uncreated energy. The document provides caveats about humanity's limited ability to articulate such ineffable experiences and suggests they derive ultimately from a supremely personal being.
Johnboy discusses Bernardian Love and how it begins with self-love and love of God for self's sake, and then moves to love of self for God's sake. Johnboy notes that true self-realization allows us to discern when we are acting for God versus for our own agenda. This realization may be gradual rather than sudden. Johnboy also discusses how some experience a fuller realization known only to God, and how our faith becomes more certain though also more obscure over time.
The document discusses several complex issues regarding morality, justice, charity, and the role of governments and religions. It makes the following key points:
1) There is a distinction between moral norms of justice and the more robust norms of charity that exceed justice.
2) Governments generally lack the means to meet even basic needs demanded by social justice, and are constrained to providing public order rather than co-opting individual rights and responsibilities.
3) While governments and religions may share desired ends, they differ in their means - governments use coercion while religions do not, and virtues advanced through coercion are not truly charitable.
This summary provides an overview of a pneumatological philosophical theology perspective. It describes reality as consisting of raw materials that are processed through various methods and systems to produce goods that realize human values. The secular order represents humankind's current pneumatological consensus oriented by the Holy Spirit. All areas of life, including the historical, cultural, social, economic and political, can be understood as spiritual processes of realizing truth, beauty, goodness and freedom.
divine omnipotence, divine omniscience, divine omnibenevolence, divine attributes, divine omnipathy, polydoxy, theodicy, problem of evil, miracles, soft power, weak power, the hobbit, the annunciation, the incarnation, ivan karamazov and the grand inquisitor, mary's fiat, the passion of jesus, axis of...
Also found in:miracles, theodicy, the hobbit, divine attributes, the incarnation, the annunciation, polydoxy, soft power, problem of evil, marys fiat, axis of codependency, axis of cocreativity, divine omnipathy, divine omnipotence, divine omniscience, weak power, apathetic indifference, divine omnibenevolence, ivan karamazov and the grand inquisitor, the passion of jesus
metaphysics, natural theology, philosophical theology, theology of nature, john haught, joseph bracken, philip clayton, david ray griffin, a.n. whitehead, charles sanders peirce, charles hartshorne, john milbank, catherine keller, thomas oord, monica coleman, tripp fuller, panentheism, john caputo, process theology, evolutionary epistemology, fallibilism, john sobert sylvest, malunkyaputta, nominalism, essentialism, univocity of being, analogy of being, god concept, epistemic indeterminacy, ontological undecidability, entropic erasure, problem of induction, godel's incompleteness theorems, infinite semiosis, self authenticity, self transcendence, self actualization, soteriological trajectory, sophiological trajectory, polydoxy, radical orthodoxy, radical hermeneutics, homebrewed christianity
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
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