umm... ok. thanks? any specifics? “rational/irrational construct” is very vague. & why should I blindly accept whatever you think is real (whatever that is)?
Not asking you to blindly accept this. Try Rudolf Steiner: An Outline of Esoteric Science. It will open your eyes to a whole new theory that is just as plausible as anything else.
Going to be honest though, dont have high hopes. These spirit things will become experimentally testable in time. Everything else has.
There are many observable truths outlined in the book mentioned. What makes a living thing “alive”? As soon as you die you begin to decompose. What makes you compose?
thanks for the book. reading through wiki of Anthroposophy is not encouraging though.
Yeah Wikipedia will never get you there for any objective reality. Why not explore the source directly?
there are too many things to read :(
There are a lot of perspectives. Just remember not to fall for the fallacy from authority, or fallacy of majority. Just because MOST believe one reality doesn’t make it truth.
Very similar to scientific consensus. “It is a fallacy to claim something is true because of scientific consensus. The claim is not that scientific consensus is true
but that it is probable because of the supporting evidence amassed by those knowledgeable in the field and assessed by their piers. Very different.”
I would add evidence that people can test. not necessarily just "those knowledgeable in the field"
What we experience is not called reality because most people believe it. Its called reality because repeatable experiments collect data that describes (ie predicts) the world.
Humans inability to photosynthesize is reality, not because we voted & chose that as our reality but because there is evidence that can be repeated that supports this view of reality
(ie lacking proteins that plants use to photosynthesize, people starving to death in the sunlight, etc.)
It’s important to realize humans perception of reality is very limited. Plant medicines offer even more perspective in our quest for truth.
Plants are the source of health & happyness. Fresh fruits are my fuel. Marihuana opened my heart. DMT made me consciouss. Garlic is my antibiotic. Mother nature has all the knowledge.
From sound in our ears, to light in our eyes, to taste on our tongue, to touch on our nerves; everything we perceive is frequency. How to perceive more bandwidth?
What?? :)
Everything we perceive is frequency. Think about it. Electrical impulses being fed into our sensory perception. Only 5 senses. What other senses are we not perceiving?
As you say that it reminds me of my last LSD trip. I was in a dark room with little light looking at my hand which had waves around it. And thinking:...
...that the ankles of my body are actually similar to these of robots and I could make half of my hand disappear with my thoughts that scared me. Did you ever take LSD?
depends what you think reality is. if you assume every hallucination is reality then yeah our perception is limited.
“Hallucination” is a word used by people who are afraid to test the boundaries of perception. Plant medicines should not be discounted so easily.
“A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.” Also includes things that that cannot be reliably repeated & tested.
If you throw out objectivity (ie repeatably testable), reality can be whatever you want it be (eg inedia). undermining the concept of reality.
