Thelemic Materialism (Thelemic Philosophy)
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
@Los said
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@ldfriend56 said
"True, but written in poor form [...] it's tautologically accurate, but it's also incomplete."Ok, then write a syllogism that accurately reflects the reasoning that led you to your conclusion, and I'll respond to that."
For what purpose? This seems unnecessary to me. You claimed there is reason to conclude there is no evidence for such a claim and that such a claim is impossible. I've asked you to provide this to me about 5 times now. I already explained to you that I came to my conclusion through Occam's Razor. That if my claim was not true, that it was 'all inside my head' that I would by definition be then assuming many more things about reality than by just taking the experience at face value, like I do with any other direct waking experience. Sometimes the simplest explanation is best.
The assumption that it was all inside my head does not address the fact of how that information got inside my head considering I had a direct POV of myself. This means if it is in my head, my brain has the ability to generate a 'holo deck' type experience that can match sensory information perfectly even though any sensory inputs (such as my eyes) were closed off from it. Since I am only claiming this is true for myself, and no one else (I am not requesting anyone believe me, I too would be skeptical of anyone whom made such a claim) - I am again asking you to explain how it is that I should change my personal understanding of my experience.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
@ldfriend56 said
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@Los said
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@ldfriend56 said
"True, but written in poor form [...] it's tautologically accurate, but it's also incomplete."Ok, then write a syllogism that accurately reflects the reasoning that led you to your conclusion, and I'll respond to that."
For what purpose?"
So that I can show you where the flaws are in your thinking and demonstrate that you have drawn a conclusion that is invalid or unsound.
"You claimed there is reason to conclude there is no evidence for such a claim and that such a claim is impossible."
What I said is that no one -- including you -- has sufficient reason to accept the claim that you left your body.
You were very clear earlier that it was your use of reason that led you to the conclusion that you left your body. If you'll illustrate the thought process that led you to the conclusion that you left your body (by constructing a numbered syllogism), I'll gladly show you where your reasoning is invalid or unsound.
I took a stab at constructing such a syllogism above, but you suggested that I was misrepresenting your thought process (since you said the syllogism was "written in poor form" and "incomplete"). Ok, so construct a syllogism that doesn't misrepresent your thought process, and I'll show you where your reasoning flawed.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
@Los said
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Ok, so construct a syllogism that doesn't misrepresent your thought process, and I'll show you where your reasoning flawed."You have my reason. You can place my reason inside of one of your syllogisms if you want. But I asked you to show me the evidence you mention, that this is impossible. You cannot prove that to me by deconstructing a syllogism, if it were that easy Philosophy would have ended a long time ago. I'm not going to waste my time feeding you pivoting away from this discussion. If your relying on me phrasing something a specific way to make your point, you're already floundering.
If you're implying now that there is only insufficient evidence to accept that people leave their bodies, we are in agreement if you mean scientifically speaking. If your implying that I have no reason to accept that I left my body because all the evidence suggest I can't, then you need to show me that evidence or accept that it's unknown scientifically which would allow anyone having the experience to need to rely on more than just scientific consensus for them to interpret their own experience accurately.
If you wish for me just to accept your claims at face value and assume they are true, sorry, I can't do that.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
the basis of the universe in the thelemic sense is the divine will. This divine will is the force that causeth the ain to concentrate within itself the point of kether. The three supernal sepheroth are beyond the comprehension of the intellect. they are unknowable in the most profound sense. they are not quantifiable-not measuable. science in the emperical sense has nothing to offer here. it is not by intellect or measurement that one becomes aware of this sublime revelation. it is by clearing the dross of mind phantoms through mystical and magickal means that one sees that one has as ones own core this unknowable transendant aspect within oneself. There is little to be written even in the most poetic forms about this state or revelation or vision.
This discussion about materialism et al while seemingly intruguing has nothing to do with the core activity of thelemism. Yes, discuss it as you will, but you are not advancing into the teachings or understandings which constitute thelema or the A.'.A.'.
This is useless spinning of wheels in the MUD OF THE INTELLECT. This while my opinion is also simply true. All the books of science and all the discoveries of science in the material vien are but phantoms to dillude you into thinking that the self described ascendancy of the intellect is a reality when the intellect can barely rise as high as tipareth in yetzerah. the intellect burns away before one enters the city of the pyramids. What then of all that it discovered? the abyss is that very boundary which separates the bull from the shit.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
@Los said
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Show me some demonstrable effect of these supposed superpowers that you're so eager to hold out hope for.
Show me someone who can somehow access the random word plucked out of the dictionary next door and keep doing it.
"Hey listen there foolish child. SHOW YOURSELF! thats the dictum! either do it or don't but seriously whats your deal? can you be honest about that? you're a nettling imp. ill sqaush you like a bug. you haven't even acumen in physics but you are an authority on thelema?
You are like a flailing fart in the wind your words like ripe decaying matter. the death of the intellect will be hard in this one! nay he shall forever be lost to the voids of Because!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! foolish imp. NEVER temp Magicians to show you there power! Your pissant little 'theories'! Please go fallate dennet or dawkins on their own personal websites. There is alot of doubt about things thelemic on this sight or this imp would have been roundly gainsayed long ago. those such as you have no help to offer us except to weed out those whom you can snag on that gnarled rotting stump you call knowledge. I only read this to find you and snub you out. now begone with this bull. -
A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
@amunra said
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@Los said
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Show me some demonstrable effect of these supposed superpowers that you're so eager to hold out hope for.
Show me someone who can somehow access the random word plucked out of the dictionary next door and keep doing it.
"Hey listen there foolish child. SHOW YOURSELF! thats the dictum! either do it or don't but seriously whats your deal? can you be honest about that? you're a nettling imp. ill sqaush you like a bug. you haven't even acumen in physics but you are an authority on thelema?
You are like a flailing fart in the wind your words like ripe decaying matter. the death of the intellect will be hard in this one! nay he shall forever be lost to the voids of Because!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! foolish imp. NEVER temp Magicians to show you there power! Your pissant little 'theories'! Please go fallate dennet or dawkins on their own personal websites. There is alot of doubt about things thelemic on this sight or this imp would have been roundly gainsayed long ago. those such as you have no help to offer us except to weed out those whom you can snag on that gnarled rotting stump you call knowledge. I only read this to find you and snub you out. now begone with this bull."While it's none of my business, this possibly doesn't, you know, help. Anyone. Manners?
Just passing through.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
@kasper81 said
"I agree though that a lack of 1) politeness, 2) gentility, 3)civility, 4) self-discipline and 5) "respect for others" are worthy of withdrawal of affection."
@Archaeus said
"I think what he meant was don't be a jerk, I doubt that changes much over time."
Exactly.
@kasper81 said
"That's the issue each individual must as themselves. Can we genuinely live without human affection? Do we need it and from whom?"
Yes. No! Yes, from people relevant to us. What is relevant can be defined in relation to one's authentic intentions, called true will around these parts.
At least that was what I meant.
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A few discussions on this forum stimulated this thinking process for me recently (Thanks Los!) and I find it actually quite interesting. Wondering if the community here would not mind if I run it by to get a little feedback or edit/augmentation.
One of the appeals of Thelema to me historically was the idea of how compatible Thelema is with other religious, esoteric, or mystical traditions, and in principle, any religious or mystical tradition is 'upgradeable' to Aeon 3.0 so to speak.
Thelema, I think most here would agree, is a combination of a philosophy and a religion. Putting the religious component aside, how compatible is Thelema with modern western philosophy, primarily Materialism or Physicalism?
There is no question that Philosophical Materialism is the dominant 'belief system' of academic and educated western society. What does it look like if combined with Thelema?
This is where, to be honest, I found Los' posts absolutely fascinating because at face value, to me at least, I did not see compatibility between Philosophical Materialism with Philosophical Thelema (unless of course one is uniting philosophical materialism and combining it with it's opposite to produce a new child or synthesis).
Materialism is a monism - meaning it assumes there is only the measurable physical reality and provides no allowances for spirits or a mysterious dimension to consciousness and any activity must be a function of the brain/body
.
Thelema, one could say would still be Philosophical Dualism (as defined by philosophy, not thelemites) because Thelema of course does have allowances for spirits and indeed credits it's existence as a preternatural spirit as it's author.This gets interesting, I promise
As defined by Crowley (can't find the reference), the Aeon of Isis could be understood simply as the aeon where 'the material denies the spiritual'. The Aeon of Osiris could be defined as 'the spiritual denies the material'. Distinguished by our modern Aeon that is the child Horus, product of Isis and Osiris - 'both material and spiritual, at once' (my words).
This suggests to me that actually the idea of a Thelemic Materialism is quite an interesting 'concunction' to ponder. What happens to the union with the spiritual in a purely physical philosophy that for all states and purposes, is Thelemic? How does the physical transform enough to allow for all things spiritual, and how does the spiritual transform to become all things material?
What this would suggest to me is that a very pivotal point in the evolution of Western Science is on the horizon and we can find evidence of this emergence in academic progress now currently just outside of mainstream.
The reemergence of Pan Psychism'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism as a mainstream theory. The discovery that the material universe is 'alive', having an experience with various levels of intelligence. (this idea is still not taken seriously amongst mainstream outspoken proponents of materialism, but at least it's now an accepted 'debate' academically philpapers.org/rec/HOLPPN).
Where does Materialism begin to 'touch' it's opposite and find a transcendent in the New Aeon?
Daniel Dennet and Ray Kurzweil famously assert that 'computers' can be conscious, and have conscious experience. Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines'. One favorite quote of mine by Kurzweil is "People ask me if I believe God exists, I always reply 'not yet' "
Coupled with the discovery that the universe, too, is a giant quantum computer. www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/03/the-universe-is-a-quantum-computer.html Seth Lloyd makes it clear that he is not saying the universe is like a quantum computer, it actually IS a quantum computer.
So to summarize - Materialism may be the least explored and possibly most relevant candidate for synthesis with Thelema that may do more to establish the 'aeon of the crowned and conquering child' than any other body of religious thought.
And while I often disagree with Los's conclusions, I do think his explorations of a purely material Thelema is something that is worthwhile and needs the support of the thelemic community.
Would love to hear some thoughts or feedback. Apologies if I have bastardized any one's knowledge or understanding and please correct me where you feel I have.
3 and a half years ago I first joined this board and found myself stupidly being drawn into a remarkably similar set of arguments with a user named "sol" (no relation, I'm sure).
Interesting to see the evolution (or lack of) of some kinds of thinking.
93 all.