Transpersonal Philosophy

       We have seen that, according to Zoroastrian mythology, Spenta Armaiti is the mother of Daena. Translated into our own metaphors: our Soul and our Spirit are children, each in their own ontological rank, of the Soul and Spirit of the Earth. This is already found in many different mythologies, in fact, it is a generalized intuition that all of us have when we approach Earth from the perceptual depth of our Tripartite Souls (when we approach Earth from our Xvarnah, the projection link of light or mapping of light of the Soul onto Earth). In the “Path of Beauty”, Daena appears with the Sanskrit name of Purusha, but with the same meaning of “Human Spirit” or “Human Atman”.      Let me now tell you another episode of Zoroastrian myths: the crossing of the Chinvat Bridge. I'm going to reduce the myth to its fundamental elements. The Chinvat Bridge is the threshold that separates life and death. A quick remainder: as we already know, Soul...

       The Intellectual Soul is an entity, a formation of the Consciousness-Force (Shakti), poorly understood. It is through the Intellectual Soul that the illusory nature of the world is revealed and with such revelation, the purpose of Maya. The thinking of duality, whether that of science or Ontology, or that of Art, can offer very powerful images of the Reality of the Universe as long as such thinking is not a final destination of our Will to know. For this not to happen, we must be very clear about what these images are, what the thinking of duality offers us, that is, it is necessary to understand the limits of all mental representation.      The basic epistemological axiom could be expressed like this: “There is a subject who perceives and/or conceives an object.” Let's clarify its components. The fundamental action is thinking, in which perception and/or conception intervene. Both actions are carried out by the subject (basically an unknown,...

       El Alma Intelectiva es una entidad, una formación de la Conciencia-Fuerza (Shakti), pobremente entendida por el Ser Humano. Es a través del Alma Intelectiva que la ilusoriedad del mundo queda desvelada y con tal desvelamiento, el propósito de la Maya. El pensar de la dualidad, ya sea el de la ciencia o el de la Ontología, o el del Arte, puede ofrecer imágenes muy poderosas de la Realidad del Universo siempre que tal pensar no sea un destino final de nuestra Voluntad. Para que esto no ocurra hay que tener muy claro qué son esas imágenes que nos ofrece el pensar de la dualidad, es decir, comprender el limite de toda representación mental.      El axioma epistemológico básico podría ser expresado así: “Hay un sujeto que intelige un objeto”. Aclaremos sus componentes. La acción fundamental es inteligir, en la que intervienen percepción y concepción, ambas acciones que lleva a cabo el sujeto (básicamente una incógnita, una X como dijo ...

       Basic emotions provide the semantic basis of animal and human language. We understand animals and they understand us because of the basic emotional continuity of all animal life. Anxiety and desire, or if we put it in terms of basic emotions: the neural system of fear and the neural system of search (dopamine system), have a semantic content that express the Speech of the Vital Will (as the other basic emotions do).      Basic emotions specify a direction for action and a modus operandi, and for this reason they imply a type of non-declarative, non-verbalizable, knowledge-but knowledge nonetheless- at the organism’s disposal. That knowledge is part of the Speech of our Volitive Soul (not all of it, for there are connecttions of the Volitive Soul to what we call physis at large ) . By non-declarative cognitive procedure I understand that which is linked to non-declarative or implicit memories. Non-declarative memories are informatio...

  I have explained duality in the second chapter of "Path of Beauty." Its understanding is easier from the understanding of the three dimensions of the Tripartite Soul. Luis has asked me to talk about Spinozist Pantheism in relation to duality. Spinoza's work has profound ramifications not only in the philosophical tradition but also in mysticism. Spinoza is one of the favorite philosophers of contemporary physicists (partly thanks to the fact that he was Einstein's favorite philosopher) because his understanding of the Universe as a Great Rational Entity gives an ontological foundation to all the work of Philosophy and Science. Natural. I do not think this is the place to discuss Spinoza's ontology, since the purpose of this Blog and this group is not academic philosophy. For this reason, I am going to give a few glimpses about the connection between Pantheism and Panpsychism, hoping that these rhapsodic notes fertilize the psychic soil ...

  Ila . Are my anxiety and my desire forms of Speech? Sura . They are. They appear and disappear spontaneously. Anxiety and desire are  forms of the Speech of the Will of Life, which you later elaborate in different  reflections in your Feeling and your Thinking. What questions does the jasmine  whose perfume already climbs into your eyes raise in you?

  Let me write a somewhat rhapsodic note on the issue, which I hope we will cover in more detail and depth in understanding non-duality in the second chapter of "Path of Beauty". During the Christian Middle Ages the separation follows the principle of Ratio et Auctoritas. Communication with God is mediated by authority. Auctoritas is founded on Ratio, the priestly knowledge of the proportions that relate the two worlds: authority is the authority of ratio, of reason. It is evident that the practical result is a definitive ecclesiastical control over religious experience that prevents any spiritual flight not sanctioned by its principles. The continuity of the principle of Speech, of the Logos, which united the poet and the Human in general with Nature - the same that the Pythagoreans saw between the natural world and that of the gods via ideal proportions - is now broken in terms of proportions and unbridgeable distances that alienate Humans in the Universe. W...

  Ila . And what is the purpose of that creative push of Speech? Sura . There is no single purpose. Purposes themselves are forms of Speech that appear linked to the action of Life, made more complex in its developmental process. Purposes are mental reflections, dual therefore, of the non-dual action of the Universal Unfading Life.