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Two basic onto-epistemological Principles or Axioms

  I accept two basic onto-epistemological Principles or Axioms: 1. Nothing comes out of nothing. Nihil ex Nihilo. 2. Nothing comes into Being except from Being .  The second is a related statement to the first. Chance, then, is a mental construct on our part to represent a priori certain emergences of that Being from Itself. Chance points towards something else than our way of thinking. That Self or Being is rather opaque to the linguistic formal processes of the Human Being.

The two denials in relation to consciousness: the materialist and the ascetic II.

      The gross matter-spirit opposition confuses more than clarifies. If our Western science has proven anything, despite all its limitations, it is that what we used to call "spirit" is less spiritual, or to put it another way: that we have called spiritual things that have a component closer to life and soul. On the other hand, matter has turned out to be less "material," something less obvious than what we take for granted. Theories about matter today give us such an abstract representation that it does not correspond to any intuition that has to do with the senses, to the point that if we want to define what is the material universe we have to use mathematical constructions. However, in practical terms, the matter-spirit opposition supposes a dogmatic mutual rejection of ontologies. Scientists and most of the philosophers of the analytic tradition (Western is no longer an adjective that applies to this group of thinkers) reject the spirit as naive...

Some milestones in the long journey of our Human reflection upon Consciousness. V

  Is consciousness independent of conscious organisms or systems? In other words, is consciousness objective? For scientific psychology the answer is negative, and when the entity "consciousness" is spoken of, it is done simply as the abstract reification of the property to which the term is attributed. We immediately find ourselves in the field of the ontological dispute of universals.  (Video on the Universals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doYHQf6PFQw&list=PLcX5IdGYTx51I5EGmTgOocAHEAxX5Ir31&index=47 ) Within empirical science, the general position rejects consciousness as objective 1 , as it denies the existence of universals. The paradox that has occurred since the beginning of mathematics and the science that is based on it is that universals are at the very root of rational thought, to the point that it is precisely the reification of properties which has made it possible to develop the powerful systems of abstraction of experience that make ...

A Note on Ontology

       The traditional ontological question has been "what is there?", A question that we must undoubtedly ask ourselves at some point in our lives, as well as those that usually accompany it, such as "why is there something instead of nothing?" or "what is Reality?", which are variations on the same theme. Each generation asks the question again, and each time it must be answered anew. If this does not happen, philosophy gives way to the empty case of rational theology, no matter how much it masquerades as science.      Of course, one could give the same answer today as the one given two thousand years ago, even using new intellectual tools. The previous ontologies are not necessarily surpassed, as shown by the survival of religious ontologies, or Platonism, or atomist and Spinozist materialism, since there is no evidence capable of settling the disputes about what there is, however surprising this is to modern mind. Our ontologies hav...

Lightnings. Navaho Prayer. "Walking in Beauty" from the Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony

 This poem is part of the Navaho Blessing ceremony. It perfectly expresses the psychological spontaneity of the people who live in the Anima Mundi. In these verses I see the fitra that the Sufis speak of, the Original Nature of the Human Soul, seductive, powerful and delicate, like the Presence of newborns.   In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me I walk With beauty around me I walk It has become beauty again Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body. I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me. I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me. I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me. I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful. In beauty all day long may I walk. Through the returning seasons, may I walk. On the trail marked with pollen ma...

The two denials in relation to consciousness: the materialist and the ascetic I.

       We have classified the different approaches to consciousness following the basic criterion that distinguishes between consciousness as an entity and consciousness as a property of an entity. In a less precise way, but more far reaching in the historical and cultural perspective of human reflection on consciousness, we can distinguish the opossed ontological positions of the materialist and the ascetic. We could call both of them with related names, like physicalist, pragmatic, immanentist to the first one, and spiritualist, idealist, transcendentalist to the second. All this terms are not synonyms, though the careless popular use some times equates them in everyday talk. For the time being let us consider them as general fuzzy tags for two distinct ontological approaches. One who believes that human life and the universe as a whole originates from purely physical principles, that reality begins and ends in physical experience as offered to us by th...

Some milestones in the long journey of our Human reflection upon Consciousness. IV

  If we examine now what the prestigious Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says about the concept of "consciousness" we can build a first approximation to what the current academic world considers to be the domain of such a concept. First of all, it should be noted that we are talking about two interconnected terms, the noun "consciousness" and the adjective "conscious". Which shows us that we are going to find two ontological approaches to the question about the nature of consciousness. Consciousness as a noun, that is, it considers consciousness to be an entity, and consciousness as an adjective, which considers consciousness to be a property of an entity. The most common understanding is the adjectival: consciousness as a property of something else, particularly of mind, or of life in general. As a property, we can then speak of conscious animals, conscious people, or any conscious physical or non-physical system, and this property can be approac...