A tiny ripple of positive on the sea of negative ~ Roy Bhaksar
Between ‘Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom’ and the ‘metaReality’ series, there is a resounding echo, a reverberation created, a shockwave on the ocean of absence. Across both works, Roy Bhaskar works to...
View ArticleA stone is given, received in gratitude and joy ~ adapted from Raimon...
24 steps beyond dialectic, into the heart of the Real: 1. A stone is given, it rests in my palm, this thing evoking a sense of gratitude and joy; 2. This stone has qualities of stability,...
View ArticleThe Advaitic vision – The Destiny of Being – Raimon Panikkar
‘Here is the place for the function of the third eye in the mystical intellect. If an aristotelian epistemology offers the basis for empirical and rational knowledge, the advaitic vision requires...
View ArticleWho Am I? Reflections on metaReality ~ Roy Bhaskar
‘The source of the paradoxical nature of the self is as follows: whatever it is that is said about the self, there is something other which is not said which is tacitly presupposed. Thus if I say that...
View ArticleAbsence and Emergence – Reflections on MetaReality by Roy Bhaksar
‘Marx talks about the rational kernel of Hegelian dialectic which he said Hegel had mystified. So what is the rational kernel? The rational kernel is in fact a developmental process driven by absence....
View ArticleThe Rhythm of Being – Raimon Pannikar – Introduction
‘Becoming transparent’ ‘To say that the solution lies inside is not to assert that it is not outside as well, or that it lies already coiled somewhere within. Indeed, the kundalini does not even exist...
View ArticleReflections on Meta-Reality – Spontaneity of Action
‘The third thing about action is the spontaneity of action. If you just think, think about what you are going to do, you will never do it. If I think about how to pick up this glass of water and I do...
View ArticleTrish: JB SEM Chapter 6 Limits of Knowledge
‘Consciousness is the experience of this relation [between introspection, image, and exteroception, object]…In idealist philosophy, the physical world is known only through its representation in the...
View ArticleTrish: JB SEM Chapter 5 Consciousness and the Self
Note: Please forgive the lack of page numbers in the below – as my book has arrived in Australia amid my absence, I’ve been reading the files on my Kindle DX, which leaves little love-space for...
View ArticleTrish – JB: Prologue to end of Chapter 1
In the encounter with Brown, there is a sense of wanting to engage debate with him, perhaps all maroon-robe clad, with monks surrounding, and hand claps to mark the end of the diatribe, complete. A...
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