materialism, mysticism and art | Thoughts on the world and its products in consciousness

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Hi Phil,Great introduction for your thought world. You are certainly well read and easily interconnect the intricacies of materialism and of the immaterial, which regardless of their morphology, belong both to our cognitive endeavours. Interesting to notice your use of mysticism for something usually vehiculated as spiritualism , probably because of the later s rather religious development.I ll gladly interact with you in the future, keeping in mind that my cognitive world has been intentionally shifted from the strictly analytical into the literature creative. I ve done this because philosophy seem to have drifted away from its ars poetica, becoming rather mathematical, failing its purpose to remain a wise mirror of all other sciences . It truly has become the critique of pure reason , as lifeless and cold as its subjects, when it should have remained utterly practical as you have correctly observed.LikeLike Hello Liberty of Thinking, thank you for your compliments. I am in strong agreement with your reflections on the state of philosophy. With regard to mysticism, it is a matter of a most gross failure of intellectual and social responsibility not to teach it (i.e. to study and understand it and how it has contributed profoundly to Western culture and continues to do so here I distinguish between learning from and advocacy for) the result of appropriation behind cloistered walls. What would Socrates have thought? Best regards. PhilLikeLike What a relief to discover that I am not alone☺I have displayed nearly identical thoughts in a rather atheist blog, belonging otherwise to a very good friend of mine, with a balanced approach, but scores of very vehement followers, in which I stated that forgetting what religiousness has contributed to our development, is like abhorrence of our life s toddler years, ashamed of our failures This is the main reason for remaining an agnostic, or rather a defiant deist, knowing well that gnosis without an epi, is mere theory, entitled to be believed, trusted, but not worshipped Also interesting enough, the world s greatest minds, like Descartes, Newton not to mention Tesla, seem to have shown more than just a side interest in metaphysics, or as you call it to my utter delight, mysticism.Best of wishes, Moshe aka Rom LikeLike Hello Moshe, I distinguish between religion and mysticism even though the latter (with difficulty) can function within the former as with religious mystics. Where religion is a set of beliefs with worship, mysticism is a deliberate abandonment, a giving over of self and propositional reason in an intuitive movement towards unity with God . The atheist fails to see that they require God no less for their self-definition than does the theist. If they were to be consistent, they would employ the concept materialist . PhilLikeLike Interesting how clearly you separate mysticism from religiousness, not that they have to share any common ground, yet it has come to be so associated with religion, that even the more sophisticated ones would fall for it.I guess it has come as an imposed concept from within those social establishments where religion played and influential/deterministic part.I d gladly pursue some more thought on a mysticism detached from an idea of a personal/entity god LikeLike Hello Moshe, Obviously there are overlaps between religion and mysticism but I think what fundamentally distinguishes between the two are the forms of reason (a poorly understood concept) they are structured on. In religion the play of reason is asserted up to the doorway called faith religious belief is argued for, it is justified (which is why religious studies are taught in universities) whereas in mysticism a different way of thinking is subscribed to deliberately non-propositional, intuitive and which draws far more directly on the emotions (which is why mysticism is not taught in universities) and which is therefore, for these reasons together, enormously creative. Neoplatonism is built around this creativity and I could not overstate the contributions made to our culture on the back of this way of thinking and creativity. William Franke s two volume anthology On What Cannot Be Said exemplifies and traces the history of this. PhilLikeLike Hi Phil. I also like the way you have introduced your purpose. I think I had better go back and revisit my About Me . My trouble has been that I am clarifying the purpose of my blog as I am in transition from full time work to .. whatever we do as we get older and can afford some choices. Like Zerobelief above, I don t want to be one of those who is sitting down and allowing things to merely happen around them . Living consciously is my goal so I look forward to your posts.LikeLike Hello Refocusyourfuture, thank you for your generous thoughts. I think when a person ties the goal of living consciously to the pursuit of dreams in the way you do is the highest goal. Best wishes. PhilLikeLike Beautifully written and well thought out in my mystical opinion. Great intro!!!!

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Hi, my name is Philip Stanfield and my purpose in setting up this blog is primarily to explore through my posts the concepts ‘materialism’ and ‘mysticism’ (regarded under capitalist ideology in turn with hostility and suspicion), how they interrelate and how they can and do reflect in creativity. My position is materialist, and its truth…

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