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To explain a bit more.... what Philosophy does not pursue are the Esoteric dimensions of Man. Esophilosophy would specifically pursue and deal with the Esoteric dimensions of Man. Thinking about life is limited to what the brain can perceive, which is limited to the physical plane... except for "abstract words" that "stand for" what the words cannot convey. Dealing with the Esoteric dimensions of Man [the MIND and Spiritual dimensions] can only be done via ones intuition and what I refer to as Direct Esoteric Communication, or DEC.
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Re:Esophilosophy, a new field of study... 2 Years, 1 Month ago
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So in this case intuition isn't sensory, but is a sort of direct knowing anyway? If it is something of meaning we experience it in some way - maybe not as something physical, but as something intelligible at least. Can you help me get a handle on what this experience might be?
Other than this question, my own consideration leads me to think that this sounds like a study of the spiritual essence of man. A recent formulation of the start of spiritualism I heard was that "spirit begins in disgust" as in, when we become disgusted with our bodies we recognize ourselves as something different, yet related to the body (it is our body).
If you look at the start of Plato's Phaedo (I dialogue I keep mentioning on this forum, oddly enough) you get a description of the philosopher as trying to distance himself from his body (preparing for death). Considering the spiritual nature of that dialogue, you may find Esophilosophy there. It may involve the crucial step Plato makes in that dialogue to give ethics a larger scope and priority to any other sort of knowledge.
I philosophy as a unity: I don't think that we create or discover new philosophy, but wrestle in every age to confront the same fundamental things from different conditions. As a result, we achieve new formulations of philosophy. If this all be granted, how will Esophilosophy differentiate itself as a new formulation?
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I find myself using the term "Esoteric" a great deal. That is, the Right-Hemisphere of the brain has a "doorway" [so to speak] through which what I refer to as ones Apapsyche [Operational Energy of ones Soul] passes to contact ones dimension of Spirituality and the result is what I refer to as "intuition".
"New philosophy", I would agree the "Eso" is not new, but merely an attempt to point to that which exists but is not discernible via ones physical senses, and cannot be experienced via the Left-Hemisphere of ones brain. "intelligible" in the sense that one may "Know" [intuitively experience] something but cannot think about it. I will research Plato's Phaedo and attempt to perceive what you perceive.
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So in this case intuition isn't sensory, but is a sort of direct knowing anyway? Yes, that's precisely what I am seeking to suggest. In teaching a college art course one time, I dramatically altered the curriculum and many of the students and myself began to experience what we referred to as "knowings". Where merely mentioning a word would cause the other person to say: "Yes, I know exactly what you mean.." And both would "know" what the other knew, but neither could verbally explain what each knew to anyone other than someone who "knew" [had awakened to the same intuited bit of "Knowledge" as oneself.
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Something that worries me, and that I will need explanation so I can properly understand, is your interest in the brain regarding the esoteric.
If we are saying that we can study the brain and understand our esoteric experiences, then these experiences are no longer esoteric. If you are saying that there are experiences that the brain has something esoteric that it actually does within our experience, then I would protest that we must defer to some natural law to explain it. From this, here is my guess what is going on:
There are certain ways and things of which we think which cannot be accounted for with reference to experience; our spiritual nature, if I may call it this. A well defined example of this is, since we are the subject doing the experiencing, and never experiencing without being the subject, we can never experience the subject. This is a way we experience, not an experience itself, and we must admit that this is so or reduce ourselves to sophistry by saying that there is only knowledge. Our spiritual natures run deep;we understand sacrifice, love, worship. Are things like this what you are referring to?
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"Something that worries me, and that I will need explanation so I can properly understand, is your interest in the brain regarding the esoteric."
My point, not properly expressed perhaps, is that the brain cannot perceive the vibrational energy of the Esoteric. The brain[and its thinking] being physical, while the energy of the Esoteric is not physical... either MIND-level energy, or Spiritual Energy.
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