In contemporary spiritual discourse, the concept of consciousness is often used in very different ways without this difference being clearly recognized. This can lead to misunderstandings, unnecessary conflicts, and the impression that fundamentally different philosophies are speaking about the same thing. A particularly important example is the modern idea of “cosmic consciousness.”In some...
In contemporary spiritual discourse, the concept of consciousness is often used in very different ways without this difference being clearly recognized. This can lead to misunderstandings, unnecessary conflicts, and the impression that fundamentally different philosophies are speaking about the same thing. A particularly important example is the modern idea of “cosmic consciousness.”In some...
In contemporary spiritual discourse, the concept of consciousness is often used in very different ways without this difference being clearly recognized. This can lead to misunderstandings, unnecessary conflicts, and the impression that fundamentally different philosophies are speaking about the same thing. A particularly important example is the modern idea of “cosmic consciousness.”In some...
This paper develops a non-reductive account of consciousness that avoids both reductive physicalism and classical panpsychism. Its central claim is that the rejection of a purely external or functional description of reality does not require attributing phenomenality to the fundamental constituents of nature. Against panpsychism, the paper distinguishes between the ontological condition for...
This paper examines two symmetrical fallacies that shape much of the discourse on nondual experience. The first does not consist simply in giving nondual experience a metaphysical interpretation. Rather, it consists in treating a transformation of the experiential field—especially the suspension of the subject–object distinction and the weakening of perspectival self-centering—as if it directly...
This essay examines the relation between meditative experience, metaphysical interpretation, and ontological responsibility. It acknowledges the seriousness of spiritual experience and the legitimate attempt to move beyond inherited belief toward lived realization. Yet it argues that the immediacy, depth, or transformative power of an experience does not by itself establish the truth of its...
The article deals with the various theories and perspectives on the concept of space, including René Descartes’ understanding of space as a category, modern physicists’ view of space as a relative and derived medium, and the latest concepts of subatomic vacuum fluctuations. It’s also about mental spaces and a computer model that explains the generation of consciousness in interconnected systems...