thank you for posting this - listening to things of this type soothe the soul, turn it away from the anxieties of the body and the material, and turn it toward the intellect.
Cheers, Dan. Nice reading, as always. So much talk of the soul in human history. We all feel that we have one, but defining it is another matter. In his lifetime Ramana Maharshi only ever aknowledged three other beings as having achieved full enlightenment. One was a cow called Lakshmi. She visited him every day, and when she died he built her an elaborate tomb (Samadhi). Was the great sage pulling people's legs? I wouldn't put it past him. He also reputedly settled disputes among monkeys, and sometimes he told his followers that the birds that perched near him in the ashram were the souls of ancient sages come to pay their respects. I think he enjoyed fucking with people. But then again ...
I am in favour of broad tastes but yes, probably best to limit oneself to fucking with people. Once the species barrier is crossed there's all sorts of trouble: as my Granny used to say ''A daemon can fall in love with a brute, but where they gonna live? '' :)
@@markdpricemusic1574 My Granny used to say, 'Every shitey coo needs a neighbour'. Which amounts to the same thing, I suppose. The idea that the human soul is based on any kind of intellectual 'faculty' is quite obviously fallacious. Anyone who has ever dreamed a dream knows this. And unless the Platonic terminology has been grossly mistranslated, the premise of the soul as 'intellect' is obviously wrong. We don't need ancient manuscripts to know this. Close your eyes and let your mind wander. Whatever the soul is, it is not intellectual. It is experiencial.
Living in England most of my life I often mis-hear the word ''Brutish''... as ''British''. Thomas Hobbes judged life in nature to be ''nasty, British, and short'. And now Proclus on the Timaeus... ''for the British nature is not the body, but the life-principle of the brute''. it is long past midnight on a Saturday here, and the noises from the street confirm both of those readings :)
Thank you for this teaching. It’s fascinating to think of the possible experiences of the soul outside of the narrow Christianity in which I was raised.
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But I'm so tossed about by my passions. The passions do impel to like, comment, share, subscribe.
I can't express how much I appreciate your hard work! This channel deserves millions. Just golden.
I feel a civic duty after listening to this. Thank you Dan.
thank you for posting this - listening to things of this type soothe the soul, turn it away from the anxieties of the body and the material, and turn it toward the intellect.
Thank you as always for reading this.
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Cheers, Dan. Nice reading, as always.
So much talk of the soul in human history. We all feel that we have one, but defining it is another matter.
In his lifetime Ramana Maharshi only ever aknowledged three other beings as having achieved full enlightenment. One was a cow called Lakshmi. She visited him every day, and when she died he built her an elaborate tomb (Samadhi).
Was the great sage pulling people's legs?
I wouldn't put it past him.
He also reputedly settled disputes among monkeys, and sometimes he told his followers that the birds that perched near him in the ashram were the souls of ancient sages come to pay their respects.
I think he enjoyed fucking with people.
But then again ...
I am in favour of broad tastes but yes, probably best to limit oneself to fucking with people. Once the species barrier is crossed there's all sorts of trouble: as my Granny used to say ''A daemon can fall in love with a brute, but where they gonna live? '' :)
@@markdpricemusic1574 My Granny used to say, 'Every shitey coo needs a neighbour'.
Which amounts to the same thing, I suppose.
The idea that the human soul is based on any kind of intellectual 'faculty' is quite obviously fallacious. Anyone who has ever dreamed a dream knows this. And unless the Platonic terminology has been grossly mistranslated, the premise of the soul as 'intellect' is obviously wrong. We don't need ancient manuscripts to know this.
Close your eyes and let your mind wander.
Whatever the soul is, it is not intellectual.
It is experiencial.
@@johnvander8937 As one sits with the mind wandering a question could be asked....what is that which knows the mind is wandering?
@@canisronis2753 And what is that which knows that it knows that the mind is wandering ...
YO! This reading arrested me. Powerful and beautiful!
What Bildgesmythe said \/ Wonderful to hear these texts... and proper scholaship ! M X
Living in England most of my life I often mis-hear the word ''Brutish''... as ''British''. Thomas Hobbes judged life in nature to be ''nasty, British, and short'. And now Proclus on the Timaeus... ''for the British nature is not the body, but the life-principle of the brute''. it is long past midnight on a Saturday here, and the noises from the street confirm both of those readings :)
Thank you for this teaching. It’s fascinating to think of the possible experiences of the soul outside of the narrow Christianity in which I was raised.
HECK YA DAN
Lux et veritas!
Thanks!
Thanks again Canis.
Guenon was wrong about reincarnation!
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I can see why some Christians loved Plato so much. He helped them justify their brutality.
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Superb
I'm the One-self.
Excellent, as always! Thanks so much for this, and I hope you're doing very well indeed!
Thanks Phil. I'm doing alright, I've got some courses to teach in the fall/winter so I'm looking forward to that. Hope you are well too!
These guys are borderline fools on this topic. “Brutes” are better than most humans.