I hope you're doing all right. I've watched your videos and they've made a huge difference on my life. I haven't seen you posted in a while. And I've seen you don't get very many views. I don't know if you quit but I have shared many of the philosophical concepts you have shared with me with other people mainly just related to plotinus honestly.
I have a question: is there any commonality with Plotinus to Spinoza by regarding the high and lower sphere of the same reality? I just stumbled on Plotinus and I honestly have benefited from your videos, am I right from my observation that Plotinus is a monist? Thanks!
4:28 This diagram can be misleading. No higher level is disconnected from any lower level. The One permeates throughout Mind, Soul, Universe and Matter. Mind permeates throughout Soul, Universe, and Matter. Soul permeates throughout Universe and Matter. Universe permeates throughout Matter. At any level of Reality, one's awareness has access to all levels . . . because they are all there simultaneously. The trick is not to be overwhelmed by, or stuck in, any one level exclusively . . . but instead to be free to navigate any level as suitable. One can experience matter, for example, in it's own right . . . or from any of the other levels that are present within it and upon which it depends for its ontological existence. Our awareness is always at a certain level . . . which places us within the levels. At the same time . . . all the levels are within our awareness.
Dear Sir, when Plotinus talks about the Stars (metaphysical gods) and prayer (to these gods) is this literal? Or a metaphorical symbolism for something? Could you explain please. :) Kind regards from England, Charlie
I believe it was literal. They believed in the same form of magick practiced today shown in things like blackmetal, satanist movement, tarot, new age, D&D, Babylonian Mystery, Gnosticism, Zorastrian thought, Lao Tzu, Idealist ontology, Bohr physics it really goes on and on. Even the placebo effect has something to do with it. The idea is that we're inverted thinking ourselves to be matter first and foremost, but if instead we're literally mind and soul primarily then not only are the Gods real, they're creating and destroying themselves all of the time and I'd argue we can even see it happening in our own iconography and pop media live stream mode, like a mere observer instead of a participant (because we're lower form centric now in the age of science)
As a Platonic-Orphic polytheist, I can tell you that the Gods are literal in they do exist, but they are not physical. The Gods are as real as any concept, be it law, death, day, night, justice, wisdom, sex, what have you. The Gods are without personality or intellect. They are the Intelligence, which in Plotinus is without thought or ration, because all persists within Intelligence, there is nothing outside of it. Another way to say it is that the Gods exist in everything. You could say spiritually, metaphorically, literally, allegorically or all of the above.
Keep in mind Eric that heliocentrism was never really proven outside of mathematics. It's a philosophy and based on math only, not testable proofs. It has tons of problems too. The same math for heliocentrism applies to geocentrism too, according to many astronomers.
Thanks Dr. Steinhart for trowing some light into these cryptic passages, your work is meritorious and laudable.
This guy was on another level.
I hope you're doing all right. I've watched your videos and they've made a huge difference on my life. I haven't seen you posted in a while. And I've seen you don't get very many views. I don't know if you quit but I have shared many of the philosophical concepts you have shared with me with other people mainly just related to plotinus honestly.
Very interesting video! Thanks for your time in putting it together.
David Bohm's Intricate and explicate order comes to mind..
I have a question: is there any commonality with Plotinus to Spinoza by regarding the high and lower sphere of the same reality? I just stumbled on Plotinus and I honestly have benefited from your videos, am I right from my observation that Plotinus is a monist? Thanks!
4:28 This diagram can be misleading. No higher level is disconnected from any lower level. The One permeates throughout Mind, Soul, Universe and Matter. Mind permeates throughout Soul, Universe, and Matter. Soul permeates throughout Universe and Matter. Universe permeates throughout Matter. At any level of Reality, one's awareness has access to all levels . . . because they are all there simultaneously. The trick is not to be overwhelmed by, or stuck in, any one level exclusively . . . but instead to be free to navigate any level as suitable. One can experience matter, for example, in it's own right . . . or from any of the other levels that are present within it and upon which it depends for its ontological existence. Our awareness is always at a certain level . . . which places us within the levels. At the same time . . . all the levels are within our awareness.
Dear Sir,
when Plotinus talks about the Stars (metaphysical gods) and prayer (to these gods) is this literal? Or a metaphorical symbolism for something? Could you explain please. :)
Kind regards from England,
Charlie
I believe it was literal. They believed in the same form of magick practiced today shown in things like blackmetal, satanist movement, tarot, new age, D&D, Babylonian Mystery, Gnosticism, Zorastrian thought, Lao Tzu, Idealist ontology, Bohr physics it really goes on and on.
Even the placebo effect has something to do with it.
The idea is that we're inverted thinking ourselves to be matter first and foremost, but if instead we're literally mind and soul primarily then not only are the Gods real, they're creating and destroying themselves all of the time and I'd argue we can even see it happening in our own iconography and pop media live stream mode, like a mere observer instead of a participant (because we're lower form centric now in the age of science)
As a Platonic-Orphic polytheist, I can tell you that the Gods are literal in they do exist, but they are not physical. The Gods are as real as any concept, be it law, death, day, night, justice, wisdom, sex, what have you.
The Gods are without personality or intellect. They are the Intelligence, which in Plotinus is without thought or ration, because all persists within Intelligence, there is nothing outside of it.
Another way to say it is that the Gods exist in everything. You could say spiritually, metaphorically, literally, allegorically or all of the above.
Geocentric is the right model. The Vedes had the same.
What is your personal philosophy? Are you a monist?
Keep in mind Eric that heliocentrism was never really proven outside of mathematics. It's a philosophy and based on math only, not testable proofs. It has tons of problems too. The same math for heliocentrism applies to geocentrism too, according to many astronomers.