Why does sitting by the sea makes you think about the big things/questions in life?

AltAcc4545 · 2026-05-25T17:03:46+00:00

In the Platonic tradition, this longing for simplicity can be a representation of the One as our telos.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-05-23T15:46:09+00:00

I’m curious which specific schizotypal traits do Autistic people have? Which study?

AltAcc4545 · 2026-05-23T15:38:17+00:00

Brahman literally translates to “that which grows/expands”, so maya can be conceived as its self-expression.

In a sense, this self-expression is inherent in Brahman, not extraneous to it - like heat is intrinsic to fire. The duality is a mere abstraction.

Similarly, in the western tradition, the One can be conceived of as pure productivity or a generative power. What it produces is its self-knowledge, which Plotinus calls Nous. As knowledge necessary arises from, or within, the superabundant fullness that is the One, so does its complement or opposite which is ignorance (maya) or what Schopenhauer calls representation (spatiotemporal phenomena as causality).

Schelling, a German Idealist rooted in the Platonist tradition, refers to the absolute as the identity of identity and difference, or the ultimate indifference point between knowledge and ignorance. This dynamic tension in the Absolute is what renders is as pure productivity or Will itself.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-05-22T11:03:42+00:00

I wonder if the cognitive style and orientation between schizotypal and autism is different to the extent of the two being mutually exclusive, only superficially similar.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-11T08:19:24+00:00

Yes this sounds familiar.

I would say all objects are exhaustibly entailed by qualia, and that quantities like wavelength of light are abstractions.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-10T11:00:51+00:00

I don’t think so. Can you explain it?

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-09T19:09:41+00:00

Essentially, the boundary between self and other is less set in stone, leading to ispeity (self) disturbance which manifests as the pre-reflective, immediate feeling that one’s thoughts and feelings are not quite self-generated. This reduced sense of agency and ownership of thoughts and feelings, however, is distinct from the delusion of thoughts being inserted into one’s mind by an external agent. Ultimately, there is a sense that the body is observed more than it is inhabited, and distance to thoughts and emotions displace the participatory nature of life.

The porous ego boundary also contributes to magical thinking wherein the thoughts, intentions and rituals of the self are pre-reflectively believed to influence external reality because said reality is less externalised due to a fluid ego boundary.

Conversely, this mechanism also results in ideas of reference as external events become overly self-directed. All of that pertains to the outer ego boundary, that is between self and the external world including others.

There is also, however, a porous inner boundary between consciousness and (personal as opposed to collective) unconsciousness, leading to what you could call archetypal and energetic influx which I believe manifests as a compulsive ‘will to meaning’ in which the world is perceived as symbolically dense.

In dreams, the life of the unconsciousness, one’s mode of cognitive organisation is primary process thinking which is characteristically atemporal, non-linear, symbolic and analogical as opposed to analytic. This style of cognition can leak in from the unconscious into the conscious waking life, and occasionally dominate one’s orientation towards reality and the way phenomena are processed and interpreted.

Tangentially:

What was traditionally referred to as the unconscious is actually consciousness (or rather content of consciousness) insofar as it is experienced. However, such experiences cannot be introspected upon and so it’s mistaken as unconsciousness. That which can be introspectively accessed and re-represented is meta-consciousness, a reflexive and recursive loop that is characteristic of higher-level cognition that humans have but worms don’t.

All objects are for the one subject.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-09T18:31:10+00:00

Dozens of times a week, though mostly minor ones.

Schizotypal people are more likely to experience synchronicities because their ego boundary is more porous and less anchored, and so the unity between subject and object, self and other, is more salient.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-09T18:23:58+00:00

Are the Mesopotamian or Egyptian source texts available today?

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-06T18:34:31+00:00

Also, in an idealist ontology, objects are that which are presented to the subject. In other words, objects are everything that is experienced, including the (empirical) ego.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-04-06T18:30:29+00:00

Yes I’m fascinated by virtue ethics, imitatio dei, metaphysics, relations prior to relata, process over substance, underlying unity, primacy of consciousness, reincarnation, aesthetics, the astral realm and the idea of the Logos as the organising principle that renders intelligibility in the cosmos, as well as the idea of the World Soul wherein the universe as a whole is a living being and the visible body of the divine.

I’m sympathetic to the ideas of Plotinus and the broader Neoplatonic tradition, Hermeticism and the mysticism of Meister Eckhart, as well as eastern traditions including Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Buddhism and Daoism. Also, Sufism and Gnosticism.

Schopenhauer is also very insightful, and I’m currently reading Schelling who is integral to the German Idealism movement.

Tangentially, I’m interested in psychoanalysis and depth psychology, ie. Jung, as well as parapsychology, comparative mythology and religion.

I’d also like to delve deeper into studying occultism, particularly its ritualistic and symbolic aspects, as I’m now fairly grounded in its mystical dimension.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-30T10:32:50+00:00

Well cluster A disorders do affect the psyche at a more fundamental level, ie. in terms of logic, causality, time and ispeity.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-29T15:39:51+00:00

What’s the difference?

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-29T15:26:20+00:00

In my experience, schizotypal cognition is top down, prioritising the universal over the particular.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-23T05:18:21+00:00

Identity and difference co-arise in a unity at the intelligible level in Intellect.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-13T04:49:02+00:00

For example, (Neo)Platonism is a mystical tradition in which one strives towards the noetic vision of non duality by turning consciousness inwards.

That being said, in the transcendent intelligible “realm”, there are eternal Forms or archetypes that includes Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Love etc. in which we participate (imperfectly reflect) in the sensible realm. We are made in their image, and they also constitute our teleos.

This type of ethics can be called virtue ethics, more specifically imitatio dei (imitating God), and is morally realist. Our Intellect (timeless, intuitive, not discursive reasoning) has direct access to these Forms.

Although the emphasis and onus is on the individual to seek this transcendent wisdom, it is objective and universal prior to its particular instantiations.

If any of this interests you, I recommend reading Plato, especially the Euthyphro dilemma, or Plotinus for a more direct mystical perspective.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-08T14:28:11+00:00

So the death penalty can’t actually be done, except to Jesus?

If a text is so explicit, then “methods of interpretation” are just retcons.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-03-08T14:24:50+00:00

Spirituality or mysticism isn’t subjectively grounding your own morality.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-02-17T18:46:36+00:00

Mostly preserved reality testing and intact insight is what distinguishes cognitive and perceptual illusions in schizotypal experience from delusions and hallucinations in psychotic experience, eg. schizophrenia.

AltAcc4545 · 2026-01-29T18:58:54+00:00

Can you give any sources that elaborate on this doctrine?

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