I recently listened to the podcast series Apply-Degger by Simon Critchley, where he takes the listener through Sein und Zeit in 18 hour-long episodes. He presents Heideggers philosophy as an existential deepening of Kant's trandencental idealism. That might be true, but if so, what became clear to me listening to the podcasts, is that Heideggers philosophy is in need of a further existential deepening, including the still rather esoteric experience of being identical with the groundlesness out of which all temporal structures are continously born and maintained, including our physical organism and embodied emotional and mental structures.
A God that exists, does not exist wrote Meister Eckhart, but neither do we, if we really do exist. Of course anyone who hasn't had this experience of being no-thing, or who is not open to it's possibility, will strongly disagree, thus confining him- or herself to the tragic sense of life that goes along with the idea of existence being final. But to a liberated soul, no longer fully immersed in the temporal domain, life is not a tragedy, but rather a comedy.
“When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.”
"The no-thingness of the ground is not a void; it’s a pure activity. It’s a precondition for the formation of determinate objects—a groundless ground." -Tim
I can highly recommend Lee Braver’s book Groundless Grounds that explores this notion in the work of Heidegger and Wittgenstein! The groundless ground has been an inspiration for me, and is some“thing“ I explore in several of my essays
"We discuss Heidegger’s Nazi affiliations, grappling with how a thinker so attuned to the subtleties of Being could fall prey to such a violent ideological fixation."
Only tangentially related, but this made me think of Justin Sledge's similar comments in his video on Parmenides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2l8ZvG7xA). Are you a fan of his "ESOTERICA" channel?
Personal cause and effect has to be evaluated across lifetimes: karma. Nihilism need not come into it. Togetherness with the Other person supplies insight into karma. Alienation has brought karma into chaos ( legitimately). Sorting it out between us creates the appropriate human future.
I recently listened to the podcast series Apply-Degger by Simon Critchley, where he takes the listener through Sein und Zeit in 18 hour-long episodes. He presents Heideggers philosophy as an existential deepening of Kant's trandencental idealism. That might be true, but if so, what became clear to me listening to the podcasts, is that Heideggers philosophy is in need of a further existential deepening, including the still rather esoteric experience of being identical with the groundlesness out of which all temporal structures are continously born and maintained, including our physical organism and embodied emotional and mental structures.
A God that exists, does not exist wrote Meister Eckhart, but neither do we, if we really do exist. Of course anyone who hasn't had this experience of being no-thing, or who is not open to it's possibility, will strongly disagree, thus confining him- or herself to the tragic sense of life that goes along with the idea of existence being final. But to a liberated soul, no longer fully immersed in the temporal domain, life is not a tragedy, but rather a comedy.
“When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.”
― Meister Eckhart
"The no-thingness of the ground is not a void; it’s a pure activity. It’s a precondition for the formation of determinate objects—a groundless ground." -Tim
I can highly recommend Lee Braver’s book Groundless Grounds that explores this notion in the work of Heidegger and Wittgenstein! The groundless ground has been an inspiration for me, and is some“thing“ I explore in several of my essays
"We discuss Heidegger’s Nazi affiliations, grappling with how a thinker so attuned to the subtleties of Being could fall prey to such a violent ideological fixation."
Only tangentially related, but this made me think of Justin Sledge's similar comments in his video on Parmenides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2l8ZvG7xA). Are you a fan of his "ESOTERICA" channel?
Personal cause and effect has to be evaluated across lifetimes: karma. Nihilism need not come into it. Togetherness with the Other person supplies insight into karma. Alienation has brought karma into chaos ( legitimately). Sorting it out between us creates the appropriate human future.
Thanks for your work in presenting.
Love
Bryn❤️