Post by Crystal Pepito on Feb 10, 2015 21:52:30 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand’s experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand is a famous Master of surat shabd yoga who revealed that all gurus of whatever stripe were ignorant about the real cause of the miracles and visions attributed to them (film “Inner Visions and Running Trains”). Faqir has had several experiences that are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles. One experience was when a lady sent him a letter stating that she had a near death experience drowning and saw him and he caught her hand and said, “ You have yet to do a lot of work”. Faqir explains that those who regard him as their Master may have images of him appear to them in a state of meditation, dreams, or wakefulness to guide them despite him being unaware of it (The Unknowing Sage pg. 2-3). What we see and believe seem to affect us especially in our time of need where our “consciousness elicits patterned meanings—encouraging one to lie and resist dying, similar to an adrenaline rush” (film “Near Death Experiences: Neural Projections and Staying Alive). Thus, explaining the reason why we may see god in whatever form we believe him to be during projective natures of religious visions and miracles. To conclude, “whosoever remembers god in whatever form, in that very form, he helps his devotee” (film “Inner Visions and Running Trains”).
2. What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
“Philosophy done well is science” because it expresses that philosophy can reason out and find the ultimate theory as in science finding the ultimate rationale explanation for questions elicited towards this universe. “Philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” because it expresses that we are still in the process of finding the answer and until then we will be discussing such topics as philosophers do. As stated in the book, Oceanic Metaphor, “the most fruitful avenue for scientific study of awareness is to fully exhaust a physical explanation of it first… but only that if our efforts fail we will be left with a most interesting remainder which in itself will be highly instructive about the nature of self-reflective awareness”(pg. 48). This basically restates that the act of physically explaining something until we find success or failure; and if failure, then we are left with a rich interesting explanation still remaining a mystery.
Faqir Chand is a famous Master of surat shabd yoga who revealed that all gurus of whatever stripe were ignorant about the real cause of the miracles and visions attributed to them (film “Inner Visions and Running Trains”). Faqir has had several experiences that are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles. One experience was when a lady sent him a letter stating that she had a near death experience drowning and saw him and he caught her hand and said, “ You have yet to do a lot of work”. Faqir explains that those who regard him as their Master may have images of him appear to them in a state of meditation, dreams, or wakefulness to guide them despite him being unaware of it (The Unknowing Sage pg. 2-3). What we see and believe seem to affect us especially in our time of need where our “consciousness elicits patterned meanings—encouraging one to lie and resist dying, similar to an adrenaline rush” (film “Near Death Experiences: Neural Projections and Staying Alive). Thus, explaining the reason why we may see god in whatever form we believe him to be during projective natures of religious visions and miracles. To conclude, “whosoever remembers god in whatever form, in that very form, he helps his devotee” (film “Inner Visions and Running Trains”).
2. What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
“Philosophy done well is science” because it expresses that philosophy can reason out and find the ultimate theory as in science finding the ultimate rationale explanation for questions elicited towards this universe. “Philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” because it expresses that we are still in the process of finding the answer and until then we will be discussing such topics as philosophers do. As stated in the book, Oceanic Metaphor, “the most fruitful avenue for scientific study of awareness is to fully exhaust a physical explanation of it first… but only that if our efforts fail we will be left with a most interesting remainder which in itself will be highly instructive about the nature of self-reflective awareness”(pg. 48). This basically restates that the act of physically explaining something until we find success or failure; and if failure, then we are left with a rich interesting explanation still remaining a mystery.