Post by Audrey Lee on Feb 14, 2015 0:21:45 GMT
Why is Faqir Chand’s experience important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir is most known for his “frank admissions of ignorance surrounding his miraculous appearances to disciples during times of need… he confessed that he was never aware of appearing to his devotees” (10).All of Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because it shows that “all manifestation , vision, and forms that are seen within are mental (illusory) creation” (The Unknowing Sage p. 12). It is a creation since, at times of need; our mind is desperate for help or a realization. So a log of these devotees, somehow someway see Fagir, real in person. Our brain creates trickery images for use to adhere for survival. Faqir later says “I do not go anywhere, nor do I know about such miraculous instance” (9). Faqir’s insights show that most religions visions are, in fact, products of one’s own mind. Since “naturally all visions are of the mind in the strict sense of the term, but those manifestations which cannot be correlated by others either in this world are… merely vivid extensions of one’s imagination” (The Unknowing Sage p. 19). It is quite intellectual and is not based on the religion. It is more of how our brain can interconnect personal reminders that spring us back to reality. In that term, help us with our real life threatening scenarios.
What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is scientific, and philosophy done poorly remains philosophy”.
Philosophy is taught or described as an explanation of how the world and our mind work. When philosophy denotes past believes with scientific reasoning it is taking us away from mythical believes. When “philosophy done well is scientific”, goes to say when we approach philosophy with an answer derived from biology, physics or chemistry it has a more tangible answer. While approaching philosophy with no knowledge or connection derived from different branches of science it is easily pointed to a fictional theory. From the book, The Great Mystery, “if the phenomena cannot be explained fully and comprehensively by mathematics, then one turns to physics, and if that too is incomplete then to chemistry, then to biology, then to psychology…”. So, if there is no answers derived from scientific basis, then philosophy is not “science” it is philosophy since, the resulting answers would point towards the reasoning of religion or mythical assumption, commonly suggested as “god did it”.
Faqir is most known for his “frank admissions of ignorance surrounding his miraculous appearances to disciples during times of need… he confessed that he was never aware of appearing to his devotees” (10).All of Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because it shows that “all manifestation , vision, and forms that are seen within are mental (illusory) creation” (The Unknowing Sage p. 12). It is a creation since, at times of need; our mind is desperate for help or a realization. So a log of these devotees, somehow someway see Fagir, real in person. Our brain creates trickery images for use to adhere for survival. Faqir later says “I do not go anywhere, nor do I know about such miraculous instance” (9). Faqir’s insights show that most religions visions are, in fact, products of one’s own mind. Since “naturally all visions are of the mind in the strict sense of the term, but those manifestations which cannot be correlated by others either in this world are… merely vivid extensions of one’s imagination” (The Unknowing Sage p. 19). It is quite intellectual and is not based on the religion. It is more of how our brain can interconnect personal reminders that spring us back to reality. In that term, help us with our real life threatening scenarios.
What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is scientific, and philosophy done poorly remains philosophy”.
Philosophy is taught or described as an explanation of how the world and our mind work. When philosophy denotes past believes with scientific reasoning it is taking us away from mythical believes. When “philosophy done well is scientific”, goes to say when we approach philosophy with an answer derived from biology, physics or chemistry it has a more tangible answer. While approaching philosophy with no knowledge or connection derived from different branches of science it is easily pointed to a fictional theory. From the book, The Great Mystery, “if the phenomena cannot be explained fully and comprehensively by mathematics, then one turns to physics, and if that too is incomplete then to chemistry, then to biology, then to psychology…”. So, if there is no answers derived from scientific basis, then philosophy is not “science” it is philosophy since, the resulting answers would point towards the reasoning of religion or mythical assumption, commonly suggested as “god did it”.