Post by Danielle Sawyer on Nov 12, 2015 5:00:29 GMT
Week 11
Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he attempted to “induce a consciously controlled near- death experience.” Most people that have experienced a near- death experience all have a different outcome. It is because they are unconsciously controlling what they want to see in their visions and no one can really simulate another person’s vision. The book “The Unknowing Sage” and the video “Faqir Chand: Inner Vision and Running Trains,” show many more stories to support that his attempts at near death experiences a how they all differ. In the video there was a quote that said “all gurus of whatever stripe were ignorant about the real cause of the miracles and vision attributed with them.” You can see that the envision Faqir was trying to show was that there is nature behind several religious visions and miracles. His experiences are important because he uncovered the background information behind numerous inner visions and miracles.
Week 12
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” means that without science there is no philosophy. Earlier this semester in week three we talked about how physics is such a big part in philosophy and why we need physics in philosophy in order to explain and prove why things are the way they are. In philosophy you need science because it is really the only way something can be proven. Without science philosophy would be just that philosophy. You need facts in order to prove your truths are in fact truths. Philosophy is theories and hypothesis until you add science to support it. In the video “The Remainder Conjecture,” it talks about the “remainder conjecture.” In the remainder conjecture it emphasizes that “we exhaust any and all physical explanation first before succumbing to… the transcendental temptation.” In philosophy there are many temptations to believe whatever you hear but you need philosophy with science to know what you hear is true and factual. Following the temptations result in the process of a continuation of a philosophical conjecture, and the product is usually a supernatural explanation.
Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he attempted to “induce a consciously controlled near- death experience.” Most people that have experienced a near- death experience all have a different outcome. It is because they are unconsciously controlling what they want to see in their visions and no one can really simulate another person’s vision. The book “The Unknowing Sage” and the video “Faqir Chand: Inner Vision and Running Trains,” show many more stories to support that his attempts at near death experiences a how they all differ. In the video there was a quote that said “all gurus of whatever stripe were ignorant about the real cause of the miracles and vision attributed with them.” You can see that the envision Faqir was trying to show was that there is nature behind several religious visions and miracles. His experiences are important because he uncovered the background information behind numerous inner visions and miracles.
Week 12
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” means that without science there is no philosophy. Earlier this semester in week three we talked about how physics is such a big part in philosophy and why we need physics in philosophy in order to explain and prove why things are the way they are. In philosophy you need science because it is really the only way something can be proven. Without science philosophy would be just that philosophy. You need facts in order to prove your truths are in fact truths. Philosophy is theories and hypothesis until you add science to support it. In the video “The Remainder Conjecture,” it talks about the “remainder conjecture.” In the remainder conjecture it emphasizes that “we exhaust any and all physical explanation first before succumbing to… the transcendental temptation.” In philosophy there are many temptations to believe whatever you hear but you need philosophy with science to know what you hear is true and factual. Following the temptations result in the process of a continuation of a philosophical conjecture, and the product is usually a supernatural explanation.