Post by jessjord on Nov 12, 2015 5:03:45 GMT
Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
It is important that Faqir Chand's experiences in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because it helps us understand how the mind could make up something to believe in that simply may not exist or we might see as we once thought. In Faqir Chand's experience in his early war times, he gave us his experiences with his fellow war veterans worshiping and giving him praises as a guru that he was not. The veterans explained to Faqir that since he knew what to do that helped them to safety, he must be their guru. Faqir was in shock that his fellow veterans thought of him as a guru just because he saved them. It made Faqir think that many others could be just as easily naive to think that just because someone might save a life or do something remarkable, that it means that you must do everything this person might say just because they did something unimaginable. In the video Faqir Chand: Inner Visions and Running Trains, Chand stated that "this knowledges that all the creations of the waking,dreaming, and deep sleep modes of consciousnesses are nothing but impressions that are in truth unreal...they are produced by the mind." (FC Video) Faqir questioned his own inner visions as well and realized that the spiritual experiences, like the one he experienced in war, was merely a projection of his own mind. Something that could have been others experiences as well. As a example sometimes some individuals might feel as if God is talking to them, telling them the answers to all of their questions. When it could merely just be a figment of our imaginations or ideas in our inner thoughts.
What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
I believe what is meant by the phrase is that philosophy has done well in the fields of science by asking questions, new ideas, new thoughts etc. As well as philosophy that happens to be used poorly will just simply remain what it is, just asking questions. Whereas philosophy is so much more than simply asking questions. Without asking the questions, how would you come up with answers without philosophy? How would your thought process change from what it normally would think to something completely mind blowing and opening your mind to the huge amounts of different possibilities to your original thoughts. We simply cannot chose philosophy over science as I believe they are almost one of the same. So we cannot say that philosophy is simply done poorly. If it was not for philosophy would there be any successful sciences? Most likely not. In the video Zombie Consciousness 101 a quote stuck with me that "we learn to dream before we can scheme it" So how would the world continue successfully in science without philosophy? Without philosophy we would not dream it and question it to make it into the amazing thing that came to be.
It is important that Faqir Chand's experiences in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because it helps us understand how the mind could make up something to believe in that simply may not exist or we might see as we once thought. In Faqir Chand's experience in his early war times, he gave us his experiences with his fellow war veterans worshiping and giving him praises as a guru that he was not. The veterans explained to Faqir that since he knew what to do that helped them to safety, he must be their guru. Faqir was in shock that his fellow veterans thought of him as a guru just because he saved them. It made Faqir think that many others could be just as easily naive to think that just because someone might save a life or do something remarkable, that it means that you must do everything this person might say just because they did something unimaginable. In the video Faqir Chand: Inner Visions and Running Trains, Chand stated that "this knowledges that all the creations of the waking,dreaming, and deep sleep modes of consciousnesses are nothing but impressions that are in truth unreal...they are produced by the mind." (FC Video) Faqir questioned his own inner visions as well and realized that the spiritual experiences, like the one he experienced in war, was merely a projection of his own mind. Something that could have been others experiences as well. As a example sometimes some individuals might feel as if God is talking to them, telling them the answers to all of their questions. When it could merely just be a figment of our imaginations or ideas in our inner thoughts.
What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
I believe what is meant by the phrase is that philosophy has done well in the fields of science by asking questions, new ideas, new thoughts etc. As well as philosophy that happens to be used poorly will just simply remain what it is, just asking questions. Whereas philosophy is so much more than simply asking questions. Without asking the questions, how would you come up with answers without philosophy? How would your thought process change from what it normally would think to something completely mind blowing and opening your mind to the huge amounts of different possibilities to your original thoughts. We simply cannot chose philosophy over science as I believe they are almost one of the same. So we cannot say that philosophy is simply done poorly. If it was not for philosophy would there be any successful sciences? Most likely not. In the video Zombie Consciousness 101 a quote stuck with me that "we learn to dream before we can scheme it" So how would the world continue successfully in science without philosophy? Without philosophy we would not dream it and question it to make it into the amazing thing that came to be.