I was just thinking of you and David when you came on. I was looking at pics of Christ's College Cambridge and thinking of the Cambridge Platonists and how many great movements there have been, researching how spirit works with the mechanics of the world. I was looking at a few essays under the heading of metaphysics too. Especially what has been studied at Stanford. I thought it was an advancement too, to take IRM and get it away from what Scn had been. By whatever labels we call our mental and spiritual phenomena, there is still perceived
something there worth investigating obviously. I think it was wise that David moved toward objectivity instead of subjectivity. I mean, if you're going to look at Causing things, instead of rummaging around the mind.
I like to think of David having moved on to someplace like Cambridge or whatnot, where like minded researchers are still working on the secrets of the universe. LOL. Sincerely though.
In so many other religious beliefs as well as in ancient cults of the Greeks, spiritual phenomena was discussed without snickering about BTs. Spiritual structures, essences and natures seeming to animate living things were probably like phenomena observed by ancients , only without projection a story of a galactic despot. Well, maybe....actually, there were many ruthless despots in those religious myths. Certain natural phenomena were considered to be locked in a fixed pattern as a result of the previous battles between envious gods.
I thank you guys for bringing the spirit of humanism with you when you came out of the C of S. It got many to break the habit of doing penance under the disdain of a critical church which viewed people as evil doers who must be
flogged ...sec checked until we were spiritually pure. The 'purity' game and going back round again thru the paces til you deserve immortality is old. Once, when Ken Urquhart had me in session I protested that I felt sentenced to
here as a 'punishment' by some chastising tribunal. With compassion, he asked if I could remember WHAT it was I had done wrong. No, nothing, he knowingly nodded in empathy. A guilt trip. LOL. It was like the C of S at that time had taken on the identity of the gatekeepers, giving no one a pass thru to their true freedom.
Tonight, before clicking here, I was reading up on where the term 'metaphysics' came from. I think the term 'Metapsychology' was aptly chosen for the subject you had chosen to research.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/