An Introduction to my Philosophy

I am late to this blog phenomenon. I started this blog to express my views on philosophy, spirituality and science. To be honest, I think philosophy, spirituality and science are the same things, and I think the distinctions we make between them are artificial. In this blog-space I will regularly share my views on philo-spirituality, my theories and ideas. I have no intention to be famous or the next Kant or Heidegger, so anybody is welcome to take my ideas and build on them as they wish. According to me, philosophy is free and available to everybody, nobody can own knowledge and thus I will not impose any copyrights on my knowledge. In fact I would be more than flattered if somebody seeks inspiration in my ideas.

I will be expanding on my philosophies on this blog in the future. For now I just want to briefly sketch what I believe and what are my inspirations. I believe that the universe is multidimensional and governed by absolute universal logic, what I call "Higher logic" This is not the mathematical logic that we are use to, but an ontological logic - a logic of being. Thus it includes both the subject and object. As I believe the entire universe is logical, I believe that any phenomena in the universe, whether it is empirical or mental, can be accounted for axiomatically. Thus my philosophy is a scientific philosophy of unification, and I admit of no real separations or categories in this philosophy.

My philosophy of categories is Kantian. The various categories that we observe in the world are essentially the laws of space and time of the mind, which the mind intuits on the world to organise and render it sensible and comprehensible. Thus the world that we see, that Sellers calls the, "Manifest image" is simply a representation of a mysterious something, after it is processed by the mind. Therefore, as Kant maintains, I maintain that the empirical world is an ideal creation. I then depart from Kant, because while Kant says that the actual world(noumenon) is unknowable, my philosophy is that it is knowable and in fact the noumenon is the only real substance and is identical with pure being. It is outside of space and time, it is the frame within which experience occurs, and because of this it is a transcendental unity. It is absolute, unchanging and eternal.

I borrow most of my Philosophy from Advaita Vedanta Philosophy, a school of Indian Philosophy, based on the Vedic tradition. According to Vedanta, all of reality is "Brahman" which means the all-encompassing and infinite absolute being. This "Brahman" is equal to "Atman" Atman meaning the pure subject. Herein lies the E=MC^2 of spirituality: Atman = Brahman. That is the pure subject is the absolute being itself. What does this tell us? It tells us that the subjective core of every being is the same, and this subjective core is same as the entire substratum of the universe; the internal and the external are the same. It does not appear the same to us because of the manifest image created by our mind, but if mind were to disappear, then all that would remain would be the pure being.

Can there be a reality existing independently of the individual mind? This is the age old question of many philosopher and mystics, "If a tree falls and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound" Yes, it did make a sound, and it was heard by the universal mind. If somebody was not there to hear it, but was attuned to the universal mind, they would have heard it despite it being non-local. This kind of action is today called "spooky action" a term coined by Einstein to describe quantum effects or "action-at-a-distance" Any phenomenon that is occurring anywhere within the cosmos is occurring simultaneously everywhere at once, but to detect it one must be attuned to the phenomenon. Allow me to illustrate: Many animals can detect an earthquake just before it happens, this is because animals detect certain vibrations that elicit the "flee" response from the animal. Most humans cannot detect these vibrations because they are not attuned to them like animals are. The key concept here is "vibrations" as Quantum physics tells us everything is vibrations, and vibrations come within various modalities which are either detectable or undetectable for a sensor whose sensitivity lies within or outside the range. The universal mind has infinite sensitivity, and therefore it can detect every phenomenon.

The universal mind is a priori, and it is because of this universal mind that anything exists at all. It is the universal observer, and without this observer nothing can take place within the universe. Again, supported by quantum physics which tells us no quantum effects take place without an observer making an observation. The observer is needed to make any potential state manifest. The individual mind is not a priori, but changes within space and time, but because it is in a constant state of change, it is in actuality no-mind, for it never really exists, and because it does not exist it is not capable of manifesting anything; for something cannot come from nothing. It only appears to us that the individual mind is manifesting images, but actually the images are emanating from the a priori universal mind. Thus the dissolution of the individual mind will not cease reality, but instead illuminate the universal mind.

In Sartre's phenomenology, Sartre analyses the existential condition of the manifest image. He demonstrates that the manifest image is perpetually vacillating between being and nothingness, because of the powers of negation of consciousness. If we entertain an image in the mind, simultaneously we entertain the possibility of its negation. This means the manifest image can never have true being, for it will always be negated by consciousness. This also means that consciousness is thereby free, non-determined and presuppositionless and therefore it is identical to the universal mind in its qualities. Thus, one can adduce from this, that the negation of the individual mind cannot negate the universal mind, but rather the negation of the individual mind will reveal the universal mind.

Yoga is a practice that was invented to negate the individual mind. It is declared by Patanjali in the Yogasutras in the opening Sutras, "Yoga is the cessation of thought-waves in the mind-stuff, so that the true being becomes self-illuminated, at other times this being is misidentified with its thought-waves." The Yogasutras reads like a scientific treatise on the mind and delineates all the stages one goes through in the project to cease the individual mind, and the various effects that occur. This is of course completely at odds with the traditional Western philosophical tradition which constructs its identity based on the mind as a "thinking thing", and thus philosophy becomes a study of the constructions of the mind. But that is not really philosophy, in my opinion, but indulgence in ones own mental fantasies. Philosophy is to not solve the problems of philosophy, but to dissolve the problems of philosophy as Wittgenstein affirms, and this dissolution can only be done by dissolving the mind.

Therefore my philosophical project which will unfold during the course of this blog is to dissolve all the problems of philosophy, to end all thinking, to cease the mind, so that we can reach a state of no philosophical problems, of no-thinking and no-mind and thereby a state of philosophical bliss and pure being.