Post by oshefeldman on Jul 30, 2016 6:57:07 GMT
Week 6
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand’s experiences are important because his experiences and subsequent revelations call into question the causes and the accuracy of these miracles and visions. He felt that the power of suggestion was the major reason that the human mind would come up with visions of Guru’s appearing out of nowhere to help their followers out of their near death experience.
Faqir Chand had an amazing understanding of the mind and how it could use energy from within to push limits and boundaries, and even escape near-death experiences. In the book "The Unknowing Sage" Chand says: “I came to believe that the Master is no separate entity. Rather, he is the disciple’s real life self and resided within” (Pg. 31). Chand has a very powerful message about the strength of the human mind. A lot of times in our society, we look to that “energy” or form or higher being as something above us or watching over us like God in the clouds. Given Chand’s experiences and perspectives, we can see the idea that real energy or force that exists is in our own mind and body and not emanating from some guy with a gray beard above the cloud
Source: Faqir Chand : The Unknowing Sage
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy." Be sure to support your answers with references to the required readings and films. Each answer should be at least 150 words. Place your answers on your website and also on the class forum.
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” suggests that important philosophical questions in life can be proven based on factual evidence, using similar methods to the scientific method. Philosophy, like science, must be falsifiable in order to be true. If someone can not recreate your philosophical argument and come to the same or similar conclusion based on the evidence of suggestion, then your theory is not likely to be true.
If done poorly, such as the case of someone trying to deliver on a philosophical point without vigorously attempting to find the correct answer of said points wishing to be proven, it could be said to still be philosophy, instead of science, which would be well tested, and could be proven to be true by many different points of view.
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand’s experiences are important because his experiences and subsequent revelations call into question the causes and the accuracy of these miracles and visions. He felt that the power of suggestion was the major reason that the human mind would come up with visions of Guru’s appearing out of nowhere to help their followers out of their near death experience.
Faqir Chand had an amazing understanding of the mind and how it could use energy from within to push limits and boundaries, and even escape near-death experiences. In the book "The Unknowing Sage" Chand says: “I came to believe that the Master is no separate entity. Rather, he is the disciple’s real life self and resided within” (Pg. 31). Chand has a very powerful message about the strength of the human mind. A lot of times in our society, we look to that “energy” or form or higher being as something above us or watching over us like God in the clouds. Given Chand’s experiences and perspectives, we can see the idea that real energy or force that exists is in our own mind and body and not emanating from some guy with a gray beard above the cloud
Source: Faqir Chand : The Unknowing Sage
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy." Be sure to support your answers with references to the required readings and films. Each answer should be at least 150 words. Place your answers on your website and also on the class forum.
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” suggests that important philosophical questions in life can be proven based on factual evidence, using similar methods to the scientific method. Philosophy, like science, must be falsifiable in order to be true. If someone can not recreate your philosophical argument and come to the same or similar conclusion based on the evidence of suggestion, then your theory is not likely to be true.
If done poorly, such as the case of someone trying to deliver on a philosophical point without vigorously attempting to find the correct answer of said points wishing to be proven, it could be said to still be philosophy, instead of science, which would be well tested, and could be proven to be true by many different points of view.