Post by Cecilia Cervantes on Aug 1, 2015 0:10:16 GMT
Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand as said in the book Unknown Sage believed “The ultimate truth was that no experience may could capture or contain the transcendental mystery of being”. He was not a believer of spiritual events occurring and did not believe in miracles. He believed your mind could make you believe things you want to believe. His own personal experience was when he believed he saw the Guru and received a message from him, but later doubts he actually had a visit from the Guru when he experiences a strange occurrence. On his return from the war many people where waiting for him to treat him like a god. The people were sure he has appeared and helped them get out of death. Once Faqir realizes he never visited the town and he has no remembrance of it, he soon begins to questions his vision of the Guru to himself. He never considered himself a god, but just a man looking for the truth of life.
What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The study of philosophy is the construction and fabrication of many different theories and assumptions. The reason for philosophy is to aspire answers to unexplained subjects. If an answer is poor and it does not have too much information to back up the answer then it remains philosophy because the question why? Is still flying about in the air. When a theory has so much information to back it up and it is inclusively proven by science factors it is then considered a science. For example the string theory makes a lot of sense and it would be interesting if we could find out if our whole universe is built by little invisible string we cannot see or touch. It has not been able to be proven even after many studies so instead of it being a science of the universe it remains as a philosophical theory.
Faqir Chand as said in the book Unknown Sage believed “The ultimate truth was that no experience may could capture or contain the transcendental mystery of being”. He was not a believer of spiritual events occurring and did not believe in miracles. He believed your mind could make you believe things you want to believe. His own personal experience was when he believed he saw the Guru and received a message from him, but later doubts he actually had a visit from the Guru when he experiences a strange occurrence. On his return from the war many people where waiting for him to treat him like a god. The people were sure he has appeared and helped them get out of death. Once Faqir realizes he never visited the town and he has no remembrance of it, he soon begins to questions his vision of the Guru to himself. He never considered himself a god, but just a man looking for the truth of life.
What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The study of philosophy is the construction and fabrication of many different theories and assumptions. The reason for philosophy is to aspire answers to unexplained subjects. If an answer is poor and it does not have too much information to back up the answer then it remains philosophy because the question why? Is still flying about in the air. When a theory has so much information to back it up and it is inclusively proven by science factors it is then considered a science. For example the string theory makes a lot of sense and it would be interesting if we could find out if our whole universe is built by little invisible string we cannot see or touch. It has not been able to be proven even after many studies so instead of it being a science of the universe it remains as a philosophical theory.