Interview with Cuban Philosopher Alexis Jardines

Hello everyone, welcome to Barf Stew - yes, I missed you all yesterday - as I've said, this is a `near daily' blog (keeps me from feeling too guilty when no posts are made). That said, I've found yet another winner of a link for you to consider today - an interview with a `Philosopher' who loves Phenomenology (like myself). Here's a few highlights:
AF: Alexis, you promote “actual-virtual correlations” as the central axis of your philosophical system as a way of upgrading the systems of Edmund Husserl and Henry Bergson. Given that this thought is so very different, how has it been received among your co-workers?


Alexis Jardines: Allow me a small correction. As I present and develop them, the concepts of the actual and the virtual are the heirs of the whole western metaphysical tradition. What happened with Husserl and Bergson is that they were the first philosophers who became conscious of the importance of these concepts.

In fact, until these thinkers, such terms —especially as correlated concepts— simply did not figure in the history of philosophy or, since they were not absolute, in any of the important philosophical systems. Just as the Aristotelian categories of “action” and “potential,” the “ideal” and the “material,” as well as “possibility” and “reality,” or “essence” and “existence” are all subsumed in the single idea of correlations or “actual-virtual configurations,” without them, one simply cannot think of the current state of culture.

In terms of the acceptance of such propositions, it is only a matter of time. Due to superficial reflection, undoubtedly, it might seem that the philosopher is a species in danger of extinction. On the other hand, the sole reason there are few philosophers in the world is that the world has decided to begin to philosophize.

Heavy Enough? Wait until you read his thoughts about `Structured Knowledge' Read more - as this link has `actual-virtual correlations' to Today's Barf Stew Tag. http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=24472

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Erik Stitt - Paranormal Experiencer - New Thought Provoker

As I recently did here at Barf Stew for Bruce Duensing - featuring his thoughts and links for a day - Today I'd like to look at a `new', very prolific, paranormal blogger - bursting his ideas (and experiences) into the esoteric plane of awareness only since late 2009 - Erik Stitt. http://www.paranormalexperiencer.com/ Like Bruce, Erik loves to explore realities structures incorporating his experiences and viewpoints with possible theories for all to read. Writers like Bruce and Eric are mind candy for some of us.

This tagcloud copy and paste will give you an idea of how he codes his material.
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The above noted - his writings are much more esoteric than the above tagcloud would suggest - and - today, I pick up on three posts that I bookmarked from just the last few weeks. And, like with Bruce Duensing's material last week - I will comment in some manner about each link of Erik's that I highlight.

First up - Chasing Coyote: The Ghost in the Skull - http://www.paranormalexperiencer.com/2010/04/chasing-coyote-ghost-in-skull.html . Now, part of good paranormal writing is having the cool title - check.

In this post, as in many of his other posts, Erik reveals - "The childhood my brother and I had was very interesting and at times terrifying to say the least. We, together have seemingly experienced almost the entirety of the paranormal realm and its unorthodox offerings at one time or another and sometimes multiple events at once! Things flew around our room, the whispers chattered, the temperature grew cold and the blue light flooded through the windows. My brother and I watched and unwillingly participated in these horrifying events until we were both well into our teenaged years.

some of the more bizarre events his experienced with others, in this case his brother. But, his article is used to posit the idea that the phenomena beyond the normal consensus may be caused by the individual themselves as a bi-location-connectedness of oneself to reality. "By relating to an identity, we are forced conceptually to look upon everything around us and in us as Other Than. I don’t think it is. It is this sense of Other Than, in my opinion, that is both the progenitor and the harbinger of the fear of it; fear of the separate and unknown or Unknowable thing. Fear that is unfounded if one were to maybe accept the possibility that the bad, bad thing is actually one’s self. At once it becomes innocuous and inane as a mere cerebral contrivance of ether and pith.

Erik however does allow for it not to be self-based phenomena too "another postulate and speculative guess comes to mind because as I stated earlier, knowing the thing only seems to make it more separate with the ever-unnerving stance of Other Than perception. To me, THAT is the Trickster. That fleeting sense of Other Than instead of More Of Myself in constant horrific and morphing manifestation is, to my way of thinking, the illusive Coyote; the skinwalking shapeshifter preying upon the archetypal arsenal lying in waiting within your subconscious mind.


Interestingly, Erik gives a possible reason for his Trickster entity as being a accumulation of forces/consciousnesses - just as I spoke about a quantitative basis of consciousness in Could the Human Population Level `Trip' Cosmic Consciousness? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=47


All in all - accessible thinking, well explained, with plausible ideas.


Post two - The Paranormal: Believing the Reality You Have Created - http://www.paranormalexperiencer.com/2010/04/paranormal-believing-reality-you-have.html Erik's post easily passes the great title requirement again - check.

Frankly, in this post - Erik sounds more like a Zen person than an outside the box thinker; "Most go through life thinking that all around them is without them. This is inside out perception. Literally. All, and I mean ALL, is within YOU. All comes to you. All comes from you. You do not understand? Rest in that which does not understand and that is still it (thank you Ken Wilber). There is nothing YOU are not.


That said, the above is only a sliver of a long essay making this point in many accessible ways. -- My comment from my brain - more `into' phenomenology - would be that - indeed - the NOW of our perception can be found only within ourselves - and, it indeed is attached to the `out there'.


And, finally, post three - The Undoing of Science in Ultimate Subjectivity - http://www.paranormalexperiencer.com/2010/04/undoing-of-science-in-ultimate.html - dig the title once again. Check.

To me, this post is what the title of the last post was supposed to be - a diving into ideas of subjective reality and belief. Interesting esoteric opinions. Again, to me, Erik extends a little far into one direction - but - since I have only skimmed the surface of his writings - this may be nothing more than his writing style. Indeed, I found this thought experiment of his to be fun to read - makes me wonder if he has read Joseph Chilton Pierce or some phenomenology such as Sartre or Husserl.


So, if you are looking for a new, interesting, blogger on esoteric thoughts - make sure to include The Paranormal Experiencer on (or to)  your bookmarks.

Being And Nothingness - Here's some Sartre.
 - Here's some Pierce.

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