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Advanced Buddhist Metaphysics: Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

Advanced Buddhist Metaphysics: Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

For the serious student of spiritual enlightenment: how to approach the difficult questions of life and existence – independently and objectively.

2021

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

Genuine Spiritual Knowledge & How to Achieve It

Doing your spiritual homework #1

6 min readJul 8, 2021

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The ultimate mystery in philosophy & metaphysics

Going beyond Nagel and his ‘like a bat’: an exercise in primordial ontology, involving both conceptual clarification and observational…

19 min readFeb 15, 2024

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The ultimate mystery in philosophy & metaphysics

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‘Consciousness’ as an ‘identifiable’ something

An exercise in primordial ontology - involving observation and reasoning

19 min readJan 17, 2024

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‘Consciousness’ as an ‘identifiable’ something

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The human spiritual predicament

Outlined in the simplest possible non-religious terms

4 min readMar 20, 2023

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Collage of the hand we are dealt. (Artwork by the author.)

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Making a Start in Spiritual Metaphysics

You really need to want to know the truth for yourself

13 min readMar 8, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), sentient machines, and metaphysics

Ground zero, knowledge-wise?

7 min readFeb 20, 2023

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What is ‘consciousness’?

And why is it a ‘hard problem’?

12 min readJan 18, 2023

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Collage illustrating the concept of consciousness.

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What is this?

Is the ultimate spiritual/gnostic question

6 min readDec 12, 2022

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Collage by the author illustrating the question ‘what is this?’

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The ‘intellect’ (our capacity to think) as a spiritual means

It’s the only ‘instrument’ we have

9 min readDec 1, 2022

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How can you be sure to ‘get it right’ spiritually?

Spiritual metaphysics #3

10 min readNov 17, 2022

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Collage illustrating the idea of ‘clarity’.

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Peter Eastman

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Independent Buddhist counsellor, teacher & writer. A quest for an objective spiritual Truth, devoid of any type of doctrine, belief or religion. Scepticism 101.

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