Post by Chris Garrett on Oct 22, 2016 7:21:35 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
- Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he was the first person in the Sant tradition to expose how religious visions are the product of one’s own inner development. Despite having thousands of devotees with claims of Faqir appearing in their meditations and causing miracles, he denied having any knowledge or awareness of them and instead attributed them to the devotee’s karma or faith. Faqir Chand’s Chandanian Effect designates two factors to almost all transpersonal encounters: “1) the overwhelming experience of certainty which accompanies religious ecstasies; and 2) the subjective projection of sacred forms/figures/scenes by a meditator/devotee without the conscious knowledge of the object/person who is beheld as the center of the experience.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
-The first part of the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” refers to philosophical ideas which were once thought to be transcendental but are now understood and can be explained scientifically. The second part refers to philosophical ideas that cannot be explained scientifically. The underlying message is that there is a logical explanation for everything and that which can’t be explained logically is obviously being explained poorly.
- Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he was the first person in the Sant tradition to expose how religious visions are the product of one’s own inner development. Despite having thousands of devotees with claims of Faqir appearing in their meditations and causing miracles, he denied having any knowledge or awareness of them and instead attributed them to the devotee’s karma or faith. Faqir Chand’s Chandanian Effect designates two factors to almost all transpersonal encounters: “1) the overwhelming experience of certainty which accompanies religious ecstasies; and 2) the subjective projection of sacred forms/figures/scenes by a meditator/devotee without the conscious knowledge of the object/person who is beheld as the center of the experience.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
-The first part of the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” refers to philosophical ideas which were once thought to be transcendental but are now understood and can be explained scientifically. The second part refers to philosophical ideas that cannot be explained scientifically. The underlying message is that there is a logical explanation for everything and that which can’t be explained logically is obviously being explained poorly.