To Catch A Falling Star: Dance of Philosophy and Spirit

Original work by me

There is a lack of subjectivity in western philosophy and it has created a fundamental difference between spirituality and philosophy. Spirituality is after all nothing more than a philosophy that can be practised in real life. And yet perhaps because the state deemed philosophy an engagement of the scientist and spirituality to be the engagements of the Nuns and Priests the two diverged in the west. So much so that when the same father of modern philosophy Descartes said, Cogito Ergo Sum ‘I think therefore I am’ he was opening doors to new ways of thinking, but when he was trying to figure out the root of those thoughts he was called a lunatic. Imagine that, he is the father of modern philosophy but when said that the penial gland was the seat of God and from there all thoughts emerged everyone thought he has finally lost it.

And here lies the basic difference between western philosophy and eastern one. This penial glad becomes a chakra in the east. There are ways you can develop and engage your chakra, by practice, meditation, reflection and philosophy need not be a one-way linguistic and logical exercise, it need not be mathematical. It can be beyond that. But beyond mathematics and language and logic we come to a subjective sphere. For instance, when Descartes felt god in his penial gland, from where his so-called thoughts emerged, another man…