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I love finding out that an idea that I had, which I thought was profound, was already fleshed out 200 years ago. On the shoulders of giants, excelsior!
@@jeremyt4292 I struggled with the concept of God for a long time, until I began to think about it as "the will of the universe, in a deistic manner" I love that I have a new philosopher to study! Happy Trails!
@Signum7 idk, I feel like it takes a lot less struggling to not presuppose a God, and to take the lack of evidence for its existence to mean that it may just not exist, instead of finding a more restricted definition to slot into our rapidly narrowing gaps of knowledge. I could describe the second law of thermodynamics and the move of a closed system towards maximal entropy as "God", but that redefinition isn't remarkably useful.
@ Whatever grounds your Goat. I was an agnostic atheist for a few years, but I find that it’s not much a leap to suppose we are all connected. And to that end, that the connection is real, however chaotic or logical it might be. Really I think that the word “God” itself has lost its nuance. A deist can’t even begin to explain themselves.
the beginning of this video is quite possibly the best tonal summary of schopenhauer i’ve ever heard. you really nailed the whole “hellish despair” aspect of idealism
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I don't know about 'miserable'.. realising and accepting that existence is a cruel tyranical scam can be quite a liberating thing.. the weight of the world, the stress of life is lifted from your shoulders when you accept the futility of it all.
Lol. I remember having a simplified thought version of this. Thinking what if life is just some kind of virus that keeps mutating to try and take over as much geography as it can.
I find this absolutely fascinating! I’ve been a shamanic practitioner for about 10 years now, and his philosophical perspective is very close to what I am learning & experiencing with my spirit guides. The one difference, which shifts the entire philosophy into something optimistic, is that we little blips of individuated consciousness/will do have choice and free will. And our choices shape the evolution of The Will over eons. So not only can we strive to grow and mature, but doing so grows and matures the whole of consciousness. No pressure, humanity. 😂
Bonewits said pretty much the same thing in his book Real Magic. He theorized that all magical ability came from natural psychic ability, only augmented through ritual practices, which he described as "stage props". 🙂
Agreed. The accoutrements of magic are merely tools to focus the attention, intent, will and energy of the magician. Also, they provide techniques for mobilizing mind-power. I think the mind is pluripotent. Whatever one believes it can do, it can do. Faith/trust in the power of the mind is the main driving force towards its efficacy. Greater faith, greater will-power.
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. - Arthur Schopenhauer This man almost lead me to despair, occult truths or not.
@@off6848 Indicating you don't get Thelema at all. "Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." IOW You have to mortify every desire but your "True Will" and you recognize what your true will is by the lack of external resistance to it. Lack of external resistance to your will is the ability to do magic. Crowley is even more desperate than Schopenhauer because the only escape is a miracle of your own design.
8:10 As a musician, I've never expected to see my favorite composer on this channel AND a quote from a philosopher from my country in the same time. Thanks for the surprise.
Why do you trip then? It sounds awful. I've been depressed (clinically) since I was 12 or 13. That was over a decade ago. What you describe is just my normal day-to-day. I would recommend dropping the drugs and just being miserable.
@foodchewer It's perception and framing. One giant maw endlessly consuming itself in an endless cosmic cycle means I am insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Therefore I am free to do as I please and need not concern myself with the giant maw. Let alone what Stacy from accounting thinks of my power point presentation.
Finally someone with a similar experience. I usually have this, too, and it is not awful but feels liberating in the same way that truth liberates. You have to be prepared to stare into the abyss, however. Only once it got a little too much for me when I had read that Lovecraft was inspired by Schopenhauer and started associating Cthulhu with the will, granting metaphysical heavyweight to Lovecraft's fantastical mythology. It was on a grim january afternoon. During the first couple of hours I had already shivered all the time and lay in bed enveloped into my blanket listening to music. When I finally went out and took a walk, it was already getting dark. Where I live, I have to walk past the sewage treatment plant to really get out into the green. Together with the weather and the time of day, that really was a terrible setting. There was the typical industrial background noise, and the fog kept reflecting the floodlights. At that point I started to feel that the very earth I was walking on was itself the body of Cthulhu. There were even some dead birds lying around, which almost made me panic. Later that day when the peak was over and I was having dinner, I felt that I myself was the all-consuming Cthulhu... consuming not only everything outside itself, but itself as well. But that trip was an exception. I usually see more light than darkness.
Schopenhauer makes some good points and interesting assessments, but to me, has a religious out look on kinetic energy connections that can seem other worldly. Great show!
Excellent once again, Dr. Sledge! Well done! I haven't read any Schopenhauer, but have wanted to for over 30 years...Joseph Campbell seems to have been a big fan of his, but it seems to me that their overall approaches (though Campbell was no philosopher, despite what some people try to suggest) are radically different, based on what you've said here. Campbell is many things, but a radical pessimist he's not. I'll have more to say elsewhere...! :)
I wonder what he would thought about people like Bohr and Wigner proposing that consciousness is what causes wavefunction collapse and thus, in a way, makes the world exist. Edit: Philosopher Tim Maudlin has called the tests to solve the measurement problem "empirical metaphysics".
Would have likely been in agreement with them. While I believe these concepts to be true, the ultimate expression of this is found in Alan Watts and Fr Seraphim Rose. “We are an aperture through which the Universe is exploring and experiencing itself.”
@@ZephrumEllison Isn't Seraphim Rose very much not like this? I've read the soul after death and his view on our perception is basically that deception is the norm. At least it seemed like that in this specific work of his.
Aged 18 I was really into Schopenhauer. I remember nicknamed me Arthur. It probably said a lot about me back then I was caught between Schopenhauer and Marx. I do feel that Schopenhauer is a good place to begin philosophy
Nice dip into this genius, the profundity of mesmerism, pessimism, philosophy, and magic as well. Cute puppy and kitty, too. It’s most refreshing to consider that the ultimate of pessimists became something of an optimist in his waning days. Seems the ultimate goal of any attainment is the ability to abandon attachment to that which as attained. I perceive that most are incapable of such abnegations. For a few, however, hope rings eternally as ‘riz said.
Amazing video, thanks! Schopenhauer's pessimism brings laughter and joy to me, for the reason of recognition of one who has seen something true. Time to start looking deeper into his metaphysics. Thanks again for the video!
Sigils, rituals and ceremonies being (superfluous) just the training wheels that a mage can grow out of, the ban of magic by Romans as proof of it,... I did not know this side of Schopenhauer, I love it
Shopenhaur is amazing. The thought of fusion with religion and metaphysics is uncanny...I believe it. You can will occurrences, sts, by faith in a suchness. Thanks for podcast
The stuff about magic and ghosts reminded me of Final Fantasy XIV haha. It's very strongly implied in that game that all the different schools of magic only work because the rituals and philosophy behind them help you visual whatever you're trying to do. The gods work the same way. If enough people get together and think about the same God, it kind of just pops into existence. Nothing is real, man.
I LOVE the juxtaposition of the adorable orange kitten in a sunny room being on screen as you drive home the utter nihilistic nature of Schopenhauer's metaphysics.
5:50 - "He would later undergo a process whereby adamantium would be fused to his bones" . . . . . . Schopenhauer does have gnarly sideburns, but I didn't know that he was THE Wolverine of the Marvel universe.
We can’t always choose the people who imprint themselves on our souls, but Schopenhauer is indelibly marked on mine. Always love to hear people explore his philosophy
I actually agree 100% with everything Schopenhauer said in the context of this video. I don't believe in magic or ghosts, but the explanation he provides is something I've always thought would be the only explanation for such things.
such a journey this video Enlightenment is the ultimate truth, when your will aligns with the greater will that embraces all forms, the end of the illusion of duality and the embrace of a greater narrative
Wow! Schopenhauers concept of Ghost is nearly the same as mine, except that I believe ghosts are an electromagnetic (or perhaps quantum) scar on the fabric of space-time; similar to how a bolt of lightning which strikes the sand leaves an imprint in the medium of sand which, while not lightning anymore, can be experienced as a form of lightning's previous existence and violence.
There’s no quantum, they’re in the astral world which impresses itself upon the material from a supra stature giving animus Like a face impressed upon a coin but giving life and will to that which is dead
The world as Will and Idea. Leibniz, with his best of all possible worlds, is a truly wicked thing to say. Ah, the crime of being alive. The blind, unassuagable force, constantly sinking its teeth into its own flesh. Arthur was not on the final exam. Proof enough for me. Thank you, I really enjoyed this.
Very interesting video. I read about similar phenomena being explained by the Psychoid Field hypothesis in J.R. Haule's book Jung In The 21st Century, which to my mind is much more elegantly accounted for than with Schopenhauer's metaphysics. It has to be mentioned that though Schopenhauer was brilliant he could have been so much more if he transcended his own mental illnesses causes by his mother. I think they warped the final product of his work.
I find the concept of the Will quite soothing, not depressing at all. From an agnostic perspective it is a palatable alternative to the chaos of existence without edges, or to any kind of faith.
Thank you for this, I always try to earnestly explore topics on my own after watching your content; but this has really satisfied an intellectual...craving(?)...I've been unable to identify, and I look forward to delving deeper here!
Having studied Schopenhauer extensively at university, I’m impressed with your succinct explanation of the central concept of his theory. Kant as well. Both brilliant philosopher’s; but very dense, and dry reading!
Really cool episode! Always loved Schopenhauer, and even if the structure of our understanding is now based on positivist or post/positivist reasonings, I greatly appreciated the perspective on occultism! ❤
When I did my philosophy undergraduate I mostly took courses on German philosophy. My prof once described Schopenhauer as “one parts Kant, one parts Plato, and one parts disaster”
Thank you for this, Dr. Sledge, what an outstanding intro to Schopenhauer those first few minutes are. I’m hoping that this is just the beginning of a deeper dive into post-kantian philosophy! With the late Schelling and his impact on late 19th century Russian thought and British idealism as the denouement. Or at least you have promised us, at some point I believe, a full length assessment of Magee’s “Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition”… haven’t you? I might have imagined that… But I believe your opinion of it has changed her over time, and you’ve met and discussed things with Magee?
Oh my gosh, that Wolverine reference made me choke on my drink, lol. Every viewer can always count on Dr Sledge for that sly pop culture reference ❤. What an interesting philosopher. As a modern witch, we focus our intent on a magical working , very much in the way he describes the “will”. In some ways, the way he talks about the will seems almost Buddhist to me, but I must admit my knowledge is not great. Wow. To have a conversation with this guy must have been intense.
As a Buddhist, it definitely rings with similarities, at first. The main point of divergence is the nihilistic assertion of there being no way out, since the whole point of Buddhism is to realize the unborn and unending Buddha nature and thus escape Samsara. Rather than saying there's "no good", we'd assert that good and bad lose their meaning when we do not attach to relative attributes. We wouldn't assert you can never know the fundamental truth as that's what the Buddha explains you can discover through meditation and practice. Finally, compassion is critical, and is why and how beings who have this level of realization continue to manifest into the world in forms fit to the need of the rest of us.
@ about 6 1/2 minutes in, thereabouts, he has that image of the guy staring into space and he has a caption underneath saying something to the effect that he was about to have his bones fused with adamantium. It dawned on me that he has those hair wings that Wolverine has.
@ I did notice the extreme nihilism. It was just when he was saying how everything exists in the will that seemed to reflect Buddhism to an extent. Thank for the clarification and new information!
Excellent. Truly interesting, and great English- few to no basic grammatical errors, and no "it literally was" when it really wasn't. Apart from the fact that you can actually speak- great, great content delivered with a certain style. Top marks!
wow... I´ve just listened to the intro and got super interested. It´s hard to find some real content with people who do research and work on the logic behind it all before uploading a video. Thank you
why was this not the first thing i learned when i delved into spiritualism? all the things i know about it make much more sense now. this video was extremely insightful
Throughout this video I heard Monty Python's "Philosophers Song" wafting through my brain. I still hear it. I blame you, Dr. Sledge -- you willed it into my mind. "Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable . . . " You're welcome! And thanks for the reminders of my existential angst! I guess it's time for my meds . . . .
@@CooperGreenman how good is the case of m valdemar! So ahead of its time. Love the idea that the building blocks of reality atoms etc eventually breakdown into a single substance. The moving unmoved. As a metaphysical idea I often say this is a possible interpretation of what God would be. I'm agnostic to be clear but imagine if the one dimensional strings or lobes in string/m theory became a mass of probability at the base of reality. Such a cool idea and for the late 1800s! Get outta here
Fantastic riffing on the bleak! And today we can manipulate the pervasive vitalist fluids to resonate thanks to passing magnets over the body to produce amazingly clear images! MRI technology...
That's exactly what I was thinking! the Astral Light, the Great Agent, the Anima Mundi... Maybe Levi was influenced by his theories... and thus a whole generation of occultists including Crowley!😯
I admit this channel sometimes goes too deep for me (at least in topics I'm less into). I'm here for the witchcraft, lol. This was not one of those, though loved hearing it!
this is pretty cool. this actually kinda lines up with what the upanishads also says about reality. until we let go of all our desires, we only project what we think the world is rather than letting the world/reality flow through us. same with taoism, and the different types of bhuddisms one more thing: "truth is one, but the wise call it by many names" something that rings true the more i delve into different philosophies and have realize myself. pretty neat.
Excellent presentation, Dr. Sledge. For one of many good zingers: "They all float down here." 😂 Love the panorama of Capricornian humor. It was very amusing.
"Although the Piscean essence marks the soul of a Romantic or ecstatic mystic, there is, with the addition of Saturn, an overcompensatory denial." It would be interesting to see a deep dive into his birth chart and comparisons between his chart and the charts of people like Kierkegaard, Blake, Nietzsche
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Thanks for the amazing video! I did not know about this side of his philosophy.
So was Schopenhauer, at least in part, where the stone tape theory derives from? A sort of residual haunting? 👻
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Would you do a Video on vitriol concept..Journey to the inner earth..
“I see the Thelemites in the back…” I love the tidbits of commentary he sticks in at times. They add flavor and relevance.
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I love finding out that an idea that I had, which I thought was profound, was already fleshed out 200 years ago. On the shoulders of giants, excelsior!
Which idea? His conceptualization of ghosts as in after image resonated with one of my own "theories"
@@jeremyt4292 I struggled with the concept of God for a long time, until I began to think about it as "the will of the universe, in a deistic manner" I love that I have a new philosopher to study! Happy Trails!
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@Signum7 idk, I feel like it takes a lot less struggling to not presuppose a God, and to take the lack of evidence for its existence to mean that it may just not exist, instead of finding a more restricted definition to slot into our rapidly narrowing gaps of knowledge.
I could describe the second law of thermodynamics and the move of a closed system towards maximal entropy as "God", but that redefinition isn't remarkably useful.
@ Whatever grounds your Goat. I was an agnostic atheist for a few years, but I find that it’s not much a leap to suppose we are all connected. And to that end, that the connection is real, however chaotic or logical it might be.
Really I think that the word “God” itself has lost its nuance. A deist can’t even begin to explain themselves.
"mortification of the flesh is just performance art, salvation is itself a pipe dream" [cute kitten stock photo]
Honestly, props to Dr Sledge for that
Every crib is a coffin
Maybe I'm crazy but that statement was more disturbing with the cute kitten on the screen 😂 the cognitive dissonance is too strong
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the beginning of this video is quite possibly the best tonal summary of schopenhauer i’ve ever heard. you really nailed the whole “hellish despair” aspect of idealism
The fortunate ones being those who have not been born... damn
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Bloody hell, I thought I was a miserable git. Schopenhauer is a Gold Medalist
I think it's physically impossible to out-miserable a German philosopher.
@@glitchedoomSo funny.. and true😂
Forget gold, he’s platinum, or electrum even!
I don't know about 'miserable'.. realising and accepting that existence is a cruel tyranical scam can be quite a liberating thing.. the weight of the world, the stress of life is lifted from your shoulders when you accept the futility of it all.
Lol. I remember having a simplified thought version of this. Thinking what if life is just some kind of virus that keeps mutating to try and take over as much geography as it can.
I find this absolutely fascinating! I’ve been a shamanic practitioner for about 10 years now, and his philosophical perspective is very close to what I am learning & experiencing with my spirit guides. The one difference, which shifts the entire philosophy into something optimistic, is that we little blips of individuated consciousness/will do have choice and free will. And our choices shape the evolution of The Will over eons. So not only can we strive to grow and mature, but doing so grows and matures the whole of consciousness. No pressure, humanity. 😂
The demiurge reading Schopenhauer: that's my jam, homes!
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Bonewits said pretty much the same thing in his book Real Magic. He theorized that all magical ability came from natural psychic ability, only augmented through ritual practices, which he described as "stage props". 🙂
thanks for the recommendation, starting reading the first 20 or so pages seems pretty good so far!
Agreed. The accoutrements of magic are merely tools to focus the attention, intent, will and energy of the magician. Also, they provide techniques for mobilizing mind-power.
I think the mind is pluripotent. Whatever one believes it can do, it can do. Faith/trust in the power of the mind is the main driving force towards its efficacy. Greater faith, greater will-power.
I've never clicked a notification so fast in my life. I remember when Dr. Sledge first teased this video idea over a year ago!!
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
This man almost lead me to despair, occult truths or not.
The second best rebuttal of Alister Crowley
The first being “Yes do what thou wilt, or if you prefer, don’t” Robert Anton Wilson
@@off6848 Indicating you don't get Thelema at all. "Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay."
IOW You have to mortify every desire but your "True Will" and you recognize what your true will is by the lack of external resistance to it. Lack of external resistance to your will is the ability to do magic. Crowley is even more desperate than Schopenhauer because the only escape is a miracle of your own design.
Thought-provoking - The World as Will and Representation - it's been a long time 🙂
8:10 As a musician, I've never expected to see my favorite composer on this channel AND a quote from a philosopher from my country in the same time. Thanks for the surprise.
I find this oddly comforting
This is how I feel when I trip. Not a unification with beautiful nature but the sense that we are all just one giant maw consuming itself.
Why do you trip then? It sounds awful. I've been depressed (clinically) since I was 12 or 13. That was over a decade ago. What you describe is just my normal day-to-day. I would recommend dropping the drugs and just being miserable.
@foodchewer It's perception and framing. One giant maw endlessly consuming itself in an endless cosmic cycle means I am insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Therefore I am free to do as I please and need not concern myself with the giant maw. Let alone what Stacy from accounting thinks of my power point presentation.
@@JunkDevJunk No, at the core you are that maw yourself. It is your most primitive drive. The macrocosm is in the microcosm.
Finally someone with a similar experience. I usually have this, too, and it is not awful but feels liberating in the same way that truth liberates. You have to be prepared to stare into the abyss, however. Only once it got a little too much for me when I had read that Lovecraft was inspired by Schopenhauer and started associating Cthulhu with the will, granting metaphysical heavyweight to Lovecraft's fantastical mythology. It was on a grim january afternoon. During the first couple of hours I had already shivered all the time and lay in bed enveloped into my blanket listening to music. When I finally went out and took a walk, it was already getting dark. Where I live, I have to walk past the sewage treatment plant to really get out into the green. Together with the weather and the time of day, that really was a terrible setting. There was the typical industrial background noise, and the fog kept reflecting the floodlights. At that point I started to feel that the very earth I was walking on was itself the body of Cthulhu. There were even some dead birds lying around, which almost made me panic. Later that day when the peak was over and I was having dinner, I felt that I myself was the all-consuming Cthulhu... consuming not only everything outside itself, but itself as well. But that trip was an exception. I usually see more light than darkness.
@@BeFr-vp7ot "As above so below" right?
I absolutely love that you included pictures of puppies and kittens to keep us from imploding.
Mr. Sledge your contributions are a treasure and a joy to behold.
Schopenhauer makes some good points and interesting assessments, but to me, has a religious out look on kinetic energy connections that can seem other worldly. Great show!
Excellent once again, Dr. Sledge! Well done!
I haven't read any Schopenhauer, but have wanted to for over 30 years...Joseph Campbell seems to have been a big fan of his, but it seems to me that their overall approaches (though Campbell was no philosopher, despite what some people try to suggest) are radically different, based on what you've said here. Campbell is many things, but a radical pessimist he's not.
I'll have more to say elsewhere...! :)
That's for sure!
its hard to put into words, but the book Book of Wisdom from Zirtana completely changed my life and it's not new age bs
I wonder what he would thought about people like Bohr and Wigner proposing that consciousness is what causes wavefunction collapse and thus, in a way, makes the world exist.
Edit: Philosopher Tim Maudlin has called the tests to solve the measurement problem "empirical metaphysics".
Would have likely been in agreement with them. While I believe these concepts to be true, the ultimate expression of this is found in Alan Watts and Fr Seraphim Rose. “We are an aperture through which the Universe is exploring and experiencing itself.”
@@ZephrumEllison Isn't Seraphim Rose very much not like this? I've read the soul after death and his view on our perception is basically that deception is the norm. At least it seemed like that in this specific work of his.
But to be far, it's not consciousness but "measurement" what makes the wavefunction collapse
@@dashaus1 Absolutely. But Bohr and Wigner really thought it was consciousness.
Fascinating study. I believe every aspiring philosopher should get their own take on will alone. Set their minds in motion.
The positive image is on screen during the summary of Schopenhauer's philosophy is like a reverse ludovico technique.
Aged 18 I was really into Schopenhauer. I remember nicknamed me Arthur. It probably said a lot about me back then I was caught between Schopenhauer and Marx. I do feel that Schopenhauer is a good place to begin philosophy
Nice dip into this genius, the profundity of mesmerism, pessimism, philosophy, and magic as well. Cute puppy and kitty, too. It’s most refreshing to consider that the ultimate of pessimists became something of an optimist in his waning days. Seems the ultimate goal of any attainment is the ability to abandon attachment to that which as attained. I perceive that most are incapable of such abnegations. For a few, however, hope rings eternally as ‘riz said.
Amazing video, thanks! Schopenhauer's pessimism brings laughter and joy to me, for the reason of recognition of one who has seen something true. Time to start looking deeper into his metaphysics. Thanks again for the video!
Sigils, rituals and ceremonies being (superfluous) just the training wheels that a mage can grow out of, the ban of magic by Romans as proof of it,... I did not know this side of Schopenhauer, I love it
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Shopenhaur is amazing. The thought of fusion with religion and metaphysics is uncanny...I believe it. You can will occurrences, sts, by faith in a suchness. Thanks for podcast
The stuff about magic and ghosts reminded me of Final Fantasy XIV haha. It's very strongly implied in that game that all the different schools of magic only work because the rituals and philosophy behind them help you visual whatever you're trying to do. The gods work the same way. If enough people get together and think about the same God, it kind of just pops into existence.
Nothing is real, man.
I LOVE the juxtaposition of the adorable orange kitten in a sunny room being on screen as you drive home the utter nihilistic nature of Schopenhauer's metaphysics.
5:50 - "He would later undergo a process whereby adamantium would be fused to his bones" . . .
. . . Schopenhauer does have gnarly sideburns, but I didn't know that he was THE Wolverine of the Marvel universe.
I love Spinoza and Schopenhauer
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We can’t always choose the people who imprint themselves on our souls, but Schopenhauer is indelibly marked on mine. Always love to hear people explore his philosophy
I actually agree 100% with everything Schopenhauer said in the context of this video. I don't believe in magic or ghosts, but the explanation he provides is something I've always thought would be the only explanation for such things.
such a journey this video
Enlightenment is the ultimate truth, when your will aligns with the greater will that embraces all forms, the end of the illusion of duality and the embrace of a greater narrative
Wow! Schopenhauers concept of Ghost is nearly the same as mine, except that I believe ghosts are an electromagnetic (or perhaps quantum) scar on the fabric of space-time; similar to how a bolt of lightning which strikes the sand leaves an imprint in the medium of sand which, while not lightning anymore, can be experienced as a form of lightning's previous existence and violence.
There’s no quantum, they’re in the astral world which impresses itself upon the material from a supra stature giving animus
Like a face impressed upon a coin but giving life and will to that which is dead
The world as Will and Idea. Leibniz, with his best of all possible worlds, is a truly wicked thing to say. Ah, the crime of being alive. The blind, unassuagable force, constantly sinking its teeth into its own flesh. Arthur was not on the final exam. Proof enough for me. Thank you, I really enjoyed this.
Very interesting video. I read about similar phenomena being explained by the Psychoid Field hypothesis in J.R. Haule's book Jung In The 21st Century, which to my mind is much more elegantly accounted for than with Schopenhauer's metaphysics. It has to be mentioned that though Schopenhauer was brilliant he could have been so much more if he transcended his own mental illnesses causes by his mother. I think they warped the final product of his work.
I find the concept of the Will quite soothing, not depressing at all. From an agnostic perspective it is a palatable alternative to the chaos of existence without edges, or to any kind of faith.
Thank you for this, I always try to earnestly explore topics on my own after watching your content; but this has really satisfied an intellectual...craving(?)...I've been unable to identify, and I look forward to delving deeper here!
Having studied Schopenhauer extensively at university, I’m impressed with your succinct explanation of the central concept of his theory.
Kant as well.
Both brilliant philosopher’s; but very dense, and dry reading!
Really cool episode! Always loved Schopenhauer, and even if the structure of our understanding is now based on positivist or post/positivist reasonings, I greatly appreciated the perspective on occultism! ❤
i do look great in black, thank you for noticing :)
Thinking about Schopenhauers World as Will and Representation while watching a picture of a Kitten is hard to feel pessimistic about life. 😅
When I did my philosophy undergraduate I mostly took courses on German philosophy. My prof once described Schopenhauer as “one parts Kant, one parts Plato, and one parts disaster”
I heard your intro song as hold music to HR at my new gig and it made me smile 😂
Congrats!
Such well written and thought out content. Truly scholarly. Thank you Dr.
Last time i was this early it was shopenminute.
Seriously, i love these discources, this channel is wonderful. Thanks doc!
Wait a shopensecond- I see what you did there. Wiley!
would love more of your thoughts on philosophical pessimism, really love this content
Thank you for this, Dr. Sledge, what an outstanding intro to Schopenhauer those first few minutes are.
I’m hoping that this is just the beginning of a deeper dive into post-kantian philosophy! With the late Schelling and his impact on late 19th century Russian thought and British idealism as the denouement.
Or at least you have promised us, at some point I believe, a full length assessment of Magee’s “Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition”… haven’t you? I might have imagined that… But I believe your opinion of it has changed her over time, and you’ve met and discussed things with Magee?
Amazing that pictures of puppies and kittens can stop existential dread.
@@Bildgesmythe 😅
Time to go temporarily sate the Will's desire for leftover hallowe'en candy.
@@laurachapple6795 this comment is stupendous. I love it. LOL
The extreme contrast with his, lets be fair here, quite realistic outlook on life, and the cute texts and pictures, made me chuckle.
Oh my gosh, that Wolverine reference made me choke on my drink, lol. Every viewer can always count on Dr Sledge for that sly pop culture reference ❤. What an interesting philosopher. As a modern witch, we focus our intent on a magical working , very much in the way he describes the “will”. In some ways, the way he talks about the will seems almost Buddhist to me, but I must admit my knowledge is not great. Wow. To have a conversation with this guy must have been intense.
As a Buddhist, it definitely rings with similarities, at first. The main point of divergence is the nihilistic assertion of there being no way out, since the whole point of Buddhism is to realize the unborn and unending Buddha nature and thus escape Samsara. Rather than saying there's "no good", we'd assert that good and bad lose their meaning when we do not attach to relative attributes. We wouldn't assert you can never know the fundamental truth as that's what the Buddha explains you can discover through meditation and practice. Finally, compassion is critical, and is why and how beings who have this level of realization continue to manifest into the world in forms fit to the need of the rest of us.
Where's the reference in time?
@ about 6 1/2 minutes in, thereabouts, he has that image of the guy staring into space and he has a caption underneath saying something to the effect that he was about to have his bones fused with adamantium. It dawned on me that he has those hair wings that Wolverine has.
@ I did notice the extreme nihilism. It was just when he was saying how everything exists in the will that seemed to reflect Buddhism to an extent. Thank for the clarification and new information!
I don't know why youtube isn't recommending your videos but I sought it out anyway.
I love your channel. Thank you
Excellent. Truly interesting, and great English- few to no basic grammatical errors, and no "it literally was" when it really wasn't.
Apart from the fact that you can actually speak- great, great content delivered with a certain style.
Top marks!
I love that I've found your channel! You are an amazing mind and wealth of knowledge.
wow... I´ve just listened to the intro and got super interested. It´s hard to find some real content with people who do research and work on the logic behind it all before uploading a video. Thank you
“Compassion is the basis of morality, bub."
One of the best videos on Schopenhauer ever
I love the stuff you put out. Another gem to dive deeper into 🕳️🐇 who doesn't ponder about metaphysical Will?!😅
why was this not the first thing i learned when i delved into spiritualism? all the things i know about it make much more sense now. this video was extremely insightful
Schopenhauer is my kind of guy, he always felt very honest when I read him and relatable (especially for an angsty teen!).
Retain your semen longer to heal the imbalance causing to be angsty
@@DistortedEmpathI believe in a system where bodily fluids contain malice, and therefore should be frequently expelled to maintain spiritual balance
@ i see does this include blood? Do you feel stronger or weaker for it?
@@DistortedEmpaththere’s definitely some folks so tightly wound out there I could see that being detrimental 😂
To each their own 🤷♂️
I plan on reading The World as Will & Representation as soon as I finish Human, All Too Human. Looking forward to it.
Yay double Yay finally got on patreon for Dr Sledge.
Thank you Justin, another great presentation, as always it’s very much appreciated.
Wilhelm Reich often cites Mesmer but I never realized how much his "ideas" were heavily inspired, almost plagiarized from him.
Please, do a video on Novalis magical idealism 🥺
Thanks for the puppy’s and kitty’s.
Throughout this video I heard Monty Python's "Philosophers Song" wafting through my brain. I still hear it. I blame you, Dr. Sledge -- you willed it into my mind.
"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable . . . "
You're welcome! And thanks for the reminders of my existential angst! I guess it's time for my meds . . . .
several quotes in this episode made me make that same grimace face as when I hear a nasty heavy metal riff
I love absolutely love this channel his content is always so interesting and his observations and takes on things are always so in depth.
Damn-this is an excellent episode. Thanks!
Brilliant presentation, Dr. Sledge. Thank you.
I think you can get from Schopenhauer to Crowley via Nietzsche
this video literally came in the perfect moment in my life, love you
12:53 Edgar Allan Poe has a couple all-timer stories about this phenomenon
@@CooperGreenman how good is the case of m valdemar! So ahead of its time. Love the idea that the building blocks of reality atoms etc eventually breakdown into a single substance. The moving unmoved. As a metaphysical idea I often say this is a possible interpretation of what God would be. I'm agnostic to be clear but imagine if the one dimensional strings or lobes in string/m theory became a mass of probability at the base of reality. Such a cool idea and for the late 1800s! Get outta here
Man, I remember when you only had about thirty viewers.
Thank you for what you do..
"They all float down here" You crack me up.
Thank You for the Halloween Special🎃 every vídeo a gem 🕯️🔮.
This episode hits on a different level
Dr Sledge going WILD with the captions on this one…! Even quoting CIORAN the Genius!! 🤩
Thank you for the happy photos, I didn't want to have a depressive episode at the gym 😂
Fantastic riffing on the bleak!
And today we can manipulate the pervasive vitalist fluids to resonate thanks to passing magnets over the body to produce amazingly clear images! MRI technology...
Being one of the "thelemites in the back", I woukd say that this "universal Will" strongly reminds me of Eliphas Levi's Astral Light.
That's exactly what I was thinking! the Astral Light, the Great Agent, the Anima Mundi... Maybe Levi was influenced by his theories... and thus a whole generation of occultists including Crowley!😯
Levi also talks about it like a "blind machine" behind the generation of the images of the world, which can be manipulated through our will.
I admit this channel sometimes goes too deep for me (at least in topics I'm less into). I'm here for the witchcraft, lol. This was not one of those, though loved hearing it!
resonance can be unsettling... Great article!
Two of my favorite subjects! thanks,Doc!
Thank you, great video! This channel is one of the best in youtube in my opinion.
Do anyone know the name of the intro and outro song?
Wow, Schopenhauer must have been fun at parties :c
this is pretty cool. this actually kinda lines up with what the upanishads also says about reality. until we let go of all our desires, we only project what we think the world is rather than letting the world/reality flow through us. same with taoism, and the different types of bhuddisms
one more thing: "truth is one, but the wise call it by many names"
something that rings true the more i delve into different philosophies and have realize myself. pretty neat.
8:53 is pure gold. Thanks G
Excellent presentation, Dr. Sledge. For one of many good zingers: "They all float down here." 😂 Love the panorama of Capricornian humor. It was very amusing.
"Although the Piscean essence marks the soul of a Romantic or ecstatic mystic, there is, with the addition of Saturn, an overcompensatory denial."
It would be interesting to see a deep dive into his birth chart and comparisons between his chart and the charts of people like Kierkegaard, Blake, Nietzsche
Loved the Bach quote.