Synopsis Ged explores a dream with Pierre before our regular meeting . Recitification of names (proper naming). Putting the virtues from Plato’s Republic - esp Justice - on the scenes in the dream. JeffL reviews a fantasy while in Sesshin. Also some of his own notes from another recent Divine Luminosity experience Dream Texts Ged’s Dream – Fri 13 August 2020 SCENE 1 On a spaceship. And thinking about whether i would join that spaceship. It was small, one main, open room, and only a few...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSDRM, pg1, NSPMW
Another great Saturday chit-chat with Pierre. Topics Covered - Midwifery with JulieH - Sayon: moving up in the world - JeffS: pot can help with insights but is it ultimately anti-anagogic? (See Pierre's book co-authored with Regina, Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems With Its Validation , ISBN-10: 0964819112, ISBN-13: 978-0964819115, April 1998 Hyparxis Press) [I could not record video, audio only for today, because of problems with the electrical. Thanks...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSPMW
Synopsis Another lovely Saturday morning coffee with our beloved Pierre. JulieP is in town, and kicks it off looking into a problem she's been in lately. Then we spend some time in Homer's Iliad and Achilles' light-experience in chapter 18. Next up are Bradley and David exploring their recent dreams. More Info Pierre Grimes and Philosophical Midwifery The Noetic Society The Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society collection here on archive.org.
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning with Pierre and insights from dreamwork and midwifery. Highlights Kate explores a dream with Pierre on a Saturday morning. This leads Sayon to suggest the 5-Second rule (1) to help one move forward on projects, whether asking for a raise or working on a project, which leads to a philosophical midwifery (PMW) talk with Sayon and Pierre about Sayon’s own “clan’s” rules against pursuing his own goals. We explore a dream with Regina A bit of discussion...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis This is a video-recording of Pierre's 10:30am talk at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA) . APPA President Lou Marinoff introduces Pierre. Noetic Society members attending were Pierre and his wife Nancy and son Peter, JulieP and her husband Rus, ReginaU, and YoniG (who filmed). More information on that meeting can be found at the APPA Events page under the "Previous APPA Annual Meetings" tab, including a photograph of the...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSPE, pg1, nsaops, NSPMW
Synopsis A Sunday afternoon Jitsi’ing with Pierre and the NS. Pierre starts with some questions for us to consider. He gives us a snippet of his writing, asking what the relationship is of the pathologos to the Junior Gods and the Demiurgos. Raphael explores a dream with Pierre’s help. Pierre solicits reactions to the writing. Julie does a little Philosophical Midwifery with Pierre. Highlights Should the list of causes include all kinds of creation or only 1 (the one that the Demiurgos...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSPRM, pg1, NSPMW, NSDRM
Our usual Saturday loose/informal discussion, with some great philosophical midwifery* thrown in. Topics discussed: 1. Pierre gives away two books he has read: To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides. The Origins of Philosophy , by Arnold Hermann Baudolino , by Umberto Eco 2. Midwifery with JulieH re her reluctance to admit she knows (Reference is made to two dreams: one that JulieH brought in yesterday to explore on Friday night -- but that one was not video-recorded. And a second dream...
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Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSPMW
Synopsis Another Saturday morning with Pierre and members of the NS. Highlights Is it necessary to know the author’s intention before-hand? If so, how are we going to get it? PMW with Jed Original Location https://archive.org/details/20210102NSSAT Usage License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Please Help Support the Project Do you enjoy our free audios and videos? Please consider supporting Pierre, the NS, and our archiving activity by giving a small amount monthly to support our work....
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSPMW
Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning with Pierre, videoconferencing on Jitsi. Darlene and parenting wisdom, power, naming, Meno, being a “knower”, how to talk pleasantly Dream Explorations with Eldar, Josh PMW with Grace and reflecting on Josh's dream exploration Ion: Initial question for those of us studying it: Why is Ion not a ‘reciter’? Dream Texts Eldar's Dream I was at a house and at this house there was a loose cheetah. There was a woman with me and her child was somewhere in...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW, nsvc
Synopsis Another lovely Saturday morning chat and coffee with Pierre. First a chat with Sayon (I call it 'midwifery', but really just chat..), then two dreams, one from Regina, and another with Eldar. Dream Texts Regina's dream 1/25/29 What I remember. I went to my car repair man and he was looking over the Chrysler. He said that it’s going to be junked. I asked why he said that it would be too much to repair. I thought but didn’t say that he wants to address high end cars or high end jobs...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, NSPMW, NSDRM, pg1
Synopsis Another Saturday morning chat with Pierre. Eldar and JeffS explore dreams with Pierre, and Regina a state of mind she's been having lately. Dream Texts Eldar’s Dream 23 Feb 2019 There’s a new guy that’s gonna start working with us, I think it’s his first day. We’re talking to him and Phillip, my boss, says something about the new guys beard. Then Phillip says “Mine is just starting to come out, Eldar thought that I should grow my beard back out.” I’m kind of giggling in...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another session. Today we read Synopsis Another Sunday afternoon with Pierre and the gang. Two dreams and some past scenes are offered up for exploration and philosophical midwifery with Pierre. Highlights (Pierre arrives late.) Then a bit of continued discussion on last time’s question of “whether/how to determine the author’s intention” Dream exploration with Jed Early scenes exploration with David Dream...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSPRM, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Another lovely Saturday morning chatting with Pierre, this time at Jeff and Sayon's house. Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, JulieH, Sayon, JeffS, JeffL. - Some introductory warm-up and chit-chat as we get settled, then Pierre midwifes.. - JeffL on a dream he brought with him (starting at ~0:13:05) - Barbara (starting at ~1:20:20) - JeffS (starting at ~1:36:43) Text of JeffL's Dream JeffL 5/24/18 I’m in a car with my brother or my mom. I think it starts out with my brother and switches to...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Sunday afternoon with Pierre. I start recording with a talk Ged is already in the middle of with Pierre. Then we discuss the relevance of the Theaetetus and Midwifery to the talk with Ged. Then we get into the Parmenides with Eldar’s question about Rest and Motion Highlights PMW with Ged on knowledge and understanding Pierre suggests Ged read the Theaetetus and look both at the beginning (about 149a onward) for introducing a potential pregnant party / interlocutor to midwifery, and...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSPRM, pg1, theaetetus, parmenides, NSPMW
Synopsis Dream Explorations and Philosophical Midwifery on this Friday night with Pierre and members of the Noetic Society. Highlights warm-up exploration of a sitting thought with JeffL PMW with KateS on her writing project dream exploration with Bradley dream exploration with Jed Dream Texts JeffL’s Sitting Fantasy 12/17/20 sitting. calm,clear,quiet,silence. then - “So what that ( the silent state) doesn’t do anything.” annoyed,irritated Bradley’s Dream I was in this kinda NS party,...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSFRI, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
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Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Another Saturday morning chat with Pierre and members of the NS. We continue reading in Plotinus’ Sixth Ennead, Tractate 2, Chapter 21 (and a little bit of the end of Chapter 20). Highlights 09:58am PDT warm-up: PMW with Regina on insights she is having while reading Plato and Plotinus, and the family pathologos, “Don't think you know so/too much” 10:20 Stanley: Plotinus and meditation 10:22 Kate: reading and being smart in her family 10:25 Barbara on Loeb (grammatical structure)...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, enneads, ennead06, plotinus, NSPMW
Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning with Pierre and the NS gang. Pierre works a little ‘light’ midwifery with JulieH. Various questions and a dream. We finish off with Jed taking another shot at discerning Socrates’ motive on page 1 of Plato’s Republic . Highlights Philosophical Midwifery with JulieH Dream exploration with David Discussion with Regina on Doubt Discussion with Jed (Republic) Dream Texts David’s Dream 2020-10-23 1 I am at school. We are roller skating or something. I...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, republic, book01, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Republic, Books 3 & 8 Highlights Geometry, Axioms and PMW with Jed “Do you believe you are here?” Wholes and parts What is an objection? Dream exploration with KevinG Continued discussion of book 8 of Plato’s Republic There is a decline or procession, down from Aristocracy to Timocracy to Democracy to Tyranny. But is there any reversion (back up) in evidence in Book 8? (No) Music and gymnastic. Reading of 410b/c. How does Plato use these terms differently than we use them?...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSPRM, pg1, republic, book03, book08, NSPMW, NSDRM
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Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1, dreams, philosophical midwifery, NSDRM, NSPMW
Synopsis Tonight we continue our study of Plato’s Parmenides . Pierre had asked us to bring with us to tonight’s discussion any questions we have on the first hypothesis. So he fields questions from Regina, JeffL, and Ged. Barbara does bring up another issue, but we never came back around to it. Perhaps we will tomorrow . At about 0:13:19, Pierre stops to explore a dream with Regina , which I spliced out into a separate recording. Then we return here to continue our discussion of the...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSFRI, pg1, parmenides, hyp1, NSPMW, ion, being-the-one
