PaliGap wrote: > The "categorical imperative" was the central > plank of Kant's moral philosophy, not > epistemology... > Yes, I stand corrected, it was Kant's 'theory of knowledge', the thing-in-itself, that I meant to mention, according to Kant in his 'Critique of Pure Reason'. Kant argued that there are synthetic 'a priori' truths.
My point is that statements of 'soul' and 'self' mentioned by the Turq, are speculative in nature and so cannot be addressed by the human mind since they are not based on sense perceptions. Apparently the Turq read about the 'reincarnating' 'soul-monad' in a book, or he was told it. He has never seen the 'soul', otherwise he would have been able to describe it and to locate it in space and in time. It doesn't prove causation to relate his experience of being a reincarnated soul-monad, because of the factor of suggestibility. It has already been established by the Turq himself that the 'TM Program' and the 'Rama Program' left him and many others highly suggestible to the point of being almost 'brainwashed'. So, Turq may have 'thought' he saw feats of real levitation and 'thought' he remembered his previous lives when, in reality, the Turq was programmed by his teachers to a very great extent to believe such things.
