what does it feel like to have an philosophicial experience?

Question

have you ever had one during or after reading a book?
have you ever had one during or after having a particular discussion with someone? or maybe you had one after watching a movie?.

Answer 1

Yes to all three. I often take the time to reflect on possible meaning in my conversations, after reading a book that makes me think, or after watching a movie that makes a statement or broadens my way of thinking. It is very rewarding to explore the complexities of the world around you. One thought will lead to another and the next thing I know, I am writing about it. I allow my mind to drift to "possibility".

It often inspires me and gives me more to offer in further discussion of the topic. It helps you to gain more insight into yourself and for those around you. It also teaches you how to think for yourself and to find out who you are as a person...and enables you to get in touch with your own belief system to find out what works for you as an individual. I also think it can make you more interesting as a person.

Answer 2

Ah, they are fantastic, like a dawning of something new and beautiful in your life. Its an exhiliration. Possibly i'd put it on the same category as physical orgasm or spiritual experience. These are some i've had;
1. While reading Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity
2. While meditating TWICE.
3. While reading Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
4. While walking and thinking
5. While arguing with some friends over metaphysics
6. While being beaten to within an inch of death. (VERY profound one!)

Answer 3

It's slightly nauseating. there is a slight unease that erupts in the pit of your stomach, a little tingle that feeels like nausea, but in the wrong place...

your eyes become dilated, the world gets a little bit sharper, in focus, and people look different--larger. You're more aware of your breath than you've ever been in your life, and you head feels both light and heavy at the same time. Sounds get clearer--not LOUDER, but more clear.
And of course, there's that slight hum in the background...which could be just the rush of blood to your head, or the clandestine buzz of the mechanic gears running underneath the world...

Answer 4

Previously I used to have these thoughts that what would've been there before god, or that this world is an illusion and i am probably dreaming all this, but i wasn't sure that if this is the illusion then what is the reality and where i am. But after conversion to evolutionism i do not have any such thoughts anymore. Life and philosophy has become much more simple now.

Answer 5

Philosophy is imagination mixed in with logic, an experience, and math does not play a major role as it does in physics.

Philosophy strives to answer "why" more than "how". A basic question every human asks early in life -- before explaining "how" with numbers, is "why." Why springs from our sense of curiosity.

Everyone is born a philosopher. We only need to align it with answers that are virtuous, and become good philosophers in life.

Answer 6

Really Great (Trust Me On This)

Answer 7

here--*experience* the energy of "the cosmos" it's way better than *discussion* of anything http://www.sahajayoga.com

Answer 8

Every experience is philosophical, you just may not have reflected on it yet.

Answer 9

That means you really are learning something. Congratulations

Answer 10

Wonderful, enlightening, worldview-changing. As if you just transcended yourself.