[A Soul Evolution Uses Rebirth As Its Mechanism of Fulfilment by sri
aurobindo studies
Rebirth,
if restricted to the physical mechanism, adds little meaning to our lives, as
it becomes an endless repetition of births with no goal other than pure existence.
This leaves the questions about the significance of life and the reason for
existence unanswered. Once we couple this physical mechanism with the concept
of a soul evolution, a continuously progressive development that utilizes
rebirth as the means of achieving results that cannot be attained in any single
birth, we have the key that fits virtually all the locks, and we open up a new
understanding about why we are here, and what we have to do.]
In The
Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo strives to achieve this internal
consistency. He takes each argument (for and against) to its logical end
and aspires to justify it. Of course, the problem is that the system is
under-determined because all the available phenomenal evidence is insufficient
to prove the existence of anything occult or Divine. By Sandeep
(?) 1:32 PM]
[Read
the original works! By Sandeep
Finally,
the purpose of the blog is to introduce you to the sublime wisdom present in
the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which cannot be captured
entirely by any secondary work, including this blog. So read the original
works whenever you can. It will take time to grok their teachings,
but it is worth the effort.]
[By
immersing oneself in the original works, one gets a sense of the depth, comprehensiveness
and majesty of Sri Aurobindo’s being that no compilation or third-person essay
can ever convey. – Matthijs
Cornelissen SABDA Newsletter, May 2008]
[Sandeep November
3, 2012 at 6:35 pm
In
1897, American psychologist William James suggested the “transmission theory”
of mind, in which the brain is merely a mediator in the action of a mother-sea
of consciousness which lies above it. This is similar to the mechanism that has
been described above and is opposed to the “production theory”, prevalent in
current Western psychology and philosophy discourse, which suggests that the
brain produces consciousness.]
Funny
thing about William James is that his fucking book comes before the big break
produced by WWI — a consolidation of a certain trajectory that has since been
decisively critiqued. Apparently people regard him as the end-all — I had no
idea. Over 100 years, and absolutely nothing has happened in the field! I’m so
embarrassed not to defer to him in all things!
Seriously,
does it ever occur to anyone that maybe there’s a reason something like the
William James comes out around that time? You don’t even need to know academic
theology — haven’t you ever read the chapter debunking the late-Victorian
concept of the sacred in fucking Homo Sacer? That’s common currency, even
though I know Karl Barth isn’t. 9:44 AM]
Re:
Lenin. I think it is a gross oversimplification that leads one to total
falsification… For me, and this isn’t a majority view and you certainly are not
going to change your mind because of me, all philosophical taxidermy is
repugnant falsification of actual philosophical thought. I just don’t find them
helpful and very, very unpersuasive. In the ecosystem of thought I’m a
Gleasonian. Still, I know it is not a popular view, … 3:59 PM]
Talk
matters. Words matter. They matter greatly. (See Deirdre McCloskey.)
And
talk and words have a history that unavoidably imparts meaning to them. The
meaning that strikes the ears or eyes and then enters the minds of listeners is
determined not merely by what the speaker (or writer) wants to
convey – not exclusively by what he or she imagines others
will understand – but also by what his or her audience brings to the
conversation. Conversation is a two-way street, not a one-way dictation.
Importantly,
in the case of scientific writing the meaning that fellow scientists generally
‘get’ from a sentence uttered by a colleague is often quite different from the
meaning that non-specialists ‘get’ from the very same sentence. This fact is
especially important in the social science and, I believe, especially especially
important in economics.
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