New
book Awareness-in-Action:
A Critical Integralism for the Challenges of Our Time March
2012 Click Here to Download Awareness-in-Action
Should
you choose to read, discuss, and share this work, it will help to remember that
its primary purpose is to seed derivative applications in such real-world
fields of human action as economics, business, politics, governance, sociology,
journalism, and activism. While I have already been doing so in economics and
business, there is no shortage of opportunities for critical integral
reconstruction of established theories and practices within, between,
and beyond disciplinary and institutional boundaries. If you would like to
apply Awareness-in-Action in your particular field, please let me know. I would
be glad to help in any way I can. Daniel J. O'Connor, Bainbridge Island , Washington Popular
articles Sustainable
Growth: What is Right? Who Decides? - A Crisis of
Vision: Toward a More Integral Economics
But
what about the prospect of an integral theory that bridges and unites the
essence of both evolution and creationism? What if the pattern that we observe
as evolution was the explicit unfolding of an implicit pattern of latent
potentials previously involved in the human and natural world? What if we and
our world are simultaneously involved or enfolded Spirit and evolved or
unfolded Matter, Life, Mind, etc.? This hypothesis was beautifully articulated
nearly 100 years ago by Sri Aurobindo in The
Life Divine. 3:44 AM Posted by Daniel O'Connor
Integral Yoga is the
path to enlightenment put to paper by Sri Aurobindo, an Indian
activist, guru and philosopher… My general comments on the philosophy of
Aurobindo are exceedingly positive. He makes every attempt to be comprehensive
and exhaustive in his explorations, the extent to which has not been improved
upon since only about 20 years ago with the advent of Ken Wilber's work. For
30 years, Aurobindo's work was untouchable in terms of comprehensiveness. He
commands an incredible breadth of knowledge with respect to not only all
spiritual enlightenment paths, but psychology, sociology and politics. He
beautifully blends the masculine (Divine) and feminine (The Mother) aspects of
spirituality providing a balanced and comprehensive insight into the nature of
God. There is only one major point which I think is a bit weak, which is the
somewhat overreliance on a deus maquina for areas of transformation which
cannot yet be clearly articulated logically. However, if you want to get a
comprehensive and systematic formula for the purpose and meaning of life,
specifically with regard to human evolution going forward, Aurobindo remains
untouchable. Brandon Peele 8:38 AM
The Integral Yoga is all about how one pulls in all
the faculties inward. This will be possible only when the Body, Vital (Prana)
and the Mind all agree on one single pointed or overarching goal. This has to
be permanent Happiness or Bliss. Once that choice is made, then the search for
that is not outside or in circumstances or words of others. It will be a pure
and simple identification with the One who is inside or the same One in any
form externally. Then all other Desires, even if they exist will be sacrificed
to That One. All Knowledge would be used only to deepen one’s experience of
That One and He becomes one’s constant companion. All the weaknesses either of
the Body, feelings or Mind all fall away to be replaced by a quiet enjoyment of
the vagaries of Life. Then one does not feel pressure or feel Life is futile
and try to change external circumstances but instead one becomes deeper and
deeper inward. As this progresses, the right effort would be made to change
external circumstances if required to enable one progress faster on this path.
Some
Links by Don Boudreaux Nov 15, 2012 I, Pencil
The
paper and pencil that we use is not just an unnecessary prop that we
use for the sake of convenience and that we could dispense with as
representationalists would have it. Rather, paper
and pencil actually extend our minds and allow us to engage in forms
of reasoning that we would not otherwise be capable of doing. The paper
remembers on our behalf. As I prove a geometrical theorem, I write down
each step on a piece of paper. The paper preserves the earlier steps, allowing
us to focus on the step we’re currently working on. Because the paper preserves
the earlier steps, we can return to them when we need them for a new stage in
the proof. More importantly, the paper reduces the work-load of the brain insofar
as we don’t have to engage in the calorically costly activity of keeping all
these steps in our mind, and increases the speed at which we’re able to solve
the problem. Clark ’s theory is
anti-representationalist in the sense that he claims that cognition involves
the use of physical entities outside the brain, rather than
claiming that all cognition is the manipulation of symbols in the brain.
For Clark , the paper and pencil are
literally a part of the cognitive apparatus. This is not an idealist
thesis as he’s not suggesting that mind makes these physical
entities, but is rather the thesis that the tools we use are a part of our
cognitive system. He could be mistaken– I happen to think he’s right –but
the important point is that he’s able to arrive at this thesis by taking our
biology seriously, by taking seriously limitations of our brains, memory, etc.,
and by taking seriously the fact that like all other critters we need to get
around in the world, respond to events in the world in real time, etc.
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