Sri Aurobindo Devotees: Prayers, Sasi balika Vidya Mandir, 9.30 a.m.;
Sri Annai Meditation Centre, 4 p.m.
About the Gnostic Centre Genesis
The
Gnostic Centre is a research centre for the growth of consciousness.
It was started by a group of 3 young
professionals in 1996, who
had a dream.
The dream slowly formulated itself into a vision for a new kind of educational
institution. In those early days we called it by various names. In this attempt
to formulate the Vision of
a new education, our friend, philosopher and guide was none other than Dr Nirodbaran, literary
secretary to Sri
Aurobindo, and the scribe for 'Savitri'. However, from
the Vision to the reality of building a centre, it took a some years of inner
and outer preparation, until the final
inauguration of the Centre on 28th March, 1997.
However,
as the Centre and its members and
activities expanded, it became clear that we were engaged in the process of
discovering an entirely new and unmapped road towards a new kind of
education, a research and a new search for an education for the growth of
consciousness…. - Landmarks -
Underlying
Paradigms Upcoming Events: Admissions Open: L'avenir
2013-14 session Vacancy for: PRESCHOOL NURSERY TEACHER for L'avenir Saturdays: 'Savitri' reading by Ameeta Mehra (09:00
to 10:00a.m.) Online Courses: Next Semester begins
Jan'13 Website updated: 5 Nov., 2012 The Gnostic
Center's - Youtube
Channel
The
frame of mind to which popular music originally appealed, on which it feeds,
and which it perpetually reinforces, is simultaneously one of distraction and
inattention. Listeners are distracted from the demands of reality by
entertainment which does not demand attention either.
But
I want to argue that this brain process itself is part of the world, and unfolds
in the world; and that when we become aware of this, we are perceiving an
additional part of what is going on in the world, rather than a second-order
representation at a distance from the world.
This
also leads back to what Whitehead calls “nonsensuous perception.” Metzinger
distinguishes between intentional and phenomenal contents of perceptual
experience. What Metzinger calls “intentional” is what happens when the
perception is cognized. But, as Whitehead suggests, cognition is only a very
belated and complex result of integrating many prehensions: i.e. it is only a
derivative (which only happens in certain especially complex cases) of the far
more basic pre-cognitive “prehension” of the thing. And this nonsensuous and
precognitive sort of perception corresponds, more or less, to what Metzinger
calls the “phenomenal” level of experience. Metzinger’s phenomenality (the most
basic sort of “consciousness”) is the noncognitive (or precognitive) and
affective basis of perception.
This
is what I think of as the nonphenomenological and nonintentional — or
“autistic” — level of primordial experience. Because it preceides cognition, it
is singular and not susceptible to representation: it is, in a Kantian sense,
“aesthetic” rather than a matter of “understanding.” Metzinger mentions many
sorts of noncognitive perceptions or experiences in his book; think, for
instance, of “Raffman qualia,” or shades of color that can be phenomenally
experienced by not identified, recognized, recalled, or remembered.
Annual
- Issues 5-8 - Page 56 - Sri
Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946 - Coming to the actual arguments for
the Illusionist theory, Sri
Aurobindo makes a close examination of the applicability of the
analogy of dream and hallucination to the world-experience and his main
conclusion is that the analogies are utterly ...
How
infinitesimals of a material character like the gene and the chromosome can
carry in them psychological elements to be transmitted to the physical form that has to emerge from the human
seed; it would be at bottom on the same principle in the objectivity of Matter
as that which we find in our subjective experience,—for we see that the
subconscient physical carries in it a mental psychological content, impressions
of past events, habits, fixed mental and vital formations, fixed forms of
character, and sends them up by an occult process to the waking consciousness,
thus originating or influencing many activities of our nature. Sri Aurobindo > The
Life Divine Volume-18 > Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations And The
Indeterminable 8:38 AM
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