I would strongly
suggest that you consider looking at Joshua Ramey’s new book The Hermetic Deleuze… While a lot of my
earlier years were spent reading esotericism, gnosticism, hermeticism and
occultism, I have been incrementally distancing my philosophical self from such
potential contaminants to reason for twenty years now. And this is despite
teaching both philosophy and contemporary incarnations of such
esoteric traditions at university. I only started to forcefully question the
viability and value of this bracketing quite recently: Posted by Paul Reid-Bowen at 13:38
Ashis
Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood - Christine Deftereos -
gives the reader an insight into a novel aspect of Nandy. The author insists
that Ashis Nandy is not merely a self-described political psychologist; he is
also an intellectual street fighter who comes face to face with the psychology
of politics and the politics of psychology, thus affirming why this
intellectual is one of the most original and confronting Indian thinkers of his
generation. The main features of this book are its original reading and the
authentic use of the psychoanalytic theory to characterise and demonstrate the
importance of psychoanalysis in Nandy's work. Read More...
Since minds are features of biological
systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version
of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological
history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the
conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An
adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the
universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such.
Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious
belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos,
he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a
different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the
growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than
mechanistic.
ABA
Journal - Feb 1962 - Page 155 Vol.
48, No. 2 - Magazine - Full
view Lawyers are now frequently called upon to make decisions in
business matters, and businessmen must often decide a course of action that has
distinct legal implications. by Stuart T. Saunders, President, Norfolk and Western
Railway Co.
In his stimulating book, The Uses of
the Past, Herbert Muller emphasizes the importance of values in these
words: “Our business as rational beings is not to argue for what is
going to be but to strive for what ought to be . . .” It is this pursuit of
truth in the face of ultimate uncertainty that establishes the essential
dignity and grandeur of man. All our hopes for the future depend upon
this quest, and we, as judges, lawyers and businessmen, must see to it that
human idealism remains the well-spring of our civilization.
Source
Book Modern Hinduism - Page 171 - Glyn
Richards - 2013 - Preview
The rending of the veil by involution and
evolution is the prerequisite of the development of divine consciousness and
divine life within humanity. ... Though
he failed to stir the imagination of the people in the same way as men
like Vivekananda and Gandhi
he still succeeded in inspiring enthusiasm in small groups of
intellectuals for the cultural heritage of India, especially the Vedas and
Upanishads in which is philosophy is firmly rooted.
Science
and Religion Around the World - Page 204
John Hedley Brooke, Ronald L. Numbers - 2011 - Preview - More
editions One of these was Aurobindo Ghose
(1872–1950), an English-educated Bengali nationalist and philosopher, who
repudiated the materialism of Darwinian evolution for the “involution” of divine consciousness.
Hindu creationists, however ...
The
Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 11 - V.
P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo traces
this theory of involution and
evolution also in Heraclitus according to whom the cosmos represents the involution and evolution of the
one eternal principle of Fire — at once the one substance and the one force —
which he expresses as the upward and downward road. Vivekananda traced this concept
of involution in the ancient Hindu philosophy. He says: "...
this whole chain, is the involution of that cosmic life which is
everywhere. It is this one mass of intelligence which from the protoplasm up to
the most ...
The
political philosophy of Swami Vivekananda - Page 33 - A.
V. Rathna Reddy - 1984 - Vivekananda related the evolution of the
world to the involution of the spirit. According to him, social
evolution is not an independent process. He believed that it is regulated
by involution. It is not evolution that decides the course and destiny
of...
Hinterlands
and Horizons: Excursions in Search of Amity - Page xii - Margaret
Chatterjee - 2002 - Preview - More
editions Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and S. Radhakrishnan. Their
cultural ... Out of this mining of ancient wisdom the Indian
thinkers of the post-Brahmo Samaj era chiseled a discourse that was not
derivative, but rooted in Indian soil. This took further ...
Page
47 Vivekananda invokes
guna language elsewhere, when he applies the concept of realization to the
national and ... Indeed Sri Aurobindo, like Vivekananda,
combines mining ancient thought along with grafting elements of
modernism and is untouched by the Christian framework of ideas. His rejection
of the Samkhyan strict dualism of purusa (spirit) ... The theory of
"involution" of the Eternal or Spirit is to be understood as a
counterconcept to "ex nihilo" creationism, and integral yoga
draws on all the capacities of the individual without polarizing nature to
spirit. In this connection, it is worth ...
History
of Science and Philosophy of Science: A Historical ... - Page 6 Pradip
Kumar Sengupta, Sengupta
Pradip Kumar - 2010 - Preview - More
editions A product of the Indian intellectual temper of the late 19th
century, he, like Swami Vivekananda, was committed to ... in the
light of lights, only the wisest person can discern the different levels of
evolution (uttarana) and involution (avatarana).
Analysis
of Sri Aurobindo's 'The
Life Divine' - Page 131 - Roy
Posner - Full
view Source (i.e. the involution)
and an ascent to the Source (i.e. the evolution) simultaneously. ... Aurobindo also tells us that Life/Energy is a dynamic play of
the universal Force, and through this interchange, stimulation, and response
between the ...
Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman -
Page 125 - Stephen
H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More
editions (Aurobindo uses
the term 'involution' in a
rather precise sense: as "infolding" or "self-containment,"
which is to contrast with "unfolding" and
"self-expression.") Matter, for example, marks as complete an involution of the characteristic
of ...
Teilhard
De Chardin and Eastern Religions: Spirituality and ... - Page 200 - Ursula
King, Joseph
Needham - 2011 - Preview - More
editions Teilhard also uses the term involution, but it describes a rather different process from what
it means in Aurobindo's thought.
For both thinkers involution is
the fundamental law of evolution, but in an almost opposite sense. When
Teilhard ...
The
future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose - Page 424 J.
Chetany - 1978 - Involution: We
have noted that Aurobindo explained
evolution as an inverse process of the Saccidananda's original ... Aurobindo means by involution the original process whereby the Absolute
Saccidananda became Matter and Ignorance.
The
Essential Aurobindo -
Page 70 - Aurobindo
Ghose, Robert
A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo Ghose,
Robert A. McDermott. Involution.
and. Evolution. THE Western idea of evolution is the statement of a process of
formation, not an explanation of our being. Limited to the physical and
biological data of Nature, it does not ...
Physics
of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, ... - Amit
Goswami - 2001 - Preview - More
editions A greater power must come, a larger light (Aurobindo 1970, bk. 6, canto 2). For the last few hundred
years, nay, the last millennium, with a few ... Involution.
and. Evolution. Esotericism has an aspect that two philosophers of recent
times ...
God
Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us About Our Origins ... - Page 128
- Amit
Goswami - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Indian thinking with the idea of first involution and then evolution of
consciousness. Ken Wilber (1981) has put further flesh on the skeleton of Aurobindo's work, and so have I
(Goswami, 2001). Figure 9-2 shows the evolved version. E = Mc2 ...
The
Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into ... - Page 411
- Joseph
Vrinte - 2002 - Preview
SRI AUROBINDO'S COSMIC EVOLUTION IN TERRESTRIAL NATURE For Sri
Aurobindo and Ken Wilber, evolution is preceded by involution, and
what was original and primal in involution is in evolution the
Supreme emergence.
Esalen:
America and the Religion of No Religion - Page 293 - Jeffrey
J. Kripal - 2007 - Preview - More
editions also prefiguring the upward-arc of the evolutionary vision of
Henry James Sr. and Sri Aurobindo. It is precisely
this involution-evolution mysticism that Darwin Fall will discover is
dramatically embodied in the physical transfigurations and ...
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