India comprises of multiple nations and myriad cultures. Most people are yet to be modern in their attitude and aspirations. Gender stereotypes are further strengthened through culture, religion, and tradition. Courts are doing a bit to dismantle their hold and must be supported.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1055507670986178561?s=19
India never saw Democracy during the last 7000 years and the British gifted it only 70 years back but is in its infancy. Political parties are doing their best to keep people bonded to myths, both ancient and modern. People exhibiting their freedom and autonomy can break all that.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1055673807506071552?s=19
Everything happens for the first time or nothing can be considered as a repetition. ("You cannot step into the same river twice" -Heraclitus). So, Democracy including the role of Judiciary is evolving by negotiating highly complex situations and navigating through wide diversity.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1055854595916713990?s=19
[Samuel Smiles’ classic instructs readers that, while self-help “strengthens” its practitioner, “help from without is enfeebling in its effects.” ...it was this Victorian moralists’ bestseller that FIRED the JAPANESE in their “catch-up with the Advanced West”] -Sauvik Chakraverti
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1055666891505561601?s=19
https://selforum.blogspot.com/2013/01/samuel-smiles-edmond-holmes-pringle.html
Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science https://t.co/1pJLpi4Rh0
His dozens of books include an ethnography of one of France’s supreme courts, a paean to the difficulty of religious speech, a mixed-media “opera” about the streets of Paris and a polyphonic investigation into the failure of an automated subway system — narrated, in part, by the subway itself. This work has inspired — or, depending on your point of view, infected — everyone from literary scholars and object-oriented philosophers to management theorists and seminarians. Unlike most philosophers, for whom thinking is a sedentary activity, Latour insists on testing our taken-for-granted ideas about the world against the world itself.
The next CBC will take place in Oxford, Wolfson College, 4--6.12.2018. You can learn the names of the speakers and everything else here and in this flyer.
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"What is space time? What is quantum mechanics? How do they play well together and what are the problems of having them play together?"
The best books on Cosmology, a #readinglist by Sean Carroll https://t.co/WZJas0DsKd
“What is Information” by Peter Janich
Curious if @normonics @nntaleb @trishankkarthik are familiar with the author or this book? Thought? https://t.co/xe1z7EhoO9
https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1055497018146091008?s=19
What is bias, really? The best books on essentialism, a #readinglist by @UMich Professor of Psychology Susan Gelman https://t.co/gXwq5vW2iY
A thread to collate posts on the dasha-guNatva of bhima
1) jnana 2) bhakti 3) vairagya 4) prajna 5) medha 6) dhruti 7) sthithi 8) yoga 9) prana 10) bala
https://twitter.com/pranasutra/status/1016309075213258753?s=19
In this thread, I will discuss about the peculiar symbolism of water nymphs or "Apsaras" and how they were supposed to derail the meditation of Yōgis.
The word "Apsara" itself is a reference to water: "Āpa" and "sara" (to flow). https://t.co/wfGtQuV73P
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1055094310327214080?s=19
My personal opinion is that the deity worshipped by Jews, at least at some point in history, was such a form of Shiva. Probably, a form of Shani (Saturn), known to the Hebrews as the restful one (Shabbatai). Orthodox Jews have quite similar practices as certain Shaivaite sects.
In the case of many recent #MeToo accused, their daughters have been referred to but not always the sons which seems to be a bit skewed. [Also, in this case, the minister is married and is a father of grown-up daughters, so it is definitely not okay.] https://t.co/wisRu36EUd
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1055681312777007104?s=19
A relevant thread by @vakibs of course without any influence by Sri Aurobindo's profound observations on the subject. https://t.co/fr6ZxKg7yY
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1055687544292163585?s=19
@INCIndia can slam Modi for appro Netaji. But Modi has effected a political coup By taking over legacy of Congress along with its political mantle, Modi’s rebranding of nationalism has made BJP India’s main national party. @makrandparanspe https://t.co/OEXmKJjqJX via @dailyo_
Where @MakrandParanspe Ji tells a touching tale with a clarion call in favour of a cerebral & compassionate celebration of our Freedom of Speech. Vagdevī has always been generous in India’s rich vāda tradition; even “jalpa” & “vitandā” have been afforded their legitimate seat. https://t.co/l1PWhgPyBA
https://twitter.com/heeraman98/status/1056013806890033152?s=19
Please don't victimize or politicize humour: Abhijit’s case makes us reflect not only freedom of speech & expression, but also on the right of ordinary Indians to be funny, sarcastic, or ironic. Else, won’t we turn into a grim, humourless, intolerant, and hateful society? https://t.co/8oGgbzUwSt
A Tale of Two Temples | @prasannara : Hinduism is not constrained by the Book. It doesn’t have one. What it does have is stories, plenty of them | #_Hinduism_ https://t.co/BqQ0VBuDxR https://t.co/v23izeJLFu
Schelling’s Philosophy of Freedom https://t.co/0OH0qGENiE
#RameshBijlani : If i wish someone with folded hands and say ‘namaste’ or ‘namaskar’, what i am telling him is that i bow to the Divinity in him | #_Spirituality_ | #TOI
Need something good to read over the weekend? Check out our essay series with articles by @TheMusingMind, @bodhidave3, Claire Fanger, @RoopeKaaronen, @doctormickey, @ThouArtThat, @JacobNealGiven, and @cognazor. All available online here: https://t.co/UxmDmYODRH
"What drives the cataloguing of perversions is not so much the desire to arouse but the desire to transgress, and to fantasize about transgression on a massive scale."
Will McMorran picks five books on the Marquis de Sade.
https://t.co/gwJCiqHrQ3
The power and scope of reason. I think Hume's main aim in Treatise was to show that reason cannot be relied on to prove the claims of religion - hence his book attacked by contemporaries as atheistic https://t.co/9J7sI7c48v via @five_books
"What we get from the stories Oliver Sacks tells is the possibility of thinking about otherness."
Neuroscientist Morten Kringelbach explores five books that deal with emotion and the brain https://t.co/Y1Co5TupL0
In short, a formidable chasm still yawns between the extraordinary richness of psychedelic experiences and the modest alterations in brain activity patterns so far observed. It remains possible that further improvements in measurement technique will at least partly bridge this chasm.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/misreporting-and-confirmation-bias-in-psychedelic-research/
My reply to today's article on @sciam attacking me: https://t.co/hy2xcJd6K6. I believe the article overlooks the elephant in the room. It's an unfortunate blend of misleading representations, contradictions, semantic games, non sequiturs and straw men. @Horganism @DeepakChopra
https://twitter.com/BernardoKastrup/status/1055919849254408192?s=19
UBSaturday, October 27, 2018 12:23:00 AM
Well said. Sadly, this has to be published separately from the original article and the resultant attack. Four decades ago, Kelly tried to refute a similarly meretricious article by Persi Diaconis in Science; the editors wouldn't publish the refutation. And so on, back to the late nineteenth century. But what can you do but try?
Once again more language games. Much of what they specifically wrote was written to give plausible deniability to... well what ever they would need to, as needed. Plus how do you get away with misrepresenting the results of your own replication study?! LOL This is all very odd. For people claiming that their research has no bearing on metaphysics they sure seem pretty concerned about it.
https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2018/10/the-fix-is-worse-than-problem-reply-to.html
"Chomsky’s most controversial claim is that form is distinct from meaning; the form of a grammar is independent of what it means."
The best books on Language and Thought, recommended by Daniel L. Everett (@amazonrambler) https://t.co/bV6TWgwloa
"In the Symposium, what Plato seems to be saying is that moral education is not a matter of imposing principles on people against their natural bent, it’s more a matter of engaging with their desires and educating them – leading them towards the good." https://t.co/HAit4oaAt7
Need the best introductions to psychoanalysis? Read well-known psychoanalyst David Bell's recommendations here for discussion of Freud, Klein, Bion, Arendt and more: https://t.co/tSrPLrITqh
"The whole concept of purity, for example, is essentialist: the idea that the pure version of water is the best."
@UMich Professor of Psychology Susan Gelman on essentialism: https://t.co/gXwq5vW2iY
#Opinion | What are our teenage girls made of?: Most girls want to pursue teaching since it is a socially acceptable career. Photo: iStock When the 1,000 interviewers—all women, mostly in the age group 18-25—knocked on 73,000 doors from Kargil to… https://t.co/6gAxCkI1BV https://t.co/OQ0w6TspYz
Their aspirations soar ahead of social limits: TOI Edit A recent nation-wide survey of teenage girls has revealed both glimmers of change and the downward drag of systematic disempowerment. The upside is that the majority of girls want to study further… https://t.co/rICreZO77c
Fighting patriarchy and spreading awareness against misogyny is a modern day challenge but relying upon State apparatus for ensuring these or preferential treatment for women is another extreme. Organic and voluntary empowerment should be preferred to imposed impracticable goals.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1055864161828139008?s=19
Strangely, no one refers to Sri Aurobindo or his The Secret of the Veda. May be inconvenient truth!
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1055868666628071424?s=19
Sri Aurobindo on Consciousness and Force: Dissonance in the being https://t.co/uJ8PPcqtES
Danger lies in the argument that inequality is based on rational principles: Danny Dorling discusses five books on modern Britain https://t.co/P3JjHDhHAT
Five books for understanding terrorism, a #readinglist by @AmericanU Professor @akcronin https://t.co/fI19I6zTcB
We absolutely love this #readinglist created by Kaveh Daneshvar, using our list-maker tool, drawing together texts on human biases and irrationality
https://t.co/5RYsRi25aO
Remapping Memories | @akraj59 explains how our genetic make-up, surroundings, memories & our #Karma shape our destiny | #_A_K_R_ | #_Spirituality_ https://t.co/uqFGiH7com
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. A shout out to all those brave warriors who are fighting the good fight, promoting healthy living & eating & real food & literally saving lives @ProfTimNoakes @DrAseemMalhotra & others #eatbettersouthaftica #realmealrevolution https://t.co/aZnhVuSYpU
https://twitter.com/Supershazzer/status/1055773941128708096?s=19
NEW interview:
All writers draw from experience, but today's most exciting experimental novelists aren't afraid to mine theirs explicitly. Here, writer and critic Olivia Laing discusses five works of 'autofiction' that have influenced her work.
https://t.co/fjtKENtp8b
Increasingly even mainstream right-wing politics in the world’s major democracies — the US, India, now Brazil — has no moral compass, no capacity for self-critique, and therefore no defense against self-harm.
https://t.co/MOd0VxM9Xt
I condemn bigotry in any religion, but the #Sabarimala issue is in a different category. The comparison with Vaikom is unwarranted. Sabarimala temple was founded on a sacred legend prescribing that only women of non-childbearing age could worship there. #ReadytoWait makes sense. https://t.co/UsO1EM3uIF
https://twitter.com/NMenonRao/status/1055700765753393153?s=19
It’s Time We Started Talking About The Economic Costs Of Judicial Overreach. A case in point is the power and steel industry, where judicial orders has led to severe economic costs. https://t.co/n75bPnQjv6 via @swarajyamag
Reading is a dying art | @KarunaParikh : There’s this Japanese word (isn’t there one for everything?) – tsundoku. It roughly translates to buying #_books_ when you already have enough unread ones, & then letting them pile up amorously along your shelves https://t.co/xcoZosE2wT
Today, I’m going to focus on some of the ways the human body and creativity work with and in opposition to each other.
Starting off with Amanda Loudin’s Why writers should take up running — and vice versa https://t.co/jrRdFlbDvQ
Frances M. Thompson‘s Why Running Makes Me A Better Writer https://t.co/q9zbFr813Y
Murakami on learning on how to go the distance in both writing and running: https://t.co/61ghsUgICI
Emilia Phillips on how writing can deplete physical energy and the importance of recharging: https://t.co/xJD2zxawW4
Chen Chen on respecting the limits of one’s body: https://t.co/l0z4zflJPt
Fatima Asghar on realising writer’s block is informed by a person’s experiences, trauma & tiredness: https://t.co/eNQRzwiyAU
Today’s my last day running the account. This is @UrvashiBahuguna — thank you for following along this week.
https://twitter.com/genderlogindia/status/1056051883910053888?s=19
Hindus needing some infusion of the old Arya valour, here is a thread on Bhimasena..nourish your veins with some Dharmic heroics.. https://t.co/hd3yDqbIda
I believe it’s because the physical has much tamas by its very constitution and has to be exercised out by pressure of Manas and Prana..you would have noticed Sri Aurobindo used to walk for 4-5 hours..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1056018390601555968?s=19
There seems to be a process of infusing the physical with a receptivity to order, harmony of movement, beauty in poise..a physical culture so to speak that makes it fit for the descent or touch of the Higher...
Thanks to Tinder, Indian women can finally ignore men without consequences
Fine insight from author Devi Yesodharan @hype_atia : https://t.co/8gdkZtOKtJ
It must fix its broken education system and harness the energies of its young people: Sanjay Kumar Imagine the future of a state whose younger population is growing up without good quality education. One where only 32.57% population in the 16-17 years… https://t.co/cvvGi26QbA https://t.co/YWbI574btT
[Samuel Smiles’ classic instructs readers that, while self-help “strengthens” its practitioner, “help from without is enfeebling in its effects.” ...it was this Victorian moralists’ bestseller that FIRED the JAPANESE in their “catch-up with the Advanced West”] -Sauvik Chakraverti
I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/evtn59y7Cz Interaction with Tara Didi Sourcing Our Oneness Camp, Nainital 2018
https://twitter.com/AurobindoAshram/status/1056047063476133888?s=19
Sri Aurobindo's Bhavani Bharati
Aug 15 2018 Darshan performance at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch https://t.co/fmXKs98VRm
Sri Aurobindo's approach to Tantra by Premanandkumar https://t.co/mL923p4qW7 #SPIRITUAL
Stepping Back...
Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. you live almost projected......
https://t.co/uXnhyFA8zP https://t.co/u2hIWCYta0