October 19, 2018

Dharma is Rta. You can learn anything

Relativistic particles
U Mohrhoff, M Jaiswal - 2019
… Relativistic particles. Ulrich Mohrhoff (Sri Aurobindo Intl. Ctr. Educ.), Manu Jaiswal
(Indian Inst. Tech., Madras) 2019 - 17 pages. (2019); DOI: 10.1142/
9789813273702_0016. Abstract (WSP) The following sections are 

Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous
L Stein - 2018

It's International #DayOfTheGirl and we're recognizing the fundamental human right to access #education! 
We're proud to help students like @Malala learn—regardless of who they are, or where they come from. #IDG2018 #letgirlslearn https://t.co/nkfoOeyKvF
https://twitter.com/khanacademy/status/1050552031889502209?s=19
The more you use it and struggle, the more it grows. New research shows we can take control of our ability to learnWe can all become better learners. We just ...
Don't fear algorithms.
Learning and education is all about constructing concepts, methods and step-wise procedural structures inside your mind.
That's why it's called in-struction.
All I is AI
https://t.co/8etn6xuhKx #whywetech
https://twitter.com/ValueCritic/status/1047320819272114178?s=19

“Since there is in our mind an infinite striving to organize itself, a universal tendency to organization must also reveal itself...The system of the cosmos is a kind of organization that has formed itself from a common center.” -Schelling @TheSideViewCo https://t.co/p0BzbaGBMa

#Hegel 's #India receives 11-pages long #bookreview in the #Jadavpur #Journal of #Philosophy published by @JadavpurU #University. @OUPPhilosophy @HegelianNews @nybooks @JUFET
The #paperback is also out:
https://t.co/Vk8f55T40m
(thanks @Bitly & @amazon...begrudgingly...) https://t.co/m4M9corKBY

Starting in a few minutes (live): “Falling in Love with the World in an Apocalyptic Age” with Theodore Richards 
https://t.co/QLRox72IMZ

Behind the blinds @TheSideViewCo podcast recording with @KnowledgEcology, Aaron Weiss, and @erik_davis https://t.co/qRlpxvWZQO

"If you had asked economists 15 years ago, could Wikipedia ever work, where editors are not paid and with its semi-open comments, most of us would have said no & we would've been totally wrong."
The best books on information, a #readinglist by @tylercowen https://t.co/9GH6aXBbbC

"It’s very consoling to anyone who does Latin and finds it a bit difficult that Romans got it wrong too."
The best books for learning Latin, recommended by Harry Mount (@mounth) https://t.co/dJD7eydl5F

Why are faceless accusations allowed to end men’s careers? https://t.co/XquKLjwSfy

The Ascending Cycle of Development for Man, the Mental Being https://t.co/tpQ1hKY89N

We are subservient to the system .... cc @KeithNorris @normonics @clayforsberg @ShaneAmyx1 https://t.co/bW23xVxT5V

“The notion that the legal institutions that are supposed to expose the truth are instead covering it up or manipulating it adds a real terror”
David Grann (@DavidGrann) best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recommends books on true crime.
https://t.co/QVXxfxk6EZ

“Treating students as consumers cheapens not only students, but it also cheapens teachers, lecturers and those people who are trying to foster an environment for thought.”
Sociology professor Les Back (@AcademicDiary) discusses the best books on academia.
https://t.co/eiW6LsOh31

"The sophists are teaching you how to win, how to defeat your opponent — if necessary by making your weaker argument look like the stronger argument — hence our word ‘sophistry’ for specious, fallacious, tricksy, deceptive reasoning." @drangiehobbs 
https://t.co/hKxD8M9IA2

#Opinion | Nobel laureate William Nordhaus’ ideas for India: Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint Climate change may be the greatest externality that human economies have ever suffered. When I take an Uber from CR Park to the Indian Statistical Institute in… https://t.co/wqPQl1mFCP https://t.co/JiOhaI4pC5

"One of the things that’s intriguing about Chinese philosophy is the focus on the mundane ways we live our everyday lives and how that can have huge effects over time."
Historian Michael Puett @HarvardEastAsia recommends the best of Chinese Philosophy https://t.co/wLMaSCIbJB

That's because Japs never let Missionary menace take roots on their land despite getting nuclear bombed. Had they failed, there would have existed a party of Missionary educated Jap barristers accepting a constitution for Japan with Protestant ideals. 
https://t.co/OV7tdXguRJ
https://twitter.com/Hiranyareta/status/1052937573511979008?s=19

This is “Saint Boniface” destroying an oak tree in Germany revered by pagans. Many such sacred groves in Europe were destroyed. It is a premonition before the total ecological destruction in Europe, as well as decimation of natural philosophy until it recovered 1000 years later. https://t.co/4ueZZ2PVTk
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1052781019244494849?s=19
The only guide to Dharma is Rta. The only means to identify Rta is to be rooted in the Sat: the Purusha, that which is without change, without forms, without names and without disturbances of any kind.
All action and reaction has to be offered as victuals into the greater Yajña.

"If you go back to Hume, Locke or Descartes, you find that they weren’t writing for professionals in university, they were writing for their educated peers. Every educated mind should be engaged with the great questions."
A C Grayling: Ideas That Matter https://t.co/Y5Qi1S3bEm

On #AntiSlaveryDay, read historian @DavidOlusoga discussing the best books on race and slavery. https://t.co/lS6dWd8rD7

'Dan’s book was one of the first books that really took on this idea of prediction, one of the great innovations in the last decade or two of neuroscience research' @LFeldmanBarrett on our most recommended psychology book, by @DanTGilbert::
https://t.co/7kkCKyEawt https://t.co/nudVpNqPwY

“We already understand the value of biodiversity in a rainforest. The same is true of any community of human minds.”
@stevesilberman recommends the best new books on #autism. 
https://t.co/at3ZHgOzY3

[PDF] Educational Thought Of Dr. Radha Krishnan
RA Dar - … Scientific Research (IJAMSR) ISSN: 2581-4281 Vol, 2018
… or perturbation of one‟s being. (Nanda, R., 2009). Like many other philosophers such as John Dewey, Pestalozzi, Aurobindo and Tagore, Radhakrishnan emphasized education for all and education as per the needs and interest of the child. He …

Let's start over. First they came for me,then for @shilpitewari ,after which they came for @MakrandParanspe ,then @swamy39 ,Mr. Scientist may be next if he doesn't play along. Who's next? Modi?Increasingly looking like Vaidya + triplets will be the only ones left standing...  https://t.co/mPUoDb2G4C
https://twitter.com/rupasubramanya/status/1053195330072776704?s=19
And these idiots talk about Hindu Unity. Irony just died, and said enough is enough, and refused to reincarnate itself given the bullshit it has had to endure. https://t.co/bBVPdxHv8m

The #MeToo controversy has at least made men more conscious of their behaviour & women of their rights. The next challenge is to instil in society a culture of true respect for the dignity & autonomy of women. That needs real gender sensitization in homes, schools, & workplaces.
https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1051662391224586240?s=19

It appears that NIMHANS sends its rejects to The Puke Minute.  
https://t.co/sjvFSjL8YH
A man should treat a woman like his equal because she is. That’s the end of the sentence....The minute you start trying to put women on a pedestal, you’ve failed.
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1051878167227461633?s=19
“Women don’t want diamonds and all, they just want your time.” What made him think that he knows women enough to know what they want and what they don’t?

[THREAD] Who said this? 
"How’s that for alternate morality, Lohia style? The world’s only superpower looks a trifle immature compared to our rich tradition of "inappropriate relationships".
6. The oppressions of an Indian arranged marriage and the consequent craving for real companionship is a widespread experience.
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1051862769107009536?s=19
7. "The point is that for a liaison to become a scandal and a media event, the woman has to complain publicly," says Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of The Indian Express.

Rod Hemsell - 2017 - ‎Read
An investigation into the nature and evolution of consciousness through the lens of various philosophers, culminating with the experiential philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.


RT | @barugaru Replying to @nandu79 and @devduttmyth : Indeed. Amartya Sen was wrong. The Indic intellectual tradition was not based on 'argumentation' but on 'dialogue'. Indian history is not one of a "clash of civilisations" but of a "confluence of civilsations"

#SamirShukla : This new jurisprudence that is all abt celebration of individuality & freedom of choice is born in West under a very specific condition that can b understood only by looking at history of Western civilisation of last two-three hundred years | #Sabarimala https://t.co/qqsHewKy0J

The Constitution dharma: Intention to protect religious freedoms of groups, no matter how small, is unarguable: Arghya Sengupta That there is something deeply iniquitous about not allowing menstruating women to enter Sabarimala temple to pray to Lord… https://t.co/hmfNbEShXi https://t.co/pxn3NeWGcD

Because of its inherent contradictions, the ideology of cultural Marxism is the main source of the profound confusion that has grabbed almost every segment of modern Western societies—and which is about to swell into even more dangerous proportions. https://t.co/dsFIPay8gt

"Marxism has always been deep down a colonial Euro-centric, anti-pagan, and hence in this case, anti-Hindu ideology."  Must read   https://t.co/S1XKoaqaYg

Education is the most empowering #force in the world. It creates #knowledge, builds #confidence  and breaks down barriers to #opportunity. Let's #Innovate through #Education @teachersofindia @TeachEngIndia  @TeachForIndia A cup of #tea |Director-Jitendra Rai |Matheno Films. https://t.co/SF3MudFi6x
https://twitter.com/SAS_Rupantar/status/1053149447859900417?s=19

'The Case for India' by Will Durant is your starting point. You can go backwards from here. Search for Why India is what it is? What is its contribution to the world? Learn about people like Adi Shankaracharya, Guru Gobind Singh, Sri Aurobindo, Paramahamsa Yoganananda,...
https://twitter.com/bhole_bhandari/status/1053029281205342208?s=19

The myth that Logic is the highest realm of the Human intelligence must be smashed. Who told you this? Please read the great details on this by people like Sri Aurobindo. Get familiar with terms like Illumined Mind, Intuittive Mind, Over Mind etc.  A sincere request.
https://twitter.com/PS_009/status/1052938208135303169?s=19
And the specific techniques to cultivate these capacities. These are empirically established. Verifiable. Reproducible. Problem is Indians led these Sciences. Now they pour scorn at these great protocols of Human Evolution.
Neuro programming takes 42 days for deep cognitive changes to take place.  Mantras, Lord Ayyappa’s spiritual energy field creates great changes for devotees. 
Reduce the 42 day, the cognitive shift will not happen. Yogic methods rely on multiples of such durations.

Religious myths on menstruation propagate perverse notions of hierarchy and ascribe a subordinate role for women. https://t.co/45d0IhgDGf

Many devotees are ecstatically posting Sri Aurobindo's pen portraits of Four Powers coinciding with Durga Puja/Navaratri. But the most appropriate picture of The Mother is expressed in Radha's Prayer. No wonder Sri Aurobindo saw her as embodiment of Surrender when they met first.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1052830001907818497?s=19

Secularism is bad, Liberalism is bad, Modernity is flawed, and Political correctness is wrong. It's difficult to swallow such warped logic from enlightened-seeming wise men and women defending nebulous advantages of esoteric practices belonging to arcane traditions in India today
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1053184925300547584?s=19

The teaching and Adventure of Consciousness of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is becoming increasingly relevant in the face of irrationalities espoused by Hindutva adherents. It is also an antidote against Marxist antipathy towards religion and Western disregard for anything Indian.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1053114856172216321?s=19

Most people are grossly ignorant of even what they eat and won't be able to distinguish between Carbohydrates and Proteins but would stoutly defend the efficacy of religious traditions and rituals uncritically out of sheer habit and herd mentality. Defending own thing is flawed.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1053109730082611200?s=19

The question is whether one should perennially be under the tyranny of some irrational rituals and superstitions just because his or her accident of birth. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo emphatically say no and show the way how to think logically and freely on Judeo-Vedic substratum.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1053106835379507200?s=19

Despite all our love and sense of gratitude towards a genius like Akshaya Mohanty, spreading awareness of the original composers or lyricists is necessary in the interest of truth and with a view to expressing respect to such creators in other languages whom an Odia may not know. https://t.co/RwOSsO3nMf
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1053086043103125504?s=19

Shipra Riviera Durga Puja bags the First Prize in the trans-Hindon, Ghaziabad sector. Show is on. https://t.co/hurvfpNIw2
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1053004907576475648?s=19

#EPWEngage: For Winston Churchill, Indians were nothing more than "a beastly people with a beastly religion." He refused to allow ships laden with rice to unload at Calcutta, allowing four million Bengalis to starve to death. Understand the #BengalFamine: https://t.co/wbWW47diku

An interview with Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys Limited, on the future of jobs. Interview extracted from the book ‘The Jobs Crisis In India’ by @TheJaggi , the Editorial Director of @SwarajyaMag https://t.co/8Xbl15gLvb

Indians Love The Internet: T-Series All Set To Overtake PewDiePie, On Path To Have Most Subscribers By November https://t.co/xtBbGGmWOh via @swarajyamag

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Culture affects our brain development and our perceptions and interpretations https://t.co/tpwovj15Ds

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In another post waiting for moderation I drew a distinction in science between explaining what something does, i.e, how it works, and why something exists. I said that modern science left out the why question. What do others think of this? Some say science should not address why. My mentor, Robert Rosen, says complexity, life, and consciousness is all about why questions, so science is crippled without it.  Thinking on this recently I'd say that the mechanistic world is 99% how things work. How explanations are sufficient with notable exceptions at the scale edges of material world (quantum, cosmological). But with life it is 99% why. The material is important but not what makes living systems interesting. Adding "why" back into scientific thinking (I claim it was present in Vedic thought prior to 1000BC and those traditions carrying it forward), to me, is essential to deal with complex, living, and cognitive systems.  
In developing an approach, called R-theory, of course I am called to explain it and defend it against legitimate challenges. But one of the questions that comes up is to say, for example, what consciousness, or life "IS". Thinking on this I replied that science has never addressed what something IS. Only how it works (in the modernist science) and a little of why in some fields that can't avoid it. I mean "why" in the sense of function - "to what end?" Not why reduced to how.  So, why is there a heart? It is easiest to state in terms of purpose, but not implying a particular Being's purpose. Non-anthropomorphic purpose as in what were the strategic and selective advantages that evolution of the heart addressed? We say, "to pump blood" as if a maker had this in mind. But the maker is the evolutionary organism. "To pump blood" is correct, but we are confused about the maker. Some will generalize it to the entire universe or God, which is fine. But for technical explanations we need to trace the steps in the process. We have to discuss strategic matters at a level between God and reduced matter. 
For that we need to bring the higher causes of end-directedness based on exemplars and formal boundaries governing dynamics back into science. They are already in there, of course, because they are part of the natural phenomena we are trying to describe, but by not recognizing these parsimonious and orthogonal types of explanation or cause we conflate them into dynamics and make a mess. Of course I have my own solution now, and it will be a lifetime of work to develop and explain it. But I wanted to pose these foundational issues because without having all four causal types included in a scientific framework, I can only conclude that no solution is possible.  Your thoughts?

John Kineman
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Sixth International Conference 
Science and Scientist - 2018
October 26—27, 2018
Auditorium, Campus 6, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
http://scienceandscientist.org/conference/2018

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