They put a premium on the values of openness, transparency, sincerity, freedom of expression, and unfettered debate.
Many of the Enlightenment’s most influential thinkers had little but contempt for uneducated people and wanted to restrict the pursuit of truth to a learned elite.
Not all truths are self-evident, and not all facts are easily verifiable, so societies need particular evidentiary standards and forms of authority to determine where truth lies.
Facebook and Twitter also profit from the business generated by rumor, innuendo, falsehood, and conspiracy theories... David A. Bell
Re-envisioning Development for Sustainable Community Systems: Art, Spirituality and Social Transformations
AK Giri - Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community …, 2019
… They also bring us in many different related ways to seekers and practitioners such as Tagore, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo … But Sri Aurobindo here also challenges limited understanding of aesthetics when it is bound to senses only …
Transition to sustainable community systems calls for re-envisioning human development. Human development does not only mean economic, political and ethical development; it also means artistic and spiritual development. All these dimensions of development are interlinked, but we have not paid sufficient attention to artistic and spiritual bases and horizons of human development and social transformations. In order to develop both individually and collectively, it is necessary to develop one’s artistic and spiritual potential. The essay explores relationships between art, spirituality and human development and describes examples from histories of ideas, art experiments and educational movements for creatively cultivating cross-fertilisation among them further. Ananta Kumar Giri
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00356-2_7
Part of the The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science book series (APESS, volume 26)
[PDF] Who Put the Super in Superhero
SL Ross - Transformation and Heroism as a Function of Evolution …, 2019
… The framework culminates with an elucidation of how the ordinary yet heroic individual becomes a superhero or transhuman as outlined by spiritual teacher Sri Aurobindo, through three transformations of biopsychosocial maturation and spiritual realization …
[PDF] Warp, Weft and Way: A Journey of Literature with Imaginary Maps
R Roy
… “Lightning-flame” across the “faint outline”: A 'contemplative insight' in trans-singularity is almost like Aurobindo's idea of “intuitive mind” – a mind of vision corresponding to illumination. The poet swims in such fabric … “intellect” …
[PDF] Praise for Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science & a Universal Path of Divine Love
L Vaughan-Lee, YEG O'Brian, R McDermott…
… Isn't this exactly what the world needs, and exactly what we need?” —Robert McDermott, PhD, president emeritus and chair of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies; author, The Essential Aurobindo …
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- The Somerville Times reviews Richard Oxenberg's *On the Meaning of Human Being, Heidegger and the Bible in Dialogue*. It is impossible to read Oxenberg’s ...
A Feminist Ethics of Self-Emptying? - This post is by Kris Trujillo. Kris is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University where he teaches and researches the Christian mystical traditio...
The Need to Overcome the Refusal of the Ascetic As the Final Law of Life - Not only has religion frequently been at odds with the intellect, but it has also consistently been at odds with the vital life energy. Religious traditio...
5.5 The Mental - There is one thing certain about the mind and its workings; it is that you can understand only what you already know in your own inner self. What strikes...
Four Lessons from Home Renovation - During the months of December 2018 and January 2019, we spent about 5 weeks getting several long-overdue renovation and repair projects completed around th...
The material conditions of qualitative individualism - by Amod Lele
When I first started reading Charles Taylor on qualitative individualism in my 20s, my Marxist father complained that Taylor paid too little attention to material conditions. I didn't really get the criticism at the time, but I do now, for reasons that go well beyond reading and writing.
Taylor's discussion of qualitative individualism (or "expressivism" or the "ethics of authenticity") takes place largely in the realm of ideas, as mine also has so far. I have tried to trace the history of the ideas of qualitative individualism. But such a history is incomplete. Read more of this post
When I first started reading Charles Taylor on qualitative individualism in my 20s, my Marxist father complained that Taylor paid too little attention to material conditions. I didn't really get the criticism at the time, but I do now, for reasons that go well beyond reading and writing.
Taylor's discussion of qualitative individualism (or "expressivism" or the "ethics of authenticity") takes place largely in the realm of ideas, as mine also has so far. I have tried to trace the history of the ideas of qualitative individualism. But such a history is incomplete. Read more of this post
Complicating hate speech matters - Though the very term Islamophobia remains highly contested in Norway, the reluctance to define anti-Muslim speech as a form of hate speech and to include i...
Why the purity of the Savitri text is important - Evil and the Philosophy of Retribution: Modern Commentaries on the ... https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=1317342070 Sanjay Palshikar - 2017 - Preview - ...
Success, Happiness and Fulfillment–M.S. Srinivasan - [Published in Fourth Dimension Inc. Towards Integral Management. http://fdi.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/cms/index.php June 2011] (The seeking of happiness i...
Monthly updates and newsletter articles - From Jan 2019 we will not be updating this blog. Please refer to our website at https://sriaurobindosociety.org.sg/ For newsletters and articles, please r...
The Story of the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - Dear Friends and Well-wishers, Wishing you all a very Happy New Year. We are beginning the new year with the publication of a very special article on the S...
Princeton Lecture Video, “Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna-Based Doctrine of the Harmony of All Religions” - As part of my responsibilities as Visiting Professor at Princeton University for 2018-9, I am inviting guest speakers for a lecture series entitled “New Di...
“Electrons Don’t Think” by Sabine Hossenfelder - The following is a comment I posted on the physicist and blogger Sabine Hossenfelder’s blog Backreaction to a post titled “Electrons Don’t Think.” https://...
Sri Aurobindo Society | The Mother's Symbol
https://www.aurosociety.org/society/index/The-Mother%27s-Symbol
The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her work. The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti.
The 12 petals of the Mother’s symbol represent the 12 Aspects :
- Sincerity
- Humility
- Gratitude
- Perseverance
- Aspiration
- Receptivity
- Progress
- Courage
- Goodness
- Generosity
- Equality
- Peace
Sep 26, 2017 - THE MOTHERS SYMBOL AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE - THE MOTHEROf SRI AUROBINDO ashram Pondicherry was born as Mirra Alfassa in ...
Here is a free rendering of the First Hymn of Rishi Vamadeva, Rig Veda Mandala IV Sukta 1. the First Richa, The book is available at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1794678263
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1794678263
