Sad news: Obadiah Harris, a giant of alternative spirituality passed yesterday. Harris, mentored by Ernest Holmes, stayed at Sri Aurobindo’s ashram, and revitalized Manly P. Hall’s @upredu @MitchHorowitz introduces Harris’ classic “The Simple Road.” https://t.co/OFX5EYZwun
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Finally I got my hands on Sri Aurobindo Reader by @MakrandParanspe. Thank you @IndicBookClub and @AbhinavAgarwal https://t.co/4tnbeX8G9C
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One of the greatest blessings of my life has been the contact with one of the greatest epic spiritual poetry - Savitri by Sri Aurobindo. I hope my consciousness evolves for me to be able to integrally understand and experience the numerous fascinating possibilities it holds. https://t.co/kK1GJrmING
https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1108646423313022976?s=19
"A table isn’t inherently feminine, but it’s feminine in French, so French people will be more likely, if asked to describe a table, to use feminine-like adjectives."
Robert Lane Greene (@lanegreene) discusses language and its relation to the mind. https://t.co/cpOfoVexjp
Few people seem to forget this phenomenon is not India-specific. Also, there is good reason large parts of populations active support what we think of as populist govts. Wishful thinking alone won’t change this. Anyone hoping for change needs to understand this.
https://twitter.com/shantanughosh/status/1107957999912538112?s=19
Vote for the strongest non BJP candidate, it could be INC or others depends on state I guess. I don't think there can be anymore to the choice this time. The opposition doesn't have a narrative, so be it. Sometimes narratives emerge.
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"@LenteCurrite" - what makes u think they wr not equally or not more "conflicted/struggling"? look at their writings -creative ppl cant really hold their tongues for long against their will. Its the divergent creative urges that creates the conflict and usu with society/environs.
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Nilesh - we should not bother too much about detractors but simply fill up all possible information space with the honest work we are doing and leave it to them to try and rebut. Meanwhile I must do an easy to understand article on how "critical editions" of our texts are done,,
@IndicBookClub is delighted to introduce Prof Meenakshi Jain's latest book, "Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History"
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In the Mandarin concept of meritocracy (or the Weberian one), the idea goes that by creating an ‘aristocracy of merit’, you encourage people to improve certain skills.
The problem here is that these incentives depend on a kind of cardinal utility, they only work where values are absolute. And they only work IF people can be trained & molded.
If values cannot be absolutely agreed upon (as in liberalism or Millian utilitarianism), this wont work. Similarly, if people can’t change this wont work.
This is why liberalism often ends up coupling to ideas like eugenics & evolutionary psychology, which, in effect, argue that people can’t change, their abilities & desires are innate & unalterable (That this Actually contradicts ordinal utility usually passes right over them)
https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1108795710449827841?s=19
The Walrasian model tended to focus on selection incentives. The game theory model focuses on direct incentives. The Marshallian & classical models focused on a mix. Psychology focuses on the habituating incentives.
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Social scientists often (tho not exclusively) focus on the constraints & the conditions (what a society requires & enables people to do, and why, as opposed to the means they take to do it, the people who do it, why they do it, and how to get people better at doing it)
It should be clear now that the line between incentives & social structures is not as firm as either Neoclassicals & radicals would like it to be.
Without institutions, metrics & technologies, no action of any type, let alone social action, is possible, desirable etc. at the end of the day these 3 are the ‘last instance’, so to speak.
CIIS is still going strong, I feel, though are there individuals like Sri Aurobindo out there anymore? Maybe this next phase is really up to the network of culture-builders (like us) to stitch together new canons of scholarship, exegesis, mythopoesis. https://t.co/WaYNhEtXF6
https://twitter.com/jdj_writes/status/1108357273225756672?s=19
Jeffrey Kripal's "gnostic" scholar comes to mind (from the Serpents Gift) as a new wave of scholar-practitioners entering the field of culture-building and knowledge building. Never easy, of course...
https://twitter.com/jdj_writes/status/1108357759777599494?s=19
Indeed... Contemplative space is fraught with inflationary dangers (I feel the counter-culture is pretty wrought with that).
Revealingly, the antithesis of the "symbolic" is the "diabolic". The former means "to bring together", while the latter means "to toss obstacles in the way". The cognate terms would be "integration" and "segregation" correspondingly, or the integrative and disintegrative forces
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Something as profound as Aurobindo's Integral Yoga needs to become more well-known in the West in order to handle the changes going on in modern consciousness. Haridas Chaudhuri made a good effort at that with his book *The Evolution of Integral Consciousness*.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108305904221466624?s=19
One you could add to this list, too , is Henri Bortoft, who is perhaps quite relevant to Integral Yoga as well. He wrote on discerning between "authentic and counterfeit wholes" or integrations -- a most critical subject in these times of fakery.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108299346179776512?s=19
That discernment between authentic and counterfeit pertains to Aurobindo's "the Sovereign and his Minister", especially where the Minister usurps the Sovereign. This exactly parallels Dr. Iain McGilchrist's book on neurodynamics called "The Master and His Emissary".
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108300396735414273?s=19
These and other such attempts at a "universal history" (Rosenstock-Huessy) demonstrate something of that "new constellation of consciousness" (Gebser) that shows the passage to an Integral Era has not been derailed yet. https://t.co/5HZzyCJfiP
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108794396902936577?s=19
[PDF] Freedom Struggle in India: Midnapore, 1905-1934
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… Midnapore by Jnanendra Nath Basu. (30) Aurobindo Ghosh and Barindra Ghosh also used to come to Midnapore and stay with their uncles, Jnanendra Nath Basu and Satyendra Nath Basu. It appears front Barindra Ghose's …
44) Decisive action at Surat & Nagpur:
Moderates & Extremists went to Surat session (1907) with their daggers drawn, & out came the result—Congress was split..
History may have not accurately recorded it, but it was #SriAurobindo who changed India's political destiny at Surat: https://t.co/gss7yp9B4k
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1108796348483231744?s=19
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