Integral
Humanism is one of the core ideologies on the basis of which the Jana Sangh and
subsequently the BJP were founded… Most members in the BJP suffer from
ideological haziness, and many of its stands have tended to depend on plain
anti-Congressism and not on any of the foundational principles… The BJP is
passing through a phase where it requires serious introspection, otherwise it
does not take very long for political parties to break up and reach political
oblivion. It has already shot itself in the foot by discarding ideologues and
well-wishers, paying lip-service to icons who built the Jana Sangh; the only
way it can kill itself is by losing whatever remains of its ideology.
Jean
Gebser: Cartographer of Consciousness
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Gebser’s
magnum opus, The Ever-Present Origin (first published in Germany in 1949 but
not translated into English until 1984) is an immense, six-hundred-page
exploration into an insight—a “lightning-like inspiration” as he called it—that
first came to Gebser in Spain in 1931. This insight, that a new kind of
consciousness was beginning to appear in the West, came to Gebser through his
study of poetry, particularly that of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. As
Gebser unraveled it, he soon saw that evidence for this new consciousness could
be found in developments in science too. In fact, the more he thought about it,
the more Gebser discovered signs of this new consciousness in practically all
aspects of Western culture.
For
the next eighteen years, he gathered and organized his thoughts on what he
called an impending “mutation” in consciousness, the most immediate
manifestation of which was what he called the breakdown of the “mental-rational
structure” of consciousness, the dominant “scientistic” rationalist reductive
paradigm that has held sway over the West for the last few centuries. In 1949, when
the first part of The Ever-Present Origin appeared—to be followed soon after by
the second—Gebser had marshaled some of the most convincing arguments that a
shift in Western consciousness was indeed taking place, and that its
consequences would be felt by people of his and the following generations…
Speaking
to a younger generation of readers eager to know more about different forms of
consciousness and familiar with the work of Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de
Chardin (two other thinkers concerned with the evolution of consciousness), in
a preface to a new edition of The Ever-Present Origin, Gebser wrote that “the
principal subject of the book, proceeding from man’s altered relationship to
time, is the new consciousness, and to this those of the younger generation are
keenly attuned.”
Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the
Radically Unseen - Page 281 - Gary
Lachman - 2008 - Preview - More
editions Lachman's critique of occult politicians
like Annie Besant, Emanuel Swedenborg, Nicholas Roerich, René Guénon, Julius Evola, Rudolf Steiner, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, and Aleister Crowley
shows that politics is
as swayed by the occult now
as it ever was.
Amazon.com: Irreducible
Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century Edward
Kelly (Author), Emily
Williams Kelly (Author)
The
authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological
phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible,
to account for in conventional physicalist terms… The authors further show that
these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative
'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a
century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F.W.H. Myers, and developed
further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover,
ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective
conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and
neuroscience.
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and
Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind) by Andy Clark (Dec
31, 2010)
Andy
Clark argues that our thinking doesn't happen only in our heads but that
"certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of
feedback, feed-forward and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously
criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body and world." The pen and paper of
Feynman's thought are just such feedback loops, physical machinery that shape
the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind.
Think of the Body October 22,
2005 by Tusar
N. Mohapatra Review of Bodies of
Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity: Ian
Burkitt
Growing
interest in the consciousness studies is forcing the skeptics to look at it
afresh, for it no longer belongs to the New-Ager's domain, alone. This book is
a commendable compendium of path-breaking ideas reconstituting our conception
of subjectivity. While post-modern sentiments amply spice the text, what should
not be missed is the emphasis on body-mind continuum, which runs as an
undercurrent, throughout the work.
Comparing Roger Penrose and Sri Aurobindo on the Mind from Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother by Sandeep
Dec 8, 2012
In
the last chapter of his book “The Emperor’s New Mind”, Roger Penrose draws on
his scientific career to offer insights into the spontaneous, aesthetic and
non-algorithmic nature of mathematical insight, the non-verbal thought process
of the scientist, and other topics related to what he calls the “physics of the
mind”. Many of his remarks chime quite well with corresponding observations
made by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the nature of the thought process, as
we see in this article.
Scientists
have developed what they call “laws” of physics. These laws of physics describe
the action of material energy, the laws of “cause and effect” in the physical
universe. Similarly, we find other applications of the action of cause and
effect. We observe that what occurs today is the result of energy expended and
directed yesterday; and similarly, today’s action creates tomorrow’s result.
The entire system of life in Western civilisation is based on the principles of
cause and effect development. Sri Aurobindo makes it clear that this action of
“cause and effect” is the fundamental essence of what is known in the East as
the “law of Karma”…
Sri
Aurobindo makes it clear that in a universe that functions under the kind of
strict laws that we see everywhere at work, the idea that it is developed by
Chance is incomprehensible. The reason for this mistake is contained as a seed
in the first error, in that we attempt to explain things of a different order
by an understanding based in the physical world, whereas our expanding insight
is now beginning to show us that we need other forms of knowledge and other
tools of perception when we begin to explore realms beyond the purely physical
world.
Integral Yoga and Psychoanalysis - III
On Love — Miranda Vannucci Publisher:
Miranda Vannucci , Italy
The
third book in a series suggesting possible points of contact between the
disciplines of psychotherapy and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother, this volume addresses, from a psychological point of view, certain
aspects of love. Chapters cover such subjects as the acceptance of the self,
the confusion between sexuality and the sentiments of love, maternal love and
unconditional love, the awareness and purification of the vital, the union of
two beings, forms of love such as friendship, fraternity, and solidarity, and
love as one of the universal forces. Numerous extracts from the works of Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother are used to elaborate the author’s premise.
