Sri Aurobindo gave varied advice depending on the individual

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The advice Sri Aurobindo gave varied depending on the individual. Generally speaking, those who are over-eager for experiences are asked to ignore them, while those who can get fruitful guidance from them are asked to pay attention

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Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 33 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview It seems to me that as Nietzsche shifts the stress from Apollonian harmony and reason to Dionysian ecstasy and disorder Aurobindo has made a similar shift by worshipping the destructive Shiva instead of the creative Brahman! Madhusudan ...

Word from the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality, and ... - Page 146 - Stuart Sovatsky - 1998 - Preview - More editions ... as Aurobindo, Nietzsche, Teilhard, Neumann, Gebser, Wilber, and others described, is far more of a spiritual nature than mere Darwinian adaptive evolutionism (and its widespread metanarratives and the eery eugenic technologies they still ...

Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity - Page 299 - Laurence D. Cooper - 2008 - Preview - More editions A somewhat more complete summary of this process and its underlying principle is offered by Ken Wilber as part of a ... of these systems cannot be experienced or deduced rationally, and nobody from Plotinus to Aurobindo thinks they can.

Secularism: The Hidden Origins of Disbelief - Page 269 - Mike King - 2007 - Wilber, as a Buddhist, is well aware of the great jnani traditions of meditation which ground and underpin Eastern non-devotional ... Nietzsche contributed with his unfortunate vision of the 'superman', and Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher who ... Wilber's spiritual historicism is deeply entrenched in the New Age, having made its way via Hegel through Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin.

The radiance of being: understanding the grand integral vision : ... - Page 332 - Allan Combs - 2002 - The historical roots of deconstructionism as a kind of textual relativism can be found, in part at least, as early as Nietzsche. 30. In his exceptional ... E.g., Satprem, 1970/1984, Aurobindo, 1972a. 2. Laszlo, 1987a ... Smith, 1982; Wilber, 1983. 5.

A Sociable God - Page viii - Ken Wilber - 2005 - Preview - More editions Ken Wilber. example, posits no supreme being or God and centers around a rigorous program of mental training explicitly aimed ... After all, the great saints and sages, Buddha, Christ, Lao Tzu, Shankara, Aurobindo, and others have been said to represent ... James, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Maslow, among others.

The Essential Ken Wilber - Page 153 - Ken Wilber - 1998 - Preview - More editions McDermott asks if we would ever hear polemic from the great spiritual philosophers, such as Aurobindo or James or Plotinus. ... Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Augustine, Origen, Plotinus, to name a very few. Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations With Leading Transpersonal ... - Page 354 Donald Jay Rothberg, Sean Kelly, Sean M. Kelly - 1998 

Uncreated Timeless Self of Radiant Emptiness - Onliness ... - Page 21 - Martin Treon - 2009 - Preview - More editions Thus, to the extent that Wilber's brilliant insights (as I have more or less adequately interpreted them here) are reflected and ... order), among this total who were certainly influential: Plato, Plotinus, Nagarjuna, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Meister Eckhart, Shankara, ... F. Nietzsche, S. Kierkegaard, Teilhard de Chardin, Alfred Whitehead, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ferdinand de Saussure, ...

Life: Energies, Forces, and the Shaping of Life - Page 154 - Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2002 - Preview - More editions Wilber is aware that referring to higher stages of consciousness may be subject to much controversy, among scientists ... Bergson said exactly that; and so did Toynbee and Tolstoy and James and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and Maslow. ...Chardin, Jan Smuts, Jean Gebser, Arthur Koestler and Sri Aurobindo as a process unfolding hierarchically ever-higher wholes, inclusive, complex and integrated.

Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophy - Volume 2 - Page 218 - Vraj Kumar Pandey - 2007 - The Mother's preoccupation was with this stage of the supramental evolution of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. ... lived at a very crucial moment in the history of thought when Marxist materialism, Nietzschean individualism and Freudian vitalism were popular and fashionable. ... The American philosopher Ken Wilber, although influenced by Aurobindo, has tried to reduce the reliance on metaphysics in Aurobindo's ...

Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard, Bergson and Gebser

The Vedic Colloquy of Indra and Agastya from Savitri Jan 11, 2013

The question that is raised here is: can the sheer force of Thought reach the source of all things? It cannot, and there is a struggle when attempt is so made. Gods oppose it. Agastya is at such a moment and confronts in his inner experience Indra, Lord of the realm of pure Intelligence. He is told that that Source is not to be found in Time. It does not exist in the actualities of the present, nor in the eventualities of the future. In this search, in this terrible struggle, Agastya should effect perfection and should not slay his friend. Indra assures that Agastya is his friend and brother.

Indra and Agastya together, the universal Power and the human soul, will extend in harmony the effective inner action on the plane of the pure Intelligence, so that it may enrich itself there and attain beyond. For, it is precisely by the progressive surrender of the lower being to the divine activities that the limited and egoistic consciousness of the mortal awakens to the infinite and immortal state which is its goal. Agastya accepts the will of the God and submits. Agastya gives up all that is realised in him into the hands of Indra, as offerings of the sacrifice, to be held by him in the fixed parts of Agastya's consciousness and directed in the motional towards fresh formations.

J.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics, and Indian Tradition - Page 165 - Jarava Lal Mehta, William Joseph Jackson - 1992 - Preview  

Aurobindo is, of course, nowhere mentioned in Luders' outstanding two-volume ... In my own humble judgment, however, Aurobindo's Vedic studies constitute the one single, central pillar which carries the burden of Aurobindo's creative thought, the one stalk on which the thousand-petalled lotus of his thinking blossomed, to adapt Aurobindo's own beautiful image. Philosophy and religion: essays in interpretation - Page 170 - Jarava Lal Mehta - 2004

Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 175 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview That is the idea of Kala or the Zeitgeist working, and, put religiously, it means that God being Supreme Wisdom uses everything for His Supreme purposes and out of evil cometh good. This is ... Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 175 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview This he says, is fatalism, and by flinging the world fatalism at Sri Aurobindo, he thinks he has damned his position. The word ... That is the idea of Kala or the Zeitgeist working, and, put religiously, it means that God being Supreme Wisdom uses ...

Political Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions (But) the Zeitgeist proclaims the utter helplessness of the mightiest and the sure fulfilment of God's decree." This immanent ... 60-1. Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo Ashrama, Pondichery, 1950. Second edition), p. 83. Political Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions In spite of his absence the revolution marched on because "the Revolution was the manifestation of the Zeitgeist, the Revolution was the will of God". Aurobindo substantiates his views about the revolution being in the divine plan by ... Modern Indian political thought - Page 191 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - But still on the plane of thought, there were subtle differences between the ideas of Tilak and Aurobindo. In Aurobindo we find the concept of Kali as the Zeitgeist (spirit of time). He refers to God as the captain of the nationalist movement.

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 60 - Page 682 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2007 - Was it perhaps the Hegelian Zeitgeist, Time-Spirit, the Heideggerean disclosure of Being in the horizon of modern Time, the Foucauldian inexplicable epistemic change? And what does it...

Gaveshaṇā - Volumes 1989-2000 - Page 42 - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1995 - Planning on the basis of One World as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo has become imperative to solve world problems, because nothing short of the world integration can satisfy the demand of the Time Spirit, the Zeitgeist. An integral human unity ...

M. P. Pandit 50th birthday commemoration volume - Page 6 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Agali Venkappa Sastri - 1968 - That introduces us to the vastly wider contemporary tradition of Supramental Yoga initiated by Sri Aurobindo and the ... He is heir to a double tradition — the sanatoria infused with the modern Zeitgeist on the one hand, and the reigning ...

Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series - Page 197 - Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Sri M P Pandit - 1992 - Preview Zeitgeist It did not mean that any kind of skill in works was Yoga, but by Yoga it signified a spiritual condition of universal equality and God-union and by the skill of the Yogic ... Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series - Page 198 - Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Sri M P Pandit - 1992 - Preview Zeitgeist may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists. The great and memorable vision of Kurukshetra when Sri Krishna manifesting His world-form declared ...

The Spirituality of the Future: A Search Apropos of R. C. ... - Page 270 - K. D. Sethna - 1981 - Preview - R. C. Zaehner's Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard De Chardin - That light is the center of the Zeitgeist — nay, it is itself the Zeitgeist with a central focus and a various radiation all around — weak in one place, a little stronger in another, suggesting this or that aspect of the revelation for which Sri Aurobindo ...

The Theatre of the Mind: Evolution in the Sensitive Cosmos - Page 70 - Henryk Skolimowski - 1984 - Preview Sri Aurobindo's view of evolution as perfecting itself through the human species is so close, at times, to that of Teilhard that one simply is astonished. The two men never ... Others who have studied both Aurobindo and Bergson have confirmed my conjecture of the profound but concealed influence of Bergson on Aurobindo. The idea of the Zeitgeist is not a fiction after all. Perhaps at a certain stage of its own ...

Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 143 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 2007 - As Sri Aurobindo says, "we do not belong to the past dawns but to the noons of the future." Sri Aurobindo's ideas on national ... let us not lose sight of the Zeitgeist, i.e. the spirit of the age. As Sri Aurobindo says, The living spirit of the demand ...

Philosophical Found. of Edu. - Page 85 - Y.k Singh - Preview ... temper and is not in accordance with the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time. In modern times such an aim of life would be considered to be selfish and escapist. This is the reason why Sri Aurobindo has given the conception of universal Moksha.

Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern - Page 383 - K. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji - 2003 - Preview - The utopian thought is linked with the Zeitgeist, what the age demands. Cutting across the East-West conflict, and avoiding "the materialist denial" of the modern West and the "refusal of the ascetic" of the ancient East, Aurobindo points ...

The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into ... - Page 5 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's ... ethical and evaluative presuppositions, but are also based upon the Zeitgeist in which the therapist and his adherents live.

Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good - Page 82 - Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - ... evolution of that manifestation, and, thus, there is a hidden mover in the movement of the world toward its goal, a Zeitgeist? ... Man, as everything else, is a part of the process, and Aurobindo calls man to take part in this process by the ...

Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavad Gita - Page 74 - Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - Preview - "This is the Zeitgeist, this is the purpose that runs through the process of the centuries, the changes of the suns, this is that which makes evolution possible and... In Aurobindo's speech at Khulna the "Yoga of the Gita" is further elucidated.

The Fuzzy Logic of Encounter: New Perspectives on Cultural Contact - Page 155 Sünne Juterczenka, Gesa Mackenthun - 2009 - Preview Itself a monument of universal truth for Aurobindo, the Gītā is seen by him as a document that shows the way of the evolution of all beings as the “Becoming of the Absolute”: “This is the Zeitgeist, this is the purpose that runs through the process...

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 254 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - Revolutionists; and again like Sri Aurobindo, he tried to keep civil agitation separate from revolutionary activity. ... a great personality readily the representative man of his people".39 It was inevitable that the Zeitgeist should throw up such a ...

Sri Aurobindo came to me: reminiscences - Page 7 - Dilip Kumar Roy - 1964 - That is, as I wrote to him once, the main reason why the Zeitgeist of today is definitely ranged against the traditional type of ... Barindra Kumar, the famous revolutionary, who told me that Sri Aurobindo was wont to say, whenever reminded of a ...

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920:Resistance ... - Page 104 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - In July 1909, not long after his acquittal, Nivedita tipped off Aurobindo about a rumour of his possible deportation, ... he was coming close to stepping out of the historical vanguard, which he called kala or Zeitgeist, altogether, in order to hand ...

The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice - Page 183 - Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. - 2003 - Preview - One of the more sober efforts to articulate the Zeitgeist is found in the monumental study by the Swiss cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905 – 1973). ... in 1932, has independently been voiced by at least two other intellectual giants—the Hindu philosopher-sage Sri Aurobindo and ...

The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... - Page 59 - David L. Johnson - 1974 -  political thought. as a manifestation of the "Time- Spirit" in history: In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India kala, who ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 55 - Page 371 2004 - If, after going through all these, we still hold that Sri Aurobindo was in no way touched by the influence of Swamiji, then it ... he who is perfect, he who brought into being the Zeitgeist, he who represents the sum-total of the past incarnations, has ...

History of philosophy: eastern and western - Volume 1 - Page 544 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1952 - Evolutionism seems to be the "Zeitgeist," the spirit of the times. Iqbal's great contemporary mystic and thinker Sri Aurobindo has transformed the entire Hindu spiritual heritage into a doctrine of dynamic spiritual evolution. Aurobindo takes in his ...

Integral Economics: Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society - Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer - 2010 - Preview - Aurobindo Ghose, like Gandhi a political and moral leader in India in the first part of last century, build, as a Hindu sage, ... At the same time he felt India and Bengal had a mission to perform in the community of nations: The ZeitGeist is at work ...

Indian idea of political resistance: Aurobindo, Tilak, Gandhi, and Ambedkar - Page 25 - Ashok S. Chousalkar - 1990 - by adoring her, Indians would get the ... behind India's independence. He wrote, "we believe that divine power is behind the movement, that Zeitgeist the time spirit is at work ...

Gandhi-Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita - Page 69 - Susmit Prasad Pani, Geeta Satpathy - 2009 - During freedom struggle, Sri Aurobindo in his speeches, time and again spoke of God intervening in the movement. Hegel's concept of Zeitgeist or spirit of time was in popular currency in the first half of the twentieth century. To Sri Aurobindo ...

Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel - Page 72 - A. Raghu - 2002 - Preview It could be postulated that this is related to the Zeitgeist of colonial India. An awareness of India's existence as a colonized nation was very ... in the case of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan has this to say of the youth of India

Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and ... - Page 260 - C. Christopher Alan Bayly, C. A. Bayly - 2011 - Preview -  ... school associated with Aurobindo Ghose and Bipin Chandra Pal exposed significant differences between liberal and ... The radicals agreed with the liberals that God was at work in history as 'kala or Zeitgeist'. But they also argued that...

Shadow, Self, Spirit: Essays in Transpersonal Psychology - Michael Daniels - 2005 - Preview Table 5 Transpersonal disciplines and parapsychology in the quadrant model 60 Table 6 Zeitgeist and shadow in ... of Sri Aurobindo 194 Figure 7 Washburn's model of psychological development 206 About the Author Michael Daniels, ...

Critical approaches to literature & research methodology: a miscellany - Page 13 - Bommatapalli Ramachandra Rao, Rawindara Siṅghā Rawī, Hukam Chand Rajpal - 1986 - It may content itself to accepting the Zeitgeist. It is interesting to note that the reservations that Sri Aurobindo has in regard to mental consciousness are shared by psychologists also because the conscious mental personality can sever itself ...

Annual - Page 21 - Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose - 1951 - Day is the greatness that appears in his front, Night in his rear, — whatever this Time- Spirit, this Zeitgeist or the greatness that appears, turns his face towards or arrives at, as he gallops ...

Equals one - Issues 31-34 - Page 1923 - Sri Aurobindo Society, World Union, World Goodwill - 1972 - Sri Aurobindo Society, World Union, World Goodwill ... On the 20th August they walked to Thirlmere. August 21, 1893 Sri Aurobindo in the 'lndu Prakash' of Bombay: "Our actual enemy is not any ... pursuit of the spirit of the times, the zeitgeist.

Augment Whitehead with Sri Aurobindo

RESEARCH IN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION-ABSTRACTS DEVI, S., A Critical Study of the Concept of Creativity in Philosophy with special reference to Bergson, Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo, Ph. D. Phil., Kur. U., 1976

The objectives of the study were (i) to find out if creativity was the general scheme of reality, (ii) to find out if creativity was linked with different concepts of this universe, that is, with becoming, cosmic evolution, consciousness, organic evolution and teleology, (iii) to trace the historical background of creativity both in Indian and in Western thought, with special reference to the Vedas, Upanishads, Plato and Plotinus, (iv) to locate the concept of creativity in Bergson's ideas, (v) to investigate how Whitehead contributed to the concept of creativity, (vi) to identify the concept of creativity in the ideas of Sri Aurobindo, and (vii) to analyse various theories of creative evolution developed by S. Alexander, L. Morgan and James Ward.

The methodology adopted was philosophical, historical and comparative. The study was philosophical in the sense that ideas of various personalities were organized, critically analysed and evaluated. It was historical because the development of the concept of creativity from various sources had been traced. Further, it was comparative as commonness between the ideas and theories of various persons on the concept of creativity had been identified and critically evaluated. Content analysis was used both as a tool and technique to analyse the educational ideas of Tagore and Whitehead. Content analysis consisted of documentary analysis and thematic analysis. For content analysis, primary as well as secondary sources were used. The material was also examined to find out its suitability for the proposed research by way of internal and external criticism.

Some of the findings of the study were:

1. Creativity constitutes the very basis of reality.

2. Creativity has been conceived by various thinkers as an exercise of nonfigurative powers of the whole psyche involving all its substance, the play of its entire energy. The creative action is more than cerebral, more than visceral, involving more than mind and heart, intellect and emotions. It augments the structure of human vision by introducing some new, vital configuration of ideas or from among those available to organize experience.

3. Creativity was the power to evolve a pattern that remained omnipotent insofar as it touched the details of actualization. Creativity was a widely recognized ideal for every human being.

4. Both east and west emphasized that what was creative about spiritual experience was not its psychological accompaniments but the inward change which manifested itself in the fruits of the spirit-peace, JOY and loving suffering. A new type of life emerged with a higher correspondence between one's self and the ultimate sources of reality. New qualities of mind and character were called forth out of ordinary men and women, qualities which manifested the Divine in them.

5. Bergson's concepts elan-vital had led to a revolutionary syndical that would restore a purified social life by insisting that social change in any class of people could be achieved only by the force of their own associations, through means that would evolve so as to suit their particular needs. In the theory of science, he had inspired a new `positivism' that criticized scientific data in a vigorous and original way and showed how much arbitrariness there was in our methods of measurement of magnitudes.
6. Whitehead introduced an omnibus principle called creativity, which was a sort of universal blanket to cover all logical branches that his philosophy had created. Whitehead's emphasis on the organic character of natural systems and his attempt to bring physics and biology closer together had a good deal in common with the Gestalt approach to mind and nature.

7. Some emergentists advocated the theory of levels according to which evolution proceeded by the method of creative synthesis and life and mind came of a certain kind of organization of non-living elements. These new qualities could not be inferred by merely adding together the qualities of elements taking part in the organization. At each new level of reality, new powers, new capacities and new qualities emerged. Life appeared at one of these levels. Along with it emerged a series of new qualities such as growth, assimilation, irritability, adaptability and reproduction. Mind was the result of still more highly complex organizations. This was called creative evolution or emergent evolution whose pioneers were Bergson, Alexander, Morgan and Ward.

8. Sri Aurobindo's evolution admitted both mechanism and emergence, determinism and freedom. The creator was the supermind and it was a power of Sachchidananda. Hence the process of evolution was free, self-imposed and self-determined by Sachchidananda. The world was not the result of blind chance but a self-manifestation of the ultimate. Nature's processes appeared to us to be mechanical merely because the purpose was under disguise. Nothing was created from outside.

9. Creativity constitutes the very basis or foundation of reality. It was the creative purpose which steered and guided cosmic evolution and natural evolution. Creativity in human civilization was the expression of creation, which was at the root of nature and reality.

10. Man's future is in the hands of two creative agencies, his biological evolution and his psychological evolution. Genetic and natural environmental forces continued to influence the development of man. Psychological control dominates the direction of human evolution. Man's personal potential is biological, but he is freely And creatively designed. His future depended upon his understanding and attitudes towards reality. Man would be creative and free in projecting his future only if he could at one and the same time realistically immerse himself in the history of his age and culture, discover trans-historical meaning and affirm divine communication. 

11. Bergson, Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead are quite close to each other as far as the process of creativity is concerned.

Science v. Religion (in the lead up to my dissertation) – Al Jazeera interviews Richard Dawkins, and Lawrence’s Krauss thinks he’s special from Footnotes to Plato by Matthew David Segall

Now that I've completed preparatory research essays on Schelling (The Re-Emergence of Schelling: Philosophy in a Time of Emergency) and Whitehead (Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of A.N. Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to Contemporary Scientific Cosmology), it’s finally time to start zeroing in on my dissertation thesis. The title I’m proposing for now is Imagination Between...

Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man - Page 309 - Keshavmurti - 1969 - In the beginning Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself much with the war though he knew that poor leadership in England and France was at least partly responsible for Hitler's truculent and bellicose ...

Collected Works: Words of the mother - Page 127 - Mother - 1980 - 1 April 1946 A Declaration Sri Aurobindo withdrew from politics; and, in his Ashram, a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politics — not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with the happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is practised, is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by falsehood, deceit, injustice, misuse of power and violence; ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page xv - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions Possibly such reconstruction of the political philosophy of Aurobindo might not appeal to some sections in our country who would regard it as an enterprise in the profanization of a sacred personality. But we must not forget that Aurobindo was ...

Quest - Volumes 93-98 - Page 16 - Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom - 1975 - Aurobindo might not have had the time or the inclination to enter into a proper study of the scientific picture of the world. Also, some of the great discoveries took place after his self-imposed seclusion. However, the theories of relativity and ... Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 581 - Verinder Grover - 1993

Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 32 - Jan Feys - 1983 - But for these queries Aurobindo might not have spoken of it at all. His general approach to myth also holds good here. Thus, e.g., Radha under the spell of Krishna symbolises "the soul, the psychic, hearing the call of the Divine". Aurobindo's ...

Sri Aurobindo--the poet - Volume 2, Part 4 - Page 162 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1999 - Just as the merits of Savitri were appreciated to the utmost, whatever seemed a shortcoming no matter how slight and negligible in the midst of the abundant excellence was pointedly remarked upon so that Sri Aurobindo might not overlook... Sri Aurobindo: Savitri; a legend and a symbol - Page 733 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1970

The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: his idea of evolution - Page 58 - Joseph Veliyathil - 1972 - So Aurobindo might not have felt the necessity of attributing immediacy to the acquisition of knowledge by the intellectual faculty. This made him limit the intellectual operation to discursive level only. Now if a comparison may be made ...

Sri Aurobindo--secularist? or nationalist? - Page 37 - Ke. Es Nārāyaṇācārya - 2006 - ... a detail Sri Aurobindo might not have known, as most savants of 'unity' took it for granted that Islam too was a 'religion' like any other, without realising its diabolic, predatory nature. Only recent researches are waking us up all over the world.

Letters on Savitri - Page 10 - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 2000 - Just as the merits of Savitri were appreciated to the utmost, whatever seemed a shortcoming no matter how slight and negligible in the midst of the abundant excellence was pointedly remarked upon so that Sri Aurobindo might not overlook...

Swami Vivekananda and Indian Nationalism - Page 91 - Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta - 1984 - Although Aurobindo might not have known the 'tens of thousands of young men' beaming with patriotic fervour, he should not have failed to see that most of them could not have much to do with P. Mitra's Samiti, some associates and members ...

The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism - Page 104 - Agehananda Bharati - 1976 - His writings are different indeed from those of the older Vivekananda and the younger Sivananda. Aurobindo might not have been a good poet, but he was a poet; he might not have been a thinker in any professional sense, but he expressed ...

The oneness/otherness mystery: the synthesis of science and mysticism - Page 508 - Sutapas Bhattacharya - 1999 - Preview ... of the material order is held by Aurobindo, Whitehead and others to be Nature's development of habits (stable patterns of behaviour emerging from repetition) rather than laws obeyed by Nature. Reality is fundamentally creative but patterns ...

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta Philosophy - Page 71 - Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - Preview - More editions Here we have to say that Whitehead's Philosophy of evolution is more close and more similar to that of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of evolution. Like Whitehead Sri Aurobindo also believes that God is the ultimate principle and the evolution ...

Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 35 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview Here Aurobindo gets quiet sociological. In the following I want to correct one misunderstanding of Madhusudan Reddy of Whitehead's theory: He assumes that Whitehead's philosophy has no final goal of evolution (Reddy, 2004: 156).

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 3 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions I doubt that one could overstate the importance of Aurobindo's mysticism for his philosophy. How then is he a metaphysician? A.N. Whitehead gives a just characterization of the trade: "Speculative Philosophy," he says, "is the endeavor to...

The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad - Page 356 - Ken Wilber - 2001 - Preview - More editions Notice that Shankara, Nagarjuna, Aurobindo, Plotinus (and Alexander and Wilber) can pass this test; Whitehead does not. This is not a secondary issue; it is at the precise heart of the matter, a heart that Whitehead lacks. Thus, the notion of ...

Cognitive models and spiritual maps: interdisciplinary ... - Volume 7, Issues 11-12 - Page 202 - Jensine Andresen, Robert K. C. Forman - 2001 - Preview What Whitehead doesn't have, something essential to Wilber, is the Great Nest or Chain of Being in addition to the Great Network of Being. For that, we would need to augment Whitehead with Aurobindo. I agree with Wilber that Whitehead's ...

The Essential Aurobindo: Writings of Sri Aurobindo - Page 23 - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions In its philosophic comprehensiveness, Sri Aurobindo's philosophy finds its contemporary Western analogue among the systematic thinkers — Royce, Bergson, Whitehead, and Heidegger; in its spiritual and autobiographic quality, it more closely resembles Kierkegaard and Buber, and perhaps Heidegger and Wittgenstein.

Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 40 - Preview This is what Sri Aurobindo has attempted in his metaphysics of evolution. And it is here that the theories of Darwin, Lamarck, Herbert Spencer, S. Alexander, Whitehead, Lloyd Morgan, Bergson, Hegel and Croce have stopped short of the ...

Integral Psychology - Page 84 - Ken Wilber - 2000 - Preview Maslow. Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) is well known enough that I will only make a few passing comments. Like all truly great integral thinkers— from Aurobindo to Gebser to Whitehead to Baldwin to Habermas—he was a developmentalist.

Faith possesses understanding: a suggestion for a new direction in ... - Page 220 - Jehangir Nasserwanji Chubb - 1983 - Preview - More editions It can be said of Sri Aurobindo what Eckhart said of God : 'In him there is no denial except the denial of all denials.' Upanishadic paradox, 216 Whitehead, A.N., 182 Upanishads, 16, 60, 210. See my article The Logic of the Infinite in the ...

Obtaining other tools of perception

Integral Humanism and the BJP from Centre Right India by Pulakesh Upadhyaya Dec 8, 2012

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 EnlightenNext: by Gary Lachman January 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm 8 comments

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.

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

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 Binding: Soft Cover Pages: 151 Price: Rs 600

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.