Sri Aurobindo gave varied advice depending on the individual

Comment on Meditation by Sandeep from Comments for IYSATM by Sandeep

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

Tweets Mar 4 - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [Beyond the human Conference organized by Makarand Paranjape, Debashish Banerji, Richard Carlson, JNU, Feb 20-23, 2014] http://beyondthehuman.com/   - Mar 5 [Nishtha has translated hymns to Goddess Sarasvati in the Rig-Veda.] http://www.aurovilleradio.org/arts-a-culture/culture/3197-sarasvati-in-vedas … [Vedic Sacrifice in Savitri.] http://www.savitri.in/savitri/?q=content/mirror/the-vedic-sacrifice-savitri-i/05-mar-2013 … - Mar 5 Latour, Laruelle, Lovecraft, & Sri Aurobindo http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/03/latour-laruelle-lovecraft-and-sri.html … The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy –SKM Mar 4 [Asian women’s film festival begins in Delhi tomorrow ~ Sri Aurobindo Centre for Art and Communication] http://thne.ws/WH5kKk  via @thehindu - 21 hrs [Vasantasena is a prostitute... prostitutes in the days of yore in India weren't looked down upon.] By Sandeep. B http://www.sandeepweb.com/2005/05/13/denigrating-indian-culture-eroticising-mricchakatika/ …  - 2 hrs [Our Hidden Secret Link - Sri Aurobindo, Rebirth and Karma, Section III, Chapter 16, The Higher Lines of Karma 144-145 ] http://www.lotuspress.com/item.php?item=990117 … - 3 hrs [Internatal Journey of the Soul Through Vital Or Mental Worlds Sri Aurobindo Studies 13 Oct. 2011 http://wp.me/pCLXM-Ky  via @wordpressdotcom -  View summary – 1 hr [an original dealing with modern problems in the light of the Indian spirit and ... to formulate a greater synthesis] http://kitturd.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/168/  -  View media - 14 hrs – [kittu reddy ‏@kitturd http://wp.me/s3bTx3-168  via @wordpressdotcom Sri Aurobindo on the way to awaken India  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View media] Mar 1Bipin ‏@I31p1n - @Back2Vedas Agree. Sri Aurobindo is the most learned man I have ever read of. At the same time Dayanand's Sanskrit knowledge was unparallel. Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation - Mar 4 - Sathya Anand ‏@Saffronista - @mirzhaywire If interested, please read Aurobindo's The Secret of the Veda. I can mail a pdf later today if you want.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation - 11 hrs - Vijay Vikram ‏@einvijay I do not treat Narendra Modi as a messiah as many of you do. Retweeted by Savitri Era Party - 30 mins - Sajid Bhombal ‏@SajidBhombal - @orsoraggiante Exactly; that is why I don't associate with MODI  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation

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 ...

Latour, Laruelle, Lovecraft, and Sri Aurobindo

Beyond the human Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 20-23 February 2014

This trajectory is found in the overman of Friedrich Nietzsche, the supramental being of the Indian yogi-philosopher Sri Aurobindo, or as more recently contextualized by Gilles Deleuze through the“superfold,” the result of the folding into the human subject of the rhizomatic triplicity of genetic code, information technology, and a language at the borders of signification… The conference is organized by

• Makarand Paranjape, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Debashish Banerji, University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles
• Richard Carlson, Pacific Weather, Port Angeles, WA.

Call for papers: If you have thoughts on any of these areas and would like to participate in the conference, please send us a resume and an abstract of your talk. Our email address is beyondthehuman2014@gmail.com. The submission deadline is August 15, 2013. Those whose abstracts are selected will be notified.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (in India) from Centre Right India by Ibn-al-Dunya

Use those GRE words you memorised – they were made for such occasions! Everything is a discourse and a narrative; do not be afraid to embed yourself in the dasein of the moment. See what I did back there? Use words from foreign languages strategically when explaining key points and your logic fails. It is unlikely that anyone in your audience speaks that language, and if they do, words like dasein, ding-an-sich, or eudaimonia. Not only will you appear scholarly, but you will be aided by two things: 1. even if someone does know these terms, they are ambiguous enough to merit an entirely different debate, allowing you to skirt the original issue, and 2. actual scholars also use such terms when talking to each other, lending legitimacy to the practice… Assuming you speak two or three Indian languages and the Queen’s English, Western organisations will be grateful for your expertise on that blasted subcontinent. 

Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures from Ediburgh are now all online from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek (Graham Harman)

Latour is not only one of the world’s most important living intellectuals. He is also perhaps the most polarizing author within Speculative Realist circles (maybe only Laruelle is equally polarizing). Some of us are in awe of Latour’s breakthroughs, while others in SR circles treat him (with what I myself regard as an almost grotesque lack of intellectual taste and foresight) as a sophist and a relativist hack. I’m as confident in my bet on Latour’s long-term importance as I am on just about anything, and this despite serious disagreements with some of his ontology, as I outlined in Prince of Networks.

the difference between my Lovecraft book and my earlier Lovecraftarticle from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek (Graham Harman)

In the article, I was very hard on the “Kantian” or noumenal reading of Lovecraft and defended a Husserlian reading of Lovecraft that I also linked with cubism in the arts. The difference is that while writing the book, I decided that both strands are operative in Lovecraft. There are two completely different major stylistic devices at work in Lovecraft. One of them is the allusion to the unutterable, and I no longer have any objection to relating that to Kant. The other is the one I was championing exclusively in my article, in which Lovecraft claims to be describing something literally but piles up such a ridiculous number of incompatible descriptions that the bond between the objects and its qualities, while not withdrawn into a noumenal realm, explicitly becomes an operative principle over and above its list of qualities. This is what is most typical of Husserl, who’s as anti-noumenal as it gets but is still a philosopher of objects over and above their qualities. It’ll all be clear when you finally see the book.

There’s an introductory section, then I analyze 100 individual passages (not plot summaries, but short passages) from eight of the key stories, then conclude with some further thoughts. Work on the book only increased my sense of Lovecraft’s greatness as a stylist. I’m well aware of the objections that he overwrites his prose and overloads it with adjectives, but rules like this are always beside the point. You can do just about anything as a writer as long as you know how to handle it. At most there is some unevenness in Lovecraft as a stylist, as often happens with amateurs in any field who are isolated from mainstream critical feedback.

Comment on Sri Aurobindo’s prose style – by Goutam Ghosal by RJ from Comments for IYSATM by RJ - Mar 4, 2013

I recently read a quote about writer HP Lovecraft that seemed applicable to Sri Aurobindo’s prose style as well… (Lovecraft was, IMO, a brilliant writer from a purely literary perspective, though obviously nowhere near Sri Aurobindo in any sense. I don’t mean to compare them in any other way than to point out that that comment is insightful.) Of course, even if one is able to get “past” his style and understand him “intellectually” (like a student of English literature might), one will not understand anything if the consciousness is not ready. kkk

Love, Death, and the Sub-Creative Imagination in J. R. R. Tolkien from Footnotes to Plato by Matthew David Segall

The chief import of Tolkien’s Art, as I understand it, is that its example invites us to step into our own roles as cosmic artisans, just at that moment in world history when so much seems headed for disaster… There is also a spiritual side to the strange logic underlying Tolkien’s sub-creative vocation. He says of all his “stuff” that it is “fundamentally concerned with the problem of the relation of Art (and Sub-creation) and Primary Reality” (xiii). Primary Reality is the world of daily life, of biological struggle, and, eventually, of death. The sub-creator, in bringing forth a Secondary Reality (made not of solid matter, but of story and myth), expresses a desire which not only has no ordinary biological function, but which indeed usually finds itself at strife with these functions (xiii). Despite its spiritual motives, the sub-creative desire “is at once wedded to a passionate love of the real primary world, and hence filled with the sense of mortality, and yet unsatisfied by it” (xiii). Death, even ifimaginary, is no less real for all that. We human sub-creators have, again, two paths open to us upon encountering it.

Creating a Cohesive Worldview (Part One: Either/Or) By Joran Slane Oppelt

Haridas Chaudhuri writes in The Evolution of Integral Consciousness, “One devious root of war-mindedness is the dualistic logic of the arrogant intellect – the logic of either/or. Dualistic logic says: Either communism or democracy, either socialism or capitalism, is the ultimate truth, and thus creates an irreconcilable opposition between them, diving the world into two warring camps sworn to destroy each other.” Integral Church ~ Religion 2.0: The Formation of the Integral Church By Joran Slane Oppelt

It is a seed that was planted when I discovered the work of Arthur Koestler and Ken Wilber and that sprouted when I realized that their life’s work was a continuation of those who came before them — Socrates, Sri Aurobindo, William James, Aldous Huxley. Continue reading

Tusar N. Mohapatra March 4, 2013 at 1:35 pm

Sri Aurobindo’s notion of human unity doesn’t envisage any antagonistic prospect between India and Europe. Relying upon some stray quote to build a sound economic scenario is therefore anomalous. [TNM55] Reply ~ As Europe goes down, we need to be prepared for consequences