June 26, 2025

AI experts are themselves deluded

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

From a series of lectures by Ambalal Balkrishna Purani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Recorded in 1962 at the Crescent Moon Ranch, Sedona, Arizona, USA.
2 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo represents a synthesis of the teachings of both the West and the East ... Sri Aurobindo has created the teachings of a Divine Life on Earth.
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4 hours ago — Wideness of consciousness is a recurring theme in Sri Aurobindo's spiritual philosophy. It refers to the expansion of individual awareness beyond ego-bound ...
3 hours ago — The Illuminated Mind is one of the intermediary levels of consciousness in Sri Aurobindo's vision of spiritual evolution. It lies above the rational mind and ...
3 hours ago — By santosh krinsky ... systematic study of Sri Aurobindo's major works and their relevance to our lives and our modern society.
18 hours ago — The Veda - In the Light of Sri Aurobindo. Read the Veda online with profound and easy-to-understand Verses, Glossary and Meanings in Sanskrit and English.
15 hours ago — It means that though you were being attacked by the adverse forces trying to instill fear. Sri Aurobindo told you not to be afraid as it is a path that is ...
The Human Cycle - The Psychology of Social Development : Sri Aurobindo Session dated 24th June 2025 - Chapter 9 - Civilisation and Culture - Paragraph 3 to ...
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There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote. 

In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

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Is Silence Possible Today? 

We cannot not eat, work out, or even drift off to sleep without drowning out this silence through YouTube videos, music, or reels. We do not allow ourselves to feel silence because we do not know what to do with it. 

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Bankim Chandra’s Vande Mataram a Sanskrit poem was included in his Bengali novel Anandamath in 1882! His essays on the Bhagavad gita are resources for the idea of equality in the text #BankimChandraJayanti #BankimChandraChattopadhyaya #bankimchandra

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For influential 20th-century anthropologists, religion could not be reduced to its social function or explained away by other metadiscourses

In 1949, while an undergraduate at Yale, William F. Buckley Jr. took to the pages of the Yale Daily News to challenge a Sociology 101 professor’s demystifying approach to Christian ritual. As Sam Tanenhaus, whose biography of Buckley appeared earlier this month, explained to our Evan Goldstein in

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"I remember telling my mother, ‘That is what I am going to do. I am going to dedicate my life to helping women.’ And she said, ‘You can.’ Her acknowledgement and encouragement of it really helped me believe that I could do that."

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In  total, women in rural India work 91 minutes more than men per day, yet their participation in and contribution to agriculture remains less than men. This is because women spend over three times the amount of time on unpaid work than men per day. 

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People rely on experts to understand AI, but the experts are themselves deluded. It's like trying to understand the cosmos in Galileo's time - experts in philosophy & the Church all argued on rational, historical, & authoritative grounds that the Earth is the centre of the universe

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The narrative from the Right that global warming is a hoax is a sort of borg-like robotic group-think equal in mindlessness to the same group-think from the Left that hates Jews/Israel & embraces Islamic medievalism. This symmetry shows neither side has a monopoly on stupidity

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[HTML] Can Jungian Archetypes be Evidence-Based?

J Blackstock
… For Tacey, Jung’s archetypal psychology is a crucial resource for navigating this Integral Age. … Of course, the precise contours of this Integral Age remain uncertain and there are many … world, we can begin to cultivate the integral consciousness …

[PDF] ERGONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT STRESS MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

TBP MARHAENDRA, C ISTRI
… Obviously, in modern society, stress is an integral part of human lives; it is a necessary reaction to changes in everyday conditions and situations in an appropriate manner. Therefore, stress is not to be evaded. Indeed, it is needed to …

[PDF] Didactic Strategies for Inclusion: An Exploratory Investigation of Embodied Practices in the Management of Students with ADHD

E Treglia, AM Mariani - Journal of Inclusive Methodology and Technology in …, 2025
… Therefore, there is a need to further disseminate both the theoretical and practical knowledge of embodied practices, not only as an innovative tool but as an integral part of inclusive teaching, particularly effective in neurodivergent contexts. Finally …

Handbook of Positive Psychology and Indian Thought Systems: Transforming Education for Well-being and Happiness

G Dutta, G Misra, S Gupta - 2025
… The present book not only reflects such valuable insights from the stock of ancient Indian sources like the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga but also … The Indian view of life incorporates all these elements in its integral vision of four pursuits ( purusharthas ) …

Menopause as a biological and psychological transition

RC Thurston, HN Thomas, AJ Castle, CJ Gibson - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2025
Midlife for women includes the menopause transition. Menopause can be accompanied by substantial symptoms, disruptions and health changes that can require specialized attention and intervention. However, midlife can be a time of …

[PDF] Infinity Life: Spiritual Endeavor in an Uncertain World

A Hakim
… Here, concepts such as karma, sincerity (cheng), and mindfulness become integral to gratitude practice. The Bhagavad Gita embodies this principle through karma yoga—selfless action performed with the awareness that all deeds constitute …

[PDF] YOGA AND HEALTH PRACTICES: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL WELLNESS

DRA PRASAD, YMSD WARDHA
… The practice of yoga is a comprehensive science that encompasses the … Yoga Day was celebrated for the first time around the world and has been celebrated every year since then. Yoga not only keeps you fit, but it also has many long-term …

[PDF] Yoga Therapy: A Holistic Approach to Enhancing Physical, Psychological, and Social Health.

M Pundir, VS Yadav, AR Roj, S Kumar, R Sharma - Indian Journal of YOGA Exercise …, 2025
… In addition, various schools of yoga have emerged, each adhering to a different integral … Objective : Yoga has developed highly effective models and tools for healing and wellness, so this article provides a conceptual framework to understand …

[PDF] Rta-Resonance Management: Cultivating Cosmic Harmony for Integrated Organizational Flourishing

B Satpathy
This paper introduces the Ṛta-Resonance Management (RRM) Theory, a novel framework redefining organizational success beyond conventional metrics of profit and purpose. Drawing from ancient Indian philosophical concepts—primarily Ṛta (Cosmic …

Wired Encounter

Z Wang - 2025
This thesis questions the notion of spatial volume, boundary, and zone, typically characterized by planes, surfaces, and containment. The form of this space type is usually fixed, permanent, and confined. Additionally, clear boundaries exist between …

Reviving Ancestral Wisdom: Performance in Dance/Movement Therapy Through Nāṭyaśāstra

A Singh - 2025
… /movement therapy by providing a comprehensive understanding of a few integral theories from Nāṭyaśāstra, hoping to demonstrate how traditional … Halprin's personal experience with movement arts and yoga leading to spontaneous …

Creating Spiritual Values in Tourism: Insights From Buddhist Monks and Tour Operators

T Doan, TLH Truong, WJ Huang, D El-Manstrly, VS Ha - Journal of Travel Research, 2025
This study explores the unique role of Buddhist monks in spiritual tourism through the 5V model of value creation. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 22 Vietnamese Buddhist monks and 15 spiritual tour operators. Through thematic …

[PDF] Dorothy Hood: Problems in Space

CM Moreno - 2025
… intellectual horizons through readings on Taoism and the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. In … incidental; they were integral to the way Hood conceived of painting during this period— … something she used physical acts such as yoga, philosophical study …

June 25, 2025

Sri Aurobindo considered the Isha as the most important Upanishad

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

... Sri Aurobindo Savitri Its all about climbing the knowledge of one into higher and higher. It contains all educational purpose videos of your interest.
#spiritualaudiobooks #sriaurobindo #spiritualbooks Audiobook: Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga (Book 1; Section 2). (Chapter One and Two).
12 hours ago — In case you have any quarries please contact Mr. Baren at 9958619822. With warm regards,. Tara Jauhar. Chairperson. Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch.
3 hours ago — In fact Sri Aurobindo considered the Isha as the most important one in which one can see the foundations of the Divine Life. Sri Aurobindo has touched it in ...
22 hours ago — The Veda - In the Light of Sri Aurobindo. Read the Veda online with profound and easy-to-understand Verses, Glossary and Meanings in Sanskrit and English.

Scavengers aren’t the most charismatic of animals, but they perform a vital task: by eating carrion, they remove dead animals from our environments. Yet large-bodied scavengers are declining worldwide, increasing the risk of the spread of diseases, according to a recent study.

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Listen to author #RuchirJoshi in conversation with @sandipr on #TheSandipRoyShow by @IndianExpress as they discuss his latest book, #GreatEasternHotel—a vivid return to Calcutta in the 1940s, a time of political upheaval, war, and cultural ferment: indianexpress.com/audio/the-sand… #READWithHarperCollins

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#BookReview by Jigyasa Sogarwal | Mukti Lakhi Magharam’s book Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture tries to unravel the puzzle of individual freedom within the framework of neo-liberal subjectivity.

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"But he’s [Wolfe] not just a reporter without parallel. He also has a novelist’s ability to enter into the heads of those present, recording their thoughts as if he can see into their minds."

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[PDF] Designing Happiness: Urban Lessons from Helsinki and Copenhagen for Indian Cities

B Vyas, S Walia
Can cities be designed to make people happy? As India continues its rapid urbanization, the quality of life in cities plays a critical role in national well-being. This research explores how urban planning and architectural strategies can …

[PDF] About Transitions Research

P Singh, E Rodrigues - 2025
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Transitions Research is a social science collective driving radical transitions at the intersection of technology, society, and sustainability. We aim to ensure these transitions are just, inclusive, and empower people while …

Catch Them Young: Zero Waste & Circular Economy in Campus

SK Ghosh, SK Ghosh - The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and …, 2025
Demands of the growing global human population and expectations are increasing to maintain higher standards of living. It highlights how the world population currently consumes more resources than those ecosystems are able to provide. The …

[PDF] Does Academic Stress Effect Students' Performance?

H Jacob, RF Mohammad - Social Science Review Archives, 2025
It has been affirmed by several studies that stress being a common cause to meager academic performance among students. Therefore, for the determination of the affiliation between academic performance of students and stress we have used the …

Beyond decolonisation: lived Indian management practices for leadership

S Correa, R Ananthanarayanan, S Pandit… - DECISION, 2025
The paper describes and analyses three attempts for an indigenous Indian management and leadership practice through the first-person journey of the first author of this paper. In the first section, the first author delves into his inner conflict …

Echoes of Ecstasy: Pioneering Fusion Music in the Long 1960s

I Richter - Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body Since …, 2025
… Recent field work analyses speak to a superficial cultural contact, highlighting that, for instance, for North American and Western European spiritual practitioners settled in the Sri Aurobindo’s ashram in Puducherry in India, their notions of connectedness …

[PDF] Cosmic Intelligence–Part 2

S Ishadhyanananda, R Banerjee
… 4e term “spiritual nationalism” was actually used by Sri Aurobindo to imply that the emergence of India, as a nation, had a divine purpose—the benefit of humanity as well as India. 4is is in tune with what Swamiji had said about exporting Indian …

[PDF] Seeds of Sovereignty: Designing Regenerative AI for Plural Epistemologies

A Kadel
Generative AI systems are increasingly integrated into knowledge workflows, yet their fluency and speed can obscure a critical threat: the erosion of epistemic integrity. Users may imitate AI outputs, converge prematurely, or misinterpret confidence as …

In the death throes of modernity?

H Cremin - Rewilding Education, 2026
… For example, communities such as Findhorn in Scotland and Auroville in India organise themselves to live sustainably, share resources and make decisions without hierarchies. Such communities prioritise cooperating over accumulating …

Trust is a Verb: A Process-Temporal Model of Institutional Work in the Commons

C Kella - Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025
… Drawing on field research in Auroville, a self-governing international community in the south of India, we develop a process-temporal model that captures the episodic and continuous dynamics of trust and conflict in managing commons. By …

AFTERWORD: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

M Bussey
… This process of domestication in space and time is variously captured in Meera Chakravorty’s chapter on Vivekananda, Kasper Lysemose’s engagement with the provocative Giorgio Agamben, and Richard Hartz’s analysis of the thinking of Sri …

Narendranath Sengupta (1889–1944)

HS Asthana - Psychology in India, 2025
… English under the great revolutionary and highly educated philosopher Sri Aurobindo (founder of the ashram in Pondicherry) and studied Pali under Sri Goswami, the great scholar of the language. Seven students from the college were …

Glimpses On Early India: Its Religion, Culture and Economy

R Chander - 2025
… structure cannot be clearly traced before the Vedic era. Therefore, it is important to examine … darkness-bound consciousness, Surya, or Savitri, follows her and continues expanding the … In contrast, Savitri and other names like Tvashtr are …

Influence of Vedic Principles on Contemporary Laws forWomen's Empowerment and Gender Equality

V Shrama, S Kumar - 2025
The Vedic principles have deeply impacted the framework of Indian legal system related to woman empowerment and Gender equality. Recognition of woman as equally intellectual and their participation in social development, during the Vedic …

[PDF] SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN PRIYA KUMAR'S LICENCE TO LIVE

A Tomar, L Masih - International Journal of Humanities Education, 2025
The novel "Licence to Live" written by Priya Kumar is a thorough investigation of the process of self-realization and spiritual awakening, which is weaved through the story of a young man's journey towards inner transformation. A greater knowledge of …

Positive Psychology and Indian Philosophy

S Gupta, MM Varghese - Handbook of Positive Psychology and Indian Thought …, 2025
… Svadharma, the intrinsic nature of a person is described by Sri Aurobindo thus: “The right order of human life as of the universe is preserved according to the ancient Indian idea by each individual being following faithfully this svadharma, the true law …

Weaving Together Positive Psychology and Sri Aurobindo's Integral Psychology

M Gupta - Handbook of Positive Psychology and Indian Thought …, 2025
This chapter weaves together insight from the twin disciplines of Positive Psychology and Integral Psychology of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother with the aim of exploring possibilities of the amalgamation of the psychological and spiritual domains of …… on Sri Aurobindo’s psychological perspective to break into fresh new patterns for future explorations. Positive psychology attempts to integrate the negative and positive aspects of human growth and tap into the optimal development of individuals …

Implications of Positive Psychology for School Education

AK Singh, B Yadav - Handbook of Positive Psychology and Indian Thought …, 2025
… Yoga and meditation are the medium of practical psychology (Sri Aurobindo) which cultivate positivity and bring well-being and resilience in our behaviour and thoughts. Yoga and meditation are contemporary to Western positive psychology (Fig …

Psychosocial and Spiritual Interventions for Well-Being

A Husain, R Pervez - Handbook of Positive Psychology and Indian Thought …, 2025
… Sri Aurobindo says that the mind inhales and exhales thoughts as do the lungs the air we breathe. More than any other element, thought has the greatest significance in human life, whether it leads to a secular or spiritual end. By …

Anand Chintaman Paranjpe (1936–)

RC Tripathi - Psychology in India, 2025
… In a quite unexpected way, a new phase began in Anand’s work when he received an invitation from Matthijs Cornelissen to give a keynote address at a conference organized by Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry just after his …

Valuing wisdom

J Patel - Rewilding Education
… The school is based on the educational philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)50 and the students come from a mixed socio-economic background. They integrate education of the body, mind, heart and soul by …

A Century of Psychological Advancement in India: A Brief Review

B Bhushan - Psychology in India, 2025
This chapter explores the historical evolution of psychology in India, tracing its roots from ancient texts like the Vedas and Upanishads to the establishment of modern psychological education in the early twentieth century. The 1905 introduction of …

[HTML] Fostering peace leadership learning and practice: a pilot study analysis of the peace leadership development curriculum

W McIntyre Miller, MO Alomair, K Kennedy… - International Journal of …, 2025
Purpose Presented in this paper is a mixed methods pilot study that analyzes the Peace Leadership Development Curriculum (PLDC). The PLDC was designed to teach integral peace leadership concepts embedded in the areas of Innerwork …

What Motivates Tourists to Visit South Asian Wellness Tourism Destinations? An Application of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach

A Garg, A Kaur, J Vikas, P Goel - Wellness Tourism in Asia, 2025
Wellness tourism seems to have been a prominent growing industry in the Indian travel market. Recognising the inclinations of visitors is a concern for stakeholders in the process of designing the marketing campaigns of wellness destinations. The …

An Application of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach

A Garg, A Kaur, J Vikas, P Goel - Wellness Tourism in Asia: Emerging Destinations to …, 2025
Wellness tourism seems to have been a prominent growing industry in the Indian travel market. Recognising the inclinations of visitors is a concern for stakeholders in the process of designing the marketing campaigns of wellness des-tinations. The …

[PDF] Ancient Indian Wisdom: Contributions of Rishis to Science Education

Y Goyal
This paper explores the profound role of Indian Rishis in shaping the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) and its potential integration into modern science curricula. India's rich indigenous knowledge, rooted in ancient Rishis' contributions to various …

Culture and Social Emotions: Developmental and Educational Implications

A Pandey, K Ujwal - Handbook of Positive Psychology and Indian Thought …, 2025
Social emotions affect human behaviour and relationships. Cooley and later sociologists stressed the necessity of understanding emotions in society. Due to differences in cultural and social influences, different cultures perceive and express …

Perspectives in Agile Sustainable Practices and Business Value

D Saha, MK Das, S Sahadev, R Mazumder… - 2025
Agility, sustainability, and business value have become crucial in the ever-changing world of modern business. This book investigates how these can work harmoniously and create value for businesses. The integration of agile sustainable practices …