All interpretations are narratives

Postcolonial theory and the crisis of European man L Gandhi - Postcolonial Studies, 2007 - informaworld.com

There is no ultimate horror of empirical impurities in this setting: the minimal moralist, Sri Aurobindo insists in another context, follows a ... So Serres will concur in the course of his engaging conversations with Bruno Latour, suggesting that the disposition which produces an ... 

Comparative Mystics [PDF] JJ Kripal - Common Knowledge, 2004 - Mol Biology Soc Japan

The Oriental Renaissance has been definitive as well for modern Hinduism—definitive in its pluralistic expressions (Aurobindo's evolutionary meta ... “Solidarity is not,” as Richard Rorty puts it, “dis-covered by reflection but created.” Or in Bruno Latour's words ... 

Dialogue with the Archaic V KHACHATURYAN - Social Sciences, 2007 - dlib.eastview.com
the past (this happened in the 19th century thanks to the efforts of Ram Mohun Roy, Ghose Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda ... In the 15th-17th centuries Marsilio Ficino, Tommaso Campanella, Giordano Bruno, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von ... 

The evolution of consciousness as a planetary imperative: An integration of integral views psu.edu [PDF] J Gidley - Integral Review, 2007 – Citeseer

Movement of consciousness is a poetic-conceptual phrase that was used by Hegel, Goethe and Sri Aurobindo, to express something of the complexity I am trying to elucidate in my contribution to evolution-of- consciousness theory. ... 

 “Such a Body We Must Create:” New Theses on Integral Micropolitics integral-review.org [PDF] DG Anderson - Integral Review, 2008 - integral-review.org
in significance to Stravinsky's or Joyce's, or that the oeuvre of any integral theorist (Aurobindo, Gebser, Krishnamurti, Wilber) is analogous in importance to that produced by Dickens, Scott, or Tchaikovsky. ... 

Western Esotericism, Eastern Spirituality, and the Global Future msu.edu L Irwin - Journal of Esoteric Study. Dostopno prek: 2001 - esoteric.msu.edu

Eastern spiritual teachers, with Western education like Sri Aurobindo, have had a powerful impact on this process, offering their ... a second volume in which he favorably compares Vedanta philosophy with the esoteric writings of hermeticist Giordano Bruno, alchemist Raymond ... 

Pharmaceutical citizenship: antidepressant marketing and the promise of demarginalization in India S Ecks - Anthropology & Medicine, 2005 - informaworld.com

Recently, Bruno Latour (2004) renewed his proposals to overcome thinking in such dichotomies. ... Virtually all the major figures of modern Hinduism, for example Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and even MK Gandhi, emphasized mind-control as a path to enlightenment, freedom ... 

Hindu Avatāra and Christian Incarnation: A Comparison N Sheth - Philosophy East and West, 2002 - jstor.org

In modern times, there are quite a number of individuals who are regarded as avataras by their followers, for example Ramakrishna and Aurobindo, among many others. It is interesting to note that Mira Richard or the Mother of Pondicherry, who was born in Paris of Egyptian ...

Myth, history, and theory history and theory.org [HTML] P Heehs - 1994 - jstor.org Myth, History, and Theory, by Peter Heehs Wesleyan University. Abstract

Myth and history are generally considered antithetical modes of explanation. Writers of each tend to distrust the data of the other. Many historians of the modern period see their task as one of removing all trace of myth from the historical record. Many students of myth consider history to have less explanatory power than traditional narratives. Since the Greeks, logos (word as demonstrable truth) has been opposed to mythos (word as authoritative pronouncement). In more general terms myth may be defined as any set of unexamined assumptions. Some modern historians have become aware that much so-called factual history is interfused with such assumptions. What we call history is at best mythistory. Some even suggest that there can be no real distinction between the discourses of myth and history, between fact and fiction.

The Agastya-Aurobindo narrative is an example of an account based on factual materials that gradually became transformed into fiction. It is accepted by some as historical truth; however when its development is studied critically, one can see that successive narrators "euphemistically" transformed its constituent propositions. The Ramjanmabhumi narrative (at the center of sectarian conflict in India) took form in much the same way. It is not possible to accept these legends as historical truth, though there is no reason why they could not be used as the basis of artistic creations. To avoid conflict by attempting to keep myth and history entirely separate may not be possible because the two interpenetrate. The most fruitful approach to the problem might be to work towards a dialectical resolution.

Narrative Painting and Narratives about Paintings: Poussin among the Philosophers P Heehs - Narrative, 1995 - jstor.org

His most recent book is The Bomb in Bengal: The Origins of Revolutionary
Terrorism in India. He lives in Pondicherry, India, where he is associated with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library. The ... 

Climbing the Spiritual Ladder J Price - 2006 - books.google.com

Aurobindo called the higher type of emotion “spiritual passion” or “aspiration.” Deep within our soul is passion for the divine, passion for living the spiritual ... According to Italian philosopher, Giodano Bruno, “It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses ...

Excerpt D. The Look of a Feeling: The Importance of Post/Structuralism, kenwilber.com [PDF] I Post-Metaphysics - 2006

traditions and philosopher-sages (from Plotinus to Shankara to Gautama Buddha to Hegel to Aurobindo to Whitehead) built much of their interpretive frameworks with the concept of perception (as awareness/consciousness): the nature of this moment perceives, grasps, or ... 

Integral psychology: Consciousness, spirit, psychology, therapy K Wilber - 2000 - books.google.com
But many of the perennial philosophers—Plotinus and Aurobindo, for example—have found around a dozen levels of consciousness to be the most useful, and that is roughly what I have presented in the charts (pp. ... Take Aurobindo, for example (see chart 2b). ... 

The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture CH Partridge - 2006 - books.google.com
In other words, we are not here thinking of the interior knowledge and experience of a transcendent reality external to the self - which is what Heelas and Woodhead would understand to be 'life-as spirituality'.19 'A spiritual atmosphere,' says Sri Aurobindo, 'is more important ... 

Critique Beyond Resentment: An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk's Jovial Modernity S Van Tuinen - Cultural Politics: an International Journal, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
But by tracing the “prehistory” of psychoanalysis in the “magical ties” and “magnetic” and “hypnotic” affects and interferences which he finds in the works of Ficino, Bruno, Mesmer, and German idealism (mainly Schelling and Hufeland), Sloterdijk describes transitive relations ... 

Hadith-Hurling, History and the "New Clerics" of Pondicherry: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im

Barber's analysis of "democracy" and Sri Aurobindo - particiaptory intentional communities and world government Jihad Vs. McWorld - the Introduction by Benjamin Barber

Sri Aurobindo's "A Vision of Science" - the Three Angels and the Answer that "pealed from our ancient hills": Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyer

to rush things is the reputed prerogative of the devil & inattention to data is a quite typical method for the development and expression of reactionary opinion. methodology and logic is faulty, which leads not to insight, a desired goal, but to oversight.

Von Franz was convinced that through the feminine principle of Eros or relatedness, along with feeling and intuition, the wounds created by the Western patriarchal worldview will be healed. 

Pondy, here I come The Hindu

Auroville: A village. See, breathe and listen to nature at its best. ... Auroville also hosts a number of foreigners who have decided to be a part of this ...