Friday, June 18, 2010

Steiner, Sri Aurobindo, & Barfield see the evolution of consciousness

Destination of the Species: The Riddle of Human Existence - Page 194 Michael Meacher - 2010 - 244 pages
As Keith Ward notes, this insight has been incorporated into the Indian Hindu tradition by Aurobindo and into the ... of the emergence of humans at all after an exceedingly fortuitous and improbable chain of evolution amid repeated mass ...
The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India Sumathi Ramaswamy - 2010 - 392 pages
The book does nothing less than demonstrate by example the novel interpretive possibilities that only a pictorial history of nationalism based on a recognition of the constitutive impact of images can bring.
Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as ... Lola Williamson - 2010 - 272 pages
In Transcendent in America, Lola Williamson traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new ...
Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political ... - Page 92 Christopher Lee - 2010 - 280 pages
Aurobindo was convinced that the war would bring an end to European political domination and cultural hegemony throughout ...  Aurobindo mocked Woodrow Wilson’s version of a new world order with its betrayal of wartime promises of self-determination for thye colonizes peoples. …
Decolonization: perspectives from now and then - Page 91 Prasenjit Duara - 2004 - 312 pages
The Way of Christ: The Gospel of John Through the Unitive Lens Albert LaChance - 2009 - 320 pages
the emergence of God's own creativity. The Hindu genius, Sri Aurobindo, in his The Life Divine, described Christ as “the consciousness out of which the universe emerges.” “No one can see the
Kingdom of God without being born from ...
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - Page 59 Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine - 2009 - 340 pages
in the nineteenth century for the emergence of a racist and supremacist imperial
Europe (see chapter V, pp. ... I first came across it in what was almost a textual aside in a long polemic that Sri Aurobindo first mounted in his ...
Beacons of the Light: 100 Holy People Who Have Shaped the History ... - Page 521 Marcus Braybrooke - 2009 - 681 pages
Sri Aurobindo envisages the emergence of a new humanity beyond the present stage of evolution. At first a few will attain the gnosis in different parts of the world. Gradually the number will increase and small islets of Gnostic ...
Yoga, karma, and rebirth: a brief history and philosophy Stephen H. Phillips - 2009 - 358 pages
700) through tantrics and neo-Vedantins such as Aurobindo (1872-1950), begin with the assumption that the reality of ... the holism of Brahman would help explain the emergence of integrated entities that are distinct from aggregates. ...
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 119 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages
Taken together, these scientific concepts of self-organization, complexity and emergence are helpful in ... the first half of the twentieth century, two visionary thinkers, Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin, independently (U King, ...
Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender, and ... Antony Copley - 2009 - 303 pages
The essays critically analyse the influence of key personalities--Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and Dayanand Saraswati--on the emergence of ideas that later came to be known as Hindutva. This book will interest students, scholars, ...
Transnational transcendence: essays on religion and globalization - Page 268 Thomas J. Csordas - 2009 - 338 pages
It has influenced thinkers on India as different as Savarkar, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Nehru, but it also had a huge impact on a ... But there are interesting parallels between the transformation of Yoga and the emergence of Qigong in the ...
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality - Page 238 James M. Nelson - 2009 - 731 pages
Like many Eastern writers such as Sri Aurobindo (eg, 1996), Wilber draws close parallels between development and evolution. ... These structures remain available to the person in all stages subsequent to their emergence. ...
Uncreated Timeless Self of Radiant Emptiness - Onliness ... - Page 21 Martin Treon - 2009 - 168 pages
among this total who were certainly influential: Plato, Plotinus, Nagarjuna, SriAurobindo, Sri Ramana Maharshi, ... That is, all of manifest reality's development-evolution occurs through the emergent sequence of holons, ...
Principles of Environmental Sciences - Page 349 Jan J. Boersema, Lucas Reijnders - 2008 - 542 pages
'Emergence', here, is an acknowledgement of failure. Complexity can be framed in terms of systems, in other words, ... Aurobindo (1998) perceived an evolution towards an ever-higher consciousness; Jantsch (1980: 29) put forward the same ..
The participatory turn: spirituality, mysticism, religious studies - Page 305 Jorge N. Ferrer, Jorge Noguera Ferrer, Jacob H ... - 2008 - 388 pages
Because of the emergence of a new dharma, Krishna has to teach Arjuna the four yogas—knowledge, action, devotion, ... Aurobindo, Barfield, and others see as the evolution of consciousness during the past two and a half millennia. ... 
Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - 274 pages
He also traces the emergence of 'reactionary orientalism', which is determined to restore
India to its ancient glory. ... examines at greater length the work of Sri Aurobindo, a proponent of 'nationalist orientalism'. ...
Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons - Page 185 Rita DasGupta Sherma, Arvind Sharma - 2008 - 249 pages
The emergence and the eventual predominance of this conception of Hinduism, at least among Western-educated Hindus, was due largely to the influence of such figures of the “Bengal Renaissance” as ... Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, ...
Creativity Revealed: Discovering the Source of Inspiration - Page 82 Scott Jeffrey, David R. Hawkins - 2008 - 295 pages
where the distinction between subject and object no longer exists, represents the emergence of ... A few notable sages at this level include Sri Aurobindo, Saint John of the Cross, Karmapa, Muktananda, Ramakrishna, and Lao Tzu. ...
Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty, Aurobindo Ghose - 2008 - 180 pages
Spirit of Caste Rigidity' by Sri Aurobindo. He declares: The nationalist does not quarrel with the past, ... said that Sri Aurobindo is firm in supporting the emergence of secular modernity vis-a-vis narrow religiosity of the past. ...
A Christian Pilgrim in India: The Spiritual Journey of Swami ... - Page 165 Harry Oldmeadow - 2008 - 316 pages
more salient: Christianity's emergence in a world of decadent pagan idolatry which necessitated a somewhat imbalanced ... at different times, influenced by the pseudo-spiritual evolutionism of both Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo; ...
Kriya yoga: the scientific process of soul-culture and the essence ... - Page 37 Paramahamsa Hariharananda - 2008 - 291 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo, matter is the Self-expression of the Absolute that has playfully plunged itself into ... With the emergence of consciousness in the organism, a new quality is generated that cannot be completely reduced ... 
Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the ... - Page 245 Ken Wilber - 2007 - 313 pages
While orange was being laid down as a Kosmic habit, or the sedimentation of creatively emergent choices of humanity in the ... based on Aurobindo: above vision-logic or the higher mind, we have the illumined mind, the intuitive mind, ...
At Work: Spirituality Matters Jerry Biberman, Michael D. Whitty - 2007 - 292 pages
The mental structure of consciousness began its emergence between 10000 and 500 BC It became the dominant mode of perceiving ... Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo(1872-) was initially an Indian revolutionary who attained self-realization or ...
Integral consciousness and the future of evolution: how the ... Steve McIntosh - 2007 - 371 pages
We have already explored how the emergence of modernist consciousness endows those who adopt the modernist worldview ... in his affinity for Teilhard and for the Indian mystic philosopher and spiritual teacher Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)....
Both develop in their own way the conception of a newly emergent consciousness which Sri Aurobindo has designated as the "supra- mental." ... Although both authors have a human-universal orientation, Sri Aurobindo — integrating ...
Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing ... Don Salmon, Jan Maslow - 2007 - 407 pages
like Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo, go still further, proposing that what is happening now may be a shift in consciousness as great as that which began 5 million years ago, resulting ultimately in the emergence of a new species ... 
 
Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 236 Robert Kleinman - 2007 - 334 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw evolution as a spiritual process having as its goal the transformation of our present existence into a divine life. In his view, earth is a unique scene for the emergence of divinity from its encasement in matter.22 It ...
Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 7 Dr. phil. Michael Leicht - 2008 - 52 pages
“[The] emergence of the Divine in the creature must be that high-uplifted goal and that supreme significance.” (Aurobindo, 1920/1990: 280). The presence of 'god-genes' and a 'spiritual sense' should be seen first of all as a positive ... 
Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 15 Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
In order to refute this view Sri Aurobindo has mentioned four stages of the world like Jagrata, ... The first step of emergent is Existence. We see that the Divine existence first makes itself sensible as the matter. ...
Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
of Existence may remain concentrated or it may diffuse itself in varied forms. Again, this Force is not a mere Force, but a conscious Force. If the Force that is responsible for the emergence of the world is a ... 
Esalen: America and the religion of no religion - Page 66 Jeffrey John Kripal - 2007 - 575 pages
For Aurobindo, then, it is the process of evolution, now rendered rationally conscious through science and ... body and its emergent potentialities.36 Aurobindo can thus write of “psychic” or “supernormal” phenomena that derive from “an ...
What Is Hinduism?: Modern Adventures Into a Profound Global Faith - Page 333 Editors of Hinduism Today - 2007 - 416 pages
He has been described as the “Poet of Patriotism” and the “Prophet of Indian Nationalism.” Aurobindo envisaged the emergence of a superman, the truth-conscious being, one who has realized the Divinity within himself as the goal of ...
Integral psychology: yoga, growth, and opening the heart - Page 180 Brant Cortright - 2007 - 232 pages
AN EVOLUTIONARY VISION One of the most original contributions of Aurobindo is his synthesis of the Western scientific discovery of ... which signals the firstemergence of consciousness out of the unconscious slumber of matter. ...
Debates in Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary A. Raghuramaraju - 2007 - 152 pages
ancient Indian thought in English regularly use 'evolution' for the emergence of the world, and of personality, ... But, in the terminology introduced by Vivekananda and developed by Aurobindo, this is a process of 'involution'. ...
Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophy, Vraj Kumar Pandey - 2007
universe after matter is created, through the emergence of animus of life and then mind and then spirit/super mind. ... Of these three, bhakti is central, and in keeping with the Hindu tradition of the Divine Mother, Sri Aurobindo ...
101 Mystics of India - Page 201, V K Subramanian - 2007 - 219 pages
The progress of evolution is a gradual emergence of consciousness. This cannot stop at the existing level of mental ... Aurobindo distilled the wisdom of the ancient Indian scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishads and the Bhagavat Gita and ...
Leading Lights, The - Page 105 Dr. George Kaitholil - 2007 - 203 pages
Through what Sri Aurobindo describes as the principle of exclusive concentration. It is best explained through the ... the full emergence of mind in humanity, and is now moving to awaken fully through the emergence of the Supermind, ...
Indian Poetry in English: Pt. 1 - Page 87, Amar Nath Prasad - 2007 - 296 pages
In light of the evolutionary doctrine, Aurobindo envisages a gradual transformation toward the divine. In his interpretation of evolution, the teleological motive for all terrestrial changes in living organisms is the emergence of ...
Anticipating Omega: science, faith, and our ultimate future - Page 84 Ted Peters - 2006 - 221 pages
The concept of "conscious evolution" based on the work of Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo seeks to integrate the physical ... The promise of Conscious Evolution is nothing less than the emergence of a universal humanity capable of ..
Climbing the Spiritual Ladder - Page 105 Joan Price - 2006 - 204 pages
Aurobindo discovered that all growth is the evolution of consciousness – an integral part of the creation ... With the emergence of the Cro-Magnon people, a sense of personal identity emerged for the first time in human history. ... [An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy 
Joan Price (1977)]
Death, dying, and beyond Dr. Alok Pandey - 2006 - 327 pages
A God of wrath sought after by fear and for inflicting pain upon our enemies is certainly nowhere near the emergence of the soul. Whereas an atheist who identifies himself with beauty, trees and flowers and beasts and earth and humanity... 
Philosophical Humanism and Contemporary India - Page 36 Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - 211 pages
Alexander and Lloyd Morgan have emphasized the emergence of newer categories in the evolutionary drama. Matter, Life, and Mind are three such dominant emergents and, further, there would be the emergence of the Deity. Aurobindo1. ...
Gandhian Theory of Social Reconstruction - Page 33 Parmeshwari Dayal - 2006 - 414 pages
Sri Aurobindo said, "But spirituality is in its very nature a thing subjective and not mechanical; it is nothing if it ... For the evolution and emergence of spiritual society it is not enough that the ideas and principles favorable for ...
Guru English: South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language - Page 95 Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 330 pages
Aurobindo and many other gurus would attempt to achieve this ideal through their ashrams.84 In his newspaper, ... politics was in order to make preparations for the evolutionary emergence of a supermind that would transform the world. ... 
Literature, caste and society: the masks and veils - Page 403, S. Jeyaseela Stephen - 2006 - 427 pages
The paper seeks therefore to trace the emergence of a new line of 'Nation Making' through socio-cultural reforms in 
Bengal during the Indian ... that with the blessing of Aurobindo Ghosh and Motilal Roy, (Revolutionary and founder of ...
Global Encyclopaedia of the Theoretical Psychology (4 Vols. Set) - Page 1336 Ed. By M.A. Beg & S. Gupta Beg, - 2006 - 1382 pages
Aurobindo seems to provide us here a ground for the integration of the theory of knowledge as we shall see it through the present discussion. He points toward a higher consciousness in terms of supermind whose emergence is also a ...
Encyclopaedia Of Social Problems And Social Welfare (Set Of 10 Vols.) - Page 24 M.U. Qureshi - 2006 - 3318 pages
We find this reflected right upto the twentieth century in the writings of Aurobindo Ghosh, who cherished faith in the possibility of the emergence of the 'Perfect Man' following the battle against the evil (Kurukshetra) and thus ...
Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions - Page 105 Frances Vaughan - 2005 - 320 pages
Sri Aurobindo, the twentieth century Indian sage, says it is difficult to distinguish soul from the mental and physical forms in which it appears, as long as its emergence is incomplete. When the soul has been differentiated from ...
Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 214, Basant Kumar Lal - 2005 - 346 pages
But, the most important point of difference is that, according to Sri Aurobindo, the Gnostic being is not an ... the divine issue ... for what is wanted is the emergence of a divine life on earth, not the isolated realization by a few ...
History of the communist movement in India - Page 217, Communist Party of India (Marxist). History ... - 2005 - 248 pages
It goes without saying that once Aurobindo became known as a spiritual icon, he did not accept Bolshevism or communist ideology. ...
JP was very much influenced by the penetrating ideas of Sri Aurobindo, Bhagwan Das and Gandhi to place social order on a spiritual basis. Socialism and especially Marxism have stressed the necessity for social and economic changes, ...
Gandhi marg Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India ... - 2005
Sri Aurobindo envisaged the emergence of a world religion based on the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity which he called "supreme social trinity." In his book, The Ideal of Human Unity, he wrote: "All mankind is one in its ...
Decolonization: perspectives from now and then - Page 91 Prasenjit Duara - 2004 - 312 pages
Aurobindo was convinced that the war would bring an end to European political domination and cultural hegemony throughout ... 

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