Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Bergson, Whitehead, Jaspers, and Deleuze

Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Indian Philosophy Blog

Buddhist vs. “Hindu” academic research

With this post, I’m asking for reflections, speculations, and even bare conjectures about an apparent asymmetry. As illustrated perhaps by some posts here recently, It seems like there has been something of an explosion of quality philosophical work on Buddhism and Buddhist traditions in recent times. While there has been a lot of really good work on the so called “Hindu” or Vaidika traditions as well it at least appears to lag behind a bit. So, I’m wondering:
1. Do you think this appearance tracks reality? Is it true?
2. If so, what are the reasons or causes for this situation?
Just to make sure: I’m not at all insinuating that if such asymmetry is there, it must be due to injustice or inherent failing of systems or individuals. But if it exists, it would be nice to understand why.

Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Transhuman or posthuman singularity

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In scientific cosmological language this point or seed is the singularity from which the universe came into being. ... Sri Aurobindo said “Time is that mysterious condition of universal mind which alone makes the ordering of the universe in  ...

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Inthis contextwe have mentioned above thenamesof the greatevolutionary futurists likeTeilhard and Sri Aurobindo, and ... transhumanism andtheSingularity seems likedrastically overtaking any theosophical version ofacoming sixth rootrace.

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Robin Maconie - 2005 - ‎Preview
Sri Aurobindo emphasized that evolution was moving the race toward a Superman and Superwoman species. Paramahansa ... Gopi Krishna categorized this transition as evolving from Human to Transhuman Consciousness . . . [ maintaining]  ...

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Walter A. Koch - 2009 - ‎Preview
Nous in this sense equals our nous5; and this transhuman type of nous equals our ZPF and thus precedes evolution. ... sets in, i.e. nous such as in the chit-tapas of Sri Aurobindo (cf. http://en.wikipe- dia.org/wiki/Involution.metaphysics.

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Sri Aurobindo, of course he was not the only one, liked to think that it was for a resurgent India to found the law and rhythm of our collective life on the yet unrealised potentialities of existence. For himself he ... His humanism is trans- humanism.

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Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education golden jubilee, 1943-1993 Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... implicit in the above-quoted statement - growing beyond humanness and human identity towards the transhuman or the cosmic  ...

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Pritibhushan Chatterji - 1977 - ‎Snippet view
The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Pritibhushan Chatterji ... It is change of consciousness, replies Sri Aurobindo. ... because evolution proceeded through bodily changes ; but at the post-human level evolution, says Sri Aurobindo, will acquire a  ...

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The 'new creation' has a special significance in Sri Aurobindo. ... This is the description of the 'new or the noetic life' of man given by Sir Julian Huxley, the noted biologist of this age through his well-known dectrine of trans-humanism.


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Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - ‎Preview
An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's Integral ... Fourth Psychology, transpersonal,transhuman and centered in the cosmos rather than in human needs and interests,  ...

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Sri Aurobindo Need of Clarification of the Aim ocial Philosophy should clarify the summum bonum of social development before ... should be based on the metaphysical truths, since man has a pre-human history as well as a post-human future.

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Owen Holland - 2003 - ‎Preview
The mystics, starting with Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo in the first half of the twentieth century, also ... fossil of intermediate cultural evolution as we passed on into a post-human or 'Supramental' era in which we were welcomed back  ...

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The mystics, starting with Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo in the first half of the twentieth century, also ... fossil of intermediate cultural evolution as we passed on into a posthuman or 'Supramental' era in which we were welcomed back  ...

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But Sri Aurobindo shows that man is on the ascending scale of evolution - he has a pre-human past and post-human future : he is half-animal and half-God. Man is thus not completely separate from the rest of creation, but is vitally linked up  ...


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Dieter Roelstraete - 2009 - ‎Snippet view
It was created by the Indian yogi Sri Aurobindo and his companion Mirra Alfassa.... The posthuman has the potential to become one such non-colonized subjectivity but seems well on the way to being absorbed into old structures before s/he  ...

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Ted Chu - 2014 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
In the world of evolutionary spirituality, such modernday progressive futurists as the late Indian sage Sri Aurobindo, Esalen cofounder Michael Murphy, and visionary author Barbara Marx Hubbard have also conceived of a selftranscending  ...

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Psychology, transpersonal, transhuman, centered in the cosmos rather than in human needs and interest, going beyond ... 18 The "still 'higher' psychology" envisaged by Maslow strikingly echoes Sri Aurobindo's prevision of "the greater  ...

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Indrani Sanyal, ‎Krishna Roy - 2007 - ‎Snippet view
What Aurobindo seeks to hint at is that those who have eyes to see will not fail to see that even everyday flowers are not ... In the ultimate analysis, transcendence is transhumanism, which is perhaps the only true philosophy of civilization.

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Peter Derkx, ‎Harry Kunneman - 2013 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
Trans-spirituality Some transhumanists have a deeper approach which includes the spiritual dimension of the human project – like Buddhist James Hughes, V. R. Manoj, a follower of Sri Aurobindo, or Zen Buddhist Michael La Torra.


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Robert Kleinman - 2006 - ‎Preview
Until recently, the general opinion among scientific cosmologists has been that the universe began at the singularity, and ... Later on, it will be seen that Sri Aurobindo calls this the “Inconscient,” because consciousness is locked away deeply  ...

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... diverse thinkers as Sri Aurobindo, Jürgen Habermas, Erasmus, Kant, Tocqueville, Gandhi, Foucault, Ramashroy Roy, ... The “human” in this transformative quest builds upon creative post-human transformations in contemporary discourse  ...

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to be revealed to him/herself by that love as entitled to his/her singularity: that is to say, as a subject-individual. ... It draws inspiration and insights from the vision, experiments and works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and as a humanistic  ...