What led to ten centuries of decline

Mirra Alfassa, disciple of #SriAurobindo better known as 'The Mother' - the hidden freedom fighter for India's Independence. Read her full story at - https://t.co/I3DZgv0TB4

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On these thoughts, you may enjoy looking at Henri Bergson's 'Creative evolution' and the Elan Vital. Also Sri Aurobindo's treatment of the Vedanta from a life affirming and evolutionary perspective.

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I can suggest that universal consciousness is purely instinctual as opposed to self authoring and therefore non intercedent or participatory at our 'level'. At the 'god' level, consciousness does not plan, reflect or meta-cognize.

Hard to say. Gebser's drew from D.T. Suzuki's Zen on arationality, acknowledged Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga. 

You could also go back to William James, re: post-rationalism. 

But Gebser does develop a robust, phenomenological description for integral arationality in his work.

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If you're interested in cosmological alternatives to mechanistic materialism, there are no better sources than Schelling & Whitehead.

In this dialogue, @aufgehendeRest (Christopher Satoor) & I discuss their historical context & continued relevance today https://t.co/hfmDt2wmWf

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This year is the 250th birth anniversary of the great racist philosopher Hegel. Please do yourselves a favor, Indians, and read about Hegel’s force of history, the vigor in a civilization to churn the dialectic of change, and how Hegel thought Indians are devoid of that vitality.

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This is Bishop Robert Caldwell, celebrated missionary and scholar, who published in 1856 the "Comparative grammar of Dravidian or South Indian Languages". 

Link: https://t.co/886h6mWJMP

It has a large appendix devoted to racist theories. In this thread, I will discuss them. https://t.co/68JLWFO9PD

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Bishop Caldwell might have long been dead, along with the British Empire of which he was a servant, but his theories about the Dravidian race are an active force in Indian politics. They are the mainstream dogma in books and academia.

But many people have not read them at all.

In order to understand our present predicament with any degree of accuracy, the present-day thinkers, scholars, academics and bureaucrats do require a holistic understanding of where the story began, at the turn of independence. https://t.co/LLDoC3dSVA

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Book Review by Dr. Pingali Gopal: The Indian Renaissance, Sanjeev Sanyal (@sanjeevsanyal) looks at what led to ten centuries of decline and also examines the economic and social forces that are working together to transform India. @IndicAcademy #BookReview https://t.co/Xi2PhL7G8F

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Archives | Gandhi advocated that the untouchable castes give up meat-eating altogether. Yet he never asked the Brahmins and Baniyas who stood behind his “cow service” to graze cows or try their hand at leatherwork or agriculture. 

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd: https://t.co/W5Jl0npszw

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Environmentalism in Hindu Thought Part II by Rahul Goswami (@rahul_goa): The Hindu View of Nature and the Environment. #Hinduism #Environment @IndicAcademy 

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Among the many things to fix democracy under a new administration, I would put reform of the federal bureaucracy near the top of the list: https://t.co/UlqU4YHwsi

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Viruses are masters of coercion, @DavidEnard tells @kncukier. “They’re really like pirates hijacking a boat.” Listen to our "Babbage" podcast on how viruses have shaped the world—and humanity https://t.co/oxltmukCbY https://t.co/Ir6NXpUwYk

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Bollywood is Pakistan’s soft power. Narrative of evil, violent, superstitious Hindus constantly pushed. Even movies which cloak itself as “nationalist” featuring India’s armed forces subtlety push Pakistan agenda. Bollywood needs annihilation. If #SSR case can lead to it, good.

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Missionaries come claiming to "save" natives from "social problems."

In India, the narrative is "caste" to hide the $billion resources of the evangelical war machine.

Africa was converted in the last 50 years with no "caste" It is still reeling from it.

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"History will tell you that there’s always a thirst and a search for prophets at a time when there’s turbulence and transition" —@peterfrankopan 

Check out our history book recommendation interviews—370 published so far and counting... https://t.co/MWqjZKf7XQ

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Lest we forget that white supremacy and racial injustice are still endemic in America, we need to remember the Colfax massacre of 1873 and the lasting harm it wrought, write William Briggs and Jon Krakauer https://t.co/lIZMuFKvpm

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