Thursday, April 17, 2025

Auroville was meant to transcend nations and politics

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

From January 1968 till August 1970, the Mother was reading chosen passages from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri and giving Her explanations which were tape-recorded ...
8 hours ago — On Original Thinking – Sri Aurobindo. Man does not ordinarily think for finding the truth. intellectual conclusions of the rationalist … are as much dogmas ...
21 hours ago — Om Sri Aurobindo Mira – Let us open wide our hearts. A musical offering from Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham (SASP), Lodi, California.
16 hours ago — A beautiful Audio on Sri Aurobindo and The Mother written by Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Here's the first episode of our new podcast, The Blind Spot, featuring yours truly with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. We're starting out with some topics from our book but we'll move on from those soon, and we plan to invite guests for future episodes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vT...

https://bsky.app/profile/evanthompson.bsky.social/post/3lmxr3nhzks23

Latest papers: Jonathan Najenson tackles the problem of specificity, namely the extent to which memory engrams can be identified, tracked, and distinguished from other engram and non-engram vehicles in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...

https://bsky.app/profile/journalphp.bsky.social/post/3lmwxm4hg742e

To be honest, I can't really criticize people reading Harry Potter on the grounds that the author sucks because I'm currently rereading Being and Time. In my defense, it's not like I'm enjoying it. I remember a philosophy prof saying, of Heidegger, "it's certainly not the only time a terrible man wrote one interesting book."

Yeah, that's kind of the thing. It does make me want to go back and read Husserl, who was clearly the main influence on him, and probably more important, if less noted.

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Curiosity and flirting last week, consent this week, bad sex next week. @universityofleeds.bsky.social is the place to study all these important and fascinating topics!

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I’m lecturing on sexual consent later and looking forward to discussing the work of @quillkukla.bsky.social and @ellieanderphd.bsky.social. @manongarcia.bsky.social’s recent book also makes an appearance. It’s such a good time to be thinking about the philosophy of intimacy and relationships.

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NEW: Men and women belonging to Gen Z are more divided than those of any other generation on key questions about feminism, gender roles and women’s rights

Read our new 30-country study with @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social for #IWD2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-z-m...

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So great hearing @joshshepperd.bsky.social talk about the media reform movement, educational TV, and the origins of media studies. Equally inspiring hearing Carol Stabile talk about the broadcast blacklist and her new research on anti-communism and CBS.

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Persons of other religions can't be appointed as members of religious boards. This is a valid point raised by the Supreme Court. Savitri Era Party demands that non-devotees should be removed from Auroville Foundation so that devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo take decisions.

https://x.com/SavitriEra/status/1912874560891892183?t=xeA6Prj2nY7iRROU8Uinug&s=19

This is the time for devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo to unite so that we get back Matrimandir and Auroville from the clutch of Govt. as per the dissenting judgement of Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy. I have been telling this through Savitri Era Religion and Savitri Era Party.

https://x.com/SavitriEra/status/1912878842609541365?t=O6EiRJ-o_2mfDrwPUwpVAQ&s=19

Auroville was meant to transcend nations & politics. Today, its forests are being cleared, its land traded, & its residents silenced.

Inside Auroville: A spiritual commune caught in a storm of power, profit, & politics.

Massive tree felling. Dubious land deals. And a quiet plan to turn it into the BJP’s southern stronghold.

Read this report by @poojaprasanna4 & @priyankathiru. thenewsminute.com/long-form/insi

https://x.com/thenewsminute/status/1912861103983583313?t=J_uLQ5InEqampsT1FniF0Q&s=19

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Society has become a collectivised reality and religion as an institutionalised materiality to establish and grasp this social collectivism. This chapter provides an in-depth exploration of the religious behaviours and perceptions of the youth. It delves in the …

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This research aims to find out how a PAI educator instills social character values​​in students. The most prominent problem today is the drastic decline in the moral or social character of students. To answer this problem, this research uses field …

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J Chapple
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J Batra
… , hijacking the levels marked by Sri Aurobindo. It may be mentioned here that when Malhotra organized a conference on Integral Consciousness in America, Wilber claimed monopoly on the term which was effectively rebutted by Malhotra as …