The Mythol-Gap Between Left, Right, and Wrong23 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References But Aurobindo wrote that such individuals "have no idea about the world and talk like little children. ... What Sri Aurobindo wrote in the early 1940's could be equally applied today, with not one word altered: "You should not think of ...
The Postmodern Prometheus: A God of the Saps21 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob Thus there is infrahuman consciousness and what Aurobindo called “supramental” consciousness running along a continuum. There is no one who can become “fully conscious” under human conditions, although it is certainly possible to let in ...
Pockets of Sanity in an Insane World12 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob Sri Aurobindo described Hitler as an “infrarational mystic” who embodied the dark spirit of his nation. He clearly possessed unusual vertical powers over others, but in a wholly maniacal and diabolical way. Reagan, like Lincoln before ...
On Meditation and Prayer: How to Depart and Bewholed10 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob I find this to be a most adequate description, because it is in accord with my own personal experience and with another one of my nonlocal authorities, Sri Aurobindo. (Yes, I know, Schuon would have a lot of problems with Sri Aurobindo, ...
Give Us This Day Our Daily Broad3 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob ... at the record store--Johnny Cash mixed in with Tim McGraw, John Coltrane next to Kenny G., Bobby Bland next to Ben Harper, Deepak Chopra next to Sri Aurobindo, Wayne Dyer next to Frithjof Schuon, Joel Osteen next to von Balthasar. ...
Darwhiggian Evolution and Supernatural Election24 Jun 2006 by Gagdad Bob In the formula of Sri Aurobindo, it is Aspiration-Rejection (of the lower)-Surrender (to the higher) 24/7/365/13.7 billion. I’m still trying to get to a discussion of the hostile forces. We’re getting there, but I needed to present a ...
The Hostile Forces and Their Allies22 Jun 2006 by Gagdad Bob These are what Sri Aurobindo called the adverse forces. They are highly conscious forces whose sole aim, apparently, is to discourage the seeker and divert him from the path he has chosen. The first sign sign of their presence is easily ...
The Left's Reaction to Zarqawi's Death Diminishes Us All9 Jun 2006 by Gagdad Bob The soul is what Sri Aurobindo called the “psychic being” or what the Christian fathers called the “nous.” It lies behind and above the ego, and is oriented on a vertical plane. It is the part of us that grows with spiritual growth. ...
The Singularity is Here!25 May 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References No human philosopher will ever surpass Plotinus, or Eckhart, or Aurobindo, or the Upanishads, because knowledge of the ultimate cannot surpass itself, any more than artistic perfection can surpass itself. There is just “perfection. ...
Verticalisthenics and Other Youth-Defying Wonders11 May 2006 by Gagdad Bob Insofar as its cognition is concerned, its function, as Sri Aurobindo noted, is to grind. Put anything in front of it--a cereal box, ... I have never read Aurobindo, and this is new to me. My higher self likes the silence and openness ...
Hallucinations of Truth (or, This is Your Brain on Science)8 Apr 2006 by Gagdad Bob Sri Aurobindo said that the aim of the spiritual life is to lay open "a gate of escape out of the vicious circle of our ordinary human existence." Frithjof Schuon wrote that "the human state is a gate of exit," even "the only gate for ...
All Along the Watchtower28 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob The parallels with what Sri Aurobindo teaches are almost exact. For him, the fundamental approach to building your watchtower involves 1) aspiration, 2) rejection, and 3) surrender. Aspiration may be conceptualized in different ways, ...
Dude, Where are You?26 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob Oh, and since we have a specific request from Tusar to toss some Sri Aurobindo into the mix, here's how he describes the psycho-cosmic situation in his epic poem Savitri: A Nature that denied the eternal Truth ...
Rationalism, Adolescent Rebellion, and the Translogical Wisdom of ...15 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob There is a story about Sri Aurobindo contained The Adventure of ... I bring it up because Sri Aurobindo is widely considered to have been the greatest ... "The day came when Sri Aurobindo had had enough of these intellectual gymnastics. ...
Watch, Pray, and Don't Mention My Book to the Rank and Foul11 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob Plus the book has a chapter about Sri Aurobindo. Surely he will appreciate my book, in particular, the Joycean prologue and epilogue that are modeled after Finnegans Wake. To put it another way, if he doesn't get it, that will be a ...
Autoexorcism, Neurosimplicity, and Seeking With One I Open10 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob Just to show you how much overlap there is, I will leave you with a couple of quotes from Sri Aurobindo: "What we are now, or rather what we perceive as ourselves and so call, is only an ignorant partial and superficial formulation of ...
Mano-a-Manotheism: Spiritual Warfare, Part 1.59 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob This, of course, is exactly what Sri Aurobindo attempted to do. Having obtained a thoroughly modern education at Cambridge, he specifically tried to update Shankara and make Hindu metaphysics compatible with modernity. ...
Doing Your Part to Keep the Cosmos Healthy2 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob The two great forerunners of evolutionary cosmology were Hegel in the West and Sri Aurobindo on the East. The former is widely mis-or disunderstood, while the latter is simply not understood, or not widely known, anyway. ...
God, Language, and Vertical Logic18 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob However, Freud had no idea that these same principles also applied to the higher vertical realm of consciousness, what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental overmind. Rather than spending time explaining how these five principles apply to ...
Spiritual Reality, Patterned Nonsense, and Coherent Absurdities17 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob ... which is quite contrary to our knowledge and experience. It is quite natural, I suppose.... it is so much easier to come to vehement logical conclusions than to look at the Truth which is many-sided and whole. --Sri Aurobindo.
Alternate Realities: Where's the Rest of Me?15 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References Or as one wag put it: In the deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner shall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fulness of his own being. For that being is infinity, is God. --Sri Aurobindo ...
Bach to the Future: Alternate Realities, Part Two14 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob For example, Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter, "I do not readily accept disciples, as this path of Yoga is a difficult one and can be followed only if there is a special call." In another letter he balked at the notion of creating a mass ...
Concrete Operations Thought, Graven Images, and Islamic Backwardness6 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob In fact, thinkers such as Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo have outlined developmental stages beyond formal operations, which was Paiaget's final stage of development. In the Islamic world, there is no room whatsoever for these higher ...
Mind Parasites, Intellectual Doctators, and The Life Divine in a ...25 Jan 2006 by Gagdad Bob There is, of course, the counterexample of Sri Aurobindo, but he appears a lone voice crying in the wilderness these days. As a Buddhist who also happens to be a Straussian neo-conservative, I've been feeling pretty lonely and in fact ...
Questionables to Your Unanswerables23 Jan 2006 by Gagdad Bob With regard to the East, this has been most ably and exhaustively enunciated by Sri Aurobindo, who had the benefit of a Cambridge education and integrated Vedanta with the modern world. In the West, virtually the identical task was ...
Weakness, Vanity, and Cruelty: A Glimpse into the Moral Dementia ...3 Jan 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References Interestingly, this is exactly the conclusion drawn by the great Indian philosopher and sage Sri Aurobindo, in his celebrated Essays on the Gita. Aurobindo writes that the Gita "does not preach indifference to good and evil for the ...One Cosmos - http://onecosmos.blogspot.com
The Postmodern Prometheus: A God of the Saps21 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob Thus there is infrahuman consciousness and what Aurobindo called “supramental” consciousness running along a continuum. There is no one who can become “fully conscious” under human conditions, although it is certainly possible to let in ...
Pockets of Sanity in an Insane World12 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob Sri Aurobindo described Hitler as an “infrarational mystic” who embodied the dark spirit of his nation. He clearly possessed unusual vertical powers over others, but in a wholly maniacal and diabolical way. Reagan, like Lincoln before ...
On Meditation and Prayer: How to Depart and Bewholed10 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob I find this to be a most adequate description, because it is in accord with my own personal experience and with another one of my nonlocal authorities, Sri Aurobindo. (Yes, I know, Schuon would have a lot of problems with Sri Aurobindo, ...
Give Us This Day Our Daily Broad3 Jul 2006 by Gagdad Bob ... at the record store--Johnny Cash mixed in with Tim McGraw, John Coltrane next to Kenny G., Bobby Bland next to Ben Harper, Deepak Chopra next to Sri Aurobindo, Wayne Dyer next to Frithjof Schuon, Joel Osteen next to von Balthasar. ...
Darwhiggian Evolution and Supernatural Election24 Jun 2006 by Gagdad Bob In the formula of Sri Aurobindo, it is Aspiration-Rejection (of the lower)-Surrender (to the higher) 24/7/365/13.7 billion. I’m still trying to get to a discussion of the hostile forces. We’re getting there, but I needed to present a ...
The Hostile Forces and Their Allies22 Jun 2006 by Gagdad Bob These are what Sri Aurobindo called the adverse forces. They are highly conscious forces whose sole aim, apparently, is to discourage the seeker and divert him from the path he has chosen. The first sign sign of their presence is easily ...
The Left's Reaction to Zarqawi's Death Diminishes Us All9 Jun 2006 by Gagdad Bob The soul is what Sri Aurobindo called the “psychic being” or what the Christian fathers called the “nous.” It lies behind and above the ego, and is oriented on a vertical plane. It is the part of us that grows with spiritual growth. ...
The Singularity is Here!25 May 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References No human philosopher will ever surpass Plotinus, or Eckhart, or Aurobindo, or the Upanishads, because knowledge of the ultimate cannot surpass itself, any more than artistic perfection can surpass itself. There is just “perfection. ...
Verticalisthenics and Other Youth-Defying Wonders11 May 2006 by Gagdad Bob Insofar as its cognition is concerned, its function, as Sri Aurobindo noted, is to grind. Put anything in front of it--a cereal box, ... I have never read Aurobindo, and this is new to me. My higher self likes the silence and openness ...
Hallucinations of Truth (or, This is Your Brain on Science)8 Apr 2006 by Gagdad Bob Sri Aurobindo said that the aim of the spiritual life is to lay open "a gate of escape out of the vicious circle of our ordinary human existence." Frithjof Schuon wrote that "the human state is a gate of exit," even "the only gate for ...
All Along the Watchtower28 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob The parallels with what Sri Aurobindo teaches are almost exact. For him, the fundamental approach to building your watchtower involves 1) aspiration, 2) rejection, and 3) surrender. Aspiration may be conceptualized in different ways, ...
Dude, Where are You?26 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob Oh, and since we have a specific request from Tusar to toss some Sri Aurobindo into the mix, here's how he describes the psycho-cosmic situation in his epic poem Savitri: A Nature that denied the eternal Truth ...
Rationalism, Adolescent Rebellion, and the Translogical Wisdom of ...15 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob There is a story about Sri Aurobindo contained The Adventure of ... I bring it up because Sri Aurobindo is widely considered to have been the greatest ... "The day came when Sri Aurobindo had had enough of these intellectual gymnastics. ...
Watch, Pray, and Don't Mention My Book to the Rank and Foul11 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob Plus the book has a chapter about Sri Aurobindo. Surely he will appreciate my book, in particular, the Joycean prologue and epilogue that are modeled after Finnegans Wake. To put it another way, if he doesn't get it, that will be a ...
Autoexorcism, Neurosimplicity, and Seeking With One I Open10 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob Just to show you how much overlap there is, I will leave you with a couple of quotes from Sri Aurobindo: "What we are now, or rather what we perceive as ourselves and so call, is only an ignorant partial and superficial formulation of ...
Mano-a-Manotheism: Spiritual Warfare, Part 1.59 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob This, of course, is exactly what Sri Aurobindo attempted to do. Having obtained a thoroughly modern education at Cambridge, he specifically tried to update Shankara and make Hindu metaphysics compatible with modernity. ...
Doing Your Part to Keep the Cosmos Healthy2 Mar 2006 by Gagdad Bob The two great forerunners of evolutionary cosmology were Hegel in the West and Sri Aurobindo on the East. The former is widely mis-or disunderstood, while the latter is simply not understood, or not widely known, anyway. ...
God, Language, and Vertical Logic18 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob However, Freud had no idea that these same principles also applied to the higher vertical realm of consciousness, what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental overmind. Rather than spending time explaining how these five principles apply to ...
Spiritual Reality, Patterned Nonsense, and Coherent Absurdities17 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob ... which is quite contrary to our knowledge and experience. It is quite natural, I suppose.... it is so much easier to come to vehement logical conclusions than to look at the Truth which is many-sided and whole. --Sri Aurobindo.
Alternate Realities: Where's the Rest of Me?15 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References Or as one wag put it: In the deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner shall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fulness of his own being. For that being is infinity, is God. --Sri Aurobindo ...
Bach to the Future: Alternate Realities, Part Two14 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob For example, Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter, "I do not readily accept disciples, as this path of Yoga is a difficult one and can be followed only if there is a special call." In another letter he balked at the notion of creating a mass ...
Concrete Operations Thought, Graven Images, and Islamic Backwardness6 Feb 2006 by Gagdad Bob In fact, thinkers such as Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo have outlined developmental stages beyond formal operations, which was Paiaget's final stage of development. In the Islamic world, there is no room whatsoever for these higher ...
Mind Parasites, Intellectual Doctators, and The Life Divine in a ...25 Jan 2006 by Gagdad Bob There is, of course, the counterexample of Sri Aurobindo, but he appears a lone voice crying in the wilderness these days. As a Buddhist who also happens to be a Straussian neo-conservative, I've been feeling pretty lonely and in fact ...
Questionables to Your Unanswerables23 Jan 2006 by Gagdad Bob With regard to the East, this has been most ably and exhaustively enunciated by Sri Aurobindo, who had the benefit of a Cambridge education and integrated Vedanta with the modern world. In the West, virtually the identical task was ...
Weakness, Vanity, and Cruelty: A Glimpse into the Moral Dementia ...3 Jan 2006 by Gagdad Bob - References Interestingly, this is exactly the conclusion drawn by the great Indian philosopher and sage Sri Aurobindo, in his celebrated Essays on the Gita. Aurobindo writes that the Gita "does not preach indifference to good and evil for the ...One Cosmos - http://onecosmos.blogspot.com
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