Goal of liberation can be reached within everyday life

Philosophy as Spiritual Ordeal from Pagan Metaphysics by Paul Reid-Bowen

I would strongly suggest that you consider looking at Joshua Ramey’s new book The Hermetic Deleuze… While a lot of my earlier years were spent reading esotericism, gnosticism, hermeticism and occultism, I have been incrementally distancing my philosophical self from such potential contaminants to reason for twenty years now. And this is despite teaching both philosophy and contemporary incarnations of such esoteric traditions at university. I only started to forcefully question the viability and value of this bracketing quite recently: Posted by Paul Reid-Bowen at 13:38

Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood - Christine Deftereos - gives the reader an insight into a novel aspect of Nandy. The author insists that Ashis Nandy is not merely a self-described political psychologist; he is also an intellectual street fighter who comes face to face with the psychology of politics and the politics of psychology, thus affirming why this intellectual is one of the most original and confronting Indian thinkers of his generation. The main features of this book are its original reading and the authentic use of the psychoanalytic theory to characterise and demonstrate the importance of psychoanalysis in Nandy's work. Read More...

Mind and Cosmos:  Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False - Amazon.com

Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. 

Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic.

ABA Journal - Feb 1962 - Page 155 Vol. 48, No. 2 - Magazine - Full view Lawyers are now frequently called upon to make decisions in business matters, and businessmen must often decide a course of action that has distinct legal implications. by Stuart T. Saunders, President, Norfolk and Western Railway Co.

In his stimulating book, The Uses of the Past, Herbert Muller emphasizes the importance of values in these words: “Our business as rational beings is not to argue for what is going to be but to strive for what ought to be . . .” It is this pursuit of truth in the face of ultimate uncertainty that establishes the essential dignity and grandeur of man. All our hopes for the future depend upon this quest, and we, as judges, lawyers and businessmen, must see to it that human idealism remains the well-spring of our civilization.

Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Routledge India: 2008

Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical PraxisEdited by Kailash Baral, R. Radhakrishnan, Routledge India: 2009

Indian Political Thought: A Reader Edited by Aakash Singh and Silika Mohapatra (Routledge, December 2009)

Reading Hegel: The Introductions by G.W.F. Hegel (edited and introduced by Aakash Singh and Rimina Mohapatra)

Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (Topics in Historical Philosophy) by Levi R. Bryant, 2008
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) by Steven Shaviro, 2009

Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille and Literary Theory by Steven Shaviro, 1990
After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux (Author), Ray Brassier (Translator), Alain Badiou(Introduction), 2008
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton, 2009
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West by Mark Lilla

Consciousness and Its Transformation, Matthijs Cornelissen (Ed.), 2001
The Quarrel of Reason With Itself: Essays on Hamann, Michaelis, Lessing, Nietzsche

Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's the Life Divine: Covering Book One, ... - Page 141 - Santosh Krinsky - 2012 - Preview - More editions ... principle in action here brings us beyond the idea of “mutual devouring”, and thus, is the next evolutionary phase beyond a pure darwinian “survival of the fittest. ...reference: Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Chapter 21, The Ascent of Life, pg.

Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God - Georges Van Vrekhem - 2012 - Besides, what is nowadays generally labelled as Darwinism hardly resembles what Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, but is the result of scientific developments at times considered anti-Darwinian. This book narrates the relevant events in ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 262 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview ... and Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga claims that the goal of liberation can be reached within everyday life (Sri Aurobindo, ... The metatheory might be given a similar status as the (Darwinian) theory of evolution, or its aspect more relevant here ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 482 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions ... 134, 135, 149; Aurobindo visits after his marriage, 54; bomb experiments near, 153 Deshpande, Keshav Ganesh, 60; ... 203, 271, 277; conscious, 274; Darwinian, 6; human being a middle (transitional) term in, 352; of poetry, 304; spiritual, 6, ...

Science, Spirituality And The Modernization Of India - Page 162 - Makarand Paranjape - 2008 - Preview The genius of Charles Darwin pervaded the scientific West in the 1890s. Europe was gripped by the theory of evolution during the formative years of Sri Aurobindo's personality. When he returned to India in 1892 to take up his assignment at ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 4 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - and enriched in Sri Aurobindo's theory of involution and evolution. "Theories of Evolution and Sri Aurobindo" by Kireet Joshi covers the following three themes: (1) Darwin and other proponents of evolutionary theories, (2) The evolution in ...

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion - Page 292 - Jeffrey J. Kripal - 2007 - Preview - More editions we like, two bodies, for as Darwin sees in a dream and notes in his secret diaries, even a book may be thought of as a ... involution and evolution that is eerily similar to that of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine (with the divine embodying itself as ...

Joint Programme in Sri Aurobindo Studies by IGNOU and SACAR