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Trance and the Waking State - A waking state cannot be called trance, as the word trance refers specially to a condition in which the outer waking state disappears and the conscious...
Could India have gained independence earlier? - There is a theory, based on a misunderstanding, that Viceroy Reading (Rufus Isaacs) was prepared to concede Dominion Status in 1921 in return for an end to...
Favorite science fiction, 2019 - Here are my favorite science fiction novels (or in a few cases, collections of stories) from 2019. As before, I make no pretensions toward completeness or ...
The Standpoint of the Knower of the Eternal - Sri Aurobindo translates Taittiriya Upanishad, Brahmanandavalli, Chapter 9: “The Bliss of the Eternal from which words turn back without attaining and min...
Age of the Double-Bind - Christmas Day is, perhaps, an odd time to reflect on the meaning of “the New Normal”. Or perhaps it is the most appropriate day to reflect on that. As you ...
Merry Christmas.. - Originally posted on Try to get it!: To all Christians all over the planet..I say Merry Christmas…I want to wish you a happy holiday and a happy time..I am...
The Problem of Christmas - I don’t like Christmas. I especially don’t like going home for Christmas. In fact, a couple years ago I cancelled a trip home at the last minute — a dramat...
Process of enlightenment -Real unbiased observation based, experientially felt, inner seeking oriented grasping of facts/truths aided by an understanding that enable one to inter...
McMindfulness and Engaged Buddhism: the twin innovations - Ron Purser’s critique of McMindfulness is in line with William Edelglass’s critique of the “happiness turn” in Western Buddhism. Purser and Edelglass are b...
McMindfulness and Engaged Buddhism: the twin innovations - Ron Purser’s critique of McMindfulness is in line with William Edelglass’s critique of the “happiness turn” in Western Buddhism. Purser … Continue reading →
- In Edge, Lee Smolin describes an ontology based on Events. First of all, events. Events are things that happen. Events create other events. In this theory...
performance - As a religious profession, the black Protestant preacher involved artistic performance, the fashioning of dramatic personae, and the cultural authority to ...
Sri Aurobindo enthuses us to be open minded - We are used to the world situation being described in terms of different Nations but that's an illusion. Truth be told, humanity is one with males and fema...
“Two Loves and Other Stories” - This is a book I started writing about 12 years ago. I wrote the first story and it turned out to be a really long story. Then I was busy with other writin...
India and China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective-M.S. Srinivasan - Both in character and geography, India and China are like twin brothers. – Liang Chi Chao,Former President, Universities Association, Peking. … India and C...
Roots of Dharma can be traced to Veda - Interpretations of the Veda Sayanaacharya - Ritualistic Swami Dayananda Saraswati - Etymological Balagangadhar Tilak - Astronomical T Paramashiva Iyer - Geol...
Sonnets of Sri Aurobindo - This book contains all of Sri Aurobindo’s sonnets - the seventy-four sonnets written in Pondicherry between the early 1930s and late 1940s. Free book dow...
Philosophical Rigor - There’s a model of philosophical rigor that denounces all analogies, metaphors, and examples. It is an ancient tradition. Plato, of course, denounces the...
Metaphysics in Process (reflections on Whitehead's system of philosophy) - As best I understand it, in Part IV of Process & Reality, Whitehead attempted to account for how geometrical measurement of the physical world is possible ...
A Rare Photograph of the Mother - Dear Friends, We, at Overman Foundation, try to present before our readers new discoveries related to the lives and works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...
Of Life, Mind and Progress - Author: Beloo Mehra, Published in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (8 & 9, Aug-Sept 2019), pp. 5-6 “Western civilisation is proud of its successful modern...
