Sunday, January 12, 2020

Damien Keown, Mukund Ainapure, Charles Soule, Shannon Bell, and Paul Halpern


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The Linkage Between the Universal Forces of Creation and Their Action in the Human Being - Sri Aurobindo translates Aitareya Upanishad, Chapter 1, Section 2: “These were the Gods that He created; they fell into this great Ocean, and Hunger and T...

Does inequality imperil cooperation? - Cooperation is ubiquitous in Nature. Inequality- as between man and beast- does not seem to matter at all. The same is true of all human societies which ha...

How to invite intuitive knowledge - Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist but is best known for his philosophy on human evolution and Integral Yoga.[87] Although Sri Aurobindo was familiar...

Explorations in Savitri 150, pp. 360-362 - The splendour of her native royalty, Her greatness and her sweetness and her bliss, Her might to possess and her vast power to love: Earth made a stepping-...

Four ways to deal with deontic conflicts - Mīmāṃsā authors deal with conflicting commands according to a decreasing scale of preferences, which seems to me comparable to the scale of preferences acc...

Designing the Universe - When approaching A Universe of Terms I distinctly understood two challenges. The first was visually representing the abstract, and the second was generatin...

Charles Soule, ANYONE - Charles Soule’s recent science fiction novel Anyone was published in 2019, but I only got around to reading it in early 2020. If I had read it in time, I w...

- Shannon Bell lectures on Heidegger's ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ at York.

Hampi Continues to Live – Part 6 - Continued from Part 5 Raghunatha Temple and Malyavanta Hill One of the lesser-known but most beautiful places to visit in Hampi is the Raghunatha templ...

Reading the Qur’an: Introduction to an Occasional Series - This semester I am teaching a course entitled “Reading the Qur’an” (syllabus) as part of North Central College’s Honors program, and I plan to blog about m...

Aristotelian vs. Buddhist eudaimonia - Damien Keown’s The Nature of Buddhist Ethics closes by arguing for parallels between Buddhist and Aristotelian ethics. He claims that … Continue reading →

Companion to Hymns to the Mystic Fire (Vol.1) by Mukund Ainapure - Companion to Hymns to the Mystic Fire is meant as an aid to the systematic study of Hymns to the Mystic Fire (CWSA Volume 16) for those interested in Sri...

The Reconvergence of the Physical and the Psychological - I want, today, to offer a shout-out for Paul Halpern’s forthcoming book Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect....

Today, 51 Years Ago - The Mother's Quintessential Experience by Aryadeep S. Acharya - 10 months after the foundation of Auroville, on 1st January 1969, that means today 51 years ago, at 2 in the morning, the Mother had one of the most quin...

New Year 2020: the Message Card - Photos from Manoj Choudhary’s post Posted here with my thanks also to Kanayalal Bakraniya who relayed it all on his Facebook Timeline.

Liberal agenda is not a monopoly of Congress or Marxists - Communists resented Castes but Socialists legitimised it. Congress abhorred Religion-based identity but #CAA thrust by BJP has made people rethink on the H...

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