Re: The Higher Power

Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Thank you for the quotes, Tom. Yes, I think it's a subtle thing that both Ramana and Andrew are talking about, one that's easily misinterpreted. I think it might be described as an awareness  that... More »

Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Is: Huh? Just like law and order is a product of the evolutionary structure Amber, so emptiness (the non-finding of independent persons or phenomena) is a product of the evolutionary structures Green-Turquoise. All understandings have a kosmic... More »

Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Archipelago

Hi, David, Yes, it's relatively new to speak of rTsal in connection with evolution.  I think you will find it in Herbert Guenther's books on Dzogchen -- where he describes Dzogchen as the most thorough-going... More »

Re: Poetry Chaikhana Poem of the Day

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Lisaji in Integral Archipelago

Book V The Book of Love Canto III Satyavan and Savitri Out of the voiceless mystery of the past In a present ignorant of forgotten bonds These spirits met upon the roads of Time. Yet... More »

Re: Evolutionary Enlightenment takes another Postmodern Drubbing

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

The stories don't sound good to me at all. I also think that what happens in such communities should be in accordance with the law of the land, as Tom suggested. I don't see how... More »

Re: Maybe postmetaphysical spirituality is wrong

Posted on Apr 15th, 2009 by Is. in Integral Archipelago

"Maybe you're repressing or disasocciating?" Ok, I sure hope I am repressing sports, cars, physical fighting and repairing things. It's boring as hell to me. You're completely right though about the fascination regarding violence. I watch... More »

Re: Maybe postmetaphysical spirituality is wrong

Posted on Apr 15th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Is :    I hate fights. And I  hate  hockey. All sports, actually. I also hate cars, and repairing things. Most of the stereotypical male attributes.  I'm not quite buying this. I believe you if you say... More »

Re: Intuition

Posted on Apr 13th, 2009 by Frans in Fully Engaged

MikeS :-) To be at peace with conflict comes from understanding conflict and our individual roles in it; any time we get involved in conflict, there is regression - we're dragged down by more base-impulses. ... More »

Re: Poetry Chaikhana Poem of the Day

Posted on Apr 13th, 2009 by Lisaji in Integral Archipelago

I love the words on that video you posted, David. Several lines really leap out there. Here's some from our friend Sri Aurobindo: The Guest I have discovered my deep deathless being: Masked by my... More »

Re: Maybe postmetaphysical spirituality is wrong

Posted on Apr 12th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Surrender ultimately, yes I think it is possible! This is the view of Almaas, Maharshi, Aurobindo, I believe Wilber---I believe it is also implicit in Buddhism but, like every other tradition, it would be very... More »

Forecast for Tuesday 11 August 2009

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Hugh

Tuesday 11 August 2009 *Attempts Not Worthless* The time is Prime until the moon in Aries goes void of course after its sextile with Neptune at 1:04p PT | 4:04p ET | 8:04p UT, when... More »

Gnostic Consciousness: Knowing With Spiritual Beings

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by buddhacious

Introduction Despite my resolute sense of the sacred nature of earthly existence, religious belief has yet to strike me as a particularly appropriate form of response to the presence of the holy. Belief is to... More »

Twitterville and ScientologyNews

Posted on Apr 27th, 2009 by Albert

While I found yesterday Shel Israels interesting blog entry about his new book Twitterville I found via random generator another activisms Twitter adress:):): ScientologyNews Animated to visit once again the churchs homepage at www.scientology.org and... More »

Aspiration & Rejection

Posted on Mar 23rd, 2009 by Lisaji

From Aspiration - Yoga in Everyday Life Booklet Series (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust) Excerpts from Sri Aurobindo. * ''There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great difficult thing which is... More »

The Great Scroll

Posted on Mar 15th, 2009 by John

   In snooping around the internet for an image for a blog this morning, I came across the following words. There are more than enough links to keep you busy for a long time. Full credit and... More »

Another layer of churning has begun

Posted on Mar 7th, 2009 by Myra

I am now moved and in Minnesota.  It's been a very challenging first week and I have been at my wits end.  I know to build a new paradigm takes effort and persistence, but I... More »

Forecast for Tuesday 17 February 2009

Posted on Feb 16th, 2009 by Hugh

Tuesday 17 February 2009 *Fortitude* I am thinking of the moon in Scorpio as just plain a curse, whether in the first half (Via Combusta) or second half where it is Monday as I write.... More »

Contemplations on a Bhakti quote by Sri Aurobindo

Posted on Feb 15th, 2009 by Myra

I've been rereading some of Sri Aurobindo's quotes on Bhakti, and this one always made me smile and giggile a little. "After I knew that God was a woman, I learned something from far- off... More »

On Inclusivism

Posted on Jan 16th, 2009 by kelamuni

The Indian context for "inclusivism" is actually quite broad, and covers a number of different but related contexts. It takes inter-traditional forms as well as intra-traditional. Intra-traditionally, it includes the Buddhist idea of skillful means... More »

What question would you most like answered?

Posted on Jan 14th, 2009 by Shameslaya

How is it possible, given the fact that the human psyche is tuned up to recall/retain a mere seven-plus-or-minus-two facts, or perhaps embeds in a sentence, such as the one you are currently reading, although... More »

All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose - they indulge the play of the forces. Your illness, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces. It is only when you can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and have a true life - but one can be free only by living in the Divine.                                                                 (XXII p. 318)
 

Material things are not to be despised -- without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.

There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

The  ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a spec of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.

" The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance."

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point , but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

In relation to Gebser's notion of "time freedom" as humanity's next evolutionary breakthrough, Pinchbeck writes:


"[O]ne can only wonder how the seemingly subtle process of transforming the inner sphere of consciousness -- no longer squandering 'free time,' but using it to attain 'time freedom' -- could provide any defense from the catclysmic ravages and global meltdowns to be expected when our "superannuated spatial world" crashes and burns, "as everything that becomes lifeless and rigidified breaks apart," a collapse that appears to be approaching us at high speed.  Gebser's answer to this is similar to Sri Aurobindo's, Jung's, Goswami's, and Steiner's:  If "mind-stuff," rather than matter, is the fundamental ground of being, then a transformation of consciousness has, potentially, far-reaching effects -- not just in the psychic world, but in the one we perceive to be physical, as well."

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