THE LIVES OF SRI AUROBINDO CONTROVERSY
Corrections to textual excerpts of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs
- Author's Intent, Relativism of Reason, Spiritual Experience and the Modern Mind
- Deified Mythologies and Decontextualized Quotes:
- Guruvada, Trascending the Mind and the Need for Devotion:
- Cultural Psychology and World Transformation
- Refutation of Sraddhalu Ranade's charge of "Freudian psychoanalysis":
- Response to Vladimir: Recommended Attitude for Those who Have a Strong Negative Reaction
- Impression of the Work - Need to Read the Entire Book
- Judgements Based on Hearsay and Not Reading:
- Privacy of Guru-Devotee Relationship, Reality and Expression
- Cultural History, Tastes in Representation and Need for Synthesis:
- The Regime of Quotation - Quotes, Religion, Authorization and Predictability
- The Regime of Quotation - Utility and Place of Shastras (Quotation)
- Illegitimacy of Quotations for Collective Judgements
- Taking Stock - A Summary of Events and Arguments:
- Verdict of the Future and Cultural Partiality:
- Description of Devotion in the Yoga:
- Thread that Ties the Lives:
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing - an Introduction by Diane Christine
Auroville Today Interview with Peter Heehs
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton
Explanation of my Stand wrt The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Debashish
- Freedom of Choice and Social Governance:
- Central Message of the Integral Yoga and Sri Aurobindo's Representation of Buddhism
- Attention to Physical Detail and Darshan:
- Spiritual Justification of Hurt Sentiments, East and West and Transparency of Motives:
- The two sides of the anti-Heehs phenomenon- ringleaders and gullible followers:
- How'd we end up in this Mess and How to Resolve It:
- Force-Field:
Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
- Hadith-Hurling, History and the "New Clerics" of Pondicherry:
- The "Children of the Mother" and the Movement of Jah People:
- Text, Reality, Interpretation:
- The "Children of the Mother" and Gullibility
- Interpretive Communities and the Illegitimacy of Foreclosed Interpretation:
Representing Swami Vivekananda: Some Issues and Debates By Makarand Paranjape
- Hagiography and Biography: Individual and Social Matrix of Transformation and Fossilized Myths
- Pre-empting Arguments of Academic Historians, Standardized Versions of IY and Contemporary Global Needs:
- Spiritual Biographies: Bridging Cultures and Disciplines
Orissa court stays release of book on Sri Aurobindo (the next Satanic Verses -taindian news)
- Fundamentalism, Propaganda and the Invention of Truth:
- Loka-sangraha and the Reclamation of the Concept of Dharma-Yuddhah - A Quote from Sri Aurobindo
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: the aggrieved victim by Rich Carlson
- Obscuration of "the ashram" by a few ringleaders
- Changing Texts of Sri Aurobindo and Access to Archived Materials:
- Privileged Indian Birth and Access to Sri Aurobindo's Teaching:
The Greyscale Between Religion and Spirituality by Rick Lipschutz
- What is Wrong with Religion:
- Outpouring of Emotion and Personal Love for the Divine:
- Personal Love for the Divine in The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
A Cultural Misunderstanding by Angiras
- Institutional Standards, Diversity of Opinions and Growth Towards Integrality
- Memorial Conservatism and Cultures of Progress
- Asuras, Transformation and Moral Judgements
- Language Use, Experience and Moral Judgements
The Strange case of Dr. M and Mr. S by Angiras
- Postcolonial jazz and Pluralization of the Self
- Human Singularity and Manichaen Divisions
- What the Walrus Said: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, Pluralization and Sadhana
- Cultural History, Swadharma and the Integral Yoga
- Theory of History and "Taking the Blame"
- Tradition and the Integral Yoga, Secular and Occult Terms, Control of Representation
- Respect for Guru, Freedom of Speech and Growth of Consciousness, Non-Interference
- More "With the Grain" Than "Against the Grain," Public Opinion and Unpleasant Reactions, Secular and Spiritual Judgements, Self-Definition of Ashram
- Religious Fundamentalism and Integral Yoga in a post-physical-presence-of-the-gurus era
- Miracle-hungry Avatar Adulators and Darshan
Against the grain and With the Grain: A Short Review of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by J. Kepler
- Academic Debates and Authorial Engagement
- Publisher's Choices and Author's Critique of Jeffrey Kripal
- Ain't Nobody's Business
Reflections of an Evolutionary Activist: The Shadow of Fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga by Savitra
- Transcendental Relations and Fanaticism
- Enumeration of Attitudes to the Lives Controversy and "The Silent Majority"
The Core Problem by Angiras
- Faith of Modernity and Challenging the Church of Reason
- Addressing academia and doing yoga
- Establishing a Possibility in the Terrestrial Buddhi
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LARGER ISSUES SURROUNDING THE LIVES CONTROVERSY
Jihad Vs. McWorld - the Introduction by Benjamin Barber:
Yoga, religion, and fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga Community by Lynda Lester:
The Evolution of Discourse and The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Rich Carlson:
- Postmodernism and the Integral Yoga - deconstruction and organized religion:
- Postmodernism and the Integral Yoga - the postmodernist lineage and the historical evolution of thought
- Postmodernism and the Integral Yoga - historicism and existential will - Hegel, Nietzsche and the postmodern lineage
Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyer
