If I could, I would like to share a new entirely empirically verifiable discovery in medicine that holds promise for the future, One which also has a close affinity with Mother's teachings about healing. I am also going to ask you to help engage in a small experiment in the science of the heart, ...   more »

Perhaps, among major western philosophers and phenomenologist none have thought more about technology and its implications as has Martin Heidegger. In his view technology opened itself to diametric polarities or promise and peril. While perceiving the assault to our feeling life and our ability to care for the things of the world, he condemned technology as a vehicle of fascist propaganda, military domination, and the hyper capitalist enterprise of power and subjugation, and difficult for any of us not to participate in. ...   more »

There were those in 1950 and 1970 who expected the imminent arrival of the superman, the end of death, the transformation of the world. Are we making a similar mistake here, but tacking part of our hopes on technology? Are we blinded by the most recent example of "exponential change," and in reality the world is going on much as it did before, less likely to transform in 2006 than it was in 1006? ...   more »

We are pleased to announce that Anie Nunnally's book THE GOLDEN PATH, has just arrived from the Ashram press in Pondicherry and is now available for sale at the East West Cultural Center. This little gem of a book is certain to be viewed as a treasure by all involved in the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...   more »

Ok here is another McLuhanism,

in this vision technological advances don't only result in biological amputations but also serve to turn the human body inside out. Namely; ...   more »

Even a single word like "ontological" or "epistomological" can drive people screaming from the room ...

Now that's Mr. Bozo to you! which is by the way is an ontological determination, as far as my epistemology; well all I can say about that is, that you can see the practical effect of it in those two winged orange mounds of hair jettisoning from both sides of my skull!   more »

Time for a bit of self-criticism here from a Guy making the case for the need for critical inquiry. I am fond of the phrase from McLuhan, 'the medium is the message' because I do feel the way we receive information, e.g. orally, in print, on the TV, over the internet, structures the way we process that information.   more »

While I am still wondering what 'one-celled immortal cells' are, I have once again resumed following the pre-AUM dialogs with interest.

Here are my comments, questions and quotes that I would like to share. ...   more »

Thanks for splitting the differences between common sense and critical reason.

I have always set common sense as opposite to book sense, and thought of critical judgment as a processes of not only taking stock of those things which are self-evident but in also becoming aware of discerning what one's underlying social and cultural presuppositions are when approaching a problem, in an attempt to open up possibilities for new discovery . ...   more »

A note on your equation of critical reason and common sense - I had thought of the two as opposed to each other. In other words, while critical reason attempted to probe the foundations of statements, presumably to arrive at truth, common sense was self-evident, validating a time-tested truth, and therefore immune to critical reason. ...   more »