Science, Culture and Integral Yoga

SCIY is provided as a free service to all. Anyone is welcome to read SCIY with no signup required. The founders, administrators and editors of SCIY are engaged in the study and practice of Sri Aurobindo's "Integral Yoga," a non-sectarian spiritual path toward realizing "a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity."* - Our aspiration for SCIY is to foster inclusive scientific, cultural and spiritual research that serves this realization. We invite those who share this aspiration to join us.

SCIY's original founders (in September 2005) were Ron Anastasia*, Debashish Banerji, Rich Carlson, and Rod Hemsell. Rich chose to resign in early 2008.

SCIY's Senior Editors (have Administrative privileges)

Ron Anastasia** (ronjon, Founding Editor)
RY Deshpande (RY Deshpande)

SCIY's Editors (have Article posting privileges)

Debashish Banerji (Debashish)
Kim Anway-Anastasia (Kim)
Rod Hemsell (Rod)
Vladimir Yatsenko (Vladimir)
Ulrich Mohrhoff (Koantum)
Prapanna Smith (Prapanna)
Rakesh Gade (Rakesh)
William M.H. Kötke

The "posts" on SCIY are analogous to the articles in a typical paper magazine, and the comments are similar to "Letters to the Editor." Those who wish to post comments to our posted articles are required to create free "Reader Accounts" (and provide bona fide email addresses so as to prevent spam bots from functioning).

A small group of volunteer "Editors" has the ability to post articles to SCIY. They all have relevant professional level backgrounds, HTML skills and English language competence to choose or write articles that meet our quality standards.

If you are interested in becoming an SCIY Editor, you are welcome to begin posting comments to existing articles so we can get to know you and the potential contribution you could make to SCIY.

Click here for more information re the background of SCIY's Current Editors.

* SCIY is hosted on BlogHarbor.com, an independent, fee-based ISP. Ron is the "Owner" (BlogHarbor's term) of SCIY, meaning that he initiated SCIY on BlogHarbor and has been the sole funder of BlogHarbor's monthly hosting fees since then. One advantage of this arrangement is that SCIY can remain free of the distracting and often intrusive advertising of ad-based blogs and forums.

** Ron is the final arbiter of all disputes and the final authority re all administrative decisions, including the assignment of Administrator and Editor status, the banning of troublesome posters, and the deletion of articles and comments non-conforming to SCIY's groundrules. Note that this private, fee-based status differs from the large ad-supported public blogs and forums such as Google's 'Blogger,' MSN's 'Spaces', and Yahoo's 'Groups.'

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