Science, Culture and Integral Yoga

Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies III

Debashish — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:05:00 -0700

The concluding section on Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies by Debashish Banerji continues its second installment's reflections on the Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omnipresence presented to us as the emerging destiny of post-Enlightenment Modernity and compares this destination with its appropriation and supercession in the Neo-Vedantic teleology of Sri Aurobindo. What are the differences, dangers and promises of these destinies and what are the conditions for achieving an alternate destination? ...

A New Name for SCIY? - "SCSC (Science, Culture & Supramental Consciousness)"

ronjon — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:52:00 -0700

As SCIY's readership has steadily increased during the 21 months since its founding in September 2005, the inclusion of the term "Integral Yoga" in its name has been a source of ongoing misunderstanding...

In the years since Sri Aurobindo coined it in the early 1900's, the terms "integral" and "yoga" have been adopted by many other individuals and organizations. E.g., in the United States, Ken Wilbur has become strongly associated with the integral thought movement and founded the Integral Institute in 1998. And in contrast to its Indian spiritual meaning, the word "yoga" is often interpreted in the West as a set of exercises and postures for relaxation and physical conditioning...

We're posting this article to request feedback from SCIY's readers. What do you think about this proposed name change?

Lab group led by Nobelist Eric Cornell confirms ZPF Casimir Effect (Physics News Update, 7feb07)

ronjon — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:59:00 -0800

For the first time, a group led by Nobel laureate Eric Cornell at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder has confirmed a 1955 prediction, by physicist Evgeny Lifschitz, that temperature affects the Casimir force, the attraction between two objects when they come to within 5 millionths of a meter (approximately 1/5,000 of an inch) of each other or less. These efforts heighten the understanding of the force and enable future experiments to better account for its effects...

What was happening here? The Casimir force arises from effects of the vacuum (empty space). According to quantum mechanics, the vacuum contains fleeting electromagnetic waves, in turn consisting of electric and magnetic fields. The electric fields can slightly rearrange the charge in atoms. Such "polarized" atoms can then feel a force from an electric field. The vacuum's electric fields are altered by the presence of the glass, creating a region of maximum electric field that attracts the atoms. ...

Metaphysical implications of the quantum 'Zero Point Field'

ronjon — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:38:00 -0800

This is Part 1 of a series of quoted passages from the book The Field: the Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, by science journalist Lynn McTaggart. It’s an excellent non-technical explanation about the metaphysical implications of modern quantum theory, especially what’s called the ‘Zero Point Field.’ I hope this can provide a useful vocabulary for our ongoing dialogues re possible relationships between science and spirituality. I’ll say more in future comments to these articles. ~ ron

...The notion of an electromagnetic field is simply a convenient abstraction invented by scientists (and represented by lines of 'force', indicated by direction and shape) to try to make sense of the seemingly remarkable actions of electricity and magnetism and their ability to influence objects at a distance — and, technically, into infinity — with no detectable substance or matter in between. Simply put, a field is a region of influence. As one pair of researchers aptly described it: 'Every time you use your toaster, the fields around it perturb charged particles in the farthest galaxies ever so slightly.' ... In the quantum world, quantum fields are not mediated by forces but by exchange of energy, which is constantly redistributed in a dynamic pattern. This constant exchange is an intrinsic property of particles, so that even 'real' particles are nothing more than a little knot of energy which briefly emerges and disappears back into the underlying field. According to quantum field theory, the individual entity is transient and insubstantial. Particles cannot be separated from the empty space around them. Einstein himself recognized that matter itself was 'extremely intense' — a disturbance, in a sense, of perfect randomness — and that the only fundamental reality was the underlying entity — the field itself. ...

The Zero Point Field is a repository of all fields and all ground energy states and all virtual particles — a field of fields. ...

The existence of the Zero Point Field implied that all matter in the universe was interconnected by waves, which are spread out through time and space and can carry on to infinity, tying one part of the universe to every other part. The idea of the Zero Point Field might just offer a scientific explanation for many metaphysical notions, such as the Chinese belief in the life force, or qi, described in ancient texts as something akin to an energy field. It even echoed the Old Testament's account of God's first dictum: 'Let there be light', out of which matter was created. ... If all subatomic matter in the world is interacting constantly with this ambient ground-state energy field, the subatomic waves of the Zero Point Field are constantly imprinting a record of the shape of everything. As the harbinger and imprinter of all wavelengths and all frequencies, the Zero Point Field is a kind of shadow of the universe for all time, a mirror image and record of everything that ever was. In a sense, the vacuum is the beginning and the end of everything in the universe. ... If that were true, it meant every part of the universe could be in touch with every other part instantaneously. ...

... If matter wasn't stable, but an essential element in an underlying ambient, random sea of energy ... then it should be possible to use this as a blank matrix on which coherent patterns could be written, particularly as the Zero Point Field had imprinted everything that ever happened in the world through wave interference encoding. This kind of information might account for coherent particle and field structures. But there might also be an ascending ladder of other possible information structures, perhaps coherent fields around living organisms, or maybe this acts a a non-biochemical 'memory' in the universe. It might even be possible to organize these fluctuations somehow through an act of will. ... this represented nothing less than a unifying concept of the universe, which showed that everything was in some sort of connection and balance with the rest of the cosmos. The universe's very currency might be learned information, as imprinted upon this fluid, mutable field of information. The Zero Point Field demonstrated that the real currency of the universe — the very reason for its stability — is an exchange of energy. If we were all connected through the Zero Point Field, then it just might be possible to tap into this vast reservoir of energy information and extract information from it. With such a vast energy bank to be harnessed, virtually anything was possible — that is, if human beings had some sort of quantum structure allowing them access to it. But there was the stumbling block. That would require that our bodies operated according to the laws of the quantum world. ...

SCIY Readership & Total Page Views increase to new highs in Jan.'07

ronjon — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:31:00 -0800

In January 2007, SCIY's readership rose to a new high of 14,365 individuals, a 16% increase from December '06. Those readers viewed SCIY's pages a total of 81,769 times, a 40% increase from Dec. '06 and also a new record.

SCIY's readers have now accessed SCIY a total of 449,745 times from September 2005 through February 2007. ...

The human role in climate change (Boston Review)

ronjon — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:50:00 -0800

This is one of the best summaries of the science of climate change and global warming forecasting I've seen. It's by Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT, who was recognized in 2006 by Time magazine as "one of the world’s 100 most influential people." Highly recommended.

...The evolution of the scientific debate about anthropogenic climate change illustrates both the value of skepticism and the pitfalls of partisanship... general awareness of the issue dates to a National Academy of Sciences report in 1979 that warned that doubling CO2 content might lead to a three-to-eight-degree increase in global average temperature. Then, in 1988, James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, set off a firestorm of controversy by testifying before Congress that he was virtually certain that a global-warming signal had emerged from the background climate variability... Most scientists were deeply skeptical of Hansen’s claims; I certainly was...

At roughly this time, radical environmental groups and a handful of scientists influenced by them leapt into the fray with rather obvious ulterior motives. This jump-started the politicization of the issue, and conservative groups, financed by auto makers and big oil, responded with counterattacks... A very small number of climate scientists adopted dogmatic positions and in so doing lost credibility among the vast majority who remained committed to an unbiased search for answers... On the right, the search began for negative feedbacks that would counter increasing greenhouse gases: imaginative ideas emerged, but they have largely failed the acid test of comparison to observations. But as the dogmatists grew increasingly alienated from the scientific mainstream, they were embraced by political groups and journalists, who thrust them into the limelight. This produced a gross distortion in the public perception of the scientific debate. Ever eager for the drama of competing dogmas, the media largely ignored mainstream scientists whose hesitations did not make good copy. As the global-warming signal continues to emerge, this soap opera is kept alive by a dwindling number of deniers constantly tapped for interviews by journalists who pretend to look for balance...

The Mother reading 'Savitri'

ronjon — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:11:00 -0800

Thanks to RY Deshpande for this wonderful link!

Audio recordings of The Mother reading Savitri, compiled by Narad.

Cavaet: Listening to these recordings could change your life ...

SCIY's Readership increases to new high in Dec.06

ronjon — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:03:00 -0800

In December 2006, SCIY's readership rose to a new high of 12,415 individuals, a 37% increase from November. SCIY's readers have now logged in from over 80 countries: ...

The Collective Yoga of Man: A World in Process - January 12-14, 2007 - Auroville, India

ronjon — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:43:00 -0800

Announcing an Auroville Conference:

The Collective Yoga of Man: A World in Process
January 12-14, 2007 - Auroville, India

All the ‘knowings’ of the past pale in comparison. A ‘being’ emerges.. borne on the crest of a new wave.. that rises from the oceans of the Infinite. Parameters of convention cease – psychologically speaking. There is no known ‘psychology’ to determine what is happening. It is a veritable adventure into the ‘unknown’. An ‘unknown’ of ‘being’ itself…
What then are the ‘tools’ at our disposal? Are there any tools? Or, is there only the action.. of a movement forward.. into a future of hitherto unknown possibilities.
The seeds, possibly, of a new creation? Creation of a new man – who learns to live in another world? Or, who learns to live in the world in ‘another’ way!

To be, to live, to explore this ‘other’ way becomes the one pursuit of all our seekings. ...

SCIY continues its rapid growth in October

ronjon — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:01:00 -0800

SCIY's statistics for the month of October 2006 again showed rapid growth, nearly doubling over September. SCIY's readers have now logged in from over 70 countries ...

"The Good Life: New Public Spaces of Recreation": Van Alen Institute exhibition, NYC

ronjon — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:15:00 -0700

I wonder if Auroville's planners are keeping up with the immensely creative work on urban design now underway around the world?

New York’s Van Alen Institute['s] The Good Life: New Public Spaces of Recreation, an exhibition at Hudson River Park’s Pier 40 showcasing dozens of projects either planned, under construction, or already realized that insert the rare combination of scenic refuge and pure pleasure into the hurly-burly of cities. “People are just desperate for these sites,” senior curator Zoë Ryan says. “Not everyone can escape the city during the summer, so this sort of destination has become increasingly important.” ...

SCIY has another month of rapid growth

ronjon — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:33:00 -0700

SCIY's statistics for the month September 2006 again showed rapid growth, approximately doubling over August ...

"Deep Light" - 3D Television That Leaps Off the Screen (NYT)

ronjon — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:30:00 -0700

This is the 3D technology that the World Memory Theatre (see prior posting) will be using for its public-access exploratorium theatre. I'm looking forward to experiencing it myself.

IN a nondescript optics lab in tucked into an anonymous office park in the San Fernando Valley, the photon hackers of Deep Light are showing me the future of media. The object of their affection is a small screen on which an animated gladiator is clashing scimitars with a horned monster in a Coliseum-like setting. But this isn't a flat cartoon image: it's full 3-D space, the combatants circling each other inches from my eyes so convincingly that my hand twinges to grab them - and I'm not wearing those clunky red-and-blue cardboard glasses, either. I'm seeing a 3-D image with the naked eye. ...

SCIY viewed in August more than 20,000 times, a 63% increase over July

ronjon — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:43:00 -0700

SCIY is continuing its remarkable growth rate. Our total page views for the month of August 2006 increased by 63% over July, to over 20,000 views! - Here are the details: ...

SCIY's readership now over 5,000 distinct persons per month

ronjon — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:36:00 -0700

SCIY's readership is growing rapidly, and now totals over 5,000 distinct persons per month.. Page views are now over 12,000 per month ...

"The dragon's tail," by Roger Anger, 'AV Today' - Sept.05

Ron — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:18:00 -0700

Our faith should be in a future where the values of the spirit and a new evolutionary emergence of a global mind uniting man and womankind will ultimately prevail over the forces of ignorance, terror and tyranny. The unity of nations would almost demand a new deﬁnition of nationhood ...

A Scientist - Dalai Lama Dialogue at MIT

Ron — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:40:00 -0700

"COS: I did want to bring up one final example that has been quite an experience for me-the event you put on with the Dalai Lama and all the others of your circle. It was quite amazing. There were maybe 1,100 in the audience?

COS: We sat there for a couple of hours, and something took place. When I returned on that first evening, all of a sudden I realized that my whole sense of self and my own personal field were really impacted. It was almost as if I had meditated for a week or so in nature. You are really operating from an enhanced and much more open field around you, a sort of clearing, of Lichtung. ..."

"Ishwara-Shakti stands behind the relation of Purusha-Prakriti ... "

Ron — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:03:00 -0700

Sri Aurobindo puts it this way in his *Synthesis of Yoga*: - "Ishwara-Shakti stands behind the relation of Purusha-Prakriti and its ignorant action and turns it to an evolutionary purpose. The Ishwara-Shakti realisation can bring participation in a higher dynamism and a divine working and a total unity and harmony of the being in a spiritual nature." (p. 205)

The Forgotten September 11 - An Article by Richard Hartz

Debashish — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:27:00 -0700

On September 11, 1893, the world’s first Parliament of Religions opened in Chicago. Representatives of such a variety of religious and spiritual traditions had never before been assembled in one place. Delegates from every part of the globe read speeches before a huge audience at the inaugural session. Thirty-first on the list was a young, unknown Hindu. When his turn came, he rose to say the words the spirit would move him to speak. “Sisters and Brothers of America,” Swami Vivekananda began. What happened next was later described by a woman who was present that day. “I was at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893,” she recalled. “When that young man got up and said, ‘Sisters and Brothers of America,’ seven thousand people rose to their feet as a tribute to something they knew not what.” ...

142 jm. Re: Placeboes; Wallace: Taboo of Subjectivity, A New Science of Cs.

ronjon — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:00:00 -0700

Indeed, the placebo effect goes right to the heart of Richs question about good and bad science. I have two passages here about the placebo one brief one just for fun, and an extended commentary by Alan Wallace, elaborating on the challenge that the placebo presents to those in the scientiﬁc community who are members of the church of materialism.

136 ra. Scientists need a "fundamental luminosity"

ronjon — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:03:00 -0700

I've been intrigued by the reports of "high-amplitude gamma synchrony" (coherent 40-70 Hz, with bursts of 80-120 Hz) being measured in long-term (15-40 years of meditation training & practice) Tibetan Buddhist meditators. Importantly, one study showed evidence that "the trained Tibetan meditators had baseline increases in gamma synchrony and amplitude, suggesting long-term changes in their brains from years of meditation. One might say they are more highly conscious in a baseline state, achieving even greater intensity of consciousness during meditation." Stuart Hameroff believes this high coherence measured at spatially distant brain locations is a possible indication of quantum effects in the brain.

121 rh. Answer is in Life Divine

ronjon — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:11:00 -0700

... The mind is trying to explain a level or magnitude/complexity of reality that is beyond its grasp. So science has its convenient reductions as does religion. The reality itself is however beyond mind, and not just present temporal mind, but mind period. The new paradigm in physics and biology is therefore becoming more holistic, chaotic, mystical. "Intelligent design" is a kind of metaphorical mental phrase that describes more than it can explain about a mental perception of the nature of physical existence as human consciousness conceives it. It is no more or less "abstract conceptual" than "random mutation" or "natural selection." As SA said, these phrases don't really explain anything. So, along with SA we should seek an "adequate" explanation of the processes of nature. It is more than intelligent design and more than chance, it is the "logic of the infinite." ...

112 ra. The Aims & Method of the journal Arya

ronjon — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:55:00 -0700

... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother present their aims and method of their new journal *Arya* ... on the cover page of the first edition, which appeared on Sri Aurobindo's birthday, 15 August 1914.

"1) The systematic study of the highest problems of existence.

"2) The formation of a vast synthesis of knowledge, harmonising the diverse religious traditions of humanity, occidental as well as oriental.

"Its method will be that of realism, at once rational and transcendental, a realism consisting in the unification of intellectual and scientific disciplines with those of intuitive experience." ...

111 ra. "Mind May Effect Machines"

ronjon — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:36:00 -0700

I just came across this article, "Mind May Effect Machines," which I think relates not only to questions re methodology, but also to your "theme re consciousness unfolding on many scales," in this case our lifetimes and moments of experience: ...

101 rh. Re: a response to the question why, how - Jaspers, pt.3

ronjon — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:06:00 -0700

I would like to share with you a reﬂection on science-spirituality by Karl Jaspers, a 20th century philosopher. I will present this in two or three parts because I think it is relevant and maybe a bit long for the forum.

"Part 3: Reason and Communication

Through the secure validity of a common principle that permeated all everyday life, there was, almost until the present time, a cohesion among men which rarely permitted communication to become a special problem. People could content themselves with the saying: we can pray together, but not talk together. Today, when we cannot even pray together, we are at length becoming fully aware that humanity implies unreserved communication among men. ..."

100 rh. Re: a response to the question why, how - Jaspers, pt.2

ronjon — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:03:00 -0700

I would like to share with you a reﬂection on science-spirituality by Karl Jaspers, a 20th century philosopher. I will present this in two or three parts because I think it is relevant and maybe a bit long for the forum.

Part 2: Science and Philosophy

" 1) Science must be made absolutely pure. For in practical operation and average thinking, it is shot through with non-scientiﬁc assertions and attitudes. Pure and strict science in its application to the whole sphere of the existent has been magniﬁcently achieved by individual scientists, but on the whole our spiritual life is far removed from it. ..."

099 rh. Re: a response to the question why, how - Jaspers, pt.1

ronjon — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:01:00 -0700
I would like to share with you a reﬂection on science-spirituality by Karl Jaspers, a 20th century philosopher. I will present this in two or three parts because I think it is relevant and maybe a bit long for the forum.

"Part 1: The problem of our era (as seen fty years ago)

The course of events has led us from an era of bourgeois contentment, progress, education, which pointed to the historical past as proof that it had achieved security, into an age of devastating wars, mass death and mass murder (accompanied by an inexhaustible generation of new masses), of the most terrible sense of menace, an age in which humanity is being extinguished and chaotic disintegration seems to be the master of all things. ...

098 ra. A suggested framework for an Intersubjective Dialogue

ronjon — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:31:00 -0700
Since reading Richard's recent posts re Habermas, I've been thinking about possible frameworks for an intersubjective dialogue between science and spirituality, hopefully one grounded in, following Debashish's suggestion, "an affective collective space of community." ...

096 db. Co-existence of Unity and Infinity in the Truth

ronjon — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:22:00 -0700
It is this mentally incomprehensible co-existence of Unity and Infinity in the Truth that it is critical to meditate on. It results in a great diversity of conclusions, not least of all the very possibility of this relational evolutionary universe and the unending self-discovery of Being. ...

094 db. I'd like to see an "affective intersubjective space" based on a real community

ronjon — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:30:00 -0700
I have been browsing with interest the posts ﬂying at supersonic speed on this list without being able to take much part due to a very pressured present schedule. However, on the subject of intersubjectivity and the collective yoga, I would like to add a few words for now (and maybe elaborate later, when time permits). ...

066 jm. Emergence of "mind" & "consciousness" in bacteria/animals

ronjon — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:28:00 -0700
Hi Ron: Thanks for this very interesting stuff. I'd like to comment on three points, in the light of recent scientific developments: 1. When did consciousness begin? There are still a few behaviorist holdouts who refuse to talk about consciousness at all. Aside from this, there are some fairly hardline materialists who grudgingly admit "consciousness" (as no more than a brain state, of course) but deny it to infants and all animals. It gets interesting when you get to animals. ...

064 ra. Metaphysical positions of Satinover, Penrose & Hameroff

ronjon — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:49:00 -0700
Re your suggestion that we identify the metaphysical positions of our postings, here's my attempt with the researchers I mentioned in my previous posting: Jefferey Satinover, and Stuart Hameroff & Sir Roger Penrose. ...

057 d&j. Questioning Neo-Darwinism

ronjon — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:23:00 -0700
I'm sending this letter as part of my ongoing attempt to reﬁne the presentation in our book on the questionable assumptions underlying the materialistic understanding of the mainstream view of evolution. (By the way, this is also an indirect answer to the questions raised by Rich and Alok - here is a practical question - what should I write - and my goal in initiating a dialogue with members of this forum is to ﬁnd support in reﬁning my (inner) intuitive understanding).

043 d&j. Re: Request for help from those who are familiar with both biological science and Integral Yoga

ronjon — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:38:00 -0700
... We do try in earlier portions of the book to lay out the metaphysical foundations for what we're presenting. The book has evolved (!) from a somewhat academic style to a more experiential style, so we generally avoid too much purely scholarly discussion (I was originally planning to have a whole chapter laying out some 6 or 7 different theories of consciousness, from physicalism to pan-experientialism; mercifully, that idea was laid aside long ago). We do point out in the chapter from which the evolution excerpt was taken that the data of science ﬁt equally with materialist, dualist and idealist views. Early in the course of working on this book, I came across a very interesting book by neuroscientist Donald Hoffman from California Institute of Technology in which he elaborates Matthijs' point about the illusions of our sense perception in some detail, and explains why idealism and dualism are as good (and in many respects better) explanations for the data of science than physicalism (otherwise known as materialism or "the view from nowhere"). ...

042 ap. Re: yoga, culture, choice (post 1973)

ronjon — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:30:00 -0700
... 1. The events of the world as in the individual are symbolic of a deeper rtruth that is trying to manifest or is being obstructed (though in the last analysis both help in the working but that would be a dangerous stance to begin with). To understand the symbolic truth or the play and balance of forces that are at work one needs ﬁrst of al to get rid of nervous and emotional reaction as well as of the surface reason that is incapable of knowing. This itself would mean a considerable inner advancement following the path of yoga. Till that is available it is better to suspend our judgement and learn to dive deep to get the soul vision of things. Such a vision is possible and accessible and it forms in fact one of the basis of yogic efforts. ...

005 b. db. Transcript: The Promise of the Future

ronjon — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:00:00 -0700
When this conference was formulated, in the mind of Richard Carlson, he had certain pressing objectives in mind. And we started an email forum to discuss some of these; and at this conference it is hoped that some of these objectives, issues, debates will come to surface in the minds of all the people here, and we take back with us something that fertilizes our lives and our sadhana, our yoga, our engagement with the world, our orientation towards the future.

Transcript of Matthijs' AUM2005 talk: "Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Knowledge"

ronjon — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:03:00 -0700
Transcript of Matthijs' AUM2005 talk: "Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Knowledge"

Talk by Matthijs Cornelissen
Port Townsend, WA
June 11, 2005

... we are like kids in a class who are asked a question, a very difficult question, and somehow the answer has leaked. We know the answer, because Sri Aurobindo has given us the answer, but we haven’t found the answer ourselves and we don’t really know how he got there, we missed the route. So when we are asked the question we are shy of giving the answer, because if anybody were to ask how we know it, then we have to admit kind of sheepishly that we have copied it from Sri Aurobindo. So that creates a kind of inner tension, because when we speak it is tempting to use the most beautiful words, but then that doesn’t work because when the experience isn’t there then the Truth doesn’t come through. ...

The Promise of the Future #2

ronjon — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:09:00 -0700
A few comments on the paper just sent about the AUM. First is that the paper was entirely exploratory in nature and in fact out of dialog with the presenters of the Aum conference a less blurry eyed vision is emerging. Hopefully an even clearer picture will arise at the AUM. The paper itself has been substantially revised and will be available in this and the next issues of Collaboration. ...

aum conference clariﬁcation

ronjon — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:12:00 -0800
Since the aum theme has been quite complex to work out, I'd like just to elaborate on what the central organizing ideas and questions which the conference poses: ...

Rjon's Choices

ronjon — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:50:00 -0800
• "Al-Kemi: A Memoir" (Kim, Dec25.07)
• A Course in Consciousness (rjon, Jun.07)
• Building One Laptop Per Socialized Child (rjon, Jun.07)
• TechGnosis by Erik Davis (Rich, Mar.07)
• Magenn Power, Innovative lighter-than-air wind turbines (rjon, Oct.06)
• The Doctrine of the Subtle Worlds... (rjon, Feb.07)
• Integral ideologies 101 by Richard Carlson (Rich, Feb.07)
• 01: Savitri Awakes among the Human Tribes (Deshpande, Jan.07)
• A Spiritual Biography of Savitri (Deshpande, Jan.07)
• Jyoti Journal (Debashish, Feb.06)
• Chihuly's Glass Sculpture (Debashish, Oct.05)
• Favorite Auroville Photos (Linked to Flickr.com) (rjon, Sep.05)

(Others will be listed soon.)

Most Popular Articles

ronjon — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:28:00 -0800
Click the following links to see the articles viewed most frequently by SCIY readers each month. (SCIY Editor posting article)

• Sep.07 Art at the Event Horizon by Avi Rosen (C Theory) (Rich)
• Aug.07 Untold Potentialities: India and the Third World by Richard Hartz (Rich)
• Jul.07 What is Hindutva? (YR Sane)
• Jun.07 The age of sacrificial smoke? (Rich)
• May.07 Savitri, Surrender and the Void (Rod)
• Apr.07 09: Her Mortal Birth (RY Deshpande)
• Mar.07 08: A Shrine for the God of Love (RY Deshpande)
• Feb.07 Apropos of the Mantric Poetry (RY Deshpande)
• Jan.07 Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies III (Debashish)
• Dec.06 Instruments of Knowledge & Post-Human Destinies (Debashish)
• Nov.06 Derrida, Death & Forgiveness by Andrew McKenna (Debashish)
• Oct.06 Reflections on THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY (Debashish)
• Sep.06 "Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006" Conference (rjon)
• Aug.06 Response to Jyotirmaya Sharma (Rich)
• Jul.06 Creative imagination and a theory of strategy creation (Rich)
• Jun.06 The Role of Money and the Internet in Social Development (rjon)
• May.06 A grassroots spirituality: Interview w. Dr. Ananda Reddy (rjon)
• Apr.06 The argumentative indian and historical revisionism (Rich)
• Mar.06 Quantum Consciousness and the "Mind" of the Cells (rjon)
• Feb.06 Jyoti Editorial - February 2006 (Debashish)
• Jan.06 Technology and the titan (Rich)
• Dec.05 All Life Is Yoga," Interview w. Georges Van Vrekhem (rjon)
• Nov.05 the virtual class (Rich)
• Oct.05 Investigating the Space of the Invisible (rjon)
• Sep.05 The Purpose of SCIY (pronounced "sci-y") (rjon)

Rich's Reviews

ronjon — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:09:00 -0800
[ Note to Rich: Post a new article for each of your reviews. Date each of them for Dec. 30, 2004. After you've posted them, go to that date (via the Year Archive & Month Archive components near bottom of left side column). Locate each of your newly posted reviews, then copy & paste their titles into the spaces below. Select those titles and make them into hotlinks by using the "Enter a URL" feature in the chain link button in the menu above. Then re-save this article & complete the process by checking the functionality of the links you've just entered. - Please erase this note when you've gotten the hang of it. - Thanks, ~ ron ]

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Debashish's Reviews

ronjon — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:45:00 -0800
• Derrida the Movie
• The Religious, the Spiritual and the Secular, by Robert N. Minor (Oct.06)

Science, Culture and Integral Yoga

Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies III

A New Name for SCIY? - "SCSC (Science, Culture & Supramental Consciousness)"

Lab group led by Nobelist Eric Cornell confirms ZPF Casimir Effect (Physics News Update, 7feb07)

Metaphysical implications of the quantum 'Zero Point Field'

SCIY Readership & Total Page Views increase to new highs in Jan.'07

The human role in climate change (Boston Review)

The Mother reading 'Savitri'

SCIY's Readership increases to new high in Dec.06

The Collective Yoga of Man: A World in Process - January 12-14, 2007 - Auroville, India

SCIY continues its rapid growth in October

"The Good Life: New Public Spaces of Recreation": Van Alen Institute exhibition, NYC

SCIY has another month of rapid growth

"Deep Light" - 3D Television That Leaps Off the Screen (NYT)

SCIY viewed in August more than 20,000 times, a 63% increase over July

SCIY's readership now over 5,000 distinct persons per month

"The dragon's tail," by Roger Anger, 'AV Today' - Sept.05

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142 jm. Re: Placeboes; Wallace: *Taboo of Subjectivity, A New Science of Cs.*

136 ra. Scientists need a "fundamental luminosity"

121 rh. Answer is in *Life Divine*

112 ra. The Aims & Method of the journal *Arya*

111 ra. "Mind May Effect Machines"

101 rh. Re: a response to the question why, how - Jaspers, pt.3

100 rh. Re: a response to the question why, how - Jaspers, pt.2

099 rh. Re: a response to the question why, how - Jaspers, pt.1

098 ra. A suggested framework for an Intersubjective Dialogue

096 db. Co-existence of Unity and Infinity in the Truth

094 db. I'd like to see an "affective intersubjective space" based on a real community

066 jm. Emergence of "mind" & "consciousness" in bacteria/animals

064 ra. Metaphysical positions of Satinover, Penrose & Hameroff

057 d&j. Questioning Neo-Darwinism

043 d&j. Re: Request for help from those who are familiar with both biological science and Integral Yoga

042 ap. Re: yoga, culture, choice (post 1973)

005 b. db. Transcript: The Promise of the Future

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142 jm. Re: Placeboes; Wallace: Taboo of Subjectivity, A New Science of Cs.

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