wonderful! Thank you, Debashish!    more »

Ron Anastasia has been kind enough to transcribe my AUM talk and I have uploaded the talk to the text file area. Please access it at: ...    more »

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.    more »

Since some people have had difficulty opening or saving the Microsoft Word
text file TheVision.doc upon clicking the link, I am giving the link
once more. It is:

http://www.sriaurobindocenter-la.com/postaum2005/TheVision.doc

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:18:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: vikas bamba (vikmere@yahoo.com)
Subject: Re: The Post AUM 05 discussion list

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File archiving for this forum has been temporarily enabled at
http://www.sriaurobindocenter-la.com/postaum2005. Presently, the
Microsoft Word version of The Vision can be found there by going to: ...    more »

In our world of ignorance, omniscience is stepped down from its spiritual poise to be expressed as a quest for knowledge which is embodied by science and omnipotence is stepped down from its original source to be articulated in technology as a will to power. The intent of the post-AUM list is to explore the exponential evolution of the species as it is driven by both efficient and deficient forms of knowledge as well as efficient and deficient forms of power. The meaning assigned to the term efficient refers to those forces which facilitate the spiritual evolution of consciousness as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo. The term deficient refers to those forces driving culture and science which appear to impede the progression of the spiritualization of consciousness. ...   more »

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. ...   more »