New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
The Archaeology Department of Tamil Nadu has officially counted thousands of temples. Learn more about the significance of these temples and their millennia-old knowledge. #Archaeology #temples #TamilNadu
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The basic problem of philosophy lies in the perception of the world and the questions that arise from this. The sciences and religions offer different approaches. OM
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Learn more about the secret of Kolams – a traditional art form in Tamil Nadu where women draw intricate patterns on the streets before sunrise. This practice combines dance, meditation, and contemplation, conveying symbolic messages across generations.
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Recently, in Auroville, a play by the landlords of Bharat Nivas was removed from the program. The reason given was that some in the community took offense to it even before it was performed. This raises questions. What is art allowed to do, when is a ban justified? Coupled with this, of course, is the question of what the task of art is, what art should therefore do. The question invites reflection on the role of art in general, here in India and...
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Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I am now practicing meditation. It has taken me a long time to admit this to myself. I have somehow always done this, I just didn't know it. Like most people, I have phases where I look inside myself, or concentrate on something contemplatively, phases where I try to calm my mind, or figure out what this self within me actually is, phases where I try to understand what my…
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Exhibition „Roots From the Sky“ by Cedric Bregnard at Centre d’Art, Auroville March 2023 Cedric Bregnard is an artist in residence at the Centre d’Art in Auroville. Over the next 2 months, he will take a photograph of the Banyan tree in the Matrimandir garden. This photograph will then be scaled to the size of a wall (approx. 3x7m) in the gallery. Residents of Auroville are invited to trace the light and shadows on the bark, leaves, and roots in ink onto the wall. What lies behind this process...
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Recently, a friend told me how she grew up in the Ashram school. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children could freely choose what they wanted to learn and when. It was quite radical: there was a schedule for languages, history, math, philosophy, gossip, sports, etc., but the kids could go wherever they wanted. And so, each child received exactly what they needed for their own development. If a child needed gossip, then that was...
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In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, that is, those that consider themselves empirically scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively uncontroversial in itself, as virtually all frameworks proceed from this assumption. Birth and death mark the endpoints of this correlation. The question then arises: What does this correlation look like? Does consciousness determine matter, or does matter determine consciousness, or is it an interaction? 3 variants of the relation between consciousness and matter The first…
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