New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
The central concept of our existence - not understood until now.
During meditation, I often watch my thoughts, let them come and go and try to slow them down. Thoughts come and go, and often I don't understand where they come from and why they are replaced at some point by a completely different thought. What chain of associations is at work here? These chains of thought seem to [...]
Ich hatte immer Bauchschmerzen mit einer atomistischen Weltanschauung. Wir lernen in der Schule, dass die kleinsten Bauteile des Universums Atome seien. Nun ist die Physik weiter, wir sprechen von Protonen, Elektronen, Positronen, Quarks und Strings etc. … Im Kern bleibt die Idee aber dieselbe: Die Welt sei aus kleinsten Teilen von Materie zusammengesetzt. Dies ist […]
I am embarking on an experiment. A city is being built in Auroville. It is dedicated to humanity. It is about exploring consciousness, spirituality and unity. UNESCO is supporting the project, the state of India, many people around the world. There is a charter, a plan, many plans, many opinions, progress and difficulties. [...]
One of the most serious misunderstandings of recent generations is the confusion between economic and political theory. It seems to be almost a consensus that capitalism is understood as a political theory. There may be many reasons why capitalism needs to be understood politically. There are certainly also reasons why capitalism is often thought of together with democracy. For many [...]
Black holes are a mystery to us. I am not a cosmologist and deal with black holes in a popular scientific way with a philosophical interest. They mark a limit to our imagination. Gravitational force influences space and time, says science. Concentrated at one point, it compresses matter to its pure substance, squeezes atomic nuclei and electrons together to form a mass [...]
It is definitely time to rethink. What our fathers and grandfathers called progress is destroying our planet. Science is not an end in itself, not everything that is technically feasible is good, not everything that is fun and satisfies our senses is useful. Now we keep hearing from many sides that we should focus on the small steps ahead [...].
In Plato's allegory of the cave, people sit in front of a wall on which the shadows of real objects in the world can be seen. As they have only seen the shadows in their entire lives, they think that these are reality. The philosopher's task is to explain to the people that they should turn around in order to [...]
The forest is a wonderful habitat. I recently heard a little story about a man who whistled a tune whenever he entered the forest. The animals recognized him after a while and accepted his presence. They no longer ran away and sometimes even greeted him. We usually don't see the forest as it is, [...]
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