New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
The Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology has officially counted thousands of temples. Learn more about the significance of these temples and their knowledge thousands of years old. #Archaeology #Temples #TamilNadu
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The fundamental problem of philosophy lies in the perception of the world and the questions that arise from it. 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 in which women draw complex patterns on the streets before sunrise. This practice combines dance, meditation, and contemplation and conveys symbolic messages across generations.
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Recently, a friend told me how she had grown up at the Ashram school. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children could freely choose what they wanted to learn and when. Quite radically: there was a timetable for languages, history, mathematics, philosophy, gossip, sports, and so on, 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 simply…
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The Isha Upanishad raises the question of the complexity of the universe and reminds us of the origin of knowledge. Learn more about it here.
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This text concerns a change in worldview and the process of letting go of old convictions to make room for new ideas.
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In India, the books of the Vedas have been held in memory for 3000 years. The Rigveda (10,552 verses), Samaveda (1549 verses), Yajurveda (4001 verses) and Atharvaveda (5977 verses), as well as the Upanishads (about 1800 verses), are passed down from generation to generation. Sanskrit grammar has not changed substantially, and its pronunciation has been handed down with the greatest precision through exact phonetic description. So these texts sound the same today as they did 3000 years ago. They are…
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Discover the problems of logic in this text and David Lewis’s radical answer to them. Learn more about the meaning of sentences in different contexts and the undefinability of truth.
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