New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
For several weeks now, I have been living with a neurotic dog. She barked a lot, as long as she still perceived me as a stranger. She kept her distance, was frightened. After a few weeks, she accepted me, approaches and wants to be petted. Now she lies in front of my door and keeps watch; she protects me. What happened? I did not change my attitude towards her. I have little connection to dogs and pay her little attention.…
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Discover the subtle differences between the German ‘werden’, the English ‘becoming’, and the French ‘devenir’ in Deleuze’s postmodern thinking. Explore the world of sensations and consciousness in this philosophical journey.
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Many of my friends have a strong will, they are creative, create, make, act, do… They confront the world with their own will and add themselves or refuse to accept it as it is. This generates creativity, change. It is the power of Shakti, the creative energy of the universe. I am different, I observe, try to understand the world as it is. I don’t want to change it, even though I see a lot of suffering and injustice, I…
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The land of the Malayāli
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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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This text clarifies the misunderstanding that art is supposed to be a representation. Art is not communication but a unique experience.
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The Solitude Farm in Auroville is a ‘food forest’. This is one of the few English terms that is difficult to express in German through a compound word (Esswald?). We do not have such a thing, and find it difficult to think about it too. An orchard that we would allow to grow wild with other edible annual plants and shorter-lived plants until we had a dense jungle consisting entirely of edible plants… I am looking for a word for…
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My perception changes when I arrive in India. The smell, the sounds, the slowness, the intuition, the acceptance, hope are wonderful things I see. Others may see stench, noise, inefficiency, irrationality and resignation to fate, despair. I think it is this other gaze that allows me to feel at ease in India. So I have had quite wonderful experiences. I have learned that different people have different views of the same things. I learned by going from A to B…
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