New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
In den westlichen analytisch-modernen Theorien des Bewusstseins, also denen, die sich als empirisch-wissenschaftlich verstehen, wird immer von einer Korrelation zwischen Materie und Bewusstsein ausgegangen. Das ist an sich relativ unstrittig, da eigentlich die allermeisten Gedankengebäude davon ausgehen. Geburt und Tod markieren die Eckpunkte dieser Korrelation. Nun stellt sich die Frage: Wie sieht diese Korrelation aus? […]
Auf der Ladefläche eines kleinen Transporters stehend, bin ich die letzten Tage durch Auroville gefahren, um verschiedene Dinge für den Pottersmarket einzusammeln. Diese kleinen Transporter sind die großen Brüder der Tuk Tuks. Manchmal sieht man auf ihnen sechs oder sieben Dutzend Menschen stehen, wenn wieder mal eines großen Festivals ansteht. Es ist ein beliebtes Transportmittel […]
Discover the spiritual power of the Upanishads and the Rigveda in India. Experience the essence and the pure form of the senses in meditation.
I have just returned from a devotional meditation. It's the anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. He left his body 72 years ago, as they say here. I have been thinking and talking a lot about his commentaries on the Kena Upanishad for the last few days. I came across the word 'intermiscence'. It is almost only used by Aurobindo. [...]
I remember always staring into the fire since I was a child. Many people do that, I think. There is something fascinating about fire. In the Vedas, Agni is the god of fire, one of the five elements alongside water, air, earth and ether. The Greeks also have these elements. I didn't realize this for a very long time [...]
When the Internet became accessible to the public, i.e. in the mid-1990s, there was a phenomenon of people putting their deepest secrets online. The anonymity, simplicity and speed were seductive. Confessions were quickly made, anonymity was largely preserved and perhaps there was even that little thrill that maybe someone you knew [...]
Today I heard a quote from Sri Aurobindo. He said that each of us has several selves. That was clear to me. It has been my experience for decades that the different aspects of a personality are many and that the idea of a subjective identity is a construction. I always saw the principles of construction as ideological, which [...]
Approaching big topics with small texts - is that possible? The Mediterranean region is the birthplace of monotheism - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. India is the birthplace of Hinduism. Countless gods are thought of here, or the absence of God, or the universality of the divine, depending on which of the numerous strands you follow. Two principles are [...]
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