New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
Karl Marx and Charles Darwin shaped the worldview of the twentieth century. But in India a movement emerged that freed itself from colonial shackles and revived the wisdom of Indian philosophy.
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Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I now practice meditation. It took a long time to admit this to myself. Somehow I had always done it, only I did not know it. Like most people, I have phases in which I look inward, or concentrate contemplatively on something, phases in which I try to calm my mind, or find out what this I within me actually is, phases in which I try to understand what…
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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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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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Recently a friend asked me about the relationship between Eastern and Western culture. Of course that is an enormous question, one I also ask myself and one that, of course, no one can really answer. But I want to formulate a few thoughts: Distance From an Imagined Center Facing the ‘Western’ world, based on classical antiquity, Christianity, the Enlightenment and materialism, is the Occidental world of the Assyrians and Persians, of Islam and the conception of a divinely guided polity.…
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CADALfest took place from December 16 to 20, 2022, at Adishakti. I had not planned to go there, but I was very surprised by the four days of round-table discussions, poetry readings and film screenings, concerts and theater performances by a fascinating group of artists, activists and academics. I picked out a few things and went on Saturday to the “Adivasi Round Table discussion with Vandna Tete, Ganga Sahay Meena, Seral Murmu & Ashwini Kumar Pankaj, moderated by Gopika Jadeja”…
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Yesterday I followed something in my mind that I find difficult to describe. In everyday language, I might say I followed my intuition. But it is a little more complex. I drove to Tiruvannamalai again. It was the last day of the Karthigai Deepam Brahmotsavam Festival. So on December 6, 2022, a fire was created on this mountain, as it has been for 2500 years. Of course there is a story from prehistoric times about this. Brahman, the universal Self,…
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