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    Dr. Alexander Wendt and James Corbett Clash Over Inevitable One World State |301|

    Yes I think Sri Aurobindo definitely had the US in mind as one of his inspirations. He also spoke movingly of democratic, self-governing, largely self determining localities all over medieval and ancient India. he speaks of how the rulers and Kings of that time provided something like general...
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    Dr. Alexander Wendt and James Corbett Clash Over Inevitable One World State |301|

    Very interesting conversation. I actually think it fits quite well with Alex's usual themes. I liked this particularly: "A few bits from Thornley's "Zenarchy": As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which the State will inevitably...
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    Humanetar: "oneness" is not the same as non duality. Non duality has no meaning without boundaries. These concepts get our minds all tied up. Instead of trying to figure it out, try the "samata" exercise I described above. This is what Alan Wallace is teaching his "contemplative researchers"...
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    When you're considering someone like Myers (who I have enormous respect for, by the way) you might want to consider the minimal discipline that Buddhists agree is necessary to remember past lives. here's the first steps: 1. Can you sit quietly, eyes half closed, aware of thoughts passing...
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    why science is wrong… about almost everything — review by Society for Psychical Research

    Great conversation, interesting book review and great responses. Alex, i thought the "wrong... about ALMOST everything" was the publisher's suggestion and not your original choice. however, given that much - I was intrigued by the frame - yes, science is fundamentally wrong, but it's still...
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    Kabir: THE river and its waves are one surf : where is the difference between the river and its waves ? When the wave rises, it is the water ; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction ? Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be...
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    And I was talking recently with some folks familiar with Sri Aurobindo's writing, and we noted how much more 'sense" it makes when read as a poem: Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The...
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    Yes, beautiful. Similar in some ways to Sri Aurobindo's idea of the "individual" rooted in the "Real idea" at the transcendent "Vijnana" (or "supramental") level - or in some respects, beyond even that, at the highest level of the "para prakriti" - the Divine Mother, who is ultimately "one" with...
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    Hi Hurmanetar: Bernadette Roberts always struck me as a very strange, psychologically unbalanced person. I think people nowadays, getting into this stuff as 'newbies", don't realize the extent of experiences possible. Also, people don't realize it's possible to have apparently profound, amazing...
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    Mod+ Members Discuss Their Personal Paranormal Experiences

    Hi folks: I love this thread. I noticed a comment by someone who said they never had any unusual experience connected to electronics. I’d recommend, for anyone interested, keeping a synchronicity diary. I did this as part of a lucid dream induction experiment many years ago, working with 12...
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    The Spiritual Traditions permeating the Eastern World

    Seeing everything around us as mantra (and hearing all sounds as mantra) is an ancient tantric tradition - both in india and tibet. my understanding is that the symbols posted here, however inspiring they appear in themselves, are ultimately meant to lead us to that direct perception.
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    Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism

    Jim’s comment was excellent. As far as critiques of James’ pluralism, Alan Wallace has been writing excellent tributes to James for several decades, while making clear how the Dzogchen “Great Perfection” view goes beyond the pluralistic view without dissolving everything into a featureless...
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    why science is wrong… about almost everything — review by Society for Psychical Research

    Hi David - just stopped over, on your invitation. Perhaps not a bad time - i'll start with my own preference - the integral non dualism of Sri Aurobindo. But I'll add, in sympathy with your last post, that one of the people I most admire in physics - Ulrich Mohrhoff (a student of Sri...
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    The sequel to Irreducible Mind...

    Just dropped by and saw an interesting post from Steve001. Steve, what would you consider to be an empirical proof that the brain produces consciousness, or an empirical proof that the brain doesn't produce consciousness. I'm a psychologist who has conducted research, so I know at least a...
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    Mod+ 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN

    Dr. Powell:I have no idea if this will be useful or even possible, but I had a thought. As a psychologist, I've worked with autistic adults and teenagers, mostly with Full Scale IQs under 40 (in some cases under 20). Before I was a psychologist I worked as a musician, and I've had a number of...
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    Mod+ 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN

    Hi folks, thought I'd drop by and throw a wrench in things (!!). This is going to sound VERY wild. I'm drawing on both Indian yogic literature (mostly Sri Aurobindo, somewhat the Yoga Sutras) and contemporary science (most notably, Jim Carpenter's "First Sight" theory, but also Varela and...
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    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    Thank you so much for this very clear "cheat sheet". (are you trained in philosophy, or just a personal interest?) I have a simple question with regard to physicalism. In addition to being "non-experiential", the physical is usually considered utterly lacking intelligence of any kind. I...
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    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    Hi Chuck: I suppose this may be getting a bit tiresome for you, so if so - feel free to leave it alone. I'll probably get more of a sense of where you're coming from as I follow the threads more closely. I guess I'll put it as a statement instead of a question and then just wait and watch what...
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    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    Hi Chuck: I've come and gone from the Skeptiko forum for a number of years. I meant that sometimes people drop in and sometimes conflate practice and theory, but I see you're not doing that. I can't speak for Bernardo, but from the view of Vedanta, as I understand it, what he is talking about...
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    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    Hey Chuck (is that your first name) I hope I don't seem too coy at first - I like to make a very strong distinction between what is relevant - at present - for science, and what is really almost entirely outside the framework of (present day) science. I'm afraid that at best, even Bernardo's...
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