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| We shall find out in the end that our daily life and our social existence are not things apart, are not another field of existence with another law than the inner and ideal. On the contrary, we shall never find out their true meaning or resolve their harsh and often agonising problems until we learn to see in them a means towards the discovery and the individual and collective expression of our highest and... fullest self, our largest most imperative principle and power of existence. All life is only a lavish and manifold opportunity given us to discover, realise, express the Divine... [more] | There is an in itself quite understandable sceptcism in the world of science against the use of a type of introspection that is only open to a few or after considerable training. We have more faith in things that everybody can see, even if this involves lots of complicated machinery and statistical inferences. But it is interesting to realize that we do not have this same squeamishness about the statements of mathematics or theoretical physics, although there also the finer details of proofs are only open to an exceedingly small elite... [more] |
| "I
have not the
slightest objection to anyone here drawing inspiration from Islamic
sources if they agree with the Truth as Sufism agrees with it. On the
other hand I have not the slightest objection to Hinduism being broken
to pieces and disappearing from the face of the earth, if that is the
Divine Will. I have no attachment to past forms; what is Truth will
always remain; the Truth alone matters." – Sri
Aurobindo [more]
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Even when western psychology tries to study subjective experience, the raw data that it has used so far consists largely of very simple, "naive" self-observations. It is as if one would like to develop astronomy by asking people on the street to look up at the sky and then collate their reports into a coherent picture of the heavenly bodies... [more] |
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In the view of old philosophies pleasure and pain are inseparable like intellectual truth and falsehood and power and incapacity and birth and death; therefore the only possible escape from them would be a total indifference, a blank response to the excitations of the world-self. But a subtler psychological knowledge shows us that this view which is based on the surface facts of existence only, does not really exhaust the possibilities of the problem. It is possible by bringing the real soul to the surface to replace the egoistic standards of pleasure and pain by an equal, an all-embracing personal-impersonal delight... [more] |
| Civilisation has created many more problems than it can solve, has multiplied excessive needs and desires the satisfaction of which it has not sufficient vital force to sustain, has developed a jungle of claims and artificial instincts in the midst of which life loses its way and has no longer any sight of its aim.... A cure is aimed at by carrying artificial remedies to their acme, by more and more Science, more and more mechanical devices.... As well say that to carry a disease to its height is the best way to its cure... [more] | We need not follow the rationalistic or atheistic mind through all its aggressive indictment of religion. We need not for instance lay a too excessive stress on the superstitions, aberrations, violences, crimes even, which Churches and cults and creeds have favoured, admitted, sanctioned, supported or exploited for their own benefit.... As well might one cite the crimes and errors which have been committed in the name of liberty or of order as a sufficient condemnation of the ideal of liberty or the ideal of social order... [more] |
| All
religion, all occult knowledge, all supernormal (as opposed to
abnormal) psychological experience... are sign-posts and directions
pointing us upon that road of progress of the occult self-unfolding
spirit. But the human race is still weighted by a certain gravitation
towards the physical.... It has, too, still a great capacity for
sceptical folly, an immense indolence, an enormous intellectual and
spiritual timidity and conservatism when called out of the grooves of
habit. .. [more] |
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| Unless there is a gigantic conspiracy involving some thirty University departments all over the world, and several hundred highly respected scientists in various fields, many of them originally hostile to the claims of psychical researchers, the only conclusion the unbiased researcher can come to must be that there does exist a small number of people who obtain knowledge existing either in other people's minds, or in the outer world, by means as yet unknown to science... [more] | It may well be impossible but it's there to see. Somehow, the subjects' minds know that an emotionally charged image is going to be shown before it actually appears on the screen, and the body reacts in anticipation.... This is precognition shown in laboratory conditions, at the University of Nevada, and replicated with exactly the same results by the University of Amsterdam... [more] |
