August 2018

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Ken Wilber and death denial

Mr Ebert is right to point out the death denial driving Wilber’s project. You can even see it in tragic form in the book he wrote about his wife dying of Cancer. In that book, he goes out of his way to deny any kind of emotional bond transcending death, dismissing it as superstition. The whole […]

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Aurobindo, the occult and mental silence

(the following is extracted from a letter on the role of thinking vs. devotion) Sri Aurobindo said,  “There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility” This should be put in context. We are talking about a guy who spent a great deal of time in philosophy and culture. Is he here refuting his life’s

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Typological vs. Topological thinking: Notes on strategy

extracts from a conversation on Jordan Peterson that veered into this discussion on levels of consciousness and their evolution: My approach probably owes more to Steiner than Gebser in that I find it more helpful to think historically rather than classify people by memes and types. I won’t go into detail here, but one important

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