October 2018

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Liberalism and Blame

Liberalism started as being about freedom, equality and fraternity, but it took off in different directions. The dominant form these days is very conservative in the sense that while it may talk about “institutional racism”, it is always framed as a collection of individuals. I call that conservative because it emphasizes individual responsibility and that […]

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Aurobindo and integral physicality in Yoga

Aurobindo’s concept of the “physical mind” may seem pretty strange.  It doesn’t mean anything technically physical but rather the level of the mind “closest” to the physical body that translates the mind’s most basic repetitive habits into the constitutional qualities of the vital and physical bodies. Though there are certainly a lot of connotations one

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Transcendence

“..the One is not the transcendent that might contain immanence but the immanent contained within a transcendental field. One is always the index of a multiplicity: an event, a singularity, a life.”–Deleuze No one should deny the experience of transcendence, but I think it is important to think of transcendence as relative and relational. Derrida

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