Tag: Progressivism
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Sociological Intelligence, Administrative Autonomy for Auroville, and Anarchy
In a recent post about sociological intelligence I had written about how, as we move from self-centered tamasic and rajasic attributes to more altruistic sattwic attributes, our general thinking, understanding and outlook moves from being more insular to becoming wider and encompassing broader groupings of people. We begin to empathize…
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Intellectual Humanism and Spiritual Humanism (aka Humanism and Integral Yoga)
Over the past few posts, while discussing the topics of sociological intelligence and sociological imagination and the yogas of bhakti, jnana and karma, I made use of the terms intellectual humanism and spiritual humanism. These are simply the renaming of Sri Aurobindo’s terms intellectual religion of humanity and spiritual religion…
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Putting the Yoga into Bhakti, Jnana and Karma, Part II
In the previous post I had gone through the descriptions of Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of devotion), Jnana Yoga (the yoga of knowledge) and Karma Yoga (the yoga of action) by Sri Aurobindo in Essays on the Gita. These three together constitute the basis of Integral Yoga. The core purpose…
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Sociological Intelligence, Sociological Imagination and the Future of Humanity
In a recent post about parochial thinking, I had written about how on the path of self-realization, one’s thinking becomes less insular and more expansive, and how this expansion of the scope of thinking will have to include a deepening and broadening of our “social and sociological conceptualization and understanding”…
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Insecurity and Parochial Thinking
Many of the recent posts in this blog have compared certain aspects of conservative thinking, progressive thinking and spirituality. Conservative thinking has been defined as essentially parochial and insular, and the limits of the effectiveness and sincerity of progressivism have been highlighted. Progressive thought and action will always fail in…
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The Irony of Trying to “Protect” Auroville as a Liberal/Progressive Space
The ongoing conflict in Auroville over administrative authority and control has been painted and promoted in part as a fight between conservatism on one side and liberal and progressive values on the other. The narrative is that the conservative BJP government in power at the center in India wants to…
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What Auroville Tells Us About the Term “Pseudo-Liberal”
I had a series of conversations a short while back with someone with a conservative bent of mind, and the term “pseudo-liberal” kept cropping up. This got me thinking about why this term is much more in use in everyday discussions and debates than any conservative counterpart. There are various…
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The Problem With Studying Auroville as a “Utopia”, and Other Issues of Materiality
There has been some interest from academics recently in studying Auroville through the analytic framework of “utopia”. I haven’t gone into the details of exactly how these scholars have been examining Auroville as a supposed or proposed utopian space, but I want to briefly address one fundamental aspect of this…
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Religion, Progressivism, Integral Yoga and Auroville
Over the past few posts we have been looking at the commonalities between the aims of progressive thinking and the spiritual philosophy of Integral Yoga, as well as the limits of progressive thinking in being able to find true solutions for humanity. Humans are on the path of perceiving a…
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Community in the Context of Integral Yoga, Part II
In the previous post we looked at how the conception of the term community in the context of Integral Yoga differs from the general understanding and connotations of community in our present everyday existence. In the current state of humanity it is individual and collective egos that are at the…
Finding Auroville 