manity is to the animal.
It would have a consciousness different in kind than the mind of the human, a different status and quality and functioning.
After a short political career in which he became one of the leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new spiritual path which he called the "integral yoga,"
the aim of which was to further the evolution of life on earth by establishing a high level of spiritual consciousness which he called the Supermind that would represent a divine life.…
Added by Michael Grove at 17:24 on November 15, 2010
of disaster... To want control is the pathology! Not that a person can get control, because of course you never do... Man is only a part of larger systems, and the part can never control the whole"
The Global Vision project was greatly inspired by Gregory Bateson, the late anthropologist, biological philosopher, and author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, and Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred. Bateson developed Systems Theory and Cybernetics to investigate the self-organising aspects of biological and social systems, and he showed how most of the threats to our survival and well-being are the direct result of misguided attempts to apply linear control to biological and social systems whose mode of organisation is essentially non-linear. He may yet be regarded as the most important thinker of the 20th century.
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ntroduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice. Future segments will focus on shamanism, sustainability, alternative energy systems, the Mayan Calendar, quantum physics and synchronicity, and a host of other subjects.
More Episodes at iclips dot net.Directed by Joao Amorim
THE COLLECTIVE MIND-SET of our species MUST acknowledge that we should ACT as the animals we are, that limitless resources are a fool's dream that we can never achieve and that when the cost of an activity outweighs the benefit, we should STOP, in order that LIFE on earth should survive.…
Added by Michael Grove at 13:41 on November 13, 2010
ideas rather than the memorization of facts - and was designed to open the MINDs of those that read his books such that they were awakened to the fact that we are but ONE family ever responsible for the ever changing future of this world - and in so doing the series helped to develop a wide range of skills and ideas amongst its readership. Video project which conveys the essence and emotions attatched to my 17 year old car. Created with Adobe After Effects.
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