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The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber’s Appropriation of Sri Aurobindo’s Work and Other Indian Thought
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Rajiv Malhotra | Manogna Sastry | Kundan Singh
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The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber’s Appropriation of Sri Aurobindo’s Work and Other Indian Thought is a compelling and meticulous account of the digestion and subversion of the work of one of India’s greatest sages Sri Aurobindo. The book uncovers the systematic co-opting of Sri Aurobindo’s seminal ideas by the American theorist Ken Wilber and their reformulation into his own ‘Integral Theory’. Based on extensive research spanning a quarter century, the book provides deep insights into the developments that shaped (and distorted) the Aurobindonian discourse in recent decades. It discusses the ramifications of the enhancement of Western Universalism at the expense of Vedic and other Indian traditions while analyzing certain limitations in Wilber’s work.
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The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber’s Appropriation of Sri Aurobindo’s Work and Other Indian Thought is a compelling and meticulous account of the digestion and subversion of the work of one of India’s greatest sages Sri Aurobindo. The book uncovers the systematic co-opting of Sri Aurobindo’s seminal ideas by the American theorist Ken Wilber and their reformulation into his own ‘Integral Theory’. Based on extensive research spanning a quarter century, the book provides deep insights into the developments that shaped (and distorted) the Aurobindonian discourse in recent decades. It discusses the ramifications of the enhancement of Western Universalism at the expense of Vedic and other Indian traditions while analyzing certain limitations in Wilber’s work.
About Author
Rajiv Malhotra is a best-selling author of fourteen major critically acclaimed, path-breaking books. Known for challenging the established wisdom in fields as diverse and inspiring as civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, co nsciou snes s, and a rtificial intelligence, he combines his life-journey as a technocrat, an entrepreneur, and spiritual explorer, formulating new frameworks and paradigms to bring ancient knowledge into the present context. His writings have impacted intellectuals worldwide and provoke our comfort zones. Over the past half century, Rajiv’s work has straddled across the USA and India, and he is equally at home in both places. He heads the Princeton-based Infinity Foundation.
Manogna Sastry is a M.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics with a strong background in theoretical physics and mathematics. She is currently the research team leader at Infinity Foundation. Her research spans astrophysics, Indology focused on chronology and desacralization, civilizational studies, consciousness studies focused on Sri Aurobindo, sustainability, and education. She brings scientific rigor to analyses of civilizational studies and rethinking of historical constructs from non-dominant viewpoints. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences. Manogna is a passionate sustainability practitioner, and in her previous role, focused on pedagogies of learning and inquiry.
Kundan Singh, Ph.D. is a professor at Sofia University, president of the Cultural Integration Fellowship, and senior fellow at Hindupedia and Infinity Foundation. Author of the Evolution of Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda and Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children: A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis, he has published extensively in the academia. His recent publications include There Isn’t Only Cultural Blindness in Psychology; Colonization and Indian Psychology: A Reciprocal Relationship from the Perspective of Indian Postcolonial Theory Decolonizing India Studies amongst others.
Manogna Sastry is a M.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics with a strong background in theoretical physics and mathematics. She is currently the research team leader at Infinity Foundation. Her research spans astrophysics, Indology focused on chronology and desacralization, civilizational studies, consciousness studies focused on Sri Aurobindo, sustainability, and education. She brings scientific rigor to analyses of civilizational studies and rethinking of historical constructs from non-dominant viewpoints. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences. Manogna is a passionate sustainability practitioner, and in her previous role, focused on pedagogies of learning and inquiry.
Kundan Singh, Ph.D. is a professor at Sofia University, president of the Cultural Integration Fellowship, and senior fellow at Hindupedia and Infinity Foundation. Author of the Evolution of Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda and Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children: A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis, he has published extensively in the academia. His recent publications include There Isn’t Only Cultural Blindness in Psychology; Colonization and Indian Psychology: A Reciprocal Relationship from the Perspective of Indian Postcolonial Theory Decolonizing India Studies amongst others.
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This is garbage. Consciousness is not a theory. It is an experience. It is an experience of thoughtless state. It is an experience of no-mind state. So, consciousness is no-mind awareness. Mandukaya Upanishad goes to the extent of saying that whatever you can think of is not consciousness. All experiences are objects in consciousness. The thought is an object in consciousness, but not THE CONSCIOUSNESS. When you experience the cessation of this object called thought, you experience consciousness. The thought is the subtlest object. This object has to be dissolved to experience consciousness. So theory is not experience and experience is not the theory. But a theory can be formulated from an experience. So my theory of consciousness is something like this. Mathematically I represent it as C=EM^2 (C equals EM square). In this C means Consciousness, E means Energy (thought energy), and M is the constant of Meditation or Mindfulness. Matter and Energy are not different. They are interchangeable. They can neither be created nor destroyed. In the same way Matter and Consciousness are not different. They are one and the same. Matter is gross consciousness, and consciousness is the subltest form of matter. It is the subltest. Matter is only an appearance. It is because of the collapse of the wave function. It is because of the decoherence. You can only experience the consciousness. It is there when you are not. It is the absence of you, your ego, your ignorance, your ahankara. It is the experience of the dissolution of your thoughts. It is devoid of all objects. All experiences are objects in consciousness. It is the purest form. It is that formless. It is neither born nor will ever die. You can’t create it. You can only experience it. In the above equation when you multiply your thoughts with meditation, the thoughts will disperse, and you attain to no-mind state. And in that no-mind state you experience consciousness. The mind is a garbage. The mind is like a mirage. The mind is like a monkey. The mind is a mithya, and the consciousness (in a purest form, Shuddha Chaitanya) is Satya. It is the ultimate truth. It is the absolute truth. And rest all is just a speculation. Please come out of this speculative business. Thanks
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Avadhoot Dandekar –
This is garbage. Consciousness is not a theory. It is an experience. It is an experience of thoughtless state. It is an experience of no-mind state. So, consciousness is no-mind awareness. Mandukaya Upanishad goes to the extent of saying that whatever you can think of is not consciousness. All experiences are objects in consciousness. The thought is an object in consciousness, but not THE CONSCIOUSNESS. When you experience the cessation of this object called thought, you experience consciousness. The thought is the subtlest object. This object has to be dissolved to experience consciousness. So theory is not experience and experience is not the theory. But a theory can be formulated from an experience. So my theory of consciousness is something like this. Mathematically I represent it as C=EM^2 (C equals EM square). In this C means Consciousness, E means Energy (thought energy), and M is the constant of Meditation or Mindfulness. Matter and Energy are not different. They are interchangeable. They can neither be created nor destroyed. In the same way Matter and Consciousness are not different. They are one and the same. Matter is gross consciousness, and consciousness is the subltest form of matter. It is the subltest. Matter is only an appearance. It is because of the collapse of the wave function. It is because of the decoherence. You can only experience the consciousness. It is there when you are not. It is the absence of you, your ego, your ignorance, your ahankara. It is the experience of the dissolution of your thoughts. It is devoid of all objects. All experiences are objects in consciousness. It is the purest form. It is that formless. It is neither born nor will ever die. You can’t create it. You can only experience it. In the above equation when you multiply your thoughts with meditation, the thoughts will disperse, and you attain to no-mind state. And in that no-mind state you experience consciousness. The mind is a garbage. The mind is like a mirage. The mind is like a monkey. The mind is a mithya, and the consciousness (in a purest form, Shuddha Chaitanya) is Satya. It is the ultimate truth. It is the absolute truth. And rest all is just a speculation. Please come out of this speculative business. Thanks