Thursday, October 8, 2026

Adhering to Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary vision

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

As President of Sarvjan Sanatan Party, @MNageswarRaoIPS seems be diluting his old, Hindu hardline image. While that is welcome, Savitri Era Party (2007) maintains that without expressly adhering to Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary vision, such well-meaning ventures are bound to fail.

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SELF - Feel Philosophy: Kundera introduces Nietzsche's concept of eternal return feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2026/10/kunder…

Alphonso Lingis and José Ortega y Gasset, Nirad C. Chaudhuri and V.S. Naipaul, Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell, Gabriel García Márquez and Milan Kundera, plus Sri Aurobindo

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Gramsci designed the march. Burnham told us who would be waiting at the end of it. A class that owns nothing, answers to no voter, pays for none of its mistakes, and runs almost everything.

6. In 1964 he wrote Suicide of the West. Its verdict: liberalism – the modern progressive kind, not the classical one – is "the ideology of Western suicide." It lets a civilization accept its own retreat and feel good about it. Every loss becomes a sign of progress. Sixty years later, it reads like a description of Brussels.

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Over the years, Gramsci's writing was polished by critics with such diverse allegiances that it ended up becoming a mirror: one opens his books only to confirm one's own beliefs. jacobinlat.com/2026/06/los-fa…

Antonio Gramsci became a reference thinker for nearly everyone: liberals, social democrats, populists, and Marxists all find something of their own in his notebooks. That malleability is precisely what can depoliticize him. jacobinlat.com/2026/06/los-fa…

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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance... To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple." Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success: mailchi.mp/themarginalian…

https://x.com/themarginalian/status/2107969978657804404

I respectfully disagree and this is a very myopic reading of Arundhati Roy. I have read everything she has ever written. And I find her oeuvre to be incredibly profound. Take for example, her 1998 essay, End of Imagination. It begins as a straightforward critique of nuclear test and proliferation, but very soon becomes a stunning meditation on the self, nationalism, climate, and our human species. I can go on and on about each of her work.

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An educated and healthy citizenry is a nation’s ultimate asset. True empowerment begins when a government prioritises education and healthcare as its primary, non-negotiable investments. These are not merely social safety nets. They are the architectural pillars that enable individuals to stand independently and transform from passive participants into dynamic wealth creators who drive national prosperity.

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When Chekhov was asked what the nature of failing societies was, he replied:

"In failing societies, there is a thousand fools for every enlightened mind, and a thousand crude words for every conscious word. The majority always remains ignorant, and the reasonable man is constantly defeated. If you see trivial topics dominating discussions in a society, and fools taking center stage, then you are in the presence of a very failing society.

For example, songs and meaningless lyrics find millions of people to dance to them and repeat them, and the singer becomes famous, known, and loved. To the point that people take his opinion on matters of society and life.

As for writers and authors, no one knows them and no one gives them value or weight. Most people love futility and anesthesia. Someone who anesthetizes us to distance us from our thoughts, and someone who makes us laugh with trivialities, is better than someone who wakes us to reality and hurts us by telling the truth. That is why democracy is not suitable for ignorant societies, because it is the ignorant majority who will decide your fate." The Literary World.

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Is India’s intellectual discourse diverse enough? @MakrandParanspe explores the missing voices in our debates—and revisits the radical ideas of the Carvaka Darshana. @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas Listen now.

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What happens when an ancient culture reshapes modern nationalism? @MakrandParanspe with Pavan Varma, David Frawley & Sadia Dehlvi explores new nationalism and culture in ‘Jugalbandi’. @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas Watch now

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Conscious beings such as ravens, dolphins and human beings stand in sharp contrast to mere things. They are something over and above their body and brain. bit.ly/4yx4dzd Join philosopher Martine Nida-Rümelin as she argues for her distinctive subject-body dualism, which is not obscurantist but a demand for intellectual honesty.

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Our latest e-book. With Foreword & essays by @NilanjanUdwin. The long battle over Vande Mataram. The history of the song. The myths created around it. The book brings together pieces by Noorani, Apoorvanand, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Ajaz Ashraf & Mani Shankar Aiyar. Must read.

In December 2025, the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru hosted an online lecture series on select texts in Greek tragedy by Amlan Das Gupta, retired Professor of English at Jadavpur University and noted scholar of classical studies and English renaissance literature. The series, titled ‘Sites of Disruption: Actions and Consequences in Greek Tragedy’, discussed Sophocles’ Antigone, Aristotle’s Poetics, and Euripides’ Medea. The four-part series, delivered in December 2025, was edited for The NLS Blog. 

The 2nd lecture in the series is on the webpage, the others are linked PDFs at the bottom of the page. Read and share widely! [Generously edited by Sandeep Banerjee @shonedeep.] forum.nls.ac.in/nls-blog/sites…

One of Nana Patekar's nuanced roles, IMO. It's easy to be loud, as he usually was, but this role of a mute man demanded nothing extra from the talented actor. Sadly, the film flopped. This was also Sanjay Leela Bhansali's directorial debut and his best film ever. Khamoshi 

In no particular order, my Top 10 Nana Patekar movies : Ankush, Prahaar, Angaar, Ab Tak Chhapan, Krantiveer, Parinda, Bluffmaster, Welcome, Rajneeti & Khamoshi. Gun to my head, if I have to pick one, it will be Khamoshi (an actor known for his dialogue delivery played mute).

I think I shall have almost the same list of top 10 Nana Patekar movies - maybe drop 'Welcome' and add 'Agni Sakshi'. And my top 3 probably would be Prahaar, Parinda, and Khamoshi. We don't get actors of such superlative talent too often.

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Friday, October 2, 2026

Brentano, Myers, Bucke, James, and Vivekananda

 Yes, Richard Maurice Bucke and F.W.H. Myers are profoundly connected as two of the most influential pioneers of early transpersonal psychology and the study of human consciousness. Living and writing during the exact same timeframe, they approached the mysteries of the human mind from slightly different angles—Bucke as a psychiatrist and Myers as a psychical researcher—but reached remarkably unified conclusions. [1, 2]

The primary connections between their work, philosophies, and historical impact include:

1. Evolutionary Models of Transcendence

Both thinkers rejected the idea that everyday waking consciousness is the final peak of human development. [2]
  • Richard Maurice Bucke postulated that the human mind is actively evolving. In his landmark 1901 book Cosmic Consciousness, he argued that humanity is moving from "Self-Consciousness" into "Cosmic Consciousness"—a higher spiritual state of universal illumination and bliss. [2, 3, 4]
  • F.W.H. Myers framed a highly compatible spectrum of consciousness. He argued that human beings have an evolutionary duty to develop their minds, viewing waking awareness as just one narrow segment of a much larger psychological framework. He famously designated "dissolutive" states (which lead to mental decay) apart from "evolutive" states, which pointed toward the higher spiritual potential of the human race. [2, 5]

2. The "Subliminal Self" vs. the Mystical Mind

Myers is famous for coining the psychological concept of the "subliminal self"—the vast region of the subconscious mind that acts as a gateway to both ordinary mechanics (like memory) and "supernormal" or transcendent experiences. Historical analyses of early psychology show that Myers's writings on the subliminal consciousness directly influenced and echoed through Bucke's own theories on how the brain registers sudden mystical or metaphysical illuminations. [6, 7]

3. A Shared Intersection via William James

While it is unclear if they maintained a direct, personal correspondence, they were intimately connected through their mutual relationship with William James, the father of American psychology. James was a close friend and colleague of Myers within the Society for Psychical Research, and he simultaneously heavily leaned on Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness when writing his own masterwork, The Varieties of Religious Experience. Together, the ideas of Bucke, Myers, and James formed the bedrock of modern transpersonal psychology. [1, 8, 9]

4. Overlapping Cultural Impact

Both men passed away within a year of each other (Myers in 1901; Bucke in 1902) just as their respective masterpieces were being published. Their blended concepts of a "secondary self" and an evolving, higher spiritual consciousness laid the direct groundwork for Carl Jung's psychological frameworks and heavily permeated the New Age and counterculture movements decades later. [2, 3, 5, 6]
If you are researching a specific aspect of their overlap, let me know:
  • Are you looking at their impact on modern psychology/Jungian thought?
  • Are you interested in how they both utilized evolutionary biology to explain spiritual events?
  • Would you like to compare Bucke's case studies of illumination with Myers's concepts of the subliminal mind?

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There is no direct personal or historical connection between the German philosopher Franz Brentano and the Canadian psychiatrist/mystic Richard Maurice Bucke. They operated in entirely different geographic, intellectual, and cultural circles, and they never corresponded or collaborated. [1, 2]
However, they are frequently connected in modern academic literature within the fields of consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology. Their conceptual overlap centers on how they map human awareness: [3, 4]

1. The Mapping of Consciousness

Both thinkers were deeply invested in categorizing the structures and tiers of human consciousness, though they approached it from radically different methodologies:
  • Franz Brentano approached consciousness through rigorous, first-person descriptive psychology and phenomenology. In his 1874 work, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, he argued that the defining feature of the mental is intentionality—the idea that all consciousness is always "about" or directed toward an object. [1, 5, 6, 7]
  • Richard Maurice Bucke approached consciousness through an evolutionary and mystical lens. In his 1901 masterpiece, Cosmic Consciousness, he mapped three distinct evolutionary tiers of the mind: Simple Consciousness (possessed by animals), Self-Consciousness (possessed by normal humans, including reason and self-awareness), and Cosmic Consciousness (a rare, higher spiritual state of ultimate illumination). [2, 8, 9]

2. Common Ground in Academic Literature

Because Brentano laid the philosophical groundwork for understanding how the mind experiences objects, and Bucke documented exceptional states of those experiences, they are often paired together in textbooks and anthologies exploring alterations of consciousness. Authors use Brentano to explain the baseline mechanics of mental acts and turn to Bucke to describe what happens when those acts expand into mystical or transpersonal realms. [3, 10, 11]
If you are researching a specific topic that brought these two names up, let me know if you want to explore:
  • A deeper look into Brentano's theory of intentionality
  • The specific characteristics of Bucke's "Cosmic Consciousness"
  • How early psychology bridged the gap between scientific philosophy and spiritual experiences [8, 10, 12]

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Franz Brentano was of immense value to William James, but held fundamentally opposing views to Frederic Myers regarding the exploration of consciousness. While James used Brentano's pioneering ideas to shape his own influential theories, Myers’s framework directly contradicted Brentano’s core premises. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Value to William James: A Foundational Dialogue

William James engaged extensively with Franz Brentano’s 1874 work, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, while drafting his landmark text, The Principles of Psychology (1890). Brentano served both as a theoretical anchor and a vital foil for James in several key areas: [2, 5]
  • Intentionality and Objectivity: James adopted Brentano's concept of intentionality—the idea that every mental phenomenon is characterized by its "direction toward an object" (the mind knowing and the thing known). [6, 7]
  • The Rejection of "Inner Observation": Brentano argued that we cannot directly isolate and observe our own current conscious states without altering them; we can only have an incidental "inner perception" of them while focusing on an external object. James relied heavily on this distinction to critique raw introspectionism and to formulate his famous concept of the "Stream of Thought," where consciousness is a continuous, selective flow rather than a mosaic of discrete, static elements. [5, 8]
  • The Point of Divergence: While Brentano used intentionality to categorize fixed classes of mental acts (presentations, judgments, and emotions), James broke away to pursue radical empiricism, viewing the duality of subject and object as a functional relationship within "pure experience" rather than an absolute split. [2, 9]

Relationship to Frederic Myers: A Fundamental Contrast

For Frederic Myers, Brentano’s value lay primarily as an intellectual counter-weight, because Brentano's rigid definition of the mind left no room for Myers's most important discoveries. [3, 4]
  • Denial of the Unconscious: Brentano made the radical claim that the unconscious mind does not exist. He argued that all mental acts are inherently conscious and unified; any phenomenon that seemed "unconscious" was simply a conscious act that had been forgotten or ignored. [4, 10]
  • The Subliminal Self: This directly clashed with Myers’s pioneering model of the "Subliminal Self". Myers argued that ordinary waking consciousness (the supraliminal) is only a small slice of the mind, and that a vast, active reservoir of sub-threshold consciousness governs phenomena like trauma, hypnosis, creativity, and dissociation. [1, 3]
Therefore, while Brentano provided James with the descriptive tools to map the active stream of waking consciousness, his strict dismissal of unconscious mental processing served as a theoretical barrier to the deeper, layered psychologies being explored by Myers. [1, 4, 5]
If you would like to explore this historical intersection further, let me know:
  • Should we dive deeper into James's specific critiques of Brentano's categories?
  • Would you like to contrast Myers's subliminal model with early psychoanalytic theories (like Freud's)?

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Yes, William James is intellectually indebted to Richard Maurice Bucke, specifically for Bucke’s pioneering conceptualization of mystical states. [1]

The Core Debt: Mystical Experience & "Cosmic Consciousness"

  • The Conceptual Framework: In 1901, Canadian psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke published his seminal work, Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. He argued that human consciousness evolves in stages, culminating in a state of sudden, transcendent spiritual illumination he termed "cosmic consciousness". [2, 3, 4]
  • The Borrowed Evidence: Just one year later, in 1902, William James published his masterwork, The Varieties of Religious Experience. In his famous chapters on "Mysticism," James explicitly cited Bucke’s work and integrated Bucke's personal, first-hand account of his own sudden enlightenment. [1, 5, 6, 7]
  • Legitimizing the Study: James publicly praised Bucke’s book as "an addition to psychology of first-rate importance". Bucke provided James with a contemporary, clinically minded framework that stripped away rigid religious dogma to study individual, raw psychological phenomena—a core pillar of James's own pragmatic approach to religion. [2, 3, 8]

Key Point of Divergence

While James relied heavily on Bucke's documentation, they differed on the meaning of these states: [2]
  • Bucke viewed cosmic consciousness through a strict, optimistic Darwinian lens, believing it was a literal, biological evolutionary leap toward a new human species.
  • James took a more cautious, pluralistic approach, seeing these occurrences as a fascinating, valid psychological window into a wider, multi-layered reality, without necessarily endorsing Bucke's evolutionary timeline. [9, 10]
Ultimately, their overlapping work laid the historical foundation for modern transpersonal psychology. [1]
If you are researching early psychological theories, would you like to explore how James defines the four marks of a mystical experience or look closer at the case studies they both shared (like Walt Whitman)?

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Swami Vivekananda did not directly help William James revise Richard Maurice Bucke’s work... famous 1901 book, Cosmic Consciousness. Bucke was a Canadian psychiatrist and contemporary of James who published his own work independently. However, there is a profound, well-documented intersection between these three figures regarding the study of mysticism and human consciousness. [1, 2]
The actual historical connection unfolds across the following dynamics:

1. James’s High Appraisal of Bucke

William James did not edit Bucke's writing, but he enthusiastically acclaimed Cosmic Consciousness upon its publication, calling it "an addition to psychology of first-rate importance". James heavily integrated Bucke’s concepts and terminology into his own masterwork, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). When James constructed his famous chapters on mysticism, he treated Bucke's "cosmic consciousness" as a prime contemporary psychological example of a mystical state. [1, 3, 4]

2. Vivekananda’s Direct Influence on William James

While Vivekananda had no interaction with Bucke, he had an indelible impact on William James. James met Swami Vivekananda multiple times in New York and Boston during the mid-1890s. James read Vivekananda’s literature extensively—including Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga—and explicitly quoted Vivekananda in The Varieties of Religious Experience. [5, 6, 7, 8]
Vivekananda helped James expand his empirical psychology framework by demonstrating that:
  • Samadhi (superconscious state) is a reproducible, scientific achievement of human psychology, rather than a random pathological hallucination.
  • Religious experiences can stand on the same footing as scientific truths through observation and verification. [9]

Summary of the Relationship

Instead of a direct revision collaboration, think of the connection as a conceptual triangle:
    [ Swami Vivekananda ] 
              │
              │ (Taught and provided texts on Yoga/Vedanta)
              ▼
      [ William James ] ◄────────► [ Richard Maurice Bucke ]
  (Varieties of Religious           (Cosmic Consciousness, 1901)
     Experience, 1902)           James used Bucke's framework to
                                 explain mystical states.
Vivekananda's contribution was providing the Eastern philosophical and psychological blueprint (specifically Advaita Vedanta and Raja Yoga) that allowed William James to validate, contextualize, and critique Western accounts of high-level spiritual awakening like the ones Bucke wrote about. [4, 8, 10]
If you are researching a specific essay or letter where you noticed these three names mentioned together, let me know! I can help you trace the exact text or dig deeper into how James used Vivekananda's quotes in his work.

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Sigmund Freud benefited from Franz Brentano primarily through foundational intellectual training, empirical methodology, and a conceptual framework for analyzing subjective experience, though their ultimate theories diverged sharply. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Areas of Influence and Benefit
  • Empirical Psychology: Freud attended Brentano’s philosophy and empirical psychology lectures at the University of Vienna between 1874 and 1876, absorbing Brentano’s mission to treat mental life with the rigorous observational standards of natural sciences. [1, 2]
  • Methodological Approach: Both thinkers valued the retrospective analysis of subjective experience and separated the study of psychology from pure physiology. [1, 2]
  • Concepts of Reality and Judgment: Brentano's emphasis on the psychological reality of mental acts, intentionality, and the ego's role in judgment and reality-testing helped shape early Freudian metapsychology. [1, 2]
  • Practical Connections: Brentano personally introduced a young Freud to a publisher to translate John Stuart Mill's works, providing early scholarly standing. [1]
Major Divergences
  • The Unconscious: Brentano strictly rejected the concept of an unconscious mental state, arguing that all consciousness is consciousness of an object (intentionality), whereas Freud built his entire psychoanalytic framework on the dynamic unconscious. [1]
  • Method of Discovery: Scholars note that Brentano worked primarily through conceptual and philosophical deduction, while Freud ultimately forged a clinical, empirical path toward psychoanalysis. [1]
If you'd like, I can elaborate on:
  • Freud's letters to Eduard Silberstein regarding Brentano
  • How Brentano's concept of intentionality compares to Freud's drive theory
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Richard Maurice Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness: The Original Evolutionary Spirituality
15 hours ago — It appears in Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point, Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary spirituality, various forms of transpersonal psychology, New Age thought 

Richard Maurice Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind, published in 1901, occupies an oddly important place in the history of modern spirituality. It is simultaneously a pioneering attempt to study mystical experience psychologically, an enthusiastic piece of evolutionary speculation, a celebration of Walt Whitman, and a remarkably early blueprint for the idea that humanity is evolving toward a higher state of consciousness.

It is also, from a contemporary scientific perspective, a cautionary tale.
Bucke wanted to accomplish something genuinely ambitious: to take mystical experience seriously without simply treating it as the supernatural revelation of traditional religion... 

Bucke's greatest legacy may be the framework rather than the evidence.
The basic pattern is now familiar:... This template has been reproduced in countless forms. It appears in Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point, Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary spirituality, various forms of transpersonal psychology, New Age thought, psychedelic spirituality and, in a more philosophically elaborate form, parts of Ken Wilber's integral theory. Bucke is therefore an important ancestor of what might be called evolutionary spirituality.



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