Deconstructing the tired old religiosity

Re: Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies III
by Rich on Sun 07 Jan 2007 09:15 AM PST Profile Permanent Link
I can probably go on for some time about how important this essay is in charting both a way forward for the future of not only Aurobindian inspired scholarship but of critical scholarship in general. You have not only succeeded in deconstructing the tired old religiosity which has become associated of late with the former, (and in so doing making it relevant for a global audience) but of integrating a new promising dimension of illumination into the latter. In short: Bravo!!! rich

by rjon on Sun 07 Jan 2007 01:43 PM PST Profile Permanent Link
What a powerful posting Debashish! You raise so many critical questions that I hardly know where to begin. For example, you say:...

Which is why, during the past few years, I've been participating in and researching intentional community experiments such as: www.arcosanti.org www.damanhur.info www.auroville.org And yet, as you warn:...

Amen. But I wonder if something else may also be going on that we're barely aware of, something in fact driven by, as Sri Aurobindo says in your quote above:...

I'll say more about this in a later comment. ~ ron

by Debashish on Tue 09 Jan 2007 11:06 PM PST Profile Permanent Link
No doubt he says this. And this is what made me write:

Does Heidegger's alternate god, the "god that can save us" hide its footsteps behind the mask of this mental-vital fraud?

We cannot say. For Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the answer is "yes"... But let us be clear that this is not an invitation to complacency in the hallelujah inevitablility of a human transition to superhumanity. If a "superconscious Might is using the individual" in the "vast cosmic impulse [of the] modern world" let us not forget that if this use were that of a "tool" as in Technology, an automated conditioning towards a supramental future, it would be a defeat of purpose. This "use" cannot but be replaced by a "conscious participation" if it is to succeed as a future of apotheosized Consciousness. Without this, the human will be left behind and evolution can well transition to its new stages over the dust of his extinction. That is why I conclude the previous assertion by saying:

"...though what is uncertain there is if we will have any part of it. The Aurobindonian superman does not need our assistance or midwifery to make its appearance."

Will we respond to the "cosmic impulse" with our consciousness or disappear into a technological utility object for the coming of a future species beyond us - this is the question. DB