In this talk Georges Van Vrekhem goes back to the roots of spirituality in the West: to the Greek mysteries, themselves fed by Egypt, the Middle East and India. He stresses the importance of the Socratic bifurcation and the crucial importance of Gnosticism, the original sister-movement of Christianity.
Just as the previous century was dominated by the exploration of sub-atomic space and outer space, the present century will be dominated by the exploration of inner space. In every field of scientific exploration, we are standing at a borderline where we are forced to recognise a new Factor X without which we cannot proceed further. This new Factor is consciousness, and an entire new field of “consciousness studies” has opened to humanity. But it is a new and uncharted field where science is s...
Om Choir - The voice that chants to the creator Fire, the symbolled OM, the great assenting Word, - Narad experienced in 1961 that the Mother gave the adesh to bring down a new music. She said that one must go far above words and bring down the pure Music. Mother told us to sit in a circle and have no preconceptions as to what we would sing but to be silent and let the music descend in us. The OM Choir aspires to bring down the New Music for the New World in a collective body. We sing only OM,...
Addressed to young students from Mumbai city life, this talk explores the fundamental question: Who am I? Am I my body, my feelings, or thoughts? Or am I something more than all these? We are led to introspect and go behind, layer by layer, into some inmost psychic essence that we know to be ourselves. Beyond that, we are all united in a Oneness. As we grow more conscious of our deeper identity, we realise that everything that we do, feel or think, the very purpose and direction of life is int...
Human evolution has reached a point of crisis in which there are only two possibilities left: a radical change in human nature, or the extinction of the human species. As if to precipitate the positive future and establish it as an inevitable certainty, the Mother created Auroville. Auroville serves a unique purpose in the collective human evolution and its existence is a promise of the future unity of mankind. The means for the realisation of this Ideal is the body of knowledge and experience...
A talk given by Sraddhalu Ranade at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville on 22nd February 2009. Human evolution has reached the highest that the intellect could lead us to, and it flounders now unable to proceed by mind alone. A new and higher consciousness which is supra-mental must now lead us towards our still higher potential. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were pioneers of the Supramental evolution, and they worked to realise it in themselves in order to assist humanity to break through the present ev...