The last time I traveled to India was over six years ago—on my honeymoon. My new wife, Christiana Briddell, wanted me to meet the great Indian saint, Swami Chidananda, who had been her family’s Guru since her parents first met him during the West to East migration of the late 1960s. So rather than spending [...]
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In Search of Sacred India, Part 2: The New Face of India
February 25th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · Business, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Hinduism, Materialism, Politics, Spirituality, Technology
Tags:BMW·Colonel Sanders·Fareed Zakaria·globalization·India·Krishna·Mahatma Gandhi·mega-malls·New Delhi·sacred cows·Sri Aurobindo·Swami Chidananda·Thomas Friedman·Westernization
Sri Aurobindo: Man or Messiah?
May 1st, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 6 Comments · Culture, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, News, Spirituality
Readers of this blog may have heard of the great Indian sage Sri Aurobindo. We have often acknowledged him in the pages of EnlightenNext magazine as one of the pioneers of evolutionary spirituality. Recently, we reviewed a fascinating new book by long-time Aurobindian scholar Peter Heehs called The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, published last year [...]
Tags:controversy·Evolutionaries·fundamentalism·gurus·mythology·Peter Heehs·Sri Aurobindo·The Mother
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