TERMS STARTING WITH
current ::: 1. (esp. of water or air) A steady usually natural flow in a particular direction. 2. A flow of electric charge through a conductor. current"s, currents.
current ::: a. --> Running or moving rapidly.
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
current assets / current liabilities
current assets – current liabilities
current assetss / current liabilities
current assetss – current liabilities
current "electronics" The quantity of {charge} per unit time, measured in Amperes (Amps, A). By historical convention, the sign of current is positive for currents flowing from positive to negative {potential}, but experience indicates that electrons are negatively charged and flow in the opposite direction. (1995-10-05)
current ::: (electronics) The quantity of charge per unit time, measured in Amperes (Amps, A). By historical convention, the sign of current is positive for currents flowing from positive to negative potential, but experience indicates that electrons are negatively charged and flow in the opposite direction. (1995-10-05)
currently ::: adv. --> In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
currentness ::: n. --> The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
current ratio
Current account - A part of the balance of payments accounts that records payments and receipts arising from trade in goods and services and from interest and dividends that are earned by capital owned in one country and invested in another.
Current account balance of payments - Exports of goods and services minus imports of goods and services plus net incomes and current transfers from abroad. If inflows of money (from the sale of exports, etc.) exceed outflows of money (from the purchase of imports, etc.), there is a 'current account surplus' (a positive figure). If outflows exceed inflows, there is a 'current account deficit' (a negative figure).
Current assets - Assets such as cash, stocks and debtors which are only held for short periods of time ( expected to be turned into cash in under a year).
Current ::: A thread of symbolic resonance. By attuning to a current, one's reality is both sculpted by that current and the energy of that current can be used to influence and change reality. Currents are typically built upon more fundamental archetypes and hence are an emergent structure that usually exist starting around the lower Mental Plane and extending into the Astral Plane where visualization can access and work with them more easily.
Current balance - The difference between the value of money entering and leaving a country for trade in goods and services income from abroad and transfers.
Current - Motion of positive electrical current.
Converging Lens - Lens that causes light rays to converge; usually a convex lens.
Current cash / debt ratio - Measures ability to pay current liabilities in given year with cash derived from operating activities. Calculated using net cash from operating activities divided by average current liabilities.
Current cost accounting- A method of accounting which replaces all historic cost values with current valuations.
Current cost - The cost which would be incurred for replacement of an asset.
Current liabilities - Debts that have to be repaid within a year:
Current ratio (working capital ratio) - Measure of liquidity. Current assets are divided by current liabilities. It is a commonly used measure of short-run solvency, i.e., the immediate ability of a firm to pay its current debts as they come due. Current ratio is particularly important to a company thinking of borrowing money or getting credit from their suppliers. Potential creditors use this ratio to measure a company's liquidity or ability to pay off short-term debts. Though acceptable ratios may vary from industry to industry below 1.00 is not atypical for high quality companies with easy access to capital markets to finance unexpected cash requirements. Smaller companies, however, should have higher current ratios to meet unexpected cash requirements. The rule of thumb Current Ratio for small companies is 2:1, indicating the need for a level of safety in the ability to cover unforeseen cash needs from current assets. Current Ratio is best compared to the industry.
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. THE PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS formalizes the use of the sentential connectives and, or, not, if . . . then. Various systems of notation are current, of which we here adopt a particular one for purposes of exposition. We use juxtaposition to denote conjunction ("pq" to mean "p and q"), the sign ∨ to denote inclusive disjunction ("p ∨ q" to mean ("p or q or both"), the sign + to denote exclusive disiunction ("p + q" to mean "p or q but not both"), the sign ∼ to denote negation ("∼p" to mean "not p"), the sign ⊃ to denote the conditional ("p ⊃ q" to mean "if p then q," or "not both p and not-q"), the sign ≡ to denote the biconditional ("p ≡ q" to mean "p if and only if q," or "either p and q or not-p and not-q"), and the sign | to denote alternative denial ("p | q" to mean "not both p and q"). -- The word or is ambiguous in ordinary English usage between inclusive disjunction and exclusive disjunction, and distinct notations are accordingly provided for the two meanings of the word, The notations "p ⊃ q" and "p ≡ q" are sometimes read as "p implies q" and "p is equivalent to q" respectively. These readings must, however, be used with caution, since the terms implication and equivalence are often used in a sense which involves some relationship between the logical forms of the propositions (or the sentences) which they connect, whereas the validity of p ⊃ q and of p ≡ q requires no such relationship. The connective ⊃ is also said to stand for "material implication," distinguished from formal implication (§ 3 below) and strict implication (q. v.). Similarly the connective ≡ is said to stand for "material equivalence."
3102 BC which the earth is currently passing through &
3DO "company, games, standard" A set of specifications created and owned by the 3DO company, which is a partnership of seven different companies. These specs are the blueprint for making a 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and are licensed to hardware and software producers. A 3DO system has an {ARM60} 32-bit {RISC} {CPU} and a graphics engine based around two custom designed graphics and animation processors. It has 2 Megabytes of {DRAM}, 1 Megabyte of {VRAM}, and a double speed {CD-ROM} drive for main storage. The {Panasonic} 3DO system can run 3DO Interactive software, play audio CDs (including support for CD+G), view {Photo-CDs}, and will eventually be able to play {Video CDs} with a special add-on {MPEG}1 {full-motion video} cartridge. Up to 8 {controllers} can be {daisy-chain}ed on the system at once. A keyboard, mouse, light gun, and other peripherals may also some day be hooked into the system, although they are not currently available (December 1993). The 3DO can display {full-motion video}, fully {texture map}ped 3d landscapes, all in 24-bit colour. {Sanyo} and {AT&T} will also release 3DO systems. Sanyo's in mid 1994 and AT&T in late 1994. There will be a 3DO add-on cartridge based on the {PowerPC} to enable the 3DO to compete with {Sony}'s {Playstation} console and {Sega}'s {Saturn} console, both of which have a higher specification than the original 3DO. The add-on is commonly known as the M2 or Bulldog. It should hit the shops by Christmas 1995 and will (allegedly) do a million flat shaded polygons per second. {3DO Home (http://3do.com/)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:rec.games.video.3do}. (1994-12-13)
ABCL/1 "language" An Object-Based Concurrent Language. The language for the {ABCL} {MIMD} system, written by Akinori Yonezawa "matsu@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp" of Department of Information Science, {Tokyo University} in 1986. ABCL/1 uses {asynchronous} {message passing} to {objects}. It requires {Common Lisp}. Implementations in {KCL} and {Symbolics Lisp} are available from the author. {(ftp://camille.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/)}. E-mail: "abcl@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp". ["ABCL: An Object-Oriented Concurrent System", A. Yonezawa ed, MIT Press 1990]. (1990-05-23). (1995-02-09)
ABCL/c+ "language" A {concurrent} {object-oriented} language, an extension of {ABCL/1} based on {C}. ["An Implementation of An Operating System Kernel using Concurrent Object Oriented Language ABCL/c+", N. Doi et al in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988]. (1994-11-08)
ABCL/R2 "language" An {object-oriented}, {concurrent}, {reflective} language based on {Hybrid Group Architecture}. ABCL/R2 was produced by "masuhara@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp", "matsu@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp", "takuo@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp", "yonezawa@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp", at the {Tokyo Institute of Technology} in 1992. As a reflective language, an ABCL/R2 program can dynamically control its own behaviour, such as {scheduling} policy, from within a user-program. This system has almost all functions of {ABCL/1} and is written in {Common Lisp}. {(ftp://camille.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/abclr2/)}. (1993-01-28)
ABCL/R "language" A {reflective} subset of {ABCL/1}, written in ABCL/1 by Yonezawa of {Tokyo Institute of Technology} in 1988. {(ftp://camille.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/abclr)}. ["Reflection in an Object-Oriented Concurrent Language", T. Watanabe et al, SIGPLAN Notices 23(11):306-315 (Nov 1988)]. (1994-11-08)
absolute ::: adj. 1. Free from all imperfection or deficiency; complete, finished; perfect, consummate. 2. Of degree: Complete, entire; in the fullest sense. 3. Having ultimate power, governing totally; unlimited by a constitution or the concurrent authority of a parliament; arbitrary, despotic. 4. Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned. 6. Considered independently of its being subjective or objective. n. 7. Something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative). Absolute, Absolute"s, absolutes, absoluteness.
Act1 "language" An {actor} language descended from {Plasma}. ["Concurrent Object Oriented Programming in Act1", H. Lieberman in Object Oriented Concurrent Programming, A. Yonezawa et al eds, MIT Press 1987]. (1994-11-08)
activation record "compiler" (Or "data frame", "stack frame") A data structure containing the variables belonging to one particular {scope} (e.g. a procedure body), as well as links to other activation records. Activation records are usually created (on the {stack}) on entry to a block and destroyed on exit. If a procedure or function may be returned as a result, stored in a variable and used in an outer scope then its activation record must be stored in a {heap} so that its variables still exist when it is used. Variables in the current {scope} are accessed via the {frame pointer} which points to the current activation record. Variables in an outer scope are accessed by following chains of links between activation records. There are two kinds of link - the {static link} and the {dynamic link}. (1995-03-07)
Active Measurement Project "networking, tool, project" (AMP) An {NLANR} project undertaking site-to-site measurement across the {HPC} networks. This work is intended to compliment the measurements taken by {MCI} and {Abilene} within the networks' infrastructure. Currently {round trip times}, {topology}, and {packet loss} are being measured. (2004-01-18)
ACT++ "language" A {concurrent} extension of {C++} based on {actors}. ["ACT++: Building a Concurrent C++ With Actors", D.G. Kafura TR89-18, VPI, 1989]. (1994-11-08)
actor 1. "programming" In {object-oriented} programming, an {object} which exists as a {concurrent} process. 2. "operating system" In {Chorus}, the unit of resource allocation. (1994-11-08)
Actors "theory" A model for {concurrency} by {Carl Hewitt}. Actors are autonomous and concurrent {objects} which execute {asynchronously}. The Actor model provides flexible mechanisms for building parallel and {distributed} software systems. {(http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/)}. ["Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes", C. Hewitt et al, IFIP 77, pp. 987-992, N-H 1977]. ["ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems", Gul A. Agha "agha@cs.uiuc.edu", Cambridge Press, MA, 1986]. (1999-11-23)
actual ::: in action or existence at the time; present, current, real. Actual"s.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface "hardware, standard" (ACPI) An open industry standard developed by {Intel}, {Microsoft}, and {Toshiba} for configuration and {power management}. The key element of the standard is power management with two important improvements. First, it puts the {OS} in control of power management. In the currently existing {APM} model most of the power management tasks are run by the {BIOS}, with limited intervention from the OS. In ACPI, the BIOS is responsible for the dirty details of communicating with hardware equipment but the control is in the OS. The other important feature is bringing power management features now available only in {portable computers} to {desktop computers} and {servers}. Extremely low consumption states, i.e., in which only memory, or not even memory is powered, but from which ordinary interrupts (real time clock, keyboard, modem, etc.) can quickly wake the system, are today available in portables only. The standard should make these available for a wider range of systems. For ACPI to work the operating system, the {motherboard} chipset, and for some functions even the {CPU} has to be designed for it. Microsoft is heavily driving a move toward ACPI, both {Windows NT 5.0} and {Windows 98} will support it. It remains to be seen how much hardware manufacturers will embrace the technology and whether other operating system vendors will support it. {ACPI Information Page (http://teleport.com/~acpi/)}. (1998-03-27)
Advanced Encryption Standard "cryptography, algorithm" (AES) The {NIST}'s replacement for the {Data Encryption Standard} (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ {symmetric block cipher}, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. AES is Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS-197. AES currently supports 128, 192 and 256-bit keys and encryption blocks, but may be extended in multiples of 32 bits. {(http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/)}. {Rijndael home page (http://esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/)}. (2003-07-04)
Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions "storage, standard" (ATA-2, Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics, EIDE) A proposed (May 1996 or earlier?) {standard} from {X3T10} (document 948D rev 3) which extends the {Advanced Technology Attachment} interface while maintaining compatibility with current {IBM PC} {BIOS} designs. ATA-2 provides for faster data rates, 32-bit transactions and (in some drives) {DMA}. Optional support for power saving modes and removable devices is also in the standard. ATA-2 was developed by {Western Digital} as "Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics" (EIDE) around 1994. {Marketroids} call it "Fast ATA" or "Fast ATA-2". ATA-2 was followed by {ATA-3} and {ATA-4} ("Ultra DMA"). (2000-10-07)
aegis ::: originally the shield or breastplate of Zeus, or Athena. Currently, protection; support; sponsorship; auspices.
Aeolus "language" A {concurrent} language with {atomic transactions}. ["Rationale for the Design of Aeolus", C. Wilkes et al, Proc IEEE 1986 Intl Conf Comp Lang, IEEE 1986, pp.107-122]. (1995-03-27)
aerial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.
Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.
Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial
aerophoby ::: n. --> Dread of a current of air.
agami karma. ::: current karma being freshly performed by the individual; new karma accumulated in the present lifetime, added to the store of sanchita karma and carried forward into future lives; actions good and bad, expected to bear fruit in future births
AIDX "abuse, operating system" /aydkz/ A derogatory term for {IBM}'s perverted version of {Unix}, {AIX}, especially for the AIX 3.? used in the {IBM RS/6000} series (some hackers think it is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches"). A victim of the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to combine the two main currents of the Unix stream ({BSD} and {USG Unix}) became a monstrosity to haunt system administrators' dreams. For example, if new accounts are created while many users are logged on, the load average jumps quickly over 20 due to silly implementation of the user databases. For a quite similar disease, compare {HP-SUX}. Also, compare {Macintrash} {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-13)
airless ::: a. --> Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.
air stove ::: --> A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.
airy ::: a. --> Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight.
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.
Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy
A-law "standard" The {ITU-T} {standard} for {nonuniform quantising logarithmic compression}. The equation for A-law is | A | ------- (m/mp) |m/mp| =" 1/A | 1+ln A y = | | sgn(m) | ------ (1 + ln A|m/mp|) 1/A =" |m/mp| =" 1 | 1+ln A Values of u=100 and 255, A=87.6, mp is the Peak message value, m is the current quantised message value. (The formulae get simpler if you substitute x for m/mp and sgn(x) for sgn(m); then -1 "= x "= 1.) Converting from {u-LAW} to A-LAW introduces {quantising errors}. u-law is used in North America and Japan, and A-law is used in Europe and the rest of the world and international routes. [The Audio File Formats FAQ] (1995-02-21)
ALGOL 68 "language" An extensive revision of {ALGOL 60} by Adriaan van Wijngaarden et al. ALGOL 68 was discussed from 1963 by Working Group 2.1 of {IFIP}. Its definition was accepted in December 1968. ALGOL 68 was the first, and still one of very few, programming languages for which a complete formal specification was created before its implementation. However, this specification was hard to understand due to its formality, the fact that it used an unfamiliar {metasyntax} notation (not {BNF}) and its unconventional terminology. One of the singular features of ALGOL 68 was its {orthogonal} design, making for freedom from arbitrary rules (such as restrictions in other languages that arrays could only be used as parameters but not as results). It also allowed {user defined data types}, then an unheard-of feature. It featured {structural equivalence}; automatic type conversion ("{coercion}") including {dereferencing}; {flexible arrays}; generalised loops (for-from-by-to-while-do-od), if-then-else-elif-fi, an integer case statement with an 'out' clause (case-in-out-esac); {skip} and {goto} statements; {blocks}; {procedures}; user-defined {operators}; {procedure parameters}; {concurrent} execution (par-begin-end); {semaphores}; generators "heap" and "loc" for {dynamic allocation}. It had no {abstract data types} or {separate compilation}. {(http://www.bookrags.com/research/algol-68-wcs/)}. (2007-04-24)
alpha/beta pruning "games, algorithm" An optimisation of the {minimax} {algorithm} for choosing the next move in a two-player game. The position after each move is assigned a value. The larger this value, the better the position is for me. Thus, I will choose moves with maximum value and you will choose moves with minimum value (for me). If it is my move and I have already found one move M with value alpha then I am only interested in other moves with value greater than alpha. I now consider another of my possible moves, M', to which you could reply with a move with value beta. I know that you would only make a different reply if it had a value less than beta. If beta is already less than alpha then M' is definitely worth less than M so I can reject it without considering any other replies you might make. The same reasoning applies when considering my replies to your reply. An alpha cutoff is when your reply gives a lower value than the current maximum (alpha) and a beta cutoff is when my reply to your reply gives a higher value than the current minimum value of your reply (beta). In short, if you've found one possible move, you need not consider another move which your opponent can force to be worse than the first one. (1997-05-05)
Alta Vista "web" A {website} provided by {Digital} which features a very fast Web and {Usenet} {search engine}. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. AltaVista is currently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 million pages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 {Usenet} news groups. It is accessed over 12 million times per weekday. {(http://altavista.digital.com/)}. (1996-06-10)
amateur packet radio "communications" (PR) The use of {packet radio} by amateurs to communicate between computers. PR is a complete amateur radio computer network with "digipeaters" (relays), mailboxes (BBS) and other special nodes. In Germany, it is on HF, say, 2m (300 and 1200 BPS), 70cm (1200 to 9600 BPS), 23cm (normally 9600 BPS and up, currently most links between digipeaters) and higher frequencies. There is a KW (short wave) Packet Radio at 300 BPS, too. Satellites with OSCAR (Orbiting Sattelite Carring Amateur Radio) transponders (mostly attached to commercial satellites by the AMateur SATellite (AMSAT) group) carry Packet Radio mailboxes or {digipeaters}. There are both on-line and off-line services on the packet radio network: You can send {electronic mail}, read bulletins, chat, transfer files, connect to on-line DX-Clusters (DX=far distance) to catch notes typed in by other HAMs about the hottest international KW connections currently coming up (so you can pile up). PR uses {AX.25} (an {X.25} derivative) as its {transport layer} and sometimes even {TCP/IP} is transmitted over AX.25. AX.25 is like X.25 but the adressing uses HAM "calls" like "DG8MGV". There are special "wormholes" all over the world which "tunnel" amateur radio traffic through the {Internet} to forward mail. Sometimes mails travels over satelites. Normally amateur satellites have strange orbits, however the mail forwarding or mailbox satellites have very predictable orbits. Some wormholes allow HAMs to bridge from Internet to {AMPR-NET}, e.g. db0fho.ampr.org or db0fho.et-inf.fho-emden.de, but only if you are registered HAM. Because amateur radio is not for profit, it must not be interconnected to the {Internet} but it may be connected through the Internet. All people on the (completely free) amateur radio net must be licensed radio amateurs and must have a "call" which is unique all over the world. There is a special {domain} AMPR.ORG (44.*.*.*) for amateur radio reserved in the IP space. This domain is split between countries, which can further subdivide it. For example 44.130.*.* is Germany, 44.130.58.* is Augsburg (in Bavaria), and 44.130.58.20 is dg8mgv.ampr.org (you may verify this with {nslookup}). Mail transport is only one aspect of packet radio. You can talk interactively (as in {chat}), read files, or play silly games built in the Packet Radio software. Usually you can use the autorouter to let the digipeater network find a path to the station you want. However there are many (sometimes software incompatible) digipeaters out there, which the router cannot use. Paths over 1000 km are unlikely to be useable for {real-time} communication and long paths can introduce significant delay times (answer latency). Other uses of amateur radio for computer communication include {RTTY} ({baudot}), {AMTOR}, {PACTOR}, and {CLOVER}. {A huge hamradio archive (ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:rec.radio.amateur.packet}. (2001-05-12)
AMD 29000 "processor" A {RISC} {microprocessor} descended from the {Berkley RISC} design. Like the {SPARC} design that was introduced shortly afterward, the 29000 has a large {register set} split into local and global sets. But though it was introduced before the SPARC, it has a more elegant method of register management. The 29000 has 64 global registers, in comparison to the SPARC's eight. In addition, the 29000 allows variable sized windows allocated from the 128 register stack {cache}. The current window or stack frame is indicated by a stack pointer, a pointer to the caller's frame is stored in the current frame, like in an ordinary stack (directly supporting stack languages like {C}, a {CISC}-like philosophy). Spills and fills occur only at the ends of the cache, and registers are saved/loaded from the memory stack. This allows variable window sizes, from 1 to 128 registers. This flexibility, plus the large set of global registers, makes {register allocation} easier than in SPARC. There is no special {condition code register} - any general register is used instead, allowing several condition codes to be retained, though this sometimes makes code more complex. An {instruction prefetch} buffer (using {burst mode}) ensures a steady instruction stream. To reduce delays caused by a branch to another stream, the first four new instructions are cached and next time a cached branch (up to sixteen) is taken, the cache supplies instructions during the initial memory access delay. Registers aren't saved during interrupts, allowing the interrupt routine to determine whether the overhead is worthwhile. In addition, a form of register access control is provided. All registers can be protected, in blocks of 4, from access. These features make the 29000 useful for embedded applications, which is where most of these processors are used, allowing it the claim to be "the most popular RISC processor". The 29000 also includes an {MMU} and support for the {AMD 29027} {FPU}. (1995-06-19)
American Telephone and Telegraph, Inc. "company, telecommunications, Unix" (AT&T) One of the largest US telecommunications providers, also noted for being the birthplace of the {Unix} {operating system} and the {C} and {C++} programming languages. AT&T was incorporated in 1885, but traces its lineage to Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone in 1876. As parent company of the former {Bell System}, AT&T's primary mission was to provide telephone service to virtually everyone in the United States. In its first 50 years, AT&T established subsidiaries and allied companies in more than a dozen other countries. It sold these interests in 1925 and focused on achieving its mission in the United States. It did, however, continue to provide international long distance service. The Bell System was dissolved at the end of 1983 with AT&T's divestiture of the Bell telephone companies. AT&T split into three parts in 1996, one of which is {Lucent Tecnologies}, the former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories). See also {3DO}, {Advanced RISC Machine}, {Berkeley Software Distribution}, {Bell Laboratories}, {Concurrent C}, {Death Star}, {dinosaurs mating}, {InterNIC}, {System V}, {Nawk}, {Open Look}, {rc}, {S}, {Standard ML of New Jersey}, {Unix International}, {Unix conspiracy}, {USG Unix}, {Unix System Laboratories}. {AT&T Home (http://att.com/)}. (2002-06-21)
ampere ::: n. --> Alt. of Ampere
The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere.
Ampere "unit, electronics" (Amp, A) The unit of electrical current flow. One Amp is the current that will flow through a one-{ohm} resistance when one {Volt} {DC} is applied across it. (2004-01-18)
amperometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes.
Amulet "processor" An implementation or the {Advanced RISC Machine} {microprocessor} architecture using the {micropipeline} design style. In April 1994 the Amulet group in the Computer Science department of {Manchester University} took delivery of the AMULET1 {microprocessor}. This was their first large scale asynchronous circuit and the world's first implementation of a commercial microprocessor architecture (ARM) in {asynchronous logic}. Work was begun at the end of 1990 and the design despatched for fabrication in February 1993. The primary intent was to demonstrate that an asynchronous microprocessor can consume less power than a synchronous design. The design incorporates a number of concurrent units which cooperate to give instruction level compatibility with the existing synchronous part. These include an Address unit, which autonomously generates instruction fetch requests and interleaves ({nondeterministic}ally) data requests from the Execution unit; a {Register} file which supplies operands, queues write destinations and handles data dependencies; an Execution unit which includes a multiplier, a shifter and an {ALU} with data-dependent delay; a Data interface which performs byte extraction and alignment and includes an {instruction prefetch} buffer, and a control path which performs {instruction decode}. These units only synchronise to exchange data. The design demonstrates that all the usual problems of processor design can be solved in this asynchronous framework: backward {instruction set} compatibility, {interrupts} and exact {exceptions} for {memory faults} are all covered. It also demonstrates some unusual behaviour, for instance {nondeterministic} prefetch depth beyond a branch instruction (though the instructions which actually get executed are, of course, deterministic). There are some unusual problems for {compiler} {optimisation}, as the metric which must be used to compare alternative code sequences is continuous rather than discrete, and the {nondeterminism} in external behaviour must also be taken into account. The chip was designed using a mixture of custom {datapath} and compiled control logic elements, as was the synchronous ARM. The fabrication technology is the same as that used for one version of the synchronous part, reducing the number of variables when comparing the two parts. Two silicon implementations have been received and preliminary measurements have been taken from these. The first is a 0.7um process and has achieved about 28 kDhrystones running the standard {benchmark} program. The other is a 1 um implementation and achieves about 20 kDhrystones. For the faster of the parts this is equivalent to a synchronous {ARM6} clocked at around 20MHz; in the case of AMULET1 it is likely that this speed is limited by the memory system cycle time (just over 50ns) rather than the processor chip itself. A fair comparison of devices at the same geometries gives the AMULET1 performance as about 70% of that of an {ARM6} running at 20MHz. Its power consumption is very similar to that of the ARM6; the AMULET1 therefore delivers about 80 MIPS/W (compared with around 120 from a 20MHz ARM6). Multiplication is several times faster on the AMULET1 owing to the inclusion of a specialised asynchronous multiplier. This performance is reasonable considering that the AMULET1 is a first generation part, whereas the synchronous ARM has undergone several design iterations. AMULET2 (under development in 1994) was expected to be three times faster than AMULET1 and use less power. The {macrocell} size (without {pad ring}) is 5.5 mm by 4.5 mm on a 1 micron {CMOS} process, which is about twice the area of the synchronous part. Some of the increase can be attributed to the more sophisticated organisation of the new part: it has a deeper {pipeline} than the clocked version and it supports multiple outstanding memory requests; there is also specialised circuitry to increase the multiplication speed. Although there is undoubtedly some overhead attributable to the asynchronous control logic, this is estimated to be closer to 20% than to the 100% suggested by the direct comparison. AMULET1 is code compatible with {ARM6} and is so is capable of running existing {binaries} without modification. The implementation also includes features such as interrupts and memory aborts. The work was part of a broad {ESPRIT} funded investigation into low-power technologies within the European {Open Microprocessor systems Initiative} (OMI) programme, where there is interest in low-power techniques both for portable equipment and (in the longer term) to alleviate the problems of the increasingly high dissipation of high-performance chips. This initial investigation into the role {asynchronous logic} might play has now demonstrated that asynchronous techniques can be applied to problems of the scale of a complete {microprocessor}. {(http://cs.man.ac.uk/amulet)}. (1994-12-08)
ananda ::: "electric"201 ananda; a form of sarirananda or physical ananda which "comes as a blissful electric shock or current on the brain or other part of the nervous system". It is said to be "of two kinds, positive or fiery & negative or cold", corresponding to "two forms of sukshma vidyut [subtle electricity] that are the basis of the phenomena of heat & cold"; a "neutral" vaidyutananda is also mentioned.
an.a (panchaprana) ::: the five "vital currents of energy" in the . body, called pran.a, apana, samana, vyana and udana; the "fivefold movement" of the physical life-force "pervading all the nervous system and the whole material body and determining all its functionings". pañcavidha ssarirananda
anelectrotonus ::: n. --> The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
angelet ::: n. --> A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.
anode ::: n. --> The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.
antarctic ::: a. --> Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
apana ::: the vital current that moves "in the lower part of the trunk" apana from the mūladhara to the navel; one of the pañcapran.a, that which "gives away the vital force out of the body" and so is called "the breath of death".
Appletalk "networking, protocol" A proprietary {local area network} {protocol} developed by {Apple Computer, Inc.} for communication between Apple products (e.g. {Macintosh}) and other computers. This protocol is independent of the {network layer} on which it runs. Current implementations exist for {Localtalk}, a 235 kilobyte per second local area network and {Ethertalk}, a 10 megabyte per second local area network. (1995-03-08)
Application Configuration Access Protocol "protocol" (ACAP) A {protocol} which enhances {IMAP} by allowing the user to set up {address books}, user options, and other data for universal access. Currently (Feb 1997) no Internet proprietary products have implemented ACAP because the {Internet Engineering Task Force} has not yet approved the final specification. This was expected early in 1997. ["Your E-Mail Is Obsolete", Byte, Feb 1997]. (1997-05-03)
argand lamp ::: --> A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
Aristotelianism. In this group there are two broad currents of thought. The first attempted to harmonize Aristotle with St. Augustine and the Church's dogmas. This line was founded by St. Albert the Great (+1280), who amassed the then known Aristotelian literature but failed to construct any coherent synthesis. His pupil, St. Thomas Aquinas (+1274) succeeded to a remarkable degree. From the standpoint of clarity and formularization, St. Thomas marks the apex of medieval Scholasticism. Pupils and adherents worthy of note among Albert's, Hugo and Ulrich of Strassburg, this latter (+c. 1277), together with Dietrich of Freiberg (+c. 1310) revealing marked Neo-platonic tendencies; among Thomas', Aegidius of Lessines (+1304), Herveus Natalis (Herve Nedelec, +1318), John (de Regina) of Naples (+c. 1336), Aegidius Romanus (+1316), Godfrey of Fontaines ( + 1306 or 1309), quite independent in his allegiance, and the great Dante Alighieri (+1321).
arrest ::: v. t. --> To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion,
Artemis microkernel "operating system" A {microkernel} currently under development by Dave Hudson "dave@humbug.demon.co.uk", scheduled for release under {GPL} in May 1995. It is targeted at {embedded} applications on {Intel 80386}, {Intel 486} and {Pentium} based systems. (1995-03-29)
As a school of Greek and Latin philosophers, Plotinism lasted until the fifth century. Porphyry, Apuleius, Jamblichus, Julian the Apostate, Themistius, Simplicius, Macrobius and Proclus are the most important representatives. Through St. Augustine, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, John Scotus Eriugena, and the Greek Fathers, Plotinian thought has been partly incorporated into Christian intellectualism. Nearly all prominent Arabian philosophers before Averroes are influenced by Plotinus, this is particularly true of Avicenna and Algazel. In the Jewish tradition Avicebron's Fons Vitae is built on the frame of the emanation theory. Master Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa continue the movement. It is spiritually related to some modern anti-intellectualistic and mystical currents of thought. Plotin, Enneades, (Greek text and French transl.) by E. Brehier, (Bude), 6 vol., Paris, 1930-40. Mackenna, S., The Enneads of Plotinus, London, 1917-1919. Heinemann, F., Plotin, Leipzig, 1921. Brehier, E., La philosophie de Plotin, Paris, 1928. Inge, W. R., The Philosophy of Plotinus, 2 vol., 2rd ed., London and N. Y., 1929.
A* search "algorithm" A {graph} search {algorithm}. A* is guaranteed to find a minimal solution path before any other solution paths, if a solution exists, in other words, it is an "{admissible}" search algorithm. Each path is assigned a value based on the cost of the path (e.g. its length) and an (under)estimate of the cost of completing the path, i.e. the cost of a path from the end of the current path to a solution. (1995-03-31)
aspect-oriented programming "programming" (AOP) A style of programming that attempts to abstract out features common to many parts of the code beyond simple functional modules and thereby improve the {quality} of software. Mechanisms for defining and composing {abstractions} are essential elements of programming languages. The design style supported by the abstraction mechanisms of most current languages is one of breaking a system down into parameterised components that can be called upon to perform a function. But many systems have properties that don't necessarily align with the system's functional components, such as failure handling, {persistence}, communication, replication, coordination, {memory management}, or {real-time} constraints, and tend to cut across groups of functional components. While they can be thought about and analysed relatively separately from the basic functionality, programming them using current {component-oriented languages} tends to result in these aspects being spread throughout the code. The {source code} becomes a tangled mess of instructions for different purposes. This "tangling" phenomenon is at the heart of much needless complexity in existing software systems. A number of researchers have begun working on approaches to this problem that allow programmers to express each of a system's aspects of concern in a separate and natural form, and then automatically combine those separate descriptions into a final executable form. These approaches have been called aspect-oriented programming. {Xerox AOP homepage (http://parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/aop/)}. {AspectJ (http://AspectJ.org/)}. {ECOOPP'99 AOP workshop (http://wwwtrese.cs.utwente.nl/aop-ecoop99/)}. (1999-11-21)
assigned numbers "standard" The {RFC} {STD 2} documenting the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in network {protocol} implementations. This RFC is updated periodically and, in any case, current information can be obtained from the {Internet Assigned Numbers Authority} (IANA). If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, {socket}, {port}, protocol, etc., you should contact the IANA to receive a number assignment. (1996-08-19)
A "substantive", or "existent" is defined by Johnson as anything manifested in space or time. The substantives divide into two subclasses, continuants and occurrents: those which continue to exist, and those which cease to exist. Every occurrent is referable to one or more continuant.
asura raks.asa (asura rakshasa) ::: the combination of asura and raks.asa, seeking from the buddhi the satisfaction of heart and senses, which evolves in the general asura type in the (current) seventh manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa asuriṁ raks.asiñcaiva prakr.tim apannah. (asurim rakshasincaiva asurim
asya ::: (also called quaternary dasya in a classification used in January 1913) the highest degree of dasya, in which the "gulf or distance which necessitates an obscure process of transit . . . between the divine Origin and the emerging human current . . . is removed; all in the individual becomes the divine working".
Atheism: (Gr. a, no; theos, god) Two uses of the term: The belief that there is no God. Some philosophers have been called "atheistic" because they have not held to a belief in a personal God. Atheism in this sense means "not theistic." The former meaning of the term is a literal rendering. The latter meaning is a less rigorous use of the term although widely current in the history of thought. -- V.F.
Attributed File System "storage" (AtFS) The basis of the {Shape_VC} toolkit. Cooperative work within projects is supported by a status model controlling visibility of version objects, locking, and "long transactions" for synchronising concurrent updates. The concept of object attributes provides a basis for storing management information with versions and passing this information between individual tools. This mechanism is useful for building integrated environments from a set of unrelated tools. (2000-02-24)
A'UM "language" A {stream}-based, {concurrent}, {logic}, {object-oriented} language by K. Yoshida and Takashi Chikayama "chikayama@klic.org", built on top of {KL1}. ["A'UM - A Stream-based Concurrent Logic Object-Oriented Language", K. Yoshida et al, Proc 3rd Intl Conf Fifth Gen Comp Sys, Springer 1988, pp. 638-649]. (2000-07-16)
Avalon/C++ "language, parallel" A {concurrent} extension of {C++} with servers and transactions developed in 1986 for {fault-tolerant} {distributed} systems. Avalon/C++ was influenced by {Argus}. ["Camelot and Avalon: A Distributed Transaction Facility", J.L. Eppinger et al, Morgan Kaufmann 1990]. (2002-01-13)
avulsion ::: n. --> A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
A fragment torn off.
The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.
B 1. {byte}. 2. "language" A systems language written by {Ken Thompson} in 1970 mostly for his own use under {Unix} on the {PDP-11}. B was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie to produce {C}. B was used as the systems language on {Honeywell}'s {GCOS-3}. B was, according to Ken, greatly influenced by {BCPL}, but the name B had nothing to do with BCPL. B was in fact a revision of an earlier language, {bon}, named after Ken Thompson's wife, Bonnie. ["The Programming Language B", S.C. Johnson & B.W. Kernighan, CS TR 8, Bell Labs (Jan 1973)]. [Features? Differences from C?] (1997-02-02) 3. "language" A simple {interactive} {programming language} designed by {Lambert Meertens} and {Steven Pemberton}. B was the predecessor of {ABC}. B was the first published (and implemented) language to use indentation for block structure. {(ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/languages/B.tar.Z)}. ["Draft Proposal for the B Language", Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam, 1981]. [{(http://python-history.blogspot.com/2011/07/karin-dewar-indentation-and-colon.html)}]. 4. "language, specification" A specification language by Jean-Raymond Abrial of {B Core UK}, Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA. B is related to {Z} and supports development of {C} code from specifications. B has been used in major {safety-critical system} specifications in Europe, and is currently attracting increasing interest in industry. It has robust, commercially available tool support for specification, design, proof and code generation. E-mail: "Ib.Sorensen@comlab.ox.ac.uk". (1995-04-24)
backspace "character" (BS) {ASCII} code 8, Control-H. The {control character} that should cause most {output devices} to move their current output position back to the previous character so that the next character output will replace (or overprint) it. Inputting a backspace (typically by pressing the backspace key) causes many systems to delete the character before the input cursor, though others use {delete} for this. See {twirling baton} for an imaginitive use of backspace. (2003-10-25)
backwater ::: n. --> Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
baffling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Baffle ::: a. --> Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
bajocco ::: n. --> A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.
balun "electronics" A transformer connected between a balanced source or load and an unbalanced source or load. A balanced line has two conductors, with equal currents in opposite directions. The unbalanced line has just one conductor; the current in it returns via a common ground or earth path. (1996-10-17)
Barbara Liskov "person" Professor Barbara Liskov was the first US woman to be awarded a PhD in computing, and her innovations can be found in every modern programming language. She currently (2009) heads the Programming Methodology Group at the {Massachusetts Institute of Technology}. Professor Liskov's design innovations have, over the decades, made software more reliable and easier to maintain. She has invented two computer progamming languages: {CLU}, an {object-oriented language}, and {Argus}, a {distributed programming language}. Liskov's research forms the basis of modern programming languages such as {Java}, {C
Barth, Karl: (1886-1968) Swiss theologian, widely influential among current social pessimists. God, he holds, is wholly other than man, not apprehensible by man's reason nor attainable by human endeavor. Christianity is a revealed and supernatural religion. Man must trust God's plan of salvation or be doomed to utter ruin. God is the sole judge and his judgments are beyond man's attainments. The Barthian position is called "crisis theology" (crisis, the Greek word for judgment) and "dialectical theology" (because of the emphasis upon the contradict on between God and this world). For a summary of Barth's position see The Knowledge of God and the Service of God (1939). -- V.F.
Basic Multilingual Plane "text, standard" (BMP) The first plane defined in {Unicode}/{ISO 10646}, designed to include all {scripts} in active modern use. The BMP currently includes the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Devangari, hiragana, katakana, and Cherokee scripts, among others, and a large body of mathematical, {APL}-related, and other miscellaneous {characters}. Most of the {Han} {ideographs} in current use are present in the BMP, but due to the large number of ideographs, many were placed in the {Supplementary Ideographic Plane}. {Unicode home (http://unicode.org)}. (2002-03-19)
batta ::: n. --> Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
batz ::: n. --> A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
baz /baz/ The third {metasyntactic variable} "Suppose we have three functions: FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ..." (See also {fum}). Occasionally appended to {foo} to produce "foobaz". Early versions of the Hacker Jargon dictionary derived "baz" as a Stanford corruption of {bar}. However, Pete Samson (compiler of the {TMRC} lexicon) reports it was already current when he joined TMRC in 1958. He says "It came from "Pogo". Albert the Alligator, when vexed or outraged, would shout "Bazz Fazz!" or "Rowrbazzle!" The club layout was said to model the (mythical) New England counties of Rowrfolk and Bassex (Rowrbazzle mingled with Norfolk/Suffolk/Middlesex/ Essex)." [{Jargon File}] (2008-06-30)
current ::: 1. (esp. of water or air) A steady usually natural flow in a particular direction. 2. A flow of electric charge through a conductor. current"s, currents.
current ::: a. --> Running or moving rapidly.
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
currently ::: adv. --> In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
currentness ::: n. --> The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore) The research laboratory for the seven regional {Bell Telephone} companies in the USA that were created by the divestiture of {AT&T} in 1984. It can be compared to {Bell Laboratories}, for which many Bellcore employees used to work. Currently jointly owned by the seven baby bells (as they are called), there are rumours that it is to be sold by its current owners to become an independent research laboratory Its headquarters are in Livingstone, New Jersey. It has offices in Morristown, Lincroft, and Piscataway, all in New Jersey, USA. Telephone: +1 (201) 74 3000, +1 (800) 521 CORE. (1994-12-06)
Bell Laboratories One of {AT&T}'s research sites, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA. It was the birthplace of the {transistor}, {Unix}, {C} and {C++} and the current home of research on {Plan 9} and {ODE}. {AT&T Research (http://research.att.com/)}. {(ftp://ftp.research.att.com/)}. {netlib} sources {(ftp://netlib.att.com)}. (1994-11-17)
BeOS "operating system" The {operating system} originally designed to run on the {BeBox} {microcomputer}. BeOS is good at both {multitasking} and {real-time} operation. It has a {bash} command shell, with ports of many {GNU} programs by Be, Inc. It has a {GUI} front end (not {X}). A {C++} {compiler} is supplied with the machine, and there are rumours of other languages being ported in the future. BeOs eventually became used on the {x86} and standard {PPC}. Be, Inc. went bankrupt in 1999, after releasing the last upgrade of BeOS (R5.0.3), and was sold to {Palm}. Several groups are currently (2003) attempting to create an R6 version of the OS. The most likely to succeed are {Yellowtab} and {OpenBeOS}, which is likely to be renamed. (2003-05-30)
best first search "algorithm" A {graph} search {algorithm} which optimises {breadth first search} by ordering all current paths according to some {heuristic}. The heuristic attempts to predict how close the end of a path is to a solution. Paths which are judged to be closer to a solution are extended first. See also {beam search}, {hill climbing}. (1995-12-09)
bezant ::: n. --> A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
BiCMOS "hardware" A manufacturing process for semiconductor devices that combines {bipolar} and {CMOS} to give the best balance between available output current and power consumption. (1995-03-28)
big-endian 1. "data, architecture" A computer {architecture} in which, within a given multi-{byte} numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the {IBM 370} family, the {PDP-10}, the {Motorola} {microprocessor} families, and most of the various {RISC} designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See {-endian}. 2. "networking, standard" A backward {electronic mail address}. The world now follows the {Internet} {hostname} {standard} (see {FQDN}) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the {country code} (e.g. fred@doc.acme.ac.uk). In the United Kingdom the {Joint Networking Team} decided to do it the other way round (e.g. me@uk.ac.wigan.cs) before the {Internet} {domain} standard was established. Most {gateway sites} required {ad-hockery} in their {mailers} to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed. [{Jargon File}] (1998-08-09)
bipolar transistor "electronics" A {transistor} made from a sandwich of n- and p-type {semiconductor} material: either npn or pnp. The middle section is known as the "base" and the other two as the "collector" and "emitter". When used as an amplifying element, the base to emitter junction is in a "forward-biased" (conducting) condition, and the base to collector junction is "reverse-biased" or non-conducting. Small changes in the base to emitter current (the input signal) cause either {holes} (for pnp devices) or free {electrons} (for npn) to enter the base from the emitter. The attracting voltage of the collector causes the majority of these charges to cross into and be collected by the collector, resulting in amplification. Contrast {field effect transistor}. (1995-10-04)
bit bucket "jargon" 1. (Or "{write-only memory}", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a {register} during a {shift} instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On {Unix}, often used for {/dev/null}. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to {Finagle's Law}; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare {black hole}. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "{chad box}" is a real container used to catch {chad}. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?]. (1996-11-20)
BLAZE 2 An {object-oriented} successor to {BLAZE}. ["Concurrent Object Access in BLAZE 2", P. Mehrotra et al, SIGPLAN Notices 24(4):40-42 (Apr 1989)].
bletonism ::: n. --> The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.
blog "web" (From "web log") Any kind of diary published on the {web}, usually written by an individual (a "blogger") but also by corporate bodies. Blogging is regarded by some as an important social phenomenon as it contributes to the easy exchange of ideas among a large and growing international community ("the blogosphere"). A blog is just a special kind of {website}. The {home page} usually shows the most recent article and links to earlier articles, the owner's profile and web logs written by the owner's friends. There is usually a facility for readers to add comments to the bottom of articles. Blogs usually provide an {RSS feed} of current articles, allowing readers to subscribe by adding the feed to their favourite RSS reader. Many sites, e.g. {(http://blogger.com/)}, let you create a blog for free. Many blogs consist almost entirely of links to other web logs, some publish original content, a few are worth reading. (2013-08-15)
blower ::: n. --> One who, or that which, blows.
A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
blow ::: to produce a sound or cause to sound as by expelling a current of air.
blow ::: v. i. --> To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
Blue Box "operating system" The complete implementation of the {Mac OS} run-time environment on the more modern {Rhapsody} operating system. {Blue Box} is not an {emulation} layer; at any given time it will be based on the same source code and ROM image as the current version of Mac OS and will thus incorporate future Mac OS improvements. (1997-10-15)
boil ::: v. --> To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
Borland Software Corporation "company" A company that sells a variety of {PC} software development and {database} systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly {Turbo Pascal}, {Turbo C}, and {Turbo Prolog}. Current and past products include the {Borland C++} C++ and C developement environment, the {Paradox} and {dBASE} {databases}, {Delphi}, {JBuilder}, and {InterBase}. Borland has approximately 1000 employees worldwide and has operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Borland sold {Quattro} Pro to {Novell} in 1994 for $100M. Novell later sold the product to {Corel Corporation}, who also bought {Paradox}. dBASE was sold in March(?) 1999 to {dBase Inc.} In Febuary 1998 Borland bought {Visigenic Software, Inc.}. The company changed its name to Inprise Corporation on 1998-04-29 and then on 2000-11-14 they announced they were changing it back to Borland from the first quarter of 2001. Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994). $56M, $6.4M (July 2001) {(http://borland.com/)}. Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA. Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000. (2002-03-16)
Boutroux, E.: (1845-1921) Teacher of Bergson and M. Blondel, is best known for his defense of radical contingency and indeterminacy in metaphysics. Influenced by French "spiritualism" stemming from Maine de Biran, Boutroux was critical of the current psychological and sociological treatment of religious experience. Main works: Contingency of the Laws of Nature (tr. 1920); Philosophy and War (tr. 1916); Science et religion, 1908. -- L.W.
braille "human language" /breyl/ (Often capitalised) A class of {writing systems}, intended for use by blind and low-vision users, which express {glyphs} as raised dots. Currently employed braille standards use eight dots per cell, where a cell is a glyph-space two dots across by four dots high; most glyphs use only the top six dots. Braille was developed by Louis Braille (pronounced /looy bray/) in France in the 1820s. Braille systems for most languages can be fairly trivially converted to and from the usual script. Braille has several totally coincidental parallels with digital computing: it is {binary}, it is based on groups of eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the same time {Charles Babbage} proposed the {Difference Engine}. Computers output Braille on {braille displays} and {braille printers} for hard copy. {British Royal National Institute for the Blind (http://rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/braille.htm)}. (1998-10-19)
Brain Aid Prolog "language" (BAP) A parallel {Prolog} environment for {transputer} systems by Frank Bergmann "fraber@fraber.de", Martin Ostermann "ost@xan.dfv.rwth-aachen.de", and Guido von Walter "guido@parsytec.de" of {Brain Aid Systems} GbR. BAP is based on a model of communicating sequential Prolog processes. The {run-time system} consists of a multi-process {operating system} with support for several applications running concurrently. {(http://fraber.de/bap/)}. (2002-11-12)
breadth-first search "algorithm" A {graph search algorithm} which tries all one-step extensions of current paths before trying larger extensions. This requires all current paths to be kept in memory simultaneously, or at least their end points. Opposite of {depth-first search}. See also {best first search}. (1996-01-05)
break 1. To cause to be {broken}. "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands." 2. (Of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a "{breakpoint}". 3. To send an {EIA-232} break (two character widths of line high) over a {serial line}. 4. [Unix] To strike whatever key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process. Normally, break, delete or {control-C} does this. 5. "break break" may be said to interrupt a conversation (this is an example of verb doubling). This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze. 6. {pipeline break}. 7. {break statement}. [{Jargon File}] (2004-03-24)
breeze ::: a light current of air; a gentle wind. breezes.
Broadway "standard, operating system" A standard which the {X Consortium} is currently (January 1997) developing and plans to release soon as an {open standard}. A prime goal is to be more {bandwidth}-efficient and easier to develop for (and to {port}) than the {X Window System}, which has been widely described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. {(http://x.org/consortium/broadway.html)}. (1997-05-15)
B. The Probability-Relation. Considering the general grounds of probability, it is pertinent to analyze the proper characteristics of this concept and the valid conditions of its use in inferential processes. Probability presents itself as a special relation between the premisses and the conclusion of an argument, namely when the premisses are true but not completely sufficient to condition the truth of the conclusion. A probable inference must however be logical, even though its result is not certain, for its premisses must be a true sign of its conclusion. The probability-relation may take three aspects: it is inductive, probable or presumptive. In strict induction, there is an essential connection between the facts expressed in the premisses and in the conclusion, which almost forces a factual result from the circumstances of the predication. This type of probability-relation is prominent in induction proper and in statistics. In strict probability, there is a logical connection between the premisses and the conclusion which does not entail a definite factual value for the latter. This type of probability-relation is prominent in mathematical probability and circumstantial evidence. In strict presumption, there is a similarity of characteristics between the fact expressed in the conclusion and the real event if it does or did exist. This type of probability-relation is prominent in analogy and testimony. A presumptive conclusion should be accepted provisionally, and it should have definite consequences capable of being tested. The results of an inductive inference and of a probable inference may often be brought closer together when covering the same field, as the relations involved are fundamental enough for the purpose. This may be done by a qualitative analysis of their implications, or by a quantitative comparison of their elements, as it is done for example in the methods of correlation. But a presumptive inference cannot be reduced to either of the other two forms without losing its identity, because the connection between its elements is of an indefinite character. It may be said that inductive and probable inferences have an intrinsic reasonableness, while presumptive inferences have an extrinsic reasonableness. The former involve determinism within certain limits, while the latter display indeterminacy more prominently. That is why very poor, misleading or wrong conclusions are obtained when mathematical methods are applied to moral acts, judiciary decisions or indirect testimony The activity of the human will has an intricate complexity and variability not easily subjected to calculation. Hence the degree of probability of a presumptive inference can be estimated only by the character and circumstances of its suggested explanation. In moral cases, the discussion and application of the probability-relation leads to the consideration of the doctrines of Probabilism and Probabiliorism which are qualitative. The probability-relation as such has the following general implications which are compatible with its three different aspects, and which may serve as general inferential principle: Any generalization must be probable upon propositions entailing its exemplification in particular cases; Any generalization or system of generalizations forming a theory, must be probable upon propositions following from it by implication; The probability of a given proposition on the basis of other propositions constituting its evidence, is the degree of logical conclusiveness of this evidence with respect to the given proposition; The empirical probability (p = S/E) of a statement S increases as verifications accrue to the evidence E, provided the evidence is taken as a whole; and Numerical probabilities may be assigned to facts or statements only when the evidence includes statistical data or other numerical information which can be treated by the methods of mathematical probability. C. Mathematical Probability. The mathematical theory of probability, which is also called the theory of chances or the theory of relative possibilities, is concerned with the application of mathematical methods to the determination of the likelihood of any event, when there are not sufficient data to determine with certainty its occurrence or failure. As Laplace remarked, it is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. But its range goes far beyond that of common sense for it has not only conditioned the growth of various branches of mathematics, such as the theory of errors, the calculus of variations and mathematical statistics, but it has also made possible the establishment of a number of theories in the natural and social sciences, by its actual applications to concrete problems. A distinction is usually made between direct and inverse probability. The determination of a direct or a priori probability involves an inference from given situations or sets of possibilities numerically characterized, to future events related with them. By definition, the direct probability of the occurrence of any particular form of an event, is the ratio of the number of ways in which that form might occur, to the whole number of ways in which the event may occur, all these forms being equiprobable or equally likely. The basic principles referring to a priori probabilities are derived from the analysis of the various logical alternatives involved in any hypothetical questions such as the following: (a) To determine whether a cause, whose exact nature is or is not known, will prove operative or not in certain circumstances; (b) To determine how often an event happens or fails. The comparison of the number of occurrences with that of the failures of an event, considered in simple or complex circumstances, affords a baisis for several cases of probable inference. Thus, theorems may be established to deal with the probability of success and the probability of failure of an event, with the probability of the joint occurrence of several events, with the probability of the alternative occurrence of several events, with the different conditions of frequency of occurrence of an event; with mathematical expectation, and with similar questions. The determination of an a posteriori or inverse probability involves an inference from given situations or events, to past conditions or causes which rnay have contributed to their occurrence. By definition, an inverse probability is the numerical value assigned to each one of a number of possible causes of an actual event that has already occurred; or more generally, it is the numerical value assigned to hypotheses which attempt to explain actual events or circumstances. If an event has occurred as a result of any one of n several causes, the probability that C was the actual cause is Pp/E (Pnpn), when P is the probability that the event could be produced by C if present, and p the probability that C was present before the occurrence of that event. Inverse probability is based on general and special assumptions which cannot always be properly stated, and as there are many different sets of such assumptions, there cannot be a coercive reason for making a definite choice. In particular, the condition of the equiprobability of causes is seldom if ever fulfilled. The distinction between the two kinds of probability, which has led to some confusion in interpreting their grounds and their relations, can be technically ignored now as a result of the adoption of a statistical basis for measuring probabilities. In particular, it is the statistical treatment of correlation which led to the study of probabilities of concurrent phenomena irrespective of their direction in time. This distinction may be retained, howe\er, for the purpose of a general exposition of the subject. Thus, a number of probability theorems are obtained by using various cases of direct and inverse probability involving permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem, the theory of series, and the methods of integration. In turn, these theurems can be applied to concrete cases of the various sciences.
bucket shop ::: --> An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
buffer 1. An area of memory used for storing messages. Typically, a buffer will have other attributes such as an input pointer (where new data will be written into the buffer), and output pointer (where the next item will be read from) and/or a count of the space used or free. Buffers are used to decouple processes so that the reader and writer may operate at different speeds or on different sized blocks of data. There are many different algorithms for using buffers, e.g. first-in first-out (FIFO or shelf), last-in first-out (LIFO or stack), double buffering (allowing one buffer to be read while the other is being written), cyclic buffer (reading or writing past the end wraps around to the beginning). 2. An electronic device to provide compatibility between two signals, e.g. changing voltage levels or current capability.
bug "programming" An unwanted and unintended property of a {program} or piece of {hardware}, especially one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of {feature}. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "{debugging}". Admiral {Grace Hopper} (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing {COBOL}) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a {glitch} in the {Harvard Mark II machine} by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated {bug} in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the "Annals of the History of Computing", Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads "1545 Relay
bullion ::: n. --> Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
Base or uncurrent coin.
Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
bus "architecture, networking" A set of electrical conductors (wires, PCB tracks or connections in an {integrated circuit}) connecting various "stations", which can be {functional units} in a computer or {nodes} in a {network}. A bus is a {broadcast} channel, meaning that each station receives every other station's transmissions and all stations have equal access to the bus. Various schemes have been invented to solve the problem of collisions: multiple stations trying to transmit at once, e.g. {CSMA/CD}, {bus master}. The term is almost certainly derived from the electrical engineering term "bus bar" - a substantial, rigid power supply conductor to which several connections are made. This was once written "'bus bar" as it was a contraction of "omnibus bar" - a connection bar "for all", by analogy with the passenger omnibus - a conveyance "for all". {More on derivation (/pub/misc/omnibus.html)}. There are busses both within the {CPU} and connecting it to external {memory} and {peripheral} devices. The data bus, address bus and control signals, despite their names, really constitute a single bus since each is useless without the others. The width of the data bus is usually specified in {bits} and is the number of parallel connectors. This and the {clock rate} determine the bus's data rate (the number of {bytes} per second which it can carry). This is one of the factors limiting a computer's performance. Most current {microprocessors} have 32-bit busses both internally and externally. 100 or 133 {megahertz} bus clock rates are common. The bus clock is typically slower than the processor clock. Some processors have internal busses which are wider than their external busses (usually twice the width) since the width of the internal bus affects the speed of all operations and has less effect on the overall system cost than the width of the external bus. Various bus designs have been used in the {PC}, including {ISA}, {EISA}, {Micro Channel}, {VL-bus} and {PCI}. Other peripheral busses are NuBus, TURBOchannel, VMEbus, MULTIBUS and STD bus. See also {bus network}. {Ukranian (http://open-taxi.com/mynews/~adrian/10)}. (2010-07-10)
bus error "processor" A fatal failure in the execution of a {machine language} instruction resulting from the {processor} detecting an anomalous condition on its {bus}. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a {physical address} that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level {exception} which {Unix} translates into a "SIGBUS" {signal} which, if not caught, will terminate the current process. (2000-04-04)
cadence ::: 1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. 2. Music. A sequence of notes or chords that indicates the momentary or complete end of a composition, section, phrase, etc. 3. The flow or rhythm of events. 4. A recurrent rhythmical series; a flow, esp. the pattern in which something is experienced. 5. A slight falling in pitch of the voice in speaking or reading. cadences.
call/cc {call-with-current-continuation}
Call-Level Interface "database, standard" (SQL/CLI) A programming interface designed to support {SQL} access to {databases} from shrink-wrapped {application programs}. CLI was originally created by a subcommittee of the {SQL Access Group} (SAG). The SAG/CLI specification was published as the {Microsoft} {Open DataBase Connectivity} (ODBC) specification in 1992. In 1993, SAG submitted the CLI to the {ANSI} and {ISO} SQL committees. SQL/CLI provides an international standard implementation-independent CLI to access SQL databases. {Client-server} tools can easily access databases through {dynamic link libraries}. It supports and encourages a rich set of client-server tools. SQL/CLI is an addendum to 1992 SQL standard (SQL-92). It was completed as ISO standard ISO/IEC 9075-3:1995 Information technology -- Database languages -- SQL -- Part 3: Call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI). The current SQL/CLI effort is adding support for {SQL3}. {(http://jcc.com/sql_cli.html)}. (1996-10-27)
call-with-current-continuation "programming" (call/cc) A {Lisp} control {function} that implements the {continuation passing style} of programming. In continuation passing style (CPS), every function f takes an extra final argument k called the "continuation". The continuation is itself a function and represents the rest of the program. Instead of just returning a value in the normal way, f passes it as an argument to k and returns the result of that. call/cc takes a function f as its argument and calls f, passing it the current continuation k. It thus allows a CPS function to be called in a non-CPS (direct) context. For example, if the final result is to print the value returned by call/cc then anything passed to k will also be printed. E.g, in {Scheme}: (define (f k) (k 1) (k 2) 3) (display (call-with-current-continuation f)) Will display 1. [Is this correct?] (2014-09-24)
Calvinism: A term covering the current of theological thought dating back to John Calvin (1509-1564) whose famous Institutes embodies its historic principles. Generally speaking, Calvinistic thought is a system in which God is made the center of all that is and happens, God's will pervading human and cosmic events, and upon whom man is utterly and cheerfully dependent. -- V.F.
Caml Light A small portable implementation of a version of {CAML} by Xavier Leroy "Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr" and Damien Doligez of {INRIA}. Caml Light uses a {bytecode interpreter} written in {C}. It adds a {Modula-2}-like {module} system, {separate compilation}, {lazy streams} for parsing and printing, graphics primitives and an interface with {C}. Version 0.6 runs on {Unix}, {MS-DOS}, {Macintosh}, {Atari ST} and {Amiga}. It includes an {interpreter}, {compiler}, {Emacs} mode, libraries, {scanner generator}, {parser generator}, {run-time support} and an interactive development environment. The latest version, as of April 2003, is 0.75 and runs on {Unix}, {Macintosh} and {Windows}. The development of Caml Light has been stopped; current development is on {Objective Caml}. {(http://caml.inria.fr/distrib-caml-light-eng.html)}. {(ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light/)}. E-mail: "caml@inria.fr". Mailing list: "caml-list@inria.fr". {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.ml}. (2003-04-12)
Cantor 1. "person, mathematics" A mathematician. Cantor devised the diagonal proof of the uncountability of the {real numbers}: Given a function, f, from the {natural numbers} to the {real numbers}, consider the real number r whose binary expansion is given as follows: for each natural number i, r's i-th digit is the complement of the i-th digit of f(i). Thus, since r and f(i) differ in their i-th digits, r differs from any value taken by f. Therefore, f is not {surjective} (there are values of its result type which it cannot return). Consequently, no function from the natural numbers to the reals is surjective. A further theorem dependent on the {axiom of choice} turns this result into the statement that the reals are uncountable. This is just a special case of a diagonal proof that a function from a set to its {power set} cannot be surjective: Let f be a function from a set S to its power set, P(S) and let U = { x in S: x not in f(x) }. Now, observe that any x in U is not in f(x), so U != f(x); and any x not in U is in f(x), so U != f(x): whence U is not in { f(x) : x in S }. But U is in P(S). Therefore, no function from a set to its power-set can be surjective. 2. "language" An {object-oriented language} with {fine-grained concurrency}. [Athas, Caltech 1987. "Multicomputers: Message Passing Concurrent Computers", W. Athas et al, Computer 21(8):9-24 (Aug 1988)]. (1997-03-14)
capacitor "electronics" An electronic device that can store electrical charge. The charge stored Q in Coulombs is related to the capacitance C in Farads and the voltage V across the capacitor in Volts by Q = CV. The basis of a {dynamic RAM} cell is a capacitor. They are also used for power-supply smoothing (or "decoupling"). This is especially important in digital circuits where a digital device switching between states causes a sudden demand for current. Without sufficient local power supply decoupling, this current "spike" cannot be supplied directly from the power supply due to the inductance of the connectors and so will cause a sharp drop in the power supply voltage near the switching device. This can cause other devices to malfunction resulting in hard to trace {glitch}es. (1995-04-12)
caroline ::: n. --> A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents.
A coin. See Carline.
case based reasoning "artificial intelligence" (CBR) A technique for problem solving which looks for previous examples which are similar to the current problem. This is useful where {heuristic} {knowledge} is not available. There are many situations where experts are not happy to be questioned about their knowledge by people who want to write the knowledge in rules, for use in {expert systems}. In most of these situations, the natural way for an expert to describe his or her knowledge is through examples, stories or cases (which are all basically the same thing). Such an expert will teach trainees about the expertise by apprenticeship, i.e. by giving examples and by asking the trainees to remember them, copy them and adapt them in solving new problems if they describe situations that are similar to the new problems. CBR aims to exploit such knowledge. Some key research areas are efficient indexing, how to define "similarity" between cases and how to use temporal information. (1996-05-28)
cash ::: n. --> A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. ::: v. t.
catelectrotonus ::: n. --> The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
cathode ::: n. --> The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.
cathode ray tube "hardware" (CRT) An electrical device for displaying images by exciting phosphor dots with a scanned electron beam. CRTs are found in computer {VDUs} and {monitors}, televisions and oscilloscopes. The first commercially practical CRT was perfected on 29 January 1901 by Allen B DuMont. A large glass envelope containing a negative electrode (the cathode) emits electrons (formerly called "cathode rays") when heated, as in a {vacuum tube}. The electrons are accelerated across a large voltage gradient toward the flat surface of the tube (the screen) which is covered with phosphor. When an electron strikes the phosphor, light is emitted. The electron beam is deflected by electromagnetic coils around the outside of the tube so that it scans across the screen, usually in horizontal stripes. This scan pattern is known as a {raster}. By controlling the current in the beam, the brightness at any particular point (roughly a "{pixel}") can be varied. Different phosphors have different "{persistence}" - the length of time for which they glow after being struck by electrons. If the scanning is done fast enough, the eye sees a steady image, due to both the persistence of the phospor and of the eye itself. CRTs also differ in their {dot pitch}, which determines their spatial {resolution}, and in whether they use {interlace} or not. (1994-11-17)
CCP 1. "language" {Concurrent Constraint Programming}. 2. {Command Control Processor}.
CELLAS "language" CELLular ASsemblies. A {concurrent} {block-structured} language. [Mentioned in "Attribute Grammars", LNCS 323, p.97]. (1994-12-05)
channel ::: n. --> The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by
character "character" A {letter} of some alphabet (either upper case or lower case), a {digit}, a {punctuation} or other symbol or a {control character}. In a computer, a character is represented as an {integer}. What character is represented by what integer is determined by the current {character set}. For example, in the {ASCII} character set, "A" is 65. These integers are then stored as a sequence of {bytes} according to a {character encoding}. The character set and encoding is usually implicit in the environment in which the character is being interpreted but it may be specified explicitly, e.g. to convert input to some standard internal representation. A sequence of characters is a (character) {string}. Compare with {glyph}. (1998-10-18)
checkpoint "programming" Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other {non-volatile storage}, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. This facility came into popular use in {mainframe} {operating systemss} such as {OS/360} in which programs frequently ran for longer than the mean time between system failures. If a program run fails because of some event beyond the program's control (e.g. hardware or {operating system} failure) then the processor time invested before the checkpoint will not have been wasted. (1995-02-07)
Chidakasa ::: Depths of more and more subtle ether which are heavily curtained from the physical sense by the grosser ether of the material universe, and all things sensible, whether in the material world or any other, create reconstituting vibrations, sensible echoes, reproductions, recurrent images of themselves which that subtler ether receives and retains. It is this which explains many of the phenomena of clairvoyance, clairaudience, etc.; for these phenomena are only the exceptional admission of the waking mentality into a limited sensitiveness to what might be called the image memory of the subtle ether, by which not only the signs of all things past and present, but even those of things future can be seized; for things future are already accomplished to knowledge and vision on higher planes of mind and their images can be
reflected upon mind in the present. But these things which are exceptional to the waking mentality, difficult and to be perceived only by the possession of a special power or else after assiduous training, are natural to the dream-state of trance consciousness in which the subliminal mind is free. And that mind can also take cognizance of things on various planes not only by these sensible images, but by a species of thought perception or of thought reception and impression analogous to that phenomenon of consciousness which in modern psychical science has been given the name of telepathy.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 523-24
Ch "language" An {interpreted} programming language sold by {Soft Integration} and marketed for {scripting}, {shell programming} and graph plotting, it is a superset of {C++}. Ch is also the name of Soft Integration's {interpreter} for the language. Currently the Ch interpreter is available for {Windows}, {Solaris}, {HP-UX}, {Linux} and {Mac} platforms. {Soft Integration (http://softintegration.com/)}. (2003-08-15)
chroot "operating system" The {UNIX} command to make the {root directory} (/) become something other than its default for the lifetime of the current process. It can only be run by privileged users and is used to give a process (commonly a network server such as {FTP} or {HTTP}) access to a restricted portion of the {file system}. The new root contains copies of all the essential files and directories, e.g. /lib, /dev/tty, /tmp. (1996-12-08)
Cichlid "graphics, tool" A tool for rapidly visualising arbitrary data in high-quality 3D, while allowing the viewer to explore and interact with the data in {real time}. Cichlid was designed with remote data generation and machine independence in mind; data is transmitted via {TCP} from any number of sources (data servers) to the visualisation code (the client), which displays them concurrently. [Who? URL?] (2004-01-22)
CIDaKASA. ::: Inner space; depths of more and more subtle ether which are heavily curtained ‘from the ph>'sical sense by the grosser ether of the material universe. All things sensible, whe- ther in the material world or any other, create reconstituting vibrations, sensible echoes, reproductions, recurrent images ■ of themselves which that subtler ether receives and retains.
circuit 1. "communications" A communications path in a {circuit switching} network. 2. "electronics" A complete path through which an electric current can flow. The term is used loosely for any device or subsystem using electrical or electronic components. E.g. "That lightning bolt fried the circuits in my GPS receiver". An {integrated circuit} (IC) contains components built on a Silicon {die}. (2002-07-15)
CIRcuit CALculus (CIRCAL) A {process algebra} used to model and verify the design correctness of {concurrent} systems such as {digital logic}. ["CIRCAL and the Representation of Communication, Concurrency and Time", G.J. Milne "milne@cis.unisa.edu.au", ACM TOPLAS 7(2):270-298, 1985]. (2001-03-25)
circulation ::: n. --> The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a
Clean "language" A {lazy} {higher-order} {purely functional language} from the {University of Nijmegen}. Clean was originally a subset of {Lean}, designed to be an experimental {intermediate language} and used to study the {graph rewriting} model. To help focus on the essential implementation issues it deliberately lacked all {syntactic sugar}, even {infix} expressions or {complex lists}, As it was used more and more to construct all kinds of applications it was eventually turned into a general purpose functional programming language, first released in May 1995. The new language is {strongly typed} (Milner/Mycroft type system), provides {modules} and {functional I/O} (including a {WIMP} interface), and supports {parallel processing} and {distributed processing} on {loosely coupled} parallel architectures. Parallel execution was originally based on the {PABC} {abstract machine}. It is one of the fastest implementations of functional languages available, partly aided by programmer {annotations} to influence evaluation order. Although the two variants of Clean are rather different, the name Clean can be used to denote either of them. To distinguish, the old version can be referred to as Clean 0.8, and the new as Clean 1.0 or Concurrent Clean. The current release of Clean (1.0) includes a compiler, producing code for the {ABC} {abstract machine}, a {code generator}, compiling the ABC code into either {object-code} or {assembly language} (depending on the {platform}), I/O libraries, a {development environment} (not all platforms), and {documentation}. It is supported (or will soon be supported) under {Mac OS}, {Linux}, {OS/2}, {Windows 95}, {SunOS}, and {Solaris}. {(http://cs.kun.nl/~clean/)}. E-mail: "clean@cs.kun.nl". Mailing list: "clean-request@cs.kun.nl". ["Clean - A Language for Functional Graph Rewriting", T. Brus et al, IR 95, U Nijmegen, Feb 1987]. ["Concurrent Clean", M.C. van Eekelen et al, TR 89-18, U Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1989]. [{Jargon File}] (1995-11-08)
clipboard "operating system" A temporary memory area, used to transfer information within a document being edited or between documents or between programs. The fundamental operations are "cut" which moves data from a document to the clipboard, "copy" which copies it to the clipboard, and "paste" which inserts the clipboard contents into the current document in place of the current selection. Different {Graphical User Interfaces} vary in how they handle the different types of data which a user might want to transfer via the clipboard, some (e.g. the {X Window System}) support only plain text, others (e.g. {NEXTSTEP}) support arbitrarily typed data such as images. (1996-08-23)
CLU "language" (CLUster) An {object-oriented} programming language developed at {MIT} by {Liskov} et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an {object-oriented} language of the {Pascal} family designed to support {data abstraction}, similar to {Alphard}. It introduced the {iterator}: a {coroutine} yielding the elements of a data object, to be used as the sequence of values in a {for loop}. A CLU program consists of separately compilable {procedures}, {clusters} and iterators, no nesting. A cluster is a module naming an {abstract type} and its operations, its internal representation and implementation. Clusters and iterators may be generic. Supplying actual constant values for the {parameters} instantiates the {module}. There are no {implicit type conversions}. In a cluster, the explicit type conversions 'up' and 'down' change between the abstract type and the representation. There is a universal type 'any', and a procedure force[] to check that an object is a certain type. Objects may be mutable or {immutable}. {Exceptions} are raised using 'signal' and handled with 'except'. {Assignment} is by sharing, similar to the sharing of data objects in {Lisp}. Arguments are passed by {call-by-sharing}, similar to {call-by-value}, except that the arguments are objects and can be changed only if they are mutable. CLU has {own variables} and multiple assignment. CLU was one of {Kamin's interpreters}. {clu2c} compiled CLU to {C}. {Concurrent CLU} was an extension designed to support parallel proceses. ["CLU Reference Manual", Barbara Liskov et al, LNCS 114, Springer 1981]. E-mail: Paul R. Johnson "prj@pm-prj.lcs.mit.edu". {Versions for Sun and VAX/VMS (ftp://pion.lcs.mit.edu/pub/clu/)}. {Portable version (ftp://mintaka.lcs.mit.edu/pub/dcurtis/)}. (1994-12-16)
CML 1. A {query language}. ["Towards a Knowledge Description Language", A. Borgida et al, in On Knowledge Base Management Systems, J. Mylopoulos et al eds, Springer 1986]. 2. {Concurrent ML}. (1994-12-21)
Cohen, Hermann: (1842-1918) and Paul Natorp (1854-1924) were the chief leaders of the "Marburg School" which formed a definite branch of the Neo-Kantian movement. Whereas the original founders of this movement, O. Liebmann and Fr. A. Lange, had reacted to scientific empiricism by again calling attention to the a priori elements of cognition, the Marburg school contended that all cognition was exclusively a priori. They definitely rejected not only the notion of "things-in-themselves" but even that of anything immediately "given" in experience. There is no other reality than one posited by thought and this holds good equally for the object, the subject and God. Nor is thought in its effort to "determine the object = x" limited by any empirical data but solely by the laws of thought. Since in Ethics Kant himself had already endeavored to eliminate all empirical elements, the Marburg school was perhaps closer to him in this field than in epistemology. The sole goal of conduct is fulfillment of duty, i.e., the achievement of a society organized according to moral principles and satisfying the postulates of personal dignity. The Marburg school was probably the most influential philosophic trend in Germany in the last 25 years before the First World War. The most outstanding present-day champion of their tradition is Ernst Cassirer (born 1874). Cohen and Natorp tried to re-interpret Plato as well as Kant. Following up a suggestion first made by Lotze they contended that the Ideas ought to be understood as laws or methods of thought and that the current view ascribing any kind of existence to them was based on a misunderstanding of Aristotle's. -- H.G.
Coherent Parallel C "language" A {data parallel} version of {C}. ["Coherent Parallel C", E. Felten et al in Third Conf on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Appls, ACM, 1988, pp. 440-450]. (1995-01-04)
coincident ::: a. --> Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. ::: n. --> One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.
coin ::: n. --> A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.
That which serves for payment or recompense. ::: v. t.
Common Internet File System "protocol" (CIFS) An {Internet} {file system} {protocol}, based on {Microsoft}'s {SMB}. Microsoft has given CIFS to the {Internet Engineering Task Force} (IETF) as an Internet Draft. CIFS is intended to complement existing protocols such as {HTTP}, {FTP}, and {NFS}. CIFS runs on top of {TCP/IP} and uses the Internet's {Domain Name Service} (DNS). It is optimised to support the slower speed {dial-up} connections common on the Internet. CIFS is more flexible than FTP. FTP operations are carried out on entire files whereas CIFS is aimed at routine data access and incorporates high-performance multi-user read and write operations, {locking}, and file-sharing semantics. CIFS is probably closest in functionality to NFS. NFS gives random access to files and directories, but is {stateless}. With CIFS, once a file is open, state about the current access to that file is stored on both the client and the server. This allows changes on the server side to be notified to the clients that are interested. {Microsoft Overview (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/base/cifs_smb_protocol_overview.asp)}. {SNIA page (http://snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/)}. {CIFS: A Common Internet File System, Paul Leach and Dan Perry (http://microsoft.com/Mind/1196/CIFS.htm)}. {IETF Specification. CIFS version 1 (ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-cifs-v1-spec-01.txt)}. (2003-03-12)
commutator ::: n. --> A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.
Compact Disc Rewritable "storage" (CD-RW) A rewritable version of {CD-ROM}. A CD-RW drive can write about 650 {megabytes} of data to CD-RW media an unlimited number of times. Most CD-RW drives can also write once to {CD-R} media. CD-RW media cannot be read by CD-ROM drives built prior to 1997 due to the reduced reflectivity (15% compared to 70%) of CD-RW media. CD-RW drives and media are currently (1999) more expensive than {CD-R} drives and media. CD-R is sometimes considered a better technology for archival purposes as the data cannot be accidentally modified or tampered with, and encourages better archival practices. Standard prerecorded CDs have their information permanently stamped into an aluminium reflecting layer. CD-WR discs have a phase-change recording layer and an additional silver (aluminium) reflecting layer. A laser beam can melt crystals in the recording layer into a non-crystalline amorphous phase or anneal them slowly at a lower temperature back to the crystalline state. The different reflectance of the areas make them appear as the 'pits' and 'lands' of a standard CD. {Phillips: New Technologies (http://www-us.sv.philips.com/newtech/cdrewritable.html)}. See also {CD-R} and {DVD-RAM}. (1999-08-01)
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor "integrated circuit" (CMOS) A {semiconductor} fabrication technology using a combination of n- and p-doped semiconductor material to achieve low {power dissipation}. Any path through a {gate} through which {current} can flow includes both n and p type {transistors}. Only one type is turned on in any {stable state} so there is no {static power dissipation} and current only flows when a gate switches in order to charge the {parasitic capacitance}. (1999-06-04)
compression 1. "application" (Or "compaction") The coding of data to save storage space or transmission time. Although data is already coded in digital form for computer processing, it can often be coded more efficiently (using fewer bits). For example, {run-length encoding} replaces strings of repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and a count. There are many compression {algorithms} and utilities. Compressed data must be decompressed before it can be used. The standard {Unix} compression utilty is called {compress} though {GNU}'s superior {gzip} has largely replaced it. Other compression utilties include {pack}, {zip} and {PKZIP}. When compressing several similar files, it is usually better to join the files together into an {archive} of some kind (using {tar} for example) and then compress them, rather than to join together individually compressed files. This is because some common compression {algorithms} build up tables based on the data from their current input which they have already compressed. They then use this table to compress subsequent data more efficiently. See also {TIFF}, {JPEG}, {MPEG}, {Lempel-Ziv Welch}, "{lossy}", "{lossless}". {Compression FAQ (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/compression-faq/)}. {Web Content Compression FAQ (http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/client/compression/compression.html)}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:comp.compression}, {news:comp.compression.research}. 2. "multimedia" Reducing the dynamic range of an audio signal, making quiet sounds louder and loud sounds quieter. Thus, when discussing digital audio, the preferred term for reducing the total amount of data is "compaction". Some advocate this term in all contexts. (2004-04-26)
COMpute ParallEL "language" (Compel) The first {single-assignment} language. ["A Language Design for Concurrent Processes", L.G. Tesler et al, Proc SJCC 32:403-408, AFIPS (Spring 1968)]. (1995-01-19)
Compuware Corporation "company" A US {software} and service company established in 1973. Since 1973, Compuware focused on optimising business software development, testing and operation. In 1999 the company had grown to over 15,000 employees worldwide and revenues of more than $1.6B. By 2013 it had shrunk to less than 5000. Current (2013) products and services include performance optimisation, availability and quality of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications; project portfolio management, professional services automation; mainframe applications and developer tools; rapid application development and professional services. {(http://compuware.com/)}. (2013-03-08)
concurrent ::: a. --> Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating.
Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
Meeting in one point.
Concurrent C 1. "language" An extension of {C} with {rendezvous}-based {concurrency}. Versions for most {Unix} systems were available commercially from {AT&T}. ["Concurrent C", N.H. Gehani et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(9):821-844 (1986)]. ["The Concurrent C Programming Language", N. Gehani et al, Silicon Press 1989]. (1994-11-11) 2. "language" An extension of {C} with {asynchronous} {message passing}. ["Concurrent C: A Language for Distributed Systems", Y. Tsujino et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(11):1061-1078 (Nov 1984)]. (1994-11-11)
Concurrent C++ "language" A {programming language} developed by Gehani and Roome at {Bell Labs} by merging their earlier {Concurrent C} language with {C++}. ["Concurrent C++: Concurrent Programming with Class(es)", N. Gehani, W.D. Roome, Bell Labs, 1986]. (2013-06-26)
Concurrent Clean "language" An alternative name for {Clean} 1.0. (1995-11-08)
Concurrent CLU "language" A {programming language} extending {CLU} for {concurrent} processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984. ["Preserving Abstraction in Concurrent Programming", R.C.B. Cooper, K.G. Hamilton, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-14(2):258-263, Feb 1988].1 (2013-09-28)
Concurrent Constraint Programming "language" (CCP) Not a language, but a general approach. [Details?] (2001-11-01)
Concurrent Euclid "language, parallel" A {concurrent} extension of a subset of {Euclid} ("{Simple Euclid}") developed by J.R. Cordy and R.C. Holt of the {University of Toronto} in 1980. Concurrent Euclid features {separate compilation}, {modules}, processes and {monitors}, {signal} and {wait} on {condition variables}, 'converters' to defeat {strong type checking}, absolute addresses. All procedures and functions are {re-entrant}. {TUNIS} (a {Unix}-like {operating system}) is written in Concurrent Euclid. ["Specification of Concurrent Euclid", J.R. Cordy & R.C. Holt, Reports CSRI-115 & CSRI-133, CSRI, U Toronto, Jul 1980, rev. Aug 1981]. ["Concurrent Euclid, The Unix System, and Tunis," R.C. Holt, A-W, 1983]. (2005-02-19)
Concurrent LISP "language" A {concurrent} version of {Lisp}. Sugimoto et al implemented an {interpreter} on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple {microprocessors}. ["A Multi-Processor System for Concurrent Lisp", S. Sugimoto et al, Proc 1983 Intl Conf parallel Proc, 1983 pp.135-143]. (2013-10-18)
concurrently ::: adv. --> With concurrence; unitedly.
Concurrent Massey Hope "language, functional programming" An extension of {Massey Hope}, by Peter Burgess, Robert Pointon, and Nigel Perry "N.Perry@massey.ac.nz" of {Massey University}, NZ, that provides {multithreading} and {type}d inter-{thread} communication. It uses {C} for {intermediate code} rather than {assembly language}. (1999-08-04)
Concurrent ML "language" (CML) A {concurrent} extension of {SML/NJ} written by J. Reppy at {Cornell University} in 1990. CML supports dynamic {thread} creation and synchronous {message passing} on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class {continuations}. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both {stream I/O} and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. {(ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/)}. E-mail: "sml-bugs@research.att.com" (bugs). ["CML: A Higher-Order Concurrent Language", John H. Reppy, SIGPLAN Notices 26(6):293-305, June 1991]. (2000-08-09)
concurrentness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
Concurrent Oberon "language" A {concurrent} version of {Oberon}. There is an implementation the {Ceres} {workstation}. ["Adding Concurrency to the Oberon System", S. Lalis et al, ETH Zurich, 1993]. (1994-11-11)
Concurrent Object-Oriented C "language" (cooC) A language with {concurrent} {object} execution from {Toshiba}. It has {synchronous} and {asynchronous} {message passing}. It has been implemented for {SunOS}. {(ftp://tsbgw.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp/pub/toshiba/cooc-beta.1.1.tar.Z)}. [SIGPLAN Notices 28(2)]. (2000-08-13)
Concurrent Object-Oriented Language "language" (COOL) An extension of {C++} with {task-level parallelism} for {shared-memory} {multi-processors}. ["COOL: A Language for Parallel Programming", R. Chandra "rohit@seagull.stanford.edu" et al in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, D. Gelernter et al eds, MIT Press 1990, pp. 126-148]. E-mail: Rohit Chandra "rohit@cool.stanford.edu". (1994-11-30)
Concurrent Pascal "language" An extension of a {Pascal} subset, {Sequential Pascal}, developed by Brinch Hansen in 1972-75. Concurrent Pascal was the first language to support {monitors}. It provided access to hardware devices through monitor calls and also supported processes and {class}es. ["The Programming Language Concurrent Pascal", Per Brinch Hansen, IEEE Trans Soft Eng 1(2):199-207 (Jun 1975)]. (1994-11-30)
concurrent processing {multitasking}
Concurrent Prolog "language" A {Prolog} variant with {guarded clauses} and {committed-choice nondeterminism} ({don't-care nondeterminism}) by Ehud "Udi" Shapiro, Yale "shapiro-ehud@yale.edu". A subset has been implemented, but not the full language. See also {Mandala}. ["Concurrent Prolog: Collected Papers", E. Shapiro, V.1-2, MIT Press 1987]. (1994-11-30)
Concurrent Scheme "language" A parallel {Lisp}, for the {Mayfly} by M. Swanson "swanson%teewinot@cs.utah.edu". ["Concurrent Scheme", R.R. Kessler et al, in Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems, T. Ito et al eds, LNCS 441, Springer 1989]. (1994-11-30)
ConcurrentSmalltalk "language" A {concurrent} variant of {Smalltalk}. ["Concurrent Programming in ConcurrentSmalltalk", Y. Yokote et al in Object-Oriented Concurrent Programming, A. Yonezawa et al eds, MIT Press 1987, pp. 129-158]. (1994-11-30)
Concurrent SP/k "language" (CSP/k) A {PL/I}-like {concurrent} language. ["Structured Concurrent Programming with Operating System Applications", R.C. Holt et al, A-W 1978]. (1997-12-15)
Concurrent Validity ::: A measurements ability to correlate or vary directly with an accepted measure of the same construct
Concurrent Versions System "programming" (CVS) A {cross-platform} {code management system} originally based on {RCS}. CVS tracks all revisions to a file in an associated file with the same name as the original file but with the string ",v" (for version) appended to the filename. These files are stored in a (possibly centralised) repository. Changes are checked in or "committed" along with a comment (which appears in the the "commit log"). CVS has the notions of projects, {branches}, file locking and many others needed to provide a full-functioned repository. It is commonly accessed over over its own "anonCVS" {protocol} for read-only access (many {open source} projects are available by anonymous CVS) and over the {SSH} protocol by those with commit privileges ("committers"). CVS has been rewritten several times and does not depend on RCS. However, files are still largely compatible; one can easily migrate a project from RCS to CVS by copying the history files into a CVS repository. A sub-project of the {OpenBSD} project is building a complete new implementation of CVS, to be called OpenCVS. {CVS Home (http://cvshome.org/)}. {OpenCVS (http://opencvs.org/)}. (2005-01-17)
concentration ::: n. --> The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
ConC "language" A {concurrent} extension of {C} based on {decomposed Petri nets}. It uses the 'handshake' and 'unit' constructs. ["ConC: A Language for Distributed Real-Time Programming", V.K. Garg et al, Computer Langs 16(1):5-18 (1991)]. (1995-03-02)
Concomitance: (Latin concomitantia, accompaniment), literally the act or state of being associated, the term has received wide currency in logic, particularly since John Stuart Mill clearly formulated the method of concomitant variations, as the concurrent existence, appearance or disappearance of certain characters which, under circumstances, admit but do not necessarily postulate causal interrelatedness. -- K.F.L.
concomitantly ::: adv. --> In company with others; unitedly; concurrently.
CONCUR "language" A proposal for a language for programming with {concurrent} processes. CONCUR was inspired by {Modula} but removes Modula's restrictions on the placement of process declarations and invocations in order to study the implications of process support more fully. Anderson presents a {compiler} which translates CONCUR into the {object language} for a hypothetical machine. ["CONCUR, A Language for Continuous Concurrent Processes", R.M. Salter et al, Comp Langs 5(3):163-189, 1981]. {["Concur: a High-Level Language for Concurrent Programming", Karen Anderson Thesis, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, 1979] (https://ritdml.rit.edu/handle/1850/15968?show=full)} (2013-06-05)
Concursus dei (or divinus): (Lat. Divine concurrent activity) The divine activity in its relation to the finite causes in the development of the world and the free will of man. The term suggests that divine activity runs parallel with the activity of things and creatures. The concursus dei is differently conceived depending on whether the stress is laid on the divine action or on the action of secondary causes. -- H.H.
configuration programming "programming" An approach that advocates the use of a separate configuration language to specify the {coarse-grain} structure of programs. Configuration programming is particularly attractive for {concurrent}, parallel and distributed systems that have inherently complex program structures. {Darwin} is an example of a configuration language. (1995-03-14)
configure "software" A program by {Richard Stallman} to discover properties of the current {platform} and to set up {make} to compile and install {gcc}. {Cygnus configure} was a similar system developed by K. Richard Pixley in collaboration with Richard Stallman. In 1994, David MacKenzie and others modified {autoconf} to incorporate all the features of Cygnus configure and many {GNU} programs, including gcc now use autoconf. {Metaconfig} is a similar program used in building {Perl}. {(http://airs.com/ian/configure)}. (2005-04-15)
confluence ::: n. --> The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.
conflux ::: n. --> A flowing together; a meeting of currents.
A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
conjunct ::: a. --> United; conjoined; concurrent.
Same as Conjoined.
consentaneous ::: a. --> Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent.
context-free grammar "grammar" (CFG) A {grammar} where the {syntax} of each constituent ({syntactic category} or {terminal symbol}) is independent of the symbols occuring before and after it in a sentence. A context-free grammar describes a context-free language. Context-free grammars can be expressed by a set of "production rules" or syntactic rules. For example, a language with symbols "a" and "b" that must occur in unequal numbers can be represented by the CFG: S → U | V U → TaU | TaT | UaT V → TbV | TbT | VbT T → aTbT | bTaT | ε meaning the top-level category "S" consists of either a "U" or a "V" and so on. The special category "ε" represents the empty string. This grammar is context-free because each rule has a single symbol on its left-hand side. {Parsers} for context-free grammars are simpler than those for context-dependent grammars because the parser need only know the current symbol. {Algol} was (one of?) the first languages whose syntax was described by a context-free grammar. This became a common practice for programming languages and led to the notation for grammars called {Backus-Naur Form}. (2014-11-24)
continually ::: adv. --> Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually.
In regular or repeated succession; very often.
continuous ::: a. --> Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.
Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Continuous System Simulation Language "simulation" (CSSL) Versions include {ACSL}, {HYTRAN}, {SL-I}, {S/360} and {CSMP}. CSSL(Continuous System Simulation Language) versions I, II, III, IV and V have been commercially available since 1968. CSSL-I was developed for {Jet Propulsion Labs} in 1968. CSSL-III was widely distributed from 1969-1975. CSSL-IV (interactive version) was developed by R. Nilsen and ran on over 30 different computers. Currently CSSL-V is marketed by {Simulation Services International} and available on {PCs} and {workstations}. ["The SCi Continuous System Simulation Language (CSSL)", Simulation, 9(6), Dec 1967]. (2003-04-15)
control-C "character" (Or ETX, End of Text) The {ASCII} character with code 3. Control-C is the {interrupt} character used in the {command-line interface} of many {operating systems}, including {Unix} and {MS-DOS}, to force the currently running program to stop and return control to the user. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-16)
control character "character" Any of a number of special characters that exist in most {coded character sets} and that are input or output to cause some special action rather than as part of the normal textual data. Control characters are input by holding down a {control key} on the {keyboard} and simultaneously pressing a letter key or (depending on the keyboard and {operating system}) certain punctuation characters. Some control codes have their own special keys: {escape}, {tab}, {delete}, {backspace}, {return}, allowing them to be entered with a single key press. Control characters may be output for their effect on the output device, e.g. moving the {cursor} or {print head} to the start of a new line ({carriage return}, Control-M), advancing down to the next line ({line feed}, Control-J) or ringing the bell (Control-G). Different {operating systems} and {application programs} have different conventions for what effect typing certain control characters will have, such as interrupting the current process ({Unix} {Control-C}) or suspending or resuming output ({Control-S}, {Control-Q}). See {ASCII character table}. (2015-03-07)
convection ::: n. --> The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
Convergent Technologies Operating System "operating system" (CTOS, BTOS, STARSYS) /see-toss/ A modular, {message-passing}, {multi-process} based {operating system}. {Convergent Technologies}' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the {Intel 8086}, which had CTOS as its operating system. It is a modular operating system with built in {local area networking}. CTOS supports multiple processes or {threads} and message-based {inter-process communication}. Companies which licensed CTOS included {Burroughs} (BTOS) and {Bull} (STARSYS). The largest customer was {Unisys}, with whom Convergent Technologies merged to become one company in 1988. CTOS had over 800,000 users worldwide. CTOS ran on Intel {Pentium} computers, and could run concurrently with {Microsoft} {Windows NT}. Support for existing customers lasted at least until 2001. Major customers included police forces, banks, and airlines. ["Exploring CTOS", Miller E., Crook J., Loy J. - Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-297342-1, 1991]. (1996-09-24)
cooC {Concurrent Object-Oriented C}.
cookbook "programming" (From amateur electronics and radio) A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs. One current example is the "{PostScript} Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the {Blue Book} which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into {voodoo programming}, but are useful for hackers trying to {monkey up} small programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-04)
COOL 1. {Concurrent Object-Oriented Language}. 2. CLIPS Object-Oriented Language? 3. A C++ class library developed at {Texas Instruments} that defines {containers} like {Vectors}, {List}, {Hash_Table}, etc. It uses a shallow hierarchy with no common {base class}. The functionality is close to {Common Lisp} data structures (like {libg++}). The {template} {syntax} is very close to {Cfront} 3.x and {g++} 2.x. JCOOL's main difference from COOL and GECOOL is that it uses real C++ templates instead of a similar syntax that is preprocessed by a special 'cpp' distributed with COOL and GECOOL. {(ftp://csc.ti.com/pub/COOL.tar.Z)}. GECOOL, JCOOL: {(ftp://cs.utexas.edu/pub/COOL/)}. E-mail: Van-Duc Nguyen "nguyen@crd.ge.com" (1992-08-05)
cooperation ::: n. --> The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
The association of a number of persons for their benefit.
Cooperative Information System "networking" (CIS) Networked computers which support individual or collaborative human work, and manage access to information and computing services. Computation is done {concurrent}ly over the network by cooperative {database} systems, {expert systems}, multi-agent planning systems, and other software application systems ranging from the conventional to the advanced. (1995-05-11)
cooperative multitasking "parallel, operating system" A form of {multitasking} where it is the responsibility of the currently running task to give up the processor to allow other tasks to run. This contrasts with {pre-emptive multitasking} where the task {scheduler} periodically suspends the running task and restarts another. Cooperative multitasking requires the programmer to place calls at suitable points in his code to allow his task to be {deschedule}d which is not always easy if there is no obvious top-level {main loop} or some routines run for a long time. If a task does not allow itself to be descheduled all other tasks on the system will appear to "freeze" and will not respond to user action. The advantage of cooperative multitasking is that the programmer knows where the program will be descheduled and can make sure that this will not cause unwanted interaction with other processes. Under {pre-emptive multitasking}, the scheduler must ensure that sufficient state for each process is saved and restored that they will not interfere. Thus cooperative multitasking can have lower {overheads} than pre-emptive multitasking because of the greater control it offers over when a task may be descheduled. Cooperative multitasking is used in {RISC OS}, {Microsoft Windows} and {Macintosh} {System 7}. (1995-03-20)
copy and paste "text" (Or "cut and paste", after the paper, scissors and glue method of document production) The system supported by most document editing applications (e.g. {text editors}) and most {operating systems} that allows you to select a part of the document and then save it in a temporary buffer (known variously as the "clipboard", "cut buffer", "kill ring"). A "copy" leaves the document unchanged whereas a "cut" deletes the selected part. A "paste" inserts the data from the clipboard at the current position in the document (usually replacing any currently selected data). This may be done more than once, in more than one position and in different documents. More sophisticated {operating systems} support copy and paste of different data types between different applications, possibly with automatic format conversion, e.g from {rich text} to plain {ASCII}. {GNU Emacs} uses the terms "kill" instead of "cut" and "yank" instead of "paste" and data is stored in the "kill ring". [Origin? Macintosh? Xerox?] (1998-07-01)
copyright "legal" The exclusive rights of the owner of the copyright on a work to make and distribute copies, prepare derivative works, and perform and display the work in public (these last two mainly apply to plays, films, dances and the like, but could also apply to software). A work, including a piece of software, is under copyright by default in most coutries, whether of not it displays a copyright notice. However, a copyright notice may make it easier to assert ownership. The copyright owner is the person or company whose name appears in the copyright notice on the box, or the disk or the screen or wherever. Most countries have agreed to uphold each others' copyrights. A copyright notice has three parts. The first can be either the {copyright symbol} (a letter C in a circle), the word "Copyright" or the abbreviation "Copr". Only the first of these is recognised internationally and the common {ASCII} rendering "(C)" is not valid anywhere. This is followed by the name of the copyright holder and the year of publication. The year should be the year of _first_ publication, it is not necessary as some believe to update this every year to the current year. Copyright protection in most countries extends for 50 years after the author's death. Originally, most of the computer industry assumed that only the program's underlying instructions were protected under copyright law but, beginning in the early 1980s, a series of lawsuits involving the video screens of game programs extended protections to the appearance of programs. Use of copyright to restrict redistribution is immoral, unethical and illegitimate. It is a result of brainwashing by monopolists and corporate interests and it violates everyone's rights. Such use of copyrights and patents hamper technological progress by making a naturally abundant resource scarce. Many, from communists to right wing libertarians, are trying to abolish intellectual property myths. See also {public domain}, {copyleft}, {software law}. {Universal Copyright Convention (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/creativity/creative-industries/copyright/)}. {US Copyright Office (http://copyright.gov/)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:misc.legal.computing}. [Is this definition correct in the UK? In the US? Anywhere?] (2014-01-08)
Core War "games" (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between {assembly code} programs running in the {core} of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an {instruction set} called "{Redcode}" and run on a {virtual machine} called "{MARS}" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and {Dennis Ritchie} in the early 1960s (their original game was called "{Darwin}" and ran on a {PDP-1} at {Bell Labs}). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the {Redcode} dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88). ["The Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Worlds", A. K. Dewdney, W. H. Freeman, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-7167-1939-8, LCCN QA76.6 .D517 1988] ["The Magic Machine: A Handbook of Computer Sorcery", A. K. Dewdney, W. H. Freeman, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-7167-2125-2 (Hardcover), 0-7167-2144-9 (Paperback), LCCN QA76.6 .D5173 1990]. (1998-10-30)
coulomb ::: n. --> The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. Formerly called weber.
countercurrent ::: a. --> Running in an opposite direction. ::: n. --> A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
currency ::: n. --> A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie
dank ::: a. --> Damp; moist; humid; wet. ::: n. --> Moisture; humidity; water.
A small silver coin current in Persia.
decurrent ::: a. --> Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.
decursive ::: a. --> Running down; decurrent.
demonetize ::: v. t. --> To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
D. In mathematics, (1) it is a numerical or algebraical index showing the number of times the element it affects must be multiplied by itself; concurrently, it denotes the product arising from the continued mutiplication of a quantity by itself. (2) In the theory of aggregates, the power of a class is the number of its elements, its cardinal number (q.v.). -- T.G.
discurrent ::: a. --> Not current or free to circulate; not in use.
disturbance ::: n. --> An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.
Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
dollar ::: n. --> A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada,
douche ::: n. --> A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.
A syringe.
downstream ::: in the direction of a stream"s current.
draft ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. ::: v. t. --> To draw the outline of; to delineate.
draughty ::: a. --> Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
drift ::: n. 1. A driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure. 2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention. 3. Tendency, trend, meaning, or purport. 4. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water. 5. Something moving along in a current of air or water. 6. Any group of stars having a random distribution of velocities; usually applied to a group of stars with an apparent systematic motion towards some point in the sky. v. 7. To be carried along by or as if by currents of air or water. 8. To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose. drifts, drifted, drifting, sleet-drift, slow-drifting.
dynamo ::: 1. An electric generator, esp. for direct current. 2. An energetic, hardworking, forceful person. dynamo"s.
dynamo-electric ::: a. --> Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
eddy ::: 1. A current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, esp. one having a rotary or whirling motion. 2. A small whirlpool. eddies, eddying.
eddy ::: n. --> A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. ::: v. i. --> To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
electrepeter ::: n. --> An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
electro-bioscopy ::: n. --> A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.
electro-capillarity ::: n. --> The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
electrode ::: n. --> The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
electro-dynamical ::: a. --> Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
electro-dynamics ::: n. --> The phenomena of electricity in motion.
The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity.
electro-dynamometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.
electrogeny ::: n. --> A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.
electrolyte ::: n. --> A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
electro-magnetic ::: a. --> Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current.
electro-magnetism ::: n. --> The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.
electro-magnet ::: n. --> A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.
electro-motive ::: a. --> Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
electromotor ::: n. --> A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.
electrophone ::: n. --> An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.
electro-thermancy ::: n. --> That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.
electrotonic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.
Relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.
electrotonus ::: n. --> The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.
electro-vital ::: a. --> Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
E. L. Thorndike, Human Nature and the Social Order. See Freud, Gestalt, Introspection, Mind, Subconscious. Psychology of Religion: A scientific, descriptive study of mental life and behavior with special reference to religious activities. The aim of this study is not to criticize or evaluate religion (see Philosophy of Religion) but to describe its forms as they reflect the mental processes of men. As an extended chapter in the field of general psychology, psychology of religion reflects the various types of psychology now current. As a scientific study this subject began its fruitful career at the beginning of this century, making illuminating disclosures on the nature of conversion, varieties of religious experience, the origin and character of beliefs in God and immortality, the techniques of mystics, types of worship, etc. Due to the confused state of psychology-in-general and especially to the recent vogue of behaviorism this subject has fallen somewhat into an eclipse -- at least for the present. Cf. Wm. James: Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902. -- V.F.
embolus ::: n. --> Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
entrain ::: v. t. --> To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment. ::: v. i. --> To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained
estuary ::: n. --> A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. ::: a. --> Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.
euripus ::: n. --> A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.
excurrent ::: a. --> Running or flowing out
Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.
Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.
fan ::: n. --> An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.
Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for
faradic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday&
faradization ::: n. --> The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
fashionable ::: a. --> Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
fiar ::: n. --> One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.
Fiske, John: (1842-1901) Harvard librarian and philosopher. He is best known as an historian of the colonial period. He was a voluminous writer in many fields. His Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy is his best known work as a pioneer in America of the evolutionary theories. He claimed an original contribution to these speculations in his studies of the period of infancy. His works on God and on immortality were widely read in his day although he later expressed doubts about them. Nevertheless his constant emphasis on the theistic as opposed to the positivistic implications of evolution served to influence the current theories of creative and emergent evolution. See Evolutionism. -- L.E.D.
flicker ::: v. i. --> To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. ::: n. --> The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying
flighter ::: n. --> A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
float ::: v. i. --> Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait
flue ::: n. --> An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds
folk lore ::: --> Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
ford ::: v. i. --> A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
A stream; a current. ::: v. t. --> To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
franklin stove ::: --> A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
Free Association ::: The psychoanalytic technique of allowing a patient to talk without direction or input in order to analyze current issues of the client.
frue vanner ::: --> A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
fulcrum ::: A developmental milestone within the self-identity stream, or the proximate-self line of development. Fulcrums follow a general 1-2-3 process: fusion or identification with one’s current level of self-development; differentiation or disidentification from that level; and integration of the new level with the previous level. AQAL theory, and Integral Psychology in specific, focus on anywhere from nine to ten developmental fulcrums.
gale ::: n. --> A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
A moderate current of air; a breeze.
A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.
A song or story.
A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
galvanic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
galvanism ::: n. --> Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
galvanize ::: v. t. --> To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.
To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.
To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.
galvanocautery ::: n. --> Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
galvanometer ::: n. --> An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.
galvanometry ::: n. --> The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.
galvanoscope ::: n. --> An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.
galvanotropism ::: n. --> The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.
gaol ::: a prison, esp. one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offences. (A variant spelling of jail. In British official use the form with G is still current; in literary and journalistic use both the G and the J form is now admitted as correct; in the U.S. the J form is standard.) gaoled.
"Greatest Happiness": In ethics, the basis of ethics considered as the highest good of the individual or of the greatest number of individuals. The feeling-tone of the individual, varying from tranquillity and contentment to happiness, considered as the end of all moral action, as for example in Epicurus, Lucretius and Rousseau. The welfare of the majority of individuals, or of society as a whole, considered as the end of all moral action, as for example in Plato, Bentham and Mill. The greatest possible surplus of pleasure over pain in the greatest number of individuals. Although mentioned by Plato in the Republic (IV, 420), the phrase in its current form probably originated in the English translation, in 1770, of Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene, where it occurs as "la massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero", which was rendered as "the greatest happiness of the greatest number", a phrase enunciated by Hutcheson in 1725. One of a number of ethical ideals or moral aims. The doctrine with which the phrase is most closely associated is that of John Stuart Mill, who said in his Utilitarianism (ch. II) that "the happiness which forms the . . . standard of what is right in conduct, is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned". -- J.K.F.
guinea ::: n. --> A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.
A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817.
gully ::: n. --> A large knife.
A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent&
gurgle ::: v. i. --> To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. ::: n. --> The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."
gurgling ::: flowing in a broken, irregular, noisy current; emitting a sound as of bubbling liquid.
habit ::: 1. A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behaviour that is acquired through frequent repetition. 2. A dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality. habit"s, habits, earth-habit"s, Nature-habit"s.
habitual mind ::: the lowest form of the thinking mind (buddhi), consisting of an "undercurrent of mechanically recurrent thought" and a movement that reduces "all new experience . . . to formulas of habitual thinking".
harper ::: n. --> A player on the harp; a minstrel.
A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland.
henry ::: n. --> The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.
history ::: “History teaches us nothing; it is a confused torrent of events and personalities or a kaleidoscope of changing institutions. We do not seize the real sense of all this change and this continual streaming forward of human life in the channels of Time. What we do seize are current or recurrent phenomena, facile generalisations, partial ideas. We talk of democracy, aristocracy and autocracy, collectivism and individualism, imperialism and nationalism, the State and the commune, capitalism and labour; we advance hasty generalisations and make absolute systems which are positively announced today only to be abandoned perforce tomorrow; we espouse causes and ardent enthusiasms whose triumph turns to an early disillusionment and then forsake them for others, perhaps for those that we have taken so much trouble to destroy. For a whole century mankind thirsts and battles after liberty and earns it with a bitter expense of toil, tears and blood; the century that enjoys without having fought for it turns away as from a puerile illusion and is ready to renounce the depreciated gain as the price of some new good. And all this happens because our whole thought and action with regard to our collective life is shallow and empirical; it does not seek for, it does not base itself on a firm, profound and complete knowledge. The moral is not the vanity of human life, of its ardours and enthusiasms and of the ideals it pursues, but the necessity of a wiser, larger, more patient search after its true law and aim.” The Human Cycle etc.
Hocking, William Ernest: (1873) Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard. Has endeavored to blend idealism vvith pragmatism while making some concessions to realism, even is in current theory he strives for a reconciliation between laissez faire liberalism and collectivism through a midground found in the worth of the individual in a "commotive union in the coagent state," a notion comparable to the "conjunct self" of George Herbert Palmer only with a more individualistic emphasis and a current flavor. Among his works are: The Meaning of God in Human Experience, Man and the State, Types of Philosophy, Lasting Elements of Individualism and Living Religions and a World Faith. -- L.E.D.
hydrodynamometer ::: n. --> An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.
hydrogalvanic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents.
hydrometer ::: n. --> An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.
An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge.
II. Early Scholastics (12 cent.) St. Anselm of Canterbury (+1109) did more than anyone else in this early period to codify the spirit of Scholasticism. His motto: credo, ut tntelligam taken from St. Augustine, expressed the organic relation that existed between the supernatural and the natural during the Middle Ages and the interpretative and the directive force which faith had upon reason. In this period a new interest was taken in the problem of the universals. For the first time a clear demarcation was noted between the realistic and the nominalistic solutions to this problem. William of Champeaux (+1121) proposed the former and Roscelin (+c. 1124) the latter. A third solution, concepiualistic in character, was proposed by Abelard (+1142) who finally crystalized the Scholastic method. He was the most subtle dialectician of his age. Two schools of great importance of this period were operating at Chartres and the Parisian Abbey of St. Victor. The first, founded by Fulbert of Chartres in the late tenth century, was characterized by its leanings toward Platonism and distinguished by its humanistic tendencies coupled with a love of the natural sciences. Many of its Greek, Arabian and Jewish sources for studies in natural sciences came from the translations of Constantine the African (+c. 1087) and Adelard of Bath. Worthy to be noted as members of or sympathizers with this school are Bernard and Thierry of Chartres (+c. 1127; c. 1150); William of Conches (+1145) and Bernard Silvestris (+1167). The two most important members of the School were Gilbert de la Poiree (+1154) and John of Salisbury (+1180). The latter was a humanistic scholar of great stylistic skill and calm, balanced judgment. It is from his works, particularly the Metalogicus, that most of our knowledge of this period still derives. Juxtaposed to the dialectic, syllogistic and rationalistic tendencies of this age was a mystical movement, headed by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (+1153). This movement did not oppose itself to dialectics in the uncompromising manner of Peter Damiani, but sought rather to experience and interiorize truth through contemplation and practice. Bernard found a close follower and friend in William of St. Thierry (+1148 or 1153). An attempt to synthesize the mystic and dialectical movements is found in two outstanding members of the Victorine School: Hugh of St. Victor (+1141) who founded its spirit in his omnia disce, videbis postea nihil esse supervuum and Richard of St. Victor (+1173), his disciple, who introduced the a posteriori proof for God's existence into the Scholastic current of thought. Finally, this century gave Scholasticism its principal form of literature which was to remain dominant for some four centuries. While the method came from Abelard and the formulas and content, in great part, from the Didascalion of Hugh of St. Victor, it was Robert of Melun (+1167) and especially Peter the Lombard (+1164) who fashioned the great Summae sententiarum.
I. Logic of History The historical objects under observation (man, life, society, biological and geological conditions) are so diverse that even slight mistakes in evaluation of items and of the historical whole may lead to false results. This can be seen from the modern logic of history. In the 18th century, G. B. Vico contended, under the deep impression of the lawfulness prevailing in natural sciences, that historical events also follow each other according to unswerving natural laws. He assumed three stages of development, that of fantasy, of will, and of science. The encyclopedists and Saint-Simon shared his view. The individual is immersed, and driven on, by the current of social tendencies, so that Comte used to speak of an "histoire sans noms". His three stages of development were the theological, metaphysical, and scientific stage. H. Spencer and A. Fouillee regard social life as an organism unfolding itself according to immanent laws, either of racial individuality (Gobineau, Vocher de Lapauge) or of a combination of social, physical, and personal forces (Taine). The spirit of a people and of an age outweigh completely the power of an individual personality which can work only along socially conditioned tendencies. The development of a nation always follows the same laws, it may vary as to time and whereabouts but never as to the form (Burkhardt, Lamprecht). To this group of historians belong also O. Spengler and K. Marx; "Fate" rules the civilization of peoples and pushes them on to their final destination.
incurrent ::: a. --> Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.
Indra ::: "the Puissant", a Vedic god, lord of svar, the luminous world; the deva as "the master of mental force". As Agni2 "is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth"; he "comes down into our world as the Hero" and "slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters [svarvatir apah.], finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition [Sarama], the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth [sūrya1] mount high in the heaven of our mentality".
inductor ::: n. --> The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.
That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current.
inflammation ::: n. --> The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of
Innervation, Sensation of: (Lat. in + nervus, nerve) Sensation accompanying the efferent nerve currents which discharge from the central nervous system into the muscles. The existence of such a sensation has been much disputed by psychologists. (See W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. II, pp. 498 ff.) -- L.W.
inshore ::: a. --> Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. ::: adv. --> Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.
Insight ::: The understanding of a relationship between current thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors and where these originated or how they are maintained.
instant ::: a. --> Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
Present; current.
A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.
A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the
Integral Methodological Pluralism (IMP) ::: A set of social practices that corresponds with AQAL metatheory. IMP is paradigmatic in that it includes the most time-honored methodologies, and meta-paradigmatic in that it weaves them together by way of three integrative principles: nonexclusion, unfoldment, and enactment. IMP is associated with the fifth and most current phase of Wilber’s work (“Wilber-V”).
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
intercurrent ::: a. --> Running between or among; intervening.
Not belonging to any particular season.
Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. ::: n. --> Something intervening.
intercept ::: v. t. --> To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade.
To include between; as, that part of the line which
intermittent ::: a. --> Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. ::: n. --> An intermittent fever or disease.
interrupter ::: n. --> One who, or that which, interrupts.
A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself.
interruption ::: n. --> The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
interrupt ::: v. t. --> To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill. ::: p. a.
In the field of the philosophy of religion, Platonism becomes obscure. There is little doubt that Plato paid only lip-service to the anthropomorphic polytheism of Athenian religion. Many of the attributes of the Idea of the Good are those of an eternal God. The Republic (Book II) pictures the Supreme Being as perfect, unchangeable and the author of truth. Similar rationalizations are found throughout the Laws. Another current of religious thought is to be found m the Timaeus, Politicus and Sophist. The story of the making of the universe and man by the Demiurgus is mythic and yet it is in many points a logical development of his theory of Ideas. The World-Maker does not create things from nothing, he fashions the world out of a pre-existing chaos of matter by introducing patterns taken from the sphere of Forms. This process of formation is also explained, in the Timaeus (54 ff), in terms of various mathematical figures. In an early period of the universe, God (Chronos) exercised a sort of Providential care over things in this world (Politicus, 269-275), but eventually man was left to his own devices. The tale of Er, at the end of the Republic, describes a judgment of souls after death, their separation into the good and the bad, and the assignment of various rewards and punishments. H. Stephanus et J. Serranus (ed.), Platonis Opera (Paris, 1578), has provided the standard pagination, now used in referring to the text of Plato, it is not a critical edition. J. Burnet (ed.), Platonis Opera, 5 vol. (Oxford, 1899-1907). Platon, Oeuvres completes, texte et trad., Collect. G. Bude (Paris, 1920 ff.). The Dialogues of Plato, transl. B. Jowett, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1920). W. Pater, Plato and Platonism (London, 1909). A. E. Taylor, Plato, the Man and his Work (N. Y., 1927). P. Shorey, What Plato Said (Chicago, 1933). A. Dies, Autour de Platon, 2 vol. (Paris, 1927). U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Platon, 2 vol. (Berlin, 1919). John Burnet, Platonism (Berkeley, 1928). Paul Elmer More, Platonism (Oxford, 1931). Constantm Ritter, Essence of Plato's Philosophy (London, 1933). Leon Robin, Platon (Paris, 1935). Paul Shorey, Platonism, Ancient and Modern (Berkeley, 1938). A. E. Taylor, Platontsm and Its Influence (London, 1924). F. J. E. Woodbridge, The Son of Apollo (Boston, 1929). C. Bigg, The Christian Platomsts of Alexandria (Oxford, 1913). T. Whittaker, The Neo-Platonists (Cambridge, 1918, 2nd ed ). John H. Muirhead, The Platonic Tradition in Angle-Saxon Philosophy (New York, 1931). F. J. Powicke, The Cambridge Platonists (Boston, 1927). -- V.J.B.
It will be seen that the scope we give to the idea of renunciation is different from the meaning currently attached to it. Currently its meaning is self-denial, inhibition of pleasure, rejection of the objects of pleasure. Self-denial is a necessary discipline for the soul of man, because his heart is ignorantly attached; inhibition of pleasure is necessary because his sense is caught and clogged in the mud-honey of sensuous satisfactions; rejection of the objects of pleasure is imposed because the mind fixes on the object and will not leave it to go beyond it and within itself. If the mind of man were not thus ignorant, attached, bound even in its restless inconstancy, deluded by the forms of things, renunciation would not have been needed; the soul could have travelled on the path of delight, from the lesser to the greater, from joy to diviner joy. At present that is not practicable. It must give up from within everything to which it is attached in order that it may gain that which they are in their reality. The external renunciation is not the essential, but even that is necessary for a time, indispensable in many things and sometimes useful in all; we may even say that a complete external renunciation is a stage through which the soul must pass at some period of its progress,—though always it should be without those self-willed violences and fierce self-torturings which are an offence to the Divine seated within us. But in the end this renunciation or self-denial is always an instrument and the period for its use passes. The rejection of the object ceases to be necessary when the object can no longer ensnare us because what the soul enjoys is no longer the object as an object but the Divine which it expresses; the inhibition of pleasure is no longer needed when the soul no longer seeks pleasure but possesses the delight of the Divine in all things equally without the need of a personal or physical possession of the thing itself; self-denial loses its field when the soul no longer claims anything, but obeys consciously the will of the one Self in all beings.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 333
joule ::: n. --> A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds.
journalism ::: n. --> The keeping of a journal or diary.
The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism.
Joy ::: “Pleasure, joy and delight, as man uses the words, are limited and occasional movements which depend on certain habitual causes and emerge, like their opposites pain and grief which are equally limited and occasional movements, from a background other than themselves. Delight of being is universal, illimitable and self-existent, not dependent on particular causes, the background of all backgrounds, from which pleasure, pain and other more neutral experiences emerge. When delight of being seeks to realise itself as delight of becoming, it moves in the movement of force and itself takes different forms of movement of which pleasure and pain are positive and negative currents.” The Life Divine
Karma, Karman: (Skr.) Action, movement, deed, a category e.g. in the Vaisesika (q.v.). In Indian philosophy generally thought of as a metaphysical entity carried by the individual along in samsara (q.v.). As law, karma would be identical with physical causation or causality while working with equal rigor in man's psychic and thought life. As such it is the unmitigated law of retribution working with equal precision in "good" and "evil" deeds and thoughts, thus determining the nature and circumstances of incarnation. Karma is classified into prarabdha (effects determining the unavoidable circumstances of man's life), samcita (effects able to be expiated or neglected, e.g., through jnana), and agami (effects currently generated and determining the future). Jainas (q.v.) enumerate 148 kinds of karma. -- K.F.L.
Koffka, Kurt: (1896) Along with Wertheimer and Köhler, one of the original triumvirate of Gestalt psychologists. See Gestalt Psychology. Koffka, relying on the results of Köhler's study of learning in apes, has, in opposition to the current attempts to treat learning exclusively in terms of trial and error, emphasized the essential role of insight in learning. See The Growth of the Mind, 1925, pp. 153-230. -- L.W.
languet ::: n. --> Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.
That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.
larynx ::: n. --> The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.
levels ::: A level is a general measure of higher and lower. While the terms “structures,” “stages,” and “waves” are sometimes loosely used to refer to “levels,” each term has their own important nuances. Any specific level has an actual structure. Levels tend to unfold in a sequence and thus progress through stages. Finally, levels are not rigidly separated from each other but are rather fluid and overlapping waves. In short, levels are abstract measures that represent fluid yet qualitatively distinct classes of recurrent patterns within developmental lines. Some examples include egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric, planetcentric, and Kosmocentric.
Life then reveals itself as essentially the same everywhere from the atom to man, the atom containing the subconscious stuff and movement of being which are released into consciousness in the animal, with plant life as a midway stage in the evolution. Life is really a universal operation of Conscious-Force acting subconsciously on and in Matter; it is the operation that creates, maintains, destroys and re-creates forms or bodies and attempts by play of nerve-force, that is to say, by currents of interchange of stimulating energy to awake conscious sensation in those bodies. In this operation there are three stages; the lowest is that in which the vibration is still in the sleep of Matter, entirely subconscious so as to seem wholly mechanical; the middle stage is that in which it becomes capable of a response still submental but on the verge of what we know as consciousness; the highest is that in which life develops conscious mentality in the form of a mentally perceptible sensation which in this transition becomes the basis for the development of sense-mind and intelligence. It is in the middle stage that we catch the idea of Life as distinguished from Matter and Mind, but in reality it is the same in all the stages and always a middle term between Mind and Matter, constituent of the latter and instinct with the former. It is an operation of Conscious-Force which is neither the mere formation of substance nor the operation of mind with substance and form as its object of apprehension; it is rather an energising of conscious being which is a cause and support of the formation of substance and an intermediate source and support of conscious mental apprehension. Life, as this intermediate energising of conscious being, liberates into sensitive action and reaction a form of the creative force of existence which was working subconsciently or inconsciently, absorbed in its own substance; it supports and liberates into action the apprehensive consciousness of existence called mind and gives it a dynamic instrumentation so that it can work not only on its own forms but on forms of life and matter; it connects, too, and supports, as a middle term between them, the mutual commerce of the two, mind and matter. This means of commerce Life provides in the continual currents of her pulsating nerve-energy which carry force of the form as a sensation to modify Mind and bring back force of Mind as will to modify Matter. It is th
refore this nerve-energy which we usually mean when we talk of Life; it is the Prana or Life-force of the Indian system. But nerve-energy is only the form it takes in the animal being; the same Pranic energy is present in all forms down to the atom, since everywhere it is the same in essence and everywhere it is the same operation of Conscious-Force,—Force supporting and modifying the substantial existence of its own forms, Force with sense and mind secretly active but at first involved in the form and preparing to emerge, then finally emerging from their involution. This is the whole significance of the omnipresent Life that has manifested and inhabits the material universe.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 198-199
litharge ::: n. --> Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
lunicurrent ::: a. --> Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon&
marc ::: n. --> The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
A German coin and money of account. See Mark.
marine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of
marketable ::: a. --> Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacaye/ provisions are not marketable.
Current in market; as, marketable value.
Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (complete works of Marx and Engels currenth adding to its volumes).
mattress ::: n. --> A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
meet ::: v. t. --> To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
To come into the presence of without contact; to come
Memory Effect ::: Error in research that results from subjects recalling previous testing and applying that knowledge to current testing.
menial ::: pertaining to domestic servants. In current usage, lowly and sometimes degrading; servile.
microampere ::: n. --> One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampere.
microphone ::: n. --> An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
Missing definition "introduction" First, this is an (English language) __computing__ dictionary. It includes lots of terms from related fields such as mathematics and electronics, but if you're looking for (or want to submit) words from other subjects or general English words or other languages, try {(http://wikipedia.org/)}, {(http://onelook.com/)}, {(http://yourdictionary.com/)}, {(http://www.dictionarist.com/)} or {(http://reference.allrefer.com/)}. If you've already searched the dictionary for a computing term and it's not here then please __don't tell me__. There are, and always will be, a great many missing terms, no dictionary is ever complete. I use my limited time to process the corrections and definitions people have submitted and to add the {most frequently requested missing terms (missing.html)}. Try one of the sources mentioned above or {(http://techweb.com/encyclopedia/)}, {(http://whatis.techtarget.com/)} or {(http://google.com/)}. See {the Help page (help.html)} for more about missing definitions and bad cross-references. (2014-09-20)! {exclamation mark}!!!Batch "language, humour" A daft way of obfuscating text strings by encoding each character as a different number of {exclamation marks} surrounded by {question marks}, e.g. "d" is encoded as "?!!!!?". The language is named after the {MSDOS} {batch file} in which the first converter was written. {esoteric programming languages} {wiki entry (http://esolangs.org/wiki/!!!Batch)}. (2014-10-25)" {double quote}
monetize ::: v. t. --> To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.
money ::: n. --> A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in
n. 1. A competition of speed, as in running or riding. 2. A strong or swift current of water. race-fields. *v. 3. To run, move or go swiftly. 4. To engage in a contest of speed; run a race. *raced, racing.
nadi. ::: psychic nerve current; a channel in the subtle body through which subtle psychic energy
newsy ::: a. --> Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.
ninepence ::: n. --> An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
Noesis: (Gr. Noesis) In Husserl: 1. That current in the stream of consciousness which is intrinsically intentional in that it points to an object as beyond itself. The noesis animates the intrinsically non -intentional hyletic current in the stream. (See Hyle). 2. A particular instance of the ego cogito. Note: In Husserl's usage, noesis and noema are very rarely restricted to the sphere of "thinking" or "intellect" (however defined) but are rather extended to all kinds of consciousness. -- D.C.
nonrecurrent ::: a. --> Not recurring.
nonrecurring ::: a. --> Nonrecurrent.
OBVIOUSLY we must leave far behind us the current theory of Karma and its shallow attempt to justify the ways of the Cosmic Spirit by forcing on them a crude identity with the summary notions of law and justice, the crude and often savagely primitive methods of reward and punishment, lure and deterrent dear to the surface human mind. There is here a more authentic and spiritual truth at the base of Nature’s action and a far less mechanically calculable movement. Here is no rigid and narrow ethical law bound down to a petty human significance, no teaching of a child soul by a mixed system of blows and lollipops, no unprofitable wheel of a brutal cosmic justice automatically moved in the traces of man’s ignorant judgments and earthy desires and instincts. Life and rebirth do not follow these artificial constructions, but a movement spiritual and intimate to the deepest intention of Nature. A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul’s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law—or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception, — the truth of Karma.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 20, 13 Page: 128, 427
occurrent ::: a. --> Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental. ::: n. --> One who meets; hence, an adversary.
Anything that happens; an occurrence.
Ockhamism: A term in common use since the early 15th century, indicating doctrines and methods associated with those of the English Franciscan theologian William of Ockham (died 1349). It is currently applied by neoscholastic writers as a blanket designation for a great variety of late mediaeval and early modern attitudes such as are destructive of the metaphysical principles of Thomism, even though they may not be directly traceible to Ockham's own writings.
ohm ::: n. --> The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams
ongoing ::: n. --> The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.
On the whole, there can be distinguished two currents in the entire stream of Jewish philosophy which flowed for about five hundred years, the Oriental and the Occidental. The first was limited to the lands of the East, such as Babylonia and the neighboring countries, and the leading representatives of which were Saadia (q.v.) among the Rabbanites and Aaron ben Elijah (q.v.) among the Karaites. The second developed primarily in Spain and the Provence, and among its leading thinkers were Bahya (q.v.), Gabirol (q.v.), Maimonides (q.v.), Gersonides (q.v.) and Crescas (q.v.). Since Jewish philosophy, during a large part of its existence, was developed within the Arabic world, it consequently reflects the influence of the various systems of thought dominant within that sphere.
oscule ::: n. --> One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
osmose ::: n. --> The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.
The action produced by this tendency.
Other figures worthy of mention who fit wholly into none of the above currents of thought are Raymond Lull (+1315), an active opponent of Averroism and the inventor of the famous Ars magna which intrigued young Leibnitz; Roger Bacon (+c. 1293) who under the influence of Platonism, furthered the mathematical and experimental methods; William of Moerbeke (+1286), one of the greatest philologists of the M.A., who greatly improved the translations of Aristotelian and Neoplatonic literature by consulting directly Greek sources; the first proponents of the via moderna doctrine in Logic, William Shyreswood (+1249) and Petrus Hispanus (+1277).
overfall ::: n. --> A cataract; a waterfall.
A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.
ovulist ::: n. --> A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.
oxidator ::: n. --> An oxidizer.
A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.
pagoda ::: n. --> A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
An idol.
A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
pamphlet ::: n. --> A writing; a book.
A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest. ::: v. i. --> To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
Panaetius: (180-110 B.C.) A prominent Stoic philosopher whose thought was influenced by the Skeptics; in his attempt to adapt Stoicism to practical needs of life, he abandoned some of the more speculative notions current among his predecessors. Influenced Cicero and Augustine. -- R.B.W.
passable ::: a. --> Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
passant ::: v. i. --> Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
Curs/ry, careless.
Surpassing; excelling.
Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
patience to develop. For instance, the neutral quiet so dissatis- fying to five vital eagerness of the sadhaka is the first step towards the peace that passeth all understanding, the small current or thrill of inner delight the first trickling of the ocean of Ananda, the play of tights or colours the key of the doors of the inner vision and experience, the descent that stifTens the body into a concentrated stillness that first touch of something at the end of which is the presence of the Divine.
percurrent ::: a. --> Running through the entire length.
periodicity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.
"Perishable and transitory delight is always the symbol of the eternal Ananda, revealed and rapidly concealed, which seeks by increasing recurrence to attach itself to some typal form of experience in material consciousness. When the particular form has been perfected to express God in the type, its delight will no longer be perishable but an eternally recurrent possession of mental beings in matter manifest in their periods & often in their moments of felicity.” Essays Divine and Human*
“Perishable and transitory delight is always the symbol of the eternal Ananda, revealed and rapidly concealed, which seeks by increasing recurrence to attach itself to some typal form of experience in material consciousness. When the particular form has been perfected to express God in the type, its delight will no longer be perishable but an eternally recurrent possession of mental beings in matter manifest in their periods & often in their moments of felicity.” Essays Divine and Human
Philosophers have in the past been concerned with two questions covered by our definition, though attempts to organize the subject as an autonomous department of philosophy are of recent date. Enquiries into the origin of language (e.g. in Plato's Kratylos) once a favorite subject for speculation, are now out of fashion, both with philosophers and linguists. Enquiries as to the nature of language (as in Descartes, Leibniz, and many others) are, however, still central to all philosophical interest in language. Such questions as "What are the most general characters of symbolism?", "How is 'Language' to be defined?", "What is the essence of language?", "How is communication possible?", "What would be the nature of a perfect language?", are indicative of the varying modulations which this theme receives in the works of contemporaries. Current studies in the philosophy of language can be classified under five hends: Questions of method, relation to other disciplines, etc. Much discussion turns here upon the proposal to establish a science and art of symbolism, variously styled semiotic, semantics or logical syntax, The analysis of meaning. Problems arising here involve attention to those under the next heading. The formulation of general descriptive schemata. Topics of importance here include the identification and analysis of different ways in which language is used, and the definition of men crucial notions as "symbol'', "grammar", "form", "convention", "metaphor", etc. The study of fully formalized language systems or "calculi". An increasingly important and highly technical division which seeks to extend and adapt to all languages the methods first developed in "metamathematics" for the study of mathematical symbolism. Applications to problems in general philosophy. Notably the attempt made to show that necessary propositions are really verbal; or again, the study of the nature of the religious symbol. Advance here awaits more generally acceptable doctrine in the other divisions. References:
physiography ::: n. --> The science which treats of the earth&
pingala. ::: solar power or energy; a solar nadi or psychic nerve current which terminates in the right nostril; it is heating in its effect
plack ::: n. --> A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.
polarization ::: n. --> The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.
A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different properties in different directions.
An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is
popularly ::: adv. --> In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.
portague ::: n. --> A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
pran.ayama ::: control of the vital currents of energy in the body by pranayama regulation of the breathing.
PRaNAYAMA. ::: Regulated direction and arrestation by exer- cises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body ; control of the breath or vital force ; Yogic exercise of the con- trol of the vital forces.
Pranayama ::: …regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 530
pranayama ::: the government and control of the respiration; regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.
pratikalpa (pratikalpa; prati-kalpa; prati kalpa) ::: a period of a hundred caturyugas, one tenth of a kalpa, also divided into fourteen manvantaras of several caturyugas each; each pratikalpa corresponds to one of the ten types or forms of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale, the present pratikalpa being regarded as the sixth in the current kalpa, the pratikalpa of the asura in which mind is concentrated on the buddhi.
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
present ::: adj. 1. Being, existing, occurring, or going on now, current. 2. Existing or in use at, or belonging to, the particular time under consideration n. 3. The present time, the time that now is (as opposed to the past and the future). present"s.
prevail ::: 1. To be or become effective; become dominant. 2. To be most common or frequent; be predominant; to predominate. 3. To be in force, use, or effect; be current. prevails, prevailed.
prevalent ::: a. --> Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
price ::: n. & v. --> The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
quotation ::: n. --> The act of quoting or citing.
That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.
Quota; share.
A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank
quote ::: v. t. --> To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
To name the current price of.
To notice; to observe; to examine.
To set down, as in writing.
rapid ::: a. --> Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the
rapidity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
rap ::: n. --> A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. ::: v. i.
recurrent ::: a. --> Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.
recurrent ::: occurring or coming again (esp. frequently or periodically); reappearing.
receivedness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.
recurrency ::: n. --> The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.
redeemable ::: a. --> Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.
Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.
regurgitation ::: n. --> The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance
the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.
restem ::: v. t. --> To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course.
To stem, or move against; as, to restem a current.
rheochord ::: n. --> A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
rheometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.
An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
rheometry ::: n. --> The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
The calculus; fluxions.
rheomotor ::: n. --> Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
rheophore ::: n. --> A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
rheoscope ::: n. --> An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
rheostat ::: n. --> A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
rheotome ::: n. --> An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.
rheotrope ::: n. --> An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
rhysimeter ::: n. --> An instrument, acting on the principle of Pitot&
rial ::: n. --> A Spanish coin. See Real.
A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. ::: a. --> Royal.
rip ::: n. --> A wicker fish basket.
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
rossel current ::: --> A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.
roust ::: v. t. --> To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. ::: n. --> A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
rumor ::: n. --> A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.
A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.
A prolonged, indistinct noise. ::: v. t.
Samadbi or Yogic trance retires to increasing depths accord* lag as it dran^ farther and farther away from the nonnal or waking state and enters into degrees of consciousness less and less communicable to the waking mind, less and less ready to receive a summons from the waking world. Beyond a certain point the trance becomes complete and it is then almost or quite impossible to awaken or calf back the soul that has receded into them ; it can only come back by its own will or at most by a violent shock of physical appeal dangerous to the sj'stem owing to the abrupt upheaval of return. There are said to be supreme states of trance in which the soul persisting for too long a lime cannot return ; for it loses its hold on the cord which binds it to the consciousness of life, and the body is left, maintained indeed in its set position, not dead by dissolution, but incapable of recovering the ensouled life which had rnhahifed it. finally, the Yogin acquires at a certain stage of development the power of abandoning his body definitively without the ordinary pheno- mena of death, by an act of will, or by a process of withdrawing the pranic life-force through the gate of the upward life-current
Samadhi or Yogic trance retires to increasing depths according as it draws farther and farther away from the normal or waking state and enters into degrees of consciousness less and less communicable to the waking mind, less and less ready to receive a summons from the waking world. Beyond a certain point the trance becomes complete and it is then almost or quite impossible to awaken or call back the soul that has receded into them; it can only come back by its own will or at most by a violent shock of physical appeal dangerous to the system owing to the abrupt upheaval of return. There are said to be supreme states of trance in which the soul persisting for too long a time cannot return; for it loses its hold on the cord which binds it to the consciousness of life, and the body is left, maintained indeed in its set position, not dead by dissolution, but incapable of recovering the ensouled life which had inhabited it. Finally, the Yogin acquires at a certain stage of development the power of abandoning his body definitively without the ordinary phenomena of death, by an act of will,1 or by a process of withdrawing the pranic life-force through the gate of the upward life-current (udana), opening for it a way through the mystic brahmarandhra in the head. By departure from life in the state of Samadhi he attains directly to that higher status of being to which he aspires.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 520-21
SAMANA. ::: Life-current which regulates interchange of prdtia and apana, equalises them and is the most important agent in maintaining the equilibrium of the vital forces and their func- tions.
Sarasvati (Saraswati) ::: "she of the stream, of the flowing movement"; [Ved.]: the streaming current and the word of inspiration of the Truth; the goddess of the Word; [Puranas]: the Muse and goddess of wisdom, learning and the arts and crafts.
Sarvasti-vada: (Skr.) The doctrine (vada) of Hinayana Buddhism according to which "all is" (sarvam asti), or all is real, that which was, currently is, and will be but now is, potentially. -- K.F.L.
sawyer ::: n. --> One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
The bowfin.
Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott: (1864-1937), unwilling to accept the idealism current at Oxford in his day on grounds that it was "absolutist", sought by a metaphysical pluralism not only to account for the unity and multiplicity of things, but also to furnish the basis for evolution theory. His developed philosophical position was generally known as "personal idealism", or "humanism", though it was closely akin to the pragmatism of William James. The kinship may be seen in Schiller's thesis that a theory of knowledge cannot be formed by abstracting from man's total experience, and may be seen further in his advocacy of the "logic of discovery" over the "logic of proof." Main works: Riddles of the Sphinx, 1891; Humanism, 1903; Logic For Use, 1930. -- C.K.D.
Scottish philosophy: Name applied to the current of thought originated by the Scottish thinker, Thomas Reid (1710-1796), and disseminated by his followers as a reaction against the idealism of Berkeley and empiricism and skepticism of Hume. Its most salient characteristic is the doctrine of common sense, a natural instinct by virtue of which men are prompted to accept certain fundamental principles as postulates without giving a reason for their truth. Reason is subordinated to the role of a servant or able assistant of common sense. Philosophy must be grounded on common sense, and skepticism is a consequence of abandoning its guidance. -- J.J.R.
scour ::: v. t. --> To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
To purge; as, to scour a horse.
To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.
septemfluous ::: a. --> Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents.
setback ::: n. --> Offset, n., 4.
A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
setting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Set ::: n. --> The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does;
shade ::: n. --> Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.
An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents
shoot ::: n. --> An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.
The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
A young branch or growth.
slacken ::: a. --> To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
To abate; to become less violent.
To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
smokejack ::: n. --> A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
snoring ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Snore ::: n. --> The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.
solenoid ::: n. --> An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.
Speculation in Jewry rose again in the ninth century in the lands of the East, particularly in Babylonia, when Judaism once more met Greek philosophy, this time dressed in Arabic garb. The philosophic tradition of the ancients transmitted through the Syrians, to the young Arabic nation created a disturbance in the minds of the devotees of the Koran who, testing its principles by the light of the newly acquired wisdom, found them often wanting. As a result, various currents of thought were set in motion. Of these, the leading was the Kalamitic or the Mutazilite philosophy, (q.v.) of several shades, the general aim ot which was both to defend doctrines of religion against heresies and also to reconcile them with the principles of reason.
spermist ::: n. --> A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
Sri Aurobindo: "History teaches us nothing; it is a confused torrent of events and personalities or a kaleidoscope of changing institutions. We do not seize the real sense of all this change and this continual streaming forward of human life in the channels of Time. What we do seize are current or recurrent phenomena, facile generalisations, partial ideas. We talk of democracy, aristocracy and autocracy, collectivism and individualism, imperialism and nationalism, the State and the commune, capitalism and labour; we advance hasty generalisations and make absolute systems which are positively announced today only to be abandoned perforce tomorrow; we espouse causes and ardent enthusiasms whose triumph turns to an early disillusionment and then forsake them for others, perhaps for those that we have taken so much trouble to destroy. For a whole century mankind thirsts and battles after liberty and earns it with a bitter expense of toil, tears and blood; the century that enjoys without having fought for it turns away as from a puerile illusion and is ready to renounce the depreciated gain as the price of some new good. And all this happens because our whole thought and action with regard to our collective life is shallow and empirical; it does not seek for, it does not base itself on a firm, profound and complete knowledge. The moral is not the vanity of human life, of its ardours and enthusiasms and of the ideals it pursues, but the necessity of a wiser, larger, more patient search after its true law and aim.” *The Human Cycle etc.
*Sri Aurobindo: "Pleasure, joy and delight, as man uses the words, are limited and occasional movements which depend on certain habitual causes and emerge, like their opposites pain and grief which are equally limited and occasional movements, from a background other than themselves. Delight of being is universal, illimitable and self-existent, not dependent on particular causes, the background of all backgrounds, from which pleasure, pain and other more neutral experiences emerge. When delight of being seeks to realise itself as delight of becoming, it moves in the movement of force and itself takes different forms of movement of which pleasure and pain are positive and negative currents.” The Life Divine*
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Spiritual force has its own concreteness; it can take a form (like a stream, for instance) of which one is aware and can send it quite concretely on whatever object one chooses. This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness. But there is also such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or vital — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there are mind-waves, thought-currents, waves of emotion, — for example, anger, sorrow, etc., — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him.” Letters on Yoga
srotas ::: stream, current.
stagnant ::: a. --> That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.
Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
stasis ::: n. --> A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart&
stem ::: v. i. --> Alt. of Steem
To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. ::: n. --> Alt. of Steem
The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind;
stereoelectric ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.
stopping ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Stop ::: n. --> Material for filling a cavity.
A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a
Strauss, David Friedrich: (1808-1874) German philosopher who received wide popularity and condemnation for his Life of Jesus. He held that the unity of God and man is not realized in Christ but in mankind itself and in its history. This relation, he believed, was immanent and not transcendent. His numerous writings displayed many currents from Hegelianism and Darwinism to a pantheism that approaches atheism and then back to a naturalism that clings devoutly to an inward religious experience. Main works: Das Leben Jesu, 1835; Die Christliche Dogmatik, 1840; Der alte u. d. neue Glaube, 1872. -- L.E.D.
stream ::: n. --> A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
A beam or ray of light.
Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of
SUBTLE FORCES. ::: There is such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or siral — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there arc waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there arc mind-waves, ihought*currcnts. waves of emotion, ~ for example, anger, sorrow, etc. — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invad> ing him. Influences good or bad can propagate themsefves in that way ::: chat can happen without Intention and naturally, but also a deliberate use can be made of them. There can also be a power- ful generation of force, spiritual or other. There can be too the use of the effective will or idea acting directly without the aid of any outward action, speech or other instrumentation which is not concrete in that sense, but is all the same effective.
susumna ::: &
Svaraj: (Skr.) self-rule, self-determination, currently a designation of the home rule movement in India. -- K.F.L.
tachometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.
An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.
An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum
Tantra: (Skr.) One of a large number of treatises reflecting non-indogermanic Hindu and Mongolian influence, composed in the form of diaogues between Shiva (q.v.) and Durga (see Sakti) on problems of ritual, magic, philosophy, and other branches of knowledge. The Tantras, outside the main current of Vedic (q.v.) thinking yet sharing many of the deepest speculations, stress cult and teach the supremacy of the female principle as power or sakti (see Shaktism). -- K.F.L.
tasimer ::: n. --> An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.
tempest ::: n. --> An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
temporize ::: v. t. --> To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
To delay; to procrastinate.
To comply; to agree.
"The Absolute neither creates nor is created, — in the current sense of making or being made; we can speak of creation only in the sense of the Being becoming in form and movement what it already is in substance and status.” *The Life Divine
“The Absolute neither creates nor is created,—in the current sense of making or being made; we can speak of creation only in the sense of the Being becoming in form and movement what it already is in substance and status.” The Life Divine
The awakening of the Kundalini Power is felt as a descending and an ascending current. There ore two main nerve-channels for the currents, one on each side of the central channel In the spine. The descending coirem Is the energy from the above coming down to touch the sleeping Power io the lowest nerve- centre at the bottom of (he spine ::: (he ascending current is the release of the energy going up from the awakened Kundalini.
The differences begin when the questions of the mode of creation and mediators between God and the world are dealt with. In these matters there are to be noted three variations. Saadia rejected entirely the theory of the emanation of separate intelligences, and teaches God's creation from nothing of all beings in the sublunar and upper worlds. He posits that God created first a substratum or the first air which was composed of the hyle and form and out of this element all beings were created, not only the four elements, the components of bodies in the lower world, but also the angels, stars, and the spheres. Bahya's conception is similar to that of Saadia. The Aristotelians, Ibn Daud, Maimonides, and Gersonides accepted the theory of the separate intelligences which was current in Arabic philosophy. This theory teaches that out of the First Cause there emanated an intelligence, and out of this intelligence another one up to nine, corresponding to the number of spheres. Each of these intelligences acts as the object of the mind of a sphere and is the cause of its movement. The tenth intelligence is the universal intellect, an emanation of all intelligences which has in its care the sublunar world. This theory is a combination of Aristotelian and neo-PIatonic teachings; Ibn Daud posits, however, in addition to the intelligences also the existence of angels, created spiritual beings, while Maimonides seems to identify the angels with the intelligences, and also says that natural forces are also called angels in the Bible. As for creation, Ibn Daud asserts that God created the hyle or primal matter and endowed it with general form from which the specific forms later developed. Maimonides seems to believe that God first created a substance consisting of primal matter and primal form, and that He determined by His will that parts of it should form the matter of the spheres which is imperishable, while other parts should form the matter of the four elements. These views, however, are subject to various interpretations by historians. Gabirol and Gersonides posit the eternal existence of the hyle and limit creation to endowing it with form and organization -- a view close to the Platonic.
“The Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other, by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character.” The Synthesis of Yoga
The position taken is that investigation reveals basic, recurrent patterns of change, expressible as laws of materialist dialectics, which are seen as relevant to every level of existence, and, because validated by past evidence, as indispensable hypotheses in guiding further investigation. These are Law of interpenetration, unity and strife of opposites. (All existences, being complexes of opposing elements and forces, have the character of a changing unity. The unity is considered temporary, relative, while the process of change, expressed by interpenetration and strife, is continuous, absolute.) Law of transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa. (The changes which take place in nature are not merely quantitative; their accumulation eventually precipitates new qualities in a transition which appears as a sudden leap in comparison to the gradualness of the quantitative changes up to that point. The new quality is considered as real as the original quality. It is not mechanically reducible to it it is not merely a larger amount of the former quality, but something into which that has developed.) Law of negation of negation. (The series of quantitative changes and emerging qualities is unending. Each state or phase of development is considered a synthesis which resolves the contradictions contained in the preceding synthesis and which generates its own contradictions on a different qualitative level.) These laws, connecting ontology with logic, are contrasted to the formalistic laws of identity, difference and excluded middle of which they are considered qualitatively enriched reconstructions. Against the ontology of the separateness and self-identity of each thing, the dialectical laws emphasize the interconnectedness of all things and self-development of each thing. An A all parts of which are always becoming non-A may thus be called non-A as well as A. The formula, A is A and cannot be non-A, becomes, A is A and also non-A, that is, at or during the same instant: there is no instant, it is held, during which nothing happens. The view taken is that these considerations apply as much to thought and concepts, as to things, that thought is a process, that ideas gain their logical content through interconnectedness with other ideas, out of and into which they develop.
thermocurrent ::: n. --> A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
thermoelectric ::: a. --> Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
thermoelectrometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.
thermopile ::: n. --> An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat.
The second broad current of thought is Latin Averroism. This movement, accepting Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle and his doctrine of separated orders of truth, gave birth to the two-truth theory which eventually led to rationalism and which together with nominalism brought about the first decline of Scholasticism. The main proponents of this period were Siger of Brabant (+1282), Boece of Dacie and perhaps Bernier of Nivelles.
"The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake,—therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti,—in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
::: "This conception of the Person and Personality, if accepted, must modify at the same time our current ideas about the immortality of the soul; for, normally, when we insist on the soul"s undying existence, what is meant is the survival after death of a definite unchanging personality which was and will always remain the same throughout eternity. It is the very imperfect superficial I'' of the moment, evidently regarded by Nature as a temporary form and not worth preservation, for which we demand this stupendous right to survival and immortality. But the demand is extravagant and cannot be conceded; theI"" of the moment can only merit survival if it consents to change, to be no longer itself but something else, greater, better, more luminous in knowledge, more moulded in the image of the eternal inner beauty, more and more progressive towards the divinity of the secret Spirit. It is that secret Spirit or divinity of Self in us which is imperishable, because it is unborn and eternal. The psychic entity within, its representative, the spiritual individual in us, is the Person that we are; but the I'' of this moment, theI"" of this life is only a formation, a temporary personality of this inner Person: it is one step of the many steps of our evolutionary change, and it serves its true purpose only when we pass beyond it to a farther step leading nearer to a higher degree of consciousness and being. It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless Spirit into the terms of Time.” The Life Divine
“This conception of the Person and Personality, if accepted, must modify at the same time our current ideas about the immortality of the soul; for, normally, when we insist on the soul’s undying existence, what is meant is the survival after death of a definite unchanging personality which was and will always remain the same throughout eternity. It is the very imperfect superficial I’’ of the moment, evidently regarded by Nature as a temporary form and not worth preservation, for which we demand this stupendous right to survival and immortality. But the demand is extravagant and cannot be conceded; theI’’ of the moment can only merit survival if it consents to change, to be no longer itself but something else, greater, better, more luminous in knowledge, more moulded in the image of the eternal inner beauty, more and more progressive towards the divinity of the secret Spirit. It is that secret Spirit or divinity of Self in us which is imperishable, because it is unborn and eternal. The psychic entity within, its representative, the spiritual individual in us, is the Person that we are; but the I’’ of this moment, theI’’ of this life is only a formation, a temporary personality of this inner Person: it is one step of the many steps of our evolutionary change, and it serves its true purpose only when we pass beyond it to a farther step leading nearer to a higher degree of consciousness and being. It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless Spirit into the terms of Time.” The Life Divine
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
“To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote ’His anger climbed against me in a stream’, it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
torpedo ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will
torrent ::: n. --> A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
transformer ::: n. --> One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
trapdoor ::: n. --> A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Tt is a spontaneous uprush of the whole 1^-c^tmS'ltousncss sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in n less conerc v
twig ::: a young shoot representing the current season"s growth of a woody plant.
UDANA. ::: Life-current that moves upward from the body to the crown of the head, a regular channel of communication bet- ween the physical life and the greater life of the spirit/
uncurrent ::: a. --> Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; as, uncurrent notes.
undercurrent ::: n. --> A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly shown; an unseen influence or tendency; as, a strong undercurrent of sentiment in favor of a prisoner. ::: a.
underset ::: v. t. --> To prop or support. ::: n. --> Undercurrent.
undertone ::: 1. A low or subdued tone. 2. An underlying tone (of feeling, etc.); a subordinate or unobtrusive quality or element; an undercurrent. undertones.
undertow ::: n. --> The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
upstream ::: adv. --> Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
vaidyutam ::: electricity; the "electric energy" of the life-force (pran.a) whose currents are felt "vibrating up and down the nerves".
vampire ::: n. --> A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
Either one of two or more species of South American
vayu. ::: the air element; air current related to the "airy" vital forces of the body; vedic God of the wind; the vayus or air currents exist both in the physical and subtle bodies, functioning through the body, mind and senses &
volant ::: a. --> Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.
Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid.
Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant.
volta-electrometer ::: n. --> An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
voltaic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
volt ::: n. --> A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard
VYANA. ::: Life-current which is pervasive, distributes the vital energies throughout the body.
water wing ::: --> One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
wattmeter ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.
weathercock ::: n. --> A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.
Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. ::: v. t.
weber ::: n. --> The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp/re.
"When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions — false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience — which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine ::: *life"s, life-born, life-curve, life-delight"s, life-drift, life-foam, life-giving, life-impulse, life-impulse"s, life-motives, life-nature"s, life-pain, life-plan, life-power, life-room, life-scene, life-self, life-thought, life-wants, all-life, sense-life.
“When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions—false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience—which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine
While continuants are collections or sets of occurrents, every collection of occurrents does not constitute a continuant, but only those possessing a certain type of unity. This unity is not an "unknown somewhat" supporting the observable properties; nor does it imply the permanence of any given property. Rather it is a "causal unity of connection between its temporarally or spatially separated manifestations" (Ibid., III, p. 99).
While not abandoning its interest in beauty, artistic value, and other normative concepts, recent aesthetics has tended to lay increasing emphasis on a descriptive, factual approach to the phenomena of art and aesthetic experience. It differs from art history, archeology, and cultural history in stressing a theoretical organization of materials in terms of recurrent types and tendencies, rather than a chronological or genetic one. It differs from general psychology in focusing upon certain selected phases in psycho-physical activity, and on their application to certain types of objects and situations, especially those of art. It investigates the forms and characteristics of art, which psychology does not do. It differs from art criticism in seeking a more general, theoretical understanding of the arts than is usual in that subject, and in attempting a more consistently objective, impersonal attitude. It maintains a philosophic breadth, in comparing examples of all the arts, and in assembling data and hypotheses from many sources, including philosophy, psychology, cultural history, and the social sciences. But it is departing from traditional conceptions of philosophy in that writing labelled "aesthetics" now often includes much detailed, empirical study of particular phenomena, instead of restricting itself as formerly to abstract discussion of the meaning of beauty, the sublime, and other categories, their objective or subjective nature, their relation to pleasure and moral goodness, the purpose of art, the nature of aesthetic value, etc. There has been controversy over whether such empirical studies deserve to be called "aesthetics", or whether that name should be reserved for the traditional, dialectic or speculative approach; but usage favors the extension in cases where the inquiry aims at fairly broad generalizations.
whirlpool ::: a rapidly rotating current of water often causing a downward spiralling action; a vortex.
whirlpool ::: n. --> An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
A sea monster of the whale kind.
whirlwind ::: n. --> A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
Whitehead, Alfred North: British philosopher. Born in 1861. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911-14. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College, London, 1914-24. Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. From 1924 until retirement in 1938, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Among his most important philosophical works are the Principia Mathematica, 3 vols. (1910-13) (with Bertrand Russell; An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919); The Concept of Nature (1920); Science and the Modern World (1926); Religion tn the Making (1926); Symbolism (1928); Process and Reality (1929); and Adventures of Ideas (1933). The principle of relativity in physics is the key to the understanding of metaphysics. Whitehead opposes the current philosophy of static substance having qualities which he holds to be based on the simply located material bodies of Newtonian physics and the "pure sensations" of Hume. This 17th century philosophy depends upon a "bifurcation of nature" into two unequal systems of reality on the Cartesian model of mind and matter. The high abstractions of science must not be mistaken for concrete realities. Instead, Whitehead argues that there is only one reality, what appears, whatever is given in perception, is real. There is nothing existing beyond what is present in the experience of subjects, understanding by subject any actual entity. There are neither static concepts nor substances in the world; only a network of events. All such events are actual extensions or spatio-temporal unities. The philosophy of organism, as Whitehead terms his work, is based upon the patterned process of events. All things or events are sensitive to the existence of all others; the relations between them consisting in a kind of feeling. Every actual entity is then a "prehensive occasion", that is, it consists of all those active relations with other things into which it enters. An actual entity is further determined by "negative prehension", the exclusion of all that which it is not. Thus every feeling is a positive prehension, every abstraction a negative one. Every actual entity is lost as an individual when it perishes, but is preserved through its relations with other entities in the framework of the world. Also, whatever has happened must remain an absolute fact. In this sense, past events have achieved "objective immortality". Except for this, the actual entities are involved in flux, into which there is the ingression of eternal objects from the realm of possibilities. The eternal objects are universals whose selection is necessary to the actual entities. Thus the actual world is a certain selection of eternal objects. God is the principles of concretion which determines the selection. "Creativity" is the primal cause whereby possibilities are selected in the advance of actuality toward novelty. This movement is termed the consequent nature of God. The pure possibility of the eternal objects themsehes is termed his primordial nature. -- J.K.F.
Within the context of these views there is evidently allowance for divergent doctrines, but certain general tendencies can be noticed. The metaphysics of naturalism is always monistic and if any teleological element is introduced it is emergent. Man is viewed as coordinate with other parts of nature, and naturalistic psychology emphasizes the physical basis of human behavior; ideas and ideals are largely treated as artifacts, though there is disagreement as to the validity to be assigned them. The axiology of naturalism can seek its values only within the context of human character and experience, and must ground these values on individual self-realization or social utility; though again there is disagreement as to both the content and the final validity of the values there discovered. Naturalistic epistemologies have varied between the extremes of rationalism and positivism, but they consistently limit knowledge to natural events and the relationships holding between them, and so direct inquiry to a description and systematization of what happens in nature. The beneficent task that naturalism recurrently performs is that of recalling attention from a blind absorption in theory to a fresh consideration of the facts and values exhibited in nature and life.
world-Mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other, by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character.” The Synthesis of Yoga
xeriff ::: n. --> A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in Morocco, a ducat.
yuga. ::: age or cycle in which we keep circulating one after another; aeon; world era; a several million year long period of hindu cosmology which is subdivided into four smaller units &
KEYS (10k)
7 Sri Aurobindo
2 Alfred North Whitehead
1 Tsongkapa
1 Tenzin Gyatso
1 Swami Turiyananda
1 Sri Aurobindo
1 Robert F. Kennedy
1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 Paramahansa Yogananda
1 Noam Chomsky
1 Mitsugi Saotome
1 Masaaki Hatsumi
1 Mary Midgley
1 Ken Wilber?
1 Hermes: On Rebirth
1 F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 Emerson
1 Donna Quesada
1 Dhammapada
1 Sri Ramana Maharshi
1 Ogawa
NEW FULL DB (2.4M)
36 Anonymous
11 Paulo Coelho
10 Frederick Lenz
9 Toba Beta
8 Terry Pratchett
8 Neil Gaiman
7 Dean Koontz
6 Rumi
6 John Green
6 Daniel Kahneman
6 Cal Newport
5 Tony Robbins
5 Lisa Kleypas
5 Jordan Peterson
5 Jordan B Peterson
5 Henry David Thoreau
5 Esther Hicks
5 Albert Einstein
4 William Shakespeare
4 Suzanne Collins
1:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, #KEYS
2:Strive forcefully, cross the current. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
3:... almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing. (575) ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #KEYS
4:rhythm
a current from the divine
flooding your body
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
5:When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation." ~ Donna Quesada, #KEYS
6:A civilisation which cannot burst through its current abstractions is doomed to sterility after a very limited period of progress. (575) ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #KEYS
7:He alone traverses the current of the illusion who comes face to face with the Eternal and realises it. ~ Hermes: On Rebirth, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
8:Learn to grow love for God. Take delight in thinking of Him. Then dispassion, discrimination—all the virtues—will come to you naturally. Let the current of your thought go to Him always. Feel that you have no other refuge but God. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
9:Removing spirit from the Cartesian system makes serious trouble... The concept of the natural world was originally tailored to fit the current supernatural one. It does not make sense on its own. In some ways, it is only a shadow of its supernatural partner. ~ Mary Midgley, #KEYS
10:Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which human blood is decarbonated and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centres. By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #KEYS
11:There is no fact in Science which may not tomorrow be turned into ridicule...The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religions of the peoples, the customs and ethics of humanity are all at the mercy of a new generalisation. The generalisation is always a new current of the divine in the spirit. ~ Emerson, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
12:It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy, #KEYS
13:It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider such periods as an omen before you move. When you are stuck on something, it is important to hold to your purpose but not press onward against the current. When you can't move at all, try to concentrate, continuing forward as if in a boat switching to a stronger motor. The keiko that is most important when you cannot move is kage no keiko [shadow training]. ~ Masaaki Hatsumi, #KEYS
14:Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is estimated to be over $1.45 trillion. There are ample resources for that simply from waste, including the bloated military and the enormous concentrated private wealth that has accumulated in the financial and general corporate sector under neoliberal policies. There is no economic reason why free education cannot flourish from schools through colleges and university. The barriers are not economic but rather political decisions. ~ Noam Chomsky, #KEYS
15:Vainly the sands of Time have been strewn with the ruins of empires,
Signs that the gods had left, but in vain. For they look for a nation,
One that can conquer itself having conquered the world, but they find none. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Ilion
Self-conquest
When one conquers a difficulty or goes forward, it creates a right current in the atmosphere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: The Right Attitude towards Difficulties
Self-Conquest
Self-denial is a necessary discipline for the soul of man, because his heart is ignorantly attached. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation,#KEYS
16:If renunciation is not embraced
By the pure motivation of bodhicitta,
It will not become a cause for the perfect bliss of unsurpassed awakening,
So the wise should generate supreme bodhicitta.
Beings are swept along by the powerful current of the four rivers,
Tightly bound by the chains of their karma, so difficult to undo,
Ensnared within the iron trap of their self-grasping,
And enshrouded in the thick darkness of ignorance.
Again and yet again, they are reborn in limitless saṃsāra,
And constantly tormented by the three forms of suffering.
This is the current condition of all your mothers from previous lives—
Contemplate their plight and generate supreme bodhichitta. ~ Tsongkapa,#KEYS
17:Visitor. I am taught that Mantra Japam is very potent in practice.
Bhagavan. The Self is the greatest of all mantras and goes on automatically and eternally. If you are not aware of this internal mantra, you should take to do it consciously as japam, which is attended with effort, to ward off all other thoughts.
By constant attention to it, you will eventually become aware of the internal mantra, which is the state of Realisation and is effortless. Firmness in this awareness will keep you continually and effortlessly in the current, however much you may be engaged on other activities.
Listening to Veda chanting and mantras has the same result as conscious repetitions of japam - its rhythm is the japam. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,#KEYS
18: There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distri bute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, 1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #KEYS
19:The personal will of the sadhaka has first to seize on the egoistic energies and turn them towards the light and the right; once turned, he has still to train them to recognise that always, always to accept, always to follow that. Progressing, he learns, still using the personal will, personal effort, personal energies, to employ them as representatives of the higher Power and in conscious obedience to the higher Influence. Progressing yet farther, his will, effort, energy become no longer personal and separate, but activities of that higher Power and Influence at work in the individual. But there is still a sort of gulf or distance which necessitates an obscure process of transit, not always accurate, sometimes even very distorting, between the divine Origin and the emerging human current. At the end of the process, with the progressive disappearance of egoism and impurity and ignorance, this last separation is removed; all in the individual becomes the divine working. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, #KEYS
20:Supermind, on the other hand, as a basic structure-rung (conjoined with nondual Suchness) can only be experienced once all the previous junior levels have emerged and developed, and as in all structure development, stages cannot be skipped. Therefore, unlike Big Mind, supermind can only be experienced after all 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-tier junior stages have been passed through. While, as Genpo Roshi has abundantly demonstrated, Big Mind state experience is available to virtually anybody at almost any age (and will be interpreted according to the View of their current stage), supermind is an extremely rare recognition. Supermind, as the highest structure-rung to date, has access to all previous structures, all the way back to Archaic-and the Archaic itself, of course, has transcended and included, and now embraces, every major structural evolution going all the way back to the Big Bang. (A human being literally enfolds and embraces all the major transformative unfoldings of the entire Kosmic history-strings to quarks to subatomic particles to atoms to molecules to cells, all the way through the Tree of Life up to its latest evolutionary emergent, the triune brain, the most complex structure in the known natural world.) Supermind, in any given individual, is experienced as a type of omniscience-the supermind, since it transcends and includes all of the previous structure-rungs, and inherently is conjoined with the highest nondual Suchness state, has a full and complete knowledge of all of the potentials in that person. It literally knows all, at least for the individual.
~ Ken Wilber?,#KEYS
21:For invincible reasons of homogeneity and coherence, the fibers of cosmogenesis require to be prolonged in ourselves far more deeply than flesh and bone. We are not being tossed about and drawn along in the vital current merely by the material surface of our being. But like a subtle fluid, space-time, having drowned our bodies, penetrates our soul. It fills it and impregnates it. It mingles with its powers, until the soul soon no longer knows how to distinguish space-time from its own thoughts. Nothing can escape this flux any longer, for those who know how to see, even though it were the summit of our being, because it can only be defined in terms of increases of consciousness. For is not the very act by which the fine point of our mind penetrates the absolute a phenomenon of emergence? In short, recognized at first in a single point of things, then inevitably having spread to the whole of the inorganic and organic volume of matter, whether we like it or not evolution is now starting to invade the psychic zones of the world.... The human discovers that, in the striking words of Julian Huxley, we are nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself. It seems to me that until it is established in this perspective, the modern mind...will always be restless. For it is on this summit and this summit alone that a resting place and illumination await us.... All evolution becomes conscious of itself deep within us.... Not only do we read the secret of its movements in our slightest acts, but to a fundamental extent we hold it in our own hands: responsible for its past and its future. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, #KEYS
22:complexity of the human constitution :::
There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 74-75,#KEYS
23:But even before that highest approach to identity is achieved, something of the supreme Will can manifest in us as an imperative impulsion, a God-driven action; we then act by a spontaneous self-determining Force but a fuller knowledge of meaning and aim arises only afterwards. Or the impulse to action may come as an inspiration or intuition, but rather in the heart and body than in the mind; here an effective sight enters in but the complete and exact knowledge is still deferred and comes, if at all, lateR But the divine Will may descend too as a luminous single command or a total perception or a continuous current of perception of what is to be done into the will or into the thought or as a direction from above spontaneously fulfilled by the lower members. When the Yoga is imperfect, only some actions can be done in this way, or else a general action may so proceed but only during periods of exaltation and illumination. When the Yoga is perfect, all action becomes of this character. We may indeed distinguish three stages of a growing progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have to seek or wait for the divine inspiration and guidance and do not always find or receive it. The second is the stage when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels. In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is the same, a spontaneous working of Prakriti no longer through or for the ego but at the will and for the enjoyment of the supreme Purusha. At a higher level this becomes the Truth of the absolute and universal Supreme expressed through the individual soul and worked out consciously through the nature, - no longer through a half-perception and a diminished or distorted effectuation by the stumbling, ignorant and all-deforming energy of lower nature in us but by the all-wise transcendent and universal Mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 218, #KEYS
24:Coded Language
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY
SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
~ Saul Williams,#KEYS
25:CHAPTER XIII
OF THE BANISHINGS: AND OF THE PURIFICATIONS.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The wand is not a wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
That is a mere logical commonplace: in magick one must go much farther than this. One finds one's analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It is useless to plead that in all those miles of wire there is only one-hundredth of an inch unprotected. It is no good building a ship if the water can enter, through however small a hole.
That first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
If one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the Mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his consciousness remains on exactly the same level as the Stockbroker's. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it.> {101}
The Magician must therefore take the utmost care in the matter of purification, "firstly", of himself, "secondly", of his instruments, "thirdly", of the place of working. Ancient Magicians recommended a preliminary purification of from three days to many months. During this period of training they took the utmost pains with diet. They avoided animal food, lest the elemental spirit of the animal should get into their atmosphere. They practised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to the excrements of the body they were equally careful; in trimming the hair and nails, they ceremonially destroyed> the severed portion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anything extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by special prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servitors were disciples specially chosen and consecrated for the work.
In modern times our superior understanding of the essentials of this process enables us to dispense to some extent with its external rigours; but the internal purification must be even more carefully performed. We may eat meat, provided that in doing so we affirm that we eat it in order to strengthen us for the special purpose of our proposed invocation.> {102}
By thus avoiding those actions which might excite the comment of our neighbours we avoid the graver dangers of falling into spiritual pride.
We have understood the saying: "To the pure all things are pure", and we have learnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat meat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine ourselves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose.
It is ceremonially desirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, and accordingly the first operation in any actual ceremony is bathing and robing, with appropriate words. The bath signifies the removal of all things extraneous to antagonistic to the one thought. The putting on of the robe is the positive side of the same operation. It is the assumption of the fame of mind suitable to that one thought.
A similar operation takes place in the preparation of every instrument, as has been seen in the Chapter devoted to that subject. In the preparation of theplace of working, the same considerations apply. We first remove from that place all objects; and we then put into it those objects, and only those {103} objects, which are necessary. During many days we occupy ourselves in this process of cleansing and consecration; and this again is confirmed in the actual ceremony.
The cleansed and consecrated Magician takes his cleansed and consecrated instruments into that cleansed and consecrated place, and there proceeds to repeat that double ceremony in the ceremony itself, which has these same two main parts. The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second, the invoking. The same formula is repeated even in the ceremony of banishing itself, for in the banishing ritual of the pentagram we not only command the demons to depart, but invoke the Archangels and their hosts to act as guardians of the Circle during our pre-occupation with the ceremony proper.
In more elaborate ceremonies it is usual to banish everything by name. Each element, each planet, and each sign, perhaps even the Sephiroth themselves; all are removed, including the very one which we wished to invoke, for that force ... ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
26:To what gods shall the sacrifice be offered? Who shall be invoked to manifest and protect in the human being this increasing godhead?
Agni first, for without him the sacrificial flame cannot burn on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the chariot of the Ashwins, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
The development of all these godheads is necessary to our perfection. And that perfection must be attained on all our levels, - in the wideness of earth, our physical being and consciousness; in the full force of vital speed and action and enjoyment and nervous vibration, typified as the Horse which must be brought forward to upbear our endeavour; in the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind throughout our intellectual and psychical being; in the coming of the supramental Light, the Dawn and the Sun and the shining Mother of the herds, to transform all our existence; for so comes to us the possession of the Truth, by the Truth the admirable surge of the Bliss, in the Bliss infinite Consciousness of absolute being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Doctrine of the Mystics,#KEYS
27:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
28:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:The current tax code is a daily mugging. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 2:Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 3:I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 4:Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 5:Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 6:Medical Essays & 7:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 8:All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 9:He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 10:Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove 11:When I worry, it’s patterns of old thought that has nothing to do with my current reality. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 12:All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 13:Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 14:Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 15:I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 16:In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 17:Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 18:No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 19:Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 20:How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 21:We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 22:All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 23:Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 24:Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 25:Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 26:The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 27:You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 28:Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 29:If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 30:Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 31:Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 32:The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 33:I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 34:Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they? ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 35:Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 36:Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 37:Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 38:When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 39:Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 40:He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 41:A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 42:The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 43:In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march... ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 44:Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 45:Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 46:Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 47:Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 48:Review your mission statement, roles and goals, and current weekly plan. What are your top three priorities for this week? These are your Quadrant II activities? ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 49:All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 50:I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 51:It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 52:A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 53:In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 54:You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 55:I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 56:Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than to tyrannize us. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 57:A strong, clear vision holds the power to transcend your current reality, bypassing the day-to-day challenges that might be keeping you stuck where you are. What is your vision? ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 58:The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 59:Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 60:I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain. ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 61:Review Projects (and Larger Outcome) Lists: Evaluate the status of projects, goals, and outcomes one by one, ensuring that at least one current kick-start action for each is in your system. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 62:To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 63:I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 64:Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 65:Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 66:Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working? ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 67:Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 68:Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 69:The Weekly Review is the time to: Gather and process all your stuff. Review your system. Update your lists. Get clean, clear, current, and complete. You have to use your mind to get things off your mind. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 70:There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 71:Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 72:Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 73:A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 74:I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 75:The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. ~ pierre-auguste-renoir, @wisdomtrove 76:One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 77:A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 78:To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 79:As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise that energy will be lost as it expresses itself through the physical. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 80:The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 81:Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired... . Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 82:The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 83:I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 84:Honestly, when was the last time you really had nothing bothering you? Before you had your current problem, there was a different problem. And if you’re wise, you will realize that after this one’s gone, there will be another one. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 85:The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we able to know everything, because it's all written there. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 86:It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 87:Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 88:When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality... Take your energy out of what you don’t want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 89:Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into & 90:Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 91:Anger, unlike fear or sadness, is a moral emotion. It is righteous. It aims not only to end the current trespass but to repair any damage done. It also aims to prevent further trespass by disarming, imprisoning, emasculating, or killing the trespasser. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 92:The difficulty in weaning the mind from worldly thoughts, from external objects, and fixing it on God is the same as in making the Ganga flow towards Gangotri instead of its natural flow towards Ganga-Sagar. It is like rowing against the current of the Yamuna. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 93:I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 94:For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 95:Change the current of your desire from taking to giving. The passion for giving, for sharing, will naturally wash the idea of an external world out ofyour mind, and of giving as well. Only the pure radiance of love will remain, beyond giving and receiving. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 96:It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 97:On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 98:The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 99:On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 100:Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 101:If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 102:It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 103:To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves. ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 104:Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 105:If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go? ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 106:Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 107:Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 108:The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 109:By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 110:Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!" ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 111:All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 112:Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 113:One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide." ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 114:I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 115:Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 116:That which we call Personal Magnetism is the subtle current of thought‐waves, or thought‐ vibrations, projected from the human mind. Every thought created by our minds is a force of greater or lesser intensity, varying in strength according to the impetus imparted to it at the time of its creation. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 117:All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 118:Time and again I was seeing that if I could handle the winds of the current storm, they would end up blowing in some great gift…Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 119:Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 120:Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter& 121:No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 122:Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 123:Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 124:Through all your bodies and souls shines awareness, the pure light of chit. Hold on to it unswervingly. Without awareness, the body would not last a second. There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energises the body. Discover that current and stay with it. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 125:Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 126:We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing? ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 127:Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 128:All the problems you face today are going to go away, unless you worry them to stay. Problems like worry. Worry is a magnet for them. If you just "let it be," the current worrisome condition will not even be part of your life a short time from now. If you worry enough about it, however, you can be sure that it will stick around. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 129:Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 130:Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than to tyrannize us. This process doesn’t magically happen by itself. It takes energy. We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment “practice” or “meditation practice." ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 131:Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can't smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important! ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 132:Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 133:We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 134:What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 135:One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 136:Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 137:Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 138:If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 139:Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!√ä It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.√ä It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 140:What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 141:Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 142:With each statement of need and justification, you unwittingly reinforce the vibration of your current unpleasant situation, and in doing so, you continue to hold yourself out of vibrational alignment with your new desire and out of the receiving mode of what you are asking for… As long as you are more aware of what you do not want regarding a situation, what you do want cannot come to you. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 143:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 144:A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 145:There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 146:You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all - not some - all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value? ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 147:We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-action, the mode and manner of Spirit's creation, and thus is always going beyond what went before-that leaps, not crawls, to new plateaus of truth, only to leap again, dying and being reborn with each new quantum lurch, often stumbling and bruising its metaphyscical knees, yet always getting right back up and jumping yet again. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 148:The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 149:The single difference between the theory I propose and the ideas current in modern astrophysics is that I assume that an infinite conscious intelligence preexists. You cannot get away from the preexistence of something, and whether that is an ensemble of physical laws generating infinite random universes or an infinite conscious intelligence is something present-day science cannot resolve, and indeed one view is not more rational than the other. ~ bernard-haisch, @wisdomtrove 150:An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 151:Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. This is one phase of my line of thought. In time, I hope to bring them all out, but at present I find I have a mission in this country also. Moreover, I expect help in this country and from here alone. But up to date I could not do anything except spreading my ideas. Now I want that a similar attempt be made in India. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 152:No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 153:Remember to stop as often as necessary to re-connect your energy. Stay full, stay in a state of love. Remember that once you achieve the state of love, nothing nor anyone can pull more energy from you that you can replace. In fact, the energy flowing out of you creates a current that pulls energy into you at the same rate. You can never run out. But you must stay conscious of this process in order for it to work. This is especially important when you interact with people. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 154:Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society& 155:One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious. Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 156:Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 157:My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 158:Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 159:There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 160:The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 161:Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 162:For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 163:I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 164:In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 165:Scientists, for their part, need to be far more engaged with current public debates. They should not be afraid of making their voice heard when the debate wanders into their field of expertise, be it medicine or history. Silence isn’t neuatrality; it is supporting the status quo. Of course, it is extremely important to go on doing academic research and to publish the results in scientific journals that only a few experts read. But it is equally important to communicate the latest scientific theories to the general public through popular-science books, and even through the skilful use of art and fiction. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:What do the current data show? ~ Jason L Riley, #NFDB
2:from his current place of safety on ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
3:I have always tried to stay current. ~ Rick Baker, #NFDB
4:Strive forcefully, cross the current. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
5:Advice, the smallest current coin. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
6:photographs freeze the current of life. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
7:The current tax code is a daily mugging. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
8:current began its pull toward the ocean, ~ Barbara Freethy, #NFDB
9:Scott Blais, and a dozen current caregivers. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
10:Given current laws, trust is our only option. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
11:So we beat on, boats against the current. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
12:Trying to keep up with current slang sucks. ~ Keith Waterhouse, #NFDB
13:Future warns us through current symptoms in nature. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
14:intends to move Harry Potter from his current place ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
15:Whatever your current state is, it can be better ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
16:This barren verbiage, current among men, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
17:If the current is right, one can drift to success. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
18:Pushing a long current of air through my nose, ~ Victoria H Smith, #NFDB
19:How will your new job differ from your current job? ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
20:Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos. ~ Adi Da, #NFDB
21:If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. ~ Alan King, #NFDB
22:Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
23:Your current thoughts are creating your future life. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
24:Memories contain hidden editorials on current events. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
25:The current days of the Internet will soon be over. ~ Rupert Murdoch, #NFDB
26:I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene. ~ Phil Collins, #NFDB
27:Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. ~ C J Mahaney, #NFDB
28:THE MOST CURRENT AND HIGH ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ATTREBUS, ~ Greg Keyes, #NFDB
29:We don't know much about our current selves, do we? ~ William Golding, #NFDB
30:Always place your becoming above your current being. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
31:there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
32:Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
33:Always place your becoming above your current being. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
34:C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good ~ Bertrand Meyer, #NFDB
35:Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? ~ Sam Shoemaker, #NFDB
36:I was floating on a river of calm, a leaf on a current. ~ Laura Whitcomb, #NFDB
37:Katrina Kaif is the Hema Malini of the current generation ~ Subhash K Jha, #NFDB
38:Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique. ~ Barry Venison, #NFDB
39:The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist. ~ Colin Cotterill, #NFDB
40:You can be a slave to current magazines or a slave to history ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
41:Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
42:To live meant feeding my former self to my current self. ~ Cameron Conaway, #NFDB
43:Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. ~ Allan Gurganus, #NFDB
44:taking on projects that were beyond his current comfort zone; ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
45:The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62. ~ John Engler, #NFDB
46:The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
47:We float like gourds on the current of the stream. ~ Mart n Felipe Castagnet, #NFDB
48:I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
49:If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. ~ Jay Inslee, #NFDB
50:It took me twenty years to hone my current definition of Gone. ~ Shinzen Young, #NFDB
51:At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
52:Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. ~ Chris Cleave, #NFDB
53:Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
54:The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
55:Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
56:Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
57:Her real name will come later, but her current code name is Petunia. ~ Mike Brown, #NFDB
58:All good coups begin with the deposing of the current leader. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
59:At current electricity prices, Yoda would be worth about $2/hour. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
60:It’s not giving up to put your current path on indefinite pause. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
61:Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems. ~ David Ignatius, #NFDB
62:The Only Thing You Ever Have Any Control of Is Your Current Thought ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
63:Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential! ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
64:Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
65:How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. ~ W G Sebald, #NFDB
66:It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation. ~ Rachel Zucker, #NFDB
67:The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. ~ Joseph Sobran, #NFDB
68:The most important were challenges that exceeded current skills. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
69:What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
70:But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
71:It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds. ~ Angela Merkel, #NFDB
72:She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
73:We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
74:What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
75:The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB
76:Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
77:He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
78:Opposition to the current ruler doesn’t make one a traitor to the state, ~ David Drake, #NFDB
79:And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
80:Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil. ~ Raghuram Rajan, #NFDB
81:The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles. ~ Scott Rigell, #NFDB
82:Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles. ~ Lamont Dozier, #NFDB
83:Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. ~ Julian Casablancas, #NFDB
84:My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. ~ Victoria Abril, #NFDB
85:on that night you told me you were the author of my current existence. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
86:The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution. ~ Abhisit Vejjajiva, #NFDB
87:Kun dode fisk flyder med strommen”—“Only dead fish swim with the current.”) ~ Rick Steves, #NFDB
88:The current age is but a brief moment in the greater scope of existence. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
89:He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. ~ Various, #NFDB
90:I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature! ~ Karen Walker, #NFDB
91:the medical profession of tomorrow will not resemble the current one at all. ~ Jean Tirole, #NFDB
92:In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. ~ Emilio Estevez, #NFDB
93:Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
94:God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
95:Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
96:Love is the only river I know whose current flows both ways.
p. 272 ~ William Kent Krueger,#NFDB
97:Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history. ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB
98:...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them. ~ Sue Miller, #NFDB
99:Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
100:It is always more difficult for the people who swim against the current, Sophia ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
101:The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
102:What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
103:YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
104:You might be a redneck if you dated your daddy's current wife in high school. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
105:It's not the current that will drown you. It's the exhaustion from fighting it. ~ Rebekah Crane, #NFDB
106:Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position. ~ Andrew Davidson, #NFDB
107:An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
108:But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
109:Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
110:Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
111:Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
112:I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
113:Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things. ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
114:Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
115:Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction. ~ Marc Guggenheim, #NFDB
116:To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. ~ Brand Blanshard, #NFDB
117:Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be. ~ Scott Jurek, #NFDB
118:One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project. ~ Katharine Ross, #NFDB
119:Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
120:The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
121:Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad. ~ Connie Sellecca, #NFDB
122:A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies... ~ Abraham Pais, #NFDB
123:Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge. ~ Jared Spool, #NFDB
124:The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB
125:There are people swimming against the current and shadows moving slowly in the deep. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
126:make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
127:man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
128:Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. ~ Jefferson Davis, #NFDB
129:The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. ~ Charles Horton Cooley, #NFDB
130:Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
131:If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
132:In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. ~ Cate Blanchett, #NFDB
133:Massey, D. (1978), ‘Regionalism: some current issues’, Capital and Class, vol. 6,106-25. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
134:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
135:Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
136:The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. ~ Simon Critchley, #NFDB
137:All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
138:But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"? ~ Joan Wickersham, #NFDB
139:He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
140:I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn. ~ LeVar Burton, #NFDB
141:Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
142:intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
143:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
144:We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction. ~ Steve Miller, #NFDB
145:For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
146:I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time. ~ Rick Mercer, #NFDB
147:My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way. ~ Ted Godwin, #NFDB
148:My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
149:Value = Current (Normal) Earnings × (8.5 plus twice the expected annual growth rate) ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
150:We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation. ~ Kyle Bass, #NFDB
151:Foamy pitchers of beer swirled over the sea of heads like flotsam caught in a current. ~ Paul Kemprecos, #NFDB
152:To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
153:When he touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
154:Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity ~ Jeanne DuPrau, #NFDB
155:News, Current News, Live Updates on India & World Nuns freed after hostage ordeal arrive ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
156:Our histories, like my father’s current body, are structures built of toothpicks. ~ William Kent Krueger, #NFDB
157:The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income. ~ Peter Greenberg, #NFDB
158:There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
159:There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life. ~ Carrie Newcomer, #NFDB
160:Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
161:Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
162:Given humanity’s current knowledge and capabilities, is it possible to build a new star? ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
163:intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
164:Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity. ~ Jeanne DuPrau, #NFDB
165:Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
166:Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
167:Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current. ~ Jimmy Heath, #NFDB
168:The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
169:The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
170:We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
171:Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. ~ Max Cannon, #NFDB
172:All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
173:And spite of all dogmas, current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
174:Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
175:Do people want to change, or are they comfortable with the current level of performance? ~ L David Marquet, #NFDB
176:In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
177:I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
178:I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. ~ Adam Clymer, #NFDB
179:Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB
180:My current option was a Waffle House full of cheerleaders and a guy dressed in Reynolds wrap. ~ John Green, #NFDB
181:On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
182:I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point. ~ Bill Watterson, #NFDB
183:Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
184:my father obsesses over everything current and cool to the point he can karaoke to Gaga, ~ Rachel Higginson, #NFDB
185:Never discount the possibility of turning up an answer none of the current theories predicts. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
186:The current of memory carried her along, futher, futher. This time, she didn't resist. ~ Marie Myung Ok Lee, #NFDB
187:The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current. ~ Henry Giroux, #NFDB
188:there are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
189:There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous. ~ Edgar Dale, #NFDB
190:You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. ~ James Clear, #NFDB
191:He is a "princeling," the relatives of current or former senior Chinese Communist Party leaders. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
192:I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book. ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
193:My aching heart was soothed; I let myself be borne upon the current of this gentle night ... ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
194:Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
195:You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
196:He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
197:Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
198:I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best. ~ Aaron Watson, #NFDB
199:I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
200:In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
201:I think it's very important to support your friends and to stay current with what's happening. ~ Gideon Glick, #NFDB
202:The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
203:You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
204:Competition in the current system is at the same time too broad, too narrow, and too local. ~ Michael E Porter, #NFDB
205:Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
206:Future you is an exaggerated version of current you.”-Levi Lusko You in Five Years Series-1/16/18 ~ Levi Lusko, #NFDB
207:I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that. ~ Bruce Bruce, #NFDB
208:“I had to let myself be carried along by the current, without a notion of where it would lead me.” ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
209:I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
210:In so doing, Clinton—more than any other president—created the current racial undercaste. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
211:recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
212:But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
213:Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners. ~ Amy Dickinson, #NFDB
214:If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
215:I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
216:Keep the change, or rather, change into these. I’m guessing your current ones are a little wet. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
217:Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila, #NFDB
218:But Jesus doesn’t want to talk about tangible rules or laws. He isn’t into current events either. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
219:If you are asking a man to predict the current of a woman’s emotions, you are asking in vain. ~ Jonathan Renshaw, #NFDB
220:Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
221:Take an expansive view of the consumers needs and expand beyond your current boundaries. ~ Michael J Silverstein, #NFDB
222:Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
223:If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no. ~ John Seagall, #NFDB
224:Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king ~ Francis A Schaeffer, #NFDB
225:My current verdict would be: Crazy Eyes. Nice Ass."
"I think I want that on my tombstone. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,#NFDB
226:CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve. ~ Nick Morgan, #NFDB
227:Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
228:I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
229:I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
230:Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. ~ Marilyn vos Savant, #NFDB
231:Personal growth must sometimes be measured by distance travelled rather than by current position ~ Andrew Davidson, #NFDB
232:Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall ~ Kimberly McCreight, #NFDB
233:The customer only knows what she thinks she wants based on her experience with the current product. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
234:Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
235:As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
236:I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. ~ Theodore Stevens, #NFDB
237:In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
238:I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current. ~ K D Lang, #NFDB
239:I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. ~ Joe Walsh, #NFDB
240:Maybe it was possible to fuck yourself to death. That would explain his current out-of-body experience. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
241:No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
242:the current ECMAScript standard proposal would bring support for class-based programming in the future, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
243:The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement. ~ Scott D Cook, #NFDB
244:The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
245:Your current situation is a platform of experience that inspires the next thought and the next. When ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
246:Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
247:Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall. ~ Kimberly McCreight, #NFDB
248:To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current. ~ Justin Nozuka, #NFDB
249:Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb. ~ Joe Sakic, #NFDB
250:I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ~ Anna Chlumsky, #NFDB
251:Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage. ~ Karrine Steffans, #NFDB
252:My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. ~ Gary Johnson, #NFDB
253:Reflecting your current reality. Dreams are fasinating, aren't they? Portholes into the subconscious. ~ Heidi R Kling, #NFDB
254:The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
255:We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
256:Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
257:Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
258:I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male. ~ Gish Jen, #NFDB
259:Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
260:One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
261:Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
262:stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. ~ Laura Lippman, #NFDB
263:The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace. ~ Orlando Bloom, #NFDB
264:There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change. ~ David Korten, #NFDB
265:the well-being of the other person is more important than the current comfort level in the relationship. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
266:Twenty percent of the workforce is already at suboptimal productivity in the current nine-to-five model. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
267:All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
268:A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
269:Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” Current ~ Aleron Kong, #NFDB
270:I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. ~ Derek Bailey, #NFDB
271:it was raining heavily outside my window, April showers, keeping the current Michigan spring gloom at bay. ~ Justin Bog, #NFDB
272:Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
273:Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu, #NFDB
274:The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election. ~ Abhisit Vejjajiva, #NFDB
275:Two inconsistent duties sever My mind with cruel shock, As when the current of a river Is split upon a rock. ~ K lid sa, #NFDB
276:You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current. ~ Ray Liotta, #NFDB
277:Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
278:I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. ~ Rick Baker, #NFDB
279:My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. ~ David Antin, #NFDB
280:Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
281:Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
282:There is more to human existence and to reality itself than current science can ever give us access to. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
283:We overpay for the opportunity to indulge our current preferences because we overestimate their stability. ~ Dan Gilbert, #NFDB
284:Debt comes from wanting more than God’s current provision for your life and arranging other ways to get it. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
285:Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
286:our current educational system was designed in the era of mass production and uses large batches extensively. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
287:When walking against the current of societies beliefs, you come to know, that you are walking the right path. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
288:Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas. ~ Reginald Hudlin, #NFDB
289:As soon as she left the attic, she was picked up and swept along by the fast-running current of her life. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
290:Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
291:If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half. ~ Nina Fedoroff, #NFDB
292:Most friendships are based on the current or former closeness not of the people but of their bodies. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
293:Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. ~ Bill Clinton, #NFDB
294:The current carries me along. I’m flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I’ve ever been. Something ~ Hillary Jordan, #NFDB
295:There is a fine article in the current Reader’s Digest with the title, “There are No Atheists in Foxholes. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
296:There is a limit where all armaments ain't strong enough to secure current world economic system and practice. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
297:There were so many forms of prehistoric technology.
Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
298:we could slam tequila shots over my current problem until we came up with a solution … or passed out trying. ~ Ann Charles, #NFDB
299:Her last boyfriend had been homicidal and her current one was oblivious to the fact that she was a vampire. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
300:I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. ~ Theodore Stevens, #NFDB
301:If you want to determine whether God loves you, don't look at your current situation; look to the cross. ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
302:I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current. ~ Steve Pink, #NFDB
303:It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband. ~ Ismail Merchant, #NFDB
304:it’s becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
305:Levi Deming, eighteen. The arrest report was several years old, putting the guy’s current age at 24. “Drug ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
306:Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
307:Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. ~ William H Calvin, #NFDB
308:enable the development of photonic computers using laser light to carry information instead of electric current. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
309:Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
310:He alone traverses the current of the illusion who comes face to face with the Eternal and realises it. ~ Hermes: On Rebirth, #NFDB
311:I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. ~ Kim Young sam, #NFDB
312:I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. ~ Peter Hammill, #NFDB
313:Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events. ~ Steven Spielberg, #NFDB
314:Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
315:The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh. ~ John Leguizamo, #NFDB
316:The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
317:We take a snapshot of our teens in their current phase and mistake it for the epic movie of their entire life. ~ Wendy Mogel, #NFDB
318:Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
319:All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
320:and finally his current self-awareness, tinged with compulsions whose origins he couldn’t access or control. ~ Annalee Newitz, #NFDB
321:But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
322:I considered all these people, current and former staff, to be family. And I was so proud of what we’d done. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
323:If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me. ~ Hanna Rosin, #NFDB
324:If your life is not going well, perhaps it is your current knowledge that is insufficient, not life itself. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
325:No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
326:On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB
327:The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
328:The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have. ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB
329:What on earth is the current morality, except in its literal sense—the morality that is always running away? ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
330:But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
331:By learning to use their current resources right, companies often find they can tip the resource hurdle outright. ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
332:In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before. ~ Deborah Tannen, #NFDB
333:I was alive and dead at the same time. I was un-dead. My current biological status was aggravatingly inconsistent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
334:The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
335:The unfairness of your current status is unimportant. What matters is, can you do what you need to do? If ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
336:When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
337:... almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing. (575) ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
338:But in her current mood, small affronts were bundled with larger disappointments and became a body of evidence. ~ Katherine Boo, #NFDB
339:Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
340:If your life is not going well, perhaps it is your current knowledge that is insufficient, not life itself. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
341:Like many men in their forties, he tended to dress in the style of his youth as if it were the current fashion. ~ Stewart O Nan, #NFDB
342:Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB
343:Without a radical shock, it seems fairly likely that the current equilibrium will persist for quite some time. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
344:You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
345:You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
346:If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
347:She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good. ~ A S King, #NFDB
348:The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results. ~ James Arthur Ray, #NFDB
349:The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
350:In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food. ~ Jami Attenberg, #NFDB
351:Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
352:People traded things all the time. Items that didn’t hold value for the current owner were priceless to another. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
353:Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now. ~ Dan Wakefield, #NFDB
354:The current leader of the free world had pissed off enough other nations that they were gunning for him en masse. ~ Shannon Mayer, #NFDB
355:First, we need to succinctly describe the current load on the system; only then can we discuss growth questions ~ Martin Kleppmann, #NFDB
356:He sees the earlier model, not the current one. It is a trick of love, she thinks. The best trick of all. ~ Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, #NFDB
357:I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB
358:I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
359:The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
360:You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. ~ Kris Kristofferson, #NFDB
361:Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
362:His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache. ~ K M Golland, #NFDB
363:I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily. ~ Lynn Hershman Leeson, #NFDB
364:It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
365:These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator. ~ Don Tapscott, #NFDB
366:The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
367:And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
368:And now the current generation threatens to unmake anyone who wishes simply to live the way that made their success. ~ Jordan M Poss, #NFDB
369:Beauty type or hair styles constantly evolve through time. Hence, a woman shouldn't be reduced to the current trends. ~ Maria Borges, #NFDB
370:[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17. ~ Will Cuppy, #NFDB
371:It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession. ~ Ha Joon Chang, #NFDB
372:On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
373:The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
374:But in Jordan, it is hard to imagine a more moderate and pro-Western regime than the current undemocratic monarchy. ~ Robert D Kaplan, #NFDB
375:Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did ~ Irving Kahn, #NFDB
376:she realized she’d have to be dead for eighteen months before she had decomposed to the current standard of fashion. ~ Whitney Dineen, #NFDB
377:Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
378:The difference between quick ratio and current ratio is that the calculation of quick ratio excludes inventory balances. ~ Mike Piper, #NFDB
379:The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
380:These women who perhaps even balk at the word survival and favor instead a far more fluctuant current: continuance. ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB
381:Chances are, no one is trying to kill you at your current job. If they are, please read a book on Krav Maga, not this one. ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
382:On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. ~ Joseph J Romm, #NFDB
383:The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong. ~ Robert Musil, #NFDB
384:If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
385:I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
386:I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
387:I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do]. ~ Annie Leonard, #NFDB
388:It is insufficient to exhort workers to try harder. Our current problems are caused by trying too hard—at the wrong things. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
389:Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. ~ John Conyers, #NFDB
390:Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
391:Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
392:Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
393:You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. ~ Benjamin Walker, #NFDB
394:AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it. ~ Ronald Graham, #NFDB
395:arrests in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s but no address and nothing that gave a clue to his current whereabouts. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
396:Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.
We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
397:Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery, ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
398:Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives. ~ William Moulton Marston, #NFDB
399:My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
400:Starke, release me or I’ll kick you in the balls.”
And that would hurt, given the current rock-hard state of that area. ~ Keri Arthur,#NFDB
401:Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence. ~ Ramez Naam, #NFDB
402:After the apology the narrative cut to the then-current chase, which seemed to be equal parts political, legal, and deranged. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
403:Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. ~ Patri Friedman, #NFDB
404:Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
405:Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about. ~ Leroy Hood, #NFDB
406:Our current societal construct demonstrates we are uncaring and largely self-centered beings driven only by our own needs ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
407:Question #3: Would being wrong create a better or a worse problem than my current problem, for both myself and others? This ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
408:The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
409:There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. ~ Geoffrey Rush, #NFDB
410:Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out. ~ Minor White, #NFDB
411:Are we paying attention to what is important, inhibiting the things that will not help or will hurt us, and keeping current? ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
412:Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
413:Keep in mind that everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody’s good idea. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
414:Magdey pledged to strip Ustar of any loot not only from the current raid but from several forthcoming ones as well. All ~ Vasily Mahanenko, #NFDB
415:The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
416:The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash. ~ Rees Howells, #NFDB
417:When life drowns you in its cruelty, you don’t know which way the current will drag you, or who you’ll be once you re-surface. ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
418:Wine has a powerful effect on the ability to speak a foreign language. In my current state, I’m certain I speak fluently. ~ Kathleen Flinn, #NFDB
419:A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
420:ALREADY I HAVE GIVEN MORE PRACTICAL ADVICE THAN MY CURRENT THERAPIST WHO IS ACTUALLY LICENSED. HOW DOES ANYONE HAVE A JOB? ~ Allison Raskin, #NFDB
421:He’d been filling up his Suburban—a feat that required a small business loan at current prices—and had missed Shanna’s call. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
422:Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current. ~ Alfred Korzybski, #NFDB
423:The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly ~ Peter M Senge, #NFDB
424:The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that. ~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, #NFDB
425:The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
426:Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
427:As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
428:As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, “In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
429:Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
430:I call this building an adaptive organization, one that automatically adjusts its process and performance to current conditions. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
431:If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures,
then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
432:I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary. ~ Sarah Vowell, #NFDB
433:Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
434:Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out."
Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult. ~ Kristin Hannah,#NFDB
435:Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
436:To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. ~ L R W Lee, #NFDB
437:We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
438:Our laughter dissolves into a crackling current that steals my breath away. Our eyes lock, and heat pools low in my belly. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
439:What the fuck?" That was me. Pete‘s not an f-word kinda guy. Me? My current record is eighty-two F-bombs in under a minute. ~ Adrienne Wilder, #NFDB
440:As the economist Herman Daly once put it: “The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
441:But believing in an afterlife totally negates your current existence. It´s like an insidious and destabilising mental illness. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
442:For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts. ~ Edmund White, #NFDB
443:have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn’t work, always know what your endgame is and where you’re going next. ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
444:Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
445:I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
446:In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell. ~ Ed Seykota, #NFDB
447:I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous ~ Robert McNamara, #NFDB
448:No matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
449:Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
450:Simon taught me to face financial needs as they arise. Never short current obligations for those you can’t even see yet. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
451:The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
452:This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes. ~ William M Gray, #NFDB
453:Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
454:Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
455:43. Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
456:But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
457:Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. ~ B C Forbes, #NFDB
458:If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
459:In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to it's own current. ~ Alyson Richman, #NFDB
460:I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
461:Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country. ~ Chuck Todd, #NFDB
462:Putting our effort into protecting rather than expanding our current worldview prevents our intellectual and emotional growth. ~ Robin DiAngelo, #NFDB
463:Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
464:And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. ~ Mark Zero, #NFDB
465:Each expressed whatever was on his or her mind at the moment and it flowed back and forth in a fast-moving current of companionship. ~ Gill Paul, #NFDB
466:Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or lengthened, or contracted, or altered. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
467:In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world’s first alternating-current power ~ Clive Cussler, #NFDB
468:I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this. ~ James Thayer, #NFDB
469:Most people look at their current state of affairs and they say, “This is who I am.” That’s not who you are. That’s who you were. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
470:Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
471:Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests. ~ Brian Tracy,#NFDB
472:And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
473:And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America. ~ Graham T Allison, #NFDB
474:If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
475:I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law. ~ Harry Hamlin, #NFDB
476:Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
477:The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
478:30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
479:As writers we have the profound privilege and responsibility to create a new world when the current one takes a turn for the worse. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
480:...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning... ~ Tamara Rose Blodgett, #NFDB
481:I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events. ~ Bob Feller, #NFDB
482:The current world record for memorizing pi is held by Chao Lu, who recited the 67,890 places of pi in 24 hours 4 seconds back in 2005. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
483:...the spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing. ~ William H Whyte, #NFDB
484:To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it. ~ Jon Jones, #NFDB
485:Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. ~ Eric Schmidt, #NFDB
486:A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
487:Before the truck had been pressed into its current role, it had been used by Ana Maria Soria’s brother’s wife’s sister’s family ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
488:History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. ~ Allan Nevins, #NFDB
489:Human race had never planned to show up in this universe.
I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
490:I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that. ~ Chris Froome, #NFDB
491:If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
492:I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments. ~ Larry Hurtado, #NFDB
493:Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
494:Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities. ~ David Allen, #NFDB
495:Thoreau’s new economics was developed in an industrial age, but his basic insights apply just as well to our current digital context. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
496:We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
497:Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
498:current. “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
499:Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best. You will be astonished at the results. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
500:I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank ~ Nancy Horan, #NFDB
501:No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
502:The current phone obsession is a disease,” Chance said. “Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots. ~ Kathy Reichs, #NFDB
503:The world might collapse into the whole space and time if you actually managed to act sexy at your current hotness level," he said. ~ Gennifer Albin, #NFDB
504:Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
505:You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
506:For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
507:He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is. ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
508:I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. ~ James Fallows, #NFDB
509:I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring. ~ Carole King, #NFDB
510:Individual clinicians’ practices tend to go unquestioned (current practice has been described as “eminence based,” not “evidence based”). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
511:only delusible idiots like our current chief executive can be persuaded to don the robes of high office. Nice guys don’t crave power.) ~ John Brunner, #NFDB
512:Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. ~ Steve Sailer, #NFDB
513:The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. ~ Giorgio Napolitano, #NFDB
514:the individual’s scoreboard should be a physical artifact in the workspace that displays the individual’s current deep work hour count. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
515:Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about. ~ Andrew S Tanenbaum, #NFDB
516:By my current count, this girl is at least three kinds of crazy, but I suspect that number will rise into the double digits soon enough. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
517:Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
518:I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore. ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
519:I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do. ~ Dylan McDermott, #NFDB
520:It's becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. -Seth Godin, Linchpin ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
521:Joke:
What did the seahorse say when the sand dollar landed on his back in the rip current?
"Hi-yo Silver! Swim-away!" :) ~ Heather Wolf,#NFDB
522:narrated Black Swans, those that are present in the current discourse and that you are likely to hear about on television, and ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
523:The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
524:The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things. ~ Andrew Dice Clay, #NFDB
525:According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current ones. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
526:According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
527:a salmon swimming upstream, thrashing against a strong current in hopes of returning to—against all odds—the creek in which he was born. ~ Dale E Basye, #NFDB
528:I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger. ~ William Kristol, #NFDB
529:If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. ~ Elizabeth Warren, #NFDB
530:I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire. ~ Vincent Piazza, #NFDB
531:I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
532:It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides. ~ Owen Jones, #NFDB
533:President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
534:The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
535:What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future. ~ David Maister, #NFDB
536:African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
537:Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. ~ Peter Coyote, #NFDB
538:I didn’t need to think of myself as a walleye drifting along in a current somewhere, just waiting for my hook. I was yearning for it. * ~ Emily Fridlund, #NFDB
539:I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend. ~ Hank Azaria, #NFDB
540:Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. ~ Annie Besant, #NFDB
541:My father is a rushing creek and anything you toss in there will be swept away, Ping-Ponging in the current and bobbing its way out to sea. ~ Jen Larsen, #NFDB
542:It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. ~ Matt Lucas, #NFDB
543:It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
544:Somewhere beneath the tides of those superficial emotions she knew the cold deep current of her grief sought to pull her down and drown her. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
545:The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War. ~ Alan Greenspan, #NFDB
546:Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness. ~ Taigen Dan Leighton, #NFDB
547:Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess ~ Frank Brady, #NFDB
548:By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. ~ John Rutledge, #NFDB
549:Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
550:For if the purpose of enlightenment is to realize freedom, part of that role has to be with the limits of our current realizations of freedom. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
551:He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
552:If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
553:Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career. ~ James Hansen, #NFDB
554:intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
555:iv. Give them ideas for how their jobs can even be better. Never forget sales rule #1: Your best future clients are your current clients. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
556:Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. ~ Alexander Rodchenko, #NFDB
557:Our current politics tell you that should you fall victim to such an assault and lose your body, it somehow must be your fault. Trayvon ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
558:The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II. ~ Naoto Kan, #NFDB
559:The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
560:Whether it’s destiny or decision that has kept us connected all these years. Or a combination of both, taking the current when it serves. ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB
561:I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
562:Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, “In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
563:The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
564:Thus, current media policy is not just about minimizing regulation, but also about introducing new – if rather soft – regulation in some areas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
565:To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins) ~ Elizabeth Spencer, #NFDB
566:A clear and current organizational chart, with some discussion, can clear up far more of the culture challenge than you might think. It’s ~ Jonathan Raymond, #NFDB
567:And no you're not that important that you must always dismiss your current company to answer whomever is on the phone. Seriously, you're not. ~ Jayce O Neal, #NFDB
568:As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass. ~ Billy Sheehan, #NFDB
569:Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously. ~ Alfie Kohn, #NFDB
570:Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB
571:I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council. ~ Bernard Kouchner, #NFDB
572:I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. ~ Neil Young, #NFDB
573:Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
574:The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
575:What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning. ~ Benjamin Bloom, #NFDB
576:A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber. ~ Harold MacMillan, #NFDB
577:In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. ~ Roberto Bolano, #NFDB
578:In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
579:Most people’s lives aren’t stories. This should have been obvious to me before now, but in my current state of mind it hits me pretty hard. ~ Maggie Mitchell, #NFDB
580:Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government. ~ Saul Landau, #NFDB
581:What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. ~ Marc Faber, #NFDB
582:Writers may not want to spend time blogging or on social networks but there is no single better way to reach out to current fans and new readers. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
583:Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
584:Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
585:In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children. ~ Joshilyn Jackson, #NFDB
586:I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
587:John cursed himself. Or rather, he
cursed the past version of himself for so
thoughtlessly screwing over the current
version of himself. ~ David Wong,#NFDB
588:My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it but there's a complete mix of 80s rubbish and current day stuff. ~ Mark Lawrenson, #NFDB
589:One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~ Shirley Ann Grau, #NFDB
590:Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. ~ Asger Jorn, #NFDB
591:The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
592:Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
593:Twice as many women were murdered by current or former male partners between 2001 and 2012 as there were troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. ~ Marcia Clark, #NFDB
594:What they don’t get is that if they hadn’t chosen their current partner, they would have wound up with the same guy wearing different pants, ~ Jennifer Coburn, #NFDB
595:When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation. ~ Donna Quesada, #NFDB
596:Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
597:Her plan was to be so comforted by the host of blessings she’d been given that when she reached the current day she’d be able to fall asleep. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
598:In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. ~ David Perlmutter, #NFDB
599:Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying. ~ Philip Berrigan, #NFDB
600:The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
601:the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
602:The Earth gave birth to life, but life also changed the Earth. The current environment on our planet is the result of interactions between the two. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
603:When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from. ~ Cortney S Warren, #NFDB
604:With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless. ~ Andrew S Tanenbaum, #NFDB
605:A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
606:Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. ~ Eric Alterman, #NFDB
607:Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. ~ Jane Smiley, #NFDB
608:Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
609:Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
610:Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
611:Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire. ~ Nouriel Roubini, #NFDB
612:Your current knowledge has neither made you perfect nor kept you safe. So, it is insufficient, by definition--radically, fatally insufficient. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
613:Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
614:But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
615:His current theory is that Sutton lived three separate lives. The one he remembered, the one he told people about, the one that really happened. ~ J R Moehringer, #NFDB
616:In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
617:...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative. ~ John Hospers, #NFDB
618:Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them. ~ Jack Kingston, #NFDB
619:The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from Cavendish’s finding. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
620:The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
621:The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church. ~ David Barton, #NFDB
622:We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
623:A civilisation which cannot burst through its current abstractions is doomed to sterility after a very limited period of progress. (575) ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
624:A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.
As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool. ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB
625:All the mental energy you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one seemingly impossible way out of your current ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
626:Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. ~ William Kennedy, #NFDB
627:if current immigration and fertility trends persist, the United States will be almost three-quarters pro-life by 2100, up from 60 percent today. ~ Eric P Kaufmann, #NFDB
628:In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health. ~ Frank Auerbach, #NFDB
629:I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current. ~ Magda Szab, #NFDB
630:Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
631:Niagara Falls Power Company chose to go with AC current to feed the industry of Buffalo, which became briefly known as the electric city of the future. ~ A A Gill, #NFDB
632:Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance. ~ John Dos Passos, #NFDB
633:That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
634:the current generation is called the game generation. Gaming has moved beyond being merely a leisure activity — it is a social and cultural phenomenon ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
635:To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn’t you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime? ~ Glenn Greenwald, #NFDB
636:Your current knowledge has neither made you perfect nor kept you safe. So, it is insufficient, by definition--radically, fatally insufficient. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
637:Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
638:I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked. ~ Irene Rosenfeld, #NFDB
639:JOURNEY: I don’t need my dad knowing my love life until I’m certain the guy can stick around for more than three dates - my current romantic record. ~ Bijou Hunter, #NFDB
640:Pardon the hurt others have caused you.What they did is past.What is bothering today are your current feelings that comes from this load.Let it go. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
641:some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness. ~ Ian Tattersall, #NFDB
642:Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known. ~ Clarence Benjamin Jones, #NFDB
643:Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
644:He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives. ~ Carol Anshaw, #NFDB
645:I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
646:Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
647:There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. ~ Stanislav Grof, #NFDB
648:True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. ~ Peter Diamandis, #NFDB
649:Would a panel of the wise—Confucius, Gautama Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and Socrates—conceivably approve of our current way of life? ~ William Ophuls, #NFDB
650:You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition. ~ Marcel Duchamp, #NFDB
651:...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where? ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
652:Before we can look at our values and prioritizations and change them into better, healthier ones, we must first become uncertain of our current values. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
653:The current educational regime is based on a certain view about what kind of knowledge is important: “knowing that,” as opposed to “knowing how. ~ Matthew B Crawford, #NFDB
654:Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
655:In the current climate of immediate gratification, it is a welcome change to have food or drink that is not, nor was ever meant to be, served quickly ~ Simon Majumdar, #NFDB
656:Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future. ~ Katharine Hayhoe, #NFDB
657:The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California. ~ Jimmy Fallon, #NFDB
658:We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress. ~ Michael Dorris, #NFDB
659:we must reverse the current trend and preserve as much biodiversity as possible. If we don’t, we will sooner or later join the fossil record of extinction. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB
660:who want to run as MPs?’ Janine said, clarifying her shorthand. ‘And the current MP for this area suddenly announced that he is retiring next year, and ~ Faith Martin, #NFDB
661:actions required to accomplish a goal, it is an indication that they own their current comfort more than they own the future described in their vision. ~ Brian P Moran, #NFDB
662:As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ~ Steve Israel, #NFDB
663:Considering the current turn of events-i.e. my fingers fondling her pussy-I’m optimistic that a blowjob could be brought to the table for negotiation. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
664:Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know? ~ Jenna Elfman, #NFDB
665:If you want to change the story that justifies current structures of power and privilege, you must have such a combination of bold goals and specific steps. ~ Eric Liu, #NFDB
666:In the wake of the current injustice we all need to remember to breathe, stay strong and know that God has a bigger plan. Through whatever Hold Ya Head. ~ Teedra Moses, #NFDB
667:I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. ~ Richard K Morgan, #NFDB
668:Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
669:Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status. ~ Andrea Leadsom, #NFDB
670:The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
671:The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist). ~ Nigel Calder, #NFDB
672:The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software. ~ Dennis Ritchie, #NFDB
673:When you make a decision, you are really diving in a strong current that will bring you to places you never dreamed of when you first made that decision ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
674:Bill Clinton did midnight basketball. He is not looked at by this current generation of Democrats as anywhere near the hero he was back in the nineties. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
675:Current data thus favor an ever-expanding universe shaped like the three-dimensional version of the infinite tabletop or of the finite video-game screen. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
676:Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
677:...even in her current nervous state Penelope recognized them as Mineola ferns, native to a long island whose name she could not quite recall" -Penelope ~ Maryrose Wood, #NFDB
678:"If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?" ~ Teachings of the Buddha, Sutta Nipata, #NFDB
679:It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season. ~ Paul Kengor, #NFDB
680:No matter your current level of performance, clarifying your PFI and the skills you need to master for your next level of success must be a priority. ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB
681:The effort to combine the general population of this country with the current burgeoning numbers of illegal immigrants is outrageous, simply outrageous. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
682:The reason why truth is so hard to be revealed
is because there are so many current practices
that would soon turn into a great history of bullshit. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
683:The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear. ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
684:The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
685:André Marie Ampère demonstrated that two parallel wires were attracted towards one another if each had a current flowing through it in the same direction. ~ Manjit Kumar, #NFDB
686:Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
687:Despite everything, I've tried to take responsibility for my life, and not merely allowed it to float away at the mercy of whatever current came along. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
688:I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration. ~ Colleen Atwood, #NFDB
689:I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
690:In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it’s essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. There ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
691:I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive. ~ David Papineau, #NFDB
692:It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie. ~ Carl Froch, #NFDB
693:My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality. ~ Vinton Cerf, #NFDB
694:Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #NFDB
695:We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
696:because they sincerely believe that their current policy has no alternatives, and that any other policy choice will bring ruin to them and their families. ~ Andrei Lankov, #NFDB
697:I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
698:In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one. ~ Howe Gelb, #NFDB
699:I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court. ~ Barney Frank, #NFDB
700:Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
701:Tell him Frank’s looking for him. He’ll know who I am.” I suspected announcing myself as the Devil might not go over too well given my current environment. ~ Tim Marquitz, #NFDB
702:The only way to ensure that your actual success will equal your current potential for success is to eliminate the constraints that are holding you back. The ~ Jay Abraham, #NFDB
703:We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. ~ Henry Steele Commager, #NFDB
704:What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents. ~ Jeb Hensarling, #NFDB
705:York City attorney—in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work, ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
706:I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend. ~ Owen Pallett, #NFDB
707:Thankfully, the doc only kept patient files for the current year at the office and the remaining files were already boxed and in a secure storage facility, ~ Lynette Eason, #NFDB
708:The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce. ~ Ban Ki moon, #NFDB
709:The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
710:What is inner peace but a deeply held belief that your current situation is exactly as it should be." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury ~ L R W Lee, #NFDB
711:When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years ~ Carl Levin, #NFDB
712:But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB
713:Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
714:I could tell that we were in the midst of many trees... this fact was like the water running endlessly... It was a deep current beneath the surface of a stream. ~ Ned Hayes, #NFDB
715:I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
716:North America’s natural gas base, now estimated at 3,000 trillion cubic feet, could provide for current levels of consumption for over a hundred years—plus. ~ Daniel Yergin, #NFDB
717:She was sensible of the fact that while there were two sets of masculine arms to fall into, and one of them her current pet, Phryne had fallen into Dot’s. ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB
718:So then. For almost one hundredth of a second, maybe c had not been the ultimate speed, and the Lander could have known the current state of the Blighter fleet. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
719:Those long lashes fluttered as her eyes widened in surprise. He knew she felt it too. That zing of current that passed through them every time their hands met. ~ Lucy Score, #NFDB
720:When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
721:Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. ~ Abraham Maslow, #NFDB
722:Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight. ~ Ishmael Beah, #NFDB
723:I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
724:It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
725:...it's most important to accept that your yoga poses may not look like everyone else's. That's okay. Just adapt the poses to your current state of being. ~ Jessamyn Stanley, #NFDB
726:I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
727:The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. ~ Seth Lloyd, #NFDB
728:...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up. ~ Andrew Sullivan, #NFDB
729:What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon? For eons it has changed skins to sate the current ruler’s hunger for political and spiritual dominion. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
730:When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a story current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
731:you want to nudge people into socially desirable behavior, do not, by any means, let them know that their current actions are better than the social norm. ~ Richard H Thaler, #NFDB
732:An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
733:Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
734:Dragons are very...current. It's a function of exceeding the life span of the culture we've chosen to join. Every day, a dragon has to choose to live in the now. ~ Kate Baray, #NFDB
735:...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
736:Olive oil is produced seasonally. Look for a production date, typically in November, on the label when you purchase a bottle to ensure you are buying a current ~ Samin Nosrat, #NFDB
737:There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do. ~ Andrew Cuomo, #NFDB
738:To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it. ~ Curtis Armstrong, #NFDB
739:When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
740:A human soul is an ancient, powerful thing. Cut a person off from their soul, and you make them a shell whose only purpose is their current unremarkable existence. ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
741:his son was a weak and mentally unstable young man with sadistic inclinations—which went a long way toward explaining his current flirtation with the British— ~ Scott Anderson, #NFDB
742:I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy. ~ Abiola Abrams, #NFDB
743:I believe in a free and open press; people have to cover the presidency, respect the office and its current occupant. And we need it to be a two-way street. ~ Kellyanne Conway, #NFDB
744:I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty. ~ Luise Rainer, #NFDB
745:The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration. ~ Hank Stuever, #NFDB
746:The paper concluded that if current emissions trends continue, within the next fifty years or so “all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
747:If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet. ~ Chris DiBona, #NFDB
748:My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose, is waving about, in the current of my blood. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
749:No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out. ~ James Shikwati, #NFDB
750:Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
751:The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state. ~ Ludwik Fleck, #NFDB
752:Acknowledging actual, specific conspiracies makes sense. But reflexive conspiracism can become a bad habit and a misguided way of making sense of current events. ~ Kurt Andersen, #NFDB
753:Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
754:Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
755:Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
756:Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. ~ William O Douglas, #NFDB
757:You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
758:As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win. ~ Mara Liasson, #NFDB
759:Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
760:But still we go on, he thinks with a sigh as he crosses his legs, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the police station and doctor's office. ~ Andrew Holleran, #NFDB
761:Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy. ~ Robert P Murphy, #NFDB
762:Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current. ~ Holly Schindler, #NFDB
763:Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion. ~ Herman Kahn, #NFDB
764:My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio. ~ Wayne McGregor, #NFDB
765:Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
766:partner ACC Colin Carswell based at police HQ Sir David Strathern chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police Jean Burchill Rebus’s current partner, museum curator ~ Ian Rankin, #NFDB
767:The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. ~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones, #NFDB
768:The thing is, Alex, you’re never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
769:We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events. ~ Eliza Dushku, #NFDB
770:We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
771:fatigue should be understood as a signal our body and brain use to inform us that the expected return from our current activity has dropped below its metabolic cost. ~ John Coates, #NFDB
772:Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God’s unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
773:Our current president does not have to be a literal reincarnation of Hitler—and I am not suggesting that he is—in order for the same principles to apply to us today. ~ Bandy X Lee, #NFDB
774:That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
775:The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
776:To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it’s probable. Please don’t allow the current limits of your life define your future reality ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
777:We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of. ~ Thomas P Campbell, #NFDB
778:When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. When ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
779:when we have a hidden motive for choosing the “best” current option, we have a hidden motive to stop, and choose, and reject consideration of any more options. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
780:All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
781:A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world. ~ Robert Jensen, #NFDB
782:Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money. ~ Daphne Koller, #NFDB
783:One of the things I've learned in this industry is we are extraordinarily competent at shooting at one another," current CEO Geoff Freeman told The Wall Street Journal. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
784:The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country. ~ Gary Johnson, #NFDB
785:The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over. ~ Bill Jensen, #NFDB
786:Their scepticism about values is on the surface: it is for use on other people's values; about the values current in their own set they are not nearly sceptical enough. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
787:The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
788:Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research. ~ Tom Allen, #NFDB
789:We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end. ~ Evo Morales, #NFDB
790:Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. ~ Mary Douglas, #NFDB
791:Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
792:I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
793:It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
794:It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of. ~ Paul W Ewald, #NFDB
795:it was considerably better than my current defensive armament, which consisted of harsh words and heavy disapproval. Probably not effective against Klingons. Spike ~ Dennis E Taylor, #NFDB
796:I was kind of in awe of Jet and Roxie, seeing as their stories had hit the paper then they’d had books written about their love affairs with their current husbands. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
797:My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation. ~ Gordon Brown, #NFDB
798:While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account. ~ Jim Cooper, #NFDB
799:Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
800:If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it. ~ Walter Russell, #NFDB
801:I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell. ~ Ben Affleck, #NFDB
802:It is our desire to help you understand that you can get to wherever you want to be from wherever you are, no matter where you are or what your current state of Being. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
803:It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
804:I was still carrying the tuba, for no reason other than that, in my current circumstances, it passed for good company. That's another way of saying it was all I had. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
805:One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then stack your new behavior on top. This is called habit stacking. ~ James Clear, #NFDB
806:The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. ~ Roone Arledge, #NFDB
807:The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
808:THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
809:According to the current logic of online misogyny a woman’s right to self-expression is less important by far than a man’s right to punish her for that self-expression. ~ Laurie Penny, #NFDB
810:At first the two of them stumbled along, but soon enough they were flying, soaring wing to wing and riding the music’s current until, inevitably, they ran out of sky. ~ Nicholas Eames, #NFDB
811:Christians can influence the world for the better again. But it will mean making a commitment to stand by a worldview that current society often rejects and ridicules. ~ Mike Aquilina, #NFDB
812:I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing. ~ James L Buckley, #NFDB
813:Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism. ~ Paul A Baran, #NFDB
814:It’s as if each of us is hallucinating all the time and what we call perception involves merely selecting the one hallucination that best matches the current input. ~ V S Ramachandran, #NFDB
815:It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
816:Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity. ~ Matthew Crawford, #NFDB
817:Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
818:The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever. ~ Tariq Ali, #NFDB
819:The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population. ~ Tim Kaine, #NFDB
820:The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft, #NFDB
821:The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. ~ Robert C Solomon, #NFDB
822:The waves are calling, beckoning me. As my blood turns to water I bleed into the sea. And the current of hope will carry me home No one is an island, and I am not alone. ~ Jen Minkman, #NFDB
823:What, you think that just because we're demons, we don't like to stay current with world events? You think we don't like to be entertained? We're demons, not Nazis! ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
824:When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the senses, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious -- we get beyond even the intellect, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
825:A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
826:As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I have felt them: never have I succeeded in seeing or thinking them. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
827:Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
828:Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah]. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini, #NFDB
829:The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment. ~ Jeremy Siegel, #NFDB
830:There's certain structured language that will enable us to do all current impossibles. Unfortunately, it's not that we use nowadays. The good news is, that language exists. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
831:The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise. ~ Richard A Epstein, #NFDB
832:Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil. ~ Bill Jenkins, #NFDB
833:but it was considerably better than my current defensive armament, which consisted of harsh words and heavy disapproval. Probably not effective against Klingons. Spike ~ Dennis E Taylor, #NFDB
834:By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
835:Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. ~ Anne Sullivan Macy, #NFDB
836:.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be. ~ Lynne McTaggart, #NFDB
837:If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past? ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
838:In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
839:There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
840:You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river. ~ Cate Tiernan, #NFDB
841:But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
842:It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
843:My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy. ~ Benjamin Stone, #NFDB
844:Nothing depressed him more than the moments in which he contrasted his current mental powers with what he had formerly possessed. Every day he declined in sagacity and vigor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
845:Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance. ~ Mark Klett, #NFDB
846:Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s. ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
847:soon after faced a similar debacle building its 787 Dreamliner, which came into service in 2011. Both jet makers have used those pitfalls to fine-tune their current ramp-ups. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
848:The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
849:The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
850:The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida. ~ Frank Luntz, #NFDB
851:The room inside is definitely the biggest plus of the car. Your head is not anywhere near the (roll) bars, like it's sitting against the bars in the other (current) cars. ~ Kevin Harvick, #NFDB
852:The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. But Henry was himself and no one else, and judging by ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
853:Yaknow you gotta stay up with current s**t, b. I watch the news. I read a lot. All that s**t. Everything helps. You never know it's helping until you start writing and s**t. ~ Sean Price, #NFDB
854:You look at the world, assess your odds of survival in light of current circumstances, and choose the course that offers the best chance for whatever it is you want. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
855:You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come. ~ James Redfield, #NFDB
856:Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
857:Be more intentional about who you want to become. Have vision beyond your current circumstances. Imagine your best future self, and start acting like that person today. ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB
858:Current estimates are that 38,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year in Africa. At this rate, elephants on that continent will all be gone in less than twenty years. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
859:Don't be carried away by the current of the situation. Focus on the essentials, take action on the best alternative are the ways of shifting from reactive to proactive mindset. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
860:Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today. ~ Michael B Jordan, #NFDB
861:I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
862:I think many people are not seeing the change. They`re really upset with the current situation. We haven`t seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
863:Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
864:Samaha’s Factorium and Emporium is dark, with wooden counters and rough-paneled walls that contain fine cracks older than any current living souls in Vanderbraak Centre. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
865:The elaborately executed art on the ceiling in the Altamira cave did not fit current notions of Palaeolithic ‘savagery’; it was too ‘advanced’ for the period. ~ James David Lewis Williams, #NFDB
866:When the future cost of doing nothing is the same as the current cost, postpone the decision. Make the decision only when you must with the information you have at that time. ~ Sandi Metz, #NFDB
867:And the truth is, quite often God's desire for us will run against the prevailing current. 'Get off the next exit.' His guidance sometimes (often?) seems counter-intuitive. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
868:I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment. ~ Ledisi, #NFDB
869:That was the trouble with Mrs. Hepplewhite's kindness. Once let loose it was like a roaring cataract and one had to be very strong to stand against the current and live. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
870:The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I know it’s hard to fight against a current as strong as the Society. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
871:The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of. ~ Doug Casey, #NFDB
872:You did express a disinterest in involving *nice* people in our current difficulties,” Pal reminded me.
True enough, I thought back. Hallelujah, it’s raining jerks. ~ Lucy A Snyder,#NFDB
873:Because life is like that, isn't it? One cannot stop its ebb and flow. You step into the current and whatever's in your path will cross you and touch you and sometimes stay. ~ Janice Pariat, #NFDB
874:I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward. ~ Ai Yazawa, #NFDB
875:I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
876:Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles! ~ Mark Batterson, #NFDB
877:I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor. ~ Nicole Kidman, #NFDB
878:It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate. ~ Pat Paulsen, #NFDB
879:Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity. ~ Matthew B Crawford, #NFDB
880:Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path. ~ Mark Steyn, #NFDB
881:They might be the source of some of my current problems, but they were also the only reason I had to keep going. They were my lifelines. My hope. My reason for breathing. ~ Rachel Higginson, #NFDB
882:To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism. ~ Peter Calthorpe, #NFDB
883:To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
884:Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows. ~ Adrian Bejan, #NFDB
885:I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
886:Ivan held both hands in front of him as if this was very serious. “My current approach is using one fork for each bite and then making a pile of them in the middle of the table. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
887:Since the rise of Christianity and up to the current day, martyrs - those who die because of their faith in Christ - have been a strong segment of the population of believers. ~ Randy Frazee, #NFDB
888:A strong, clear vision holds the power to transcend your current reality, bypassing the day-to-day challenges that might be keeping you stuck where you are. What is your vision? ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
889:Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway. ~ John Stossel, #NFDB
890:France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view. ~ Francois Hollande, #NFDB
891:History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate. ~ David Brin, #NFDB
892:If, like those with the growth mindset, you believe you can develop yourself, then you’re open to accurate information about your current abilities, even if it’s unflattering. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
893:In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation. ~ James Young, #NFDB
894:I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it. ~ Boris Yeltsin, #NFDB
895:She wore a wedding ring (as did he) and a small gold cross at her neck, but a current of wayward sensuality had been unmistakable in her, making these symbols seem apotropaic. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
896:We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things. ~ Edgar Mitchell, #NFDB
897:Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange. ~ David Ricardo, #NFDB
898:Don’t separate scale from the rest of the evaluation. The relevant question isn’t whether an executive can scale; it’s whether the executive can do the job at the current scale. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
899:Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before. The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
900:The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
901:The number one health problem in the United States is obesity, and if the current trend continues, by the year 2048 all adults in the United States will be overweight or obese.1 ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
902:There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune . . . We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare1 ~ John W Mullins, #NFDB
903:We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. ~ Michael Eisner, #NFDB
904:From tonight onwards, forget about the past. Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best. You will be astonished at the results. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
905:I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old. ~ David Gilmour, #NFDB
906:I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist. ~ Maxfield Parrish, #NFDB
907:I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
908:I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do. ~ Stephen Harper, #NFDB
909:Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
910:Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.
I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
911:RPX's current members include such giants as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, eBay, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, IBM, Intel, LG, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Sony, T-Mobile, and Verizon. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
912:The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. ~ Paul Gillmor, #NFDB
913:To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company’s assumptions, and they must challenge a company’s current outlook. One ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
914:We’ve been defined by everyone else and continue to be slandered despite easy-to-look-up-on-the-internet facts about the realities of our histories and current state as a people. ~ Tommy Orange, #NFDB
915:As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old ways of thought in order to meet the current challenges. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
916:But his was an understandable mistake, given how little attention is paid to accuracy in history and how often history is used as just a propaganda tool in current controversies. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
917:Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist. ~ Richard Lewontin, #NFDB
918:Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
919:No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
920:The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifting the whole time and never realized it until we couldn't find our way back. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
921:There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list. ~ Jaroslaw Kaczynski, #NFDB
922:Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. ~ Robert Metcalfe, #NFDB
923:I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
924:Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity. ~ Susan Blackmore, #NFDB
925:The call for the birth of the new light out of the dark comes to us any time we encounter something new that requires development beyond our current capacities. ~ Monika Wikman, Pregnant Darkness, #NFDB
926:The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
927:All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
928:Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious. ~ Javier Bardem, #NFDB
929:It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems. ~ Charles Ferguson, #NFDB
930:Like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
931:Our current time-based experience is a perceptual hell guarded by the bars of our unintegrated fear, anger, and grief. It doesn’t take us anywhere. It never did, and it never will. ~ Michael Brown, #NFDB
932:To move from controlling to trusting life is like exhausting ourselves by trying to put our arms around a river until we realize we have to enter the river and let the current take us. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
933:Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged otherwise, it would quote not this price, but another price higher or lower. ~ Louis Bachelier, #NFDB
934:Every person who reads your book will be far more likely to be on your side. Books are the most intensive of all current media. People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
935:father died, to help her adjust to her new reality. He was making the best of his current life—working at the nursery, teaching Community Ed gardening classes, and playing around with ~ Jess Lourey, #NFDB
936:History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
937:I realize now that my feeling for Alice had been moving backward against the current of my learning, from worship, to love, to fondness, to a feeling of gratitude and responsibility. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
938:Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek, #NFDB
939:These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation. ~ Steve Largent, #NFDB
940:This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand. ~ Prince Charles, #NFDB
941:As the author Max Brooks quipped in a 2017 TV appearance, “We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
942:But our current experiment—quickly injecting huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere—has in fact been run many times before in the geological past, and it never ends well. ~ Peter Brannen, #NFDB
943:But there was something more miserable still—it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
944:More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. ~ Fred Saberhagen, #NFDB
945:Our current royal family doesn’t have the difficulties in breeding that pandas do, but pandas and royal persons alike are expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
946:Our records also show that you are currently unemployed and have therefore been classified as impecunious. Under current federal law, you are now eligible for mandatory indenturement. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
947:Swann’s father, an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts. Several ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
948:That’s not how families are structured. In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children. ~ Joshilyn Jackson, #NFDB
949:The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. ~ Gordon Moore, #NFDB
950:We need to make sure that we are allowing students to be exposed to future technology and not reducing it to current—what a lot of people would like to say, "relevant" teaching. ~ Jessica Livingston, #NFDB
951:You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever
Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes of current situation and envisage. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
952:For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
953:I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work. ~ James Ellroy, #NFDB
954:In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. ~ Maurice Allais, #NFDB
955:Our current time-based experience is a perceptual hell guarded by the bars of our unintegrated fear, anger, and grief. It doesn’t take us anywhere. It never did, and it never will. In ~ Michael Brown, #NFDB
956:There's sadness about him. Not one related to our current situation. Something deeper... like it's embedded in him. I've met people who smile with their eyes, but he frowns with his. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
957:The world could screech to a halt on its axis and the dock could be swept out to sea in an apocalyptic current, and we wouldn't notice. Our universes have condensed into each other. ~ Kirsten Hubbard, #NFDB
958:This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
959:When looking to hire people, give their potential to grow more weight than their current skill level. What they will be capable of tomorrow is more important than what they can do today. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
960:All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
961:Current research shows up to 80% of employees are dissatisfied with their jobs. This is bad news for everyone, because it means workers are unhappy and employers are losing productivity. ~ Steven Fies, #NFDB
962:He'd tell us that in a democracy, keeping abreast of current events was a citizen's most important duty and that you could never start too early to be informed about the news of the day. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
963:I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
964:I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
965:the current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
966:The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
967:Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
968:those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
969:You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
970:After thirty minutes, three options will open up: getting her number, moving her to another venue where you escalate (physically), or remaining at the current venue (where you also escalate). ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
971:A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
972:All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
973:And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury. ~ Tomas Young, #NFDB
974:Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
975:if we really want to change the current course of our culture and challenge its guiding ideas, then we need to start with the author of that culture. That means examining man himself. ~ Robert E Barron, #NFDB
976:I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
977:It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
978:I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain. ~ Frida Kahlo, #NFDB
979:Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome. ~ Sherwood Boehlert, #NFDB
980:The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance. ~ Michelle Bachelet, #NFDB
981:The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
982:The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
983:Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
984:Tremont, Lord John B. 1772. Third son of the 8th Duke of Parkerton. (See also, James Tremont, 9th Duke of Parkerton, Tremont Lord Michael.) Current residence: Thistleton Park. Miranda ~ Elizabeth Boyle, #NFDB
985:You are so appealing, Miss Foster, every bit as beautiful as your sister—more so, to me—that I almost lost my head. I want nothing more than to let this romantic current sweep us along. ~ Julie Klassen, #NFDB
986:Based on your current results, what changes are you going to have to make to ensure that your products and services of tomorrow are exactly what the customers will be wanting at that time? ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
987:Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence. ~ Waziyatawin, #NFDB
988:I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
989:In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers. ~ Robert Trout, #NFDB
990:In the current Christian-based Gregorian calendar the year 1 B.C. was followed by the year A.D. 1—there was no year zero. Century reckoning is therefore shifted by one year. Before ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
991:In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through. ~ Vladimir Kramnik, #NFDB
992:I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea. ~ Adam Johnson, #NFDB
993:median wages have stopped tracking productivity, underscoring the fact that such a decoupling is not only a theoretical possibility but also an empirical fact in our current economy. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
994:Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money 'tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
995:There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.' ~ Harold Jeffreys, #NFDB
996:Though most scholars (pro and con) agree that the current edition of the Book of Mormon is a trustworthy copy of the 1830 version, few Christian scholars consider it to be reliable history. ~ Dan Barker, #NFDB
997:Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
998:To put your house in order is to put your life in order and prepare for the next step. Once you have dealt properly with the current phase of your life, the next will come to you naturally. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
999:We will see, within the next four years, a dramatic increase in both historical accountability 5 and current accountability for actions impacting on future generations and other communities. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1000:According to then current laws of war, the besieged could make terms if they surrendered, but not if they forced a siege to its bitter end, so presumably Charles felt no compunctions. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
1001:God’s providence, which is nothing but the fulfillment of His decree, should be a guarantee and an opposing force against discontent. In His wisdom, God has set us in our current station. ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
1002:In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It's about making them scary again. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1003:I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy. ~ Gary Gulman, #NFDB
1004:Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The king's image counterfeited and stamped upon brass will not go current. ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
1005:My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1006:Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1007:The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
1008:To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1009:To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. ~ Johannes Peter Muller, #NFDB
1010:20 Dear You, Six girls. Eight boys. That’s the current number of kids in the Camp Caius stable, and they’re an intriguing little bunch of brats, ranging in age from eleven to twenty-two. ~ Daniel O Malley, #NFDB
1011:Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
1012:For Ila the current was the real: it was as though she lived in a present which was like an airlock in a canal, shut away from the tidewaters of the past and the future by steel floodgates. ~ Amitav Ghosh, #NFDB
1013:I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme. ~ Ernesto Cardenal, #NFDB
1014:Is this film an accurate depiction of your current culture?” He points to the scene of Chunk getting terrified by a frozen body in the Fratellis’ freezer. “Yes. That’s exactly accurate. ~ Nathan Van Coops, #NFDB
1015:It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
1016:over 70 percent believed their information stored in the cloud had the same legal protection as physical files—a belief that may or may not be valid in the current unsettled legal climate. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
1017:Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book. ~ Robert P Crease, #NFDB
1018:The current extent of surveillance clearly shows there is another motive besides catching bad guys. Government surveillance is not about keeping us safe. It’s about keeping us under control. ~ Adam Kokesh, #NFDB
1019:The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1020:This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1021:no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,#NFDB
1022:She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1023:The current Baptist view that God condemns “homosexual behavior” and same-sex marriages comes from the same kind of broad and anachronistic scriptural readings as prior support for segregation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1024:However, there are quite a few current artists doing clever, creative musical comedy, including The Lonely Island, Flight of the Conchords, Tenacious D, Ylvis, Garfunkel and Oates, Reggie Watts, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1025:I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. ~ Bill Moyers, #NFDB
1026:In the current situation, particular attention should be given to the quality of financial and economic management. The Government and the Central Bank should have a strategic action plan ~ Tatyana Golikova, #NFDB
1027:I shook my head. His body felt so strong and alive next to me, an electric current bounced between us. "I don't need dozens of wishes fulfilled. I'm with you. There's nothing else I want. ~ Jennifer Laurens, #NFDB
1028:The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
1029:The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
1030:We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
1031:As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
1032:I’ll keep going. Because that’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. It ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
1033:I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese? ~ Lisa Ann Sandell, #NFDB
1034:I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on. ~ Clint Black, #NFDB
1035:The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
1036:Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1037:letting my experience carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
1038:No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs. ~ James Fallows, #NFDB
1039:our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right to the people they have harmed. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
1040:Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up. ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
1041:There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1042:Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1043:Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
1044:And surely some large proportion of the world’s current danger and decline is not inevitable but rather the result of people scrambling fearfully away from the things that have long made sense. ~ Ben H Winters, #NFDB
1045:Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current. ~ Coleman Barks, #NFDB
1046:Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe. ~ Saul Griffith, #NFDB
1047:I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1048:I blew out a breath. "Dad, this is a total cluster...um, a mess."
He flashed me a wry smile. "I think the word you were about to use is probably the best summation of the current situation. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
1049:Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects ~ Henry Jenkins, #NFDB
1050:Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world. ~ Bikram Choudhury, #NFDB
1051:She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most. ~ Andy Garcia, #NFDB
1052:She wrote two versions of her obituary. The first version reflected how things would turn out given her then-current life trajectory. The second version reflected the life she aspired to live. ~ Chade Meng Tan, #NFDB
1053:the prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence—prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence we have for the role of substitution. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1054:We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning. ~ Raul Grijalva, #NFDB
1055:ACCEPT – yourself, others and your current situation FORGIVE – yourself and others BE GRATEFUL LIVE IN THE MOMENT FEEL YOUR GOALS ALREADY ACHIEVED REPLACE FEAR WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS BE HAPPY. ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB
1056:As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1057:Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations. ~ Stan Shih, #NFDB
1058:But when they take action before they have improved the content of their vibration, what they get is something that matches their current vibration instead of something that matches their desire. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
1059:Computer science is a restless infant and its progress depends as much on shifts in point of view as on the orderly development of our current concepts. ~ Alan Perlis, The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966, #NFDB
1060:Current wisdom dictates a heroine in search of happiness should ditch the prince, skip the diet--and gain acceptance. Stop changing ourself to please the world and start finding happiness within. ~ Sarah Hepola, #NFDB
1061:Graphite was used by Edison for the first light bulb filaments because it also has a high melting point, which allows it to glow white hot without melting when a high current passes through it. ~ Mark Miodownik, #NFDB
1062:If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent. ~ F Huegel, #NFDB
1063:It is too disturbing for the patient to feel sexually attracted to his mother; in a last-ditch effort, the resistance disguises the feelings as current impulses toward the analyst. Although ~ Stephen A Mitchell, #NFDB
1064:money, in our current system, generally comes through our participation in the conversion of nature into products, communities into markets, citizens into consumers, and relationships into services. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1065:Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem ~ Geraldo Rivera, #NFDB
1066:Are you using your degree as it was intended in your current job? Lots of people aren't. How is the education system keeping up with the velocity of change in what actually constitutes a real job? ~ Chris Brogan, #NFDB
1067:Current feminism, with its antiscience and social constructionist bias, never thinks about nature. Hence it cannot deal with sex, which begins in the body and is energized by instinctual drives. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
1068:Donald Trump has been endorsed by zero current or former U.S. presidents; zero Fortune 100 CEOs; and only one newspaper—the National Enquirer, aka Elvis Lives. All true. But Donald Trump doesn’t lose. ~ Katy Tur, #NFDB
1069:Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1070:He never pronounced judgment on current events and people, despite some of my hints; and I forbore asking directly, lest I inadvertently say something about someone in his family--or worse, him. ~ Sherwood Smith, #NFDB
1071:If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1072:If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1073:No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters. ~ Greta Van Susteren, #NFDB
1074:Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks. ~ John Cage, #NFDB
1075:That’s the drawback of becoming uncommon amongst uncommon. You can push yourself to a place that is beyond the current capability or temporal mindset of the people you work with, and that’s okay. ~ David Goggins, #NFDB
1076:To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway. ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
1077:But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Not very pretty daydreams for a seventeen-year-old girl, I guess, but very satisfying. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1078:Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1079:Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1080:If one believed that current caste privileges were the result of merits earned in past life, then one would not spend this life exhausting merit. One would instead focus on accumulating merit. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1081:It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft. ~ Kayla Krantz, #NFDB
1082:Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1083:Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1084:As you assess your current location and motivation for being an entrepreneur, do not be discouraged by the size or number of obstacles in your path. If you can catch a vision for it then God can do it! ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
1085:I read a lot, and I think it's important to stay current on the new health kicks. Some are out there just to make money, but some are really worth investigating and incorporating into our diets. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
1086:Is there not comfort in knowing that your vessel is caught by a current that emanated from the purpose of Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will and is bearing you toward His heart? ~ F B Meyer, #NFDB
1087:Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use. Since it is the only kind of money we know of, we use it for everything. ~ Douglas Rushkoff, #NFDB
1088:Our current model sets both food and movement as a negative. Eating food (a biological imperative) makes us feel guilty, and we turn movement (also a biological imperative) into punishment. Atonement ~ Katy Bowman, #NFDB
1089:The baby girl was quite still except for her cheeks and lips sucking at her finger, and a rhythmical curving and straightening of her toes, as if some current of thick air were passing over them. ~ Naomi Mitchison, #NFDB
1090:The mole planet would be a giant sphere of meat. It would have a lot of latent energy (there are enough calories in the mole planet to support the Earth’s current population for 30 billion years). ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
1091:Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1092:I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are. ~ Debbie Harry, #NFDB
1093:It turns out that allowing people to think they could be reincarnated, allowing them to make up for their sins in future lives, made it unnecessarily difficult to control them in their current life. ~ Chris Dietzel, #NFDB
1094:Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes. ~ Janusz Korwin Mikke, #NFDB
1095:The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were. ~ James Arthur Ray, #NFDB
1096:To exploit is to take undue advantage of someone else’s need, whether that be unfair wages paid or unfair prices charged. I have just summed up the current state of modern capitalism in one sentence. ~ Robert Peate, #NFDB
1097:With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested. ~ Lawrence Summers, #NFDB
1098:All the things that have happened are actually in the present, that old things are all mixed in with current things, and future things are combined with old things; it's just that we can't feel it. ~ Kyung Sook Shin, #NFDB
1099:Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working? ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1100:Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1101:Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
1102:Elizabeth was now staring at him, stony-eyed. ‘Old man, why do you treat your current danger as if it were an educational opportunity?’ ‘Because, ma’am, I have never encountered a danger that wasn’t. ~ Steven Moffat, #NFDB
1103:I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1104:It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about. ~ Trudi Canavan, #NFDB
1105:My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB
1106:The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
1107:The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
1108:Then, as I stood in that English garden on the soft early summer night, I felt a surge of pure well-being engulf my whole body. I felt a shivering current of happiness and benevolence flow through me. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
1109:The psyche often functions analogously, saying,"I have been here before." Rationally, the current situation may have nothing to do with what happened in the past, but the linkage is there emotionally. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
1110:We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB
1111:what’s most important is that the information we display is up to date, and that we constantly revise what we measure to make sure it’s helping us understand progress toward our current target conditions. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1112:Why is it I don’t know about this place?” It sounded exactly like the kind of resort to find private clients, or to ensure her current clients could vacation without the watchful eyes of the press. ~ Catherine Bybee, #NFDB
1113:Winning an argument is of no value. What you want is to win a convert. And people who lose arguments are more likely to beef up their current convictions instead of converting to your way of thinking. ~ Harry Browne, #NFDB
1114:You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
1115:at this point, the analysis of gene expression in the brain isn't prectical because current (and foreseeable)techniques require that we analyze a piece of brain tissue. Most people find that unpleasant. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1116:Chomsky also reveals how neoliberalism is hardly a new thing, but merely the current version of the battle for the wealthy few to circumscribe the political rights and civic powers of the many. Chomsky ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1117:If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.” ~ A J Jacobs, #NFDB
1118:Knowledge in the head includes conceptual models; cultural, semantic, and logical constraints on behavior; and analogies between the current situation and previous experiences with other situations. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
1119:Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1120:Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust. ~ C J Mahaney, #NFDB
1121:The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved. But ~ Roy F Baumeister, #NFDB
1122:The psyche often functions analogously, saying, "I have been here before." Rationally, the current situation may have nothing to do with what happened in the past, but the linkage is there emotionally. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
1123:What's with the "iMagic" name change?' I said without preamble.
'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an "i"in front of anything makes it more hip and current. ~ Jasper Fforde,#NFDB
1124:When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as my heroes. But in the end I wasn’t brave enough to resist the current pulling me toward convention. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
1125:It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
1126:The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example. ~ Chris Christie, #NFDB
1127:There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1128:The sea, it is said, is like a mother. The salt water, the pulse and surges of the current, the magnified beat of your heart, and the muffled sounds reverberating through the water together recall the womb. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
1129:This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable. ~ Marie Curie, #NFDB
1130:You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1131:An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time. ~ Tim Ingold, #NFDB
1132:A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ~ Stanislav Grof, #NFDB
1133:...he observed that in the current situation the possibility of destruction seemed genuinely to be upon us, to the extent that he couldn't see what move on the chess board would get us out of this corner. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
1134:If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not. ~ John Linder, #NFDB
1135:intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1136:intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1137:I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline. ~ C J Box, #NFDB
1138:Is everybody supposed to run current account surpluses? If so, with whom—Martians? And if everybody does indeed try to run a savings surplus, what else can be the outcome but a permanent global depression? ~ Mark Blyth, #NFDB
1139:Only the federal government has the power to spend beyond its current revenue. It shouldn't do that when the economy is at full employment. But it's an essential step for an economy mired in recession. ~ Robert H Frank, #NFDB
1140:Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and pray for our brothers and sisters around the world. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
1141:Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1142:The banks' product is debt. They try to tell customers that "debts are good for you," but the customers can't afford any more debt, so there's no way the banks can continue their current business plan. ~ Michael Hudson, #NFDB
1143:The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1144:The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. ~ Robert Nozick, #NFDB
1145:We're like drunks in a barroom. No one's listening because everyone is too busy thinking about what they're going to say next, and absolutely prove that the current speaker is so full of shit he squeaks. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1146:We’re like drunks in a barroom. No one’s listening because everyone is too busy thinking about what they’re going to say next, and absolutely prove that the current speaker is so full of shit he squeaks. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1147:After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired. ~ Anatoly Karpov, #NFDB
1148:A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ~ Frederic Laloux, #NFDB
1149:But what contributed more than all to his success was his direct, equable manner with everyone, which very quickly made the majority of the noblemen reverse the current opinion of his supposed haughtiness. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1150:If theirs was a goal of arriving at versions of themselves that they deemed better—perhaps more valuable—than their current selves, then who could blame them? And yet, they were in fact to be blamed. ~ Chinelo Okparanta, #NFDB
1151:If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same ~ Tommy Newberry, #NFDB
1152:Shankar Vedantam wrote that those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers, while those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine, ~ Eliot Peper, #NFDB
1153:The King struggles to work with other countries. It's a warrior's concern, and as current events [demonstrate], the challenges in working with international partners are very serious and far from comedic. ~ Ken Watanabe, #NFDB
1154:There will never be a bill without a pathway to citizenship signed by the president...And in turn there will never be a pathway to citizenship without a new immigration system replacing the current one. ~ Lindsey Graham, #NFDB
1155:The Stockdale Paradox Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. AND at the same time Confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1156:When you are in a state of cognitive ease, you are probably in a good mood, like what you see, believe what you hear, trust your intuitions, and feel that the current situation is comfortably familiar. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1157:A good man's prayers are golden recompense!" rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave. "Yea, they are the current gold coin of the New Jerusalem, with the King's own mint-mark on them! ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1158:An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more ~ Kenneth Grahame, #NFDB
1159:An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ~ William Labov, #NFDB
1160:As Buechner says, we are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, “to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1161:crashes are not randomly occurring lightning bolts; they are the consequence of the madness of crowds who are busy avoiding the last mania as they participate in what will turn out to be the current one. ~ Emanuel Derman, #NFDB
1162:How can we not still be rooting for the younger versions of ourselves as if they actually exist, playing catch-up in time? Who wouldn’t like to implant their current brains into a scenario from the past? ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
1163:I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's what I dream about. I dream about that current day. Other than that, I don't dream a lot. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
1164:I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current. ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan, #NFDB
1165:I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live. ~ Harriet Evans, #NFDB
1166:Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club. ~ Arjen Robben, #NFDB
1167:There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. ~ Alexander Hamilton, #NFDB
1168:We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we'll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can't talk about. ~ Bill Belichick, #NFDB
1169:Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. ~ Chen Shui bian, #NFDB
1170:am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1171:A third project you can do to help you surface your real strengths is to develop two job descriptions for yourself. Your first one should reflect current reality. The second one, your ideal job description. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1172:But it seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
1173:Every wave is a watersprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water. ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
1174:intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all
people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
1175:Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust. It’s maximizing both your current contribution and your ability to contribute in the future by establishing the trust that makes it possible. ~ Stephen M R Covey, #NFDB
1176:mental states can be inferred from actions. That’s in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
1177:Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: “The wire is you and me; the current is God,” she said. “We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world—Jesus. ~ Lee Strobel, #NFDB
1178:My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence. ~ Taylor Dane, #NFDB
1179:Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter. ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB
1180:We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas. ~ Robert Mugabe, #NFDB
1181:Why aren’t you happy?” they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
1182:Within a week, the entire nation was raving about alternating current as the future of electricity. The fair was a debilitating blow to Edison’s direct current, and foreshadowed the coup de grace in the War ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1183:Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
1184:Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water. ~ Emile Zola, #NFDB
1185:I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous? ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1186:... intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1187:Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because it's all written there. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1188:Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of live, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because it's all written there. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1189:I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone. ~ Mikhail Tal, #NFDB
1190:The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. ~ Richard A Clarke, #NFDB
1191:The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country. ~ Bill Jenkins, #NFDB
1192:The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species". (...) We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
1193:[There is] a kind of overflowing in the world of 'things': there is, at every moment, always infinitely more than we can see; to exhaust the richness of my current perception would take an infinite time. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
1194:The Weekly Review is the time to: Gather and process all your stuff. Review your system. Update your lists. Get clean, clear, current, and complete. You have to use your mind to get things off your mind. Most ~ David Allen, #NFDB
1195:Among college students, economics and philosophy majors have similar current incomes, but it’s the economics students who drive cars, because it’s the economics students who expect to have jobs someday. ~ Steven E Landsburg, #NFDB
1196:Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize lists. For many of them, this kills interest very quickly. ~ Philip Kitcher, #NFDB
1197:Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation. ~ Brian Tracy,#NFDB
1198:Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time to you, and that you're the fulcrum from which all people and the current world pivot. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
1199:Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are, Jonathan; struggle against it and you’ll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it, and you’ll survive. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1200:For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. This means that for every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1201:Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Maybe the current conditions in Switzerland...make it simply easier to 'be' and therefore 'be happy. ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB
1202:The current conventional wisdom is that we are born, grow up, learn to become consumers, consume, and die. Of course, we can reject this path, and—even more audacious—chart our own course in life. I ~ Cap n Fatty Goodlander, #NFDB
1203:The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
1204:Under the current US system, rich, insured patients visit doctors more than they need, running up costs, while poor patients cannot afford even simple, inexpensive treatments and die younger than they should. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
1205:When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
1206:Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
1207:Most sports enforce age cut-offs—that is, the ages that determine whether you can play another year in your current age bracket as a “senior,” or whether you have to move up and be a “freshman” in the next. In ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1208:Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1209:The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we will ever have trying to rid the world of avarice ~ Ben Goldacre, #NFDB
1210:Time magazine interviewed Bill Clinton about the current presidential campaign, and he claimed he had to ask Hillary to marry him three times before she said yes. Then Hillary was like, 'Yeah. That wasn't me.' ~ Jimmy Fallon, #NFDB
1211:Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
1212:you can use that energy to deal with your current situation, maybe with plenty left over. Breathe deeply. Let the feeling of arousal and clarity, triggered by the release of adrenaline into your bloodstream, ~ George Leonard, #NFDB
1213:Any honest metaphorical summary of the current state of explaining the cosmos as a whole is . . . a swamp. And this particular Everglade is one where the alligators of common sense must be evaded at every turn. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
1214:If you want a glimpse of what we humans do when the robots take our current jobs, look at experiences. That’s where we’ll spend our money (because they won’t be free) and that’s where we’ll make our money. We’ll ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
1215:I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of closure generates a state of psychological unease that is interesting to acknowledge and examine. ~ Chris Cleave, #NFDB
1216:Leaders of large businesses sometimes make huge bets in expensive mergers and acquisitions, acting on the mistaken belief that they can manage the assets of another company better than its current owners do. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1217:Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it. ~ Sarah Vowell, #NFDB
1218:Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1219:Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby. ~ Barbara Kruger, #NFDB
1220:Their boats ride the lenient Current together, in and out of the Shadows, ever in easy reach of rescue, the Boy shepherding them with Willow Wands, no more obtrusive in this Naval History than Gods in a Myth. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
1221:There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
1222:There was rock-hard, there was hard-as-steel, and then there was the solidity of Rafe’s current erection—which so thoroughly surpassed all his previous experience, he suspected it might be of interest to science. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1223:A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1224:Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1225:If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
1226:In his current state, his mental stability depended on two pillars: this old woman, who had weathered so many storms and become as gentle as water, and Shi Qiang, the man who feared nothing because he knew nothing. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1227:It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown. ~ Eva Ibbotson, #NFDB
1228:It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone’s life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown. ~ Eva Ibbotson, #NFDB
1229:making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1230:My thesis is that the language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse, ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
1231:Our current politics tell you that should you fall victim to such an assault and lose your body, it must somehow be your fault. Trayvon Martin’s hoodie got him killed. Jordan Davis’s loud music did the same. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1232:So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
1233:The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template. ~ Ronald A Heifetz, #NFDB
1234:THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and—most important of all—scaling walls. It was the last she’d put to use at the moment. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
1235:We need anarchy! It’s time to revolt. Yes, anarchy! Not political anarchy, but inner anarchy, in which we topple, dethrone, defrock, kick out, and cast aside the current ruling ideas that are programmed inside us. ~ Jim Palmer, #NFDB
1236:But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion. ~ Martin Feldstein, #NFDB
1237:do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. —NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
1238:Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Maybe the current conditions in Switzerland . . . make it simply easier to ‘be’ and therefore ‘be happy. ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB
1239:The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe. ~ Victor J Stenger, #NFDB
1240:There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. ~ Ryszard Kapuscinski, #NFDB
1241:This is why there is not any artist who takes Internet as the theme. My position is quite the opposite to the current trend of art, but this is exactly why the title of my exhibition is "ART Fahrenheit 451". ~ Yasumasa Morimura, #NFDB
1242:We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away. ~ Reggie Fils Aime, #NFDB
1243:What if” questions help us break free of constraints imposed by current models. They should provoke us and challenge our thinking. They should disturb us as intriguing, difficult-to-execute propositions. ~ Alexander Osterwalder, #NFDB
1244:...current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and post-World War II creation of the state of Israel. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1245:His words were another kind of current. “What am I meant for then?” “How wonderful that question is, Beru.” He smiled mysteriously. “And as you did not die on this day, you have more time in which to answer it.” — ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1246:It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an electronic system to find them, because it's all right there and it should be current. ~ William Davis, #NFDB
1247:The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong. ~ Molly Ivins, #NFDB
1248:The record from the Vostok core shows that CO2 levels and temperatures have varied in tandem. Current CO2 levels are unprecedented in the last 420,000 years. Credit: J.R. Petit et al, Nature, vol. 399 (1999). ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
1249:According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years. I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right. ~ Pat Condell, #NFDB
1250:Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1251:Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
1252:Fifth, while the current mood, reflected in the Dodd-Frank Act, is to limit the LLR’s powers, the right response is to increase them while subjecting the LLR to equal-treatment principles that restrict favoritism. ~ Eric A Posner, #NFDB
1253:I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. —NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
1254:...making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1255:Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor,” he said. Instead, Edison offered Tesla a raise of $10 more per week, to be added to his current salary of $18 per week. Tesla was disgusted and immediately resigned. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1256:The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu, #NFDB
1257:The design intention behind the current industrial infrastructure is to make an attractive product that is affordable, meets regulations, performs well enough, and lasts long enough to meet market expectations ~ Michael Braungart, #NFDB
1258:What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1259:Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current? ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1260:Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy. ~ Paul Solman, #NFDB
1261:He went out the front door. The sun was blinding after being in the dim house. He walked back to Perry’s car, feeling like a boat without a rudder, trapped in a current. He had no place to go and no idea what to do. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
1262:...most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem. ~ Lisa Nichols, #NFDB
1263:The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ~ Andrew Goodman, #NFDB
1264:A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1265:Based on the current trends in technology advancement and adoption, I predict that within fifteen years, artificial intelligence will technically be able to replace around 40 to 50 percent of jobs in the United States. ~ Kai Fu Lee, #NFDB
1266:Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change. ~ Jim Leach, #NFDB
1267:,,,,felt himself fall off the center line for the first time. Deeply into self-pity. He didn't even bother to try to break his own fall. He just sank all the way down. Let the current take him away.
pg. 237 ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde,#NFDB
1268:For [target customers] Who are dissatisfied with [the current offerings in the market]. My idea/product is a [new idea or product category] That provides [key problem/solution features]. Unlike [the competing product]. ~ Oren Klaff, #NFDB
1269:I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the other. I have never been content with the current explanation that they were my feet. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1270:"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and ~ Dan Gillmor, #NFDB
1271:making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. When ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1272:That's one of the benefits of having many seasons behind you, is you have this wealth of characters that you can reintroduce, and that have a history with your current regulars, so you don't have to start from scratch. ~ Alex Gansa, #NFDB
1273:The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire a search for meaning in the first place. ~ Karina Longworth, #NFDB
1274:Well,” said Mrs. Wiggins at last, “I guess they’re gone. They won’t drown—that’s a comfort. They’ll float down and land somewhere, but the current is pretty swift, and they may go miles before they can get ashore. ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
1275:you need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don’t dwell on your past. You can’t change it. Don’t worry about your future. You can’t control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now. 6. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1276:Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, your constant peril. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
1277:Alone is current in truth's river, like togetherness. Alone has its own fidelity. But when you navigate that closer view of the shore, it often seems that faith you have in yourself is all the faith there is. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1278:At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies. ~ Keith Olbermann, #NFDB
1279:Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works. ~ Kurt Bills, #NFDB
1280:Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current. ~ Tom Shadyac, #NFDB
1281:It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them…not as if they had met before…but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1282:Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore. ~ Al Sharpton, #NFDB
1283:Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1284:The reason they don't explain this to us is because they know that if we find out the extraordinary lengths that they're going to fuck us over, we will overthrow the current system and replace it with something fair. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
1285:I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1286:I’m at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch. ~ Georges Simenon, #NFDB
1287:So you see, that’s why we ask the question: In light of my past experience, in light of my current circumstances, in light of my future hopes and dreams—regardless of where that leads—if I was wise, what would I do? If ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1288:The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
1289:The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. ~ Pierre Auguste Renoir, #NFDB
1290:To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset, #NFDB
1291:walking across the moors made me feel as if I’d stepped primly out of a Jane Austen book or an Impressionist painting. But I bet even Elizabeth Bennet had never punted a rabbit before, and my current count was 137. ~ Delilah S Dawson, #NFDB
1292:What, are you crazy?” “It’s a possibility I haven’t ruled out yet,” said Zaphod quietly. “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1293:Yet all of us are vulnerable to intense, nonproductive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family—in particular, losses and cutoffs. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
1294:Depends on one’s perspective whether my current state of affairs is considered hilarious. A stranger peering into my life would probably find it quite comical. I think it’s tragically humiliating, to say the very least. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
1295:For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1296:Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1297:I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me, I am constantly astonished by the current developments within the Russian airforce. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
1298:I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation. ~ Eduard Shevardnadze, #NFDB
1299:I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB
1300:It is always easier to believe if you are opposed to something, or actually suffering for your beliefs. Without perceived or real oppression rebellion tends to fizzle – this is our current slack secular state in the West. ~ Peter Grey, #NFDB
1301:Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men. ~ Grace Napolitano, #NFDB
1302:Little Chuck Little, a hundred years old in his knowledge of cows and their habits, was halfway through an Uncle Natchell story when Miss Gates stopped him: ‘Charles, that is not a current event. That is an advertisement. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1303:Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
1304:Political parties and interest groups strive to make their concerns become current triggers of your moral modules. To get your vote, your money, or your time, they must activate at least one of your moral foundations. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
1305:Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment. ~ Leland Ryken, #NFDB
1306:The enthusiasm that characterizes our time is, unlike current events, hopeful and, like all enthusiasms, playful. The energy that flashes through our electronics has leapt into most of our bloodstreams and brains. ~ Edward M Hallowell, #NFDB
1307:The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
1308:There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. ~ Benjamin Cardozo, #NFDB
1309:A great library is anything and everything. It is not for its current custodians to judge what the future will find to be of importance, and it is this eclecticism that gives it the mystique, that is the wonder of it. ~ Penelope Lively, #NFDB
1310:It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,#NFDB
1311:No matter how stupid, how pointless, how painful my current situation was, as I listened to Mixtape every week I couldn't deny the love I still felt for that reckless, audacious fool who was still me, if only in my mind. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
1312:No matter how stupid, how pointless, how painful my current situation was, as I listened to Mixtape every week I couldn’t deny the love I still felt for that reckless, audacious fool who was still me, if only in my mind. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
1313:Probable futures. If we assume that a current trend is likely to continue—for example, automated transport—then what is highly likely, given the technology that exists today and the emerging research being worked on in labs? ~ Amy Webb, #NFDB
1314:We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts. ~ Richard Burr, #NFDB
1315:With regard to the current crisis, what we have seen in government bailouts is not so much the solution to the deeper problems behind the economic crisis as it is a deferral of the consequences to some later time. ~ William T Cavanaugh, #NFDB
1316:Biology: how the physical body functions • Psychology: developmental issues and thought patterns • Social connections: social support and current life situation • Spiritual health: what life means ~ Daniel G Amen, #NFDB
1317:Humanity is at a crossroads. We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation. Or we can lead the world in moving in a very different direction. ~ Bernie Sanders, #NFDB
1318:Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State. ~ Vijay Prashad, #NFDB
1319:So, I ask you again—what’s next? There has to be a reason to get up tomorrow. There has to be a reason to go forward. Your calling has to be stronger than your current circumstances to help your dream keep moving forward. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
1320:The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim. ~ David Bentley Hart, #NFDB
1321:There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ~ James Madison, #NFDB
1322:We couldn't go to the moon on whale oil. We don't have the capacity yet to consider doing such things as harnessing current sunlight. We're burning ancient sunlight in order to get us to where we now are. But it's costly. ~ Sylvia Earle, #NFDB
1323:We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation. ~ Stephen Harper, #NFDB
1324:When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War. ~ Chris Hayes, #NFDB
1325:1. I DO SOLEMNLY RESOLVE to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with a spirit of contentment. ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
1326:April stood there, looking stunned at what she had done, and looking, in panic, at the shotgun on the riverbed. It must have slipped from her hands. And Riley watched in horror as the current caught it and it floated away. ~ Blake Pierce, #NFDB
1327:Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions. ~ Robert Sternberg, #NFDB
1328:Gun murders are down? Well, you figure, that must be from all those tough new gun laws—until you examine the data and find that most people who commit crimes with guns are almost entirely unaffected by current gun laws. ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
1329:Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
1330:Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1331:Stretching yourself beyond the boundaries of your current self requires carefully choosing and then pursuing ideals: ideals that are up there, above you, superior to you—and that you can’t always be sure you will reach. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1332:The key to bringing your body to a new place is to see it differently from the way it is. It is necessary that you focus upon the body that is coming and distract yourself from the negative aspects of your current physical ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
1333:Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
1334:A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1335:Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
1336:It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1337:Pakistan’s young median age today means that an overwhelming majority of its current inhabitants were born in a country called Pakistan and, therefore, do not need an explanation other than their birth to be its citizens. ~ Husain Haqqani, #NFDB
1338:While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance. ~ Christopher Galvin, #NFDB
1339:Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1340:A singular moth flutters in through the wind baffles to the naked bulb above the kettle, cuspid, a drifting piece of loose ash on the white filament, paper burnt up, caught in the rising current from some fire unseen, unfelt. ~ Cynan Jones, #NFDB
1341:but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
1342:For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. ~ Rob Portman, #NFDB
1343:How about two dollars per hour above what your current employer is paying you?”
My mouth wants to drop open. “Don’t you even want to know what that is?”
He makes a face. “Nah. I get the feeling you’ll be worth it. ~ Michelle Leighton,#NFDB
1344:I am strictly against making cuts in the current budgetary period for things such as research funding and investments as a reaction to Brexit. I think that we can do an excellent job of explaining this to the German people. ~ Martin Schulz, #NFDB
1345:If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground . ~ Pete Docter, #NFDB
1346:Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
1347:My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1348:Stretching yourself beyond the boundaries of your current self requires carefully choosing and then pursuing ideals: ideals that are up there, above you, superior to you—and that you can’t always be sure you will reach. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1349:The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500. ~ Luis von Ahn, #NFDB
1350:The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values. ~ David Korten, #NFDB
1351:The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event. ~ Dr John, #NFDB
1352:The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
1353:We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1354:Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. ~ Neil Jordan, #NFDB
1355:Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology; previously magic or praying. ~ Jacob Lund Fisker, #NFDB
1356:GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current… ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
1357:I think I used to be like those houses - once new and fresh and holding great promise - but was now much more like the current versions. Run-down and imperfect but somehow still functioning if not sagging a little to the left. ~ Karma Brown, #NFDB
1358:I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them. ~ Roy Keane, #NFDB
1359:Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money. ~ Charles Eisenstein, #NFDB
1360:To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
1361:Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious. ~ Robert Andrews Millikan, #NFDB
1362:Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He’s given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn’t strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree. ~ Vivek Shanbhag, #NFDB
1363:But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1364:Electric current spears me down the middle, landing in my core. He sucks all the oxygen from the room, and my lungs desperately push breath from my chest. He studies me under hooded lids, knowing exactly what he’s doing to me. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
1365:Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard? ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1366:first, use a minimum viable product to establish real data on where the company is right now. Without a clear-eyed picture of your current status—no matter how far from the goal you may be—you cannot begin to track your progress. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1367:His metaphor of the ‘invisible hand’ has been cited ad nauseam to support the current orthodoxy that markets, left to themselves, may lead to a socially optimal outcome–indeed, more beneficial than if the state intervenes ~ Mariana Mazzucato, #NFDB
1368:I don't think we're in a good place to try and fix friendships right now in our current state. Maybe if we keep letting things crash and burn, everything else is bound to fall back in place.
Or maybe the fire will grow. ~ Adam Silvera,#NFDB
1369:Mother always said he was like a lake, calm on the surface though a powerful current rumbled beneath. Tristan, meanwhile, was the ocean—his feelings frothed and foamed on the surface, crashing like waves into every situation. ~ Karen Hawkins, #NFDB
1370:My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1371:The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter. ~ Michael Gove, #NFDB
1372:We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success. ~ Mohnish Pabrai, #NFDB
1373:An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. ~ Terry Southern, #NFDB
1374:Anything written for an audience of mostly women by a community of mostly women is subversive, reflective of the current sexual, emotional, and political status, and actively embraces and undermines that status simultaneously. ~ Sarah Wendell, #NFDB
1375:As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise that energy will be lost as it expresses itself through the physical. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1376:God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1377:If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along? ~ Sarah Vowell, #NFDB
1378:I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster." ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
1379:One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way. ~ Homer, #NFDB
1380:Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1381:Rake was an atmosphere, a heart-thudding, terror-threaded presence no-one could ignore, much less escape. Violence, antiquity, sombre pathos, and darkest horror – the Son of Darkness was a gelid eddy in immortality’s current, ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1382:The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1383:The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1384:Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech. ~ Alexander Graham Bell, #NFDB
1385:You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty. ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB
1386:In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive. ~ Mark Boyle, #NFDB
1387:In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
1388:I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things. ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB
1389:On current course, the United States will not need to import crude oil after 2020 from outside North America. This unconventional oil growth will reshape global trade patterns, almost eliminating energy trade across the Atlantic. ~ Stefan Heck, #NFDB
1390:On the centre of the lake, cooled by the piercing current of the Rhône, lay the true centre of the Western World. Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1391:Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution. ~ Mariana Mazzucato, #NFDB
1392:Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess ~ Ian Christie, #NFDB
1393:The bottom line is that wealth can be concentrated somewhere, but that doesn’t also mean that’s where it’s being created. This is just as true for your former feudal landowner as it is for the current CEO of Goldman Sachs. The ~ Rutger Bregman, #NFDB
1394:The weight of the weapon would defy the current – that was the important thing, the way it would refuse to be carried along. Some things could do that. Some things possessed the necessary weight to acquire a will of their own. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1395:Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB
1396:We are so used to considering everything through the prism of our current feelings and our most recent acquisitions that it is a radical change to consider the vast before. But if we would live well, it is necessary. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
1397:Apparently advertisers don't like clever or insightful television programmes because such fare encourages people to discuss what they've seen during the ad breaks. This would explain much about the current state of broadcasting. ~ Sandi Toksvig, #NFDB
1398:Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
1399:But it had been as if a resistless flood had torn them loose from their foundations and was carrying them helplessly along on it's current---flinging them here and there, hurling them madly onward, with no known destination ahead. ~ O E R lvaag, #NFDB
1400:Collective superintelligence: A system composed of a large number of smaller intellects such that the system’s overall performance across many very general domains vastly outstrips that of any current cognitive system. Collective ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
1401:I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6 ~ Chris Gayle, #NFDB
1402:Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1403:There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do it―they simply aren't being allowed that opportunity under the current economic system. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1404:But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. ~ Martin Feldstein, #NFDB
1405:I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
1406:It also occurred to him that perhaps this only meant that the less he saw of people, the more kindly he felt toward them, and that this might explain his current mild exasperation with his many condolence-offering acquaintances. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
1407:The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use. ~ Dan Lipinski, #NFDB
1408:The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1409:The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon. ~ Michael McCaul, #NFDB
1410:The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
1411:I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
1412:It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
1413:The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. ~ Henry Jenkins, #NFDB
1414:The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this. ~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz, #NFDB
1415:This current between them had once seemed born of a perfect match between souls. That it had survived so many years’ separation might indicate that it was inborn: the product of the stars’ configuration at their respective births ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
1416:This is not a Scooby-Doo episode, Gus said.
Granted, our current adventure may lack the mastery and grace of classic stories like 'Hassle in the Castle' or 'Foul Play in Funland', Shawn said. But as I've always said, aim high. ~ William Rabkin,#NFDB
1417:I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis. ~ Dahlia Lithwick, #NFDB
1418:I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you... Oh, wait, that is our current system. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1419:Read The Charisma Factor - How to Develop Your Natural Leadership Ability by Robert J. Richardson and S. Katharine Thayer. It is a superb book for any aspiring leader, or a current one, who seeks to advance to the next level. 195. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1420:Right now you can make a decision, ... If you truly decided to, you can do almost anything. So if you don't liike the current relationship you're in, make the decision now to change it. If you don't like your current job, change it. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1421:The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB
1422:The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times." ~ Lawrence Lessig, #NFDB
1423:The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem. ~ Joe Klein, #NFDB
1424:They will have to destroy this city once we deliver the black box. The current bones will not accommodate the marrow of the device. They will have to raze the city and cart off the rubble to less popular boroughs and start anew. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
1425:But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1426:could not bridge the gap between their wartime experiences and their current lives. Somehow the very event that caused them so much pain had also become their sole source of meaning. They felt fully alive only when they were ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1427:I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform. ~ Terry McAuliffe, #NFDB
1428:If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1429:In 2015, 71 percent of those surveyed said that current legal protections for data security were insufficient, and 66 percent believed the police should need a warrant or its equivalent to obtain personal information stored on a PC. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
1430:In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others. ~ Stephen Burt, #NFDB
1431:Listening to all words--the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture--can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current. ~ Kathleen Norris, #NFDB
1432:Mr Hughes's current claim of "bisexuality" has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system. ~ Mark Steyn, #NFDB
1433:No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
1434:The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecraft, of immutable History. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
1435:The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. ~ Angela Davis, #NFDB
1436:Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1437:Magical activity is a kind of dynamo supplying the mechanisms of practical life with the emotional current that drives it. Hence, magic is a necessity of every sort and condition of man, and is actually found in every healthy society. ~ Herbert Read, #NFDB
1438:'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades. ~ Dean Spade, #NFDB
1439:our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (improbable according our current knowledge)—and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated. This ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1440:Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist: “… intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1441:The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but “one weedy species.” As Walter Alvarez put it to me, “We’re seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
1442:The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society. ~ Henry Giroux, #NFDB
1443:The sum total of my current assets is: The knowledge that the psychotic violence of making black people black so that white people can be white runs through me as surely as it does through the bodies of all the jailers and the jailed. ~ Adam Haslett, #NFDB
1444:This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death. ~ Frances Moore Lappe, #NFDB
1445:We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
1446:let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
1447:Technologies are exploding and conjoining like never before, and our brains can’t easily anticipate such rapid transformation. Our current means of governance and its supporting regulatory structures aren’t designed for this pace. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
1448:The current controversy over God’s sex doesn’t strike anyone as being the least bit primitive. If God is going to be like us, then there must be sexual equipment of one kind or the other, even though it presumably doesn’t get much use. ~ Daniel Quinn, #NFDB
1449:This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1450:When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a “ withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool.” I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
1451:If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it. ~ Jay Baer, #NFDB
1452:In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching. ~ Paul Samuelson, #NFDB
1453:Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek, #NFDB
1454:The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again. ~ Maurizio Cattelan, #NFDB
1455:There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
1456:To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1457:When we have a hidden motive to reject the current best option, we have a hidden motive to suspend judgment pending additional evidence, to generate more options—to find something, anything, to do instead of coming to a conclusion. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
1458:Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ~ Saul Williams, #NFDB
1459:You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1460:CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars. ~ Argus Hamilton, #NFDB
1461:Her current one, adjunct professor of freshman literature, would expire in two weeks, courtesy of budget cuts brought on by a state legislature dominated by those rabid about tax and spending cuts. She had lobbied hard for a new contract ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1462:Here’s the reality of our current technique: Other people’s requests dictate the decisions we make. We become slaves to others’ demands when we let our time become dictated by requests. We will live reactive lives instead of proactive. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1463:I can win the Ballon d'Or, but only if Messi's level drops a bit. It will be very complicated to do so if he keeps up his current form. I really believe I can win the award, but there's not much I can do if Messi maintains this level. ~ Mario Balotelli, #NFDB
1464:My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands. ~ Robin Hayes, #NFDB
1465:She spread her arms wide as she'd done in their younger days, when the eight of them ate, drank and loved one another without the memory of loss. ... Why did life move on without the permission of those it carried in its current? ~ Patti Callahan Henry, #NFDB
1466:The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
1467:The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. ~ Chaka Fattah, #NFDB
1468:The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real, and create a new reality. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1469:Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26 ~ Michael E Porter, #NFDB
1470:What actions are required to reach the primary objective?” ** “What are my current strengths and resources?” ** “What obstacles will get in the way of my success?” ** “What additional skills do I need to develop to accomplish the main goal? ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
1471:When he looked through the scope it was as if the largest part of him dissolved and what remained was the kernel everything sprang from. The cathode stole everything, rendered him nameless, a seed floating on a vast cosmic tidal current. ~ Laird Barron, #NFDB
1472:Achieving a free society requires a great deal of education. The current statist paradigm has been beaten into every mind governments can touch, because exploiting people is so much easier when they believe their exploitation is necessary. ~ Adam Kokesh, #NFDB
1473:But out of the many ironies in my current unhappy contretemps, perhaps the worst of all is that I, Dexter the Monster, Dexter the Ultimate Outsider, Dexter the Nonhuman—I, too, am reduced in extremis to that ultimate human lament: Why Me? ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1474:I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld. ~ Jim Clyburn, #NFDB
1475:In most cases, the answer was no; success was driven by decisions the team had made in the past. None of its current initiatives were having any impact. But this was obscured because the company’s gross metrics were all “up and to the right. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1476:In the current vocabulary of condemnation there are few words as final and conclusive as the word ‘uneconomic’. If an activity has been branded as uneconomic, its right to existence is not merely questioned but energetically denied. ~ Ernst F Schumacher, #NFDB
1477:In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A "good" consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments. ~ Mario Draghi, #NFDB
1478:Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ~ Eric Alterman, #NFDB
1479:It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
1480:One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL. ~ Roger Goodell, #NFDB
1481:Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
1482:The fact that hospitals and physicians' practices are not job-focused, but instead aspire to do anything for anybody, has caused them not to be integrated correctly. In their current configuration, they cannot be consumer-driven. ~ Clayton M Christensen, #NFDB
1483:To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships. ~ Jennifer Baumgardner, #NFDB
1484:As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1485:I felt that without a common bond uniting men, without a continuous current of shared thought and feeling circulating through the social system, like blood coursing through the body, there could be no living worthy of being called human. ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
1486:If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up. ~ Sean Duffy, #NFDB
1487:It may be now blasphemous to concede that much of the current division in the country was deliberately whipped up by Obama. Often in mellifluous tones and with near academic authority, he accentuated racial and cultural differences. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
1488:I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law. ~ Chris Murphy, #NFDB
1489:Remember, every experience in life has a former cause. And every current experience will result in a future cause. I do not tell people how to live, but causing harm to another, or discord of any type, will be returned to you. It must be.” “To ~ J R Rain, #NFDB
1490:Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value. ~ Elfriede Jelinek, #NFDB
1491:The electrified fence of segregation and the centuries of shocks it delivered so effectively circumscribed the lives of American blacks that even after the current was turned off, the idea of climbing over the fence inspired dread. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly, #NFDB
1492:As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. ~ Brian Ferneyhough, #NFDB
1493:I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ~ Jacques Maritain, #NFDB
1494:Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,#NFDB
1495:We like to think of innovation as striking us in a stunning eureka moment, where you all at once change the way people see the world, leaping far ahead of our current understanding. I’m arguing that in reality, innovation is more systematic. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1496:Could such a shift be accomplished without eventually converting to a no-growth economy and reducing the current global population? For individuals, this would mean a no less revolutionary delinking of social status from material consumption. ~ Vaclav Smil, #NFDB
1497:Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1498:Going in the company of negative people is just like having thick muddy soil underfoot... They will only draw you back if you don't tear them off! Move out of your current disposal with the intention of getting to your true destination! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1499:I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis - I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working. ~ Justin Trudeau, #NFDB
1500:Latest estimates, extrapolating from the current catalogs, suggests as many as forty billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone. Those are the planets our descendants might want to visit someday, by choice, if not by necessity. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
224 Integral Yoga
86 Poetry
43 Christianity
42 Occultism
34 Philosophy
32 Yoga
27 Fiction
20 Science
14 Psychology
9 Integral Theory
9 Hinduism
8 Mythology
5 Theosophy
5 Mysticism
4 Baha i Faith
3 Sufism
3 Education
3 Cybernetics
1 Philsophy
1 Islam
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
161 Sri Aurobindo
86 The Mother
71 Satprem
52 Nolini Kanta Gupta
32 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
27 H P Lovecraft
21 Aleister Crowley
16 William Wordsworth
14 Sri Ramakrishna
13 Walt Whitman
13 Swami Vivekananda
12 A B Purani
11 Carl Jung
10 James George Frazer
8 Ovid
7 Sri Ramana Maharshi
7 Rudolf Steiner
7 Plato
7 Aldous Huxley
6 Plotinus
6 Jordan Peterson
5 Rabindranath Tagore
5 John Keats
5 Friedrich Schiller
5 Baha u llah
4 Saint Augustine of Hippo
4 Lucretius
3 Thubten Chodron
3 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
3 Swami Krishnananda
3 Robert Browning
3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
3 Paul Richard
3 Norbert Wiener
3 George Van Vrekhem
3 Edgar Allan Poe
3 Aristotle
3 Alice Bailey
2 Patanjali
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Ken Wilber
2 Kabir
2 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 Jean Gebser
2 Al-Ghazali
31 The Synthesis Of Yoga
27 Lovecraft - Poems
17 The Life Divine
16 Wordsworth - Poems
16 Record of Yoga
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
13 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
12 Whitman - Poems
12 The Future of Man
12 Magick Without Tears
12 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
11 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
11 Liber ABA
10 The Golden Bough
10 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
9 The Phenomenon of Man
9 The Human Cycle
8 Raja-Yoga
8 Metamorphoses
8 Letters On Yoga IV
8 Let Me Explain
8 Agenda Vol 12
7 The Perennial Philosophy
7 Talks
7 Savitri
7 Essays On The Gita
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
7 Agenda Vol 08
6 Words Of Long Ago
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Isha Upanishad
6 Agenda Vol 01
5 Vedic and Philological Studies
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 The Practice of Psycho therapy
5 Schiller - Poems
5 Letters On Yoga III
5 Letters On Yoga I
5 Keats - Poems
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
5 Collected Poems
5 Agenda Vol 11
5 Agenda Vol 07
5 Agenda Vol 04
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Tagore - Poems
4 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
4 Questions And Answers 1953
4 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
4 On the Way to Supermanhood
4 Of The Nature Of Things
4 Letters On Yoga II
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
4 Agenda Vol 09
4 Agenda Vol 06
4 5.1.01 - Ilion
3 The Study and Practice of Yoga
3 The Secret Of The Veda
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Shelley - Poems
3 Questions And Answers 1954
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Poetics
3 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Hymn of the Universe
3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
3 Cybernetics
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
3 City of God
3 Browning - Poems
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 Aion
3 Agenda Vol 10
3 Agenda Vol 03
3 Agenda Vol 02
3 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
2 Theosophy
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Divine Comedy
2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Questions And Answers 1955
2 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
2 Prayers And Meditations
2 Poe - Poems
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 On Education
2 Mysterium Coniunctionis
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Essays Divine And Human
2 Amrita Gita
2 Agenda Vol 05
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Algeria and in France or of her current experiences; and gradually, She opened the mind of the rebellious and materialistic Westerner that we were and made us understand the laws of the worlds, the play of forces, the working of past lives - especially this latter, which was an important factor in the difficulties with which we were struggling at that time and which periodically made us abscond.
Mother would be seated in this rather medieval-looking chair with its high, carved back, her feet on a little tabouret, while we sat on the floor, on a slightly faded carpet, conquered and seduced, revolted and never satisfied - but nevertheless, very interested. Treasures, never noted down, were lost until, with the cunning of the Sioux, we succeeded in making Mother consent to the presence of a tape recorder. But even then, and for a long time thereafter, She carefully made us erase or delete in our notes all that concerned Her rather too personally - sometimes we disobeyed Her.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The biological process, described in what may seem to be crude and mediaeval terms, really reflects or echoes a more subtle and psychological process. The images used form perhaps part of the current popular notion about the matter, but the esoteric sense goes beyond the outer symbols. The sky seems to be the far and tenuous region where the soul rests and awaits its next birthit is the region of Soma, the own Home of Bliss and Immortality. Now when the time or call comes, the soul stirs and journeys down that is the Rain. Next, it enters the earth atmosphere and clothes itself with the earth consciousness. Then it waits and calls for the formation of the material body, first by the contri bution of the father and then by that of the mother; when these two unite and the material body is formed, the soul incarnates.
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
--
Man has two souls corresponding to his double status. In the inferior, the soul looks downward and is involved in the current of Impermanence and Ignorance, it tastes of grief and sorrow and suffers death and dissolution: in the higher it looks upward and communes and joins with the Eternal (the cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest status. It is true, however, that the Upanishad does not make a trenchant distinction between the cosmic and the transcendent and often it speaks of both in the same breath, as it were. For in fact they are realities involved in each other and interwoven. Indeed the triple status, including the Individual, forms one single totality and the three do not exclude or cancel each other; on the contrary, they combine and may be said to enhance each other's reality. The Transcendence expresses or deploys itself in the cosmoshe goes abroad,sa paryagt: and the cosmic individualises, concretises itself in the particular and the personal. The one single spiritual reality holds itself, aspects itself in a threefold manner.
The teaching of Yama in brief may be said to be the gospel of immortality and it consists of the knowledge of triple immortality. And who else can be the best teacher of immortality than Death himself, as Nachiketas pointedly said? The first immortality is that of the physical existence and consciousness, the preservation of the personal identity, the individual name and formthis being in itself as expression and embodiment and instrument of the Inner Reality. This inner reality enshrines the second immortality the eternity and continuity of the soul's life through its incarnations in time, the divine Agni lit for ever and ever growing in flaming consciousness. And the third and final immortality is in the being and consciousness beyond time, beyond all relativities, the absolute and self-existent delight.
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Vedic term Kavi means literally 'a seer', 'one who has the vision', as the word 'poet' means etymologically 'a doer', 'a creator'. I have combined the two senses to equate the terms and bring out the meaning involved in their more current acceptation.
***
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
A good many attri butions in other symbolic areas, I feel are subject to the same criticism. The Egyptian Gods have been used with a good deal of carelessness, and without sufficient explanation of motives in assigning them as I did. In a recent edition of Crowley's masterpiece Liber 777 (which au fond is less a reflection of Crowley's mind as a recent critic claimed than a tabulation of some of the material given piecemeal in the Golden Dawn knowledge lectures), he gives for the first time brief explanations of the motives for his attri butions. I too should have been far more explicit in the explanations I used in the case of some of the Gods whose names were used many times, most inadequately, where several paths were concerned. While it is true that the religious coloring of the Egyptian Gods differed from time to time during Egypt's turbulent history, nonetheless a word or two about just that one single point could have served a useful purpose.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
When Ramkumar reprimanded Gadadhar for neglecting a "bread-winning education", the inner voice of the boy reminded him that the legacy of his ancestors — the legacy of Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Sankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya — was not worldly security but the Knowledge of God. And these noble sages were the true representatives of Hindu society. Each of them was seated, as it were, on the crest of the wave that followed each successive trough in the tumultuous course of Indian national life. All demonstrated that the life current of India is spirituality. This truth was revealed to Gadadhar through that inner vision which scans past and future in one sweep, unobstructed by the barriers of time and space. But he was unaware of the history of the profound change that had taken place in the land of his birth during the previous one hundred years.
Hindu society during the eighteenth century had been passing through a period of decadence. It was the twilight of the Mussalman rule. There were anarchy and confusion in all spheres. Superstitious practices dominated the religious life of the people. Rites and rituals passed for the essence of spirituality. Greedy priests became the custodians of heaven. True philosophy was supplanted by dogmatic opinions. The pundits took delight in vain polemics.
--
Subodh visited the Master in 1885. At the very first meeting Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "You will succeed. Mother says so. Those whom She sends here will certainly attain spirituality." During the second meeting the Master wrote something on Subodh's tongue, stroked his body from the navel to the throat, and said, "Awake, Mother! Awake." He asked the boy to meditate. At once Subodh's latent spirituality was awakened. He felt a current rushing along the spinal column to the brain. Joy filled his soul.
--- SARADA AND TULASI
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. With this objective, we set out on our review of the spectrum of significant experiences and seek therein for the greatest meanings as well as for the family of generalized principles governing the realization of their optimum significance to humanity aboard our Sun circling planet Earth.
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your last letter refers to current events and betrays some anxiety
which is certainly not unfounded. In their ignorant unconsciousness men set moving forces they are not even aware of and soon
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo was never a social man in the current sense of the term and definitely he was not a man of the crowd. This was due to his grave temperament, not to any feeling of superiority or to repulsion for men. At Baroda there was an Officers' Club which was patronised by the Maharajah and though Sri Aurobindo enrolled himself as a member he hardly went to the Club even on special occasions. He rather liked a small congenial circle of friends and spent most of his evenings with them whenever he was free and not occupied with his studies or other works. After Baroda when he went to Calcutta there was hardly any time in the storm and stress of revolutionary politics to permit him to lead a 'social life'. What little time he could spare from his incessant activities was spent in the house of Raja Subodh Mallick or at the Grey Street house. In the Karmayogin office he used to sit after the office hours till late chatting with a few persons or trying automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes: one of them was the following: "Moni [Suresh Chakravarty] will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years at Pondicherry there used to be a joke that Sir Edward took such a fright at the prospect of Moni's bombing him that he never came to India!
After Sri Aurobindo had come to Pondicherry from Chandernagore, he entered upon an intense period of Sadhana and for a few months he refused to receive anyone. After a time he used to sit down to talk in the evening and on some days tried automatic writing. Yogic Sadhan, a small book, was the result. In 1913 Sri Aurobindo moved to Rue Franois Martin No. 41 where he used to receive visitors at fixed times. This was generally in the morning between 9 and 10.30.
01.02 - The Creative Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the centre of this energy, the matrix of creativity is the soul itself, one's own soul. If you want to createlive, grow and be real-find yourself, be yourself. The simple old wisdom still remains the eternal wisdom. It is because we fall off from our soul that we wander into side-paths, paths that do not belong to our real nature and hence that lead to imitation and repetition, decay and death. This is what happens to what we call common souls. The force of circumstances, the pressure of environment or simply the momentum of custom or habit compel them to choose the easiest and the readiest way that may lie before them. They do not consult the demand of the inner being but the requirement of the moment. Our bodily needs, our vital hungers and our mental prejudices obsess and obscure the impulsions that thrill the hidden spirit. We hasten to gratify the immediate and forget the eternal, we clutch at the shadow and let go the substance. We are carried away in the flux and tumult of life. It is a mixed and collective whirla Weltgeist that moves and governs us. We are helpless straws drifting in the current. But manhood demands that we stop and pause, pull ourselves out of the Maelstrom and be what we are. We must shape things as we want and not allow things to shape us as they want.
Let each take cognisance of the godhead that is within him for self is Godand in the strength of the soul-divinity create his universe. It does not matter what sort of universe he- creates, so long as he creates it. The world created by a Buddha is not the same as that created by a Napoleon, nor should they be the same. It does not prove anything that I cannot become a Kalidasa; for that matter Kalidasa cannot become what I am. If you have not the genius of a Shankara it does not mean that you have no genius at all. Be and become yourselfma gridhah kasyachit dhanam, says the Upanishad. The fountain-head of creative genius lies there, in the free choice and the particular delight the self-determination of the spirit within you and not in the desire for your neighbours riches. The world has become dull and uniform and mechanical, since everybody endeavours to become not himself, but always somebody else. Imitation is servitude and servitude brings in grief.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Entered in currents or in pouring waves
Into the immobile ocean of his calm.
01.04 - Sri Aurobindos Gita, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The supreme secret of the Gita, rahasyam uttamam, has presented itself to diverse minds in diverse forms. All these however fall, roughly speaking, into two broad groups of which one may be termed the orthodox school and the other the modem school. The orthodox school as represented, for example, by Shankara or Sridhara, viewed the Gita in the light of the spiritual discipline more or less current in those ages, when the purpose of life was held out to be emancipation from life, whether through desireless work or knowledge or devotion or even a combination of the three. The Modern School, on the other hand, represented by Bankim in Bengal and more thoroughly developed and systematised in recent times by Tilak, is inspired by its own Time-Spirit and finds in the Gita a gospel of life-fulfilment. The older interpretation laid stress upon a spiritual and religious, which meant therefore in the end an other-worldly discipline; the newer interpretation seeks to dynamise the more or less quietistic spirituality which held the ground in India of later ages, to set a premium upon action, upon duty that is to be done in our workaday life, though with a spiritual intent and motive.
This neo-spirituality which might claim its sanction and authority from the real old-world Indian disciplinesay, of Janaka and Yajnavalkyalabours, however, in reality, under the influence of European activism and ethicism. It was this which served as the immediate incentive to our spiritual revival and revaluation and its impress has not been thoroughly obliterated even in the best of our modern exponents. The bias of the vital urge and of the moral imperative is apparent enough in the modernist conception of a dynamic spirituality. Fundamentally the dynamism is made to reside in the lan of the ethical man,the spiritual element, as a consciousness of supreme unity in the Absolute (Brahman) or of love and delight in God, serving only as an atmosphere for the mortal activity.
--
The higher secret of the Gita lies really in the later chapters, the earlier chapters being a preparation and passage to it orpartial and practical application. This has to be pointed out, since there is a notion current which seeks to limit the Gita's effective teaching to the earlier part, neglecting or even discarding the later portion.
The style and manner of Sri Aurobindo's interpretation1 is also supremely characteristic: it does not carry the impress of a mere metaphysical dissertation-although in matter it clothes throughout a profound philosophy; it is throbbing with the luminous life of a prophet's message, it is instinct with something of the Gita's own mantraakti.
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And the faculty of Intuition said to be the characteristic of the New Man does not mean all that it should, if we confine ourselves to Bergson's definition of it. Bergson says that Intuition is a sort of sympathy, a community of feeling or sensibility with the urge of the life-reality. The difference between the sympathy of Instinct and the sympathy of Intuition being that while the former is an unconscious or semi-conscious power, the latter is illumined and self-conscious. Now this view emphasises only the feeling-tone of Intuition, the vital sensibility that attends the direct communion with the life movement. But Intuition is not only purified feeling and sensibility, it is also purified vision and knowledge. It unites us not only with the movement of life, but also opens out to our sight the Truths, the fundamental realities behind that movement. Bergson does not, of course, point to any existence behind the continuous flux of life-power the elan vital. He seems to deny any static truth or truths to be seen and seized in any scheme of knowledge. To him the dynamic flow the Heraclitian panta reei is the ultimate reality. It is precisely to this view of things that Bergson owes his conception of Intuition. Since existence is a continuum of Mind-Energy, the only way to know it is to be in harmony or unison with it, to move along its current. The conception of knowledge as a fixing and delimiting of things is necessarily an anomaly in this scheme. But the question is, is matter the only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth?
Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of consciousness (chit) in a continuous becoming, in a flow of creative activity (ananda). The dynamism of the vital energy is only a refraction or precipitation of the dynamism of the spirit; and so also static matter is only the substance of the spirit concretised and solidified. It is in an uplift both of matter and vital force to their prototypesswarupa and swabhavain the Spirit that lies the real transformation and transfiguration of the humanity of man.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A current from eternal seas of Bliss;
He felt the invasion and the nameless joy.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are three lines, as the Psycho-analysts point out along which this control or censuring of the primary instincts acts. First, there is the line of Defence Reaction. That is to say, the mind automatically takes up an attitude directly contrary to the impulse, tries to shut it out and deny altogether its existence and the measure of the insistence of the impulse is also the measure of the vehemence of the denial. It is the case of the lady protesting too much. So it happens that where subconsciously there is a strong current of a particular impulse, consciously the mind is obliged to take up a counteracting opposite impulse. Thus in presence of a strong sexual craving the mind as if to guard and save itself engenders by a reflex movement an ascetic and puritanic mood. Similarly a strong unthinking physical attraction translates itself on the conscious plane as an equally strong repulsion.
Secondly, there is the line of Substitution. Here the mind does not stand in an antagonistic and protestant mood to combat and repress the impulse, but seeks to divert it into other channels, use it to other purposes which do not demand equal sacrifice, may even, on the other hand, be considered by the conscious mind as worthy of human pursuit. Thus the energy that normally would seek sexual gratification might find its outlet in the cultivation of art and literature. It is a common thing in novels to find the heroine disappointed in love taking finally to works of charity and beneficence and thus forgetting her disappointment. Another variety of this is what is known as "drowning one's sorrow in drinking."
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In India the spirit of renascence came very late, late almost by three centuries; and even then it could not flood the whole of the continent in all its nooks and corners, psychological and physical. There were any number of pockets (to use a current military phrase) left behind which guarded the spirit of the past and offered persistent and obdurate resistance. Perhaps, such a dispensation was needed in India and inevitable also; inevitable, because the religious spirit is closest to India's soul and is its most direct expression and cannot be uprooted so easily; needed, because India's and the world's future demands it and depends upon it.
Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing the one thing needfulTamevaikam jnatha; 'religions' are its names and forms, appliances and decorations. Let us have by all means the religious spirit, the fundamental experience that is the inmost truth of all religions, that is the matter of our soul; but in our mind and life and body let there be a luminous catholicity, let these organs and instruments be trained to see and compare and appreciate the variety, the numberless facets which the one Spirit naturally presents to the human consciousness. Ekam sat viprh bahudh vadanti. It is an ancient truth that man discovered even in his earliest seekings; but it still awaits an adequate expression and application in life.
0 1956-09-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But perhaps you have felt this way because you had left your work in the Ashram for an entirely personal, that is, necessarily egoistical reason, and egoism always isolates one from the great current of universal forces. That is why, too, you no longer clearly perceive my love and my help which nevertheless are always with you.
You asked me what I see and whether your difficulties will not reappear upon your return to the Ashram. It may well be. If you return as you still are at present, it may be that after a very short period it will all begin again. That is why I am going to propose something to you but to accept it you will have to be heroic and very determined in your consecration to my work.
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
What was me was up above, and the Ashram was It began just here (the navel) and went that way (downwards), and it was encircled, to show that it was a special formationencircled in the inconscience of the terrestrial creation. And I was everything else, with the usual vibrations of power and light. And then one current and another current and another were passing into it, into this formation, and they kept going in and in and in, accumulating. They kept going in, and yet they did not come out, they did not leave. It was not an undulatory movement, but rather a pulsating movementit had no beginning, it didnt go out, and yet it kept moving. Its very difficult to describe.
The formation represented by the Ashram was located approximately here, at the height of the navel in relation to what I was but although the body was not delimited, it had certain attributes or undefined forms, each one of which was situated in relation to the other as though each represented one part of the body; each was symbolic of either an activity or a part of the world or a mode of manifestation. So the formation started from about here, near the navel, and went down towards the appendix Here, Ill draw you a sketch:
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It was as if the doors of destruction had been flung open. Floodsfloods as vast as an oceanwere rushing down onto something the earth? A formidable current pouring down at an insane speed, with an unstoppable power. It was brackish waternot transparent, but brackish. And it was imperative to reach a certain spot BEFORE the water. Had the water reached there ahead of me, nothing could have been done. Whereas if I got there first (I say I, but it was not I with this body), if I got to the other side before the water, I would be completely safe; and from this safe position, I would be able, I would have a chance to help those left behind.
And this vehicle was going faster than the flood (I saw and felt it by its motion)a formidable flood, but the vehicle was going still faster. It was so wonderful. In places there were some especially difficult and dangerous spots, but I ALWAYS got there before the water, just before the water barred the way. And we kept going and going and going. Then, with a final effort (there was no effort, really, it was willed), with a final push, we made it to the other side and the water came rushing just behind! It rushed down at a fantastic speed. We had made it. Then, just on the other side, it changed color. It was it changed in color to a predominant blue, this powerful blue which is the force, the organizing force in the most material world. So there we were, and the vehicle stopped. And then, after having been looking straight ahead the whole time we were speeding along, I turned around and said, Ah, now I can start helping those who are behind.
--
And once on the other side, without even a rise in ground level (I dont know why), it was immediately safe. And the current went on and on, waves upon waves, on and on, as far as the eye could see, but it was canalized here at the Great Turning; and as soon as it went past this point, the inundation was total, it spread out over something over the earth. And the current turnedit turned but I was already on the other side. And down below, everything was finished, the water rushed down everywhere. Only, as soon as I was on the other side, it could not touch me the water could not get across, it was stopped by something invisible, and it turned away.
Moreover, it seemed that everything had already been prepared, as if the way had been made to divert the water.
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Of course, I much prefer being in my great currents of forcefrom a personal standpoint, such immensity of action is much more interesting. But these documentary things are also valuable. It is so tremendously different from the dreams and even the vi. signs you have when you enter certain representative realms of the mind (which is what I used to do). It is so different, it has another content, another life altogether: it carries its light, its understanding, its explanation within itselfyou look, and everything is explained.
It always gives me the feeling that I am shrinking a little, but its interesting. And its useful, for I am constantly moving about and doing things with people; it indicates to me what I have to say and do with each one. Its useful. But all the same, I miss the fullness and joy of the more impersonal Movement of forces.
Before going to bed, sometimes I say to myself, I will do what is necessary to spend my night in these great currents of force(because there is a way to do it). And then I think, Oh, what an egotist you are, my girl! So sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesntwhen theres something important to do, it doesnt happen. But all I have to do is concentrate in a certain way before going to sleep to spend my whole night in these very far from here, very far I cant say very far from the earth, for surely its in an intermediate zone between the forces from above and the earths atmosphere. Thats what it mainly is, in any case. Its a great universal current as well, but mainly its what descends and comes onto the earth, and it is permeating the earths atmosphere all the time, all the time, and it comes with this wide, overall visionit makes for wonderful nights I no longer bother about people at allat least not as such, but in a more impersonal way.
(silence)
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And the experience just now (during meditation) was somehow mixed with what I usually see at night (it was not a combinationor maybe it was a combination ), for it had that same light It was a kind of powdering, even finer than tiny dotsa powdering like an atomic dust, but with an EXTREMELY intense vibration but without any shifting of place. And yet its in constant motion Something shifting about within something that vibrates on the same spot without moving (something does move, but its subtler, like a current of tremendous power which passes through a milieu that doesnt move at all: rather, it vibrates on the same spot with an extreme intensity). But I dont exactly know how it is different from the present experience It becomes less golden at night, the gold is less visible, whereas the other colorswhite, blue and a sort of pinkare much more visible.
Oh, now I remember! It was PINK during the second phase, just afterwards, after Egypt! Oh, it was like like at the end of a sunrise when it gets very clear and luminous. A magnificent color. And it kept coming down and down, in a flood that part was new. Its something I see very rarely. It was not there at all the last time we meditated together. And it came filled with such a joy! Oh! It was absolutely ecstatic. It lasted quite a long time. And from there I went into this trance where I saw (laughing) that man congratulating you! I heard him say (his voice is what roused me from my trance, and then I saw him), Congratulations, its a great success! (Mother laughs)
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This is what you see in life, its all like thateach thing has its place and its necessity. This has made me see a whole current of life I was very, very involved with people from this milieu during a whole period of my existence and in fact, its the first approach to Beauty. But it gets mixed.
(Mother remains silent a moment)
0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, as long as there are currents swirling within youswirling in the mind or the vitalyou tell yourself that these currents are the cause of all the difficulties. But when there is nothing any longer? When there is a serene and immutable peace but still you are relentlessly houndedoh, with such ferocity! You cannot imagine.
(silence)
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Reclining on the waves silken folds, I descend; rocked from one undulating wave to another in a gentle rhythm, I am borne straight towards the west. The deeper I go, the more luminous the water becomes, great silvery currents coursing through it.
Cradled from wave to wave, for a long while I descend deeper, ever deeper.
--
Has the sleeper sensed my presence? For now he awakens and rises in all his grace and beauty. He turns towards me and his eyes meet mine, mauve and luminous eyes with a gentle, an infinitely tender expression. Wordlessly he bids me a sublime welcome and my whole being joyously responds. Taking my hand, he leads me to the couch he has just left. I stretch out on this downy whiteness, and his harmonious visage bends over me; a sweet current of force enters wholly into me, invigorating, revitalizing each cell.
Then, wreathed by the splendid colors of the rainbow, enveloped by lulling melodies and exquisite perfumes, beneath his gaze so powerful, so tender, I drift into a beatific repose. And during my sleep I learn many beautiful and useful things.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother used to say that when Sri Aurobindo cured somebody, one often saw a subtle hand come with a current of blue force and seize, as it were, the vibration of the illness or disorder between its fingertips.
On the afternoon of the 21st, Mother went to watch a performance given by the children.
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But whats strikingits connected to what I was telling you the other dayis that I was going to see some people who were on the other side of a river. Ordinarily the river water wasnt clean and you needed a boat or something to cross; but yesterday I was in a special state I just sat down on the water and said, I am going there. And then, quite naturally, a current of pure, crystal clear water simply took me where I wanted to go. It was a very pleasant sensation I was sitting on the water, all smiles, and prrt! I was taken to the other side. Oh, very good! I thought. Will it continue? And so once again I said, I am going there (that is, back to this side) and prrt! Back I came.
Then someone came. There are symbolic people in these dreams; they seem to be made up of various parts of the beings of those around me, people who have a particular relationship with me and bring a particular help to the Work. They are symbolic characters and always the same: one of them is tall and thin, some are small, there are young ones, old ones. I cant say its this person or that person, but rather that something IN this or that person is represented in these characters. And one of them is like a big brotherhe helps out in certain circumstances; if theres a boat, for instance, the big brother steers it. So he came up to me and said, Yes, I know the method, and began to try. Stop, for heavens sake! I said. Youll spoil everything; to make it work I have to say: I WANT TO GO THERE. When he began trying to bring me across with his own methods, the water grew muddy again and I started to sink! No no no! I protested. Dont do that, thats notit at all! THAT has to (although I wasnt formulating it to myself, what I meant was the sense of a certain higher Will) THAT has to say: I WANT TO GO THERE; then it works.
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then look at India. Except for some solitary giants, everywhere there is your simple man, that is, the average man who does not want to think and cannot think, who has not the least Shakti but only a temporary excitement. In India, you want the simple thought, the easy word. In Europe they want the deep thought, the deep word; there even an ordinary laborer or artisan thinks, wants to know, is not satisfied with surface things but wants to go behind. But there is still this difference: there is a fatal limitation in the strength and thought of Europe. When it comes into the spiritual field, its thought-power can no longer move ahead. There Europe sees everything as riddlenebulous metaphysics, yogic hallucination. They rub their eyes as in smoke and can see nothing clear. Still, some effort is being made in Europe to surmount even this limitation. We already have the spiritual sensewe owe it to our forefa thersand whoever has that sense has at his disposal such Knowledge and Shakti as with one breath might blow away all the huge power of Europe like a blade of grass. But to get that Shakti one must be a worshiper of Shakti. We are not worshipers of Shakti. We are worshipers of the easy way. But Shakti is not to be had by the easy way. Our forefa thers dived into a sea of vast thought and gained a vast Knowledge and established a mighty civilization. As they went on in their way, fatigue and weariness came upon them. The force of thought diminished and with it also the strong current of Shakti. Our civilization has become an achalayatana [prison], our religion a bigotry of externals, our spirituality a faint glimmer of light or a momentary wave of religious intoxication. And so long as this sort of thing continues, any permanent resurgence of India is improbable
In Bengal this weakness has gone to the extreme. The Bengali has a quick intelligence, emotional capacity and intuition. He is foremost in India in all these qualities. All of them are necessary but they do not suffice. If to these there were added depth of thought, calm strength, heroic courage and a capacity for and pleasure in prolonged labor, the Bengali might be a leader not only of India, but of mankind. But he does not want that, he wants to get things done easily, to get knowledge without thinking, the fruits without labor, siddhi by an easy sadhana [discipline]. His stock is the excitement of the emotional mind. But excess of emotion, empty of knowledge, is the very symptom of the malady. In the end it brings about fatigue and inertia. The country has been constantly and gradually going down. The life-power has ebbed away. What has the Bengali come to in his own country? He cannot get enough food to eat or clothes to wear, there is lamentation on all sides, his wealth, his trade and commerce, his lands, his very agriculture have begun to pass into the hands of others. We have abandoned the sadhana of Shakti and Shakti has abandoned us. We do the sadhana of Love, but where Knowledge and Shakti are not, there Love does not remain, there narrowness and littleness come, and in a little and narrow mind there is no place for Love. Where is Love in Bengal? There is more quarreling, jealousy, mutual dislike, misunderstanding and faction there than anywhere else even in India which is so much afflicted by division.
0 1963-03-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The nations of the world legitimize that destructive madness of the arms race by saying its a way to prevent destruction through fear thats futile. As an argument, its futile, but thats the way they think. Its part of that same thirst or need for Security: nothing can be achieved except in peace, nothing can be arrived at except in peace, nothing can be realized except in peacewe need peace, individually, collectively, globally. So lets make horrifying weapons of destruction so that men will be so frightened that nothing will happenhow childish! But thats the current state of mind. It is still one of those in English they say device, a ploy (its not a ploy, its a meansbetween ploy and means) to urge the human race on towards its evolutionary goal. And for that, we must catch hold of the Divine: its a means of catching hold of the Divine. For there is nothingnothing, nothing exists from the point of view of Security, except the Supreme. If we ARE the Supreme, that is to say, the supreme Consciousness, supreme Power, supreme Existence, then there is Securityoutside of that, there is none. Because everything is in perpetual motion. What exists at one moment in time, as Sri Aurobindo says (time is an unbroken succession of moments), what exists at a given moment no longer exists the next, so theres no security. Its the same experience, seen from another angle, as that of Buddha, who said there was no permanence. And basically, the Rishis saw only from the angle of human existence, thats why they were after Immortality. It all boils down to the same thing.
(Mother remains in contemplation)
0 1963-06-08, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the first time. Ive had currents of force, Ive had actions on the earth, Ive had forces coming to me, all sorts of things; but this was different: it was all of that together. It was everywhere at the same time, everything at the same time, with that Inrush, and it was There was certainly something that wanted me to be very quiet and not to worry. It was necessary that I should keep very quiet.
I had a feeling that I was given the awareness of something thats taking place right now. Because at night, generally, I disconnect myself from everything and universalize myselfno, universalize isnt the word: I identify myself with the Lord. Thats my way of resting. I do it every night, it is the time when I have my deep rest. But now Ive been made aware of this Force at work. Often experiences come (there have been a number of them lately), but its the first time this one has come, because It was certainly something happening FOR the earth; but it didnt come from the center of forces that generally acts on the earth. It wasnt the usual working of forces on the earth. It was something happening. And it gave the sense that the earth was very small the movement was towards the earth, it was for the earth, but the earth was very small.
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive seen thousands of cases, you know, but its the first time Ive seen that! And he had a remarkable knowledge, because in order not to risk any hitch, he clung to his son and urged him to come to me so as to make sure of reaching me without mishap, without any interference from the adverse forces, from currents and all sorts of things. He clung to his son, who was quite unaware of it, except that something in him WANTED him to come to me. And the poor son was crying; I told him, Dont worry, he is very happy! (Mother laughs)
And lovely! A lovely thing. The sight of it filled me with joyso happy, so happy, he seemed to be saying, At last I am with you! I wont budge now, no one can take me away. This small.
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, we dont know. I SEE those great currents: theyre like currents of madness that catch hold of people and things. At bottom, it may be really a rather acute conflict between the Yes and the No, that is to say, between all that struggles to hasten the coming of new things and all that refusesrefuses with increasing violence.
(silence)
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Very long ago, many times over, when I looked at the universe (I dont mean the earth: the universe), it was that way (same gesture of a round totality). How can I put it? It gave the feeling of moving forward, of moving forward towards a progressive perfection. For years on end, my perception of the earth has been that way; and now, it takes place completely at will, in the sense that it takes only just a small movement in the consciousness (gesture of a trigger or a slight reversal, a drawing within) for the whole earth to move that way, along with the events and the inner complications. But now, that same consciousness of the whole works that way: when it thinks of something (for some reason of work, not because of an arbitrary decision), the thing imposes itself; its a whole set of things that presents itself as the TOTALITY on which the action must take place. So it may be a small thing like this sports festival, it may be the Ashram (very often the Ashram as a whole), it may be a part of the earth, or sometimes even a single individual (who is no longer an individual but a set or a world of things, a totality4). A totality of things (round gesture) that move within themselves in (Mother draws within that totality small movements, individual and local, like waves or currents of force). Oh, its most interesting! And even there, there is no more notion of this person, that person, so-and-soall that vanishes.
But when you have to speak, what can you do? You cant spend all your time explaining it all; besides, its unintelligible for whoever hasnt lived it.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time the body hasnt felt in the least separatenot in the least. There is even a sort of constant identification with the people around which at times is troublesome enough, but which I see as a means of action (of control and action). Ill give an example: on the 4th, the last time I saw you, the doctor left for America. He had his lunch here (I told you he was very moved); he was given a sort of little ceremony for his departure. He was sitting on the floor as usual, next to me (I was seated at the table, facing the light), and they served him his lunch; he turned towards me to receive the things. He was in a state of intense emotion (nothing apparent at all; the appearance was very quiet, he didnt say or do anything extraordinary, but inwardly). At one point I looked at him to encourage him to eat, and our eyes met. Then there came into me from him such a violent emotion that I almost started sobbing, can you imagine! And its always there, in the lower abdomen (really in the abdomen), that this identification with the outside world takes place. There (gesture above the heart center), it dominates; the identification is here (gesture to the abdomen), but the Force dominates (Mother holds up her head); while here (the abdomen), it seems to be still its the lower vital, I mean the lower vital OF MATTER, the vital subdegree OF MATTER. Its on the way to transformation, this is where the work is being done materially. But all those emotions have rather unpleasant repercussions. Even, when I looked at it in detail, I came to think that there must be something analogous in you; you must be open to certain currents of force in the lower vital, and those kinds of spasms which you get must be the result. So then, the solution there is only one solution, because immediately I called, I put the Lords Presence there (gesture to the abdomen), and I saw it was extremely CONTAGIOUS. Because I had received the vibrations, they had entered straight in without meeting any obstacles; so the response had a considerable contagious power I saw it immediately: I stopped the doctors vibrations; it took me a few minutes, and everything was back in order again. Then I understood that this opening, this contagion was kept as a means of actionit isnt pleasant for the body (!), but its a means of action.
Its the same thing with that necessity of returning to the superficial consciousness. In the beginning, in the very beginning, when I identified myself with that pulsation of Love that creates the world, for many days I refused to resume entirely the ordinary, habitual consciousness (to which I was just referring: that sort of surface consciousness which is like bark), I no longer wanted it. Thats why I was outwardly so helpless; in other words, I refused to make any decisions (Mother laughs), the others had to decide and do things for me! Thats what convinced them that I was extremely ill!
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hitler asserted that Falsehood should govern the world and that it was governing it. And he was very conscious of being the instrument of the Asura who had himself called the Lord of Nations, who is precisely the present, current representation of the Asura of Falsehood (the one who was born the Lord of Trutha lovely story).
Thats why Sri Aurobindo clearly and openly took the side of the Alliesit wasnt out of love for the British!
0 1965-07-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it doesnt depend on me, I dont make an effort: it just comes. Its something that comes, then I seem to be plunged in a bath and I only have to look. It comes ready-made, effortlessly. Its a STATE in which I find myself, with, for example, the vision of the terrestrial mental progress, of the way in which the human mentality is organized (same gesture as if indicating a chessboard); and its very interesting because living conditions are conditioned by thought-states, and so I see how the thought-state must be changed in order for life to be changed (Mother draws currents of force on the chessboard). And I sit there, as if in a theater, and I watch, and it works.
If I had some peace I would write it down (because it comes all formulated) and it could be interesting. It must belong to the realm of revelation. Its like a luminous strip passing by, but it is all organized. But one needs peace (I scribbled the last note here while they were preparing my breakfast, and after that ). But anyway, its not of transcendent interest; its only because its very clear, very precise, and it obviously doesnt have the character of ordinary human thought: its ready-made, it comes ready-made.
0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The patient had been in convulsion, the whole right side of the body twitching horribly, speech impossible. There came an easing of it all, and I remember thinking, Why is that brain signaling that body to twitch sowhy? And I took hold of Montys right hand, seated there, on the edge of his bed. And the two right arms became like a big telephone switchboard hook-upyou know, the long cords. So, through the hook-up I called. I called to the Divine Mother, to You specifically, if I may say so, as is my wont. And this time, the You appeared, not above my head, as is usual, but above the patients head. And to that You I called three times, Mother, as you once taught me to do. That was all. Nothing more complicated than that. You were there, strategically positioned and I pronounced your Name three times. But there was a great current of Force that went through that telephone hook-up, so to speak, a great Power that came down the great long distance from the You through the little mans ailing brain and on down through his then quieting right arm and up through my long right arm to my think machine. And in that there was a deep peace and knowing. Miss Carter was seated on the other side of the bed, it so happened, at that moment, but she did not know that anything took place, even though I quietly closed my eyes for a bit. Odd, isnt it? It seems even odder as I write it. It was so normal as it took place. And it was so normal when, next morning, all trace of the tremor had vanished and all power of speech had returned to the delighted patient. And greater delight of all observers.
(11 July 1965)
0 1965-09-15a, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have received many things. I am beginning to attach importance to them because I have noticed that those things (which I always considered to be currents of thought going past that you catch as they go past) generally correspond to something thats going to happen, and theyre like a way of letting me know in advance. So now I pay some attention to them. Well, I have received many things: for instance, the Chinese idea of taking advantage of the opportunity to become active; then this Indonesia business2 that would also be used as an opportunity to make a move. And it appears, so I was told (I had seen itlots of things come), its a rumor (a rumor that spread up to the Government of India): the Prime Minister3 said we were threatened with a joining of China and Indonesia with Pakistan to give volume to the attack. He said it didnt matter. But anyway, its his duty to be optimistic.
It impressed me as as something global. It was awesome. Awesomeso much so that my body was shivering in my bed. It was awesome. I had to do a little sadhana to restore order.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And theres nothing to say that if they feel protected, helped and supported, in fact by Russia and America, they wont push for reunion. With masses, you know, its only a question of a current of thought: its not reflection, not reasoning, just a current of thought.
I dont know, we shall see.
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night againvery often, almost every night, I spend a while in the night in the state of consciousness of your book: the manner of seeing, feeling and saying (Mother draws a strip in midair representing the books region), like that. So now and then, I make a suggestion, but not with words: I seem to introduce into it another way of seeing and feeling: Why not this way? It has happened several times. But when I wake up I dont remember the details because there are too many things. But its a place where the book is taking shape, so I enter that place and seem to bring currents of air into it! (Mother laughs) I make proposals. It happens very often. I think it regularly happens every night, but I remember only when I think it necessary.
***
0 1966-07-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a question Id like to ask you in connection with the last aphorism. You started saying that regardless of all the unnecessary overactivity of people, there was underneath that great current of irresistible Power DOING things despite everything, despite people.
So, whats your question?
But that great current of Power needs instruments in order to express itself, doesnt it?
A brain.
0 1966-08-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive often had the experience (on another plane, I suppose) that the current inexplicably seemed to be reversed: things stop being harmonious, and theres no knowing why.
The why is very simple: its always separation the individual separating himself, always. So, according to everyones nature, there is more or less egoism, but there is separation. Now I see the false movement: its when the consciousness falls back into an old habit. And as its an old habitvery old habityou dont feel it as a fall: its a tiny little movement like this (Mother twists something between her thumb and index finger).
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont think so! I dont think so, because for my part I told them everything I could; I even told them it made me ill. They dont have the strength to resist: its the current of the outer world and they dont have the strength to resist it.
And I go as fast as I can, its not that I fall asleep! With the transformation, might we have the power to do all this work in less time?
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One suddenly sees Its a certain region, there, a region in the earth atmosphere, vast and imperishable, where things take on a new importance, which sometimes belies appearances, and one sees a sort of great, immense current carrying circumstances and events along towards a goal always the same goal, and through very unexpected paths. It becomes very vast, and despite the horror of details, as a whole it takes on a very smiling Rhythm.
Now I know, I remember, this whole experience came after I saw a book that was published quite recently in India, in English, which they entitled The Roll of Honour, and in which there is a photo and a short biography of all those who died in the fight against the British, for Indias freedom. There were photos everywhere, lots of them (some were only photos the police took after they had just been killed and were lying on the ground). And it all brought a certain atmosphere: the atmosphere of those disinterested goodwilled people who meet with a tragic fate. It had the same impression on me as the horrors of the Germans during the war over there. These things are obviously under the direct influence of certain adverse forces, but we know that the adverse forces are, so to say, permitted to workthrough the sense of horror, in factin order to hasten the awakening of consciousness. So then, that experience, which was very strong and was very like the one I had when I saw the photographs of German atrocities in France, put me in contact with the vision of the human, terrestrial, modern error (its modern: it began these last one thousand years and has become more and more acute in the last hundred years), with the aspiration to counterbalance that: How to do it? What is to be done? And the answer: Thats why you have created Auroville.
0 1967-01-31, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, yes, its terrestrial. Its a terrestrial state. At times it is prolonged, at other times it changes very abruptly. Does it come from interplanetary currents? I dont know. It has to be seen, to be studied.
Astrologers say its the opposition between planets; at certain times planets are in opposition or conjunction and it results in certain currents. Thats how they explain the trend of events. So the secret would be to make this law obey the higher Influence, the higher harmonizing law.
Then we would find the secret of many things.1
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the last part, what he calls the cellular level is indeed the descriptionONE descriptionof cellular phenomena and activities on their level of consciousness, and also on the level of consciousness of the infinitesimal. He speaks of great currents and cellular transformations and all that; its quite correct, only.1 Its what is going on at present, but its just the consciousness reduced to the dimension of the infinitesimal. And its a reproduction of what takes place in the other dimensions. But, for example, after all this discipline of the cells that there has been for several years now, his description strikes me as the same thing SEEN THROUGH AN ILLUSION. And the illusion is caused by that very imbalance: the illusion of an absolute reality, while its a quite relative reality. You understand, its the difference between seeing something with a sense of relativity, with a whole immensity of other things, and seeing it all alone as an exclusive and unique reality. Its the sense of the harmony and balance of the Whole that is gone. And so, it becomes dreadful: as he says, some people may find it frightening. And thats precisely because that equilibrium is missing. Its the same thing in a smaller version in an individual: that vision of the whole which gives the proportion of every event, the importance of every event and every thing, changes completely when you have the sense of the Whole, and what appears frightening or catastrophic or marvellous becomes again just a part of the Whole. Its the sense of equilibrium that is gone. When I read the end, it gave me one more confirmation of my experience.
It may be necessary, in certain cases, to disrupt that equilibrium so as to come into contact with something new, but thats always dangerous. And the way of consecration and surrender to the supreme Power is infinitely superiorits slightly more difficult. Its more difficult than swallowing a drug, but infinitely superior.
0 1967-05-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An Italian professor did some research in Mexico. He says: Human cells can generate enough electrical energy to electrocute another human being standing eighteen feet away. Dr. Ruggiero feels that his experiments in human cells may result in the cure of paralysis and he says that an electrical energy screen generated by human cells could be used to stop bullets. Electrical energy could make a human dynamo capable not only of inflicting death, but of literally walking on air. By connecting cables to the human frame, human cells could produce energy and light sufficient to fill the power needs of an average home or small manufacturing unit. In experiments in his Mexico City laboratory, Dr. Ruggiero has produced a current from a goat enough to light up a series of 40 watt bulbs and to activate an electric door bell
But its been known for a long time that cats, the skin of cats, is full of electricity. It was used in the past to cure rheumatism.
--
I remember, the first time I gave X (a Tantric) a flower, my fingers touched his and he almost jumped; then, when he went out, he said to someone that there was a kind of vibration or (I forget his words) a current, I dont know, which went through his whole body, like an electric current. He simply touched my fingers when I gave him the flower.
To me, this is all the same thing, only its their material notation of the Fact. Thats all. To their intelligence it becomes much more real and concrete, but its the same thing.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is quite simple. The majority of children study because they are forced to by family, habit, current ideas, not because they want to learn and know. Until the motive for their studies is rectified, until they learn because they want to know, they will use all kinds of tricks to make their work easier and get results with the least effort.
(July 13, 1967)
0 1967-09-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A head as big as this He was smiling, and showing us both something that was the symbolic image of these Talks. It was very interesting! His head was big like this (about fifty centimetres), wholly luminous with that supramental light which is its golden, but with red in itnot red: pink, but its inexpressible. Its almost like a flame, but not dazzling; and it gives the sense of a forcea really all-powerful force. He was there like this (gesture between Mother and Satprem), between the two of us, with his hand outstretched (it was all the same colour), and in his hand was a cube. And that cube was all those Talks. So he showed the cube, which was of a transparent light (how can I put it?) a steady transparent lightnot still, but steady. And there were kinds of veins in it: blue veins, silvery veins It was a cube, you see, a perfect cube, but it was all moving about: blue, silvery, red veins, and sometimes too, a small dark line. And he was showing it as if to say, Here is how it is. The whole thing was a cube of colourless, transparent lightpurely transparent and purely luminous; and there were kinds of currents passing through it: sometimes in one corner (but it was shifting about, not still), and it was now dark blue (not dark, but bluereally blue), now silvery, now white, and in places, from time to time, here or there (gesture to various points), there was in a corner or at an edge (laughing), a small black line!
He held it out in his hand and laughed!
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But what Sri Aurobindo meant was that the movement, the general movement was towards a catastrophe, and this was to divert the current of force.
But I have wondered whether the Tower of Babel, insofar as the story is true, wasnt a similar attempt, an attempt to harmonize men? Its presented to us the other way round, but I have wondered if it wasnt that.
0 1967-11-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I tell you, the response is like this: there is a sudden perception (oh, all these things are very subtle, very subtle but precisely, for the consciousness they are very concrete), the perception of a sort of disorganization, like a current of disorganization; at first the substance making up the body feels it, then it sees the effect, then everything starts being disorganized: that disorganization is what prevents the cohesion necessary for the cells to constitute an individual body, so then you know, Ah (gesture of dissolution), itll be the end. Then the cells aspire, there is a sort of central consciousness of the body which aspires intensely, with as complete a surrender as it can make: Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will. Then there is a kind of not something thunderous, not a dazzling flash, but a sort of well, the impression is of a densification of that current of disorganization; and then something comes to a halt: first there is a peace, then a light, then Harmony and the disorder has vanished. And once the disorder has vanished, there is instantly IN THE CELLS a sense of living eternity, of living for eternity.
Well, that experience, such as Ive told you, with the whole intensity of concrete reality, occurs not only daily, but several times a day. At times its very severe, that is, like a mass; at other times, its only like something that touches; then, in the body consciousness, its expressed like this, with a sort of thanksgiving: one more progress made over Unconsciousness. But those arent thunderous events, the human neighbour isnt even aware of them; he may note a sort of cessation in the outward activity, a concentration, but thats all.3 So of course, you dont talk about it, you cant write books about it, you dont do propaganda. Thats how the work goes.
--
They were burning slowly, like this (still gesture), without any air current, very quietly.
It remained for a long time.
0 1968-07-17, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel all luminous, the Divine Grace is so powerful that at times I think my body is incapable of holding it; Mothers Presence is so real; the bliss is so serene, so tranquil. The little ADVENTURE begun at the Samadhi becomes so worthy of being lived, the CONSCIOUSNESS has widened so much. Darkness, fear, scruples, mortifications are so far away! A few weeks ago, I had a very painful dream: my body was being torn apart, the pain was excruciating; my feet, my hands, my head were being pulled apart. Today, when I read your letter, I understood the meaning: I had to grow. Just two words to inform you about my situation. As I told you, I found two currents in the Vatican, the first one quite raging against me; we thought that my assuming a new post would calm them down but a few days later, they managed to demand a Collegiate examination (by a neurologist, who, I believe, had been ordered to declare me ill, an endocrinologist, an expert in general medicine, and the Popes physician] hence the cry of the child running to his mother: my telegram asking for Mothers protection. On Sunday the 7th, I had a dream: Mother came into a sort of huge warehouse, where I was lying on the ground, and told me, Quick, get away and leave me your place. I flew away (without my body, which was still on the ground): it was my soul that went away, and, from on high, very high up, I saw Mother taking possession of my body, entering it, and staying put. Suddenly an army of doctors in white robes makes a beeline for my body (in which Mother is still hidden); no sooner have they surrounded and begun examining it than a terrible explosion sends them flying into the air.
(Mother laughs)
0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The 23rd was A.s birthday. Poor man, I thought, hes come here, I must see him. I called him, and he sat down. And all of a sudden, just like that, right away, the head started workingnot head, not thought (Mother draws kinds of currents or waves passing through her), I dont know how to explain; it wasnt a thought: it was kinds of visions, of perceptions. Then I asked him questions, and he noted them down (Mother holds out to Satprem a typewritten note). He only noted my questions, not his replies.
Mother said
--
Penetration into the body. Yes, penetrations of currents I had had several times, but that night (two nights ago, that is), what came all of a sudden was as though there was nothing anymore except a supramental atmosphere. Nothing remained except that. My body was in it. And it was PRESSING to enter, from everywhere, but everywhere at the same timeeverywhere. You understand, it wasnt a current flowing in, it was an atmosphere penetrating from everywhere. It lasted for at least four or five hours. And there was only one part that was BARELY penetrated: it was from here to here (gesture between the throat and the top of the head). Here it seemed gray and dull, as if the penetration were less My teeth are in a dreadful state, my head is in a dreadful state I tell you, I cant see anymore, cant hear anymore, cant All this (from head to throat) is in need of a great transformation. But apart from it, all the rest without exceptionit was pouring and pouring and pouring in. I had never, ever seen that before, never! It lasted for hourshours. Perfectly consciously.
So when it came and while it was there, I was conscious: Oh, thats why, thats why! Thats what You want from me, Lord, thats what! Thats why, thats what You want. At that moment I had an impression that SOMETHING was going to happen.
0 1968-10-23, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, if one takes that attitude, one is never done with it! It will never reach the end. One revises following a certain current, then when one has reached the end, one enters another current, and then Its endless.
I knew a painter like that; he was a great painter: Gustave Moreau. But there are few paintings by him, because he was a man who kept doing his paintings over again. He would progress, his vision would progress, and his painting would always appear to him to be outside, unfinishedit couldnt be finished! So its only when he died that they could get his paintings there were many of them, and they were magnificent. Only, each of them was a movement towards something.
0 1968-11-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Several times, when the body was simply disgusted at its pettiness, its incapacity, its ignorance, its stupidity (laughing) the response was very fine: Be quiet! Its not you who do things. So the body wondered (laughing), But then, what use am I?! It said I dont know, I got the impression of the place where two currents are joined (you know, when you connect one current with another?), the impression that the body was like that, that was its use! It had the sensation of being like one of these tools (Mother points to the electric socket).
A socket.
0 1969-03-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The silence was dense, the stupefaction huge. And I went on again: But we believe we are the interpreters, and except us none has the right to speak. Nevertheless we are faced with the current phenomenon of anti-establishment protest. The youth is running away from us, our formulas are old, ineffective, we preach without conviction, we demand absurd things, and to have peace, we stick a label of sin on all taboos. I know that my speech will be called subversive. In dictatorial or established regimes, those who move forward are suspicious. For twenty centuries we have used the weapon of heresy, and we know the atrocities that were committed in the name of Christ: that was our defenseit was his wisdom to keep power But if Christ suddenly appeared here, in front of us, do you think he would recognize himself in us? Is the Christ we preach the Christ of the BEATITUDES? Our preoccupation is to prohibit opening. And we make fools of ourselves with the pill. But are we also preoccupied with the TRUTH? Yet we should read our holy books again, but read them without passion, without egoistic interest; almost two thousand years ago, St. Paul said, Multifariam, multisque modis olim Deus loquens in prophetis, novissime diebus istis locutus est nobis in Filio (several times and in several ways God has spoken through the prophets, but now in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son Jesus Christ). Thus God has spoken in several ways. I know that a new light has just appeared, a new Consciousness let us go in search of it. But we shall have to step down from our throne, from our convenience; perhaps to leave the place to others and do away with the Hierarchy: no more Pope or Cardinals or Bishops, but all of us seekers of the TRUTH, of the CONSCIOUSNESS, the POWER, the SUPRANATURAL, the SUPRAHUMAN..
Satprem, I left the room and went away for a walk in the countryside. What is going to happen to me? Will they put me on trial? Will they declare me insane, heretic? I am waiting. I am eager to go and see Mother. I am preparing my travel for Easter. (That took place on Monday the 24th of February.) To this day, no reaction. Has the Pope been informed? I do not know. I have continued with the inquiry entrusted to me. I feel very calm, very strong. I have not spoken about all that to any of those close to me (not even to Msgr. R.). The malefic character seen in dream (Msgr. Z) was present, but he did not react either.
0 1969-08-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, oh, I know very well, its simply as you say: one feels a current passing by and says, Oh, it would be niceWhy not! (Mother laughs) We constantly have to do somethingas long as we are here, we have to do somethingso better do the things that put you in contact with the most harmonious current!
But I must say that from the standpoint of action (not even merely material action, because I have almost no material action left, so to say), but of invisible action, with this Consciousness I have learned a LOT, quite a lot. It has our means are very childish, and, you know, it has such a wonderful sense of humor, a way of making people face their stupidity, which is really really charming. And I see it constantly, all the time, for very small things, for big things, for a countrys politics or the organization of a houseall the same thing. And with a delightful irony and so benevolent: no sense of reprobation, no The idea of evil and sin and all thatprrrt! all gone.
0 1969-11-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo is in no way bound by the present worlds institutions or current ideas whether in political, social or economic field; it is not necessary for him either to approve or disapprove of them. He does not regard either capitalism or orthodox socialism as the right solution for the worlds future; nor can he admit that the admission of private enterprise by itself makes the society capitalistic, a socialistic economy can very well admit some amount of controlled or subordinated private enterprise as an aid to its own working or a partial convenience without ceasing to be socialistic. Sri Aurobindo has his own views as to how far Congress economy is intended to be truly socialistic or whether that is only a cover, but he does not care to express his views on that point at present.
April 15, 1949
0 1970-03-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I would need (because I myself cant take an active part, its not possible), I would need a very energetic man, very, VERY open to the Consciousness, and at the same time VERY calm, capable of resisting this currenta kind of current of storm.
But anyway, things are moving, you understand, they feel as if everything is aroused, theyre no longer asleep and half inert, and thats
0 1970-05-27, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, amidst many other things (it lasted a long time and was a very complex thing), but as one example amidst other things, it had to do with the consequences, even current ones, of certain things Amrita did when he was here and handled money. But I spoke to him and arranged things with him as if he were present, not as if he had left.
(long silence)
0 1970-05-30, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It can go on indefinitely. It is like that, the feeling of being in a current of force that goes and spreads, goes and spreads [continuous gesture of descent onto Mother and radiation from her head] indefinitely.
(Mother plunges in again)
0 1970-07-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O my unique Love which sprang from my heart and filled it so much that it made my life blossom. O my Lord of unique Love who has given himself to me wholly and by the Grace-Light has transmuted me. My Love that has entered and unified with me in my heart, so as to transform my body into a golden body. The skin has become supple, the influx of the nervous current all over the body is vibrating, with pauses in between; the bones have become pliable and plastic in their nature; the soft muscles have become truly loosened; the blood has become condensed within; the semen has become concentrated into a single drop and confined in the chest; the petals of the brain2 have blossomed or expanded; amrita [nectar of immortality] is welling up into springs all over the body and filling it up; the luminous forehead perspires; the luminous face brightens up; the breath full of peace becomes cool and refreshing; the inner smile beams up; the hair stands on end; tears of joy flow down towards the feet; the mouth vibrates into the passionate calling [of the Divine]; the ear tubes ring with the sense of musically humming sound; the body has become cool; the soft chest moves; the hands join [as in prayer]; the legs revolve or spin round; the mind melts sweetly, the intelligence becomes full of light; the will becomes full of joy and harmony; the individuality has enlarged itself everywhere; the heart has blossomed into the universality of feeling so as to be felt by the world outwardly; the whole knowledge-body has become blissful; even the spiritual egoism of the senses has gone away; the senses (tattva) have been replaced wholly by the truth (sattva), the truth-principle or truth-substance which alone prevails now uniquely; attachment to objects of the senses and to things of the world has dissolved away, and only the aspiration and will towards the illimitable Grace grows and intensifies.3
And how long did he live like this?
0 1970-07-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, there, to let the current in.
(silence)
0 1971-04-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, thats very good! Its the current situation.
The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.2
0 1971-04-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, on an entirely different subject about the current situation.
Oh!
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And thats what I said to. N.S.2 sent U. expressly to ask me what she should do, because Indira doesnt listen to her at all anymorenot at alland she seems to be completely well, anyway, as though submerged by a hostile formation.3 So I replied that I personally have only one hope (Mother clenches her fists in front of her as though clinging to something): Let the Divine Will be done, and All those who are capable of helping the contact and hastening the reception of that Will here must put all their consciousness and aspiration into it. Thats what I replied. And this (indicating the article), from the standpoint of action, is the last chancenot that people listen very much, but it creates a current of force.
(silence)
--
From this simple, eternal Fact follow all the conclusions and policies that will flow with the current of the earths destiny. Sri Aurobindo said so already in 1947, The division must and will go. Dire will be the consequences for India and for the earth if we fail to heed this eternal Theorem: The old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent political division of the country, said Sri Aurobindo. It is to be hoped that this settled fact will not be accepted as settled for ever or as anything more than a temporary expedient. For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest. We now know, twenty-four years after this prophetic declaration, that China is at our gates and only awaits her hour to invade the entire continent, seizing precisely on this division of India to strike at the spiritual heart of the world and, perhaps, frustrating the realization of the entire destiny of the earth or postponing it until a future cycle after much suffering and complication.
The Great History tells us that India must again be one, and that particular current of history is so imperative that twice already Destiny has managed to put India before the possibility of her reunification. The first time was in 1965 when Pakistans foolish aggressiveness enabled India to counterattack and carry the battle right into the suburbs of Lahore and up to Karachi had she but had the courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight until India and Pakistan become ONE again, for such is the truth of their being. At Tashkent, we yielded on the crest of a petty compromise which was to lead us into a second, more bloody and painful reef, Bangladesh. There too destiny graciously arranged to enable India to hasten to the aid of her massacred brethreneven the famous skyjacking incident of January4 was, as it were, arranged by the Grace so as to spare India from delaying her intervention until it was too late (or to spare her the shame of not intervening at all and allowing Pakistans planes to fly over her head loaded with weaponry and murderers to slaughter her brothers). But there again, yielding to the demands of the moment and to the small, shortsighted interests, we refused to accept the challenge of the Great Direction of our History, and we now find ourselves on the brink of a new compromise which will lead us inevitably to a third and even more disastrous and bloody reef. For one day India must inevitably face that which twice she has fled. Only each time the conditions are more disastrous for her and for the worldperhaps so disastrous that the whole earth will even be engulfed in another general conflict, while the whole story could have been resolved at the little symbolic point that is Bangladesh, at the right hour, with the right gesture and a minimum of suffering.
For let there be no doubt about it, the Bangladesh affair is not an Indian event, it is a world event. The division of India is not a local incident, it is a terrestrial Falsehood which must disappear if the division of the world is to disappear. And here again we hear the voice of Sri Aurobindo, six months before his passing, referring to yet another phenomenon which then seemed of such slight importance, so remote, a trifling local affair at the other end of the world: the invasion of South Korea in 1950, twenty-one years ago. And yet that small Korean symbol, like the small symbol of Bangladesh (or the one of Czechoslovakia in 1938), contained in seed the whole fatal course which is still carrying the world toward a sinister destiny: The affair of Korea, wrote Sri Aurobindo, is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continentin passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India. Now, twenty-one years later, we see that Tibet and the whole of South East Asia have been swallowed up and the gate into India has truly been opened wide by the wound of the Pakistani Falsehoodalready, or very shortly, the Chinese are, or will be, in Khulna, some eighty miles from Calcutta, to help Yahya Khan to pacify Bengal. And Sri Aurobindo added, If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America.
0 1971-06-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its quite a current truth [the onslaught].
Oh, that [the dissolution of the ego] is perfect; that should be published, its my everyday experience, every minute, all the time. That should be published now.
0 1971-06-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have the feeling that things are held like this (gesture of being immobilized under pressure): it is willed that Sri Aurobindos Centenary takes placeif there were a war, it would be difficult. In Delhi, they were thinking the war would break out within a weekthey had said that, again yesterday they told me its imminent. And at the same time there is something which goes like this (same gesture of immobilizing pressure) to keep things in this uncertain state so that Sri Aurobindos Centenary may have its full developmentso I see that mixture of things. The feeling is that the Centenary is the major event, while at the same time the outer consciousness says that if there is war, it will be the end of the Centenary. There you are, thats how it is. So I dont see anything precise because things are like that, all intertwined. If I see something clearly, naturally Ill say so, but now I dont. Its mixed up, all mixed upcompletely mixed up. And there is an insistence on us, a pressure on us to be primarily concerned with the Centenary, for that to be our primary preoccupation; not to take current events too much into account, you know. Thats what I seenot so interesting! (Mother laughs)
(Sujata:) But Mother, shouldnt the problem of India and Pakistan in fact be settled for the Centenary?
0 1971-07-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive found some letters by Sri Aurobindo (letters he sent me) in which he describes the current situationyou would think its now!1
Some adverse formations?
0 1971-11-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About current events, or what?
Yes, or about their life. It depends. Here [in India], about current events.
(long silence)
0 1971-12-18, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very difficult to explain, but Ive had the experience recently (yesterday or the day before, its very recent), the experience of an attitude of unmixed receptivityunmixed with any personal activityan activity whose impulse comes only from the Divine (I had this in connection with the war, the current events, and thats how I understood). But its beyond words.
(long silence)
0 1972-08-09, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(A news item originating from Boulder, Colorado, and dated August 8, reports a solar flare covering over 2.8 billion square miles of the sun's surface. Within an hour of the eruption, the effect was felt on earth, causing a magnetic storm that seriously disrupted communications in many parts of the world In terms of magnitude, the current sunspots are the greatest ever recorded since at least 1964. [Indian Express, August 9].)
Did you hear about the explosions on the sun?
--
Four and a half billion years, according to the current estimate.
It is said that in five billion years the sun will become a "red giant" and burn its planets. The cooling period would come much later.
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Physical Science speaks of irreversibility and entropy in Nature's process. That is to say, it is stated that Nature is rushing down and running down: she is falling irrevocably from a higher to an ever lower potential of energy. The machine that Nature is, is driven by energy made available by a break-up of parts and particles constituting its substance. This katabolic process cannot be stopped or retraced; it can end only when the break-up ceases at dead equilibrium. You cannot lead the river up the channel to its source, it moves inevitably, unceasingly towards the sea in which it exhausts itself and finds its last repose andextinction. But whatever physical Science may say, the science of the spirit declares emphatically that Nature's process is reversible, that a growing entropy can be checked and countermanded: in other words, Nature's downward current resulting in a continual loss of energy and a break-up of substance is not the only process of her activity. This aspect is more than counterbalanced by another one of upward drive and building up, of re-energisation and re-integration. Indeed, evolution, as we have explained it, is nothing but such a process of synthesis and new creation.
Evolution, which means the return movement of consciousness, consists, in its apparent and outward aspect, of two processes, or rather two parallel lines in a single process. First, there is the line of sublimation, that is to say, the lower purifies and modifies itself into the higher; the denser, the obscurer, the baser mode of consciousness is led into and becomes the finer, the clearer, the nobler mode. Thus it is that Matter rises into Life, Life into Psyche and Mind, Mind into Overmind and Supermind. Now this sublimation is not simply a process of refinement or elimination, something in the nature of our old Indian nivtti or pratyhra, or what Plotinus called epistrophe (a turning back, withdrawal or reabsorption): it includes and is attended by the process of integration also. That is to say, as the lower rises into the higher, the lower does not cease to exist thereby, it exists but lifted up into the higher, infused and modified by the higher. Thus when Matter yields Life, Matter is not destroyed: it means Life has appeared in Matter and exists in and through Matter and Matter thereby has attained a new mode and constitution, for it is no longer merely a bundle of chemical or mechanical reactions, it is instinct with life, it has become organic matter. Even so, when Lire arrives at Mind, it is not dissolved into Mind but both Life and Matter are taken up by the mental stuff, life becomes dynamic sentience and Matter is transformed into the grey substance of the brain. Matter thus has passed through a first transformation in Life and a second transformation in Mind; it awaits other transformations on other levels beyond Mind. Likewise, Life has passed through a first transformation in Mind and there are stages in this transformation. In the plant, Life is in its original pristine mode; in the animal, it has become sentient and centralised round a rudimentary desire-soul; in man, life-force is taken up by the higher mind and intelligence giving birth to idealism and ambition, dynamisms of a forward-looking purposive will.
--
The various movements or forces of consciousness that play in the various fields or levels of creation are not merely states or degrees and magnitudes, currents and streams of consciousness: they are also personalities with definite forms and figuresnot physical indeed, yet very definite even when subtle and fluidic. Thus the supreme Reality, which is usually described as the perfect status of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, is not merely a principle but a personality. It is the Supreme Person with his triune nature (Purushottama). It is the Divine as the supreme Knower and Doer or Creator and Lover. The creation in or from that status of consciousness is not simply a play or result of the force of consciousness, it is even more truly the embodiment of a conscious Will; it is the will of the Divine Father executed by the Divine Mother.
Now, as the Reality along with its consciousness, in the downward involutionary course towards materialisation, has been gradually disintegrating itself, multiplying itself, becoming more and more obscure and dense in separated and isolated units, even so the Person too has been following a parallel course of disintegration and multiplication and obscuration and isolation. At the origin lies, as we have said, the Perfect Person, the Supreme Person, in his dual aspect of being and nature, appearing as the supreme purua and the supreme prakti, our Father and our Mother in the highest heaven.
--
The mystery of rebirth in the evolution of the human personality is nothing but the mystery of the developing psyche. At first this psyche or soul is truly a being: no bigger than the thumb it is the hardly audible still small voice. The experiences of lifesweet or bitter, happy or unhappy, good or bad, howsoever they may appear to the outward eye and perceptionall the dialectics of a terrestrial existence contri bute to the growth and development of the psychic consciousness. Each span of life means a special degree or mode of growth necessitated by the inner demand and drive of the divine Individual seated within the heart. The whole end in view of this secret soul is to move always towards and be united again with its Oversoul, its original and high archetype in the Divine Consciousness: the entire course of its earthly evolution is chalked out and patterned by the exact need of its growth. Whatever happens in each particular life, all the currents of all the lives converge and coalesce, and serve the psychic consciousness to swell in volume and intensity and be one with the Divine Consciousness. Or, in a different imagery, one can say that the multifarious experiences of various lives are as fuel to the Inner Firethis Psychic Agni which is just a spark or a thin tongue at the outset of the human evolutionary course; but with the addition of fuel from life to life this Fire flames up, indeed, becomes ultimately a conflagration that bums and purifies the entire outer vehicle and transforms it into radiant mattera fit receptacle, incarnation of the supernal Light. The mounting Fire (the consciousness-energy secreted in the earth-bound heart of Matter) finally flares up, discloses itself in its full amplitude and calls and attracts into it the incandescent supramental Solar Sphere which is the type and pattern it has to embody and express. This is the marriage of Heaven and Earth, of which the mystics all over the earth in all ages spoke and sangto which the Vedic Rishi refers when he declares:
Dyaur me pit mt pthiv iyam,1
02.02 - Rishi Dirghatama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed the darkness and the blindness seem to have been the Divine's grace upon him, for his eyes turned inward to other domains and saw strange truths and stranger facts. We remember in this connection another blind old poet who even though fallen on such evil days composed the world famous epic poem (I am referring obviously to Milton and his Paradise Lost). We remember also here the deaf incomparable master of music Beethoven. Many of the sayings of Dirghatama have become so current that they are now familiar even to the common man. They are mottoes and proverbs we all quote at all times. "Truth is one, the wise call it in different ways"the mantra is from Dirghatama. "Heaven is my father, Earth my mother"this is also from Dirghatama. The famous figure of two birds with beautiful wing dwelling on the same tree comes also from Dirghatama. There are a good many sayings of this kind that have become intimate companions to our lips of which the source we do not know. When we read the mantras of Dirghatama we are likely to exclaim even as the villager did when he first saw Hamlet played in London, "It is full of quotations."
You must have already noticed that the utterance of Dirghatama carries a peculiar turn, even perhaps a twist. In fact his mantras are an enigma, a riddle to which it is sometimes difficult to find the fitting key. For example when he says, "What is above is moving downward and what is down is moving upward; yes, they who are below are indeed up above, and they who are up are here below," or again, "He who knows the father below by what is above, and he who knows the father who is above by what is below is called the poet (the seer creator)", we are, to say the least, not a little puzzled.
--
About the Word, the mystery which Dirghatama unveils is an extraordinary revelationso curious, so illuminating. In later times many lines of spiritual discipline have adopted his scheme and spread it far and wide. Dirghatama himself was an uncommon wizard of words. The truths he saw and clothed in mantras have attained, as I have already said, general celebrity. He says: "The Word is off our categories. It has four stations or levels or gradations." The Rishi continues: "Three of them are unmanifested, unbodied; only the fourth one is manifest and bodied, on the tongue of man." This terminology embodying a fundamental principle has had many commentaries and explanations. Of these the most well-known is that given by the Tantras. They have named the fourfold words as (1) par, supreme; (2) payant, the seeing one; (3) madhyam, the middle one or the one within and (4) vaikhar, the articulate word. In modern language we may say that the first one is the self-vibration of the Supreme Being or Consciousness; the second is the vibration of the higher-mind or the pure intelligence; the third is the vibration of the inner heart; and the fourth the vibration of physical sound, of voice. In philosophical terms of current English we may name these as (1) revelatory, (2) intuitive, (3) inspirational and (4) vocal.
Now in conclusion I will just speak of the fundamental vision of the rishi. His entire realisation, the whole Veda of his life, he has, it appears, pressed into one single k We have heard it said that the entire range of all scriptures is epitomised in the Gita and the Gita' itself is epitomised in one slokasarvadharmn parityajya... Even so we may say that Rishi Dirghatama has summarised his experience, at least the fundamental basic one, and put it into a sutra. It is the famous k with which he opens his long hymn to Surya:
02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the very outset of the evolutionary march, when material Nature meant only a mass or masses of incandescent gaseous elements, the first miracle that happened was the formation, the advent of water. There was Hydrogen and there was Oxygen existing and moving side by side, for millions of years perhaps, but only at a given moment did an electric current happen to pass through a certain mixture of the two elements somewhere, and behold, a liquid drop was the product, an absolutely new, unforeseen, unpredictable and wonderful object! Examples can be multiplied.
The fact is admitted, on the whole, unless one is a Fundamentalist and prefers still to live in the consciousness of a bygone century. Difference comes in when the question of explanations and of viewpoints regarding them is raised. A materialist like Professor Broad would consider Mind and Life as fundamentally formations of Matter, however different they might seem from each other and from the latter. Water, the so-called miracle product of Oxygen and Hydrogen, according to him, is as material as these two; even so Life and Mind, however miraculously produced, being born of Matter, are nothing but the same single reality, only in different forms. Others, who are more or less idealists, Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, for example (some of them call themselves neo-realists, however), would not view the phenomenon in the same way. Alexander says that Matter and Life and Mind are very different from each other; they are truly emergents, that is to say, novelties; but how the thing has been possible, one need not inquire; one should accept the fact with natural piety.
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A current thin, it streamed in life's vast flow
Tossing and drifting under a drifting sky
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And only trickles and currents are our share.
45.9
02.06 - Vansittartism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the very core of the matter. Germany stands for a philosophy of life, for a definite mode of human values. That philosophy was slowly developed, elaborated by the German mind, in various degrees and in various ways through various thinkers and theorists and moralists and statesmen, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. The conception of the State as propounded even by her great philosophers as something self-existent, sacrosanct and almost divineaugust and grim, one has to addis profoundly significant of the type of the subconscient dynamic in the nation: it strangely reminds one of the state organised by the bee, the ant or the termite. Hitler has only precipitated the idea, given it a concrete, physical and dynamic form. That philosophy in its outlook has been culturally anti-Latin, religiously anti-Christian. Germany cherishes always in her heart the memory of the day when her hero Arminius routed the Roman legions of Varus. Germany stands for a mode of human consciousness that is not in line with the major current of its evolutionary growth: she harks back to something primeval, infra-rational, infra-human.
Such is the position taken up by Lord Vansittart who has given his name to the new ideology of anti-Germanism. Vansittartism (at least in its extreme variety) has very little hope for the mending of Germany, it practically asks for its ending.
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And froze the genial current of the soul.
The" chill penury" was nothing else than the uncongenial atmosphere which did not favour the growth of the soul, allow it to follow its own line of development and fulfilment.
02.14 - Appendix, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is as if the hermitage of old, an abode of peace and quiet, nta-rasspadam-ramam-idam. All here is calm and unhurried, simple and natural and transparent, there is no muddy current of tempestuous upheavals. That is why the poet feels in his heart as if he were
. quiet as a nun
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Caught in its thousandfold current's ravishing flow,
With eddies of immortal sweetness thrilled,
03.04 - The Other Aspect of European Culture, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If then Europe can cut across the snares that Modernism has spread all about her and get behind the surface turmoils and ebullitions and seek that which she herself once knew and esteemed as the one thing needful, then will she really see what the East means, then only will she find the bond of indissoluble unity with Asia. For the Truth that Europe carried in her bosom is much bigger than anything she ever suspected even in her best days. And she carried it not with the full illumination and power of a Master, but rather in the twilight consciousness of a servant or a devotee. The Truth in its purity flowed there for the most part much under the main current of life, and its formulations in life were not its direct expressions and embodiments but echoes and images. It is Asia who grasps the Truth with the hand of the Master, the Truth in its full and absolute truth and it is Asia who can show in fact and life how to embody it integrally.
Europe's spiritual soul itself in the last analysis will be found to be only a derivative of Asia's own self. For all the Mysteries and Occult Disciplines the Christian, the Platonic, the Eleusinian and Orphic, the Kabalistic, the Druidicwhich lay imbedded in Europe's spiritual and religious genius, when traced further up to the very source, will carry us straight into Asia's lap, perhaps India's.
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The average European has a strong basis of the earth-nature in him; he is heavily enclosed in his physical sheath and firmly placed upon the material world. Therefore he keeps a very stable terrestrial equilibrium and is not easily ousted from his earthly footing; his is not a nature easily upset from its poise, or disturbed by the currents and forces that play about him. But the Indian, both physically and psychically, has a more delicate frame and his footing upon earth is less secure. The balance in his consciousness between the different forcesespecially between those of this world and the otheris delicately held; and the adjustment that obtains at a given moment is liable to be disturbed by the least change, either in the inner consciousness, or in the outer conditions.
In other words, when we speak of the spirituality of the Indian people, it is to the disposition of their psychic elements that we refer, to the tone and temper of the soul they possess and to a constant nearness of latent spiritual possibilities, that may at any time materialise, and the consequent possibilities of a spiritual impulse, that may at any time awaken.
03.08 - The Democracy of Tomorrow, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Certainly there were voices of protest, independent spirits who refused to drown themselves, lose themselves in the general current. That is to say, a separate and separative growth of the individual consciousness had to proceed at the same time under whatever duress and compression. An Antigone stood alone in the inviolable sanctity of the individual conscience against the established order of a mighty State. Indeed, individualised individuals were more or less freaks in the social set-up in the early days, revolutionaries or law-breakers, iconoclasts who were not very much favoured by the people. In Europe, it was perhaps with Luther that started a larger movement for the establishment and maintenance of the individual's right. The Reformation characteristically sought to make room for individual judgement and free choice in a field where authority the collective authority of the Churchwas all in all and the individual was almost a nonentity.
In India the spiritual life, it is true, was more or less the individual's free venture to the unknown. The Buddha said, Be thy own light; and the Gita too said, Raise thy self by thy own self. Yet here too, in the end, the individual did not stand, it rose but to get merged in the non-individual the universal, the Vast and the Infinite. The highest spiritual injunction is that God only existed and man has to annul his existence in Him.
03.14 - Mater Dolorosa, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Is that the whole truth? We, for ourselves, do not subscribe to this view. Truth is a very complex entity, the universe a mingled strain. It is not a matter of merely sinners and innocents that we have to deal with. The problem is deeper and more fundamental. The whole question is, where, in which world, on which level of consciousness do we stand, and, what is more crucial, how much of that consciousness is dynamic and effective in normal life. If we are in the ordinary consciousness and live wholly with that consciousness, it is inevitable that, being in the midst of Nature's current, we should be buffeted along, the good and the evil, as we conceive them to be, befalling us indiscriminately. Or, again, if we happen to live in part or even mainly in an inner or higher consciousness, more or less in a mood of withdrawal from the current of life allowing the life movements to happen as they list, then too we remain, in fact, creatures and playthings of Nature and we must not wonder if, externally, suffering becomes the badge of our tribe.
And yet the solution need not be a total rejection and transcendence of Nature. For what is ignored in this view is Nature's dual reality. In one form, the inferior (apar), Nature means the Law of Ignoranceof pain and misery and death; but in another form, the superior (par), Nature's is the Law of Knowledge, that is to say, of happiness, immunity and immortality, not elsewhere in another world and in a transcendent consciousness, but here below on the physical earth in a physical body.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This knowledge remained at the outset scattered, hidden, confined to a few, a company of adepts: it had almost no direct contact with the main current of life. Its religious aspect too was so altered and popularised as to represent and serve the secular life. The systematisation and propagation of that knowledgeat least the aspiration for that knowledgewas attempted on an effective scale in the Hebrew Old Testament. But then a good amount of externalities, of the Inferior Knowledge was mixed up with the inner urge and the soul perception. The Christ with his New Testament came precisely with the mission of cleaning the Augean stables, in place of the dross and coverings, the false and deformed godheads, to instal something of the purest ray of the inner consciousness, the unalloyed urge of the soul, the demand of our spiritual personality. The Church sought to build up society on that basis, attempting a fusion of the spiritual and the temporal power, so that instead of a profane secular world, a mundane or worldly world, there maybe established God's own world, the City of God.
The drive towards the building of Heaven upon earth and with earth, the materialisation of the Spirit on a cosmic scale, the remodelling of the whole human society in spiritual terms was the secret inspiring the other Semitic Revelation, that of Mohammed. The Arab Master sought to bring down and establish and express in life-force what the Rabi of Bethlehem saw and felt in the inner heartone was a lover, the other a servant warrior of God.
04.03 - Consciousness as Energy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A live wirethrough which an electric current, say of several thousand volts, is passinglooks quite innocent, motionless, inactive, almost inert. The appearance, needless to say, is deceptive. Even so the still life of a Yogin. Action does not consist merely in mechanical motion visible to the eye: intra-atomic movements that are subtle, invisible, hard to detect even by the most sensitive instruments, possess a tremendous potency, even to unimaginable degrees. Likewise in man, the extent of muscular flexions does not give the measure or potential of his activity. One cannot say that the first-line infantryman who rushes and charges, shoots, bayonets, kills and is killed is more active and dynamic than the general who sits quiet behind in a cabin and merely sends out orders. Vivekananda wandered about the whole of India, crossed the seas, traversed continents, undertook whirlwind campaignstalking, debating, lecturing: it was a life superbly rich in muscular movements. By his side, Ramakrishna would appear quite tameinactive, introvert: fewer physical displacements or muscular exercises marked his life. And yet, ask anyone who is in touch with the inner life of these great souls, he will tell you, Vivekananda is only a spark from the mighty and concentrated Energy that Ramakrishna was.
What is this spiritual or Yogic Energy? Ordinary people, people with a modern mind, would concede at the most that there are two kinds of activity: (1) real activityphysical action, work, labour with muscle and nerve, and (2) passive activityactivity of mind and thought. According to the pragmatic standard especial, if not entire, importance is given the first category; the other category, sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, is held at a discount. The thoughtful people are philosophers at the most, they are ineffectual angels in this workaday world of ours. We need upon earth people of sterner stuff, dynamic people who are not thought-bound, but know how to apply and execute their ideas, whatever they may be. Lenin was great, not because he had revolutionary ideas, but because he gave a muscular frame to them. Such people alone are the pragmatic, dynamic, useful category of humanity. The others are, according to the more radical leftist view, merely parasitic, and according to a more generous liberal view, chiefly decorative elements in human society. Mind-energy can draw dream pictures, beautiful perhaps, but inane; it is only muscular energy that gives a living and material bodya local habitation and a nameto what otherwise would be airy nothing.
--
The Yogi the Hatha Yogi, the Raja Yogi, the Tantrikseeks consciously to master this life energy, to possess and use it as he wills. The Yogi, the true Yogi, aims at a higher quality, a deeper potentiality of the life energy: it may be called the Inner Life Energy. This inner life energy is in a line with, is one with the universal life energy; therefore it is said when one possesses and controls this power one has comm and over the universal power. All other energiesvisible, tangible, concretised and canalisedare particular formations and embodiments of till, mother energy. Even the most physical and material energiesmechanical, electrical, nervous, etc.are all derivatives and lesser potentials of this fount and origin. The mastery of the inner vital energy is the whole secret of what is known as occultism, even magic, black or white, spell and other allied powers or miracles. The eight siddhis well known to the Yogis are the natural results of this mastery. With such a mastery the Yogi controls and guides his own destiny; he can also in the same way control and guide the destiny of others, even of peoples and humanity at large. That is the deeper meaning the great phrase of the Gitalokasagrahacarries. Indeed, great souls are precisely they who move with the upward current of Nature, in and through whom Nature works out vast changes, prepares the steps of evolution in the world and humanity.
But what again is this universal vital energy? This also is an instrument, not the ultimate agent. After all, vital energy is blind by itself; it moves instinctively or intuitively, as Bergson would say; it does not know consciously beforeh and the next step it is going to take. Consciousness then is the secret. This is the power behind the throne, it is this to which the Upanishad refers in its analysis of the ultimate dynamics of things as the life of Life, prasva pr .
04.03 - The Eternal East and West, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Towards that consummation, these two great world currents, East and West, are moving carrying each its own truth and contri buting to the realisation of the integral truth that is to take body here below.
***
04.05 - The Freedom and the Force of the Spirit, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The ordinary average man is part and parcel of Nature's movement and his life is almost wholly moulded by circumstances: he has not developed an independent inner being that can react against the universal Nature's current, that is to say, the Nature as it is, as it is actually and dynamically expressed. He is the creature, described graphically in the Gita, as being moved helplessly on the circling wheel of Ignorance.2 But even among the average men there are many who are called men of will, they are not entirely submerged in Nature's current, but endeavour to have their own way even against that current. Their psycho-vital, aided often by their physical consciousness, has an independent formation, being a strong centre of self-driven force, and can impress upon the outer Nature and circumstances its own pattern and disposition. Naturally, all depends upon the degree and character of that consciousness.
But the true secret of the power to control and guide Nature's dispensation lies along a different line, not along the line of the normal activity of the mental and vital and physical consciousness. Body and life and mind belong after all, at least are closely affiliated, to one's environmental consciousness; they are indeed part of the circumstances in which one is born and lives and moves. It is when one bypasses them or passes through them beyond into one's soul, into one's true being and divine personality that one at last crosses mortality and attains immortalitymtyum trtv. . .amtam anute.3
05.19 - Lone to the Lone, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When one is a member of the crowd, he has no personality or individuality, he is an amorphous mass, moving helplessly in the current of life, driven by Nature-force as it pleases her: spiritual life begins by withdrawing oneself from this flow of Ignorance and building up or taking cognisance of one's true person and being. When one possesses oneself integrally, is settled in the armature of one's spirit self, he has most naturally turned away from the inferior personalities of his own being and the comradeship also of people in bondage and ignorance. But then one need not stop at this purely negative poise: one can move up and arrive at a positive status, a new revaluation and reaffirmation. For when the divine selfhood is attained, one is no longer sole or solitary. Indeed, the solitariness or loneliness that is attributed to the spiritual status is a human way of viewing the experience: that is the impression left on the normal mind consciousness when the Purusha soars out of it, upwards from the life of the world to the life of the Spirit. But the soul, the true spiritual being in the individual, is not and cannot be an isolated entity; the nature of the spiritual consciousness is first transcendence, no doubt, transcendence of the merely temporal and ephemeral, but it is also universalisation, that is to say, the cosmic realisation that has its classic expression in the famous mantra of the Gita, he who sees himself in other selves and other selves in his own self. In that status "own" and "other" are not distinct or contrary things, but aspects of the one and the same reality, different stresses in one rhythm.
The flight then represents the freedom, the movement in height of the soul; but there is also the other, the horizontal movement leading to expansiveness and comprehension. One is transcendental, the other global or cosmic. First we have to reject, reject the false formations one by one (sheath by sheath, as it is described in the Upanishads) and arrive at the purest core of truth and reality; but again we have to come back, take up a new, the true formation. What was renounced has to be reintegrated in the divine becoming. While we are in Ignorance, our relations with men and the world are false and, ignorant, but once we attain our true self, we find the same self in men and things and we have no more revulsion for themtato na vijigupsate.
05.30 - Theres a Divinity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is what man can do at his best, and even at his worst, rough-hew. Ignorant as he is, crude as his instruments are, he can do no better (and happily, no worse either). The ideals he has do not go very far, not much beyond his nosethey are limited by his senses, by his notions, by his immediate reactions to the circumstances of the moment. Even when the ends are commendable, the purposes decent, even when he is happily inspired, the materials and means at his disposal are crude and he uses them in a rough and ready manner. What he can achieve in this direction is not even a near but a very far approximate. And when he is otherwise inspired, when suggestions and impulsions come to him from the Hostiles, well, he hews his way, as Hitler didand some others are doing nowto wrong ends; even there he does not succeed wholly, realises his design very partially, grosso modo. The stone club in the hand of the palaeolithic man and the atom bomb in the hand of the modern are equally rough instruments, and the ends which they serve, whether for good or for evil, are also gross, neither far-visioned nor deep inspired, but superficial, strait and narrow, blindly immediate. In either case, however, the Divine remains unaffected, firmly seated behind and in and through both, in and through their ignorant and perverse wills, it is His Will that works itself out and finds fulfilment in the end. Whether one is for or against the Divine, whether one is a God or an Asura, each in his own way contri butes to the progressive realisation of the Cosmic Purpose. From a certain point of view even it may seem as though nothing helps or hinders, all are like a straw in a rushing current.
In our human reckoning, we seem to help the evolutionary course sometimes and sometimes hamper it with our efforts in so far as they are well directed or ill directed. In the practice of spiritual life too, one may be tempted to find a measurable proportion between the personal endeavour and the attainment. However that may be, at the end of all human efforts, the finishing touch always comes from the Divine Grace. Whether we succeed or fail, whatever be the human judgment of the situation, the Grace is sure to intervene in the final stage: to success it will bring more success giving it the peak of fulfilment, and failure too it will transmute into a glorious triumph.
07.11 - The Problem of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In truth, the question itself is wrong. It is childish. It presupposes things that are themselves questionable. There are certain ideas about creation which have been almost universally current, more or less permanently accepted by human thought during ages; they are of an astounding simplicity. There is a world here, it is said, and up there somewhere there is a being called God; This person one day thought of creating some kind of thing, a visible form. The world was the result. Evidently we see a lot of mistakes in his work. We conclude the creator perhaps is a well-meaning benevolent person, but not all-powerful; some other thing or being there is that contradicts him. Or perhaps he is all-powerful but then has no heart and must be cruelty itselfviewing the condition of his creation which is a story of sorrow and trouble and misery. Such an idea, I say, is simplicity itself, the simplicity of a child brain. When one speaks of God the creator as a potter making a pot, one thinks of him as a human being, only in bigger proportions. Truly, it is not God who has made man in his image, it is man who has made God in his image.
As I say, the question is wrongly put. The very form of the question already assumes a certain notion about God and creation. Your postulates or axioms themselves are vitiated.
08.34 - To Melt into the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You have to go a long way before you can think of merging your ego, your self in the Divine. First of all, you cannot merge your ego or your self until you are a completely individualised being. And do you know what does that mean'to be completely individualised'? It means one capable of resisting all external influences. The other day I received a letter from someone who says that he hesitates to read books; for he has a very strong tendency to identify himself with what he reads; if he reads a novel or a drama he becomes the character pictured and is possessed by the feelings and thoughts and movements of the character. There are many like that. If they read something, while they read they are completely moved by the ideas and impulsions and even ideals they read about and are totally absorbed in them and become them, without their knowing it even. That is because ninety-nine per cent of their nature is made of butter as it were: if you press your finger it leaves a mark. That is the ordinary man's character. One takes in, as one comes across it, a thought experienced by another, a phrase read in a book, a thing observed or an incident the eyes fall upon, a will or wish of a neighbour, all that enters pell-mell intermixed enters and goes out, others come inlike electric currents. And one does not notice it. There is a conflict, a clash among these various movements, each trying to get the upper hand. Thus the person is tossed to and fro like a piece of cork upon the waves in the sea.
Instead of this unformed and unconscious mass, one has to become conscious, cohesive, individualised, that which exists by itself and in itself, independently of its surroundings, that which can hear, read, see anything and will not change because of that. It receives from outside only what it wishes to receive. It rejects automatically what does not agree with its purpose: nothing can leave any impression upon it, unless it wishes to have the impress. It is thus that one begins to be individualised. And when one is an individual, then only can one make a gift of it, for unless you possess a thing you cannot give it; when you have nothing or are nothing you can give nothing. So in order that the separate ego may disappear, one must be able to give oneself wholly, totally without restrictions. And to be able to give, one must exist and to exist one must be an individual. If your body were not rigid as it is the body is indeed terribly rigidif it were not something quite fixed and if you had not this solid skin around the skeleton, if you were the exact expression of what you are vitally and mentally, it would be worse than the gelatinous jelly fish. All would enter and melt into one another, what a chaos and confusion would it be! That is why a rigid form is given at the outset. And you complain: the physical is so fixed, it lacks plasticity, supplenessit lacks the fluidity that enables one to melt into the Divine! But it was a necessity. For if you were out of your body and entered into the regions behind the vital,you would see how things stand there: things get mixed, separated, intertwined, all kinds of vibrations, currents, forces that come and go, struggle and fight, seize each other, absorb each other, repulse each other! Very difficult to find a personality in all that. It is only forces, movements, impulsions, desires. Not that there are not individualities and personalities there too! But they are Powers. They who have individualised themselves in such a world are either heroes or demons!
And then in the mind, if you become conscious only of the physical mind, apart from what belongs to the brain, independent of the head, you will see that it is really a market place, as it has been called: everything enters here, all kinds of ideas and notions cross and recross and move about, jostle one another, knock against each otherthere are even accidents sometimes. There you can search, but search in vain to find where your own mind lies.
09.06 - How Can Time Be a Friend?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Perhaps this also depends on how you look at it. All forces are personal forces, all forces of Nature are also personal forces. But if we look at them as impersonal things, our relation with them becomes impersonal. Take for example what has happened just I!W' If you were a meteorologist, you would calculate the currents of the wind, the pressures of the atmosphere etc., etc. and conclude: "Given all that, what has happened had exactly to happen and there will be so many days of rain and so on." So it is for you a force which you are obliged to call a force of Nature and you can only look at it quietly and wait for the fixed number of rainy days to pass.
But it may happen also that you are in a sort of personal relation with the little conscious beings that are behind wind and storm and rain, behind thunder and lightning and the so-called forces of Nature, which are, however) personal forces; then through the relation you establish a kind of friendship with them. And instead of looking at them as enemies and mechanical inexorables that you have simply to bear without being able to do anything, you arrive at a cordial understanding with them, you succeed in having an influence over them and you may tell them: "But why do you want to blow and pour here, why don't you do it just by the side where there is a field?"
10.01 - A Dream, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A poor man was sitting in a dark hut thinking of his miseries and of the injustice and wrongs that could be found in this world of Gods making. Out of abhimna he began to mutter to himself, As men do not want to cast a slur on Gods name, they put the blame on Karma. If my misfortunes are really due to the sins committed in my previous birth and if I was so great a sinner, then currents of evil thoughts should still be passing through my mind. Can the mind of such a wicked person get cleansed so soon? And what about that Tinkari Sheel who has such colossal wealth and commands so many people! If there is anything like the fruits of Karma, then surely he must have been a famous saint and sadhu in his previous life; but I see no trace of that at all in his present birth. I dont think a bigger rogue existsone so cruel and crooked. All these tales about Karma are just clever inventions of God to console mans mind. Shyamsundar1 is very tricky; luckily he does not reveal himself to me, otherwise I would teach him such a lesson that he would stop playing these tricks.
As soon as he finished muttering, the man saw that his dark room was flooded with a dazzling light. After a while the luminous waves faded and he found in front of him a charming boy of a dusky complexion standing with a lamp in his hand, and smiling sweetly without saying a word. Noticing the musical anklets round his feet and the peacock plume, the man understood that Shyamsundar had revealed himself. At first he was at a loss what to do; for a moment he thought of bowing at his feet, but looking at the boys smiling face no longer felt like making his obeisance. At last he burst out with the words, Hullo, Keshta,2 what makes you come here? The boy replied with a smile, Well, didnt you call me? Just now you had the desire to whip me! That is why I am surrendering myself to you. Come along, whip me. The man was now even more confounded than before, but not with any repentance for the desire to whip the Divine: the idea of punishing instead of patting such a sweet youngster did not appeal to him. The boy spoke again, You see, Harimohon, those who, instead of fearing me, treat me as a friend, scold me out of affection and want to play with me, I love very much. I have created this world for my play only; I am always on the lookout for a suitable playmate. But, brother, I find no one. All are angry with me, make demands on me, want boons from me; they want honour, liberation, devotionnobody wants me. I give whatever they ask for. What am I to do? I have to please them; otherwise they will tear me to pieces. You too, I find, want something from me. You are vexed and want to whip some one. In order to satisfy that desire you have called me. Here I am, ready to be whipped. ye yath m prapadyante3, I accept whatever people offer me. But before you beat me, if you wish to know my ways, I shall explain them to you. Are you willing? Harimohon replied, Are you capable of that? I see that you can talk a good deal, but how am I to believe that a mere child like you can teach me something? The boy smiled again and said, Come, see whether I can or not.
Then Sri Krishna placed his palm on Harimohons head. Instantly electric currents started flowing all through his body; from the mldhra the slumbering kualin power went up running to the head-centre (brahmarandhra), hissing like a serpent of flame; the head became filled with the vibration of life-energy. The next moment it seemed to Harimohon that the walls around were moving away from him, as if the world of forms and names was fading into Infinity leaving him alone. Then he became unconscious. When he came back to his senses, he found himself with the boy in an unknown house, standing before an old man who was sitting on a cushion, plunged in deep thought, his cheek resting on his palm. Looking at that heart-rending despondent face distorted by tormenting thoughts and anxiety, Harimohon could not believe that this was Tinkari Sheel, the all-in-all in their village. Then, extremely frightened, he asked the boy, Keshta, what have you done? You have entered someones dwelling in the dead of night like a thief! The police will come and thrash the life out of us. Dont you know Tinkari Sheels power? The boy laughed and said, I know it pretty well. But stealing is an old practice of mine, and, besides, I am on good terms with the police. Dont you fear. Now I am giving you the inner sight, look inside the old man. You know Tinkaris power, now witness how mighty I am.
At once Harimohon could see into the mans mind. He saw, as in an opulent city ravaged by a victorious enemy, innumerable terrible-looking demons and ogres who had entered into that brilliant intelligence, disturbing its peace and composure, plundering its happiness. The old man had quarrelled with his young son and turned him out; the sorrow of losing his beloved child had cowed down his spirit, but anger, pride and vanity had shut the door of his heart and were guarding it. Forgiveness had no entry there. Hearing calumnies against his own daughter he had driven her away and was lamenting over the cherished one he had lost. He knew that she was chaste but the fear of social censure and a feeling of shame coupled with his own arrogance and selfishness had put a curb on his affection. Frightened by the memory of a thousand sins the old man was trembling, but he did not have the courage or the strength to mend his evil ways. Now and then thoughts of death and of the other world came to him and filled him with terror. Harimohon saw also that from behind these morbid thoughts the hideous messenger of death was constantly peeping out and knocking at the door. Whenever this happened, the old mans heart sank and he frantically screamed with fear.
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Two poles whose currents wake the immense World-Force.
In the stupendous secrecy of his Self,
1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
When a person seriously takes to the practice of yoga, a thorough analysis or stock-taking may have to be done, taking into consideration one's experiences during the past many years, of whose nature a little may be still present in one's current state of affairs. Memories of the past sometimes evoke present experiences, and we must also take note of those experiences and factors which can evoke memories of the past. According to Patanjali, memory is one of the obstacles in yoga. Many people think that memory is a very good thing, and even complain that they have no memory. Well, that is all right for the workaday world, but from another angle of vision memory is regarded as an obstacle because we are repeatedly made to think of something that has happened in the past, so that it goes on annoying us constantly even though that event has passed and has no connection with our present life. Both pleasures of the past and pains of the past can evoke conditions which may force us to repeat those experiences, positively or negatively.
We have to wipe out memories of the past, especially when they have no connection with the type of life which we are going to live in the future. Whatever experiences we have passed through that are unrelated and irrelevant to our future aim should be brushed aside and cast out by exorcising them like devils, and then not allowing them to enter into the ken of the mind by emphasising in our understanding that:"They mean nothing to me. They are only something like the experiences I had in my dream. Why should I think of them now? They have no meaning, though they had a meaning at that time.
1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
When the term "channel or ray of approach" is used, it means approach from the centre of solar radiation to the periphery. What is encountered during that approachsuch as planetary bodies, for instancewill be affected by the akashic current, the electrical current, or the pranic current in some way, but all of these currents are only the internal fires of the system when viewed from some other point in universal, though not solar, space. It is, therefore, obvious that this matter of fire is as complex as that of the rays. The internal fires of the solar system become external and radiatory when considered from the standpoint of a planet, while the internal fires of the planet will affect a human being as radiation in exactly the same way as the pranic emanations of his etheric body affect another physical body as radiatory. The point to be grasped in all these [60] aspects is that one and all have to do with matter or substance, and not with mind or Spirit.
b. The Planet. Deep in the heart of the planetsuch a planet as the Earth, for instanceare the internal fires that occupy the central sphere, or the caverns whichfilled with incandescent burningmake life upon the globe possible at all. The internal fires of the moon are practically burnt out, and, therefore, she does not shine save through reflection, having no inner fire to blend and merge with light external. These inner fires of the earth can be seen functioning, as in the sun, through three main channels:
1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
These three centres are in the form that all centres take, of saucer-like depressions, resembling somewhat the appearance of small whirlpools, and which draw within their sphere of influence the currents that come their way.
The centres should be pictured as whirling vortices with a closely woven threefold channel passing from each centre to the other, and forming an almost separate circulatory system. This finds its point of departure for [100] the entire system at the further side of the spleen to that at which the prana entered. The vital fluid circulates through and between these three centres three times, before it finally passes out from them to the periphery of its little system. This final circulation carries the prana, via the fine interlacing channels, to every part of the body, which becomes entirely impregnated by these emanations, if it might be so expressed. These emanations find their way finally out of the etheric system by means of surface radiation. The pranic essence escapes from the circumference of its temporary ring-pass-not as emanative human prana, which is the same prana as earlier received, plus the peculiar quality that any single individual may convey to it during its transitory circulation. The essence escapes, plus individual quality.
--
First. Inability to tap pranic currents, owing to the unhealthy lives passed by so many. This involves the cutting off of the source of supply, and the consequent atrophying and shrinkage of the receptive centres. This is seen in an exaggerated form in the children of the congested quarters of any great city, and in the vitiated anemic dwellers of the slums. The cure is apparent the bringing about of better living conditions, the employment [107] of more appropriate clothing, and the adoption of a freer and more salubrious mode of living. When the pranic rays can find free access to the shoulders, and to the diaphragm, the subnormal state of the average spleen will adjust itself automatically.
Second. Over-ability to tap pranic currents. The first type of functional disorder is common and widespread. Its reverse can be found where conditions of life are such that the centres (through too direct and prolonged submittal to solar emanation) become overdeveloped, vibrate too rapidly, and receive prana in too great an amount. This is rarer, but is found in some tropical countries, and is responsible for much of the troublesome debility that attacks dwellers in these lands. The etheric body receives prana or solar rays too rapidly, passes it through and out of the system with too much force, and this leaves the victim a prey to inertia and devitalisation. Putting it otherwise, the etheric body becomes lazy, is like an unstrung web, or (to use a very homely illustration) it resembles a tennis racket which has become too soft, and has lost its resilience. The inner triangle transmits the pranic emanations with too great rapidity, giving no time for the subsidiary absorption, and the whole system is thereby the loser. Later it will be found that many of the ills that Europeans, living in India, fall heir to, originate in this way; and by attention, therefore, to the spleen, and by wise control of living conditions, some of the trouble may be obviated.
In touching upon similar conditions in the planet, both these types of trouble will be found. More cannot be said, but in the wise study of solar radiation upon the surface of the planet in connection with its rotary action, some of the group rules of health may be comprehended and followed. The spirit of the planet (or the planetary entity) likewise has his cycles, and in the absorption of [108] planetary prana, and in its correct distribution, lies the secret of fertility and equable vegetation. Much of this is hidden in the fabled story of the war between fire and water, which has its basis in the reaction of the fire latent in matter, to the fire emanating outside of matter, and playing upon it. In the interval that has to elapse while the two are in process of blending, come those periods where, through karmic inheritance, reception is unstable and distribution inequable. As the point of race equilibrium is reached, so planetary equilibrium will likewise be attained, and in planetary attainment will come the equilibrium that must mutually take place between the solar planets. When they attain a mutual balance and interaction then the system is stabilised and perfection reached. The even distribution of prana will parallel this balancing in the man, in the race, in the planet and in the system. This is but another way of saying that uniform vibration will be achieved.
--
Destruction of tissue may lead to insanity of many kinds, especially those kinds deemed incurable. The burning of the web may let in extraneous astral currents against which man is helpless; the brain tissue may be literally destroyed by this pressure, and serious trouble be caused through the etheric ring-pass-not having been destroyed in some one place.
In connection with the planet a similar state of affairs may be found. Later information may be forthcoming, which is at present withheld; this will show that whole races have been influenced, and certain kingdoms of nature troubled by planetary etheric congestion, or the destruction of planetary etheric tissue.
--
Should a man, by the power of will or through an over-development of the mental side of his character, acquire the power to blend these fires of matter and to drive them forward, he stands in danger of obsession, insanity, physical death, or of dire disease in some part of his body, and he also runs the risk of an over-development of the sex impulse through the driving of the force in an uneven manner upwards, or in forcing its radiation to undesirable centres. The reason of this is that the matter of his body is not pure enough to stand the uniting of the flames, that the channel up the spine is still clogged and blocked, and therefore acts as a barrier, turning the flame backwards and downwards, and that the flame (being united by the power of mind and not being accompanied by a simultaneous downflow from the plane of spirit), permits the entrance, through the burning etheric, of undesirable and extraneous forces, currents, and even entities. These wreck and tear and ruin what is left of the etheric vehicle, of the brain tissue and even of the dense physical body itself.
The unwary man, being unaware of his Ray and therefore of the proper geometrical form of triangle that is [127] the correct method of circulation from centre to centre, will drive the fire in unlawful progression and thus burn up tissue; this will result then (if in nothing worse), in a setting back for several lives of the clock of his progress, for he will have to spend much time in rebuilding where he destroyed, and with recapitulating on right lines all the work to be done.
1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
I would here point out the connection or correspondence in this statement to an earlier one made when speaking of solar radiation, and the channels through which it can be felt. These currents or radiations we call
a. Akashic.
--
We can take up this matter of the centres along three lines. Much has been written and discussed anent the centres, and much mystery exists which has aroused the curiosity of the ignorant, and has tempted many to meddle with that which does not concern them. I seek to elucidate somewhat and to give a new angle of vision to [162] the study of these abstruse matters. I do not in any way intend to take up the subject from such an angle as to convey rules and information that will enable a man to vivify these centres and bring them into play. I sound here a solemn word of warning. Let a man apply himself to a life of high altruism, to a discipline that will refine and bring his lower vehicles into subjection, and to a strenuous endeavor to purify and control his sheaths. When he has done this and has both raised and stabilised his vibration, he will find that the development and functioning of the centres has pursued a parallel course, and that (apart from his active participation) the work has proceeded along the desired lines. Much danger and dire calamity attends the man who arouses these centres by unlawful methods, and who experiments with the fires of his body without the needed technical knowledge. He may, by his efforts, succeed in arousing the fires and in intensifying the action of the centres, but he will pay the price of ignorance in the destruction of matter, in the burning of bodily or brain tissue, in the development of insanity, and in opening the door to currents and forces, undesirable and destructive. It is not the part of a coward, in these matters concerning the subjective life, to move with caution and with care; it is the part of discretion. The aspirant, therefore, has three things to do:
1. Purify, discipline and transmute his threefold lower nature.
1.00 - Introduction to Alchemy of Happiness, #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
This treatise on the Alchemy of Happiness, or Kimiai Saadet, seems well adapted to extend our knowledge of the writings of Ghazzali and of the opinions current then and now in the Oriental world. Although it throws no light on any questions of geography, philology or political history, objects most frequently in view in translations from the Oriental languages, yet a book which exhibits with such plainness the opinions of so large a portion of the human race as the Mohammedans, on questions of philosophy, practical morality and religion, will always be as interesting to the general reader and to a numerous class of students, as the facts that may be elicited to complete a series of kings in a dynasty or to establish the site of an ancient city can be to the historian or the geographer. I translate it from an edition published in Turkish in 1845 (A. H., 1260), at the imperial printing press in Constantinople. [9] As no books are allowed to be printed there which have not passed under the eyes of the censor, the doctrines presented in the book indicate, not only the opinions of eight hundred years since, but also what views are regarded as orthodox, or tolerated among the orthodox at the present day. It has been printed also in Persian at Calcutta.
In form, the book contains a treatise on practical piety, but as is the case with a large proportion of Mohammedan works, the author, whatever may be his subject, finds a place for observations reaching far wide of his apparent aim, so our author is led to make many observations which develop his notions in anatomy, physiology, natural philosophy and natural religion. The partisans of all sorts of opinions will be interested in finding that a Mohammedan author writing so long since in the centre of Asia, had occasion to approve or condemn so many truths, speculations or fancies which are now current among us with the reputation of novelty. Many of the same paradoxes and problems that startle or fascinate in the nineteenth century are here discussed. He came in contact, among his contemporaries, with persons who made the same general objections to natural and revealed religion, as understood by Mohammedans, as are in our days made to Christianity, or who perverted and abused the religion which they professed for their own ends, in the same manner as Christianity is abused among us. And he engaged with earnestness now truthfully, and now erroneously, in refuting these men. His usual stand-point in discussion is equally removed from the most extravagant mysticism, and literal and formal orthodoxy. He attempts a dignified blending of reason [10] and faith, requiring of his fellow men unfeigned piety in the temper and tone of an evangelical Christian. He reminds his readers, in these discourses, that they are not Mussulmans if they are satisfied with merely a nominal faith, and treats with scorn those who are spiritualists only in language and dress.
It is too narrow a view to adopt, in regard to a man of the sublime character of Ghazzali, that he obtained his ideas from any one school of thinkers, or that being in fellowship with the Soofies, that he was merely a Soofi. He was living in the centre of Aryan peoples and religions. He may have had his doctrine of the future life shaped by Zoroaster, and have been influenced by the missionaries of the Buddhists.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Say: O leaders of religion! Weigh not the Book of God with such standards and sciences as are current amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring Balance established amongst men. In this most perfect Balance whatsoever the peoples and kindreds of the earth possess must be weighed, while the measure of its weight should be tested according to its own standard, did ye but know it.
100
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
accompany him. He was only one person, and many others (much larger) currently surrounded me and my
cape. So I took him at his word. He led me outside the gym doors, and out into the prison yard, talking
--
it, and started convulsing and frothing at the mouth, frozen upright by intense current.
A brilliant flash of light from a small window flooded the basement. I rushed upstairs. There was
1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
If then we, with our well-trained minds, determine to control this wandering thought, we shall find that we are fairly well able to keep the thoughts running in a narrow channel, each thought linked to the last in a perfectly rational manner; but if we attempt to stop this current we shall find that, so far from succeeding, we shall merely break down the banks of the channel. The mind will overflow, and instead of a chain of thought we shall have a chaos of confused images.
This mental activity is so great, and seems so natural, that it is hard to understand how any one first got the idea that it was a weakness and a nuisance. Perhaps it was because in the more natural practice of devotion, people found that their thoughts interfered. In any case calm and self-control are to be prefered to restlessness. Darwin in his study presents a marked contrast with a monkey in a cage.
1.00 - PRELUDE AT THE THEATRE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
When to our booth the current sets apace,
And with tremendous, oft-repeated urging,
1.013 - Thunder, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
17. He sends down water from the sky, and riverbeds flow according to their capacity. The current carries swelling froth. And from what they heat in fire of ornaments or utensils comes a similar froth. Thus God exemplifies truth and falsehood. As for the froth, it is swept away, but what benefits the people remains in the ground. Thus God presents the analogies.
18. For those who respond to their Lord is the best. But as for those who do not respond to Him, even if they possessed everything on earth, and twice as much, they could not redeem themselves with it. Those will have the worst reckoning; and their home is Hell—a miserable destination.
1.01 - A NOTE ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
sion of human society the huge realities (broad currents of love
or hatred animating people and classes) which represent conscious-
1.01 - Fundamental Considerations, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
For this analysis we shall employ a method of demonstrating the respective consciousness structures of the various epochs on the basis of their representative evidence and their unique forms of visual as well as linguistic expression. This approach, which is not limited to the currently dominant mentality, attempts to present in visible, tangible, and audible form the respective consciousness structures from within their specific modalities and unique constitutions by means appropriate to their natures.
By returning to the very sources of human development as we observe all of the structures of consciousness, and moving from there toward our present day and our contemporary situation and consciousness, we can not only discover the past and the present moment of our existence but also gain a view into the future which reveals the traits of a new reality amidst the decline of our age.
--
Today, at least in Western civilization, both modes survive only as deteriorated and consequently dubious variants. This is evident from the sociological and anthropological questions currently discussed in the Occidental forum; only questions that are unresolved are discussed with the vehemence characteristic of these discussions. The current situation manifests on the one hand an egocentric individualism exaggerated to extremes and desirous of.possessing everything, while on the other it manifests an equally extreme collectivism that promises the total fulfillment of mans being. In the latter instance we find the utter abnegation of the individual valued merely as an object in the human aggregate; in the former a hyper-valuation of the individual who, despite his limitations, is permitted everything. This deficient, that is destructive, antithesis divides the world into two warring camps, not just politically and ideologically, but in all areas of human endeavor.
Since these two ideologies are now pressing toward their limits we can assume that neither can prevail in the long run. When any movement tends to the extremes it leads away from the center or nucleus toward eventual destruction at the outer limits where the connections to the life-giving center finally are severed. It would seem that today the connections are already broken, for it is increasingly evident that the individual is being driven into isolation while the collective degenerates into mere aggregation. These two conditions, isolation and aggregation, are in fact clear indications that individualism and collectivism have now become deficient.
--
It is perhaps unnecessary to reiterate that we cannot employ the methods derived from and dependent an our present consciousness structure to investigate different structures of consciousness, but will have to adapt our method to the specific structure under investigation. Yet if we relinquish a unitary methodology we do not necessarily regress to an unmethodological or irrational attitude, or to a kind of conjuration or mystical contemplation. Contemporary methods employ predominantly dualistic procedures that do not extend beyond simple subject-object relationships; they limit our understanding to what is commensurate with the present Western mentality. Even where the measurements of contemporary methodologies are based primarily an quantitative criteria, they are all vitiated by the problem of the antithesis between measure and mass (as we will discuss later in detail). Our method is not just a measured assessment, but above and beyond this an attempt at diaphany or rendering transparent. With its aid, whatever lies behind (past) and ahead of (future) the currently dominant mentality becomes accessible to the new subject-object relationship. Although this new relationship is no longer dualistic, it does not threaten man with a loss of identity, or with his being equated with an object.
Although this new method is still in its infancy, we are nevertheless compelled to make use of it.
1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
perspective who assume that it is, or might become, complete forget that an impassable gulf currently
divides what is from what should be.
--
systems do not work, even though they make abstract sense (even more sense than alternative, currently
operative, incomprehensible, haphazardly evolved systems). Some patterns of interpersonal interaction
--
the following question: how can the current state of experience be conceptualized in abstraction, with
regards to its meaning? [which means its (subjective, biologically-predicated, socially-constructed)
--
1) what is? what is the nature (meaning, the significance) of the current state of experience?
2) what should be? to what (desirable, valuable) end should that state be moving?
--
as a consequence of current behavior. The goal is an imaginary state, consisting of a place of desirable
motivation or affect is a state that only exists in fantasy, as something (potentially) preferable to the
--
speak, generated in the light of all current knowledge (at least under optimal conditions), to which specific
and general aspects of ongoing experience are continually compared. This vision of perfection is the
--
is? [what is the nature (meaning, the significance) of the current state of experience?].
We answer the question how then should we act? by determining the most efficient and self-consistent
--
the nature (meaning, the significance) of current being?, to what (desirable) end should that state be
moving? and, finally, what are the processes by which the present state might be transformed into that
--
(1) Myths describing a current or pre-existent stable state (sometimes a paradise, sometimes a tyranny);
(2) Myths describing the emergence of something anomalous, unexpected, threatening and promising
--
Christian) notion that man has fallen from an original state of grace into his current morally degenerate
and emotionally unbearable condition accompanied by a desire for the return to Paradise constitutes a
--
The known, our current story, protects us from the unknown, from chaos which is to say, provides our
experience with determinate and predictable structure. The unknown, chaos from which we are protected
1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
Dear friends! Our assignment for this educational conference is to answer the question: What is the role of education and teaching to be for the future in terms of both the individual and society? Anyone who looks with an unbiased eye at modern civilization and its various institutions can hardly question the importance of this theme today (by today I mean the current decade in history). This theme touches on questions deep in the souls and hearts of a great many people.
Knowledge of the Whole Human Being
--
We might consider a few specific examples as an introduction to the way these currents form. In doing this, we need to con- sider one thing: when we deal with a human being in-process, a growing child, knowledge of human nature is often applied too narrowly. We take the child at a specific point in life and get to work, asking about the childs developmental forces, how they operate at that particular age, and so on, and we ask how we can properly meet these developmental forces at this particu- lar time. But knowledge of human nature as intended here isnt concerned only with these moments of experience, but with the persons whole earthly life. It is not really as easy as observing a narrowly circumscribed time span in a human life. But educators and teachers need to be able to look at the whole human life; whatever we do in the eighth or ninth year will have effects upon the forty- or fifty-year-old adult, as we will see a little later.6
As a teacher, anything I do to a child during the years of ele- mentary education will sink deeply into the physical, psychologi- cal, and spiritual nature of that individual. Whatever I do that plants a seed at the beginning of life will in some way go on liv- ing and weaving for decades beneath the surface, reappearing in remarkable ways many years later, perhaps not until the very end of life. Its possible to affect childhood in the right way only if we consider not just childhood but all of human life as seen from the perspective of a real knowledge of human nature.
--
We might even be able to explain widespread cultural patholo- gies in this way. Why is it that nervous diseases such as depression are so widespread today? You might be thinking Im trying to con- vince you that when the current generation of neuras thenic adults was being educated the whole teaching profession was phlegmatic! I tell you that it did consist of phlegmaticsnot in the usual sense of the word, but in a much deeper sense. Were speaking of the historical period of the nineteenth century when materialism rose. The materialistic worldview turns away from the human being, and develops a monstrous indifference in the teacher toward the most intimate movements of the souls of those being educated.
If, in an unbiased way, we can observe the cultural manifesta- tions of the modern era, we find that a person may be a phleg- matic in that sense, even though that same person might angrily react to a child who spilled ink, yelling: You shouldnt do that! You shouldnt throw ink because youre angry; Ill throw it back at you, you rascal! Such outbursts of choleric temper werent forbidden during the time I just described, nor am I suggesting that there was any shortage of sanguine or melancholic teachers. But in their actual teaching, they were still phlegmatics and acted phlegmatic. The materialistic worldview was unable to access human nature, and least of all the developing child. And so it was possible to be a phlegmatic even though one was a choleric or melancholic by birth. Phlegma became an aspect of all education in the materialistic era. And it has a lot to do with the appear- ance of nervousness, of neuras thenia, of nervous disorders in our culture. Well look at this in detail later. Nevertheless, we see the effect of phlegmatic teachers whose very presence next to children triggers nervous disorders.
--
These relationships, as revealed by an au thentic spiritual sci- ence, lead us to a genuine knowledge of human nature. With this in mind, we can realize how comprehensive the real art of educa- tion is; and, in comparison, we can see the pettiness of the usual way of looking only at whats immediately present and obvious. That isnt enough, and were faced with the essential demand of our current civilizationa civilization that has already brought enough discord to human existence.
And that demand is: Given the various simple and superficial observations of research, statistics, and other ingenious meth- odswhich form the basis of almost all education and peda- gogyhow can we educate in a way that equally considers the whole human experience and the eternal within us that shines through human experience? Something much deeper appears in relation to these questions. By way of an introduction, Ive tried to show you whats at play between teacher and student just because theyre thereeven before anything is done consciously, but merely because the two are there. This is especially revealed in the different temperaments.
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
technique of strong currents and the technique of weak cur-
rents, and which we know as the distinction between power and
--
communication engineering can deal with currents of any size
whatever and with the movement of engines powerful enough
1.01 - Our Demand and Need from the Gita, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Nor shall we deal in any other spirit with the element of philosophical dogma or religious creed which either enters into the Gita or hangs about it owing to its use of the philosophical terms and religious symbols current at the time. When the Gita speaks of Sankhya and Yoga, we shall not discuss beyond the limits of what is just essential for our statement, the relations of the Sankhya of the Gita with its one Purusha and strong Vedantic colouring to the non-theistic or "atheistic" Sankhya that has come down to us bringing with it its scheme of many Purushas and one Prakriti, nor of the Yoga of the Gita, many-sided, subtle, rich and flexible to the theistic doctrine and the fixed, scientific, rigorously defined and graded system of the Yoga of Patanjali.
In the Gita the Sankhya and Yoga are evidently only two convergent parts of the same Vedantic truth or rather two con current ways of approaching its realisation, the one philosophical, intellectual, analytic, the other intuitional, devotional, practical, ethical, synthetic, reaching knowledge through experience. The
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
nothing but collective. This accords with all the current trends in
education which like to regard individuality and lawlessness as
1.01 - SAMADHI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
nerve currents that are running through the body. First we
begin to recognise them, and then we slowly get control over
--
to them, are the currents working in every man, and through
these currents, we are performing all the functions of life.
SuSumna is present in all, as a possibility; but it works only in
--
Sound here means vibration; meaning, the nerve currents
which conduct it; and knowledge, reaction. All the various
--
sense currents, is the meaning. After that there comes a
reactionary wave in the Chitta, which is knowledge, but the
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
All this sheds some lightdim, it is true, and merely inferentialon the problem of the perennialness of the Perennial Philosophy. In India the scriptures were regarded, not as revelations made at some given moment of history, but as eternal gospels, existent from everlasting to everlasting, inasmuch as coeval with man, or for that matter with any other kind of corporeal or incorporeal being possessed of reason. A similar point of view is expressed by Aristotle, who regards the fundamental truths of religion as everlasting and indestructible. There have been ascents and falls, periods (literally roads around or cycles) of progress and regress; but the great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized. In the light of what we know about prehistoric man (and what we know amounts to nothing more than a few chipped stones, some paintings, drawings and sculptures) and of what we may legitimately infer from other, better documented fields of knowledge, what are we to think of these traditional doctrines? My own view is that they may be true. We know that born contemplatives in the realm both of analytic and of integral thought have turned up in fair numbers and at frequent intervals during recorded history. There is therefore every reason to suppose that they turned up before history was recorded. That many of these people died young or were unable to exercise their talents is certain. But a few of them must have survived. In this context it is highly significant that, among many contemporary primitives, two thought-patterns are foundan exoteric pattern for the unphilosophic many and an esoteric pattern (often monotheistic, with a belief in a God not merely of power, but of goodness and wisdom) for the initiated few. There is no reason to suppose that circumstances were any harder for prehistoric men than they are for many contemporary savages. But if an esoteric monotheism of the kind that seems to come natural to the born thinker is possible in modern savage societies, the majority of whose members accept the sort of polytheistic philosophy that seems to come natural to men of action, a similar esoteric doctrine might have been current in prehistoric societies. True, the modern esoteric doctrines may have been derived from higher cultures. But the significant fact remains that, if so derived, they yet had a meaning for certain members of the primitive society and were considered valuable enough to be carefully preserved. We have seen that many thoughts are unthinkable apart from an appropriate vocabulary and frame of reference. But the fundamental ideas of the Perennial Philosophy can be formulated in a very simple vocabulary, and the experiences to which the ideas refer can and indeed must be had immediately and apart from any vocabulary whatsoever. Strange openings and theophanies are granted to quite small children, who are often profoundly and permanently affected by these experiences. We have no reason to suppose that what happens now to persons with small vocabularies did not happen in remote antiquity. In the modern world (as Vaughan and Traherne and Wordsworth, among others, have told us) the child tends to grow out of his direct awareness of the one Ground of things; for the habit of analytical thought is fatal to the intuitions of integral thinking, whether on the psychic or the spiritual level. Psychic preoccupations may be and often are a major obstacle in the way of genuine spirituality. In primitive societies now (and, presumably, in the remote past) there is much preoccupation with, and a widespread talent for, psychic thinking. But a few people may have worked their way through psychic into genuinely spiritual experiencejust as, even in modern industrialized societies, a few people work their way out of the prevailing preoccupation with matter and through the prevailing habits of analytical thought into the direct experience of the spiritual Ground of things.
Such, then, very briefly are the reasons for supposing that the historical traditions of oriental and our own classical antiquity may be true. It is interesting to find that at least one distinguished contemporary ethnologist is in agreement with Aristotle and the Vedantists. Orthodox ethnology, writes Dr. Paul Radin in his Primitive Man as Philosopher, has been nothing but an enthusiastic and quite uncritical attempt to apply the Darwinian theory of evolution to the facts of social experience. And he adds that no progress in ethnology will be achieved until scholars rid themselves once and for all of the curious notion that everything possesses a history; until they realize that certain ideas and certain concepts are as ultimate for man, as a social being, as specific physiological reactions are ultimate for him, as a biological being. Among these ultimate concepts, in Dr. Radins view, is that of monotheism. Such monotheism is often no more than the recognition of a single dark and numinous Power ruling the world. But it may sometimes be genuinely ethical and spiritual.
1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen. For thinking, a certain posture may be very easy for one man, while to another it may be very difficult. We will find later on that during the study of these psychological matters a good deal of activity goes on in the body. Nerve currents will have to be displaced and given a new channel. New sorts of vibrations will begin, the whole constitution will be remodelled as it were. But the main part of the activity will lie along the spinal column, so that the one thing necessary for the posture is to hold the spinal column free, sitting erect, holding the three parts the chest, neck, and head in a straight line. Let the whole weight of the body be supported by the ribs, and then you have an easy natural postures with the spine straight. You will easily see that you cannot think very high thoughts with the chest in. This portion of the Yoga is a little similar to the Hatha-Yoga which deals entirely with the physical body, its aim being to make the physical body very strong. We have nothing to do with it here, because its practices are very difficult, and cannot be learned in a day, and, after all, do not lead to much spiritual growth. Many of these practices you will find in Delsarte and other teachers, such as placing the body in different postures, but the object in these is physical, not psychological. There is not one muscle in the body over which a man cannot establish a perfect control. The heart can be made to stop or go on at his bidding, and each part of the organism can be similarly controlled.
The result of this branch of Yoga is to make men live long; health is the chief idea, the one goal of the Hatha-Yogi. He is determined not to fall sick, and he never does. He lives long; a hundred years is nothing to him; he is quite young and fresh when he is 150, without one hair turned grey. But that is all. A banyan tree lives sometimes 5000 years, but it is a banyan tree and nothing more. So, if a man lives long, he is only a healthy animal. One or two ordinary lessons of the Hatha-Yogis are very useful. For instance, some of you will find it a good thing for headaches to drink cold water through the nose as soon as you get up in the morning; the whole day your brain will be nice and cool, and you will never catch cold. It is very easy to do; put your nose into the water, draw it up through the nostrils and make a pump action in the throat.
--
There was once a minister to a great king. He fell into disgrace. The king, as a punishment, ordered him to be shut up in the top of a very high tower. This was done, and the minister was left there to perish. He had a faithful wife, however, who came to the tower at night and called to her husb and at the top to know what she could do to help him. He told her to return to the tower the following night and bring with her a long rope, some stout twine, pack thread, silken thread, a beetle, and a little honey. Wondering much, the good wife obeyed her husband, and brought him the desired articles. The husb and directed her to attach the silken thread firmly to the beetle, then to smear its horns with a drop of honey, and to set it free on the wall of the tower, with its head pointing upwards. She obeyed all these instructions, and the beetle started on its long journey. Smelling the honey ahead it slowly crept onwards, in the hope of reaching the honey, until at last it reached the top of the tower, when the minister grasped the beetle, and got possession of the silken thread. He told his wife to tie the other end to the pack thread, and after he had drawn up the pack thread, he repeated the process with the stout twine, and lastly with the rope. Then the rest was easy. The minister descended from the tower by means of the rope, and made his escape. In this body of ours the breath motion is the "silken thread"; by laying hold of and learning to control it we grasp the pack thread of the nerve currents, and from these the stout twine of our thoughts, and lastly the rope of Prana, controlling which we reach freedom.
We do not know anything about our own bodies; we cannot know. At best we can take a dead body, and cut it in pieces, and there are some who can take a live animal and cut it in pieces in order to see what is inside the body. Still, that has nothing to do with our own bodies. We know very little about them. Why do we not? Because our attention is not discriminating enough to catch the very fine movements that are going on within. We can know of them only when the mind becomes more subtle and enters, as it were, deeper into the body. To get the subtle perception we have to begin with the grosser perceptions. We have to get hold of that which is setting the whole engine in motion. That is the Prana, the most obvious manifestation of which is the breath. Then, along with the breath, we shall slowly enter the body, which will enable us to find out about the subtle forces, the nerve currents that are moving all over the body. As soon as we perceive and learn to feel them, we shall begin to get control over them, and over the body. The mind is also set in motion: by these different nerve currents, so at last we shall reach the state of perfect control over the body and the mind, making both our servants. Knowledge is power. We have to get this power. So we must begin at the beginning, with Pranayama, restraining the Prana. This Pranayama is a long subject, and will take several lessons to illustrate it thoroughly. We shall take it part by part.
We shall gradually see the reasons for each exercise and what forces in the body are set in motion. All these things will come to us, but it requires constant practice, and the proof will come by practice. No amount of reasoning which I can give you will be proof to you, until you have demonstrated it for yourselves. As soon as you begin to feel these currents in motion all over you, doubts will vanish, but it requires hard practice every day. You must practice at least twice every day, and the best times are towards the morning and the evening. When night passes into day, and day into night, a state of relative calmness ensues. The early morning and the early evening are the two periods of calmness. Your body will have a like tendency to become calm at those times. We should take advantage of that natural condition and begin then to practice. Make it a rule not to eat until you have practiced; if you do this, the sheer force of hunger will break your laziness. In India they teach children never to eat until they have practiced or worshipped, and it becomes natural to them after a time; a boy will not feel hungry until he has bathed and practiced.
Those of you who can afford it will do better to have a room for this practice alone. Do not sleep in that room, it must be kept holy. You must not enter the room until you have bathed, and are perfectly clean in body and mind. Place flowers in that room always; they are the best surroundings for a Yogi; also pictures that are pleasing. Burn incense morning and evening. Have no quarrelling, nor anger, nor unholy thought in that room. Only allow those persons to enter it who are of the same thought as you. Then gradually there will be an atmosphere of holiness in the room, so that when you are miserable, sorrowful, doubtful, or your mind is disturbed, the very fact of entering that room will make you calm. This was the idea of the temple and the church, and in some temples and churches you will find it even now, but in the majority of them the very idea has been lost. The idea is that by keeping holy vibrations there the place becomes and remains illumined. Those who cannot afford to have a room set apart can practice anywhere they like. Sit in a straight posture, and the first thing to do is to send a current of holy thought to all creation. Mentally repeat, "Let all beings be happy; let all beings be peaceful; let all beings be blissful." So do to the east, south, north and west. The more you do that the better you will feel yourself. You will find at last that the easiest way to make ourselves healthy is to see that others are healthy, and the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy. After doing that, those who believe in God should pray not for money, not for health, nor for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish. Then the next thing to do is to think of your own body, and see that it is strong and healthy; it is the best instrument you have. Think of it as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
9:An integral and synthetic Yoga needs especially not to be bound by any written or traditional Shastra; for while it embraces the knowledge received from the past, it seeks to organise it anew for the present and the future. An absolute liberty of experience and of the restatement of knowledge in new terms and new combinations is the condition of its self-formation. Seeking to embrace all life in itself, it is in the position not of a pilgrim following the highroad to his destination, but, to that extent at least, of a path-finder hewing his way through a virgin forest. For Yoga has long diverged from life and the ancient systems which sought to embrace it, such as those of our Vedic forefa thers, are far away from us, expressed in terms which are no longer accessible, thrown into forms which are no longer applicable. Since then mankind has moved forward on the current of eternal Time and the same problem has to be approached from a new starting-point.
10:By this Yoga we not only seek the Infinite, but we call upon the Infinite to unfold himself in human life. Therefore the Shastra of our Yoga must provide for an infinite liberty in the receptive human soul. A free adaptability in the manner and type of the individual's acceptance of the Universal and Transcendent into himself is the right condition for the full spiritual life in man. Vivekananda, pointing out that the unity of all religions must necessarily express itself by an increasing richness of variety in its forms, said once that the perfect state of that essential unity would come when each man had his own religion, when not bound by sect or traditional form he followed the free self-adaptation of his nature in its relations with the Supreme. So also one may say that the perfection of the integral Yoga will come when each mall is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the development of his own nature in its upsurging towards that which transcends the nature. For freedom is the final law and the last consummation.
--
17:The personal will of the Sadhaka has first to seize on the egoistic energies and turn them towards the light and the right; once turned, he has still to train them to recognise that always, always to accept, always to follow that. Progressing, he learns, still using the personal will, personal effort, personal energies, to employ them as representatives of the higher Power and in conscious obedience to the higher Influence. Progressing yet farther, his will, effort, energy become no longer personal and separate, but activities of that higher Power and Influence at work in the individual. But there is still a sort of gulf of distance which necessitates an obscure process of transit, not always accurate, sometimes even very distorting, between the divine Origin and the emerging human current. At the end of the progress, with the progressive disappearance of egoism and impurity and ignorance, this last separation is removed; all in the individual becomes the divine working.
GURU
1.01 - THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
evolution of matter, in current theory, comes back to the gradual
building up by growing complication of the various elements
1.01 - What is Magick?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
19. Man's sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.
(Illustration: A popular leader is most successful when he forgets himself, and remembers only "The Cause." Self-seeking engenders jealousies and schism. When the organs of the body assert their presence otherwise than by silent satisfaction, it is a sign that they are diseased. The single exception is the organ of reproduction. Yet even in this case self-assertion bears witness to its dissatisfaction with itself, since in cannot fulfill its function until completed by its counterpart in another organism.)
1.02.2.1 - Brahman - Oneness of God and the World, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
as the Waters, they are imaged as currents flowing into or rising
out of the general sea of Consciousness in the human being.7
1.02.3.1 - The Lord, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
to be a part of that stream and swept in its currents and in its
eddies. It has to go back in its self-existence to the silent Purusha
1.02.3.2 - Knowledge and Ignorance, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
and upon which flow multiple currents of energy, seen by us
as actions or play of forces. When He is thus multiple, He is
1.02.4.2 - Action and the Divine Will, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
in the current of Time, holding only to that which attracts or
2 Anilam amrtam.
1.025 - Sadhana - Intensifying a Lighted Flame, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
In the concentration of the mind on one reality, ekatattva, what is intended is that the attention should be focused on a system or order of values which is immediately superior to, or transcendent to, the current state of affairs, the present state of experience, and the conditions through which we are passing through at this moment. Anything which can include particulars in a more organised whole can be regarded as a higher reality for this purpose. There are tentative realities created for the purpose of practical convenience by organisations, associations or systems which we have created for the purpose of subjugating the individual ego and compelling it to affiliate itself to a larger body to which also it ought to belong and is made to belong.
I can give you examples of quantitative systems which we create in our practical daily life for the purpose of overcoming the urges of the ego and connecting it with wider or larger wholes. A physical individual, or a bodily person, is the lowest unit of reality as far as our experience goes. An utterly selfish individual is one who looks upon the body as the ultimate reality, and the only reality there is nothing else. Now, this is the grossest form of egoism, where the bodily individuality is regarded as the only reality and everything else is completely ignored. This is the animal's way of thinking, to some extent. The tiger has no concern for anything except its own personal existence, and it can pounce on anyone for the sake of its own security and existence.
--
This is a very interesting subject in political science, where political thinkers differ in their opinions as to whether there is a total absence of improvement in quality when there is social order, and there is only a quantitative increase, or whether there is also an element of an increase of quality in thinking. This has led to divergent opinions among statesmen and political philosophers right from Plato and Aristotle onwards, through to Chanakya and other thinkers in India - where the opinion swung like a pendulum. One side held that there is absolutely no improvement in quality, though there is a large improvement in quantity, and the other side thought that there is an element of qualitative superiority. We are not going to discuss this subject at present, as it is outside the jurisdiction of our current topic.
However, the point on hand is that a larger reality should also be qualitatively superior to the discrete particulars from which the mind is supposed to be withdrawn for the purpose of the practice of yoga. Though it is somewhat easy to bring about a quantitative increase in the concept of reality by methods such as the ones I just mentioned, it is a little more difficult to introduce a qualitative increase into the concept of reality. This is the main difficulty for everyone. However much we may concentrate on God, we will not be able to improve upon the human concept, even when there is a concept of God. So we feel unhappy even when we are meditating on God, because we have not improved the quality but have only increased the quantity, so that we may think of God as a large human individual a massive individual, as expansive as the universe itself, for example. That is quite wonderful, but still this human thought does not leave us.
1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Born back by all the current of the sky.
But how cou'd you resist the orbs that roul
--
His sev'n divided currents all are dry,
And where they row'ld, sev'n gaping trenches lye:
1.02 - Karma Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
28. Sanchita is the accumulated storehouse of actions of previous births. Prarabdha is that part of Karma which has given rise to your present birth. Agami is current action.
29. Sanchita is destroyed by Brahma-Jnana. You will have to enjoy the Prarabdha. Agami has no binding force as there is no agency or egoism in the sage.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
when we modify the world, to make it what we desire, instead of what it is currently.
Modern investigation into the role of novelty in emotion and thought began with the Russians E.N.
--
maps which have a narrative structure portray the motivational value of our current state, conceived of in
contrast to a hypothetical ideal, accompanied by plans of action, which are our pragmatic notions about
--
Description of these three elements current state, future state, and means of mediation constitute the
necessary and sufficient preconditions for the weaving of the most simple narrative, which is a means for
--
the current position. It is the perceived improvement of point b that makes the whole map meaningful
that is, affect-laden; it is the capacity to construct hypothetical or abstract end points, such as b and to
--
desired future is clearly predicated on what you currently know.
You also have a model of the present, constantly operative. You understand your (somewhat
--
transform the present, as you currently understand it, into the future, as you hope it will be. Your actions
are designed to produce your ideal designed to transform the present into something ever more closely
--
was that the unknown, experienced in relationship to your currently extant model of present and future, has
a priori motivational significance or, to put it somewhat differently, that the unknown could serve as an
--
framework determining the motivational significance of ongoing current events. The individual uses his or
her knowledge to construct a hypothetical state of affairs, where the motivational balance of ongoing events
--
experience as it is currently manifested to us as we currently understand it granted motivational
significance according to our current knowledge and desires. The future is an image or partial image of
perfection, to which we compare the present, insofar as we understand its significance. Wherever there
--
of those things to the goal we currently have in mind. Meaning shifts when goals change. Such change
necessarily transforms the contingent expectations and desires that accompany those goals. We experience
--
at least from the currently extant framework of reference and can therefore be regarded (valued, acted
towards) in an uncomplicated manner. Other things and situations, however, remain rife with contradictory
--
known is always identified and evaluated with respect to our currently operative plan [which is to say that
a familiar thing, in an unexpected place (or at an unexpected time) is actually something unfamiliar]. The
--
most rapidly activated82 of these two systems governs inhibition of ongoing behavior, cessation of currently
goal-directed activity;83 the second, equally powerful, but somewhat more conservative,84 underlies
--
the current departure point and goal intact, but that indicates that the means of achieving that goal have to
be modified. Let us say, for example, that you are in your office. You are accustomed to walking down an
--
someone left in the middle of the hallway. This is normal novelty. You dont have to alter your current
goal, except in a temporary and trivial manner; you are not likely to get too upset by the unexpected
--
the mismatch temporarily stops me. I replace my current plan with an alternative behavioral strategy,
designed to obtain the same end. This means that I do not reconfigure the temporally and spatially bounded
--
regarded as axiomatic, for the purposes of the current operation), has been violated. The story go
downstairs to eat only retained its function in an environment characterized by valid means of betweenfloor transportation. The existence of these means constituted a given I had used the elevator or the stairs
--
evaluate my current circumstances. My emotions previously constrained by the existence of a temporarily
valid plan re-emerge, in a confused jumble. I am anxious (what will I do? What if there was a fire?),
--
presumption, either at the level of analysis of current state, process, or ideal future. Such mismatches
unpredictable, nonredundant, or novel occurrences constantly comprise the most intrinsically meaningful,
--
currently understood, with the ideal future, as currently imagined. The capacity to generate such a contrast
appears dependent upon operations undertaken deep within the comparatively ancient central portion of the
--
evidence for the incomplete nature of the story currently guiding such behavior comprises evidence for
error at the level of working description of current state, representation of desired future state, or
conception of the means to transform the former into the latter. Appearance of the unknown motivates
--
results.112 When an error occurs, however indicating that current memory-guided motivated plans and
goals are insufficient the amygdala is released from inhibition, and labels the unpredictable occurrence
--
The desired output of behavior (what should be) is initially posited; if the current strategy fails, the
approach and exploration system is activated,115 although it remains under the governance of anxiety. The
--
goal; or (3) re-evaluation of the motivational significance of current state. This means (1) that a new
strategy for attaining the desired goal might be invented, or (2) that a replacement goal, serving the same
--
the story or frame of reference currently in use might have to be reconstructed. This most troublesome
state of affairs is schematically presented in its successful form in Figure 9: The Regeneration of
--
according to its current frame of reference or system of belief? The answer to this question sheds
substantial light on the nature of the orienting reflex, in its full manifestation. Modern experimental
--
unexplored territory; his presence is regarded as a threat (not unreasonably) to everything currently
secure.130 Chimpanzees perfectly capable of killing foreign devils (even those who were once familiar)
--
extant currently or previously. Evolution of the restricted central field of the eye, which has input expanded
10,000 times in the primary visual area, and is additionally represented, interhemispherically, at several
--
that is, that improve our capacity to regulate our own emotions (to turn the current world into the desired
world, to say it differently) qualify as valid. It is in this manner that we verify the accuracy of our
--
with fictional narratives: pretended descriptions of the current and desired future states of the world, with
plans of action appended, designed to change the former into the latter. To play means to set or to
--
area). When necessary means depending on the status of our current operations. For example: you are in
the kitchen; you want to read a book in your study. An image of you reading a book in your favorite chair
thus occupies the ends or desired future pole of your currently operational story (contrasted with the
still-too-illiterate you of the present time). This story might have a conceived duration of, say, ten
--
irrelevant, given the current state of affairs. Is there something wrong with the lamp (and, therefore at a
slightly more general level with all future plans, that depend on that lamp)? You explore. The lamp
--
another, as the currently-operative consummatory reward as the goal towards which behavior is to be
devoted, as the desired future against which the unbearable present, in the form of emergent
--
determinate information, and as the ultimate unity of all currently discriminable things. It surrounds all
things, eternally; engenders all things, and takes all things back. It can therefore be said, paradoxically, that
--
transcending that of any individual who is currently possessed. Pan, the Greek god of nature,
produced/represented fear (produced panic); Ares or the Roman Mars, war-like fury and aggression. We
--
upper hand, it is by definition because of a current paucity of heroism. It can be said, therefore, that the reappearance of the Great Mother, in her terrible guise, the death of the Great Father (who serves as
protection from his creative and destructive wife), and the absence of the hero (who turns chaos into order)
--
The dead Egyptian pharaoh that is, the ruler whose death preceded the ascension of the current
pharaoh was assimilated to (occupied the same categorial space as) Osiris. That meant he was regarded as
--
courageous actions had cosmogonic significance. The current ruler (who depended for much of his power
on the traditions of his predecessors, modified when necessary) was regarded as equivalent to Horus, and to
--
understand), long before the contents of such models could be understood, in the way we currently
conceive of understanding.
--
conceivable, at once is something that constitutes the union of all currently discriminable opposites (and
something that cannot, therefore, be easily distinguished from nothing).
--
objectively, as the objective is currently understood.
Ritualized, dramatic or mythic representations of the unknown the domain that emerges when error is
--
the hopes of bringing about by ingenious means whatever outcome is currently envisioned. Such
exploration also produces alteration of the sensory world since that world changes with shift in motor
--
application when a new situation arises can be usefully regarded, metaphorically, as the current
embodiments of adaptive strategies formulated as a consequence of past exploratory behavior as adaptive
--
those currently alive. Adaptation to new territory that is, to the unexpected therefore also means
successful mediation of archaic or habitual strategies competing, in the new situation, for dominance over
--
locale by the current social mores, products of historical forces). Then comes the capacity to imagine the
end towards which behavior should be directed. Information generated from the observation of behavior
--
reconstruction of current knowledge, of current morality this behavioral pattern comes to form the kernel
for the good story, cross-culturally. That good story which is what to do, when you no longer know what
--
the social being all individual actions come to evaluated with regards to their likely current and future
consequences, for the self and for the others likely affected. Such evaluation may take place directly that
--
because the group comprises the most effective currently imaginable solution to the problem of
adaptation all things considered. This group the current embodiment of human custom is the
consequence of a battle between various ways of being fought across generations.
--
intrapsychic state is integrated with regards to current motivation [which means, indicative of how
convinced a given animal is that it can (should) hold its ground]. This integration constitutes power
--
her current position in a given social hierarchy. If she is single, and acting in context, she may be
considered desirable; if she is the presently-somewhat-too-intoxicated wife of a large and dangerous man,
--
in fact in large part implicit information about the nature of the current dominance hierarchy, which has
been partially transformed into an abstract hypothesis about the relative value of things (including the self
--
means insofar as the culture posits a reasonable current description, a believable end goal, and a workable
167
--
reduction of all who are currently living to manifestation of a single dead past personality. When
everyone is the same, everything is predictable; all things are of strictly determinable value, and everything
1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
generosity we currently have and gradually expand it. For example, if we
meet a ve-year-old who laments that he isnt big enough to play with the
1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
O seeker after the divine secrets, now that you have learned that within the body of man, there is a sovereign who possesses and controls it, it is time that you should learn the meaning of the sentences, "Glory to God," "God be praised," "There is no God but God," and "God is the greatest." These sentences are very current on the tongues of men, but they do not know the signification of them. [54] Although these four sentences are in appearance very short, yet there are no others that embrace so much of the knowledge of God. Since from the consideration of the freedom and independence of your own spirit, you have learned the freedom and independence of God, you have in consequence learned the meaning and import of the sentence, "Glory to God." Seeing that from the sovereignty which you exercise over your own spirit, you have learned the sovereignty which God exercises, and know that all causes and instruments are subject to his power, and that all outward and inward mercies, which are incalculable and innumerable, are from him, you therefore know the meaning and import of the phrase, "God be praised." As you know also that all things are of his creation, that his government extends over all things, and that without his will no motion or change can affect any thing, you see the meaning of the words, "There is no God but God. " Listen now to the explanation of the sentence, "God is the greatest."
Do not suppose that, from all that has hitherto been said, you can understand the greatness of God. His greatness and power are above and beyond the comprehension of the mind and wisdom of man. Moreover the phrase "God is the greatest" does not mean that God is larger than other things : it is a sin to indulge in such a belief. It is as much as to say, that there are large things, but that God is larger than they are. The holy meaning of the phrase "God is the greatest" is that God is so great, that he cannot be known or comprehended by the mind or understanding, or be compared with any thing,-that the knowledge of God cannot be attained by means of the knowledge which a man has of his own soul (which God forbid!), that a knowledge of his attributes cannot be attained from a knowledge of the attributes of man, and that his independence and holiness cannot be compared with the independence and holiness of man in any form whatever. God [55] forbid that His sovereignty and government should be compared and measured ! The doctors of the law have been allowed however, in the way of illustration to explain in a certain degree the knowledge, power, excellence and sovereignty of God to man, who is frail and weak in understanding.
1.02 - Prana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
By what power is this Akasha manufactured into this universe? By the power of Prana. Just as Akasha is the infinite, omnipresent material of this universe, so is this Prana the infinite, omnipresent manifesting power of this universe. At the beginning and at the end of a cycle everything becomes Akasha, and all the forces that are in the universe resolve back into the Prana; in the next cycle, out of this Prana is evolved everything that we call energy, everything that we call force. It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion; it is the Prana that is manifesting as gravitation, as magnetism. It is the Prana that is manifesting as the actions of the body, as the nerve currents, as thought force. From thought down to the lowest force, everything is but the manifestation of Prana. The sum total of all forces in the universe, mental or physical, when resolved back to their original state, is called Prana. "When there was neither aught nor naught, when darkness was covering darkness, what existed then? That Akasha existed without motion." The physical motion of the Prana was stopped, but it existed all the same.
At the end of a cycle the energies now displayed in the universe quiet down and become potential. At the beginning of the next cycle they start up, strike upon the Akasha, and out of the Akasha evolve these various forms, and as the Akasha changes, this Prana changes also into all these manifestations of energy. The knowledge and control of this Prana is really what is meant by Pranayama.
1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3:If the change comes suddenly and decisively by an overpowering influence, there is no further essential or lasting difficulty. The choice follows upon the thought, or is simultaneous with it, and the self-consecration follows upon the choice. The feet are already set upon the path, even if they seem at first to wander uncertainly and even though the path itself may be only obscurely seen and the knowledge of the goal may be imperfect. The secret Teacher, the inner Guide is already at work, though he may not yet manifest himself or may not yet appear in the person of his human representative. Whatever difficulties and hesitations may ensue, they cannot eventually prevail against the power of the experience that has turned the current of the life. The call, once decisive, stands; the thing that has been born cannot eventually be stifled. Even if the force of circumstances prevents a regular pursuit or a full practical self-consecration from the first, still the mind has taken its bent and persists and returns with an ever-increasing effect upon its leading preoccupation. There is an ineluctable persistence of the inner being, and against it circumstances are in the end powerless, and no weakness in the nature can for long be an obstacle.
4:But this is not always the manner of the commencement. The Sadhaka is often led gradually and there is a long space between the first turning of the mind and the full assent of the nature to the thing towards which it turns. There may at first be only a vivid intellectual interest, a forcible attraction towards the idea and some imperfect form of practice. Or perhaps there is an effort not favoured by the whole nature, a decision or a turn imposed by an intellectual influence or dictated by personal affection and admiration for someone who is himself consecrated and devoted to the Highest. In such cases, a long period of preparation may be necessary before there comes the irrevocable consecration; and in some instances it may not come. There may be some advance, there may be a strong effort, even much purification and many experiences other than those that are central or supreme; but the life will either be spent in preparation or, a certain stage having been reached, the mind pushed by an insufficient driving-force may rest content at the limit of the effort possible to it. Or there may even be a recoil to the lower life, -- what is called in the ordinary parlance of Yoga a fall from the path. This lapse happens because there is a defect at the very centre. The intellect has been interested, the heart attracted, the will has strung itself to the effort, but the whole nature has not been taken captive by the Divine. It has only acquiesced in the interest, the attraction or the endeavour. There has been an experiment, perhaps even an eager experiment, but not a total self-giving to an imperative need of the soul or to an unforsakable ideal. Even such imperfect Yoga has not been wasted; for no upward effort is made in vain. Even if it fails in the present or arrives only at some preparatory stage or preliminary realisation, it has yet determined the soul's future.
--
10:There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
11:The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order. Moreover, we find that inwardly too, no less than outwardly, we are not alone in the world; the sharp separateness of our ego was no more than a strong imposition and delusion; we do not exist in ourselves, we do not really live apart in an inner privacy or solitude. Our mind is a receiving, developing and modifying machine into which there is being constantly passed from moment to moment a ceaseless foreign flux, a streaming mass of disparate materials from above, from below, from outside. Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use offer the manifestation of their forms and forces. The difficulty of our separate salvation is immensely increased by this complexity and manifold openness and subjection to tile in-streaming energies of the universe. Of all this we have to take account, to deal with it, to know what is the secret stuff of our nature and its constituent and resultant motions and to create in it all a divine centre and a true harmony and luminous order.
1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cohesiveness and order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.
"Habits" Defined
--
Nevertheless, the current social paradigm enthrones independence. It is the avowed goal of many individuals and social movements. Most of the self-improvement material puts independence on a pedestal, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.
Nevertheless, the current social paradigm enthrones independence. It is the avowed goal of many individuals and social movements. Most of the self-improvement material puts independence on a pedestal, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.
But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence -- to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us.
The little understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility -- all in the name of independence.
1.02 - The Age of Individualism and Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Secondly, the West in its triumphant conquest of the world has awakened the slumbering East and has produced in its midst an increasing struggle between an imported Western individual ism and the old conventional principle of society. The latter is here rapidly, there slowly breaking down, but something quite different from Western individualism may very well take its place. Some opine, indeed, that Asia will reproduce Europes Age of Reason with all its materialism and secularist individualism while Europe itself is pushing onward into new forms and ideas; but this is in the last degree improbable. On the contrary, the signs are that the individualistic period in the East will be neither of long duration nor predominantly rationalistic and secularist in its character. If then the East, as the result of its awakening, follows its own bent and evolves a novel social tendency and culture, that is bound to have an enormous effect on the direction of the worlds civilisation; we can measure its probable influence by the profound results of the first reflux of the ideas even of the unawakened East upon Europe. Whatever that effect may be, it will not be in favour of any re-ordering of society on the lines of the still current tendency towards a mechanical economism which has not ceased to dominate mind and life in the Occident. The influence of the East is likely to be rather in the direction of subjectivism and practical spirituality, a greater opening of our physical existence to the realisation of ideals other than the strong but limited aims suggested by the life and the body in their own gross nature.
But, most important of all, the individualistic age of Europe has in its discovery of the individual fixed among the idea-forces of the future two of a master potency which cannot be entirely eliminated by any temporary reaction. The first of these, now universally accepted, is the democratic conception of the right of all individuals as members of the society to the full life and the full development of which they are individually capable. It is no longer possible that we should accept as an ideal any arrangement by which certain classes of society should arrogate development and full social fruition to themselves while assigning a bare and barren function of service alone to others. It is now fixed that social development and well-being mean the development and well-being of all the individuals in the society and not merely a flourishing of the community in the mass which resolves itself really into the splendour and power of one or two classes. This conception has been accepted in full by all progressive nations and is the basis of the present socialistic tendency of the world. But in addition there is this deeper truth which individualism has discovered, that the individual is not merely a social unit; his existence, his right and claim to live and grow are not founded solely on his social work and function. He is not merely a member of a human pack, hive or ant-hill; he is something in himself, a soul, a being, who has to fulfil his own individual truth and law as well as his natural or his assigned part in the truth and law of the collective existence.2 He demands freedom, space, initiative for his soul, for his nature, for that puissant and tremendous thing which society so much distrusts and has laboured in the past either to suppress altogether or to relegate to the purely spiritual field, an individual thought, will and conscience. If he is to merge these eventually, it cannot be into the dominating thought, will and conscience of others, but into something beyond into which he and all must be both allowed and helped freely to grow. That is an idea, a truth which, intellectually recognised and given its full exterior and superficial significance by Europe, agrees at its root with the profoundest and highest spiritual conceptions of Asia and has a large part to play in the moulding of the future.
1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
What do people mean when they say that something requires proof ? The whole trend of human evolution since the fourteenth century has been to validate judgments through visual observation, that is to say, through sense perception. It was a very different matter before the current era, or before the fourteenth century. But we fail to realize today that our ancestors had a very different view of the world. In a certain sense we are arrogant when we consider the development that has occurred in recent centuries. We look condescendingly at what people did during the Middle Ages, for example, considering them childish and primitive. But its an age about which we really know nothing and call the Dark Ages. Try to imagine how our successors will speak of usif theyre as arrogant in their thinking as we are! If they turn out to be as conceited, well seem just as childish to them as medieval people appear to us.
During the ages before the fourteenth century, humans perceived the world of the senses, and also comprehended with the intellect. The intelligence of the medieval monastic schools is too often underestimated. The inner intelligence and conceptual faculty was much more highly developed than the modern and chaotic conceptual faculty, which is really driven by, and limited to, natural phenomena; anyone whos objective and impartial can observe this. In those days, anything that the intellect and senses perceived in the universe required validation from the divine, spiritual realm. The fact that sense revelation had to be sanctioned by divine revelation wasnt merely an abstract principle; it was a common, very human feeling and observation. A manifestation in the world of the senses could be considered valid only when knowledge of it could be proven and demonstrated in terms of the divine, spiritual world.
1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
been made attentive to the true force currents in the world,
and who have been called to consciously participate in
1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
THE IMAGE of this sacrifice is sometimes that of a journey or voyage; for it travels, it ascends; it has a goal - the vastness, the true existence, the light, the felicity - and it is called upon to discover and keep to the good, the straight and the happy path to the goal, the arduous yet joyful road of the Truth. It has to climb, led by the flaming strength of the divine will, from plateau to plateau as of a mountain, it has to cross as in a ship the waters of existence, traverse its rivers, overcome their deep pits and rapid currents; its aim is to arrive at the far-off ocean of light and infinity.
And this is no easy or peaceful march; it is for long seasons a fierce and relentless battle. Constantly the Aryan man has to labour and to fight and conquer; he must be a tireless toiler and traveller and a stern warrior, he must force open and storm and sack city after city, win kingdom after kingdom, overthrow and tread down ruthlessly enemy after enemy. His whole progress is a warring of Gods and Titans, Gods and Giants, Indra and the Python, Aryan and Dasyu. Aryan adversaries even he has to face in the open field; for old friends and helpers turn into enemies; the kings of Aryan states whom he would conquer and overpass join themselves to the Dasyus and are leagued against him in supreme battle to prevent his free and utter passing on.
--
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
--
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
1.02 - The Necessity of Magick for All, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Ah, well then, perhaps you have not understood my remarks at one of our earliest interviews as perfectly as you suppose! For the crucial point of my exposition was that Magick is not a matter extraneous to the main current of your life, as music, gardening, or collection jade might be. No, every act of your life is a magical act; whenever from ignorance, carelessness, clumsiness or what not, you come short of perfect artistic success, you inevitably register failure, discomfort, frustration. Luckily for all of us, most of the acts essential to continued life are involuntary; the "unconscious" has become so used to doing its "True Will" that there is no need of interference; when such need arises, we call it disease, and seek to restore the machine to free spontaneous fulfillment of its function.
But this is only part of the story. As things are, we have all adventured into an Universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of Evolution. Man is a marine monster; when he decided that it would be better for him somehow to live on land, he had to grow lungs instead of gills. When we want to travel over soft snow, we have to invent ski; when we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written characters in a word embark upon the boundless ocean of hieroglyphics or symbols of one sort or another. (Presently I shall have to explain the supreme importance of such systems; in fact, the Universe itself is not, and cannot be, anything but an arrangement of symbolic characters!)
--
Offer a dog a juicy bone, and a bundle of hay; he will naturally take the bone, whereas a horse would choose the hay. So, while you happen to imagine yourself to be a Fair Lady seeking the Hidden Wisdom, you come to me; if you thought you were a Nigger Minstrel, you would play the banjo, and sing songs calculated to attract current coin of the Realm from a discerning Public! The two actions are ultimately identical see AL I, 22 and your perception of that fact would make you an Initiate of very high standing; but in the work-a-day world, you are "really" the Fair Lady, and leave the minstrel to grow infirm and old and hire an orphan boy to carry his banjo!
Now then, what bothers me it this: Have I or have I not explained this matter of "Magick" "Why should I (who have only just heard of it, at least as a serious subject of study) acquire a knowledge of its principles, and of the powers conferred by its mastery?" Must I bribe you with promises of health, wealth, power over others, knowledge, thaumaturgical skill, success in every worldly ambition as I could quite honestly do? I hope there is no such need and yet, shall I confess it? it was only because all the good things of life were suddenly seen of me to be worthless, that I took the first steps towards the attainment of that Wisdom which, while enjoying to the full the "Feast of Life," guarantees me against surfeit, poison or interruption by the knowledge that it is all a Dream, and gives me the Power to turn that dream at will into any form that happens to appeal to my Inclination.
1.02 - The Philosophy of Ishvara, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
"The way is more difficult for those whose mind is attached to the Absolute!" Bhakti has to float on smoothly with the current of our nature. True it is that we cannot have; any idea of the Brahman which is not anthropomorphic, but is it not equally true of everything we know? The greatest psychologist the world has ever known, Bhagavan Kapila, demonstrated ages ago that human consciousness is one of the elements in the make-up of all the objects of our perception and conception, internal as well as external. Beginning with our bodies and going up to Ishvara, we may see that every object of our perception is this consciousness plus something else, whatever that may be; and this unavoidable mixture is what we ordinarily think of as reality. Indeed it is, and ever will be, all of the reality that is possible for the human mind to know. Therefore to say that Ishvara is unreal, because He is anthropomorphic, is sheer nonsense. It sounds very much like the occidentals squabble on idealism and realism, which fearful-looking quarrel has for its foundation a mere play on the word "real". The idea of Ishvara covers all the ground ever denoted and connoted by the word real, and Ishvara is as real as anything else in the universe; and after all, the word real means nothing more than what has now been pointed out. Such is our philosophical conception of Ishvara.
(Bhagavata) "Unto them appeared Krishna with a smile on His lotus face, clad in yellow robes and having garlands on, the embodied conqueror (in beauty) of the god of love."
1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
Restricting ourselves here primarily to the art of the Christian era, we can distinguish two major self-contained epochs among the many artistic styles, followed today by an incipient third. The first encompasses the era up to the Renaissance, the other, now coming to a close, extends up to the present. The decisive and distinguishing characteristic of these epochs is the respective absence or presence of perspective; consequently we shall designate the first era as the "unperspectival," the second as the "perspectival," and the currently emerging epoch as the "aperspectival."'
As we shall see, these designations are valid not only with respect to art history, but also to aesthetics, cultural history, and the history of the psyche and the mind. The achievement of perspective indicates man's discovery and consequent coming to awareness of space, whereas the unrealized perspective indicates that space is dormant in man and that he is not yet awakened to it. Moreover, the unperspectival world suggests a state in which man lacks self-identity: he belongs to a unit, such as a tribe or communal group, where the emphasis is not yet on the person but on the impersonal, not an the "I" but on the communal group, the qualitative mode of the collective. The illuminated manuscripts and gilt ground of early Romanesque painting depict theunperspectival world that retained the prevailing constitutive elements of Mediterranean antiquity. Not until the Gothic, the forerunner of the Renaissance was there a shift in emphasis. Before that space is not yet our depth-space, rather a cavern (and vault), or simply an in-between space; in both instances it is undifferentiated space. This situation bespeaks for us a hardly conceivable enclosure in the world, an intimate bond between outer and inner suggestive of a correspondence only faintly discernible between soul and nature. This condition was gradually destroyed by the expansion and growing strength of Christianity whose teaching of detachment from nature transforms this destruction into an act of liberation.
--
This Statement of Leonardo's is also a conceptual realization or actualization of perspective a realization that has determined the Western image of the world ever since. Perspective has determined and corresponded to this view to such a degree that even a mere generation after Leonardo (around 1530), Agrippa of Nettesheim was able to include a brief chapter entitled De Opticavel perspectiva in his late work De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum et Artium. There we find the revealing statement: "It [the art of perspective] shows how deformity can be avoided in painting." And in Pietro Aretino's Dialogodella Pittura, written about the same time in honor of Titian, there is a verse frequently repeated: "Chespessoocchioben san favedertorto," which alludes to the no longer current tendency toward a kind of prejudicial kind of seeing that, as the verse notes, "frequently allows even healthy eyes to see falsely."
Aretino's reproach, as well as Agrippa's more pointed remark, both of which characterize the unperspectival world and its mode of expression as "deformity" and "false vision", demonstrate clearly that space had already entered consciousness and become accepted at the outset of the sixteenth century. Having achieved and secured the awareness of space, man in the sixteenth century is overcome by a kind of intoxication with it. This perspectival intoxication with space is clearly evident, for example, in Altdorfer's interiors and in the many depictions of church interiors by the Netherlandic masters that have an almost jubilant expression. It is this jubilation that silences the voice of those who still attempted to preserve the old attitude toward the world. The silencing of objections was facilitated to a considerable degree by the fact that Petrarch's experience of landscape and space, as well as Leonardo's application and theory of perspective, had become common property and were evident in the increasing prevalence of landscape painting throughout Europe. We shall only mention a few of the great European masters who repeatedly took up the question of the perception and depiction of space in landscape: Altdorfer, van Goyen; Poussin, Claude Lorrain; Ruysdael, Magnasco; Watteau, Constable, Corot, Caspar David Friedrich; Millet, Courbert;Manet,Monet, Renoir, and finally, van Gogh and Rousseau.
--
As we approach the decline of the perspectival age, it is our anxiety about time that stands out as the dominant characteristic alongside our ever more absurd obsession with space. It manifests itself in various ways, such as in our addiction to time. Everyone is out to "gain time," although the time gained is usually the wrong kind: time that is transformed into a visible multiplication of spatially fragmented "activity," or time that one has "to kill." Our time anxiety shows up in our haptification of time (already heralded by Pope Sabinus' hourly bellringing) and is expressed in our attempt to arrest time and hold onto it through its materialization. Many are convinced that "time is money," although again this is almost invariably falsified time, a time that can be turned into money, but not time valid in its own right. A further expression of man's current helplessness in the face of time is his compulsion to "fill" time; he regards it as something empty and spatial like a bucket or container. devoid of any qualitative character. But time is in itself fulfilled and not something that has to be "filled up" or "filled out."
Finally, our contemporary anxiety about time is manifest in our flight from it: in our haste and rush, and by our constant reiteration, "I have no time." It is only too evident that we have space but no time; time has us because we are not yet aware of its entire reality.
1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things.
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.
1.032 - Our Concept of God, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
So if God is to permeate this world, in what sense does He permeate it? How does He become immanent in this world? Does He enter into this world as water enters cloth or electricity charges a copper wire? When electricity passes through a wire, we find that every particle of the wire is charged with electricity, so that if we touch any part of the wire, we feel the shock of the current. The force of electricity is present in every particle of the wire, and yet the wire is not electricity - they are two different things. The electrical force can be withdrawn and the wire will be just wire, dead and powerless. So, whatever be the manner in which we may conceive the presence of God in this world, a difficulty will arise in understanding the relationship between God and the world.
The organic connection that has been introduced into the field of religion is a practical solution of a difficulty that has been posed by the concept of the extra-cosmic presence of God. Yet the problem persists in a very subtle manner, so that we may be inwardly unfriendly with a person though we may be sitting on the lap of that person. As we know very well, physical proximity of even the most intense type need not be an emblem of friendship. Though I may be sitting on your head, I may not be friendly with you.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Anyway the fervent hope of every undisciplined person (even an undisciplined genius) is that his current
worthlessness and stupidity is someone elses fault. If in the best of cases it is societys fault, then
--
exploration. The group is the current expression of a pattern of behavior developed over the course of
hundreds of thousands of years. This pattern is constructed of behaviors established initially by creative
1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
But if with dams its current we restrain,
It bears down all, and foams along the plain.
1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sarala Devi Chowdhurani came to Pondicherry to meet Sri Aurobindo. It was evident she wanted to ascertain his future programme and his views on current politics. She met him for two days.
As she came up to meet him at the time fixed, 4.30 p.m., Sri Aurobindo got up from his chair to greet her. Both greeted each other with folded hands. After formal exchanges Sarala Devi began:
--
Sri Aurobindo: We are not concerned with that at all primarily. What one puts forth generally outside in the form of action is what one internally is. Our first aim is not to work for humanity in the current sense of the term, but to found life on a Higher Consciousness than the present ignorant and limited consciousness of Mind, Life and Body. At present, man I mean the average man is physical and vital in his nature, using mind for satisfying his vital being. We want to leave mind and intellect behind and find a Higher Consciousness. You may call it Nirvana, Passive Brahman, Sachchidananda or Higher Power or by any name.
So, our first task is to find God and base life on that Consciousness; In that process what is necessary for humanity will naturally be done. But that is not our direct aim. Ours is a tremendous task. It is an adventure in which one must be prepared to leave behind his desires and passions, intellectual preferences and mental constructions in order to enable the Higher Power to do its work. You have to see whether you can give your consent to the radical transformation that is inevitable.
--
Disciple: The idea seems to be to invert the freed tongue so as to close the passage of breathing. The two nostrils are called the Ida and Pingala currents of Prana. The third current is Sushumna on the crown of the head. When these two are stopped, by inverting the tongue and blocking the passage of breathing, then Sushumna begins to function. The theory is that Amrita, nectar, is dropping from the Sushumna even now but as the tongue does not taste it, man does not enjoy the nectar. There is also a tradition that in Khechari Mudra one is able to fly.
Sri Aurobindo: It only gives a kind of trance and a consequent Ananda: I do not know what else it does.
1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The word personality is derived from the Latin, and its upper partials are in the highest degree respectable. For some odd philological reason, the Saxon equivalent of personality is hardly ever used. Which is a pity. For if it were usedused as currently as belch is used for eructationwould people make such a reverential fuss about the thing connoted as certain English-speaking philosophers, moralists and theologians have recently done? Personality, we are constantly being assured, is the highest form of reality, with which we are acquainted. But surely people would think twice about making or accepting this affirmation if, instead of personality, the word employed had been its Teutonic synonym, selfness. For selfness, though it means precisely the same, carries none of the high-class overtones that go with personality. On the contrary, its primary meaning comes to us embedded, as it were, in discords, like the note of a cracked bell. For, as all exponents of the Perennial Philosophy have constantly insisted, mans obsessive consciousness of, and insistence on being, a separate self is the final and most formidable obstacle to the unitive knowledge of God. To be a self is, for them, the original sin, and to the to self, in feeling, will and intellect, is the final and all-inclusive virtue. It is the memory of these utterances that calls up the unfavourable overtones with which the word selfness is associated. The all too favourable overtones of personality are evoked in part by its intrinsically solemn Latinity, but also by reminiscences of what has been said about the persons of the Trinity. But the persons of the Trinity have nothing in common with the flesh-and-blood persons of our everyday acquaintancenothing, that is to say, except that indwelling Spirit, with which we ought and are intended to identify ourselves, but which most of us prefer to ignore in favour of our separate selfness. That this God-eclipsing and anti-spiritual selfness, should have been given the same name as is applied to the God who is a Spirit, is, to say the least of it, unfortunate. Like all such mistakes it is probably, in some obscure and subconscious way, voluntary and purposeful. We love our selfness; we want to be justified in our love; therefore we christen it with the same name as is applied by theologians to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
But now thou askest me how thou mayest destroy this naked knowing and feeling of thine own being. For per-adventure thou thinkest that if it were destroyed, all other hindrances were destroyed; and if thou thinkest thus, thou thinkest right truly. But to this I answer thee and I say, that without a full special grace full freely given by God, and also a full according ableness on thy part to receive this grace, this naked knowing and feeling of thy being may in nowise be destroyed. And this ableness is nought else but a strong and a deep ghostly sorrow. All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feeleth matter of sorrow that knoweth and feeleth that he is. All other sorrows in comparison to this be but as it were game to earnest. For he may make sorrow earnestly that knoweth and feeleth not only what he is, but that he is. And whoso felt never this sorrow, let him make sorrow; for he hath never yet felt perfect sorrow. This sorrow, when it is had, cleanseth the soul, not only of sin, but also of pain that it hath deserved for sin; and also it maketh a soul able to receive that joy, the which reaveth from a man all knowing and feeling of his being.
--
Souls which have come to the unitive knowledge of God, are, in Benet of Canfields phrase, almost nothing in themselves and all in God. This vanishing residue of selfness persists because, in some slight measure, they still identify their being with some innate psycho-physical idiosyncrasy, some acquired habit of thought or feeling, some convention or unanalyzed prejudice current in the social environment. Jesus was almost wholly absorbed in the esential will of God; but in spite of this, he may have retained some elements of selfness. To what extent there was any I associated with the more-than-personal, divine Not-I, it is very difficult, on the basis of the existing evidence, to judge. For example, did Jesus interpret his experience of divine Reality and his own spontaneous inferences from that experience in terms of those fascinating apocalyptic notions current in contemporary Jewish circles? Some eminent scholars have argued that the doctrine of the worlds imminent dissolution was the central core of his teaching. Others, equally learned, have held that it was attributed to him by the authors of the Synoptic Gospels, and that Jesus himself did not identify his experience and his theological thinking with locally popular opinions. Which party is right? Goodness knows. On this subject, as on so many others, the existing evidence does not permit of a certain and unambiguous answer.
The moral of all this is plain. The quantity and quality of the surviving biographical documents are such that we have no means of knowing what the residual personality of Jesus was really like. But if the Gospels tell us very little about the I which was Jesus, they make up for this deficiency by telling us inferentially, in the parables and discourses, a good deal about the spiritual not-I, whose manifest presence in the mortal man was the reason why his disciples called him the Christ and identified him with the eternal Logos.
1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
ANSWER: Many Tablets were revealed and dispatched in their original form without being checked and reviewed. Consequently, as bidden, they were again read out in the Holy Presence, and brought into conformity with the grammatical conventions of the people in order to forestall the cavils of opponents of the Cause. Another reason for this practice is that the new style inaugurated by the Herald, may the souls of all else but Him be offered up for His sake, was seen to be marked by substantial latitude in adherence to the rules of grammar; sacred verses therefore were then revealed in a style which is for the most part in conformity with current usage for ease of understanding and concision of expression.
58. QUESTION: Concerning the blessed verse, "When travelling, if ye should stop and rest in some safe spot, perform ye ... a single prostration in place of each unsaid Obligatory Prayer": is this compensation for the Obligatory Prayer missed by reason of insecure circumstances, or is obligatory prayer completely suspended during travel, and doth the prostration take its place?
1.03 - Some Practical Aspects, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
If we become angered, vexed or annoyed, we erect a wall around ourselves in the soul-world, and the forces which are to develop the eyes of the soul cannot approach. For instance, if a person angers me he sends forth a psychic current into the soul-world. I cannot see this current as long as I am myself capable of anger. My own anger conceals it from me. We must not, however, suppose that when we are free from anger we shall immediately have a psychic (astral) vision. For this purpose an organ of vision must have been developed in the soul. The beginnings
p. 105
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
limited our current understanding is decreases our pride and makes us more
humble.
--
Attachment resembles a ood; we are powerlessly swept along by its current. When our mind is attached to something, it has no space for anything
else. We are obsessed with the object of our attachment; we worry about not
1.03 - The Coming of the Subjective Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is this principle and necessity that justify an age of individualism and rationalism and make it, however short it may be, an inevitable period in the cycle. A temporary reign of the critical reason largely destructive in its action is an imperative need for human progress. In India, since the great Buddhistic upheaval of the national thought and life, there has been a series of re current attempts to rediscover the truth of the soul and life and get behind the veil of stifling conventions; but these have been conducted by a wide and tolerant spiritual reason, a plastic soul-intuition and deep subjective seeking, insufficiently militant and destructive. Although productive of great internal and considerable external changes, they have never succeeded in getting rid of the predominant conventional order. The work of a dissolvent and destructive intellectual criticism, though not entirely absent from some of these movements, has never gone far enough; the constructive force, insufficiently aided by the destructive, has not been able to make a wide and free space for its new formation. It is only with the period of European influence and impact that circumstances and tendencies powerful enough to enforce the beginnings of a new age of radical and effective revaluation of ideas and things have come into existence. The characteristic power of these influences has been throughoutor at any rate till quite recentlyrationalistic, utilitarian and individualistic. It has compelled the national mind to view everything from a new, searching and critical standpoint, and even those who seek to preserve the present or restore the past are obliged un consciously or half-consciously to justify their endeavour from the novel point of view and by its appropriate standards of reasoning. Throughout the East, the subjective Asiatic mind is being driven to adapt itself to the need for changed values of life and thought. It has been forced to turn upon itself both by the pressure of Western knowledge and by the compulsion of a quite changed life-need and life-environment. What it did not do from within, has come on it as a necessity from without and this externality has carried with it an immense advantage as well as great dangers.
The individualistic age is, then, a radical attempt of mankind to discover the truth and law both of the individual being and of the world to which the individual belongs. It may begin, as it began in Europe, with the endeavour to get back, more especially in the sphere of religion, to the original truth which convention has overlaid, defaced or distorted; but from that first step it must proceed to others and in the end to a general questioning of the foundations of thought and practice in all the spheres of human life and action. A revolutionary reconstruction of religion, philosophy, science, art and society is the last inevitable outcome. It proceeds at first by the light of the individual mind and reason, by its demand on life and its experience of life; but it must go from the individual to the universal. For the effort of the individual soon shows him that he cannot securely discover the truth and law of his own being without discovering some universal law and truth to which he can relate it. Of the universe he is a part; in all but his deepest spirit he is its subject, a small cell in that tremendous organic mass: his substance is drawn from its substance and by the law of its life the law of his life is determined and governed. From a new view and knowledge of the world must proceed his new view and knowledge of him self, of his power and capacity and limitations, of his claim on existence and the high road and the distant or immediate goal of his individual and social destiny.
--
All these tendencies, though in a crude, initial and ill-developed form, are manifest now in the world and are growing from day to day with a significant rapidity. And their emergence and greater dominance means the transition from the ratio-nalistic and utilitarian period of human development which individualism has created to a greater subjective age of society. The change began by a rapid turning of the current of thought into large and profound movements contradictory of the old intellectual standards, a swift breaking of the old tables. The materialism of the nineteenth century gave place first to a novel and profound vitalism which has taken various forms from Nietzsches theory of the Will to be and Will to Power as the root and law of life to the new pluralistic and pragmatic philosophy which is pluralistic because it has its eye fixed on life rather than on the soul and pragmatic because it seeks to interpret being in the terms of force and action rather than of light and knowledge. These tendencies of thought, which had until yesterday a profound influence on the life and thought of Europe prior to the outbreak of the great War, especially in France and Germany, were not a mere superficial recoil from intellectualism to life and action,although in their application by lesser minds they often assumed that aspect; they were an attempt to read profoundly and live by the Life-Soul of the universe and tended to be deeply psychological and subjective in their method. From behind them, arising in the void created by the discrediting of the old rationalistic intellectualism, there had begun to arise a new Intuitionalism, not yet clearly aware of its own drive and nature, which seeks through the forms and powers of Life for that which is behind Life and sometimes even lays as yet uncertain hands on the sealed doors of the Spirit.
The art, music and literature of the world, always a sure index of the vital tendencies of the age, have also undergone a profound revolution in the direction of an ever-deepening sub jectivism. The great objective art and literature of the past no longer commands the mind of the new age. The first tendency was, as in thought so in literature, an increasing psychological vitalism which sought to represent penetratingly the most subtle psychological impulses and tendencies of man as they started to the surface in his emotional, aesthetic and vitalistic cravings and activities. Composed with great skill and subtlety but without any real insight into the law of mans being, these creations seldom got behind the reverse side of our surface emotions, sensations and actions which they minutely analysed in their details but without any wide or profound light of knowledge; they were perhaps more immediately interesting but ordinarily inferior as art to the old literature which at least seized firmly and with a large and powerful mastery on its province. Often they described the malady of Life rather than its health and power, or the riot and revolt of its cravings, vehement and therefore impotent and unsatisfied, rather than its dynamis of self-expression and self-possession. But to this movement which reached its highest creative power in Russia, there succeeded a turn towards a more truly psychological art, music and literature, mental, intuitional, psychic rather than vitalistic, departing in fact from a superficial vitalism as much as its predecessors departed from the objective mind of the past. This new movement aimed like the new philo sophic Intuitionalism at a real rending of the veil, the seizure by the human mind of that which does not overtly express itself, the touch and penetration into the hidden soul of things. Much of it was still infirm, unsubstantial in its grasp on what it pursued, rudimentary in its forms, but it initiated a decisive departure of the human mind from its old moorings and pointed the direction in which it is being piloted on a momentous voyage of discovery, the discovery of a new world within which must eventually bring about the creation of a new world without in life and society. Art and literature seem definitely to have taken a turn towards a subjective search into what may be called the hidden inside of things and away from the rational and objective canon or motive.
--
Behind it all the hope of the race lies in those infant and as yet subordinate tendencies which carry in them the seed of a new subjective and psychic dealing of man with his own being, with his fellow-men and with the ordering of his individual and social life. The characteristic note of these tendencies may be seen in the new ideas about the education and upbringing of the child that became strongly current in the pre-war era. Formerly, education was merely a mechanical forcing of the childs nature into arbitrary grooves of training and knowledge in which his individual subjectivity was the last thing considered, and his family upbringing was a constant repression and compulsory shaping of his habits, his thoughts, his character into the mould fixed for them by the conventional ideas or individual interests and ideals of the teachers and parents. The discovery that education must be a bringing out of the childs own intellectual and moral capacities to their highest possible value and must be based on the psychology of the child-nature was a step forward towards a more healthy because a more subjective system; but it still fell short because it still regarded him as an object to be handled and moulded by the teacher, to be educated. But at least there was a glimmering of the realisation that each human being is a self-developing soul and that the business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material. It is not yet realised what this soul is or that the true secret, whether with child or man, is to help him to find his deeper self, the real psychic entity within. That, if we ever give it a chance to come forward, and still more if we call it into the foreground as the leader of the march set in our front, will itself take up most of the business of education out of our hands and develop the capacity of the psychological being towards a realisation of its potentialities of which our present mechanical view of life and man and external routine methods of dealing with them prevent us from having any experience or forming any conception. These new educational methods are on the straight way to this truer dealing. The closer touch attempted with the psychical entity behind the vital and physical mentality and an increasing reliance on its possibilities must lead to the ultimate discovery that man is inwardly a soul and a conscious power of the Divine and that the evocation of this real man within is the right object of education and indeed of all human life if it would find and live according to the hidden Truth and deepest law of its own being. That was the knowledge which the ancients sought to express through religious and social symbolism, and subjectivism is a road of return to the lost knowledge. First deepening mans inner experience, restoring perhaps on an unprecedented scale insight and self-knowledge to the race, it must end by revolutionising his social and collective self-expression.
Meanwhile, the nascent subjectivism preparative of the new age has shown itself not so much in the relations of individuals or in the dominant ideas and tendencies of social development, which are still largely rationalistic and materialistic and only vaguely touched by the deeper subjective tendency, but in the new collective self-consciousness of man in that organic mass of his life which he has most firmly developed in the past, the nation. It is here that it has already begun to produce powerful results whether as a vitalistic or as a psychical subjectivism, and it is here that we shall see most clearly what is its actual drift, its deficiencies, its dangers as well as the true purpose and conditions of a subjective age of humanity and the goal towards which the social cycle, entering this phase, is intended to arrive in its wide revolution.
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
not mistaken, it tends to find its counterpart in a current moving in
the opposite sense, positive and constructive, which is revealed by
1.03 - The Human Disciple, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The character of this inner crisis is therefore not the questioning of the thinker; it is not a recoil from the appearances of life and a turning of the eye inward in search of the truth of things, the real meaning of existence and a solution or an escape from the dark riddle of the world. It is the sensational, emotional and moral revolt of the man hitherto satisfied with action and its current standards who finds himself cast by them into a hideous chaos where they are in violent conflict with each other and with themselves and there is no moral standing-ground left, nothing to lay hold of and walk by, no dharma.1 That for the soul of action in the mental being is the worst possible crisis, failure and overthrow. The revolt itself is the most elemental and simple possible; sensationally, the elemental feeling of horror, pity and disgust; vitally, the loss of attraction and faith in the recognised and familiar objects of action and aims of life; emotionally, the recoil of the ordinary feelings of social man, affection, reverence, desire of a common happiness and satisfaction, from a stern duty outraging them all; morally, the elementary sense of sin and
Dharma means literally that which one lays hold of and which holds things together, the law, the norm, the rule of nature, action and life.
1.03 - The Phenomenon of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
The Vision of the Past has enabled us to appreciate the general current
of Evolution and to set the 'human zoological group' at the head of that
1.03 - The Psychic Prana, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
According to the Yogis, there are two nerve currents in the spinal column, called Pingal and Id, and a hollow canal called Sushumn running through the spinal cord. At the lower end of the hollow canal is what the Yogis call the "Lotus of the Kundalini". They describe it as triangular in form in which, in the symbolical language of the Yogis, there is a power called the Kundalini, coiled up. When that Kundalini awakes, it tries to force a passage through this hollow canal, and as it rises step by step, as it were, layer after layer of the mind becomes open and all the different visions and wonderful powers come to the Yogi. When it reaches the brain, the Yogi is perfectly detached from the body and mind; the soul finds itself free. We know that the spinal cord is composed in a peculiar manner. If we take the figure eight horizontally () there are two parts which are connected in the middle. Suppose you add eight after eight, piled one on top of the other, that will represent the spinal cord. The left is the Ida, the right Pingala, and that hollow canal which runs through the centre of the spinal cord is the Sushumna. Where the spinal cord ends in some of the lumbar vertebrae, a fine fibre issues downwards, and the canal runs up even within that fibre, only much finer. The canal is closed at the lower end, which is situated near what is called the sacral plexus, which, according to modern physiology, is triangular in form. The different plexuses that have their centres in the spinal canal can very well stand for the different "lotuses" of the Yogi.
The Yogi conceives of several centres, beginning with the Muldhra, the basic, and ending with the Sahasrra, the thousand-petalled Lotus in the brain. So, if we take these different plexuses as representing these lotuses, the idea of the Yogi can be understood very easily in the language of modern physiology. We know there are two sorts of actions in these nerve currents, one afferent, the other efferent; one sensory and the other motor; one centripetal, and the other centrifugal. One carries the sensations to the brain, and the other from the brain to the outer body. These vibrations are all connected with the brain in the long run. Several other facts we have to remember, in order to clear the way for the explanation which is to come. This spinal cord, at the brain, ends in a sort of bulb, in the medulla, which is not attached to the brain, but floats in a fluid in the brain, so that if there be a blow on the head the force of that blow will be dissipated in the fluid, and will not hurt the bulb. This is an important fact to remember. Secondly, we have also to know that, of all the centres, we have particularly to remember three, the Muladhara (the basic), the Sahasrara (the thousand-petalled lotus of the brain) and the Manipura (the lotus of the navel).
Next we shall take one fact from physics. We all hear of electricity and various other forces connected with it. What electricity is no one knows, but so far as it is known, it is a sort of motion. There are various other motions in the universe; what is the difference between them and electricity? Suppose this table moves that the molecules which compose this table are moving in different directions; if they are all made to move in the same direction, it will be through electricity. Electric motion makes the molecules of a body move in the same direction. If all the air molecules in a room are made to move in the same direction, it will make a gigantic battery of electricity of the room. Another point from physiology we must remember, that the centre which regulates the respiratory system, the breathing system, has a sort of controlling action over the system of nerve currents.
Now we shall see why breathing is practised. In the first place, from rhythmical breathing comes a tendency of all the molecules in the body to move in the same direction. When mind changes into will, the nerve currents change into a motion similar to electricity, because the nerves have been proved to show polarity under the action of electric currents. This shows that when the will is transformed into the nerve currents, it is changed into something like electricity. When all the motions of the body have become perfectly rhythmical, the body has, as it were, become a gigantic battery of will. This tremendous will is exactly what the Yogi wants. This is, therefore, a physiological explanation of the breathing exercise. It tends to bring a rhythmic action in the body, and helps us, through the respiratory centre, to control the other centres. The aim of Prnyma here is to rouse the coiled-up power in the Muladhara, called the Kundalini.
Everything that we see, or imagine, or dream, we have to perceive in space. This is the ordinary space, called the Mahksha, or elemental space. When a Yogi reads the thoughts of other men, or perceives supersensuous objects he sees them in another sort of space called the Chittksha, the mental space. When perception has become objectless, and the soul shines in its own nature, it is called the Chidksha, or knowledge space. When the Kundalini is aroused, and enters the canal of the Sushumna, all the perceptions are in the mental space. When it has reached that end of the canal which opens out into the brain, the objectless perception is in the knowledge space. Taking the analogy of electricity, we find that man can send a current only along a wire, (The reader should remember that this was spoken before the discovery of wireless telegraphy. Ed.) but nature requires no wires to send her tremendous currents. This proves that the wire is not really necessary, but that only our inability to dispense with it compels us to use it.
Similarly, all the sensations and motions of the body are being sent into the brain, and sent out of it, through these wires of nerve fibres. The columns of sensory and motor fibres in the spinal cord are the Ida and Pingala of the Yogis. They are the main channels through which the afferent and efferent currents travel. But why should not the mind send news without any wire, or react without any wire? We see this is done in nature. The Yogi says, if you can do that, you have got rid of the bondage of matter. How to do it? If you can make the current pass through the Sushumna, the canal in the middle of the spinal column, you have solved the problem. The mind has made this network of the nervous system, and has to break it, so that no wires will be required to work through. Then alone will all knowledge come to us no more bondage of body; that is why it is so important that we should get control of that Sushumna. If we can send the mental current through the hollow canal without any nerve fibres to act as wires, the Yogi says, the problem is solved, and he also says it can be done.
This Sushumna is in ordinary persons closed up at the lower extremity; no action comes through it. The Yogi proposes a practice by which it can be opened, and the nerve currents made to travel through. When a sensation is carried to a centre, the centre reacts. This reaction, in the case of automatic centres, is followed by motion; in the case of conscious centres it is followed first by perception, and secondly by motion. All perception is the reaction to action from outside. How, then, do perceptions in dreams arise? There is then no action from outside. The sensory motions, therefore, are coiled up somewhere. For instance, I see a city; the perception of that city is from the reaction to the sensations brought from outside objects comprising that city. That is to say, a certain motion in the brain molecules has been set up by the motion in the incarrying nerves, which again are set in motion by external objects in the city. Now, even after a long time I can remember the city. This memory is exactly the same phenomenon, only it is in a milder form. But whence is the action that sets up even the milder form of similar vibrations in the brain? Not certainly from the primary sensations. Therefore it must be that the sensations are coiled up somewhere, and they, by their acting, bring out the mild reaction which we call dream perception.
Now the centre where all these residual sensations are, as it were, stored up, is called the Muladhara, the root receptacle, and the coiled-up energy of action is Kundalini, "the coiled up". It is very probable that the residual motor energy is also stored up in the same centre, as, after deep study or meditation on external objects, the part of the body where the Muladhara centre is situated (probably the sacral plexus) gets heated. Now, if this coiled-up energy be roused and made active, and then consciously made to travel up the Sushumna canal, as it acts upon centre after centre, a tremendous reaction will set in. When a minute portion of energy travels along a nerve fibre and causes reaction from centres, the perception is either dream or imagination. But when by the power of long internal meditation the vast mass of energy stored up travels along the Sushumna, and strikes the centres, the reaction is tremendous, immensely superior to the reaction of dream or imagination, immensely more intense than the reaction of sense-perception. It is super-sensuous perception. And when it reaches the metropolis of all sensations, the brain, the whole brain, as it were, reacts, and the result is the full blaze of illumination, the perception of the Self. As this Kundalini force travels from centre to centre, layer after layer of the mind, as it were, opens up, and this universe is perceived by the Yogi in its fine, or causal form. Then alone the causes of this universe, both as sensation and reaction, are known as they are, and hence comes all knowledge. The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.
Thus the rousing of the Kundalini is the one and only way to attaining Divine Wisdom, superconscious perception, realisation of the spirit. The rousing may come in various ways, through love for God, through the mercy of perfected sages, or through the power of the analytic will of the philosopher. Wherever there was any manifestation of what is ordinarily called supernatural power or wisdom, there a little current of Kundalini must have found its way into the Sushumna. Only, in the vast majority of such cases, people had ignorantly stumbled on some practice which set free a minute portion of the coiled-up Kundalini. All worship, consciously or unconsciously, leads to this end. The man who thinks that he is receiving response to his prayers does not know that the fulfilment comes from his own nature, that he has succeeded by the mental attitude of prayer in waking up a bit of this infinite power which is coiled up within himself. What, thus, men ignorantly worship under various names, through fear and tribulation, the Yogi declares to the world to be the real power coiled up in every being, the mother of eternal happiness, if we but know how to approach her. And Rja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Then an immense basin is formed by the waters just as is formed when one makes a very deep digging. This basin is filled by the waters which emanate from the source ; it is the sea itself and can be regarded as a third thing. This very large hollow of waters is split up into seven canals, which are like so many long tubes by means of which the waters are conveyed. The source, the current, the sea, and the seven canals form together the number Ten. . .
I he passage then goes on to explain that the source or primary Cause of all things is Keser, the first Sephirah ; the current issuing therefrom, the primeval mercurial intel- ligence, is Chokmah, the second ; and the sea itself is the
Great Mother, Binah, the third ; the seven canals referred to being the seven lower Sephiros, or Inferiors as they are called. The Qabalists postulated ten Sephiros because to
1.03 - The Uncreated, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
When the mind, starting from this unity, takes its second step, it arrives at a point where the possibility of differentiation manifests itself by a sort of duplication of the Unique in its two complementary elements. From the realist standpoint this duplication takes the form of an opposition between Force and the resistance to Force,inverse movements, contrary currents passing between two opposite signs of one and the same essence. From the idealist standpoint it can be regarded as a sort of objectivisation of the subjective by which universal being takes cognizance of itself.
By introducing the third term in Number the mind is able to conceive as possible an indefinite differentiation, the limitation of the two elements and their reciprocal objectivity,the conditions of individual form and individual consciousness.
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
"In the past when teachers engaged their students, there was no room for any hesitation-they dealt with them as if they had a naked sword blade raised over their heads. They were like the giant golden-winged Garuda, monarch of the feathered kingdom, cleaving through the whale-backed seas and deftly seizing live dragons beneath the waves. Zen monks are like red-finned carp when the peach trees are in blossom, butting their way upstream into the tremendous current, braving the perilous
forked lightning of the Dragon Gate.g They enter realization at the utterance of a single word. They attain cessation at the sound of a single shout. If those who call themselves teachers all behave like dead otters2 and those who call themselves students all behave like dumb sheep,3 the halls of Zen throughout the land, training grounds where Buddhas are singled out, will be rendered utterly useless
1.03 - YIBHOOTI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
can only work through the nerve currents in this body, but
when the Yogi has loosened himself from these nerve
--
By conquering the current called Udana the Yogi
does not sink in water, or in swamps, and he can walk
--
Udana is the name of the nerve current that governs the lungs,
and all the upper parts of the body, and when he is master of it
--
By the conquest of the current Samana he is
surrounded by blaze.
1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
who control it to deflect, for our benefit, the current of events
from the channel in which they would otherwise flow. Now this
--
saying everywhere current in India: "The whole universe is subject
to the gods; the gods are subject to the spells (_mantras_); the
1.04 - Religion and Occultism, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is symbolised by the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me?
Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane.
1.04 - The Aims of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
two currents or schools of thought have gained a special hearing, they by
no means exhaust the number of divergent opinions that actually exist.
--
coincides with a fairly widespread trend or spiritual current which,
independently of Freuds theory, has made itself felt in other places, in
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
situations, or behavioral sequences) are currently accepted as valid, because they serve their purposes as
tools. If we can manipulate our models in imagination, apply the solutions so generated to the real world,
--
means that our current representations of a given phenomena are predicated on the (implicit) presumption
that sufficient exploration of that phenomena has taken place. Sufficient exploration is a judgment
--
(as the Christian church constitutes the symbolic body of Christ). This hierarchy has been and currently is
shaped by endless loops of affective feedback, as the means and goals chosen by each individual and the
--
memory, and then coded explicitly insofar as current cognitive development makes that possible. The
explicit moral code is therefore predicated upon presumptions which are valid purely from the episodic
--
structures appears relatively dangerous to anyone currently within that wall. All outside territory
evokes fear. This equivalence does not mean, however, that all threats are equivalently potent just that
--
twentieth century demonstrate that we have not yet settled back on firm ground. Our current miraculous
196
--
is locked away, metaphorically, by the totalitarian opinion of the current culture. Such a state of affairs
might be represented, for example, by the sleeping princess, in the kingdom brought to a standstill (or by
--
way match each other, the result would be monster rather than man.400 Einstein, restricted by current
usage to less florid language, wrote only, It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one,
--
The group, in its external social and intrapsychic incarnations, is the current expression of a form of
acting and thinking that has been given particular content over the course of thousands of years. These
--
their extreme current potency. Sufficiently novel verbally-transmitted information may disturb semantic,
episodic and procedural paradigm simultaneously, although the totality of such effects may not become
--
authoritarian) presumption that all currently accepted presumptions are true. Medieval horror of heresy
and the drastic responses to such ideation defined as necessary by the Catholic guardians of proper thought
--
there to serve as guide, to provide rationale for current experience, to reunite the suffering individual with
217
--
challenge to the perceived validity of the axioms currently underlying the maintenance of normal sanity
the sociohistorically determined stability of mutually-determined behavioral adaptation and experiential
--
his current (moral) world-view and pattern of action. This dissolution of personality, equivalent in episodic
representation to death, temporarily re-novelizes experience; furthermore, provides the precondition for
--
embodiment of action patterns historically constructed and currently deemed morally acceptable. The
justifiable terror consideration of the consequences of such decomposition induces constitutes a major
--
the personality structures that were currently undergoing transformation.
Adaptive ability remains necessarily limited to the domain encompassed by a single set of principles a
--
redemptive personal experience intact, but reintegrated in the corpus of current sociocultural myth and
history.
--
other classes of myths, including those describing the current or pre-existent stable state, those that portray
the emergence of something unexpected into that state, those that represent the dissolution of paradise, in
--
between desire and current status (between ideal future and present) does not disappear even in sleep. The
unknown brings wakefulness to the sleeping. Threat more generally, the appearance of the unknown
--
apprehension of the mystery which transcends the current realm of adaptation (that is, the permanent
mystery of mortal limitation) produces permanent consciousness at least in principle. It is for this reason
1.04 - The Control of Psychic Prana, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
We have now to deal with the exercises in Prnyma. We have seen that the first step, according to the Yogis, is to control the motion of the lungs. What we want to do is to feel the finer motions that are going on in the body. Our minds have become externalised, and have lost sight of the fine motions inside. If we can begin to feel them, we can begin to control them. These nerve currents go on all over the body, bringing life and vitality to every muscle, but we do not feel them. The Yogi says we can learn to do so. How? By taking up and controlling the motion of the lungs; when we have done that for a sufficient length of time, we shall be able to control the finer motions.
We now come to the exercises in Pranayama. Sit upright; the body must be kept straight. The spinal cord, although not attached to the vertebral column, is yet inside of it. If you sit crookedly you disturb this spinal cord, so let it be free. Any time that you sit crookedly and try to meditate you do yourself an injury. The three parts of the body, the chest, the neck, and the head, must be always held straight in one line. You will find that by a little practice this will come to you as easy as breathing. The second thing is to get control of the nerves. We have said that the nerve centre that controls the respiratory organs has a sort of controlling effect on the other nerves, and rhythmical breathing is, therefore, necessary. The breathing that we generally use should not be called breathing at all. It is very irregular. Then there are some natural differences of breathing between men and women.
--
The first effect of this practice is perceived in the change of expression of one's face; harsh lines disappear; with calm thought calmness comes over the face. Next comes beautiful voice. I never saw a Yogi with a croaking voice. These signs come after a few months' practice. After practicing the above mentioned breathing for a few days, you should take up a higher one. Slowly fill the lungs with breath through the Id, the left nostril, and at the same time concentrate the mind on the nerve current. You are, as it were, sending the nerve current down the spinal column, and striking violently on the last plexus, the basic lotus which is triangular in form, the seat of the Kundalini. Then hold the current there for some time. Imagine that you are slowly drawing that nerve current with the breath through the other side, the Pingal, then slowly throw it out through the right nostril. This you will find a little difficult to practice. The easiest way is to stop the right nostril with the thumb, and then slowly draw in the breath through the left; then close both nostrils with thumb and forefinger, and imagine that you are sending that current down, and striking the base of the Sushumn; then take the thumb off, and let the breath out through the right nostril. Next inhale slowly through that nostril, keeping the other closed by the forefinger, then close both, as before. The way the Hindus practice this would be very difficult for this country, because they do it from their childhood, and their lungs are prepared for it. Here it is well to begin with four seconds, and slowly increase. Draw in four seconds, hold in sixteen seconds, then throw out in eight seconds. This makes one Pranayama. At the same time think of the basic lotus, triangular in form; concentrate the mind on that centre. The imagination can help you a great deal. The next breathing is slowly drawing the breath in, and then immediately throwing it out slowly, and then stopping the breath out, using the same numbers. The only difference is that in the first case the breath was held in, and in the second, held out. This last is the easier one. The breathing in which you hold the breath in the lungs must not be practiced too much. Do it only four times in the morning, and four times in the evening. Then you can slowly increase the time and number. You will find that you have the power to do so, and that you take pleasure in it. So very carefully and cautiously increase as you feel that you have the power, to six instead of four. It may injure you if you practice it irregularly.
Of the three processes for the purification of the nerves, described above, the first and the last are neither difficult nor dangerous. The more you practice the first one the calmer you will be. Just think of "Om," and you can practice even while you are sitting at your work. You will be all the better for it. Some day, if you practice hard, the Kundalini will be aroused. For those who practice once or twice a day, just a little calmness of the body and mind will come, and beautiful voice; only for those who can go on further with it will Kundalini be aroused, and the whole of nature will begin to change, and the book of knowledge will open. No more will you need to go to books for knowledge; your own mind will have become your book, containing infinite knowledge. I have already spoken of the Ida and Pingala currents, flowing through either side of the spinal column, and also of the Sushumna, the passage through the centre of the spinal cord. These three are present in every animal; whatever being has a spinal column has these three lines of action. But the Yogis claim that in an ordinary man the Sushumna is closed; its action is not evident while that of the other two is carrying power to different parts of the body.
The Yogi alone has the Sushumna open. When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the sense, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious we get beyond even the intellect, where reasoning cannot reach. To open that Sushumna is the prime object of the Yogi. According to him, along this Sushumna are ranged these centres, or, in more figurative language, these lotuses, as they are called. The lowest one is at the lower end of the spinal cord, and is called Muldhra, the next higher is called Svdhishthna, the third Manipura, the fourth Anhata, the fifth Vishuddha, the sixth jn and the last, which is in the brain, is the Sahasrra, or "the thousand-petalled". Of these we have to take cognition just now of two centres only, the lowest, the Muladhara, and the highest, the Sahasrara. All energy has to be taken up from its seat in the Muladhara and brought to the Sahasrara. The Yogis claim that of all the energies that are in the human body the highest is what they call "Ojas". Now this Ojas is stored up in the brain, and the more Ojas is in a man's head, the more powerful he is, the more intellectual, the more spiritually strong. One man may speak beautiful language and beautiful thoughts, but they, do not impress people; another man speaks neither beautiful language nor beautiful thoughts, yet his words charm. Every movement of his is powerful. That is the power of Ojas.
Now in every man there is more or less of this Ojas stored up. All the forces that are working in the body in their highest become Ojas. You must remember that it is only a question of transformation. The same force which is working outside as electricity or magnetism will become changed into inner force; the same forces that are working as muscular energy will be changed into Ojas. The Yogis say that that part of the human energy which is expressed as sex energy, in sexual thought, when checked and controlled, easily becomes changed into Ojas, and as the Muladhara guides these, the Yogi pays particular attention to that centre. He tries to take up all his sexual energy and convert it into Ojas. It is only the chaste man or woman who can make the Ojas rise and store it in the brain; that is why chastity has always been considered the highest virtue. A man feels that if he is unchaste, spirituality goes away, he loses mental vigour and moral stamina. That is why in all the religious orders in the world which have produced spiritual giants you will always find absolute chastity insisted upon. That is why the monks came into existence, giving up marriage. There must be perfect chastity in thought, word, and deed; without it the practice of Raja-Yoga is dangerous, and may lead to insanity. If people practice Raja-Yoga and at the same time lead an impure life, how can they expect to become Yogis?
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It was this aspect of impure mahas, vijnanam working not in its own home, swe dame but in the house of a stranger, as a servant of an inferior faculty, reason as we call it, which led the Rishi Mahachamasya to include mahas among the vyahritis. But vijnana itself is an integral part of the supreme movement, it is divine thought in divine being,therefore not a vyahriti. The Veda uses to express this pure Truth &ideal knowledge another word, equivalent in meaning to mahat,the word brihat and couples with it two other significant expressions, satyam & ritam. This trinity of satyam ritam brihatSacchidananda objectivisedis the Mahan Atma. Satyam is Truth, the principle of infinite & divine Being, Sat objectivised to Knowledge as the Truth of things self-manifested; Ritam is Law, the motion of things thought out, the principle of divine self-aware energy, Chit-shakti objectivised to knowledge as the Truth of things selfarranged; Brihat is full content & fullness, satisfaction, Nature, the principle of divine Bliss objectivised to knowledge as the Truth of things contented with its own manifestation in law of being & law of action. For, as the Vedanta tells us, there is no lasting satisfaction in the little, in the unillumined or half-illumined things of mind & sense, satisfaction there is only in the large, the self-true & self-existent. Nalpe sukham asti bhumaiva sukham. Bhuma, brihat, mahat, that is God. It is Ananda therefore that insists on largeness & constitutes the mahat or brihat. Ananda is the soul of Nature, its essentiality, creative power & peace. The harmony of creative power & peace, pravritti & nivritti, jana & shama, is the divine state which we feelas Wordsworth felt itwhen we go back to the brihat, the wide & infinite which, containing & contented with its works, says of it Sukritam, What I have made, is good. Whoever enters this kingdom of Mahat, this Maho Arnas or great sea of ideal knowledge, comes into possession of his true being, true knowledge, true bliss. He attains the ideal powers of drishti, sruti, smritisees truth face to face, hears her unerring voice or knows her by immediate recognising memoryjust as we say of a friend This is he and need no reasoning of observation, comparison, induction or deduction to tell us who he is or to explain our knowledge to ourselvesthough we may, already knowing the truth, use a self-evident reasoning masterfully in order to convince others. The characteristic of ideal knowledge is first that it is direct in its approach, secondly, that it is self-evident in its revelation, swayamprakasha, thirdly, that it is unerring fact of being, sat, satyam in its substance. Moreover, it is always perfectly satisfied & divinely pleasurable; it is atmarati & atmastha, confines itself to itself & does not reach out beyond itself to grasp at error or grope within itself to stumble over ignorance. It is, too, perfectly effective whether for knowledge, speech or action, satyakarma, satyapratijna, satyavadi. The man who rising beyond the state of the manu, manishi or thinker which men are now, becomes the kavi or direct seer, containing what he sees,he who draws the manomaya purusha up into the vijnanamaya,is in all things true. Truth is his characteristic, his law of being, the stamp that God has put upon him. But even for the manishi ideal Truth has its bounties. For from thence come the intuitions of the poet, the thinker, the artist, scientist, man of action, merchant, craftsman, labourer each in his sphere, the seed of the great thoughts, discoveries, faiths that help the world and save our human works & destinies from decay & dissolution. But in utilising these messages from our higher selves for the world, in giving them a form or a practical tendency, we use our intellects, feelings or imaginations and alter to their moulds or colour with their pigments the Truth. That alloy seems to be needed to make this gold from the mines above run current among men. This then is Maho Arnas.The psychological conceptions of our remote forefa thers concerning it have so long been alien to our thought & experience that they may be a little difficult to follow & more difficult to accept mentally. But we must understand & grasp them in their fullness if we have any desire to know the meaning of the Veda. For they are the very centre & keystone of Vedic psychology. Maho Arnas, the Great Ocean, is the stream of our being which at once divides & connects the human in us from the divine, & to cross over from the human to the divine, from this small & divided finite to that one, great & infinite, from this death to that immortality, leaving Diti for Aditi, alpam for bhuma, martyam for amritam is the great preoccupation & final aim of Veda & Vedanta.
We can now understand the intention of the Rishi in his last verse and the greatness of the climax to which he has been leading us. Saraswati is able to give impulsion to Truth and awaken to right thinking because she has access to the Maho Arnas, the great ocean. On that level of consciousness, we are usually it must be remembered asleep, sushupta. The chetana or waking consciousness has no access; it lies behind our active consciousness, is, as we might say, superconscious, for us, asleep. Saraswati brings it forward into active consciousness by means of the ketu or perceptive intelligence, that essential movement of mind which accepts & realises whatever is presented to it. To focus this ketu, this essential perception on the higher truth by drawing it away from the haphazard disorder of sensory data is the great aim of Yogic meditation. Saraswati by fixing essential perception on the satyam ritam brihat above makes ideal knowledge active and is able to inform it with all those plentiful movements of mind which she, dhiyavasu, vajebhir vajinivati, has prepared for the service of the Master of the sacrifice. She is able to govern all the movements of understanding without exception in their thousand diverse movements & give them the single impression of truth and right thinkingvisva dhiyo vi rajati. A governed & ordered activity of soul and mind, led by the Truth-illuminated intellect, is the aim of the sacrifice which Madhuchchhanda son of Viswamitra is offering to the Gods.
1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
- nagas: spirits of water and earth currents
- pretas: (hungry ghosts) classes of beings who are
1.04 - The Sacrifice the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If a departure from the world and its activities, a supreme release and quietude were the sole aim of the seeker, the three great fundamental realisations would be sufficient for the fulfilment of his spiritual life: concentrated in them alone he could suffer all other divine or mundane knowledge to fall away from him and himself unencumbered, depart into the eternal Silence. But he has to take account of the world and its activities, learn what divine truth there may be behind them and reconcile that apparent opposition between the Divine Truth and the manifest creation which is the starting-point of most spiritual experience. Here, on each line of approach that he can take, he is confronted with a constant Duality, a separation between two terms of existence that seem to be opposites and their opposition to be the very root of the riddle of the universe. Later, he may and does discover that these are the two poles of One Being, connected by two simultaneous currents of energy negative and positive in relation to each other, their interaction the very condition for the manifestation of what is within the Being, their reunion the appointed means for the reconciliation of lifes discords and for the discovery of the integral truth of which he is the seeker.
For on one side he is aware of this Self everywhere, this everlasting Spirit-SubstanceBrahman, the Eternal the same self-existence here in time behind each appearance he sees or senses and timeless beyond the universe. He has this strong overpowering experience of a Self that is neither our limited ego nor our mind, life or body, world-wide but not outwardly phenomenal, yet to some spirit-sense in him more concrete than any form or phenomenon, universal yet not dependent for its being on anything in the universe or on the whole totality of the universe; if all this were to disappear, its extinction would make no difference to this Eternal of his constant intimate experience. He is sure of an inexpressible Self-Existence which is the essence of himself and all things; he is intimately aware of an essential Consciousness of which thinking mind and life-sense and body-sense are only partial and diminished figures, a Consciousness with an illimitable Force in it of which all energies are the outcome, but which is yet not explained or accounted for by the sum or power or nature of all these energies together; he feels, he lives in an inalienable self-existent Bliss which is not this lesser transient joy or happiness or pleasure. A changeless imperishable infinity, a timeless eternity, a self-awareness which is not this receptive and reactive or tentacular mental consciousness, but is behind and above it and present too below it, even in what we call Inconscience, a oneness in which there is no possibility of any other existence, are the fourfold character of this settled experience. Yet this eternal Self-Existence is seen by him also as a conscious Time-Spirit bearing the stream of happenings, a self-extended spiritual Space containing all things and beings, a Spirit-Substance which is the very form and material of all that seems non-spiritual, temporary and finite. For all that is transitory, temporal, spatial, bounded, is yet felt by him to be in its substance and energy and power no other than the One, the Eternal, the Infinite.
--
But as the consciousness deepens, he becomes aware that this is only a first frontal appearance. For he finds that it is by the silent support, permission or sanction of this witness soul in him that this executive nature can work intimately or persistently upon his being; if the soul withdraws its sanction, the movements of Nature in their action upon and within him become a wholly mechanical repetition, vehement at first as if seeking still to enforce their hold, but afterwards less and less dynamic and real. More actively using this power of sanction or refusal, he perceives that he can, slowly and uncertainly at first, more decisively afterwards, change the movements of Nature. Eventually in this witness soul or behind it is revealed to him the presence of a Knower and master Will in Nature, and all her activities more and more appear as an expression of what is known and either actively willed or passively permitted by this Lord of her existence. Prakriti herself now seems to be mechanical only in the carefully regulated appearance of her workings, but in fact a conscious Force with a soul within her, a self-aware significance in her turns, a revelation of a secret Will and Knowledge in her steps and figures. This Duality, in aspect separate, is inseparable. Wherever there is Prakriti, there is Purusha; wherever there is Purusha, there is Prakriti. Even in his inactivity he holds in himself all her force and energies ready for projection; even in the drive of her action she carries with her all his observing and mandatory consciousness as the whole support and sense of her creative purpose. Once more the seeker discovers in his experience the two poles of existence of One Being and the two lines or currents of their energy negative and positive in relation to each other which effect by their simultaneity the manifestation of all that is within it. Here too he finds that the separative aspect is liberative; for it releases him from the bondage of identification with the inadequate workings of Nature in the Ignorance. The unitive aspect is dynamic and effective; for it enables him to arrive at mastery and perfection; while rejecting what is less divine or seemingly undivine in her, he can rebuild her forms and movements in himself according to a nobler pattern and the law and rhythm of a greater existence. At a certain spiritual and supramental level the Duality becomes still more perfectly Two-in-one, the Master Soul with the Conscious Force within it, and its potentiality disowns all barriers and breaks through every limit. Thus this once separate, now biune Duality of Purusha-Prakriti is revealed to him in all its truth as the second great instrumental and effective aspect of the Soul of all souls, the Master of existence, the Lord of the Sacrifice.
On yet another line of approach the seeker meets another corresponding but in aspect distinct Duality in which the biune character is more immediately apparent,the dynamic Duality of Ishwara-Shakti. On one side he is aware of an infinite and self-existent Godhead in being who contains all things in an ineffable potentiality of existence, a Self of all selves, a Soul of all souls, a spiritual Substance of all substances, an impersonal inexpressible Existence, but at the same time an illimitable Person who is here self-represented in numberless personality, a Master of Knowledge, a Master of Forces, a Lord of love and bliss and beauty, a single Origin of the worlds, a self-manifester and self-creator, a Cosmic Spirit, a universal Mind, a universal Life, the conscious and living Reality supporting the appearance which we sense as unconscious inanimate Matter. On the other side he becomes aware of the same Godhead in effectuating consciousness and power put forth as a self-aware Force that contains and carries all within her and is charged to manifest it in universal Time and Space. It is evident to him that here there is one supreme and infinite Being represented to us in two different sides of itself, obverse and reverse in relation to each other. All is either prepared or pre-existent in the Godhead in Being and issues from it and is upheld by its Will and Presence; all is brought out, carried in movement by the Godhead in power; all becomes and acts and develops by her and in her its individual or its cosmic purpose. It is again a Duality necessary for the manifestation, creating and enabling that double current of energy which seems always necessary for the world-workings, two poles of the same Being, but here closer to each other and always very evidently carrying each the powers of the other in its essence and its dynamic nature. At the same time by the fact that the two great elements of the divine Mystery, the Personal and the Impersonal, are here fused together, the seeker of the integral Truth feels in the duality of Ishwara-Shakti his closeness to a more intimate and ultimate secret of the divine Transcendence and the Manifestation than that offered to him by any other experience.
For the Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character. There is not in her, although she devises a cosmic mechanism, the character of an inconscient mechanical Executrix which we find in the first physiognomy of Prakriti, the Nature-Force; neither is there that sense of an Unreality, creatrix of illusions or semi-illusions, which is attached to our first view of Maya. It is at once clear to the experiencing soul that here is a conscious Power of one substance and nature with the Supreme from whom she came. If she seems to have plunged us into the Ignorance and Inconscience in pursuance of a plan we cannot yet interpret, if her forces present themselves as all these ambiguous forces of the universe, yet it becomes visible before long that she is working for the development of the Divine Consciousness in us and that she stands above drawing us to her own higher entity, revealing to us more and more the very essence of the Divine Knowledge, Will and Ananda. Even in the movements of the Ignorance the soul of the seeker becomes aware of her conscious guidance supporting his steps and leading them slowly or swiftly, straight or by many detours out of the darkness into the light of a greater consciousness, out of mortality into immortality, out of evil and suffering towards a highest good and felicity of which as yet his human mind can form only a faint image. Thus her power is at once liberative and dynamic, creative, effective,creative not only of things as they are, but of things that are to be; for, eliminating the twisted and tangled movements of his lower consciousness made of the stuff of the Ignorance, it rebuilds and new-makes his soul and nature into the substance and forces of a higher divine Nature.
In this Duality too there is possible a separative experience. At one pole of it the seeker may be conscious only of the Master of Existence putting forth on him His energies of knowledge, power and bliss to liberate and divinise; the Shakti may appear to him only an impersonal Force expressive of these things or an attribute of the Ishwara. At the other pole he may encounter the World-Mother, creatrix of the universe, putting forth the Gods and the worlds and all things and existences out of her spirit-substance. Or even if he sees both aspects, it may be with an unequal separating vision, subordinating one to the other, regarding the Shakti only as a means for approaching the Ishwara. There results a one-sided tendency or a lack of balance, a power of effectuation not perfectly supported or a light of revelation not perfectly dynamic. It is when a complete union of the two sides of the Duality is effected and rules his consciousness that he begins to open to a fuller power that will draw him altogether out of the confused clash of Ideas and Forces here into a higher Truth and enable the descent of that Truth to illumine and deliver and act sovereignly upon this world of Ignorance. He has begun to lay his hand on the integral secret which in its fullness can be grasped only when he overpasses the double term that reigns here of Knowledge inextricably intertwined with an original Ignorance and crosses the border where spiritual mind disappears into supramental Gnosis. It is through this third and most dynamic dual aspect of the One that the seeker begins with the most integral completeness to enter into the deepest secret of the being of the Lord of the Sacrifice.
--
This extreme opposition of view from the two poles of one Existence creates no fundamental difficulty for the seeker of the integral Yoga; for his whole experience has shown him the necessity of these double terms and their currents of Energy, negative and positive in relation to each other, for the manifestation of what is within the one Existence. For himself Personality and Impersonality have been the two wings of his spiritual ascension and he has the prevision that he will reach a height where their helpful interaction will pass into a fusion of their powers and disclose the integral Reality and release into action the original force of the Divine. Not only in the fundamental Aspects but in all the working of his sadhana he has felt their double truth and mutually complementary working. An impersonal Presence has dominated from above or penetrated and occupied his nature; a Light descending has suffused his mind, life-power, the very cells of his body, illumined them with knowledge, revealed him to himself down to his most disguised and unsuspected movements, exposing, purifying, destroying or brilliantly changing all that belonged to the Ignorance. A Force has poured into him in currents or like a sea, worked in his being and all its members, dissolved, new-made, reshaped, transfigured everywhere. A Bliss has invaded him and shown that it can make suffering and sorrow impossible and turn pain itself into divine pleasure. A Love without limits has joined him to all creatures or revealed to him a world of inseparable intimacy and unspeakable sweetness and beauty and begun to impose its law of perfection and its ecstasy even amidst the disharmony of terrestrial life. A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good and its clue of subtle harmony and its sublimation of action and feeling and knowledge. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these things, a Bringer of Light, a Guide and All-Knower, a Master of Force, a Giver of Bliss, Friend, Helper, Father, Mother, Playmate in the world-game, an absolute Master of his being, his souls Beloved and Lover. All relations known to human personality are there in the souls contact with the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels and compel him towards a divine nature.
It is an integral knowledge that is being sought, an integral force, a total amplitude of union with the All and Infinite behind existence. For the seeker of the integral Yoga no single experience, no one Divine Aspect,however overwhelming to the human mind, sufficient for its capacity, easily accepted as the sole or the ultimate reality,can figure as the exclusive truth of the Eternal. For him the experience of the Divine Oneness carried to its extreme is more deeply embraced and amply fathomed by following out to the full the experience of the Divine Multiplicity. All that is true behind polytheism as well as behind monotheism falls within the scope of his seeking; but he passes beyond their superficial sense to human mind to grasp their mystic truth in the Divine. He sees what is aimed at by the jarring sects and philosophies and accepts each facet of the Reality in its own place, but rejects their narrownesses and errors and proceeds farther till he discovers the One Truth that binds them together. The reproach of anthropomorphism and anthropolatry cannot deter him,for he sees them to be prejudices of the ignorant and arrogant reasoning intelligence, the abstracting mind turning on itself in its own cramped circle. If human relations as practised now by man are full of smallness and perversity and ignorance, yet are they disfigured shadows of something in the Divine and by turning them to the Divine he finds that of which they are a shadow and brings it down for manifestation in life. It is through the human exceeding itself and opening itself to a supreme plenitude that the Divine must manifest itself here, since that comes inevitably in the course and process of the spiritual evolution, and therefore he will not despise or blind himself to the Godhead because it is lodged in a human body, mnu tanum ritam. Beyond the limited human conception of God, he will pass to the one divine Eternal, but also he will meet him in the faces of the Gods, his cosmic personalities supporting the World-Play, detect him behind the mask of the Vibhutis, embodied World-Forces or human Leaders, reverence and obey him in the Guru, worship him in the Avatar. This will be to him his exceeding good fortune if he can meet one who has realised or is becoming That which he seeks for and can by opening to it in this vessel of its manifestation himself realise it. For that is the most palpable sign of the growing fulfilment, the promise of the great mystery of the progressive Descent into Matter which is the secret sense of the material creation and the justification of terrestrial existence.
1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
distract ourselves or "think of something else." Gradually, this pressure takes on a more definite form, and we actually begin to feel a descending current, a current of force that does not resemble an unpleasant electric current but rather a flowing mass. We then begin to realize that the "pressure" or false headache was caused simply by our own resistance to the descent of this Force, and that the obvious thing to be done is not to obstruct the passage by blocking the current in the head, but to allow it to flow through all the levels of our being, from head to toe. This current is at first rather spasmodic, irregular; a slight,
conscious effort is required of us to reconnect with it when it vanishes;
--
also filling us with strength. The physical feeling is very similar to that of a brisk walk in the wind. We do not realize its true effect (it settles in very gradually, in small doses) until, for one reason or another distraction, error, or excess we cut ourselves off from the current. Then we feel empty, shrunken, as if lacking oxygen, with a very unpleasant impression of a physical shriveling, not unlike an old apple whose sunshine and juice have been squeezed out. At this point,
we really wonder how we were ever able to live without that current before. This is a first transmutation of our energies. Instead of drawing from the common source, below and around us, in universal life, we draw from above. And that energy is far clearer, far more sustained,
uninterrupted, and especially far more dynamic. In daily life, in the midst of our work and our myriad other occupations, the current of force is at first rather diluted, but the moment we stop and concentrate,
there is a massive inrush. Everything comes to a standstill. We are like a jar filled to the brim; the sensation of " current" disappears, as if the whole body from head to foot were charged with a mass of energy at once compact and crystalline (a solid cool block of peace,36 says Sri Aurobindo). And if our inner vision has begun to open, we may notice that everything has become bluish; we are like an aquamarine, and vast, vast, tranquil, without a ripple such indescribable freshness,
--
the asanas of hatha yoga, the concentrations of raja yoga, the breathing exercises of pranayama, etc. aim at arousing that ascending Force; they can be dangerous and cause profound perturbations, which make the presence and protection of an enlightened Master indispensable. We will return to this later. The difference in the direction of the current, ascending vs. descending,
has to do with a difference in goals which cannot be overemphasized.
--
hence the arousing, or rather the response, of the descending Force. To experience the descending current is to experience the transforming Force. It is this Force that will do the yoga for us, automatically (if we let it), this Force that will begin where other yogas end, illuminating first the top of our being, then going down from level to level, gently,
peacefully, irresistibly (it is never violent; its power is amazingly measured, as if it were directly guided by the wisdom of the Spirit),
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Her swelling breasts in little currents glide,
A silver liquor only now remains
--
And, walking on, a silent current found,
Which gently glided o'er the grav'ly ground.
--
A diff'rent current, while he keeps his own.
To dear Ortygia she conducts my way,
1.05 - Computing Machines and the Nervous System, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
influence of electrical currents, in their ordinary physiological
action they conform very nearly to the "all-or-none" principle;
--
out of a current process, such as a multiplication, in which the
intermediate results are of no value once the process is com-
1.05 - Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Generally, in a "normal" man, these centers are asleep or closed, or they only let through whatever small current is necessary for his limited existence; he is truly confined in himself and communicates only indirectly with the outside world, in a very narrow range; in fact,
he does not see other people or things but himself in others, himself in things, himself in everything, interminably. With yoga, the centers open. They can open in two ways: from bottom to top or from top to bottom, depending on whether we practice traditional yogic and spiritual methods, or Sri Aurobindo's yoga. As mentioned earlier,
--
As this inner urge or force takes on a distinct individuality, as it grows as indeed a child grows, the seeker will become aware that it does not move at random, as he had thought at first, but converges at certain points of his being, depending upon his current activity, and is in fact behind each of the centers of consciousness: behind the mental centers when we think, assert a will or express something; behind the vital centers when we feel, suffer or desire; or farther down or farther up. That force actually becomes aware of things; all the centers,
including the mind, are only its openings on the different levels of universal reality, its instruments of transcription and expression. It is the traveller of the worlds,51 the explorer of the planes of consciousness; it connects our various modes of being together, from waking to sleep to death, when the small outer mind is no longer there to inform or guide us; it pervades the entire range of universal existence and communicates everywhere.
--
we even start noticing it as a current or inner force before realizing it is a consciousness. Consciousness is force, consciousness-force, as Sri Aurobindo calls it, for the two terms are truly inseparable and interchangeable. The ancient wisdom of India knew this well, and never spoke of consciousness, Chit, without adjoining to it the term Agni, heat, flame, energy: Chit-Agni (sometimes also called Tapas, a synonym of Agni: Chit-Tapas). The Sanskrit word for spiritual or yogic discipline is tapasya, that which produces heat or energy, or,
more correctly, consciousness-heat or consciousness-energy. Agni, or Chit-Agni, is the same everywhere. We speak of descending or ascending Force, of inner force, of mental, vital, or material force, but there are not a hundred different kinds of forces; there is only one Force in the world, a single current that circulates through us as it circulates through all things, and takes on one attribute or another,
depending upon the particular level of its action. Our electric current can light up a tabernacle or a bar, a schoolroom or a restaurant; it is still the same current, though it illuminates different objects. So too,
this Force, this Warmth, Agni, is till the same whether it animates or illuminates our inner recesses, our mental factory, our vital theater, or our material lair; depending on the level, it takes on a more or less intense light, heavier or lighter vibrations: superconscious, mental,
--
While consciousness is a force, the reverse is also true: force is consciousness; all the forces are conscious.52 Universal Force is universal Consciousness. This is what the seeker discovers. After coming in contact with the current of consciousness-force in himself,
he can attune himself to any plane of universal reality, at any point,
and perceive or understand the consciousness there, and even act upon it, since the same current of consciousness is everywhere with only different modes of vibration, whether in a plant or in the thoughts of a human mind, whether in the luminous superconscient or the instincts of an animal, whether in metal or in our deepest meditations. If a piece of wood were not conscious, no yogi could displace it through concentration, because there would be no possibility of contact with it.
If a single point of the universe were totally unconscious, the whole universe would be totally unconscious, because there cannot be two things. With Einstein we have learned a great discovery indeed
1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
Now, the particles of the etheric body are in continual motion. Countless currents stream through it in every direction. By these currents, life itself is maintained and regulated. Every body that has life, including animals and plants, possesses an etheric body. Even in minerals traces of it can be observed. These currents and movements are, to begin with, independent of human will and consciousness, just as the action of the
p. 165
heart or stomach is beyond our jurisdiction, and this independence remains unaltered so long as we do not take our development in hand in the sense of acquiring supersensible faculties. For, at a certain stage, development consists precisely in adding to the unconscious currents and movements of the etheric body others that are consciously produced and controlled.
When esoteric development has progressed so far that the lotus flowers begin to stir, much has already been achieved by the student which can result in the formation of certain quite definite currents and movements in his etheric body. The object of this development is the formation of a kind of center in the region of the physical heart, from which radiate currents and movements in the greatest possible variety of colors and forms. The center is in reality not a mere point, but a most complicated structure, a most wonderful organ. It glows and shimmers with every shade of color and displays forms of great symmetry, capable of rapid transformation. Other forms and streams of color radiate from this organ to the other parts of the body, and beyond it to the astral body, completely penetrating and illuminating
p. 166
it. The most important of these currents flow to the lotus flowers. They permeate each petal and regulate its revolutions; then streaming out at the points of the petals, they lose themselves in outer space. The higher the development of a person, the greater the circumference to which these rays extend.
The twelve-petalled lotus flower has a particularly close connection with this central organ. The currents flow directly into it and through it, proceeding on the one side to the sixteen and the two-petalled lotus flowers, and on the other, the lower side, to the flowers of eight, six and four petals. It is for this reason that the very greatest care must be devoted to the development of the twelve-petalled lotus, for an imperfection in the latter would result in irregular formation of the whole structure. The above will give an idea of the delicate and intimate nature of esoteric training, and of the accuracy needed if the development is to be regular and correct. It will also be evident beyond doubt that directions for the development of supersensible faculties can only be the concern of those who have themselves experienced everything which they propose to
p. 167
awaken in others, and who are unquestionably in a position to know whether the directions they give lead to the exact results desired. If the student follows the directions that have been given him, he introduces into his etheric body currents and movements which are in harmony with the laws and the evolution of the world to which he belongs. Consequently these instructions are reflections of the great laws of cosmic evolution. They consist of the above-mentioned and similar exercises in meditation and concentration which, if correctly practiced, produce the results described. The student must at certain times let these instructions permeate his soul with their content, so that he is inwardly entirely filled with it. A simple start is made with a view to the deepening of the logical activity of the mind and the producing of an inward intensification of thought. Thought it thereby made free and independent of all sense impressions and experiences; it is concentrated in one point which is held entirely under control. Thus a preliminary center is formed for the currents of the etheric body. This center is not yet in the region of the heart but in the head, and it appears to the clairvoyant
p. 168
as the point of departure for movements and currents. No esoteric training can be successful which does not first create this center. If the latter were first formed in the region of the heart the aspiring clairvoyant would doubtless obtain glimpses of the higher worlds, but would lack all true insight into the connection between these higher worlds and the world of our senses. This, however, is an unconditional necessity for man at the present stage of evolution. The clairvoyant must not become a visionary; he must retain a firm footing upon the earth.
The center in the head, once duly fixed, is then moved lower down, to the region of the larynx. This is effected by further exercises in concentration. Then the currents of the etheric body radiate from this point and illumine the astral space surrounding the individual.
Continued practice enables the student to determine for himself the position of this etheric body. Hitherto this position depended upon external forces proceeding from the physical body. Through further development the student is able to turn his etheric body to all sides. This faculty is effected by currents moving approximately
p. 169
along both hands and centered in the two-petalled lotus in the region of the eyes. All this is made possible through the radiations from the larynx assuming round forms, of which a number flow to the two-petalled lotus and thence form undulating currents along the hands. As a further development, these currents branch out and ramify in the most delicate manner and become, as it were, a kind of web which then encompasses the entire etheric body as though with a network. Whereas hitherto the etheric body was not closed to the outer world, so that the life currents from the universal ocean of life flowed freely in and out, these currents now have to pass through this membrane. Thus the individual becomes sensitive to these external streams; they become perceptible to him.
And now the time has come to give the complete system of currents and movements its center situated in the region of the heart. This again is effected by persevering with the exercises in concentration and meditation; and at this point also the stage is reached when the student becomes gifted with the inner word. All things now acquire a new significance for him. They become
p. 170
as it were spiritually audible in their innermost self, and speak to him of their essential being. The currents described above place him in touch with the inner being of the world to which he belongs. He begins to mingle his life with the life of his environment and can let it reverberate in the movements of his lotus flowers.
At this point the spiritual world is entered. If the student has advanced so far, he acquires a new understanding for all that the great teachers of humanity have uttered. The sayings of the Buddha and the Gospels, for instance, produce a new effect on him. They pervade him with a rapture of which he had not dreamed before. For the tone of their words follows the movements and rhythms which he has himself formed within himself. He can now have positive knowledge that a Buddha or the Evangelists did not utter their own revelations but those which flowed into them from the inmost being of all things. A fact must here be pointed out which can only be understood in the light of what has been said above. The many repetitions in the sayings of the Buddha are not comprehensible to people of our present evolutionary stage. For the esoteric student,
--
This is the moment when the two-petalled lotus in the region of the eyes is required. If it now begins to stir, the student finds it possible to bring his higher ego in contact with higher spiritual beings. The currents form this lotus flower flow toward the higher realities in such a way that the movements in question are fully apparent to the individual. Just as the light renders the physical
p. 183
objects visible, so, too, these currents disclose spiritual beings of higher worlds.
Through inward application to the fundamental truths derived from spiritual science the student learns to set in motion and then to direct the currents proceeding form the lotus flower between the eyes.
It is at this stage of development especially that the value of sound judgment and a training in clear and logical thought come to the fore. The higher self, which hitherto slumbered unconsciously in an embryonic state, is now born into conscious existence. This is not a figurative but a positive birth in the spiritual world, and the being now born, the higher self, must enter that world with all the necessary organs and aptitudes if it is to be capable of life. Just as nature must provide for a child being born into the world with suitable eyes and ears, to too, the laws of self-development must provide for the necessary capacities with which the higher self can enter existence. These laws governing the development of the higher spiritual organs are none other than the laws of sound reason and morality of the physical world. The spiritual self matures in the
1.05 - The Activation of Human Energy, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
we do? Resist the current?' This would be foolish and, more-
over, impossible. Let ourselves be passively carried along by
--
and most powerful currents of human consciousness may
converge and culminate: intelligence and action, science and
1.05 - The Destiny of the Individual, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
10:Besides the recoil from the physical life, there is another exaggeration of the ascetic impulse which this ideal of an integral manifestation corrects. The nodus of Life is the relation between three general forms of consciousness, the individual, the universal and the transcendent or supracosmic. In the ordinary distribution of life's activities the individual regards himself as a separate being included in the universe and both as dependent upon that which transcends alike the universe and the individual. It is to this Transcendence that we give currently the name of God, who thus becomes to our conceptions not so much supracosmic as extra-cosmic. The belittling and degradation of both the individual and the universe is a natural consequence of this division: the cessation of both cosmos and individual by the attainment of the Transcendence would be logically its supreme conclusion.
11:The integral view of the unity of Brahman avoids these consequences. Just as we need not give up the bodily life to attain to the mental and spiritual, so we can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic. For the World-Transcendent embraces the universe, is one with it and does not exclude it, even as the universe embraces the individual, is one with him and does not exclude him. The individual is a centre of the whole universal consciousness; the universe is a form and definition which is occupied by the entire immanence of the Formless and Indefinable.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
heroic act of updating current morality, however through the promotion of uncomfortable contact with
the unknown creates chaos only in the service of higher order. To repress that process and cling
--
merely constitutes information (unacceptable information, to be sure, from the current, merely provisional
standpoint: but information with the capacity to transform, if admitted). The existence of the Muslim, and
--
stupidity by means of the lie. The lie is straightforward, voluntary rejection of what is currently known to
be true. Nobody knows what is finally true, by definition, but honest people make the best possible use of
--
composed of past errors, unresolved traumas, and current difficulties. This is the domain characterized by
Freud as the unconscious, into which repressed memories are cast. But unprocessed information is not
--
constructed much of it implicit in the world as it currently exists (instead of stored in memory).
(Implicit, that is, in the form of as-of-yet unencountered but latent trouble in the form of the
--
encountered and assimilated, regardless of the power and stability of the current position. This belief is
further based upon faith in human potential upon faith that the individual spirit will respond to challenge,
--
will seek to repress and destroy all information that indicates threat to current belief. Avoided, suppressed
or otherwise undeveloped elements of personality are not accessible for use in conscious adaptation will
--
upon the conceptualization of the way accepted by that society remains dependent upon the current rankordering and hierarchical organization of meanings, within that society. From within the confines of a
particular conceptualization, certain behaviors, productions of the imagination, and ideas are attri buted
--
Any act or idea that interferes with current individual desire becomes the fool, or worse the enemy. This
means that if the individual or the group desires anything more than to live in the light, so to speak, then
--
the meaning of the past, with the implications of past existence for current and future activity. This
meaning constitutes the ground for the organization of behavior.
--
picture current in his cultural canon.572
What principle is rule of spirit, rather than law, predicated upon? Respect for the innately heroic nature
--
the end towards which activity is currently devoted. The ends pursued by the alchemist were by no means
identical to those considered worthwhile today. In large part, they were much more comprehensive (the
--
it has been classified in accordance with its currently evident motivational status: promise, threat,
satisfaction, punishment (or none of the above), as determined, situationally. This is evidently true with
--
come to an end when the current affective state is deemed optimal: when knowledge, translated into
action, has adjusted the world such that it is (once again) paradisal. In the absence of such a paradisal
state (in the absence of current security, happiness), exploration is or has been, by definition, incomplete.
The residual mysteries that still accompany current being, which manifest themselves in the intrinsic
attractiveness of the thing or situation (which manifest themselves in interest), must therefore become the
--
mental disorders. But this is mostly screen and smoke. We are aiming, always, at an ideal. We currently
prefer to leave the nature of that ideal implicit, because that helps us sidestep any number of issues that
--
own, current and therefore invisible theories) therefore means interpretation of fantasy means analysis of
the spontaneous productions of the exploring mind (and, therefore, means increased capacity to understand
--
Experiences which are currently deemed taboo which are forbidden, from the perspective of the
currently extant moral schema may therefore contain within them seeds of creative solution to problems
which currently remain unsolved, or which may arise in the future; may yet constitute unmined and
338
--
the behavioral strategies employed in its presence, and on the ends that are currently being pursued. This means that
determinate experience must be considered an emergent property of behavior to a degree that is presently
1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The German gospel has evidently two sides, the internal and the external, the cult of the State, nation or community and the cult of international egoism. In the first, Germany, even if for a time entirely crushed in the battle-field, seems to have already secured the victory in the moral sense of the human race. The unsparing compulsion as against the assistance of the individual by the State7for his and the common good, of course, but who professes to compel for harm?is almost everywhere either dominant or else growing into a strong and prevailing current of opinion; the champions of individual freedom are now a morally defeated and dwindling army who can only fight on in the hope of a future reaction or of saving something of their principle from the wreck. On the external side, the international, the battle of ideas still goes on, but there were from the beginning ominous signs;8 and now after the physical war with its first psychological results is well over, we are already able to see in which direction the tide is likely to flow. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. Germany, defeated in the war, has won in the after war; the German gospel rearisen in a sterner and fiercer avatar threatens to sweep over all Europe.
It is necessary, if we are not to deceive ourselves, to note that even in this field what Germany has done is to systematise certain strong actual tendencies and principles of international action to the exclusion of all that either professed to resist or did actually modify them. If a sacred egoism and the expression did not come from Teutonic lipsis to govern international relations, then it is difficult to deny the force of the German position. The theory of inferior and decadent races was loudly proclaimed by other than German thinkers and has governed, with whatever assuaging scruples, the general practice of military domination and commercial exploitation of the weak by the strong; all that Germany has done is to attempt to give it a wider extension and more rigorous execution and apply it to European as well as to Asiatic and African peoples. Even the severity or brutality of her military methods or of her ways of colonial or internal political repression, taken at their worst, for much once stated against her has been proved and admitted to be deliberate lies manufactured by her enemies, was only a crystallising of certain recent tendencies towards the revival of ancient and mediaeval hardheartedness in the race. The use and even the justification of massacre and atrocious cruelty in war on the ground of military exigency and in the course of commercial exploitation or in the repression of revolt and disorder has been quite recently witnessed in the other continents, to say nothing of certain outskirts of Europe.9 From one point of view, it is well that terrible examples of the utmost logic of these things should be prominently forced on the attention of mankind; for by showing the evil stripped of all veils the choice between good and evil instead of a halting between the two will be forced on the human conscience. Woe to the race if it blinds its conscience and buttresses up its animal egoism with the old justifications; for the gods have shown that Karma is not a jest.
1.05 - Vishnu as Brahma creates the world, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Beholding this creation also imperfect, Brahmā again meditated, and a third creation appeared, abounding with the quality of goodness, termed Ūrddhasrotas[6]. The beings thus produced in the Ūrddhasrotas creation were endowed with pleasure and enjoyment, uneñcumbered internally or externally, and luminous within and without. This, termed the creation of immortals, was the third performance of Brahmā, who, although well pleased with it, still found it incompetent to fulfil his end. Continuing therefore his meditations, there sprang, in consequence of his infallible purpose, the creation termed Arvāksrotas, from indiscrete nature. The products of this are termed Arvāksrotasas[7], from the downward current (of their nutriment). They abound with the light of knowledge, but the qualities of darkness and of foulness predominate. Hence they are afflicted by evil, and are repeatedly impelled to action. They have knowledge both externally and internally, and are the instruments (of accomplishing the object of creation, the liberation of soul). These creatures were mankind.
I have thus explained to you, excellent Muni, six[8] creations. The first creation was that of Mahat or Intellect, which is also called the creation of Brahmā[9]. The second was that of the rudimental principles (Tanmātras), thence termed the elemental creation (Bhūta serga). The third was the modified form of egotism, termed the organic creation, or creation of the senses (Aindrīyaka). These three were the Prākrita creations, the developements of indiscrete nature, preceded by the indiscrete principle[10]. The fourth or fundamental creation (of perceptible things) was that of inanimate bodies. The fifth, the Tairyag yonya creation, was that of animals. The sixth was the Ūrddhasrotas creation, or that of the divinities. The creation of the Arvāksrotas beings was the seventh, and was that of man. There is an eighth creation, termed Anugraha, which possesses both the qualities of goodness and darkness[11]. Of these creations, five are secondary, and three are primary[12]. But there is a ninth, the Kaumāra creation, which is both primary and secondary[13]. These are the nine creations of the great progenitor of all, and, both as primary and secondary, are the radical causes of the world, proceeding from the sovereign creator. What else dost thou desire to hear?
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Its current stop'd, the lifeless blood remains.
Her feet their usual offices refuse,
1.06 - Dhyana and Samadhi, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
In order to reach the superconscious state in a scientific manner it is necessary to pass through the various steps of Raja-Yoga I have been teaching. After Pratyhra and Dhran, we come to Dhyna, meditation. When the mind has been trained to remain fixed on a certain internal or external location, there comes to it the power of flowing in an unbroken current, as it were, towards that point. This state is called Dhyana. When one has so intensified the power of Dhyana as to be able to reject the external part of perception and remain meditating only on the internal part, the meaning, that state is called Samadhi. The three Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi together, are called Samyama. That is, if the mind can first concentrate upon an object, and then is able to continue in that concentration for a length of time, and then, by continued concentration, to dwell only on the internal part of the perception of which the object was the effect, everything comes under the control of such a mind.
This meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.
1.06 - LIFE AND THE PLANETS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
mote future, the deepest and most powerful currents of human
consciousness may converge and culminate: intelligence and ac-
1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
That the mortified are, in some respects, often much worse than the unmortified is a commonplace of history, fiction and descriptive psychology. Thus, the Puritan may practice all the cardinal virtuesprudence, fortitude, temperance and chastity and yet remain a thoroughly bad man; for, in all too many cases, these virtues of his are accompanied by, and indeed causally connected with, the sins of pride, envy, chronic anger and an uncharitableness pushed sometimes to the level of active cruelty. Mistaking the means for the end, the Puritan has fancied himself holy because he is stoically austere. But stoical austerity is merely the exaltation of the more creditable side of the ego at the expense of the less creditable. Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God. To the extent that there is attachment to I, me, mine, there is no attachment to, and therefore no unitive knowledge of, the divine Ground. Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Franois de Sales) holy indifference; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase. As usual, the corruption of the best is the worst. The difference between the mortified, but still proud and self-centred stoic and the unmortified hedonist consists in this: the latter, being flabby, shiftless and at heart rather ashamed of himself, lacks the energy and the motive to do much harm except to his own body, mind and spirit; the former, because he has all the secondary virtues and looks down on those who are not like himself, is morally equipped to wish and to be able to do harm on the very largest scale and with a perfectly untroubled conscience. These are obvious facts; and yet, in the current religious jargon of our day the word immoral is reserved almost exclusively for the carnally self-indulgent. The covetous and the ambitious, the respectable toughs and those who cloak their lust for power and place under the right sort of idealistic cant, are not merely unblamed; they are even held up as models of virtue and godliness. The representatives of the organized churches begin by putting haloes on the heads of the people who do most to make wars and revolutions, then go on, rather plaintively, to wonder why the world should be in such a mess.
Mortification is not, as many people seem to imagine, a matter, primarily, of severe physical austerities. It is possible that, for certain persons in certain circumstances, the practice of severe physical austerities may prove helpful in advance towards mans final end. In most cases, however, it would seem that what is gained by such austerities is not liberation, but something quite different the achievement of psychic powers. The ability to get petitionary prayer answered, the power to heal and work other miracles, the knack of looking into the future or into other peoples mindsthese, it would seem, are often related in some kind of causal connection with fasting, watching and the self-infliction of pain. Most of the great theocentric saints and spiritual teachers have admitted the existence of supernormal powers, only, however, to deplore them. To think that such Siddhis, as the Indians call them, have anything to do with liberation is, they say, a dangerous illusion. These things are either irrelevant to the main issue of life, or, if too much prized and attended to, an obstacle in the way of spiritual advance. Nor are these the only objections to physical austerities. Carried to extremes, they may be dangerous to health and without health the steady persistence of effort required by the spiritual life is very difficult of achievement. And being difficult, painful and generally conspicuous, physical austerities are a standing temptation to vanity and the competitive spirit of record breaking. When thou didst give thyself up to physical mortification, thou wast great, thou wast admired. So writes Suso of his own experiencesexperiences which led him, just as Gautama Buddha had been led many centuries before, to give up his course of bodily penance. And St. Teresa remarks how much easier it is to impose great penances upon oneself than to suffer in patience, charity and humbleness the ordinary everyday crosses of family life (which did not prevent her, incidentally, from practising, to the very day of her death, the most excruciating forms of self-torture. Whether these austerities really helped her to come to the unitive knowledge of God, or whether they were prized and persisted in because of the psychic powers they helped to develop, there is no means of determining).
--
In the practice of mortification as in most other fields, advance is along a knife-edge. On one side lurks the Scylla of egocentric austerity, on the other the Charybdis of an uncaring quietism. The holy indifference inculcated by the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy is neither stoicism nor mere passivity. It is rather an active resignation. Self-will is renounced, not that there may be a total holiday from willing, but that the divine will may use the mortified mind and body as its instrument for good. Or we may say, with Kabir, that the devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna. Until we put an end to particular attachments, there can be no love of God with the whole heart, mind and strength and no universal charity towards all creatures for Gods sake. Hence the hard sayings in the Gospels about the need to renounce exclusive family ties. And if the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head, if the Tathagata and the Bodhisattvas have their thoughts awakened to the nature of Reality without abiding in anything whatever, this is because a truly Godlike love which, like the sun, shines equally upon the just and the unjust, is impossible to a mind imprisoned in private preferences and aversions.
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly. So the soul, held by the bonds of human affections, however slight they may be, cannot, while they last, make its way to God.
1.06 - On Thought, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
After much meditation and contemplation, he comes into direct contact with the great universal current of pure intellectual force, and thenceforth no knowledge can be veiled from him.
From that moment serenitymental peaceis his portion. In all beliefs, in all human knowledge, in all religious teachings, which sometimes appear so contradictory, he perceives the deep truth which nothing can now conceal from his eyes.
1.06 - Psycho therapy and a Philosophy of Life, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
contents are to be assimilated, it is not enough to make use of the current
philosophical or religious ideas, for they simply do not fit the archaic
1.06 - Quieting the Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
The seeker will no longer be fooled by the dubious game going on in his surface vital, but for a long time he will keep the habit of responding to the thousands of small biological and emotional vibrations circling around him. The transition takes time, much as the transition from the world-mongering mind to mental silence did, and it is often accompanied by spells of intense fatigue, because our organism loses the habit of renewing its energy at the common superficial source (which soon appears crude and heavy once we have tasted the other type of energy), yet it still lacks the capacity to remain constantly connected to the true source, hence some "gaps." But here again the seeker is helped by the descending Force, which powerfully contri butes to establish a new rhythm in him. He even notices, with ever-renewed astonishment, that if he takes but one small step forward, the Help from above will take ten toward him as if he were expected. It would be quite wrong to believe that the work is only negative, however; naturally the vital likes to think that it is making huge efforts to struggle against itself, which is its skillful way of protecting itself on all fronts, but in practice the seeker does not follow an austere or negative rule; he follows a positive need within his being, because he is truly growing out of yesterday's norms and yesterday's pleasures, which now feel to him like a baby's diet. He is no longer content with all that; he has better things to do, better things to live. This is why it is so difficult to explain the path to one who has never tried it, for he will see only his own current perspective or,
rather, the loss of his perspective. Yet if we only knew how each loss of perspective is a step forward, how greatly life changes when we pass from the stage of closed truths to that of open truths a truth like life itself, too great to be confined within limited perspectives, because it embraces them all and sees the usefulness of each thing at each stage of an infinite development; a truth great enough to deny itself and move endlessly to a higher truth.
1.06 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice 2 The Works of Love - The Works of Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. All Bliss and Joy are there of the All-Blissful, and all inferior forms of enjoyment, happiness or pleasure are subjected to the shock of the intensity of its floods or currents and either they are broken to pieces as inadequate things under its convicting stress or compelled to transmute themselves into the forms of the Divine Ananda. Thus for the individual consciousness a Force is manifested which can deal sovereignly in it with the diminutions and degradations of the values of the Ignorance. At last it begins to be possible to bring down into life the immense reality and intense concreteness of the love and joy that are of the Eternal. Or at any rate it will be possible for our spiritual consciousness to raise itself out of mind into the supramental Light and Force and Vastness; there in the light and potency of the supramental Gnosis are the splendour and joy of a power of divine self-expression and selforganisation which could rescue and re-create even the world of the Ignorance into a figure of the Truth of the Spirit.
There in the supramental Gnosis is the fulfilment, the culminating height, the all-embracing extent of the inner adoration, the profound and integral union, the flaming wings of Love upbearing the power and joy of a supreme Knowledge. For supramental Love brings an active ecstasy that surpasses the void passive peace and stillness which is the heaven of the liberated Mind and does not betray the deeper greater calm which is the beginning of the supramental silence. The unity of a love which is able to include in itself all differences without being diminished or abrogated by their present limitations and apparent dissonances is raised to its full potentiality on the supramental level. For there an intense oneness with all creatures founded on a profound oneness of the soul with the Divine can harmonise with a play of relations that only makes the oneness more perfect and absolute. The power of Love supramentalised can take hold of all living relations without hesitation or danger and turn them Godwards delivered from their crude, mixed and petty human settings and sublimated into the happy material of a divine life.
1.06 - The Breaking of the Limits, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
So we looked intently right and left: where is me, who is me?... There is no me! Not a trace, not a single ripple of it. What is the use? There is this little shadow in front, which appropriated and piled up feelings, thoughts, powers, plans, like a beggar afraid of being robbed, afraid of destitution; it hoarded desperately on its island, yet kept dying of thirst, a perpetual thirst in the middle of the lovely sheet of water; it kept building lines of defense and fortresses against that overwhelming vastness. But we left the leaden island; we let the stronghold fall, which was not so strong as all that. We entered another current that seemed inexhaustible, a treasure giving itself unsparingly: why should we hold back anything from the present minute when at the next one there were yet other riches? Why should we think or plan anything when life organized itself according to another plan, which foiled all the old plans and, sometimes, for a second, in a sort of ripple of laughter, let us catch a glimpse of an unexpected marvel, a sudden freedom, a complete disengagement from the old program, a light and unfettered little law that opened all doors, toppled the ineluctable consequences and all the old iron laws with the flick of a finger, and left us stunned for a minute, on the threshold of an inconceivable expanse of sunlight, as though we had stepped into another solar system which is perhaps not a system at all as if breaking the mechanical limits inside had caused the same breaking of the mechanical limits outside. Maybe because the Machinery we are facing is one and the same: The world of man is what he thinks it; its laws are the result of his own constraint.
Yet this other way of being is not without logic, and that logic is what we should try to capture, if possible, if we want to pass consciously into the other state, not only in our inner life but in our outer one as well. We must know the rules of the passage.
1.06 - The Greatness of the Individual, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply significant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit within whose energy goes abroad in her and moulds the progress of the world and the destiny of the nations. His is the impetus which fulfils itself in Time, and once there is movement, impetus from the Spirit within, Time and the Mother take charge of it, prepare, ripen and fulfil. When the Zeitgeist, God in Time, moves in a settled direction, then all the forces of the world are called in to swell the established current towards the purpose decreed. That which consciously helps, swells it, but that which hinders swells it still more, and like a wave on the windswept Ocean, now rising, now falling, now high on the crest of victory and increase, now down in the troughs of discouragement and defeat, the impulse from the hidden Source sweeps onward to its preordained fulfilment. Man may help or man may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists.
The great and memorable vision of Kurukshetra when Sri Krishna manifesting his world-form declared himself as destroying Time, is significant of this deep perception of humanity. When Arjuna wished to cast aside his bow and quiver, when he said, This is a sin we do and a great destruction of men and brothers, I will forbear, Sri Krishna after convincing his intellect of error, proceeded by that marvellous vision described in the eleventh canto of the Gita to stamp the truth of things upon his imagination. Thus run the mighty stanzas:
1.06 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"When I was ten or eleven years old and lived at Kamarpukur, I first experienced samdhi. As I was passing through a paddy-field, I saw something and was overwhelmed. There are certain characteristics of God-vision. One sees light, feels joy, and experiences the upsurge of a great current in one's chest, like the bursting of a rocket."
The next day Baburam and Ramdayal returned to Calcutta. M. spent the day and the night with the Master.
1.06 - The Sign of the Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
revealing light on the ideas current in these circles:
Item, they believe themselves to be God by nature without dis-
--
tionary currents of the age. He felt it as a revelation of the Holy
Ghost, whose life and procreative power no church could bring
1.06 - The Three Schools of Magick 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The Yellow School of Magick considers, with complete scientific and philosophical detachment, the fact of the Universe as a fact. Being itself apart of that Universe, it realizes its impotence to alter the totality in the smallest degree. To put it vulgarly, it does not try to raise itself from the ground by pulling at its socks. It therefore opposes to the current of phenomena no reaction either of hatred or of sympathy. So far as it attempts to influence the course of events at all, it does so in the only intelligent way conceivable. It seeks to diminish internal friction.
It remains, therefore, in a contemplative attitude. To use the terms of Western philosophy, there is in its attitude something of the stoicism of Zeno; or of the Pickwickianism, if I may use the term, of Epicurus. The ideal reaction to phenomena is that of perfect elasticity. It possesses something of the cold-bloodedness of mathematics; and for this reason it seems fair to say, for the purposes of elementary study, that Pythagoras is its most adequate exponent in European philosophy.
1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
When the student has thus raised himself to a life in the higher ego, or rather during his acquisition of the higher consciousness, he will learn how to stir to life the spiritual perceptive force in the organ of the heart and control it through the currents described in the foregoing chapter. This perceptive force is an element of higher sustainability, which proceeds from the organ in question and flows with beautiful radiance through the moving lotus flowers and the other channels of the developed etheric body. Thence it radiates outward into the surrounding spiritual world rendering it spiritually visible, just as the sunlight falling on the objects of the physical world renders them visible.
p. 196
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
beyond the current karmic bubble that theyre manifesting. This gives us a
positive and optimistic attitude, and with this, we work for a better future in
1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Oft by your aid swift currents I have led
Thro' wand'ring banks, back to their fountain head;
1.07 - Hymn of Paruchchhepa, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
of the offering of light, for its current poured on him as an
oblation.
1.07 - Samadhi, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
12:Five years later he would not take this view. He would say perhaps that Dhyana was "a flowing of the mind in one unbroken current from the ego to the non-ego without consciousness of either, accompanied by a crescent wonder and bliss." He can understand how that is the natural result of Dhyana, but he cannot call Dhyana in the same way the precursor of Samadhi. Perhaps he does not really know the conditions which induce Samadhi. He can produce Dhyana at will in the course of a few minutes' work; and it often happens with apparent spontaneity: with Samadhi this is unfortunately not the case. He probably can get it at will, but could not say exactly how, or tell how long it might take him; and he could not be "sure" of getting it at all.
13:One feels "sure" that one can walk a mile along a level road. One knows the conditions, and it would have to be a very extraordinary set of circumstances that would stop one. But though it would be equally fair to say: "I have climbed the Matterhorn and I know I can climb it again," yet there are all sorts of more or less probable circumstances any one of which would prevent success.
1.07 - THE GREAT EVENT FORESHADOWED - THE PLANETIZATION OF MANKIND, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
with atomic disintegration, to be a fundamental universal current
(the current); not only does Man, with his billions of interacting ner-
vous cells, find a natural, cosmically enrooted place in this gener-
1.07 - The Primary Data of Being, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Hence a double current in things. All substance tends towards organisation of life and the synthesis of the conscious ego; all form is ephemeral and all life returns towards death.
Because the relative is precisely the result of a dissociation between the two principles of permanence and unity in which each allies itself to the contrary of the other, it seems as if all that tends towards unity by the way of synthesis must by that very fact lose in potentiality of duration. All aggregates are impermanent.
1.07 - The Psychic Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
connecting our various states of being (the prime result of mental silence and of quieting the vital has even been to separate this consciousness-force from the mental and vital activities in which it is usually embroiled), and we have felt this current of force, or consciousness, as the fundamental reality of our being behind our various states. But this consciousness-force must be the consciousness of someone. Who or what is conscious in us? Where is the center, the master? Are we merely the puppets of some universal Being, who is our true center, since all the mental, vital and physical activities are in fact universal ones? The truth is twofold, but in no way are we puppets, except when we insist on mistaking the frontal being for our self, for it is a puppet. We do have an individual center, which Sri Aurobindo calls the psychic being, and a cosmic center or central being. Step by step, we must recover the one and the other, and become Master of all our states. For the moment, we will try to discover our individual center, the psychic being, which others call the soul.
It is at once the simplest thing in the world and the most difficult.
--
Beethoven, the sea, or our churches were only instruments for achieving that transparency. Because it is always the same: the moment we are clear. Truth, vision, joy emerge spontaneously; it is all there without the least effort, because Truth is the most natural thing in the world; it's the rest that clouds everything the mind and vital with their unruly vibrations and erudite complications. All spiritual disciplines worthy of the name, all tapasya, must ultimately tend toward that completely natural point where no effort is necessary; for effort is yet another clouding, another layer of complication. So the seeker will not attempt to enter the muddle of the moral mind, or try the impossible task of sorting out good from evil in order to bring the psychic to light, for, actually, the purpose of good and evil is intimately linked to their mutual harmfulness. (My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me79 .) He will simply try to let everything settle in the silence, for silence is clean in itself; it is lustral water. "Do not try to wash off one by one the stains on the robe," a very ancient Chaldean tradition exhorts, "change it altogether." This is what Sri Aurobindo calls a change of consciousness. In that transparency, the old habits of the being will indeed quietly lose their hold, and we will feel a new poise of consciousness within ourselves not an intellectual poise, but a new center of gravity. At heart level, but deeper than the vital center of the heart (which covers and imitates the psychic), we will feel a region of concentration more intense than the others, as if they had all converged there; this is the psychic center. We had already felt the onset of a current of consciousness-force within us, taking on a life of its own, moving in the body, and becoming increasingly intense as it gradually freed itself from its mental and vital activities. Now,
simultaneously something akin to a fire breaks out at the center
1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
down the current of thought and ultimately stopping it altogether at will. The Hindu image expresses the theory perfectly. There is a lake into which five glaciers move - the five senses ; the lake being the mind. While ice, the manifold impressions, is breaking off constantly into the lake the waters are troubled. Once the glaciers are stopped the surface becomes calm, and then and then only can it reflect unbroken the disk of the " Son " - the Augceides, the self-glittering One.
While it is true that in sleep thought is stilled, the per- ceiving function, too, is stilled ; and since we are desirous of obtaining a perfect vigilance and attention, uninter- rupted by the rise of thoughts, we follow this procedure.
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
As soft Maeander's wanton current plays,
When thro' the Phrygian fields it loosely strays;
--
Now with the current drives, now with the gale,
Both opposite, and neither long prevail:
--
And rocky fragments down its current bore,
The murmur hoarse, and terrible the roar.
--
Blood from the mangled bark in currents flow'd.
When a devoted bull of mighty size,
1.08 - Independence from the Physical, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
whose conquest is as important for physical mastery as the conquest of the thinking mind and the vital mind are for mental and vital mastery. It would indeed seem that the mind is the scapegoat in integral yoga, since it is being hunted down everywhere. Let us note that it has also been a very substantial aid in the course of our evolution, and it remains, for many, an indispensable agent, but any aid, however high or divine, eventually becomes an obstacle, because it is meant for one step only, and we have many steps to take and more than one truth to conquer. If we accepted this simple proposition throughout our entire value system, including the particular ideal we are currently cherishing, we would progress quite rapidly on the path of evolution. This physical mind is the stupidest of all, the vestige in us of the first appearance of Mind in Matter. It is a microscopic,
stubborn, fearful, narrow, and conservative (this was its evolutionary purpose) mind, which sends us ten times to check if the door is locked when we know perfectly well we have locked it, which panics at the slightest scratch and anticipates the worst illnesses the minute something goes wrong, which is unwaveringly skeptical of anything
--
Thus, the seeker will become aware of this reversal of the life current, from the inside out (indeed, since the psychic Master has come out of its confinement); he will read these everyday signs and see that his inner attitude has the power to mold outer circumstances in both directions, good and bad. When we are in a state of harmony and our action conforms to the deeper truth of our being, nothing seems to resist even "impossibilities" dissolve, as if another law came to supersede the "natural" one. (This is actually the true "nature"
emerging from beneath the mental and vital complications.) Then we begin to enjoy a royal freedom. But when there is inner disorder,
--
independent of illnesses, and, to a large extent, independent of food and sleep, once it has discovered the inexhaustible reservoir of the great Force of Life; it can even be independent of the body. When the current of consciousness-force in us is sufficiently individualized, we find that we can detach it not only from the senses and the objects of the senses, but also from the body. First in our meditations, which are the primary training ground prior to natural mastery, we observe that 93
Letters on Yoga, 22:314
1.08 - Information, Language, and Society, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
belief, current in many countries, which has been elevated to
the rank of an official article of faith in the United States, that
1.08 - RELIGION AND TEMPERAMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
In the course of history it has often happened that one or other of the imperfect religions has been taken too seriously and regarded as good and true in itself, instead of as a means to the ultimate end of all religion. The effects of such mistakes are often disastrous. For example, many Protestant sects have insisted on the necessity, or at least the extreme desirability, of a violent conversion. But violent conversion, as Sheldon has pointed out, is a phenomenon confined almost exclusively to persons with a high degree of somatotonia. These persons are so intensely extraverted as to be quite unaware of what is happening in the lower levels of their minds. If for any reason their attention comes to be turned inwards, the resulting self-knowledge, because of its novelty and strangeness, presents itself with the force and quality of a revelation and their metanoia, or change of mind, is sudden and thrilling. This change may be to religion, or it may be to something else for example, to psycho-analysis. To insist upon the necessity of violent conversion as the only means to salvation is about as sensible as it would be to insist upon the necessity of having a large face, heavy bones and powerful muscles. To those naturally subject to this kind of emotional upheaval, the doctrine that makes salvation dependent on conversion gives a complacency that is quite fatal to spiritual growth, while those who are incapable of it are filled with a no less fatal despair. Other examples of inadequate theologies based upon psychological ignorance could easily be cited. One remembers, for instance, the sad case of Calvin, the cerebrotonic who took his own intellectual constructions so seriously that he lost all sense of reality, both human and spiritual. And then there is our liberal Protestantism, that predominantly viscerotonic heresy, which seems to have forgotten the very existence of the Father, Spirit and Logos and equates Christianity with an emotional attachment to Christs humanity or, (to use the currently popular phrase) the personality of Jesus, worshipped idolatrously as though there were no other God. Even within all-comprehensive Catholicism we constantly hear complaints of the ignorant and self-centred directors, who impose upon the souls under their charge a religious dharma wholly unsuited to their naturewith results which writers such as St. John of the Cross describe as wholly pernicious. We see, then, that it is natural for us to think of God as possessed of the qualities which our temperament tends to make us perceive in Him; but unless nature finds a way of transcending itself by means of itself, we are lost. In the last analysis Philo is quite right in saying that those who do not conceive God purely and simply as the One injure, not God of course, but themselves and, along with themselves, their fellows.
The way of knowledge comes most naturally to persons whose temperament is predominantly cerebrotonic. By this I do not mean that the following of this way is easy for the cerebrotonic. His specially besetting sins are just as difficult to overcome as are the sins which beset the power-loving somatotonic and the extreme viscerotonic with his gluttony for food and comfort and social approval. Rather I mean that the idea that such a way exists and can be followed (either by discrimination, or through non-attached work and one-pointed devotion) is one which spontaneously occurs to the cerebrotonic. At all levels of culture he is the natural monotheist; and this natural monotheist, as Dr. Radins examples of primitive theology clearly show, is often a monotheist of the tat tvam asi, inner-light school. Persons committed by their temperament to one or other of the two kinds of extraversion are natural polytheists. But natural polytheists can, without much difficulty, be convinced of the theoretical superiority of monotheism. The nature of human reason is such that there is an intrinsic plausibility about any hypothesis which seeks to explain the manifold in terms of unity, to reduce apparent multiplicity to essential identity. And from this theoretical monotheism the half-converted polytheist can, if he chooses, go on (through practices suitable to his own particular temperament) to the actual realization of the divine Ground of his own and all other beings. He can, I repeat, and sometimes he actually does. But very often he does not. There are many theoretical monotheists whose whole life and every action prove that in reality they are still what their temperament inclines them to bepoly theists, worshippers not of the one God they sometimes talk about, but of the many gods, nationalistic and technological, financial and familial, to whom in practice they pay all their allegiance.
--
Like technological progress, with which it is so closely associated in so many ways, modern war is at once a cause and a result of the somatotonic revolution. Nazi education, which was specifically education for war, had two principal aims: to encourage the manifestation of somatotonia in those most richly endowed with that component of personality, and to make the rest of the population feel ashamed of its relaxed amiability or its inward-looking sensitiveness and tendency towards self-restraint and tender-mindedness. During the war the enemies of Nazism have been compelled, of course, to borrow from the Nazis educational philosophy. All over the world millions of young men and even of young women are being systematically educated to be tough and to value toughness beyond every other moral quality. With this system of somatotonic ethics is associated the idolatrous and polytheistic theology of nationalisma pseudo-religion far stronger at the present time for evil and division than is Christianity, or any other monotheistic religion, for unification and good. In the past most societies tried systematically to discourage somatotonia. This was a measure of self-defense; they did not want to be physically destroyed by the power-loving aggressiveness of their most active minority, and they did not want to be spiritually blinded by an excess of extraversion. During the last few years all this has been changed. What, we may apprehensively wonder, will be the result of the current world-wide reversal of an immemorial social policy? Time alone will show.
next chapter: 1.09 - SELF-KNOWLEDGE
1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. . . . Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. . . . Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,-no disgrace, no calamity, which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,-my head bathed by the bli the air, and uplifted into infinite space,-all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.12
What distinguishes this profound "nature mysticism" from a simple nature indissociation or ecocentric immersion or biospheric regression (which would be egocentric and anthropocentric, as we have seen) is the realization that nature is not Spirit but an expression of Spirit, radiant and glorious and perfect in its own way, but an expression nonetheless. Emerson says nature is not spirit but a symbol of spirit. Emerson is not regressing to fulcrum-2
--
Here, then, is a summary of the widely accepted interpretation of Emerson's view: (1) nature is not Spirit but a symbol of Spirit (or a manifestation of Spirit); (2) sensory awareness in itself does not reveal Spirit but obscures it; (3) an ascending or transcendental current is required to disclose Spirit; (4) Spirit is understood only as nature is transcended (i.e., Spirit is immanent in nature, but fully discloses itself only in a transcendence of nature-in short,
Spirit transcends but includes nature). Those points are largely uncontested by Emerson scholars [see the Eye of Spirit, chapter 11, note 2].
--
And here Teresa uses perhaps her most famous metaphor. Prior to this transformative absorption, the unregenerate self (or ego) is, says Teresa, like a silkworm. But one taste of union (literally, just a single experience of this, she says, however brief), and the self is changed forever. One taste of absorption in Uncreate Spirit, and the worm emerges a butterfly. As we might put it, the ego dies and the soul emerges. ("All mean egotism vanishes; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.") Teresa:
And now let us see what becomes of this silkworm. When it is in this state of [cessation/absorption], and quite dead to the world, it comes out a little white butterfly. Oh, greatness of God, that a soul should come out like this after being closely united for so short a time-never, I think, for as long as half an hour [in cessation]. For think of the difference between an ugly worm and a white butterfly; it is just the same here. The soul cannot think how it can have merited such a blessing-whence such a blessing could have come to it, I meant to say, for it knows quite well that it has not merited it at all.29
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But for my own part I do not hold myself bound by European research&European theories.My scepticism of nineteenth century results goes farther than is possible to any European scepticism. The Science of comparative religion in Europe seems to me to be based on a blunder. The sun & star theory of comparative mythology with its extravagant scholastic fancies & lawless inferences carries no conviction to my reason. I find in the Aryan & Dravidian tongues, the Aryan and Dravidian races not separate & unconnected families but two branches of a single stock. The legend of the Aryan invasion & settlement in the Panjab in Vedic times is, to me, a philological myth. The naturalistic interpretation of theVedas I accept only as a transference or adhyaropa of European ideas into the Veda foreign to the mentality of the Vedic Rishis & Max Mullers discovery of Vedic henotheism as a brilliant & ingenious error. Whatever is sound & indisputable in European ideas & discoveries, I am bound to admit & shall use, but these large generalisations & assumptions ought, I think, no longer to pass current as unchallengeable truth or the final knowledge about the Vedas. My method is rather to make a tabula rasa of all previous theories European or Indian & come back to the actual text of the Veda for enlightenment, the fundamental structure & development of the old Sanscrit tongue for a standard of interpretation and the connection of thought in the hymns for a guide to their meaning. I have arrived as a result at a theory of the Vedic religion, of which this book is intended to give some initial indications.
I put aside at the beginning the common assumption that since religion started from the fears & desires of savages a record of religion as ancient as the Vedas must necessarily contain a barbarous or semi-barbarous mythology empty of any profound or subtle spiritual & moral ideas or, if it contains them at all, that it must be only in the latest documents. We have no more right to assume that the Vedic Rishis were a race of simple & frank barbarians than to assume that they were a class of deep and acute philosophers. What they were is the thing we have to discover and we may arrive at either conclusion or neither, but we must not start from our goal or begin our argument on the basis of our conclusion. We know nothing of the history & thought of the times, we know nothing of the state of their intellectual & social culture except what we can gather from the Vedic hymns themselves. Indications from other sources may be useful as clues but the hymns are our sole authority.
--
We have reached a subjective sense for yuvku. But what of vriktabarhishah? Does not barhih always mean in the Veda the sacred grass strewn as a seat for the gods? In the Brahmanas is it not so understood and have [we] not continually the expression barhishi sdata? I have no objection; barhis is certainly the seat of the Gods in the sacrifice, stritam nushak, strewn without a break. But barhis cannot originally have meant Kusha grass; for in that case the singular could only be used to indicate a single grass and for the seat of the Gods the plural barhnshi would have to be used,barhihshu sdata and not barhishi sdata.We have the right to go behind the Brahmanas and enquire what was the original sense of barhis and how it came to mean kusha grass. The root barh is a modified formation from the root brih, to grow, increase or expand, which we have in brihat. From the sense of spreading we may get the original sense of seat, and because the material spread was usually the Kusha grass, the word by a secondary application came to bear also that significance. Is this the only possible sense of barhis? No, for we find it interpreted also as sacrifice, as fire, as light or splendour, as water, as ether. We find barhana & barhas in the sense of strength or power and barhah or barham used for a leaf or for a peacocks tail. The base meaning is evidently fullness, greatness, expansion, power, splendour or anything having these attri butes, an outspread seat, spreading foliage, the outspread or splendid peacocks tail, the shining flame, the wide expanse of ether, the wide flow of water. If there were no other current sense of barhis, we should be bound to the ritualistic explanation. Even as it is, in other passages the ritualistic explanation may be found to stand or be binding; but is it obligatory here? I do not think it is even admissible. For observe the awkwardness of the expression, sut vriktabarhishah, wine of which the grass is stripped of its roots. Anything, indeed, is possible in the more artificial styles of poetry, but the rest of this hymn, though subtle & deep in thought, is sufficiently lucid and straightforward in expression. In such a style this strained & awkward expression is an alien intruder. Moreover, since every other expression in these lines is subjective, only dire necessity can compel us to admit so material a rendering of this single epithet. There is no such necessity. Barhis means fundamentally fullness, splendour, expansion or strength & power, & this sense suits well with the meaning we have found for yuvkavah. The sense of vrikta is very doubtful. Purified (cleared, separated) is a very remote sense of vrij or vrich & improbable. They can both mean divided, distributed, strewn, outspread, but although it is possible that vriktabarhishah means their fullness outspread through the system or distributed in the outpouring, this sense too is not convincing. Again vrijana in the Veda means strong, or as a noun, strength, energy, even a battle or fight. Vrikta may therefore [mean] brought to its highest strength. We will accept this sense as a provisional conjecture, to be confirmed or corrected by farther enquiry, and render the line The Soma distillings are replete with energy and brought to their highest fullness.
But to what kind of distillings can such terms be applied? The meaning of Soma & the Vedic ideas about this symbolic wine must be examined by themselves & with a greater amplitude. All we need ask here [is], is there any indication in this hymn itself, that the Soma like everything else in the Sukta is subjective & symbolic? For, if so, our rendering, which at present is clouded with doubt & built on a wide but imperfectly solid foundation, will become firm & established. We have the clear suggestion in the next rik, the first of the three addressed to Indra. Sut ime tw yavah. Our question is answered. What has been distilled? Ime yavah. These life-forces, these vitalities. We shall find throughout the Veda this insistence on the life, vitality,yu or jva; we shall find that the Soma was regarded as a life-giving juice, a sort of elixir of life, or nectar of immortality, something at least that gave increased vitality, established health, prolonged youth. Of such an elixir it may well be said that it is yuvku, full of the force of youth in which the Aswins must specially delight, vriktabarhish, raised to its highest strength & fullness so that the gods who drink of it, become in the man in whom they enter and are seated, increased, vriddha, to the full height of their function and activity,the Aswins to their utmost richness of bounty, their intensest fiery activity. Nectarjuices, they are called, indavah, pourings of delight, yavah, life forces, amritsah, elixirs of immortality.
--
When we look carefully at the passage before us, we find an expression which strikes one as a very extraordinary phrase in reference to a god of lightning and rain. Indryhi, says Madhuchchhanda, dhiyeshito viprajtah. On any ordinary acceptance of the meaning of words, we have to render this line, Come, O Indra, impelled by the understanding, driven by the Wise One. Sayana thinks that vipra means Brahmin and the idea is that Indra is moved to come by the intelligent sacrificing priests and he explains dhiyeshito, moved to come by our understanding, that is to say, by our devotion. But understanding does not mean devotion and the artificiality of the interpretation is apparent.We will, as usual, put aside the ritualistic & naturalistic traditions and see to what the natural sense of the words themselves leads us. I question the traditional acceptance of viprajta as a compound of vipra & jta; it seems tome clearly to be vi prajtah, driven forward variously or in various directions. I am content to accept the primary sense of impelled for ishita, although, whether we read dhiy ishito with the Padapatha, or dhiy shito, it may equally well mean, controlled by the understanding; but of themselves the expressions impelled & driven forward in various paths imply a perfect control.We have then, Come, O Indra, impelled (or controlled, governed) by the understanding and driven forward in various paths. What is so driven forward? Obviously not the storm, not the lightning, not any force of material Nature, but a subjective force, and, as one can see at a glance, a force of mind. Now Indra is the king of Swar and Swar in the symbolical interpretation of the Vedic terms current in after times is the mental heaven corresponding to the principle of Manas, mind. His name means the Strong. In the Puranas he is that which the Rishis have to conquer in order to attain their goal, that which sends the Apsaras, the lower delights & temptations of the senses to bewilder the sage and the hero; and, as is well known, in the Indian system of Yoga it is the Mind with its snares, sensuous temptations & intellectual delusions which is the enemy that has to be overcome & the strong kingdom that has to be conquered. In this passage Indra is not thought of in his human form, but as embodied in the principle of light or tejas; he is harivas, substance of brightness; he is chitrabhnu, of a rich & various effulgence, epithets not easily applicable to a face or figure, but precisely applicable to the principle of mind which has always been supposed in India to be in its material element made of tejas or pure light.We may conclude, therefore, that in Indra, master of Swarga, we have the divine lord of mental force & power. It is as this mental power that he comes sutvatah upa brahmni vghatah, to the soul-movements of the chanter of the sacred song, of the holder of the nectar-wine. He is asked to come, impelled or controlled by the understanding and driven forward by it in the various paths of sumati & snrit, right thinking & truth. We remember the image in the Kathopanishad in which the mind & senses are compared to reins & horses and the understanding to the driver. We look back & see at once the connection with the function demanded of the Aswins in the preceding verses; we look forward & see easily the connection with the activity of Saraswati in the closing riks. The thought of the whole Sukta begins to outline itself, a strong, coherent and luminous progression of psychological images begins to emerge.
Brahmni, says Sayana, means the hymnal chants; vghatah is the ritwik, the sacrificial priest. These ritual senses belong to the words but we must always inquire how they came to bear them. As to vghat, we have little clue or evidence, but on the system I have developed in another work (the Origins of Aryan Speech), it may be safely concluded that the lost roots vagh & vgh, must have conveyed the sense of motion evident in the Latin vagus & vagari, wandering & to wander & the sense of crying out, calling apparent in the Latin vagire, to cry, & the Sanscrit vangh, to abuse, censure. Vghat may mean the sacrificial priest because he is the one who calls to the deity in the chant of the brahma, the sacred hymn. It may also mean one who increases in being, in his brahma, his soul, who is getting vja or substance.
1.08 - The Historical Significance of the Fish, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
spiritual currents from the East made themselves felt in early
Christianity, as we know from the reports of Hippolytus and
1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and mans mission is to manifest it.
1.08 - The Supreme Will, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
16:But even before that highest approach to identity is achieved, something of the supreme Will can manifest in us as an imperative impulsion, a God-driven action; we then act by a spontaneous self-determining Force but a fuller knowledge of meaning and aim arises only afterwards. Or the impulse to action may come as an inspiration or intuition, but rather in the heart and body than in the mind; here an effective sight enters in but the complete and exact knowledge is still deferred and comes, if at all, later. But the divine Will may descend too as a luminous single comm and or a total perception or a continuous current of perception of what is to be done into the will or into the thought or as a direction from above spontaneously fulfilled by the lower members. When the Yoga is imperfect, only some actions can be done in this way, or else a general action may so proceed but only during periods of exaltation and illumination. When the Yoga is perfect, all action becomes of this character. We may indeed distinguish three stages of a growing progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have to seek or wait for the divine inspiration and guidance and do not always find or receive it. The second is the stage when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels.
17:In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is the same, a spontaneous working of Prakriti no longer through or for the ego but at the will and for the enjoyment of the supreme Purusha. At a higher level this becomes the Truth of the absolute and universal Supreme expressed through the individual soul and worked out consciously through the nature, - no longer through a half-perception and a diminished or distorted effectuation by the stumbling, ignorant and all-deforming energy of lower nature in us but by the all-wise transcendent and universal Mother
1.09 - A System of Vedic Psychology, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Is there or can there be a system of Vedic psychology? To us who are dominated today by the prestige of European thought and scholarship, the Vedas are a document of primitive barbarism, the ancient Vedanta a mass of sublime but indisciplined speculations. We may admit the existence of many deep psychological intuitions in the Upanishads; we do not easily allow to an age which we have been taught to regard as great but primitive and undeveloped the possibility of a profound and reasoned system in a subject in which Europe with all her modern knowledge has been unable to develop a real science. I believe that this current view of our Vedic forefa thers is entirely erroneous and arises from our application to them of a false system of psychological and intellectual values. Europe has formed certain views about the Veda & the Vedanta, and succeeded in imposing them on the Indian intellect. The ease with which this subjugation has been effected, is not surprising; for the mere mass of labour of Vedic scholarship has been imposing, its ingenuity of philological speculation is well calculated to dazzle the uncritical mind and the audacity & self-confidence with which it constructs its theories conceals the conjectural uncertainty of their foundations. When a hundred world famous scholars cry out, This is so, it is hard indeed for the average mind and even minds above the average, but inexpert in these special subjects, not to acquiesce. Nor has there been in India itself any corresponding labour of scholarship, diligence & sound enquiry which could confront the brilliant and hazardous generalisations of modern Sanscrit scholarship with the results of a more perfect system and a more penetrating vision. The only attempt in that direction the attempt of Swami Dayanandahas not been of a kind to generate confidence in the dispassionate judgment of posterity which must be the final arbiter of these disputes; for not only was that great Pundit and vigorous disputant unequipped with the wide linguistic & philological scholarship necessary for his work, but his method was rapid, impatient, polemical, subservient to certain fixed religious ideas rather than executed in the calm, disinterested freedom of the careful and impartial thinker and scholar. Judgment has passed on the Veda & Vedanta by default in favour of the scholastic criticism of Europe which has alone been represented in the court of modern opinion.
Nevertheless a time must come when the Indian mind will shake off the paralysis that has fallen upon it, cease to think or hold opinions at second & third hand & reassert its right to judge and inquire with a perfect freedom into the meaning of its own Scriptures. When that day comes, we shall, I think, discover that the imposing fabric of Vedic theory is based upon nothing more sound or lasting than a foundation of loosely massed conjectures. We shall question many established philological myths,the legend, for instance, of an Aryan invasion of India from the north, the artificial & unreal distinction of Aryan & Dravidian which an erroneous philology has driven like a wedge into the unity of the homogeneous Indo-Afghan race; the strange dogma of a henotheistic Vedic naturalism; the ingenious & brilliant extravagances of the modern sun & star myth weavers, and many another hasty & attractive generalisation which, after a brief period of unquestioning acceptance by the easily-persuaded intellect of mankind, is bound to depart into the limbo of forgotten theories. We attach an undue importance & value to the ephemeral conclusions of European philology, because it is systematic in its errors and claims to be a science.We forget or do not know that the claims of philology to a scientific value & authority are scouted by European scientists; the very word, Philologe, is a byword of scorn to serious scientific writers in Germany, the temple of philology. One of the greatest of modern philologists & modern thinkers, Ernest Renan, was finally obliged after a lifetime of hope & earnest labour to class the chief preoccupation of his life as one of the petty conjectural sciencesin other words no science at all, but a system of probabilities & guesses. Beyond one or two generalisations of the mutations followed by words in their progress through the various Aryan languages and a certain number of grammatical rectifications & rearrangements, resulting in a less arbitrary view of linguistic relations, modern philology has discovered no really binding law or rule for its own guidance. It has fixed one or two sure signposts; the rest is speculation and conjecture.We are not therefore bound to worship at the shrines of Comparative Science & Comparative Mythology & offer up on these dubious altars the Veda & Vedanta. The question of Vedic truth & the meaning of Veda still lies open. If Sayanas interpretation of Vedic texts is largely conjectural and likely often to be mistaken & unsound, the European interpretation can lay claim to no better certainty. The more lively ingenuity and imposing orderliness of the European method of conjecture may be admitted; but ingenuity & orderliness, though good helps to an enquiry, are in themselves no guarantee of truth and a conjecture does not cease to be a conjecture, because its probability or possibility is laboriously justified or brilliantly supported. It is on the basis of a purely conjectural translation of the Vedas that Europe presents us with these brilliant pictures of Vedic religion, Vedic society, Vedic civilisation which we so eagerly accept and unquestioningly reproduce. For we take them as the form of an unquestionable truth; in reality, they are no more than brilliantly coloured hypotheses,works of imagination, not drawings from the life.
1.09 - BOOK THE NINTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And in its bounds with peaceful current glides.
But Achelous in his oozy bed
--
Her rapid current, swell'd by wintry show'rs,
He came. The frequent eddies whirl'd the tide,
1.09 - Civilisation and Culture, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But in a civilised society there is still the distinction between the partially, crudely, conventionally civilised and the cultured. It would seem therefore that the mere participation in the ordinary benefits of civilisation is not enough to raise a man into the mental life proper; a farther development, a higher elevation is needed. The last generation drew emphatically the distinction between the cultured man and the Philistine and got a fairly clear idea of what was meant by it. Roughly, the Philistine was for them the man who lives outwardly the civilised life, possesses all its paraphernalia, has and mouths the current stock of opinions, prejudices, conventions, sentiments, but is impervious to ideas, exercises no free intelligence, is innocent of beauty and art, vulgarises everything that he touches, religion, ethics, literature, life. The Philistine is in fact the modern civilised barbarian; he is often the half-civilised physical and vital barbarian by his unintelligent attachment to the life of the body, the life of the vital needs and impulses and the ideal of the merely domestic and economic human animal; but essentially and commonly he is the mental barbarian, the average sensational man. That is to say, his mental life is that of the lower substratum of the mind, the life of the senses, the life of the sensations, the life of the emotions, the life of practical conduct the first status of the mental being. In all these he may be very active, very vigorous, but he does not govern them by a higher light or seek to uplift them to a freer and nobler eminence; rather he pulls the higher faculties down to the level of his senses, his sensations, his unenlightened and unchastened emotions, his gross utilitarian practicality. His aesthetic side is little developed; either he cares nothing for beauty or has the crudest aesthetic tastes which help to lower and vulgarise the general standard of aesthetic creation and the aesthetic sense. He is often strong about morals, far more particular usually about moral conduct than the man of culture, but his moral being is as crude and undeveloped as the rest of him; it is conventional, unchastened, unintelligent, a mass of likes and dislikes, prejudices and current opinions, attachment to social conventions and respectabilities and an obscure dislikerooted in the mind of sensations and not in the intelligenceof any open defiance or departure from the generally accepted standard of conduct. His ethical bent is a habit of the sensemind; it is the morality of the average sensational man. He has a reason and the appearance of an intelligent will, but they are not his own, they are part of the group-mind, received from his environment; or so far as they are his own, merely a practical, sensational, emotional reason and will, a mechanical repetition of habitual notions and rules of conduct, not a play of real thought and intelligent determination. His use of them no more makes him a developed mental being than the daily movement to and from his place of business makes the average Londoner a developed physical being or his quotidian contri butions to the economic life of the country make the bank-clerk a developed economic man. He is not mentally active, but mentally reactive,a very different matter.
The Philistine is not dead,quite the contrary, he abounds,but he no longer reigns. The sons of Culture have not exactly conquered, but they have got rid of the old Goliath and replaced him by a new giant. This is the sensational man who has got awakened to the necessity at least of some intelligent use of the higher faculties and is trying to be mentally active. He has been whipped and censured and educated into that activity and he lives besides in a maelstrom of new information, new intellectual fashions, new ideas and new movements to which he can no longer be obstinately impervious. He is open to new ideas, he can catch at them and hurl them about in a rather confused fashion; he can understand or misunderstand ideals, organise to get them carried out and even, it would appear, fight and die for them. He knows he has to think about ethical problems, social problems, problems of science and religion, to welcome new political developments, to look with as understanding an eye as he can attain to at all the new movements of thought and inquiry and action that chase each other across the modern field or clash upon it. He is a reader of poetry as well as a devourer of fiction and periodical literature,you will find in him perhaps a student of Tagore or an admirer of Whitman; he has perhaps no very clear ideas about beauty and aesthetics, but he has heard that Art is a not altogether unimportant part of life. The shadow of this new colossus is everywhere. He is the great reading public; the newspapers and weekly and monthly reviews are his; fiction and poetry and art are his mental caterers, the theatre and the cinema and the radio exist for him: Science hastens to bring her knowledge and discoveries to his doors and equip his life with endless machinery; politics are shaped in his image. It is he who opposed and then brought about the enfranchisement of women, who has been evolving syndicalism, anarchism, the war of classes, the uprising of labour, waging what we are told are wars of ideas or of cultures,a ferocious type of conflict made in the very image of this new barbarism,or bringing about in a few days Russian revolutions which the century-long efforts and sufferings of the intelligentsia failed to achieve. It is his coming which has been the precipitative agent for the reshaping of the modern world. If a Lenin, a Mussolini, a Hitler have achieved their rapid and almost stupefying success, it was because this driving force, this responsive quick-acting mass was there to carry them to victorya force lacking to their less fortunate predecessors.
1.09 - Concentration - Its Spiritual Uses, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
Some of this I have told you before, but a little repetition will serve to fix it in your minds. First, you must remember that this Prana is not the breath; but that which causes the motion of the breath, that which is the vitality of the breath, is the Prana. Again, the word Prana is used for all the senses; they are all called Pranas, the mind is called Prana; and so we see that Prana is force. And yet we cannot call it force, because force is only the manifestation of it. It is that which manifests itself as force and everything else in the way of motion. The Chitta, the mind-stuff, is the engine which draws in the Prana from the surroundings, and manufactures out of Prana the various vital forces those that keep the body in preservation and thought, will, and all other powers. By the abovementioned process of breathing we can control all the various motions in the body, and the various nerve currents that are running through the body. First we begin to recognise them, and then we slowly get control over them.
Now, these later Yogis consider that there are three main currents of this Prana in the human body. One they call Id, another Pingal, and the third Sushumn. Pingala, according to them, is on the right side of the spinal column, and the Ida on the left, and in the middle of the spinal column is the Sushumna, an empty channel. Ida and Pingala, according to them, are the currents working in every man, and through these currents, we are performing all the functions of life. Sushumna is present in all, as a possibility; but it works only in the Yogi. You must remember that Yoga changes the body. As you go on practising, your body changes; it is not the same body that you had before the practice. That is very rational, and can be explained, because every new thought that we have must make, as it were, a new channel through the brain, and that explains the tremendous conservatism of human nature. Human nature likes to run through the ruts that are already there, because it is easy. If we think, just for example's sake, that the mind is like a needle, and the brain substance a soft lump before it, then each thought that we have makes a street, as it were, in the brain, and this street would close up, but for the grey matter which comes and makes a lining to keep it separate. If there were no grey matter, there would be no memory, because memory means going over these old streets, retracing a thought as it were. Now perhaps you have marked that when one talks on subjects in which one takes a few ideas that are familiar to everyone, and combines and recombines them, it is easy to follow because these channels are present in everyone's brain, and it is only necessary to recur to them. But whenever a new subject comes, new channels have to be made, so it is not understood readily. And that is why the brain (it is the brain, and not the people themselves) refuses unconsciously to be acted upon by new ideas. It resists. The Prana is trying to make new channels, and the brain will not allow it. This is the secret of conservatism. The fewer channels there have been in the brain, and the less the needle of the Prana has made these passages, the more conservative will be the brain, the more it will struggle against new thoughts. The more thoughtful the man, the more complicated will be the streets in his brain, and the more easily he will take to new ideas, and understand them. So with every fresh idea, we make a new impression in the brain, cut new channels through the brain-stuff, and that is why we find that in the practice of Yoga (it being an entirely new set of thoughts and motives) there is so much physical resistance at first. That is why we find that the part of religion which deals with the world-side of nature is so widely accepted, while the other part, the philosophy, or the psychology, which clears with the inner nature of man, is so frequently neglected.
We must remember the definition of this world of ours; it is only the Infinite Existence projected into the plane of consciousness. A little of the Infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world. So there is an Infinite beyond; and religion has to deal with both with the little lump we call our world, and with the Infinite beyond. Any religion which deals with one only of these two will be defective. It must deal with both. The part of religion which deals with the part of the Infinite which has come into the plane of consciousness, got itself caught, as it were, in the plane of consciousness, in the cage of time, space, and causation, is quite familiar to us, because we are in that already, and ideas about this world have been with us almost from time immemorial. The part of religion which deals with the Infinite beyond comes entirely new to us, and getting ideas about it produces new channels in the brain, disturbing the whole system, and that is why you find in the practice of Yoga ordinary people are at first turned out of their grooves. In order to lessen these disturbances as much as possible, all these methods are devised by Patanjali, that we may practice any one of them best suited to us.
--
Sound here means vibration, meaning the nerve currents which conduct it; and knowledge, reaction. All the various meditations we have had so far, Patanjali calls Savitarka (meditation with question). Later on he gives us higher and higher Dhynas. In these that are called "with question," we keep the duality of subject and object, which results from the mixture of word, meaning, and knowledge. There is first the external vibration, the word. This, carried inward by the sense currents, is the meaning. After that there comes a reactionary wave in the Chitta, which is knowledge, but the mixture of these three makes up what we call knowledge. In all the meditations up to this we get this mixture as objects of meditation. The next Samadhi is higher.
1.09 - FAITH IN PEACE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
crease in the tide of war, but simply a clash of currents: the old dis-
146 THE FUTURE OF MAN
1.09 - Kundalini Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
20. Nadis are the astral tubes made up of astral matter. They carry Pranic currents.
21. There are 72,000 Nadis. Of these, three are most important. They are Ida, Pingala and Sushumna.
1.09 - Saraswati and Her Consorts, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
So also, the seven rivers are conscious currents corresponding to
Saraswati and Her Consorts
--
Saraswati as one of the seven rivers becomes clear. She is the current which comes from the Truth-principle, from the Ritam or Mahas, and we actually find this principle spoken of in the
Veda, - in the closing passage of our third hymn for instance,
1.09 - Sri Aurobindo and the Big Bang, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
We can say that the Big Bang theory is currently re
garded as a well-established theory, the standard-model
--
According to the current Big Bang theory, the universe
originated from something smaller than an atom, even
1.09 - The Absolute Manifestation, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
One could as well say that the being between these two absolute poles ascends from an impossible Nothingness towards an inaccessible Infinite. Or rather that from either of these poles proceed two opposite currents, one tending from being towards non-being, the other from non-being towards being. At every point where they meet, their conflict generates all the possible forms of the relative in all its states of substance.
The point at which these two dreams of the Infinite are in equilibrium or identify themselves in a sole reality, is the point of the eternal consciousness.
1.09 - The Greater Self, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
We have cut little pieces out of that great indivisible oneness, that fullness of the world, that global self. We have sliced little pieces out of space and time, particles of self and not-self, protons and electrons, pluses and minuses tightly wedded to one another, good and evil, night and day inextricably bound to one another, incomplete without one another, never complete with each other; for all the nights and days together will never make a complete day; all the pluses and minuses, goods and evils, selves and not-selves added up will never make a full beauty, a single being. And we have replaced oneness by multiplicity, love by loves, rhythm by harmonies that are broken and restored. But our fusion is nothing but an addition, and life is born out of death as if we constantly had to destroy in order to be, split in order to join in a new appearance of unity which is only the sum of the same separations, of the same good and evil, of plus and minus, of a self that is a million past selves but not a single little full drop. We have drawn a little circle in the great indivisible Life, enclosed a fragment of being in a gelatine capsule, set apart one note of the great rhythm beneath a shell of beast or man, and seized a few hard and trenchant thoughts from the great rainbow current whose strands dangled over the bushes of the world. We have cut up the great Look in the heart of things and produced a thousand irreducible facets. And since we could no longer see anything of the great world, shielded, fragmented and syncopated as it was, we have invented eyes to see what we had driven away, ears to hear what whispered everywhere, fingers to grasp a few fragments of a full beauty we had truncated, and thirst, desire, hunger for everything that was no longer us antennas, thousands of antennas to capture the one note that would fill our hearts. And since we could no longer grasp anything without these inventions, these eyes, senses and gray cells oh, so gray! we came to believe that the world was inaccessible without them, that it resembled the reading on our little dials, and that perhaps we were even the creators of the broken waves going through our antennas. We have said I, others, and I again and I forever and ever, in a black or a yellow skin, under an Athenian shell or a Theban one, under these ruins or those, under the same old ruins of little I's who die without knowing why, who live by fragments, enjoy themselves without ever really enjoying themselves, and come back again and again to understand what they had not understood and, perhaps, to build the full City of the great self at last. When we touch that fullness, our good will no longer clash with our evil, our pluses with our minuses, because everything will be our good and flow in the same direction; our nights will no longer be the opposite of our days, our loves a fraction of all loves, our little notes a cry torn from the great Note, because there will be only one music playing through our millions of instruments, only one love with a million faces and only one great day with its cool shades and rainbow cascades beneath the great tree of the world. Then it may become unnecessary to die, because we will have found the secret of the life that is reborn from its own joy one dies only from lack of joy and in order to find an ever greater joy.
This all, this great all has been seen by sages in their visions and by a few rare poets and thinkers: All this is Brahman immortal, naught else; Brahman is in front of us, Brahman behind us, to the south of us and to the North of us and below us and above us; it stretches everywhere. All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent universe.19 Thou art woman and thou art man also; Thou art the boy and girl, and Thou art yonder worn and aged man that walkest bending upon a staff.... Thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet eyed.20 Thou art That, O Swetaketu.21 This great all that is us has shined at the summit of human accomplishment, left a few hieroglyphic traces on the walls of Thebes, and nourished initiates here and there at times we have entered a white radiance above the worlds where, in a flash, we have dissolved the little self and emerged into a cosmic consciousness.... But none of that has changed the world. We still did not have the clue that would connect that vision to this earth and make a new world with a new look. Our truths remained fragile; the earth remained refractory and rightly so. Why should it obey the illuminations from above if that light does not affect its matter, if it itself does not see and it itself is not illuminated? In truth, wisdom is very wise and the earth's darkness is not a negation of the Spirit, any more than night is a negation of day; it is an expectation and a calling for light, and so long as we do not call the light here, why should it trouble itself to move from its summits? So long as we do not turn our nocturnal half toward its sun, why should it be filled with light? If we seek solar wholeness on the summits of the mind, we shall have wholeness there, in a lovely thought; if we seek it in the heart, we shall have it there, in a tender emotion if we seek it in matter at every instant, we shall have that same wholeness in matter and at every instant of matter. We have to know where we are looking. We cannot reasonably find the light where we are not looking. Then, perhaps, we shall realize that this earth was not so dark after all. It was our look that was dark, our want of being that brought about the want of things. The earth's resistance is our own resistance and the promise of a solid truth: an innumerable bursting of rainbows into incarnate myriads instead of an empty radiance on the heights of the Spirit.
1.09 - The Worship of Trees, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
banks and sweeps some tall tree into its current, it is said that
the spirit of the tree cries, while the roots still cling to the
--
transmigration current among rude peoples of Asia are derived from
Buddhism, is to reverse the facts.
1.1.01 - The Divine and Its Aspects, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The distinction between the Transcendental, the Cosmic, the Individual Divine is not my invention, nor is it native to India or to Asia - it is on the contrary a recognised European teaching current in the esoteric tradition of the Catholic Church where it is the authorised explanation of the Trinity, - Father, Son and Holy Ghost, - and it is very well-known to European mystic experience. In essence it exists in all spiritual disciplines that recognise the omnipresence of the Divine - in Indian Vedantic experience and in Mahomedan Yoga (not only the Sufi, but other schools also) - the Mahomedans even speak of not two or three but many levels of the Divine until one reaches the Supreme. As for the idea in itself, surely there is a difference between the individual, the cosmos in space and time, and something that exceeds this cosmic formula or any cosmic formula. There is a cosmic consciousness experienced by many which is quite different in its scope and action from the individual consciousness, and if there is a consciousness beyond the cosmic, infinite and essentially eternal, not merely extended in Time, that also must be different from these two. And if the Divine is or manifests Himself in these three, is it not conceivable that in aspect, in
His working, He may differentiate Himself so much that we are driven, if we are not to confound all truth of experience, if we are not to limit ourselves to a mere static experience of something indefinable, to speak of a triple aspect of the Divine?
11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the current of the blood makes flow the soul.
His is the dumb will of atom and of clod;
1.10 - Aesthetic and Ethical Culture, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the range of the minds life itself, to live in its merely practical and dynamic activity or in the mentalised emotional or sensational current, a life of conventional conduct, average feelings, customary ideas, opinions and prejudices which are not ones own but those of the environment, to have no free and open play of mind, but to live grossly and unthinkingly by the unintelligent rule of the many, to live besides according to the senses and sensations controlled by certain conventions, but neither purified nor enlightened nor chastened by any law of beauty,all this too is contrary to the ideal of culture. A man may so live with all the appearance or all the pretensions of a civilised existence, enjoy successfully all the plethora of its appurtenances, but he is not in the real sense a developed human being. A society following such a rule of life may be anything else you will, vigorous, decent, well-ordered, successful, religious, moral, but it is a Philistine society; it is a prison which the human soul has to break. For so long as it dwells there, it dwells in an inferior, uninspired and unexpanding mental status; it vegetates infructuously in the lower stratum and is governed not by the higher faculties of man, but by the crudities of the unuplifted sense-mind. Nor is it enough for it to open windows in this prison by which it may get draughts of agreeable fresh air, something of the free light of the intellect, something of the fragrance of art and beauty, something of the large breath of wider interests and higher ideals. It has yet to break out of its prison altogether and live in that free light, in that fragrance and large breath; only then does it brea the the natural atmosphere of the developed mental being. Not to live principally in the activities of the sense-mind, but in the activities of knowledge and reason and a wide intellectual curiosity, the activities of the cultivated aesthetic being, the activities of the enlightened will which make for character and high ethical ideals and a large human action, not to be governed by our lower or our average mentality but by truth and beauty and the self-ruling will is the ideal of a true culture and the beginning of an accomplished humanity.
We get then by elimination to a positive idea and definition of culture. But still on this higher plane of the mental life we are apt to be pursued by old exclusivenesses and misunderstandings. We see that in the past there seems often to have been a quarrel between culture and conduct; yet according to our definition conduct also is a part of the cultured life and the ethical ideality one of the master impulses of the cultured being. The opposition which puts on one side the pursuit of ideas and knowledge and beauty and calls that culture and on the other the pursuit of character and conduct and exalts that as the moral life must start evidently from an imperfect view of human possibility and perfection. Yet that opposition has not only existed, but is a naturally strong tendency of the human mind and therefore must answer to some real and important divergence in the very composite elements of our being. It is the opposition which Arnold drew between Hebraism and Hellenism. The trend of the Jewish nation which gave us the severe ethical religion of the Old Testament,crude, conventional and barbarous enough in the Mosaic law, but rising to undeniable heights of moral exaltation when to the Law were added the Prophets, and finally exceeding itself and blossoming into a fine flower of spirituality in Judaic Christianity,1was dominated by the preoccupation of a terrestrial and ethical righteousness and the promised rewards of right worship and right doing, but innocent of science and philosophy, careless of knowledge, indifferent to beauty. The Hellenic mind was less exclusively but still largely dominated by a love of the play of reason for its own sake, but even more powerfully by a high sense of beauty, a clear aesthetic sensibility and a worship of the beautiful in every activity, in every creation, in thought, in art, in life, in religion. So strong was this sense that not only manners, but ethics were seen by it to a very remarkable extent in the light of its master idea of beauty; the good was to its instinct largely the becoming and the beautiful. In philosophy itself it succeeded in arriving at the conception of the Divine as Beauty, a truth which the metaphysician very readily misses and impoverishes his thought by missing it. But still, striking as is this great historical contrast and powerful as were its results on European culture, we have to go beyond its outward manifestation if we would understand in its source this psychological opposition.
1.10 - Concentration - Its Practice, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
We find pleasure in certain things, and the mind like a current flows towards them; and this following the pleasure centre, as it were, is what is called attachment. We are never attached where we do not find pleasure. We find pleasure in very queer things sometimes, but the principle remains: wherever we find pleasure, there we are attached.
8. Aversion is that which dwells on pain.
1.10 - Harmony, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
We manipulate thought haphazardly. Generally, we do not even manipulate it; it manipulates us. We are besieged by a thousand useless thoughts that run back and forth through our inner realm, automatically, futilely, ten, perhaps a hundred times by the time we have walked down the boulevard or climbed the stairs. It is hardly thought; it is a sort of thinking current that got into the habit of following some of our convolutions and circumvolutions and assumes a more or less neutral color, more or less brilliant, depending on our taste or inclination, our heredity, our environment, and is expressed by preferred or customary words, blue or gray philosophies in one language or another but it is one and the same current running everywhere. It is the mental machinery clicking and rumbling and working sempiternally the same range or intensity of the general current. This activity veils everything, envelops everything, and casts a pall over everything with its thick and sticky cloud. But the seeker of the new world is one step removed from this machinery; he has discovered the quiet little clearing behind; he has lit a fire of need in the center of his being; he takes his fire everywhere he goes. And everything is different for him. Unclouded in his little clearing, he begins to see the functioning of the mind; he watches the great play, uncovers step by step the secrets of the mental magic which ought perhaps to be called mental illusion, though if it is an illusion, it is a very effective one. And all sorts of phenomena begin to attract his notice, a little disorderly, in recurring little spurts that end up making a coherent picture. The more he sees, the stronger his control.
This clarity is progressive. But he does not seek to see more clearly, if we may say, because seeking is again to risk setting the old process in motion, enlisting the machine to fight the machine, his right hand to control his left. And besides, we do not even know what is to be sought or found! If we set out with an idea, we will only go in the direction of our idea, a little like the doctor locking himself (and his patient) into a diagnosis: we set up walls beforehand, a trap for something untrappable that will give itself, or it won't, and that's all. The seeker (we should perhaps simply call him the one aspiring to be born) is not concerned with stopping the machinery; he is only concerned with his fire. He makes his fire burn. He is centered in that need in his depths, that poignant call for being amid the great drift, that almost painful thirst in the desert of things and beings passing by and days elapsing as though they did not exist. And his fire burns, grows hotter. And the hotter it grows, the more it consumes the machinery, dissipates the cloud, the vain thoughts, sweeps inside and out. It is the birth of the little clearing. It is the beginning of a clear little flowing that seems to vibrate behind his head, tightening his neck, sometimes even pressing hard then he learns to let it flow freely through him, not to block the passage by resisting, to make himself supple and porous. He lets the flow fill him, the clear little vibration that seems to go on and on and flow without interruption, like a muted little song accompanying him, like a rhythm rising and pulsating endlessly, like two light bird wings beating within his innermost azure and supporting him everywhere, making a sort of tranquil sweetness of view, as though life receded, widened, sank into a clear infinity vibrating with that rhythm alone, that soft, light, transparent cadence alone. And everything starts to become extraordinarily simple.
From within that silence in him a silence that is not empty, not an absence of noise, not a cold and toneless blank, but the smooth breadth of the open sea, an extreme of sweetness that fills him and needs neither words nor thought nor comprehension: it is instant comprehension, the embracing of everything, the absolute here and now. So what could be missing? the seeker, the newborn to be, begins to see the mental play. First, he sees that those thousands of thoughts, gray or blue or paler, do not actually emanate from any brain. Rather, they float in midair, as it were. They are currents, vibrations, which are translated into thoughts in our heads when we capture them, as waves are translated into music or words or images into our television sets; and everything shifts and moves and whirls at different levels, flows universally over our motley little frontiers: captured in English, German, French; colored yellow, black, or blue depending on the height of our antenna; rhythmic, broken, or scattered into a powdering of microscopic thoughts depending on our level of reception; musical, grating, or discordant depending on our clarity or complication. But the seeker, the listener, does not try to pick up one channel or another, to turn the dials of his machine to capture this or that he is tuned in to the infinite, focused on a little flame in the center, so sweet and full, free from interference and preference. He needs only one thing: that that flame in him burn and burn, that that flowing pass again and again through his clearing, without words, without mental meaning, and yet full of meaning and of all meaning, as if it were the very source of meaning. And, at times, without his thinking or wanting it, something comes and strikes him: a little vibration, a little note alighting on his still waters and leaving a whole train of waves. And if he leans a little, to see, stretches toward that little eddy (or that slight note, that point calling out, that rip in the expanse of his being), a thought appears, a feeling, an image or a sensation as though there were really no dividing line between one mode of translation and another; there is just something vibrating, a more or less clear rhythm, a more or less pure light being lit in him, a shadow, a heaviness, an uneasiness, sometimes a glittering little rocket, dancing and light as a powdering of sunshine on the sea, an outpouring of tenderness, a fleeting smile and sometimes a great, solemn rhythm that seems to rise from the depths of time, immense, poignant, eternal, which calls up the unique sacred chant of the world. And It flows effortlessly. There is no need to think or want; the only need is to be again, to burn in unison with a single little flame that is like the very fire of the world. And, when necessary, just for a second, a little note comes knocking at his window, and there comes exactly the right thought, the impulse for the required action, the right or left turn that will open up an unexpected trail and a whole chain of answers and new opportunities. The seeker, the fervent one, then intimately understands the invocation of this five or six-thousand-year-old Vedic poet: O Fire, let there be created in us the correct thought that springs from Thee.24
But wrong thoughts, too, are a surprising source of discoveries. As a matter of fact, more and more, he realizes that this kind of distinction is meaningless. What, in the end, is not for our own good? What does not ultimately turn out to be our greater good? The wrong paths are part of the right one and pave a broader way, a larger view of our indivisible estate. The only wrong is not to see; it is the vast grayness of the terra incognita of our limited maps. And we indeed limit our maps. We have attributed those thoughts, feelings, reactions and desires to the little Mississippi flowing through our lands, to the thriving Potomac rivers lined with stone buildings and fortresses and indeed, they have got into the habit of running through those channels, cascading here or there, boiling a little farther below, or disappearing into our marshes. It is a very old habit, going back even before us or the ape, or else a scarcely more recent one going back to our schooldays, our parents or yesterday's newspaper. We have opened paths, and the current follows them it follows them obstinately. But for the demechanized seeker, the meanders and points of entry begin to become more visible. He begins to distinguish various levels in his being, various channeling centers, and when the current passes through the solar plexus or through the throat, the reactions or effects are different. But, mostly, he discovers with surprise that it is one and the same current everywhere, above or below, right or left, and those which we call thought, desire, will or emotion are various infiltrations of the same identical thing, which is neither thought nor desire nor will nor anything of the sort, but a trickle, a drop or a cataract of the same conscious Energy entering here or there, through our little Potomac or muddy Styx, and creating a disaster or a poem, a millipede's quiver, a revolution, a gospel or a vain thought on the boulevard we could almost say at will. It all depends on the quality of our opening and its level. But the fundamental fact is that this is an Energy, in other words, a Power. And thus, very simply, quite simply, we have the all-powerful source of all possible changes in the world. It is as we will it! We can tune in either here or there, create harmony or cacophony; not a single circumstance in the world, not one fateful event, not one so-called ineluctable law, absolutely nothing can prevent us from turning the antenna one way or the other and changing this muddy and disastrous flood into a limpid stream, instantly. We just have to know where we open ourselves. At every moment of the world and every second, in the face of every dreadful circumstance, every prison we have locked ourselves alive in, we can, in one stroke, with a single cry for help, a single burst of prayer, a single true look, a single leap of the little flame inside, topple all our walls and be born again from top to bottom. Everything is possible. Because that Power is the supreme Possibility.
But if we believe only in our little Mississippi or our little Potomac, it is clearly hopeless. And we do indeed believe passionately, millennially in the virtue of our old ways. They also hold an immense power that of habit. It is remarkable, for they seem as solid as concrete, as convincing as all the old reasons of the world, the old habits of flowing in one direction or another, as irrefutable as Newton's apple, and yet, for the eye beginning to lose its scales, as unsubstantial as a cloud one blows on them and they fall away. This is the mental Illusion, the formidable illusion that is blinding us.
--
And the Rhythm, the great Rhythm, was scattered, broken up, pulverized to enter the heart of its world and make itself the size of the millipede or a little leaf quivering in the wind, to make itself understood by a brain, loved by a passerby. We have drawn from it syncopated music, multicolored pictures, joys, sorrows, since we could no longer contain its whole, unbroken flow. We have made it into equations, poems, architecture; we have trapped it in our machines, locked it in an amulet or a thought, since we could no longer bear the pressure of its great direct flow. And we have made dungeons, hells, which were the absence of that rhythm, the lack of a lungful of eternal air, the suffocation of a little man who believes only in his suffering, only in the push buttons of his machine and the walls of his intelligence. We have graphed, multiplied, broken down, atomized to infinity; and we could no longer make out or understand anything, since we had lost the one little breath of the great breath, the one little sign of the great Direction, the little note that loves and understands all. And since we had closed everything around us, locked ourselves in a shell, armor-plated ourselves in our thinking logic, equipped ourselves with irrefutable helmets and antennas, we have declared that that Harmony, that Rhythm, did not exist, that it was far, far above, the paradise of our virtues, the crackling of our little antennas, the dream of a collective unconscious, the product of the evolved earthworm, the meeting of two enamored molecules like the savage of old who used to cut up the unknown lands, we have cut up space and time, thrown back into another geography the Ganges and El Dorados we have not yet crossed, the pretty fords of that little river. But that Ganges and that El Dorado are here, as well as many other marvels, many other currents of the great current. All is here, under our feet, if we will only open the little shell and stop putting off until heaven or doomsday what sings in each minute of time and each pebble of space.
This is the Harmony of the new world, the joy of the greater Self. It is here, instantly, if we want. All it takes is removing our blinders. All it takes is a true look, a simple look at the great world. All it takes is a little fire inside to consume all the shells and sufferings and bubbles for the only suffering is to be confined there.
1.10 - THE FORMATION OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
The currents that give birth to sidereal systems; the folds and up-
thrusts that form mountains and continents; the ebb and flow
--
creasingly to view it as an underlying current in the flow of which
matter tends to order itself upon itself with the emergence of con-
--
sort of current will be generated, what unknown territory will be
opened up, when the circuit is suddenly completed?
1.10 - The Image of the Oceans and the Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thus we find that both Veda and Purana use the same symbolic images; the ocean is for them the image of infinite and eternal existence. We find also that the image of the river or flowing current is used to symbolise a stream of conscious being. We find that Saraswati, one of the seven rivers, is the river of inspiration flowing from the Truth-consciousness. We have the right then to suppose that the other six rivers are also psychological symbols.
But we need not depend entirely on hypothesis and inference, however strong and entirely convincing. As in the hymn of Vamadeva we have seen that the rivers, ghr.tasya dharah., are there not rivers of clarified butter or rivers of physical water, but psychological symbols, so we find in other hymns the same compelling evidence as to the image of the seven rivers. For this purpose I will examine one more hymn, the first Sukta of the third Mandala sung by the Rishi Vishwamitra to the god Agni; for here he speaks of the seven rivers in language as remarkable and unmistakable as the language of Vamadeva about the rivers of clarity. We shall find precisely the same ideas recurring in quite different contexts in the chants of these two sacred singers.
1.10 - The Magical Garment, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
This is to be treated in the same manner as the cap or magusband. The magical gament is a long robe made of silk, buttoned from the neck to the toes. The sleeves of the robe end at the wrists. The robe looks like the vestment of a clergyman and symbolizes the absolute purity of all ideas, and the purity of the magician's soul. It is also the symbol of protection. Just as a common garment protects a man's physical body from outside influences, rain, cold etc. so the magical garment of the magician shelters him from outside influences which may attact his body through its astral or mental matrix. As already mentioned several times, silk is the best insulating material against any astral or mental influences. A robe made of silk is therefore an excellent means of in61 sulation and may also be successfully used for other operations not directly connected with ritual magic; for instance, protection of the astral or physical body when projecting the mental or astral body so that no being can take possession of the magician's astral or physical body without his approval. A magic robe may also be successfully used for similar operations for which the insulation of the mental, astral and physical body is necessary. It is, however, up to the magician which possible variations he wants to make use of. Under no circumstances may the magician use a garment for ritual magic or evocations which has been used for common purposes such as, for example, training, or current magical operations. A special robe must be taken for this special kind of magic, and its colour must suit the purpose. Here I should point out that for common mental and astral operations or experiments, the insulating garment may be put on top of any other clothes; for evocations and ritual magic; however, the magical garment is to be worn over the naked body. The magician may, however, in cold weather, put on a shirt or pants made of pure silk und put the robe over them, but the pants or shirt must be of the same colour as the robe. The magician may use house-shoes of the same colour as the robe. The soles of the shoes can be made of leather or rubber.
The colour of the robe corresponds to the work, idea and purpose the magician wishes to carry out. He may choose one of the three universal colours: white, violet or black. Violet is equivalent to the Akasha-colour and may be used for nearly all magical operations. White is chosen for the robe only, when dealing with high and good beings. Black is the appropriate colour for negative powers and beings. The magician is able to carry out almost all ritual operations with these colours. If he can afford the expense, he can have three robes made, one of each colour. A wealthy magician may choose, for his robes, colours analogous to the individual spheres of the planets he works with. Thus he will take for:
1.10 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
PREACHER: "Sir, I compare the formless God to the electric current, which is not seen with the eyes but can be felt."
MASTER: "Yes, both are true. God with form is as real as God without form. Do you know what describing God as being formless only is like? It is like a man's playing only a monotone on his flute, though it has seven holes. But on the same instrument another man plays different melodies. Likewise, in how many ways the believers in a Personal God enjoy Him! They enjoy Him through many different attitudes: the serene attitude, the attitude of a servant, a friend, a mother, a husband, or a lover.
1.10 - Theodicy - Nature Makes No Mistakes, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
cause pain and pleasure themselves are currents, one im-
perfect, the other perverse, but still currents of the delight of
existence. ... The nature of suffering is a [provisional] failure
1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In what light did these ancient thinkers understand the Vedic gods? As material Nature Powers called only to give worldly wealth to their worshippers? Certainly, the Vedic gods are in the Vedanta also accredited with material functions. In the Kena Upanishad Agnis power & glory is to burn, Vayus to seize & bear away. But these are not their only functions. In the same Upanishad, in the same apologue, told as a Vedantic parable, Indra, Agni & Vayu, especially Indra, are declared to be the greatest of the gods because they came nearest into contact with the Brahman. Indra, although unable to recognise the Brahman directly, learned of his identity from Uma daughter of the snowy mountains. Certainly, the sense of the parable is not that Dawn told the Sky who Brahman was or that material Sky, Fire & Wind are best able to come into contact with the Supreme Existence. It is clear & it is recognised by all the commentators, that in the Upanishads the gods are masters not only of material functions in the outer physical world but also of mental, vital and physical functions in the intelligent living creature. This will be directly evident from the passage describing the creation of the gods by the One & Supreme Being in the Aitareya Upanishad & the subsequent movement by which they enter in the body of man and take up the control of his activities. In the same Upanishad it is even hinted that Indra is in his secret being the Eternal Lord himself, for Idandra is his secret name; nor should we forget that this piece of mysticism is founded on the hymns of the Veda itself which speak of the secret names of the gods. Shankaracharya recognised this truth so perfectly that he uses the gods and the senses as equivalent terms in his great commentary. Finally in the Isha Upanishad,itself a part of the White Yajur Veda and a work, as I have shown elsewhere, full of the most lofty & deep Vedantic truth, in which the eternal problems of human existence are briefly proposed and masterfully solved,we find Surya and Agni prayed to & invoked with as much solemnity & reverence as in the Rigveda and indeed in language borrowed from the Rigveda, not as the material Sun and material Fire, but as the master of divine God-revealing knowledge & the master of divine purifying force of knowledge, and not to drive away the terrors of night from a trembling savage nor to burn the offered cake & the dripping ghee in a barbarian ritual, but to reveal the ultimate truth to the eyes of the Seer and to raise the immortal part in us that lives before & after the body is ashes to the supreme felicity of the perfected & sinless soul. Even subsequently we have seen that the Gita speaks of the Vedas as having the supreme for their subject of knowledge, and if later thinkers put it aside as karmakanda, yet they too, though drawing chiefly on the Upanishads, appealed occasionally to the texts of the hymns as authorities for the Brahmavidya. This could not have been if they were merely a ritual hymnology. We see therefore that the real Hindu tradition contains nothing excluding the interpretation which I put upon the Rigveda. On one side the current notion, caused by the immense overgrowth of ritualism in the millennium previous to the Christian era and the violence of the subsequent revolt against it, has been fixed in our minds by Buddhistic ideas as a result of the most formidable & damaging attack which the ancient Vedic religion had ever to endure. On the other side, the Vedantic sense of Veda is supported by the highest authorities we have, the Gita & the Upanishads, & evidenced even by the tradition that seems to deny or at least belittle it. True orthodoxy therefore demands not that we should regard the Veda as a ritualist hymn book, but that we should seek in it for the substance or at least the foundation of that sublime Brahmavidya which is formally placed before us in the Upanishads, regarding it as the revelation of the deepest truth of the world & man revealed to illuminated Seers by the Eternal Ruler of the Universe.
Modern thought & scholarship stands on a different foundation. It proceeds by inference, imagination and conjecture to novel theories of old subjects and regards itself as rational, not traditional. It professes to rebuild lost worlds out of their disjected fragments. By reason, then, and without regard to ancient authority the modern account of the Veda should be judged. The European scholars suppose that the mysticism of the Upanishads was neither founded upon nor, in the main, developed from the substance of the Vedas, but came into being as part of a great movement away from the naturalistic materialism of the early half-savage hymns. Unable to accept a barbarous mummery of ritual and incantation as the highest truth & highest good, yet compelled by religious tradition to regard the ancient hymns as sacred, the early thinkers, it is thought, began to seek an escape from this impasse by reading mystic & esoteric meanings into the simple text of the sacrificial bards; so by speculations sometimes entirely sublime, sometimes grievously silly & childish, they developed Vedanta. This theory, simple, trenchant and attractive, supported to the European mind by parallels from the history of Western religions, is neither so convincing nor, on a broad survey of the facts, so conclusive as it at first appears. It is certainly inconsistent with what the old Vedantic thinkers themselves knew and thought about the tradition of the Veda. From the Brahmanas as well as from the Upanishads it is evident that the Veda came down to the men of those days in a double aspect, as the heart of a great body of effective ritual, but also as the repository of a deep and sacred knowledge, Veda and not merely worship. This idea of a philosophic or theosophic purport in the hymns was not created by the early Hindu mystics, it was inherited by them. Their attitude to the ritual even when it was performed mechanically without the possession of this knowledge was far from hostile; but as ritual, they held it to be inferior in force and value, avaram karma, a lower kind of works and not the highest good; only when performed with possession of the knowledge could it lead to its ultimate results, to Vedanta. By that, says the Chhandogya Upanishad, both perform karma, both he who knows this so and he who knows not. Yet the Ignorance and the Knowledge are different things and only what one does with the knowledge,with faith, with the Upanishad,that has the greater potency. And in the closing section of its second chapter, a passage which sounds merely like ritualistic jargon when one has not the secret of Vedic symbolism but when that secret has once been revealed to us becomes full of meaning and interest, the Upanishad starts by saying The Brahmavadins say, The morning offering to the Vasus, the afternoon offering to the Rudras and the evening offering to the Adityas and all the gods,where then is the world of the Yajamana? (that is to say, what is the spiritual efficacy beyond this material life of the three different sacrifices & why, to what purpose, is the first offered to the Vasus, the second to the Rudras, the third to the Adityas?) He who knows this not, how should he perform (effectively) ,therefore knowing let him perform. There was at any rate the tradition that these things, the sacrifice, the god of the sacrifice, the world or future state of the sacrificer had a deep significance and were not mere ritual arranged superstitiously for material ends. But this deeper significance, this inner Vedic knowledge was difficult and esoteric, not known easily in its profundity and subtlety even by the majority of the Brahmavadins themselves; hence the searching, the mutual questionings, the record of famous discussions that occupy so much space in the Upanishadsdiscussions which, we shall see, are not intellectual debates but comparisons of illuminated knowledge & spiritual experience.
11.15 - Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is the fulfilment of Nature that has to happen and is happening, the fulfilment of the inferior Nature in and through the higher divine Nature. Here we come perhaps to the very heart of the mystery. For till now, till almost yesterday, we may say in a general way, the spiritual life, any kind of divine life was considered possible only through battling with Nature, through a struggle upstream against the current of Nature. Indeed Nature was despised, feared, rejected as an enemy of the Spirit. But today the wheel seems to have turned full circle. The Spirit recognises the body as its counterpart and visible form, welcomes the body as its earthly figure and expression. The old antinomy has become obsolete, because the body too on its side recognises that it has not the structure and character that millennial ignorance gave it. The material particles that constitute the physical body are found to be after all not inert masses but quantas of energy, of luminous energy. The spiritual Light above demands nothing better for its earthly home.
This is symbolical of the collaboration that Nature is now offering to the Spirit. A new substance, made of light-energy emanating from Consciousness-Force, is now slowly-permeating the earth atmosphere, as the Mother declares and it is this that will serve as the basis of the new creation and give it its law and constitution. A new world built out of knowledge and vision and luminous power is destined to come, for man is no longer in love with his ignorance, but a divine afflatus is possessing him.
1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Now with the current to the sea they glide,
Born by the billows of the briny tide;
1.11 - Correspondence and Interviews, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Then there were the long series of regular interviews with Surendra Mohan Ghose extending over some years up to even a few months before Sri Aurobindo's withdrawal. I should not call them interviews, for he was Sri Aurobindo's political follower in the early days, and later his disciple, and a prominent political leader of Bengal. Whenever he visited the Ashram, he had meetings with the Master to get guidance in his political work which he had accepted as his work. Sri Aurobindo used him as his instrument and said to us, "He is my man." In the talks he gave to the students of our Centre of Education, Surendra Mohan partially disclosed the various issues he had discussed with him. They were mostly international, national and provincial situations as well as spiritual matters. They constitute a very illuminating document testifying to Sri Aurobindo's external intervention in politics, besides his occult action. I often used to see Surendra Mohan in advance to get current news and Sri Aurobindo would ask, "What does Surendra Mohan say?"
Let me quote an instance to illustrate how Yogis have more insight into politics than politicians themselves. Surendra Mohan writes, "When I came here in October or November 1949, he asked me, 'Why have you not asked me anything about the communal situation in Bengal?' I said, 'There is nothing to report, it is all very quiet.' 'No, no, be careful. Something may happen.' And something terrible did happen the communal killings." Yet, not even great leaders paid any heed to it; they thought it impossible even when Surendra Mohan apprised them of Sri Aurobindo's warning. Sri Aurobindo predicted also "the Russo-Chinese rift and the disintegration of China one day".
1.11 - Delight of Existence - The Problem, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
16:We must first make it clear to ourselves that just as when we speak of universal consciousness we mean something different from, more essential and wider than the waking mental consciousness of the human being, so also when we speak of universal delight of existence we mean something different from, more essential and wider than the ordinary emotional and sensational pleasure of the individual human creature. Pleasure, joy and delight, as man uses the words, are limited and occasional movements which depend on certain habitual causes and emerge, like their opposites pain and grief which are equally limited and occasional movements, from a background other than themselves. Delight of being is universal, illimitable and self-existent, not dependent on particular causes, the background of all backgrounds, from which pleasure, pain and other more neutral experiences emerge. When delight of being seeks to realise itself as delight of becoming, it moves in the movement of force and itself takes different forms of movement of which pleasure and pain are positive and negative currents. Subconscient in Matter, superconscient beyond Mind this delight seeks in Mind and Life to realise itself by emergence in the becoming, in the increasing self-consciousness of the movement. Its first phenomena are dual and impure, move between the poles of pleasure and pain, but it aims at its self-revelation in the purity of a supreme delight of being which is self-existent and independent of objects and causes. Just as Sachchidananda moves towards the realisation of the universal existence in the individual and of the form-exceeding consciousness in the form of body and mind, so it moves towards the realisation of universal, self-existent and objectless delight in the flux of particular experiences and objects. Those objects we now seek as stimulating causes of a transient pleasure and satisfaction; free, possessed of self, we shall not seek but shall possess them as reflectors rather than causes of a delight which eternally exists.
17:In the egoistic human being, the mental person emergent out of the dim shell of matter, delight of existence is neutral, semilatent, still in the shadow of the subconscious, hardly more than a concealed soil of plenty covered by desire with a luxuriant growth of poisonous weeds and hardly less poisonous flowers, the pains and pleasures of our egoistic existence. When the divine conscious-force working secretly in us has devoured these growths of desire, when in the image of the Rig Veda the fire of God has burnt up the shoots of earth, that which is concealed at the roots of these pains and pleasures, their cause and secret being, the sap of delight in them, will emerge in new forms not of desire, but of self-existent satisfaction which will replace mortal pleasure by the Immortal's ecstasy. And this transformation is possible because these growths of sensation and emotion are in their essential being, the pains no less than the pleasures, that delight of existence which they seek but fail to reveal, - fail because of division, ignorance of self and egoism.
1.11 - GOOD AND EVIL, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The answers to these questions will be given to a great extent in the words of that most surprising product of the English eighteenth century, William Law. (How very odd our educational system is! Students of English literature are forced to read the graceful journalism of Steele and Addison, are expected to know all about the minor novels of Defoe and the tiny elegances of Matthew Prior. But they can pass all their examinations summa cum laude without having so much as looked into the writings of a man who was not only a master of English prose, but also one of the most interesting thinkers of his period and one of the most endearingly saintly figures in the whole history of Anglicanism.) Our current neglect of Law is yet another of the many indications that twentieth-century educators have ceased to be concerned with questions of ultimate truth or meaning and (apart from mere vocational training) are interested solely in the dissemination of a rootless and irrelevant culture, and the fostering of the solemn foolery of scholarship for scholarships sake.
Nothing burns in hell but the self.
1.11 - Powers, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
The Yogi can enter a dead body and make it get up and move, even while he himself is working in another body. Or he can enter a living body and hold that man's mind and organs in check, and for the time being act through the body of that man. That is done by the Yogi coming to this discrimination of Purusha and nature. If he wants to enter another's body, he makes a Samyama on that body and enters it, because, not only is his soul omnipresent, but his mind also, as the Yogi teaches. It is one bit of the universal mind. Now, however, it can only work; through the nerve currents in this body, but when the Yogi has loosened himself from these nerve currents, he can work through other things.
40. By conquering the current called Udna the Yogi does not sink in water or in swamps, he can walk on thorns etc., and can, die at will.
Udana is the name of the nerve current that governs the lungs and all the upper parts of the body, and when he is master of it, he becomes light in weight. He does not sink in water; he can walk on thorns and sword blades, and stand in fire, and can depart this life whenever he likes.
41. By the conquest of the current Samna he is surrounded by a blaze of light.
Whenever he likes, light flashes from his body.
1.11 - The Seven Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We see that these Waters are the same as those of Vamadeva's hymn, of Vasishtha's, closely connected with the clarity and the honey, - ghr.tasya yonau srava the madhunam, scotanti dhara madhuno ghr.tasya; they lead to the Truth, they are themselves the source of the Truth, they flow in the unobstructed and shoreless Vast as well as here upon the earth. They are figured as fostering cows (dhenavah.), mares (asvah.), they are called sapta van.h., the seven Words of the creative goddess Vak, - Speech, the expressive power of Aditi, of the supreme Prakriti who is spoken of as the Cow just as the Deva or Purusha is described in the Veda as Vrishabha or Vrishan, the Bull. They are therefore the seven strands of all being, the seven streams or currents or forms of movement of the one conscious existence.
We shall find that in the light of the ideas which we have discovered from the very opening of the Veda in Madhuchchhandas' hymns and in the light of the symbolic interpretations which are now becoming clear to us, this passage apparently so figured, mysterious, enigmatical becomes perfectly straightforward and coherent, as indeed do all the passages of the Veda which seem now almost unintelligible when once their right clue is found. We have only to fix the psychological function of Agni, the priest, the fighter, the worker, the truth-finder, the winner of beatitude for man; and that has already been fixed for us in the first hymn of the Rig Veda by Madhuchchhandas' description of him, - "the Will in works of the Seer true and most rich in
1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sometimes I feel the rising of the spiritual current inside me, as though it were the creeping of an ant. Sometimes it feels like the movement of a monkey jumping from one branch to another. Again, sometimes it feels like a fish swimming in water. Only he who experiences it knows what it is like. In samadhi one forgets the world. When the mind comes down a little, I say to the Divine Mother: 'Mother, please cure me of this. I want to talk to people.'
"None but the Isvarakotis can return to the plane of relative consciousness after attaining samadhi. Some ordinary men attain samadhi through spiritual discipline; but they do not come back. But when God Himself is born as a man, as an Incarnation, holding in His hand the key to others' liberation, then for the welfare of humanity the Incarnation returns from samadhi to consciousness of the world."
1.11 - Works and Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HE YOGA of the intelligent will and its culmination in the Brahmic status, which occupies all the close of the second chapter, contains the seed of much of the teaching of the Gita, - its doctrine of desireless works, of equality, of the rejection of outward renunciation, of devotion to the Divine; but as yet all this is slight and obscure. What is most strongly emphasised as yet is the withdrawal of the will from the ordinary motive of human activities, desire, from man's normal temperament of the sense-seeking thought and will with its passions and ignorance, and from its customary habit of troubled manybranching ideas and wishes to the desireless calm unity and passionless serenity of the Brahmic poise. So much Arjuna has understood. He is not unfamiliar with all this; it is the substance of the current teaching which points man to the path of knowledge and to the renunciation of life and works as his way of perfection. The intelligence withdrawing from sense and desire and human action and turning to the Highest, to the One, to the actionless Purusha, to the immobile, to the featureless Brahman, that surely is the eternal seed of knowledge. There is no room here for works, since works belong to the Ignorance; action is the very opposite of knowledge; its seed is desire and its fruit is bondage. That is the orthodox philosophical doctrine, and
Krishna seems quite to admit it when he says that works are far inferior to the Yoga of the intelligence. And yet works are insisted upon as part of the Yoga; so that there seems to be in this teaching a radical inconsistency. Not only so; for some kind of work no doubt may persist for a while, the minimum, the most inoffensive; but here is a work wholly inconsistent with knowledge, with serenity and with the motionless peace of the self-delighted soul, - a work terrible, even monstrous, a bloody strife, a ruthless battle, a giant massacre. Yet it is this that is
--
the Sankhyas that the intelligence of the man who engages in the activities of Nature, is entangled in egoism, ignorance and desire and therefore drawn to action; on the contrary, if the intelligence draws back, then the action must cease with the cessation of the desire and the ignorance. Therefore the giving up of life and works is a necessary part, an inevitable circumstance and an indispensable last means of the movement to liberation. This objection of a current logic, - it is not expressed by Arjuna, but it is in his mind as the turn of his subsequent utterances shows, - the Teacher immediately anticipates. No, he says, such renunciation, far from being indispensable, is not even possible.
"For none stands even for a moment not doing work; everyone is made to do action helplessly by the modes born of Prakriti."
--
Again, I cannot accept the current interpretation of niyatam karma as if it meant fixed and formal works and were equivalent to the Vedic nityakarma, the regular works of sacrifice, ceremonial and the daily rule of Vedic living. Surely, niyata simply takes up the niyamya of the last verse. Krishna makes a statement, "he who controlling the senses by the mind engages with the organs of action in Yoga of action, he excels," manasa niyamya arabhate karmayogam, and he immediately goes on to draw from the statement an injunction, to sum it up and convert it into a rule. "Do thou do controlled action," niyatam kuru karma tvam: niyatam takes up the niyamya, kuru karma takes up the arabhate karmayogam. Not formal works fixed by an external rule, but desireless works controlled by the liberated buddhi, is the Gita's teaching.
110
--
At first, however, the Gita takes up the Vedic statement of the idea of sacrifice and phrases the law of sacrifice in its current terms. This it does with a definite object. We have seen that the quarrel between renunciation and works has two forms, the opposition of Sankhya and Yoga which is already in principle reconciled and the opposition of Vedism and Vedantism which the Teacher has yet to reconcile. The first is a larger statement of
112
1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
the currents of the Life-force, upon its electric energy vibrating
up and down the nerves, that in the Upanishads the senses are
--
Pranic currents not only in the physical body which is all that
we are normally aware of, but in that subtle frame of our being
--
universe and active in every stirring and current of the constant
flux and interchange which constitutes the world.
1.12 - Delight of Existence - The Solution, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
14:This elimination is possible because pain and pleasure themselves are currents, one imperfect, the other perverse, but still currents of the delight of existence. The reason for this imperfection and this perversion is the self-division of the being in his consciousness by measuring and limiting Maya and in consequence an egoistic and piecemeal instead of a universal reception of contacts by the individual. For the universal soul all things and all contacts of things carry in them an essence of delight best described by the Sanskrit aesthetic term, rasa, which means at once sap or essence of a thing and its taste. It is because we do not seek the essence of the thing in its contact with us, but look only to the manner in which it affects our desires and fears, our cravings and shrinkings that grief and pain, imperfect and transient pleasure or indifference, that is to say, blank inability to seize the essence, are the forms taken by the Rasa. If we could be entirely disinterested in mind and heart and impose that detachment on the nervous being, the progressive elimination of these imperfect and perverse forms of Rasa would be possible and the true essential taste of the inalienable delight of existence in all its variations would be within our reach. We attain to something of this capacity for variable but universal delight in the aesthetic reception of things as represented by Art and Poetry, so that we enjoy there the Rasa or taste of the sorrowful, the terrible, even the horrible or repellent;2 and the reason is because we are detached, disinterested, not thinking of ourselves or of self-defence (jugupsa), but only of the thing and its essence. Certainly, this aesthetic reception of contacts is not a precise image or reflection of the pure delight which is supramental and supra-aesthetic; for the latter would eliminate sorrow, terror, horror and disgust with their cause while the former admits them: but it represents partially and imperfectly one stage of the progressive delight of the universal Soul in things in its manifestation and it admits us in one part of our nature to that detachment from egoistic sensation and that universal attitude through which the one Soul sees harmony and beauty where we divided beings experience rather chaos and discord. The full liberation can come to us only by a similar liberation in all our parts, the universal aesthesis, the universal standpoint of knowledge, the universal detachment from all things and yet sympathy with all in our nervous and emotional being.
15:Since the nature of suffering is a failure of the consciousforce in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction and its root is an inequality of that receptive and possessing force due to our self-limitation by egoism consequent on the ignorance of our true Self, of Sachchidananda, the elimination of suffering must first proceed by the substitution of titiks.a, the facing, enduring and conquest of all shocks of existence for jugupsa, the shrinking and contraction: by this endurance and conquest we proceed to an equality which may be either an equal indifference to all contacts or an equal gladness in all contacts; and this equality again must find a firm foundation in the substitution of the Sachchidananda consciousness which is All-Bliss for the ego-consciousness which enjoys and suffers. The Sachchidananda consciousness may be transcendent of the universe and aloof from it, and to this state of distant Bliss the path is equal indifference; it is the path of the ascetic. Or the Sachchidananda consciousness may be at once transcendent and universal; and to this state of present and all-embracing Bliss the path is surrender and loss of the ego in the universal and possession of an all-pervading equal delight; it is the path of the ancient Vedic sages. But neutrality to the imperfect touches of pleasure and the perverse touches of pain is the first direct and natural result of the soul's self-discipline and the conversion to equal delight can, usually, come only afterwards. The direct transformation of the triple vibration into Ananda is possible, but less easy to the human being.
1.1.2 - Intellect and the Intellectual, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
X asked me the question and I answered it on the basis of the current meaning of intellect and intellectual. People in ordinary speech do not make any distinction between intellect and intelligence, though of course it is quite true that a man may have a good or even a fine intelligence without being an intellectual. But ordinarily all thinking is attributed to the intellect; an intellectual therefore is a man whose main business or activity it is to think about thingsa philosopher, a poet, a scientist, a critic of art and literature or of life, are all classed together as intellectuals. A theorist on economy and politics is an intellectual, a politician or a financier is not, unless he theorises on his own subject or is a thinker on another.
Ys distinction is based on those I have made here, but these distinctions are not current in ordinary speech, except one or two and those even in a very imperfect way. If I go by these distinctions, then the intellectuals will no longer be called intellectuals but thinkers and creatorsexcept a certain class of them. An intellectual or intellectual thinker will then be one who is a thinker by his reason or mainly by his reasone.g. Bertr and Russell, Bernard Shaw, Wells etc. Tagore thinks by vision, imagination, feeling or by intuition, not by the reasonat least that is true of his writings. C. R. Das himself would not be an intellectual; in politics, literature and everything else he was an intuitive and emotive man. But, as I say, these would be distinctions not ordinarily current. In ordinary parlance Tagore, Das and everybody else of the kind would all be called intellectuals. The general mind does not make these subtle distinctions: it takes things in the mass, roughly and it is right in doing so, for otherwise it would lose itself altogether.
As for barristers etc., a man to succeed as a barrister must have legal knowledge and the power to apply it. It is not necessary that he should be a thinker even in his own subject or an intellectual. It is the same with all professional mendoctors, engineers etc. etc.: they may be intellectuals as well as successful in their profession, but they need not be.
1.12 - The Office and Limitations of the Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is not only that he has to contrive continually some new harmony between the various elements of his being, physical, vitalistic, practical and dynamic, aesthetic, emotional and hedonistic, ethical, intellectual, but each of them again has to arrive at some order of its own disparate materials. In his ethics he is divided by different moral tendencies, justice and charity, self-help and altruism, self-increase and self-abnegation, the tendencies of strength and the tendencies of love, the moral rule of activism and the moral rule of quietism. His emotions are necessary to his development and their indulgence essential to the outflowering of his rich humanity; yet is he constantly called upon to coerce and deny them, nor is there any sure rule to guide him in the perplexity of this twofold need. His hedonistic impulse is called many ways by different fields, objects, ideals of self-satisfaction. His aesthetic enjoyment, his aesthetic creation forms for itself under the stress of the intelligence different laws and forms; each seeks to impose itself as the best and the standard, yet each, if its claim were allowed, would by its unjust victory impoverish and imprison his faculty and his felicity in its exercise. His politics and society are a series of adventures and experiments among various possibilities of autocracy, monarchism, military aristocracy, mercantile oligarchy, open or veiled plutocracy, pseudo-democracy of various kinds, bourgeois or proletarian, individualistic or collectivist or bureaucratic, socialism awaiting him, anarchism looming beyond it; and all these correspond to some truth of his social being, some need of his complex social nature, some instinct or force in it which demands that form for its effectuation. Mankind works out these difficulties under the stress of the spirit within it by throwing out a constant variation of types, types of character and temperament, types of practical activity, aesthetic creation, polity, society, ethical order, intellectual system, which vary from the pure to the mixed, from the simple harmony to the complex; each and all of these are so many experiments of individual and collective self-formation in the light of a progressive and increasing knowledge. That knowledge is governed by a number of conflicting ideas and ideals around which these experiments group themselves: each of them is gradually pushed as far as possible in its purity and again mixed and combined as much as possible with others so that there may be a more complex form and an enriched action. Each type has to be broken in turn to yield place to new types and each combination has to give way to the possibility of a new combination. Through it all there is growing an accumulating stock of self-experience and self-actualisation of which the ordinary man accepts some current formulation conventionally as if it were an absolute law and truth,often enough he even thinks it to be that,but which the more developed human being seeks always either to break or to enlarge and make more profound or subtle in order to increase or make room for an increase of human capacity, perfectibility, happiness.
This view of human life and of the process of our development, to which subjectivism readily leads us, gives us a truer vision of the place of the intellect in the human movement. We have seen that the intellect has a double working, dispassionate and interested, self-centred or subservient to movements not its own. The one is a disinterested pursuit of truth for the sake of Truth and of knowledge for the sake of Knowledge without any ulterior motive, with every consideration put away except the rule of keeping the eye on the object, on the fact under enquiry and finding out its truth, its process, its law. The other is coloured by the passion for practice, the desire to govern life by the truth discovered or the fascination of an idea which we labour to establish as the sovereign law of our life and action. We have seen indeed that this is the superiority of reason over the other faculties of man that it is not confined to a separate absorbed action of its own, but plays upon all the others, discovers their law and truth, makes its discoveries serviceable to them and even in pursuing its own bent and end serves also their ends and arrives at a catholic utility. Man in fact does not live for knowledge alone; life in its widest sense is his principal preoccupation and he seeks knowledge for its utility to life much more than for the pure pleasure of acquiring knowledge. But it is precisely in this putting of knowledge at the service of life that the human intellect falls into that confusion and imperfection which pursues all human action. So long as we pursue knowledge for its own sake, there is nothing to be said: the reason is performing its natural function; it is exercising securely its highest right. In the work of the philosopher, the scientist, the savant labouring to add something to the stock of our ascertainable knowledge, there is as perfect a purity and satisfaction as in that of the poet and artist creating forms of beauty for the aesthetic delight of the race. Whatever individual error and limitation there may be, does not matter; for the collective and progressive knowledge of the race has gained the truth that has been discovered and may be trusted in time to get rid of the error. It is when it tries to apply ideas to life that the human intellect stumbles and finds itself at fault.
1.12 - The Significance of Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Obviously, this cannot be the meaning of the Gita, for it would be in contradiction with all the rest of the book. Even in the passage itself, without the illumining interpretation afterwards given to it in the fourth chapter, we have already an indication of a wider sense where it is said that sacrifice is born from work, work from brahman, brahman from the Akshara, and therefore the all-pervading Brahman, sarvagatam brahma, is established in the sacrifice. The connecting logic of the "therefore" and the repetition of the word brahma are significant; for it shows clearly that the brahman from which all work is born has to be understood with an eye not so much to the current Vedic teaching in which it means the Veda as to a symbolical sense in which the creative Word is identical with the all-pervading Brahman, the Eternal, the one Self present in all existences, sarvabhutes.u, and present in all the workings of existence. The Veda is the knowledge of the Divine, the Eternal, - "I am He who is to be known in all the books of the Knowledge," vedais ca vedyah.,
Krishna will say in a subsequent chapter; but it is the knowledge of him in the workings of Prakriti, in the workings of the three
1.12 - The Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
When he speaks or writes, he can feel very tangibly an expanse above his head, from which he draws his thoughts like the luminous thread of a cocoon; he does not move, simply remaining under the current and transcribing, while nothing stirs in his own head. But if he allows his mind to become the least involved, everything vanishes or, rather, becomes distorted, because the mind tries to imitate the intimations from above (the mind is an inveterate ape) and mistakes its own puny fireworks for true illuminations. The more the seeker learns to listen above and to trust these intimations (which are not commanding and loud but scarcely perceptible, like a breath, more akin to feelings than thoughts, and astonishingly rapid), the more numerous, accurate, and irresistible they will become. Gradually, he will realize that all his acts, even the most insignificant, can be unerringly guided by the silent source above, that all his thoughts originate from there, luminous and beyond dispute, and that a kind of spontaneous knowledge dawns within him. He will begin to live a life of constant little miracles. If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature to forbid the turning away of our feet from less ordinary pastures.173
Once the expanse above becomes concrete, alive, like a spread of light overhead, the seeker will feel impelled to enter into a more direct communication with it, to emerge into the open, for he will begin to feel, with painful acuteness, how narrow and false the mind and life below are, like a caricature. He will feel himself colliding everywhere, never at home anywhere, and finally feel that everything words, ideas, feelings is false, grating. That's not it, never it; it's always off the point, always an approximation, always insufficient. Sometimes, in our sleep, as a premonitory sign, we may find ourselves in a great blazing light, so dazzling that we instinctively shield our eyes the sun seems dark in comparison, remarks the Mother. We must then allow this Force within us, the Consciousness-Force that gropes upward, to grow; we must kindle it with our own need for something else, for a truer life, a truer knowledge, a truer relationship with the world and its beings our greatest progress [is] a deepened need.174
--
More than ever, the integral seeker must be armed with that clear austerity Sri Aurobindo mentions so often. He must not confuse super-reason with unreason. In practice, whenever we enter these planes consciously, whether in sleep or meditation or through deliberate exteriorization, we see two sorts of things: impersonal currents of force, which can be more or less luminous, and personal beings. But they are two forms of the same thing: The wall between consciousness and force, impersonality and personality becomes much thinner when one goes behind the veil of matter. If one looks at a working from the side of impersonal force one sees a force or energy at work acting for a purpose or with a result, if one looks from the side of being one sees a being possessing, guiding and using or else representative of and used by a conscious force as its instrument of specialized action and expression. . . . In modern science it has been found that if you look at the movement of energy, it appears on one side to be a wave and act as a wave, on the other as a mass of particles and to act as a mass of particles each acting in its own way. It is somewhat the same principle here.185
Some seekers may therefore never see beings, but only luminous forces; others will see only beings and never any force; it all depends on their inner disposition, on their form of aspiration, on their religious, spiritual, or even cultural background. This is where subjectivity begins, and with it the possibility of confusion and superstition. But subjectivity should not undermine the experience itself; it is merely a sign that the same thing can be viewed and transcribed differently depending on our nature have two artists ever seen the same landscape in the same way? According to the experts in natural and supernatural phenomena, the criterion for truth should be an unchanging consistency of experience, but this is perhaps more likely a criterion of monotony; the very multiplicity of experiences proves that we are dealing with a living truth, not a wooden substance like our mental or physical truths. Furthermore, these conscious highly conscious forces can take any form at will, not to deceive us but to make themselves accessible to the particular consciousness of the person who opens himself to them or invokes them. A Christian saint having a vision of the Virgin and an Indian having a vision of Durga may see the same thing; they may have entered in contact with the same plane of consciousness, the same forces; yet Durga would obviously mean nothing to the Christian. On the other hand, if this same force manifested itself in its pure state, namely, as a luminous, impersonal vibration, it would be accessible neither to the Virgin worshipper nor to the Durga devotee; it would not speak to their hearts. Devotion, too, has its place, for not everyone has the necessary development to feel the intensity of love contained in a simple little golden light without form. Still more remarkably, if a poet, such as Rimbaud or Shelley, came in contact with these same planes of consciousness, he would see something completely different again, yet still the same thing; obviously, neither Durga nor the Virgin is of particular concern to a poet, so he might perceive instead a great vibration, pulsations of light, or colored waves, which in him would translate into an intense poetic emotion. We may recall Rimbaud: "O happiness, O reason, I drew aside the azure of the sky, which is blackness, and I lived as a golden spark of natural light." This emotional translation may indeed come from the same plane of consciousness, or have the same frequency, we might say, as that of the Indian or Christian mystic, even though the poetic transcription of the vibration seems far removed from any religious belief. The mathematician suddenly discerning a new configuration of the world may have touched the same height of consciousness, the same revelatory vibration. For nothing happens "by chance"; everything comes from somewhere, from a particular plane, and each plane has its own wavelength, its own luminous intensity, its own frequency, and one can enter the same plane of consciousness, the same illumination in a thousand different ways.
--
This point of coincidence brings knowledge, which may translate itself in one form or another depending upon our current preoccupation, but it is always, essentially, a movement of identity, a meeting: we know because we recognize. Sri Aurobindo used to say that intuition is a memory of the Truth.195 As the intuitive flash occurs, one clearly sees that knowledge is not discovering something unknown one only discovers oneself! there is nothing else to discover but a gradual recognition, in time, of that second of Light which we have all seen. Who has not seen, if only once? Who does not have that Memory in his life? Whatever our beliefs or unbeliefs, our capacities or incapacities, our lower or higher altitudes, there is always a moment in life that is our moment. Some lives last but a second, and all the rest is oblivion.
The language of intuition is concentrated into a concise phrasing, without superfluous words, in contrast to the opulent language of the illumined mind (which, through its very richness, nevertheless conveys a luminous rhythm and a truth, perhaps less precisely connoted, but warmer). When Plotinus packed the entire cycle of human effort into one phrase "A flight of the Alone to the Alone" he used a highly intuitive language, as do the Upanishads. But this quality also signals the limits of intuition: no matter how replete with meaning our flashes and phrases, they cannot embrace the whole truth; a fuller, more encompassing warmth would be needed, like that of the illumined mind but with a higher transparency. For the Intuition . . . sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. The area unveiled by the flash is striking and irrefutable, but it is only one space of truth.196 Moreover, the mind hastens to seize upon the intuition and, as Sri Aurobindo remarked, it makes at once too little and too much of it.197 Too much, because it unduly generalizes the intuitive message and would extend its discovery to all space; too little, because instead of letting the flash quietly perform its work of illumination and clarification of our substance, it immediately seizes it, coats it with a thinking layer (or a pictorial, poetic, mathematical, or religious one), and no longer understands its flash except through the intellectual, artistic, or religious form it has put over it. It is terribly difficult for the mind to comprehend that a revelation can be allpowerful, even overwhelming, without our understanding anything about it, and that it is especially powerful as long as it is not brought down several degrees, diluted, and fragmented in order, supposedly, to be "understood." If we could remain quiet while the intuitive flash occurs, as if suspended in its own light, without pouncing on it to cut it into intellectual pieces, we would notice, after a while, that our entire being has shifted to a different altitude, and that we possess a new kind of vision instead of a lifeless little phrase. The very act of explaining causes most of the transformative power to evaporate.
1.13 - Reason and Religion, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But there is another level of the religious life in which reason might seem justified in interfering more independently and entitled to assume a superior role. For as there is the suprarational life in which religious aspiration finds entirely what it seeks, so too there is also the infrarational life of the instincts, impulses, sensations, crude emotions, vital activities from which all human aspiration takes its beginning. These too feel the touch of the religious sense in man, share its needs and experience, desire its satisfactions. Religion includes this satisfaction also in its scope, and in what is usually called religion it seems even to be the greater part, sometimes to an external view almost the whole; for the supreme purity of spiritual experience does not appear or is glimpsed only through this mixed and turbid current. Much impurity, ignorance, superstition, many doubtful elements must form as the result of this contact and union of our highest tendencies with our lower ignorant nature. Here it would seem that reason has its legitimate part; here surely it can intervene to enlighten, purify, rationalise the play of the instincts and impulses. It would seem that a religious reformation, a movement to substitute a pure and rational religion for one that is largely infrarational and impure, would be a distinct advance in the religious development of humanity. To a certain extent this may be, but, owing to the peculiar nature of the religious being, its entire urge towards the suprarational, not without serious qualifications, nor can the rational mind do anything here that is of a high positive value.
Religious forms and systems become effete and corrupt and have to be destroyed, or they lose much of their inner sense and become clouded in knowledge and injurious in practice, and in destroying what is effete or in negating aberrations reason has played an important part in religious history. But in its endeavour to get rid of the superstition and ignorance which have attached themselves to religious forms and symbols, intellectual reason unenlightened by spiritual knowledge tends to deny and, so far as it can, to destroy the truth and the experience which was contained in them. Reformations which give too much to reason and are too negative and protestant, usually create religions which lack in wealth of spirituality and fullness of religious emotion; they are not opulent in their contents; their form and too often their spirit is impoverished, bare and cold. Nor are they really rational; for they live not by their reasoning and dogma, which to the rational mind is as irrational as that of the creeds they replace, still less by their negations, but by their positive quantum of faith and fervour which is suprarational in its whole aim and has too its infrarational elements. If these seem less gross to the ordinary mind than those of less self-questioning creeds, it is often because they are more timid in venturing into the realm of suprarational experience. The life of the instincts and impulses on its religious side cannot be satisfyingly purified by reason, but rather by being sublimated, by being lifted up into the illuminations of the spirit. The natural line of religious development proceeds always by illumination; and religious reformation acts best when either it re-illuminates rather than destroys old forms or, where destruction is necessary, replaces them by richer and not by poorer forms, and in any case when it purifies by suprarational illumination, not by rational enlightenment. A purely rational religion could only be a cold and bare Deism, and such attempts have always failed to achieve vitality and permanence; for they act contrary to the dharma, the natural law and spirit of religion. If reason is to play any decisive part, it must be an intuitive rather than an intellectual reason, touched always by spiritual intensity and insight. For it must be remembered that the infrarational also has behind it a secret Truth which does not fall within the domain of the Reason and is not wholly amenable to its judgments. The heart has its knowledge, the life has its intuitive spirit within it, its intimations, divinations, outbreaks and upflamings of a Secret Energy, a divine or at least semi-divine aspiration and outreaching which the eye of intuition alone can fathom and only intuitive speech or symbol can shape or utter. To root out these things from religion or to purge religion of any elements necessary for its completeness because the forms are defective or obscure, without having the power to illuminate them from within or the patience to wait for their illumination from above or without replacing them by more luminous symbols, is not to purify but to pauperise.
1.13 - System of the O.T.O., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Such cases I have known. Let me recount briefly one rather conspicuous disaster. The young man was a genius and it was his bane. He got hold of a talisman of enormous power which happened to be exactly what he wanted to fulfill his heart's dearest wish. He knew also the correct way of getting it to work; but this way seemed to him far too long and difficult. So he cast about for a short cut. By using actual violence to the talisman, he saw how he could force it to carry out his design; he used a formula entirely alien to the spirit of the whole operation; it was rather like extracting information from a prisoner by torture, when patient courtesy would have been the proper method. So he crashed the gate and got what he wanted. But the nectar turned to poison even as he drained the cup, and his previous anguish developed into absolute despair. Then came the return of the current, and they brought it in "while of unsound mind." A most accurate diagnosis!
I do beg you to mark well, dear sister, that a true Magical Operation is never "against Nature." It must go smoothly and serenely according to Her laws. One can bring in alien energies and compel an endothermic reaction; but "Pike's Peak or bust?" The answer will always be BUST!
1.13 - The Divine Maya, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
13:Mind is not sufficient to explain existence in the universe. Infinite Consciousness must first translate itself into infinite faculty of Knowledge or, as we call it from our point of view, omniscience. But Mind is not a faculty of knowledge nor an instrument of omniscience; it is a faculty for the seeking of knowledge, for expressing as much as it can gain of it in certain forms of a relative thought and for using it towards certain capacities of action. Even when it finds, it does not possess; it only keeps a certain fund of current coin of Truth - not Truth itself - in the bank of Memory to draw upon according to its needs. For Mind is that which does not know, which tries to know and which never knows except as in a glass darkly. It is the power which interprets truth of universal existence for the practical uses of a certain order of things; it is not the power which knows and guides that existence and therefore it cannot be the power which created or manifested it.
14:But if we suppose an infinite Mind which would be free from our limitations, that at least might well be the creator of the universe? But such a Mind would be something quite different from the definition of mind as we know it: it would be something beyond mentality; it would be the supramental Truth. An infinite Mind constituted in the terms of mentality as we know it could only create an infinite chaos, a vast clash of chance, accident, vicissitude wandering towards an indeterminate end after which it would be always tentatively groping and aspiring. An infinite, omniscient, omnipotent Mind would not be mind at all, but supramental knowledge.
1.13 - THE HUMAN REBOUND OF EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ical current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain
of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, col-
--
to grow at all costs. Failing that upward current, almost nothing will
move; whereas with it, everything will happen almost of its own ac-
1.13 - The Lord of the Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
and acting and moving, under her impulsion entirely, in this one infinite Being; our own finite existence is seen and felt to be only one of these and its workings are seen and felt to be those of Nature, not of our real self which is the silent, impersonal unity. The ego claimed them as its own doings and therefore we thought them ours; but the ego is now dead and henceforth they are no longer ours, but Nature's. We have achieved by the slaying of ego impersonality in our being and consciousness; we have achieved by the renunciation of desire impersonality in the works of our nature. We are free not only in inaction, but in action; our liberty does not depend on a physical and temperamental immobility and vacancy, nor do we fall from freedom directly we act. Even in a full current of natural action the impersonal soul in us remains calm, still and free.
The liberation given by this perfect impersonality is real, is complete, is indispensable; but is it the last word, the end of the whole matter? All life, all world-existence, we have said, is the sacrifice offered by Nature to the Purusha, the one and secret soul in Nature, in whom all her workings take place; but its real sense is obscured in us by ego, by desire, by our limited, active, multiple personality. We have risen out of ego and desire and limited personality and by impersonality, its great corrective, we have found the impersonal Godhead; we have identified our being with the one self and soul in whom all exist. The sacrifice of works continues, conducted not by ourselves any longer, but by Nature, - Nature operating through the finite part of our being, mind, senses, body, - but in our infinite being. But to whom then is this sacrifice offered and with what object? For the impersonal has no activity and no desires, no object to be gained, no dependence for anything on all this world of creatures; it exists for itself, in its own self-delight, in its own immutable eternal being. We may have to do works without desire as a means in order to reach this impersonal self-existence and selfdelight, but, that movement once executed, the object of works is finished; the sacrifice is no longer needed. Works may even then continue because Nature continues and her activities; but there is no longer any further object in these works. The sole reason
1.13 - Under the Auspices of the Gods, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
while others would be in the beam of integral Communism based on fraternal love (given the current evolutionary trend, however, these beams would more than likely be made of a hard light, centered around some economic or titanic ideology). Yet even if such divine centers were to appear on the earth, not only would their brand of unity go against life's diversity, but they would also be constantly threatened by the surrounding darkness; humans are at unequal stages of development a fact we always tend to forget. This is the eternal weakness in all our grand schemes. Our centers of grace would be like
215
1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"Then comes bhava, intense love. Through bhava a man becomes speechless. His nerve currents are stilled. Kumbhaka comes by itself. It is like the case of a man whose breath and speech stop when he fires a gun.
"But prema, ecstatic love, is an extremely rare thing. Chaitanya had that love. When one has prema one forgets all outer things. One forgets the world. One even forgets one's own body, which is so dear to a man."
--
Sri Ramakrishna had said that bhava stills the nerve currents of the devotee. He continued: "When Arjuna was about to shoot at the target, the eye of a fish, his eyes were fixed on the eye of the fish, and on nothing else. He didn't even notice any part of the fish except the eye. In such a state the breathing stops and one experiences kumbhaka.
"Another characteristic of God-vision is that a great spiritual current rushes up along the spine and goes toward the brain. If then the devotee goes into samdhi, he sees God."
Looking at the Brahmo devotees who had just arrived, the Master said: "Mere pundits, devoid of divine love, talk incoherently. Pundit Samadhyayi once said, in the course of his sermon: 'God is dry. Make Him sweet by your love and devotion.' Imagine! To describe Him, as dry, whom the Vedas declare as the Essence of Bliss! It makes one feel that the pundit didn't know what God really is. That was why his words were so incoherent.
1.14 - The Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Now we are drawing nearer. The seeker began his journey with a positive experience. He set out on the way because he needed something else. He strove for mental silence and found that his very effort produced an Answer. He felt a descending Force, a new vibration within him, which made life clearer, more alive. Perhaps he even experienced a sudden tearing of the limits and emerged at another altitude. The signs might have come in a thousand ways to indicate that a new rhythm was setting in. But then, after this hopeful start, everything became veiled, as if he had been dreaming or had become carried away by some childish enthusiasm: something within him is now busy taking its revenge through a spell of skepticism, disgust, or revolt. This will be the second sign, perhaps the true sign, that he is progressing and has come to grips with the realities of his nature or, rather, that the descending Force has begun its churning work. Ultimately, progress is not so much a matter of ascending as of clearing up the prevailing obstructions for when we are clear, everything is right there. Thus the seeker begins to discover his many obstructions. On the path of integral yoga, the feeling is often of finding the worst when we had wished for the best, of waging war when we had sought peace and light. Actually, let us face it, it is a battle. As long as we are swimming with the current, we can believe ourselves to be very nice, proper and well-intentioned individuals, but the instant we take another direction, everything begins to resist. We begin tangibly to appreciate the colossal forces that weigh upon human beings and stupefy them; yet it is only by trying to get out of their clutches that we can realize this. Once the seeker has had a first decisive opening above, once he has seen the Light, then almost simultaneously he feels a kick in the shins, as if something in him were in pain. Now he knows what Sri Aurobindo meant by the wounded gloom complaining against light.229 And he will have learned his first lesson: each step upward is necessarily followed by a step downward. Instead of taking these sharp jolts as a kind of fatality, the seeker will make them the basis of his work. Indeed, this dual movement of ascent and descent is the fundamental process of the integral yoga: On each height we conquer we have to turn to bring down its power and its illumination into the lower mortal movement.
Such is the price for transforming life, otherwise we merely poeticize and spiritualize on the peaks, while below the old life keeps bumping along. In practice, the downward movement is never created by an arbitrary mental decision; the less the mind interferes in this, the better. Besides, one wonders how the Mind could ever "descend," comfortably seated, as it is, behind its little desk. It is the awakened and individualized consciousness-force in us that does all the work, automatically. The moment we have attained a certain intensity of consciousness and light, it automatically exerts a pressure on the rest of our nature, which results in corresponding reactions of obscurity or resistance. It is as if an overdose of oxygen were abruptly pumped into the ocean's underworld: the deep-sea creatures would struggle frantically, or even explode. This reversal of consciousness is strange indeed, as if going from a well-lighted room to the same room filled with darkness, or from a joyous room to the same room riddled with pain: everything is the same, and yet everything is changed. As if it were the same force, the same vibratory intensity perhaps even the same vibration but with a minus sign in front of it instead of a plus sign. One can then observe, almost step by step, how love changes into hate, for example, or how the pure becomes impure; everything is the same, only reversed. Yet, as long as our psychological states are merely the reverse of one another, and our good the back side (perhaps we should say the front side?) of evil, life will never change.
--
At Chandernagore, Sri Aurobindo had reached the last levels of the physical subconscient. He was before a wall: No, it is not with the Empyrean that I am busy, I wish it were. It is rather with the opposite end of things.243 Knowing the kind of resistance and violent reactions one meets when barely touching the mental and vital subconscient, the snakepit, one can image the difficulty of that descent. The farther one descends, the higher the consciousness required, the stronger the light, since one can only descend as low as one has ascended. And if one understands that consciousness is a force, as tangible as an electric current, one can imagine the traumas and ordeals the overmental power and light can cause as they pour like a cataract into the quagmire of the physical subconscient an assault of ether and of fire.21 There are tremendous difficulties, and even dangers, in this to which we will return when discussing the transformation. As long as we are merely involved with mental or vital resistances, our moral lies, we need only to cultivate willpower and patience, but when we descend lower we must face the lies of the body, as the Mother says, namely, diseases and death. This is why Sri Aurobindo and Mother insisted upon a sound physical base for their disciples: Work from both ends; do not neglect one for the other.
As he reached the extreme overmental frontiers, where "great colored waves" fade into white confines, Sri Aurobindo simultaneously touched the black rock at the bottom:
1.14 - The Supermind as Creator, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
19:This is the justification of the current religious notions of the omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence of the Divine Being. Far from being an irrational imagination they are perfectly rational and in no way contradict either the logic of a comprehensive philosophy or the indications of observation and experience. The error is to make an unbridgeable gulf between God and man, Brahman and the world. That error elevates an actual and practical differentiation in being, consciousness and force into an essential division. But this aspect of the question we shall touch upon afterwards. At present we have arrived at an affirmation and some conception of the divine and creative Supermind in which all is one in being, consciousness, will and delight, yet with an infinite capacity of differentiation that deploys but does not destroy the unity, - in which Truth is the substance and Truth rises in the Idea and Truth comes out in the form and there is one truth of knowledge and will, one truth of self-fulfilment and therefore of delight; for all self-fulfilment is satisfaction of being. Therefore, always, in all mutations and combinations a self-existent and inalienable harmony.
1.14 - The Victory Over Death, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Hence, it is not through an arbitrary and morbid decision of his own that the seeker will undertake this dark descent for a long time he has stopped willing anything, he only obeys the little rhythm, the flowing that is growing in him, and directs it here or there according to where it presses. The descent takes place gradually, almost unknown to him, but it is accompanied, as it were, by certain phenomena which become increasingly clear and define the psychological conditions of the descent. These psychological conditions are threefold. There is that little flowing we have often spoken about, there is that rhythm, and there is that fire of being which opens the doors of the new world. One may be tempted to think that this is a poetic fiction, an imagery for children, but it is nothing of the sort, and the whole world is a poem becoming true, an image becoming clear, a rhythm taking body. Little by little, a Child looks at the world with eyes of Truth and discovers the lovely Image that was always there; he listens to an undying Rhythm and, attuned to that Rhythm, he enters the immortality he had never ceased to be. That flowing actually grows, that rhythm becomes clearer, that fire intensifies as the first mental and vital layers are clarified. In fact, it is no longer simply a flowing but a sort of continuous current, a descending mass that envelops first the crown of the head and the nape of the neck, then the chest, the heart, the solar plexus, the abdomen, the sex organs, the legs, and which even seems to reach under the feet, as if there were an extension of being all the way down there, an abyss of existence. The farther the current descends, the warmer and more compact and denser, almost solid, it becomes it feels like an unmoving cataract. The descent is proportionate to our degree of clarification and the downthrust of the Force (which grows as we become clearer). No mental or psychoanalytical machinery has the power to reach those deeper layers. The movement is irresistibly powerful, sometimes even doubling one over, as if crushing one under the pressure. But at the same time as the power grows so does the stability, as if finally, at the end of the descent, there were a motionless mass of energy or with such an intense vibration, so swift and instantaneous, that it seems solidified, immobile, yet moving unbelievably fast in place a powdering of warm gold, says Mother. That is what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental Force. It would almost seem as if it became supramental, or acquired supramental qualities, as it descends into matter (that is to say, as we consent to let it go through, as the resistances fall away under its pressure and it victoriously penetrates all the way down to the bottom). We say supramental, but it is the same with this word as with everything else: there is only one Force, as there is only one moon, which gradually becomes full to our vision, but the moon was always full and the Force always the same. It is our receptivity which changes and makes it look different from what it always was. It is that flowing which spontaneously, automatically, without any will or decision on our part (all our wills add more confusion), effects the descent, overturns obstacles, exposes falsehoods under its relentless searchlight, exposes the gray elf, brings to light all our hiding places, cleanses, purifies, widens and brings infinity to each level and into each cranny and does not give up, does not stop for a second until everything, down to the least detail, the smallest movement, is restored to its original joy, its infinity, its light, its clear vision, its right will and divine acquiescence. This is the Force of the yoga, the Consciousness-Force Sri Aurobindo spoke of. It is the one which forges the superman, the one which will forge the supramental being the one which will forge itself in that forgetfulness of itself.
Thy golden Light came down into my brain
--
In short, we must replace the program automatically fed into the cells and the whole inexorable ribonucleic code that keeps secreting its little distress signals and glandular calls with a conscious program, a call for light, a solar code in that rattle of valves and pistons and wandering enzymes which, while they make up for our weaknesses and plug the holes of our incapability to absorb directly the great current of restorative Harmony, lock us up in a dungeon of microscopic energy that is soon exhausted and decomposed.
A new spiritual training of the body has to be invented.
1.15 - Index, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Negroes in, 210; pagan currents
in, 176; phenomenology of sym-
1.15 - SILENCE, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise and noise of desirewe hold historys record for all of them. And no wonder; for all the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of all recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the ear-drums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractionsnews items, mutually irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas. And where, as in most countries, the broadcasting stations support themselves by selling time to advertisers, the noise is carried from the ears, through the realms of phantasy, knowledge and feeling to the egos central core of wish and desire. Spoken or printed, broadcast over the ether or on wood-pulp, all advertising copy has but one purposeto prevent the will from ever achieving silence. Desirelessness is the condition of deliverance and illumination. The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify cravingto extend and intensify, that is to say, the workings of that force, which (as all the saints and teachers of all the higher religions have always taught) is the principal cause of suffering and wrong-doing and the greatest obstacle between the human soul and its divine Ground.
next chapter: 1.16 - PRAYER
1.15 - THE DIRECTIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FUTURE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
this technical control an increasing current of free energy is flow-
ing through the human mass: energy already promoted but hith-
1.15 - The Supramental Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
The mind, even the overmind of our prophets, is irreversibly bound to dualities (dualities within Unity): if God is above, He cannot be below; if this is white, it is not black. For the supramental experience, however, everything is embraced; it is always yes and no at the same time, the Mother remarked. The two poles of each thing are constantly integrated within another "dimension" ("the secret inner spaces," as the Vedic rishis called them, II.4.9). Thus, the Transcendent is not elsewhere, outside the world; it is everywhere here, at once fully within and fully without. The supramental consciousness, likewise, is fully in the world and fully outside the world; it is seated on the unshakable Rock and in the middle of the current. This is why it can truly enjoy life and be in control of life; for if we are exclusively in the current we find neither peace nor control;
we are merely carried away like a straw. We might be able to guess what the supramental experience is by going back to the first experiences of the beginning of yoga. Indeed, we had noticed that by stepping back in our consciousness, by a slight movement of withdrawal, we entered an expanse of silence behind, as if a portion of
1.15 - The Suprarational Good, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But in other spheres of life, in the spheres of what by an irony of our ignorance we call especially practical life,although, if the Divine be our true object of search and realisation, our normal conduct in them and our current idea of them is the very opposite of practical,we are less ready to recognise the universal truth. We take a long time to admit it even partially in theory, we are seldom ready at all to follow it in practice. And we find this difficulty because there especially, in all our practical life, we are content to be the slaves of an outward Necessity and think ourselves always excused when we admit as the law of our thought, will and action the yoke of immediate and temporary utilities. Yet even there we must arrive eventually at the highest truth. We shall find out in the end that our daily life and our social existence are not things apart, are not another field of existence with another law than the inner and ideal. On the contrary, we shall never find out their true meaning or resolve their harsh and often agonising problems until we learn to see in them a means towards the discovery and the individual and collective expression of our highest and, because our highest, therefore our truest and fullest self, our largest most imperative principle and power of existence. All life is only a lavish and manifold opportunity given us to discover, realise, express the Divine.
It is in our ethical being that this truest truth of practical life, its real and highest practicality becomes most readily apparent. It is true that the rational man has tried to reduce the ethical life like all the rest to a matter of reason, to determine its nature, its law, its practical action by some principle of reason, by some law of reason. He has never really succeeded and he never can really succeed; his appearances of success are mere pretences of the intellect building elegant and empty constructions with words and ideas, mere conventions of logic and vamped-up syntheses, in sum, pretentious failures which break down at the first strenuous touch of reality. Such was that extraordinary system of utilitarian ethics discovered in the nineteenth century the great century of science and reason and utilityby one of its most positive and systematic minds and now deservedly discredited. Happily, we need now only smile at its shallow pretentious errors, its substitution of a practical, outward and occasional test for the inner, subjective and absolute motive of ethics, its reduction of ethical action to an impossibly scientific and quite impracticable jugglery of moral mathematics, attractive enough to the reasoning and logical mind, quite false and alien to the whole instinct and intuition of the ethical being. Equally false and impracticable are other attempts of the reason to account for and regulate its principle and phenomena,the hedonistic theory which refers all virtue to the pleasure and satisfaction of the mind in good or the sociological which supposes ethics to be no more than a system of formulas of conduct generated from the social sense and a ruled direction of the social impulses and would regulate its action by that insufficient standard. The ethical being escapes from all these formulas: it is a law to itself and finds its principle in its own eternal nature which is not in its essential character a growth of evolving mind, even though it may seem to be that in its earthly history, but a light from the ideal, a reflection in man of the Divine.
1.16 - Man, A Transitional Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
according to Sri Aurobindo, is to reach a state devoid of any personal effort, to step aside as completely as one can and simply let the current pass through. There are two ways of arriving at the Grand Trunk Road. One is to climb and struggle and effortise (like the pilgrim who traverses India prostrating and measuring the way with his body: that is the way of effort). One day you suddenly find yourself on the G.T.R.
when you least expect it. The other is to quiet the mind to such a point that a greater Mind can speak through it (I am not here talking of the 302
1.16 - THE ESSENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
promote and foster the currents of convergence (collective orga-
nizations) within which alone, by the laws of anthropogenesis, in-
1.17 - DOES MANKIND MOVE BIOLOGICALLY UPON ITSELF?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
we to attribute to this strange shift of the current, as a result of
which modern man, scarcely entered into what he supposed to
--
along ever more rapidly, by the current of its own proliferation and
contraction, into the diminishing circles of a sort of maelstrom coil-
--
mental currents of the Universe, in process of taking shape around
us. Which is to conclude that, everywhere exerting its pressure, it
--
Borne on a current of Totalization that is taking shape and
gathering speed around us, we cannot, as I have said, either stop
--
whither the current is taking us and how we shall shoot the rapids, but simply of
deciding, having reached the fork, whether we are following the main course of
1.17 - Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
Proceeding then the current of my sight,
Another of them saw I, red as blood,
1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
At a further stage of transformation, Sri Aurobindo foresees our organs being replaced by a dynamic functioning of our centers of consciousness or chakras. This is the real transition from the animalman conceived by the lower evolution to the human-man of the new evolution. It is one of the tasks undertaken by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. From the earliest stages of yoga we have found that each of our activities, from the highest to the most material, was set in motion and fueled by a current of consciousness-force that seemed to converge at different levels of our being, within certain centers and with different intensities depending upon the type of activity;
whenever we have tried to manipulate this current, we have found it to be an extraordinary source of energy, limited only by our own capacity. Therefore, it is not inconceivable that our organs, which are only the physical translation or the material concentration of this current behind, may in the course of evolution be replaced by a direct action of the centers of consciousness, which would simply radiate their energy throughout the new body, just as the heart, blood and nerves now radiate throughout our present body. This is how the Mother once explained the future body to the ashram children:
Transformation implies that all this purely physical organization be replaced by concentrations of force, each with a particular type of vibration; instead of organs, there will be centers of conscious energy moved by the conscious will. No more stomach, no more heart, no more blood circulation, no more lungs; all that is gone and is replaced by a play of vibrations representing what these organs symbolically are. For organs are merely the material symbols for the centers of energy; they are not the essential reality: they simply give it a form or a material support in certain circumstances. The transformed body will then operate through its true centers of energy and no longer through their symbolic representatives as developed in the animal body. Thus, you must first know what your heart represents in terms of the cosmic energy, what your circulation, your brain, and your lungs represent in terms of the cosmic energy, then you must be able to muster the original vibrations that these organs symbolize,
--
the mind, and even the vital, which in the current life will result in spontaneous blossomings, innate talents, something already developed. One needs only go over the lesson for ten or twenty years to capture the thread of former lives; there is even a rather striking experience in which one sees precisely the cutoff point where the work already accomplished in past lives ends and the new phase begins. Thus one simply picks up the trail where one had left it. But the cellular progress in the body, the progress of the physical consciousness obviously cannot pass into the next life; everything gets scattered on the funeral pyre or dissipates in the earth. So if we want a continuity in human evolution, if we want the supramental being to manifest in our own flesh rather than in some new, unknown organism that would supersede our mental humanity, it is necessary for one human being to accomplish the work in one lifetime. If it succeeds once, it can be transmitted to others (we will return to this point later).
Sri Aurobindo used to say that it would take three centuries and he had a clear vision for a full supramental being to emerge, luminous,
--
anxious, or eager. This is the legacy of several millions of years of animal nature; our substance has retained the memory of all our struggles for survival, and its immediate response is to tense up. This tension is one of the causes of death, as well as a major obstacle to establishing the true vibration. When we become tense because of a blow, we concentrate all our vital force in one point, as a defense; an enormous current abruptly passes through a tiny opening, which turns red and hurts. If we could learn to expand our physical consciousness and to absorb the blow instead of rejecting it, we would not suffer; all suffering, at any level whatsoever, is a narrowness of consciousness.
Similarly, if the warm, gold supramental dust were suddenly to fill our cells and the body reacted with its usual contraction, everything would explode. In other words, our cellular consciousness, like our mental and vital consciousness, must learn to expand and to universalize itself. Cosmic consciousness must be introduced there also. In mental silence, the mental consciousness universalizes itself; in vital peace,
1.18 - Mind and Supermind, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
13:Whence then does the limiting Avidya, the fall of mind from Supermind and the consequent idea of real division originally proceed? exactly from what perversion of the supramental functioning? It proceeds from the individualised soul viewing everything from its own standpoint and excluding all others; it proceeds, that is to say, by an exclusive concentration of consciousness, an exclusive self-identification of the soul with a particular temporal and spatial action which is only a part of its own play of being; it starts from the soul's ignoring the fact that all others are also itself, all other action its own action and all other states of being and consciousness equally its own as well as the action of the one particular moment in Time and one particular standing-point in Space and the one particular form it presently occupies. It concentrates on the moment, the field, the form, the movement so as to lose the rest; it has then to recover the rest by linking together the succession of moments, the succession of points of Space, the succession of forms in Time and Space, the succession of movements in Time and Space. It has thus lost the truth of the indivisibility of Time, the indivisibility of Force and Substance. It has lost sight even of the obvious fact that all minds are one Mind taking many standpoints, all lives one Life developing many currents of activity, all body and form one substance of Force and Consciousness concentrating into many apparent stabilities of force and consciousness; but in truth all these stabilities are really only a constant whorl of movement repeating a form while it modifies it; they are nothing more. For the Mind tries to clamp everything into rigidly fixed forms and apparently unchanging or unmoving external factors, because otherwise it cannot act; it then thinks it has got what it wants: in reality all is a flux of change and renewal and there is no fixed form-in-itself and no unchanging external factor. Only the eternal Real-Idea is firm and maintains a certain ordered constancy of figures and relations in the flux of things, a constancy which the Mind vainly attempts to imitate by attri buting fixity to that which is always inconstant. These truths Mind has to rediscover; it knows them all the time, but only in the hidden back of its consciousness, in the secret light of its selfbeing; and that light is to it a darkness because it has created the ignorance, because it has lapsed from the dividing into the divided mentality, because it has become involved in its own workings and in its own creations.
14:This ignorance is farther deepened for man by his selfidentification with the body. To us mind seems to be determined by the body, because it is preoccupied with that and devoted to the physical workings which it uses for its conscious superficial action in this gross material world. Employing constantly that operation of the brain and nerves which it has developed in the course of its own development in the body, it is too absorbed in observing what this physical machinery gives to it to get back from it to its own pure workings; those are to it mostly subconscious. Still we can conceive a life mind or life being which has got beyond the evolutionary necessity of this absorption and is able to see and even experience itself assuming body after body and not created separately in each body and ending with it; for it is only the physical impress of mind on matter, only the corporeal mentality that is so created, not the whole mental being. This corporeal mentality is merely our surface of mind, merely the front which it presents to physical experience. Behind, even in our terrestrial being, there is this other, subconscious or subliminal to us, which knows itself as more than the body and is capable of a less materialised action. To this we owe immediately most of the larger, deeper and more forceful dynamic action of our surface mind; this, when we become conscious of it or of its impress on us, is our first idea or our first realisation of a soul or inner being, Purusha.3
1.18 - THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
OY and see how these two vectors or currents appear and are at
present behaving in their opposed state. Is it not apparent that both
1.19 - Life, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
6:When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions - false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience - which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity. Death has no reality except as a process of life. Disintegration of substance and renewal of substance, maintenance of form and change of form are the constant process of life; death is merely a rapid disintegration subservient to life's necessity of change and variation of formal experience. Even in the death of the body there is no cessation of Life, only the material of one form of life is broken up to serve as material for other forms of life. Similarly we may be sure, in the uniform law of Nature, that if there is in the bodily form a mental or psychic energy, that also is not destroyed but only breaks out from one form to assume others by some process of metempsychosis or new ensouling of body. All renews itself, nothing perishes.
7:It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one allpervading Life or dynamic energy - the material aspect being only its outermost movement - that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.
--
19:Life then reveals itself as essentially the same everywhere from the atom to man, the atom containing the subconscious stuff and movement of being which are released into consciousness in the animal, with plant life as a midway stage in the evolution. Life is really a universal operation of Conscious-Force acting subconsciously on and in Matter; it is the operation that creates, maintains, destroys and re-creates forms or bodies and attempts by play of nerve-force, that is to say, by currents of interchange of stimulating energy to awake conscious sensation in those bodies. In this operation there are three stages; the lowest is that in which the vibration is still in the sleep of Matter, entirely subconscious so as to seem wholly mechanical; the middle stage is that in which it becomes capable of a response still submental but on the verge of what we know as consciousness; the highest is that in which life develops conscious mentality in the form of a mentally perceptible sensation which in this transition becomes the basis for the development of sense-mind and intelligence. It is in the middle stage that we catch the idea of Life as distinguished from Matter and Mind, but in reality it is the same in all the stages and always a middle term between Mind and Matter, constituent of the latter and instinct with the former. It is an operation of Conscious-Force which is neither the mere formation of substance nor the operation of mind with substance and form as its object of apprehension; it is rather an energising of conscious being which is a cause and support of the formation of substance and an intermediate source and support of conscious mental apprehension. Life, as this intermediate energising of conscious being, liberates into sensitive action and reaction a form of the creative force of existence which was working subconsciently or inconsciently, absorbed in its own substance; it supports and liberates into action the apprehensive consciousness of existence called mind and gives it a dynamic instrumentation so that it can work not only on its own forms but on forms of life and matter; it connects, too, and supports, as a middle term between them, the mutual commerce of the two, mind and matter. This means of commerce Life provides in the continual currents of her pulsating nerve-energy which carry force of the form as a sensation to modify Mind and bring back force of Mind as will to modify Matter. It is therefore this nerve-energy which we usually mean when we talk of Life; it is the Prana or Life-force of the Indian system. But nerve-energy is only the form it takes in the animal being; the same Pranic energy is present in all forms down to the atom, since everywhere it is the same in essence and everywhere it is the same operation of Conscious-Force, - Force supporting and modifying the substantial existence of its own forms, Force with sense and mind secretly active but at first involved in the form and preparing to emerge, then finally emerging from their involution. This is the whole significance of the omnipresent Life that has manifested and inhabits the material universe.
1.20 - Death, Desire and Incapacity, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
7:Not only so but, again in the language of the Upanishad, the life-force is the food of the body and the body the food of the life-force; in other words, the life-energy in us both supplies the material by which the form is built up and constantly maintained and renewed and is at the same time constantly using up the substantial form of itself which it thus creates and keeps in existence. If the balance between these two operations is imperfect or is disturbed or if the ordered play of the different currents of life-force is thrown out of gear, then disease and decay intervene and commence the process of disintegration. And the very struggle for conscious mastery and even the growth of mind make the maintenance of the life more difficult. For there is an increasing demand of the life-energy on the form, a demand which is in excess of the original system of supply and disturbs the original balance of supply and demand, and before a new balance can be established, many disorders are introduced inimical to the harmony and to the length of maintenance of the life; in addition the attempt at mastery creates always a corresponding reaction in the environment which is full of forces that also desire fulfilment and are therefore intolerant of, revolt against and attack the existence which seeks to master them. There too a balance is disturbed, a more intense struggle is generated; however strong the mastering life, unless either it is unlimited or else succeeds in establishing a new harmony with its environment, it cannot always resist and triumph but must one day be overcome and disintegrated.
8:But, apart from all these necessities, there is the one fundamental necessity of the nature and object of embodied life itself, which is to seek infinite experience on a finite basis; and since the form, the basis by its very organisation limits the possibility of experience, this can only be done by dissolving it and seeking new forms. For the soul, having once limited itself by concentrating on the moment and the field, is driven to seek its infinity again by the principle of succession, by adding moment to moment and thus storing up a Time-experience which it calls its past; in that Time it moves through successive fields, successive experiences or lives, successive accumulations of knowledge, capacity, enjoyment, and all this it holds in subconscious or superconscious memory as its fund of past acquisition in Time. To this process change of form is essential, and for the soul involved in individual body change of form means dissolution of the body in subjection to the law and compulsion of the Alllife in the material universe, to its law of supply of the material of form and demand on the material, to its principle of constant intershock and the struggle of the embodied life to exist in a world of mutual devouring. And this is the law of Death.
1.20 - Tabooed Persons, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
higher up, throws some purifying substances into the current. This
is, however, not strictly necessary. The javelins and battle-axes
1.21 - Poetic Diction., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or leng thened, or contracted, or altered.
By a current or proper word I mean one which is in general use among a people; by a strange word, one which is in use in another country.
Plainly, therefore, the same word may be at once strange and current, but not in relation to the same people. The word {sigma iota gamma upsilon nu omicron nu}, 'lance,' is to the Cyprians a current term but to us a strange one.
Metaphor is the application of an alien name by transference either from genus to species, or from species to genus, or from species to species, or by analogy, that is, proportion. Thus from genus to species, as:
1.21 - The Spiritual Aim and Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The spiritual aim will recognise that man as he grows in his being must have as much free space as possible for all its members to grow in their own strength, to find out themselves and their potentialities. In their freedom they will err, because experience comes through many errors, but each has in itself a divine principle and they will find it out, disengage its presence, significance and law as their experience of themselves deepens and increases. Thus true spirituality will not lay a yoke upon science and philosophy or compel them to square their conclusions with any statement of dogmatic religious or even of assured spiritual truth, as some of the old religions attempted, vainly, ignorantly, with an unspiritual obstinacy and arrogance. Each part of mans being has its own dharma which it must follow and will follow in the end, put on it what fetters you please. The dharma of science, thought and philosophy is to seek for truth by the intellect dispassionately, without prepossession and prejudgment, with no other first propositions than the law of thought and observation itself imposes. Science and philosophy are not bound to square their observations and conclusions with any current ideas of religious dogma or ethical rule or aesthetic prejudice. In the end, if left free in their action, they will find the unity of Truth with Good and Beauty and God and give these a greater meaning than any dogmatic religion or any formal ethics or any narrower aesthetic idea can give us. But meanwhile they must be left free even to deny God and good and beauty if they will, if their sincere observation of things so points them. For all these rejections must come round in the end of their circling and return to a larger truth of the things they refuse. Often we find atheism both in individual and society a necessary passage to deeper religious and spiritual truth: one has sometimes to deny God in order to find him; the finding is inevitable at the end of all earnest scepticism and denial.
The same law holds good in Art; the aesthetic being of man rises similarly on its own curve towards its diviner possibilities. The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the doors of the spirit. But in order that it may come to do this greatest thing largely and sincerely, it must first endeavour to see and depict man and Nature and life for their own sake, in their own characteristic truth and beauty; for behind these first characters lies always the beauty of the Divine in life and man and Nature and it is through their just transformation that what was at first veiled by them has to be revealed. The dogma that Art must be religious or not be at all, is a false dogma, just as is the claim that it must be subservient to ethics or utility or scientific truth or philosophic ideas. Art may make use of these things as elements, but it has its own svadharma, essential law, and it will rise to the widest spirituality by following out its own natural lines with no other yoke than the intimate law of its own being.
1.22 - EMOTIONALISM, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
In the light of what has been said above, we can understand the peculiar spiritual dangers by which every kind of predominantly emotional religion is always menaced. A hell-fire faith that uses the theatrical techniques of revivalism in order to stimulate remorse and induce the crisis of sudden conversion; a saviour cult that is for ever stirring up what St. Bernard calls the amor carnalis or fleshly love of the Avatar and personal God; a ritualistic mystery-religion that generates high feelings of awe and reverence and aesthetic ecstasy by means of its sacraments and ceremonials, its music and its incense, its numinous darknesses and sacred lightsin its own special way, each one of these runs the risk of becoming a form of psychological idolatry, in which God is identified with the egos affective attitude towards God and finally the emotion becomes an end in itself, to be eagerly sought after and worshipped, as the addicts of a drug spend life in the pursuit of their artificial paradise. All this is obvious enough. But it is no less obvious that religions that make no appeal to the emotions have very few adherents. Moreover, when pseudo-religions with a strong emotional appeal make their appearance, they imme thately win millions of enthusiastic devotees from among the masses to whom the real religions have ceased to have a meaning or to be a comfort. But whereas no adherent of a pseudo-religion (such as one of our current political idolatries, compounded of nationalism and revolutionism) can possibly go forward into the way of genuine spirituality, such a way always remains open to the adherents of even the most highly emotionalized varieties of genuine religion. Those who have actually followed this way to its end in the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground constitute a very small minority of the total. Many are called; but, since few choose to be chosen, few are chosen. The rest, say the oriental exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, earn themselves another chance, in circumstances more or less propitious according to their deserts, to take the cosmic intelligence test. If they are saved, their incomplete and undefinitive deliverance is into some paradisal state of freer personal existence, from which (directly or through further incarnations) they may go on to the final release into eternity. If they are lost, their hell is a temporal and temporary condition of thicker darkness and more oppressive bondage to self-will, the root and principle of all evil.
We see, then, that if it is persisted in, the way of emotional religion may lead, indeed, to a great good, but not to the greatest. But the emotional way opens into the way of unitive knowledge, and those who care to go on in this other way are well prepared for their task if they have used the emotional approach without succumbing to the temptations which have beset them on the way. Only the perfectly selfless and enlightened can do good that does not, in some way or other, have to be paid for by actual or potential evils. The religious systems of the world have been built up, in the main, by men and women who were not completely selfless or enlightened. Hence all religions have had their dark and even frightful aspects, while the good they do is rarely gratuitous, but must, in most cases, be paid for, either on the nail or by instalments. The emotion-rousing doctrines and practices, which play so important a part in all the worlds organized religions, are no exception to this rule. They do good, but not gratuitously. The price paid varies according to the nature of the individual worshippers. Some of these choose to wallow in emotionalism and, becoming idolaters of feeling, pay for the good of their religion by a spiritual evil that may actually outweigh that good. Others resist the temptation to self-enhancement and go forward to the mortification of self, including the selfs emotional side, and to the worship of God rather than of their own feelings and fancies about God. The further they go in this direction, the less they have to pay for the good which emotionalism brought them and which, but for emotionalism, most of them might never have had.
1.22 - (Poetic Diction continued.) How Poetry combines elevation of language with perspicuity., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
The perfection of style is to be clear without being mean. The clearest style is that which uses only current or proper words; at the same time it is mean:--witness the poetry of Cleophon and of Sthenelus. That diction, on the other hand, is lofty and raised above the commonplace which employs unusual words. By unusual, I mean strange (or rare) words, metaphorical, leng thened,--anything, in short, that differs from the normal idiom. Yet a style wholly composed of such words is either a riddle or a jargon; a riddle, if it consists of metaphors; a jargon, if it consists of strange (or rare) words. For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations. Now this cannot be done by any arrangement of ordinary words, but by the use of metaphor it can. Such is the riddle:--'A man I saw who on another man had glued the bronze by aid of fire,' and others of the same kind. A diction that is made up of strange (or rare) terms is a jargon. A certain infusion, therefore, of these elements is necessary to style; for the strange (or rare) word, the metaphorical, the ornamental, and the other kinds above mentioned, will raise it above the commonplace and mean, while the use of proper words will make it perspicuous. But nothing contri butes more to produce a clearness of diction that is remote from commonness than the leng thening, contraction, and alteration of words. For by deviating in exceptional cases from the normal idiom, the language will gain distinction; while, at the same time, the partial conformity with usage will give perspicuity. The critics, therefore, are in error who censure these licenses of speech, and hold the author up to ridicule. Thus
Eucleides, the elder, declared that it would be an easy matter to be a poet if you might leng then syllables at will. He caricatured the practice in the very form of his diction, as in the verse: '{Epsilon pi iota chi alpha rho eta nu / epsilon iota delta omicron nu / Mu alpha rho alpha theta omega nu alpha delta epsilon / Beta alpha delta iota zeta omicron nu tau alpha}, or, {omicron upsilon kappa / alpha nu / gamma / epsilon rho alpha mu epsilon nu omicron sigma / tau omicron nu / epsilon kappa epsilon iota nu omicron upsilon /epsilon lambda lambda epsilon beta omicron rho omicron nu}. To employ such license at all obtrusively is, no doubt, grotesque; but in any mode of poetic diction there must be moderation. Even metaphors, strange (or rare) words, or any similar forms of speech, would produce the like effect if used without propriety and with the express purpose of being ludicrous. How great a difference is made by the appropriate use of leng thening, may be seen in Epic poetry by the insertion of ordinary forms in the verse. So, again, if we take a strange (or rare) word, a metaphor, or any similar mode of expression, and replace it by the current or proper term, the truth of our observation will be manifest. For example Aeschylus and Euripides each composed the same iambic line. But the alteration of a single word by Euripides, who employed the rarer term instead of the ordinary one, makes one verse appear beautiful and the other trivial. Aeschylus in his
Philoctetes says: {Phi alpha gamma epsilon delta alpha iota nu alpha / delta / eta / mu omicron upsilon / sigma alpha rho kappa alpha sigma / epsilon rho theta iota epsilon iota / pi omicron delta omicron sigma}.
--
It is precisely because such phrases are not part of the current idiom that they give distinction to the style. This, however, he failed to see.
It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several modes of expression, as also in compound words, strange (or rare) words, and so forth. But the greatest thing by far is to have a comm and of metaphor.
--
Dithyrambs, rare words to heroic poetry, metaphors to iambic. In heroic poetry, indeed, all these varieties are serviceable. But in iambic verse, which reproduces, as far as may be, familiar speech, the most appropriate words are those which are found even in prose. These are,--the current or proper, the metaphorical, the ornamental.
Concerning Tragedy and imitation by means of action this may suffice.
1.22 - Tabooed Words, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
will say straight out, "Ask him." The superstition is current all
over the East Indies without exception, and it is found also among
1.22 - THE END OF THE SPECIES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
vous current that is transmitted through the limbs at the dictate of
one and the same Head: and that radiant Head, that mighty
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Evidently the soul passes through a series of subtle experiences, and Sri Bhagavan's touch generates a current which turns the soul back from its wandering into the Heart.
The samskaras, however, persist and a struggle is kept up between the spiritual force set up by His touch and the innate samskaras, until the latter are entirely destroyed and the soul is led into the
--
"I had been to a waterfall in Mysore. The cascade was a fascinating sight. The waters streamed out in the shapes of fingers trying to grasp the rocks but were rushed on by the current to the depths below. I imagined this to be the state of the individuals clinging to their present surroundings. But I cannot help clinging.
"I cannot imagine that we are no better than seasonal flowers, fruits and leaves on trees. I love flowers but still this idea has no hold on me."
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Evidently the soul passes through a series of subtle experiences, and Sri Bhagavans touch generates a current which turns the soul back from its wandering into the Heart.
The samskaras, however, persist and a struggle is kept up between the spiritual force set up by His touch and the innate samskaras, until the latter are entirely destroyed and the soul is led into the
--
I had been to a waterfall in Mysore. The cascade was a fascinating sight. The waters streamed out in the shapes of fingers trying to grasp the rocks but were rushed on by the current to the depths below. I imagined this to be the state of the individuals clinging to their present surroundings. But I cannot help clinging.
I cannot imagine that we are no better than seasonal flowers, fruits and leaves on trees. I love flowers but still this idea has no hold on me.
--
M.: The peace often gained must be remembered at other times. That peace is your natural and permanent state. By continuous practice it will become natural. That is called the current. That is your true nature.
Nada, photisms, etc., imply the existence of triputi (the triads of cogniser, cognition and the cognised). The current resulting from investigation for the Self is suddha triputi or pure triad - that is to say, undifferentiated triad.
26th December, 1936
--
Repeated practice streng thens the mind; and such mind is capable of holding on to the current. In that case, engagement in work or no engagement, the current remains unaffected and uninterrupted.
D.: No separate meditation is necessary?
--
I was long wondering where the current starts, within the body or elsewhere. Suddenly, my body grew tenuous until it disappeared. The enquiry Who am I? went on very clearly and forcibly. The sound of I-I-I alone persisted. There was one vast expanse and nothing more. There was a hazy perception of the occurrences in the hall. I knew that people stood up to salute at the end of the Vedic chant. I
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi wanted to stand: the thought soon deserted me. I was again lost in the one expanse. The experience continued until I heard the voice of Sri
--
(In the current issue of The Vision is published the following note, being the translation by Mr. S. Krishna, M. A., of Sri Ramana Maharshis preface to his translation of Sri Sankaras Viveka Chudamani or
Crown-gem of Discrimination).
--
This state is compared This state is compared to the waveless ocean to a flame unagitated by whose waters are still and currents of air, but burning quite steady
Merging in the one
--
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi power (sakti), life current (prana), etc. Seek your source; the search takes you to the Heart automatically. The antahkaranas are only ideas (kalpana) to explain the subtle body (sukshma sarira). The physical body (sarira) is made up of the elements: earth, air, fire, water and ether; it is insentient. The Self is pure and self-luminous and thus self-evident. The relation between the two is sought to be established by positing a subtle body, composed of the subtle aspects of the five elements on the one hand, and the reflected light of the Self on the other. In this way the subtle body which is synonymous with the mind, is both sentient and insentient, i.e., abhasa. Again, by the play of the pure quality (satva guna) on the elements, their brightness (satva aspect) manifests as the mind
(manas), and the senses (jnanendriyas); by the play of rajas (active quality), the raja (active) aspect manifests as life (prana) and limbs
--
The second test was the fire leaving the cadjan leaf unburnt, and the third the cadjan leaves opposing the current of the river (Tiruvedakam).
Sri Bhagavan also related the story of God Isvara begging food as an old man, taking food as a youth and saving the devotee woman as a babe, all at once.
1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "No, I don't want to obstruct the current of your life. It is not good to renounce anything before the proper time arrives. When the fruit ripens, the flower drops off of itself. One shouldn't forcibly tear off the green branch of a coconut tree. That injures the tree."
Surendra was about to leave. He invited his friends into his carriage. The Master, still in an ecstatic mood, said, "Don't take more people than your horse can draw." Suredra took leave of Sri Ramakrishna. The pundit left the room to perform his worship. M. and Baburam saluted the Master. They were about to leave for Calcutta. Sri Ramakrishna was still in an ecstatic mood.
1.25 - Critical Objections brought against Poetry, and the principles on which they are to be answered., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
The vehicle of expression is language,--either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. There are also many modifications of language, which we concede to the poets. Add to this, that the standard of correctness is not the same in poetry and politics, any more than in poetry and any other art. Within the art of poetry itself there are two kinds of faults, those which touch its essence, and those which are accidental. If a poet has chosen to imitate something,through want of capacity, the error is inherent in the poetry. But if the failure is due to a wrong choice if he has represented a horse as throwing out both his off legs at once, or introduced technical inaccuracies in medicine, for example, or in any other art the error is not essential to the poetry. These are the points of view from which we should consider and answer the objections raised by the critics.
First as to matters which concern the poet's own art. If he describes the impossible, he is guilty of an error; but the error may be justified, if the end of the art be thereby attained (the end being that already mentioned), if, that is, the effect of this or any other part of the poem is thus rendered more striking. A case in point is the pursuit of Hector. If, however, the end might have been as well, or better, attained without violating the special rules of the poetic art, the error is not justified: for every kind of error should, if possible, be avoided.
1.27 - AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to the devotees): "The ebb-tide and flood-tide are indeed amazing. But notice one thing. Near the sea you see ebb-tide and flood-tide in a river, but far away from the sea the river flows in one direction only. What does this mean? Try to apply its significance to your spiritual life. Those who live very near God feel within them the currents of bhakti, bhava, and the like. In the case of a few the Isvarakotis, for instanceone sees even mahabhava and prema.
(To M.) "What is the explanation of the ebb-tide and flood-tide?"
1.29 - What is Certainty?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The Master of the Temple deals very simply and efficiently with problems of this kind. "The Mind" (says he) of this Party of the First Part, hereinafter referred to as Frater N (or whatever his 8 = 3 motto may be) is so constructed that the interval from C to C is most harmoniously divided into n notes; that of the Party of the Second Part hereinafter referred to as not a Heretic, an Atheist, a Bolshie, ad Die-hard, a Schismatic, an Anarchist, a Black Magician, a Friend of Aleister Crowley, or whatever may be the current term of abuse Mr. A, Lord B, the Duke of C, Mrs. X, or whatever he or she may chance to be called into five. The Structure called of-all-Truth in neither of us is affected in the least, any more than in the reading of a Thermometer with Fahrenheit on one side and Centigrade on the other.
You naturally object that this answer is little better than an evasion, that it automatically pushes the Gamut question outside the Charmed of-all-Truth Circle.
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Nada, photisms, etc., imply the existence of triputi (the triads of cogniser, cognition and the cognised). The current resulting from investigation for the Self is suddha triputi or pure triad - that is to say, undifferentiated triad.
26th December, 1936
--
Repeated practice streng thens the mind; and such mind is capable of holding on to the current. In that case, engagement in work or no engagement, the current remains unaffected and uninterrupted.
D.: No separate meditation is necessary?
--
(In the current issue of The Vision is published the following note, being the translation by Mr. S. Krishna, M. A., of Sri Ramana Maharshi's preface to his translation of Sri Sankara's Viveka Chudamani or
"Crown-gem of Discrimination").
--
This state is compared This state is compared to the waveless ocean to a flame unagitated by whose waters are still and currents of air, but burning quite steady
Merging in the one
--
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi power (sakti), life current (prana), etc. Seek your source; the search takes you to the Heart automatically. The antahkaranas are only ideas (kalpana) to explain the subtle body (sukshma sarira). The physical body (sarira) is made up of the elements: earth, air, fire, water and ether; it is insentient. The Self is pure and self-luminous and thus self-evident. The relation between the two is sought to be established by positing a subtle body, composed of the subtle aspects of the five elements on the one hand, and the reflected light of the Self on the other. In this way the subtle body which is synonymous with the mind, is both sentient and insentient, i.e., abhasa. Again, by the play of the pure quality (satva guna) on the elements, their brightness (satva aspect) manifests as the mind
(manas), and the senses (jnanendriyas); by the play of rajas (active quality), the raja (active) aspect manifests as life (prana) and limbs
13.01 - A Centurys Salutation to Sri Aurobindo The Greatness of the Great, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo was a man of action absolutely in the Gita's sense of the word. He set an example, he was an exemplar showing by his life his way of "standing and walking" as the Gita puts it the actions that should be done and the way of doing according to the stage and the field given to oneself. This does not naturally mean that one has to be bound to the current frame, bound to the conventional, attached to what is customary, transitional and formal; on the contrary as I have said, Sri Aurobindo in his stride was always transgressing and overflowing the borders, he was a revolutionary, even an iconoclast, for nothing short of the supreme and complete and integral truth satisfied the urge of consciousness in him; in this sense each step of the scale served as a jumping board to the higher, indeed to the highest inherent or hidden in every one of them.
It was this secret ultimate truth that overshadowed, brooded over all these stages and steps and occupations he passed through: they only led up to that transcendent reality, but it was the sense, constant sense of that reality that lent a special character to all his karma. This urge towards the supreme reality, this transcendence, did not mean for him a rejection of the domains passed through: it is a subsuming, that is to say, uplifting the narrower, the lower status, integrating them into the higher: even as the soil at the root of the plant is subsumed and transmuted into the living sap that mounts high up the plant towards its very top, to the light and energy above.
1.32 - How can a Yogi ever be Worried?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
So let me worry along, please, with the accent on the "along;" I will grin and bear it, or, if it gets so bad that I can't do my Work, I will make the necessary effort to abate the nuisance, always most careful to do as little damage as possible to the main current of my total Energy.
Love is the law, love under will.
1.32 - The Ninth Circle Traitors. The Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caina Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division, Antenora Traitors to their Country. Dante questions Bocca degli, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
So thick a veil ne'er made upon its current
133
1.34 - The Myth and Ritual of Attis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
of the death of Attis were current. According to the one he was
killed by a boar, like Adonis. According to the other he unmanned
1.3 - Mundaka Upanishads, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
with the currents of the life-force and only when it is purified
can this Self manifest its power.8
1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The second test was the fire leaving the cadjan leaf unburnt, and the third the cadjan leaves opposing the current of the river (Tiruvedakam).
Sri Bhagavan also related the story of God Isvara begging food as an old man, taking food as a youth and saving the devotee woman as a babe, all at once.
--
Although a jivanmukta associated with body may, owing to his prarabdha, appear to lapse into ignorance or wisdom, yet he is only pure like the ether (akasa) which is always itself clear. whether covered by dense clouds or cleared of clouds by currents of air. He always revels in the
Self alone, like a loving wife taking pleasure with her husb and alone, though she attends on him with things obtained from others (by way of fortune, as determined by her prarabdha). Though he remains silent like one devoid of learning, yet his supineness is due to the implicit duality of the vaikhari vak (spoken words) of the Vedas; his silence is the highest expression of the realised non-duality which is after all the true content of the Vedas. Though he instructs his disciples, yet he does not pose as a teacher, in the full conviction that the teacher and disciple are mere conventions born of illusion (maya), and so he continues to utter words
1.4.02 - The Divine Force, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness. What I was speaking of was a willed use of any subtle force (it may be spiritual or mental or vital) to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there are mind waves, thought currents, waves of emotion, e.g. anger, sorrow, etc., which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all - they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him.
Influences good or bad can propagate themselves in that way; that can happen without intention, automatically, but also a deliberate use can be made of them. There can also be a purposeful generation of force, spiritual or other. There can be too the use of the effective will or idea acting directly without the aid of any outward action, speech or other instrumentation which is not concrete in that sense, but is all the same effective.
1.4.03 - The Guru, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It does not strike me that Krishnaprem's letters are admirable as an apercu of current thoughts and general tendencies; it was rather his power to withdraw so completely from these thoughts and tendencies and look from a (for him) new and an abiding source of knowledge that impressed me as admirable. If he had remained interested and in touch with these current human movements, I don't suppose he would have done better with them than Romain Rolland or another. But he has gone to the
Yoga-view of them, the summit-view, and it is the readiness with which he has been able to do it that struck me.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Although a jivanmukta associated with body may, owing to his prarabdha, appear to lapse into ignorance or wisdom, yet he is only pure like the ether (akasa) which is always itself clear. whether covered by dense clouds or cleared of clouds by currents of air. He always revels in the
Self alone, like a loving wife taking pleasure with her husb and alone, though she attends on him with things obtained from others (by way of fortune, as determined by her prarabdha). Though he remains silent like one devoid of learning, yet his supineness is due to the implicit duality of the vaikhari vak (spoken words) of the Vedas; his silence is the highest expression of the realised non-duality which is after all the true content of the Vedas. Though he instructs his disciples, yet he does not pose as a teacher, in the full conviction that the teacher and disciple are mere conventions born of illusion (maya), and so he continues to utter words
--
Sri Bhagavan explained to a retired Judge of the High Court some points in the Upadesa Saram as follows:(1) Meditation should remain unbroken as a current. If unbroken it is called samadhi or Kundalini sakti.
(2) The mind may be latent and merge in the Self; it must necessarily rise up again; after it rises up one finds oneself only as ever before.
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Sri Bhagavan explained to a retired Judge of the High Court some points in the Upadesa Saram as follows:(1) Meditation should remain unbroken as a current. If unbroken it is called samadhi or Kundalini sakti.
(2) The mind may be latent and merge in the Self; it must necessarily rise up again; after it rises up one finds oneself only as ever before.
1.45 - The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
marked individuality; no accepted traditions are current as to their
origin, life, adventures, and character. (_b_) On the other hand
1.48 - Morals of AL - Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Aiwass is of a different Order of Being from ourselves. Consider a gold-refiner. "Analysis shows 20 % of copper in this sample; I'll beat it in a current of oxygen; that will oxidize the copper. Shake it up with sulphuric acid; then we wash away the copper sulphate, and that's that." He does not consider how the copper feels about it; indeed, he doesn't believe that the copper knows about it at all.
Yes, yes, of course; I know that's an extreme case. I only bring it in to sow what could be done as a last resort, if pushed to the wall. Fortunately, we are not so ill situated. You will, I dare say, without my prompting, think of the surgeon and the schoolmaster; but I can go one better. We have in recent history a case almost precisely parallel.
1.52 - Family - Public Enemy No. 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Even centuries after one of them is dead, he exercises his abominable craft; and you are only the less able to ward off the slaps of the Dead Hand, because (after all!) there is a whole lot of him in you. He appears at times as a sort of alien conscience; and, indebted as you may be to him for your physical constitution I give him credit for not having saddled you with gout, rheumatism, T.B., or other plague and many of your most useful virtues, you want to handle your assets yourself, without a subterranean current of criticism, or even active interference through others in your sole preoccupation in the Great Work.
I have not actually detected any ancestor of mine stealing my whiskey, as the advertisement warns us may happen: but oh well! However you like to look at it, he is always an influence upon you; and that, good or bad, you quite rightly resent.
1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
that the current may sweep the baleful burden away. The plan of
putting puppets in the boat to represent sick persons, in order to
1.62 - The Fire-Festivals of Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
is current in Carnarvonshire, where allusions to the cutty black sow
are still occasionally made to frighten children. We can now
1.65 - Balder and the Mistletoe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
the beliefs current among his contemporaries in Italy, it will
follow that the Druids and the Italians were to some extent agreed
1.66 - The External Soul in Folk-Tales, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Stories of the same sort are current among Slavonic peoples. Thus a
Russian story tells how a warlock called Koshchei the Deathless
1.66 - Vampires, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I cannot help feeling that all the superior-person explanations which explain nothing about collective hysteria and superstition and wish fulfillment and the rest of the current tomfool jargon, are just about as hard to believe as the original straight forward stories.
The man who shook his head on being shown a giraffe, and said "I don't believe it," is quite on a par with he pontifical wiseacres of Wimpole Street.
1.75 - The AA and the Planet, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
This by the way: the essence this letter is to show that "They", not one person but a number acting in concert, not only foresaw a planet-wide catastrophe, but were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind.
The Equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone.
1.81 - Method of Training, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now you, sitting in your study reading this letter, got there and were compelled to do that, as the result of the impact upon you of countless quintillions of forces of every kind. I don't expect you to discover all these and calculate and report them; but I want you to set down all the main currents. For so you should be able to get some sort of answer to the question Where do we go from here, boys?
I am not a guesser; and I cannot judge you, or advise you, or help you, unless and until I know the facts as thoroughly as you are able to allow me to do.
--- Overview of noun current
The noun current has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (11) current, electric current ::: (a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes")
2. (6) current, stream ::: (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water")
3. (1) stream, flow, current ::: (dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history")
--- Overview of adj current
The adj current has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (17) current ::: (occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun current
3 senses of current
Sense 1
current, electric current
=> electrical phenomenon
=> physical phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
current, stream
=> flow, flowing
=> change of location, travel
=> movement, motion
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
stream, flow, current
=> course, line
=> series
=> ordering, order, ordination
=> arrangement
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun current
2 of 3 senses of current
Sense 1
current, electric current
=> juice
=> thermionic current
Sense 2
current, stream
=> tidal flow, tidal current
=> riptide, rip current
=> undertide, undercurrent
=> torrent, violent stream
=> eddy, twist
=> whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom
=> ocean current
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun current
3 senses of current
Sense 1
current, electric current
=> electrical phenomenon
Sense 2
current, stream
=> flow, flowing
Sense 3
stream, flow, current
=> course, line
--- Similarity of adj current
1 sense of current
Sense 1
current (vs. noncurrent)
=> actual
=> afoot(predicate), underway
=> circulating(prenominal)
=> contemporary, present-day(prenominal)
=> incumbent
=> live
=> live
=> occurrent
=> ongoing, on-going
=> on-line(prenominal), online
=> topical
=> up-to-date
=> up-to-the-minute, latest
Also See-> modern#1; new#1
--- Antonyms of adj current
1 sense of current
Sense 1
current (vs. noncurrent)
noncurrent (vs. current)
=> back(prenominal)
=> dead
=> disused, obsolete
=> outdated, out-of-date, superannuated
=> obsolescent
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun current
3 senses of current
Sense 1
current, electric current
-> electrical phenomenon
=> amperage
=> capacitance, electrical capacity, capacity
=> elastance, electrical elastance
=> charge, electric charge
=> pyroelectricity
=> current, electric current
=> dielectric heating
=> induction, inductance
=> electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage
=> conductance
=> electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistance, resistivity, ohmic resistance
=> reactance
=> reluctance
=> skin effect
=> distortion
=> electrical disturbance
=> voltage, electromotive force, emf
Sense 2
current, stream
-> flow, flowing
=> fountain, jet
=> ebb, reflux
=> backflow, backflowing
=> airflow, air flow, flow of air
=> current, stream
=> freshet, spate
=> overflow, runoff, overspill
=> dripping, drippage
=> discharge, outpouring, run
=> flux, fluxion
=> seepage, ooze, oozing
=> drip, trickle, dribble
=> emission
=> flush, gush, outpouring
=> rush, spate, surge, upsurge
Sense 3
stream, flow, current
-> course, line
=> stream, flow, current
--- Pertainyms of adj current
1 sense of current
Sense 1
current (vs. noncurrent)
--- Derived Forms of adj current
1 sense of current
Sense 1
current (vs. noncurrent)
RELATED TO->(noun) currency#3
=> currentness, currency, up-to-dateness
RELATED TO->(noun) currentness#1
=> currentness, currency, up-to-dateness
--- Grep of noun current
air current
alternating current
alternating electric current
countercurrent
crosscurrent
current
current account
current assets
current electricity
current intelligence
current of air
current unit
currentness
direct current
direct electric current
electric current
equatorial current
garden current
humboldt current
japan current
kuroshio current
north equatorial current
occurrent
ocean current
peruvian current
rip current
south equatorial current
thermionic current
tidal current
undercurrent
Wikipedia - 10 News First -- News and current affairs program by Network 10 in Australia
Wikipedia - 14th Dalai Lama -- The 14th and current Dalai Lama
Wikipedia - 1953 Baltimore Colts season -- Inaugural season for the current Colts franchise
Wikipedia - 2019 Campeonato Paulista Serie A3 -- The 26th season of Campeonato Paulista Serie A3 under its current title and the 66th season under its current league division format
Wikipedia - 2020 Campeonato Paulista Serie A2 -- The 27th season of Campeonato Paulista Serie A2 under its current title and the 97th season under its current league division format
Wikipedia - 2020 Campeonato Paulista Serie A3 -- The 27th season of Campeonato Paulista Serie A3 under its current title and the 67th season under its current league division format
Wikipedia - 2021 -- Current year
Wikipedia - 27th South African Parliament -- Current session of South African Parliament
Wikipedia - 3rd millennium -- Current millennium, spanning the years 2001 to 3000
Wikipedia - Abdelaziz Djerad -- Algerian political scientist and current Prime Minister of Algeria
Wikipedia - Abiy Ahmed -- Current Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Abyssal channel -- Channels in the sea floor formed by fast-flowing turbidity currents
Wikipedia - Acoustic Doppler current profiler -- A hydroacoustic current meter used to measure water current velocities over a depth range using the Doppler effect
Wikipedia - Active Denial System -- Non-lethal, directed-energy weapon (2002-current)
Wikipedia - Actor-Based Concurrent Language
Wikipedia - Actor model -- Model of concurrent computation
Wikipedia - A Current Affair (American TV program) -- American television newsmagazine program (1986-1996, 2005)
Wikipedia - A Current Affair (Australian TV program) -- Australian current affairs TV show
Wikipedia - Address bar -- Web browser widget that shows the current URL
Wikipedia - Administrative divisions of Croatia -- List of historical and current administrative divisions of Croatia
Wikipedia - Admittance parameters -- Properties of an electrical network in terms of a matrix of ratios of currents to voltages
Wikipedia - Age of criminal responsibility in Australia -- Factors relating to the age of criminal responsibility in Australia, currently 10 years old
Wikipedia - Ageostrophy -- The real condition that works against geostrophic wind or geostrophic currents in the ocean, and works against an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force
Wikipedia - Agulhas Current -- Western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean that flows down the east coast of Africa
Wikipedia - Agulhas Return Current -- An ocean current in the South Indian Ocean flowing from the Agulhas retroflection along the subtropical front
Wikipedia - Alaska Current -- A warm-water current flowing nortwards along the coast of British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle
Wikipedia - Aleutian Current -- An eastward flowing ocean current which lies north of the North Pacific Current;
Wikipedia - Alinafe Kalemba -- Current Bishop of Lake Malawi
Wikipedia - Alternating current -- Electric current which periodically reverses direction
Wikipedia - Alternator -- Electromechanical device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current
Wikipedia - Amalgamation of Toronto -- Creation of the current political borders of Toronto, Ontario
Wikipedia - Amarinder Singh -- 15th and current Chief Minister of Punjab, India
Wikipedia - Amazon Prime Air -- Conceptual drone-based delivery system currently in development
Wikipedia - Aminu Tambuwal -- Current Governor of Sokoto State
Wikipedia - Ampere -- SI base unit of electric current
Wikipedia - Angola Current -- A temporary ocean surface current. It is an extension of the Guinea Current, flowing near western Africa's coast
Wikipedia - Anies Baswedan -- Indonesian politician currently serving as governor of Jakarta
Wikipedia - Anna Wintour -- Current editor of American Vogue magazine, Conde Nast artistic director
Wikipedia - Anode -- Electrode through which conventional current flows into a polarized electrical device
Wikipedia - Antarctic Circumpolar Current -- Ocean current that flows clockwise from west to east around Antarctica
Wikipedia - Antilles Current -- A highly variable surface ocean current of warm water that flows northeasterly past the island chain that separates the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
Wikipedia - Armin Laschet -- German politician; current Minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia
Wikipedia - Askar Mamin -- Current Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
Wikipedia - Atlantic meridional overturning circulation -- system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean, having a northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers and a southward flow of colder, deep waters that are part of the thermohaline circulation
Wikipedia - Auckland Central (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Australian fifty-cent coin -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian fifty-dollar note -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian five-cent coin -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian five-dollar note -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian one-dollar coin -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian one-hundred-dollar note -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australians for Constitutional Monarchy -- Group that aims to preserve Australia's current constitutional monarchy
Wikipedia - Australian ten-cent coin -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian ten-dollar note -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian twenty-cent coin -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian twenty-dollar note -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Australian two-dollar coin -- Current denomination of Australian currency
Wikipedia - Axum (programming language) -- Domain specific concurrent programming language originally developed by Microsoft
Wikipedia - Azores Current -- A generally eastward to southeastward-flowing current in the North Atlantic, originating near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland where it splits from Gulf Stream
Wikipedia - Backpropagation through time -- Technique for training recurrent neural networks
Wikipedia - Baffin Island Current -- An ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean, along Baffin Island
Wikipedia - Baltiysky District -- One of a current and historic district in Russia
Wikipedia - Baron Haden-Guest -- A title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom currently held by U.S. film director Christopher Guest
Wikipedia - Bayero Salih-Farah -- Ccurrent director general of Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria
Wikipedia - Bayt Nattif -- Former town in current day Israel
Wikipedia - BBC World News -- International news and current affairs television channel
Wikipedia - Beaufort Gyre -- A wind-driven ocean current in the Arctic Ocean polar region
Wikipedia - Benguela Current Commission -- Multi-sectoral inter-governmental, initiative of Angola, Namibia and South Africa
Wikipedia - Benguela Current -- The broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre
Wikipedia - Ben Wikler -- Current Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Wikipedia - Beriev Be-2500 -- Russian super heavy amphibious transport aircraft currently in design and development
Wikipedia - Bhupesh Baghel -- Third and current Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh state in India
Wikipedia - Biasing -- Predetermined voltages or currents establishing proper operating conditions in electronic components
Wikipedia - Bidirectional recurrent neural networks
Wikipedia - Bidya Devi Bhandari -- Current president of Nepal
Wikipedia - Bigamy -- Act of having two concurrent marriages
Wikipedia - Binge eating disorder -- Frequent and recurrent binge eating episodes with associated negative psychological and social problems
Wikipedia - Bipin Rawat -- Current Chief of Defence Staff of India
Wikipedia - Birkeland current
Wikipedia - Black Sea undersea river -- A current of particularly saline water flowing through the Bosphorus Strait and along the seabed of the Black Sea
Wikipedia - Blasting machine -- Portable source of electric current for the detonation of an explosive
Wikipedia - Blogger (service) -- Blogging platform currently owned by Google
Wikipedia - Boeing 747-8 -- Wide-body airliner, current production series of the 747
Wikipedia - Bonus share -- Shares distributed by a company to its current shareholders
Wikipedia - Botany (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Boundary current -- Ocean current with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline
Wikipedia - Bound current
Wikipedia - Bowers Ridge -- A currently seismically inactive ridge in the southern part of the Aleutian Basin
Wikipedia - Box Office Poison (magazine article) -- Term for currently unpopular actor
Wikipedia - Brazil Current -- A warm current that flows south along the Brazilian south coast to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata
Wikipedia - Brazilian Labour Party (current) -- Political party in Brazil
Wikipedia - Brian Current -- Canadian composer
Wikipedia - British Rail Class 357 -- British alternating current (AC) electric multiple units (EMUs) were built by Adtranz
Wikipedia - Busbar -- Strip inside switchgear for local high current distribution
Wikipedia - By Common Consent -- Blog of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events
Wikipedia - Cable & Wireless Communications -- Current British communications operator
Wikipedia - California Current -- A Pacific Ocean current that flows southward along the western coast of North America from southern British Columbia to the southern Baja California Peninsula
Wikipedia - Call-with-current-continuation -- Control flow operator in functional programming
Wikipedia - Cambio 16 -- Spanish current affairs magazine
Wikipedia - Campbell Live -- New Zealand current affairs television programme
Wikipedia - Canada-Georgia relations -- Current and historic bilateral relations
Wikipedia - Canary Current -- A wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre
Wikipedia - Capacitor discharge sintering -- A fast electric current assisted sintering process
Wikipedia - Cape Horn Current -- A cold water current that flows west-to-east around Cape Horn
Wikipedia - Capital of Sri Lanka -- The current capital of Sri Lanka is Sri jayawardenepura kotte
Wikipedia - Cardiac transient outward potassium current -- Ion current
Wikipedia - Caribbean Current -- A warm ocean current that flows northwestward through the Caribbean from the east along the coast of South America into the Gulf of Mexico
Wikipedia - Carrier current -- Transmission of low-power radio signals through electrical conductors
Wikipedia - Category:Concurrent algorithms
Wikipedia - Category:Concurrent computing
Wikipedia - Category:Concurrent programming languages
Wikipedia - Category:Concurrent Versions System
Wikipedia - Category:Current 93 members
Wikipedia - Category:Current events portal
Wikipedia - Category:Current events
Wikipedia - CFRM-FM -- Radio station in Little Current, Ontario
Wikipedia - Chakri dynasty -- Current ruling royal house of the Kingdom of Thailand
Wikipedia - Characteristic impedance -- Ratio of the amplitudes of voltage and current of a single wave propagating along a transmission line
Wikipedia - CHAW-FM -- Radio station in Little Current, Ontario
Wikipedia - Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Wikipedia - Christchurch Central -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - CIMG-FM -- Radio station in Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Wikipedia - Circuit breaker -- Automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current from an overload or short circuit
Wikipedia - Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro -- Multi-sport complex currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - CKFI-FM -- Radio station in Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Wikipedia - CKSW -- Radio station in Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Wikipedia - Classical electromagnetism -- Branch of theoretical physics that studies consequences of the electromagnetic forces between electric charges and currents
Wikipedia - Classification of mental disorders -- There are currently two widely established systems for classifying mental disorders
Wikipedia - Climate change -- Current rise in Earth's average temperature and its effects
Wikipedia - Coastal erosion -- The loss or displacement of land along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides. wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms
Wikipedia - Coins of the pound sterling -- British current and historic coinage
Wikipedia - Cold core ring -- A type of oceanic eddy, characterized as unstable, time-dependent swirling M-bM-^@M-^XcellsM-bM-^@M-^Y that separate from their respective ocean current and move into water bodies with different characteristics
Wikipedia - Columbia Records -- American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment
Wikipedia - Commandino's theorem -- The four medians of a tetrahedron are concurrent
Wikipedia - Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English
Wikipedia - Computer multitasking -- Concurrent execution of multiple processes
Wikipedia - Concurrent algorithm
Wikipedia - Concurrent computer
Wikipedia - Concurrent computing -- Form of computing in which several computations are executing during overlapping time periods
Wikipedia - Concurrent constraint logic programming
Wikipedia - Concurrent data structure
Wikipedia - Concurrent DOS
Wikipedia - Concurrent Euclid
Wikipedia - Concurrent logic programming
Wikipedia - Concurrent mark sweep collector
Wikipedia - Concurrent ML
Wikipedia - Concurrent object-oriented programming
Wikipedia - Concurrent Pascal
Wikipedia - Concurrent process
Wikipedia - Concurrent programming language
Wikipedia - Concurrent programming
Wikipedia - Concurrent program
Wikipedia - Concurrent systems
Wikipedia - Concurrent system
Wikipedia - Concurrent testing
Wikipedia - Concurrent user
Wikipedia - Concurrent validity
Wikipedia - Concurrent Versions System
Wikipedia - Consistency model -- A set of formally specified rules that guarantee (or explicitly disclaim) certain consistencies in the event of concurrent reads or writes to shared memory
Wikipedia - Constant-current diode
Wikipedia - Constellation-class frigate -- Class of guided-missile frigates for the US Navy currently under development
Wikipedia - Constitution of Bulgaria -- Current constitution of Bulgaria, adopted in 1991
Wikipedia - Constitution of El Salvador -- El Salvador's Current Constitution (1983)
Wikipedia - Constitution of Portugal -- Current constitution of Portugal
Wikipedia - Constitution of Spain -- Current constitution of Spain
Wikipedia - Contemporary history -- Era of history starting from 1945 up to the current age
Wikipedia - Contemporary philosophy -- Current period in the history of Western philosophy
Wikipedia - Convection current -- Flow due to unstable density variation due to temperature differences
Wikipedia - Conventional current
Wikipedia - Coromandel (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Countercurrent (Italy, 2006) -- Trotskyist political group in Italy
Wikipedia - Craik-Leibovich vortex force -- A forcing of the mean flow through wave-current interaction
Wikipedia - Credit Union iPlex -- Multi-use indoor arena in Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Wikipedia - Criticism of Islam -- Criticism of the current or historical Islamic religion, its actions, teachings, omissions, structure, or nature
Wikipedia - Cromwell Current -- An eastward-flowing subsurface current that extends along the equator in the Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Crosscurrent (film) -- 2016 film
Wikipedia - Cross Currents (1916 film) -- 1916 silent film starring Helen Ware
Wikipedia - Crossfire (American TV program) -- Current events debate television program that aired from 1982 to 2005 on CNN
Wikipedia - Currency of Germany -- List of current and historical currency of Germany.
Wikipedia - Current 78 -- Political party in Uruguay
Wikipedia - Current 93
Wikipedia - Current Affairs (magazine) -- American magazine
Wikipedia - Current Alzheimer Research -- Medical journal
Wikipedia - Current Anthropology
Wikipedia - Current balance
Wikipedia - Current Cancer Drug Targets
Wikipedia - Current clamp -- Tool for measuring electrical current
Wikipedia - CurrentC
Wikipedia - Current density
Wikipedia - Current Directions in Psychological Science
Wikipedia - Current directory
Wikipedia - Current (electricity)
Wikipedia - Current Issues in Linguistic Theory -- 1964 book by Noam Chomsky
Wikipedia - Current Literature
Wikipedia - Current members of the United States Congress
Wikipedia - Current meter -- A device for measuring the flow in a water current
Wikipedia - Current of Love -- Tunisian political movement
Wikipedia - Currentology -- A science that studies the internal movements of water masses
Wikipedia - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Wikipedia - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Wikipedia - Current Opinion in Structural Biology
Wikipedia - Current Procedural Terminology -- Medical coding used in the United States
Wikipedia - Current Protocols
Wikipedia - Current research in evolutionary biology
Wikipedia - Current Science
Wikipedia - Current sea level rise
Wikipedia - Current sense amplifier -- Type of amplifier
Wikipedia - Current solar income
Wikipedia - Current (stream) -- Flow of water in a river due to gravity
Wikipedia - Current transformer -- Transformer used to scale alternating current, used as sensor for AC power
Wikipedia - Current TV -- American television channel
Wikipedia - Current working directory
Wikipedia - Current World Archaeology -- British magazine
Wikipedia - Current Zoology -- Academic journal
Wikipedia - Daniel Obajtek -- Polish politician, entrepreneur and current president of PKN Orlen company(born on 1976)
Wikipedia - Data in transit -- data that is currently traveling across a network
Wikipedia - David J. Farber -- American computer scientist currently in Japan
Wikipedia - Davidson Current -- A coastal countercurrent of the Pacific Ocean flowing north along the western coast of the United States from Baja California, Mexico to northern Oregon
Wikipedia - Dawn (Current 93 album)
Wikipedia - Dawn Zimmer -- Politician; current Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
Wikipedia - Daydream -- Stream of consciousness that detaches from current external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction
Wikipedia - Dead reckoning -- Process of calculating one's current position by using a previously determined position
Wikipedia - Deformation (physics) -- Transformation of a body from a reference configuration to a current configuration
Wikipedia - Democrat Party (Turkey, current) -- Political party in Turkey, current
Wikipedia - Deviant current -- Term from Iranian politics
Wikipedia - Dime (United States coin) -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Diode -- Electronic component that only allows current to flow in one direction
Wikipedia - Direct current -- Unidirectional flow of electric charge
Wikipedia - Displacement current
Wikipedia - Distributed Concurrent Versions System
Wikipedia - Doc (aircraft) -- One of two currently flying Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers
Wikipedia - Doctor Who missing episodes -- Episodes of Doctor Who that are currently lost
Wikipedia - Dollar coin (United States) -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Draft:10-centime piece (Swiss coin) -- Current denomination of the Swiss Franc
Wikipedia - Draft:Elektrochlorierung -- Producing hypochlorite by electric current through salt water
Wikipedia - Draft:Nalamaru Chandrasekhar Reddy -- 17th and current President of Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers' Association
Wikipedia - Drift current -- Is the electric current, or movement of charge carriers, which is due to the applied electric field, often stated as the electromotive force over a given distance
Wikipedia - Drifter (floating device) -- An oceanographic instrument package floating freely on the surface to investigate ocean currents and other parameters like temperature or salinity
Wikipedia - Drift ice -- Sea ice that is not attached to land and may move on the sea surface in response to wind and ocean currents
Wikipedia - DSM-5 -- 2013 fifth and current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Wikipedia - East Australian Current -- The southward flowing western boundary current that is formed from the South Equatorial Current reaching the eastern coast of Australia
Wikipedia - East Coast (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - East Greenland Current -- Current from Fram Strait to Cape Farewell off the eastern coat of Greenland
Wikipedia - East Iceland Current -- A cold water ocean current that forms as a branch of the East Greenland Current
Wikipedia - East Korea Warm Current -- An ocean current in the Sea of Japan which branches off from the Tsushima Current at the eastern end of the Korea Strait, and flows north along the southeastern coast of the Korean peninsula
Wikipedia - East Madagascar Current -- Current that flows southward on the east side of Madagascar and subsequently feeds the Agulhas Current
Wikipedia - Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre -- The largest contiguous ecosystem on earth and a major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - Edappadi K. Palaniswami -- Indian politician and the current chief minister of Tamil Nadu
Wikipedia - Ed Conway -- British journalist, currently Sky News Economics Editor
Wikipedia - Eddy current brake
Wikipedia - Eddy current
Wikipedia - Eddy (fluid dynamics) -- The swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime
Wikipedia - Ekman current meter -- A mechanical flowmeter invented by Vagn Walfrid Ekman, a Swedish oceanographer, in 1903
Wikipedia - Ekman spiral -- A structure of currents or winds near a horizontal boundary in which the flow direction rotates as one moves away from the boundary
Wikipedia - Elaine Chao -- 18th and current United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
Wikipedia - Electrical fault -- Abnormal electric current
Wikipedia - Electrical impedance -- The opposition of a circuit to a current when a voltage is applied
Wikipedia - Electrical injury -- Physiological reaction or injury caused by electric current
Wikipedia - Electrical resistance and conductance -- Opposition to the passage of an electric current
Wikipedia - Electrical resistivity and conductivity -- Measure of a substance's ability to resist or conduct electric current
Wikipedia - Electric current density
Wikipedia - Electric currents
Wikipedia - Electric current -- Flow of electric charge
Wikipedia - Electric resistance welding -- Welding processes that use heat produced by electric current through the work pieces
Wikipedia - Electrochlorination -- Producing hypochlorite by electric current through salt water
Wikipedia - Electromagnet -- Type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by the flow of electric current
Wikipedia - Electron beam-induced current -- Semiconductor analysis technique
Wikipedia - Electroplating -- Creation of protective or decorative metallic coating on other metal with electric current
Wikipedia - Ellen Ochoa -- Former astronaut and current Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center
Wikipedia - Emerging market -- Country's economy that was traditionally small, but is currently expanding rapidly
Wikipedia - Equatorial Counter Current -- A shallow eastward flowing current found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans
Wikipedia - Ethiopian birr -- Unit of current in Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Ethiopian Empire -- Monarchy covering the current states of Ethiopia and Eritrea (1270-1974)
Wikipedia - Eugene Scott (journalist) -- |is currently a reporter for The Washington Post.
Wikipedia - Evangelisches Gesangbuch -- Current hymnal of German-language congregations in Germany, Alsace and Lorraine, Austria, and Luxembourg
Wikipedia - Evolutionary baggage -- The part of the genome of a population that was advantageous in past circumstances but is currently disadvantageous
Wikipedia - Exhalation -- Flow of the respiratory current out of an organism
Wikipedia - Failure to thrive -- Condition of children whose current weight or rate of weight gain is much lower than expected
Wikipedia - Falcon 9 Block 5 -- Current version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 orbital launch vehicle
Wikipedia - Falkland Current -- A cold water current that flows northward along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia as far north as the mouth of the Rio de la Plata
Wikipedia - Federal Reserve Note -- Current paper currency of the United States
Wikipedia - Fifth World (mythology) -- The idea that the current world came into being after four other cycles of creation and destruction, found in Aztec, Navajo, and Hopi mythologies
Wikipedia - Financial plan -- Comprehensive evaluation of someone's current and future financial state
Wikipedia - First Navy Jack -- First navy jack of the United States, currently only flown by the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy
Wikipedia - Florida Central Railroad (current) -- Short line railroad in Central Florida
Wikipedia - Florida Current -- A thermal ocean current that flows from the Straits of Florida around the Florida Peninsula and along the southeastern coast of the United States before joining the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras
Wikipedia - Florida Midland Railroad (current) -- Short line railroad in Central Florida
Wikipedia - Fort of Sao Miguel Arcanjo -- 16th-century fort and current museum in western Portugal
Wikipedia - Four-current
Wikipedia - Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing
Wikipedia - Fourth Merkel cabinet -- Current German government
Wikipedia - Francisco Sagasti -- Peruvian engineer, businessman, and current president
Wikipedia - Friendly Floatees -- Plastic rubber ducks made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements.
Wikipedia - Galvanic isolation -- Electrical insulation that allows communication, but blocks current from flowing from one side to another
Wikipedia - Gary Lagesse -- American athletic director, head softball coach, team advisor and current sporting goods sales representative
Wikipedia - Gated recurrent unit -- Long short-term memory (LSTM) with a forget gate but not an output gate, used in recurrent nueral networks
Wikipedia - Gat (landform) -- A relatively narrow but deep strait that is constantly eroded by currents flowing back and forth, such as tidal currents
Wikipedia - Geology of the North Sea -- Description of the current geological features and the geological history that created them
Wikipedia - George Floyd protests in Belgium -- Protests in Belgium against police brutality in solidarity with concurrent events in the United States
Wikipedia - George Floyd protests in Canada -- Protests in Canada against police brutality in solidarity with concurrent events in the United States
Wikipedia - George Floyd protests in New Zealand -- Protests in New Zealand against police brutality in solidarity with concurrent events in the United States
Wikipedia - George Floyd protests in Puerto Rico -- Protests in Puerto Rico against police brutality in solidarity with concurrent events in the US
Wikipedia - George Floyd protests in the Netherlands -- Protests in the Netherlands against police brutality in solidarity with concurrent events in the United States
Wikipedia - George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom -- Protests across the United Kingdom against police brutality in solidarity with concurrent events in the United States
Wikipedia - Georgian architecture -- Architectural styles current in the English-speaking world between c. 1714 and 1830
Wikipedia - Geostrophic current -- An oceanic flow in which the pressure gradient force is balanced by the Coriolis effect
Wikipedia - Giant current ripples -- Depositional forms in diluvial plain and mountain scablands
Wikipedia - Gilberto Hinojosa -- American politician and current Chair of the Texas Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Glacier foreland -- The region between the current leading edge of the glacier and the moraines of latest maximum
Wikipedia - Glacio-geological databases -- Data on glacially associated sedimentary deposits and erosional activity from former and current ice-sheets
Wikipedia - Global Drifter Program -- Collecting measurements of surface ocean currents, sea surface temperature and sea-level atmospheric pressure using drifters
Wikipedia - Global Politician -- Online political and current events magazine
Wikipedia - Good Hope Jet -- The northward-running shelf edge frontal jet of the Southern Benguela Current off the Cape Peninsula of South Africa's west coast
Wikipedia - Google Currents (2011-2013) -- Magazine app for Android
Wikipedia - Google Currents -- Software developed by Google for internal enterprise communication
Wikipedia - Google Current
Wikipedia - Gotabaya Rajapaksa -- Sri Lankan politician, 8th and current President of Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Gout -- Medical condition that results in recurrent pain and swelling of joints
Wikipedia - Gramme machine -- Electrical generator that produces direct current
Wikipedia - Gravity current -- Flow that is driven by a density difference and gravity
Wikipedia - Great West Aerodrome -- Grass airfield, operational 1930 - 1944 on the site of the current Heathrow Airport
Wikipedia - Guinea Current -- A slow warm water current that flows to the east along the Guinea coast of West Africa
Wikipedia - Gulf Stream -- A warm, swift Atlantic current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico flows around the tip of Florida, along the east coast of the United States before crossing the Atlantic Ocean
Wikipedia - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow -- Turkmen politician, 2nd and current President of Turkmenistan
Wikipedia - Gut (coastal geography) -- A narrow coastal body of water, a channel or strait, usually one that is subject to strong tidal currents, or a small creek
Wikipedia - Half dollar (United States coin) -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Halo (Current 93 album)
Wikipedia - Hamilton Mourao -- Current Vice President of Brazil
Wikipedia - Han Min-yong -- South Korean journalist and current JTBC Newsroom weekend anchor
Wikipedia - Herbert Gomba -- Zimbabwean politician, current mayor of Harare
Wikipedia - Hezbut Tawheed -- Bangladesh based religious group which is currently working daily against the religious mongering and against Militancy and they trying to Establishment the peace
Wikipedia - High-speed rail in India -- Current status and future plans for high speed rail in India
Wikipedia - High-voltage direct current -- Electric power transmission system
Wikipedia - History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia -- Jews and Judaism in the territory currently forming Saudi Arabia.
Wikipedia - History of the Royal Canadian Air Force -- Current and past events of Canada's military air services
Wikipedia - Ho Iat Seng -- Macanese politician, 3rd and current Chief Executive of Macau
Wikipedia - Holocene -- current geological epoch, covering the last 11,700 years
Wikipedia - Homopolar motor -- Direct current electric motor
Wikipedia - House concurrent resolution 108
Wikipedia - House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials -- US government committee
Wikipedia - HTML5 -- Fifth and current version of hypertext markup language
Wikipedia - Hubert Minnis -- Bahamian physician and politician; current Prime Minister of the Bahamas
Wikipedia - Humboldt Current -- A cold, low-salinity eastern boundary current that flows north along the western coast of South America from southern Chile to northern Peru
Wikipedia - Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan -- current Crown Prince of Jordan
Wikipedia - Hutt South -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - I Have a Special Plan for This World -- 2000 single by Current 93
Wikipedia - Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz -- Malaysian politician, current Deputy Minister of Defence
Wikipedia - Ilam (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Imperium (Current 93 album)
Wikipedia - Implications of Puerto Rico's current political status -- Overview of the implications of Puerto Rico's current political status
Wikipedia - Incumbent -- Current holder of a political office
Wikipedia - Indeterminacy in concurrent computation
Wikipedia - Indian Monsoon Current -- The seasonally varying ocean current regime found in the tropical regions of the northern Indian Ocean
Wikipedia - Indian Ocean Gyre -- A large systems of rotating ocean currents. The Indian Ocean gyre is composed of two major currents: the South Equatorial Current, and the West Australian Current
Wikipedia - Indonesian Throughflow -- Ocean current that provides a low-latitude pathway for warm, relatively fresh water to move from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean
Wikipedia - Inhalation -- Flow of the respiratory current into an organism
Wikipedia - Inrush current limiter -- Component used to limit inrush current
Wikipedia - Inrush current -- Maximal instantaneous input current drawn by an electrical device when first turned on
Wikipedia - Insertion sort -- Sorting algorithm that, at each iteration, inserts the current input element into the suitable position between the already sorted elements
Wikipedia - Institute of Current World Affairs -- American foundation
Wikipedia - Insulator (electricity) -- Material that does not conduct an electric current
Wikipedia - Integrated Ocean Observing System -- An organization of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes
Wikipedia - Intel Concurrent Collections
Wikipedia - International Celestial Reference System -- Current standard celestial reference system
Wikipedia - International scientific vocabulary -- Scientific and specialized words in current use in several modern languages
Wikipedia - Invercargill (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - IOS 14 -- Fourteenth and current major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IPadOS 14 -- Second and current major version of iPadOS
Wikipedia - Irminger Current -- A north Atlantic current setting westward off the southwest coast of Iceland
Wikipedia - Ishwar Pokhrel -- Nepalese politician and current Deputy Prime minister of Nepal
Wikipedia - Jacqueline Hey -- Australian banker and current chairwoman of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
Wikipedia - Janus (concurrent constraint programming language)
Wikipedia - Java ConcurrentMap
Wikipedia - Jefimenko's equations -- Solution for electric field and magnetic field due to a distribution of moving electric charges and electric current in space.
Wikipedia - Jet stream -- Fast-flowing atmospheric air current
Wikipedia - Jevrem -- A Serbian Nu Disco producer and DJ, currently based in Minnesota, United States.
Wikipedia - Jewish Currents -- Progressive Jewish magazine
Wikipedia - Jody Olsen -- 20th and current Director of the Peace Corps
Wikipedia - Joins (concurrency library) -- Asynchronous concurrent computing API for .NET
Wikipedia - Joko Widodo -- Current President of Indonesia
Wikipedia - Jorge Radhames Zorrilla Ozuna -- Politician and current president of the Civic Renovation Party
Wikipedia - Joseph M. Barbuto -- American politician and current Chair of the Wyoming Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Joseph McNamara (Rhode Island politician) -- American politician and current Chair of the Rhode Island Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Joule heating -- Process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor produces heat
Wikipedia - Judicial review in the United States -- Ability of a court in the US to examine laws to determine if it contradicts current laws
Wikipedia - Julie Payette -- Current Governor General of Canada, former CSA Astronaut
Wikipedia - KaikM-EM-^Mura (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Kamchatka Current -- A cold-water current flowing south-westward from the Bering Strait, along the Siberian Pacific coast and the Kamchatka Peninsula
Wikipedia - Kim Jong-un -- Current supreme leader of North Korea
Wikipedia - KMSE -- The Current public radio station in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Wikipedia - KP Sharma Oli -- Nepali politician and current Prime minister of Nepal
Wikipedia - Kuroshio Current -- North flowing ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Kwame Kilpatrick -- American politician and current felon from Michigan
Wikipedia - Labrador Current -- A cold current in the Atlantic ocean along the coasts of Labrador, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
Wikipedia - LA Current -- Swimming club in USA
Wikipedia - Landing of the first Filipinos -- Arrival of Filipinos to the current United States in 1587
Wikipedia - Landon Lecture Series -- Series of speeches on current public affairs hosted by Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas
Wikipedia - Largest known prime number -- Largest prime number currently known
Wikipedia - Last universal common ancestor -- Last recent common ancestor of all current life
Wikipedia - Le Point (TV series) -- Former Radio-Canada current affairs program
Wikipedia - List of American current child actors -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of American television programs currently in production -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of British current child actors -- British current child actors
Wikipedia - List of Case Closed episodes (seasons 16-current) -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of coal-fired power stations in the United States -- Electricity generating plants currently burning coal in the North American country
Wikipedia - List of concurrent and parallel programming languages -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of countries by current account balance as a percentage of GDP -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of countries by current account balance -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ABA League First Division team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ABA League Second Division team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ABA Liga team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ACA fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current AFC team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current AFL team squads -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current AFL Women's coaches -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current AFL Women's team squads -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current AHL captains -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current airships in the United States -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ambassadors from Iran -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ambassadors of Burkina Faso -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ambassadors of Finland -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current and former railroad companies operating in Dallas -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current and former Super League venues -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in Japan -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in the United States -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current automobile manufacturers by country -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current automobile marques -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current automotive parts suppliers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Bellator fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current boxing rankings -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Brave CF fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current bus operators of the United Kingdom -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Canadian first ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current CFL team rosters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current champions in Ring of Honor -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Chinese provincial leaders -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Christian leaders -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current consorts of sovereigns -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current constituent African monarchs -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current defence ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current female artistic gymnasts -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current female world boxing champions -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current finance ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current first-class cricket teams -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current foreign CPBL players -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current foreign ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current German frigates -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current GMA Artist Center artists -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current GMA Network talents -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current governors in Indonesia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Greek frigates -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current heads of government in the United Kingdom and dependencies -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current heads of state and government -- List of current heads of state and heads of government
Wikipedia - List of current heads of University of Cambridge colleges -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Indian chief justices -- List of Current Indian Chief Justices
Wikipedia - List of current Indian chief ministers -- Chief ministers of the Indian states and union territories
Wikipedia - List of current Indian deputy chief ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Indian governors -- current Indian governors
Wikipedia - List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators -- current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators
Wikipedia - List of current Indian opposition leaders -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current interior ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Invicta FC fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Iran governors-general -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current KBO League team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current KHL team rosters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Knights of the Royal Order of the Seraphim -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of currently active United States military land vehicles -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of currently active United States military watercraft -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Major League Soccer broadcasters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Congress of the Philippines by wealth -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Iowa House of Representatives -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Maryland House of Delegates -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Maryland Senate -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the National Assembly of Cambodia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the National Council of Monaco -- Members of the National Council (Monaco)
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Parliament of Haiti -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Rajya Sabha -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the Senate of Colombia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the United States Congress by wealth -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current members of the United States House of Representatives -- Current members of the U.S. House of Representatives
Wikipedia - List of current mixed martial arts champions -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current monarchs of sovereign states -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current NFC team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current NLL team rosters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current NRL coaches -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current NRL team squads -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current NRL Women's coaches -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current NRL Women's team squads -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ONE fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Pakistani chief ministers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Pakistani governors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current PBA team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current PFL fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current prefects of Croatia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current presidents of regions of Italy -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current prime ministers by date of assumption of office -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current production certified light aircraft -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current provincial governors in Afghanistan -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current provincial governors of Zimbabwe -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current reigning monarchs by length of reign -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Rizin FF fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Road FC fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Royal Australian Air Force aircraft -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current senators of Canada by age -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current senators of Canada -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ships of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ships of the Royal Canadian Navy -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current ships of the United States Navy -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current SHL captains and alternate captains -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current SHL team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Sinn FM-CM-)in elected representatives -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Star Magic artists -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current state governors in Brazil -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current state governors in Mexico -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current state governors in Sudan -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office -- Current state leaders by date of assumption of office
Wikipedia - List of current UFC fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current United States first spouses -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current United States governors by age -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current United States governors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current United States lieutenant governors by age -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current United States lieutenant governors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current United States Navy ships
Wikipedia - List of current United States senators -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Warner Records artists -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current WBC International champions -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current WBC Youth world champions -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current world boxing champions -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current WSOF-Global fighters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current youth hearing conservation programs -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of electric cars currently available -- Wikipedia list article id current electric cars (out of date)
Wikipedia - List of Filipino current child actors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of French current frigates -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of important publications in concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Major League Wrestling personnel -- Listing of all current personnel of American professional wrestling promotion Major League Wrestling
Wikipedia - List of Michelin 3-star restaurants -- Wikimedia list article of current Michelin 3-star restaurants
Wikipedia - List of missing treasures -- List of notable treasures that are currently lost or missing
Wikipedia - List of oceanic ridges -- List of the currently active and some ancient oceanic spreading centres
Wikipedia - List of One Piece chapters (807-current) -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of One Piece episodes (seasons 15-current) {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''One Piece'' episodes (seasons 15-current) -- List of One Piece episodes (seasons 15-current) {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''One Piece'' episodes (seasons 15-current)
Wikipedia - List of PokM-CM-)mon episodes (seasons 14-current) {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''PokM-CM-)mon'' episodes (seasons 14-current) -- List of PokM-CM-)mon episodes (seasons 14-current) {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''PokM-CM-)mon'' episodes (seasons 14-current)
Wikipedia - List of sovereign states by date of current flag adoption -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of state presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party -- current state presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party
Wikipedia - List of the current and former capitals of the subdivisions of China -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of WWE personnel -- Listing of all current personnel signed by WWE
Wikipedia - List of WWE television programming -- Former and current professional wrestling programs produced by WWE/WWF
Wikipedia - Lomonosov Current -- A deep current in the Atlantic Ocean. from the coast of Brazil to the Gulf of Guinea
Wikipedia - Londinium -- Settlement established on the current site of the City of London around AD 47-50
Wikipedia - Longshore current -- A current parallel to the shoreline caused by waves approaching at an angle to the shoreline
Wikipedia - Longshore drift -- Sediment moved by the longshore current
Wikipedia - Loop Current -- Ocean current between Cuba and Yucatan Peninsula
Wikipedia - Luna Park -- Name shared by dozens of currently operating and defunct amusement parks
Wikipedia - M1 Abrams -- Current U.S. main battle tank
Wikipedia - MacOS Big Sur -- Current major version of the macOS operating system
Wikipedia - Madagascar Current -- The Madagascar current is split into two currents, the North Madagascar Current and the East Madagascar Current
Wikipedia - Magill -- Irish politics and current affairs magazine
Wikipedia - Magnetic current -- flow of magnetic monopole charge
Wikipedia - Magnetoencephalography -- Mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by currents in the brain
Wikipedia - Mahavira -- 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, last in current cycle of Jain cosmology
Wikipedia - Mahdi al-Mashat -- Current de facto President of Yemen
Wikipedia - Mahinda Rajapaksa -- Sri Lankan politician; current Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Mai al-Kaila -- Current Health Minister of Palestine
Wikipedia - Main Currents of Marxism -- 1976 book by Leszek Kolakowski
Wikipedia - Mantineia -- city in ancient Arcadia and current municipality in Greece
Wikipedia - Mantle convection -- The slow moving motion of Earth's solid mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the planet's interior to its surface
Wikipedia - Manuel Marrero Cruz -- Cuban politician, 19th and current Prime Minister of Cuba
Wikipedia - Maravi -- Former kingdom which straddled the current borders of Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
Wikipedia - Marco Antonio Garcia Blanco -- Mexican diplomat, current ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria
Wikipedia - Marine current power -- Extraction of power from ocean currents
Wikipedia - Mary Mancini -- American politician and current Chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Mathrubhumi Yearbook -- Concise encyclopedia of current affairs
Wikipedia - Matter of Fact with Stan Grant -- 2018 Australian current affairs TV series
Wikipedia - Medical state -- One's current state of health, usually within a hospital
Wikipedia - Mehran Marri -- current leader of a militant group
Wikipedia - M-EM-^Lhariu (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Mental status examination -- Way of observing and describing a patient's current state of mind
Wikipedia - Metrobus fleet (Washington, D.C.) -- A listing of WMATAM-bM-^@M-^Ys current bus fleet
Wikipedia - Michael Bates (Sealand) -- Current Prince of Sealand
Wikipedia - Micheal Martin -- Current Taoiseach, Leader of Fianna Fail
Wikipedia - Migraine -- Disorder resulting in recurrent moderate-severe headaches
Wikipedia - Mikhail Mishustin -- Current Prime Minister of Russia
Wikipedia - Mindanao Current -- A narrow, southward flowing ocean current along the eastward side of the southern Philippines
Wikipedia - Mindanao Eddy -- A semi-permanent cold-ring eddy formed in the retroflection area of the Mindanao Current.
Wikipedia - Mangere (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Model 1902 Army Officers' Sword -- Current U.S. Army sword
Wikipedia - Modern language -- Language in current use
Wikipedia - Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed -- Former Prime Minister of Somalia; Secretary-General of Tayo Political Party; current President of Somalia (2017-present)
Wikipedia - Mohammed VI of Morocco -- Current King of Morocco
Wikipedia - Mohan Bhagwat -- Indian activist and current chief of the Hindutva nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Wikipedia - Mokgweetsi Masisi -- 5th and current president of Botswana
Wikipedia - Moshe Lion -- Israeli politician and current Mayor of Jerusalem
Wikipedia - Mount Albert (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Mozambique Current -- A warm ocean current in the Indian Ocean flowing south along the African east coast in the Mozambique Channel
Wikipedia - MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet -- A listing of MTAM-bM-^@M-^Ys current bus fleet
Wikipedia - Mustafa Al-Kadhimi -- Current Prime Minister of Iraq
Wikipedia - Narendra Modi -- 14th and current Prime Minister of India
Wikipedia - Nationwide (TV programme) -- British news and current affairs programme
Wikipedia - Native American tribes in Maryland -- Indigenous tribes who currently live or historically lived in what is now Maryland, United States of America
Wikipedia - Navarro-Aragonese -- Romance language once spoken in a large part of the Ebro River basin, south of the middle Pyrenees, although it is only currently spoken in a small portion of its original territory
Wikipedia - NDTV 24x7 -- 24-hour English-language news and current affairs television channel based in New Delhi, India
Wikipedia - Nelson (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - New Lynn (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - New Plymouth (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - News magazine -- Magazine about current events
Wikipedia - Newsnight -- Weekday BBC Television current affairs program
Wikipedia - News Weekly -- Australian current affairs magazine
Wikipedia - News -- Communication of selected information on current events
Wikipedia - New Zealand fifty-dollar note -- Current denomination of New Zealand currency
Wikipedia - New Zealand five-dollar note -- Current denomination of New Zealand currency
Wikipedia - New Zealand one hundred-dollar note -- Current denomination of New Zealand currency
Wikipedia - New Zealand ten-dollar note -- Current denomination of New Zealand currency
Wikipedia - New Zealand twenty-dollar note -- Current denomination of New Zealand currency
Wikipedia - Nickel (United States coin) -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Nicola Sturgeon -- Current First Minister of Scotland, Leader of the Scottish National Party
Wikipedia - Nine.com.au -- Australian news and current events website
Wikipedia - Non Resident Nepali -- A person who currently holds citizenship of Nepal
Wikipedia - North Atlantic Current -- A powerful warm western boundary current in the north Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward
Wikipedia - North Atlantic Gyre -- A major circular system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - North Brazil Current -- A warm current that is part of the southwestern North Atlantic Gyre which begins by splitting from the Atlantic South Equatorial Current and flows aling the northwest coast of Brazil until it becomes the Guiana Current
Wikipedia - North Equatorial Current -- A Pacific and Atlantic Ocean current that flows east-to-west between about 10M-BM-0 north and 20M-BM-0 north on the southern side of a clockwise subtropical gyre
Wikipedia - North Icelandic Jet -- A deep-reaching current that flows along the continental slope of Iceland
Wikipedia - North Korea Cold Current -- A cold water current in the Sea of Japan that flows southward from near Vladivostok along the coast of the Korean Peninsula
Wikipedia - Northland (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - North Madagascar Current -- an Ocean current near Madagascar that flows into the South Equatorial Current just North of Madagascar and is directed into the Mozambique Channel
Wikipedia - North Pacific Current -- A slow warm water current that flows west-to-east between 30 and 50 degrees north in the Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - North Pacific Gyre -- A major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - North Shore (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel -- The main body of a turbidity current system of channels and canyons running on the sea bottom from the Hudson Strait, through the Labrador Sea and ending at the Sohm Abyssal Plain
Wikipedia - Norwegian Current -- A current that flows northeasterly along the Atlantic coast of Norway into the Barents Sea
Wikipedia - Nova (Dutch TV series) -- Late-evening current affairs programme in the Netherlands
Wikipedia - Nunzia Catalfo -- Italian politician, current minister of labour
Wikipedia - Ocean acoustic tomography -- A technique used to measure temperatures and currents over large regions of the ocean
Wikipedia - Ocean currents
Wikipedia - Ocean current -- Directional mass flow of oceanic water generated by external or internal forces
Wikipedia - Ocean gyre -- Any large system of circulating ocean currents
Wikipedia - Ocean observations -- List of currently feasible essential observations for climate research
Wikipedia - Ohm's law -- Law according to which the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points
Wikipedia - Olga Lyubimova -- Russian politician and current Minister of Culture for the Russian Federation
Wikipedia - Omaveloxolone -- synthetic oleanane triterpenoid compounds currently in clinical development
Wikipedia - Open (Indian magazine) -- Indian magazine in English language featuring current affairs
Wikipedia - Orders of magnitude (current)
Wikipedia - Overcurrent -- Dangerous condition in electrical systems
Wikipedia - Oyashio Current -- A cold subarctic ocean current that flows south and circulates counterclockwise in the western North Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Pacemaker current -- Electric current in the heart that flows through the funny channel (which comprises the HCN channels, that is, pacemaker channels)
Wikipedia - Paik Jin-hyun -- South Korean judge and the current President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Wikipedia - Pakuranga (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya -- Historic palace and current government building in Barcelona, Spain
Wikipedia - Palmerston North (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Panorama (British TV programme) -- BBC Television current affairs documentary programme
Wikipedia - Paul Kagame -- Rwandan politician, 4th and current President of Rwanda
Wikipedia - Penny sterling -- Subdivision of pound sterling, currently worth one hundredth of a pound
Wikipedia - Perched coastline -- A fossil coastline currently above the present coastline
Wikipedia - Persistent current -- Perpetual electric current, not requiring an external power source
Wikipedia - Phanerozoic -- Fourth and current eon of the geological timescale
Wikipedia - Photodiode -- Converts light into current
Wikipedia - Photovoltaic effect -- Electric current generation from light
Wikipedia - Piedmont Airlines -- American regional airline, operating since 1962, using current name since 1993
Wikipedia - Pinophyta -- Division of plants including extinct and current conifers
Wikipedia - Plankton -- Organisms that are in the water column and are incapable of swimming against a current
Wikipedia - Political cartoon -- Illustration used to comment on current events and personalities
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/April 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/August 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/Calendars
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/December 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/Edit instructions
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/Events by month
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/February 2021
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/January 2021
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/July 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/June 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2009 -- Month of 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/March 2021
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/May 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/November 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/October 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 1994
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 1995
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 1996
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 1997
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 1998
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 1999
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2000
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2001
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2002
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2003
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2004
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2005
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2006
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2007
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2008
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2009
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2010
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2011
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2012
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2013
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2014
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2015
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2016
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2017
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2018
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/September 2020
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events/Sports -- A list of current Sports Events in 2019
Wikipedia - Portal:Current events
Wikipedia - Portal talk:Current events/Events by month
Wikipedia - Portal talk:Current events
Wikipedia - Portugal Current -- A weak ocean current that flows south along the coast of Portugal
Wikipedia - Portus Cale -- Ancient town and port in current-day northern Portugal
Wikipedia - Power inverter -- Device that changes direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC)
Wikipedia - Prayut Chan-o-cha -- Thai politician, current Prime Minister of Thailand
Wikipedia - PRC-999K -- Combat Net Radio (CNR) currently used by South Korea Army
Wikipedia - Prem Singh Tamang -- Indian politician and 6th and current Chief Minister of Sikkim state
Wikipedia - Private Eye -- British satirical and current affairs magazine
Wikipedia - Process calculus -- Family of approaches for modelling concurrent systems
Wikipedia - P. S. M. Charles -- Current governor of the Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Pyroclastic flow -- Fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter that moves away from a volcano
Wikipedia - Qantas fleet -- The current planes operated by Qantas
Wikipedia - Quarter (United States coin) -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Quaternary -- Third and current period of the Cenozoic Era 2.59-0 million years ago
Wikipedia - Radical Reformation -- Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation
Wikipedia - RAFOS float -- Submersible device used to map ocean currents well below the surface
Wikipedia - Raised shoreline -- An ancient shoreline exposed above current water level.
Wikipedia - Ram Nath Kovind -- 14th and current President of India
Wikipedia - Raymond Buckley -- American politician and current Chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Real Life (TV program) -- Australian current affairs television program
Wikipedia - Recurrent evolution -- The repeated evolution of a particular character
Wikipedia - Recurrent laryngeal nerve -- Nerve in the human body
Wikipedia - Recurrent neural networks
Wikipedia - Recurrent neural network
Wikipedia - Recurrent thalamo-cortical resonance
Wikipedia - Regions of Morocco -- Current highest administrative division of Morocco
Wikipedia - RenM-CM-)e James -- Former president of Intel. Currently CEO of Ampere Computing
Wikipedia - Residual-current device -- Electrical safety device used in household wiring
Wikipedia - Retroflect -- The movement of an ocean current that doubles back on itself
Wikipedia - Review article -- Article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic
Wikipedia - Rheoscopic fluid -- Fluid which aids in visualizing dynamic currents in fluids
Wikipedia - Rip current -- Narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore, cutting through the lines of breaking waves
Wikipedia - Ripple marks -- Wave structures created in sediments by bottom current
Wikipedia - Rip tide -- Strong, offshore current caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide
Wikipedia - Robert Moak -- Current Chair of the Mississippi Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Robyn Driscoll -- American politician and current Chair of the Montana Democratic Party
Wikipedia - Roman Catholic Diocese of California -- Former residential and current titular see of the Catholic Church
Wikipedia - Rosie Alfaro -- American murderer currently on California's death row
Wikipedia - Ross Gyre -- A circulating system of ocean currents in the Ross Sea
Wikipedia - Rotor current meter -- A mechanical current meter used in oceanography to maasure flow
Wikipedia - SA80 -- Current British assault rifle, bullpup
Wikipedia - Sajeev Koshy -- An Indian-born specialist endodontist currently residing in Australia
Wikipedia - Salman of Saudi Arabia -- Current King of Saudi Arabia from 2015
Wikipedia - Saltstraumen -- A small sea strait in Norway with one of the strongest tidal currents in the world
Wikipedia - Sam Coates -- British journalist, currently Sky News Deputy Political Editor
Wikipedia - San Miguelito Oil Field -- Large and currently productive oil field in the hills northwest of the city of Ventura in southern California
Wikipedia - Sanna Marin -- Current Prime Minister of Finland and former minister of Transport and Communications
Wikipedia - Scott Morrison -- Current Prime Minister of Australia
Wikipedia - Sea level rise -- The current long-term trend for sea levels to rise mainly in response to global warming
Wikipedia - Sebastian Sichel -- Chilean politician, lawyer, and the current president of the Banco del Estado de Chile
Wikipedia - Second Johnson ministry -- Current Government of the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Seema Verma -- American health policy consultant and the current administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Wikipedia - Selwyn (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Semaphore (programming) -- Variable used in a concurrent system
Wikipedia - Seo Bok-hyun -- South Korean journalist and current JTBC Newsroom weekday anchor
Wikipedia - Shadow biosphere -- A hypothetical microbial biosphere of Earth that would use radically different biochemical and molecular processes from that of currently known life
Wikipedia - Sheikh Hasina -- Current Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Shenyang FC-31 -- Fifth-generation jet fighter currently under development by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
Wikipedia - Short (finance) -- Practice of selling securities or other financial instruments that are not currently owned
Wikipedia - Shraddhadeva Manu -- The current Manu of Hinduism
Wikipedia - Sixty Minutes (British TV programme) -- British news and current affairs programme
Wikipedia - Sobhitha Rajakaruna -- Sri Lankan lawyer and current judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Socialist Worker -- Name of a number of far-left newspapers currently or formerly associated with the International Socialist Tendency
Wikipedia - Somali Current -- An ocean boundary current that flows along the coast of Somalia and Oman in the Western Indian Ocean
Wikipedia - Somatization disorder -- Mental disorder characterized by recurring, multiple, and current, clinically significant complaints about somatic symptoms
Wikipedia - South Atlantic Current -- An eastward ocean current, fed by the Brazil Current
Wikipedia - South Equatorial Current -- Ocean current in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean that flows east-to-west between the equator and about 20 degrees south
Wikipedia - South Pacific Gyre -- A major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - Southwest Madagascar Coastal Current -- A warm poleward ocean current flowing in the south-west of Madagascar
Wikipedia - Sports broadcasting contracts in the United Kingdom -- List explaining current sports broadcasting rights in the UK
Wikipedia - Spot welding -- A process in which contacting metal surfaces are joined by heat from resistance to electric current
Wikipedia - Stephen M. Veazey -- Current Prophet-President of Community of Christ
Wikipedia - Steven Mnuchin -- 77th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury
Wikipedia - Strategic human resource planning -- Process that identifies current and future human resources needs
Wikipedia - Streaming current -- Electrokinetic phenomena produced by an electrolyte solution passing through a porous material with charged walls
Wikipedia - Subantarctic Mode Water -- A water mass formed near the Subantarctic Front on the northern flank of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Wikipedia - Subsurface currents -- Oceanic currents that flow beneath surface currents
Wikipedia - Subtropical Countercurrent -- A narrow eastward ocean current in the central North Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Su Mang -- A Chinese businesswoman and current editor-in-chief of HarperM-bM-^@M-^Ys Bazaar China.
Wikipedia - Summer solstice -- Astronomical phenomenon when Earth's axial tilt toward the Sun is a maximum (currently 23.44M-BM-0)
Wikipedia - Sunday (New Zealand TV programme) -- Current affairs programme broadcast on TV ONE in New Zealand
Wikipedia - Swiftcurrent Lake -- Lake in Glacier County, Montana
Wikipedia - Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal -- A former paramilitary group and a and current political party in Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Tasman Front -- A relatively warm water east-flowing surface current and thermal boundary that separates the Coral Sea to the north and the Tasman Sea to the south
Wikipedia - Tasman Outflow -- A deepwater current that flows from the Pacific Ocean past Tasmania into the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica
Wikipedia - Te AtatM-EM-+ (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Telecommunications in India -- Current state of telecommunications in India
Wikipedia - Template talk:Concurrent computing
Wikipedia - Template talk:Current 93
Wikipedia - Teodor Currentzis -- Greek conductor, musician and actor
Wikipedia - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo -- Equatorialguinean politician, 2nd and current President of Equatorial Guinea
Wikipedia - The Coining House, Segovia -- Former currency house and current museum in Segovia, Spain
Wikipedia - The Current Newspapers -- Four weekly community newspapers in Washington, D.C., United States
Wikipedia - The Currents of Space -- Science fiction novel by the American writer Isaac Asimov
Wikipedia - The Current War -- 2019 historical drama film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Wikipedia - The Petal on the Current -- 1919 film
Wikipedia - The Phoenix (magazine) -- Political and current affairs magazine in Ireland
Wikipedia - The Project (New Zealand TV programme) -- New Zealand current affairs television program
Wikipedia - The Pulse (TV programme) -- Hong Kong weekly current affairs television program
Wikipedia - The Spectator -- British weekly conservative magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs
Wikipedia - This (computer programming) -- In programming languages, the object or class the currently running code belongs tot
Wikipedia - Three-phase electric power -- Common electrical power generation, transmission and distribution method for alternating currents
Wikipedia - Thunder Perfect Mind (Current 93 album)
Wikipedia - Tidal atlas -- A graphical representation of the geographical distribution of the strength and direction of tidal currents at intervals during the tidal cycle
Wikipedia - Tidal race -- A fast-moving tidal flow passing through a constriction, forming waves, eddies and strong currents
Wikipedia - Tideline -- Surface border where two currents in the ocean converge. Driftwood, floating seaweed, foam, and other floating debris may accumulate
Wikipedia - Timeline of the evolutionary history of life -- Current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life
Wikipedia - Time-sharing -- Method of sharing a computing resource among multiple concurrent users
Wikipedia - Tim McCarthy -- Former United States Secret Service agent and current police officer who took a bullet meant for President Reagan
Wikipedia - TM-EM-^MyM-EM-^M Rapid 1000 series -- Japanese train type currently operated in Indonesia
Wikipedia - Tommy Thomas (barrister) -- Malaysian barrister and the current Attorney General of Malaysia
Wikipedia - Tonight (1957 TV programme) -- BBC television current affairs programme from 1957 to 1965
Wikipedia - Tony Currenti -- Australian drummer of Italian descent
Wikipedia - Transcranial direct current stimulation
Wikipedia - Transcranial direct-current stimulation -- Technique of brain electric stimulation therapy
Wikipedia - Transimpedance amplifier -- Amplifier that converts current to voltage
Wikipedia - Transpolar Drift Stream -- An ocean current of the Arctic Ocean
Wikipedia - TSLAQ -- Loose, international collective of largely anonymous short-sellers, skeptics, and researchers who openly criticize Tesla, Inc. and its current CEO, Elon Musk
Wikipedia - Turbidite -- The geologic deposit of a turbidity current
Wikipedia - Turbidity current -- An underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope
Wikipedia - Turmite -- A Turing machine which has an orientation as well as a current state and a "tape" that consists of an infinite two-dimensional grid of cells
Wikipedia - TV Patrol -- Filipino newscast currently airing on ABS-CBN
Wikipedia - Udaya Gammanpila -- Sri Lankan politician, current Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Undeciphered writing systems -- Usually a written form of language that is not currently understood
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- Current US federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit -- Current United States federal appellate court
Wikipedia - United States fifty-dollar bill -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - United States five-dollar bill -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - United States one-dollar bill -- Current denomination of United States paper equivalent of currency
Wikipedia - United States Statutes at Large -- An official record of Acts of Congress and concurrent resolutions
Wikipedia - United States ten-dollar bill -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - United States twenty-dollar bill -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - United States two-dollar bill -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Unity makes strength -- Motto, originally used by the Dutch Republic; currently used by Bulgaria and Haiti on the national coat of arms and the national motto of Belgium, Bulgaria and Georgia
Wikipedia - University of Tartu Old Observatory -- Former observatory of University of Tartu, Estonia, currently a museum
Wikipedia - Upper Harbour (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Vector measuring current meter -- An instrument used for measuring horizontal velocity in the upper ocean
Wikipedia - Victoria Adaobi Obasi -- Current substantive vice chancellor of Imo State University
Wikipedia - Village (magazine) -- Current affairs magazine in Ireland
Wikipedia - Vocal cord paresis -- Injury to one or both recurrent laryngeal nerves
Wikipedia - Vulcan Centaur -- United Launch Alliance space launch vehicle currently in development
Wikipedia - Waitaki (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Walk this way (humor) -- Recurrent pun in comedy films and television shows
Wikipedia - Warm core ring -- A type of mesoscale eddy which breaks off from a warm ocean current. The ring is an independent circulatory system of warm water which can persist for several months
Wikipedia - War of the currents
Wikipedia - Warrant: The Current Debate
Wikipedia - Warrior tracked armoured vehicle -- Current British infantry fighting vehicle
Wikipedia - Wave-current interaction -- The interaction between surface gravity waves and a mean flow
Wikipedia - Wavel Ramkalawan -- Seychellois politician and priest; current President of the Seychelles
Wikipedia - W. D. Lakshman -- Sri Lankan economist, professor, author and current Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Weak neutral current
Wikipedia - Wellington Central (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - West Australian Current -- A cool surface current that starts as the Southern Indian Ocean Current and turns north when it approaches Western Australia
Wikipedia - West Greenland Current -- A weak cold water current that flows to the north along the west coast of Greenland.
Wikipedia - West Spitsbergen Current -- warm, salty current that runs poleward just west of Spitsbergen
Wikipedia - Wetting current -- Minimum electric current through a contact to break through the surface film resistance
Wikipedia - Whangarei (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Whirlpool -- Body of rotating water produced by the meeting of opposing currents
Wikipedia - Widlar current source -- Electronic circuit
Wikipedia - Wigram (New Zealand electorate) -- Current New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Current events -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wind generated current -- Flow in a body of water generated by wind friction on its surface
Wikipedia - Working directory -- the currently used hierarchical file system directory associated with a running process in an operating system
Wikipedia - World in Action -- British investigative current affairs programme
Wikipedia - World News Today -- BBC current affairs / news programme
Wikipedia - World to come -- Belief that the current age will be replaced by a better world, age, or paradise
Wikipedia - Xiangjiaba-Shanghai HVDC system -- High-voltage direct current transmission system in China
Wikipedia - Yasnaya Polyana -- Former estate and current museum
Wikipedia - Y-chromosomal Adam -- Most recent common ancestor (MRCA) from whom all currently living men are descended patrilineally
Wikipedia - Yogi Adityanath -- 22nd and current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India
Wikipedia - Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy -- 17th and current Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10015845-migraine-current-concepts
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10191891-current-practice-in-forensic-medicine
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10354835-dark-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10421765-currents-of-power
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10807310-undercurrent
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10835994-cross-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11060000-undercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11672438-dark-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12255696-the-current-rate-of-exchange
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13085204-crosscurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1336221.Current_Algebra_And_Anomalies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13451103-a-current-of-blood
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13507967.Dark_Currents__Agent_of_Hel___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13563154-dark-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13626200-cross-current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13703154-current-issues-in-microbiology-volumes-1-2-with-microbiology-with-dis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13798113-current-biography-yearbook-2003
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143294.Main_Currents_of_Marxism
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143298.Main_Currents_in_Sociological_Thought
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15954515-current-of-love
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166571.Main_Currents_in_Sociological_Thought
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1700048.Swim_against_the_Current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17315477-hidden-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18073891-the-current-between-us
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19893938-buddhist-answers-to-current-issues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19965884-currents-of-power
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20135706-currents-of-power
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20215040-currents-of-power
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2091445.Currents_in_Japanese_Cinema
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2116864.Main_Currents_of_Indian_History
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219905.Undercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219905.Undercurrents__Undercurrents___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22523293-current-impressions
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22648164-current-issues-in-transitional-justice
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716153-undercurrent
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2350464.Current_Trends_in_Plant_Virology
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24863714-a-current-deception
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2570556-current-show
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25738115-an-unseen-current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25924211-undercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2634290-currents-and-countercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26497.Experiments_with_Alternate_Currents_of_High_Potential_and_High_Frequency
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2704298-current-directions-in-cognitive-science
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27877175-undercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29666332-public-lands-in-montana-their-history-and-current-significance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310848.Against_the_Current_As_I_Remember_F__Scott_Fitzgerald
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450960-song-of-the-current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315331.Undercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33237995-current-issues-in-sector-wide-approaches-for-health-development
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34387876-the-current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35099109-undercurrent---a-merfolk-myth
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35111722-the-undercurrent
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35606598-rebirth-in-early-buddhism-and-current-research
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36194384-the-current-affairs-mindset
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36387759-the-current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36583311-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37943214-hidden-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3860005-main-currents-in-american-history
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39285879-undercurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39862707-dangerous-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4003065-the-architecture-of-concurrent-programs
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40239852-undercurrents-in-time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4068014-lectures-on-current-algebra-and-its-applications
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42289976-under-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42596797-soft-black-stars-by-current-93-a-complete-piano-and-vocal-transcription
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44608769-the-main-currents-of-zo-logy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44667605-against-the-current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44667605.Against_the_Current__Zombies___2_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4734770-current-issues-in-political-economy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4879739-the-origin-of-concurrent-programming
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6224462-current-trends-in-analytical-psychology
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6419887.The_Boy_Who_Harnessed_the_Wind_Creating_Currents_of_Electricity_and_Hope
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6526328-crosscurrent
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/683757.Current_Psychotherapies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7113670-current-of-music
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721646.I_Want_to_Reach_Your_Mind_Where_is_It_Currently_Located_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7504168-a-companion-to-the-current-justification-controversy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/811519.Crosscurrents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8226841-current-trends-in-ai-planning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8735254-deadly-currents
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8735254.Deadly_Currents__An_RM_Outdoor_Adventures_Mystery___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87441.Against_the_Current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91032.Rowing_Against_the_Current
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9536655-undercurrent
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4736265.Richard_Nelson_Current
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/2/24/24_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/8/8b/8bittheater_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/ad/adventurequestworlds_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/af/aforathlete_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/al/aliens_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/al/allods_pages_current.xml.gz
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/al/althistory_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/am/americangirl_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/am/ameriv_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/an/animalcrossing_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/an/animefanon_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/an/annoyingorange_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/ao/aokb_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/aq/aquaman_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/ar/archiesonic_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/ar/aruarose_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/as/aselia_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/as/asheron_backup2_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/as/assassinscreed_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/a/au/automobile_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/ba/banjokazooie_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/ba/barney_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/ba/baseball_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/ba/battleangel_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/B/Be/Ben10_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/be/beyblade_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/bi/bionicle_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/bi/bioniclereviews_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/bi/bioshock_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/bo/board8_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/bo/borderlands_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/b/br/bristolrovers_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/c/ca/camerapedia_pages_current.xml.gz
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/c/ci/cities_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/c/co/countryball_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/c/cs/csmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/d/du/duck93_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enbleach_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/ennintendo_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/eq/eq2i_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/f/ff/ffxi_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/f/fi/fireemblem_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/f/fo/footbal_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/f/fr/frmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/g/ga/gamings_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/h/ho/horriblemusicandsongs_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/i/ip/ipod_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/l/lo/logopedia_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/m/me/memory_alfa_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/m/mo/money_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/m/my/mythology_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/n/na/narutoshippuden290_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/n/nb/nba_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/n/nl/nlmarveldatabase_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/o/ow/owarinoseraph528_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/p/pl/plmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/r/re/religionwiki_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/s/sp/sportsmemorabilia_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/s/st/startrek_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/t/tr/trekkipedia_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/v/vi/virus_pages_current.xml.7z
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/w/wi/wikia_pages_current.xml.7z
https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Calendars_Currently_In_Use
https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Calendars_Currently_in_Use
https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Current_events
https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_current_Interstates.svg
https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Forum:Bot_Runs-_Current_status
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Canadian_Armed_Forces#Current_structure
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_currently_active_Russian_military_aircraft
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_currently_active_United_States_military_land_vehicles
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_currently_active_United_States_military_watercraft
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers#Conference_papers
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers#Open_call_for_journal_papers
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers#Special_journal_issues
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Canonical_hours#Current_practice
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Church_Leaders:_Current
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_current_office-holders
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Christian_humanism#Current_Use
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_alcohol#Current_views
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Church's_Ministry_Among_Jewish_People#Current_activities
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Constantinople#Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople_.5Bcurrently.2C_Bartholomew_I.5D
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Current_Events
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Late_ancient_history_of_Christianity#Current_canon
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter#Historic_and_current_bans
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Anglican_Primates
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_current_patriarchs
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Buddhism#Current_life
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Religion_and_science#Academically_well-respected_critics_of_current_scientific_world_views
https://wiki-stats.wikia.com/a/an/ancardia/pages_current.xml.gz
since the author moved the site to malankazlev.com from kheper a lot of links are currently broken.
pages that end with -- 0, means the link is currently broken
http://malankazlev.com/author/currently.html -- 0
Integral World - Postmodern spirituality: Part V: Can Only A God Save Us? Postmodern Proto-Spirituality And The Current Global Turn To Religion, Roland Benedikter
Integral World - Global Warming and the Cross Currents of Evolution, Marty Keller
selforum - c s lewis currently ranked 100 sri
selforum - quality of our current life would be
dedroidify.blogspot - what-creatures-are-you-owning-currently
wiki.auroville - Category:Periodicals_(current)
Psychology Wiki - Current_events
Psychology Wiki - Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers
Psychology Wiki - Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers#Conference_papers
Psychology Wiki - Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers#Open_call_for_journal_papers
Psychology Wiki - Psychology_Wiki:Journals_currently_calling_for_papers#Special_journal_issues
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Warhammer40000CurrentImperialFactions
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/AnimeAndManga
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/Film
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/LiveActionTV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/Music
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/SeptemberEleventh
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/VideoGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/WesternAnimation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheCurrentWar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/DistancedFromCurrentEvents
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CurrentEventsBlog
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DistancedFromCurrentEvents
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Current93
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/DistancedFromCurrentEvents
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/AnAirportForAliensCurrentlyRunByDogs
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Currentvalue
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/MyCurrentObsession
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Current_shows
Pokemon (1998 - Current) - Perhaps among the most succesful animated television shows of all time, Pokmon took the world by storm, and with the incredibly popular series came toys, games, clothing, accesories, and the ever-popular Pokemon trading card game.
SpongeBob SquarePants (1997 - Current) - Nickelodeon's hit cartoon show about a wacky sea sponge named Spongebob and his crazy adventures in the nautical town of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant, loves "jellyfishing" and annoying his grumpy neighbor Squidward (unintentionally). He lives in a pinapple and...
Are you Afraid of the Dark? (1990 - Current) - Are You Afraid of the Dark? (also known as Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows during its ninth season) is a show about a group of teenagers called "The Midnight Society". The kids meet in an undisclosed campfire in the woods and take turns telling their own scary stories. The viewers...
Family Guy (1999 - Current) - Created by Seth MacFarlane, "Family Guy" shows the daily misadventures of the dysfunctional Griffin Family who live in Quahog, RI. Packed full of religiously and ethnically themed jokes you can't help but laugh at one more signature element of the show is its signature "cutaway gags" where the on-sc...
Digimon: Digital Monsters (1999 - Current) - To many, it looks like a Pokemon clone, but Digimon holds it's own with it's own original style.
The Simpsons (1989 - Current) - The Simpsons has since grown into the longest running animated primetime series on U.S. television! Since its introduction in 1989, it has become an icon of American popular culture. Lampooning everything from science and technology to pop culture, the series was not afraid right out the door to tak...
South Park (1997 - Current) - Staring off as an animated short called "Santa Claus vs. Jesus Christ" in what is perhaps the Internet's first example of a "viral video" that single video quickly grew into an animated series all about the foul-mouthed adventures of four kids in the small town of South Park, Colorado. With every ep...
Arthur (1996 - Current) - Developed from Marc Brown's beloved books, Arthur reminds us all of how it feels to be 8 years old. Just like your average kid, Arthur overcomes the dreaded obstacles of third-grade life, such as his tough teacher Mr. Ratburn, bullies, and mountains of homework. At home, Arthur must face the pint-si...
Naruto (2002 - Current) - The show is about a kid called Naruto who had a demon fox (Kyuubi) sealed into him at birth. Naruto never knew his parents so he was rebelious and unruly. The show follows Naruto and his comrades, Sasuke and Sakura as he tries to show the people around him that he can become the next Hokage of Kon...
Sesame Street (1969 - Current) - First conceived by a group of children's education researchers in 1965, Sesame Street grew to more than just a children's show--it became one of the most famous and well-known shows of all time and a symbol of American pop-culture. A show so well-known, there is nearly not one person who did not gro...
Wishbone (1995 - 1998) - This imaginative little dog often plays the main part in his daydreams about literary works, which often have to do with the current problem his human friends must solve in each episode. Though the stories are very much cut to fit a thirty minute episode, Wishbone stays true to its content.
Toonami (1997 - Current) - Toonami debuted on March 17, 1997 to the United States Cartoon Network originally it aired weekdays from 4-6pm than in summer 1999 when the TOM era began it extended to 4-7 than in summer 2001 it was shortened to 5-7pm than in summer 2002 went back to it's old 4-7pm format and from there it's had he...
Scooby-Doo (1969 - Current) - Hit cartoon series featuring Scooby Doo, a dog who joins Velma, Daphne, Fred, and Shaggy on many quests to solve mysterious. Each mystery is new and unusual and involves the group stopping someone from wreaking certain havoc on the world.The first incarnation of what has become a franchise-of-sorts....
The Price Is Right (1972 - Current) - One of the longest running shows on television, "The Price Is Right", termed then as the "New" Price Is Right to differentiate itself with a previous version hosted by Bill Cullen, debuted in 1972 and has stood the test of time, lasting over 45 years. First hosted by Bob Barker and gaining legendary...
One Piece (1999 - Current) - One Piece is a steampunk manga and anime series created by artist Eiichiro Oda. It revolves around a crew of pirates led by captain Monkey D. Luffy, whose dream is to obtain the ultimate treasure One Piece that was left behind by the King of the Pirates, Gold Roger.
America's Funniest Home Videos (1990 - Current) - America's Funniest Home Videos is ABC's longest-running comedy series. The show began with original host Bob Saget as a one-off special in 1989, becoming a regular series in 1990. The series was an instant sensation on Sunday nights and ran for seven successful seasons. The show was re-launched with...
Pryde Of The X-Men (1989 - Current) - The little known "series" that came out in 1989, and lasted for only a single episode. More comic-bookish and stylized than the series we would all watch several years later, it had a more diverse team as well. Cyclops, Storm, and Wolverine are standard fare for X-Men cartoons, but Nightcrawler, C...
WWE Monday Night RAW (1993 - Current) - WWE (formerly WWF) RAW was the first major wrestling program to earn a primetime weekly slot on cable television in 1993. It's first major source of competition on the airwaves was WCW's "Monday Nitro" which premiered in 1995. The premiere of Nitro started the Monday Night Wars, for the next 6 years...
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998 - Current) - Originally began in 1988 in the UK and hosted by Clive Anderson, Whose Line Is It Anyway? first came to the U.S in 1998.
Saturday Night Live (1975 - Current) - NBC's legendary late night comedy show that has gone on making sketches and spoofs for over 40 years now. Every show a guest host and musical guests along to go with the "Not ready for prime time players", and the warm up band which has featured the likes of G. E. Smith and legendary saxophonist Len...
MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch (1998 - Current) - In this claymation series boxing and wrestling become one with no rules involved except one: A celebrity has to die. Or both celebrities fighting in a deathmatch could die, which did often happen. The show was very popular and thrived in the days of Tom Green and other MTV memorables. The show also...
Shirt Tales (1982 - 1983) - Based on a popular line of greeting cards, The Shirt Tales were a group of adorable animals whose shirts would randomly proclaim things such as Hug me or Lets go!," usually hinting at the current mood of the various "Tales."
Doctor Who (1963 - Current) - From the planet of Gallifrey comes a mysterious alien only known as "the Doctor". The show began with the idea of an educational program focusing on history but it ended up being the longest science fiction tv show in history.
The Disney Afternoon/Disney Club (1989 - Current) - A block of Disney original series. Each year, one show would be replaced by another. A version of this show was made in the UK called the Disney Club shown on a sunday morning but it stopped in 1998 and was renamed Disney Prade. The Disney Club was retruned under the name Disney Club TV. Throughout...
WWE SmackDown! (1999 - Current) - WWE SmackDown premiered on UPN in 1999. Originally airing on Thursday nights SmackDown! moved to Friday Nights in 2005 but moved back to Thursday nights in 2014 and then in 2016 it aired Tuesday nights live on the USA network It moved back to broadcast TV when it moved to the Fox Network in fall 201...
Press Your Luck (1983 - Current) - Press Your Luck was a CBS game show where contestants tried to win money and various prizes by avoiding the evil Whammy that would take all their winnings away or even kick the contestants out of the game. The object was for three contestants to answer multiple choice questions. Host Peter Tomarken...
The Jerry Springer Show (1991 - Current) - Jerry Springer, a former mayor of Cincinnati, hosts this show that has to pull itself up in content quality to qualify as "Trash TV". TV Guide named it as the worst show ever which it proudly declares at the start of every episode. One of the most infamous Guilty Pleasures on TV. In the show's fir...
WWE Raw (1993 - Current) - Beginning as WWF Monday Night Raw, the program first aired on January 11, 1993. It aired on the USA Network for one hour. The original Raw broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. Traditionally, wrestling shows were taped on sound stages with small audiences or at large arena shows. The...
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (1984 - Current) - The show is about a tank engine, Thomas, and his friends who live on the Island of Sodor. Together, the engines work on the railways under the supervision of Sir Topham Hatt, the "Fat Controller."
Mummies Alive (1997 - 1997) - Four Egyptian mummies have woken up in an exhibit in current day San Francisco to protect the 12 year old Presley. Presley is the reincarnation of the Egyptian prince Rapses who knew the secret to eternal life. The mummies chose to wake up because Rapses' arch nemesis has also reincarnated, the evil...
Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends (1984 - Current) - Stories about a tank engine named Thomas and his friends who live on the Island of Sodor. The series is originated from the Railway Series by the Reverend W.V. Awdry, which started in 1945.
Shin Chan (1992 - Current) - Shin Chan is a Japanese manga and anime series written by Yoshito Usui. The title is commonly translated as either "Crayon Shin Chan" or "Crayon Shin-Chan" and is sold worldwide. The series follows the antics of five-year-old Shinnosuke Nohara and his parents, neighbors, friends, dog and many other...
Disney Sing Along Songs (1986 - Current) - A Sing Along Direct-to-Video series for Disney on VHS/Betamax/Laserdisc/DVD/Blu-Ray. It started with "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and finished with "Flik's Musical Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom" The series was sometimes shown on The Disney Channel at some time as a special. (For example: "Friend Like...
Family Feud (1976 - Current) - Richard Dawson first hosted this game show in which two families try to guess what the 'surveys said' of polls conducted of 100 average people. Family Feud premiered in 1976 on ABC and ended in 1985, but in 1988 comedian Ray Combs (died June 2, 1996 by hanging suicide) took over on CBS. In 1992, t...
Wheel of Fortune (1975 - Current) - This popular hangman type game was created by Merv Griffin that was first hosted & co-hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. 3 players spun a big wooden wheel for money and tried to guess letters on a big puzzle board and used the money to buy prizes. In 1981, former weatherman from LA, Pat Saj...
The Tribe (1999 - Current) - 'Where the virus came from, no-one knew... from deepest space, bacterial warfare or some nation's scientific experiments gone horrifically wrong? All the Adults are gone... All the teachers are gone... All peace and regular meals are gone... Just tribal instincts and war paint survive. If survival d...
Fireman Sam (1987 - Current) - Fireman Sam is a stop-motion animation about a fireman named Sam and his friends who put out fires and solved a multitude of other problems in the small Welsh town of Pontypandy.
Nick at Nite (1985 - Current) - Nick at Nite is a programing block from 9pm-6am Sunday-Thursday and from 10pm-6am Friday-Saturday on Viacom's kids cable channel Nickelodeon. When Nick at Nite launched in 1985, the shows were from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Today Nick at Nite's shows are from the 80s and 90s. Nick at nite's...
General Hospital (1963 - Current) - The longest running drama series in the history of television. The series focuses on Dr. Steve Hardy and his nurse friend Jessie Brewer and her marriage with the young Dr. Phil Brewer. Despite originally taking place in the hospital of an unnamed city, the city was later placed as Port Charles, New...
Maury (1991 - Current) - A show hosted by Maury Povich who helps people with problems and issues consirning their lives. It was first known as The Maury Povich Show from it's debut in 1991 until becoming a tabloid series in 1998.
Robot Chicken (2005 - Current) - All your favorite toys of the past are back and together in this awesome new show. But these aren't your big brother's G.I. Joes or you older sister's Barbie dolls. See what crazy things Executive Producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have in store for you nostalgics in this stop-motion comedy.
The Ghost Busters (1975 - Current) - The Ghost Busters were a trio (Jake Kong, Eddie Spencer, and Tracy, the gorilla) that dealt with ghosts and other supernatural creatures. At the beginning of each episode, the trio get a taped message outlining their new mission. Once the message plays, the recording self destructs (ala Mission: Imp...
The Itchy and Scratchy Show (2012 - 2012) - The Itchy and Scratchy Show is about, The Cat is Scratchy and the Mouse is Itchy They have fights alot of the time. The Itchy and Scratchy show always airs on THE SIMPSONS, and is not a current show at the moment by creator, MATT GROENING...
Days of our Lives (1965 - Current) - A dramatic serial on NBC created by Ted Corday, Irna Phillips & Allan Chase, and written by William J. Bell. The Cordays and Bell combined the "hospital soap" idea with the tradition of centering a series on a family, by making the show about a family of doctors, including one who worked in a mental...
Dr Zitbag's Transylvania pet shop (1994 - Current) - When Dr Zitbag was fired from a pet shop for experimenting on pets. So he set up his own pet shop with his wackey creations as pets.
Rock Lords (1985 - Current) - Rock Lords was a spin-off toyline to the Go-bots from Tonka in 1986 after the movie GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords. They were transforming rocks that came with weapons such as axes, guns and swords. There were vehicles for the Rock Lords to drive in battle. The Rock Lords were imported from Bandai...
Saint Seiya And The Knights Of The Zodiac (1986 - Current) - Saint Seiya, better also known as Los Caballeros Del Zodiaco in Latin America, Les Chevaliers Du Zodiaque in France, I Cavalieri Dello Zodiaco in Italy, Os Cavaleiros Do Zodiaco in Brazil, and of course The Knights Of The Zodiac in the United States, is truly 1 of Toei's highly successful longest ru...
Doraemon: Gadget Cat From The Future (1973 - Current) - Doraemon is one of the most legendary anime characters in Japan.
Jeopardy! (1964 - Current) - Jeopardy! is a game show created by the game show great Merv Griffin. Contestants pick from six categories, ranging from science, to pop culture, to language puzzles. Each column of categories has five dollar amounts to pick from. Each dollar amount gives a clue in the form of an answer and the play...
Cyberchase (2002 - Current) - One day, three children from Earth named Matt, Jackie, and Inez are called to the land of Cyberspace by Motherboard, its guardian, to defend her from a virus as unleashed by a villain named Hacker. Motherboard is the guardian of Cyberspace, a dimension where computer networks exist as physical locat...
Bad Dog (1998 - Current) - Bad Dog is a short-lived animated cartoon that aired on ABC and Teletoon during 1998. The cartoon focuses on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was...
Match Game (1962 - Current) - Contestants tried to match a panel of six celebrities in answering fill-in-the-blank questions. Host Gene Rayburn asks a series of comedic questions (each featuring the characters Dumb Dora/Donald, Ugly Edna, Old Man Perriwinkle, etc.) , and the panel writes down their answers each on a little blue...
Judge Judy (1996 - Current) - A court room style show in which REAL people with REAL cases face a REAL judge. A small claims court, most cases invole lawsuit or return of stolen property.
The Young and the Restless (1973 - Current) - A CBS Dramatic Serial which, at the time of it's debut, March 26th 1973, and for most of the 70's, revolved around the lives of the Brooks and Foster Families of Genoa City, Wisconsin. In the late 70's the episodes were extended from 30 minutes to 1 hour, and the series took on a new tone, and grad...
The NFL Today (1961 - Current) - The program began on September 17, 1961 on CBS entitled: "Pro Football Kickoff." On September 13, 1964, Frank Gifford began hosting the renamed "NFL Report," and later that year, it renamed the title: "The NFL Today." The NFL Today went off the air on CBS in 1993, when FOX bought out the NFC TV pa...
Ben 10 (2005 - Current) - After a camping trip Benjamin Tennyson gets a watch-like device called the Omnitrix which lets him transform into ten alien-like creatures with various powers. The series ran until 2008 and was followed by a sequel called "Ben 10: Alien Force" in 2008.
The Bold and the Beautiful (1987 - Current) - In the fashion world, the Forrester family rules from their stylish mansion in Beverly Hills. But behind the glitter and glamour of the runway, the Foresters encounter many hardships, including divorces, alcoholism, and deaths
Postman Pat (1981 - Current) - "Postman Pat" is a BBC TV's show about a cheerful and hard-working postman who always helps his friends on his rounds whatever it is a missing doll, or someone who needs to be taken to doctor. Pat is always there for everyone when they need him. As the favourite postman everybody loves and admires.
Neighbours (1985 - Current) - Cast (in credits order)
Totally Spies! (2001 - 2012) - Totally Spies! is an Anime-influenced television series produced by the French company Marathon Production. Production began in 2001; in 2008 the show ran its fifth season. A movie based on the show aired in France on July 22, 2009. In December 2011, it was announced that a sixth season is currently...
Happy Tree Friends (1999 - Current) - Happy Tree Friends is an American Flash cartoon created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The show is cited as an early example of a popular Internet phenomenon achieving a cult following.
Sofia The First (2013 - Current) - Sofia's mother marries the King Of Enchancia, and Sofia goes from commoner to royalty. She learns lessons about how to act like a princess.
EastEnders (1985 - Current) - Eastenders is a soap from The BBC. It is set in Walford, London. There Local Pub is the Queen Vic.
Blockbusters (UK) (1983 - Current) - First letter first
Entertainment Tonight (1981 - Current) - Debuting in 1981, Entertainment Tonight set the trend for entertainment-oriented shows. This half-hour program, which has been hosted by John Tesh, Leeza Gibbons, Patrick O'Brien, and Mary Hart, focuses on the news of the movies, television and music industries.
Forever Knight (1992 - 1996) - Nick Knight is an 800 year old vampire currently residing in Toronto, Canada. After centuries of merciless evil, he has turned over a new leaf and become a homicide detective in an attempt to repent for his past sins and regain his humanity. But fighting crime while keeping his curse a secret isn't...
Adventure Time (2008 - Current) - "Adventure Time" follows the adventures of a boy, Finn the Human (voiced by Jeremy Shada), and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake the Dog (voiced by John DiMaggio), who has magical powers to change shape and size at will. Pendleton Ward, the series' creator, describes Finn as a "fiery little...
Uncle Grandpa (2013 - Current) - Come join uncle grandpa, pizza Steve, Mr. Gus and giant realistic flying Tiger on crazy adventure
Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981 - Current) - Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark (Cassandra Petersen) hosts a variety of horror and sci-fi movies, offering up wisecracks and cheap puns in between segments of the films.
Home and Away (1988 - Current) - Home and Away is an Australian weeknightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since January 1988. It is broadcast on the Seven Network and its affiliates in Australia and is exported to many countries, most notably the United Kingdom, where it briefly became the...
ABC's World News Tonight (1978 - Current) - The evening newscast from ABC News. The broadcast originates from ABC's New York headquarters each day at 6:30PM ET.
The West Wing (1999 - Current) - This political drama features the lives of staffers in the west wing of the White House. It's been a called groundbreaking in that it ushered in a new type of political series that worked to show the complexity and contrasting simplicity of the day-to-day workings of modern politics, primarily in th...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1998 - Current) - Chris Tarrant Hosts the gameshow where people have to answer 15 questions to win a million pounds with the help of three life lines: 50/50, Phone a Friend and Ask the Audience.
Dancing With the Stars (2005 - Current) - A dancing contest where professional dancers are paired with a celebrity and must dance in front of a celebrity panel.
High Rollers (1974 - 1988) - High Rollers is an American television game show based on the dice game Shut the Box which aired on NBC from July 1, 1974 to June 11, 1976 and again from April 24, 1978 to June 20, 1980. Two different syndicated versions were also produced: a weekly series in the 197576 season which ran concurrentl...
NOVA (1974 - Current) - Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over.
Meet the Press (1947 - Current) - Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program that is broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program in American television history, though its current format bears little resemblance to the one it debuted with on November 6, 1947. Like similar shows that have followed i...
Royal Canadian Air Farce (1995 - Current) - CANADA'S NUMBER ONE COMEDY!!!
NBC Nightly News (1970 - Current) - It is NBC News' weekday evening news program. The program debut on August 3, 1970, with David Brinkley, John Chancellor, and Frank McGee rotating duties as anchors until August 9, 1971 when Chancellor became the sole anchor. On June 7, 1976, David Brinkley was brought back to the anchor desk, this...
Access (1996 - Current) - A weekday entertainment news program airing news and events on the entertainment industry. Previous hosts include Giselle Fernndez, Larry Mendte, Pat O'Brien, who hosted the show alongside Nancy O'Dell until late 2004, when he left to host the Entertainment Tonight spin-off The Insider, and O'Dell,...
Hell's Kitchen (2005 - Current) - U.S. Version of the popular UK game show. 18 contestants must cook in front of strict chef Gordon Ramsey for a chance to become chef at a high-end restaurant.
Kitchen Nightmares (2007 - Current) - Chef Gordon Ramsey visits failing restaurants with only a week to revitalize them. The show is based on the British series Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.
60 Minutes (1968 - Current) - The longest-running Prime Time News show, 60 Minutes has been shown every Sunday night on CBS since 1968. Known for the concluding segment in which Grumpy Old Man Andy Rooney used to complain about whatever ticked him off this week until his October 2011 retirement and passing in the next month.
Deal or No Deal (2005 - Current) - Hosted by Howie Mandel and based off of the British version. There are 26 briefcases each with dollar amounts varying from $.01 to $1,000,000. In each round a contestant picks one of the cases and it is placed on a podium in front of them. The contestant then picks several of the remaining cases for...
PJ Masks (2015 - Current) - Three children become superheroes at night. During the school day a problem arises, and during the night the culprit is found by the PJ Masks and the problem gets solved by sharing ideas, recognizing strengths and weaknesses, and the ability of working together to get the problem solved. Everything...
Galaxy Angel Rune (2006 - Current) - the anime counterpart to the Galaxy Angel II games. As with the first Galaxy Angel anime series, this one has little to nothing to do with the plot of the video games.
American Dad! (2005 - Current) - Created by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane American Dad is about the life of conservative Republican CIA agent Stan Smith in the town of Langley Falls, Virginia. He is married to Francine, a ditzy woman trying to make up for her wild past life. His daughter Hayley is extremely liberal and is a co...
Marsupilami (Marathon series) (2000 - 2012) - Based on the original comics by Andre Franquin. This animated series from Marathon (the team behind "Totally Spies" and "Martin Mystery") is much closer to the original comics than the previous Disney-made series from the 1990s. New episodes are currently being aired worldwide under the name "Houba...
The Amazing World Of Gumball (2011 - Current) - Meet the Wattersons: Mom, Dad, Anais, Darwin and of course Gumball! He's a twelve-year-old cat with a flair for misadventure
Zenki (1995 - Current) - One thousand years ago there lived the powerful sorcerer, OZ-NAY. OZ-NAY protected the world from evil forces with the help of his powerful guardian deity ZENKI. Fearful that no one other than himself could control the mighty ZENKI, Oz-Nay sealed ZENKI in a stone monument within the walls of the fam...
On the Money (1970 - Current) - Formerly The Wall Street Journal Report (1970-2012), The weekly syndicated show features interviews, discussions, weekly job reports, stock market updates, and stories about the economy.
WNBC-TV Newscasts (1941 - Current) - WNBC-TV, NBC affiliate in New York City, had been enjoying success with it's news department with it's newscasts since the station first sign-on the air on July 1, 1941
WPVI-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WPVI-TV in Philadelphia preaently broadcasts 47 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Countdown (1982 - Current) - Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by ITV Studios and broadcast on Channel 4. It is presented by Nick Hewer, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and sixty-seven series ha...
the annoying orange (2009 - Current) - This is about the annoying orange cartoon it a very good show.
Earthbound (2019 - Current) - A New cartoon base on the video games by Nintendo
Super smash bros melee the series (2011 - Current) - A 3d tv series base on 2001 Nintendo gamecube
Pretty Cure (2004 - Current) - Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro transform into Cure Black and Cure White to save the world from the evil Dark Zone. It also has spawned many spin-off series focusing on different groups of girls, as well as cross-over movies.
Boomerang From Cartoon Network (1992 - Current) - A channel that shows both retro cartoon shows and a mixture of modern spinoffs of those retro shows that the channel airs.
Smosh (2005 - Current) - something smashed up with Smosh
PAW Patrol (2013 - Current) - a Canadian CGIanimated television series created by Keith Chapman. It is produced by Spin Master Entertainment in association with TVOntario and Nickelodeon, with animation provided by Guru Studio. In Canada, the series is primarily broadcast on TVOntario, which first ran previews of the show in Au...
Praise the Lord (1973 - Current) - The flagship program of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Every night TBN's Crouch family, Paul Crouch Senior(before his December 2013 death) Jan Crouch and Paul Crouch Jr. host a live church service with many special guest stars. Often times the show goes on the road to spread the word of God.
Nature (1982 - Current) - Nature is a long-running wildlife television program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. It has been distributed to United States public television stations by the PBS television service since its debut on October 10, 1982. The on-camera host of the first season was Donald Johanson, with voice-over...
American Experience (1988 - Current) - Documentary series on PBS about the great American history. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history. A trademark of the series is its ability to take lesser-known events in history, such as the history of Con...
Isidingo (1998 - Current) - Created by Gray Hofmeyr, Isidingo explores the lives of the people of Horizon Deep Gold Mine and their wealthier counterparts at ON!TV, a fictitious 5th National Broadcaster.
Hockey Night in Canada (1952 - Current) - Since 1952, CBC has aired Hockey Night in Canada, a Canadian institution. The song is known to Canadians as "Canada's Second National Anthem".
The Big Spin (1985 - Current) -
Monday Night Football (1970 - Current) - Are you ready for some football? Every week since 1970 Monday Night Football has broadcast a live game from the National Football League. Airing up until 2005 on ABC the show was one of the longest running and highest-rated prime time broadcast shows in history! The show has broadcast over 700 footb...
Card Sharks (1978 - Current) - Card Sharks is an American television game show created by Chester Feldman for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Based on the card game Acey Deucey, the game has two contestants compete for control of a row of oversized playing cards by answering questions posed by the host and then guessing if...
Nick Jr. (1988 - Current) - Nick Jr. was a block of programming for preschoolers on Nickelodeon which would air weekdays from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The block first began in 1988 and the very first show it aired was Pinwheel, the very program to put Nickelodeon on the map. In its first few years, the block aired mostly foreign an...
Inside Edition (1989 - Current) - This American television weekday newsmagazine program features a mix of hard news stories, entertainment news and gossips, scandals, true-crime stories and lifestyle features.
48 Hours (1988 - Current) - 48 Hours is an American documentary/news magazine television series broadcast on CBS. The series has been broadcast on the network since January 19, 1988. The program airs Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, as part of the network's placeholder Crimetime Saturday block; as such, it is...
20/20 (1978 - Current) - 20/20 is a news magazine show airing on ABC. Unlike the political focus of CBS' 60 Minutes, 20/20 focuses on personal interest stories. 20/20 is known for its hour-long TV specials that go in-depth on stories.
Frontline (1983 - Current) - PBS's popular documentary series. The program debuted in 1983, with former NBC anchorwoman Jessica Savitch as its host, but Savitch died later in the first season. Judy Woodruff took over as anchor in 1984, and hosted the program for five years. In 1990, the show did away with the anchor position, a...
Barbapapa (1974 - Current) - the Barbapapas are a colorous family, who can change there body, from tall to small or other things.
Inside the Actors Studio (1994 - Current) - documentary series, host:
For Your Home (1996 - Current) -
If Walls Could Talk... (1998 - Current) -
Divine Design (1999 - Current) -
Little Britain (2003 - Current) - A look at "every day" life of the citizens of Britain.
CBSN New York (2018 - Current) - CBSN New York is a 24-hour local version of the CBSN service, and accessed from CBSNewYork.com and its mobile apps.
Pipkins (1973 - 1981) - "Pipkins" was a 1970s British TV series for children. The show starred a troupe of puppet animals, including Hartley Hare, Tortoise, Pig, and Topov the Monkey, among others. Out of 333 episodes, only 135 currently exist.
ITV News Newscasts (UK) (1955 - Current) - The news bulletins of ITV News in the UK, that delivers news from the UK and around the world, everyday and everynight since 1955.
Casualty (1986 - Current) - This British television medical soap is set in the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department.
BBC Newsnight (1980 - Current) - This British television weeknight news program is produced by BBC News, which specializes in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.
Shortland Street (1992 - Current) - This New Zealand prime-time television soap opera is centering on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, which had been airing on New Zealand's TV2 since it debut on May 25, 1992.
The McLaughlin Group (1982 - Current) - The McLaughlin Group was a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, hosted by John McLaughlin from its first episode in 1982 until his death in 2016. A group of four pundits, prompted by McLaughlin, discussed current political issues in a round table format...
The National (1969 - Current) - This Canadian weeknight television news program is produced by CBC News, which brings news throughout Canada and around the world. It had been on the air weeknights since 1969 when Warren Davis was the original anchor for 1 year, then Lloyd Robertson anchored the program from 1970 to 1976, followed...
CBS Morning News (1982 - Current) - This American early weekday morning television news program is produced by CBS News. The program debut on October 4, 1982 under the title ''CBS Early Morning News.'' Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer were the original anchor team for the program from 1982 to 1984, then Kuris co-anchor the program along...
Bakuman. (2010 - Current) - Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high school student, content to live out a relatively normal life as any other does, is persuaded by his classmate, Akito Takagi, to become an aspiring mangaka when the latter realizes his natural talent as an artist. However, Moritaka is reluctant to pursue his dream as h...
Early Today (1982 - Current) - This is an American early weekday morning television news program that is broadcast from NBC News. The original version of Early Today was produced by NBC News from 1982 to 1983, with hosts at the time: Bryant Gumbel, Jane Pauley and Willard Scott. The current version of Early Today was originally...
Sunrise (Australian TV News Program) (2000 - Current) - This Australian weekday morning breakfast television news program from Australia's 7 News. This program was originally debut under the name: "Seven News: Sunrise Edition" on January 17, 1991 with presenter Darren McDonald, when it was prior to hostilities breaking out during the Gulf War. In 1996,...
BBC Breakfast (1983 - Current) - This is a national British weekday morning television news program from BBC News. It became the BBC's first weekday morning Breakfast news program that premiered on January 17, 1983 under the title: "Breakfast Time" with the presenting team of Frank Bough, Selina Scott, Nick Ross, Russell Grant and...
The Devil is a Part-Timer! (2013 - Current) - Striking fear into the hearts of mortals, the Demon Lord Satan begins to conquer the land of Ente Isla with his vast demon armies. However, while embarking on this brutal quest to take over the continent, his efforts are foiled by the hero Emilia, forcing Satan to make his swift retreat through a di...
Doknot1999 (2010 - Current) - Doknot1999 shares his opinions on various entertainment related subjects.
RWBY Chibi (2016 - Current) - RWBY Chibi is a comedic animated spin-off of RWBY compromising 24 3-6 minute long episodes. It was first announced as part of Rooster Teeth's 13th Anniversary celebration on April 1, 2016, and Episode 1 premiered on May 7, 2016. Its first season concluded on October 15, 2016. Each episode consists o...
Homestar Runner (2000 - Current) - A wacky web cartoon based upon a children's book.
Rebeltaxi (2008 - Current) - A web series featuring Pan Pizza in the rebeltaxi reviewing various cartoons.
BBC News (TV Newscasts) (UK) (1954 - Current) - This British television national news source: BBC News has been providing national news programming since it's first bulletin on July 5, 1954.
RTE News (Ireland) Newscasts (1961 - Current) - Ireland's RTE News Newscasts airs on Ireland's RTE One, which provides news in Ireland and around the world.
PBA on ESPN (1979 - Current) - When ESPN was launched in 1979, it did first brought live coverage of the PBA Bowling tour.
NBC Nightly News: Weekend Edition (1971 - Current) - This is the weekend evening program from NBC News has been on weekend evenings since 1971.
NHL on NBC (1940 - Current) - The NHL on NBC is a presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on NBC and NBCSN in the United States. While NBC has covered the league at various points in its history, the network's current relationship with the NHL is the result of NBC Sports...
NBA on ABC (1965 - Current) - The NBA on ABC is a presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games produced by ESPN, and televised on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). ABC originally broadcast NBA games from 1965 to 1973. In 2002, NBA games returned to the network as part of a contract signed with the league, a...
NASCAR on NBC (1979 - Current) - NASCAR on NBC (visually branded as NBC NASCAR in logos shown within on-air graphics and network promotions) is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on several NBCUniversal-owned television networks, including the NBC broadcast network in the...
NASCAR on Fox (2001 - Current) - Fox NASCAR, also known as NASCAR on Fox, is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox network in the United States since 2001.
SportsCenter (1979 - Current) - SportsCenter (SC) is a daily sports news television program that serves as the flagship program of American cable and satellite television network ESPN. Originally broadcast only once per day, SportsCenter now has up to twelve airings each day; the program features highlights and updates, and review...
NBA on ESPN (1982 - Current) - ESPN first had live telecasts of the NBA from 1982-1984, but it has been stayed on ESPN since it returned for the 2002-2003 season.
Fox & Friends (1998 - Current) - This Fox News Channel's daily weekday morning news program that has the headlines and news of the mornings and continues with variety of segments.
KDFW-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - KDFW-TV presently broadcasts 47 hours of locally produced news each week throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area.
Holby City (1999) (1999 - Current) - This British medical dramatic soap is a spinoff the British medical dramatic soap: "Casualty."
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team (2006 - Current) - The American reality television series follows the auditioning process and the making of the annual Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Squad
CNN New Day (2013 - Current) - This CNN weekday morning program premiered on June 17, 2013, originated from the CNN broadcast center @ Time Warner Center in New York City.
Windows 98 Commercial (2017 - Current) - Windows 98 Commercial
KPRC-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - The newscasts are produced locally by KPRC-TV Channel 2 in Houston, Texas, 39 and a half hours each week. The Newscasts of KPRC-TV has been produced locally since the station was signed on the air on New Year's Day 1949.
BBC Panorama (1953 - Current) - Britain's longest-running current affairs documentary program on television from BBC News, has been on the air since November 11, 1953.
WFAA-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - WFAA-TV Channel 8, ABC affiliate station in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, deliver broadcasts 36 hours of locally produced newscasts each week, and they've been doing that since the station sign-on the air on September 17, 1949.
WRC-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WRC-TV, NBC Affiliate station in Washington, D.C. has been presently broadcast locally-produced newscasts since the station was signed on the air on June 27, 1947.
NBC News: Election Coverage (1948 - Current) - The first NBC News live election coverage on television which was in 1948, since then, NBC News has been doing election coverage through all the United States like the primaries, national conventions, the presidential debates, the race for the Presidency, the U.S. Senate races, the U.S. House of Rep...
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (2009 - Current) - Dennis and Gnasher is an Australian/British animated television series currently being aired on CBBC Channel. Based on the original comic strips from The Beano, it features the adventures of the rebellious schoolboy Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher.
Valvrave the Liberator (2013 - Current) - High school student Haruto Tokishima lives a normal life until the Dorssian military invades.
Fangbone! (2016 - Current) - Fangbone is a nine-year-old barbarian warrior from Skullbania who has landed in Eastwood Elementary's third grade class to save his native land from the vilest villain, Venomous Drool.
Washington Week (1967 - Current) - Washington Weekpreviously Washington Week in Reviewis an American public affairs television program which has aired on PBS and its predecessor, National Educational Television, since 1967. Unlike other panel discussion shows which encourage informal (sometimes vociferous) debates as a means of pre...
Extra (1994 - Current) - Extra (originally titled Extra: The Entertainment Magazine from 1994 to 1996) is an American syndicated television newsmagazine that is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution and premiered on September 5, 1994. The program serves as a straight rundown of news headlines and gossip throug...
Cheaters (2000 - Current) - Cheaters is a weekly syndicated reality television series featuring couples with one partner committing adultery, or cheating, on the other partner. Investigations are headed by the "Cheaters Detective Agency". It began airing in 2000, and has aired 21 seasons so far as of December 2020. It has been...
New Game! (2016 - Current) - The main character Suzukaze Aoba graduates from high school and joins a game company. The person who made the game that Aoba loved as a grade-schooler just happens to be Aoba's senior at the company. The story follows girls who work and aspire at the Eaglejump company. (From season 1)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012 - Current) - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: Hepburn: JoJo no Kimy na Bken), also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, is a Japanese anime television series produced by David Production based on the manga of the same name by Hirohiko Araki. The series focuses on the mysterious adven...
My Hero Academia (2016 - Current) - The appearance of "quirks," newly discovered super powers, has been steadily increasing over the years, with 80 percent of humanity possessing various abilities from manipulation of elements to shapeshifting. This leaves the remainder of the world completely powerless, and Izuku Midoriya is one such...
ABC World News Now (1992 - Current) - This is the American overnight tv news program broadcast by ABC News, airing during the early mornings hours from Monday through Friday. The program debut on January 6, 1992.
RWBY (2013 - Current) - RWBY is an American 3D web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. The show is set in the fictional world of Remnant, where young people train to become Huntsmen and Huntresses to protect their world from the creatures of Grimm.
Face The Nation (1954 - Current) - Face the Nation is a weekly news and morning public affairs program airing Sundays on the CBS radio and television network. Created by Frank Stanton in 1954, Face the Nation is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television.
To Tell The Truth (1956 - Current) - CBS-TV 1956-1968/NBC-TV 1968-Present. A panel of four famous people had to try and uncover the identity of a person who was hiding with two impostors. Bud Collyer was the first MC. Gary Moore and other personalities would MC the NBC versions.
aqua teen hunger force (2000 - Current) - aqua teen hunger force is a tv show that aired in the 2000's
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000 - Current) - The life and times of Larry David (Seinfeld's executive producer and creator) and the predicaments he gets himself into with his friends and complete strangers.
Coronation Street (1960 - Current) - This British soap centers on the resident's lives in the fictional town of Weatherfield, a town based on Salford. It's been airing on UK's ITV since it debut on December 9, 1960. The series was created by Tony Warren. This British soap through the years had the Barlows, the Walkers, the Tanners,...
Wheel of Fortune (Syndicated) (1983 - Current) - The nighttime version of the game show that airs in local syndication. It debuted on September 19, 1983 in most markets.
Inside the Trinity Family of Networks (2014 - Current) - Hosted by Matt & Laurie Crouch, who provide daily updates of the ministries & activities taking place each day at TBN locally and around the world.
Star Gazers (1976 - Current) - PBS documentary series showcasing astronomy. The show first began in 1976 hasted by Jack Foley Horkheimer, an astronomer at the Miami Museum of Science. In the early 1970's he appeared on Miami's WPBT TV with a local show called Horkheimer's Heavens. In 1976 Star Gazers would premiere nationally air...
Bibi Blocksberg (1999 - Current) - Bibi Blocksberg is a German TV Show about a teenage witch and her family. Her mother is a witch too, but not her father (men can't normally be witches, but there are exceptions). Bibi has a broom that she calls "Apple Pie" (Kartoffelbrei). She is still learning how to do spells and gets into trouble...
Cedric (2001 - Current) - The adventures of a young rascal, his family and his school. A hero close to the hearts of all children, funny yet tender at the same time. It is hard, very hard to be a little boy... between the mistress, the school shrink, nosy parents, rowdy pals, an odious niece, and a temperamental girl friend,...
Little Nick (2009 - Current) - Based from French books of Le petit Nicolas. This animated series attracted young viewers. This show was shown in French as "Le Petit Nicolas", German as "Der Kleine Nick", Hebrew, Arabic and other languages in different countries but was never released in the United States.
Oggy and the Cockroaches (1998 - Current) - The show centers on Oggy, a content, blue cat, who would prefer to spend his days watching television and eating - if not for the three roaches in the household: Joey, Dee Dee and Marky (named after members of the punk group Ramones). The trio seems to enjoy making Oggy's life miserable, which invol...
Bo on the Go! (2007 - Current) - Get-up-and-go with Bo as she leads you through amazing adventures! Cheerful, energetic and inquisitive our young heroine along with her young dragon Dezzy encourages young audiences to spring into action while performing various maneuvers in order to help her save the day. Each mythic quest contains...
Emmerdale (1972 - Current) - This long-running British television soap is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. The series was originally under the title: "Emmerdale Farm" (from 1972 to 1989). Since 1989, the series had been under the title: "Emmerdale." It is current...
Fuller House (2016 - Current) - In this Full House sequel, DJ Tanner (Candace Cameron-Bure) is grown up and widowed. Her childhood best friend Kimmy Gibbler(Andrea Barber) And younger sister Stephanie(Jodie Sweetin) move in to help DJ raise her three young boys.
Attack on Titan (2013 - Current) - Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by giants. Giants are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by enclosing them...
Morning Joe: First Look (2004 - Current) - This is an American weekday morning news program debut on MSNBC as "First Look" in 2004. On August 8, 2016, the program was retitled "Morning Joe: First Look."
CBS This Morning (1987 - Current) - This American weekday morning news program produced by CBS News, been aired originally from 1987 to 1999. But the current one had been airing since its debut on January 9, 2012.
Fairy Tail (OVA) (2011 - Current) - Separate stories from the main story-flow on the series, this pieces are meant to be a funny side of the guild or set in different "universes" at all. The first OVA has Lucy working on the girl's dorm as the Cat princess which give us a look at the daily life on a normal day on the dorm while Lucy h...
Steven Universe (2013 - Current) - A young boy named Steven, who grows up in the fictional town of Beach City living with three magical humanoid aliens, the "Crystal Gems" Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl.
America This Morning (1982 - Current) - This is an American early weekday morning television news program from ABC News. It debut on July 5, 1982, under the original title: "ABC News This Morning," then came "World News This Morning" from 1983-2006, and now under this current title since 2006.
Eat Bulaga! (1979 - Current) - Eat Bulaga is the longest-running noontime variety show on Philippine Television.
Goin' Bulilit (2005 - Current) - Goin' Bulilit (lit. Goin' Kids) is a sketch comedy show for kids broadcast on and created by ABS-CBN in the Philippines.
WCBS-TV Newscasts (1941 - Current) - Everyday, these local newscasts are seen presentally locally produced by WCBS-TV, an east coast flagship station of the CBS Television Network, which is located in New York City.
CBS News Sunday Morning (1979 - Current) - This newsmagazine television program from CBS News that has been airing on Sunday Morning since it premiered on January 28, 1979. The original host of the program was Charles Kuralt, who created it, and Charles Osgood was the host from 1994 until September 25, 2016 in retirement. Jane Pauley has b...
This Week (1981 - Current) - This Week is an American Sunday morning political affairs program from ABC News. The program is initially aired at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (following weekend morning newscasts on most ABC stations in large and mid-sized markets), although many stations air the program at a later slot, especially thos...
Peppa Pig (2004 - Current) - A British television program about a cheeky little piggy who loves jumping up and down in muddy puddles. Along with her brother and parents, they explore the world around Peppa and her friends too. Along the way, Peppa learns something new everyday.
A Current Affair (1986 - Current) - A Current Affair is a news show that aired on the launch of the FOX network.
Nighttime with John Stossel (2009 - Current) - Nighttime with John Stossel is a talk show that airs on FOX News Channel. It is hosted by News anchor John Stossel.
Julie's Greenroom (2017 - Current) - an American educational pre-school television series that was released on Netflix in March 17, 2017.
Fantorangen (2007 - Current) - Fantorangen is a Norwegian television character known from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), where he has his own program on the children's channel NRK Super. He is a plushie created and operated by Berit Nermoen, who also writes the scripts. The puppet was created in 2007 by visual artist T...
Ellougik Essiyasi (2011 - Current) - or The political logic (Tunisian arabic : ) is a Tunisian satirical latex puppet show broadcast on Ettounisya TV. It's inspired by the French show Les guignols de l'info and presented by Taoufik LabidiUnder the regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the show is broadcast under another nam...
Color Me a Rainbow (1987 - Current) - a Christian children's show that first aired in 1987 on the American Christian Television System (ACTS), which was a precursor to today's Hallmark Channel. The show was produced by Shepherd & Associates in Lincoln, Nebraska. Linda King was the creator of the show and did the voices for the puppets.h...
Big & Small (2008 - Current) - a British/Canadian children's television series aimed at preschoolers. Big & Small is a co-production between Kindle Entertainment and 3J's Productions produced in association with the BBC, Treehouse TV, and Studio 100.[1] The first series was deemed a success worldwide and a second series was commi...
The Bay (web series) (2010 - Current) - The Bay is an American digital soap opera series on the residents of Bay City are entangled in one scandal, betrayal or love affair after the other.
Power Rangers RPM (2009 - Current) - (Racing Performance Machines) is the seventeenth season of the American children's television series Power Rangers. As with all previous Power Rangers series, RPM uses footage, costumes, and other props from the Super Sentai Series, in this case, from Engine Sentai Go-onger. With the re-branding of...
Power Rangers Jungle Fury (2008 - Current) - is the sixteenth season in the American children's television series Power Rangers. Toy merchandising in the U.S. began in November 2007 and the show premiered on February 18, 2008, and uses footage from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, the thirty-first Japanese Super Sentai series.[1][2][3] Jungle Fury was...
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (2007 - Current) - is the fifteenth season and anniversary of the American television franchise Power Rangers. It uses footage and other material from the Super Sentai series GoGo Sentai Boukenger, which was also the thirtieth entry and anniversary of that franchise. It premiered on February 26, 2007.[1] Operation Ove...
Power Rangers Mystic Force (2006 - Current) - It was also the last season to air on ABC Family, when the channel dropped Jetix on August 31, 2006.
Power Rangers S.P.D. (2005 - Current) - The 13th season of the Power Rangers franchise, based on the Super Sentai series, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.
Power Rangers Dino Thunder (2004 - Current) - an American children's television series, the twelfth season of the Power Rangers franchise. As with all Power Rangers series, it was adapted from a series from the long running Japanese Super Sentai franchise, in this case the 27th entry, Bakury Sentai Abaranger.[1] Dino Thunder was also the subti...
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (2000 - Current) - In the fictitious city of Mariner Bay, California, which was built on an ancient demon burial ground. When the demons were accidentally released from their tomb in the desert, they threaten to destroy Mariner Bay. Therefore, a government organization called Lightspeed Rescue, headed by Captain Willi...
Red Data Girl (2013 - Current) - A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by P.A.Works aired between April and June 2013. The full anime series became available for streaming on Netflix (US) on August 1, 2015.The story revolves around Izumiko Suzuhara, a 15-year-old girl who was raised at Tamakura Shrine, which is a part of...
Hanasaku Iroha (2011 - Current) - lit. "The ABCs of Flower Blooming" or "The Blooming Colors"),[3] or Hanairo for short,[4] is a Japanese 26-episode anime television series produced by P.A.Works and directed by Masahiro And. The screenplay was written by Mari Okada, with original character design by Mel Kishida. P.A.Works produced...
Another (anime) (2012 - Current) - A 12-episode anime television series produced by P.A.Works aired in Japan between January 10 and March 27, 2012, with an original video animation episode released on May 26, 2012, and a live-action film of the same name was released in Japanese theatres on August 4, 2012.In 1972, Misaki, a popular s...
Canaan (2009 - Current) - a 13-episode anime television series, conceptualized by Type-Moon co-founders Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi, based on the scenario that they created for the Wii visual novel 428: Shibuya Scramble, which is noted for being one of the few games to have been awarded a perfect score by games publicat...
Christmas in Rockefeller Center (1951 - Current) - Every year since 1931 the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has been an American tradition for New Yorkers and Tourists alike. The first tree erected in 1931 stood just 20 feet tall and was decorated with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans". In 1933 the tree was lit...
Alam Simsim (2000 - Current) - an Arabic language Egyptian-made adaptation of the format used in the children's television series Sesame Street. Alam Simsim is Arabic for "Sesame World".The show, funded by the U.S. Government's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a cooperative project between Egypt's Al Karma Ed...
KCAL-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - KCAL-TV in Los Angeles presently broadcasts a total of 32 and a half hours of locally produced news each week.
Rimba's Island (1994 - Current) - a preschool children's television series featuring costumed characters living in a rain forest. It aired on Fox Kids as part of The Fox Cubhouse starting in 1994.
Nickelodeon Slimefest (2012 - Current) - has seen success around the globe as a slime-filled, multi-platform music and entertainment event since its overseas inception in 2012 in Australia. The U.S. music festival marks the sixth local adaptation of this popular event and the first time a Nickelodeon International event has been localized...
Jimmy Kimmel Live (2003 - Current) - Jimmy Kimmel Live is a late night talk show on ABC starring Jimmy Kimmel. It debut in 2003.
Ever after high (2015 - Current) - a series of animated shorts on YouTube.[106] In June 2014, Netflix announced it was developing a series of episodes based on the webisodes[107][108] - which was released on February 6, 2015.s a boarding school located in the Fairy Tale World. It is attended by the teenage children of fairy tale char...
The Talk (2010) (2010 - Current) - The Talk is an American daytime television tslk show is similar in format to 'The View.'
I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (2001 - Current) - (! Ai Mai Mii! Sutorober Eggu), occasionally shortened to Strawberry Eggs, is a 2001 Japanese anime television series animated by TNK with co-production by Pioneer, LDC. The series aired from July 4 to September 26, 2001, by WOWOW and in August 2002 was licensed by Geneon Entertain...
Hand Maid May (2000 - Current) - an anime series directed by Shinichiro Kimura, produced by Pioneer Animation (now Geneon Entertainment) and animated by TNK. The anime aired ten episodes on WOWOW between July 6 and September 22, 2000, and an OVA was bundled with a DVD box set released on February 21, 2001. It centers on the adventu...
Yoshinaga-san Chi no Gargoyle (2006 - Current) - The anime adaptation of the light novel was produced by Studio Hibari began airing in April 2006 for the Spring TV season and ended with a total of 13 episodes., lit.: "Gargoyle of Yoshinaga House") is a Japanese light novel series written by Sennendou Taguchi, following Kazumi Yoshinaga and his nor...
Fire Emblem (1996 - Current) - A short original video animation series based on Mystery of the Emblem was created in 1997. These anime episodes were released in North America, six years before The Blazing Blade was localized. produced by studio fantasia base on the games by Nintendo and created by Shouzou Kaga
Burnnie the Bunnie: Tails from the Light Side (2008 - Current) - a Christian non-profit television ministry operating out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It features a rabbit named Burnnie T. Bunnie, who means well, but is very mischievous and naive, and constantly gets into trouble unwittingly. However, he has lots of loyal friends to keep him in line. He learns a...
Star Twinkle PreCure (2019 - Current) - a Japanese magical girl anime series by Toei Animation. It is the sixteenth installment in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure franchise, and the first series released in Japan's new Historical Period. It is directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto (One Piece Film: Gold) and written by Isao Murayama. The series will begin...
Danger Mouse (2015) (2015 - Current) - Reboot of the 80's cartoon classic from England, where the White Wonder, Danger Mouse and the Hopeless Hamster, Penfold are back with new adventures as they thwart evil. Thrills and hilarity happen.
KTLA-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - KTLA-TV in Los Angeles presently broadcasts 79 hours, 5 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Sentimental Graffiti (1998 - Current) - is the name of a dating simulation series by NEC Interchannel. An anime television series based on the series was later produced, titled Sentimental Journey.Three Japanese radio dramas based on the series, titled Sentimental Night, Kaettekita Sentimental Night, and Only Sentimental Night 2 were prod...
Paradise Kiss (2005 - Current) - a 12 episode anime series, produced by Aniplex and Studio Madhouse and which was aired in Japan on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block and on the anime television network, Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, Southeast Asia, South Asia an...
Chance Pop Session (2001 - Current) - Chance: Triangle Session ( Chansu Toraianguru Sesshon), also known as Chance: Pop Session, is a 2001 anime produced by Madhouse studios. The series aired from May 21 to August 27, 2001 and ran for 13 episodes.Three young girlsAkari, Yuki, and Nozomimeet at a concert and set out to...
CBS Weekend News (1966 - Current) - In 1966, CBS News debuted their first weekend evening edition of CBS Evening News, originally anchor by Roger Mudd. The Sunday edition of the program was dropped in September 1971, but fortunately, it returned for good in January 1976. On May 7, 2016, the program was revamped as CBS Weekend News....
Miss World (1959 - Current) - Every year since 1959, the Miss World Psgeant was televised around the world. The pageant was first live on television in 1959 in the U.K. by BBC, and would aired through 1979. UK's ITV aired the pageant from 1980 to 1988, and again in 1990. The pageant has been aired live on the U.S. cable netwo...
The Voice (2010 - Current) - The Voice is an international reality television singing competition franchise. It is based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland.
Lou Dobbs Tonight (1980 - Current) - This is an American editorial commentary and discussion news program, with host/anchor Lou Dobbs. The program began with the name Moneyline with the debut of CNN in early June 1980. In Spring 1999, Dobbs left the program and CNN, and he was replaced by Willow Bay and Stuart Varney. In 2001, Dobbs...
Potemayo (2007 - Current) - A 12-episode anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired between July and September 2007 on Tokyo MX.One morning Sunao Moriyama, a male junior high student, finds a small, cute creature in his refrigerator. During breakfast, Sunao looks down at what he is eating, a bun with potato and mayonnaise filling, an...
Miss America Pageant (1954 - Current) - The Miss America pageant is a competition that is held annually, and is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. It was organized in 1921 which was then called "The Inter-City Beauty" contest. In 1940, the title official became "The Miss America Pageant." In 1954, the p...
Pinkalicious & Peterrific (2018 - Current) - Based on a series of books by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann, this PBS Kids animated series follows Pinkalicious and her brother Peter learning about everything with their interests of art and creativity.
Peg + Cat (2013 - Current) - an American/Canadian animated children's television series based on the children's book "The Chicken Problem", which was published in 2012.The series, which features the voice acting of Hayley Faith Negrin and Dwayne Hill, is created by Billy Aronson and Jennifer Oxley and produced by Fred Rogers Pr...
Hikari no Densetsu (1986 - Current) - lit. Legend of Light,the manga series was adapted into a nineteen episode anime series on MBS (Mainichi Broadcasting System) by Tatsunoko Productions studio and directed by Tomomi Mochizuki. is primarily a love story that it is set in the late 80s junior high school atmosphere. The plot revolves aro...
Top Wing (2017 - Current) - a Canadian computer-animated television series created by Matthew Fernandes of Industrial Brothers and produced by Industrial Brothers and 9 Story Media Group. It premiered on Nickelodeonin the United States on November 6, 2017, and debuted on Treehouse in Canada on January 6, 2018.[2] In the UK, th...
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (2012 - Current) - (known as Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood in Canada, either abbreviated to DTN) is an American-Canadian animated children's television series produced by The Fred Rogers Company, 9 Story Media Group, Out of the Blue Enterprises. It debuted on most PBS stations on September 3, 2012. The program, which i...
Miss Universe Pageant (1955 - Current) - Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by the American-based Miss Universe Organization. In 1955, the pageant was seen on American television for the first time. The pageant aired on CBS from 1960 to 2002. NBC aired the pageant from 2003 to 2014. The pageant has been...
Chikkun Takkun (1984 - Current) - a 23-episode anime television series by Studio Pierrot and aired on Fuji Television from April 9, 1984 to September 28, 1984.[1] The series revolves around an alien duck named Chikkun and his advisor Takkun, trying to stop an alien mad scientist from invading Earth.
Sora no Manimani (2009 - Current) - At the Mercy of the Sky) a 12-episode anime adaptation by Studio Comet and directed by Shinji Takamatsu aired in Japan between July and September 2009.i revolves around Saku yagi, a bookworm who moves back to the town he lived in as a child after seven years. He had a childhood friend named Mihoshi...
Baby Princess (2011 - Current) - An original video animation adaptation by Studio Comet was released on July 20, 2011 on Blu-ray as a 3D and 2D edition set with the title Baby Princess 3D Paradise 0 (with special 3D-glasses) and on DVD as a regular 2D edition with the title Baby Princess 2D Paradise 0.When his grandmother and last...
He Is My Master (2005 - Current) - a television anime series in the harem genre[1] with a lolicon aspect.[2] The manga is authored by two individuals: Mattsu () who does the story and his ex-wife Asu Tsubaki () who does the artwork. Because of their acrimonious split, the manga will probably be drawn by someone else soon.Seven...
Super Sonico (2014 - Current) - a fictional female character created by Tsuji Santa for the Japanese computer and video game software company Nitroplus, first appearing as a mascot for a Nitroplus-sponsored music festival in 2006. Nitroplus has since developed the character into a media franchise that includes music products, mang...
Tears to Tiara (2009 - Current) - An anime adaptation aired based also on the PlayStation 3 port. The anime is directed by Tomoki Kobayashi and its series composition done by Tko Machida. The animation is done by White Fox and T3Works is the series' production committee.[15]
Mon Colle Knights (2000) (2000 - Current) - anime and manga series. The original concept was made by Hitoshi Yasuda and Group SNE. The series is based on the Monster Collection trading card game.The Japanese version aired on TV Tokyo, consisting of 51 episodes and one movie. The Saban-produced Mon Colle Knights aired on Fox Kids in North Amer...
Hanamaru Kindergarten (2010 - Current) - an anime television series produced by Gainax and broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo.Anzu goes to a kindergarten with her friends, the shy Koume and the eccentric Hiiragi. Together they try to attract attention from their caretaker Tsuchida Naozumi. However, he is clearly more interested in the pretty Y...
Amby & Dexter (1997 - Current) - a small series of animated interstitials on Nick Jr. in 1997, created by Paul Fierlinger and his wife Sandra Schuette,created by Paul Fierlinger and his wife Sandra Schuette, and composed by John Avarese. The title is a play on the word "ambidexterity", meaning "the ability to use both hands", as th...
Medaka Box (2012 - Current) - an anime television series that aired between April 5 and June 21, 2012. A second season aired between October 11 and December 27, 2012.The plot follows Medaka Kurokami, a charismatic and attractive first-year Hakoniwa Academy student who is elected Student Council President with 98% of the vote. Sh...
JellyTelly (2008 - Current) - an online subscription-based streaming media provider created by Phil Vischer (the co-creator of VeggieTales). It specializes in Christian programming for children. Subscribers have access to 1,540 episodes from 111 shows. Video is made available through applications for smartphones, tablets, and po...
Monkey Turn (2004 - Current) - two anime series, Monkey Turn and Monkey Turn V, which were both produced by Oriental Light and Magic and aired on TV Tokyo throughout 2004.The series follows Kenji Hatano, a young man who sets out to master conquer the world of kytei (hydroplane racing). Over the course of the series he develops a...
The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978 - Current) - an American television comedy-variety show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired for five consecutive weeks on NBC from April 13 to May 11, 1978.The show was hosted by two life-size female puppets named Honey and Sis: Honey (voiced by Udana Power) is a 19-year-old willowy tall blond who...
Street Fighter II V (1995 - Current) - an anime series produced by Group TAC based on the fighting game Street Fighter II. Directed by Gisaburo Sugii (who also directed the earlier Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie), the series first aired in Japan in 1995, from April 10 to November 27, on YTV. An English adaptation of the series was...
.hack//Roots (2006 - Current) - a 26-episode anime series, animated by studio Bee Train, that sets as a prologue for the .hack//G.U. video games. It is the first .hack TV series broadcast in HDTV (1080i). It is set seven years after the events of the first two anime series and games. .hack//Roots revolves around an MMORPG game cal...
Apple & Onion (2018 - Current) - an American animated television series created for Cartoon Network. The series was created by George Gendi, a former storyboard artist on The Amazing World of Gumball and Sanjay and Craig, who also serves as executive producer.endi first pitched the idea of the series to Cartoon Network Development...
Disgaea (2006 - Current) - an anime series based on the video game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. Makai Senki Disgaea follows the same general plot as the game, but with several alterations to character roles and the chronology of events. The anime was licensed by Geneon Entertainment before closing their doors in 2007. On Septem...
Academy Awards (1953 - Current) - The Academy Awards, also known as The Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy Awards ceremony televised for the first in 1953 on NBC up until 1960. Then in 1961, ABC took ov...
King Arthur: Prince on White Horse (1980 - Current) - known in Japan as Moero Arthur Hakuba no ji ( Moero s Hakuba no ji, lit. Burn, Arthur: The Prince of the White Horse), is a Japanese anime series based on the Arthurian legend. It is a sequel to the earlier series King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, reworked in a futuris...
Live from Lincoln Center (1976 - Current) - Live From Lincoln Center is a seventeen-time Emmy Award-winning series that has broadcast notable Lincoln Center performances on PBS since 1976.
WCVB-TV Newscasts (1972 - Current) - WCVB-TV in Boston presently broadcasts 41 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Clean Freak! Aoyama kun (2017 - Current) - Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun), also known as Cleanliness Boy! Aoyama-kun, An anime television series adaptation by Studio Hibari aired from July 2 to September 17, 2017.A first-year student, Aoyama, is a genius soccer player who is also obsessed with cleanliness. Characters Edit
We Without Wings (2011 - Current) - An anime adaptation by the studio Nomad started airing on April 4, 2011. Edit
Kyran Kazoku Nikki (2008 - Current) - The Diary of a Crazed Family) is a light novel series by Akira (), with illustrations by x6suke. A 26-episode anime adaptation was broadcast in 2008.A thousand years ago, Enka (), the god of destruction, died saying that its "child" would destroy the world. In order to prevent this, the Great J...
Hime-sama Goyjin (2006 - Current) - Princess Be Careful ( Hime-sama Goyjin) is a 12 episode anime series, produced by Nomad,that aired on WOWOW from April 12, 2006 to July 19, 2006. It has been aired by the anime television network Animax across its networks worldwide, including its English language premiere in Southeast Asia, s...
Soundstage (1974 - Current) - Soundstage is an American live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and HD Ready. The original series aired for 13 seasons between 1974 and 1985. A new series of seasons began in 2003, with the latest (Season 11) starting in April 2018, each presented in high definition with surround s...
Tony Brown's Journal (1978 - Current) - Television talk show series featuring interviews with contemporary newsmakers of special interest to the African American community.
Judo Boy (1969 - Current) - Kurenai Sanshiro, "Scarlet Sanshiro") is a Japanese anime television series created by Tatsuo Yoshida and directed by Ippei Kuri.The series aired on Fuji TV from April 2, 1969 to September 24, 1969, totaling 26 episodes.The series stars a teenage martial artist named Sanshiro (voiced by Ikuo Nishika...
Vampirina (2017 - Current) - a computer-animated Halloween fantasy musical children's television series that premiered on Disney Junior on October 1, 2017. The show is based on the Vampirina Ballerina series of books written by Anne Marie Pace and illustrated by LeUyen Pham, published by Disney-Hyperion. Disney Junior announced...
S A: Special A (2008 - Current) - animated by Gonzo and AIC;[2] the animated series ran for 24 episodes from April 6, 2008 to September 14, 2008 in Japan.[citation needed]
KDVR-TV Newscasts (2000 - Current) - KDVR-TV in Denver presently broadcasts 47 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WPIX-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WPIX-TV in New York presently broadcasts 39 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Breeders' Cup (1984 - Current) - The Breeders' Cup is an annual series of Grade 1 Thoroughbred Horse Races in America, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company was formed in 1982.
The Kentucky Derby (1952 - Current) - The great American tradition, held at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky every year on the first Saturday in May since 1875. NBC showed it on TV for the first time in 1949 but the event was nationally televised for the first time in 1952.
New York Yankees Baseball on YES (2002 - Current) - The New York Yankees Baseball has been broadcasting each season on YES Network, since the New York Area's regional sports network was launched in 2002.
WAFB-TV Newscasts (1953 - Current) - WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge has been doing its news department since the beginning.
New York Mets Baseball on WPIX-TV (1999 - Current) - In 1999, WPIX-TV Channel 11, acquired rights to broadcast New York Mets Baseball games.
Green Screen Adventures (2009 - Current) - a children's television series which premiered in 2007. The series was originally produced for local broadcast on WCIU-TV (Channel 26) in Chicago, which is the flagship station of Weigel Broadcasting, and is designed to fit the FCC's educational and information programming requirements while also be...
New York Mets Baseball on SNY (2006 - Current) - New York Mets Baseball games has been broadcasting at lesst 120 games each season on SNY, since the New York Area's regional sports network was launched in 2006.
Somali and the Forest Spirit (2019 - Current) - ( Somari to Mori no Kamisama) is a Japanese fantasy manga series by Yako Gureishi. It has been serialized online since April 2015 via Tokuma Shoten's online manga magazine Web Comic Zenyon. It has been collected in five tankbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Satelight is...
KSL-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - KSL-TV in Salt Lake City presently broadcasts 25 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Just Mary (1960 - Current) - a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television in 1960.Mary Grannan narrated stories based on her Just Mary books in this Toronto-produced series while puppets and human actors performed the storylines. Actors seen in the series included Barbara Hamilton and Toby Tarnow, while...
Milkshake! (1997) (1997 - Current) - a British preschool television programming block on Channel 5, aimed at children two to seven years old. The block debuted in 1997 and is broadcast on weekdays from 06:00 to 09:15 and weekends from 06:00 to 10:00. The block has a number of presenters, and features a range of children's programming....
Live Hot Puppet Chat (2005 - Current) - an adult-themed puppet show, originally broadcast on a university television station (SRTV) in the Fall of 2005 at the University of California, San Diego, with a series of shows jokingly titled "Season 2" (never having really had a first season). The six episodes were written and performed by Trist...
Kidding (2018 - Current) - an American comedy-drama television series created by Dave Holstein that premiered on September 9, 2018, on Showtime. The series stars Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer, Cole Allen, Juliet Morris, and Catherine Keener and marks the second collaboration between director and executive producer Mi...
Macross Delta (2016 - Current) - ( Makurosu Deruta, lit. "Macross Delta") is a science fiction anime television series that aired on Tokyo MX in Japan from April 3, 2016 to September 25, 2016.[3] The fourth television series set in the Macross universe, it is directed by Kenji Yasuda (Arata: The Legend, Noein) and written by T...
Aquarion Evol (2012 - Current) - (EVOL Akuerion Evoru) is the sequel to the 2005 anime series Genesis of Aquarion. It was originally announced on February 25, 2011, by the production staff.[2] It aired on TV Tokyo from January to June, 2012 and its premiere featured an hour-long special that combined the first two episodes in...
101 Dalmatian Street (2019 - Current) - 101 Dalmatian Street centers around a large family of 99 dalmatian puppies whose names begin with the letter "D", and their parents, Doug and Delilah, the latter of whom is a descendant of Pongo and Perdita.
Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari (2018 - Current) - (Butlers, "Butlers: A Millennium Century Story") is a Japanese anime television series produced by Silver Link. The series aired from April 12 to June 28, 2018. A manga adaptation began serialization on the Comic Newtype website in January 2018.The anime series is directed by Ken Takahashi a...
Battle Girl High School (2017 - Current) - ( Batorugru Haisukru) is a Japanese social network game released by COLOPL. An anime adaptation was green-lit,[1] to celebrate the one year anniversary of the game.[2] The anime adaptation, which was later revealed to be a television series, aired in Japan from July 2[3][4] to Septemb...
Magic of Stella (2016 - Current) - Sutera no Mah) is a Japanese 4-panel manga series by cloba.U, serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Max since the October 2012 issue.[2] It has been collected in six tankbon volumes as of January 2018. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link aired in Japan...
Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (2016 - Current) - an ongoing Japanese slice of life comedy shnen web manga series written and illustrated by Nozomi Uda. It's published by Square Enix, with serialization on Gangan Online website and with twelve volumes released, as of March 2019. An anime adaptation by Silver Link aired from April 9 to June 25, 201...
Noir(anime) (2001 - Current) - a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2001 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kichi Mashimo directed Noir; it was written by Ryoe Tsukimura, and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura. The DVD version was released by ADV Films in North America and the United Kingdom and by...
Yurikuma Arashi (2015 - Current) - lit. "Lily Bear Storm"[2][3]) is a Japanese yuri anime television series produced by Silver Link and directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The series was first announced via a website in August 2012, where it was referred to as the "Kunihiko Ikuhara/Penguinbear Project." The series first aired in Japan betw...
Masha and the Bear (2009 - Current) - (Russian: , translit. Masha i Medved; Russian pronunciation: [ma i mdvet]) is a Russian animated television series created by Oleg Kuzovkov and produced by Animaccord Animation Studio (Moscow, the Russian Federation), loosely based on the oral children's folk story of the same...
Okami-san and Her Seven Companions (2010 - Current) - a collection of Japanese light novels by Masashi Okita, with illustrations by Unaji. The series started with the release of the first volume in August 2006 titled Okami-san & her Seven Companions ( kami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi), and as of January 2011, 12 volumes have been pu...
WJLA-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. presently broadcasts a total of 34 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
The Betrayal Knows My Name (2010 - Current) - a Japanese Shounen-ai and shjo manga written and illustrated by Odagiri Hotaru. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's shjo magazine Monthly Asuka in October 2005. An anime adaptation began in April 2010 on Chiba TV.Sakurai Yuki is a teenager with a mysterious power. He was abandoned at birth near...
Chivalry of a Failed Knight (2015 - Current) - Rakudai Kishi no Kyabarurii, lit. The Heroic Tales of the Failure Knight) is a Japanese light novel series written by Riku Misora and illustrated by Won. The story is set in a fantasy world where the titular failed knight Ikki Kurogane meets Stella Vermillion who is considered a genius. The two make...
Shugo Chara! Party! (New) (2009 - 2010) - The new program, Shugo Chara Party! containing Shugo Chara!!! Dokki Doki and Shugo Chara Pucchi Puchi! follow the current anime series as its power-up. The last episode aired on March 26, 2010.produced by satelight
NCAA College Basketball on CBS (1981 - Current) - NCAA College Basketball on CBS (usually referred to on-air as the Road to the Final Four) is the branding used for broadcasts of men's NCAA Division I basketball games that are produced by CBS Sports.
El Cazador de la Bruja (2007 - Current) - (Japanese: Eru Kazado, Spanish for The Hunter of the Witch), is an anime television series directed by Kichi Mashimo and animated by Bee Train studio.[4] It is a spiritual successor of Noir and Madlax and the final installment of Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" trilogy.[5] The series was aired...
Heroic Age (2007 - Current) - a Japanese science fiction mecha space opera[1] anime directed by Toshimasa Suzuki and Takashi Noto. It was produced by Xebec and aired on Japanese television networks. The series first aired on April 1, 2007 and ended on September 30, 2007, with 26 episodes.The story's theme is based on stories in...
House of Five Leaves (2010 - Current) - The manga series was adapted into a twelve-episode anime television series by Manglobe. The anime aired in the noitamina timeslot on FujiTV. The anime has been licensed by Funimation as a part of their deal with Fuji TV that allows them to simulcast series from the noitaminA block. This agreement al...
ABC World News Tonight Weekend (1979 - Current) - The weekend edition of ABC's World News Tonight premiered as "World News Sunday" on January 28, 1979, with Sam Donaldson as anchor. The Saturday Edition (World News Saturday) premiered on January 5, 1985, with Kathleen Sullivan as Anchor. These editions added to the word "Tonight" to the program t...
Gun Sword (2005 - Current) - (Japanese: Hepburn: Gan Sdo, stylized as GUNSWORD), is a Japanese anime television series produced by AIC A.S.T.A. The series is directed by Gor Taniguchi and written by Hideyuki Kurata.The story is set on the "Planet of Endless Illusion", a place where rogues of all sorts gather. The pr...
Fox & Friends First (2012 - Current) - Fox & Friends First is an early weekday morning news program on Fox News Channel.
WSYR-TV Newscasts (1962 - Current) - The news on WSYR-TV Channel 9 has been providing news, weather, traffic and sports all over Syracuse and the rest of Central New York, since the station's first sign-on the air on September 9, 1962.
Alice & Zoroku (2017 - Current) - a Japanese manga series by Tetsuya Imai. It began serialization from December 2012 in Tokuma Shoten's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Ry. It has been collected in seven tankbon volumes. The manga won the Japan Media Arts Festival's New Face Award in 2013. An anime television series adaptation...
Dude, That's My Ghost! (2013 - Current) - a 2013 French/British animated television series produced by French production company Gaumont Animation that airs in English on Disney XD in the United Kingdom and BBC Kids in Canada.[1] The series was created and designed by Jan Van Rijsselberge, creator of X-DuckX and Robotboy. Dude, That's My Gh...
Vividred Operation (2013 - Current) - ( Bibiddoreddo Opershon, also written as Vivid Red Operation) is a Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Kazuhiro Takamura. The series aired in Japan between January and March 2013 and is licensed in North America by Aniplex of America. Two manga a...
Tsuritama (2012 - Current) - () "fishing ball", sometimes written as tsuritama, is a Japanese anime television series that aired between 13 April 2012 and 28 June 2012. The anime was licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America, by MVM Films in the United Kingdom, and Hanabee in Australia and New Zealand.[2]Yuki Sanada is a...
Togainu no Chi (2010 - Current) - (, lit. "Blood of the Reprimanded Dog") is a Japanese BL visual novel created by Nitro+CHiRAL. The plot centers on Akira, a young man who is made to participate in a deadly game called "Igura" (from ""/ "igra", Russian for "game") in post-apocalyptic Japan in exchange for being freed from pr...
Sound of the Sky (2010 - Current) - ( So Ra No Wo To) is a Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures and Aniplex and directed by Mamoru Kanbe. The 12-episode anime aired in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network between January 4, 2010 and March 22, 2010. The anime was also simulcast on Crunchyroll. Sound of...
Persona: Trinity Soul (2008 - Current) - a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of the PlayStation 2 game Persona 3, taking place ten years after the game's events.[1]Produced by Aniplex and animated by its subsidiary A-1 Pictures, the series aired in Japan on Tokyo MX from January 5 to June 28, 2008. It also features music b...
Klonoa lunatea:the animation (2019 - Current) - Anime base on the ps2 game by bandai,produced by satelight, I had portrayed the moment when Lolo was desperately clinging to Klonoa and hoping that he won't go... ;__; I still remember that moment when Lolo was so strong and confident to have Klonoa leaving them because his job was done in Lunatea,...
Seiyu's Life! (2015 - Current) - (Japanese: ! Hepburn: Sore ga Seiy!, lit. That is a Voice Actor!) is a comedy 4-panel djin manga series. The manga is written by the voice actress Masumi Asano, with art by Kenjiro Hata, and is released under the circle name Hajimemashite. The manga was launched at Comiket 81 in December 2011...
Akiba's Trip: The Animation (2017 - Current) - an anime adaptation of the Akiba's Trip video game series. It was animated by Gonzo and aired from January 4, 2017 to March 29, 2017.The series revolves around otaku teenager Tamotsu Denkigai and his sister Niwaka who are presently shopping in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. Suddenly, without warning, vamp...
Blade & Soul (2014 - Current) - a Korean fantasy martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NCSOFT (Team Bloodlust). On September 13, 2012, NCSOFT announced that Blade & Soul would release in Western territories, which eventually happened on January 19, 2016.[1] A Japanese animated television adaptati...
Shangri-La (2009 - Current) - (Japanese: Hepburn: Shanguri Ra) is a Japanese science fiction light novel, written by Eiichi Ikegami and illustrated by Ken'ichi Yoshida. The novel was initially serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine between April 2004 and May 2005. The chapters were collected into a single bound...
Leviathan: The Last Defense (2013 - Current) - ( Zettai Bei Reviatan, lit. "Absolute Defense Leviathan") is a Japanese mobile game by GREE. The plot features anthropomorphized dragons as characters. It is a freemium game, as the base game is free of charge but game add-ons can be downloaded for various prices.[2][4] The game was annou...
Blassreiter (2008 - Current) - a 2008 Japanese anime from the animation studio Gonzo and the multimedia studio Nitro+. The title is pseudo-German and can be translated as "Pale Rider".[1] A manga titled Blassreiter -genetic- is serialized in Champion Red magazine.Along with The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk, and later Strike...
Onigiri (2016 - Current) - , lit. Demon Cutter) is an action massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by CyberStep. It is set in a fantasy land reminiscent of ancient Japan in which humans and non-humans such as Oni and other Ykai coexist. The game was originally released in Japan on February 6, 2014[1] and in...
News 12 Brooklyn (2005 - Current) - News 12 Brooklyn is a 24-hour local regional news channel that delivers news, weather, traffic and sports in the New York City borough: Brooklyn.
KSDK-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - KSDK in St. Louis presents broadcasts 32 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Kaze no Stigma (2007 - Current) - lit. "Stigma of the Wind") is a Japanese light novel series written by Takahiro Yamato and illustrated by Hanamaru Nanto. After the death of the author on July 20, 2009, the story remains incomplete at twelve volumes.[1] A 24-episode anime adaptation directed by Junichi Sakata and animated by Gonzo...
The Morning Show (Global News: National Edition) (2011 - Current) - This Canadian national weekday morning show provides half-hour smart conversations, lifestyle segments and big-name guests.
Gift: Eternal Rainbow (2006 - Current) - The game premiered as the second best-selling PC game sold in Japan for the time of its release, and charted in the national top 50 three more times afterwards. A set of five drama CDs, one for each heroine, was released by Lantis between September 2005 and February 2006. There have been six light n...
Sly Cooper (2019 - Current) - A television series alongside Technicolor Animation Productions.[65] The series will consist of 52 11-minute episodes, with half scheduled to premier in October 2019, and the remaining in July 2020, though the broadcast network has yet to be determined.The world of Sly Cooper is a version of the rea...
Warren the Ape (2010 - Current) - an MTV reality show parody which ran from June 14 to August 30, 2010 and aired at 10:30 p.m. The series is a spin-off of the IFC and Fox TV show Greg the Bunny, and follows the titular character's life as he tries to get his life back together following the cancellation of Greg the Bunny.Warren has...
Milo Murphy's Law (2017 - Current) - Milo Murphy's Law is a Disney Show.
Romeo Juliet (2007 - Current) - an anime television series, loosely based on William Shakespeare's classical play, Romeo and Juliet, along with numerous references and characters from other Shakespearean plays. Though the anime borrows mostly from Shakespeare's story, the manga adaptation differs extensively from the original. Rom...
Master of Epic (2007 - Current) - a free Japanese MMORPG. It has not been released outside of Japan. It was adapted into an anime (Master of Epic: The Animation Age) by Gonzo and Palm Studio, and aired on TV Tokyo in 2007. Unlike many MMORPGs, Master of Epic has dispensed with levels and instead the player has an extensive list of s...
Welcome to the N.H.K. (2006 - Current) - a Japanese novel written by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, with a cover illustration by Yoshitoshi ABe, and was published by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan on January 28, 2002. The novel was first published in English by Tokyopop on October 9, 2007. The story revolves around a 22-year-old asocial individual who gets...
WSMV-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - WSMV-TV in Nashville broadcasts 40 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Gate Keepers (2000) (2000 - Current) - ( Gto Kpzu) is primarily a role-playing video game for the PlayStation. The game was then adapted into a manga series written by Hiroshi Yamaguchi and drawn by Keiji Gotoh and an anime series produced by Gonzo, and first aired on April 3, 2000. A six episode original video animation (OVA)...
PriPri Chi-chan!! (2017 - Current) - a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Shinozuka. The series began publication in Shogakukan's Ciao manga magazine in April 2015. An anime television series by OLM, Inc. started airing in Japan from April to December 2017.On August 31, 2018, it was announced that PriPri Chi-chan!!...
100% Pascal-sensei (2017 - Current) - (Japanese: 100
Cardfight!! Vanguard (2011 - 2019) - a Japanese multimedia franchise created in collaboration among Akira It (Yu-Gi-Oh! R), Satoshi Nakamura (Duel Masters), and Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani. It currently consists of multiple anime television series, an official trading card game, a manga series, and a anime/live action film.In J...
WJW-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - WJW-TV in Cleveland presently broadcasts 68 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Kira Kira Happy Hirake! Cocotama (2018 - Current) - a fantasy slice-of-life anime series produced by OLM, Inc., based on both the series of toys and Media Franchise created by Bandai Namco Holdings. The series was directed by Norio Nitta and written by Michihiro Tsuchiya (Mirmo De Pon!, PriPara, Cross Game) with character designs by Shinobu Ookawa. T...
Seven of Seven (2002 - Current) - an anime TV series created by Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo, G Gundam) and produced by A.C.G.T.,The TV series premiered January 10, 2002 on TV Tokyo and finished in run on June 27, 2002, totaling 25 episodes. A New Year's special episode was included in the seventh DVD volume (KIBA-745) released on O...
Girly Air Force (2019 - Current) - an anime television series adaptation by Satelight premiered in January 2019,Earth has come under attack by the Zai, a mysterious "armed group" using unusually highly advanced weapon systems far superior to any Terran military technology. A young Chinese-Japanese teenager named Kei Narutani and his...
Scared Rider Xechs (2016 - Current) - a Japanese otome game published by Red Entertainment. It was released in Japan on July 1, 2010 for the PlayStation 2. A fan disc titled Scared Rider Xechs: Stardust Lovers was released in 2011. The game was ported to the PlayStation Vita in 2015. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Sa...
Bodacious Space Pirates (2012 - Current) - Minisuka Pairtsu) is a Japanese light novel series about space pirates written by Yichi Sasamoto and published by Asahi Shimbun Shuppan since October 2008. An anime television series adaptation produced by Satelight, under the title Bodacious Space Pirates ( Mretsu Pairtsu, "Fierce...
Hacker's Olympic Rundown (2016 - Current) - a British comedy-sports miniseries which aired on CBBC during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Presented by Hacker T. Dog, each episode featured a rundown of the previous day's events with a humorous twist on them. Characters from Hacker Time, Wilf Breadbin and Derek McGee appeared as Hac...
Earth Maiden Arjuna (2001 - Current) - a Japanese animated television series created by Shoji Kawamori. The series follows Juna Ariyoshi, a high school girl chosen to be the "Avatar of Time" and entrusted with saving the dying Earth.Arjuna" refers to the legendary archer Arjuna from the Hindu epic Mahbhrata, which explains why Juna's w...
Sketchbook (2007 - Current) - a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Totan Kobako. First serialized in the April 2002 issue of Comic Blade, the individual chapters are collected and published by Mag Garden. Chapters have also appeared in Comic Blade Masamune. An anime adaptation, under the title Sketchbook ~full colo...
The Good Witch of the West (2006 - Current) - a series of fantasy novels by Noriko Ogiwara, published by Chuokoron-Shinsha. The series has been adapted into both a manga series and a thirteen episode anime television series subtitled Astraea Testament broadcast in Japan in 2006. The story revolves around a fifteen-year-old commoner who discover...
Strange Dawn (2000 - Current) - a 13-episode anime television series created by Hal Film Maker for Pioneer LDC (now Geneon) in 2000. The series follows the adventures of Eri and Yuko after they are transported to a strange world where all the people are very short.The series aired on Britain's Channel 5 during their Saturday morni...
Engage Planet Kiss Dum (2007 - Current) - a mecha anime series, directed by Yasuchika Nagaoka and Eiichi Sat, and produced by Aniplex and Satelight. It premiered in Japan from April 3, 2007 on TV Tokyo. Bandai Visual USA originally held the license, but was never released before they shutdown. Maiden Japan have rescued the license and plan...
Boys Be... (2000 - Current) - a manga series written by Masahiro Itabashi and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi. It was later adapted into a 13 episode anime television series by Hal Film Maker in 2000.Three different Boys Be... manga series were serialized by Kodansha in Shukan Shnen Magazine. In 2009 Kodansha announced a four...
Kurau Phantom Memory (2004 - Current) - (Japanese: Hepburn: Kurau Fantomu Memor) is a 2004 science fiction anime series, produced by Bones and Media Factory, which was broadcast in Japan by the anime television networks Animax and TV Asahi. Set primarily in the year 2110, it explores themes such as inter-familial relationsh...
Scrapped Princess (2003 - Current) - a Japanese light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki and illustrated by Yukinobu Azumi, also known as the popular adult djin artist Nakayohi Mogudan. In 2003, it was adapted into an anime series produced by Bones. The character designs in the anime are by Takahiro Komori, who is also known for the design...
News 12 New Jersey (1996 - Current) - Since 1996, News 12 New Jersey has covered news, weather, traffic and sports all over the state of New Jersey.
Summer Camp Island (2018 - Current) - an American animated television series created for Cartoon Network by Julia Pott, former animator and story/staff writer on Adventure Time, as well as creator of the MTV Liquid Television Online short Valentine's Day Card. It was first announced in January 2017 and later had been shopped around at d...
Fox NFL Sunday (1994) (1994 - Current) - This American sports television pregame show debut on September 4, 1994 which was the establishment of Fox Sports. Originally, it was hosted by Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson, but recently new analysts have been added, including Bonnie Bernstein, Gayle Gardner and Erin An...
MTV Video Music Awards (1984 - Current) - An MTV Video Music Award (commonly abbreviated as a VMA) is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called t...
News 12 Connecticut (1982 - Current) - Since 1982, News 12 Connecticut has covered news, weather, traffic, and sports all over Western Connecticut.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014 - Current) - an American reality television game show on the Syfy cable network. It premiered on March 25, 2014. The first season ended on May 13, 2014.Despite the high premiere ratings, the show only ran for one season.A group of Creature Designers compete against each other to create puppets and animatronics s...
Mama wa Shgaku 4 Nensei (1992 - Current) - (lit. "Mama is a 4th Grader) a Japanese shjo anime by Sunrise. The 51-episode series was first aired from January 10, 1992 through December 25, 1992.In the year 2007 a woman is preparing for a party, while her husband is tinkering with a communication device for their new baby. A sudden lightning b...
La Seine no Hoshi (1975 - Current) - an anime series by Sunrise, which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV from April 4, 1975 and finished its run on December 26, 1975, spanning a total of 39 episodes. The title translates to English as "Star of the Seine" or "The Seine's Stars." It is based on Alain Delon's 1963 movie La Tulipe noire (which...
Library War (2008 - Current) - Two manga adaptations were published by Hakusensha and ASCII Media Works. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Production I.G aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between April and June 2008. Two Internet radio shows started in April 2008 meant to promote the series which are hosted by voice a...
NBC News Live Coverage (1940 - Current) - Since 1940, NBC News had provided live coverages in breaking news stories in the U.S. and around the world.
Jinki: Extend (2005 - Current) - a 13-episode mecha anime series that aired on TV Asahi in 2005 as well as a currently running manga series. It takes place in two parts, in Venezuela during 1988 (Jinki), and in Tokyo, Japan in 1991 (Jinki: Extend.) The story revolves around two girls who end up piloting giant humanoid robots called...
Young Sheldon (2017 - Current) - (stylized as young Sheldon) is an American comedy television series on CBS created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro. The series is a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory and begins with the character Sheldon Cooper at the age of nine, living with his family in East Texas and going to high school....
Microsuperman (1973 - Current) - a manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka, published in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shnen Champion from March 1973 to September 1973. It was later adapted into an anime series by Toei.The anime adaption of the Tezuka's manga Microid Z (Z Mikuroido Zetto), changed the letter "Z" with an...
Gin'iro no Olynssis (2006 - Current) - a Japanese light novel created by Hitomi Amamiya, with illustrations by Hisashi Hirai. It was first serialized in the seinen magazine Dengeki Maoh in November 2006. An anime adaptation directed by Katsumi Tokoro and produced by Toei Animation aired in Japan from October 5, 2006 to December 21, 2006....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999 - Current) - The 1st spin-off from the legal drama series: 'Law & Order', about the NYPD detective squad known as the Special Victims Unit.
WGN-TV News (1948 - Current) - WGN-TV presently broadcasts 70 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week. News has played an important role on WGN-TV in Chicago since the station's beginnings.
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (2018 - Current) - a Japanese shjo manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. It is a sequel to Clamp's manga Cardcaptor Sakura and focuses on Sakura Kinomoto in junior high school. The manga began serialization in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine with the July 2016 issue. A 22-episode anime televisi...
Pinky malinky (2019 - Current) - a British/American animated web television series created by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern for Nickelodeon and Netflix, based on Garbutt's animated short of the same name produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe, which was released in 2009. It marks the very first collaboration between Nickelod...
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (1988 - Current) - The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (also known as the KCAs or Kids' Choice) is an annual American children's awards ceremony show that is produced by Nickelodeon. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show honors the year's biggest television, movie, and music acts as v...
KNSD-TV Newscasts (1973 - Current) - KNSD-TV in San Diego presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Aesop World (1999 - Current) - an anime series by Sunrise Animation that aired on TV Tokyo.The series' characters include Pico, Tocho, and Fufu, three animals who aim to recover the mystical scales of a fish, Aesop - that way Aesop will be able to fly again.Three kids living in the Watermill Village were planning a picnic in the...
Wild Knights Gulkeeva (1995 - Current) - Juusenshi Gulkeeva ( Juu Senshi Garukiba), known as Wild Knights Gulkeeva and Beast Warriors Gulkeeva, is an anime television series that debuted in 1995. It is an animated adaptation of a manga that initially was serialized in the Shnen Sunday Super.The story takes place in a world known a...
Abby Hatcher (2018 - Current) - Canadian-American CGI-animated television series created by Rob Hoegee. Produced by Guru Studio in conjunction with Spin Master Entertainment for Nickelodeon, the series was scheduled to premiere on January 1, 2019,[1] before slightly being pushed to December 31, 2018.The series follows an intellige...
Haikyu!! (2014 - Current) - !! Haiky!!, from the kanji "volleyball") is a Japanese shnen manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. Individual chapters have been serialized in Weekly Shnen Jump since February 2012, with bound volumes published by Shueisha. The series was initially published as a one-...
Butterbeans Cafe (2018 - Current) - an animated preschool fantasy television series created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull, the creators of Bubble Guppies,[1] ordered by Nickelodeon. The series follows Butterbean, a fairy who runs a neighborhood caf with her friends. The series involves "creative cooking, a farm-to-table philosophy,...
Violet Evergarden (2018 - Current) - a Japanese light novel series written by Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Akiko Takase. It won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award's novel category in 2014, the first ever work to win a grand prize in any of the three categories (novel, scenario, and manga).[2] Kyoto Animation publish...
Taboo Tattoo (2016 - Current) - a Japanese action seinen manga series written and illustrated by Shinjir.[3] It was serialized by Media Factory in its Monthly Comic Alive magazine between November 2009 and June 2017.[4] The series was compiled into thirteen volumes between 2010 and 2017. The series is published in French by Bambo...
Witchcraft Works (2014 - Current) - a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ry Mizunagi. The plot revolves around Honoka Takamiya, an average student who somehow becomes infatuated with and protected by the most popular girl in school, Ayaka Kagari. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired in Japan from Jan...
Kill Me Baby (2012 - Current) - a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kaduho which began serialization in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat from July 2008. It follows the school lives of a high school girl Yasuna Oribe, along with her friends Sonya, a female assassin, and Agiri Goshiki, a female ninja. An...
Dream Eater Merry (2011 - Current) - a Japanese action fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Ushiki Yoshitaka. The series is serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by J.C.Staff which aired in Japan between January 7, 2011 and April 8, 20...
Living for the Day After Tomorrow (2006 - Current) - a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by J-ta Yamada. The manga was serialized in Mag Garden's magazine Comic Blade Masamune between March 3, 2005 and June 15, 2007; five bound volumes were released in Japan. The manga was adapted into an anime series produced by J.C.Staff, which aired in...
Magic-kyun! Renaissance (2016 - Current) - a Japanese media mix franchise by Sunrise, Pony Canyon, and Broccoli. A PlayStation Vita game was released on September 21, 2016, a manga series began serialization in the November 2016 issue of Sylph, which began serialization on September 22, 2016, and an anime television series produced by Sunris...
Gundam Build Divers (2018 - Current) - a Japanese science fiction anime television series produced by Sunrise, and a spiritual successor to the 2013 anime Gundam Build Fighters, based on the long-running Gundam franchise. It is directed by Shinya Watada (Gundam Build Fighters Try) and written by Noboru Kimura (SoltyRei, Dragonar Academy)...
SD Gundam World Sangoku Soketsuden (2019 - Current) - an upcoming Japanese media project by Sunrise and Bandai Spirits and a reboot of the BB Senshi Sangokuden franchise, based on the long-running Gundam media franchise.[1] Created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Gundam,[2] it is also loosely based on the Chinese historical novel Romance of the Th...
Double Decker! Doug & Kirill (2018 - Current) - a Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. The series premiered from September 30 to December 23, 2018.[1] The production team features some of the staff who worked on the Tiger & Bunny series.[In the city-state Lisvaletta, while people go about their tranquil everyday lives, crimes and...
KDKA-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week
WTVF-TV Newscasts (1954 - Current) - WTVF broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Nella the Princess Knight (2017 - Current) - a British-American animated children's television series created by Christine Ricci. The series debuted on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. in the United States on February 6, 2017.[2] As of February 2018, newer episodes will move to the Nick Jr. channel.Nella the Princess Knight is about Princess Nella, a...
KCRA-TV Newscasts (1955 - Current) - KCRA-TV in Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto presently broadcasts 42 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Yuri on ice (2016 - Current) - a Japanese sports anime television series about figure skating. The series was produced by MAPPA, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and written by Mitsur Kubo. Character design was by Tadashi Hiramatsu, and its music was composed by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba. The figure skating was choreographed...
Vinland Saga (2019 - Current) - (Japanese: Hepburn: Vinrando Saga) is a Japanese historical manga series written and drawn by award-winning manga author Makoto Yukimura. The series is published by Kodansha, and was first serialized in the youth-targeted Weekly Shnen Magazine before moving to the monthly manga magazine A...
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (2016 - Current) - ( Ktetsuj no Kabaneri) is an anime series by Wit Studio. The series was directed by Tetsur Araki and written by Ichir kouchi,[5] with music by Hiroyuki Sawano and original character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto. The series premiered on Fuji TV's Noitamina block on April 8, 2016 and ende...
Seraph of the End (2015 - Current) - (also known as Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto with storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. It is published by Shueisha on Jump SQ and in English by Viz Media on Weekly Shonen Jump.The series is set in a wor...
Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity (2009 - Current) - a Japanese visual novel developed by Lump of Sugar. It was first released as an adult game for Windows PCs on July 11, 2008 in both limited and regular editions, and was later followed by an Xbox 360 version. Tayutama is Lump of Sugar's third title after their previous titles Nursery Rhyme and Itsuk...
The Rolling Girls (2015 - Current) - a 2015 Japanese anime television series produced by Wit Studio. The logo of this title contains the text, "Rolling, Falling, Scrambling Girls. For others. For themselves. Even if they're destined to be a 'mob'".Ten years after the end of the "Great Tokyo War" that rocked Japan, most of the country's...
Chronicle (WCVB-TV) (1982 - Current) - Chronicle is the New England television newsmagazine, and it has been on weeknights on the ABC affiliate station WCVB-TV Channel 5 since it's debut on January 25, 1982.
Golf Channel on NBC (1954 - Current) - Golf Channel on NBC (known as PGA Tour on NBC from 1954 to 2011) is the branding used for broadcasts of golf tournaments produced by NBC Sports in conjunction with Golf Channel, on the NBC television network in the United States. The network's coverage focuses mostly on the PGA Tour (NBC shares the...
Chitose Get You!! (2012 - Current) - a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Etsuya Mashima. A 26-episode anime television series by Silver Link aired between July 1, 2012 and December 24, 2012.an elementary school girl who has a crush on Hiroshi after he allegedly rescued her. She is incredibly strong and athletic f...
Jetter Mars (1977 - Current) - an anime series directed by Rintaro and written by Osamu Tezuka. Originally planned by Tezuka as a full-color remake of the original anime adaptation of his popular manga series Astro Boy, unfavorable circumstances during the pre-production phase of the project led him to abandon it temporarily and...
Cleo & Cuquin (2018 - Current) - known in Latin America as Cleo & Cuquin: Familia Telerin, is a Spanish-Mexican preschool animated television series produced by nima Kitchent in cooperation with Televisa. A reboot of the classic Familia Telern series, it debuted in Spain on Clan on January 7, 2018.Cleo and Cuquin follows the misa...
Weekend Today (1987 - Current) - NBC News began to premiere a weekend morning program: Weekend Today (which originally titled Sunday Today) on September 20, 1987.
Kokoro Connect (2012 - Current) - lit., "Hearts Connect") is a Japanese light novel series written by Sadanatsu Anda, with illustrations by Shiromizakana. The series includes 11 volumes published by Enterbrain between January 2010 and March 2013. Two manga adaptations have been published by Enterbrain and Kadokawa Shoten. A 13-episo...
Ao-chan Can't Study! (2019 - Current) - Midara na Ao-chan wa Benky ga Dekinai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ren Kawahara. The series was serialized in Kodansha's Shnen Magazine Edge magazine from October 2015 to December 2018, and was compiled into eight tankbon volumes. The manga is licensed in North America b...
Mitsuboshi Colors (2018 - Current) - Mitsuboshi Karzu, lit. "Three Star Colors") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuwo. The manga has been serialized in ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine since 2014. An anime television series adaptation directed by Tomoyuki Kawamura and produced by Silver...
Armed Girl's Machiavellism (2017 - Current) - a Japanese manga series illustrated by Karuna Kanzaki and written by Yya Kurokami. The series began serialization in Kadokawa's Monthly Shnen Ace magazine in March 2014. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link and Connect aired from April 2017 to June 2017.Fudo Nomura is a young man w...
WABC-TV Newscasts (1959 - Current) - WABC-TV in New York presently broadcasts 43 hours and 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Ange Vierge (2016 - Current) - a Japanese digital collectible card game released by Fujimi Shobo and Media Factory, two brand companies of Kadokawa Corporation. It was first announced in 2013. The franchise theme song is by L.I.N.K.s, a group composed of the voice actresses Yka Aisaka, Mai Ishihara, Yoshiko Ikuta, Rie Takahashi,...
Chaos Dragon (2015 - Current) - (Japanese: Hepburn: Keiosu Doragon) is a Japanese media franchise based on the Japanese role-playing game Red Dragon by Makoto Sanda, featuring characters created by Gen Urobuchi, Kinoko Nasu, Izuki Kogyoku, Simadoriru, and Rygo Narita.An anime television series titled Chaos Dragon: Sekiry...
Girl Friend Beta (2014 - Current) - Gru Furendo Kakko Kari, literally "Girlfriend (provisional)")[FN 1] is a 2012 Japanese smartphone game developed by CyberAgent for iOS and Android devices. As of June 2014, it has over 5.3 million users.[1] An anime television series produced by Silver Link aired in Japan between October and Decemb...
KABC-TV Newscasts (1957 - Current) - KABC-TV in Los Angeles presently broadcasts 51 hours and 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Circlet Princess (2019 - Current) - (Japanese: Hepburn: Skuretto Purinsesu) is a Japanese role-playing browser game developed by DMM Games. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link premiered on January 8, 2019.Many years into the future, advances in technology and virtual reality have changed Japan, leading t...
Gaither's Pond (1997 - 2006) - Gaither's Pond is a Christian computer animated children's series created by Benjy, Bill, and Gloria Gaither and produced by Live Bait Productions. It currently airs on KTV.
WHDH-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WHDH-TV in Boston presently broadcasts 76 & a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
KNBC-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - KNBC-TV in Los Angeles broadcasts 41 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
WFOR-TV Newscasts (1970 - Current) - Since the 1970s, WFOR-TV Channel 4 in Miami has been using its news department.
Vicky the Viking (1974 - Current) - Vicky the Viking, known as About this sound Wickie und die starken Mnner in Germany and Austria and Chiisana Viking Bikke ( ) in Japan, is a German-Austrian-Japanese animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fe...
KXAS-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - KXAS presently broadcasts 36 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WBZ-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WBZ-TV in Boston presently broadcasts 34 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
WMAR-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WMAR-TV in Baltimore presently broadcasts 23 & a half hours of locally produced news each week.
WTMJ-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WTMJ-TV Channel 4, an NBC affiliate station in Milwaukee presently broadcasts 39 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WMAQ-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WMAQ-TV presently broadcasts 41 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week, and in addition, the station also produced the half-hour sports highlight program: Sports Sunday, which airs Sunday evenings after the 10PM newscast.
WBAL-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WBAL-TV in Baltimore presently broadcasts 39 hours of locally produced newscasts; the station also produces a weekly public affairs on Sunday mornings called 11 TV Hill.
Rechov Sumsum (1983 - Current) - An Israeli/Palestinian version of Sesame Street.
The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 - Current) - In a world similar to the European Middle Ages, the feared yet revered Holy Knights of Britannia use immensely powerful magic to protect the region of Britannia and its kingdoms. However, a small subset of the Knights supposedly betrayed their homeland and turned their blades against their comrades...
WCAU-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WCAU-TV in Philadelphia presently broadcasts 43 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week. News has been produced at WCAU-TV from when the station went on the air on in 1948.
The Loud House (2016 - Current) - The Loud House is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around the chaotic everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud, who is the middle child and only son in a large family of 11 children. It is set in a fictional town in southeastern Mic...
Fair City (1989 - Current) - This Irish television soap opera is centre on the domestic and personal lives of the residents of Carrigstown.
Wild Kratts (2010 - Current) - Join the adventures of Chris and Martin Kratt as they encounter incredible wild animals, combining science education with fun and adventure, while traveling to animal habitats around the globe.
A Capitol Fourth (1981 - Current) - A Capitol Fourth is a free annual concert performed on the west lawn of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., in celebration of Independence Day each July 4. Broadcast live on PBS, NPR and the American Forces Network and presented by WETA, the concert is viewed and heard by million...
KPIX-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - KPIX-TV presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (5 hours on weekdays, and 2 and a half hours on weekends).
KCBS-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - KCBS-TV in Los Angeles presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WNYW-TV Newscasts (1944 - Current) - WNYW Channel 5 broadcasts 43 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 8 hours on weekdays, 2 hours on Saturdays, and 1 and a half hours on Sundays).
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1948 - Current) - An American Thanksgiving Day tradition just as big and just as important as the turkey, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been held in Midtown Manhattan every year since 1924 and is America's oldest Thanksgiving Parade. Originally a one-time event to celebrate the heritage of American workers a...
The View (ABC) (1997 - Current) - The longest-running female-oriented talk show that features topics, entertainment and others. Barbara Walters and Whoppi Goldberg were the most-remained panelists on The View for many years.
NCIS (2003 - Current) - This American action police procedural television drama series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps.
The People's Court (1997) (1997 - Current) - On September 8, 1997, the revived version of the series premiered in first-run syndicated as a 60-minute program.
WTXF-TV Newscasts (1986 - Current) - WTXF-TV in Philadelphia presently broadcasts 53 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Believer's Voice Of Victory (1979 - Current) - This religious television progam is produced by Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Hour of Power (1970 - Current) - This American weekly christian television program was founded and first hosted by Robert H. Schuller from 1970 to 2013. His Elder son, Robert A. Schuller hosted the program from 2006 to 2008. Bobby Schuller has been the host since 2013.
Battle of the Network Stars (1976 - Current) - This series has a competition in which the stars of ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, which was originally held from 1976 to 1988 on ABC, with host Howard Cosell. In 2017, ABC revived the series as a weekly series, the new ver...
Om Nom Stories (2011 - Current) - Om Nom Stories are a series of spin-off videos created by ZeptoLab. They tell about Om Nom's adventures outside the video game. pilot episode was released on December 6, 2011. Ten following episodes, making up the first season, are a variety of short stories about Om Nom living at Evan's house. Th...
Hardball with Chris Matthews (1994 - Current) - The American weeknight cable news program debut in 1994 on now-defunct America's Talking as "Politics with Chris Matthews," In 1997, the program titled: "Hardball with Chris Matthews" premiered on CNBC. The program switched to MSNBC in 1999, and it stayed there ever since.
CNN Live Coverage (1980 - Current) - Since it's launch on June 1, 1980, CNN provided live team coverage with breaking news stories, and news events across America and around the world.
Fox News Channel Live Coverage (1996 - Current) - Since 1996, Fox News Channel has been giving live team coverage with those breaking news stories, and events across the United States and around the world.
Thursday Night Football (2006 - Current) - Thursday Night Football debut on NFL Network on November 23, 2006. In 2014 & 2015 seasons, CBS Sports were partners with THF. In 2016 & 2017 seasons, CBS Sports & NBC Sports were both partners for TNF, before Fox Sports became partners for the 2018 season.
KNTV-TV Newscasts (1955 - Current) - KNTV-TV presently broadcasts 32 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
KYW-TV Newscasts (1941 - Current) - KYW-TV in Philadelphia broadcasts 32 hours of locally produced newscasts every week (with 5 hours on weekdays, 3 hours on Saturdays, and 4 hours on Sundays), with news, weather, traffic and sports. In the early days, Channel 3's news department had it's early newscasts like Philco News, way before...
News 12 Long Island (1986 - Current) - News 12 Long Island is for and about the people of Long Island, New York. Launched as America's first 24-hour news channel on December 15, 1986 and continues today.
PGA Tour on CBS (1956 - Current) - PGA Tour on CBS (or Golf on CBS) is the branding used for broadcasts of the PGA Tour that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States. CBS first carried the PGA Championship from 1956 to 1964 and would pick it up again in 1991. In 1970 CBS picke...
ABC News: Election Coverage (1948 - Current) - Since 1948, ABC News had been doing Election Coverage, for the U.S. Presidency, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and more...
CBS News: Election Coverage (1948 - Current) - Since 1948, CBS News has been carried Election Coverage, in the race for the U.S. Presidency (every 4 years), the U.S. Senate (every 2 years), the U.S. House (every 2 years), and more...
Misaki Chronicles (2004 - Current) - an anime sequel to Divergence Eve. It follows smoothly from the previous series. The characters are the same and the plot is similar, but the theme of the episodes is much different. In this series, the elite team at Watcher's Nest is traveling through time, fighting the Ghoul at different points in...
Tsudure children (2017 - Current) - An anime adaptation by Studio Gokumi aired from July 4[4][5] to September 19, 2017. Funimation has licensed the series in North America.tells various romantic stories about how it is so hard to say "I love you", between young male and female students attending the same high school, in an omnibus for...
Animal Jam (2003 - Current) - a children's television show created by John Derevlany (who also wrote most of the episodes) and produced by Jim Henson Television which first aired on February 24, 2003.The show featured many innovations in puppet design and production from the Jim Henson Company. It aired on TLC for several years,...
Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (2001 - Current) - an anime series directed by Tatsuo Sato and mainly animated by Madhouse. Shingu aired from May 8, 2001 through December 4, 2001, on NHK. It ran for 26 episodes and was released on DVD on five volumes by The Right Stuf International in the United States.Edit
Endro~! (2018 - Current) - Hepburn: Endoro~!) is a Japanese original anime television series by Studio Gokumi. The series will premiere in January 2019, while a manga adaptation began serialization on August 9, 2018.
WDIV-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WDIV-TV in Detroit presently broadcasts 36 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Rio: Rainbow Gate! (2011 - Current) - an anime series produced by Xebec under the direction of Takao Kato. Based on Tecmo's Rio Series (Rio Rio Shirzu) of pachinko games (from Rakushou! Pachi-Slot Sengen), the series revolves around titular character Rio Rollins, a popular casino dealer working at the Howard Resort who is known as...
The Octonauts (2010 - Current) - a British children's television series, produced by Silvergate Media for the BBC channel CBeebies. The series is animated in Ireland by Brown Bag Films but uses British voice actors. The TV series is based on American-Canadian children's books written by Vicki Wong and Michael C. Murphy of Meomi Des...
National Memorial Day Concert (1989 - Current) - Held every year since 1989 on the US Capitol's West Lawn, the National Memorial Day Concert is attended by half a million people and watched by millions more on PBS. The concert can also be seen overseas by U.S. military personnel in more than 175 countries and aboard more than 200 U.S. Navy ships a...
Fate/Extra Last Encore (2018 - Current) - an anime adaptation of the Fate/Extra video game. It is animated by Shaft and began airing in January 28, 2018.
Magical Meow Meow Taruto (2001 - Current) - a Japanese manga and anime television series. The series centers on the exploits of a race of pet cats, drawn as catgirls and the occasional catboy.Taruto is a little girl cat who at the beginning of the series moves to a new house in a huge city with her owner Iori Monaka and his niece Kinako. Taru...
WFSB-TV Newscasts (1957 - Current) - WFSB-TV presently broadcasts 33 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Diamond Daydreams (2004 - Current) - The series began with Kita e: White Illumination (White Illumination), which was released on March 18, 1999 for the Dreamcast. A fan disc, Kita e: Photo Memories (Photo Memories), was released on August 5 that same year. On October 30, 2003, the series hit the PlayStation 2 platform as Kita e....
Yumeria (2004 - Current) - Studio Deen produced a 12-episode comedy, adventure, anime television series broadcast on TBS in Japan in 2004. The series was originally licensed in North America by ADV Films who initially released the series in three English language DVD volumes in 2005 and 2006.Tomokazu Mikuri, the main characte...
Wandaba Style (2003 - Current) - The television series was released in English by ADV Films and 3 volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD.The story is about a pop idol band named Mix Juice that need any kind of gig to make their name famous. At the same time, a young boy genius plans on taking a trip to the moon without usin...
New Looney Tunes (2015 - Current) - (formerly known as Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production for the first season) is an American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the characters from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. The series premiered on September 21, 2015, on Cartoon Network, and later premiered on Octo...
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (2005 - Current) - Mah Shjo Ririkaru Nanoha su) ("A's" is pronounced as "Ace") is an anime television series produced by Seven Arcs. It is the second anime in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, following the previous series. The series aired in Japan between October 1, 2005 and December 25, 2005 and was lic...
D.N.Angel (2003 - Current) - Xebec adapted the manga into a 26-episode anime series which aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 2003 until September 25, 2003.follows the adventures of Daisuke Niwa, an average teenage boy. At the story's opening, Daisuke declares love for his crush, a girl named Risa Harada, on his fourteenth...
WCCO-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - WCCO presently broadcast 41 & a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007 - Current) - a 26-episode anime television series by Sunrise, based on the Namco Bandai Games series The Idolmaster.[1] It aired between April 4 and September 24, 2007 on Kansai TV and various other UHF television stations. The series was also broadcast over the Internet on the Japanese website @nifty. The serie...
Midori Days (2004 - Current) - The series was adapted as a 13-episode anime series produced by Pierrot. It aired in Japan between April and June 2004 on the anime television network Animax, who has also broadcast the series across its networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and other regions. It is lic...
Mega Man: Fully Charged (2018 - Current) - an animated television series based on the Japanese video game series of the same name by Capcom, developed by Man of Action Studios and produced by Dentsu Entertainment USA, and DHX Studios for Cartoon Network and Family Chrgd. The show draws primarily inspiration from the Classic series, rather th...
Venus Versus Virus (2007 - Current) - anime produced by Studio Hibari that aired in Japan between January and March 2007 on BS-i, containing twelve episodes. revolves around the life of two teenage girls named Sumire Takahana and Lucia Nahashi, who met as Sumire mysteriously discovered Lucia's secrets at the Venus Vanguard, a group who...
Nanatsuiro Drops (2007 - Current) - lit. Seven-Colored Drops, A 12-episode anime produced by Studio Barcelona aired between July and September 2007.Masaharu Tsuwabuki is a normal student, though not very social. One day he meets a new student named Sumomo Akihime, and another girl named Nadeshiko Yaeno, Sumomo's close friend. That sam...
Ready Jet Go! (2016 - Current) - a preschool CGI animated television series produced by Wind Dancer Films. The series premiered on PBS Kids on February 15, 2016. It was created by animator Craig Bartlett,[1] and is produced in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The show is aimed at kids ages 3 to 8. On August 17, 20...
News 12 Hudson Valley (2005 - Current) - News 12 Hudson Valley provides news, weather, traffic and sports in the Hudson Valley, NY.
Magica Wars (2014 - Current) - Mah Shjo Taisen, lit. "Magical Girl Wars") is a media franchise created by the internet television variety show 2.5 Jigen Terebi. It consists of an iOS game titled Magica Wars Lock-On which was released on December 20, 2013; a free-to-play smartphone browser game by DMM Games titled Magica Wars Ta...
Oruchuban Ebichu (1999 - Current) - an anime produced by Gainax, but animated by Group TAC. It first aired six eight-minute episodes in 1999 as one-third of the show Modern Love's Silliness. Ebichu is very adult in nature, and its comedy, explicit violence, innuendo, and sexual intercourse scenes could only be shown on DirecTV Japan....
Dinosaur Train (2009 - Current) - a Singaporean-Canadian-American children's animated series created by Craig Bartlett, who also created Hey Arnold! and Ready Jet Go!. The series features a curious young Tyrannosaurus rex named Buddy who, together with his adopted Pteranodon family, takes the Dinosaur Train to explore his time perio...
Glass Fleet (2006 - Current) - subtitled La Lgende du Vent de l'Univers (lit. the Legend of the Wind of the Universe) an anime television series, co-animated by Satelight and Gonzo and produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), GDH and Sotsu Agency, which first aired in Japan on Asahi Broadcas...
News 12 Westchester (1995 - Current) - News 12 Westchester is a 24-hour local news channel that brings news, weather, traffic and sports in Westchester (NY) and the Hudson Valley (NY).
Muppet Babies (2018 TV series) (2018 - Current) - an American animated television series featuring toddler versions of the Muppets characters that began airing on Disney Junior and Disney Channel on March 23, 2018[1] and is aimed at a target audience of children from ages 4 to 7.[2] It is a reboot of the original 19841991 animated series of the sa...
Metal Fighter Miku (1994 - Current) - a 13-episode Japanese anime television series created by Daisaku Ogawa. Metal Fighter Miku first aired on TV Tokyo from July to September 1994. J.C.Staff was the animation studio for the series and was their first TV production.
Miss USA Pageant (1963 - Current) - The Miss USA Pageant is an American beauty pageant, operated by the Miss Universe Organization. In 1963, the pageant was aired for the first time on American television. The pageant was aired on CBS from 1963 to 2002, then on NBC from 2002 to 2014. The pageant aired on Reelz in 2015. The pageant...
Miss Teen USA Pageant (1983 - Current) - Miss Teen USA Pageant is a beauty pageant run by the Miss Universe Organization for teenage girls aged 14-19. The first was held in 1983, and it has been broadcast live on CBS until 2002, then on NBC from 2003-2007. From 2008-2013, the pageant was broadcast live online by Ustream. Since 2012, the...
Noozles (1984 - Current) - also known as The Wondrous Koala Blinky, is a 26-episode anime by Nippon AnimationCompany that was originally released in Japan in 1984. It depicts the adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Sandy and her koala friends, Blinky and Pinky, who are from the extra-dimensional realm of Koalawalla Land. N...
Teen Titans Go! (2013 - Current) - an American animated television series airing in the U.S. on Cartoon Network since April 23, 2013 and based on the DC Comics fictional superhero team. The series was announced following the popularity of DC Nation's New Teen Titans shorts.
SuperMarioLogan (2007 - Current) - Created by Logan Thirtyacre
Tamako Market (2013 - Current) - a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation, directed by Naoko Yamada, and written by Reiko Yoshida. The series aired in Japan between January 10 and March 28, 2013. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks. A film sequel premiered in Japan in April 2014.Ta...
Zombie-Loan (2007 - Current) - An anime adaptation produced by Xebec M2 was announced and started broadcast on the Japanese network TV Asahi on July 3, 2007. It contained a total of eleven episodes, with the final broadcast on September 11, 2007. Subsequent episodes 12 and 13 were released as part of the seventh volume of the DVD...
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (2007 - Current) - often shortened to Manabi Straight!) is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by the animation studio Ufotable and MediaWorks. The project revolves around a group of high school girls in the year 2035 when the birth rate has dropped dramatically. It launched in August 2004 in MediaWorks' Dengek...
Mahtsukai Chappy (1972 - Current) - or Chappy the Witch () is an anime series that debuted in TV Asahi (then known as NET, or Nihon Educational Television) in 1972. It is the fifth magical girl anime in history (the sixth if one counts Osamu Tezuka's Marvelous Melmo), and the fifth produced by the Toei Animation studio.[1] Wh...
Akane -chan (1968 - Current) - April to September 1968. It was adapted into a monochrome 1968 Toei anime series with the same name directed by Fusahito Nagaki, Yasuo Yamaguchi, Yugo Serikawa and Takeshi Tamiya, which was originally broadcast on Fuji TV.
Burn-Up Scramble (2004 - Current) - a 2004 12-episode anime television series directed by Hiroki Hayashi. Though the basic premise is in keeping with its predecessors Burn Up! and Burn-Up Excess it is an entirely new series with some new and some old characters, and a very different art style.Like Burn-Up W and Burn-Up Excess, the ser...
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks (2015 - Current) - Raising three chipmunks is no piece of cake! Join David and his troupe, as they navigate life's lessons, with plenty of musical fun along the way.
Blaze and the Monster Machines (2014 - Current) - Go on an adventure in Axle City with Blaze, the world's most amazing monster truck, and his driver and best friend AJ.
Shimmer and Shine (2015 - Current) - The first season is set in the human world and focuses on a young girl named Leah Thompson who is friends with a pair of twin genie sisters named Shimmer and Shine. Each day, the genies grant Leah three wishes, but they often make errors. Each episode features Leah working together with the genies t...
Tales of Eternia (2001 - Current) - A 13 episode anime series produced and animated by Xebec also called Tales of Eternia was inspired by the game; the series originally ran on Japanese television from 8 January 2001 to 26 March 2001. Tales of Eternia was licensed by Media Blasters on 6 July 2002 for North American distribution, but t...
Connie the Cow (2001 - 2007) - a Spanish-German children's television series created by Josep Viciana, and designed by Roman Rybakiewicz.[5] In the United States, the series aired on Noggin (now Nick Jr.) from September 8, 2003[4] to April 1, 2007. As of 2017, the series is currently airing reruns on Starz.A curious young cow nam...
Tokyo Majin (2007 - Current) - known in Japan as Tokyo Demon Academy: The Book of Weapons - The Ascension ( Tky Majin Gakuen: Kenpuch T), is a Japanese anime series, which premiered in Japan on the anime satellite TV network Animax. A large part of Tokyo Majin Gakuen, it is loosely based on a series of Japan-only vi...
The Wiggles (1998 - Current) - The Wiggles are an Australian band who wear yellow, red, purple, and blue skivvies.
Sunny day (2017 - Current) - a Canadian-British animated children's television series produced by Silvergate Media. The series revolves around Sunny (voiced by Lilla Crawford), a hairdresser who runs her own salon with the help of her talking dog Doodle (Rob Morrison), hair colourist Rox (lan Luz Rivera), and receptionist Blai...
WWE WrestleMania (1985 - Current) - WrestleMania is a professional wrestling event produced annually every year by the WWE.
WWE SummerSlam (1988 - Current) - SummerSlam is a professional PPV event, produced annual by the WWE every August since 1988.
Cyber Team in Akihabara (1998 - Current) - a 1998 science fiction anime series created by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Satoru Akahori. The television series aired from April 4, 1998 to September 26, 1998 on TBS and ran for 26 episodes. It was released in the United States by ADV Films. It was also broadcast on international networks such as Anime Ne...
Tangled: The Series (2017 - Current) - known as Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure in its second season, is an American animated television series developed by Chris Sonnenburg and Shane Pigmore and produced by Disney Television Animation that premiered on Disney Channel as a Disney Channel Original Movie titled Tangled: Before Ever After on M...
Dr. Wonder's Workshop (2007 - Current) - an American Christian children's show targeted largely to a deaf/hard-of-hearing populace, and airs nationally on a number of Christian television networks including the Smile of a Child network during the week, and on TBN Saturday mornings as part of their Smile of a Child block. Other networks tha...
Best Student Council (2005 - Current) - an anime television series produced by Konami and J.C.Staff which originally aired on TV Tokyo from April to September 2005. A PS2 dating sim game of the same name based on the anime was also made by Konami. The development staff includes composer Yoko Shimomura of Street Fighter II and Kingdom Hear...
Blend S (2017 - Current) - A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired from October to December 2017.High school girl Maika Sakuranomiya has trouble finding a part-time job because of how scary she looks when smiling. However, she is scouted one day by an Italian man who is also the manager of Stile,...
Loveless (2005 - Current) - A 12-episode anime television series adaptation was made by J.C. Staff, broadcast in a post-midnight slot on TV Asahi and ABC from April 2005 to June 2005. The anime series was licensed and released in the US by Media Blasters in a set of 3 DVDs in early 2006.
Pretear (2001 - Current) - a thirteen episode anime series by Hal Film Maker, Kadokawa Shoten, and Rondo Robe. It aired in Japan on WOWOW from April 4, 2001 until June 27, 2001. Geneon released the series episodes across four volumes in Japan in both VHS video and DVD forms. ADV Films had licensed and released the anime serie...
Black Heaven (1999 - Current) - also referred to as The Legend of Black Heaven and Kacho-ji, is a thirteen-episode anime television series about the middle-aged members of a short-lived heavy metal band and their unexpected role in an alien interstellar war. The Japanese title of the series is a multi-layered pun; it can be trans...
Please Teacher! (2002 - Current) - an anime television series directed by Yasunori Ide, written by Ysuke Kuroda, and produced by Bandai Visual. It was later adapted into a manga and light novel and centers on a group of friends and the odd things that happen to them after they get a new teacher.with a spin-off sequel,[1] Please Twin...
Hugtto! PreCure (2018 - Current) - lit. "With a Hug! Pretty Cure") is a Japanese magical girl anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is currently the fifteenth incarnation in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure franchise, officially released to celebrate its 15th anniversary.[1] It is directed by Junichi Sato and Akifumi Zako an...
Princess Nine (1998 - Current) - (AKA Princess Ten), or Princess Nine Kisaragi Girls High Baseball Club ( Purinsesu Nain Kisaragi Joshik Yaky-bu), is a 26-episode Japanese anime broadcast in Japan in 1998. The television series was produced by Phoenix Entertainment in Japan, initially released by ADV Films in Nort...
Pita-Ten (2002 - Current) - Kotarou Higuchi is befriended by his neighbor Misha, an angel-in-training.[ch. 1] He is later acquainted with Shia, a demon, who is urged by her forgotten memories to search for something.[ch. 7] Kotarou continues his daily life until Shia absorbs his life energy and leaves town.[ch. 28] Kotarou inv...
Good Morning America (1975 - Current) - ABC News' weekday morning morning news and talk show. The show first launched in 1975 as AM America as a competitor to NBC's "Today". After failing, ABC looked to station WEWS in Cleveland who were airing a show called The Morning Exchange and re-branded their program as Good Morning America. The sh...
The Late Late Show (1995 - Current) - The Late Late Show is a late-night TV show on CBS originally hosted by Tom Snyder from 1995-1999, Craig Killborn from 1999-2004, and Craig Ferguson from 2004-2014. Since 2015 it has been hosted by British comedian James Corden. Unlike a lot of late-night talk shows, the program does not use an annou...
The Tonight Show (1954 - Current) - The Tonight Show is NBC's late-night talk/comedy show and the first and longest running late-night talk show on television. Steve Allen was the very first host of the show in its 1954 debut followed by Jack Parr who took over in 1957, but it's longest and most well-known host is Johnny Carson, host...
The Late Show (1993 - Current) - The Late Show is CBS's late night talk/comedy show hosted by comedian David Letterman. In each episode, Letterman often rants humorously about the previous day's events with references to pop culture and politics. The show often features celebrity and musical guests. The show's long time host since...
America's Funniest Home Videos (1989 - Current) - America's Funniest Home Videos is a reality show on ABC where people can send in funny videos of things including incidents and practical jokes. The funniest video of each episode wins $10,000 with 7 winners then competing for $100,000. First hosted by Bob Saget who would humorously voice the clips...
Eyewitness News (1968 - Current) - On November 11, 1968, Al Primo, the new news director of WABC-TV New York, launched his new news program, "Eyewitness News." As the format grew popular, it had spread across the country to the other ABC-owned and operated (O&O) stations at the time: KABC Los Angeles, WLS Chicago, WXYZ Detroit, and K...
Sesamstraat (1976 - Current) - "Sesamstraat" is the Dutch co-production of "Sesame Street". The characters include Pino the bird, Tommie the dog, Ieniemienie the mouse, and Purk, the baby pig.
El Show de Cristina (1989 - Current) - Cuban Talk Show Host Cristina Saralegui
The $100,000 Pyamid (1985 - Current) - An updated nighttime version of The $25,000 Pyramid where in addition to winning $10,000 or $25,000 in the Winners Circle the 3 contestants who went to the top of the pyramid quicker returned for a tournamet of Champions.
USA Network Sports (1980 - Current) - USA Network Sports is a sport series that aired on USA Network in 1979 (During the launch of USA Network). The show is hosted by sports commentator: Al Trautwig.
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (2007 - Current) - Hosted by Jeff Foxworthy a single contestant must answer ten questions from between first and fifth grade textbook levels for a chance to win $1,000,000. Each contestant can get help from answering questions from a student classmate. If the contestant gets a question wrong or chooses to end the gam...
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (1972 - Current) - Dick Clark first envisioned the idea for New Year's Rockin' Eve in 1971, deciding that the annual New Year's Eve special on CBS did not attract young viewers. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve first aired on the New Year's Eve of 1971 hosted by the group Three Dog Night. Since 1972, Clark himself...
Fear Factor (2001 - Current) - Hosted by Joe Rogan, Fear Factor was a game show that put a team of six, three men and three women, in a competition to perform daring stunts to win $50,000. Contestants who were too scared to do the stunt, failed, or did poorly, were eliminated.
American Idol (2002 - Current) - First created by Simon Fuller as an American version of the British show Pop Idol, the show soon expanded into a nationwide phenomenon. Each season, a group of individuals from each city audition in front of a panel of judges, originally Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and the very harsh and critical Si...
Big Square Eye (1992 - Current) -
Felix the Cat (2012 - Current) - Felix the Cat began life in the silent film era in series of surreal cartoons however with the invention of sound the cartoons slowly began to loose popularity. With cartoon from studios from Disney, Warner Bros. and the Fleischer Studios Felix found too much competition even with entering in the wo...
London Burning (1986 - 2012) - London's Burning was a television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television. It focused on the lives of Blue Watch firefighters in the busy area of Blackwall, East London. It was broadcast between 1986 and 2002 on ITV and currently airs in Canada on digital television station CBC Country...
Sabado Gigante (1962 - Current) - Sabado Gigante is a Chilean Spanish-language variety show and one of the longest running shows television. The weekly program in 1962 airing on Canal 13 in Chile under the name "Show Dominical" (Sunday's Show). Sabado Gigante is an ecletic and frenetic mix of variety show and game show with celebrit...
Fort Boyard (1990 - Current) - This is a French game show that has been remade all over the world. The English version is no longer filmed. Filmed at the real Fort Boyard in France, contestants compete in various challenges for prize money.
MotorWeek (1981 - Current) - MotorWeek is a weekly automotive TV series first premireing on PBS in 1981 as hosted by auto expert John H. Davis. The series is presented in magazine-like format featuring reviews, comparisons, news, and features. Segments on the show include Road Tests(where a vehicle is test driven), Goss Garage(...
Nightline (1980 - Current) - ABC News Nightline is a late-night news show first introduced in 1980. It preludes back in 1979 as The Iran Crisis: American's Held Hostage as an ABC News special. Unlike ABC's World News Tonight the series features extended-length interviews and investigative journalism in the style of CBS' popular...
Nightly Business Report (1979 - Current) - Nightly Business Report(NBR) is a nightly business news show airing on most PBS stations. The show first began in 1979 and talks about stock market changes and interviews with business professionals.The daily program consists of reports on the changes in the stock market, indices, and stocks of note...
PBS NewsHour (1975 - Current) - In 1975 it launched as The Robert MacNeil Report later becoming the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. The show originally ran for 30 minutes until becoming a hour-long broadcast in 1983. In 1995 co-anchor Robert MacNeil retired and the show became The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, named after its sole anchor. Jim...
ABC World News Tonight (1948 - Current) - ABC's Nightly news program. Originally began in 1948 as News and Views. In 1951, it was renamed After the Deadlines. In 1952, it renamed as All-Star News until January 2, 1953. But finally October 12, 1953, ABC News finally got a weekday evening newscast again, this time titled John Daly and the N...
CBS Evening News (1963 - Current) - CBS's nightly news program. Perhaps it's best-known anchor was Walter Cronkite from 1963 to 1981. It was later hosted by Dan Rather from 1981 to 2005 with Connie Chung as co-anchor from 1993-1995, and Katie Couric from 2005 to 2011, and Scott Pelley from 2011 to 2017. Anthony Mason was interim ancho...
The Good Night Show (2004 - Current) - The Good Night Show is a program block on PBS Kids Sprout. It debuted on September of 2004 and was hosted by Melanie Martinez (as "Melanie") with her friends, Star the puppet shaped star, Hush the Goldfish, and Lucy the firefly. On July of 2006, PBS fires Melanie from hosting The Good Night Show, Du...
VH1's I Love... (2002 - Current) - From 2002 to 2008, VH1 had a series of nostalgia programs called I Love.... Based on a format from the BBC, pop-culture of the past was discussed in terms that weren't always loving. There were 3 installments devoted to the 80s, 2 to the 70s, 2 to the 90s, one for the 00s and special installments fo...
The Challenge (1998 - Current) - The Challenge (originally Real World/Road Rules Challenge) is a reality television game show on MTV that is both dependent on and spun off from the network's two flagship reality shows, The Real World and the now cancelled series, Road Rules. It is currently hosted by former BMX rider T.J. Lavin.
The Real World (1992 - Current) - The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the longes...
Inside The NFL (1977 - Current) - Inside the NFL first premiered September 14, 1977 on HBO Sports, until its ending on February 2008.
The High Life (1996 - Current) -
Today (1952 - Current) - Today (also referred to as The Today Show), is an American morning news and talk show airing every morning from NBC News. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre, spawning similar morning news and entertainment television programs across the United States and around the world. Th...
Hollyoaks (1995 - Current) - Teen soap made by Phil Redmond, the creator of Grange Hill and Brookside.
American Masters (1983 - Current) - American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City. The show debuted on PBS in 1986.
The Woodwright's Shop (1979 - Current) - The Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on PBS. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS, with 28 13-episode seasons filmed. Since its debut in 1979 the show has aired over 360 episodes. Initially only broadcast on public TV in North Carolina, th...
This Old House (1979 - Current) - Originally intended as a one-time series, This Old House is the very first home improvement series on television and has run for over 35 years! This Old House focuses on the building or remodeling of entire houses over the course of several weeks. A host, Bob Vila from 1979 to 1991, Steve Thomas fro...
Chaotic (2007 - Current) - This show is about a boy named Tom who plays an online game called Chaotic. He gets a password to play Chaotic in a different way. With his friends Kaz, Peyton, and Sarah They explore the wonders of what is Perim and scan whatever they can so they can battle in the battledromes.
Wolves, Witches and Giants (1995 - Current) - A cartoon in which every episode was a different fairytale usually containing a wolf, witch or giant.
NFL on CBS (1956 - Current) - The NFL on CBS is the brand name of the CBS television network's coverage of the National Football League's American Football Conference (AFC) games. CBS' coverage began on September 30, 1956 (the first regular season broadcast was a game between the visiting Washington Redskins against the Pittsbur...
NFL on NBC (1939 - Current) - In 1955, NFL on NBC is the brand given to NBC Sports coverage of National Football League games until 1998, when NBC lost the NFL American Football Conference rights to CBS. The program goes as far back as 1939 and the first ever televised football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brookl...
Fox Major League Baseball (1996 - Current) - Fox Major League Baseball is the Fox Broadcasting Company's presentation of Major League Baseball games, produced by Fox Sports. Baseball debuted on Fox on June 1, 1996. Under its current contract with the league, Fox Sports will continue to carry Major League Baseball telecasts through at least 202...
NFL On Fox (1994 - Current) - Coverage of the National Football League by the Fox Broadcasting Company. In 1987 Fox was growing as a broadcast network but could not compete with the "big three" without any sports programming. After outbidding CBS for continued coverage of the NFL, Fox began covering games in 1994. Finally having...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951 - Current) - Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into the present day....
Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito (1989 - Current) - Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito, is a 30-minute cooking show produced for PBS by Esposito's own Mary Esposito Productions, and taped at New Hampshire Public Television. The show features Esposito's recipes and cooking tips, and visits from guest chefs. She also explores the history of Italian coo...
Smosh (2002 - Current) - Shmsh En Espaol Sub English
Funniest Pets & People (2001 - Current) - Funniest Pets & People is a fast-paced American television series that showcases funny home videos of pets and people of all ages and is produced by Brad Lachman's Genco Entertainment, Inc., and it's broadcast on various local TV stations in the United States for daily syndication. Similar in the st...
This is Your Day with Benny Hinn (1990 - Current) - This is Your Day is a half-hour Christian television show hosted by pastor Benny Hinn
Late Night (1982 - Current) - A late night talk/sketch comedy show on NBC. Hosted at first by David Letterman and then by Conan O'Brien. The show originally began airing only four nights a week, Monday through Thursday, with Friday night shows later being added. When it debuted in 1982, it was hosted by David Letterman and would...
Matt Bennett (1991 - Current) - Matt Bennett plays robe on victorious
Dateline NBC (1992 - Current) - Dateline NBC is a news magazine on NBC which first showed in 1992. The program has always had a focus on crime related stories. Dateline is historically notable for its longevity on the network. The show debuted on March 31, 1992, initially airing only on Tuesdays, with Stone Phillips and Jane Paule...
Life With Boys (2011 - Current) - Life with Boys is a Canadian teen sitcom that started broadcasting in Canada on YTV in September 2011. It follows Tess Foster as she copes with living in a home with just boys: her father, Jack, and three brothers, Gabe, Spencer and Sam.
Antiques Roadshow(U.S.) (1997 - Current) - American version of the British series. Each week the show goes from place to place where people bring antiques of theirs for appraisal by a professional appraiser. The series was hosted by Chris Jussell from 1997-2000, Dan Elias from 2001-2003, Lara Spencer from 2003-2005, and since 2005 by Mark Wa...
Masterpiece Theater (1971 - Current) - First aired on PBS in 1971, the series has since become America's longest running Prime time mystery series. Although most of the programs aired are adaptations of novels, the series also featured many original dramas. The program's most well-known host was Alistair Cooke who hosted from the series...
Ask This Old House (2002 - Current) - First showing in 2002, Ask This Old House is a spin-off of the popular home improvement series. In this show, the team from "This Old House" goes from door-to-door across America to help people with home improvement tips. The same guys from This Old House appear, master carpenter Tom Silva, plumber...
Survivor (2000 - Current) - A group of strangers(known as tribes) must survive on an island and take care of themselves in a reality contest. They must compete for immunity from elimination from the game. The "sole survivor" wins $1 million.
The Amazing Race (2001 - Current) - Eleven teams of two people compete in a race around the world split into 12 legs and each with intense physical challenges. Each leg of the race is covered by one episode.
Big Brother (1999 - Current) - 12 to 16 people spend three months living on a house cut off from the outside world while cameras watch their every move. This was the very first camera-based contest reality show.
The Bachelor (2002 - Current) - A single bachelor must prove himself eligible to one out of 20 possible dates which are slowly eliminated after each date.
A.M. Weather (1978 - 1995) - First debuting on PBS in 1978, as produced by Maryland Public Tevision A.M. Weather had NOAA meteorologists giving a look at weather reports from across the country. Each show began with a satellite and radar segment followed by current conditions around the U.S. and then the weather forecast. An av...
How It's Made (2001 - Current) - A documentary series where cameras go inside America's factories and show the manufacturing of various everyday goods. The series does not have an onscreen narrator, and avoids showing human interaction and using brand names.
The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest... (2008 - Current) - A countdown show where celebrity guest stars commentate on videos of 20 dim-witted people such as criminals, drivers, partiers, etc. Since 2011 the series has been called "truTV Presents: World's Dumbest..."
Dr. Phil (2002 - Current) - Created by Phil McGraw after the success of his segments on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The show covers a wide variety of topics where McGraw offers help to people who need it.
Let's Make A Deal (1963 - Current) - Let's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show is based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The traders usually have to weigh the possibility of an offer being for...
Great Performances (1972 - Current) - PBS TV series showcasing the performing arts. The series is the longest running performing arts anthology on television, as opposed to a program like Hallmark Hall of Fame, which presents only adaptations of plays and novels as well as made-for-TV films. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet,...
The Daily Show (1996 - Current) - Comedy Central takes a hilarious look at recent headlines, media organizations and political figures. Originally hosted by Craig Killborn, the show was taken over by host John Stewart in 1999 who was perhaps its most swell-known host. After he retired in 2015 South African Trevor Noah took the show...
ESPN Major League Soccer (1996 - Current) - ESPN Major League Soccer is a promotion of Major League Soccer on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC with simulcasts on ESPNHD and ESPN2HD. Major League Soccer on ESPN2 debuted in 1996, the league's first season, and is guaranteed to stay on the network till at least 2022. From 1996 to 2006, the weekly soccer mat...
X Games (1997 - Current) - The X Games is an annual extreme sports event hosted, produced, and broadcast by ESPN. Coverage is also shown on ESPN's sister network, ABC. The inaugural X Games were held during the summer of 1995 in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. Participants compete to win bronze, silver, and gold medals,...
U.S. Figure Skating Championships (2008 - Current) - Since 2008 NBC Sports has been the exclusive home of the U.S. Figure Skating National Championships. The Championships are a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating commun...
Thoroughbred Racing on NBC (1949 - Current) - Thoroughbred Racing on NBC is the de facto title for a series of horse races events whose broadcasts are produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States. The series began in 1949 with the annual broadcast of the Kentucky Derby but it also added the Bree...
Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove (2019 - Current) - This American educational & informational television program is produced for children ages 13-16 that celebrates women who have become superstars in STEM-related careers (science, technology, engineering and math. Each week, our host (Miranda Cosgrove) and her intrepid team of field reporters will...
WUSA-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. presently broadcasts 33 hours, 15 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Fox College Hoops (2013 - Current) - Fox College Hoops (Fox CBB) is the blanket title used for Fox Sports broadcasts of college basketball by Fox and its cable networks. Although college basketball telecasts had been carried by Fox Sports Networks (FSN) in the past (generically under the title College Hoops), the Fox College Hoops bran...
Fox College Football (1999 - Current) - Fox College Football (or Fox CFB for short) is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football games produced by Fox Sports, and broadcast primarily by Fox, FS1, and FS2.
Professional Bull Riders on CBS (2013 - Current) - The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) is an international professional bull riding organization based in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. In the United States, Professional Bull Riders (PBR) events have been televised on CBS and CBS Sports Network since 2013.
USA Track & Field on NBC (2017 - Current) - NBC Coverage of the events from USA Track & Field, aired since 2017. NBC airs exclusive coverage of the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships, the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the USA Marathon Championships, the USA Half Marathon Championships, and the USA Cross Country Championships.
USA Swimming on NBC (2017 - Current) - NBC Sports coverage of events from USA Swimming aired since 2017. NBC began to air USA Swimming's swim meets as part of an agreement to get their swim meets available to view on as many screens as possible. The network's most watched event is the Olympic Qualifier.
Major League Fishing (2012 - Current) - Major League Fishing (MLF) is a professional bass fishing league and television show that airs on Outdoor Channel, World Fishing Network and Discovery Channel. The league was established in partnership between the Professional Bass Tour Anglers' Association (PBTAA) and Outdoor Channel as an answer t...
Ranger Rob (2016 - Current) - A British-Canadian animated series. Ranger Rob is about a ranger named Rob, and his fellow friends Stomper and Dakota, who go on outdoor adventures in Big Sky Park.
ABC News: Special Report (1966 - Current) - ABC News has been doing live coverage of breaking news and live events across the U.S. and around the world since the beginning.
CBS News: Live Coverage (1960 - Current) - Since its beginning, CBS News has brought live coverage of breaking news stories and live news events across America and around the world.
CBSN (2020 - Current) - CBSN, a 24-hour streaming news service from CBS News was officially launched on November 6, 2014, and it is available on smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, digital media players, and other mobile devices.
Country Music Association Awards (1968 - Current) - The Country Music Association Awards, also known as the CMA Awards or CMAs, are presented to country music artists and broadcasters to recognize outstanding achievement in the country music industry. The televised annual presentation ceremony features performances and award presentations by popular...
WAVY-TV Newscasts (1957 - Current) - WAVY-TV in Hampton Roads presently airs 30 hours of local news each week. In 1982, WAVY-TV became the first station in the Hampton Roads television market to launch a new helicopter: "Chopper 10", and that same year they rebanded its newscast with a new newscast name: "The Daily News". In 1989, WA...
WXYZ-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WXYZ-TV in Detroit presently broadcasts 40 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. The news department of WXYZ-TV has been a longtime dominance of TV news in Detroit partly due to the popularity of long-time lead news anchor Bill Bonds, and it started as a small operation but it would gain c...
CBSN Los Angeles (2019 - Current) - CBSN Los Angeles is a 24-hour Los Angeles service version of CBSN, which features exclusive programming. The local cable-streaming news channel was launched on June 10, 2019.
CBSN Philly (2020 - Current) - CBSN Philly is a 24-hour localized version of the national CBSN service. The local-streaming cable news channel was launched on January 30, 2020.
KUSA-TV Newscasts (1960 - Current) - KUSA-TV in Denver presently broadcasts a total of 35 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. Since the 1970's, KUSA's newscasts, which are known as 9NEWS, has been dominating Denver's local television news ratings. In February 1976, Ed Sardella and John Rayburn both anchored the weeknight e...
WLS-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - WLS-TV in Chicago presently broadcasts 41 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Splatoon Splashout (2018 - Current) - Splatoon Splashout is an Anime series based on the popular Nintendo Online gaming series, "Splatoon". It stars two Inklings named Charles and Marc as go on Turf war in Inkopolis arena.
WTVT-TV Newscasts (1955 - Current) - WTVT presently broadcasts 72 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
FAKE (2020 - Current) - THIS SHOW IS FAKE! DELETE THIS NOW!
Bubu and the Little Owls (2018 - Current) - Bubu and his friends use curiosity and say things like "what's that?"
Scripps National Spelling Bee (1994 - Current) - Every year since 1925 the E.W. Scripps Company has brought the world's best students together to challenge them with the world's toughest words. ESPN has aired the bee since 1994 with early rounds during the day and with championship rounds in Primetime.
The Junie B. Jones Show (2019 - Current) - The Junie B. Jones Show is an animated TV series produced in Spain. It is based on the popular children's book series by Barbara Park.
Delete this. There's already one. (2020 - Current) - If you want to see the real page for this show, go here.
Let's Go Luna (2018 - Current) - Let's Go Luna
Truman Gets Grounded (2019 - Current) - In this fan made series, Truman (from Martha Speaks) gets grounded.
WWL-TV Newscasts (1957 - Current) - WWL-TV Channel 4. Louisiana's News Leader...and New Orleans' top-rated CBS station.
Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum (2019 - Current) - Upcoming PBS series
Caillou Gets Grounded (2007 - Current) - The brat Caillou gets grounded in meme GoAnimate series.
KTRK-TV Newscasts (1954 - Current) - KTRK presently broadcasts 44 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
Doki (2012 - Current) - Doki (also known as Doki Adventures) is a Canadian animated children's television series produced by Portfolio Entertainment for Discovery Kids. The series debuted on Discovery Kids in Latin America on April 15, 2013. It premiered on Qubo in the USA in 2014.
Shelldon (2009 - Current) - The adventures of a shellfish named Shelldon and his friends Herman and Connie.
Where's Waldo? (2019 - Current) - Young adventurers Waldo and Wenda use their problem-solving skills and the help of an international wizard society to stop a rival globetrotter named Odlulu from using his magic to stir up trouble.
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (2003 - Current) - The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is an annual American hot dog competitive eating competition. It is held each year on Independence Day at Nathan's Famous Corporation's original, and best-known restaurant at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in Coney Island, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New...
WBBM-TV Newscasts (1946 - Current) - WBBM-TV in Chicago presently broadcasts 30 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week. The news department started in 1946, when its call letters at the time was WBKB-TV on Channel 4, and B&K News was the first regularly scheduled newscast, then in 1947, the re-name of the newscast ti...
WTTG-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. presently broadcasts 72 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. On January 30, 2009, WTTG became the third station in the Washington, D.C. market to broadcast local news in high definition.
Molly of Denali (2019 - Current) - Molly of Denali follows the adventures of Alaskan native girl and Vlogger Molly Mabray who along with her family and friends learn about everything on their home state of Alaska and their home in the village of Qyah.
Teen Choice Awards (1999 - Current) - The Teen Choice Awards is an annual awards show that airs on the Fox television network. The awards honor the year's biggest achievements in music, film, sports, television, fashion, social media, and more, voted by viewers living in the United States, aged 13 and over, through various social media...
National Memorial Day Parade (2005 - Current) - The National Memorial Day Parade is held annually in Washington D.C., since 2005. The parade has been a popular destination for thousands of Americans to come together and honor the men and women who have served in uniform from the American Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom, and has sought to ed...
Remove (2018 - Current) - Let's Go Luna!
The More You Know (1989 - Current) - The More You Know is a series of public service announcements (PSAs) broadcast on the NBC family of channels in the United States and other locations, featuring educational messages. These PSAs are broadcast occasionally during NBC's network programming.
Ask NBC News (1979 - 1985) - Hosted by John Chancellor Ask NBC News appeared on Saturday Mornings during commercial breaks of Saturday Morning Cartoons and featured Chancellor giving quick answers to current events in a way children could understand after a child asks him a question on that event.
The NBC Monday Movie (1963 - Current) - The NBC Monday Movie was a television anthology series of films that debuted on February 4, 1963 (in the middle of the 1962-63 season). It was referred to as Monday Night at the Movies prior to the mid-1980s. Contrary to popular contemporary belief, the corporate initials, "NBC", were, at first, no...
NBA on ESPN (1982 - Current) - The NBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games on the ESPN family of networks. The ESPN cable network first televised NBA games from 1983 to 1984, and has been airing games currently since the 200203 NBA season. ESPN2 began airing a limited schedule of NBA...
ESPN College Football (1982 - Current) - ESPN College Football is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football across ESPN properties including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN+, ABC, ESPN Classic, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPNews and ESPN Radio.
ESPN College Football on ABC (1966 - Current) - ESPN College Football on ABC (branded for sponsorship purposes as ESPN College Football on ABC presented by Tracfone) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football games that are produced by ESPN, an...
Saturday Night Football (2006 - Current) - ESPN Saturday Night Football on ABC (branded for sponsorship purposes as ESPN Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's) is a weekly presentation of prime time broadcasts of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) colle...
ESPN Major League Baseball (1990 - Current) - ESPN Major League Baseball is a presentation of Major League Baseball on ESPN and ESPN2. ESPN's MLB coverage debuted on April 9, 1990 with three Opening Day telecasts.
ESPN College Basketball (1979 - Current) - ESPN College Basketball is a blanket title used for presentations of college basketball on ESPN and its family of networks. Its coverage focuses primarily on competition in NCAA Division I, holding broadcast rights to games from each major conference, and a number of mid-major conferences.
MLS Soccer Sunday (2015 - Current) - MLS Soccer Sunday is a presentation of Major League Soccer produced independently by ESPN and Fox Sports Sunday evenings primarily on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, Fox Sports 1 and Fox. Spanish-language simulcasts are broadcast on ESPN Deportes and Fox Deportes.
WNBA on ESPN (1997 - Current) - The WNBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of Women's National Basketball Association games on the ESPN family of networks. Under the title of Taco Tuesday, games are broadcast throughout the WNBA season on Tuesday nights on ESPN2.
CBSN Boston (2019 - Current) - CBSN Boston is a 24-hour local live streaming service which provides news, weather and traffic in Boston and all of New England.
KGO-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - KGO-TV presently broadcasts 42 and a half hours of locally produced news each week.
Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (1977 - Current) - The Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular is an annual television broadcast of the Independence Day fireworks show in New York City, and has been broadcast annually either on WPIX-TV, syndication or NBC since 1977, with the exception of 1986 when the pyrotechnics were held as part of the weekend-...
KRON-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - KRON-TV presently broadcasts 65 hours of local newscasts each week.
KING-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - KING-TV in the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Area presently broadcasts 46 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Mira, Royal Detective (2020 - Current) - The series follows the brave and resourceful girl Mira, a commoner who is appointed to the role of royal detective by the queen and travels throughout her kingdom to help royals and commoners alike.
Live! (1983 - Current) - Syndicated morning talk show that has aired since 1983. With roots in A.M. Los Angeles and A.M. New York, Live began as "The Morning Show", hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey; the show rose to national prominence as "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee", when Philbin was joined by Kathie Lee Giffor...
KSTP-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - KSTP-TV presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced news each week.
KHOU-TV Newscasts (1953 - Current) - KHOU in Houston presently broadcasts 33 & a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Tennis on ESPN (1979 - Current) - The sport of tennis has been televised by the properties of ESPN since 1979. Current tournaments and competitions covered by ESPN include The Championships, Wimbledon and the US Open, which are covered exclusively, and the Australian Open, which is shared with the Tennis Channel. In addition, severa...
Racquetball on ESPN (1980 - Current) - Sports channel ESPN has broadcast racquetball events since 1980. Given the sport's obscurity ESPN has been credited with introducing it to mainstream audiences. ESPN has broadcast the US Open every year since its inception in 1996 and also airs the Pan American Games, World Games and Central America...
Around the Horn (2002 - Current) - Around the Horn (ATH) is an American sports roundtable discussion show, conducted in the style of a panel game, produced by ESPN. Since its debut the show has been on weeknights at 5:00 and has aired over 5,000 episodes. From its premiere until January 30, 2004, the show was hosted by Max Kellerman,...
Boxing on ESPN (1980 - Current) - Boxing on ESPN is the title given to the network's coverage of boxing tournaments. From 1980 to 1996 ESPN broadcast Top Rank Fights. In 1998 they began the iconic Friday Night Fights. In 2015 Friday Night Fights ended and was replaced with the Premier Boxing Champions. Golden Boy Boxing joined in 20...
ESPN College GameDay (1987 - Current) - Pre-Game show broadcast by ESPN on site right before a college football or college basketball game. Initially covering only football when it was introduced, a spin-off for college basketball games began in 2005. The show is always on site from the campus of the team hosting a featured game being pla...
E:60 (2007 - Current) - E:60 is an American sports newsmagazine broadcast by ESPN. The series features investigative journalism, focusing upon news, issues, and other stories in sports.
First Take (2007 - Current) - First Take is an American sports talk show on ESPN. Episodes air daily Monday through Friday, with the live episode airing from 10am ET until noon, with reruns from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET on ESPN2 and from 4:00 to 6:00PM ET on ESPNews
Get Up! (2018 - Current) - Get Up! is an American sports talk morning television program hosted by Mike Greenberg that airs weekdays on ESPN. The show is broadcast from a newly built studio in Pier 17 at New York's South Street Seaport. The premiere was originally set for New Year's Day 2018, but construction delays at the ne...
Monday Night Countdown (1993 - Current) - ESPN Monday Night Countdown, branded for sponsorship purposes as Monday Night Countdown presented by Courtyard by Marriott is an American pregame television program that is broadcast on ESPN, preceding Monday Night Football. When it debuted in 1993 as NFL Prime Monday, and Monday Night Football was...
Outside the Lines (1990 - Current) - Outside the Lines, or also referred to as OTL, is an American television program on ESPN that looks "outside the lines" and examines critical issues in mostly American sports on and off the field of play. The primary host of the show, is Jeremy Schaap. He replaced longtime sportscaster Bob Ley, who...
Pardon the Interruption (2001 - Current) - Pardon the Interruption (abbreviated PTI) is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stories of the day in "sports... and other stuff" (as Kornheiser put it in the show...
Sunday NFL Countdown (1985 - Current) - Sunday NFL Countdown (stylized as Sunday NFL Countdown presented by Snickers for sponsorship reasons) is an American pregame television program that covers the NFL action for that week. The shows airs on Sunday mornings during the NFL season from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
NHL on USA (1979 - Current) - NHL on USA is the de facto title of a television show that broadcasts National Hockey League games on the USA Network. First airing coverage in 1979 when the channel first became "USA Network", the channel exclusively broadcast the NHL's regular season along with the Stanley Cup Playoffs and became...
PBA on Fox (2018 - Current) - PBA on Fox is the branding used for Professional Bowlers Association broadcasts produced by Fox Sports and airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Sports 1.
Motorsports on NBC (1979 - Current) - Motorsports on NBC is the branding NBC has used when broadcasting auto racing events on TV. NASCAR was the first motorsport that NBC aired beginning in 1979, but NBC now also airs IndyCar Racing under the title "The IndyCar Series on NBC", IMSA under the title "IMSA on NBC", F1 Racing in partnership...
Soccer on ESPN (1981 - Current) - Soccer on ESPN is a number of programs that currently airs Association football matches in the United States. ESPN would sign with the North American Soccer League in 1981 and would broadcast its games exclusively. The first soccer game series ESPN aired was the 1986 FIFA World Cup and would air eve...
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series (1983 - Current) - Coverage of the National Hot Rod Association Drag Racing series that has spawned multiple networks since 1983. NHRA events have been broadcast on television, with such efforts dating back as far as 1983. By the 1990s, events were split between ESPN, NBC, and The Nashville Network. TNN also broadcast...
KTVU-TV Newscasts (1958 - Current) - KTVU-TV in Oakland-San Jose-San Francisco presently broadcasts 67 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Premier League on NBC (2013 - Current) - The Premier League on NBC and Premier League on NBCSN was the blanket title for broadcasts of the Premier League by the networks of NBC Sports. NBC acquired rights to the Premier League in 2013, and reached a six-year extension in 2015. NBC acquired rights to the Premier League in 2013, replacing Fo...
IndyCar Series on NBC (2009 - Current) - Since 2009 NBC has broadcast the IndyCar Series under a totally different package from its full Motorsports Series. The show has also gone under the titles of IndyCar Live and IndyCar Central. At IndyCar events, the program is always hosted by Leigh Diffey; Diffey also does Athletics and Rugby Union...
Formula One (1953 - Current) - Put simply, since its inception in 1950, the Formula One race series has been world television's most iconic and well-known race series. The first race aired on TV was the 1953 British Grand Prix which was broadcast by the BBC. Since then the series has now expanded to major worldwide coverage with...
FIFA World Cup (1954 - Current) - First held in 1930, the FIFA World Cup is television's single most watched and most followed sporting event in the world! Since the first televised World Cup in 1954 over 300 million people worldwide tune into to the event every four years with the 2006 final being the world's most watched sporting...
Olympic Games (1956 - Current) - First held in 1896 and broadcast in Germany in 1936, the Olympic Games is the world's largest and most-watched mixed sporting competition. The 1956 winter games were the first broadcast live worldwide. Since then the competition has grown in size and is now broadcast in over 100 nations worldwide. T...
People's Choice Awards (1975 - Current) - The People's Choice Awards (officially the E! People's Choice Awards since E! took it over in April 2017) is an American awards show, recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans. The show has been held annually since 1975, with the winners originally determined u...
GLAAD Media Awards (2005 - Current) - The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. In addition to film and television, the Awards also...
American Comedy Awards (1987 - Current) - The American Comedy Awards are a group of awards presented annually in the United States recognizing performances and performers in the field of comedy, with an emphasis on television comedy and comedy films. They began in 1987, billed as the "first awards show to honor all forms of comedy." In 1989...
KTTV-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - KTTV-TV in Los Angeles presently broadcasts 49 hours of local newscasts each week. When KTTV was first sign-on in 1949, it had its news title: "KTTV Newsreel". Newscasts on KTTV began in 1951 with newscast title: "The George Putnam News." Newscasts were not on KTTV from 1964 until returning in th...
World Champions Rodeo Alliance on CBS (2018 - Current) - First established in 2018, the WCRA was created to bring the sport of rodeo to the American masses. Since 2018, CBS has been the exclusive home off all of the league's events.
WNBA on CBS (2019 - Current) - WNBA on CBS is the branding used for CBS coverage of the WNBA since they began covering games in 2019.
Trooping the Colour (1951 - Current) - Every year since 1951, BBC1 in the UK has been televising live coverage of Britian's Trooping the Colour: the British Queen's Birthday Parade.
Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017 - Current) - An animated series that serves as a prequel to the film series. Taking place four years before the first film, it tells the story of Mavis and his friends at the hotel.
Total Request Live (1998 - Current) - Total Request Live (known commonly as TRL) is an American television program broadcast on MTV that premiered on September 14, 1998. The series features popular music videos played during its countdown, and was also used as a promotion tool by musicians, actors, and other celebrities to promote their...
Soccer on NBC Sports (1986 - Current) - Soccer on NBC Sports is a number of television programs that have aired Association football matches in the United States on NBC and NBCSN. NBC began by airing the 1986 FIFA World Cup for the United States. They sporadically aired soccer matches from various league until 012 when they briefly became...
Tennis on NBC (1955 - Current) - Tennis on NBC is the de facto branding used for broadcasts of major professional tennis tournaments that are produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States. The network's tennis coverage normally airs during the afternoon; however for several weeks in...
POV (1988 - Current) - The longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films. PBS presents 1416 POV programs each year, and the series has premiered over 400 films to U.S. television audiences since 1988. POV's films have a strong first-person, social-issue focus. Many established directors, includ...
Art:21 (2001 - Current) - Art:21 - Art in the 21st Century is a PBS series, educational resource, archive, and history of contemporary art. It premiered in 2001, and is now broadcast in over 50 countries worldwide. Premiering a new season every two years, Art:21 is the only series on United States television to focus exclusi...
Austin City Limits (1976 - Current) - Austin City Limits is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas, by PBS member television station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States. The show helped Austin to become widely known as the "Live Music Capital of the World", and is the onl...
The Casagrandes (2019 - Current) - Having moved to Great Lakes City back in The Loud House episode "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos", Ronnie Anne Santiago, her older brother Bobby, and their mother Maria move in with their extended family called the Casagrandes consisting of the grandparents Hector and Rosa, aunt and uncle Frida...
CITY-DT Newscasts (1977 - Current) - CITY-DT in Toronto broadcasts 34 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
CMT Music Awards (1988 - Current) - Beginning as the Viewers' Choice Awards in 1988 as aired on The Nashville Network (TNN) the show merged with the Music City News Awards in 1990. The show became the TNN/Music City News Country Awards. In 1999 when Music City news ended publication the show became the Country Weekly presents the TNN...
You & Me (2011 - Current) - You and Me is a return to classic children's television inviting preschoolers to take part in the ultimate play date, all set in a place where people, puppets and animation coexist in perfect harmony.
Bob the Builder CGI (2015 - Current) - The Reboot of Bob the Builder
Odd Squad: Mobile Unit (2020 - Current) - An updated version of Odd Squad with new agents.
Vivi (2017 - Current) - Vivi
Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures (2019 - Current) - The new Mickey series replacing Mickey and the Roadster Racers. When Mixed-Up adventures premiered, reruns of Mickey and The Roadster Racers were renamed "Mickey Mouse Roadster Racers." Mixed-Up Adventures has the new Hot Dog Dance.
Fancy Nancy (2018 - Current) - Based on the Fancy Nancy books
Green Eggs and Ham (2019 - Current) - Green Eggs and Ham is an American animated comedy adventure streaming television series loosely based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book of the same title. It premiered on November 8, 2019 on Netflix. The series has received critical acclaim for its animation, humor, story and voice acting. In December 2019...
Blue's Clues & You! (2019 - Current) - Similar to the original 1996 series, this series has a live-action host in an animated world. The series features new production designs and the characters (aside from the host) are animated digitally, though the visual style remains similar to the style used in the original series.
Super BOOMi (2019 - Current) - Super BOOMi airs on Qubo
Clifford The Big Red Dog (2019 - Current) - Clifford returns in new animated series.
Firing Line (1966 - Current) - An American public affairs show founded in and hosted by conservative author and columnist William F. Buckley Jr. from 1966 to 1999, and relaunched in 2018 with host Margaret Hoover. The show began in 1966 on commercial TV on New York's WOR-TV before it moved to PBS in 1971 under the auspices of the...
Animaniacs (2020) (2020 - Current) - Based on Warner Bros. Animation's 1993-98 show, the new incarnation of "Animaniacs" sees the return of the Warner Brothers (and their Sister) to the same old antics but now updated for the new age with references to modern age pop culture and society.
The Chase (1995 - Current) - The Chase was a documentary on The Weather Channel it aired back in 1995, and Senior Meteorologist Stu Ostro teams up with the Storm Chasers of chasing tornadoes!!
New York Rangers Hockey on MSG Network (1969 - Current) - MSG Network in New York has been broadcasting New York Rangers Hockey every season since MSG Network was launched on October 15, 1969.
Enchantimals (2017 - Current) - Enchantimals are a group of lovable girls who have a special bond with their animal friends, and even share some of the same characteristics
DC Super Hero Girls (2019 - Current) - The series follows the adventures of teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna, and Green Lantern who are students at Metropolis High School.
KCNC-TV Newscasts (1953 - Current) - KCNC-TV in Denver presently broadcasts 30 hours and 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week.
College Football on CBS (1956 - Current) - The SEC on CBS (branded as The Home Depot SEC on CBS for sponsorship reasons and also formerly known as College Football on CBS) is the branding used for broadcasts of Southeastern Conference college football games that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in...
Dorm Zero (2018 - Current) - This is a Chinese animated series.
National Dog Show (2002 - Current) - The National Dog Show is an all-breed benched conformation show sanctioned by the American Kennel Club and the Kennel Club of Philadelphia.
Rose Parade (1947 - Current) - The Rose Parade, hosted by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, is an annual parade to mark the start of the Rose Bowl Game, held mostly along Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, on New Year's Day (or on Monday, January 2 if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday).
Golden Globe Awards (1964 - Current) - The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film, both American and International, and the American television. NBC has broadcast the awards annually every year since 1964.
Primetime Emmy Awards (1967 - Current) - The Primetime Emmy Award is an American award bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. First given out in 1949, the award was originally referred to as simply the "Emmy Awards" until the first Daytime Emmy...
Daytime Emmy Awards (1974 - Current) - The Daytime Emmy Award is an American accolade bestowed by the New Yorkbased National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. Ceremonies generally are held in May or June. The ceremony has been broadcast in Priemtime since 199...
The Tony Awards (1967 - Current) - The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. Held every year since 1947, CBS has televised the ceremony every year since 1967.
The Grammy Awards (1973 - Current) - A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. Even though various broadcasts on radio an TV have covered the awards since 1959, CBS has had the exclusive rights to na...
American Music Awards (1974 - Current) - The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, generally held in the Fall, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired. It is the first of the Big Three music award shows held annually (the others being the Grammy Awar...
Billboard Music Awards (1990 - Current) - The Billboard Music Award is an honor given out annually by Billboard, a publication and music popularity chart covering the music business. The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually since 1990 and the event was formerly held in December until it went dormant in 2006. The awards return...
The Academy of Country Music Awards (1972 - Current) - The Academy of Country Music Awards, also known as the ACM Awards, were first held in 1966, honoring the industry's accomplishments during the previous year. It was the first country music awards program held by a major organization. The Academy's signature "hat" trophy was first created in 1968. Th...
BET Awards (2001 - Current) - The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other American minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually, and are broadcast live on BET. The ann...
Miss America Pageant (1954 - Current) - Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Hosted by Bob Russell during it's first TV broadcast, the show was at one time the most watched show on all of television.
Screen Actors Guild Awards (1995 - Current) - Screen Actors Guild Awards (also known as SAG Awards) are accolades given by the Screen Actors GuildAmerican Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) to recognize outstanding performances in film and prime time television. The awards have aired since 1995 on TBS and TNT.
Awful Life of Violy (2015 - Current) - Andrew Orozco first made the Series called Awful Life of Violy (Season(s) 1 -) This show doesn't get Cancelled, He will Continue the Series!
Doteraman (1986 - 1987) - An anime series created by Ippei Kuri (born Toyoharu Yoshida) and produced by Tatsunoko Production. It was the studio's second series to air in Nippon Television fifteen years after Animetari: Ketsudan, where the channel currently owns the studio rights. Doteraman premiered in Fall 1986 and ran for...
Beachy & Friends (2021 - Current) - Upcoming animated TV show being developed by the creators of The Beeps and Jelly Jamm. The show stars a beach ball named Beachy as a main character. His best friends Soccery the Soccer ball, Baskety the Basketball, and Exerciser the Exercise Ball. Together they go on adventures.
Snoopy in Space (2019 - Current) - The story follows Snoopy as his vision of becoming an astronaut turn into reality, as he and Woodstock tag along with the Peanuts gang on a trip to NASA. They are chosen for an important mission to space - it is said...
Elinor Wonders Why (2020 - Current) - This latest PBS Kids animated series follows Elinor and her friends Ari and Olive as they observe something in nature began to ask questions.
60 Minutes+ (2021 - Current) - The American streaming news version of the CBS News longest-running newsmagazine program features longer segments.
Arnie's Shack (2006 - Current) - Australian Christian Childrens program featuringGet Active with Postman PJ, Balloon Kaboon! with Pr. Daron, D.I.Y. for Kids, Check it Out with Ranger Hardy.
Early Risers with Ketchup TV (2012 - Current) - A selection of your favorite Ketchup TV programs for early risers.
Castlevania (2017 - Current) - Inspired by the popular video game series, this anime series is a dark medieval fantasy. It follows the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, Trevor Belmont, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hands of Vlad Dracula Tepes. As Dracula and his legion of vampires prepare...
Pinkalicious & Peterific (2018 - Current) - Based on the best-selling books, Pinkalicious & Peterific is a animated TV series about Pinkalicious and her brother, Peter.
Denver, the Last Dinosaur (2018 - Current) - Reboot of the classic animated series from late 80's.
Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas (2016 - Current) - This weekday morning program delivers viewers information about business and financial news from the Americas.
Puppy Bowl (2005 - Current) - The Puppy Bowl is an annual television program on Animal Planet that mimics an American football game similar to the Super Bowl, using puppies. Shown each year on Super Bowl Sunday, the show consists of footage of a batch of puppies at play inside a model stadium, with commentary on their actions. T...
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (2016 - Current) - This American weeknight news and political television program has been airing weeknights at 11PM eastern time on MSNBC since its premiere on September 6, 2016.
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (2012 - Current) - The animated spin-off of Mister Roger's Neighborhood follows the tales of Daniel Tiger and his friends who are children to the citizens of the neighborhood of Make Believe.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018 - Current) - Deep in the sewers of New York City, four mutant turtle brothers lurk. Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo are in their early teen years, and the brothers go on new and exciting adventures. They tap into their mystic ninja powers to learn to work together as a cohesive unit and become a t...
KTVI - Fox 2 News (1953 - Current) - KTVI
Momentos Divertidos (2020 - Current) - Vdeo nuevo aqu cada viernes
Hero Elementary (2020 - Current) - Spark's Crew to the Rescue
Super Bowl Greatest Commercials (2001 - Current) - Every year right before the big game, CBS hosts a special where viewers get to vote on the greatest Super Bowl Commercials of the past 20 years. Originally cast via the cbs.com website, the special has allowed viewers to comment via social media to vote for their favorite commercial in more recent y...
VeggieTales (1993 - Current) - VeggieTales
MSNBC Live Coverage (1996 - Current) - MSNBC has been provided live coverage of special events across American and around the world since 1996.
The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 - Current) - A new generation of Tom and Jerry cartoons for a new generation of children! Like the original shorts the new cartoons (three per episode) have a few specific formats:
Grey's Anatomy (2005 - Current) - A medical based drama centered around Meredith Grey, an aspiring surgeon and daughter of one of the best surgeons, Dr. Ellis Grey. Throughout the series, Meredith goes through professional and personal challenges along with fellow surgeons at Seattle Grace Hospital.
AMHQ: America's Morning Headquarters (2000 - Current) - This American weekday morning program on The Weather Channel, debut on January 3, 2000 as 'Your Weather Today'. On November 12, 2012, the program changed its titles with a new name: "Morning Rush". On March 17, 2014, the program changed once again, this time with a new name: "AMHQ: America's Morni...
Morning Joe (2007 - Current) - This American weekday morning news program has been on MSNBC since its debut on April 9, 2007.
Access Hollywood (1996 - Current) - Access Hollywood, formerly known as Access from 2017 to 2019, is an American weekday television entertainment news program that premiered on September 9, 1996. It covers events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Me...
Through the Night with Ketchup TV (2012 - Current) - A selection of your favorite Ketchup TV programs airing all night long.
Gabby's Dollhouse (2020 - Current) - A Brand-New Preschool Hybrid series from DreamWorks Animation Television and Netflix, from the co-creators of Blue's Clues.
Math Monsters (2003 - 2004) - In this all-CGI series that was distributed to schools via video but also aired on PBS, the titular Math Monsters Mina, Multiplex, Split, and Addison apply math skills to task they are currently performing with fun songs and catchy rhymes along the way. Every episode of the series ended with a live-...
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015 - Current) - In modern-day Paris, teenagers Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste transform into superheroes when evil arises.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! (2003 - 2005) - Animated children's television series produced by Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited for HIT Entertainment and is currently distributed by Foothill Entertainment.
Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018 - Current) - This web series from Disney follows Donald, Jos, and Panchito as they learned that they are the new Three Caballeros. Aided by Xandra, Goddess of Adventure, they learn to become heroes in order to defend the world against Lord Felldrake.
Riverdale (2017 - Current) - This CW teen drama sees the Archie Comics characters and the town of Riverdale given a Twin Peaks style setting.
Science Max: Experiments at Large (2015 - Current) - Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered "What would this be like if it were HUGE?" Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you've done at home.
Pikwik Pack (2020 - Current) - The new show on Disney Junior.
Target Tornado (1994 - Current) - Target Tornado is a documentary of The Weather Channel, The Documentary featured of the history of Tornadoes in the past, It was hosted & Narrated by Charlie Welsh
Target Tornado (1994 - Current) - Target Tornado is a documentary of The Weather Channel, The Documentary featured of the history of Tornadoes in the past, It was hosted & Narrated by Charlie Welsh
Surf Ninjas(1993) - Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance are magically-induced martial arts prowess. Using their new powers they act to overthrow the island's current dictator, a despotic madman.
The Fog(1980) - The town of Antonio Bay is set to celebrate its 100 year anniversery but none of the current inhabbitants really know how Antonio Bay came to be. As Father Mahoney accidently happens upon one of his ancestors journals, he makes a chilling discovery. Meanwhile a strange glowing fog is making its way...
Election(1999) - In this satirical comedy, a hotly contested high school election becomes a metaphor for the current state of American politics. Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) is a popular and well-respected instructor at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska, but lately he's been unhappy in bo...
Scream 2(1997) - It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a...
Ghost Dad(1990) - Elliot Hopper is a widower with three children, he is currently working on a deal. It seems like his wife illness was very costly and this deal could put them out of the red. However he gets into a cab that is driven by a maniac, and Elliot crashes into a river. Elliot is sent back so that he could...
My Fellow Americans(1996) - Former Presidents Russell Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are quite different politically, but when they're implicated in a scandal involving current President William Haney (Dan Aykroyd), the two unite and set off on a trip to get evidence that will clear their names. Along the...
Perfect(1985) - Adam (John Travolta) is a reporter for "Rolling Stone" magazine. He's currently working on two stories...One of them is a piece on dating at gyms, while the other is an interview with a man selling state secrets to foreign countries. He falls in love with an aerobics instructor named Jessie (Jamie L...
The Evening Star(1996) - Shirley MacLaine reprises her award-winning performance as Aurora Greenway in this sequel to Terms of Endearment. Fifteen years after the death of her daughter Emma, Aurora is still keeping an eye on her three grandchildren and not having very good luck with it. Tommy (George Newbern) is currently d...
Tekkonkinkreet(2006) - In Treasure Town, life can be both peaceful and violent. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White - two street kids who claim to traverse the urban city as if it were their own. But in this town, an undercurrent of evil exists and has its sights set on the pair of brothers, forcing t...
Power Play(1978) - A group of military officers, angered and frustrated by the corruption and repression of the current government, finally decide that for the good of the country they must overthrow the regime. However, the planned coup's leader, an infantry colonel, finds that in order to get the support he needs he...
Side Streets(1998) - Staten Island Cab-driver, Bipin Raj, picks up a passenger, mistakes her for a movie star, but tells her that his brother, Vikram Raj, is a very well-known Bollywood mega-star with millions of fans, and is currently living with him and his family of his wife and two children. But all is not hunky dor...
Family Business(1989) - Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son...
The Bad Seed(1956) - A mother named Christine Penmark lives with her husband (currently away on military duty) and their daughter, Rhoda. Rhoda is a well, proper and sweetheart, Later it turns out a young boy has drowned at Rhona's school, Christine start to unravel that Rhoda may not be the good girl everyone think she...
The Hot Flashes(2013) - An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current arrogant high school girls' state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove t...
Renegades(1989) - Buster McHenry works as an undercover agent for the local police. Currently he investigates on police corruption and is in big trouble. His task makes him break the law, he participates in a robbery. Things really screw up as not only two men are shot, but also an ancient indian spear is stolen and...
Napoleon Dynamite(2004) - Napoleon Dynamite is a high school student from Preston, Idaho who lives with his grandmother, his older brother Kip, and their pet llama, Tina. Kip, 32, is currently unemployed and boasts of spending hours in Internet chat rooms with "babes" and training to be a cage fighter; their grandmother lead...
Every Little Step(2008) - Follows the plight of real-life dancers as they struggle through auditions for the Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line". Also investigates the history of the show and the creative minds behind the original and current incarnations.
The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh(1971) - An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.
https://myanimelist.net/manga/12585/Undercurrent
https://myanimelist.net/manga/39121/I_Am_Currently_Living_with_a_Bear
The Matrix 4 (2021) ::: Expected December 22, 2021 The plot is currently unknown. Director: Lana Wachowski Writers: Aleksandar Hemon, David Mitchell | 1 more credit Stars:
Brass Eye ::: TV-MA | 25min | Comedy | TV Series (19972001) Controversal spoof of current affairs television, and the role of celebrity in the UK. Stars: Christopher Morris, Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon Available on Amazon
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Biography, Comedy, Crime | 2 November 2018 (South -- Can You Ever Forgive Me? Poster -- When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. Director: Marielle Heller Writers:
Conan ::: TV-14 | 42min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show | TV Series (2010 ) -- Conan O'Brien and his co-host Andy Richter discuss current news topics and interview celebrities and personalities. Creators: Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter
Documentary Now! ::: TV-14 | 23min | Comedy | TV Series (2015 ) -- Documentary Now parodies the current obsession with documentaries. Season one features six different stories and stylistic approaches paying tribute to the doc format. Creators:
Frontera (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 43min | Drama, Thriller, Western | 31 July 2014 (USA) -- A former Arizona sheriff's wife is killed while riding on their ranch property. It would appear a Mexican man illegally crossing into the US is at fault. As the former and the current sheriff search for answers, lives are changed forever. Director: Michael Berry Writers:
Get Shorty (1995) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 45min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 20 October 1995 (USA) -- A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Writers: Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay)
Kings & Queen (2004) ::: 7.1/10 -- Rois et reine (original title) -- Kings & Queen Poster Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape. Director: Arnaud Desplechin Writers: Arnaud Desplechin (scenario & dialogue), Roger Bohbot (scenario &
Law & Order ::: TV-14 | 45min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19902010) -- Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court. Creator:
Mock the Week ::: TV-14 | 29min | Comedy, Game-Show | TV Series (2005 ) A comedic look at current events. Creators: Mark Leveson, Dan Patterson Stars: Dara O Briain, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons
My Fellow Americans (1996) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy | 20 December 1996 (USA) -- Two former U. S. Presidents, hated rivals, join forces to expose the current, corrupt President at the risk of their lives. Director: Peter Segal Writers: E. Jack Kaplan (story), Richard Chapman (story) | 3 more credits
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) ::: 8.1/10 -- Shin seiki Evangelion Gekij-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni (original -- Not Rated | 1h 27min | Animation, Action, Drama | 2005 (Germany) Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion Poster -- Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Directors: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki Writer:
Sinister (2012) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 12 October 2012 (USA) -- Washed-up true crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies in his new home that suggest the murder that he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s. Director: Scott Derrickson Writers:
Strategic Air Command (1955) ::: 6.4/10 -- Approved | 1h 52min | Action, Drama, War | 25 March 1955 (USA) -- An ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence. Director: Anthony Mann Writers: Valentine Davies (screenplay), Beirne Lay Jr. (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) ::: 7.1/10 -- Myeong-ryang (original title) -- Korea) The Admiral: Roaring Currents Poster -- Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang. Director: Han-min Kim
The Current War: Director's Cut (2017) ::: 6.5/10 -- The Current War (original title) -- The Current War: Director's Cut Poster -- The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world. Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Writer:
The Hateful Eight (2015) ::: 7.8/10 -- R | 2h 48min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 30 December 2015 (USA) -- In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
The Last Tycoon ::: TV-MA | 1h 1min | Drama | TV Series (20162017) -- Centers on Hollywood's first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s, Monroe Stahr, and the power struggle between him and his mentor and current head of the studio Pat Brady. Creator:
The Sense of an Ending (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Drama, Mystery | 10 March 2017 (USA) -- A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life. Director: Ritesh Batra Writers: Julian Barnes (novel), Nick Payne (adaptation) | 1 more credit
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) ::: 8.1/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 41min | Documentary | 15 January 2011 (Brazil) -- A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. Director: Peter Joseph Writer:
https://3rdrock.fandom.com/wiki/3rd_Rock_from_the_Sun:Current_events
https://academia.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://accounting.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://afrosamurai.fandom.com/wiki/Afro_Samurai_Wiki:Current_events
https://akb48.fandom.com/wiki/Concurrent_Positions
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators_(SIADD)
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Current_US_Senators
https://anarchyonline.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://andalu.fandom.com/wiki/Archivo:Gnome_globe_current_event.png
https://atcband.fandom.com/wiki/Against_The_Current_Wiki
https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Publicly_Available_Information/Anime
https://aussierulesfootball.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Clubs
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Current_Batman_Family_Members
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Current_Members_of_the_Gotham_City_Police_Force
https://biomedicalcybernetics.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://bristolrovers.fandom.com/wiki/Current_squad
https://bungie.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Projects
https://callofjuarez.fandom.com/wiki/Current_news
https://campaigns.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://campaigns.fandom.com/wiki/Survey_of_campaigns_currently_using_wikis
https://candycrush.fandom.com/wiki/Redesigning/Current
https://chainchronicle.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Events
https://characters.fandom.com/wiki/Katie_Current
https://chexquest.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://cities.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://cities.fandom.com/wiki/Tucson:Current_events
https://citiesxxl.fandom.com/wiki/Cities_XXL_Wiki:Current_events
https://ck.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://clean.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://clonewars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Clone_Wars:Current_Active_Users
https://clonewars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Clone_Wars:Current_Admins
https://conearth.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Events
https://conworld.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_characters
https://couplesforchrist.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://cricket.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Currently_Active_Fast_Bowlers
https://customrobo.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Current
https://disneychannel.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Disney_Shows
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Disney_Wiki:Current_events
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Swiftcurrent
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Central_News_and_Current_Affairs
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_permanent_representatives_to_the_United_Nations_(fictional)
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_pretenders_in_fictional_countries
https://dreamworks.fandom.com/wiki/DreamWorks_Wiki:Current_events
https://eastenders.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_houses_in_EastEnders
https://education.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://ei.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Investigation:_Current_Status
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Wiki:Member_of_the_Month/current
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Wiki:Member_of_the_Month/currentquote
https://electronicmusic.fandom.com/wiki/Electronic_Music_Wiki:Current_events
https://emmerdale.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_characters
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events/Archive
https://eternalcardgame.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_Notes/Current
https://fads.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://fbla.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://fci.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://fire.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_fire_apparatus_manufacturers
https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://football.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Leagues
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Australia/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Country_South_Australia/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Country_Victoria/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Metropolitan_Adelaide/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Metropolitan_Melbourne/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_New_South_Wales/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Queensland/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Tasmania/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_the_Northern_Territory/Current
https://footy.fandom.com/wiki/Footy_in_Western_Australia/Current
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Current_clack
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Forgotten_Realms_Wiki:Current_events
https://ftb.fandom.com/wiki/Feed_The_Beast_Wiki:Current_issues
https://ftb.fandom.com/wiki/Recurrent_Complex
https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Cast
https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://goodhockey.fandom.com/wiki/Swift_Current_Outlaws
https://highschool-of-the-dead.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Projects
https://homeschooling.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother_Wiki:Current_Projects
https://humanscience.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Current_year
https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Indiana_Jones_Wiki:Current_events
https://k12.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://kaminomi.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_The_World_God_Only_Knows_Chapters/Volume_21_-_Current
https://kidsmeal.fandom.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki:Current_events
https://k-on.fandom.com/wiki/K-ON!_Wiki:Current_events
https://language.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Shortland_Street_characters
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_Arsenal_FC_players
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_Indian_Super_League_players_with_national_team_caps
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/WikiLists:Current_events
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/A_Current_Affair_(Australia)
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Current_TV
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Four_Corners_(Current_affairs_program)
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Google_Currents_(social_network)
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Westwood_One_(current)
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Brazil
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/China
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/CIS
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Europe
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Japan
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Korea
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Latin_America
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/North_America
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Oceania
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/PCS
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Turkey
https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Roster_Swaps/Current/Vietnam
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/LOTR:Current_policies
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events_Archives
https://medalofhonor.fandom.com/wiki/Rip_Current
https://meerkats.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Mobs
https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/MMKB:Current_Goals
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Exposed_multi-phasing_alternating_current
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Counter-current_distributor
https://metallica.fandom.com/wiki/Metallica_Wiki:Current_Projects
https://miriadic.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://modernmythology.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://museums.fandom.com/wiki/Museums:Current_events
https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Narutopedia:Current_events
https://nazizombiesplus.fandom.com/wiki/Concurrent_Demise
https://neopets.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Wiki_Projects
https://netbsd-ataritt.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Status
https://nethack.fandom.com/wiki/Wikihack:Current_projects
https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Oz_Wiki:Current_events
https://packers.fandom.com/wiki/Current_roster
https://pakistan.fandom.com/wiki/Current_issues_in_Pakistan
https://paramore.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Members
https://piratesonline.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Events
https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Pixar_Wiki:Current_Events
https://pokemongo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_current_Raid_Bosses
https://polyamory.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://portfolio.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Top_10_list:Current_Main_Avenger_with_the_Best_Superpowers
https://pr.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://programs.fandom.com/wiki/AppPedia:Current_events
https://psychusa.fandom.com/wiki/Psych_Wiki:Current_events
https://rainbowmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Rainbow_Magic_Wiki:Current_polls
https://realtennis.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://sarbanesoxley.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://scifi.fandom.com/wiki/WikiSciFi:Current_events
https://scratchpad.fandom.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Revision-info-current
https://scream.fandom.com/wiki/Current
https://seattle.fandom.com/wiki/Current_happenings
https://secondlife.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Life_Wiki:Current_events
https://shopping.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://smallville.fandom.com/wiki/Smallville_Wiki:Current_events
https://soremachi.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Soredemo_machi_wa_Mawatteiru/Volume_1_-_Current
https://springtimeofyouth.fandom.com/wiki/Rock_Lee_Springtime_of_Youth_Wiki:Current_Events
https://starwarsd20.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Crosscurrent
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Fierce_Currents
https://stc.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Comic_Wiki:Current_events
https://stumbleupon.fandom.com/wiki/StumbleUpon_Wiki:Current_events
https://superjail.fandom.com/wiki/Superjail_Wiki:Current_events
https://swatkats.fandom.com/wiki/SWAT_Kats_Wiki:Current_events
https://swfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Plasma_Current_Chip
https://swfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Fanon:Current_events
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Alternating_Current_(comic_story)
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Undercurrents_(short_story)
https://taylorswift.fandom.com/wiki/Current_love_interest
https://tech.fandom.com/wiki/TechWiki:Current_events
https://thefutureofeuropes.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Nations
https://thementalist.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mentalist_Wiki:Current_events
https://tolkienlanguages.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://totaldramaislandfanfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Favorites
https://transfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine_Wikia:Current_Events
https://valiant.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Series
https://vim.fandom.com/index.php?title=Auto_highlight_current_word_when_idle&diff=29630&oldid=27148
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Add/change_file_extension_in_current_buffer
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Add/change_file_extension_in_current_buffer?printable=yes
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Add/change_file_extension_in_current_buffer?useskin=monobook
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto_highlight_current_word_when_idle
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto_highlight_current_word_when_idle?printable=yes
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto_highlight_current_word_when_idle?useskin=monobook
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto-save_current_buffer_periodically
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto-save_current_buffer_periodically?printable=yes
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto-save_current_buffer_periodically?useskin=monobook
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Collect_filenames_of_current_subtree
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Collect_filenames_of_current_subtree?printable=yes
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Collect_filenames_of_current_subtree?useskin=monobook
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Copy_current_file_to_another_location_from_within_vim
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Copy_current_file_to_another_location_from_within_vim?printable=yes
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Copy_current_file_to_another_location_from_within_vim?useskin=monobook
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Create_patch_for_currently_editing_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Current_buffer_based_menus
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Diff_current_buffer_and_the_original_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Diff_the_current_buffer_with_another_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Displaying_the_current_Vim_environment
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Edit_a_temporary_copy_of_the_current_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Evaluate_current_line_using_Python
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Execute_Python_from_within_current_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Have_Intellisense_search_current_directory
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Highlight_current_line
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Highlight_only_the_current_search_result
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Insert_current_date_or_time
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Make-compile_current_buffer
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Move_current_window_between_tabs
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Open_pdf_to_the_current_location_in_a_LaTeX_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Preview_current_HTML_file
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Preview_current_HTML_in_browser_on_Linux
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Run_Vim_command_on_current_C/C++/Java_function
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_in_current_function
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Use_:next_to_search_for_files_in_the_current_directory
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Write_multiple_copies_of_the_currently_edited_file
https://vintagepatterns.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_Wiki:Current_events
https://wednesday13.fandom.com/wiki/Wednesday_13_Current_Tour
https://werderbremen.fandom.com/wiki/Current_team
https://whistle.fandom.com/wiki/Whistle!_Wiki:Current_events
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Events
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/The_Recurrent
https://wikiality.fandom.com/wiki/Current_Events
https://wikiality.fandom.com/wiki/Current_events
https://wordgirl.fandom.com/wiki/WordGirl_Wiki:Current_events
https://worldofgoo.fandom.com/wiki/World_of_Goo_Wiki:Current_events
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentArenaSeason
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentBindingSet
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentMapAreaID
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentMapContinent
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentMapDungeonLevel
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentMapZone
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentResolution
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetCurrentTitle
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_IsCurrentAction
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_ScrollingMessageFrame_GetCurrentScroll
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_SetCurrentGuildBankTab
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_SetCurrentTitle
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_SetMapToCurrentZone
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Level_cap/current
https://www.ancardia.com/download/doc/current/adom_manual.txutube.com/fandomentertainment
Advancer Tina -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Space Hentai Sci-Fi -- Advancer Tina Advancer Tina -- There is something very dangerous about planet Omega 13. Whatever it is, it's been killing Advancers sent out, one by one, to investigate. The Domestic Union of Arms is perplexed, so top DUA officer Mugal decides to give the job to the most dangerous, most independent, and most expendable Advancer they could find. -- -- They find such an Advancer in the renegade Tina Owens. Currently incarcerated with a 2,000 year sentence for blowing up a planet, she is given a tempting offer. Instead of rotting in her cell, if she'll go to Omega 13, find and destroy any threats on the planet, and determine any exploitable resources for the Allied Earth Government, they'll let her go. -- -- Knowing how dangerous Omega 13 appears to be (and thinking about what has yet to be discovered), how would you decide? Tina takes the job, and she sets off for the planet. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- OVA - Aug 21, 1996 -- 2,598 5.05
Akatsuki no Yona -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Romance Shoujo -- Akatsuki no Yona Akatsuki no Yona -- Princess Yona lives a life of luxury and ease, completely sheltered from the problems of the seemingly peaceful Kingdom of Kouka; however, the sudden murder of the king and betrayal of her beloved cousin Su-won places Yona's life in mortal peril. Forced to escape only with Son Hak, who is both her childhood friend and bodyguard, the naïve princess soon discovers that Kouka is not the idyllic place she envisioned it to be. Poverty, strife, and corruption run rampant, making reclaiming the throne nothing more than a wishful fantasy given the kingdom's current state. -- -- Based on the popular manga of the same name by Mizuho Kusanagi, Akatsuki no Yona follows Princess Yona on a coming-of-age adventure as she faces the harsh realities of her kingdom. With only a mysterious legend to guide her, Yona must discover a way to restore Kouka to its former glory while being pursued relentlessly by the forces of the new King of Kouka. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 621,162 8.04
Akira -- -- Tokyo Movie Shinsha -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Horror Supernatural Seinen -- Akira Akira -- Japan, 1988. An explosion caused by a young boy with psychic powers tears through the city of Tokyo and ignites the fuse that leads to World War III. In order to prevent any further destruction, he is captured and taken into custody, never to be heard from again. Now, in the year 2019, a restored version of the city known as Neo-Tokyo—an area rife with gang violence and terrorism against the current government—stands in its place. Here, Shoutarou Kaneda leads "the Capsules," a group of misfits known for riding large, custom motorcycles and being in constant conflict with their rivals "the Clowns." -- -- During one of these battles, Shoutarou's best friend Tetsuo Shima is caught up in an accident with an esper who finds himself in the streets of Tokyo after escaping confinement from a government institution. Through this encounter, Tetsuo begins to develop his own mysterious abilities, as the government seeks to quarantine this latest psychic in a desperate attempt to prevent him from unleashing the destructive power that could once again bring the city to its knees. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- Movie - Jul 16, 1988 -- 594,710 8.17
Azur Lane -- -- Bibury Animation Studios -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military Sci-Fi -- Azur Lane Azur Lane -- When the "Sirens," an alien force with an arsenal far surpassing the limits of current technology, suddenly appeared, a divided humanity stood in complete solidarity for the first time. Four countries—Eagle Union, Royal Navy, Sakura Empire, and Iron Blood—formed Azur Lane, paving the way for the improvement of modern warfare, which led to an initial victory against the common threat. However, this tenuous union was threatened by opposing ideals, dividing the alliance into two. Sakura Empire and Iron Blood broke away and formed the Red Axis, and humanity became fragmented once again. -- -- As a seasoned and experienced fighter, the "Grey Ghost" Enterprise shoulders Azur Lane's hope for ending the war. But behind her stoic persona hides a frail girl, afraid of the ocean. Even so, she continues to fight as she believes that it's the only purpose for her existence. Meanwhile, Javelin, Laffey, and Unicorn—three ships from the union—stumble upon Ayanami, a spy from the Red Axis. Strange as it may seem, they try to befriend her, but as enemies, their efforts are for naught. Still, they persevere in hopes of succeeding one day. -- -- Amidst the neverending conflict within humankind, the keys that could unite a fragmented race might exist: a soldier coming to terms with her mysterious personality and camaraderie between those with different ideals. -- -- 112,848 6.27
Azur Lane -- -- Bibury Animation Studios -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military Sci-Fi -- Azur Lane Azur Lane -- When the "Sirens," an alien force with an arsenal far surpassing the limits of current technology, suddenly appeared, a divided humanity stood in complete solidarity for the first time. Four countries—Eagle Union, Royal Navy, Sakura Empire, and Iron Blood—formed Azur Lane, paving the way for the improvement of modern warfare, which led to an initial victory against the common threat. However, this tenuous union was threatened by opposing ideals, dividing the alliance into two. Sakura Empire and Iron Blood broke away and formed the Red Axis, and humanity became fragmented once again. -- -- As a seasoned and experienced fighter, the "Grey Ghost" Enterprise shoulders Azur Lane's hope for ending the war. But behind her stoic persona hides a frail girl, afraid of the ocean. Even so, she continues to fight as she believes that it's the only purpose for her existence. Meanwhile, Javelin, Laffey, and Unicorn—three ships from the union—stumble upon Ayanami, a spy from the Red Axis. Strange as it may seem, they try to befriend her, but as enemies, their efforts are for naught. Still, they persevere in hopes of succeeding one day. -- -- Amidst the neverending conflict within humankind, the keys that could unite a fragmented race might exist: a soldier coming to terms with her mysterious personality and camaraderie between those with different ideals. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 112,848 6.27
Bakuman. 2nd Season -- -- J.C.Staff -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Shounen -- Bakuman. 2nd Season Bakuman. 2nd Season -- With the serialization of their new manga, "Detective Trap," the writer-artist team, Akito Takagi and Moritaka Mashiro, better known by their pseudonym Muto Ashirogi, are one step closer to becoming world-renowned mangaka. For Mashiro, however, serialization is just the first step. Having promised to marry his childhood sweetheart and aspiring voice actress, Azuki Miho, once his manga gets an anime adaptation, Mashiro must continue his to popularize Ashirogi's work. A tremendously competitive cast of ambitious mangaka—including the wild genius, Eiji Niizuma; the elegant student, Yuriko Aoki, and her older admirer and partner, Takurou Nakai; the lazy prodigy, Kazuya Hiramaru; and the abrasive artist, Shinta Fukuda—both support and compete against Muto Ashirogi in creating the next big hit. -- -- As they adjust to their young and seemingly untested new editor, the dynamic duo struggle to maintain their current serialization, secure the top stop in Shounen Jack, and ultimately, achieve an anime adaptation of their manga. With new rivals and friends, Bakuman. 2nd Season continues Takagi and Mashiro's inspiring story of hard work and young love. -- -- 296,269 8.39
Bakuman. 2nd Season -- -- J.C.Staff -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Shounen -- Bakuman. 2nd Season Bakuman. 2nd Season -- With the serialization of their new manga, "Detective Trap," the writer-artist team, Akito Takagi and Moritaka Mashiro, better known by their pseudonym Muto Ashirogi, are one step closer to becoming world-renowned mangaka. For Mashiro, however, serialization is just the first step. Having promised to marry his childhood sweetheart and aspiring voice actress, Azuki Miho, once his manga gets an anime adaptation, Mashiro must continue his to popularize Ashirogi's work. A tremendously competitive cast of ambitious mangaka—including the wild genius, Eiji Niizuma; the elegant student, Yuriko Aoki, and her older admirer and partner, Takurou Nakai; the lazy prodigy, Kazuya Hiramaru; and the abrasive artist, Shinta Fukuda—both support and compete against Muto Ashirogi in creating the next big hit. -- -- As they adjust to their young and seemingly untested new editor, the dynamic duo struggle to maintain their current serialization, secure the top stop in Shounen Jack, and ultimately, achieve an anime adaptation of their manga. With new rivals and friends, Bakuman. 2nd Season continues Takagi and Mashiro's inspiring story of hard work and young love. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- 296,269 8.39
Beastars -- -- Orange -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Psychological Drama Shounen -- Beastars Beastars -- In a civilized society of anthropomorphic animals, an uneasy tension exists between carnivores and herbivores. At Cherryton Academy, this mutual distrust peaks after a predation incident results in the death of Tem, an alpaca in the school's drama club. Tem's friend Legoshi, a grey wolf in the stage crew, has been an object of fear and suspicion for his whole life. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, he continues to lay low and hide his menacing traits, much to the disapproval of Louis, a red deer and the domineering star actor of the drama club. -- -- When Louis sneaks into the auditorium to train Tem's replacement for an upcoming play, he assigns Legoshi to lookout duty. That very night, Legoshi has a fateful encounter with Haru, a white dwarf rabbit scorned by her peers. His growing feelings for Haru, complicated by his predatory instincts, force him to confront his own true nature, the circumstances surrounding the death of his friend, and the undercurrent of violence plaguing the world around him. -- -- 525,888 8.00
Bounen no Xamdou -- -- Bones -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure -- Bounen no Xamdou Bounen no Xamdou -- Sentan Island is a small island surrounded by the Yuden Sea. It exists in a state of dreamlike tranquility, cut off from the war between the Northern Government and the Southern Continent Free Zone. Our hero, Akiyuki Takehara, lives on Sentain Island along with his mother Fusa. He is currently separated from his father, the town doctor Ryuzo, but the bond between father and son remains. One day, after taking Ryuzo the lunch that Fusa has made for him as usual, Akiyuki arrives at school, where he is caught up in an explosion along with his friends, Haru and Furuichi. The explosion produces a mysterious light, which enters Akiyuki's arm, causing him excruciating pain. He's given no time to understand it, however, as the white-haired girl who rode on the bus with him guides him to a power unlike anything he's ever known. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- ONA - Jul 15, 2008 -- 119,082 7.68
Bounen no Xamdou -- -- Bones -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure -- Bounen no Xamdou Bounen no Xamdou -- Sentan Island is a small island surrounded by the Yuden Sea. It exists in a state of dreamlike tranquility, cut off from the war between the Northern Government and the Southern Continent Free Zone. Our hero, Akiyuki Takehara, lives on Sentain Island along with his mother Fusa. He is currently separated from his father, the town doctor Ryuzo, but the bond between father and son remains. One day, after taking Ryuzo the lunch that Fusa has made for him as usual, Akiyuki arrives at school, where he is caught up in an explosion along with his friends, Haru and Furuichi. The explosion produces a mysterious light, which enters Akiyuki's arm, causing him excruciating pain. He's given no time to understand it, however, as the white-haired girl who rode on the bus with him guides him to a power unlike anything he's ever known. -- ONA - Jul 15, 2008 -- 119,082 7.68
Busou Shinki -- -- 8bit -- 12 eps -- Other -- Action Sci-Fi Slice of Life Mecha -- Busou Shinki Busou Shinki -- The slice-of-life battle story is set in a future that has neither World War III nor an alien invasion—just an ordinary future set after our current age. In this world, robots are part of everyday life, and they contribute in various aspects of society. "Shinki" are 15-centimeter-tall (about 6-inch-tall) cute partners made to assist humans. Equipped with intelligence and emotions, they devote themselves to serving their "Masters." -- -- These Shinki can even be equipped with weapons and armor to fight each other. Such Shinki are named "Busou Shinki" (literally, "armed divine princesses"). In particular, the Shinki Ann (Arnval), Aines (Altines), and Lene (Altlene) serve a high school freshman named Masato. Things change when a new Shinki, the bellicose Strarf, joins them. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 33,934 6.32
Canaan -- -- P.A. Works -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power Supernatural Seinen -- Canaan Canaan -- Oosawa Maria is a Japanese photographer currently working in Shanghai, China. Along with her partner Mino, she searches for potential newsworthy stories throughout the city. When strange events occur at a local festival, Maria and Mino immediately investigate. Quickly, the two are immersed in a battle between unknown masked men and a strange, white-haired woman. Just when Maria is about to be caught in the crossfire, an old friend by the name of Canaan appears and helps Maria escape. But a sinister plot over a deadly virus soon develops, and Canaan learns she must confront her past if she wants any chance at stopping the perpetrator and saving her friends. -- -- 190,335 7.26
Canaan -- -- P.A. Works -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power Supernatural Seinen -- Canaan Canaan -- Oosawa Maria is a Japanese photographer currently working in Shanghai, China. Along with her partner Mino, she searches for potential newsworthy stories throughout the city. When strange events occur at a local festival, Maria and Mino immediately investigate. Quickly, the two are immersed in a battle between unknown masked men and a strange, white-haired woman. Just when Maria is about to be caught in the crossfire, an old friend by the name of Canaan appears and helps Maria escape. But a sinister plot over a deadly virus soon develops, and Canaan learns she must confront her past if she wants any chance at stopping the perpetrator and saving her friends. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 190,335 7.26
Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu! -- -- Project No.9 -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Fantasy -- Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu! Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu! -- Seven Japanese high school students enjoy international renown for their remarkable talents. One day, these friends survive a plane crash only to find themselves in the medieval fantasy world of Freyjagard, where two human races live side by side in a feudal society: the byuma, who have animal features and formidable strength, and the hyuma, who have a small chance of magical aptitude. After being rescued by the byuma Winona and her adopted elven daughter Lyrule, the group pledges to use their advanced skills and knowledge to pay back the people of Elm Village for their hospitality and find a way to return back home. -- -- Tsukasa Mikogami, the prime minister of Japan, acts as the leader of these young geniuses and organizes their efforts to intervene in Freyjagard and gather the information and resources necessary for achieving their goals. Believing that there is a connection between their current situation and an ancient legend about seven heroes from another world who defeated an evil dragon, Tsukasa directs the others to learn about the culture around them and search for any clues leading them back to Earth. But he also gives another instruction: to take it nice and easy, lest they ruin this world by giving it their all. -- -- 162,715 6.34
Detective Conan -- -- TMS Entertainment -- ? eps -- Manga -- Adventure Mystery Comedy Police Shounen -- Detective Conan Detective Conan -- Shinichi Kudou, a high school student of astounding talent in detective work, is well known for having solved several challenging cases. One day, when Shinichi spots two suspicious men and decides to follow them, he inadvertently becomes witness to a disturbing illegal activity. Unfortunately, he is caught in the act, so the men dose him with an experimental drug formulated by their criminal organization, leaving him to his death. However, to his own astonishment, Shinichi lives to see another day, but now in the body of a seven-year-old child. -- -- Perfectly preserving his original intelligence, he hides his real identity from everyone, including his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her father, private detective Kogorou Mouri. To this end, he takes on the alias of Conan Edogawa, inspired by the mystery writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa. -- -- Detective Conan follows Shinichi who, as Conan, starts secretly solving the senior Mouri's cases from behind the scenes with his still exceptional sleuthing skills, while covertly investigating the organization responsible for his current state, hoping to reverse the drug's effects someday. -- -- 262,623 8.16
Detective Conan Movie 13: The Raven Chaser -- -- Tokyo Movie Shinsha -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Police Mystery Shounen -- Detective Conan Movie 13: The Raven Chaser Detective Conan Movie 13: The Raven Chaser -- Kudou Shinichi is living his life as Edogawa Conan, but those days seem like they might end pretty soon. The Black Syndicate is coming dangerously close to learning the truth about Shinichi having survived. Conan and everybody around him may end up dead if he doesn't manage to find Irish—a member of the Black Organization who has infiltrated the police forces, currently investigating a big serial murder case. -- Movie - Apr 18, 2009 -- 46,745 8.23
Detective Conan Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Mystery Historical Police Drama Romance -- Detective Conan Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter Detective Conan Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter -- A bombing case at Nichiuri TV in autumn. The Satsuki Cup, which crowns the winner of Japan's Hyakunin Isshu, is currently being filmed inside the facility. The incident results in a big commotion and, while the building is burning to ashes, the only people left inside are Heiji and Kazuha. They get rescued just in time by Conan, who rushes to the scene. Both the identity and purposes of the bomber are unknown. -- -- While confusion takes over due to the explosion, Conan meets a mysterious beautiful girl who claims she is "Heiji's fiancée". Her name is Momiji Ooka and she is the Kyoto High School champion of the Karuta game. As fate would have it, Kazuha is going to face Momiji in the Hyakunin Isshu, so she begins to train with the help of Heiji's mother, Shizuka, who is a skilled Karuta player. -- -- At the same time, in a Japanese house in Arashiyama, Kyoto's outskirts, the reigning Satsuki Cup champion is murdered. Pictures of the crime scene reveal Momji's presence. Additionally, several Karuta cards were spread around the victim. -- -- Conan and Heiji, along with the Osaka and Kyoto police departments, begin their investigation on the Satsuki Cup and the related murder case. As the inquiry goes on, they come across a secret connected with the Hyakunin Isshu. -- -- (Source: Detective Conan Wiki) -- Movie - Apr 15, 2017 -- 21,410 7.67
Detective Conan: The Magician of Starlight -- -- D & D Pictures -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Space -- Detective Conan: The Magician of Starlight Detective Conan: The Magician of Starlight -- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has planned a huge exhibition to present current progress in space exploration, as well as showcase a set of large, beautiful celestial jewels. But then, a message arrives from infamous Kaitou Kid, who plans to steal the treasure. Conan and the Detective Boys are brought in as added security. Everything is going well... until the power cuts out. With limited time, Conan and company must protect the jewels from Kaitou Kid. -- Movie - ??? ??, 2012 -- 2,088 6.53
Digimon Savers -- -- Toei Animation -- 48 eps -- Original -- Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Digimon Savers Digimon Savers -- Upon meeting for the first time, undefeated street fighter Marcus Damon and renegade Digimon Agumon become friends in the most natural way possible for the knuckleheaded duo—by fighting their hearts out. The self-proclaimed "ultimate team" are recruited by a secret government organization called the Digimon Data Squad, or DATS, who had witnessed an unbelievable human fighting blow for blow with a Digimon. Their primary objective is investigating mysterious problems caused by Digimon entering the real world, and the world is currently in the midst of a crisis with Digimon appearing at an unprecedented rate. -- -- Embarking on various missions with DATS, Marcus and Agumon become colleagues with adolescent genius Thomas H. Norstein and his Digimon partner Gaoman, along with the kind-hearted Yoshino "Yoshi" Fujeda and her Digimon partner Lalamon. As the group continues to investigate the rapid increase of Digimon in their world, a darker truth begins to surface, and it is up to Marcus, Agumon, and their friends to get to the bottom of things. -- -- 73,141 6.95
Digimon Savers -- -- Toei Animation -- 48 eps -- Original -- Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Digimon Savers Digimon Savers -- Upon meeting for the first time, undefeated street fighter Marcus Damon and renegade Digimon Agumon become friends in the most natural way possible for the knuckleheaded duo—by fighting their hearts out. The self-proclaimed "ultimate team" are recruited by a secret government organization called the Digimon Data Squad, or DATS, who had witnessed an unbelievable human fighting blow for blow with a Digimon. Their primary objective is investigating mysterious problems caused by Digimon entering the real world, and the world is currently in the midst of a crisis with Digimon appearing at an unprecedented rate. -- -- Embarking on various missions with DATS, Marcus and Agumon become colleagues with adolescent genius Thomas H. Norstein and his Digimon partner Gaoman, along with the kind-hearted Yoshino "Yoshi" Fujeda and her Digimon partner Lalamon. As the group continues to investigate the rapid increase of Digimon in their world, a darker truth begins to surface, and it is up to Marcus, Agumon, and their friends to get to the bottom of things. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Flatiron Film Company -- 73,141 6.95
Dragon Ball Z Movie 09: Ginga Girigiri!! Bucchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 09: Ginga Girigiri!! Bucchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu Dragon Ball Z Movie 09: Ginga Girigiri!! Bucchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu -- Mr. Money is holding another Tenka'ichi Budokai and Mr. Satan invites everyone in the world to join in. Little does he know that Bojack, an ancient villain who has escaped his prison, is competing. Since Goku is currently dead, it is up to Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks to defeat Bojack and his henchman. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jul 10, 1993 -- 94,444 7.11
Dragon Ball Z Movie 09: Ginga Girigiri!! Bucchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 09: Ginga Girigiri!! Bucchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu Dragon Ball Z Movie 09: Ginga Girigiri!! Bucchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu -- Mr. Money is holding another Tenka'ichi Budokai and Mr. Satan invites everyone in the world to join in. Little does he know that Bojack, an ancient villain who has escaped his prison, is competing. Since Goku is currently dead, it is up to Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks to defeat Bojack and his henchman. -- Movie - Jul 10, 1993 -- 94,444 7.11
Durarara!!x2 Ketsu -- -- Shuka -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural -- Durarara!!x2 Ketsu Durarara!!x2 Ketsu -- As Mikado Ryuugamine continues to purge the Dollars from within in accordance with his warped sense of justice, Masaomi Kida hopes to bring his friend back to his senses by bringing the Yellow Scarves together once more. Little do they know that a far more dominant force is about to enter their struggle for power, one that their friend Anri Sonohara is all too familiar with. -- -- Meanwhile, the group that has gathered at Shinra Kishitani's apartment realizes that they are on the brink of something life-changing, an event that will throw Ikebukuro into a spiral of confusion. Their anxiety is realized when reports of Celty's head being found in public start to appear all over the news as Kasane Kujiragi begins to make her move. -- -- Gone are the brief periods of tranquility as the current turmoil sets the stage for one final performance in this thrilling conclusion to the story of Ikebukuro's finest. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 308,424 8.09
Durarara!!x2 Shou: Watashi no Kokoro wa Nabe Moyou -- -- Shuka -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural -- Durarara!!x2 Shou: Watashi no Kokoro wa Nabe Moyou Durarara!!x2 Shou: Watashi no Kokoro wa Nabe Moyou -- One night, Mikado Ryuugamine accepts an invitation to Shinra Kishitani's apartment, eager to talk to Celty as quite some time has passed since the two last spoke. But, much to his astonishment, he finds that a large group of Ikebukuro's finest has gathered there for a hot pot party. -- -- Already confused with the current situation, Mikado is further surprised to see that his friend and fellow Raira Academy student Anri Sonohara is there as well. As the two decide to take a seat together, a few members of the group begin reminiscing over events from days past: Mikado recalls an adventure from his childhood with Masaomi Kida, Anri explains how she came to be friends with Mika Harima, and Shizuo Heiwajima tells of his first meeting with Tom Tanaka. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Special - Jul 22, 2015 -- 55,742 7.71
Durarara!!x2 Shou: Watashi no Kokoro wa Nabe Moyou -- -- Shuka -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural -- Durarara!!x2 Shou: Watashi no Kokoro wa Nabe Moyou Durarara!!x2 Shou: Watashi no Kokoro wa Nabe Moyou -- One night, Mikado Ryuugamine accepts an invitation to Shinra Kishitani's apartment, eager to talk to Celty as quite some time has passed since the two last spoke. But, much to his astonishment, he finds that a large group of Ikebukuro's finest has gathered there for a hot pot party. -- -- Already confused with the current situation, Mikado is further surprised to see that his friend and fellow Raira Academy student Anri Sonohara is there as well. As the two decide to take a seat together, a few members of the group begin reminiscing over events from days past: Mikado recalls an adventure from his childhood with Masaomi Kida, Anri explains how she came to be friends with Mika Harima, and Shizuo Heiwajima tells of his first meeting with Tom Tanaka. -- -- Special - Jul 22, 2015 -- 55,742 7.71
Dwaeji-ui Wang -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Psychological Drama Thriller Seinen -- Dwaeji-ui Wang Dwaeji-ui Wang -- After his business goes bankrupt, 30-something Kyung-Min (Oh Jung-Se) kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Suk (Yang Ik-June). Jong-Suk now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own novel. For the first time in 15 years, they meet. Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk both hide their own current situations and begin to talk about their middle school days. -- -- At their middle school, they were classified by their wealth and grades. Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk were at the bottom. They were called pigs. They were bullied by a ruling class called dogs. When they were called pigs, they got angry but couldn't do anything against the dogs. Then a king of pigs appears—Chul (Kim Hye-Na). Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk became to rely on Chul-Yi. -- -- Now, leading Jong-Suk to their middle school grounds, Kyung-Min discloses the shocking truth to Jong-Suk of what happened 15 years ago. -- -- (Source: Asian Media Wiki) -- Movie - Nov 3, 2011 -- 5,433 6.78
Fate/Extra: Last Encore - Illustrias Tendousetsu -- -- Shaft -- 3 eps -- Game -- Action Fantasy Magic -- Fate/Extra: Last Encore - Illustrias Tendousetsu Fate/Extra: Last Encore - Illustrias Tendousetsu -- After defeating the various Floor Masters of the six prior levels, Hakuno Kishinami and Saber arrive at the top floor of the Moon Cell. Their opponent will be Leonardo B. Harwey—the strongest Master in the history of the Holy Grail War and the current fan favorite, following his previous victory. -- -- As they reach a field of flowers among floating isles, Hakuno, Saber, and Rin Toosaka come across a hooded man tending to the blossoms. Saber immediately draws her blade before the cloaked figure, who reveals himself as Prince Gawain: the Platinum Saber and Knight of the Round Table. However, when Gawain insists that he has no interest in fighting, the four discuss the infinite possibilities for the Holy Grail, with Hakuno determined to return the Moon Cell to its original form. -- -- Their discussion ends with a clangor from afar, ringing through the skies. The threadbare Gawain, knowing its significance, informs the three that not much time remains for their lives. He beckons them towards the final battleground, where the two Sabers shall duel once more to determine the future of mankind. -- -- TV - Jul 29, 2018 -- 48,706 6.54
Gantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Gantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Ga-Rei: Zero -- -- AIC Spirits, Asread -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Super Power Supernatural Thriller -- Ga-Rei: Zero Ga-Rei: Zero -- In Japan, there exists a government agency known as the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division (SDCD), whose duty is to protect the citizens from creatures unseen. They are able to dispatch these monsters swiftly and without alerting the general public. But currently, they face a different challenge: the betrayal of one of their own. -- -- After the death of her mother several years ago, Kagura Tsuchimiya has been fostered by the Isayama family and forms a close sister-like bond with their daughter Yomi. The two become inseparable, and together they work for the SDCD as highly skilled exorcists. However, as the stress and consequences of their sacred duty weigh on them both, and family politics come into play, Kagura and Yomi begin to slowly drift apart. One of them grows earnestly into her role as an exorcist, and the other heads down a dark path from which there may be no redemption... -- -- 208,318 7.63
Ga-Rei: Zero -- -- AIC Spirits, Asread -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Super Power Supernatural Thriller -- Ga-Rei: Zero Ga-Rei: Zero -- In Japan, there exists a government agency known as the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division (SDCD), whose duty is to protect the citizens from creatures unseen. They are able to dispatch these monsters swiftly and without alerting the general public. But currently, they face a different challenge: the betrayal of one of their own. -- -- After the death of her mother several years ago, Kagura Tsuchimiya has been fostered by the Isayama family and forms a close sister-like bond with their daughter Yomi. The two become inseparable, and together they work for the SDCD as highly skilled exorcists. However, as the stress and consequences of their sacred duty weigh on them both, and family politics come into play, Kagura and Yomi begin to slowly drift apart. One of them grows earnestly into her role as an exorcist, and the other heads down a dark path from which there may be no redemption... -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 208,318 7.63
Gekijou Tanpen Macross Frontier: Toki no Meikyuu -- -- Satelight -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Music Space Romance Mecha -- Gekijou Tanpen Macross Frontier: Toki no Meikyuu Gekijou Tanpen Macross Frontier: Toki no Meikyuu -- Short screened with Macross Δ Movie 2: Zettai Live!!!. -- Movie - ??? ??, 2021 -- 728 N/A -- -- Aoki Uru: Overture -- -- Gainax -- 1 ep -- - -- Military Sci-Fi -- Aoki Uru: Overture Aoki Uru: Overture -- A short special created by a newly launched Uru in Blue LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) in Singapore that was pre-streamed in 2015. Aoki Uru: Overture is a lead up/preview to the full film. -- Special - ??? ??, 2015 -- 712 N/A -- -- Gasshin Sentai Mechander Robo -- -- - -- 35 eps -- - -- Space Mecha Military Mystery Sci-Fi -- Gasshin Sentai Mechander Robo Gasshin Sentai Mechander Robo -- The Doron Empire from the Ganymede System discovered Earth as an ideal world for them to conquer. The interest of expanding the empire came as a result of the power-hungry General Ozmel who overthrew the current reigning Queen Medusa of the Ganymede System as a start of their universal conquest. -- -- Almost completely succumbed to the empire, Earth is at its last days, and one scientist, Dr. Shikishima, had only one hope in restoring Earth from its alien conquerors--- a massive mecha known as the Mechander Robo, specially programmed and designed to battle these invading aliens from complete takeover of Earth. Along with this awesome fighter machine, Dr. Shikishima also recruited three pilots to be placed behind the Mechander Robo's controls--- the mysterious Jimmy Orion, the scientist's son Ryosuke Shikishima, and Kojiro Hachijima. -- -- Although the primary storyline is Earth battling the Doron Empire, there is something within lead pliot Jimmy Orion's past that was somewhat connected towards the entire storyline. -- TV - Mar 3, 1977 -- 699 5.83
Gift± -- -- - -- 20 eps -- Manga -- Horror Seinen -- Gift± Gift± -- With the growing demand for high-quality organ transplants in Japan, many underground organizations have carried out kidnapping and murder operations to obtain organs for sale; surgeon doctors also started practicing. It even began to intervene in outside countries like China. -- -- Our protagonist, Tamaki Suzuhara, a beautiful but mysterious high school girl, tries to find someone very important to her who is currently missing. She joined an illegal organ trafficking network, which kidnapped those who were judged "morally cure" for morphological, surgical removal of organs. -- -- Let's see where this bloody journey and Tamaki Suzuhara's moral dilemma will lead. Can she find what she wants? -- ONA - Sep 21, 2018 -- 805 N/A -- -- Timing -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Psychological Horror -- Timing Timing -- The Japanese-Korean horror movie should have been released in 2012, but the project got canceled after Korean investors could not be determined. A six-minute promotional video is what's left of it of this attempted co-production. -- -- Timing holds the story of four characters with abilities related with time, fighting to stop the tragedies occurring in a high school. -- -- (Source: Hancinema) -- ONA - Oct ??, 2010 -- 784 5.34
Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Game -- Adventure Fantasy -- Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 -- On the run from the Erste Empire, Gran and the crew of the Grandcypher receive an offer to negotiate a ceasefire. Meeting at the neutral territory of Albion Citadel, they are welcomed and hosted by Vira Lillie: current Lord Commander of Albion and a friend of Katalina Alize from her officer training at Albion. Imperial General Furias grants the Skyfarers an official pardon, but fails to defuse the tense situation. -- -- Given time to unwind, the Skyfarers attend a gala hosted by Vira to celebrate the arrival of the crew. However, tensions run high, as Furias and the Erste delegation remain at Albion even after the negotiations conclude. Learning about the existence of a Primal Beast on the island, the crew is shocked to discover a letter from Katalina announcing her resignation. -- -- While Gran heads off to find their former comrade, Eugen and Rackam decide to investigate the Imperial presence on the island, suspecting a more sinister scheme lying up the Empire's sleeve. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 48,722 6.76
Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Shounen -- Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura -- Tatsuya Kimura is beginning to feel left behind. With his friends Ippo Makunouchi and Mamoru Takamura holding the championship belt in their respective weight classes, Kimura's inability to become Japan's Junior Lightweight boxing champion eats away at him. Scheduled to fight with the current champion Ryo Mashiba, Kimura begins to train with Ippo's rival Ichirou Miyata, who previously suffered a crushing defeat from Mashiba's signature "Hitman" style of boxing. -- -- But Mashiba has his own desire to hold onto the belt, hoping to soon shoot for the World title and secure financial stability for his sister Kumi. Will Kimura's overwhelming drive to prove his strength as a boxer overcome Mashiba's desperate wish to provide a better life for Kumi? -- -- OVA - Sep 5, 2003 -- 80,312 8.23
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens -- -- Satelight -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action Mystery -- Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens -- Although the city of Fukuoka might look relatively peaceful at first glance, in actuality it houses a thriving mixture of dangerous individuals such as killers, detectives, and professional revenge seekers right beneath its surface. Among their number is Zenji Banba, a laidback and observant detective who is investigating the work of other hitmen companies in the area. However, Banba might not be the only one with a bone to pick with these organizations, as Xianming Lin, a crossdressing male hitman in the employ of one such company begins getting fed up with his lack of jobs and pay. -- -- One day, after Lin's current target commits suicide before the hitman could reach him, his company refuses to pay him even half the amount they were originally supposed to for the assassination. Frustrated, Lin requests another mission and is offered the job of taking out Banba, whom his organization believes has been interfering with their business. However, when Banba arrives at his home and finds the hitman inside, Lin surprisingly doesn't even attempt to kill him. Instead, he offers the detective another option: to join him and form a team. With the offer on the table, exactly how will Banba respond, and just what plans does Lin have in store for the underground world of Fukuoka? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 123,884 7.40
Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou" Oosawagi! -- -- David Production -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Shounen -- Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou" Oosawagi! Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou" Oosawagi! -- Ippan Saibou is envious of the public praise immune system cells like white blood cells receive for protecting the human body from deadly pathogens. Instead of watching safely from his home, he also wants to be useful and get recognized for his efforts. He soon comes across a group of infantile-looking bacteria getting washed away by a river current. Despite knowing the potential dangers that they hold, he rescues the bacteria and brings them to safety. However, Hakkekkyuu U-1146 picks up the presence of these bacteria and is on the hunt for them. -- -- Meanwhile, somewhere else in the human body is NK Saibou, who is on the lookout for someone. Based on her intel, he is an antigen that the immune system cells have previously encountered, and he may have returned for revenge. -- -- Movie - Sep 5, 2020 -- 19,268 7.25
Hibike! Euphonium -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 13 eps -- Novel -- Music School Drama -- Hibike! Euphonium Hibike! Euphonium -- After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional concert band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka. -- -- However, in the band itself, chaos reigns supreme. Despite their intention to qualify for the national band competition, as they currently are, just competing in the local festival will be a challenge—unless the new band advisor Noboru Taki does something about it. -- -- From the studio that animated Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Kyoto Animation's Hibike! Euphonium is a fresh and musical take on the slice-of-life staple that is the high school student's struggle to deal with their past, find romance, and realize their dreams and aspirations. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Ponycan USA -- 342,518 8.00
Hidan no Aria AA -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action School Shoujo Ai -- Hidan no Aria AA Hidan no Aria AA -- Akari Mamiya, a first-year student from Tokyo Butei High, idolizes the S-rank Butei Aria Holmes Kanzaki and wishes to follow in her footsteps. Despite only being an inept E-rank Butei, Akari's resolve to improve remains strong. After the idea of having an Amica contract (a senior-student mentorship program) with Aria is brought up, Akari submits a request form attempting to establish said contract. Her classmates and friends do not expect Aria to accept Akari's request, mainly because of the girl's strict selection process, but to everyone's surprise, Aria gives Akari a chance through a test, which Akari miraculously passes! However, Aria will not officially make Akari her Amica until Akari meets her standards. -- -- Training under Aria will be no easy feat, as she has to concurrently manage her relationships with her friends. Will Akari have what it takes to walk down the same path as her idol? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 83,790 6.23
Innocent Venus -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Innocent Venus Innocent Venus -- In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world's population to 3 billion. Existing economies and military were wiped out. Countries were frozen under solid ice, plains sank beneath seas, the world was changed dramatically. -- -- Human civilization enters a chaotic era. Poverty flourished outside of these economic zones and slums were widespread. The ruling class called themselves Logos and maintained their position by force of arms. They call the poor Revenus, who are exiled to live outside the special economic areas. -- -- Time has passed since then. Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Jin, escape from Phantom, a force organized to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Nobuto Sana. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own reasons. -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- TV - Jul 27, 2006 -- 24,549 6.83
Innocent Venus -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Innocent Venus Innocent Venus -- In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world's population to 3 billion. Existing economies and military were wiped out. Countries were frozen under solid ice, plains sank beneath seas, the world was changed dramatically. -- -- Human civilization enters a chaotic era. Poverty flourished outside of these economic zones and slums were widespread. The ruling class called themselves Logos and maintained their position by force of arms. They call the poor Revenus, who are exiled to live outside the special economic areas. -- -- Time has passed since then. Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Jin, escape from Phantom, a force organized to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Nobuto Sana. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own reasons. -- TV - Jul 27, 2006 -- 24,549 6.83
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Manga -- Comedy Psychological Romance School Seinen -- Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season -- Third season of Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen. -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 138,754 N/AGantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy Shoujo -- Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru -- Nanami Momozono, current land god of Mikage Shrine, and her fox familiar Tomoe have faced many obstacles during their time together, but none so challenging as the one posed by the wealth god Ookununishi—if Tomoe’s wish to be human is granted, he must learn to live as one, and Nanami will have to return to being a human. -- -- As the couple look to the future and reflect on their former adventures, Nanami tries to figure out their new living situation as her high school graduation approaches. But no matter the path they choose to walk, Tomoe and Nanami’s love will endure. -- -- OVA - Dec 20, 2016 -- 43,428 8.10
Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko -- -- Maho Film -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Slice of Life Magic Fantasy -- Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko -- Deep in the forest, far from any human contact, there lives a child named Ryouma Takebayashi. He engages in the rather strange hobby of keeping various types of slimes as pets. Furthermore, despite his young age, he has a sturdy physique and good compatibility for magic. All of this is because, having endured much hardship in his previous life, three gods grace Ryouma with a second chance to pursue one goal: savor the wonders of life. -- -- After three years of comfortable solitude pass by, Ryouma meets people that will change his current life forever. When he encounters and helps some soldiers tend to their wounded comrade, the group convinces him to accompany them to visit the nearby town's ducal family. Ryouma agrees and soon embarks on a journey to explore the vast world beyond his home. -- -- 97,612 6.88
Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko -- -- Maho Film -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Slice of Life Magic Fantasy -- Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko -- Deep in the forest, far from any human contact, there lives a child named Ryouma Takebayashi. He engages in the rather strange hobby of keeping various types of slimes as pets. Furthermore, despite his young age, he has a sturdy physique and good compatibility for magic. All of this is because, having endured much hardship in his previous life, three gods grace Ryouma with a second chance to pursue one goal: savor the wonders of life. -- -- After three years of comfortable solitude pass by, Ryouma meets people that will change his current life forever. When he encounters and helps some soldiers tend to their wounded comrade, the group convinces him to accompany them to visit the nearby town's ducal family. Ryouma agrees and soon embarks on a journey to explore the vast world beyond his home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 97,612 6.88
K -- -- GoHands -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Super Power Supernatural -- K K -- "Kings" are individuals who have been bestowed with incredible supernatural powers and granted the ability to recruit others into their clans. Protecting the lives and honor of their clansmen is an integral part of the Kings' duties. After a video depicting the heinous murder of a Red Clansman spreads virally, the unassuming student Yashiro Isana is accused of homicide. Now, a manhunt is underway for his head, bringing him into contact with the infamous "Black Dog" Kurou Yatogami—a skilled swordsman and martial artist determined to follow the wishes of his late master, the Seventh King. -- -- Meanwhile, the current Red King, Mikoto Suou, faces his own imminent demise as the search for Yashiro narrows. But during Yashiro's struggle to prove his innocence, a greater conspiracy is unraveling behind the scenes; clouds begin to appear in his memory, and close friends start to question his very existence. What began as a simple murder is now leading towards a full blown war between Kings with the very fate of the world at stake. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- TV - Oct 5, 2012 -- 621,325 7.49
Kinnikuman II Sei -- -- Toei Animation -- 51 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Sports Martial Arts Shounen -- Kinnikuman II Sei Kinnikuman II Sei -- Kinnikuman II Sei takes place several years after the events of the original Kinnikuman. Mantarou Kinniku is the 59th prince of Planet Kinniku and son of the renowned wrestler, King Suguru. Lazy, immature, and cowardly, Mantarou seems to have little in common with his heroic father. -- -- When a powerful group calling themselves the dMP threatens the Earth, only someone as powerful as Kinnikuman stands a chance against them. Not knowing the current whereabouts of the King, a plan is formed to have his son Mantarou take up the mantle. The idea of fighting super villains does not sit well with Mantarou, who initially runs away from his duty. He flees to Earth where he encounters Meat, his father’s old trainer. Despite Mantarou's shortcomings, Meat sees King Suguru in him, and believes he can set the prince on the right path. Thus begins Mantarou's journey to better himself and save the world. -- -- Licensor: -- 4Kids Entertainment -- 13,256 6.89
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Nanika wo Suru Tame ni - Life Goes On. -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Adventure Drama Fantasy -- Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Nanika wo Suru Tame ni - Life Goes On. Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Nanika wo Suru Tame ni - Life Goes On. -- After running away from the grim future that awaited her back in her home country, a young girl takes upon a new name and identity—inspired by the man who sacrificed his life to help her escape. Alongside her newfound companion, a talking motorcycle, the two find themselves a new home in the forest—where lives an elderly woman with an expertise in guns. Under the woman's care, the girl is trained in marksmanship and motorcycle handling among other various skills needed to survive. -- -- Although the girl is happy with her current life, her guilt regarding her savior's death continues to build within herself. She still feels responsible for her savior's death, and considers the consequences of using his name as her own. In doing so, she is denying her own identity and existence by trying to replicate another person's life, instead of living her own. -- -- Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Nanika wo Suru Tame ni - Life Goes On. follows the journey of a young girl as she begins to come to terms with her new identity. -- -- Movie - Feb 19, 2005 -- 47,709 7.78
Last Exile -- -- Gonzo -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure -- Last Exile Last Exile -- In the world of Prester, flight is the dominant mode of transportation, made possible by Claudia Fluid: a liquidized form of the crystals that are produced on the planet. An organization known solely as "the Guild" has absolute authority over the skies, with a monopoly on the engines that make use of this fluid. Moreover, as ecological disasters destabilize the warring countries of Anatoray and Disith, the Guild also arbitrates in the disputes between the two. Caught in the middle of the conflict are Sky Couriers, piloting small, two-person vanships that fly freely through the sky. -- -- Last Exile follows the adventures of two teenagers who dream of surpassing their parents: Claus Valca, son of a famous vanship pilot, and Lavie Head, Claus' best friend and navigator. Their job as couriers entails passing through an air current called the Grand Stream that separates the hostile nations, which even standard airships struggle to survive. However, when they take on a high-rated delivery to bring an orphan girl named Alvis Hamilton to the battleship Silvana, they get dragged into a much greater conflict that pits them against the might of the Guild. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 151,464 7.82
Love Live! School Idol Project -- -- Sunrise -- 13 eps -- Other -- Music Slice of Life School -- Love Live! School Idol Project Love Live! School Idol Project -- Otonokizaka High School is in a crisis! With the number of enrolling students dropping lower and lower every year, the school is set to shut down after its current first years graduate. However, second year Honoka Kousaka refuses to let it go without a fight. Searching for a solution, she comes across popular school idol group A-RISE and sets out to create a school idol group of her own. With the help of her childhood friends Umi Sonoda and Kotori Minami, Honoka forms μ's (pronounced "muse") to boost awareness and popularity of her school. -- -- Unfortunately, it's all easier said than done. Student council president Eri Ayase vehemently opposes the establishment of a school idol group and will do anything in her power to prevent its creation. Moreover, Honoka and her friends have trouble attracting any additional members. But the Love Live, a competition to determine the best and most beloved school idol groups in Japan, can help them gain the attention they desperately need. With the contest fast approaching, Honoka must act quickly and diligently to try and bring together a school idol group and win the Love Live in order to save Otonokizaka High School. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- 367,131 7.43
Macross Plus -- -- Triangle Staff -- 4 eps -- Original -- Drama Mecha Military Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Macross Plus Macross Plus -- The year is 2040 and the galaxy is flourishing with several colonies and advanced technology. AI is near perfection and the current top idol is the near-completed Virturoid Idol Sharon Apple. All that is missing are her actual feelings, which instead are supplied by Myung Fang Lone. Sharon's debut concert is on planet Eden, where at the same time, fighter pilots Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman battle over air superiority for the "Supernova Project." Isamu, Guld and Myung were once childhood friends, but after an accident seven years ago, they went their own separate ways. With Myung back in the picture, the old disputes are once again awakened. And when an unstable and illegal AI technique is installed in Sharon, the situation is worsened. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- OVA - Aug 25, 1994 -- 38,471 7.72
Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari -- -- Shaft -- 1 ep -- Original -- Mystery Psychological Drama Magic Thriller -- Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari -- The young girls of Mitakihara happily live their lives, occasionally fighting off evil, but otherwise going about their peaceful, everyday routines. However, Homura Akemi feels that something is wrong with this unusually pleasant atmosphere—though the others remain oblivious, she can't help but suspect that there is more to what is going on than meets the eye: someone who should not exist is currently present to join in on their activities. -- -- Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari follows Homura in her struggle to uncover the painful truth behind the mysterious circumstances, as she selfishly and desperately fights for the sake of her undying love in this despair-ridden conclusion to the story of five magical girls. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Oct 26, 2013 -- 295,580 8.45
Master of Epic: The Animation Age -- -- Gonzo, Palm Studio -- 12 eps -- Game -- Fantasy Game Comedy -- Master of Epic: The Animation Age Master of Epic: The Animation Age -- Over millions of years, there have been many ages - war, gods, and future to name a few. Each of these was infinitely less exciting than the current Animation Age! In this RPG-esque existence, becoming stronger is paramount to one's survival and leveling up is a must. From pacifists to news casting, from fishing woes to love advice, there's nothing the Animation Age can't show or teach us about life in a game world! Armed with healing spells, changes of clothes and plenty of summoned familiars, the characters of Master of Epic will do what it takes to level up and live to fight another day! -- -- (Source: Anime-Planet) -- TV - Jan 8, 2007 -- 1,687 6.05
Mobile Suit Gundam -- -- Sunrise -- 43 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam -- It is year 0079 of the Universal Century. Mankind has moved to space, living in colony clusters known as "Sides." One of these Sides declares itself the "Principality of Zeon" and declares war on the Earth Federation, the governmental body currently ruling Earth. Using powerful humanoid robots known as "mobile suits," Zeon quickly gains the upper hand. -- -- Nine months into the conflict, the Earth Federation has developed its own powerful mobile suit called the Gundam. When Zeon launches an attack on the colony holding the Gundam, a 15-year-old civilian named Amuro Ray suddenly finds himself thrown into a conflict that will take him all across Earth and space, pitting him against the enemy's ace pilot, Char Aznable. -- -- 100,446 7.78
Mobile Suit Gundam -- -- Sunrise -- 43 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam -- It is year 0079 of the Universal Century. Mankind has moved to space, living in colony clusters known as "Sides." One of these Sides declares itself the "Principality of Zeon" and declares war on the Earth Federation, the governmental body currently ruling Earth. Using powerful humanoid robots known as "mobile suits," Zeon quickly gains the upper hand. -- -- Nine months into the conflict, the Earth Federation has developed its own powerful mobile suit called the Gundam. When Zeon launches an attack on the colony holding the Gundam, a 15-year-old civilian named Amuro Ray suddenly finds himself thrown into a conflict that will take him all across Earth and space, pitting him against the enemy's ace pilot, Char Aznable. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Nozomi Entertainment -- 100,446 7.78
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn -- -- Sunset -- 7 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn -- In the year Universal Century 0096, three years after Char Aznable's failed attempt to force human migration into space, life continues in the colonies orbiting Earth. One such colony, at Side 4, is home to Banagher Links, a 16-year-old who lives a quiet life among his classmates. -- -- Audrey Burne, the last descendant of a great tyrannical family, takes it upon herself to steal the key to a mysterious device known as "Laplace's Box." It is said that the Box has the power to shape the course of the universe, and Audrey travels to Side 4 in an attempt to take it from its current holder and keep it from the Sleeves, the surviving remnant of Char Aznable's Neo-Zeon. In her search, she stumbles across Banagher and changes his life forever. -- -- When Side 4 comes under the attack of the Sleeves and its prolific fighters Marida Cruz and Full Frontal, Banagher takes control of the newly built Gundam Unicorn to defend his friends and protect the fate of humankind. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Nozomi Entertainment, NYAV Post -- OVA - Mar 12, 2010 -- 79,176 8.15
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn -- -- Sunset -- 7 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn -- In the year Universal Century 0096, three years after Char Aznable's failed attempt to force human migration into space, life continues in the colonies orbiting Earth. One such colony, at Side 4, is home to Banagher Links, a 16-year-old who lives a quiet life among his classmates. -- -- Audrey Burne, the last descendant of a great tyrannical family, takes it upon herself to steal the key to a mysterious device known as "Laplace's Box." It is said that the Box has the power to shape the course of the universe, and Audrey travels to Side 4 in an attempt to take it from its current holder and keep it from the Sleeves, the surviving remnant of Char Aznable's Neo-Zeon. In her search, she stumbles across Banagher and changes his life forever. -- -- When Side 4 comes under the attack of the Sleeves and its prolific fighters Marida Cruz and Full Frontal, Banagher takes control of the newly built Gundam Unicorn to defend his friends and protect the fate of humankind. -- -- OVA - Mar 12, 2010 -- 79,176 8.15
Nana -- -- Madhouse -- 47 eps -- Manga -- Music Slice of Life Comedy Drama Romance Shoujo -- Nana Nana -- Nana Komatsu is a helpless, naïve 20-year-old who easily falls in love and becomes dependent and clingy to those around her. Even though she nurses ambitious dreams of removing herself from her provincial roots and finding her true calling, she ends up traveling to Tokyo with the humble reason of chasing her current boyfriend Shouji Endo. -- -- Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is a proud, enigmatic punk rock vocalist from a similarly rural background, who nurtures the desire to become a professional singer. Putting her career with a fairly popular band (and her passionate romance with one of its former members) firmly behind her, she boards the same train to Tokyo as Nana Komatsu. -- -- Through a fateful encounter in their journey toward the metropolis, the young women with the same given name are brought together, sparking a chain of events which eventually result in them sharing an apartment. As their friendship deepens, the two attempt to support each other through thick and thin, their deeply intertwined lives filled with romance, music, challenges, and heartbreaks that will ultimately test their seemingly unbreakable bond. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks, VIZ Media -- TV - Apr 5, 2006 -- 426,579 8.46
Nekomonogatari: Kuro -- -- Shaft -- 4 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Ecchi -- Nekomonogatari: Kuro Nekomonogatari: Kuro -- After surviving a vampire attack, Koyomi Araragi notices that his friend and savior, Tsubasa Hanekawa, has been acting strange. When he happens to cross paths with her on his way to a bookstore and sees she has a bandage on her face, he knows something must definitely be wrong. Araragi wants to help her, but Hanekawa assures him that her wound is just something she received at home and that he should not concern himself with it. But when a white cat with no tail is hit and killed by a car, the pair bury the creature and the real trouble begins. -- -- When Araragi later pays a visit to his friend Meme Oshino and recounts the day's events, he is informed what they have buried is actually an apparition, one perfect for Hanekawa in her current state. Tasked with finding his friend to confirm her safety, he discovers that she has attacked her parents, possessed by the "Sawari Neko." Now, it is up to Araragi to help Hanekawa as she once helped him. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 437,431 7.97
Noblesse: Awakening -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Web manga -- Action Supernatural Vampire School -- Noblesse: Awakening Noblesse: Awakening -- Long ago lived the "nobles," an ancient race of immortal supernatural beings. They were revered as rulers and gods. Among the nobles was the "Noblesse," a powerful individual shrouded in mystery named Cadis Etrama di Raizel, or "Rai." Upon awakening in South Korea after an 820-year-long sleep, Rai sets to find his loyal and devoted servant, Frankenstein, whom he discovers to be the current director of Ye Ran High School. In his wish to learn more about modern civilization, Rai enrolls as a student to better experience life in the modern world. -- -- Noblesse: Awakening details the beginning of Rai's new life as a high school student as he spends time with friends and fights threats both human and supernatural in order to prevent their schemes from harming Korea. -- -- ONA - Feb 4, 2016 -- 94,149 7.44
Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine -- -- Bridge -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Historical Shounen -- Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine -- Equally charming and stern, Heine Wittgenstein is a brilliant man who commands respect, despite his short, childlike stature. Thus, the king of Grannzreich has called upon Heine to undertake a daunting task that has driven away many before him—become the new royal tutor to four princes who are in line for the throne. -- -- The four heirs each have very distinct and troublesome personalities: Licht, the flirtatious youngest prince; his immature older brother Leonhard; Bruno the studious third prince; and Kai, the oldest of the four and the most reserved. Hilarity ensues as Heine attempts to connect with each of the princes in order to groom them for the throne. However, Heine's mysterious past and dark undercurrents in the present may threaten the harmony within the kingdom. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 107,415 7.47
Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation -- -- Telecom Animation Film -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Game Sci-Fi School -- Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation -- In the year 2027, the video game Phantasy Star Online 2 is all the rage at Seiga Academy. Every student is on board the fad—except for Itsuki Tachibana, a well-rounded student who doesn't play video games. Due to its popularity, the game is currently under review at Seiga Academy to see if it has a negative impact on the students. Consequently, this causes Itsuki to catch the attention of Rina Izumi, the perfectionist student council president who aims to prove that the game is not to blame. -- -- To accomplish her objective, Rina recruits Itsuki as the student council vice president and tasks him with learning to play the game while keeping his grades up. Now obliged to report his daily findings of the game to Rina and analyze its merits, Itsuki carries the fate of Phantasy Star Online 2 in his hands. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 59,993 6.34
Pokemon Movie 17: Hakai no Mayu to Diancie -- -- OLM -- 1 ep -- Game -- Adventure Kids Fantasy -- Pokemon Movie 17: Hakai no Mayu to Diancie Pokemon Movie 17: Hakai no Mayu to Diancie -- The story is set in Diamond Ore Country, of which Diancie is the princess.This is a country located deep underground, where the Pokémon Carbink live together in peace. The energy source of this country is a giant diamond called the Sacred Diamond, which can only be created by princess Diancie. However, the current princess doesn't yet possess the power to create such a diamond, and the current Sacred Diamond's power is soon going to run out, which would result in the end of the country. Diancie meets up with Ash and Pikachu, and set off together with them to search for the legendary Pokemon Xerneas, which possesses sacred power, but on the way, they find the cocoon where the Destruction Pokémon, Yveltal, who was said to have once destroyed life in Kalos, lies in wait. -- -- (Source: serebii.net) -- -- Licensor: -- The Pokemon Company International -- Movie - Jul 19, 2014 -- 30,648 6.46
Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi -- -- Arms -- 12 eps -- Other -- Action Adventure Ecchi Fantasy -- Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi -- In a land where a queen is chosen every few years solely by winning a tournament, there can be no short supply of formidable opponents. For one woman warrior however, an early defeat clearly shows her that she is lacking in experience though she may be bountiful in body. -- -- Fortunately, while defeat could spell one's doom, her life is saved by a powerful stranger. But unfortunately for this savior, less-than-pure motives and shrewd family members mean her reward is a prison cell. Her release is prompt when the unseasoned warrior she saved, tired of her current lifestyle of nobility, sets off to prove herself. -- -- (Source: Media Blasters) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- TV - Apr 2, 2009 -- 80,249 6.17
Re:cycle of the Penguindrum -- -- Brain's Base, Lapin Track -- 1 ep -- Original -- Mystery Comedy Dementia Psychological Drama -- Re:cycle of the Penguindrum Re:cycle of the Penguindrum -- Compilation of Mawaru Penguindrum, including new scenes. -- Movie - ??? ??, ???? -- 4,530 N/A -- -- Warau Salesman -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 103 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Psychological Supernatural Drama Seinen -- Warau Salesman Warau Salesman -- Each episode follows Fukuzou Moguro, a traveling salesman, and his current customer. Moguro deals in things that give his customers their heart's desire, and once his deals are made and their unhealthy desires are satisfied, Moguro's customers are often left with terrible repercussions, especially if they break the rules of his deals... -- TV - Oct 17, 1989 -- 4,528 6.65
Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ -- -- Satelight -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Music Sci-Fi -- Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ -- Hibiki Tachibana has defeated many powerful enemies, saved countless innocent lives, and escaped from numerous desperate situations, but she is currently finding herself unable to escape from her most desperate situation yet—summer homework! Although her high school life is relatively unremarkable, her career as a member of the military organization S.O.N.G. is anything but. Using powerful, ancient armor known as Symphogear, Hibiki and her teammates work with the United Nations to deal with international disputes and disasters. -- -- During a mission briefing at headquarters, Hibiki is made aware of a mysterious organization known as the Bavarian Illuminati, who has been responsible for several major disasters in the past and currently operate in the war-torn country Val Verde. Together, Hibiki and her team infiltrate one of the Bavarian Illuminati's manufacturing plants and free hundreds of slaves. Exposed, alchemists Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, and Prelati reveal themselves as the organization's top brass, and—using alchemical powers—declare a global revolution while sacrificing thousands of lives. Faced with yet another threat to the world's survival, Hibiki and her allies must confront the Bavarian Illuminati in their most difficult and destructive battle yet. -- -- 28,551 7.59
Shaman King (2021) -- -- Bridge -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Shaman King (2021) Shaman King (2021) -- Shamans are extraordinary individuals with the ability to communicate with ghosts, spirits, and gods, which are invisible to ordinary people. The Shaman Fight—a prestigious tournament pitting shamans from all over the world against each other—is held every five hundred years, where the winner is crowned Shaman King. This title allows the current incumbent to call upon the Great Spirit and shape the world as they see fit. -- -- Finding himself late for class one night, Manta Oyamada, an ordinary middle school student, decides to take a shortcut through the local cemetery. Noticing him, a lone boy sitting on a gravestone invites Manta to stargaze with "them." Realizing that "them" refers to the boy and his ghostly friends, Manta flees the terror. Later, the boy introduces himself as You Asakura, a Shaman-in-training, and demonstrates his powers by teaming up with the ghost of six-hundred-year-old samurai Amidamaru to save Manta from a group of thugs. You befriends Manta due to his ability to see spirits, and with the help of Amidamaru, they set out to accomplish You's goal of becoming the next Shaman King. -- -- 145,383 7.21
Shaman King (2021) -- -- Bridge -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Shaman King (2021) Shaman King (2021) -- Shamans are extraordinary individuals with the ability to communicate with ghosts, spirits, and gods, which are invisible to ordinary people. The Shaman Fight—a prestigious tournament pitting shamans from all over the world against each other—is held every five hundred years, where the winner is crowned Shaman King. This title allows the current incumbent to call upon the Great Spirit and shape the world as they see fit. -- -- Finding himself late for class one night, Manta Oyamada, an ordinary middle school student, decides to take a shortcut through the local cemetery. Noticing him, a lone boy sitting on a gravestone invites Manta to stargaze with "them." Realizing that "them" refers to the boy and his ghostly friends, Manta flees the terror. Later, the boy introduces himself as You Asakura, a Shaman-in-training, and demonstrates his powers by teaming up with the ghost of six-hundred-year-old samurai Amidamaru to save Manta from a group of thugs. You befriends Manta due to his ability to see spirits, and with the help of Amidamaru, they set out to accomplish You's goal of becoming the next Shaman King. -- -- 145,599 7.21
Shirobako Movie -- -- P.A. Works -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Drama -- Shirobako Movie Shirobako Movie -- The film's story is set four years after the events of the original Shirobako anime. Aoi Miyamori keeps busy dealing with the ordinary troubles in her daily work at Musashino Animation. After a morning meeting, Watanabe talks to Aoi and puts her in charge of a new theatrical anime project for the studio. The project has unexpected problems, and Aoi is unsure if the company can proceed with a theatrical anime with its current state of affairs. While dealing with that anxiety, Aoi meets a new colleague named Kaede Miyai (voiced by Ayane Sakura). She and the MusAni team work together to complete the project. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Eleven Arts -- Movie - Feb 29, 2020 -- 32,391 7.82
Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara OVA -- -- J.C.Staff -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Ecchi School Shounen -- Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara OVA Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara OVA -- Having completed their Stagiaire assignments, the residents of Polar Star Dormitory and their friends visit a hot springs inn. Though they planned on relaxing, these young chefs step up to the plate when the inn's entire kitchen staff suffer accidents. Unbeknownst to them, they will not be cooking for any ordinary patrons. -- -- Sometime after this trip, Souma Yukihira's desire for worthy opponents is stoked when he, Megumi Tadokoro, and the other Autumn Election quarter-finalists are invited to the annual Autumn Leaves Viewing event. The eight Tootsuki freshmen have a special opportunity to enjoy tea with the Elite Ten Council—including the Tenth Seat Erina Nakiri, who participates alongside her first-year classmates. Though it is framed as a friendly introduction between nine promising underclassmen and nine prestigious upperclassmen, Director Senzaemon Nakiri sees this meeting for what it is: a first encounter between the current reigning elite and their eventual usurpers. -- -- OVA - May 1, 2017 -- 125,039 7.51
Shuumatsu no Izetta -- -- Ajia-Do -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Historical Military -- Shuumatsu no Izetta Shuumatsu no Izetta -- After Germania invaded a neighboring country in 1939, Europe spiraled into a devastating war. During the war, Germania set its sights on the weak alpine country of Elystadt. Boasting a far superior military and having achieved profuse success earlier in the war, it was expected that Germania would conquer Elystadt with ease. -- -- Matters are only made worse for the small country when Germanian soldiers capture their princess, Ortfiné "Finé" Fredericka von Eylstadt, as she is heading to a crucial meeting with Britannia. Yet, when a concurrent Germanian transport mission goes awry, Izetta, the last witch alive, escapes. When she recognizes Princess Finé from her childhood, Izetta rescues her from the Germanian soldiers by making use of her magical abilities. Now reunited with the princess, Izetta pledges to protect Elystadt from Germania, and with the last surviving witch on their arsenal, Elystadt hopes to turn the tides against the imperialist war giant. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 152,489 6.76
Skate-Leading☆Stars -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Drama School Sports -- Skate-Leading☆Stars Skate-Leading☆Stars -- Child figure skating prodigy Kensei Maeshima abruptly quits the sport after his one-sided rival, Reo Shinozaki, refuses to acknowledge his skill. Now, as a student at Inodai High School, Kensei uses his athletic skills to assist the other sports teams, but he never officially joins one. One day, Reo announces his switch from singles figure skating into team-based skate-leading and joins St. Clavis Gakuin High School—last year's Grand Prix champions. Hayato Sasugai, a classmate with a mysterious connection to Reo, convinces Kensei to switch to skate-leading in order to finally defeat his rival in a competition. -- -- Kensei’s sudden entry into the Inodai Skate-Leading Club is met with backlash from the current members. Although he is a very strong singles skater, Kensei lacks the teamwork skills required to perform well in skate-leading. Factoring in his hot-headed, impatient attitude, inconsistent skating performances, and a complicated history with some of the members, Kensei's teammates do not believe he is a good fit to be their "Lead." The team must work together to resolve these issues, however, if they wish to qualify for the Grand Prix Finals and even stand a chance at defeating St. Clavis Gakuin. -- -- 26,761 6.37
Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo -- -- CloverWorks -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama -- Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo -- High school student Aoi Aioi lives with her elder sister, Akane, after a tragic accident took their parents away 13 years ago. Because Akane has since been taking care of her single-handedly, Aoi wants to move to Tokyo after her graduation to relieve her sister's burden and pursue a musical career, inspired by Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke "Shinno" Kanamuro. Shinno was part of a band until he left for Tokyo to become a professional guitarist after the sisters' parents passed away, and he was never to be seen again. -- -- One afternoon, while Aoi practices her bass in a guest house, she gets startled by the 18-year-old version of Shinno from 13 years ago! As if by coincidence, the current 31-year-old Shinno also returns to the town, but he has changed drastically. There are now two Shinno's in existence, but why is the Shinno from the past present? -- -- Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo revolves around these four individuals as they confront their inner feelings toward each other and make decisions that will affect their lives from here on out. -- -- Movie - Oct 11, 2019 -- 60,630 7.53
Spirit of Wonder: Shounen Kagaku Club -- -- Ajia-Do -- 2 eps -- - -- Drama Sci-Fi Seinen Space -- Spirit of Wonder: Shounen Kagaku Club Spirit of Wonder: Shounen Kagaku Club -- The now 50 year old Scientific Boys Club decides to built a ship that sails to Mars on the "Ethereal Current" - a thesis of the wife of a club member which claims that the universe is flooded with Ethereal energy. On this stream they travel to Mars in order to prove an old theory about channels on Mars built by Martians, but there is no life. Many years later, when both theories are considered to be nonsense, a Mars expedition discovers a stone with the inscription "Scientific Boys Club 1954". -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- OVA - Jan 25, 2001 -- 3,107 6.57
Street Fighter Zero The Animation -- -- Plum -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Drama Martial Arts Shounen Super Power -- Street Fighter Zero The Animation Street Fighter Zero The Animation -- Ryu, the current Street Fighter champion, must overcome the power of the "Dark Hadou" which consumed Akuma, the brother of his sensei, Gouken. Plus, he deals with the unexpected arrival of Shun, a young boy who proclaims to be his long-lost brother. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Dec 22, 1999 -- 13,949 6.55
Strike Witches: Road to Berlin -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Magic Ecchi -- Strike Witches: Road to Berlin Strike Witches: Road to Berlin -- Preparations for a new offensive against the Neuroi—a mysterious race of alien invaders—are well underway. The objective is securing Berlin, the capital city of the Empire of Karlsland, which is necessary for wiping out the Neuroi threat from Europe. However, as the enemy is capable of adapting to the battlefield on a daily basis, the allied forces and the current state of Striker technology might not be enough to achieve a victory. -- -- Meanwhile, Yoshika Miyafuji, a Witch from Fuso, continues her medical studies in Lausanne. Having recovered from a recent incident that deprived her of magical power, she is eager to assist in the war effort. The call to arms soon arrives and the scattered witches of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing must be gathered once again for a final push against the enemy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 16,634 7.30
Tales of the Rays -- -- Wit Studio -- 2 eps -- Game -- Game Fantasy -- Tales of the Rays Tales of the Rays -- Includes an animated promotional/opening video for the iOS/Android game Tales of the Rays and the main promotional video. Bandai Namco announced it was a sequel to Tales of the Rays and streamed the video on their official YouTube channel. -- -- The game and videos star new characters Ickx Neve and Mileena Weiss along with a cast of returning characters from other Tales of games. -- -- In a nontraditional manner, no new game app will be created, rather the current game app will receive a massive update and discontinue the main story line and start anew (several years later in-story) resetting the game play for all users. The story is said to take a darker tone. -- -- The game's production was announced in 2015 and the official launch is expected some time later this year. -- -- (Source: ANN, edited) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Namco Games -- ONA - Feb 17, 2017 -- 4,171 5.98
Tekken: Blood Vengeance -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Fantasy Martial Arts Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Tekken: Blood Vengeance Tekken: Blood Vengeance -- High school student Ling Xiaoyu is recruited by Anna Williams of G Corporation to transfer to Kyoto University and gather information on a student named Shin Kamiya. Meanwhile, Jin Kazama, the current head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, sends Alisa Bosconovitch to the university for the same mission. Though they do not know each other's true motives, Xiaoyu and Alisa become close friends. However, their friendship is put to the test when Shin is captured by an unknown assailant. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- Movie - Jul 26, 2011 -- 19,090 6.65
Tekken: Blood Vengeance -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Fantasy Martial Arts Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Tekken: Blood Vengeance Tekken: Blood Vengeance -- High school student Ling Xiaoyu is recruited by Anna Williams of G Corporation to transfer to Kyoto University and gather information on a student named Shin Kamiya. Meanwhile, Jin Kazama, the current head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, sends Alisa Bosconovitch to the university for the same mission. Though they do not know each other's true motives, Xiaoyu and Alisa become close friends. However, their friendship is put to the test when Shin is captured by an unknown assailant. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Jul 26, 2011 -- 19,090 6.65
Tenki no Ko -- -- CoMix Wave Films -- 1 ep -- Original -- Slice of Life Drama Romance Fantasy -- Tenki no Ko Tenki no Ko -- Tokyo is currently experiencing rain showers that seem to disrupt the usual pace of everyone living there to no end. Amidst this seemingly eternal downpour arrives the runaway high school student Hodaka Morishima, who struggles to financially support himself—ending up with a job at a small-time publisher. At the same time, the orphaned Hina Amano also strives to find work to sustain herself and her younger brother. -- -- Both fates intertwine when Hodaka attempts to rescue Hina from shady men, deciding to run away together. Subsequently, Hodaka discovers that Hina has a strange yet astounding power: the ability to call out the sun whenever she prays for it. With Tokyo's unusual weather in mind, Hodaka sees the potential of this ability. He suggests that Hina should become a "sunshine girl"—someone who will clear the sky for people when they need it the most. -- -- Things begin looking up for them at first. However, it is common knowledge that power always comes with a hefty price... -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS -- Movie - Jul 19, 2019 -- 545,419 8.38
Umineko no Naku Koro ni -- -- Studio Deen -- 26 eps -- Visual novel -- Mystery Horror Psychological Supernatural -- Umineko no Naku Koro ni Umineko no Naku Koro ni -- Considered as the third installment in the highly popular When They Cry series by 07th Expansion, Umineko no Naku Koro ni takes place on the island of Rokkenjima, owned by the immensely wealthy Ushiromiya family. As customary per year, the entire family is gathering on the island for a conference that discusses the current financial situations of each respective person. Because of the family head's poor health, this year involves the topic of the head of the family's inheritance and how it will be distributed. -- -- However, the family is unaware that the distribution of his wealth is the least of Ushiromiya Kinzou's (family head) concerns for this year's family conference. After being told that his end was approaching by his longtime friend and physician, Kinzou is desperate to meet his life's true love one last time: the Golden Witch, Beatrice. Having immersed himself in black magic for many of the later years in his life, Kinzou instigates a ceremony to revive his beloved upon his family's arrival on Rokkenjima. Soon after, a violent typhoon traps the family on the island and a string of mysterious murders commence, forcing the eighteen people on the island to fight for their lives in a deadly struggle between fantasy and reality. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- TV - Jul 2, 2009 -- 187,996 7.11
Umineko no Naku Koro ni -- -- Studio Deen -- 26 eps -- Visual novel -- Mystery Horror Psychological Supernatural -- Umineko no Naku Koro ni Umineko no Naku Koro ni -- Considered as the third installment in the highly popular When They Cry series by 07th Expansion, Umineko no Naku Koro ni takes place on the island of Rokkenjima, owned by the immensely wealthy Ushiromiya family. As customary per year, the entire family is gathering on the island for a conference that discusses the current financial situations of each respective person. Because of the family head's poor health, this year involves the topic of the head of the family's inheritance and how it will be distributed. -- -- However, the family is unaware that the distribution of his wealth is the least of Ushiromiya Kinzou's (family head) concerns for this year's family conference. After being told that his end was approaching by his longtime friend and physician, Kinzou is desperate to meet his life's true love one last time: the Golden Witch, Beatrice. Having immersed himself in black magic for many of the later years in his life, Kinzou instigates a ceremony to revive his beloved upon his family's arrival on Rokkenjima. Soon after, a violent typhoon traps the family on the island and a string of mysterious murders commence, forcing the eighteen people on the island to fight for their lives in a deadly struggle between fantasy and reality. -- -- TV - Jul 2, 2009 -- 187,996 7.11
Vampire Hunter D -- -- Production Reed -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Supernatural Vampire -- Vampire Hunter D Vampire Hunter D -- 10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equipped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story focuses on a small hamlet plagued by monster attacks and living under the shadow of rule by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire lord who has ruled the land for thousands of years. When a young girl is bitten by the Count and chosen as his current plaything, she seeks out help of a quiet wandering stranger, D. It so happens that D is one of the world's best vampire hunters, and he takes it upon himself to cut through Magnus Lee's many minions, and put an end to the Count's rule. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks, Urban Vision -- Movie - Dec 21, 1985 -- 65,968 7.07
Vampire Hunter D -- -- Production Reed -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Supernatural Vampire -- Vampire Hunter D Vampire Hunter D -- 10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equipped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story focuses on a small hamlet plagued by monster attacks and living under the shadow of rule by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire lord who has ruled the land for thousands of years. When a young girl is bitten by the Count and chosen as his current plaything, she seeks out help of a quiet wandering stranger, D. It so happens that D is one of the world's best vampire hunters, and he takes it upon himself to cut through Magnus Lee's many minions, and put an end to the Count's rule. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - Dec 21, 1985 -- 65,968 7.07
Vampire Knight: Gekiai no Portrait -- -- Studio Deen -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Vampire Shoujo -- Vampire Knight: Gekiai no Portrait Vampire Knight: Gekiai no Portrait -- Aidou has the idea to hold elections for Moon Dorm's President. The candidates are Kaname and the current president Ichijou. Who will win? -- -- Special - Nov 26, 2008 -- 36,008 6.79
Vandread: The Second Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread: The Second Stage Vandread: The Second Stage -- Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Oct 5, 2001 -- 48,139 7.42
Vandread: The Second Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread: The Second Stage Vandread: The Second Stage -- Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- TV - Oct 5, 2001 -- 48,139 7.42
Vinland Saga -- -- Wit Studio -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Historical Seinen -- Vinland Saga Vinland Saga -- Young Thorfinn grew up listening to the stories of old sailors that had traveled the ocean and reached the place of legend, Vinland. It's said to be warm and fertile, a place where there would be no need for fighting—not at all like the frozen village in Iceland where he was born, and certainly not like his current life as a mercenary. War is his home now. Though his father once told him, "You have no enemies, nobody does. There is nobody who it's okay to hurt," as he grew, Thorfinn knew that nothing was further from the truth. -- -- The war between England and the Danes grows worse with each passing year. Death has become commonplace, and the viking mercenaries are loving every moment of it. Allying with either side will cause a massive swing in the balance of power, and the vikings are happy to make names for themselves and take any spoils they earn along the way. Among the chaos, Thorfinn must take his revenge and kill Askeladd, the man who murdered his father. The only paradise for the vikings, it seems, is the era of war and death that rages on. -- -- 744,449 8.71
Warau Hyouteki -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Horror Mystery -- Warau Hyouteki Warau Hyouteki -- Yuzuru was an average teenager who had almost forgotten that he was betrothed to Azusa when he was only six! Now arriving to claim what she feels is rightfully hers, only Satomi (Yuzuru's current girlfriend) stands in her way... and with the mysterious and frightening powers that Azusa brings, Satomi won't stand in her way for long! -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Mar 21, 1987 -- 3,792 6.22
Yokoo's 3 Animation Films -- -- - -- 3 eps -- Original -- Psychological Romance -- Yokoo's 3 Animation Films Yokoo's 3 Animation Films -- Three short films by the Japanese avant-garde illustrator and animator. Regarded (unfairly) as the Japanese equivalent of Andy Warhol, these films showcase a distinctively commercial illustration look reminiscent of the current pop art movement of that decade (1960s). -- OVA - ??? ??, 1964 -- 791 4.62
Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome -- -- Science SARU -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Comedy Romance -- Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome -- On a mysterious night that seems to last for a year, an ordinary college student continues to chase one of his underclassmen, a girl with black hair—the girl of his dreams. Up until now, he has been relying on a simple plan, which is to calculatingly bump into her every day while making it seem like a meaningful coincidence. However, his efforts remain futile as their relationship is not progressing at all. -- -- Meanwhile, the black-haired girl believes that everything is connected by fate and endeavors to experience as many new things as possible, leaving it all for destiny to decide. While strolling along the lively streets of Kyoto, she discovers that the very beginning of her fateful journey—a book she had as a child—is currently being sold in a second-hand bookstore. Upon knowing this, the college student eyes another opportunity to run into her "by chance": this time, he hopes to get the book before she does and finally grasp the thread of fate that could connect their hearts. -- -- Movie - Apr 7, 2017 -- 84,515 8.23
Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Sevens -- -- Bridge -- ? eps -- Card game -- Action Game Fantasy Shounen -- Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Sevens Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Sevens -- In the ever-growing world of Duel Monsters, as duelists improve their skills and rise up the ranks, duels become increasingly complex. By adhering to strict rules, in addition to using and learning proven strategies, one can develop into a strong duelist. However, as a boy who loves inventions and discovering new possibilities, elementary school student Yuuga Oudou finds the current way of dueling predictable and rigid—in other words, boring. -- -- Thus, he aims to craft a new path in dueling with his exhilarating new invention: Rush Duels. His ambition soon catches the attention of Tatsuhisa Kamijou, a fellow elementary school student, who brings him to a mysterious place in an attempt to discover the potential of the new system. -- -- While Yuuga aims to implement Rush Duels as the new dueling standard and overthrow the conventions of the game, he opens the door to his ultimate goal—to make dueling exciting again. -- -- 12,476 5.39
Yuukoku no Moriarty -- -- Production I.G -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Historical Psychological Thriller Shounen -- Yuukoku no Moriarty Yuukoku no Moriarty -- During the late 19th century, Great Britain has become the greatest empire the world has ever known. Hidden within its success, the nation's rigid economic hierarchy dictates the value of one's life solely on status and wealth. To no surprise, the system favors the aristocracy at the top and renders it impossible for the working class to ascend the ranks. -- -- William James Moriarty, the second son of the Moriarty household, lives as a regular noble while also being a consultant for the common folk to give them a hand and solve their problems. However, deep inside him lies a desire to destroy the current structure that dominates British society and those who benefit from it. -- -- Alongside his brothers Albert and Louis, the trio will do anything it takes to change the filthy world they live in—even if blood must be spilled. -- -- 175,367 8.02
Yuukoku no Moriarty -- -- Production I.G -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Historical Psychological Thriller Shounen -- Yuukoku no Moriarty Yuukoku no Moriarty -- During the late 19th century, Great Britain has become the greatest empire the world has ever known. Hidden within its success, the nation's rigid economic hierarchy dictates the value of one's life solely on status and wealth. To no surprise, the system favors the aristocracy at the top and renders it impossible for the working class to ascend the ranks. -- -- William James Moriarty, the second son of the Moriarty household, lives as a regular noble while also being a consultant for the common folk to give them a hand and solve their problems. However, deep inside him lies a desire to destroy the current structure that dominates British society and those who benefit from it. -- -- Alongside his brothers Albert and Louis, the trio will do anything it takes to change the filthy world they live in—even if blood must be spilled. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 175,367 8.02
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Concurrent_Versions_System
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alternating_current
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Direct_current
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_Current_Biology
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_media/Current_events
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_media#Current_events
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg#file
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg#filehistory
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg#filelinks
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg#metadata
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diurnal_ionospheric_current.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IF_SCIENCE_WAS_GLOBALLY_APPLIED,_CURRENT_ENERGIES_AND_DEPURATIONS_DO_NOT_HAVE_A_FUTURE.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnetic_dipole_moment_current.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leafnode/POTD_current_pl
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk:Current_Spiritual_Master_Pujyashree_Deepakbhai_Desai.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=File:Current+Spiritual+Master+Pujyashree+Deepakbhai+Desai.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=File:Current+Spiritual+Master+Pujyashree+Deepakbhai+Desai.jpg
209th (Swift Current) Battalion, CEF
ABC News and Current Affairs
ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
Acoustic Doppler current profiler
Actor-Based Concurrent Language
A Current Affair
A Current Affair (American TV program)
A Current Affair (Australian TV program)
Against the Current
Against the Current (band)
Agulhas Current
Agulhas Return Current
Air current
AlmeidaPineda recurrent backpropagation
Alternating current
Alternating current electrospinning
Alternating current field measurement
Alternating Currents
Alternating Currents (album)
Alternating Currents (short story collection)
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Anterior tibial recurrent artery
Anterior ulnar recurrent artery
Anti-Germans (political current)
Army Bureau of Current Affairs
Aromatic ring current
Baltimore Commercial Journal and Lyford's Price-Current
Benguela Current
Benguela Current Commission
Best current practice
Bidirectional current
Bidirectional recurrent neural networks
Birkeland current
Black Current (disambiguation)
Boats Against the Current
Borrelia recurrentis
Boundary current
Bowen Island Undercurrent
Brazilian Labour Party (current)
California Current
Call-with-current-continuation
Canary Current
Captiva Current
Cardiac transient outward potassium current
Caribbean Current
Carlsbad Current-Argus
Carrier current
Category:Current sports events
Category:World Current Research Publishing academic journals
Charged current
Chronicle of Current Events
Civil Democratic Current
CNN Philippines News and Current Affairs
Colloid vibration current
Common mode current
Communist Party of Turkey (current)
Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English
Concurrent Collections
Concurrent computing
Concurrent data structure
Concurrent engineering
Concurrent Euclid
Concurrent jurisdiction
Concurrent lines
Concurrent List
Concurrent majority
Concurrent mark sweep collector
Concurrent MetateM
Concurrent ML
Concurrent powers
Concurrent resolution
Concurrent tandem catalysis
Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Concurrent user
Concurrent use registration
Concurrent validity
Concurrent Versions System
Conditional short-circuit current
Conduit current collection
Constant current
Constant-current diode
Contemporary Historical Examination of Current Operations
Countercurrent
Countercurrent chromatography
Countercurrent exchange
Countercurrent (Italy, 2006)
Countercurrent (Italy, 2011)
Countercurrent multiplication
Court of Current Issues
Cromwell Current
Cross Current
Crosscurrent
Crosscurrent (film)
CrossCurrents
Cross-Currents
Crosscurrents
Cross Currents (1916 film)
Cross Currents (1935 film)
Current
Current (1992 film)
Current 78
Current 93
Current account
Current account (balance of payments)
Current Account (TV programme)
Current affairs
Current Affairs (magazine)
Current affairs (news format)
Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
Current Alzheimer Research
Current Anthropology
Current Approaches in Psychiatry
Current Archaeology
Current asset
Current Atherosclerosis Reports
Current Biography
Current Bioinformatics
Current Biology
Current Cancer Drug Targets
Current clamp
Current collector
Current Contents
Current conveyor
Current crowding
Current darter
Current density
Current Developments in Nutrition
Current Diabetes Reports
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Current divider
Current Drug Metabolism
Current Expected Credit Losses
Current Eye Research
Current-feedback operational amplifier
Current (fluid)
Current Gene Therapy
Current Genomics
Current History
Current HIV/AIDS Reports
Current HIV Research
Current Island, Newfoundland
Current Issues in Comparative Education
Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Current Issues in Education
Current Issues in Molecular Biology
Current Law Statutes Annotated
Current liability
Current limiting
Current limiting reactor
Current loop
Current (mathematics)
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
Current Medical Research and Opinion
Current Medical Science
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Current members of Palestinian Legislative Council
Current members of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly
Current meter
Current-mode logic
Current Molecular Medicine
Current Mood
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
Current (newspaper)
Current of Love
Current Oncology
Current Opinion
Current Opinion (Current Drugs)
Current Opinion (Elsevier)
Current Opinion in Anesthesiology
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
Current Opinion in Neurology
Current Opinion (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
Current Organic Chemistry
Current Pain and Headache Reports
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Current (platform)
Current Population Survey
Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
Current Procedural Terminology
Current Protocols
Current Psychiatry Reports
Current quark
Current ratio
Current reality tree
Current reality tree (theory of constraints)
Current research information system
Current Science
Current senior Australian Defence Organisation personnel
Current sense amplifier
Current sense monitor
Current sensing
Current sheet
Currents in Biblical Research
Currents in Theology and Mission
Currents News
Current Sociology
Current solar income
Current source
Currents (Tame Impala album)
Current Theega
Current Time TV
Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
Current transformer
Current Trends in Biotechnology and Pharmacy
Current TV
Current View, Arkansas and Missouri
Currentvoltage characteristic
Current wars
Current yield
Current Zoology
Dark current
Dark current spectroscopy
Death in June / Current 93 / Sol Invictus
Decurrent
Democrat Party (Turkey, current)
Direct current
Displacement current
Disseminate and recurrent infundibulofolliculitis
Distributed Concurrent Versions System
Doctrine of concurrent delay
East Australian Current
East Korea Warm Current
East Madagascar Current
Eddy current
Eddy current brake
Eddy current separator
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Eddy-current testing
Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer
Egyptian Current Party
Egyptian Popular Current
Electric current
Electron beam-induced current
Epilepsy Currents
Equatorial Counter Current
Equatorial Current
Equine recurrent uveitis
Falkland Current
Faradaic current
Fault current limiter
February Countercurrent
Fiber-optic current sensor
Flavor-changing neutral current
Fleet Robert Current
Four-current
Frequency specific microcurrent
Funnel (concurrent computing)
GE Current
Geomagnetically induced current
Geostrophic current
Giant current ripples
Google Currents
Google Currents (20112013)
Google Currents (disambiguation)
Gravity current
Gravity current intrusion
Heliospheric current sheet
High-voltage direct current
HMCS Swift Current
Holding current
House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials
Humboldt Current
Indeterminacy in concurrent computation
Indian Monsoon Current
Inrush current
International Communist Current
Interosseous recurrent artery
Ion vibration current
Irminger Current
Java ConcurrentMap
Jewish Currents
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
Kuroshio Current
Labrador Current
Leading and lagging current
Legends Never Die (Against the Current song)
List of American current child actors
List of American television programs currently in production
List of British current child actors
List of Case Closed volumes (81current)
List of concurrent and parallel programming languages
List of countries by current account balance
List of current ACA fighters
List of current AFL Women's coaches
List of current AHL captains
List of current ambassadors from Iran
List of current ambassadors of Finland
List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in Japan
List of current Atlantic Records artists
List of current automobile manufacturers by country
List of current automobile marques
List of current Bellator fighters
List of current boxing rankings
List of current Brave CF fighters
List of current bus operators of the United Kingdom
List of current Canadian first ministers
List of current champions in CMLL
List of current champions in Impact Wrestling
List of current champions in New Japan Pro-Wrestling
List of current champions in Ring of Honor
List of current champions in the National Wrestling Alliance
List of current champions in WWE
List of current Chinese provincial leaders
List of current Christian leaders
List of current consorts of sovereigns
List of current constituent monarchs
List of current defence ministers
List of current district-level leaders of Beijing
List of current female artistic gymnasts
List of current female world boxing champions
List of current foreign ministers
List of current German frigates
List of current GMA Artist Center artists
List of current GMA Network talents
List of current governors in Indonesia
List of current Grandees of Spain
List of current Greek frigates
List of current heads of government in the United Kingdom and dependencies
List of current heads of University of Cambridge colleges
List of current Hollywood Records artists
List of current Indian chief justices
List of current Indian chief ministers
List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
List of current Indian governors
List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairmen
List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators
List of current Indian opposition leaders
List of current Indian ruling and opposition parties
List of current Interscope Records artists
List of current Iran governors-general
List of current Island Records artists
List of current Italian senators
List of current JIVE Records artists
List of current Knights and Ladies of the Garter
List of current Knights of the Royal Order of the Seraphim
List of current KSW fighters
List of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders
List of currently erupting volcanoes
List of current Maraji
List of current Members of Parliament from Kerala
List of current members of the British Privy Council
List of current members of the Iowa House of Representatives
List of current members of the Iowa Senate
List of current members of the Maryland House of Delegates
List of current members of the Maryland Senate
List of current members of the National Assembly of Cambodia
List of current members of the National Council of Monaco
List of current members of the Oklahoma Senate
List of current members of the Parliament of Haiti
List of current members of the Privy Council
List of current members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
List of current members of the Rajya Sabha
List of current members of the Senate of Colombia
List of current members of the Tanzanian Parliament
List of current mixed martial arts champions
List of current monarchies
List of current monarchies by continent
List of current NCAA Division I champions
List of current Nepalese governors
List of current NHL captains and alternate captains
List of current NHL general managers
List of current ONE fighters
List of current Pakistani chief ministers
List of current Pakistani governors
List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations
List of current PFL fighters
List of current Philippine provincial governors
List of current places of worship in Chichester District
List of current popes and patriarchs
List of current presidents of legislatures
List of current presidents of regions of Italy
List of current presidents of the regional councils of France and the Corsican Assembly
List of current provincial governors in Afghanistan
List of current provincial governors in Burundi
List of current provincial governors of Zimbabwe
List of current reigning monarchs by length of reign
List of current Royal Australian Air Force aircraft
List of current senators of Canada
List of current senators of Canada by age
List of current ships of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
List of current ships of the Royal Canadian Navy
List of current SHL captains and alternate captains
List of current Sinn Fin elected representatives
List of current Star Magic artists
List of current UFC fighters
List of current vice presidents and designated acting presidents
List of current Warner Records artists
List of current WBC International champions
List of current WBC Youth world champions
List of current world boxing champions
List of current youth hearing conservation programs
List of electric cars currently available
List of Filipino current child actors
List of French current frigates
List of Hajime no Ippo volumes (121current)
List of important publications in concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing
List of One Piece chapters (807current)
List of Pokmon Adventures volumes (41current)
List of Royal Navy admirals (1707current)
List of the current and former capitals of the subdivisions of China
List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names
Lists of currently active military equipment by country
Little Current
Little Current Water Aerodrome
Logie Award for Most Popular Panel or Current Affairs Program
Lomonosov Current
Loop Current
Lyric Theatre (Swift Current)
Magnetic current
Marine current power
Marine Current Turbines
M current
Microcurrent electrical neuromuscular stimulator
Mike Current
Morning Express (Singaporean TV current affairs series)
Multicolumn countercurrent solvent gradient purification
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships
Natural Currents Energy Services
Net current asset value
Neutral current
Neutral direct-current telegraph system
New Left Current
New World Writing (current)
Nordcurrent
North Atlantic Current
Northern Monsoon Current Coast
North Pacific Current
Norwegian Current
Ocean current
Optical beam-induced current
Overcurrent
Oyashio Current
Pacemaker current
Paleocurrent
Partial concurrent thinking aloud
Partial current
Periodic counter-current chromatography
Persistent current
Photocurrent
PLOS Currents
Portal:Alps/Current News
Portal:Cricket/Current cricket
Portal:Current events
Portal:Current events/2003 January 2
Portal:Current events/2003 January 3
Portal:Current events/2003 January 5
Portal:Current events/2003 January 7
Portal:Current events/2003 January 8
Portal:Current events/2003 January 9
Portal:Current events/2005 April 1
Portal:Current events/2005 April 2
Portal:Current events/2005 April 3
Portal:Current events/2005 April 4
Portal:Current events/2005 April 5
Portal:Current events/2005 April 6
Portal:Current events/2005 April 7
Portal:Current events/2005 April 8
Portal:Current events/2006 July 1
Portal:Current events/2006 July 2
Portal:Current events/2006 July 3
Portal:Current events/2006 July 4
Portal:Current events/2006 July 5
Portal:Current events/2006 July 6
Portal:Current events/2006 July 7
Portal:Current events/2009 May 28
Portal:Current events/2010 October 10
Portal:Current events/2017 November 28
Portal:Current events/2017 September 8
Portal:Current events/5/Wikinews
Portal:Current events/Africa
Portal:Current events/Asia
Portal:Current events/August 2006
Portal:Current events/Calendar
Portal:Current events/Calendar box
Portal:Current events/Calendar box/doc
Portal:Current events/China
Portal:Current events/Direction to main portal talk page of current events
Portal:Current events/Europe
Portal:Current events/Headlines
Portal:Current events/India
Portal:Current events/July 2006/Calendar
Portal:Current events/July 2006/Sidebar
Portal:Current events/March 2020
Portal:Current events/Newsbrowsebar
Portal:Current events/News Browser
Portal:Current events/September 2006
Portal:Current events/September 2011
Portal:Current events/Sidebar
Portal:Current events/Sports
Portal:Current events/Sports/Sidebar
Portal:Current events/Sports/Sidebar/Ongoing/Golf
Portal:Current events/Today
Portal:Current events/Turkey/News Highlights
Portal:Current events/United Kingdom
Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today-1
Portal:Doctor Who/Current events
Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/Current
Portal:Libertarianism/Current events
Portal:Maps/Current event
Portal:Rock music/Current Events
Posterior tibial recurrent artery
Posterior ulnar recurrent artery
Probability current
Proper zero-signal collector current
Prospective short-circuit current
Radial recurrent artery
Recurrent airway obstruction
Recurrent artery
Recurrent artery of Heubner
Recurrent branch of the median nerve
Recurrent corneal erosion
Recurrent laryngeal nerve
Recurrent miscarriage
Recurrent neural network
Recurrent palmoplantar hidradenitis
Recurrent point
Recurrent sequence
Recurrent tensor
Recurrent toxin-mediated perineal erythema
Recurrent word
Residual-current device
Revolutionary Marxist Current
Richard N. Current
Rip current
RT News and Current Affairs
Rural Municipality of Swift Current No. 137
Saturation current
Somali Current
South Equatorial Current
Southwest Madagascar Coastal Current
Streaming current
Streaming vibration current
Stress-induced leakage current
Subsurface currents
Swift Current
Swift Current 57's
Swift Current Airport
Swift Current Broncos
Swift Current Broncos bus crash
Swift Current Broncos (SJHL)
Swiftcurrent Lake
Swift CurrentMaple Creek
Swift CurrentMaple CreekAssiniboia
Synchronization (alternating current)
Syrian Revolutionary Left Current
Telluric current
Template talk:Current disaster
Teodor Currentzis
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
The Current and Gazette newspapers of New Jersey
The Current (magazine)
The Current Newspapers
The Current (radio program)
The Currents of Space
The Current War
The Highlands Current
The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials
The Petal on the Current
Thermally stimulated current spectroscopy
Thermally stimulated depolarization current
The Undercurrent (1919 film)
Thunder Perfect Mind (Current 93 album)
Tibial recurrent artery
Traction current pylon
Transcranial direct-current stimulation
Turbidity current
Ulnar recurrent artery
Undercurrent
Undercurrent (2010 film)
Undercurrent (manga)
Undercurrents
Undercurrents (magazine)
Undercurrents (TV program)
User:Cyberbot I/Current AfD's
User:Tariqabjotu/Current events/Redesign
USS Current (ARS-22)
War of the currents
Wavecurrent interaction
West Australian Current
West Spitsbergen Current
Wetting current
Widlar current source
Wilson current mirror
Wind generated current
Workers' Revolutionary Current
convenience portal:
recent: Section Maps - index table - favoritesSavitri --Savitri extended toc Savitri Section Map --1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
authors -- Crowley - Peterson - Borges - Wilber - Teresa -Aurobindo -Ramakrishna - Maharshi -Mother
places -- Garden - Inf. Art Gallery - Inf. Building - Inf. Library - Labyrinth - Library - School -Temple - Tower - Tower of MEM
powers -- Aspiration - Beauty - Concentration - Effort - Faith - Force - Grace - inspiration -Presence - Purity - Sincerity - surrender
difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - studysubjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null -Savitri - SA O TAOC -SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel -TLD -TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
8 unsorted / add here -- Always - Everyday - Verbs