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developmental ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
developmental psychology: also known as human development. It is the scientific study of the processes which underlie and control growth and change in behaviour over time.
developmental robotics (DevRob)
development environment "programming, tool" An integrated suite of {tools} to aid the {development} of {software} in a particular {language} or for a particular {application}. Usually, this consists of a {compiler} and {editor} and may also include one or more of a {debugger}, {profiler}, and {source code} manager. See also: {IDE}. (1999-08-01)
development environment ::: (programming, tool) An integrated suite of tools to aid the development of software in a particular language or for a particular application. Usually, this consists of a compiler and editor and may also include one or more of a debugger, profiler, and source code manager.See also: IDE. (1999-08-01)
development ::: n. --> The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.
development ::: The process of analysis, design, coding and testing software.
development The process of analysis, design, coding and testing software.
Development (accounting) - The changing of new ideas into commercial propositions.
Developmental Psychology ::: The area of psychology focused on how children grow psychologically to become who they are as adults.
Developmental Test and Evaluation ::: (programming) (DT&E) Activity which focuses on the technological and engineering aspects of a system or piece of equipment. (1996-05-13)
Developmental Test and Evaluation "programming" (DT&E) Activity which focuses on the technological and engineering aspects of a system or piece of equipment. (1996-05-13)
Development areas - Regions with high unemployment which qualify for government help aimed at attracting business. .
Development (economics) - A process to improve the lives of all people in a country. This involves not only raising living standards i.e. goods and services but the promotion of self esteem, dignity and respect, and the enlarging of peoples freedom to choose and to take control of their own lives.
DEVELOPMENT, LAW OF The law of development says that all monads develop their consciousness, that there are forces acting in different ways towards the final goal of life. K 1.41.10
Development Towns ::: New towns established in Israel to provide for urban growth, but essentially to house immigrants since 1950's, succeeding the ma'abarah, transitional camp, which had been widely used since 1948. Its goal was to offer communities both homes and employment opportunities, although it often did not succeed in raising initial lower economic status; used primarily for immigrants of Sephardi and eastern origin.
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10 ordinary dreams) are usually in the great mass experiences of the vital plane, a world of supraphysical life, full of variety and interest, with many provinces, luminous or obscure, beauti- ful or perilous, often extremely attractive, where we can get much knowledge loo both of our concealed pans of nature and of things happening to us behind the veil and of others which are of concern for the development of our parts of nature. The vital being in us then may get very much attracted to this range of experience, may want to live more in it and less in the outer life.
2. In psychology, the act or process of exercising the mind, the faculty of connecting judgments; the power and fact of using reason; the thought-processes of discussion, debate, argumentation or inference; the manifestation of the discursive property of the mind; the actual use of arguments with a view to convince or persuade; the art and method or proving or demonstrating; the orderly development of thought with a view to, or the attainment of a conclusion believed to be valid. -- The origin, nature and value of reasoning are debated questions, with their answers ranging from spiritualism (reasoning as the exercise of a faculty of the soul) to materialism (reasoning as an epiphenomenon depending on the brain), with all the modern schools of psychology ordering themselves between them. A few points of agreement might be mentioned here: reasoning follows judgment and apprehension, whichever of the last two thought-processes comes first in our psychological development; reasoning proceeds according to four main types, namely deductive, inductive, presumptive and deceptive; reasoning assumes a belief in its own validity undisturbed by doubt, and implies various logical habits and methods which may be organized into a logical doctrine; reasoning requires a reference to some ultimate principles to justify its progress 3. In logic, Reasoning is the process of inference, it is the process of passing from certain propositions already known or assumed to be true, to another truth distinct from them but following from them; it is a discourse or argument which infers one proposition from another, or from a group of others having some common elements between them. The inference is necessary in the case of deductive reasoning; and contingent, probable or wrong, in the case of inductive, presumptive or deceptive reasoning respectively. -- There are various types of reasoning, and proper methods for each type. The definition, discussion, development and evaluation of these types and methods form an important branch of logic and its subdivisions. The details of the application of reasoning to the various sciences, form the subject of methodology. All these types are reducible to one or the other of the two fundamental processes or reasoning, namely deduction and induction. It must be added that the logical study of reasoning is normative logic does not analyze it simply in its natural development, but with a view to guide it towards coherence, validity or truth. -- T.G.
32-bit application "architecture, operating system" {IBM PC} software that runs in a 32-bit {flat address space}. The term {32-bit application} came about because {MS-DOS} and {Microsoft Windows} were originally written for the {Intel 8088} and {80286} {microprocessors}. These are {16 bit} microprocessors with a {segmented address space}. Programs with more than 64 kilobytes of code and/or data therefore had to switch between {segments} quite frequently. As this operation is quite time consuming in comparison to other machine operations, the application's performance may suffer. Furthermore, programming with segments is more involved than programming in a flat address space, giving rise to some complications in programming languages like "{memory models}" in {C} and {C++}. The shift from 16-bit software to 32-bit software on {IBM PC} {clones} became possible with the introduction of the {Intel 80386} microprocessor. This microprocessor and its successors support a segmented address space with 16-bit and 32 bit segments (more precisely: segments with 16- or 32-bit address offset) or a linear 32-bit address space. For compatibility reasons, however, much of the software is nevertheless written in 16-bit models. {Operating systems} like {Microsoft Windows} or {OS/2} provide the possibility to run 16-bit (segmented) programs as well as 32-bit programs. The former possibility exists for {backward compatibility} and the latter is usually meant to be used for new software development. See also {Win32s}. (1995-12-11)
9PAC "tool" 709 PACkage. A {report generator} for the {IBM 7090}, developed in 1959. [Sammet 1969, p.314. "IBM 7090 Prog Sys, SHARE 7090 9PAC Part I: Intro and Gen Princs", IBM J28-6166, White Plains, 1961]. (1995-02-07):-) {emoticon}; {semicolon}" {less than}"g" "chat" grin. An alternative to {smiley}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-01-18)"gr&d" "chat" Grinning, running and ducking. See {emoticon}. (1995-03-17)= {equals}" {greater than}? {question mark}?? "programming" A {Perl} quote-like {operator} used to delimit a {regular expression} (RE) like "?FOO?" that matches FOO at most once. The normal "/FOO/" form of regular expression will match FOO any number of times. The "??" operator will match again after a call to the "reset" operator. The operator is usually referred to as "??" but, taken literally, an empty RE like this (or "//") actually means to re-use the last successfully matched regular expression or, if there was none, empty string (which will always match). {Unix manual page}: perlop(1). (2009-05-28)@ {commercial at}@-party "event, history" /at'par-tee/ (Or "@-sign party") An antiquated term for a gathering of {hackers} at a science-fiction convention (especially the annual Worldcon) to which only people who had an {electronic mail address} were admitted. The term refers to the {commercial at} symbol, "@", in an e-mail address and dates back to the era when having an e-mail address was a distinguishing characteristic of the select few who worked with computers. Compare {boink}. [{Jargon File}] (2012-11-17)@Begin "text" The {Scribe} equivalent of {\begin}. [{Jargon File}] (2014-11-06)@stake "security, software" A computer security development group and consultancy dedicated to researching and documenting security flaws that exist in {operating systems}, {network} {protocols}, or software. @stake publishes information about security flaws through advisories, research reports, and tools. They release the information and tools to help system administrators, users, and software and hardware vendors better secure their systems. L0pht merged with @stake in January 2000. {@stake home (http://atstake.com/research/redirect.html)}. (2003-06-12)@XX "programming" 1. Part of the syntax of a {decorated name}, as used internally by {Microsoft}'s {Visual C} or {Visual C++} {compilers}. 2. The name of an example {instance variable} in the {Ruby} {programming language}. (2018-08-24)[incr Tcl] "language" An extension of {Tcl} that adds {classes} and {inheritence}. The name is a pun on {C++} - an {object-oriented} extension of {C} - [incr variable] is the Tcl {syntax} for adding one to a variable. [Origin? Availability?] (1998-11-27)\ {backslash}\begin "text, chat" The {LaTeX} command used with \end to delimit an environment within which the text is formatted in a certain way. E.g. \begin{table}...\end{table}. Used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark on the surrounded text. For example: \begin{flame} Predicate logic is the only good programming language. Anyone who would use anything else is an idiot. Also, all computers should be tredecimal instead of binary. \end{flame} {Scribe} users at {CMU} and elsewhere used to use @Begin/@End in an identical way (LaTeX was built to resemble Scribe). On {Usenet}, this construct would more frequently be rendered as ""FLAME ON"" and ""FLAME OFF"" (a la {HTML}), or "
aborted ::: a. --> Brought forth prematurely.
Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.
abortion ::: n. --> The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
The immature product of an untimely birth.
Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a
abort ::: v. i. --> To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile. ::: n. --> An untimely birth.
An aborted offspring.
accrementition ::: n. --> The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
Ada Core Technologies "company" (ACT) The company that maintains {GNAT}. Ada Core Technologies was founded in 1994 by the original authors of the GNAT compiler. ACT provides software for {Ada 95} development. {(http://gnat.com/)}. (2000-10-28)
Ada Programming Support Environment "tool, project" (APSE) A program or set of programs to support software development in the Ada language. [Examples?] (1997-06-30)
AD/Cycle "tool, product" Application Development cycle. A set of {SAA}-compatible {IBM}-sponsored products for program development, running on workstations accessing a central repository on a {mainframe}. The stages cover requirements, analysis and design, production of the application, building and testing and maintenance. Technologies used include code generators and {knowledge based systems} as well as languages and debuggers. (1994-10-24)
ADDD "tool" A Depository of Development Documents. A {public domain} Software Engineering Environment from {GMD} developed as part of the {STONE} project. (1995-02-03)
addle ::: n. --> Liquid filth; mire.
Lees; dregs. ::: a. --> Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
adhana-ks.etra (sadhan-kshetra) ::: the field of sadhana; the immediate environment, including "movements of birds, beasts, insects, people around", as a field of exercise and experiment, especially for the development of tapas, telepathy and trikaladr.s.t.i. ssadhana adhana sakti
ADL 1. "games" {Adventure Definition Language}. 2. "language" {Ada} Development Language. R.A. Lees, 1989. 3. "programming" {API} Definition Language. A project for Automatic Interface Test Generation. (1995-11-17)
ADS {Aion Development System}
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network "networking" (ARPANET) A pioneering longhaul {wide area network} funded by {DARPA} (when it was still called "ARPA"?). It became operational in 1968 and served as the basis for early networking research, as well as a central {backbone} during the development of the {Internet}. The ARPANET consisted of individual {packet switching} computers interconnected by {leased lines}. {Protocols} used include {FTP} and {telnet}. It has now been replaced by {NSFnet}. [1968 or 1969?] (1994-11-17)
Advanced Revelation "database" (AREV) A {database development environment} for {personal computers} available from {Revelation Software} since 1982. Originally based on the {PICK} {operating system}, there are over one million users worldwide in 1996. (1996-12-12)
Advanced RISC Machine "processor" (ARM, Originally {Acorn} RISC Machine). A series of low-cost, power-efficient 32-bit {RISC} {microprocessors} for embedded control, computing, {digital signal processing}, {games}, consumer {multimedia} and portable applications. It was the first commercial RISC microprocessor (or was the {MIPS R2000}?) and was licensed for production by {Asahi Kasei Microsystems}, {Cirrus Logic}, {GEC Plessey Semiconductors}, {Samsung}, {Sharp}, {Texas Instruments} and {VLSI Technology}. The ARM has a small and highly {orthogonal instruction set}, as do most RISC processors. Every instruction includes a four-bit code which specifies a condition (of the {processor status register}) which must be satisfied for the instruction to be executed. Unconditional execution is specified with a condition "true". Instructions are split into load and store which access memory and arithmetic and logic instructions which work on {registers} (two source and one destination). The ARM has 27 registers of which 16 are accessible in any particular processor mode. R15 combines the {program counter} and processor status byte, the other registers are general purpose except that R14 holds the {return address} after a {subroutine} call and R13 is conventionally used as a {stack pointer}. There are four processor modes: user, {interrupt} (with a private copy of R13 and R14), fast interrupt (private copies of R8 to R14) and {supervisor} (private copies of R13 and R14). The {ALU} includes a 32-bit {barrel-shifter} allowing, e.g., a single-{cycle} shift and add. The first ARM processor, the ARM1 was a prototype which was never released. The ARM2 was originally called the Acorn RISC Machine. It was designed by {Acorn Computers Ltd.} and used in the original {Archimedes}, their successor to the {BBC Micro} and {BBC Master} series which were based on the eight-bit {6502} {microprocessor}. It was clocked at 8 MHz giving an average performance of 4 - 4.7 {MIPS}. Development of the ARM family was then continued by a new company, {Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.} The {ARM3} added a {fully-associative} on-chip {cache} and some support for {multiprocessing}. This was followed by the {ARM600} chip which was an {ARM6} processor {core} with a 4-kilobyte 64-way {set-associative} {cache}, an {MMU} based on the MEMC2 chip, a {write buffer} (8 words?) and a {coprocessor} interface. The {ARM7} processor core uses half the power of the {ARM6} and takes around half the {die} size. In a full processor design ({ARM700} chip) it should provide 50% to 100% more performance. In July 1994 {VLSI Technology, Inc.} released the {ARM710} processor chip. {Thumb} is an implementation with reduced code size requirements, intended for {embedded} applications. An {ARM800} chip is also planned. {AT&T}, {IBM}, {Panasonic}, {Apple Coputer}, {Matsushita} and {Sanyo} either rely on, or manufacture, ARM 32-bit processor chips. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.sys.arm}. (1997-08-05)
Advantage Gen "language, software" A {CASE} tool for {rapid application development} which generates code from graphical {business process models}. Formerly called Information Engineering Facility (IEF) and produced by {Texas Instruments}, it was then bought by {Sterling Software, Inc.} who renamed it to COOL:Gen to fit into their COOL line of products. {Computer Associates International, Inc.} then acquired {Sterling Software, Inc.}, and renamed the tool "Advantage Gen". In 2003, CA are supporting Advantage Gen and adding support for {J2EE}/{EJB}, enhanced web enablement, {Web services} and {.Net}. {(http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Product.asp?ID=256)}. (2003-06-23)
aecidium ::: n. --> A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
aetiology ::: n. --> The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.
The assignment of a cause.
aftergrowth ::: n. --> A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development.
agenesis ::: n. --> Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate ::: I am the birth of everything and from me all proceeds into development of action and movement. [Gita 10.8]
Aion Development System "artificial intelligence, product" (ADS) A commericial {expert system shell} developed by {Aion Corporation} that supported {forward chainging} and {backward chaining} and featured an {object-oriented} {knowledge representation} scheme, graphics and integrated with other {programming languages} like {C} and {Pascal}. ["Expert Systems in Chemistry Research", Markus C. Hemmer]. (2014-10-05)
Ajax "programming" (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) A collection of techniques for creating interactive {web applications} without having to reload the complete {web page} in response to each user input, thus making the interaction faster. AJAX typically uses the {XMLHttpRequest} browser object to exchange data asynchronously with the {web server}. Alternatively, an {IFrame} object or dynamically added "script" tags may be used instead of XMLHttpRequest. Despite the name, Ajax can combine any browser scripting language (not just {JavaScript}) and any data representation (not just XML). Alternative data formats include {HTML}, plain text or {JSON}. Several Ajax {frameworks} are now available to simplify Ajax development. (2007-10-04)
Aladdin Enterprises "company" A small, privately owned, US software consulting and development company, founded in 1986, best known as the original developer of {Ghostscript}. Address: San Francisco Peninsula, California, USA. Not to be confused with {Aladdin Systems, Inc.}. {Aladdin Enterprises Home (http://aladdin.com/)}. (2003-09-24)
Alan Turing "person" Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the {Turing Machine}. Turing also proposed the {Turing test}. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of {King's College Cambridge} and was a graduate student at {Princeton University} from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an {abstract machine}, now called a {Turing Machine}. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at {Bletchley Park}, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the {Colossus} computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the {National Physical Laboratory} in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named {Automatic Computing Engine} (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the {Manchester Automatic Digital Machine}, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of {artificial intelligence}, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach". {(http://AlanTuring.net/)}. (2001-10-09)
ALGOL W "language" A derivative of {ALGOL 60}. It introduced {double precision}, {complex numbers}, bit strings and dynamic data structures. It is {parsed} entirely by {operator precedence} and used the {call-by-value-result} calling convention. ["A Contribution to the Development of Algol", N. Wirth, CACM 9(6):413-431, June 1966]. ["ALGOL W Implementation", H. Bauer et al, TR CS98, Stanford U, 1968]. (1994-11-24)
Almost all the occult systems and disciplines aim at the development and mastery of the overmind.
altitude ::: A general degree of development (i.e., degree of consciousness or degree of complexity), applicable to any given line.
Amdahl Corporation "company" A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large {mainframes}, {UNIX} and {Open Systems} software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in both open systems and {IBM} plug-compatible mainframe computing environments. Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994). In 1997 Amdahl became a division of {Fujitsu}. {(http://amdahl.com/)}. (1995-05-23)
Amiga "computer" A range of home computers first released by {Commodore Business Machines} in early 1985 (though they did not design the original - see below). Amigas were popular for {games}, {video processing}, and {multimedia}. One notable feature is a hardware {blitter} for speeding up graphics operations on whole areas of the screen. The Amiga was originally called the Lorraine, and was developed by a company named "Amiga" or "Amiga, Inc.", funded by some doctors to produce a killer game machine. After the US game machine market collapsed, the Amiga company sold some {joysticks} but no Lorraines or any other computer. They eventually floundered and looked for a buyer. Commodore at that time bought the (mostly complete) Amiga machine, infused some money, and pushed it through the final stages of development in a hurry. Commodore released it sometime[?] in 1985. Most components within the machine were known by nicknames. The {coprocessor} commonly called the "Copper" is in fact the "{Video} Timing Coprocessor" and is split between two chips: the instruction fetch and execute units are in the "Agnus" chip, and the {pixel} timing circuits are in the "Denise" chip (A for address, D for data). "Agnus" and "Denise" were responsible for effects timed to the {real-time} position of the video scan, such as midscreen {palette} changes, {sprite multiplying}, and {resolution} changes. Different versions (in order) were: "Agnus" (could only address 512K of {video RAM}), "Fat Agnus" (in a {PLCC} package, could access 1MB of video RAM), "Super Agnus" (slightly upgraded "Fat Agnus"). "Agnus" and "Fat Agnus" came in {PAL} and {NTSC} versions, "Super Agnus" came in one version, jumper selectable for PAL or NTSC. "Agnus" was replaced by "Alice" in the A4000 and A1200, which allowed for more {DMA} channels and higher bus {bandwidth}. "Denise" outputs binary video data (3*4 bits) to the "Vidiot". The "Vidiot" is a hybrid that combines and amplifies the 12-bit video data from "Denise" into {RGB} to the {monitor}. Other chips were "Amber" (a "flicker fixer", used in the A3000 and Commodore display enhancer for the A2000), "Gary" ({I/O}, addressing, G for {glue logic}), "Buster" (the {bus controller}, which replaced "Gary" in the A2000), "Buster II" (for handling the Zorro II/III cards in the A3000, which meant that "Gary" was back again), "Ramsey" (The {RAM} controller), "DMAC" (The DMA controller chip for the WD33C93 {SCSI adaptor} used in the A3000 and on the A2091/A2092 SCSI adaptor card for the A2000; and to control the {CD-ROM} in the {CDTV}), and "Paula" ({Peripheral}, Audio, {UART}, {interrupt} Lines, and {bus Arbiter}). There were several Amiga chipsets: the "Old Chipset" (OCS), the "Enhanced Chipset" (ECS), and {AGA}. OCS included "Paula", "Gary", "Denise", and "Agnus". ECS had the same "Paula", "Gary", "Agnus" (could address 2MB of Chip RAM), "Super Denise" (upgraded to support "Agnus" so that a few new {screen modes} were available). With the introduction of the {Amiga A600} "Gary" was replaced with "Gayle" (though the chipset was still called ECS). "Gayle" provided a number of improvments but the main one was support for the A600's {PCMCIA} port. The AGA chipset had "Agnus" with twice the speed and a 24-bit palette, maximum displayable: 8 bits (256 colours), although the famous "{HAM}" (Hold And Modify) trick allows pictures of 256,000 colours to be displayed. AGA's "Paula" and "Gayle" were unchanged but AGA "Denise" supported AGA "Agnus"'s new screen modes. Unfortunately, even AGA "Paula" did not support High Density {floppy disk drives}. (The Amiga 4000, though, did support high density drives.) In order to use a high density disk drive Amiga HD floppy drives spin at half the rotational speed thus halving the data rate to "Paula". Commodore Business Machines went bankrupt on 1994-04-29, the German company {Escom AG} bought the rights to the Amiga on 1995-04-21 and the Commodore Amiga became the Escom Amiga. In April 1996 Escom were reported to be making the {Amiga} range again but they too fell on hard times and {Gateway 2000} (now called Gateway) bought the Amiga brand on 1997-05-15. Gateway licensed the Amiga operating system to a German hardware company called {Phase 5} on 1998-03-09. The following day, Phase 5 announced the introduction of a four-processor {PowerPC} based Amiga {clone} called the "{pre\box}". Since then, it has been announced that the new operating system will be a version of {QNX}. On 1998-06-25, a company called {Access Innovations Ltd} announced {plans (http://micktinker.co.uk/aaplus.html)} to build a new Amiga chip set, the {AA+}, based partly on the AGA chips but with new fully 32-bit functional core and 16-bit AGA {hardware register emulation} for {backward compatibility}. The new core promised improved memory access and video display DMA. By the end of 2000, Amiga development was under the control of a [new?] company called {Amiga, Inc.}. As well as continuing development of AmigaOS (version 3.9 released in December 2000), their "Digital Environment" is a {virtual machine} for multiple {platforms} conforming to the {ZICO} specification. As of 2000, it ran on {MIPS}, {ARM}, {PPC}, and {x86} processors. {(http://amiga.com/)}. {Amiga Web Directory (http://cucug.org/amiga.html)}. {amiCrawler (http://amicrawler.com/)}. Newsgroups: {news:comp.binaries.amiga}, {news:comp.sources.amiga}, {news:comp.sys.amiga}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.advocacy}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.announce}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.applications}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.audio}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.datacomm}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.emulations}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.games}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.graphics}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.hardware}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.introduction}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.marketplace}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.misc}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.multimedia}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.programmer}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.reviews}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.tech}, {news:comp.sys.amiga.telecomm}, {news:comp.Unix.amiga}. See {aminet}, {Amoeba}, {bomb}, {exec}, {gronk}, {guru meditation}, {Intuition}, {sidecar}, {slap on the side}, {Vulcan nerve pinch}. (2003-07-05)
Among its members W. Dubislav (1937), K. Grelling, O. Helmer, C. G. Hempel, A. Herzberg, K.. Korsch, H. Reichenbach (q.v.), M. Strauss. Many members of the following groups may be regarded as adherents of Scientific Empiricism: the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy, the W arsaw School, the Cambridge School for Analytic Philosophy (q.v.), further, in U. S. A., some of the representatives of contemporary Pragmatism (q.v.), especially C. W. Morris, of Neo-Realism (q.v.), and of Operationalism (q.v.). Among the individual adherents not belonging to the groups mentioned: E. Kaila (Finland), J. Jörgensen (Denmark), A. Ness (Norway); A. J. Ayer, J. H. Woodger (England); M. Boll (France); K. Popper (now New Zealand); E. Brunswik, H. Gomperz, Felix Kaufmann, R. V. Mises, L. Rougier, E. Zilsel (now in U. S. A.); E. Nagel, W. V. Quine, and many others (in U.S.A.). The general attitude and the views of Scientific Empiricism are in esential agreement with those of Logical Empiricism (see above, 1). Here, the unity of science is especially emphasized, in various respects There is a logical unity of the language of science; the concepts of different branches of science are not of fundamentally different kinds but belong to one coherent system. The unity of science in this sense is closely connected with the thesis of Physicahsm (q.v.). There is a practical task in the present stage of development, to come to a better mutual adaptation of terminologies in different branches of science. There is today no unity of the laws of science. It is an aim of the future development of science to come, if possible, to a simple set of connected, fundamental laws from which the special laws in the different branches of science, including the social sciences, can be deduced. Here also, the analysis of language is regarded as one of the chief methods of the science of science. While logical positivism stressed chiefly the logical side of this analysis, it is here carried out from various directions, including an analysis of the biological and sociological sides of the activities of language and knowledge, as they have been emphasized earlier by Pragmatism (q.v.), especially C. S. Peirce and G. H. Mead. Thus the development leads now to a comprehensive general theory of signs or semiotic (q.v.) as a basis for philosophy The following publications and meetings may be regarded as organs of this movement. The periodical "Erkenntnis", since 1930, now continued as "Journal of Unified Science" The "Encyclopedia of Unified Science", its first part ("Foundations of the Unity of Science", 2 vols.) consisting of twenty monographs (eight appeared by 1940). Here, the foundations of various fields of science are discussed, especially from the point of view of the unity of science and scientific procedure, and the relations between the fields. Thus, the work intends to serve as an introduction to the science of science (q.v.). A series of International Congresses for the Unity of Science was started by a preliminary conference in Prague 1934 (see report, Erkenntnis 5, 1935). The congresses took place at Pans in 1935 ("Actes", Pans 1936; Erkenntnis 5, 1936); at Copenhagen in 1936 (Erkenntnis 6, 1937); at Paris in 1937; at Cambridge, England, in 1938 (Erkenntnis 7, 1938); at Cambridge, Mass., in 1939 (J. Unif. Sc. 9, 1941); at Chicago in 1941. Concerning the development and the aims of this movement, see O. Neurath and C. W. Morris (for both, see above, I D), further H. Reichenbach, Ziele and Wege der heutigen Naturphilosophie, 1931; S. S. Stevens, "Psychology and the Science of Science", Psych. Bull. 36, 1939 (with bibliography). Bibliographies in "Erkenntnis": 1, 1931, p. 315, p. 335 (Polish authors); 2, 1931, p. 151, p. 189; 5, 1935, p. 185, p. 195 (American authors), p. 199 (Polish authors), p. 409, larger bibliography: in Encycl. Unif. Science, vol. II, No. 10 (to ippetr in 1942). -- R.C.
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)
Analog Hardware Design Language "language" (AHDL) A language under development by the US Air Force. (1995-04-09)
Anal Stage ::: Freud&
anamorphosis ::: n. --> A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.
Same as Anamorphism, 2.
A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.
anantagun.a (anantaguna; ananta guna; anantagunam) ::: "the infinite anantaguna qualities of the spirit" of which "Nature is only the power in being and the development in action"; brahman as "an Infinite teeming with innumerable qualities, properties, features"; capable of infinite qualities; same as anantagun.amaya.
anatropous ::: a. --> Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.
"A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
animism ::: n. --> The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.
anterior self ::: One of the three major aspects of the overall self, along with the proximate and distal self. The anterior self is a person’s sense of the Witness, the pure Self, or “I-I,” shining through the proximate self at whatever stage of self-development. See I-I.
anthropogeny ::: n. --> The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.
Apache Software Foundation "open source, body" (ASF) A consortium that manages the development of the {Apache} {web server}, dozens of {XML}- and {Java}-based projects (under the name {Jakarta}), the {Ant} build tool, the {Geronimo} {J2EE} server, the {SpamAssassin} anti-{SPAM} tool, and much more. {Apache Home (http://apache.org/)}. (2005-01-26)
Apart from philosophy, Descartes' contribution to the development of analytical geometry, the theory of music and the science of optics, are noteworthy achievements.
application development "programming" Writing {computer programs} to meet specific {requirements}; the job of an Application Developer. Application development often includes responsibility for {requirements capture} and/or {testing} as well as actual {programming} (the more limited activity implied by the term {programmer}). (2013-08-15)
Application Developer "job" Someone who does {application development}. (2013-08-15)
Applications Development Manager "job" (Or "Director") The person in a company who plans and oversees multiple projects and {project managers}. The Applications Development Managers works with the {CIO} and senior management to determine systems development strategy and standards. He or she administers department budget and reviews project managers. (2004-03-06)
a record or account, often chronological in approach, of past events, developments, etc.
ARM7 "processor" A {RISC} {microprocessor} architecture from {Advanced RISC Machines} Ltd. (ARM). Building upon the {ARM6} family, the goal of the ARM7 design was to offer higher levels of raw compute performance at even lower levels of power consumption. The ARM7 architecture is now (Dec 1994) the most powerful low voltage {RISC} processor available on the market. The ARM7 offers several architectural extensions which address specific market needs, encompassing fast multiply and innovative embedded {ICE} support. Software development tools are available. The ARM7 architecture is made up of a core CPU plus a range of system peripherals which can be added to a CPU core to give a complete system on a chip, e.g. 4K or 8K {cache}, {Memory Management Unit}, {Write Buffer}, {coprocessor} interface, {ICEbreaker} embedded {ICE} support and {JTAG} {boundary scan}. The {ARM710} {microprocessor} is built around the ARM7 core. {(http://systemv.com/armltd/arm7.html)}. (1995-01-05)
Ars Combinatoria: (Leibniz) An art or technique of deriving or inventing complex concepts by a combination of a relatively few simple ones taken as primitive. This technique was proposed as a valuable subject for study by Leibniz in De Arte Combinatoria (1666) but was never greatly developed by him. Leibniz's program for logic consisted of two main projects: (1) the development of a universal characteristic (characteristica universalis), and (2) the development of a universal mathematics (mathesis universalis (q.v.). The universal characteristic was to be a universal language for scientists and philosophers. With a relatively few basic symbols for the ultimately simple ideas, and a suitable technique for constructing compound ideas out of the simple ones, Leibniz thought that a language could be constructed which would be much more efficient for reasoning and for communication than the vague, complicated, and more or less parochial languages then available. This language would be completely universal in the sense that all scientific and philosophical concepts could be expressed in it, and also in that it would enable scholars m all countries to communicate over the barriers of their vernacular tongues. Leibniz's proposals in this matter, and what work he did on it, are the grand predecessors of a vast amount of research which has been done in the last hundred years on the techniques of language construction, and specifically on the invention of formal rules and procedures for introducing new terms into a language on the basis of terms already present, the general project of constructing a unified language for science and philosophy. L. Couturat, La Logique de Leibniz, Paris, 1901; C. I. Lewis, A Survey of Symbolic Logic, Berkeley, 1918. -- F.L.W.
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)
Artifex "programming, tool" A {CASE} environment from {ARTIS} of Turin for the development of large {event-driven} distributed systems. It has code-generation and rapid prototyping features. (1996-01-24)
ASPIK "language, specification" A multiple-style specification language. ["Algebraic Specifications in an Integrated Software Development and Verification System", A. Voss, Diss, U Kaiserslautern, 1985]. (1994-11-30)
Association for Computing "body" (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. Founded in 1947, only a year after the unveiling of {ENIAC}, ACM was established by mathematicians and electrical engineers to advance the science and application of {Information Technology}. {John Mauchly}, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was one of ACM's founders. Since its inception ACM has provided its members and the world of computer science a forum for the sharing of knowledge on developments and achievements necessary to the fruitful interchange of ideas. ACM has 90,000 members - educators, researchers, practitioners, managers, and engineers - who drive the Association's major programs and services - publications, special interest groups, chapters, conferences, awards, and special activities. The ACM Press publishes journals (notably {CACM}), book series, conference proceedings, {CD-ROM}, {hypertext}, {video}, and specialized publications such as curricula recommendations and self-assessment procedures. {(http://info.acm.org/)}. (1998-02-24)
Association for Progressive Communications "body, philosophy" (APC) A world-wide organisation of like-minded computer networks providing a global communications network dedicated to the free and balanced flow of information. The APC defends and promotes non-commercial, productive online space for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) and collaborates with like-minded organisations to ensure that the information and communication needs of civil society are considered in telecommunications, donor and investment policy. A few of APC's partner organisations include The {Institute for Global Communications} (USA), GreenNet (UK), Nicarao (Nicaragua) Enda-Tiers Monde (Senegal) and GlasNet (Ukraine). These organisations serve people working toward goals that include the prevention of warfare, elimination of militarism and poverty, protection of the environment, human rights, social and economic justice, participatory democracy, non-violent conflict resolution, and the promotion of sustainable development. {(http://apc.org/english/)}. E-mail: "apcadmin@apc.org". (2000-10-08)
ATA-4 "storage" (Or "Ultra DMA", "UDMA", "Ultra-ATA", "Ultra-DMA/33") A development of the {Advanced Technology Attachment} specifications which gives nearly twice the maximum {transfer rate} of the {ATA-3} standard ({PIO} Mode 4). ATA-4 Extensions Ultra DMA/33 Synchronous DMA Mode maximum {burst transfer rates}: Mode Cycle Time Transfer Rate ns MB/s 0 235 16 1 160 24 2 120 33 This is achieved by improving timing windows in the {protocol} on the ATA interface; reducing propagation delays by {pipelining} data transfers and transferring data in {synchronous} (strobed) mode. Developed by {Quantum Corporation}, ATA-4 has been freely licensed to manufacturers and is supported by {Intel Corporation}. (1998-09-30)
atrophied ::: p. a. --> Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary. ::: p. p. --> of Atrophy
attain ::: 1. To gain as an objective; achieve; reach, arrive at; accomplish. 2. To arrive at, as by virtue of persistence or the passage of time; To reach in the course of development. attained.
ATX "hardware, standard" An {open} {PC} {motherboard} specification by {Intel}. ATX is a development of the {Baby AT} specification with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees in the chassis. The {CPU} and {SIMM} sockets have been relocated away from the {expansion card} slots meaning that all the slots support full-length cards. More {I/O} functions are integrated on the motherboard. As the longer edge of the board is now at the back of the chassis, there is more space for connectors; also, the I/O opening on the back panel of the chassis has been defined as double the previous height, allowing vendors to add extra on-board I/O functions over and above the standard. Most {Pentium Pro} boards use this {form factor}. As well as the motherboard size, layout, and placement, the ATX specification also includes requirements for power supply and fan specification and location. The full size ATX board measures 305mm wide by 244mm deep. There is also a Mini-ATX form factor, 284mm by 208mm. {Home (http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/atx.htm)}. (2001-07-16)
AudioOne "tool, music" Digital recording and editing software developed by {BizTrack Software Development} for the dance, music, and audio industries. AudioOne includes a waveform recorder that allows signal manipulation, editing, and recording. (1996-09-28)
Aufklärung: In general, this German word and its English equivalent Enlightenment denote the self-emancipation of man from mere authority, prejudice, convention and tradition, with an insistence on freer thinking about problems uncritically referred to these other agencies. According to Kant's famous definition "Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority, which is the incapacity of using one's understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is caused when its source lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another" (Was ist Aufklärung? 1784). In its historical perspective, the Aufklärung refers to the cultural atmosphere and contrlbutions of the 18th century, especially in Germany, France and England [which affected also American thought with B. Franklin, T. Paine and the leaders of the Revolution]. It crystallized tendencies emphasized by the Renaissance, and quickened by modern scepticism and empiricism, and by the great scientific discoveries of the 17th century. This movement, which was represented by men of varying tendencies, gave an impetus to general learning, a more popular philosophy, empirical science, scriptural criticism, social and political thought. More especially, the word Aufklärung is applied to the German contributions to 18th century culture. In philosophy, its principal representatives are G. E. Lessing (1729-81) who believed in free speech and in a methodical criticism of religion, without being a free-thinker; H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768) who expounded a naturalistic philosophy and denied the supernatural origin of Christianity; Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) who endeavoured to mitigate prejudices and developed a popular common-sense philosophy; Chr. Wolff (1679-1754), J. A. Eberhard (1739-1809) who followed the Leibnizian rationalism and criticized unsuccessfully Kant and Fichte; and J. G. Herder (1744-1803) who was best as an interpreter of others, but whose intuitional suggestions have borne fruit in the organic correlation of the sciences, and in questions of language in relation to human nature and to national character. The works of Kant and Goethe mark the culmination of the German Enlightenment. Cf. J. G. Hibben, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 1910. --T.G. Augustinianism: The thought of St. Augustine of Hippo, and of his followers. Born in 354 at Tagaste in N. Africa, A. studied rhetoric in Carthage, taught that subject there and in Rome and Milan. Attracted successively to Manicheanism, Scepticism, and Neo-Platontsm, A. eventually found intellectual and moral peace with his conversion to Christianity in his thirty-fourth year. Returning to Africa, he established numerous monasteries, became a priest in 391, Bishop of Hippo in 395. Augustine wrote much: On Free Choice, Confessions, Literal Commentary on Genesis, On the Trinity, and City of God, are his most noted works. He died in 430. St. Augustine's characteristic method, an inward empiricism which has little in common with later variants, starts from things without, proceeds within to the self, and moves upwards to God. These three poles of the Augustinian dialectic are polarized by his doctrine of moderate illuminism. An ontological illumination is required to explain the metaphysical structure of things. The truth of judgment demands a noetic illumination. A moral illumination is necessary in the order of willing; and so, too, an lllumination of art in the aesthetic order. Other illuminations which transcend the natural order do not come within the scope of philosophy; they provide the wisdoms of theology and mysticism. Every being is illuminated ontologically by number, form, unity and its derivatives, and order. A thing is what it is, in so far as it is more or less flooded by the light of these ontological constituents. Sensation is necessary in order to know material substances. There is certainly an action of the external object on the body and a corresponding passion of the body, but, as the soul is superior to the body and can suffer nothing from its inferior, sensation must be an action, not a passion, of the soul. Sensation takes place only when the observing soul, dynamically on guard throughout the body, is vitally attentive to the changes suffered by the body. However, an adequate basis for the knowledge of intellectual truth is not found in sensation alone. In order to know, for example, that a body is multiple, the idea of unity must be present already, otherwise its multiplicity could not be recognized. If numbers are not drawn in by the bodily senses which perceive only the contingent and passing, is the mind the source of the unchanging and necessary truth of numbers? The mind of man is also contingent and mutable, and cannot give what it does not possess. As ideas are not innate, nor remembered from a previous existence of the soul, they can be accounted for only by an immutable source higher than the soul. In so far as man is endowed with an intellect, he is a being naturally illuminated by God, Who may be compared to an intelligible sun. The human intellect does not create the laws of thought; it finds them and submits to them. The immediate intuition of these normative rules does not carry any content, thus any trace of ontologism is avoided. Things have forms because they have numbers, and they have being in so far as they possess form. The sufficient explanation of all formable, and hence changeable, things is an immutable and eternal form which is unrestricted in time and space. The forms or ideas of all things actually existing in the world are in the things themselves (as rationes seminales) and in the Divine Mind (as rationes aeternae). Nothing could exist without unity, for to be is no other than to be one. There is a unity proper to each level of being, a unity of the material individual and species, of the soul, and of that union of souls in the love of the same good, which union constitutes the city. Order, also, is ontologically imbibed by all beings. To tend to being is to tend to order; order secures being, disorder leads to non-being. Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal each to its own place and integrates an ensemble of parts in accordance with an end. Hence, peace is defined as the tranquillity of order. Just as things have their being from their forms, the order of parts, and their numerical relations, so too their beauty is not something superadded, but the shining out of all their intelligible co-ingredients. S. Aurelii Augustini, Opera Omnia, Migne, PL 32-47; (a critical edition of some works will be found in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna). Gilson, E., Introd. a l'etude de s. Augustin, (Paris, 1931) contains very good bibliography up to 1927, pp. 309-331. Pope, H., St. Augustine of Hippo, (London, 1937). Chapman, E., St. Augustine's Philos. of Beauty, (N. Y., 1939). Figgis, J. N., The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God", (London, 1921). --E.C. Authenticity: In a general sense, genuineness, truth according to its title. It involves sometimes a direct and personal characteristic (Whitehead speaks of "authentic feelings"). This word also refers to problems of fundamental criticism involving title, tradition, authorship and evidence. These problems are vital in theology, and basic in scholarship with regard to the interpretation of texts and doctrines. --T.G. Authoritarianism: That theory of knowledge which maintains that the truth of any proposition is determined by the fact of its having been asserted by a certain esteemed individual or group of individuals. Cf. H. Newman, Grammar of Assent; C. S. Peirce, "Fixation of Belief," in Chance, Love and Logic, ed. M. R. Cohen. --A.C.B. Autistic thinking: Absorption in fanciful or wishful thinking without proper control by objective or factual material; day dreaming; undisciplined imagination. --A.C.B. Automaton Theory: Theory that a living organism may be considered a mere machine. See Automatism. Automatism: (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Treatise on Man). Pure automatism for man as well as animals is advocated by La Mettrie (Man, a Machine, 1748). During the Nineteenth century, automatism, combined with epiphenomenalism, was advanced by Hodgson, Huxley and Clifford. (Cf. W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, ch. V.) Behaviorism, of the extreme sort, is the most recent version of automatism (See Behaviorism). (b) In psychology: Psychological automatism is the performance of apparently purposeful actions, like automatic writing without the superintendence of the conscious mind. L. C. Rosenfield, From Beast Machine to Man Machine, N. Y., 1941. --L.W. Automatism, Conscious: The automatism of Hodgson, Huxley, and Clifford which considers man a machine to which mind or consciousness is superadded; the mind of man is, however, causally ineffectual. See Automatism; Epiphenomenalism. --L.W. Autonomy: (Gr. autonomia, independence) Freedom consisting in self-determination and independence of all external constraint. See Freedom. Kant defines autonomy of the will as subjection of the will to its own law, the categorical imperative, in contrast to heteronomy, its subjection to a law or end outside the rational will. (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, § 2.) --L.W. Autonomy of ethics: A doctrine, usually propounded by intuitionists, that ethics is not a part of, and cannot be derived from, either metaphysics or any of the natural or social sciences. See Intuitionism, Metaphysical ethics, Naturalistic ethics. --W.K.F. Autonomy of the will: (in Kant's ethics) The freedom of the rational will to legislate to itself, which constitutes the basis for the autonomy of the moral law. --P.A.S. Autonymy: In the terminology introduced by Carnap, a word (phrase, symbol, expression) is autonymous if it is used as a name for itself --for the geometric shape, sound, etc. which it exemplifies, or for the word as a historical and grammatical unit. Autonymy is thus the same as the Scholastic suppositio matertalis (q. v.), although the viewpoint is different. --A.C. Autotelic: (from Gr. autos, self, and telos, end) Said of any absorbing activity engaged in for its own sake (cf. German Selbstzweck), such as higher mathematics, chess, etc. In aesthetics, applied to creative art and play which lack any conscious reference to the accomplishment of something useful. In the view of some, it may constitute something beneficent in itself of which the person following his art impulse (q.v.) or playing is unaware, thus approaching a heterotelic (q.v.) conception. --K.F.L. Avenarius, Richard: (1843-1896) German philosopher who expressed his thought in an elaborate and novel terminology in the hope of constructing a symbolic language for philosophy, like that of mathematics --the consequence of his Spinoza studies. As the most influential apostle of pure experience, the posltivistic motive reaches in him an extreme position. Insisting on the biologic and economic function of thought, he thought the true method of science is to cure speculative excesses by a return to pure experience devoid of all assumptions. Philosophy is the scientific effort to exclude from knowledge all ideas not included in the given. Its task is to expel all extraneous elements in the given. His uncritical use of the category of the given and the nominalistic view that logical relations are created rather than discovered by thought, leads him to banish not only animism but also all of the categories, substance, causality, etc., as inventions of the mind. Explaining the evolution and devolution of the problematization and deproblematization of numerous ideas, and aiming to give the natural history of problems, Avenarius sought to show physiologically, psychologically and historically under what conditions they emerge, are challenged and are solved. He hypothesized a System C, a bodily and central nervous system upon which consciousness depends. R-values are the stimuli received from the world of objects. E-values are the statements of experience. The brain changes that continually oscillate about an ideal point of balance are termed Vitalerhaltungsmaximum. The E-values are differentiated into elements, to which the sense-perceptions or the content of experience belong, and characters, to which belongs everything which psychology describes as feelings and attitudes. Avenarius describes in symbolic form a series of states from balance to balance, termed vital series, all describing a series of changes in System C. Inequalities in the vital balance give rise to vital differences. According to his theory there are two vital series. It assumes a series of brain changes because parallel series of conscious states can be observed. The independent vital series are physical, and the dependent vital series are psychological. The two together are practically covariants. In the case of a process as a dependent vital series three stages can be noted: first, the appearance of the problem, expressed as strain, restlessness, desire, fear, doubt, pain, repentance, delusion; the second, the continued effort and struggle to solve the problem; and finally, the appearance of the solution, characterized by abating anxiety, a feeling of triumph and enjoyment. Corresponding to these three stages of the dependent series are three stages of the independent series: the appearance of the vital difference and a departure from balance in the System C, the continuance with an approximate vital difference, and lastly, the reduction of the vital difference to zero, the return to stability. By making room for dependent and independent experiences, he showed that physics regards experience as independent of the experiencing indlvidual, and psychology views experience as dependent upon the individual. He greatly influenced Mach and James (q.v.). See Avenarius, Empirio-criticism, Experience, pure. Main works: Kritik der reinen Erfahrung; Der menschliche Weltbegriff. --H.H. Averroes: (Mohammed ibn Roshd) Known to the Scholastics as The Commentator, and mentioned as the author of il gran commento by Dante (Inf. IV. 68) he was born 1126 at Cordova (Spain), studied theology, law, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy, became after having been judge in Sevilla and Cordova, physician to the khalifah Jaqub Jusuf, and charged with writing a commentary on the works of Aristotle. Al-mansur, Jusuf's successor, deprived him of his place because of accusations of unorthodoxy. He died 1198 in Morocco. Averroes is not so much an original philosopher as the author of a minute commentary on the whole works of Aristotle. His procedure was imitated later by Aquinas. In his interpretation of Aristotelian metaphysics Averroes teaches the coeternity of a universe created ex nihilo. This doctrine formed together with the notion of a numerical unity of the active intellect became one of the controversial points in the discussions between the followers of Albert-Thomas and the Latin Averroists. Averroes assumed that man possesses only a disposition for receiving the intellect coming from without; he identifies this disposition with the possible intellect which thus is not truly intellectual by nature. The notion of one intellect common to all men does away with the doctrine of personal immortality. Another doctrine which probably was emphasized more by the Latin Averroists (and by the adversaries among Averroes' contemporaries) is the famous statement about "two-fold truth", viz. that a proposition may be theologically true and philosophically false and vice versa. Averroes taught that religion expresses the (higher) philosophical truth by means of religious imagery; the "two-truth notion" came apparently into the Latin text through a misinterpretation on the part of the translators. The works of Averroes were one of the main sources of medieval Aristotelianlsm, before and even after the original texts had been translated. The interpretation the Latin Averroists found in their texts of the "Commentator" spread in spite of opposition and condemnation. See Averroism, Latin. Averroes, Opera, Venetiis, 1553. M. Horten, Die Metaphysik des Averroes, 1912. P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin, 2d ed., Louvain, 1911. --R.A. Averroism, Latin: The commentaries on Aristotle written by Averroes (Ibn Roshd) in the 12th century became known to the Western scholars in translations by Michael Scottus, Hermannus Alemannus, and others at the beginning of the 13th century. Many works of Aristotle were also known first by such translations from Arabian texts, though there existed translations from the Greek originals at the same time (Grabmann). The Averroistic interpretation of Aristotle was held to be the true one by many; but already Albert the Great pointed out several notions which he felt to be incompatible with the principles of Christian philosophy, although he relied for the rest on the "Commentator" and apparently hardly used any other text. Aquinas, basing his studies mostly on a translation from the Greek texts, procured for him by William of Moerbecke, criticized the Averroistic interpretation in many points. But the teachings of the Commentator became the foundation for a whole school of philosophers, represented first by the Faculty of Arts at Paris. The most prominent of these scholars was Siger of Brabant. The philosophy of these men was condemned on March 7th, 1277 by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, after a first condemnation of Aristotelianism in 1210 had gradually come to be neglected. The 219 theses condemned in 1277, however, contain also some of Aquinas which later were generally recognized an orthodox. The Averroistic propositions which aroused the criticism of the ecclesiastic authorities and which had been opposed with great energy by Albert and Thomas refer mostly to the following points: The co-eternity of the created word; the numerical identity of the intellect in all men, the so-called two-fold-truth theory stating that a proposition may be philosophically true although theologically false. Regarding the first point Thomas argued that there is no philosophical proof, either for the co-eternity or against it; creation is an article of faith. The unity of intellect was rejected as incompatible with the true notion of person and with personal immortality. It is doubtful whether Averroes himself held the two-truths theory; it was, however, taught by the Latin Averroists who, notwithstanding the opposition of the Church and the Thomistic philosophers, gained a great influence and soon dominated many universities, especially in Italy. Thomas and his followers were convinced that they interpreted Aristotle correctly and that the Averroists were wrong; one has, however, to admit that certain passages in Aristotle allow for the Averroistic interpretation, especially in regard to the theory of intellect. Lit.: P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin au XIIIe Siecle, 2d. ed. Louvain, 1911; M. Grabmann, Forschungen über die lateinischen Aristotelesübersetzungen des XIII. Jahrhunderts, Münster 1916 (Beitr. z. Gesch. Phil. d. MA. Vol. 17, H. 5-6). --R.A. Avesta: See Zendavesta. Avicehron: (or Avencebrol, Salomon ibn Gabirol) The first Jewish philosopher in Spain, born in Malaga 1020, died about 1070, poet, philosopher, and moralist. His main work, Fons vitae, became influential and was much quoted by the Scholastics. It has been preserved only in the Latin translation by Gundissalinus. His doctrine of a spiritual substance individualizing also the pure spirits or separate forms was opposed by Aquinas already in his first treatise De ente, but found favor with the medieval Augustinians also later in the 13th century. He also teaches the necessity of a mediator between God and the created world; such a mediator he finds in the Divine Will proceeding from God and creating, conserving, and moving the world. His cosmogony shows a definitely Neo-Platonic shade and assumes a series of emanations. Cl. Baeumker, Avencebrolis Fons vitae. Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. MA. 1892-1895, Vol. I. Joh. Wittman, Die Stellung des hl. Thomas von Aquino zu Avencebrol, ibid. 1900. Vol. III. --R.A. Avicenna: (Abu Ali al Hosain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina) Born 980 in the country of Bocchara, began to write in young years, left more than 100 works, taught in Ispahan, was physician to several Persian princes, and died at Hamadan in 1037. His fame as physician survived his influence as philosopher in the Occident. His medical works were printed still in the 17th century. His philosophy is contained in 18 vols. of a comprehensive encyclopedia, following the tradition of Al Kindi and Al Farabi. Logic, Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics form the parts of this work. His philosophy is Aristotelian with noticeable Neo-Platonic influences. His doctrine of the universal existing ante res in God, in rebus as the universal nature of the particulars, and post res in the human mind by way of abstraction became a fundamental thesis of medieval Aristotelianism. He sharply distinguished between the logical and the ontological universal, denying to the latter the true nature of form in the composite. The principle of individuation is matter, eternally existent. Latin translations attributed to Avicenna the notion that existence is an accident to essence (see e.g. Guilelmus Parisiensis, De Universo). The process adopted by Avicenna was one of paraphrasis of the Aristotelian texts with many original thoughts interspersed. His works were translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gondisalvi) with the assistance of Avendeath ibn Daud. This translation started, when it became more generally known, the "revival of Aristotle" at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Albert the Great and Aquinas professed, notwithstanding their critical attitude, a great admiration for Avicenna whom the Arabs used to call the "third Aristotle". But in the Orient, Avicenna's influence declined soon, overcome by the opposition of the orthodox theologians. Avicenna, Opera, Venetiis, 1495; l508; 1546. M. Horten, Das Buch der Genesung der Seele, eine philosophische Enzyklopaedie Avicenna's; XIII. Teil: Die Metaphysik. Halle a. S. 1907-1909. R. de Vaux, Notes et textes sur l'Avicennisme Latin, Bibl. Thomiste XX, Paris, 1934. --R.A. Avidya: (Skr.) Nescience; ignorance; the state of mind unaware of true reality; an equivalent of maya (q.v.); also a condition of pure awareness prior to the universal process of evolution through gradual differentiation into the elements and factors of knowledge. --K.F.L. Avyakta: (Skr.) "Unmanifest", descriptive of or standing for brahman (q.v.) in one of its or "his" aspects, symbolizing the superabundance of the creative principle, or designating the condition of the universe not yet become phenomenal (aja, unborn). --K.F.L. Awareness: Consciousness considered in its aspect of act; an act of attentive awareness such as the sensing of a color patch or the feeling of pain is distinguished from the content attended to, the sensed color patch, the felt pain. The psychologlcal theory of intentional act was advanced by F. Brentano (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) and received its epistemological development by Meinong, Husserl, Moore, Laird and Broad. See Intentionalism. --L.W. Axiological: (Ger. axiologisch) In Husserl: Of or pertaining to value or theory of value (the latter term understood as including disvalue and value-indifference). --D.C. Axiological ethics: Any ethics which makes the theory of obligation entirely dependent on the theory of value, by making the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on a consideration of the value or goodness of something, e.g. the action itself, its motive, or its consequences, actual or probable. Opposed to deontological ethics. See also teleological ethics. --W.K.F. Axiologic Realism: In metaphysics, theory that value as well as logic, qualities as well as relations, have their being and exist external to the mind and independently of it. Applicable to the philosophy of many though not all realists in the history of philosophy, from Plato to G. E. Moore, A. N. Whitehead, and N, Hartmann. --J.K.F. Axiology: (Gr. axios, of like value, worthy, and logos, account, reason, theory). Modern term for theory of value (the desired, preferred, good), investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. Had its rise in Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas (Idea of the Good); was developed in Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Poetics, and Metaphysics (Book Lambda). Stoics and Epicureans investigated the summum bonum. Christian philosophy (St. Thomas) built on Aristotle's identification of highest value with final cause in God as "a living being, eternal, most good." In modern thought, apart from scholasticism and the system of Spinoza (Ethica, 1677), in which values are metaphysically grounded, the various values were investigated in separate sciences, until Kant's Critiques, in which the relations of knowledge to moral, aesthetic, and religious values were examined. In Hegel's idealism, morality, art, religion, and philosophy were made the capstone of his dialectic. R. H. Lotze "sought in that which should be the ground of that which is" (Metaphysik, 1879). Nineteenth century evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics subjected value experience to empirical analysis, and stress was again laid on the diversity and relativity of value phenomena rather than on their unity and metaphysical nature. F. Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) aroused new interest in the nature of value. F. Brentano, Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis (1889), identified value with love. In the twentieth century the term axiology was apparently first applied by Paul Lapie (Logique de la volonte, 1902) and E. von Hartmann (Grundriss der Axiologie, 1908). Stimulated by Ehrenfels (System der Werttheorie, 1897), Meinong (Psychologisch-ethische Untersuchungen zur Werttheorie, 1894-1899), and Simmel (Philosophie des Geldes, 1900). W. M. Urban wrote the first systematic treatment of axiology in English (Valuation, 1909), phenomenological in method under J. M. Baldwin's influence. Meanwhile H. Münsterberg wrote a neo-Fichtean system of values (The Eternal Values, 1909). Among important recent contributions are: B. Bosanquet, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), a free reinterpretation of Hegelianism; W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (1918, 1921), defending a metaphysical theism; S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity (1920), realistic and naturalistic; N. Hartmann, Ethik (1926), detailed analysis of types and laws of value; R. B. Perry's magnum opus, General Theory of Value (1926), "its meaning and basic principles construed in terms of interest"; and J. Laird, The Idea of Value (1929), noteworthy for historical exposition. A naturalistic theory has been developed by J. Dewey (Theory of Valuation, 1939), for which "not only is science itself a value . . . but it is the supreme means of the valid determination of all valuations." A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) expounds the view of logical positivism that value is "nonsense." J. Hessen, Wertphilosophie (1937), provides an account of recent German axiology from a neo-scholastic standpoint. The problems of axiology fall into four main groups, namely, those concerning (1) the nature of value, (2) the types of value, (3) the criterion of value, and (4) the metaphysical status of value. (1) The nature of value experience. Is valuation fulfillment of desire (voluntarism: Spinoza, Ehrenfels), pleasure (hedonism: Epicurus, Bentham, Meinong), interest (Perry), preference (Martineau), pure rational will (formalism: Stoics, Kant, Royce), apprehension of tertiary qualities (Santayana), synoptic experience of the unity of personality (personalism: T. H. Green, Bowne), any experience that contributes to enhanced life (evolutionism: Nietzsche), or "the relation of things as means to the end or consequence actually reached" (pragmatism, instrumentalism: Dewey). (2) The types of value. Most axiologists distinguish between intrinsic (consummatory) values (ends), prized for their own sake, and instrumental (contributory) values (means), which are causes (whether as economic goods or as natural events) of intrinsic values. Most intrinsic values are also instrumental to further value experience; some instrumental values are neutral or even disvaluable intrinsically. Commonly recognized as intrinsic values are the (morally) good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. Values of play, of work, of association, and of bodily well-being are also acknowledged. Some (with Montague) question whether the true is properly to be regarded as a value, since some truth is disvaluable, some neutral; but love of truth, regardless of consequences, seems to establish the value of truth. There is disagreement about whether the holy (religious value) is a unique type (Schleiermacher, Otto), or an attitude toward other values (Kant, Höffding), or a combination of the two (Hocking). There is also disagreement about whether the variety of values is irreducible (pluralism) or whether all values are rationally related in a hierarchy or system (Plato, Hegel, Sorley), in which values interpenetrate or coalesce into a total experience. (3) The criterion of value. The standard for testing values is influenced by both psychological and logical theory. Hedonists find the standard in the quantity of pleasure derived by the individual (Aristippus) or society (Bentham). Intuitionists appeal to an ultimate insight into preference (Martineau, Brentano). Some idealists recognize an objective system of rational norms or ideals as criterion (Plato, Windelband), while others lay more stress on rational wholeness and coherence (Hegel, Bosanquet, Paton) or inclusiveness (T. H. Green). Naturalists find biological survival or adjustment (Dewey) to be the standard. Despite differences, there is much in common in the results of the application of these criteria. (4) The metaphysical status of value. What is the relation of values to the facts investigated by natural science (Koehler), of Sein to Sollen (Lotze, Rickert), of human experience of value to reality independent of man (Hegel, Pringle-Pattlson, Spaulding)? There are three main answers: subjectivism (value is entirely dependent on and relative to human experience of it: so most hedonists, naturalists, positivists); logical objectivism (values are logical essences or subsistences, independent of their being known, yet with no existential status or action in reality); metaphysical objectivism (values --or norms or ideals --are integral, objective, and active constituents of the metaphysically real: so theists, absolutists, and certain realists and naturalists like S. Alexander and Wieman). --E.S.B. Axiom: See Mathematics. Axiomatic method: That method of constructing a deductive system consisting of deducing by specified rules all statements of the system save a given few from those given few, which are regarded as axioms or postulates of the system. See Mathematics. --C.A.B. Ayam atma brahma: (Skr.) "This self is brahman", famous quotation from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19, one of many alluding to the central theme of the Upanishads, i.e., the identity of the human and divine or cosmic. --K.F.L.
“Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development—Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.” Letters on Yoga
A. V. Vasihev, Space, Time, Motion, translated by H. M. Lucas and C. P. Sanger, with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, London. 1924, and New York, 1924. Religion, Philosophy of: The methodic or systematic investigation of the elements of religious consciousness, the theories it has evolved and their development and historic relationships in the cultural complex. It takes account of religious practices only as illustrations of the vitality of beliefs and the inseparableness of the psychological from thought reality in faith. It is distinct from theology in that it recognizes the priority of reason over faith and the acceptance of creed, subjecting the latter to a logical analysis. As such, the history of the Philosophy of Religion is coextensive with the free enquiry into religious reality, particularly the conceptions of God, soul, immortality, sin, salvaition, the sacred (Rudolf Otto), etc., and may be said to have its roots in any society above the pre-logical, mythological, or custom-controlled level, first observed in Egypt, China, India, and Greece. Its scientific treatment is a subsidiary philosophic discipline dates from about Kant's Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der reinen Vernunft and Hegel's Philosophie der Religion, while in the history of thought based on Indian and Greek speculation, sporadic sallies were made by all great philosophers, especially those professing an idealism, and by most theologians.
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)
babel ::: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
Babism: An initially persecuted and later schismatizing religious creed founded in Persia prior to the middle of the last century. International in its appeal the number of its followers increased largely in America. As a development against orthodox Mohammedanism, the Babis deny the finality of any revelation. The sect's former extreme pantheistic tendency and metaphysical hairsplittings have been effectively subordinated to more pronounced ethical imperatives. -- H.H.
BABYLON "artificial intelligence" A {development environment} for {expert systems}. BABYLON includes {frames}, {constraints}, a {prolog}-like logic formalism and a description language for diagnostic applications. It requires {Common Lisp}. Version 2.3, 1994-06-22 included ports to {MCL}, {TI CL}, {Allegro CL}, {CLisp}, {CMU CL}. Contact: Juergen Walther, AI Research Division, {GMD}. {CMU AI archive (http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/expert/systems/babylon/0.html)} (2019-05-27)
BackOffice "software" A suite of network {server} software from {Microsoft} that includes {Windows NT} Server, BackOffice Server (for the integrated development, deployment, and management of BackOffice applications in departments, branch offices, and medium sized businesses); {Exchange Server}; {Proxy Server}; {Site Server} for {intranet} publishing, management, and search; Site Server Commerce Edition For comprehensive {Internet commerce} transactions; {Small Business Server} for business operations, resource management, and customer relations; {SNA Server} for the integration of existing and new systems and data; {SQL Server} for scalable, reliable database and data-warehousing; {Systems Management Server} (SMS) for centralised change- and {configuration-management}. {(http://microsoft.com/backofficeserver/)}. (2000-12-16)
bare metal 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an {operating system}, an {HLL}, or even {assembler}. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of {bit bashing} needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building {boot PROMs} and {BIOS} chips, implementing basic {monitors} used to test {device drivers}, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of {hand-hacking} that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in {The Story of Mel}, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See {Real Programmer}. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a {Good Thing}, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see {ill-behaved}). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard. [{Jargon File}]
basic structures of consciousness ::: 1. “Empty” levels of consciousness used as a general measure of vertical development. A measure of the degree or “altitude” of awareness in any particular stream. These altitudes are often described using the colors of the natural rainbow: Infrared, Magenta, Red, Amber, Orange, Green, Teal, Turquoise, Indigo, Violet, Ultraviolet, and Clear Light. 2. Enduring structures that are actually laid down along these markers of altitude and thus are roughly synonymous with basic levels of consciousness. These are the rungs in any developmental ladder. Cognitive development, for instance, is often used since it is necessary but not sufficient for development in other lines.
BBN Technologies "company" A company, originally known as Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. BBN were awarded the original contract to build the {ARPANET} and have been extensively involved in {Internet} development. They are responsible for managing {NNSC}, {CSNET}, and {NEARnet}. The language {LOGO} was developed at BBN, as was the {BBN Butterfly} supercomputer. {BBN Home (http://bbn.com/)}. (2003-11-10)
developmental ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
development ::: n. --> The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.
below the human race in evolutionary development.
Berkeley Software Design, Inc "company" (BSDI) A company that sells {BSD/OS}, a commercial version of {Berkeley Standard Distribution} {Unix}, networking, and Internet technologies originally developed by the {Computer Systems Research Group} (CSRG) at the {University of California at Berkeley}. Leading CSRG computer scientists founded BSDI in 1991. BSDI's BSD/OS represents over 20 years of development by the worldwide BSD technical community. BSD technology is known worldwide for its powerful, flexible and portable architecture and advanced development environments. BSDI designs, develops, markets, and supports the {BSD/OS} {operating system}, {Internet} server software for {IBM PCs}, and other products. BSDI planned to release an Internet gateway product for {Novell} {IPX} networks in 1995. {(http://bsdi.com/)}. E-mail: "bsdi-info@bsdi.com". Address: 5575 Tech Center Drive,
beta testing "programming" Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of {software} (or possibly {hardware}) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover {bugs} that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and {usability}. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as {Google} or {Degree Jungle (http://www.degreejungle.com/rankings/best-online-colleges)} stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for {product cycle} checkpoints, first used at {IBM} but later standard throughout the industry. "{Alpha test}" was the {unit test}, {module test} or {component test} phase; "Beta Test" was initial {system test}. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design. (2013-06-09)
bhas.a (bhasha; bhasa) ::: language; the linguistic faculty (bhas.asakti), one of the "special powers" whose development is related to literary work (sahitya); the study of languages and reading of texts for the sake of cultivating this faculty.
biff /bif/ To notify someone of incoming mail. From the {BSD} utility "biff(1)", which was in turn named after a friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while {4.2BSD} was in development (it had a well-known habit of barking whenever the mailman came). No relation to {BIFF}. [{Jargon File}]
b) In Axiology: The doctrine that moral and aesthetic values represent the subjective feelings and reactions of individual minds and have no status independent of such reactions. Ethical subjectivism finds typical expression in Westermarck's doctrine that moral judgments have reference to our emotions of approval and disapproval. See The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas. Vol. 1, Ch. l. -- L.W.
Binomic forces: Extra-biological forces, which influence the direction and development of life. I.e. all physical, chemical and other environmental forces which affect living organisms in any way. The second law of thermo-dynamics seems to vitalists to be an exception to their view that the creative life-force evolves upwards. Nonetheless natural selection is influenced by binomic forces. -- C.K.D.
B. In ontology, power is often synonymous with potency (q.v.) Aristotle, who is mainly responsible for the development of this notion (Metaph. IV (5) 12.), distinguishes three aspects of it as a source of change, as a capacity of performing, and as a state in virtue of which things are unchangeable by themselves. Hobbes accepts only the first of these meanings, namely that power is the source of motion. Various questions are involved in the analysis of the notion of power, as, for example, whether power is an accident or a perfection of substance, and whether it is distinct from it.
biogeny ::: n. --> A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
Life development generally.
biology ::: n. --> The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
blastula ::: n. --> That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
blivet /bliv'*t/ [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] 1. An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks. 3. A tool that has been hacked over by so many incompetent programmers that it has become an unmaintainable tissue of hacks. 4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort. 5. An embarrassing bug that pops up during a customer demo. 6. In the subjargon of computer security specialists, a denial-of-service attack performed by hogging limited resources that have no access controls (for example, shared spool space on a multi-user system). This term has other meanings in other technical cultures; among experimental physicists and hardware engineers of various kinds it seems to mean any random object of unknown purpose (similar to hackish use of {frob}). It has also been used to describe an amusing trick-the-eye drawing resembling a three-pronged fork that appears to depict a three-dimensional object until one realises that the parts fit together in an impossible way. [{Jargon File}]
blog-driven development {cut-and-waste code}
blossom ::: n. --> The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
B-Method "programming, tool" A system for rigorous or formal development of software using the notion of {Abstract Machines} to specify and design software systems. The B-Method is supported by the {B-Toolkit}. Abstract Machines are specified using the Abstract Machine Notation (AMN) which is in turn based on the mathematical theory of {Generalised Substitutions}. (1995-03-13)
BOLERO "programming" {Software AG}'s {object-oriented} development environment and {application server} for Electronic Business applications. (1999-03-06)
boomeritis ::: A dysfunction whose name originates from its first and most famous victim: the Boomer generation (those born roughly between 1940-1960). The pathological combination of Green and Red altitude in any of the self-related lines of development. Also known as the “Mean Green Meme” (MGM) when used in reference to the Spiral Dynamics model of value memes.
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)
Brahman or of the Self docs not usually come at the beginning of a sadhana or in the first years or for many years. It comes so to a very few. Most would say that a slow development is the best one can hope for in the first years and only when the nature is ready and fully concentrated towards the Divine can the definitive experience come. To some rapid prepdhitory experiences can come at a comparatively early stage, but even they cannot escape the labour of the consciousness which will make these experiences culminate in the realisation that is enduring and complete. It is not a question of liking or disliking, it is a matter of fact and truth and experience. It is the fact that people who arc cheerful and ready to go step by step, even by slow steps if need be, do actually march faster and more surely than those who are impatient and in haste.
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)
B-Toolkit "tool, programming, product" A set of software tools designed to support a rigorous or formal development of software systems using the {B-Method}. The Toolkit also provides a development environment automating the management of all associated files, ensuring that the entire development, including code and documentation, is always in a consistent state. The Toolkit includes: a specification, design and code configuration management system, including integrity and dependency management and source file editing facilities; a set of software specification and design analysis tools, which includes {syntax} checkers, type checkers and a specification animator; a set of verification tools, which includes a proof-obligation generator and automatic and interactive provers; a set of coding tools, which includes a translator, linker, rapid prototyping facilities and a reusable specification/code module library; a documentation tool for automatically producing fully cross-referenced and indexed type-set documents from source files; a re-making tool for automatically re-checking and re-generating specifications, designs, code and documentation after modifications to source files. A normal licence costs 25,000 pounds, academic 6,250 pounds. (1995-03-13)
build "programming, systems" To process all of a project's {source code} and other digital assets or resources in order to produce a deployable product. In the simplest case this might mean compiling one file of {C} source to produce an {executable} file. More complex builds would typically involve compiling multiple source files, building library modules, packaging intermediate build products (e.g. {Java} {class files} in a {jar file}), adding or updating version information and other data about the product (e.g. intended deployment {platform}), running tests and interacting with a {source code control} system. The build process is normally automated using tools such as {Unix} {make}, {Apache} {ant} or as part of an {integrated development environment}. This is taken one step further by {continuous integration} set-ups which periodically build the system while you are working on it. (2011-12-16)
"But the Titan will have nothing of all this; it is too great and subtle for his comprehension. His instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
By way of connoting different types of society, many contemporary Marxists, especially in the U.S.S.R., building upon Marx's analysis of the two phases of "communist society" ("Gotha Program") designate the first or lower phase by the term socialism, the second or higher by the term communism (q.v.). The general features of socialist society (identified by Soviet thinkers with the present phase of development of the U.S.S.R.) are conceived as follows: Economic collective ownership of the means of production, such as factories, industrial equipment, the land, and of the basic apparatus of distribution and exchange, including the banking system; the consequent abolition of classes, private profit, exploitation, surplus value, (q.v.) private hiring and firing and involuntary unemployment; an integrated economy based on long time planning in terms of needs and use. It is held that only under these economic conditions is it possible to apply the formula, "from each according to ability, to each according to work performed", the first part of which implies continuous employment, and the second part, the absence of private profit. Political: a state based upon the dictatorship of the proletariat (q.v.) Cultural the extension of all educational and cultural facilities through state planning; the emancipation of women through unrestricted economic opportunities, the abolition of race discrimination through state enforcement, a struggle against all cultural and social institutions which oppose the socialist society and attempt to obstruct its realization. Marx and Engels held that socialism becomes the inevitable outgrowth of capitalism because the evolution of the latter type of society generates problems which can only be solved by a transition to socialism. These problems are traced primarily to the fact that the economic relations under capitalism, such as individual ownership of productive technics, private hiring and firing in the light of profits and production for a money market, all of which originally released powerful new productive potentialities, come to operate, in the course of time, to prevent full utilization of productive technics, and to cause periodic crises, unemployment, economic insecurity and consequent suffering for masses of people. Marx and Engels regarded their doctrine of the transformation of capitalist into socialist society as based upon a scientific examination of the laws of development of capitalism and a realistic appreciation of the role of the proletariat. (q.v.) Unlike the Utopian socialism (q.v.) of St. Simon, Fourier, Owen (q.v.) and others, their socialism asserted the necessity of mass political organization of the working classes for the purpose of gaining political power in order to effect the transition from capitalism, and also foresaw the probability of a contest of force in which, they held, the working class majority would ultimately be victorious. The view taken is that Marx was the first to explain scientifically the nature of capitalist exploitation as based upon surplus value and to predict its necessary consequences. "These two great discoveries, the materialist conception of history and the revelation of the secret of capitalist production by means of surplus value we owe to Marx. With these discoveries socialism became a science . . ." (Engels: Anti-Dühring, pp. 33-34.) See Historical materialism. -- J.M.S.
call ::: “All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.” The Synthesis of Yoga
call ::: Sri Aurobindo: "All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
CALL. ::: The soul may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awaken- ing ; it may reach it through (he influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy ; it may approach it by a slow illumi- nation or leap to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence.
cambrian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. ::: n.
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)
Candle Part of the {Scorpion} environment development system. (1994-11-09)
canker ::: n. --> A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse&
can't happen "programming" The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty {algorithm}; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also {firewall code}, {professional programming}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-05-10)
Carnap's work has been devoted especially to formal logic and its applications to problems of epistemology and the philosophy of science. His writings in formal logic include a textbook of mathematical logic and a comprehensive monograph devoted to logical syntax, a new branch of logical research to whose development Carnap has greatly contributed.
Cassirer, Ernst: (1874-) Has been chiefly interested in developing the position of the neo-Kantian Philosophy of the Marburg School as it relates to scientific knowledge. Looking at the history of modern philosophy as a progressive formulation of this position, he has sought to extend it by detailed analyses of contemporary scientific developments. Of note are Cassirer's investigations in mathematics, his early consideration of chemical knowledge, and his treatment of Einstein's relativity theory. Main works: Das Erkenntntsprobleme, 3 vols. (1906); Substanz-u-Funktionsbegriff, 1910 (tr. Substance and Function); Philosophie der Symbolischen Forme (1923); Phanom. der Erkenntnis, 1929; Descartes; Leibniz. -- C.K.D.
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Cause: (Lat. causa) Anything responsible for change, motion or action. In the history of philosophy numerous interpretations were given to the term. Aristotle distinguished among the material cause, or that out of which something arises, the formal cause, that is, the pattern or essence determining the creation of a thing, the efficient cause, or the force or agent producing an effect; and the final cause, or purpose. Many thinkers spoke also of the first cause, usually conceived as God. During the Renaissance, with the development of scientific interest in nature, cause was usually conceived as an object. Today, it is generally interpteted as energy or action, whether or not connected with matter. According to Newton, "to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes." But J. S. Mill contended, in his doctrine of the plurality of causes, that an effect, or a kind of effect (e.g. heat or death) may be produced by various causes. The first clear formulation of the principle was given by Leukippus "Nothing happens without a ground but everything through a cause and of necessity." -- R.B.W.
center of gravity ::: A phrase used to describe an individual or group’s central point of development. An individual’s center of gravity typically hovers around their level of proximate-self development in the self-identity stream. In groups, it usually "resides" in the dominant mode of discourse.
cephalization ::: n. --> Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.
Chakra / Centre ::: Conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers of our being organising their action through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series from the lowest physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed or half-closed within us and have to be opened before their full potentiality can be manifested in our physical nature: but once they are opened and completely active, no limit can easily be set to the development of their potencies and the total transformation to be possible.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 551
Characteristica Universalis: The name given by Leibniz to his projected (but only partially realized) "universal language" for the formulation of knowledge. This language was to be ideographic, with simple characters standing for simple concepts, and combinations of them for compound ideas, so that all knowledge could be expressed in terms which all could easily learn to use and understand. It represents an adumbration of the more recent and more successful logistic treatment of mathematics and science. It is to be distinguished, however, from the "universal calculus," also projected by Leibniz, which was to be the instrument for the development and manipulation of systems in the universal language. -- W.K.F.
Characterology: This name originally was used for types; thus in Aristotle and Theophrastus, and even much later, e.g. in La Bruyere. Gradually it came to signify something individual; a development paralleled by the replacement of "typical" figures on the stage by individualities. There is no agreement, even today, on the definition; confusion reigns especially because of an insufficient distinction between character, personality, and person. But all agree that character manifests itself in the behavior of a person. One can distinguish a merely descriptive approach, one of classification, and one of interpretation. The general viewpoints of interpretation influence also description and classification, since they determine what is considered "important" and lay down the rules by which to distinguish and to classify. One narrow interpretation looks at character mainly as the result of inborn properties, rooted in organic constitution; character is considered, therefore, as essentially unchangeable and predetermined. The attempts at establishing correlations between character and body-build (Kretschmer a.o.) are a special form of such narrow interpretation. It makes but little difference if, besides inborn properties, the influence of environmental factors is acknowledged. The rationalistic interpretation looks at character mainly as the result of convictions. These convictions are seen as purely intellectual in extreme rationalism (virtue is knowledge, Socrates), or as referring to the value-aspect of reality which is conceived as apprehended by other than merely intellectual operations. Thus, Spranger gives a classification according to the "central values" dominating a man's behavior. (Allport has devised practical methods of character study on this basis.) Since the idea a person has of values and their order may change, character is conceived as essentially mutable, even if far going changes may be unfrequent. Character-education is the practical application of the principles of characterology and thus depends on the general idea an author holds in regard to human nature. Character is probably best defined as the individual's way of preferring or rejecting values. It depends on the innate capacities of value-apprehension and on the way these values are presented to the individual. Therefore the enormous influence of social factors. -- R.A.
childhood ::: 1. The time or state of being a child. 2. The early stage in the existence or development of something. childhood"s.
Chin hsin: Exerting one's mind to the utmost; complete development of one's mental constitution, by which one knows his nature and thereby Heaven. (Mencius, Wang Yang-ming, 1473-1529, and Tai Tung-yuan, 1723-1777.) -- W.T.C Chin tan: Medicine of immortality. (Taoist alchemy, especially Pao-p'o Tzu, c 268-c 334.) See Wai tan. -- W.T.C.
Chit ::: Chit, the divine Consciousness, is not our mental selfawareness; that we shall find to be only a form, a lower and limited mode or movement. As we progress and awaken to the soul in us and things, we shall realise that there is a consciousness also in the plant, in the metal, in the atom, in electricity, in everything that belongs to physical nature; we shall find even that it is not really in all respects a lower or more limited mode than the mental, on the contrary it is in many "inanimate" forms more intense, rapid, poignant, though less evolved towards the surface. But this also, this consciousness of vital and physical Nature is, compared with Chit, a lower and th
refore a limited form, mode and movement. These lower modes of consciousness are the conscious-stuff of inferior planes in one indivisible existence. In ourselves also there is in our subconscious being an action which is precisely that of the "inanimate" physical Nature whence has been constituted the basis of our physical being, another which is that of plantlife, and another which is that of the lower animal creation around us. All these are so much dominated and conditioned by the thinking and reasoning conscious-being in us that we have no real awareness of these lower planes; we are unable to perceive in their own terms what these parts of us are doing, and receive it very imperfectly in the terms and values of the thinking and reasoning mind. Still we know well enough that there is an animal in us as well as that which is characteristically human,—something which is a creature of conscious instinct and impulse, not
reflective or rational, as well as that which turns back in thought and will on its experience, meets it from above with the light and force of a higher plane and to some degree controls, uses and modifies it. But the animal in man is only the head of our subhuman being; below it there is much that is also sub-animal and merely vital, much that acts by an instinct and impulse of which the constituting consciousness is withdrawn behind the surface. Below this sub-animal being, there is at a further depth the subvital. When we advance in that ultra-normal self-knowledge and experience which Yoga brings with it, we become aware that the body too has a consciousness of its own; it has habits, impulses, instincts, an inert yet effective will which differs from that of the rest of our being and can resist it and condition its effectiveness. Much of the struggle in our being is due to this composite existence and the interaction of these varied and heterogeneous planes on each other. For man here is the result of an evolution and contains in himself the whole of that evolution up from the merely physical and subvital conscious being to the mental creature which at the top he is. But this evolution is really a manifestation and just as we have in us these subnormal selves and subhuman planes, so are there in us above our mental being supernormal and superhuman planes. There Chit as the universal conscious-stuff of existence takes other poises, moves out in other modes, on other principles and by other faculties of action. There is above the mind, as the old Vedic sages discovered, a Truth-plane, a plane of self-luminous, self-effective Idea, which can be turned in light and force upon our mind, reason, sentiments, impulses, sensations and use and control them in the sense of the real Truth of things just as we turn our mental reason and will upon our sense-experience and animal nature to use and control them in the sense of our rational and moral perceptions. There is no seeking, but rather natural possession; no conflict or separation between will and reason, instinct and impulse, desire and experience, idea and reality, but all are in harmony, concomitant, mutually effective, unified in their origin, in their development and in their effectuation. But beyond this plane and attainable through it are others in which the very Chit itself becomes revealed, Chit the elemental origin and primal completeness of all this varied consciousness which is here used for various formation and experience. There will and knowledge and sensation and all the rest of our faculties, powers, modes of experience are not merely harmonious, concomitant, unified, but are one being of consciousness and power of consciousness. It is this Chit which modifies itself so as to become on the Truthplane the supermind, on the mental plane the mental reason, will, emotion, sensation, on the lower planes the vital or physical instincts, impulses, habits of an obscure force not in superficially conscious possession of itself. All is Chit because all is Sat; all is various movement of the original Consciousness because all is various movement of the original Being. When we find, see or know Chit, we find also that its essence is Ananda or delight of self-existence. To possess self is to possess self-bliss; not to possess self is to be in more or less obscure search of the delight of existence. Chit eternally possesses its self-bliss; and since Chit is the universal conscious-stuff of being, conscious universal being is also in possession of conscious self-bliss, master of the universal delight of existence. The Divine whether it manifests itself in All-Quality or in No-Quality, in Personality or Impersonality, in the One absorbing the Many or in the One manifesting its essential multiplicity, is always in possession of self-bliss and all-bliss because it is always Sachchidananda. For us also to know and possess our true Self in the essential and the universal is to discover the essential and the universal delight of existence, self-bliss and all-bliss. For the universal is only the pouring out of the essential existence, consciousness and delight; and wherever and in whatever form that manifests as existence, there the essential consciousness must be and th
refore there must be an essential delight.
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chondrogenesis ::: n. --> The development of cartilage.
chorion ::: n. --> The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
The true skin, or cutis.
The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
chrysalis ::: 1. The hard sheath encasing the larvae from which the mature insect emerges. 2. A protected stage of development.
cicatricle ::: n. --> The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.
climax ::: the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination.
combativeness ::: n. --> The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
Communism: (Marxian) In its fullest sense, that stage of social development, which, following socialism (q.v.) is conceived to be characterized by an economy of abundance on a world wide scale in which the state as a repressive force (army, jails, police and the like) is considered unnecessary because irreconcilable class antagonisms will have disappeared, and it will be possible to apply the principle, "from each according to ability, to each according to need" (Marx "Gotha Program"). It is held that the release of productive potentialities resulting from socialized ownership of the means of production will create a general sufficiency of economic goods which in turn will afford the possibility of educational and cultural development for all, and that under such conditions people will learn to live in accordance with valued standards without the compulsion of physical force represented by a special apparatus of state power. It is considered that by intelligent planning, both economic and cultural, it will then be possible to eradicate the antagonism between town and country and the opposition between physical and mental labor. It is now considered in the U.S.S.R. that the principal features of communist society, with the exception of the "withering away" of the state, may be attained in one country of an otherwise capitalist world. Trotsky considered this a false version of Marxism. -- J.M.S.
Concrete Operational Stage ::: According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development where a child between the ages of 7 and 12 begins thinking more globally and outside of the self but is still deficient in abstract thought.
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.
conduct ::: n. --> The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
The manner of guiding or carrying one&
Confucius taught that "it is man that can make truth great, and not truth that can make man great." Consequently he emphasized moral perfection, true manhood (jen), moral order (li) the Golden Mean (Chung Yung) and the superior man (chun tzu). To this end, knowledge must be directed, names must be rectified (cheng ming), and social relationships harmonized (wu lun). The whole program involved the investigation of things, the extension of knowledge, sincerity of the will, rectification of the heart, cultivation of the personal life, regulation of family life, national order, and finally, world peace. Mencius (371-289 B.C.) carried this further, holding that we not only should be good, but must be good, as human nature is originally good. True manhood (jen) and righteousness (i) are considered man's mind and path, respectively. Government must be established on the basis of benevolence (jen cheng) as against profit and force. Hsun Tzu (c 335-c 288 B.C.) believing human nature to be evil, stressed moral accumulation and education, especially through the rectification of names, music, and the rule of propriety (li). In the book of Chung Yung (Central Harmony, the Golden Mean, third or fourth century B.C.), the doctrine of central harmony is set forth. Our central self or moral being is conceived to be the great basis of existence and harmony or moral order is the universal law in the world. From then on, the relationship between man and the universe became one of direct correspondence. The idea of macrocosmos-rnicrocosmos relationship largely characterized the Confucianism of medieval China. The most glorious development of Confucianism is found in Neo-Confucianism, from the eleventh century to this day. For a summary of medieval Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, see Chinese philosophy. -- W.T.C.
contain ::: 1. To be capable of holding. 2. To halt the spread or development of; check, esp. of opposition. 3. To hold or keep within limits; restrain. contained, contains, containing, all-containing, All-containing.
cosmogonic ::: relating to a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moon system.
Cosmogony: (Gr. cosmos a. gonia, producing or creating the world) Is a pictorial treatment of the way in which the world or the universe came into being. In contrast to the most primitive civilizations, the great ethnic stocks of mankind have originated cosmogonies. The basal principles common to all mythological cosmogonies are: They deduce the creation of the world either from the fewest possible elements or from a single material principle such as water, ocean, earth, air, mud of river, slime, two halves of an egg, body of a giant, or from a spiritual or abstract principle such as an anthropomorphic god, deities, chaos, time, night, That. The genesis being a slow development characterized by an orderly sequence of periods, the creation process is variously divided into definite periods of specified units of years. The process of creation being self-originating, in its final stages the genealogy and origin of deities is a large admixture. There is no apparent ethical import attached to the cosmogonies. Few of them assume the idea of design as underlying the creation. They hold that the world had a beginning in time. The process of creation from less perfect to more perfect, from an original chaos to the final creation of man, the predominance of water in the original condition of the earth, the evolution of a spiritual or luminous principle reacting on the primeval water and the emphasis upon the godlike origin of man or his immediate relation to the deity, are all permeating threads of cosmogonic myths. In dualistic religions the world originates as a result of a hostile conflict of two opposing principles, or as a result of the parallel development of two opposing forces. The conception of creation ex nihilo was almost universally unknown in antiquity. -- H.H.
crannoge ::: n. --> One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake.
Cross Sectional Study ::: A research study that examines the effects of development (maturation) by examining different subjects at various ages
Cross Sequential Study ::: A research study that examines the effects of development (maturation) by combining longitudinal and cross sectional studies
croup ::: n. --> The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.
An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.
Culture: (Lat. cultura, from colo, cultivate) The intrinsic value of society. Syn. with civilization. Employed by Spengler to define a civilization in its creative growth-period. The means, i.e. the tools, customs and institutions, of social groups; or the employment of such means. In psychology, the enlightenment or education of the individual. Some distinguish culture from civilization (q.v.) the former being the effect on personal development and expression (art, science, religion) of the institutions, materials and social organization identified with the latter. -- J.K.F.
cultus ::: n. sing. & pl. --> Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.
darwinian ::: a. --> Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. ::: n. --> An advocate of Darwinism.
Definition: In the development of a logistic system (q. v.) it is usually desirable to introduce new notations, beyond what is afforded by the primitive symbols alone, by means of syntactical definitions or nominal definitions, i.e., conventions which provide that certain symbols or expressions shall stand (as substitutes or abbreviations) for particular formulas of the system. This may be done either by particular definitions, each introducing a symbol or expression to stand for some one formula, or by schemata of definition, providing that any expression of a certain form shall stand for a certain corresponding formula (so condensing many -- often infinitely many -- particular definitions into a single schema). Such definitions, whether particular definitions or schemata, are indicated, in articles herein by the present writer, by an arrow →, the new notation introduced (the definiendum) being placed at the left, or base of the arrow, and the formula for which it shall stand (the definiens) being placed at the right, or head, of the arrow. Another sign commonly employed for the same purpose (instead of the arrow) is the equality sign = with the letters Df, or df, appearing either as a subscript or separately after the definiens.
dentition ::: n. --> The development and cutting of teeth; teething.
The system of teeth peculiar to an animal.
depth ::: The degree of development. In the Upper-Left quadrant, depth refers to degree of consciousness, and in the Upper-Right quadrant, it refers to degree of complexity. However, generally speaking, all four quadrants exhibit depth of increasing complexity.
Determination: (Lat. determinare, to limit) The limitation of a reality or thought to a narrower field than its original one. In a monistic philosophy the original, single principle must be considered as narrowed down to various genera and species, and eventually to individual existence if such be admitted, in order to introduce that differentiation of reality which is required in a multiple world. In Platonism, the Forms or Ideas are one for each type of thing but are "determined" to multiple existence by the addition of matter (Timaeus). Neo-Platonism is even more interested in real determination, since the One is the logical antecedent of the Many. Here determination is effected by the introduction of negations, or privations, into successive emanations of the One. With Boethius, mediaeval philosophy became concerned with the determination of being-in-general to an actual manifold of things. In Boethianism there is a fusion of the question of real determination with that of logical limitation of concepts. In modern thought, the problem is acute in Spinozism: universal substance (substantia, natura, Deus) must be reduced to an apparent manifold through attributes, modes to the individual. Determination is said to be by way of negation, according to Spinoza (Epist. 50), and this means that universal substance is in its perfect form indeterminate, but is thought to become determinate by a sort of logical loss of absolute perfection. The theory is brought to an almost absurd simplicity in the Ontology of Chr. Wolff, where being is pictured as successively determined to genera, species and individual. Determination is also an important factor in the developmental theories of Hegel and Bergson. -- V.J.B.
Developmental Psychology ::: The area of psychology focused on how children grow psychologically to become who they are as adults.
differentiation ::: n. --> The act of differentiating.
The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the
Dilthey, Wilhelm: (1833-1911) A devoted student of biography, he constructed a new methodology and a new interpretation of the study of society and culture. He formulated the doctrine of Verstehungs-psychologie, which is basic to the study of social ends and values. He was the founder of Lebensphilosophie. Being the first humanistic philosopher historian of his age, he led in the comprehensive research in the history of intellectual development. Main works: Einlettung in die Geisteswessenschaften, 1883; Der Erlebnis und die Dtchtung, 1905; Das Wesen der Philosophie, 1907, Der Aufbau der geschichtlichen Welt in der Geisteswissenschaften, 1910, Die Typen der Weltanschauung, 1911; Gesammelte Schriften, 9 vols., 1922-35. --H.H. Dimension: (scientific) 1. Any linear series or order of elements. 2. Any quantity of a given kind, capable of increase or decrease over a certain range, a variable. 3. In the physical system: mass, length and time. -- A.C.B.
diphygenic ::: a. --> Having two modes of embryonic development.
discipline ::: n. --> The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by
Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard: (1867-1940) An experimental biologist turned philosopher, he as a rationalist became the most prominent defender of a renovated vitalism. He excludes the physical-chemical level of reality from his vitalism. He asserts that every organism has its own entelechy. For what he terms phylogenetic development, a more inclusive vitalism of the whole evolutionary process, he postulates a super-personal phylogenetic entelechy. He offers an a priori justification of his vitalistic theory, and treats incisively the logic of the psychological. Main works: Philosophy of the Organism; Ordnungslehre, 1912; Wirklichkeitslehre, 1917; Alltagsrätsel des Seelenlebens, 1938; "Kausalität und Vitalismus" in Jahrbuch der Schopenhauer Gesellschaft, XVI, 1939.
dynamo-electric ::: a. --> Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
ectrotic ::: a. --> Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) was the first to apply the name "Phänomenologie" to a whole philosophy. His usage, moreover, has largely determined the senses commonly attached to it and cognate words in the Twentieth Century. In his Logische Untersuchungen (1900-01), Husserl gave the name to such investigations and theories as make up most of that work and of the only published volume of his Philosophie der Arithmetik (1891). This established what was to remain the primary denotation of the term in all his later writings. On the other hand -- owing to changes in his concept of his unchanging theme -- the explicit connotation of the term, as used by him, underwent development and differentiation.
egg ::: n. --> The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
Anything resembling an egg in form. ::: v. t.
Egocentriclty ::: The main idea in it is always one’s own sadhana, one’s own endeavour, one’s own development, perfec- tion, siddhi. It is inevitable for most, for without that personal endeavour there would not be sufficient will or push to bring about the first necessary changes. But none of these things — development, perfection or siddhi — can really come in any degree of completeness or unmixed finality until this egocentric attitude changes into the God-centric, until it becomes the deve- lopment, perfection, siddhi of the Divine Consciousness, its will and its instrumentarion in this body — and that can only be when these things become secondary, and bhakti for the Divine,
Egocentric ::: The thinking in the preoperational stage of cognitive development where children believe everyone sees the world fro the same perspective as he or she does.
Ehrenfels, Maria Christian Julius Leopold Karl, Freiherr von: (1859-1932) As one of the leaders of the "Brentano School", he affirmed that the fundamental factor in valuation was desire. His principal interest was to trace the way in which desires and motives generate values. He described for the most part the development, the conflict, the hierarchy, and the obsolescence of values. Having a major influence upon the analytic approach to value theory, his outlook was relativistic and evolutionary. Main works: Uber Gestaltqualitäten (1890), System der Werttheorie (1897); Sexualethik (1907). -- H.H.
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.
embryo ::: 1. Any organism in a developmental stage preceding birth. 2. The beginning or rudimentary stage of anything.
embryogenic ::: a. --> Pertaining to the development of an embryo.
embryogeny ::: n. --> The production and development of an embryo.
embryology ::: n. --> The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.
E. Nagel, The formation of modern conceptions of formal logic tn the development of geometry, Osiris, vol. 7 (1939), pp. 142-224.
endogeny ::: n. --> Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
environment ::: n. --> Act of environing; state of being environed.
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
ephyra ::: n. --> A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.
Epiphenomenon: (Gr. epi + phenomenon, from phainein, to appear) A by-product of a basic process which exerts no appreciable influence on the subsequent development of the process. -- L.W.
Eriugena, Joannes Scottus: (800/815 - c. 800) Was of Irish birth and early education. He came to the Court of Charles the Bald, son of Charlemagne, as a teacher c. 845. A good linguist, he translated works of Maximus, Gregory of Nyssa and the Pseudo-Dionysius from Greek to Latin. His thought is partly Augustinian, partly a personal development inspired by the Greek Fathers. He has been accused of Pantheism. Chief works: De Praedestinatione, De divisione Naturae (PL 122). M. Cippuyns, Jean S.. Erigene, sa vie, son oevre, sa pensee (Louvain-Paris, 1933). -- V.J.B.
Eusebius of Caesarea: (265-340) Is one of the first great historians of the Christian Church. He was born at Caesarea, in Palestine, studied at the school of Pamphilus, became Bishop of Caesarea in 313. His works are in Greek and include a Chronicle, Ecclesiastical History, and a treatise On Theophanies (PG 19-24). His philosophical views are those of a Christian Platonist and he contributed to the development of the allegorical method of Scriptural exegesis. -- V.J. B.
Evolutionism: This is the view that the universe and life in all of its manifestations and nature in all of their aspects are the product of development. Apart from the religious ideas of initial creation by fiat, this doctrine finds variety of species to be the result of change and modification and growth and adaptation rather than from some form of special creation of each of the myriads of organic types and even of much in the inorganic realm. Contrary to the popular notion, evolution is not a product of modern thought. There has been an evolution of evolutionary hypotheses from earliest Indian and Greek speculation down to the latest pronouncement of scientific theory. Thales believed all life to have had a marine origin and Anaximander, Anaximenes, Empedocles, the Atomists and Aristotle all spoke in terms of development and served to lay a foundation for a true theory of evolution. It is in the work of Charles Darwin, however, that clarity and proof is presented for the explanation of his notion of natural selection and for the crystallization of evolution as a prime factor in man's explanation of all phases of his mundane existence. The chief criticism leveled at the evolutionists, aside from the attacks of the religionists, is based upon their tendency to forget that not all evolution means progress. See Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Hemy Huxley, Natural Selection, Evolutionary Ethics. Cf. A. Lalande, L'Idee de dissolution opposee a celle de l'evolution (1899), revised ed. (1930): Les Illusions evolutionistes. -- L.E.D.
evolution ::: n. --> The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.
A series of things unrolled or unfolded.
The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel
Evolution: The development of organization. The working out of a definite end; action by final causation. For Comte, the successive stages of historical development are necessary. In biology, the series of phylogenetic changes in the structure or behavior of organisms, best exemplified by Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. In cosmology, cosmogony is the theory of the generation of the existing universe in space and time. Opposite of: epigenesis. See Emergent evolution, Evolutionism. Cf. T. Osborn, From the Greeks to Darwin. -- J.K.F.
excrescence ::: n. --> An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
Explanation: In general: the process, art, means or method of making a fact or a statement intelligible; the result and the expression of what is made intelligible; the meaning attributed to anything by one who makes it intelligible; a genetic description, causal development, systematic clarification, rational exposition, scientific interpretation, intelligible connection, ordered manifestation of the elements of a fact or a statement. A. More technically, the method of showing discursively that a phenomenon or a group of phenomena obeys a law, by means of causal relations or descriptive connections, or briefly, the methodical analysis of a phenomenon for the purpose of stating its cause. The process of explanation suggests the real preformation or potential presence of the consequent in the antecedent, so that the phenomenon considered may be evolved, developed, unrolled out of its conditioning antecedents. The process and the value of a scientific explanation involve the question of the relation between cause and law, as these two terms may be identified (Berkeley) or distinguished (Comte). Hence modern theories range between extreme idealism and logical positivism. Both these extremes seem to be unsatisfactory: the former would include too much into science, while the latter would embrace a part of it only, namely the knowledge of the scientific laws. Taking into account Hume's criticism of causality and Mill's reasons for accepting causality, Russell proposes what seems to be a middle course, namely that regular sequences suggest causal relations, that causal relations are one special class of scientific generalization, that is one-way sequences in time, and that causal relations as such should not be used in the advanced stages of scientific generalization, functional relations being sufficient in all cases. However satisfactory in methodology, this view may not cover all the implications of the problem. B. There are three specific types of causal explanation, and their results may be combined: genetic or in terms of the direct and immediate conditions or causes producing a phenomenon (formal and efficient cause); descriptive, or in terms of the material elements of the phenomenon (material cause); teleological, or in terms of the ultimate end to be attained (final cause), either in accordance with the nature of the event or with the intention of the agent. The real causes of a phenomenon cannot be identified always, because the natural process of change or becoming escapes complete rationalization. But the attempt to rationalize the real by causal explanation, need not be abandoned in favor of a limited genetic description (postulational or functional) of the laws which may account for the particular phenomenon.
ferment ::: 1. A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development. 2. A process of nature involving the addition of yeasts, moulds and certain bacteria (to liquids or solids) causing an effervescence or internal commotion, with evolution of heat, in the substance operated on, and a resulting alteration of its properties.
fetus ::: n. --> The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
First Tier ::: A phrase used to summarize the first six major levels of values development according to Clare Graves and Spiral Dynamics: Survival Sense, Kin Spirits, Power Gods, Truth Force, Strive Drive, and Human Bond. First-Tier stages are characterized by a belief that “my values are the only correct values.” This lies in contrast to Second-Tier levels of development, wherein individuals recognize the importance of all value systems. Integral Theory uses First Tier to refer to the first six degrees or levels of developmental altitude (Infrared, Magenta, Red, Amber, Orange, and Green).
Fixation ::: In Freud&
flowered ::: flower 1. Blossomed or bloomed. Also fig. 2. Decorated with flowers. 3. Came into full development; matured; blossomed.
Formal Operational Stage ::: Pavlov&
formative ::: a. --> Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.
Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter. ::: n.
formed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Form ::: a. --> Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.
Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.
forth ::: adv. --> Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
Throughly; from beginning to end.
For the later development of the conception of substance, see Thomas Aquinas, especially De Ente et Essentia, ch. 2.
Freud, Sigmund ::: Dr. Freud is often referred to as the father of clinical psychology. His extensive theory of personality development (psychoanalytical theory) is the cornerstone for modern psychological thought, and consists of (1) the psychosexual stages of development, (2) the structural model of personality (id, ego, superego), and (3) levels of consciousness (conscious, subconscious, and unconscious). See Psychoanalysis.
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.
gamomorphism ::: n. --> That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
gastrula ::: n. --> An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.
gastrulation ::: n. --> The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
genetical ::: a. --> Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.
Genetic: (Gr. genesis, origin) Having to do with the origin and the development of anything. -- K.F.
Genital Stage ::: Freud&
Genres: Types of art to which special rules and independent developments were attributed. For example: in poetry -- epic, lyric, dramatic; in painting -- historic, portrait, landscape; in music -- oratorical, symphonic, operatic. -- L.V.
Geometry: Originally abstracted from the measurement of, and the study of relations of position among, material objects, geometry received in Euclid's Elements (c. 300 B.C.) a treatment which (despite, of course, certain defects by modern standards) became the historical model for the abstract deductive development of a mathematical discipline. The general nature of the subject of geometry may be illustrated by reference to the synthetic geometry of Euclid, and the analytic geometry which resulted from the introduction of coordinates into Euclidean geometry by Descartes (1637) (q.v.). In the mathematical usage of today the name geometry is given to any abstract mathematical discipline of a certain general type, as thus illustrated, without any requirement of applicability to spatial relations among physical objects or the like.
germination ::: n. --> The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
germs ::: initial stages in development or evolution as germ cells or ancestral forms; rudiments of living organisms.
gestation ::: the period of development from conception until birth; pregnancy.
growth ::: n. --> The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
haematoblast ::: n. --> One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.
haematogenesis ::: n. --> The origin and development of blood.
The transformation of venous arterial blood by respiration; hematosis.
Ha-Levi, Judah: (b. ca. 1080, d. ca. 1140) Poet and philosopher. His Kuzari (Arabic Kitab Al-Khazari), written in dialogue form, has a double purpose. First, as its subtitle, A Book of Proofs and Arguments in Defense of the Humiliated Religion, indicates, it aims to prove the dignity and worth of Judaism. Secondly, he endeavors to show the insufficiency of philosophy and the superiority of the truths of revealed religion to those arrived at by logic. The admission of both Christianity and Islam that Judaism is their source proves the first. The exaltation of intuition as a means of certainty in matters of religion, and the claim that the prophet is the highest type of man rather than the philosopher purposes to substantiate the second. He endows the Jewish people with a special religio-ethical sense which is their share only and constitutes a quasi-biological quality. He assigns also a special importance to Palestine as a contributory factor in the spiritual development of his people, for only there can this religio-ethical sense come to full expression. -- M.W.
Hartmann, Eduard von: (1842-1906) Hybridizing Schopenhauer's voluntarism with Hegel's intellectualism, and stimulated by Schelling, the eclectic v.H. sought to overcome irrationalism and rationalism by postulating the Unconscious, raised into a neutral absolute which has in it both will and idea in co-ordination. Backed by an encyclopaedic knowledge he showed, allegedly inductively, how this generates all values in a conformism or correlationism which circumvents a subjective monistic idealism no less than a phenomenalism by means of a transcendental realism. Writing at a time when vitalists were hard put to be endeavored to synthesize the new natural sciences and teleology by assigning to mechanistic causility a special function in the natural process under a more generalized and deeper purposiveness. Dispensing with a pure rationalism, but without taking refuge in a vital force, v.H. was then able to establish a neo-vitalism. In ethics he transcended an original pessimism, flowing from the admittance of the alogical and dis-teleological, in a qualified optimism founded upon an evolutionary hypothesis which regards nature with its laws subservient to the logical, as a species of the teleological, and to reason which, as product of development, redeems the irrational will once it has been permitted to create a world in which existence means unhappiness.
hastings sands ::: --> The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.
Herder, Johann Gottfried: (1744-1803) A founder of modern religious humanism, he explained human history as a consequence of the nature of man and of man's physical environment. Held implicitly to the view that society is basically an organic whole. Accounted for the differences in culture and institutions of different peoples as being due to geographical conditions. Although history is a process of the education of the human species, it has no definite goal of perfection and development. The vehicle of living culture is a distinct Volk or Nation with its distinct language and traditions. As a child of the Enlightenment, Herder had a blind faith in nature, in man and in the ultimate development of reason and justice.
heterocercy ::: n. --> Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.
He was the first to recognize a fundamental critical difference between the philosopher and the scientist. He found those genuine ideals in the pre-Socratic period of Greek culture which he regarded as essential standards for the deepening of individuality and real culture in the deepest sense, towards which the special and natural sciences, and professional or academic philosophers failed to contribute. Nietzsche wanted the philosopher to be prophetic, originally forward-looking in the clarification of the problem of existence. Based on a comprehensive critique of the history of Western civilization, that the highest values in religion, morals and philosophy have begun to lose their power, his philosophy gradually assumed the will to power, self-aggrandizement, as the all-embracing principle in inorganic and organic nature, in the development of the mind, in the individual and in society. More interested in developing a philosophy of life than a system of academic philosophy, his view is that only that life is worth living which develops the strength and integrity to withstand the unavoidable sufferings and misfortunes of existence without flying into an imaginary world.
Hindu Ethics: See Indian Ethics. Hindu Aesthetics: See Indian Aesthetics. Hindu Philosophy: See Indian Philosophy. Historical materialism: The social philosophy of dialectical materialism. The application of the general principles of dialectical materialism to the specific field of human history, the development of human society. One of the chief problems Marx dealt with was that of the basic causal agent in the movement of human history. He states his thesis as follows:
histogenesis ::: n. --> The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.
Germ history of cells, and of the tissues composed of cells.
histogenetic ::: a. --> Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.
histonomy ::: n. --> The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.
Historically, philosophers have, in the main, taken the latter approach in both parts of ethics, and we may confine our remaining space to it. On this approach a theory of value is a theorv as to what is to be pursued or sought, and a theory of obligation, a theory as to what is to be done. Now, of these two parts of ethic, philosophers have generally been concerned primarily with the latter, busying themselves with the former only secondarily, usually because it seemed to them that one must know what ends are good before one can know what acts are tn be performed. They all offer both a theory of value and a theory of obligition, but it was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that value-theory became a separate discipline studied for its own sake -- a development in which important roles were played by Kant, Lotze, Ritschl, certain European economists, Brentano, Meinong, von Ehrenfels, W. M. Urban, R. B. Perry, and others.
Historicism: The view that the history of anything is a sufficient explanation of it, that the values of anything can be accounted for through the discovery of its origins, that the nature of anything is entirely comprehended in its development, as for example, that the properties of the oak tree are entirely accounted for by an exhaustive description of its development from the acorn. The doctrine which discounts the fallaciousness of the historical fallacy. Applied by some critics to the philosophy of Hegel and Karl Marx. -- J.K.F.
Historiography: (Gr. histor + graphein, to write) The art of recording history (q.v.). History: (Gr. histor, learned) Ambiguously used to denote either (a) events or (b) records of the past. The term historiography (q.v.) is used for (b). Also ambiguous in denoting natural as well as human events, or records of either. History of Art: Vasari (16th century) began the history of the artists. Winckelmann (18th century) began the history of art, that is of the development of the clements comprised in works of art. The history of art today is directed towards a synthesis of the personalities of the artists and of their reaction to tradition and environment. -- L.V.
History, Philosophy of: History investigates the theories concerning the development of man as a social being within the limits of psychophysical causality. Owing to this double puipose the philosophy of history has to study the principles of historiography, and, first of all, their background, their causes and underlying laws, their meaning and motivation. This can be called the metaphysics of history. Secondly, it concerns itself with the cognitive part, i.e. with historic understanding, and then it is called the logic of history. While in earlier times the philosophy of history was predominantly metaphysics, it has turned more and more to the methodology or logic of history. A complete philosophy of history, however, ought to consider the metaphysical as well as the logical problems involved.
homodemic ::: a. --> A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
hotbed ::: n. --> A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
Hu Shih, The Development of the Logical Method in Ancient China, The Oriental Book Co., Shanghai, 1922. Ching: (a) The classics, whether Confucian or Taoist. Formerly spelled king.
Hutcheson, Francis: (1694-1746) A prominent Scottish philosopher. Born in Drumalig, Ulster, educated at Glasgow, died in Dublin. The influence of his doctrine of "moral sense," stressing inborn conscience, or "moral feeling," was very wide, he was also the original author of the phrase "the greatest happiness for the greatest number," utilized by J. Bentham (q.v.) for the development of utilitarianism (q.v.) His principal work is Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. -- R.B.W.
hyaline ::: a. --> Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. ::: n. --> A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell
hypertrophy ::: n. --> A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.
Hypothesis: In general, an assumption, a supposition, a conjecture, a postulate, a condition, an antecedent, a contingency, a possibility, a probability, a principle, a premiss, a ground or foundation, a tentative explanation, a probable cause, a theoretical situation, an academic question, a specific consideration, a conceded statement, a theory or view for debate or action, a likely relation, the conditioning of one thing by another. In logic, the conditional clause or antecedent in a hypothetical proposition. Also a thesis subordinate to a more general one. In methodology, a principle offered as a conditional explanation of a fact or a group of facts; or again, a provisional assumption about the ground of certain phenomena, used as a guiding norm in making observations and experiments until verified or disproved by subsequent evidence. A hypothesis is conditional or provisional, because it is based on probable and insufficient arguments or elements; yet, it is not an arbitrary opinion, but a justifiable assumption with some foundation in fact, this accounts for the expectation of some measure of agreement between the logical conclusion or implications drawn from a hypothesis, and the phenomena which are known or which may be determined by further tests. A scientific hypothesis must be proposed after the observations it must explain (a posteriori), compatible with established theories, reasonable and relevant, fruitful in its applications and controllable, general in terms and more fundamental than the statements it has to explain. A hypothesis is descriptive (forecasting the external circumstances of the event) or explanatory (offering causal accounts of the event). There are two kinds of explanatory hypotheses the hypothesis of law (or genetic hypothesis) which attempts to determine the manner in which the causes or conditions of a phenomenon operate and the hypothesis of cause (or causal hypothesis) which attempt to determine the causes or conditions for the production of the phenomenon. A working hypothesis is a preliminary assumption based on few, uncertain or obscure elements, which is used provisionally as a guiding norm in the investigation of certain phenomena. Often, the difference between a working hypothesis and a scientific hypothesis is one of degree; and in any case, a hypothesis is seldom verified completely with all its detailed implications. The Socratic Method of Hypothesis, as developed by Plato in the Phaedo particularly, consists in positing an assumption without questioning its value, for the purpose of determining and analyzing its consequences only when these are clearly debated and judged, the assumption itself is considered for justification or rejection. Usually, a real condition is taken as a ground for inferences, as the aim of the method is to attain knowledge or to favor action. Plato used more specially the word "hypothesis" for the assumptions of geometry (postulates and nominal definitions) Anstotle extended this use to cover the immediate principles of mathematics. It may be observed that the modern hypothetico-deductive method in logical and mathematical theories, is a development of the Socratic method stripped of its ontological implications and purposes.
idiot ::: n. --> A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
If it opens, then there will be an increasing union with the higher consciousness and it will be able to share the experiences and the developments in the mind and >ital.
::: "If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself, — or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also, — not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
“If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself,—or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also,—not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
If we regard the Powers of the Reality as so many Godheads, we can say that the Overmind releases a million Godheads into action, each empowered to create its own world, each world capable of relation, communication and interplay with the others. There are in the Veda different formulations of the nature of the Gods: it is said they are all one Existence to which the sages give different names; yet each God is worshipped as if he by himself is that Existence, one who is all the other Gods together or contains them in his being; and yet again each is a separate Deity acting sometimes in unison with companion deities, sometimes separately, sometimes even in apparent opposition to other Godheads of the same Existence. In the Supermind all this would be held together as a harmonised play of the one Existence; in the Overmind each of these three conditions could be a separate action or basis of action and have its own principle of development and consequences and yet each keep the power to combine with the others in a more composite harmony. As with the One Existence, so with its Consciousness and Force. The One Consciousness is separated into many independent forms of consciousness and knowledge; each follows out its own line of truth which it has to realise. The one total and many-sided Real-Idea is split up into its many sides; each becomes an independent Idea-Force with the power to realise itself. The one Consciousness-Force is liberated into its million forces, and each of these forces has the right to fulfil itself or to assume, if needed, a hegemony and take up for its own utility the other forces. So too the Delight of Existence is loosed out into all manner of delights and each can carry in itself its independent fullness or sovereign extreme. Overmind thus gives to the One Existence-Consciousness-Bliss the character of a teeming of infinite possibilities which can be developed into a multitude of worlds or thrown together into one world in which the endlessly variable…
..if we suppose the unity to be unbroken, we then arrive at the existence of consciousness in all forms of the Force which is at work in the world. Even if there be no conscient or superconscient Purusha inhabiting all forms, yet is there in those forms a conscious force of being of which even their outer parts overtly or inertly partake. Necessarily, in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds. Essentially, we arrive at that unity which materialistic Science perceives from the other end when it asserts that Mind cannot be another force than Matter, but must be merely development and outcome of material energy. Indian thought at its deepest affirms on the other hand that Mind and Matter are rather different grades of the same energy, different organisations of one conscious Force of Existence.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 95-96 ::: The essence of consciousness is the power to be aware of itself and its objects, and in its true nature this power must be direct, self-fulfilled and complete: if it is in us indirect, incomplete, unfulfilled in its workings, dependent on constructed instruments, it is because consciousness here is emerging from an original veiling Inconscience and is yet burdened and enveloped with the first Nescience proper to the Inconscient.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 1053
If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near to it if we compare the strictly mental with what would be an overmental view of activities in our material universe. To the Overmind, for example, all religions would be true as developments of the one eternal religion, all philosophies would be valid each in its own field as a statement of its own universe-view from its own angle, all political theories with their practice would be the legitimate working out of an Idea Force with its right to application and practical development in the play of the energies of Nature. In our separative consciousness, imperfectly visited by glimpses of catholicity and universality, these things exist as opposites; each claims to be the truth and taxes the others with error and falsehood, each feels impelled to refute or destroy the others in order that itself alone may be the Truth and live: at best, each must claim to be superior, admit all others only as inferior truth-expressions. An overmental Intelligence would refuse to entertain this conception or this drift to exclusiveness for a moment; it would allow all to live as necessary to the whole or put each in its place in the whole or assign to each its field of realisation or of endeavour. This is because in us consciousness has come down completely into the divisions of the Ignorance; Truth is no longer either an Infinite or a cosmic whole with many possible formulations, but a rigid affirmation holding any other affirmation to be false because different from itself and entrenched in other limits. Our mental consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent viewpoints, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision or in a certain intermixture; it can make selective harmonies, but it cannot arrive at the harmonic control of a true totality. Cosmic Mind must have even in the evolutionary Ignorance, like all totalities, such a harmony, if only of arranged accords and discords; there is too in it an underlying dynamism of oneness: but it carries the completeness of these things in its depths, perhaps in a supermind-overmind substratum, but does not impart it to individual Mind in the evolution, does not bring it or has not yet brought it from the depths to the surface. An Overmind world would be a world of harmony; the world of Ignorance in which we live is a world of disharmony and struggle. …
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.
immature ::: a. --> Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.
Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.
". . . imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding.” The Human Cycle etc.*
“… imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding.” The Human Cycle etc.
In addition to syntactical or nominal definition we may distinguish another kind of definition, which is applicable only in connection with interpreted logistic systems, and which we shall call semantical definition. This consists in introducing a new symbol or notation by assigning a meaning to it. In an interpreted logistic system, a nominal definition carries with it implicitly a semantical definition, in that it is intended to give to the definiendum the meaning expressed by the definiens; but two different nominal definitions may correspond to the same semantical definition. Consider, for example, the two following schemata of nominal definition in the propositional calculus (Logic, formal, § 1): [A] ⊃ [B] → ∼A ∨ B. [A] ⊃ [B] → ∼[A ∼B]. As nominal definitions these are inconsistent, since they represent [A] ⊃ [B] as standing for different formulas: either one, but not both, could be used in a development of the propositional calculus. But the corresponding semantical definitions would be identical if -- as would be possible -- our interpretation of the propositional calculus were such that the two definientia had the same meaning for any particular A and B.
In a legal sense, any claim against others, recognized by law. Political rights, the capacity of exercizing certain functions in the formation and administration of government -- the right to vote, to be elected to public office, etc. Natural rights, as against positive rights, those claims or liberties which are not derived from positive law but from a "higher law", the law of nature. The right to live, the right to work, the "pursuit of happiness", the right to self-development are sometimes considered natural rights. -- W.E.
In a mathematical development of the real number system or the complex number system, an appropriate set of postulates may be the starting point. Or the non-negative integers may first be introduced (by postulates or otherwise -- see arithmetic, foundations of) and from these the above outlined extensions may be provided for by successive logical constructions, in any one of several alternative ways.
In contributing some elements of a "universal calculus" he may be said to have been the first serious student of symbolic logic. He devised a symbolism for such concepts and relations as "and", "or", implication between concepts, class inclusion, class and conceptual equivalence, etc. One of his sets of symbolic representations for the four standard propositions of traditional logic coincides with the usage of modern logic He anticipated in the principles of his calculus many of the important rules of modern symbolic systems. His treatment, since it was primarily intensional, neglected important extensional features of recent developments, but, on the other hand, called attention to certain intensional distinctions now commonly neglected.
incubation ::: n. --> A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
In general, patristic philosophy is differentiated from medieval and modern philosophies in that it failed to distinguish adequately between the conclusions of reason and the facts of revelation. Philosophy, theology and the truths of religion made one amorphous body of truth. However, three stages mark the development of patristic thought.
ingrowth ::: n. --> A growth or development inward.
In his chief work, the Ethica, Spinoza's teaching is expressed in a manner for which geometry supplies the model. This expository device served various purposes. It may be interpreted as a clue to Spinoza's ideal of knowledge. So understood, it represents the condensed and ordered expression, not of 'philosophy' alone, but rather of all knowledge, 'philosophy' and 'science', as an integrated system. In such an ideal ordering of ideas, (rational) theology and metaphysics provide the anchorage for the system. On the one hand, the theology-metaphysics displays the fundamental principles (definitions, postulates, axioms) upon which the anchorage depends, and further displays in deductive fashion the primary fund of ideas upon which the inquiries of science, both 'descriptive' and 'normative' must proceed. On the other hand, the results of scientific inquiry are anchored at the other end, by a complementary metaphysico-theological development of their significance. Ideally, there obtains, for Spinoza, both an initial theology and metaphysics -- a necessary preparation for science -- and a culminating theology and metaphysics, an interpretative absorption of the conclusions of science.
In respect to the field of ethics in general, Soviet philosophers have lately been developing the doctrine known as socialist or proletarian humanism. As distinguished from "bourgeois humanism", this term signifies that system of social institutions and personal values designed to insure that there be no underprivileged gioup or class de facto excluded from full participation in the good life conceived in terms of the educational and cultural development of the individual and the full enjoyment of the things of this world. Such objectives, it is held, are only possible of attainment in a classless society where there is economic security for all. The view taken is that the freedoms and liberties proclaimed by "bourgeois humanism" represented a great historical advance, but one that was, in general, limited in application to the emancipation of the bourgeoisie (q.v.) from the restrictions of feudalism while retaining and making use, to greater or lesser extent, of slavery, serfdom and a system of private capitalism invoking the precarious economic existence and cultural darkness of large proletarian masses. While it is held that there is an absolute light binding upon all, vaguely expressed in such formulations as, each for all and all for each, it is asserted that in class society, the position and class interest of one class may motivate it to oppose a genuine application of this right, whereas the class interest of another class may coincide with such an application. It is held that the proletariat is in this latter position, for its class interest as well as its moral obligation is considered to be in abolishing itself as a proletariat, which is taken to mean, abolishing classes generally.
In scholasticism: The English term translates three Latin terms which, in Scholasticism, have different significations. Ens as a noun is the most general and most simple predicate; as a participle it is an essential predicate only in regard to God in Whom existence and essence are one, or Whose essence implies existence. Esse, though used sometimes in a wider sense, usually means existence which is defined as the actus essendi, or the reality of some essence. Esse quid or essentia designates the specific nature of some being or thing, the "being thus" or the quiddity. Ens is divided into real and mental being (ens rationis). Though the latter also has properties, it is said to have essence only in an improper way. Another division is into actual and potential being. Ens is called the first of all concepts, in respect to ontology and to psychology; the latter statement of Aristotle appears to be confirmed by developmental psychology. Thing (res) and ens are synonymous, a res may be a res extra mentem or only rationis. Every ens is: something, i.e. has quiddity, one, true, i.e. corresponds to its proper nature, and good. These terms, naming aspects which are only virtually distinct from ens, are said to be convertible with ens and with each other. Ens is an analogical term, i.e. it is not predicated in the same manner of every kind of being, according to Aquinas. In Scotism ens, however, is considered as univocal and as applying to God in the same sense as to created beings, though they be distinguished as entia ab alto from God, the ens a se. See Act, Analogy, Potency, Transcendentals. -- R.A.
Integration: (Lat. integrare, to make whole) The act of making a whole out of parts. In mathematics, a limiting process which may be described in vague terms as summing up an infinite number of infinitesimals, part of the calculus. In psychology, the combination of psycho-physical elements into a complex unified organization. In cosmology, the synthetic philosophy of Spencer holds that the evolutionary process is marked by two movements: integration and differentiation. Integration consists in the development of more and more complex organizations. Inverse of: differentiation (q.v.). -- J.K.F.
integration ::: n. --> The act or process of making whole or entire.
The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
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.
In the formal development of a logistic system, since no reference may be made to an intended interpretation, semantical definitions are precluded, and must be replaced by corresponding nominal definitions.
"In the social relations which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensible and independent of their will. These relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. . . . At a certain stage of their development the material forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or -- what is but a legal expression for the same thing -- with the property relations within which they had been at work before. From forms of development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then comes the period of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations the distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic -- in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out." (Marx: Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, p. 12.) -- J.M.S.
In this simultaneous development of multitudinous independent or combined Powers or Potentials there is yet—or there is as yet—no chaos, no conflict, no fall from Truth or Knowledge. The Overmind is a creator of truths, not of illusions or falsehoods: what is worked out in any given overmental energism or movement is the truth of the Aspect, Power, Idea, Force, Delight which is liberated into independent action, the truth of the consequences of its reality in that independence. There is no exclusiveness asserting each as the sole truth of being or the others as inferior truths: each God knows all the Gods and their place in existence; each Idea admits all other ideas and their right to be; each Force concedes a place to all other forces and their truth and consequences; no delight of separate fulfilled existence or separate experience denies or condemns the delight of other existence or other experience. The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind,—although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature….
involutionary given(s) ::: Items presupposed to be given or deposited by involution, already operating, for example, at the moment of the Big Bang and forward. These might include Eros/Agape (the morphogenetic tilt of manifestation), Prototypical Forms, certain mathematical laws, as well as the twenty tenets. Other examples of involutionary givens might include Whitehead’s eternal objects (shape, color, etc.) and Sheldrake’s pregiven constants (energy, form, causation, development, creativity). See evolutionary given(s).
::: "I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine purpose, not a book that is closed, the lines of which have to be constantly repeated.” Letters on Yoga
“I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine purpose, not a book that is closed, the lines of which have to be constantly repeated.” Letters on Yoga
Its first manifestation took place in Egypt where Judaism came in contact with Hellenic culture, and the result was the development of an extensive speculation among the Jews of Alexandria, the most important representative of which was Philo (q.v.). With the disappearance of the Egyptian Diaspora its philosophy vanished and only slight vestiges of its teachings can be traced in the early Agadic literature.
I. Vienna Circle; Logical Positivsm, Logical Empiricism. The Vienna Circle, founded by M. Schlick (q.v.) in 1924, ending with his death in 1936. Among its members: G. Bergmann, R. Carnap (q.v.), H. Feigl, Ph. Frank (q.v.), K. G&oUML;del (q.v.), H. Hahn (d. 1934), O. Neurath, F Waismann. Seen historically, the movement shows influences from three sides the older empiricism and positivism, especially Hume, Mill, Mach; methodology of empirical science, as developed by scientists since about the middle of the 19th century, e.g., Helmholtz, Mach, Poincare. Duhem, Boltzmann, Einstein; symbolic logic and logical analysis of language as developed especially by Frege, Whitehead and Russell, Wittgenstein. Russell (q.v.) was the first to combine these trends and therefore had an especially strong influence. The views developed in the V. C. have been called Logical Positivism (A. E. Blumberg and H. Feigl, J. Phil. 28, 1931); many members now prefer the term "Logical Empiricism". Among the characteristic features: emphasis on scientific attitude and on co-operation, hence emphasis on intersubjective (q.v.) language and unity of science. Empiricism: every knowledge that is factual (see Meaning, Kinds of, 1), is connected with experiences in such a way that verification or direct or indirect confirmation is possible (see Verification). The emphasis on logical analysis of language (see Semiotic) distinguishes this movement from earlier empiricism and positivism. The task of philosophy is amlysis of knowledge, especially of science; chief method: analysis of the language of science (see Semiotic; Meaning, Kinds of). Publications concerning the historical development of this movement and its chief views: Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis, Wien 1929 (with bibliography). O. Neurath, Le Developpement du Cercle de Vienne, et l'Avenir de l'Empirisme Logique, 1935. C. W. Morris, Logical Positivism, Pragmatism, and Scientific Empiricism, Paris 1937. E. Nagel, "Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe", I, II, tic Empiricism in Germany, and the Present State of its Problems. Ibid. E. Nagel, "The Fight for Clarity: Logical Empiricism", Amer. Scholar, 1938. Many papers by members of the group have been published in "Erkenntnis" since 1930, now continued as "Journal of Unified Science". Compare M. Black, "Relations between Logical Positivism and the Cambridge School of Analysis", J. Un. Sc. 8, 1940. II. Scientific Empiricism. A wider movement, comprising besides Logical Empiricism other groups and individuals with related views in various countries. Also called Unity of Science Movement.
J. L. Coolidge, A History of Geometrical Methods, New York, 1940. Mathesis universalis: Universal mathematics. One major part of Leibniz's program for logic was the development of a universal mathematics or universal calculus for manipulating, i.e. performing deductions in, the universal language (characteristica universalis). This universal language, he thought, could be constructed on the basis of a relatively few simple terms and, when constructed, would be of immense value to scientists and philosophers in reasoning as well as in communication. Leibniz's studies on the subject of a universal mathematics are the starting point in modern philosophy of the development of symbolic, mathematical logic. -- F.L.W.
karma ::: action, work; the work or function of a man; the power which by its continuity and development as a subjective and objective force determines the nature and eventuality of the soul's repeated existences. ::: karmani [plural]
Karma ::: The doctrine of reincarnation and Karma tells us that the soul has a past which shaped its present birth and existence; it has a future which our present action is shaping; our past has taken and our future will take the form of recurring terrestrial births and Karma, our own action, is the power which by its continuity and development as a subjective and objective force determines the whole nature and eventuality of these repeated existences.
karyokinesis ::: n. --> The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.
Kempen, Thomas Hemerken van: (1380-1471) Also called Thomas a Kempis, was born at Kempen in Holland, received his early education and instruction in music at the monastery of the Brethren of the Common Life, at Deventer. He attended no university but attained a high degree of spiritual development. His Imitation of Christ is one of the most famous, and most used, books of Catholic spiritual meditation; it has been printed in nearly all languages and is found in innumerable editions. There seems to be no valid reason for questioning his authorship of the work. -- V.J.B.
Kosmic address ::: The “location” of a referent (or “real object”) in the AQAL matrix, including its altitude (i.e., degree of development) and its perspective (i.e., the quadrant in which it resides).
landmarks ::: 1. Prominent identifying features of a landscape. 2. Events marking important stages of development.
Latency Stage ::: Freud&
law ::: “… all cosmic and real Law is a thing not imposed from outside, but from within, all development is self-development, all seed and result are seed of a Truth of things and result of that seed determined out of its potentialities. For the same reason no Law is absolute, because only the infinite is absolute, and everything contains within itself endless potentialities quite beyond its determined form and course, which are only determined through a self-limitation by Idea proceeding from an infinite liberty within.” The Life Divine
ledgment ::: n. --> A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.
The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.
Leibniz's philosophy was the dawning consciousness of the modern world (Dewey). So gradual and continuous, like the development of a monad, so all-inclusive was the growth of his mind, that his philosophy, as he himself says, "connects Plato with Democritus, Aristotle with Descartes, the Scholastics with the moderns, theology and morals with reason." The reform (if all science was to be effected by the use of two instruments, a universal scientific language and a calculus of reasoning. He advocated a universal language of ideographic symbols in which complex concepts would be expressed by combinations of symbols representing simple concepts or by new symbols defined as equivalent to such a complex. He believed that analysis would enable us to limit the number of undefined concepts to a few simple primitives in terms of which all other concepts could be defined. This is the essential notion back of modern logistic treatments.
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
lines ::: Relatively independent streams or capacities that proceed through levels of development. Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences is one example of the study of developmental lines. There is evidence for over a dozen developmental lines, including cognitive, moral, self-identity, aesthetic, kinesthetic, linguistic, musical, and mathematical. Integral Theory generally classifies these lines according to one of three types: cognitive lines (as studied by Jean Piaget, Robert Kegan, Kurt Fischer, etc.); selfrelated lines (e.g., morals, self-identity, needs, etc.); and capacities or talents (e.g., musical capacity, kinesthetic capacity, introspective capacity). Cognitive development is necessary but not sufficient for development in the self-related lines and appears to be necessary for most of the capacities.
Longitudinal Study ::: A research design that assesses the effects of development (maturation) by using the same subjects over an extended period of time
magneto-electricity ::: n. --> Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.
That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro-magnetism.
manas-citta (manas-chitta; manas chitta) ::: the emotional mind, "the life of sensations and emotions which are at the mercy of the outward touches of life and matter and their positive or negative reactions, joy and grief, pleasure and pain", constituting a "surface desire-soul" behind which is "the subliminal soul in us open to the universal delight [ananda] which the cosmic soul takes in its own existence and in the existence of the myriad souls that represent it and in the operations of mind, life and matter by which Nature lends herself to their play and development".
Manas (Sense-mind) ::: …the manas is a development from the external chitta; it is a first organising of the crude stuff of the consciousness excited and aroused by external contacts, bahya-sparsa.
Ref: CSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 663
maqam ::: station; place; position; state of spiritual development
Marcus Aurelius: (121-180 A.D.) The Roman Emperor who as a Stoic endowed chairs in Athens for the four great philosophical schools of the Academy, the Lyceum, The Garden and the Stoa. Aurelius' Stoicism, tempered by his friend Fronto's humanism, held to a rational world-order and providence as well as to a notion of probable truth rather than of the Stoic infallibilism. In the famous 12 books of Meditations, the view is prominent that death was as natural as birth and development was the end of the individual and should elicit the fear of no one. His harsh treatment of the Christians did not coincide with his mild nature which may have reflected the changed character of Stoicism brought on by the decadence of Rome.
Maslow, Abraham ::: Humanistic Theorist most famous for the development of the Hierarchy of Needs.
mature ::: superl. --> Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
maturity ::: n. --> The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.
Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.
maturity ::: the state of being complete in natural growth or development; perfect or ready.
Mean: In general, that which in some way mediates or occupies a middle position among various things or between two extremes. Hence (especially in the plural) that through which an end is attained; in mathematics the word is used for any one of various notions of average; in ethics it represents moderation, temperance, prudence, the middle way. In mathematics: The arithmetic mean of two quantities is half their sum; the arithmetic mean of n quantities is the sum of the n quantities, divided by n. In the case of a function f(x) (say from real numbers to real numbers) the mean value of the function for the values x1, x2, . . . , xn of x is the arithmetic mean of f(x1), f(x2), . . . , f(xn). This notion is extended to the case of infinite sets of values of x by means of integration; thus the mean value of f(x) for values of x between a and b is ∫f(x)dx, with a and b as the limits of integration, divided by the difference between a and b. The geometric mean of or between, or the mean proportional between, two quantities is the (positive) square root of their product. Thus if b is the geometric mean between a and c, c is as many times greater (or less) than b as b is than a. The geometric mean of n quantities is the nth root of their product. The harmonic mean of two quantities is defined as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of their reciprocals. Hence the harmonic mean of a and b is 2ab/(a + b). The weighted mean or weighted average of a set of n quantities, each of which is associated with a certain number as weight, is obtained by multiplying each quantity by the associated weight, adding these products together, and then dividing by the sum of the weights. As under A, this may be extended to the case of an infinite set of quantities by means of integration. (The weights have the role of estimates of relative importance of the various quantities, and if all the weights are equal the weighted mean reduces to the simple arithmetic mean.) In statistics, given a population (i.e., an aggregate of observed or observable quantities) and a variable x having the population as its range, we have: The mean value of x is the weighted mean of the values of x, with the probability (frequency ratio) of each value taken as its weight. In the case of a finite population this is the same as the simple arithmetic mean of the population, provided that, in calculating the arithmetic mean, each value of x is counted as many times over as it occurs in the set of observations constituting the population. In like manner, the mean value of a function f(x) of x is the weighted mean of the values of f(x), where the probability of each value of x is taken as the weight of the corresponding value of f(x). The mode of the population is the most probable (most frequent) value of x, provided there is one such. The median of the population is so chosen that the probability that x be less than the median (or the probability that x be greater than the median) is ½ (or as near ½ as possible). In the case of a finite population, if the values of x are arranged in order of magnitude --repeating any one value of x as many times over as it occurs in the set of observations constituting the population --then the middle term of this series, or the arithmetic mean of the two middle terms, is the median. --A.C. In cosmology, the fundamental means (arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic) were used by the Greeks in describing or actualizing the process of becoming in nature. The Pythagoreans and the Platonists in particular made considerable use of these means (see the Philebus and the Timaeus more especially). These ratios are among the basic elements used by Plato in his doctrine of the mixtures. With the appearance of the qualitative physics of Aristotle, the means lost their cosmological importance and were thereafter used chiefly in mathematics. The modern mathematical theories of the universe make use of the whole range of means analyzed by the calculus of probability, the theory of errors, the calculus of variations, and the statistical methods. In ethics, the 'Doctrine of the Mean' is the moral theory of moderation, the development of the virtues, the determination of the wise course in action, the practice of temperance and prudence, the choice of the middle way between extreme or conflicting decisions. It has been developed principally by the Chinese, the Indians and the Greeks; it was used with caution by the Christian moralists on account of their rigorous application of the moral law. In Chinese philosophy, the Doctrine of the Mean or of the Middle Way (the Chung Yung, literally 'Equilibrium and Harmony') involves the absence of immoderate pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy, and a conscious state in which those feelings have been stirred and act in their proper degree. This doctrine has been developed by Tzu Shu (V. C. B.C.), a grandson of Confucius who had already described the virtues of the 'superior man' according to his aphorism "Perfect is the virtue which is according to the mean". In matters of action, the superior man stands erect in the middle and strives to follow a course which does not incline on either side. In Buddhist philosophy, the System of the Middle Way or Madhyamaka is ascribed more particularly to Nagarjuna (II c. A.D.). The Buddha had given his revelation as a mean or middle way, because he repudiated the two extremes of an exaggerated ascetlsm and of an easy secular life. This principle is also applied to knowledge and action in general, with the purpose of striking a happy medium between contradictory judgments and motives. The final objective is the realization of the nirvana or the complete absence of desire by the gradual destruction of feelings and thoughts. But while orthodox Buddhism teaches the unreality of the individual (who is merely a mass of causes and effects following one another in unbroken succession), the Madhyamaka denies also the existence of these causes and effects in themselves. For this system, "Everything is void", with the legitimate conclusion that "Absolute truth is silence". Thus the perfect mean is realized. In Greek Ethics, the doctrine of the Right (Mean has been developed by Plato (Philebus) and Aristotle (Nic. Ethics II. 6-8) principally, on the Pythagorean analogy between the sound mind, the healthy body and the tuned string, which has inspired most of the Greek Moralists. Though it is known as the "Aristotelian Principle of the Mean", it is essentially a Platonic doctrine which is preformed in the Republic and the Statesman and expounded in the Philebus, where we are told that all good things in life belong to the class of the mixed (26 D). This doctrine states that in the application of intelligence to any kind of activity, the supreme wisdom is to know just where to stop, and to stop just there and nowhere else. Hence, the "right-mean" does not concern the quantitative measurement of magnitudes, but simply the qualitative comparison of values with respect to a standard which is the appropriate (prepon), the seasonable (kairos), the morally necessary (deon), or generally the moderate (metrion). The difference between these two kinds of metretics (metretike) is that the former is extrinsic and relative, while the latter is intrinsic and absolute. This explains the Platonic division of the sciences into two classes: those involving reference to relative quantities (mathematical or natural), and those requiring absolute values (ethics and aesthetics). The Aristotelian analysis of the "right mean" considers moral goodness as a fixed and habitual proportion in our appetitions and tempers, which can be reached by training them until they exhibit just the balance required by the right rule. This process of becoming good develops certain habits of virtues consisting in reasonable moderation where both excess and defect are avoided: the virtue of temperance (sophrosyne) is a typical example. In this sense, virtue occupies a middle position between extremes, and is said to be a mean; but it is not a static notion, as it leads to the development of a stable being, when man learns not to over-reach himself. This qualitative conception of the mean involves an adaptation of the agent, his conduct and his environment, similar to the harmony displayed in a work of art. Hence the aesthetic aspect of virtue, which is often overstressed by ancient and neo-pagan writers, at the expense of morality proper. The ethical idea of the mean, stripped of the qualifications added to it by its Christian interpreters, has influenced many positivistic systems of ethics, and especially pragmatism and behaviourism (e.g., A. Huxley's rule of Balanced Excesses). It is maintained that it is also involved in the dialectical systems, such as Hegelianism, where it would have an application in the whole dialectical process as such: thus, it would correspond to the synthetic phase which blends together the thesis and the antithesis by the meeting of the opposites. --T.G. Mean, Doctrine of the: In Aristotle's ethics, the doctrine that each of the moral virtues is an intermediate state between extremes of excess and defect. -- O.R.M.
Medieval Chinese philosophy was essentially a story of the synthesis of indigenous philosophies and the development of Buddhism. In the second century B.C., the Yin Yang movement identified itself with the common and powerful movement under the names of the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu (Huang Lao). This, in turn, became interfused with Confucianism and produced the mixture which was the Eclectic Sinisticism lasting till the tenth century A.D. In both Huai-nan Tzu (d. 122 B.C.), the semi-Taoist, and Tung Chung-shu (177-104- B.C.), the Confucian, Taoist metaphysics and Confucian ethics mingled with each other, with yin and yang as the connecting links. As the cosmic order results from the harmony of yin and yang in nature, namely, Heaven and Earth, so the moral order results from the harmony of yang and yin in man, such as husband and wife, human nature and passions, and love and hate. The Five Agents (wu hsing), through which the yin yang principles operate, have direct correspondence not only with the five directions, the five metals, etc., in nature, but also with the five Constant Virtues, the five senses, etc., in man, thus binding nature and man in a neat macrocosm-microcosm relationship. Ultimately this led to superstition, which Wang Ch'ung (27-c. 100 A.D.) vigorously attacked. He reinstated naturalism on a rational ground by accepting only reason and experience, and thus promoted the critical spirit to such an extent that it gave rise to a strong movement of textual criticism and an equally strong movement of free political thought in the few centuries after him.
megalops ::: n. --> A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.
A large fish; the tarpum.
melanism ::: n. --> An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.
A disease; black jaundice. See Mel/na.
melotype ::: n. --> A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.
metamorphosis ::: n. --> Change of form, or structure; transformation.
A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they
method ::: n. --> An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of
Methodology: The systematic analysis and organization of the rational and experimental principles and processes which must guide a scientific inquiry, or which constitute the structure of the special sciences more particularly. Methodology, which is also called scientific method, and more seldom methodeutic, refers not only to the whole of a constituted science, but also to individual problems or groups of problems within a science. As such it is usually considered as a branch of logic; in fact, it is the application of the principles and processes of logic to the special objects of the various sciences; while science in general is accounted for by the combination of deduction and induction as such. Thus, methodology is a generic term exemplified in the specific method of each science. Hence its full significance can be understood only by analyzing the structure of the special sciences. In determining that structure, one must consider the proper object of the special science, the manner in which it develops, the type of statements or generalizations it involves, its philosophical foundations or assumptions, and its relation with the other sciences, and eventually its applications. The last two points mentioned are particularly important: methods of education, for example, will vary considerably according to their inspiration and aim. Because of the differences between the objects of the various sciences, they reveal the following principal methodological patterns, which are not necessarily exclusive of one another, and which are used sometimes in partial combination. It may be added that their choice and combination depend also in a large degree on psychological motives. In the last resort, methodology results from the adjustment of our mental powers to the love and pursuit of truth. There are various rational methods used by the speculative sciences, including theology which adds certain qualifications to their use. More especially, philosophy has inspired the following procedures: The Soctattc method of analysis by questioning and dividing until the essences are reached; the synthetic method developed by Plato, Aristotle and the Medieval thinkers, which involves a demonstrative exposition of the causal relation between thought and being; the ascetic method of intellectual and moral purification leading to an illumination of the mind, as proposed by Plotinus, Augustine and the mystics; the psychological method of inquiry into the origin of ideas, which was used by Descartes and his followers, and also by the British empiricists; the critical or transcendental method, as used by Kant, and involving an analysis of the conditions and limits of knowledge; the dialectical method proceeding by thesis, antithesis and synthesis, which is promoted by Hegelianlsm and Dialectical Materialism; the intuitive method, as used by Bergson, which involves the immediate perception of reality, by a blending of consciousness with the process of change; the reflexive method of metaphysical introspection aiming at the development of the immanent realities and values leading man to God; the eclectic method (historical-critical) of purposive and effective selection as proposed by Cicero, Suarez and Cousin; and the positivistic method of Comte, Spencer and the logical empiricists, which attempts to apply to philosophy the strict procedures of the positive sciences. The axiomatic or hypothetico-deductive method as used by the theoretical and especially the mathematical sciences. It involves such problems as the selection, independence and simplification of primitive terms and axioms, the formalization of definitions and proofs, the consistency and completeness of the constructed theory, and the final interpretation. The nomological or inductive method as used by the experimental sciences, aims at the discovery of regularities between phenomena and their relevant laws. It involves the critical and careful application of the various steps of induction: observation and analytical classification; selection of similarities; hypothesis of cause or law; verification by the experimental canons; deduction, demonstration and explanation; systematic organization of results; statement of laws and construction of the relevant theory. The descriptive method as used by the natural and social sciences, involves observational, classificatory and statistical procedures (see art. on statistics) and their interpretation. The historical method as used by the sciences dealing with the past, involves the collation, selection, classification and interpretation of archeological facts and exhibits, records, documents, archives, reports and testimonies. The psychological method, as used by all the sciences dealing with human behaviour and development. It involves not only introspective analysis, but also experimental procedures, such as those referring to the relations between stimuli and sensations, to the accuracy of perceptions (specific measurements of intensity), to gradation (least noticeable differences), to error methods (average error in right and wrong cases), and to physiological and educational processes.
microphthalmy ::: n. --> An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.
Mind of Light ::: A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge
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Mo chia: The School of Mo Tzu (Moh Tzu, Mo Ti, between 500 and 396 B.C.) and his followers. This utilitarian and scientific minded philosopher, whose doctrines are embodied in Mo Tzu, advocated: "benefit" (li), or the promotion of general welfare and removal of evil, through the increase of population and of benevolence and righteousness toward this practical objective, the elimination of war, and the suppression of wasteful musical events and elaborate funerals; "universal love" (chien ai), or treating others, their families, and their countries as one's own, to the end that the greatest amount of benefit will be realized; agreement with the superiors (shang t'ung); a method of reasoning which involves a foundation, a survey, and application (san piao); the belief in Heaven and the spirits both as a religious sanction of governmental measures and as an effective way of promotion of peace and welfare. For the development of his teachings by his followers, see Mo che. -- W.T.C.
moment ::: n. **1. An indefinitely short period of time; an instant. 2. Now, the present instant. 3. A particular period of importance, influence, or significance in a series of events or developments 4. A specific instant or point in time. moment"s, moments, moments", momentless, moment-beats, moment-ridden. v. moments. 5.** Brings significance to the moment.
monaxial ::: a. --> Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.
monerula ::: n. --> A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.
monogenesis ::: n. --> Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.
That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.
The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; --
monomorphous ::: a. --> Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.
monophyletic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
morphosis ::: n. --> The order or mode of development of an organ or part.
morula ::: n. --> The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Münsterberg, Hugo: (1863-1916) German-born philosopher and psychologist, for many years professor of psychology at Harvard University. One of the advance guard of present axiological development, he is affiliated with the ideological criticism stemming from Fichte. Agrees that pure reason is endowed with a priori principles which enable it to achieve objective super-individual affirmations which transcend and which can neither be confirmed nor denied by psychological investigation. Main works: Der Ursprung d. Sittlichkeit, 1889; Beiträge z. Experim. Psychol., 1889-92; Psychol. u. Lehre, 1906; Philos. der Werte, 1908 (Eng. tr. The External Values); Grundzüge d. Psychotechnik, 1914. -- H.H.
muscardine ::: n. --> A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.
muscle ::: n. --> An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
Muscular strength or development; as, to show one&
“My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths,—living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” The Secret of the Veda
nascent ::: a. --> Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
Evolving; being evolved or produced.
Nascent: A term applied to a thing or a state of mind at an early stage of its development when it is as yet scarcely recognizable. See Nascency. The term, as applied by H. Spencer (Psychology, § 195) to psychological states, foreshadowed the later theory of the subconscious. See Subconscious; Latency. -- L.W.
Natorp, Paul: (1854-1924) Collaborating with Cohen, Natorp applied the transcendental method to an interpretation of Plato, to psychology and to the methodology of the exact sciences. Like Cohen, Natorp really did not contribute to the scientific development of critical philosophy but prepared the way for philosophical mysticism. Cf. Platos Ideenlehre, 1903; Kant u. d. Marburger Schule, 1915. -- J. K.
"Nature, because she is a power of spirit, is essentially qualitative in her action. One may almost say that Nature is only the power in being and the development in action of the infinite qualities of the spirit, . . . .” *The Synthesis of Yoga
“Nature, because she is a power of spirit, is essentially qualitative in her action. One may almost say that Nature is only the power in being and the development in action of the infinite qualities of the spirit, …” The Synthesis of Yoga
neoplasia ::: n. --> Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.
nirukta ::: etymology; philology, part of sahitya: the study of the origins and development of language, especially with reference to Sanskrit, with the aim of creating "a science which can trace the origins, growth & structure of the Sanscrit language, discover its primary, secondary & tertiary forms & the laws by which they develop from each other, trace intelligently the descent of every meaning of a word in Sanscrit from its original root sense, account for all similarities & identities of sense, discover the reason of unexpected divergences, trace the deviations which separated Greek & Latin from the Indian dialect, discover & define the connection of all three with the Dravidian forms of speech".
nondevelopment ::: n. --> Failure or lack of development.
Note on the Indian Sign-Language. Certain general principles concerning gesture speech may be established, by considering the sign-language of the North American Indian which seems to be the most developed. A sign-language is established when equally powerful tribes of different tongues come into contact. Better gestures are composed and undesirable ones are weeded out, partly as a result of tribal federations and partly through the development of technical skills and crafts. Signs come into being, grow and die, according to the needs of the time and to the changes in practical processes. Stimulus of outside intercourse is necessary to keep alive the interest required for the maintenance and growth of a gesture speech; without it, the weaker tribe is absorbed in the stronger, and the vocal language most easily acquired prevails. Sign-languages involve a basic syntax destined to convey the fundamental meanings without refinement and in abbreviated form. Articles, prepositions and conjunctions are omitted; adjectives follow nouns; verbs are used in the present tense; nouns and verbs are used in the singular, while the idea of plurality is expressed in some other way. The use of signals with the smoke, the pony, the mirror, the blanket and the drum (as is also the case with the African tam-tams) may be considered as an extension of the sign-language, though they are related more directly to the general art of signalling. -- T.G.
nutriment ::: n. --> That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
That which promotes development or growth.
obsoleteness ::: n. --> The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
Indistinctness; want of development.
Occult and spiritual ::: The spiritual realisation is of primary importance and indispensable. I would consider it best to have the spiritual and psychic development first and have it with the same fullness before entering the occult regions. Those who enter the latter first may find their spiritual realisation much delayed ; others fall into the ma^ traps of the occult and do not come out in this life. Some no doubt can cany on both together, the occult and the spiritual, and make them help each other ; but the process I suggest is the safer.
odontogeny ::: n. --> Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth.
odontology ::: n. --> The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.
". . . One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection. Life is the first step of this release of consciousness; mind is the second; but the evolution does not finish with mind, it awaits a release into something greater, a consciousness which is spiritual and supramental. The next step of the evolution must be towards the development of Supermind and Spirit as the dominant power in the conscious being. For only then will the involved Divinity in things release itself entirely and it become possible for life to manifest perfection.” On Himself
“… One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection. Life is the first step of this release of consciousness; mind is the second; but the evolution does not finish with mind, it awaits a release into something greater, a consciousness which is spiritual and supramental. The next step of the evolution must be towards the development of Supermind and Spirit as the dominant power in the conscious being. For only then will the involved Divinity in things release itself entirely and it become possible for life to manifest perfection.” On Himself
ontogeny ::: n. --> The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.
— on what you are to be, i.e., on the development of the new consciousness rather than on this negative side.
oogenesis ::: n. --> The development, or mode of origin, of the ova.
Oral Stage ::: Freud&
organogenesis ::: n. --> The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
ovicell ::: n. --> One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.
oviduct ::: n. --> A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.
palingenesy ::: n. --> A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
Parallel with these developments was the growth of Buddhism in China, a story too long to relate here. Many Buddhist doctrines, latent in India, were developed in China. The nihilism of Madhyamika (Sun-lan, c. 450-c. 1000) to the effect that reality is Void in the sense of being "devoid" of any specific character, was brought to fullness, while the idealism of Vijnaptimatravada (Yogacara, Fahsiang, 563-c. 1000), which claimed that reality in its imaginary, dependent and absolute aspects is "representation-only," was pushed to the extreme. But these philosophies failed because their extreme positions were not consonant with the Chinese Ideal of the golden mean. In the meantime, China developed her own Buddhist philosophy consistent with her general philosophical outlook. We need only mention the Hua-yen school (Avatamisaka, 508) which offered a totalistic philosophy of "all in one" and "one in all," the T'ien-t'ai school (c. 550) which believes in the identity of the Void, Transitoriness, and the Mean, and in the "immanence of 3,000 worlds in one moment of thought," and the Chin-t'u school (Pure Land, c. 500) which bases its doctrine of salvation by faith and salvation for all on the philosophy of the universality of Buddha-nature. These schools have persisted because they accepted both noumenon and phenomenon, both ens and non-ens, and this "both-and" spirit is predominantly characteristic of Chinese philosophy.
parinami. ::: change; modification; transformation; evolution; development
pathogeny ::: n. --> The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
pathology ::: the scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences and in other uses, a departure or deviation from a normal condition.
Patience ::: In a more deep and spiritual sense a concrete realisation is that which makes the thing realised more real, dynamic, intimately present to the consciousness than any physical thing can be. Such a realisation of the personal Divine or of the impersonal Brahman or of the Self does not usually come at the beginning of a sadhana or in the first years or for many years. It comes so to a very few. Most would say that a slow development is the best one can hope for in the first years and only when the nature is ready and fully concentrated towards the Divine can the definitive experience come. To some rapid preparatory experiences can come at a comparatively early stage, but even they cannot escape the labour of the consciousness which will make these experiences culminate in the realisation that is enduring and complete. It is a matter of fact and truth and experience, not of liking or disliking.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 35, Page: 240-41
pauper ::: n. --> A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
pemphigus ::: n. --> A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.
perfection ::: n. --> The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.
A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
Periods of despondency and inactivity or even degenency and depravity in India have kept pice with disastrous political developments. But a joy in life's pursuits is evident from the earliest Vedic period and is to be traced in the multifariousness of Indian culture and the colorful Indian history itself which has left the Hindus one of the ancient races still virile among nations and capable of assimilation without itself becoming extinct. Happiness may be enjoyed even in the severest penance and asceticism for which India is noted, while a certain concomitant heroism seems undeniable.
Phallic Stage ::: Freud&
philology ::: n. --> Criticism; grammatical learning.
The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.
A treatise on the science of language.
phylogeny ::: n. --> The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
physiogeny ::: n. --> The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny.
physiophyly ::: n. --> The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.
pioneers ::: those who venture into the unknown to open up new areas of thought, research, or development, that others may follow: forerunners.
plantule ::: n. --> The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
planula ::: n. --> In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.
The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.
Platonic Realism: See Realism. Platonism: The philosophy of Plato marks one of the high points in the development of Greek philosophical genius Platomsm is characterised by a partial contempt for sense knowledge and empirical studies, by a high regard for mathematics and its method, by a longing for another and better world, by a frankly spiritualistic view of life, by its use of a method of discussion involving an accumulation of ever more profound insights rather than the formal logic of Aristotle, and, above all, by an unswerving faith in the capacity of the human mind to attain absolute truth and to use this truth in the rational direction of human life and affairs.
Platonism as a political philosophy finds its best known exposition in the theory of the ideal state in the Republic. There, Plato described a city in which social justice would be fully realized. Three classes of men are distinguished: the philosopher kings, apparently a very small group whose education has been alluded to above, who would be the rulers because by nature and by training they were the best men for the job. They must excel particularly in their rational abilities: their special virtue is philosophic wisdom; the soldiers, or guardians of the state, constitute the second class; their souls must be remarkable for the development of the spirited, warlike element, under the control of the virtue of courage; the lowest class is made up of the acquisitive group, the workers of every sort whose characteristic virtue is temperance. For the two upper classes, Plato suggested a form of community life which would entail the abolition of monogamous marriage, family life, and of private property. It is to be noted that this form of semi-communism was suggested for a minority of the citizens only (Repub. III and V) and it is held to be a practical impossibility in the Laws (V, 739-40), though Plato continued to think that some form of community life is theoretically best for man. In Book VIII of the Republic, we find the famous classification of five types of political organization, ranging from aristocracy which is the rule of the best men, timocracy, in which the rulers are motivated by a love of honor, oligarchy, in which the rulers seek wealth, democracy, the rule of the masses who are unfit for the task, to tyranny, which is the rule of one man who may have started as the champion of the people but who governs solely for the advancement of his own, selfish interests.
Plekhanov, George Valentinovich: (1856-1918) Was a Russian Marxist who became the philosophical leader of the Menshevik faction of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, opposing Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik wing. In spite of what are regarded as his political errors, such as his support of the war of 1914-1918 and his negative attitude to the Revolution of October, 1917, contemporary Soviet thinkers regard Plekhanov's works as containing valuable expositions of Marxist philosophy. Among his writings in this field are, Our Disputes (1885), On the Problem of the Development of the Monistic View of History (1895), Essays on the History of Materilism (1896), On the Materialist Conception of History (1897), On the Problem of the Role of the Individual in History (1898).
plica ::: v. --> A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait.
A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
The bend of the wing of a bird.
Political Personalism: The doctrine that the state is under obligation to provide opportunity to each citizen for the highest possible physical, mental, and spiritual development, because personality is the supreme achievement of the social order. A movement in France represented by the journal Esprit. -- R.T.F.
Postulate: See Mathematics. Potency: (Scholastic) Potency is opposed to act as asserted of being. It means the capacity of being or of being thus. Prime matter (q.v.) is pure potency, indetermined in regard to actual corporeal being. Any change or development or, generally, becoming presupposes a corresponding potency. Some potencies belong to the nature of a thing, others are merely passive and consist in non-repugnance. Thus to be thrown is not due to a potency strictly speaking in the stone which has, in regard to this a "merely obediential" potency. The first kind is also called operative potency. -- R.A.
potency ::: 1. Efficacy; effectiveness; strength. 2. Inherent capacity for growth and development; potentiality. potencies.
Power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even with- out any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to deve- . lop ; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent ; but this does not alwa^ happen easily, especially if one has been habituated to live mnch in the intelfect or in art out- ward vital consciousness.
precocity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness.
Preoperational Stage ::: Piaget&
pre/trans fallacy ::: In any recognized developmental sequence, the confusion of a pre-X stage and a trans-X stage simply because both are non-X. This fallacy has two major forms: the reduction of trans-X to pre-X and the elevation of pre-X to trans-X. For example, the confusion of pre-rational and trans-rational, pre-personal and trans-personal, or pre-conventional and post-conventional.
primary ::: a. --> First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
Earliest formed; fundamental.
Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some
prodigy ::: n. --> Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
proliferation ::: n. --> The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.
The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
proximate self ::: One of the three major aspects of the overall self, along with the distal and anterior self. The proximate self is the intimately subjective self, which is experienced as an “I” or “I/me.” It is also the equivalent of the self-identity stream. Wilber’s fulcrums of development refer to the stages of proximate self-sense development.
pseudofilaria ::: n. --> One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinae. html{color:
pseudovum ::: n. --> An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Paedogenesis.
psychic being ::: the evolving soul of the individual, the divine portion in him which evolves from life to life, growing by its experiences until it becomes a fully conscious being. From its place behind the heart-centre, the psychic being supports the mind, life and body, aiding their growth and development. The term "soul" is often used as a synonym for "psychic being", but strictly speaking there is a distinction: the soul is the psychic essence, the psychic being is the soul-personality put forward and developed by the psychic essence to represent it in the evolution. ::: See also psychic.
Psychoanalytic Theory ::: Theory developed by Freud consisting of the structural model of personality, topographical model of personality, defense mechanisms, drives, and the psychosexual stages of development. The primary driving force behind the theory is the id, ego and superego and the division of consciousness into the conscious mind, the pre/subconscious, and the unconscious.
pyaemia ::: n. --> A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
Pythagoreanism: The doctrines (philosophical, mathematical, moral, and religious) of Pythagoras (c. 572-497) and of his school which flourished until about the end of the 4th century B.C. The Pythagorean philosophy was a dualism which sharply distinguished thought and the senses, the soul and the body, the mathematical forms of things and their perceptible appearances. The Pythagoreans supposed that the substances of all things were numbers and that all phenomena were sensuous expressions of mathematical ratios. For them the whole universe was harmony. They made important contributions to mathematics, astronomv, and physics (acoustics) and were the first to formulate the elementary principles and methods of arithmetic and geometry as taught in the first books of Euclid. But the Pythagorean sect was not only a philosophical and mathematical school (cf. K. von Fritz, Pythagorean Politics in Southern Italy, 1941), but also a religious brotherhood and a fellowship for moral reformation. They believed in the immortality and transmigration (see Metempsychosis) of the soul which they defined as the harmony of the body. To restore harmony which was confused by the senses was the goal of their Ethics and Politics. The religious ideas were closely related to those of the Greek mysteries which sought by various rites and abstinences to purify and redeem the soul. The attempt to combine this mysticism with their mathematical philosophy, led the Pythagoreans to the development of an intricate and somewhat fantastic symbolism which collected correspondences between numbers and things and for example identified the antithesis of odd and even with that of form and matter, the number 1 with reason, 2 with the soul, etc. Through their ideas the Pythagoreans had considerable effect on the development of Plato's thought and on the theories of the later Neo-platonists.
ramification ::: n. --> The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
The production of branchlike figures.
rampancy ::: n. --> The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.
Realistic Idealism recognizes the reality of non-ideal types of being, but relegates them to a subordinate status with respect either to quantity of being or power. This view is either atheistic or theistic. Realistic theism admits the existence of one or more kinds of non-mental being considered as independently co-eternal with God, eternally dependent upon Deity, or as a divine creation. Platonic Idealism, as traditionally interpreted, identifies absolute being with timeless Ideas or disembodied essences. Thtse, organically united in the Good, are the archetypes and the dynamic causes of existent, material things. The Ideas are also archetypes of rational thought, and the goal of fine art and morality. Axiological Idealism, a modern development of Platonism and Kantianism, maintains that the category of Value is logically and metaphysically prior to that of Being.
Recursion, definition by: A method of introducing, or "defining," functions from non-negative integers to non-negative integers, which, in its simplest form, consists in giving a pair of equations which specify the value of the function when the argument (or a particular one of the arguments) is 0, and supply a method of calculating the value of the function when the argument (that particular one of the arguments) is x+l, from the value of the function when the argument (that particular one of the arguments) is x. Thus a monadic function f is said to be defined by primitive recursion in terms of a dyadic function g -- the function g being previously known or given -- by the pair of equations, f(0) = A, f(S(x)) = g(x, f(x)), where A denotes some particular non-negative integer, and S denotes the successor function (so that S(x) is the same as x+l), and x is a variable (the second equation being intended to hold for all non-negative integers x). Similarly the dyadic function f is said to be defined by primitive recursion in terms of a triadic function g and a monadic function h by the pair of equations, f(a, 0) = h(a), f(a, S(x)) = g(a, x, f(a,x)), the equations being intended to hold for all non-negative integers a and x. Likewise for functions f of more than two variables. -- As an example of definition by primitive recursion we may take the "definition" of addition (i.e., of the dyadic function plus) employed by Peano in the development of arithmetic from his postulates (see the article Arithmetic, foundations of): a+0 = a, a+S(x) = S(a+x). This comes under the general form of definition by primitive recursion, just given, with h and g taken to be such functions that h(a) = a and g(a, x, y) = S(y). Another example is Peano's introduction of multiplication by the pair of equations aX0 = 0, aXS(x) = (aXx)+a. Here addition is taken as previously defined, and h(a) = 0, g(a, x, y) = y + a.
referent ::: The actual phenomenon signified by any sign or symbol. All referents exist within developmental worldspaces. See Integral Semiotics.
Regression ::: A defense mechanism where one reverts to an earlier stage of development.
Reichenbach, Hans: Born Sept. 26, 1891, Hamburg, Germany. Successively Privatdozent at the College of Engineering at Stuttgart, Professor of philosophy in the universities of Berlin, Istanbul (1933-1938), University of California at Los Angeles (since 1938); the leading figure of the Berlin group in the development of recent logical empiricism. See Scientific Empiricism.
reptilia ::: n. pl. --> A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
retarding ::: delaying or slowing down (the progress, speed, or development) of (something); hindering.
retrogression ::: n. --> The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
Reversibility ::: A child&
rhinoscleroma ::: n. --> A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.
ritualism ::: n. --> A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt
rudimentary ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.
rudiment ::: n. --> That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step.
An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed. ::: 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.
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Sarama ::: a Vedic goddess whose action is "a forerunner of the dawn Sarama of Truth in the human mind", depicted in "the figure of the divine hound which was . . . a possibly later development of the Vedic imagery"; she represents the discovering intuition, a faculty "which goes straight to the Truth by the straight path of the Truth and not through the crooked paths of doubt and error".
sarcoma ::: n. --> A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.
Scheler, Max (1874-1928) was originally a disciple of Rudolf Eucken, but joined early -- at the University of Munich -- the Husserl circle of phenomenologists, of which school he became one of the leading exponents. Moving from Kantianism and Eucken-personalism into phenomenology, he later espoused successively positions which may be called a synthesis between phenomenology and Catholic philosophy, sociological dynamism, and ideo-realistic humanism. He was the psychologist, ethicist, and religious and social philosopher of the phenomenological movement. In common with other phenomenologists, Scheler's doctrine begins with the assertion of an inherent correlation of the essences of objects with the essences of intentional experience. His unique contributions lie in the comprehensiveness of his vision, in his interpretation of the value-qualities of being; of emotional experience, especially love, as the key for the disclosure of being; of a hierarchy of concrete ("material" as against formal) values; of an analysis of "resentment" as a thorough grudge (rancour) perverted emotional attitude towards the values of life; of his definition of "person" as the concrete unity of acts; of his acknowledgment of total personality beyond individual persons; of his definition of "ethos" as a preferential system of values determinative for the validity of any specific thought-form; of his development of the sociology of knowledge as a distinct discipline within cultural sociology; and of his working out of a philosophical anthropology showing man's position in and towards the whole of being. His most important works include: Die transzendentale und die psychologische Methode (1900); Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik (1916); Vom Ewigen in Menschen (1921); Wesen und Formen der Sympathie (1923); Schriften zur Soziologie und Weltanschauungslehre (3 vols., 1923-1924); Die Wissensformen und dte Gesellschaft (1926); Die Stellung des Menschen in Kosmos (1928); Philosophische Weltanschauung (1929); Zur Ethik und Erkenntnislehre (1933).
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (1775-1854) Founder of the philosophy of identity which holds that subject and object coincide in the Absolute, a state to be realized in intellectual intuition. Deeply involved in romanticism, Schelling's philosophy of nature culminates in a transcendental idealism where nature and spirit are linked in a series of developments by unfolding powers or potencies, together forming one great organism in which nature is dynamic visible spirit and spirit invisible nature. Freedom and necessity are different refractions of the same reality. Supplementing science -- which deals with matter as extinguished spirit and endeavors to rise from nature to intelligence -- philosophy investigates the development of spirit, theoretically practically, and artistically, converts the subjective into the objective, and shows how the world soul or living principle animates the whole. Schelling's monism recognizes nature and spirit as real and ideal poles respectively, the latter being the positive one. It is pantheistic and aesthetic in that it allows the world process to create with free necessity unconsciously at first in the manner of an artist. Art is perfect union of freedom and necessity, beauty reflects the infinite in the finite. History is the progressive revelation of the Absolute. The ultimate thinking of Schelling headed toward mysticism in which man, his personality expanded into the infinite, becomes absorbed into the absolute self, free from necessity, contingency, consciousness, and personality. Sämmtliche Werke, 14 vols. (1856, re-edited 1927). Cf. Kuno Fischer, Schellings Leben, Werke und Lehre; E. Brehier, Schelling, 1912; V. Jankelevitch, L'Odysee de la conscience dans la derniere philosophie de Schelling, 1933. -- K.F.L.
Science of Science: The analysis and description of science from various points of view, including logic, methodology, sociology, and history of science. One of the chief tasks of the science of science is the ana1ysis of the language of science (see Semiotic). Scientific empiricism (q.v.) emphasizes the role of the science of science, and tries to clarify the different aspects. Some empiricists believe that the chief task of philosophy is the development of the logic and methodology of science, and that most of the problems of traditional philosophy, as far as they have cognitive meaning (see Meaning, Kinds of, 1, 5), may be construed as problems of the science of science. -- R.C.
scrofula ::: n. --> A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis
Second Tier ::: Used to summarize the Flex Flow and Global View stages of value systems development from the Spiral Dynamics model. These stages are defined by their capacity to see the relative importance of all value systems, as opposed to First-Tier value systems, which declare their values to be the only correct values. Integral Theory uses Second Tier to refer to the Teal and Turquoise levels of developmental altitude.
seed-sounds ::: Sri Aurobindo: "My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths, — living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” *The Secret of the Veda
self-evolution ::: n. --> Evolution of one&
"Sense is in fact the mental contact of the embodied consciousness with its surroundings. This contact is always essentially a mental phenomenon; but in fact it depends chiefly upon the development of certain physical organs of contact with objects and with their properties to whose images it is able by habit to give their mental values. What we call the physical senses have a double element, the physical-nervous impression of the object and the mental-nervous value we give to it, and the two together make up our seeing, hearing, smell, taste, touch with all those varieties of sensation of which they, and the touch chiefly, are the starting-point or first transmitting agency.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Sense is in fact the mental contact of the embodied consciousness with its surroundings. This contact is always essentially a mental phenomenon; but in fact it depends chiefly upon the development of certain physical organs of contact with objects and with their properties to whose images it is able by habit to give their mental values. What we call the physical senses have a double element, the physical-nervous impression of the object and the mental-nervous value we give to it, and the two together make up our seeing, hearing, smell, taste, touch with all those varieties of sensation of which they, and the touch chiefly, are the starting-point or first transmitting agency.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sense-mind ::: The manas is a development from the external chitta; it is a first organising of the crude stuff of the consciousness excited and aroused by external contacts, bahya-sparsa.
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Sensorimotor Stage ::: The first stage in Piaget&
sequacious ::: a. --> Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
slavophile ::: n. --> One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.
smaran.a ::: memory, attention; remembrance of brahman or the isvara; conscious attention to the development of the siddhi as a whole or to any part of it; especially, mental attention stimulating the experience of physical ananda.
Social Learning Theory ::: Developmental theory arguing that personality is learned through the interactions with the environment.
sociology ::: n. --> That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.
soil ::: 1. The top layer of the earth"s surface. 2. A particular kind of earth or ground such as sandy soil. 3. Any place or condition providing the opportunity for growth or development. 4. A country, land, or region, esp. one"s native land. temple-soil.
soul ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The word ‘soul", as also the word ‘psychic", is used very vaguely and in many different senses in the English language. More often than not, in ordinary parlance, no clear distinction is made between mind and soul and often there is an even more serious confusion, for the vital being of desire — the false soul or desire-soul — is intended by the words ‘soul" and ‘psychic" and not the true soul, the psychic being.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul is very vaguely used in English — as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with all its desires and passions. That was why the word psychic being has to be used so as to distinguish this divine portion from the instrumental parts of the nature.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul has various meanings according to the context; it may mean the Purusha supporting the formation of Prakriti, which we call a being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming; it may mean, on the other hand, specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like man; it may mean the spark of the Divine which has been put into Matter by the descent of the Divine into the material world and which upholds all evolving formations here.” *Letters on Yoga
"A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine — none could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being supported by such a soul essence but without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul and the psychic being are practically the same, except that even in things which have not developed a psychic being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.)” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul or spark is there before the development of an organised vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the individual out of the Ignorance into the Light. It develops in the course of the evolution a psychic individual or soul individuality which grows from life to life, using the evolving mind, vital and body as its instruments. It is the soul that is immortal while the rest disintegrates; it passes from life to life carrying its experience in essence and the continuity of the evolution of the individual.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . for the soul is seated within and impervious to the shocks of external events. . . .” *Essays on the Gita
". . . the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness; for the most part it is veiled in its inner sanctum and to reveal itself it has to call on the mind, the life-force and the physical consciousness and persuade them, as best they can, to express it; ordinarily, it succeeds at most in suffusing their outwardness with its inner light and modifying with its purifying fineness their dark obscurities or their coarser mixture. Even when there is a formed psychic being able to express itself with some directness in life, it is still in all but a few a smaller portion of the being — ‘no bigger in the mass of the body than the thumb of a man" was the image used by the ancient seers — and it is not always able to prevail against the obscurity or ignorant smallness of the physical consciousness, the mistaken surenesses of the mind or the arrogance and vehemence of the vital nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . the soul is an eternal portion of the Supreme and not a fraction of Nature.” 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
*Soul, soul"s, Soul"s, souls, soulless, soul-bridals, soul-change, soul-force, Soul-Forces, soul-ground, soul-joy, soul-nature, soul-range, soul-ray, soul-scapes, soul-scene, soul-sense, soul-severance, soul-sight, soul-slaying, soul-space,, soul-spaces, soul-strength, soul-stuff, soul-truth, soul-vision, soul-wings, world-soul, World-Soul.
Soviet philosophy: The contemponiy development of the philosophy of dialecticil materialism in the U. S. S. R.
Spencer, Herbert: (1820-1903) was the great English philosopher who devoted a life time to the formulation and execution of a plan to follow the idea of development as a first principle through all the avenues of human thought. A precursor of Darwin with his famous notion of all organic evolution as a change "from homogeneity to heterogenity," from the simple to the complex, he nevertheless was greatly influenced by the Darwinian hypothesis and employed its arguments in his monumental works in biology, psychology, sociology and ethics. He aimed to interpret life, mind and society in terms of matter, motion and force. In politics, he evidenced from his earliest writings a strong bias for individualism. See Evolutionism, Charles Darwin. -- L.E.D.
spermatogenesis ::: n. --> The development of the spermatozoids.
Spiral Dynamics ::: A theoretical model focusing on the development of value memes, or “vMemes,” from First Tier (Survival Sense, Kin Spirits, Power Gods, Truth Force, Strive Drive, and Human Bond) to Second Tier (Flex Flow and Global View). Conceived by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan, and based on research by Clare Graves.
spiritual ::: The word “spiritual” has at least four major usages: 1. “Spiritual” refers to the highest levels in any developmental line (e.g., transrational cognition, transpersonal self-identity, etc.). 2. “Spiritual” is a separate developmental line itself (e.g., Fowler’s stages of faith). 3. “Spiritual” refers to a state or peak experience (e.g., nature mysticism). 4. “Spiritual” means a particular attitude or orientation, like openness, wisdom, or compassion, which can be present at virtually any state or stage.
sporogony ::: n. --> The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . all cosmic and real Law is a thing not imposed from outside, but from within, all development is self-development, all seed and result are seed of a Truth of things and result of that seed determined out of its potentialities. For the same reason no Law is absolute, because only the infinite is absolute, and everything contains within itself endless potentialities quite beyond its determined form and course, which are only determined through a self-limitation by Idea proceeding from an infinite liberty within.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development — Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "His [the Titan"s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “His [the Titan’s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel,—if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly,—it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle. Babel-builders’.
Sri Aurobindo: "The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.” *The Life Divine
Stage ::: A period of development that occurs at about the same time for each person. Developmental and Personality theories are often made up of a series of stages.
stage ::: n. 1. A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented. 2. The scene of any action. 3. The distance between two places of rest on a journey; each of the portions of a journey. 4. A level, degree, or period of time or development in the course of a process. 5. A point in the course of a life, an action or series of events. stages, earth-stage. v. 6. staged. Represented, produced, or exhibited on or as if on a stage.
stages ::: A term used to emphasize the sequential unfolding of levels of development. See levels.
Stage Theory ::: The idea that an individual must pass through one stage of development before he or she can reach the next stage.
states ::: States are fleeting, temporary aspects of phenomena found in all four quadrants. In the Upper Left, for example, there are the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep dreamless sleep; meditative states; and peak experiences (all of which can be accessed by virtually any level of development). Other examples of states include brain states in the Upper Right; cultural states (e.g., mass hysteria) in the Lower Left; and weather states in the Lower Right.
stature ::: 1. The natural height of a human or animal in an upright position. 2. Degree of development attained; level of achievement. thought-stature.
-statured ::: bearing a certain stature or degree of development. Titan-statured.
sterilize ::: v. t. --> To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
strobila ::: n. --> A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.
A mature tapeworm.
structure ::: The stable pattern of any occasion. In Integral Theory, structure most often refers to the unique, enduring pattern and actual structure of a level of development. See levels.
stunted ::: inhibited in growth or development; arrested.
subtle vision ("s) ::: Sri Aurobindo: " This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; . . . .”*Letters on Yoga
"It is not necessary to have the mind quiet in order to see the lights — that depends only on the opening of the subtle vision in the centre which is in the forehead between the eyebrows. Many people get that as soon as they start sadhana. It can even be developed by effort and concentration without sadhana by some who have it to a small extent as an inborn faculty.” Letters on Yoga
"When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent — gradually one becomes aware of one"s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
Sufism: A classical development of mysticism and a reaction from the legalism and rigidity of orthodox Islam. Being a sect seeking to attain a nearer fellowship with God by scrupulous observation of the religious law, it represents an infiltration into Islam of the Christian-gnostic type of piety with its charismatic and ascetic features. Gained many of its converts from the heterodox Moslems in Persia. -- H.H.
Sympathy: On psychological levels, a participation in and feeling for other living beings in adversity or other emotional phases, not always painful, which may or may not lead to participating or alleviating action, explained naturalistically as a general instinct inherent in all creatures, ethically sometimes as an original altruism, sociologically as acquired in the civilisatory process through needs of co-operation, mutual aid, and fellow-feeling in family and group action. Stressed particularly in Hinduism, fostered along with pity (q.v.) in Christianity, discussed and recommended as a shrewd social expedient by such men as Hobbes, Bentham, and Adam Smith, Schopenhauer raised sympathy Mitleid), as an equivalent to love, into an ethical principle which Nietzsche repudiated because to him it increases suffering and through weakness hinders development. Sympathy, as a cultural force, becomes progressively more evident in the increasing establishment of benevolent institutions, such as hospitals, asylums, etc., a more general altruism and ejection (Clifford), an extension of kindness even to animals (first taught by Buddhism, see Ahimsa), reform and relief movements of all kinds, etc. Still regarded highly as a praiseworthy virtue, it has been gradually rid of its dependence on individual ethical culture by scientific conditioning in social planning on a huge scale. See v. Orelli, Die philosophischen Auffassungen des Mttleids (1912); Scheler, Wesen und Formen der Sympathie (1926). -- K.F.L.
Syntax language: See Object language. Syntax, logical: "By the logical syntax of a language," according to Carnap, "we mean the formal theory of the linguistic forms of that language -- the systematic statement of the formal rules which govern it together with the development of the consequences which follow from these rules. A theory, a rule, a definition, or the like is to be called formal when no reference is made in it either to the meaning of the symbols or to the sense of the expressions, but simply and solely to the kinds and order of the symbols from which the expressions are constructed."
Tao chia: The Taoist school, the followers of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, etc., who "urged men to unity of spirit, teaching that all activities should be in harmony with the unseen (Tao), with abundant liberality toward all things in nature. As to method, they accept the orderly sequence of nature from the Yin Yang school, select the good points of Confucianists and Mohists, and combine with these the important points of the Logicians and Legalists. In accordance with the changes of the seasons, they respond to the development of natural objects."
Term: In common English usage the word "term"' is syntactical or semantical in character, and means simply a word (or phrase), or a word associated with its meaning. The phrase "undefined term" as used in mathematical postulate theory (see mathematics) is perhips best referred to this common meaning of "term " In traditional logic, a term is a concept appearing as subject or predicate (q.v.). of a categorical proposition; also, a word or phrase denoting such a concept. The word "term" has also been employed in a syntactical sense in various special developments of logistic systems (q.v.), usually in a way suggested by the traditional usage.
The diversity of concepts that Husserl himself expressed by the word "phenomenology" has been a source of diverse usages among thinkeis who came under his influence and are often referred to as "the phenomenological school." Husserl himself always meant by "phenomenology" a science of the subjective and its intended objects qua intentional; this core of sense pervades the development of his own concept of phenomenology as eidetic, transcendental, constitutive. Some thinkers, appropriating only the psychological version of this central concept, have developed a descriptive intentional psychology -- sometimes empirical, sometimes eidetic -- under the title "phenomenology." On the other hand, Husserl's broader concept of eidetic science based on seeing essences and essentially necessary relations -- especially his concept of material ontology -- has been not only adopted but made central by others, who define phenomenology accordingly. Not uncommonly, these groups reject Husserl's method of transcendental-phenomenological reduction and profess a realistic metaphysics. Finally, there are those who, emphasizing Husserl's cardinal principle that evidence -- seeing something that is itself presented -- is the only ultimate source of knowledge, conceive their phenomenology more broadly and etymologically, as explication of that which shows itself, whatever may be the latter 's nature and ontologicil status. -- D.C.
The employment of definition by recursion in the development of arithmetic from Peano's postulates, or in the Frege-Russell derivation of arithmetic from logic, requires justification, which most naturallv takes the form of finding a method of replacing a definition by recursion by a nominal definition, or a contextual definition, serving the same purpose. In particular it is possible, by a method due to Dedekind or by any one of a number of modifications of it, to prove the existence of a function f satisfying the conditions expressed by an admissible set of recursion equations, and f may then be given a definition employing descriptions as the function f such that the recursion equations, with suitable quantifiers prefixed, hold. See the paper of Kalmar cited below.
The field of vision, like every other field of activity of the human mind, is a mixed world and there is in it not only truth but much half-inith and error. For the rash and unwary to enter into it may bring confusion and misleading inspiration and false voices, and it is safer to have some sure guidance from those who know and have spiritual and psychic experience One must look at this field calmly and with discrimination, but to shut the gates and reject this or other supraphysical experiences is to limit oneself and arrest the inner development.
The first laboratory of experimental psychology was founded at Leipzig in 1879 by Wundt, who has been called "the first professional psychologist." With such research as that of Stumpf on sound; G. E. Müller on psycho-physics, color and learning; Ebbinghaus on memory; and Kulpe and the Würzburg school on the "higher thought processes," experimental psychology made rapid strides within the next two decades. In America, the chief standard bearer of Wundtian psychology was Titchener. Among the others who were instrumental in the introduction and development of experimental psychology in America, may be mentioned James, Hall, Münsterberg, Cattell, and Watson.
"The gospel of true supermanhood gives us a generous ideal for the progressive human race and should not be turned into an arrogant claim for a class or individuals. It is a call to man to do what no species has yet done or aspired to do in terrestrial history, evolve itself consciously into the next superior type already half foreseen by the continual cyclic development of the world-idea in Nature"s fruitful musings . . . .” The Supramental Manifestation*
“The gospel of true supermanhood gives us a generous ideal for the progressive human race and should not be turned into an arrogant claim for a class or individuals. It is a call to man to do what no species has yet done or aspired to do in terrestrial history, evolve itself consciously into the next superior type already half foreseen by the continual cyclic development of the world-idea in Nature’s fruitful musings ….” The Supramental Manifestation
The historical antecedents of experimental psychology are various. From British empiricism and the psychological philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume came associationism (see Associationism), the psychological implications of which were more fully developed by Herbart and Bain. Associationism provided the conceptual framework and largely colored the procedures of early experimental psychology. Physics and physiology gave impetus to experiments on sensory phenomena while physiology and neurology fostered studies of the nervous system and reflex action. The names of Helmholtz, Johannes Müller, E. H. Weber and Fechner are closely linked with this phase of the development of experimental psychology. The English biologist Galton developed the statistical methods of Quetelet for the analysis of data on human variation and opened the way for the mental testing movement; the Russian physiologist Pavlov, with his researches on "conditioned reflexes," contributed an experimental technique which has proved of paramount importance for the psychologist. Even astronomy made its contribution; variations in reaction time of different observers having long been recognized by astronomers as an important source of error in their observations.
"The inner Divinity is the eternal Avatar in man; the human manifestation is its sign and development in the external world.” Essays on the Gita
“The inner Divinity is the eternal Avatar in man; the human manifestation is its sign and development in the external world.” Essays on the Gita
"The Jivatman is for me the Unborn who presides over the individual being and its developments, associated with it but above it and them and who by the very nature of his existence knows himself as universal and transcendent no less than individual and feels the Divine to be his origin, the truth of his being, the master of his nature, the very stuff of his existence.” Letters on Yoga
“The Jivatman is for me the Unborn who presides over the individual being and its developments, associated with it but above it and them and who by the very nature of his existence knows himself as universal and transcendent no less than individual and feels the Divine to be his origin, the truth of his being, the master of his nature, the very stuff of his existence.” Letters on Yoga
them and has to aci upon them as an Influence rather than by its sovereign right of direct action ; its direct action becomes normal and preponderant only at a high stage of development or by yoga. A perception of inith which is inherent in the deepest substance of the consciousness, a sense of the good, true, beautiful, the Divine, is its privilege.
The most radical changes in this concept of phenomenology and its relations to other disciplines had taken place before Husserl wrote his Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie, of which the only published volume, "General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology," appeared in 1913. They resulted from a development having two main aspects.
The most strange development was Ch'an (Meditation, Zen, c. 500). It is basically a method of "direct intuition into the heart to find Buddha-nature," a method based, on the one hand, on the eightfold negation of production and extinction, annihilation and permanence, unity and diversity, and coming and departing, and, on the other hand, on the affirmation of the reality of the Buddha-nature in all things. Its sole reliance on meditation was most un-Chinese, but it imposed on the Chinese mind a severe mental and spiritual discipline which was invigorating as well as fascinating. For this reason, it exerted tremendous influence not only on Taoism which had much in common with it and imitated it in every way, but also on Neo-Confucianism, which stood in diametrical opposition to it.
Theocracy: (Gr. theos, god, kratos, government, power) A view of political organization in which God is sole ruler. All political laws come under what is held to be the Divine Will. Church and State become one. Examples the development of the Hebrew ideal and Judaism, Mohammedan politics, Calvinism in Geneva, Puritan New England. -- V.F.
The origin, nature, and the continued existence or immortality of the soul is widely discussed in Jewish philosophy. As to origin, Saadia believes that each individual soul is created by God -- considering, of course, creation a continuous process -- and that it is of a fine spiritual substance. As to its faculties, he accepts the Aristotelian-Platonic division of the soul into three parts, namely, the appetitive, emotional, and cognitive. Ibn Daud thinks that the soul exists prior to the body potentially, i.e., that the angels endow the body with form; he further considers it a substance but says that it undergoes a process of development. The more it thinks the more perfect it becomes, and the thoughts are called acquired reason, it is this acquired reason, or being perfected which remains immortal. Maimonides does not discuss the origin of the soul, but deals more with its parts. To the three of Saadia he adds the imaginative and the conative. Gersonides' view resembles somewhat that of Ibn Daud, except that he does not speak of its origin and limits himself to the intellect. The intellect, says he, is only a capacity residing in the lower soul, and that capacity is gradually developed by the help of the Active Intellect into an acquired and ultimately into an active reason. All thinkers insist on immortality, but with Saadia and ha-Levi it seems that the entire soul survives, while the Aristotelians assert that only the intellect is immortal. Maimonides is not explicit on the subject, yet we may surmise that even the more liberal thinkers did not subscribe to Averroes' theory of unitas intellectus, and they believed that the immortal intellect is endowed with consciousness of personality. To this trend of connecting immortality with rational reflection Crescas took exception, and asserts that it is not pure thought which leads to survival, but that the soul is immortal because it is a spiritual being, and it is perfected by its love for God and the doing of good.
The physical mind is that which is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only, and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it Is skeptical of the existence of supra-physical things of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no due ; even when it has spiritual experi- ences, it forgets them easily, loses (he impression and result and finds it difficult to believe. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and Supramental planes is one object of this yoga, just as to enlighten it by the power of the higher vital and higher mental elements of the being is the greatest part of human self-development, civilisation and culture.
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.
"The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life"s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” *The Human Cycle, etc.
“The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life’s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” The Human Cycle, etc.
The scientific study of primitive leligions, with such well known names as E. B. Tylor, F. B. Jevons, W. H. R. Rivers, J. G. Frazer, R. H. Codrington, Spencer and Gillen, E. Westermarck, E. Durkheim, L. Levy-Bruhl; the numerous outlines of the development of religion since Hume's Natural History of Religion and E. Caird's Evolution of Religion; the prolific literature dealing with individual religions of a higher type, the science of comparative religion with such namea as that of L. H. Jordan, the many excellent treitises on the psychology of religion including Wm. James' Varieties of Religious Experience; the sacred literature of all peoples in various editions together with a voluminous theological exegesis, Church history and, finally, the history of dogma, especially the monumental work of von Harnack, -- all are contributing illustrative material to the Philosophy of Religion which became stimulated to scientific efforts through the positivism of Spencer, Huxley, Lewes, Tyndall, and others, and is still largely oriented by the progress in science, as may be seen, e.g., by the work of Emile Boutroux, S. Alexander (Space, Time and Deity), and A. N. Whitehead.
“The soul or spark is there before the development of an organised vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the individual out of the Ignorance into the Light. It develops in the course of the evolution a psychic individual or soul individuality which grows from life to life, using the evolving mind, vital and body as its instruments. It is the soul that is immortal while the rest disintegrates; it passes from life to life carrying its experience in essence and the continuity of the evolution of the individual.” Letters on Yoga
The subconscient is universal as well as individual like all the other main parts of the Nature. But there are different parts or planes of the subconscient. All upon earth is based on the Inconscient as it is called, though it is not really inconscient at all, but rather a complete "sub"-conscience, a suppressed or involved consciousness, in which there is everything but nothing is formulated or expressed. The subconscient lies between this Inconscient and the conscious mind, life and body. It contains the potentiality of all the primitive reactions to life which struggle out to the surface from the dull and inert strands of Matter and form by a constant development a slowly evolving and self-formulating consciousness; it contains them not as ideas, perceptions or conscious reactions but as the fluid substance of these things. But also all that is consciously experienced sinks down into the subconscient, not as precise though submerged memories but as obscure yet obstinate impressions of experience, and these can come up at any time as dreams, as mechanical repetitions of past thought, feelings, action, etc., as "complexes" exploding into action and event, etc., etc. The subconscient is the main cause why all things repeat themselves and nothing ever gets changed except in appearance. It is the cause why people say character cannot be changed, the cause also of the constant return of things one hoped to have got rid of for ever. All seeds are there and all Sanskaras of the mind, vital and body,—it is the main support of death and disease and the last fortress (seemingly impregnable) of the Ignorance. All too that is suppressed without being wholly got rid of sinks down there and remains as seed ready to surge up or sprout up at any moment.
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The subject of the philosophy of religion is regarded in conservative circles not as a discipline given to free philosophical inquiry but as a particular religion's philosophy. In this form it is a more or less disguised apologetics or defense of an already accepted religious faith. While the data for this subject include the so-called classical religions, philosophy of religion, in the genuinely philosophical sense, takes for its material religious expressions of all types, whether classical or not, together with all the psychological material available on the nature of the human spirit and man's whole cultural development. -- V.F.
The Zermelo set theory has an adequacy to the logical development of mathematics comparable to that of the functional calculus of order omega (§ 6). Indeed, as here actually formulated, its adequacy for mathematics apparently exceeds that of the functional calculus; however, this should not be taken as an essential difference, since both systems are incomplete, in accordance with Gödel'a theorem (§ 6), but are capable of extension.
Third Tier ::: Conventionally, a tier is just an arbitrary grouping of stages. Integral Theory often highlights three tiers: First Tier, which consists of the levels up to and including Green altitude; Second Tier, which consists of Teal and Turquoise altitude; and Third Tier, which includes all post-Turquoise levels of development (Indigo, Violet, Ultraviolet, and Clear Light).
“ This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; …”Letters on Yoga
"Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
“Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
threatening ::: 1. That foreshadows evil or tragic developments. 2. Causing alarm, as by being imminent; ominous; sinister.
Titan ::: : “His [the Titan’s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel,—if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly,—it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
To keep up work helps to keep up the balance between the internal experience and the external development; otherwise one-sidedness and want of measure and balance may develop. hforcover, it is necessary to keep the .sadhana of work for t e
trachymedusae ::: n. pl. --> A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.
transformation ::: n. --> The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.
Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
Change of one from of material into another, as in
transitional structure ::: A structure that is replaced by subsequent, higher structures (e.g., structures in moral development). The self-related lines are mostly transitional structures, contrasted with enduring structures or those that tend to remain in existence once they emerge (even though they might be subsumed by higher structures).
transmutation ::: n. --> The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square.
The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
tubercular ::: a. --> Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
tuberculization ::: n. --> The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.
Two things render that culmination more facile than it would otherwise be. Overmind in the descent towards material creation has originated modifications of itself,—Intuition especially with its penetrative lightning flashes of truth lighting up local points and stretches of country in our consciousness,—which can bring the concealed truth of things nearer to our comprehension, and, by opening ourselves more widely first in the inner being and then as a result in the outer surface self also to the messages of these higher ranges of consciousness, by growing into them, we can become ourselves also intuitive and overmental beings, not limited by the intellect and sense, but capable of a more universal comprehension and a direct touch of truth in its very self and body. In fact flashes of enlightenment from these higher ranges already come to us, but this intervention is mostly fragmentary, casual or partial; we have still to begin to enlarge ourselves into their likeness and organise in us the greater Truth activities of which we are potentially capable. But, secondly, Overmind, Intuition, even Supermind not only must be, as we have seen, principles inherent and involved in the Inconscience from which we arise in the evolution and inevitably destined to evolve, but are secretly present, occult actively with flashes of intuitive emergence in the cosmic activity of Mind, Life and Matter. It is true that their action is concealed and, even when they emerge, it is modified by the medium, material, vital, mental in which they work and not easily recognisable. Supermind cannot manifest itself as the Creator Power in the universe from the beginning, for if it did, the Ignorance and Inconscience would be impossible or else the slow evolution necessary would change into a rapid transformation scene. Yet at every step of the material energy we can see the stamp of inevitability given by a supramental creator, in all the development of life and mind the play of the lines of possibility and their combination which is the stamp of Overmind intervention. As Life and Mind have been released in Matter, so too must in their time these greater powers of the concealed Godhead emerge from the involution and their supreme Light descend into us from above. …
types ::: Horizontal styles available to any developmental level within the quadrants. Examples of types include Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, masculine and feminine in the Upper Left; body types in the Upper Right; cultural types in the Lower Left; and types of biomes in the Lower Right.
uddiyana bandha. ::: a lower abdominal lock often described as bringing the navel to the base of the spine; most important bandha as it supports the breathing and encourages the development of strong core muscles
ultimate ::: 1. Lying beyond all others; forming the final aim or object. 2. Coming at the end of a process, course of action, etc., or as the last in a succession or series; arrived at as a final result or in the last resort. 3. Not to be improved upon or surpassed; greatest; highest. 4. Putting an end to further continuance, development, or action; final, decisive.
unfold ::: v. t. --> To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one&
UNITY. ::: When there is the development of the Self-realisa- lion or of the cosmic consciousness or if there is il)e emptiness which is the preiiminary condition for these things, (here comes an automatic tendency for a unity with all — their alTcctions, mentai, vital, physical may easily touch. One has to keep oneself free.
unknown ::: “The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.” The Life Divine
unorganized ::: a. --> Not organized; being without organic structure; specifically (Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; as, the unorganized ferments. See the Note under Ferment, n., 1.
upgrowth ::: n. --> The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
utthapana ::: (literally) raising, elevating; "the state of not being subutthapana ject to the pressure of physical forces", the second member of the sarira catus.t.aya, called utthapana or levitation because of its third and final stage (tertiary utthapana) in which "gravitation is conquered", but usually referring to either of two earlier stages (primary utthapana and secondary utthapana) in which "the habit by which the bodily nature associates certain forms and degrees of activity with strain, fatigue, incapacity" is rectified, resulting in a great increase in "the power, freedom, swiftness, effectiveness of the work whether physical or mental which can be done with this bodily instrument"; exercise for the development of utthapana (such as walking for primary utthapana). utth utthapana-sakti
Value: The contemporary use of the term "value" and the discipline now known as the theory of value or axiology are relatively recent developments in philosophy, being largely results of certain 19th and 20th century movements. See Ethics. "Value" is used both as a noun and as a verb. As a noun it is sometimes abstract, sometimes concrete. As an abstract noun it designates the property of value or of being valuable. In this sense "value" is often used as equivalent to "worth" or "goodness," in which case evil is usually referred to as "disvalue." But it is also used more broadly to cover evil or badness as well as goodness, just as "temperature" is used to cover both heat and cold. Then evil is referred to as negative value and goodness as positive value.
vasoformative ::: a. --> Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.
Vedic Religion: Or the Religion of the Vedas (q.v.). It is thoroughly cosmological, inspirational and ritualistic, priest and sacrifice playing an important role. It started with belief in different gods, such as Indra, Agni, Surya, Vishnu, Ushas, the Maruts, usually interpreted as symbolizing the forces of nature, but with the development of Hinduism it deteriorated into a worship of thousands of gods corresponding to the diversification of function and status in the complex social organism. Accompanying there was a pronounced tendency toward magic even in Vedic times, while the more elevated thoughts which have found expression in magnificent praises of the one or the other deity finally became crystallized in the philosophic thought of the Upanishads (q.v.). There is a distinct break, however, between Vedic culture with its free and autochthonous religious consciousness and the rigidly caste and custom controlled religion as we know it in India today, as also the religion of bhakti (q.v.). -- K.F.L.
^Vhcn this growth of the inner sleep consciousness begins, there is often a pull to go inside and pursue the development even when there is no fatigue or need of sleep. Another cause aids this pull. It is usually the vital part of the inner being that first awakes in sleep and the first dream experiences (as opposed
viable ::: a. --> Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
Vishnuism: (Visnuism) One of the major philosophico-religious groups into which Hinduism has articulated itself. It glorifies Vishnu as the supreme being who creates and maintains the world periodically by means of his bhuti and kriya saktis (q.v.) or powers of becoming and producing, corresponding to the causae materialis et efficiens. The place of man's soul in this development is explained variously depending on the relation it maintains to the world-ground conceived in Vishnuite fashion. -- K.F.L.
vision-logic ::: The cognitive stage necessary to support integral consciousness. Typically subdivided into early, middle, and late vision-logic. Early vision-logic differentiates reality into relativistic systems, while middle and late vision-logic add up and integrate those perspectives into systems of systems. Vision-logic is often referred to as the first “postformal” stage of cognitive development since it is immediately beyond or “after” formal operational cognition. However, it is not yet “transrational,” but rather the limit of rational thought. Vision-logic is, in a sense, the bridge between the mental and the transmental.
vitiligo ::: n. --> A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
vivarta ::: ["turning round", changing from one state to another, development of the universe from brahman considered as the sole real reality, the phenomenal world considered as apparent or illusory form]; the world as a purely subjective evolution, not real as objective facts.
vMeme ::: Short for value meme, a term used in Spiral Dynamics to denote a level of value systems development.
waves ::: A synonym for stages emphasizing the fluid, overlapping nature of levels of development. See levels.
Wilber-Combs Lattice ::: The general idea (arrived at independently by Ken Wilber and Allan Combs) that a person at virtually any stage of awareness can experience any major state, but will interpret those state-experiences according to their respective stage. The result is a grid of developmental stages intersecting with and interpreting various states.
With the aid of Gödel's device of representing sequences of primitive symbols and sequences of formulas by means of numbers, it is possible to give a more exact definition of the notion of effectiveness by making it correspond to that of recursiveness (q. v.) of numerical functions. E.g., a criterion for recognizing primitive formulas is effective if it determines a general recursive monadic function of natural numbers whose value is 0 when the argument is the number of a primitive formula, 1 for any other natural number as argument. The adequacy of this technical definition to represent the intuitive notion of effectiveness as described above is not immediately clear, but is placed beyond any real doubt by developments for details of which the reader is referred to Hilbert-Bernays and Turing (see references below).
xanthoma ::: n. --> A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called also xanthelasma.
Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and delight of the Divine effected through human nature with a result of development Into the
Yoga ::: Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and delight of the Divine, effected through the human nature with a result of development into the divine nature of being, whatever that may be, so far as we can conceive it in mind and realise it in spiritual activity.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 587
zooid ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal. ::: n. --> An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
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1:Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development. ~ Alfred North Whitehead #KEYS
2:But it must truly be development of the faith, not alteration of the faith. ~ Saint Vincent of Lerins, #KEYS
3:Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #KEYS
4:Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress - in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. ~ ken-wilber, #KEYS
5:Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others. ~ Napoleon Hill, #KEYS
6:Development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Life and Yoga, #KEYS
7:Action in the world is given us first as a means for our self-development and self-fulfilment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Work, #KEYS
8:It does not help for spiritual knowledge to be ignorant of the things of this world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Mental Development and Sadhana, #KEYS
9:The Lord has provided different forms of worship to suit different people with different capacities in different stages of development. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
10:There can be no national development without national liberty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, Shall India be Free? - National Development and Foreign Rule, #KEYS
11:The development of capacities is not only permissible but right, when it can be made part of the Yoga ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Consecration and Offering, #KEYS
12:The consciousness is there throughout in our occult parts of being, the development is in the manifesting Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Philosophy of Rebirth, #KEYS
13:Without strict Brahmacharya it is not possible for any one to hold fast to great ideals. To secure the full development and vitality of the body, brain and mind, Brahmacharya is essential. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
14:The development of the free individual is, we have said, the first condition for the development of the perfect society. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Civilisation and Barbarism, #KEYS
15:The group-man follows in the wake of the individual and is always far behind the highest individual development. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Drive towards Economic Centralisation, #KEYS
16:Above us, within us, around us is the AllStrength and it is that that we have to rely on for our work, our development, our transforming change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Sleep, #KEYS
17:... outside of the book-knowledge which is necessary to our professional training, I think I got most of my development from the good conversation to which I have always had the luck to access. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #KEYS
18:The State is a convenience, and a rather clumsy convenience, for our common development; it ought never to be made an end in itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Inadequacy of the State Idea, #KEYS
19:We perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids [63],#KEYS
20:This apparent paradox of a development draped in the colours of revolt is a constant psychological feature of all human evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #KEYS
21:Without being sceptical no spiritual progress is possible, for blind adoration is only the first stage in the spiritual development of the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II, Spirituality and Nationalism, #KEYS
22:The individual, standing alone, cannot develop; he depends on the support and assistance of the group to which he belongs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, Shall India be Free? - National Development and Foreign Rule, #KEYS
23:To arrive by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinise by it a liberated nature in the whole range of human living is our inspiring motive.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
24:But these structures, forming different levels, are to be regarded as succeeding one another according to a law of development, such that each one brings about a more inclusive and stable equilibrium for the processes that emerge from the preceding level. ~ Jean Piaget, #KEYS
25:If humans do not understand a proof, then it doesn't count as maths, says Voevodsky. 'The future of mathematics is more a spiritual discipline than an applied art. One of the important functions of mathematics is the development of the human mind.'
~ Vladimir Voevodsky,#KEYS
26:This growth of the conscious being, an expansion, an increasing self-expression, a more and more harmonised development of his constituent members is the whole meaning and all the pith of human existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
27:Man has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead." ~ Idries Shah, (1924-1996) author and teacher in the Sufi tradition, Wikipedia., #KEYS
28:With each person the guidance works differently according to his nature, the conditions of his life, his cast of consciousness, his stage of development, his need of farther experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Divine Grace and Guidance, #KEYS
29:Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
30:The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the sadhaka.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [58],#KEYS
31:Proving your proficiency in a skill is far more valuable to an employer than simply stating the number of years you've spent doing it.
~ Marcus Tomlinson, How to become an Expert Software Engineer (and Get any Job you want): A programmers guide to the secret art of free and open source software development,#KEYS
32:It is for this meaningful development of consciousness by thought, will, emotion, desire, action and experience, leading in the end to a supreme divine self-discovery, that Man, the mental being, has entered into the material body.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works,#KEYS
33:Man's law of progress progress perfection man
He [man] needs the help of the secret Divine above his mentality in his superconscient self; he needs the help also of the secret Divine around him in Nature and in his fellow-men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Ideal Law of Social Development,#KEYS
34:My ideal is growth, expansion, development on national lines. I have no words of condemnation for my nation. I tell,"You have done well; only try to do better." Great things have been done in the past in this land, & there is both time & room for greater things to be done yet.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
35:We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress." ~ Jean Gebser, #KEYS
36:To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development. ~ Ken Wilber, #KEYS
37:The Self in man enlarging light and knowledge and harmonising will with light and knowledge so as to fulfil in life what he has seen in his increasing vision and idea of the Self, this is man's source and law of progress and the secret of his impulse towards perfection. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: The Ideal Law of Social Development #KEYS
38:Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society ~ nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community., #KEYS
39:Nor does he achieve his destiny as the individual Man for the sake of the individual soul alone,—a lonely salvation is not his complete ideal,—but for the world also or rather for God in the world, for God in all as well as above all and not for God solely and separately in one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Ideal Law of Social Development, #KEYS
40:Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. I t is a matter of saying yea to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects-truly a task that taxes us to the utmost. ~ Carl Jung, Psychological Reflections, #KEYS
41:God & the World is my subject, ... the conditions in which the kingdom of heaven on earth can be converted from a dream into a possibility, - by the willed evolution in man of his higher nature, by a steady self-purification and a development in the light of this divine knowledge towards the fulfilment of his own supra-material, supra-intellectual nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
42:In researching this problem, I did an extensive data search of several hundred hierarchies, taken from systems theory, ecological science, Kabalah, developmental psychology, Yo-gachara Buddhism, moral development, biological evolution, Vedanta Hinduism, Neo-Confucianism, cosmic and stellar evolution, Hwa Yen, the Neoplatonic corpus-an entire spectrum of premodern, modern, and postmodern nests.
~ Ken Wilber, Marriage of Sense and Soul, 1998,#KEYS
43:John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 - October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.[1] He coined the term artificial intelligence (AI), developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design of the ALGOL programming language, popularized timesharing, and was very influential in the early development of AI.
~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
44:An ocean of electric Energy
Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles
Constructing by their dance this solid scheme, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life
Wave-particles
The dictum that each has his own way is not true; each has his own way of following the common way and the "own way" may often be very defective. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Mental Development and Sadhana,#KEYS
45:Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[5]
~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
46:7. Don't entertain such thoughts of imperfection, lack of qualities, etc. You are already perfect. Get rid of the ideas of imperfection and need for development. There is nothing to realize or annihilate. You are the Self. The ego does not exist. Pursue the enquiry and see if there is anything to be realised or annihilated. See if there is any mind to be controlled. Even the effort is being made by the mind which does not exist. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace An Offering from His Devotees, #KEYS
47:No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
48:The aim of a complete course of development is to divest the basic structures of any sense of exclusive self, and thus free the basic needs from their contamination by the needs of the separate self sense. When the basic structures are freed from the immortality projects of the separate self, they are free to return to their natural functional relationships .... when hungry, we eat; when tired, we sleep. The self has been returned to the Self, all self-needs have been met and discarded; and the basic needs alone remain. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology, p. 253, #KEYS
49:The integral Yoga, refusing to rely upon the fragile stuff of mental and moral ideals, puts its whole emphasis in this field on three central dynamic processes -- the development of the true soul or psychic being to take the place of the false soul of desire, the sublimation of human into divine love, the elevation of consciousness from its mental to its spiritual and supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul and the life-force can be utterly delivered from the veils and prevarications of the Ignorance.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T4],#KEYS
50:To return to the question of the development of the Will. It is always something to pluck up the weeds, but the flower itself needs tending. Having crushed all volitions in ourselves, and if necessary in others, which we find opposing our real Will, that Will itself will grow naturally with greater freedom. But it is not only necessary to purify the temple itself and consecrate it; invocations must be made. Hence it is necessary to be constantly doing things of a positive, not merely of a negative nature, to affirm that Will.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part 2,#KEYS
51:conditions of the psychic opening :::
For the opening of the psychic being, concentration on the Mother and self-offering to her are the direct way. The growth of Bhakti which you feel is the first sign of the psychic development. A sense of the Mother's presence or force or the remembrance of her supporting and strengthening you is the next sign. Eventually, the soul within begins to be active in aspiration and psychic perception guiding the mind to the right thoughts, the vital to the right movements and feelings, showing and rejecting all that has to be put away and turning the whole being in all its movements to the Divine alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
52:the essential conditions for the growth of the psychic :::
In order to strengthen the contact and aid, if possible, the development of the conscious psychic personality, one should, while concentrating, turn towards it, aspire to know it and feel it, open oneself to receive its influence, and take great care, each time that one receives an indication from it, to follow it very scrupulously and sincerely. To live in a great aspiration, to take care to become inwardly calm and remain so always as far as possible, to cultivate a perfect sincerity in all the activities of one's being - these are the essential conditions for the growth of the psychic being.
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
53:Similarly, the existence of Allah has multiplicity and the many Names. It is this or that according to what appears from it of the universe which demands the realities of the Divine Names by its development. They are doubled by it and stand in opposition to the unity of multiplicity. It is one by source in respect to its essence, as the primal substance (hayûla) is a single source in respect to its essence, while it has many forms which it supports by its essence. It is the same with Allah through the forms of tajalli which are manifested from Him. So the locii of the tajalli are the forms of the universe, in spite of the intelligible unity (ahadiyya). Look at the excellence of this divine instruction which Allah gives by granting its recognition to whoever He wishes among His slaves. ~ Ibn Arabi, #KEYS
54:Finally, in terms of overall spiritual intelligence-which we have been briefly tracking-on the other side of the leading edge of evolution we have 3 or 4 higher, at this point mostly potential, levels of development, including levels of spiritual intelligence. Individually, their basic strcture-rungs are referred to as para-mind, meta-mind, overmind, and supermind; collectively, they are called 3rd tier. What all 3rd-tier structures have in common is some degree of direct transpersonal identity and experience. Further, each 3rd-tier structure of consciousness is integrated, in some fashion, with a particular state of consciousness (often, para-mental with the gross, meta-mental with subtle, overmind with causal/Witnessing, and supermind with nondual, although this varies with each individual's actual history).
~ Ken Wilber?,#KEYS
55:I have read your account of your sadhana. There is nothing to say, I think, - for it is all right - except that the most important thing for you is to develop the psychic fire in the heart and the aspiration for the psychic being to come forward as the leader of the sadhana. When the psychic does so, it will show you the 'undetected ego-knots' of which you speak and loosen them or burn them in the psychic fire. This psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical consciousness is of the utmost importance because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant. Powers etc. have their place, but a very minor one so long as this is not done.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
56:The condition of today's world cannot be transformed by technocratic rationality, since both technocracy and rationality are apparently nearing their apex.
Nor can it be transcended by preaching or admonishing a return to ethics and morality, or in fact, by any form of return to the past.
We have only one option: in examining the manifestations of our age, we must penetrate them with sufficient breadth and depth that we do not come under the demonic and destructive spell.
We must not focus our view merely on these phenomena, but rather on the humus of the decaying world beneath, where the seedlings of the future are growing, immeasurable in their potential and vigor.
Since our insight into the energies pressing toward development aids their unfolding, the seedlings and inceptive beginnings must be made visible and comprehensible." ~ Jean Gebser,#KEYS
57:The Seven Da Vincian Principles are:
Curiosità - An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
Dimostrazione - A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
Sensazione - The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience.
Sfumato (literally "Going up in Smoke") - A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
Arte/Scienza - The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "Whole-brain" thinking.
Corporalità - The cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
Connessione - A recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. Systems thinking.
~ Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day,#KEYS
58: The purpose of creation, is lila. The concept of lila escapes all the traditional difficulties in assigning purpose to the creator. Lila is a purpose-less purpose, a natural outflow, a spontaneous self-manifestation of the Divine. The concept of lila, again, emphasizes the role of delight in creation. The concept of Prakriti and Maya fail to explain the bliss aspect of Divine. If the world is manifestation of the Force of Satcitananda, the deployment of its existence and consciousness, its purpose can be nothing but delight. This is the meaning of delight. Lila, the play, the child's joy, the poet's joy, the actor's joy, the mechanician's joy of the soul of things eternally young, perpetually inexhaustible, creating and recreating Himself in Himself for the sheer bliss of that self-creation, of that self-representation, Himself the play, Himself the player, Himself the playground ~ Sri Aurobindo, Philosophy of Social Development, pp-39-40 #KEYS
59:55: A similar rejection is a necessary self-restraint and a spiritual discipline for the immature seeker, since such powers may be a great, even a deadly peril; for their supernormality may easily feed in him an abnormal exaggeration of the ego. Power in itself may be dreaded as a temptation by the aspirant to perfection, because power can abase as well as elevate; nothing is more liable to misuse. But when new capacities come as an inevitable result of the growth into a greater consciousness and a greater life and that growth is part of the very aim of the spiritual being within us, this bar does not operate; for a growth of the being into supernature and its life in supernature cannot take place or cannot be complete without bringing with it a greater power of consciousness and a greater power of life and the spontaneous development of an instrumentation of knowledge and force normal to that supernature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.08, #KEYS
60:Even on Earth, the first steps in this direction had been taken. There were millions of men, doomed in earlier ages, who now lived active and happy lives thanks to artificial limbs, kidneys, lungs, and hearts. To this process there could be only one conclusion - however far off it might be.
And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, It was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis.
But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from matter. The robot body, like the flesh-and-blood one, would be no more than a stepping-stone to something which, long ago, men bad called "spirit."
And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.
~ Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey,#KEYS
61:ALL YOGA is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration,#KEYS
62: Swami Vivekananda summarised Yoga under four headings, and I do not think that one can improve on that classification. His four are: Gnana, Raja, Bhakti and Hatha, and comprise all divisions that it is desirable to make. As soon as one begins to add such sections as Mantra Yoga, you are adding to without enriching the classification, and once you begin Where are you to stop? But I honestly believe that the excessive simplication given in Eight Lectures on Yoga is a practical advantage. Any given type of Yogas is the work of a lifetime and for that reason alone it is desirable to confine oneself from the beginning to an absolutely simple programme.
What then is the difference between Yoga and Magick? Magick is extraversion, the discovery of and subsequently the classification of and finally the control of new worlds on new planes. So far as it concerns the development of the mind its object and method are perfectly simple. What is wanted is exaltation. The aim is to identify oneself with the highest essence of whatever world is under consideration. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, 1.83 - Epistola Ultima,#KEYS
63:If we regard the Powers of the Reality as so many Godheads, we can say that the Overmind releases a million Godheads into action, each empowered to create its own world, each world capable of relation, communication and interplay with the others.
There are in the Veda different formulations of the nature of the Gods: it is said they are all one Existence to which the sages give different names; yet each God is worshipped as if he by himself is that Existence, one who is all the other Gods together or contains them in his being; and yet again each is a separate Deity acting sometimes in unison with companion deities, sometimes separately, sometimes even in apparent opposition to other Godheads of the same Existence. In the Supermind all this would be held together as a harmonised play of the one Existence; in the Overmind each of these three conditions could be a separate action or basis of action and have its own principle of development and consequences and yet each keep the power to combine with the others in a more composite harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Supermind Mind and the Overmind Maya,#KEYS
64:Do not be over-eager for experience, - for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you have to aspire for most is the improved quality of the recipient consciousness in you - discrimination in the mind, the unattached impersonal Witness look on all that goes on in you and around you, purity in the vital, calm equanimity, enduring patience, absence of pride and the sense of greatness - and more especially, the development of the psychic being in you - surrender, self-giving, psychic humility, devotion. It is a consciousness made up of these things, cast in this mould that can bear without breaking, stumbling or deviation into error the rush of lights, powers and experiences from the supraphysical planes. An entire perfection in these respects is hardly possible until the whole nature from the highest mind to the subconscient physical is made one in the light that is greater than Mind; but a sufficient foundation and a consciousness always self-observant, vigilant and growing in these things is indispensable
- for perfect purification is the basis of the perfect siddhi. ~ ?,#KEYS
65:It can be expected that the orthodox Christian will at first reject the theories about the Christ which occultism presents; at the same time, this same orthodox Christian will find it increasingly difficult to induce the intelligent masses of people to accept the impossible Deity and the feeble Christ, which historical Christianity has endorsed. A Christ Who is present and living, Who is known to those who follow Him, Who is a strong and able executive, and not a sweet and sentimental sufferer, Who has never left us but Who has worked for two thousand years through the medium of His disciples, the inspired men and women of all faiths, all religions, and all religious persuasions; Who has no use for fanaticism or hysterical devotion, but Who loves all men persistently, intelligently and optimistically, Who sees divinity in them all, and Who comprehends the techniques of the evolutionary development of the human consciousness (mental, emotional and physical, producing civilizations and cultures appropriate to a particular point in evolution) - these ideas the intelligent public can and will accept. p. 589/90 ~ Alice Bailey, in The Externalization of the Hierarchy (1957) #KEYS
66:Ordinarily, man is limited in all these parts of his being and he can grasp at first only so much of the divine truth as has some large correspondence to his own nature and its past development and associations. Therefore God meets us first in different limited affirmations of his divine qualities and nature; he presents himself to the seeker as an absolute of the things he can understand and to which his will and heart can respond; he discloses some name and aspect of his Godhead.
This is what is called in Yoga the is.t.a-devata, the name and form elected by our nature for its worship. In order that the human being may embrace this Godhead with every part of himself, it is represented with a form that answers to its aspects and qualities and which becomes the living body of God to the adorer. These are those forms of Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Kali, Durga, Christ, Buddha, which the mind of man seizes on for adoration. Even the monotheist who worships a formless Godhead, yet gives to him some form of quality, some mental form or form of Nature by which he envisages and approaches him. But to be able to see a living form, a mental body, as it were, of the Divine gives to the approach a greater closeness and sweetness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Mystery of Love,#KEYS
67:About the only law that I think relates to the genre is that you should not try to explain, to find neat explanations for what happens, and that the object of the thing is to produce a sense of the uncanny. Freud in his essay on the uncanny wrote that the sense of the uncanny is the only emotion which is more powerfully expressed in art than in life, which I found very illuminating; it didn't help writing the screen-play, but I think it's an interesting insight into the genre. And I read an essay by the great master H.P. Lovecraft where he said that you should never attempt to explain what happens, as long as what happens stimulates people's imagination, their sense of the uncanny, their sense of anxiety and fear. And as long as it doesn't, within itself, have any obvious inner contradictions, it is just a matter of, as it were, building on the imagination (imaginary ideas, surprises, etc.), working in this area of feeling. I think also that the ingeniousness of a story like this is something which the audience ultimately enjoys; they obviously wonder as the story goes on what's going to happen, and there's a great satisfaction when it's all over not having been able to have anticipated the major development of the story, and yet at the end not to feel that you have been fooled or swindled. ~ Stanley Kubrick, #KEYS
68:
Sweet Mother, Just as there is a methodical progression of exercises for mental and physical education, isn't there a similar method to progress towards Sri Aurobindo's yoga?
It should vary with each individual.
Could you make a step-by-step programme for me to follow daily?
The mechanical regularity of a fixed programme is indispensable for physical, mental and vital development; but this mechanical rigidity has little or no effect on spiritual development where the spontaneity of an absolute sincerity is indispensable. Sri Aurobindo has written very clearly on this subject. And what he has written on it has appeared in The Synthesis Of Yoga.
However, as an initial help to set you on the path, I can tell you: (1) that on getting up, before starting the day, it is good to make an offering of this day to the Divine, an offering of all that one thinks, all that one is, all that one will do; (2) and at night, before going to sleep, it is good to review the day, taking note of all the times one has forgotten or neglected to make an offering of one's self or one's action, and to aspire or pray that these lapses do not recur. This is a minimum, a very small beginning - and it should increase with the sincerity of your consecration. 31 March 1965
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, [T1],#KEYS
69:keep faith :::
We must have faith that always what is for the best happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are ignorant and also blind, because we do not see the consequences of things and what will happen later. But we must keep the faith that if it is like that, if we rely on the Divine, if we give Him the full charge of ourselves, if we let Him decide everything for us, well, we must know that it is always what is best for us that happens. This is an absolute fact. To the extent to which you surrender, the best happens to you. This may not be in conformity with what you would like, your preferences or desire, because these things are blind: it is the best from thespiritual point of view, the best for your progress, your development, your spiritual growth, your true life. It is always that. And you must keep this faith, because faith is the expression of a trust in the Divine and the full self-giving you make to the Divine. And when you make it, it is something absolutely marvellous. That's a fact, these are not just words, you understand, it is a fact. When you look back, all kinds of things which you did not understand when they happened to you, you realise as just the thing which was necessary in order to compel you to make the needed progress. Always, without exception. It is our blindness which prevents us from seeing it. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
70:the fourth aid, time, kala :::
The sadhaka who has all these aids is sure of his goal. Even a fall will be for him only a means of rising and death a passage towards fulfilment. For once on this path, birth and death become only processes in the development of his being and the stages of his journey.
Time is the remaining aid needed for the effectivity of the process. Time presents itself to human effort as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul.
Time is a field of circumstances and forces meeting and working out a resultant progression whose course it measures. To the ego it is a tyrant or a resistance, to the Divine an instrument. Therefore, while our effort is personal, Time appears as a resistance, for it presents to us all the obstruction of the forces that conflict with our own. When the divine working and the personal are combined in our consciousness, it appears as a medium and a condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument.
The ideal attitude of the sadhaka towards Time is to have an endless patience as if he had all eternity for his fulfilment and yet to develop the energy that shall realise now and with an ever-increasing mastery and pressure of rapidity till it reaches the miraculous instantaneousness of the supreme divine Transformation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
71:the first necessity; :::
The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for the deeper faith and vision which see only the Divine and seek only after the Divine. The next need is to compel all our lower being to pay homage to this new faith and greater vision. All our nature must make an integral surrender; it must offer itself in every part and every movement to that which seems to the unregenerated sensemind so much less real than the material world and its objects. Our whole being - soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body - must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine. This is no easy task; for everything in the world follows the fixed habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore. Every vital fibre has to be persuaded to accept an entire renunciation of all that hitherto represented to it its own existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 72,#KEYS
72: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
73:Concentrating the Attention:
Whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain the concentration with a presistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - thats not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate. And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensble. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention. And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important. There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
74:the second aid, the need for effort and aspiration, utsaha :::
The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the sadhaka. The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can pour itself into the individiual mould and transform it. The first determining element in the siddhi is, therefore, the intensity of the turning, the force which directs the soul inward. The power of aspiration of the heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the mind, the perseverance and determination of the applied energy are the measure of that intensity. The ideal sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase, 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' It is this zeal for the Lord, -utsaha, the zeal of the whole nature for its divine results, vyakulata, the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine, - that devours the ego and breaks up the petty limitations ...
So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujya, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
75:When, in last week's aphorism, Sri Aurobindo opposed - as one might say - "knowledge" to "Wisdom", he was speaking of knowledge as it is lived in the average human consciousness, the knowledge which is obtained through effort and mental development, whereas here, on the contrary, the knowledge he speaks of is the essential Knowledge, the supramental divine Knowledge, Knowledge by identity. And this is why he describes it here as "vast and eternal", which clearly indicates that it is not human knowledge as we normally understand it.
Many people have asked why Sri Aurobindo said that the river is "slender". This is an expressive image which creates a striking contrast between the immensity of the divine, supramental Knowledge - the origin of this inspiration, which is infinite - and what a human mind can perceive of it and receive from it.
Even when you are in contact with these domains, the portion, so to say, which you perceive, is minimal, slender. It is like a tiny little stream or a few falling drops and these drops are so pure, so brilliant, so complete in themselves, that they give you the sense of a marvellous inspiration, the impression that you have reached infinite domains and risen very high above the ordinary human condition. And yet this is nothing in comparison with what is still to be perceived.
I have also been asked if the psychic being or psychic consciousness is the medium through which the inspiration is perceived.
Generally, yes. The first contact you have with higher regions is a psychic one. Certainly, before an inner psychic opening is achieved, it is difficult to have these inspirations. It can happen as an exception and under exceptional conditions as a grace, but the true contact comes through the psychic; because the psychic consciousness is certainly the medium with the greatest affinity with the divine Truth. ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
76:Shastra is the knowledge and teaching laid down by intuition, experience and wisdom, the science and art and ethic of life, the best standards available to the race. The half-awakened man who leaves the observance of its rule to follow the guidance of his instincts and desires, can get pleasure but not happiness; for the inner happiness can only come by right living. He cannot move to perfection, cannot acquire the highest spiritual status. The law of instinct and desire seems to come first in the animal world, but the manhood of man grows by the pursuit of truth and religion and knowledge and a right life. The Shastra, the recognised Right that he has set up to govern his lower members by his reason and intelligent will, must therefore first be observed and made the authority for conduct and works and for what should or should not be done, till the instinctive desire nature is schooled and abated and put down by the habit of self-control and man is ready first for a freer intelligent self-guidance and then for the highest supreme law and supreme liberty of the spiritual nature.
For the Shastra in its ordinary aspect is not that spiritual law, although at its loftiest point, when it becomes a science and art of spiritual living, Adhyatma-shastra, - the Gita itself describes its own teaching as the highest and most secret Shastra, - it formulates a rule of the self-transcendence of the sattwic nature and develops the discipline which leads to spiritual transmutation. Yet all Shastra is built on a number of preparatory conditions, dharmas; it is a means, not an end. The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit when abandoning all dharmas the soul turns to God for its sole law of action, acts straight from the divine will and lives in the freedom of the divine nature, not in the Law, but in the Spirit. This is the development of the teaching which is prepared by the next question of Arjuna. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita,#KEYS
77:The most outward psychological form of these things is the mould or trend of the nature towards certain dominant tendencies, capacities, characteristics, form of active power, quality of the mind and inner life, cultural personality or type. The turn is often towards the predominance of the intellectual element and the capacities which make for the seeking and finding of knowledge and an intellectual creation or formativeness and a preoccupation with ideas and the study of ideas or of life and the information and development of the reflective intelligence. According to the grade of the development there is produced successively the make and character of the man of active, open, inquiring intelligence, then the intellectual and, last, the thinker, sage, great mind of knowledge. The soul-powers which make their appearance by a considerable development of this temperament, personality, soul-type, are a mind of light more and more open to all ideas and knowledge and incomings of Truth; a hunger and passion for knowledge, for its growth in ourselves, for its communication to others, for its reign in the world, the reign of reason and right and truth and justice and, on a higher level of the harmony of our greater being, the reign of the spirit and its universal unity and light and love; a power of this light in the mind and will which makes all the life subject to reason and its right and truth or to the spirit and spiritual right and truth and subdues the lower members to their greater law; a poise in the temperament turned from the first to patience, steady musing and calm, to reflection, to meditation, which dominates and quiets the turmoil of the will and passions and makes for high thinking and pure living, founds the self-governed sattwic mind, grows into a more and more mild, lofty, impersonalised and universalised personality. This is the ideal character and soul-power of the Brahmana, the priest of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 4:15 - Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality #KEYS
78:middle vision logic or paradigmatic ::: (1:25) Cognition is described as middle-vision logic, or paradigmatic in that it is capable of co-ordinating the relations between systems of systems, unifying them into principled frameworks or paradigms. This is an operation on meta-systems and allows for the view described above, a view of human development itself. Self-sense at teal is called Autonomous or Strategist and is characterized by the emergent capacity to acknowledge and cope with inner conflicts in needs, ... and values. All of which are part of a multifacted and complex world. Teal sees our need for autonomy and autonomy itself as limited because emotional interdependence is inevitable. The contradictory aspects of self are weaved into an identity that is whole, integrated and commited to generating a fulfilling life.
Additionally, Teal allows individuals to link theory and practice, perceive dynamic systems interactions, recognize and strive for higher principles, understand the social construction of reality, handle paradox and complexity, create positive-sum games and seek feedback from others as a vital source for growth. Values embrace magnificence of existence, flexibility, spontaneioty, functionality, the integration of differences into interdependent systems and complimenting natural egalitarianism with natural ranking. Needs shift to self-actualization, and morality is in both terms of universal ethical principles and recognition of the developmental relativity of those universals. Teal is the first wave that is truly able to see the limitations of orange and green morality, it is able to uphold the paradox of universalism and relativism. Teal in its decision making process is able to see ... deep and surface features of morality and is able to take into consideration both those values when engaging in moral action. Currently Teal is quite rare, embraced by 2-5% of the north american and european population according to sociological research. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-53, Middle Vision Logic,#KEYS
79:This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims. As we gain in clarity and the turmoil of egoistic effort gives place to a calmer self-knowledge, we recognise the source of the growing light within us. We recognise it retrospectively as we realise how all our obscure and conflicting movements have been determined towards an end that we only now begin to perceive, how even before our entrance into the path of the Yoga the evolution of our life has been designedly led towards its turning point. For now we begin to understand the sense of our struggles and efforts, successes and failures. At last we are able to seize the meaning of our ordeals and sufferings and can appreciate the help that was given us by all that hurt and resisted and the utility of our very falls and stumblings. We recognise this divine leading afterwards, not retrospectively but immediately, in the moulding of our thoughts by a transcendent Seer, of our will and actions by an all-embracing Power, of our emotional life by an all-attracting and all-assimilating Bliss and Love. We recognise it too in a more personal relation that from the first touched us or at the last seizes us; we feel the eternal presence of a supreme Master, Friend, Lover, Teacher. We recognise it in the essence of our being as that develops into likeness and oneness with a greater and wider existence; for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts; an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image. One who is the Lord or Ishwara of the Yogic philosophies, the Guide in the conscious being ( caitya guru or antaryamin ), the Absolute of the thinker, the Unknowable of the Agnostic, the universal Force of the materialist, the supreme Soul and the supreme Shakti, the One who is differently named and imaged by the religions, is the Master of our Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 62 [T1],#KEYS
80:indifference to things of the body :::
This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body, or indeed any but a quite subordinate and purely instrumental importance. Nor must this instrumental importance be allowed to assume the proportions of a necessity; we must not for instance imagine that the purity of the mind depends on the things we eat or drink, although during a certain stage restrictions in eating and drinking are useful to our inner progress; nor on the other hand must we continue to think that the dependence of the mind or even of the life on food and drink is anything more than a habit, a customary relation which Nature has set up between these principles. As a matter of fact the food we take can be reduced by contrary habit and new relation to a minimum without the mental or vital vigour being in any way reduced; even on the contrary with a judicious development they can be trained to a greater potentiality of vigour by learning to rely on the secret fountains of mental and vital energy with which they are connected more than upon the minor aid of physical aliments. This aspect of self-discipline is however more important in the Yoga of self-perfection than here; for our present purpose the important point is the renunciation by the mind of attachment to or dependence on the things of the body.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from Subjection to the Body,#KEYS
81:the spiritual force behind adoration :::
All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limited object, something of that splendor appears through the poverty of the rite and the smallness of its issues. For love that is worship is at once an aspiration and a preparation: it can bring even within its small limits in the Ignorance a glimpse of a still more or less blind and partial but surprising realisation; for there are moments when it is not we but the One who loves and is loved in us, and even a human passion can be uplifted and glorified by a slight glimpse of this infinite Love and Lover. It is for this reason that the worship of the god, the worship of the idol, the human magnet or ideal are not to be despised; for these are steps through which the human race moves towards that blissful passion and ecstasy of the Infinite which, even in limiting it, they yet represent for our imperfect vision when we have still to use the inferior steps Nature has hewn for our feet and admit the stages of our progress. Certain idolatries are indispensable for the development of our emotional being, nor will the man who knows be hasty at any time to shatter this image unless he can replace it in the heart of the worshipper by the Reality it figures. Moreover, they have this power because there is always something in them that is greater than their forms and, even when we reach the supreme worship, that abides and becomes a prolongation of it or a part of its catholic wholeness. our knowledge is still imperfect in us, love incomplete if even when we know That which surpasses all forms and manifestations, we cannot still accept the Divine in creature and object, in man, in the kind, in the animal, in the tree, in the flower, in the work of our hands, in the Nature-Force which is then no longer to us the blind action of a material machinery but a face and power of the universal Shakti: for in these things too is the presence of the Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, The Works of Love - The Works of Life, 159,#KEYS
82:It is not very easy for the customary mind of man, always attached to its past and present associations, to conceive of an existence still human, yet radically changed in what are now our fixed circumstances.We are in respect to our possible higher evolution much in the position of the original Ape of the Darwinian theory. It would have been impossible for that Ape leading his instinctive arboreal life in primeval forests to conceive that there would be one day an animal on the earth who would use a new faculty called reason upon the materials of his inner and outer existence, who would dominate by that power his instincts and habits, change the circumstances of his physical life, build for himself houses of stone, manipulate Nature's forces, sail the seas, ride the air, develop codes of conduct, evolve conscious methods for his mental and spiritual development. And if such a conception had been possible for the Ape-mind, it would still have been difficult for him to imagine that by any progress of Nature or long effort of Will and tendency he himself could develop into that animal. Man, because he has acquired reason and still more because he has indulged his power of imagination and intuition, is able to conceive an existence higher than his own and even to envisage his personal elevation beyond his present state into that existence. His idea of the supreme state is an absolute of all that is positive to his own concepts and desirable to his own instinctive aspiration,-Knowledge without its negative shadow of error, Bliss without its negation in experience of suffering, Power without its constant denial by incapacity, purity and plenitude of being without the opposing sense of defect and limitation. It is so that he conceives his gods; it is so that he constructs his heavens. But it is not so that his reason conceives of a possible earth and a possible humanity. His dream of God and Heaven is really a dream of his own perfection; but he finds the same difficulty in accepting its practical realisation here for his ultimate aim as would the ancestral Ape if called upon to believe in himself as the future Man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Ego and the Dualities, #KEYS
83:But usually the representative influence occupies a much larger place in the life of the sadhaka. If the Yoga is guided by a received written Shastra, - some Word from the past which embodies the experience of former Yogins, - it may be practised either by personal effort alone or with the aid of a Guru. The spiritual knowledge is then gained through meditation on the truths that are taught and it is made living and conscious by their realisation in the personal experience; the Yoga proceeds by the results of prescribed methods taught in a Scripture or a tradition and reinforced and illumined by the instructions of the Master. This is a narrower practice, but safe and effective within its limits, because it follows a well-beaten track to a long familiar goal.
For the sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of the eternal Knowledge. He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest Scripture. Where the Scripture is profound, wide, catholic, it may exercise upon him an influence for the highest good and of incalculable importance. It may be associated in his experience with his awakening to crowning verities and his realisation of the highest experiences. His Yoga may be governed for a long time by one Scripture or by several successively, - if it is in the line of the great Hindu tradition, by the Gita, for example, the Upanishads, the Veda. Or it may be a good part of his development to include in its material a richly varied experience of the truths of many Scriptures and make the future opulent with all that is best in the past. But in the end he must take his station, or better still, if he can, always and from the beginning he must live in his own soul beyond the limitations of the word that he uses. The Gita itself thus declares that the Yogin in his progress must pass beyond the written Truth, - sabdabrahmativartate - beyond all that he has heard and all that he has yet to hear, - srotavyasya srutasya ca. For he is not the sadhaka of a book or of many books; he is a sadhaka of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
84:This is the real sense and drive of what we see as evolution: the multiplication and variation of forms is only the means of its process. Each gradation contains the possibility and the certainty of the grades beyond it: the emergence of more and more developed forms and powers points to more perfected forms and greater powers beyond them, and each emergence of consciousness and the conscious beings proper to it enables the rise to a greater consciousness beyond and the greater order of beings up to the ultimate godheads of which Nature is striving and is destined to show herself capable. Matter developed its organised forms until it became capable of embodying living organisms; then life rose from the subconscience of the plant into conscious animal formations and through them to the thinking life of man. Mind founded in life developed intellect, developed its types of knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truthconscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must carry in it an ascending gradation of its own powers and types of an ascending humanity which will embody more and more the turn towards spirituality, capacity for Light, a climb towards a divinised manhood and the divine life.
In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent elements, building up its shapes and types, however imperfect at first, and pushing them towards perfection till it can cross the border of the Ignorance and appear in the Light, in its own Light. In the second stage we can see it developing itself in that greater natural light, taking its higher shapes and forms till it joins the supermind and lives as its subordinate portion or its delegate.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, Mind of Light, 587,#KEYS
85:There is one point in particular I would like to single out and stress, namely, the notion of evolution. It is common to assume that one of the doctrines of the perennial philosophy... is the idea of involution-evolution. That is, the manifest world was created as a "fall" or "breaking away" from the Absolute (involution), but that all things are now returning to the Absolute (via evolution). In fact, the doctrine of progressive temporal return to Source (evolution) does not appear anywhere, according to scholars as Joseph Campbell, until the axial period (i.e. a mere two thousand years ago). And even then, the idea was somewhat convoluted and backwards. The doctrine of the yugas, for example, sees the world as proceeding through various stages of development, but the direction is backward: yesterday was the Golden Age, and time ever since has been a devolutionary slide downhill, resulting in the present-day Kali-Yuga. Indeed, this notion of a historical fall from Eden was ubiquitous during the axial period; the idea that we are, at this moment, actually evolving toward Spirit was simply not conceived in any sort of influential fashion.
But sometime during the modern era-it is almost impossible to pinpoint exactly-the idea of history as devolution (or a fall from God) was slowly replaced by the idea of history as evolution (or a growth towards God). We see it explicitly in Schelling (1775-1854); Hegel (1770-1831) propounded the doctrine with a genius rarely equaled; Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) made evolution a universal law, and his friend Charles Darwin (1809-1882) applied it to biology. We find it next appearing in Aurobindo (1872-1950), who gave perhaps its most accurate and profound spiritual context, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) who made it famous in the West.
But here is my point: we might say that the idea of evolution as return-to-Spirit is part of the perennial philosophy, but the idea itself, in any adequate form, is no more than a few hundred years old. It might be 'ancient' as timeless, but it is certainly not ancient as "old."...
This fundamental shift in the sense or form of the perennial philosophy-as represented in, say, Aurobindo, Hegel, Adi Da, Schelling, Teilhard de Chardin, Radhakrishnan, to name a few-I should like to call the "neoperennial philosophy." ~ Ken Wilber, The Eye Of Spirit,#KEYS
86:higher mind or late vision logic ::: Even more rare, found stably in less than 1% of the population and even more emergent is the turquoise altitude.
Cognition at Turquoise is called late vision-logic or cross-paradigmatic and features the ability to connect meta-systems or paradigms, with other meta-systems. This is the realm of coordinating principles. Which are unified systems of systems of abstraction to other principles. ... Aurobindo indian sage and philosopher offers a more first-person account of turquoise which he called higher-mind, a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamism capable of formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming of all of which a spontaneous inherient knowledge.
Self-sense at turquoise is called Construct-aware and is the first stage of Cook-Greuter's extension of Loveigers work on ego-development. The Construct-aware stage sees individuals for the first time as exploring more and more complex thought-structures with awareness of the automatic nature of human map making and absurdities which unbridaled complexity and logical argumentation can lead. Individuals at this stage begin to see their ego as a central point of reference and therefore a limit to growth. They also struggle to balance unique self-expressions and their concurrent sense of importance, the imperical and intuitive knowledge that there is no fundamental subject-object separation and the budding awareness of self-identity as temporary which leads to a decreased ego-desire to create a stable self-identity. Turquoise individuals are keenly aware of the interplay between awareness, thought, action and effects. They seek personal and spiritual transformation and hold a complex matrix of self-identifications, the adequecy of which they increasingly call into question. Much of this already points to Turquoise values which embrace holistic and intuitive thinking and alignment to universal order in a conscious fashion.
Faith at Turquoise is called Universalising and can generate faith compositions in which conceptions of Ultimate Reality start to include all beings. Individuals at Turquoise faith dedicate themselves to transformation of present reality in the direction of transcendent actuality. Both of these are preludes to the coming of Third Tier. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-54, Higher Mind,#KEYS
87:The majority of Buddhists and Buddhist teachers in the West are green postmodern pluralists, and thus Buddhism is largely interpreted in terms of the green altitude and the pluralistic value set, whereas the greatest Buddhist texts are all 2nd tier, teal (Holistic) or higher (for example, Lankavatara Sutra, Kalachakra Tantra, Longchenpa's Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka treatises, and so forth).
This makes teal (Holistic), or Integral 2nd tier in general, the lowest deeply adequate level with which to interpret Buddhism, ultimate Reality, and Suchness itself. Thus, interpreting Suchness in pluralistic terms (or lower) would have to be viewed ultimately as a dysfunction, certainly a case of arrested development, and one requiring urgent attention in any Fourth Turning.
These are some of the problems with interpreting states (in this case, Suchness states) with a too-low structure (in short, a severe misinterpretation and thus misunderstanding of the Ultimate). As for interpreting them with dysfunctional structures (of any altitude), the problem more or less speaks for itself. Whether the structure in itself is high enough or not, any malformation of the structure will be included in the interpretation of any state (or any other experience), and hence will deform the interpretation itself, usually in the same basic ways as the structure itself is deformed. Thus, for example, if there is a major Fulcrum-3 (red altitude) repression of various bodily states (sex, aggression, power, feelings), those repressions will be interpreted as part of the higher state itself, and so the state will thus be viewed as devoid of (whereas this is actually a repression of) any sex, aggression, power, feelings, or whatever it is that is dis-owned and pushed into the repressed submergent unconscious. If there is an orange altitude problem with self-esteem (Fulcrum-5), that problem will be magnified by the state experience, and the more intense the state experience, the greater the magnification. Too little self-esteem, and even profound spiritual experiences can be interpreted as "I'm not worthy, so this state-which seems to love me unconditionally-must be confused." If too much self-esteem, higher experiences are misinterpreted, not as a transcendence of the self, but as a reward for being the amazing self I am-"the wonder of being me." ~ Ken Wilber, The Religion Of Tomorrow,#KEYS
88:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
89:meta-systemic operations ::: As the 1950's and 60s begin to roll around the last stage of first tier emerged as a cultural force. With the Green Altitude we see the emergence of Pluralistic, Multicultural, Post-Modern world-views.
Cognition is starting to move beyond formal-operations into the realm of co-ordinating systems of abstractions, in what is called Meta-systemic Cognition. While formal-operations acted upon the classes and relations between members of classes. Meta-systemic operations start at the level of relating systems to systems. The focus of these investigations is placed upon comparing, contrasting, transforming and synthesizing entire systems, rather than components of one system. This emergent faculty allows self-sense to focus around a heightened sense of individuality and an increased ability for emotional resonance. The recognition of individual differences, the ability to tolerate paradox and contradiction, and greater conceptual complexity all provide for an understanding of conflict as being both internally and externally caused. Context plays a major role in the creation of truth and individual perspective. With each being context dependent and open to subjective interpretation, meaning each perspective and truth are rendered relative and are not able to be judged as better or more true than any other. This fuels a value set that centers on softness over cold rationality. Sensitivity and preference over objectivity.
Along with a focus on community harmony and equality which drives the valuing of sensitivity to others, reconcilation, consensus, dialogue, relationship, human development, bonding, and a seeking of a peace with the inner-self. Moral decisions are based on rights, values, or principles that are agreeable to all individuals composing a society based on fair and beneficial practices. All of this leads to the Equality movements and multiculturalism. And to the extreme form of relativitism which we saw earlier as context dependant nature of all truth including objective facts.
Faith at the green altitude is called Conjunctive, and allows the self to integrate what was unrecognized by the previous stages self-certainty and cognitive and affective adaptation to reality. New features at this level of faith include the unification of symbolic power with conceptual meaning, an awareness of ones social unconscious, a reworking of ones past, and an opening to ones deeper self. ~ Essential Integral, 4.1-52, Meta-systemic Operations,#KEYS
90:Why do we forget things?
Ah! I suppose there are several reasons. First, because one makes use of the memory to remember. Memory is a mental instrument and depends on the formation of the brain. Your brain is constantly growing, unless it begins to degenerate, but still its growth can continue for a very, very long time, much longer than that of the body. And in this growth, necessarily some things will take the place of others. And as the mental instrument develops, things which have served their term or the transitory moment in the development may be wiped out to give place to the result. So the result of all that you knew is there, living in itself, but the road traversed to reach it may be completely blurred. That is, a good functioning of the memory means remembering only the results so as to be able to have the elements for moving forward and a new construction. That is more important than just retaining things rigidly in the mind.
Now, there is another aspect also. Apart from the mental memory, which is something defective, there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness in which one happens to be registers the phenomena of a particular moment, whatever they may be. If your consciousness remains limpid, wide and strong, you can at any moment whatsoever, by concentrating, call into the active consciousness what you did, thought, saw, observed at any time before; all this you can remember by bringing up in yourself the same state of consciousness. And that, that is never forgotten. You could live a thousand years and you would still remember it. Consequently, if you don't want to forget, it must be your consciousness which remembers and not your mental memory. Your mental memory will be wiped out inevitably, get blurred, and new things will take the place of the old ones. But things of which you are conscious you do not forget. You have only to bring up the same state of consciousness again. And thus one can remember circumstances one has lived thousands of years ago, if one knows how to bring up the same state of consciousness. It is in this way that one can remember one's past lives. This never gets blotted out, while you don't have any more the memory of what you have done physically when you were very young. You would be told many things you no longer remember. That gets wiped off immediately. For the brain is constantly changing and certain weaker cells are replaced by others which are much stronger, and by other combinations, other cerebral organisations. And so, what was there before is effaced or deformed.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
91:... one of the major personality traits was neuroticism, the tendency to feel negative emotion. He [Jung] never formalized that idea in his thinking. Its a great oversight in some sense because the capacity to experience negative emotion, when thats exaggerated that seems to be the core feature of everything we that we regard as psychopathology. Psychiatric and psychological illness. Not the only thing but its the primary factor. So.
Q: What is the best way to avoid falling back into nihilistic behaviours and thinking?
JBP:Well, a large part of that I would say is habit. The development and maintainance of good practices. Habits. If you find yourself desolute, neurotic, if your thought tends in the nihilistic direction and you tend to fall apart, organizing your life across multiple dimensions is a good antidote its not exactly thinking.
Do you have an intimate relationship? If not then well probably you could use one.
Do you have contact with close family members, siblings, children, parents, or even people who are more distantly related. If not, you probably need that.
Do you see your friends a couple of times a week? And do something social with them?
Do you have a way of productively using your time outside of employment?
Are you employed?
Do you have a good job? Or at least a job that is practically sufficient and enables you to work with people who you like working with? Even if the job itself is mundane or repetitive or difficult sometimes the relationships you establish in an employment situation like that can make the job worthwhile.
Have you regulated your response to temptations? Pornography, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, is that under control?
I would say differentiate the problem. Theres multiple dimensions of attainment, ambition, pleasure, responsibility all of that that make up a life, and to the degree that is it possible you want to optimize your functioning on as many of those dimensions as possible.
You might also organize your schedule to the degree that you have that capacity for discipline.
Do you get enough sleep?
Do you go to bed at a regular time?
Do you get up at a regular time?
Do you eat regularly and appropriately and enought and not too much?
Are your days and your weeks and your months characterized by some tolerable, repeatable structure? That helps you meet your responsibilities but also shields you from uncertainly and chaos and provides you with multiple sources of reward?
Those are all the questions decompose the problem into, the best way of avoiding falling into nihilistic behaviours and thinking. ~ Jordan B. Peterson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-geMoCsNAw,#KEYS
92:
Sweet Mother, can the psychic express itself without the mind, the vital and the physical?
It expresses itself constantly without them. Only, in order that the ordinary human being may perceive it, it has to express itself through them, because the ordinary human being is not in direct contact with the psychic. If it was in direct contact with the psychic it would be psychic in its manifestation - and all would be truly well. But as it is not in contact with the psychic it doesn't even know what it is, it wonders all bewildered what kind of a being it can be; so to reach this ordinary human consciousness it must use ordinary means, that is, go through the mind, the vital and the physical.
One of them may be skipped but surely not the last, otherwise one is no longer conscious of anything at all. The ordinary human being is conscious only in his physical being, and only in relatively rare moments is he conscious of his mind, just a little more frequently of his vital, but all this is mixed up in his consciousness, so much so that he would be quite unable to say "This movement comes from the mind, this from the vital, this from the physical." This already asks for a considerable development in order to be able to distinguish within oneself the source of the different movements one has. And it is so mixed that even when one tries, at the beginning it is very difficult to classify and separate one thing from another.
It is as when one works with colours, takes three or four or five different colours and puts them in the same water and beats them up together, it makes a grey, indistinct and incomprehensi- ble mixture, you see, and one can't say which is red, which blue, which green, which yellow; it is something dirty, lots of colours mixed. So first of all one must do this little work of separating the red, blue, yellow, green - putting them like this, each in its corner. It is not at all easy.
I have met people who used to think themselves extremely intelligent, by the way, who thought they knew a lot, and when I spoke to them about the different parts of the being they looked at me like this (gesture) and asked me, "But what are you speaking about?" They did not understand at all. I am speaking of people who have the reputation of being intelligent. They don't understand at all. For them it is just the consciousness; it is the consciousness-"It is my consciousness" and then there is the neighbour's consciousness; and again there are things which do not have any consciousness. And then I asked them whether animals had a consciousness; so they began to scratch their heads and said, "Perhaps it is we who put our consciousness in the animal when we look at it," like that...
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#KEYS
93:At it's narrowest (although this is a common and perhaps the official position; need to find ref in What is Enlightenment) "integral", "turquois" (Spiral Dynamics), and "second tier" (ditto) are all synonms, and in turn are equivalent to Wilber IV / AQAL/Wilber V "Post-metaphysical" AQAL. This is the position that "Integral = Ken Wilber". It constitutes a new philosophical school or meme-set, in the tradition of charismatic spiritual teachers of all ages, in which an articulate, brilliant, and popular figure would arise, and gather a following around him- or her-self. After the teacher passes on, their teaching remains through books and organisations dedicated to perpetuating that teaching; although without the brilliant light of the Founder, things generally become pretty stultifying, and there is often little or no original development. Even so, the books themselves continue to inspire, and many people benefit greatly from these tecahings, and can contact the original Light of the founders to be inspired by them on the subtle planes. Some late 19th, 20th, and early 21st century examples of such teachers, known and less well-known, are Blavatsky, Theon, Steiner, Aurobindo, Gurdjieff, Crowley, Alice Bailey, Carl Jung, Ann Ree Colton, and now Ken Wilber. Also, many popular gurus belong in this category. It could plausibly be suggested that the founders of the great world religions started out no different, but their teaching really caught on n a big way.
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At its broadest then, the Integral Community includes not only Wilber but those he cites as his influences and hold universal and evolutionary views or teachings, as well as those who, while influenced by him also differ somewhat, and even those like Arthur M Young that Wilber has apparently never heard of. Nevertheless, all share a common, evolutionary, "theory of everything" position, and, whilst they may differ on many details and even on many major points, taken together they could be considered a wave front for a new paradigm, a memetic revolution. I use the term Daimon of the Integral Movement to refer to the spiritual being or personality of light that is behind and working through this broader movement.
Now, this doesn't mean that this daimon is necessarily a negative entity. I see a lot of promise, a lot of potential, in the Integral Approach. From what I feel at the moment, the Integral Deva is a force and power of good.
But, as with any new spiritual or evolutionary development, there is duality, in that there are forces that hinder and oppose and distort, as well as forces that help and aid in the evolution and ultimate divinisation of the Earth and the cosmos. Thus even where a guru does give in the dark side (as very often happens with many gurus today) there still remains an element of Mixed Light that remains (one finds this ambiguity with Sai Baba, with Da Free John, and with Rajneesh); and we find this same ambiguity with the Integral Community regarding what seems to me a certain offputting devotional attitude towards Wilber himself. The light will find its way, regardless. However, an Intregral Movement that is caught up in worship of and obedience to an authority figure, will not be able to achieve what a movement unfettered by such shackles could. ~ M Alan Kazlev, Kheper, Wilber, Integral,#KEYS
94:If this is the truth of works, the first thing the sadhaka has to do is to recoil from the egoistic forms of activity and get rid of the sense of an "I" that acts. He has to see and feel that everything happens in him by the plastic conscious or subconscious or sometimes superconscious automatism of his mental and bodily instruments moved by the forces of spiritual, mental, vital and physical Nature. There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her, - it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. At present this soul or Purusha is little more than an acquiescent spectator, influencing perhaps the action and development of the being by the pressure of its veiled consciousness, but for the most part delegating its powers or a fragment of them to the outer personality, - in fact to Nature, for this outer self is not lord but subject to her, anı̄sa; but, once unveiled, it can make its sanction or refusal effective, become the master of the action, dictate sovereignly a change of Nature. Even if for a long time, as the result of fixed association and past storage of energy, the habitual movement takes place independent of the Purusha's assent and even if the sanctioned movement is persistently refused by Nature for want of past habit, still he will discover that in the end his assent or refusal prevails, - slowly with much resistance or quickly with a rapid accommodation of her means and tendencies she modifies herself and her workings in the direction indicated by his inner sight or volition. Thus he learns in place of mental control or egoistic will an inner spiritual control which makes him master of the Nature-forces that work in him and not their unconscious instrument or mechanic slave. Above and around him is the Shakti, the universal Mother and from her he can get all his inmost soul needs and wills if only he has a true knowledge of her ways and a true surrender to the divine Will in her. Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power. The rest of our progress depends on our knowledge of the ways in which the Lord of works manifests his Will in the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216, #KEYS
95:In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal. Well, if it could always be, as it has been in the great period we are leaving, the faithful handmaid, severe, conscientious, clean-handed, luminous within its limits, a half-truth and not a reckless and presumptuous aberration.
A certain kind of Agnosticism is the final truth of all knowledge. For when we come to the end of whatever path, the universe appears as only a symbol or an appearance of an unknowable Reality which translates itself here into different systems of values, physical values, vital and sensational values, intellectual, ideal and spiritual values. The more That becomes real to us, the more it is seen to be always beyond defining thought and beyond formulating expression. "Mind attains not there, nor speech."3 And yet as it is possible to exaggerate, with the Illusionists, the unreality of the appearance, so it is possible to exaggerate the unknowableness of the Unknowable. When we speak of It as unknowable, we mean, really, that It escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition; but if not knowable by thought, It is attainable by a supreme effort of consciousness. There is even a kind of Knowledge which is one with Identity and by which, in a sense, It can be known. Certainly, that Knowledge cannot be reproduced successfully in the terms of thought and speech, but when we have attained to it, the result is a revaluation of That in the symbols of our cosmic consciousness, not only in one but in all the ranges of symbols, which results in a revolution of our internal being and, through the internal, of our external life. Moreover, there is also a kind of Knowledge through which That does reveal itself by all these names and forms of phenomenal existence which to the ordinary intelligence only conceal It. It is this higher but not highest process of Knowledge to which we can attain by passing the limits of the materialistic formula and scrutinising Life, Mind and Supermind in the phenomena that are characteristic of them and not merely in those subordinate movements by which they link themselves to Matter.
The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. When we have proved Matter and realised its secret capacities, the very knowledge which has found its convenience in that temporary limitation, must cry to us, like the Vedic Restrainers, 'Forth now and push forward also in other fields.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
96:DHARANA
NOW that we have learnt to observe the mind, so that we know how it works to some extent, and have begun to understand the elements of control, we may try the result of gathering together all the powers of the mind, and attempting to focus them on a single point.
We know that it is fairly easy for the ordinary educated mind to think without much distraction on a subject in which it is much interested. We have the popular phrase, "revolving a thing in the mind"; and as long as the subject is sufficiently complex, as long as thoughts pass freely, there is no great difficulty. So long as a gyroscope is in motion, it remains motionless relatively to its support, and even resists attempts to distract it; when it stops it falls from that position. If the earth ceased to spin round the sun, it would at once fall into the sun. The moment then that the student takes a simple subject - or rather a simple object - and imagines it or visualizes it, he will find that it is not so much his creature as he supposed. Other thoughts will invade the mind, so that the object is altogether forgotten, perhaps for whole minutes at a time; and at other times the object itself will begin to play all sorts of tricks.
Suppose you have chosen a white cross. It will move its bar up and down, elongate the bar, turn the bar oblique, get its arms unequal, turn upside down, grow branches, get a crack around it or a figure upon it, change its shape altogether like an Amoeba, change its size and distance as a whole, change the degree of its illumination, and at the same time change its colour. It will get splotchy and blotchy, grow patterns, rise, fall, twist and turn; clouds will pass over its face. There is no conceivable change of which it is incapable. Not to mention its total disappearance, and replacement by something altogether different!
Any one to whom this experience does not occur need not imagine that he is meditating. It shows merely that he is incapable of concentrating his mind in the very smallest degree. Perhaps a student may go for several days before discovering that he is not meditating. When he does, the obstinacy of the object will infuriate him; and it is only now that his real troubles will begin, only now that Will comes really into play, only now that his manhood is tested. If it were not for the Will-development which he got in the conquest of Asana, he would probably give up. As it is, the mere physical agony which he underwent is the veriest trifle compared with the horrible tedium of Dharana.
For the first week it may seem rather amusing, and you may even imagine you are progressing; but as the practice teaches you what you are doing, you will apparently get worse and worse. Please understand that in doing this practice you are supposed to be seated in Asana, and to have note-book and pencil by your side, and a watch in front of you. You are not to practise at first for more than ten minutes at a time, so as to avoid risk of overtiring the brain. In fact you will probably find that the whole of your willpower is not equal to keeping to a subject at all for so long as three minutes, or even apparently concentrating on it for so long as three seconds, or three-fifths of one second. By "keeping to it at all" is meant the mere attempt to keep to it. The mind becomes so fatigued, and the object so incredibly loathsome, that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater P.'s record we find that after daily practice for six months, meditations of four minutes and less are still being recorded.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
97:Although a devout student of the Bible, Paracelsus instinctively adopted the broad patterns of essential learning, as these had been clarified by Pythagoras of Samos and Plato of Athens. Being by nature a mystic as well as a scientist, he also revealed a deep regard for the Neoplatonic philosophy as expounded by Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus. Neoplatonism is therefore an invaluable aid to the interpretation of the Paracelsian doctrine.
Paracelsus held that true knowledge is attained in two ways, or rather that the pursuit of knowledge is advanced by a two-fold method, the elements of which are completely interdependent. In our present terminology, we can say that these two parts of method are intuition and experience. To Paracelsus, these could never be divided from each other.
The purpose of intuition is to reveal certain basic ideas which must then be tested and proven by experience. Experience, in turn, not only justifies intuition, but contributes certain additional knowledge by which the impulse to further growth is strengthened and developed. Paracelsus regarded the separation of intuition and experience to be a disaster, leading inevitably to greater error and further disaster. Intuition without experience allows the mind to fall into an abyss of speculation without adequate censorship by practical means. Experience without intuition could never be fruitful because fruitfulness comes not merely from the doing of things, but from the overtones which stimulate creative thought. Further, experience is meaningless unless there is within man the power capable of evaluating happenings and occurrences. The absence of this evaluating factor allows the individual to pass through many kinds of experiences, either misinterpreting them or not inter preting them at all. So Paracelsus attempted to explain intuition and how man is able to apprehend that which is not obvious or apparent. Is it possible to prove beyond doubt that the human being is capable of an inward realization of truths or facts without the assistance of the so-called rational faculty?
According to Paracelsus, intuition was possible because of the existence in nature of a mysterious substance or essence-a universal life force. He gave this many names, but for our purposes, the simplest term will be appropriate. He compared it to light, further reasoning that there are two kinds of light: a visible radiance, which he called brightness, and an invisible radiance, which he called darkness. There is no essential difference between light and darkness. There is a dark light, which appears luminous to the soul but cannot be sensed by the body. There is a visible radiance which seems bright to the senses, but may appear dark to the soul. We must recognize that Paracelsus considered light as pertaining to the nature of being, the total existence from which all separate existences arise. Light not only contains the energy needed to support visible creatures, and the whole broad expanse of creation, but the invisible part of light supports the secret powers and functions of man, particularly intuition. Intuition, therefore, relates to the capacity of the individual to become attuned to the hidden side of life. By light, then, Paracelsus implies much more than the radiance that comes from the sun, a lantern, or a candle. To him, light is the perfect symbol, emblem, or figure of total well-being. Light is the cause of health. Invisible light, no less real if unseen, is the cause of wisdom. As the light of the body gives strength and energy, sustaining growth and development, so the light of the soul bestows understanding, the light of the mind makes wisdom possible, and the light of the spirit confers truth. Therefore, truth, wisdom, understanding, and health are all manifesta tions or revelations ot one virtue or power. What health is to the body, morality is to the emotions, virtue to the soul, wisdom to the mind, and reality to the spirit. This total content of living values is contained in every ray of visible light. This ray is only a manifestation upon one level or plane of the total mystery of life. Therefore, when we look at a thing, we either see its objective, physical form, or we apprehend its inner light Everything that lives, lives in light; everything that has an existence, radiates light. All things derive their life from light, and this light, in its root, is life itself. This, indeed, is the light that lighteth every man who cometh into the world. ~ Manly P Hall, Paracelsus,#KEYS
98: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
99:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?
... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
100:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
101:Mental Education
OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
(2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
(3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.
It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.
Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.
This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.
You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.
In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.
Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.
It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.
All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.
And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.
For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.
But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.
The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.
When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
102:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Income seldom exceeds personal development. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 2:The development of the mind comes through movement ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 3:Soul development should take precedence over all things. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 4:What we want is progress, development, realisation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 5:Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 6:The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 7:The development of man is a return to an original perfection. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 8:To double your income, triple your investment in self-development. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 9:Conservation means development as much as it does protection. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 10:You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 11:If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 12:God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 13:Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 14:Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 15:The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 16:Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 17:Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 18:If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 19:Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 20:An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 21:Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 22:It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 23:A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 24:You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 25:Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s actually a great gift to other people. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 26:No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 27:The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 28:Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of his imagination. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 29:For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 30:It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 31:Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s actually a great gift to other people. The ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 32:The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 33:When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 34:Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 35:All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 36:Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 37:The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human. ~ kelly-mcgonigal, @wisdomtrove 38:Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 39:A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 40:For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 41:Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 42:A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 43:Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 44:Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 45:My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 46:Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 47:A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 48:I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 49:Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 50:The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 51:I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 52:Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 53:All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 54:Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 55:The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development& 56:There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 57:Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 58:The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his & 59:In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 60:Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 61:It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 62:The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 63:The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 64:The first essential for the child‚Äôs development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 65:Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 66:Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 67:Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 68:Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 69:Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 70:The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 71:Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 72:One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 73:Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 74:The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 75:Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. ~ rupert-sheldrake, @wisdomtrove 76:Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress& 77:History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 78:Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ~ m-scott-peck, @wisdomtrove 79:If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 80:It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 81:The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 82:To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills. ~ martin-rees, @wisdomtrove 83:Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim‚îarousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 84:The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 85:Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 86:Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 87:Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 88:If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 89:A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 90:Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 91:In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 92:Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 93:Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 94:My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 95:If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to & 96:Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 97:The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 98:In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . . ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 99:In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 100:Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 101:Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will . ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 102:Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred... Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 103:In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's evolution and to at its human stage of development ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 104:Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 105:There is no value-judgment more important to a man& 106:If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 107:I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 108:My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 109:Atkinson, William Walker. The Complete Works of (Unabridged): The Key To Mental Power Development & Efficiency, The Power of Concentration, Thought-Force ... Raja Yoga ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 110:The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 111:The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 112:To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 113:I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 114:Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 115:When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 116:Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 117:We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 118:Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 119:Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 120:A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 121:An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 122:Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 123:Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 124:Think about the many ways that others will benefit from you being more good-humored, warm-hearted, and savvy. Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s actually a great gift to other people. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 125:Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 126:Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 127:And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 128:Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. ~ rupert-sheldrake, @wisdomtrove 129:The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 130:Material objects are just tools to help you enjoy your life. You do not carry them with you when you die. So, don’t invest yourself in them. Rather, invest yourself in the development of your consciousness. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 131:Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 132:Examples of Quadrant 2 tasks (important and non urgent tasks) : Preparation, planning activities, prevention, relationships, new opportunities, creativity, true recreation, personal development, empowerment ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 133:People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 134:Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 135:The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 136:A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 137:One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 138:If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 139:In the tale proper& 140:There is something very fragile about the beginning stages of psychic development. Eventually, one becomes very strong and the cushioning isn't as necessary. It's still logical because we live in an abrasive world. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 141:The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 142:I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 143:It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 144:Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 145:Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 146:There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 147:You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 148:If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 149:It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 150:There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 151:In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 152:Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 153:There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 154:An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 155:Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 156:Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 157:Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately, it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 158:There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 159:The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 160:In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 161:Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 162:The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 163:Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 164:Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 165:Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 166:The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 167:To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 168:In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 169:Intuition is like a radio station.. No, intuition is more like a radio receiver and it can receive different stations. This radio receiver serves different functions, it serves your spirituality which is the development of your soul. It serves your physical survival. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 170:Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 171:The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 172:If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 173:More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of consciousness and being. Whatever prevents becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain. Sattva, the energy that works for righteousness and orderly development, must not be thwarted. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 174:All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 175:Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 176:Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 177:The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 178:They have become strong enough to be independent of the good opinion of other people, or even of their affection. The honours, the status, the rewards, the popularity, the prestige, and the love they can bestow must have become less important than self- development and inner growth. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 179:I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 180:Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 181:The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 182:An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 183:I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 184:[... ] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 185:Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 186:The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 187:At the Integral stages of development, the entire universe starts to make sense, to hang together, to actually appear as a uni-verse—a one world—a single, unified, integrated world that unites not only different philosophies and ideas about the world, but different practices for growth and development as well. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 188:The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 189:The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 190:This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 191:How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort. we know that development results from activity. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 192:We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 193:Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 194:Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 195:Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 196:Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 197:Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 198:Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 199:To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 200:Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race... . All is race, there is no other truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 201:This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as emergence, is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 202:If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 203:[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its d√©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the d√©nouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 204:For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 205:Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 206:Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 207:A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 208:The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live... . The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 209:A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 210:The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 211:The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 212:In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He-who entered into materiality. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 213:The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 214:If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 215:We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 216:Consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove 217:Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways... .One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 218:Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 219:If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 220:All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world! ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 221:The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 222:Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 223:Children, we can grow spiritually only if we see the guru as the manifestation of God. We should not accept anyone as guru before we are fully convinced personally that he is authentic and truthful. Once we choose someone as guru, we should surrender completely to him. Only then will spiritual development be possible. Devotion to the guru means total surrender to him. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 224:I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion? ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 225:What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common? ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 226:There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 227:When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, & 228:What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth, development, market share, or competitive advantage, but the entire web of life on which our long-term survival depends. In other words, a sustainable community is designed in such a way that its ways of life, businesses, economy, physical structures, and technologies do not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 229:... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 230:I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed businessman who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 231:You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 232:Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 233:Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 234:It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. ~ nathaniel-hawthorne, @wisdomtrove 235:Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 236:Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 237:Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 238:Our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 239:The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 240:Our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 241:Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 242:Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 243:Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 244:The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 245:The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 246:Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged." ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 247:One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 248:Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 249:Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict - its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself - what's the expression - ah, yes, & 250:There are three stages in one’s spiritual development, said the Master. The carnal, the spiritual and the divine. What is the carnal stage? asked the eager disciples. That’s the stage when trees are seen as trees and mountains as mountains. And the spiritual? That’s when one looks more deeply into things—then trees are no longer trees and mountains no longer mountains. And the divine? Ah, that’s Enlightenment, said the Master with a chuckle, when trees become trees again and mountains, mountains. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 251:I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 252:When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 253:I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism... .Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 254:Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 255:Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 256:Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life ¬ó that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, & 257:Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime& 258:The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 259:One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 260:The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a revolution in the way that we consume creative property, which I would call art. It has radically changed the relationship between the artist and the audience, how money changes hands, and how much money changes hands. Music was the first, and books are coming next. The Kindle or some form of electronic book is clearly inevitable, and it will massively reshape how books are sold, who pays for them, and how they're consumed. It is going to be really fascinating. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 261:To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 262:Whether future growth is to come through additional incarnations on this earth, or in other worlds, or whether the Soul once released from the bonds of earthly flesh, goes into other planes of existence, there to grow, is not fundamental— not material. The Universe is large, and it is just possible that we may be given an opportunity of visiting all parts of it in our development, in which case it would seem that we are on a comparatively low plane of life just now— are just awakening into a consciousness of what it all means, and in the future we will be conscious of our growth and progress and development. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 263:Take a moment to think about the context in which your next decision will occur: You did not pick your parents or the time and place of your birth. You didn't choose your gender or most of your life experiences. You had no control whatsoever over your genome or the development of your brain. And now your brain is making choices on the basis of preferences and beliefs that have been hammered into it over a lifetime - by your genes, your physical development since the moment you were conceived, and the interactions you have had with other people, events, and ideas. Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 264:According to the science of biology, people were not ‘created’. They have evolved. And they certainly did not evolve to be ‘equal’. The idea of equality is inextricably intertwined with the idea of creation. The Americans got the idea of equality from Christianity, which argues that every person has a divinely created soul, and that all souls are equal before God. However, if we do not believe in the Christian myths about God, creation and souls, what does it mean that all people are ‘equal’? Evolution is based on difference, not on equality. Every person carries a somewhat different genetic code, and is exposed from birth to different environmental influences. This leads to the development of different qualities that carry with them different chances of survival. ‘Created equal’ should therefore be translated into ‘evolved differently’. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 265:Today Hindu revivalists, pious Muslims, Japanese nationalists and Chinese communists may declare their adherence to very different values and goals, but they have all come to believe that economic growth is the key to realising their disparate goals. Thus in 2014 the devout Hindu Narendra Modi was elected prime minister of India thanks largely to his success in boosting economic growth in his home state of Gujarat, and to the widely held view that only he could reinvigorate the sluggish national economy. Analogous views have kept the Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in power in Turkey since 2003. The name of his party – the Justice and Development Party – highlights its commitment to economic development, and the Erdoğan government has indeed managed to maintain impressive growth rates for more than a decade. Japan’s prime minister, the nationalist Shinzō Abe, came to office in 2012 pledging to jolt the Japanese economy out of two decades of stagnation. His aggressive and somewhat unusual measures to achieve this have been nicknamed Abenomics. Meanwhile in neighbouring China the Communist Party still pays lip service to traditional Marxist–Leninist ideals, but in practice is guided by Deng Xiaoping’s famous maxims that ‘development is the only hard truth’ and that ‘it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice’. Which means, in plain language: do whatever it takes to promote economic growth, even if Marx and Lenin wouldn’t have been happy with it. In Singapore, as befits that no-nonsense city-state, they pursue this line of thinking even further, and peg ministerial salaries to the national GDP. When the Singaporean economy grows, government ministers get a raise, as if that is what their jobs are all about. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:development of data standards, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
2:methodology Customer Development, ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
3:Development develops inequality. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
4:Responsibility leads to development of character. ~, #NFDB
5:Income seldom exceeds personal development. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
6:inhibited development in the South and ~ Edward J Larson, #NFDB
7:Reading becomes the fuel for development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
8:Another name for peace is development. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
9:Culture changes with economic development. ~ Ha Joon Chang, #NFDB
10:Heredity proposes and development disposes. ~ Peter Medawar, #NFDB
11:The development of relationship creates plot. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
12:We cannot force the development of mindfulness. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
13:Health is the core of human development ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
14:Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me. ~ Will Arnett, #NFDB
15:Humans should be permanently under development. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
16:literacy is at the heart of sustainable development ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
17:Corruption is a true enemy to development. ~ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, #NFDB
18:The truest success is but the development of self. ~ Charles Atlas, #NFDB
19:Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers. ~ Robert M Gates, #NFDB
20:Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development. ~ Robert Henri, #NFDB
21:Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
22:Rebellion is necessary for development of character. ~ Cynthia Voigt, #NFDB
23:Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly. ~ David Coverdale, #NFDB
24:Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
25:The development of the mind comes through movement ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
26:We lay foundations that will need further development. ~ Oscar Romero, #NFDB
27:Soul development should take precedence over all things. ~ Edgar Cayce, #NFDB
28:The stages of human development are to strive for: ~ Erwin Schrodinger, #NFDB
29:We have to control our battery development and testing. ~ Henrik Fisker, #NFDB
30:What we want is progress, development, realisation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
31:Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
32:Education is the great engine to personal development. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
33:product development into a conversation with customers. ~ Alistair Croll, #NFDB
34:Military missions are not democratic development aid. ~ Guido Westerwelle, #NFDB
35:software development was insecurities all the way down. Even ~ Ken MacLeod, #NFDB
36:the key to human development is building on who you already are ~ Tom Rath, #NFDB
37:Character development is always a prerequisite to godly living. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
38:Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
39:of Abigail Foster from a distance, but this new development ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB
40:So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel. ~ James Lovelock, #NFDB
41:Workers' rights should be a central focus of development. ~ Joseph Stiglitz, #NFDB
42:Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
43:Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development. ~ Frank Murkowski, #NFDB
44:Hiding the truth will only cripple your emotional development. ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
45:I have always believed in development over votebank politics. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
46:Independent development can be a virus that can infect others. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
47:Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ~ Ernst Mayr, #NFDB
48:Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
49:The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development. ~ Bill W, #NFDB
50:Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB
51:Self-control is the only possible road to character development ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
52:Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
53:self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
54:The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
55:We must also understand where a trend is along its development path. ~ Amy Webb, #NFDB
56:Why “one size fits all” development methodologies don’t work ~ David J Anderson, #NFDB
57:Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development. ~ Stephen D Krashen, #NFDB
58:In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.' ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
59:In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
60:Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
61:The video game story-development process is incredibly broken. ~ Austin Grossman, #NFDB
62:Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
63:Why do anything if the apex of human development is Fran Drescher? ~ Noah Cicero, #NFDB
64:Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless. ~ Todd May, #NFDB
65:In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams. ~ Grady Booch, #NFDB
66:Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door. ~ William James, #NFDB
67:The development of man is a return to an original perfection. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
68:To double your income, triple your investment in self-development. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
69:When one has talent, everything contributes to its development. ~ Peter Kropotkin, #NFDB
70:When one has talent, everything contributes to its development. ~ Pyotr Kropotkin, #NFDB
71:Conservation means development as much as it does protection. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
72:Life is enhanced and ultimately perfected by inward development. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
73:You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
74:If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
75:Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation. ~ Anne M Mulcahy, #NFDB
76:Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society? ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
77:God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
78:It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
79:The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
80:College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development. ~ Claire Danes, #NFDB
81:Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
82:Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. ~ Robert Stacy McCain, #NFDB
83:If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
84:If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development. ~ Brian Buffini, #NFDB
85:It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. ~ Robert D Kaplan, #NFDB
86:level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. ~ Jeff Finley, #NFDB
87:Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
88:ordered the development of a stripped-down, low-cost alternative to Duke, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
89:The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. ~ Lev S Vygotsky, #NFDB
90:Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company. ~ Wang Jianlin, #NFDB
91:Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the development that puts you over the top. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
92:If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
93:Management means the development of people, not the direction of things. ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
94:Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
95:Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children ~ Michael Meacher, #NFDB
96:The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
97:The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ~ E L James, #NFDB
98:The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
99:The perfect team in personal development is small steps and willpower. ~ Stephen Guise, #NFDB
100:There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
101:All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
102:If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
103:Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
104:Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin ~ Ban Ki moon, #NFDB
105:The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
106:We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. ~ Wangari Maathai, #NFDB
107:Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
108:Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ~ Koichi Tanaka, #NFDB
109:The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.’ ~ E L James, #NFDB
110:Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable. ~ Joe Manchin, #NFDB
111:Scythe continues to be in development as a feature film with Universal, ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
112:An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
113:Fourth, split reward conversations from development conversations. Combining ~ Laszlo Bock, #NFDB
114:In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally. ~ James Gunn, #NFDB
115:smoke detectors were a relatively new development and still expensive for ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
116:Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. ~ Paul Farmer, #NFDB
117:The end and aim of all education is the development of character. ~ Francis Wayland Parker, #NFDB
118:Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
119:India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model. ~ Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
120:Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
121:Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal. ~ Ferdinand Foch, #NFDB
122:It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
123:an organization cannot evolve beyond its leadership’s stage of development. ~ Frederic Laloux, #NFDB
124:Chasing the external to achieve joy is a death-trap for personal-development. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
125:Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development, ~ John Medina, #NFDB
126:I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. ~ Ridley Scott, #NFDB
127:In the fouler development environments, this pipe more closely resembles a sewer. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
128:laughter and a sense of humor as a universal index of spiritual development. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
129:Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
130:Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. ~ G Stanley Hall, #NFDB
131:When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development ~ Melinda Gates, #NFDB
132:Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
133:a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives. ~ Georgette Leblanc, #NFDB
134:Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. ~ Ha Joon Chang, #NFDB
135:Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
136:...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
137:(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important. ~ Ryan Cayabyab, #NFDB
138:I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs. ~ Steve Chabot, #NFDB
139:Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. ~ William Pfaff, #NFDB
140:Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
141:Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions. ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
142:The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development ~ Andrew Cuomo, #NFDB
143:The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ~ Harvey S Firestone, #NFDB
144:There is no development, no maturing in Hitler’s character and personality. ~ Sebastian Haffner, #NFDB
145:Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace ~ Jan Eliasson, #NFDB
146:Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
147:A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
148:Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. ~ Richard Stallman, #NFDB
149:Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. ~ Fred Ritchin, #NFDB
150:The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. ~ Friedrich Engels, #NFDB
151:There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development ~ Margot Wallstrom, #NFDB
152:Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc? ~ Kushal Pal Singh, #NFDB
153:One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
154:Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way. ~ Frank Ra Exstatica, #NFDB
155:The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. ~ William James, #NFDB
156:The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity. ~ Grady Booch, #NFDB
157:why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents? ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
158:A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. ~ Thomas M Disch, #NFDB
159:day a product development process starts, it is behind schedule and above budget. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
160:He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development. ~ Ayya Khema, #NFDB
161:I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development. ~ Anita Ekberg, #NFDB
162:Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child. ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
163:We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
164:You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
165:All media is moving, at light speed, toward development through viral channels. ~ Davis Schneiderman, #NFDB
166:A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields. ~ Jeffrey K Zeig, #NFDB
167:Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story. ~ Jean Houston, #NFDB
168:Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves ~ Marshall Goldsmith, #NFDB
169:More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
170:Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
171:The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. ~ Patrick Swift, #NFDB
172:To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. ~ Hans Hofmann, #NFDB
173:Just as code benefits from a test-first approach, so does the entire development process. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
174:Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development. ~ John Engler, #NFDB
175:Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
176:The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
177:The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
178:Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
179:Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
180:Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development. ~ Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, #NFDB
181:If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN! ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
182:In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. ~ B R Ambedkar, #NFDB
183:Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
184:The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. ~ Kim Jong Il, #NFDB
185:The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
186:The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
187:Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB
188:Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening. ~ Stan Lee, #NFDB
189:Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals ~ Carl Lewis, #NFDB
190:Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s actually a great gift to other people. ~ Rick Hanson, #NFDB
191:The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. ~ Ha Joon Chang, #NFDB
192:The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
193:This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. ~ Asger Jorn, #NFDB
194:World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. ~ Barry Commoner, #NFDB
195:1815 to 1914 was a period of both rapid technological development and rapid globalization. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
196:Along with the development of concentration we must develop the power of detachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
197:No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
198:QA and Development should be working together to ensure the quality of the system. The ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
199:The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
200:The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one. ~ Owen Chamberlain, #NFDB
201:The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
202:The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt, #NFDB
203:Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners. ~ Tom DeMarco, #NFDB
204:Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. ~ Harry Belafonte, #NFDB
205:Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. ~ Joseph Stiglitz, #NFDB
206:MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
207:One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development. ~ Frank Murkowski, #NFDB
208:Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell, #NFDB
209:Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. ~ Tom Johnson, #NFDB
210:spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole, ~ Max Weber, #NFDB
211:The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
212:The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of ~ Edgar Bronfman Jr, #NFDB
213:The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism. ~ Karl Radek, #NFDB
214:We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
215:What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine! ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
216:Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself. ~ Bernard Lonergan, #NFDB
217:examines the development strategies that Netscape employed to be a better judo player. We also ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
218:For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development. ~ Rudolf Steiner, #NFDB
219:If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development. ~ Kenneth Kaye, #NFDB
220:is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
221:It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
222:It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. ~ Bruce Sterling, #NFDB
223:Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
224:The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
225:The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
226:What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics. ~ Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
227:You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
228:Create an organization that prizes the development of ability—and watch the leaders emerge. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
229:Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. ~ Joseph E Stiglitz, #NFDB
230:Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
231:Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China]. ~ George Osborne, #NFDB
232:He was such a beautiful baby, and so placid. Then he grew up. It was an unfortunate development. ~ K Z Snow, #NFDB
233:Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance. ~ Anna Lindh, #NFDB
234:successful leadership takes conscious development and requires being true to your life story. ~ Bill George, #NFDB
235:The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
236:The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
237:The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally. ~ Michelle Bachelet, #NFDB
238:White was convinced that the “moron majority,” as he dubbed it, must be a recent development. ~ Carl Zimmer, #NFDB
239:All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco. ~ Donald Evans, #NFDB
240:If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
241:If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell, #NFDB
242:Nevada is poised to lead our nation in renewable development and we must harness those resources. ~ Joe Heck, #NFDB
243:Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development. ~ Bj rk, #NFDB
244:See experiences as an investment in happy memories and in your personal story and development. ~ Meik Wiking, #NFDB
245:Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves ~ John Bright, #NFDB
246:When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
247:Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
248:All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
249:Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it. ~ Henry Mintzberg, #NFDB
250:Chasm crossing is not the end, but rather the beginning, of mainstream market development. ~ Geoffrey A Moore, #NFDB
251:Development is a treacherous river, as
everyone who plunges into its currents knows. ~ Ryszard Kapu ci ski,#NFDB
252:Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. ~ James Bryant Conant, #NFDB
253:Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB
254:I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology. ~ Chris Hughes, #NFDB
255:Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others. ~ Ken Blanchard, #NFDB
256:"The Christian symbol is a living thing that carries in itself the seeds of further development." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
257:The most critical issue for teens is that THC disrupts the development of neural pathways. ~ Frances E Jensen, #NFDB
258:Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life. ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
259:A-B-D-C-E structure of a story, an acronym for Action-Background-Development-Conflict-Ending. ~ Benjamin Percy, #NFDB
260:I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development. ~ Manning Marable, #NFDB
261:It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil. ~ Leon Trotsky, #NFDB
262:Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
263:Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development. ~ John B Larson, #NFDB
264:Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
265:The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
266:The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge. ~ Jim Highsmith, #NFDB
267:Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
268:Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories. ~ Beem Weeks, #NFDB
269:In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development. ~ Paul Kagame, #NFDB
270:In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. ~ Herbie Hancock, #NFDB
271:Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
272:Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. ~ Mike Krzyzewski, #NFDB
273:Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
274:When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. ~ Atom Egoyan, #NFDB
275:A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
276:Having design integrated into the development lifecycle will result in a better end-user experience. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
277:If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
278:Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt, #NFDB
279:That would’ve been way too hard. We wanted to do neuroscience, not operating system development. So ~ Ramez Naam, #NFDB
280:The Internet’s development is intricately connected to the political economy’s development. ~ Robert W McChesney, #NFDB
281:The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. ~ Sol LeWitt, #NFDB
282:Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB
283:America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
284:Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. ~ Jeff Hawkins, #NFDB
285:As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life ~ Haile Selassie, #NFDB
286:Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development. ~ Tim Wirth, #NFDB
287:Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak. ~ Margaret Chan, #NFDB
288:Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
289:Our new paradigm was created as we invested in the growth and development of our own character. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
290:The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. ~ Minor White, #NFDB
291:The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human. ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
292:The greatest strategy for personal and business development on the planet is bold self-expression. ~ Michael Port, #NFDB
293:The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. ~ William Graham Sumner, #NFDB
294:When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
295:when we fail to make time for personal development, we are forced to make time for pain and struggle. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
296:Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
297:I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America. ~ Irene Rosenfeld, #NFDB
298:One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
299:Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders. ~ Warren G Bennis, #NFDB
300:“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.” ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
301:The last of these wholesome actions is meditation, the development of tranquillity and insight. ~ Joseph Goldstein, #NFDB
302:The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort. ~ Hua Ching Ni, #NFDB
303:The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. ~ Alexis Korner, #NFDB
304:The rise of a British iron and steel industry was intertwined with the development of coal mining. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
305:The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it. ~ Anne Truitt, #NFDB
306:To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
307:Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
308:A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
309:By remaining non-specialized, man opened up a thousand fresh paths for his own further development. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
310:Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
311:Education and democracy have the same goal: The fullest possible development of human capabilities ~ Paul Wellstone, #NFDB
312:Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
313:For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
314:I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters. ~ Ronan Farrow, #NFDB
315:Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
316:Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. ~ David J Anderson, #NFDB
317:NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
318:Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere. ~ Ban Ki moon, #NFDB
319:Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley. ~ Stan Shih, #NFDB
320:The lowest degree of grace—is superior to the noblest development of unregenerate nature. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
321:The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development. ~ Li Keqiang, #NFDB
322:The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
323:The need for development handbooks that capture knowledge about effective development practices is well ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
324:We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
325:You’re healthy,” it said. “Your development is exactly right. I can’t find any flaw in you.” And ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
326:A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
327:Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess. ~ Vasily Smyslov, #NFDB
328:Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
329:Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
330:Excessive insulin is also now believed to be a central catalyst in the development of atherosclerosis. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
331:Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives. ~ Kajol, #NFDB
332:I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
333:True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world. ~ Sulak Sivaraksa, #NFDB
334:Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
335:We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects. ~ Alistair Cockburn, #NFDB
336:What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. ~ Lion Feuchtwanger, #NFDB
337:America today limits girls’ development, truncates their wholeness and leaves many of them traumatized. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
338:An enlightened and empowered generation is the key to our development in Nigeria and indeed in Africa ~ Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
339:A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
340:Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. ~ Paul Hawken, #NFDB
341:Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world. ~ Andrew Natsios, #NFDB
342:It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development. ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB
343:nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98 ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
344:Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
345:The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
346:...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. ~ Robert M Hutchins, #NFDB
347:The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
348:The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
349:The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
350:True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. ~ Frederick Herzberg, #NFDB
351:Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow. ~ Jesse James Garrett, #NFDB
352:At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
353:Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
354:Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters. ~ Mark Victor Hansen, #NFDB
355:...natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
356:Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. ~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, #NFDB
357:"The development of loving-kindness and compassion begins with learning how to appreciate oneself." ~ Mingyur Rinpoche, #NFDB
358:[...] the development of the Christian ethic slowly eroded Christian theology. Christ destroyed Jehovah. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
359:Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
360:We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. ~ Glenn Ford, #NFDB
361:We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
362:Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
363:HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
364:I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, #NFDB
365:Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
366:There is really no bad software development process. There is only how you are doing it today and better. ~ Gary Gruver, #NFDB
367:Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable. ~ Jose Maria Aznar, #NFDB
368:Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
369:Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. ~ Mike Lowry, #NFDB
370:If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. ~ William Jennings Bryan, #NFDB
371:I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier. ~ Murray Bookchin, #NFDB
372:Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course. ~ Thelma Drake, #NFDB
373:Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
374:The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
375:Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
376:Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
377:At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. ~ Helen Garner, #NFDB
378:His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
379:I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
380:I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
381:It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost. ~ Gunnar Myrdal, #NFDB
382:It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
383:Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. ~ Elizabeth von Arnim, #NFDB
384:The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
385:The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress. ~ Hassanal Bolkiah, #NFDB
386:The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
387:The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
388:The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. ~ Ibrahim Babangida, #NFDB
389:I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
390:If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. ~ David Landes, #NFDB
391:If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. ~ Grimes, #NFDB
392:In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process. ~ Brian Behlendorf, #NFDB
393:I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development. ~ Lin Yutang, #NFDB
394:Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
395:I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
396:The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
397:The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
398:The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
399:The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success. ~ Wolfgang Sachs, #NFDB
400:To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils. ~ Richard Leakey, #NFDB
401:Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. ~ Ban Ki moon, #NFDB
402:A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. ~ P D James, #NFDB
403:Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity. ~ Richard Louv, #NFDB
404:Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel. ~ Dave Mearns, #NFDB
405:enable the development of photonic computers using laser light to carry information instead of electric current. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
406:Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
407:I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad. ~ John F Kerry, #NFDB
408:In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer. ~ Pierre Omidyar, #NFDB
409:Our release cycle is constantly evolving, but right now, it’s 5 weeks long: 4 weeks of feature development and 1 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
410:Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
411:The concept of coaching is based on constant development and change — regardless of direction and content. ~ Svend Brinkmann, #NFDB
412:When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
413:Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
414:All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
415:Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records. ~ Laurieann Gibson, #NFDB
416:If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
417:It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
418:observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory. ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
419:Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development. ~ Aleksander Kwasniewski, #NFDB
420:The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. ~ George Crumb, #NFDB
421:The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. ~ Robert Jastrow, #NFDB
422:The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. ~ Susan George, #NFDB
423:We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. ~ Lal Bahadur Shastri, #NFDB
424:All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers. ~ Cynthia Addai Robinson, #NFDB
425:Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. ~ Joseph Stiglitz, #NFDB
426:a special issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics (vol. 10, no. 3, 1978) on uneven regional development ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
427:Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
428:I would define development by focusing on the quality of life of the lower 25 percent of the population. This ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
429:My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
430:Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living ~ Hugh B Brown, #NFDB
431:Something is really screwy in the world when I’m finding reasons to thank Development and Security in the same day. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
432:Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum. ~ Gagan Narang, #NFDB
433:The old way—where product development and marketing were two distinct and separate processes—has been replaced. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
434:The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle. ~ Tom Shadyac, #NFDB
435:There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all. ~ Booker T Washington, #NFDB
436:The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
437:To make a valuable contribution, you have to get uncomfortable and embrace lifelong growth and skill development. ~ Todd Henry, #NFDB
438:you’ve got to take the leap of thinking like an owner regarding your career and your capability development. ~ Robert S Kaplan, #NFDB
439:Development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Life and Yoga, #NFDB
440:For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. ~ Edward Thorndike, #NFDB
441:In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. ~ William Stanley Jevons, #NFDB
442:It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
443:It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
444:One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
445:One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. ~ Douglas B Reeves, #NFDB
446:Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
447:Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
448:Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future. ~ Michael Marmot, #NFDB
449:The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
450:. . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration. ~ Michael Dirda, #NFDB
451:The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. ~ Gregor Strasser, #NFDB
452:The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup, #NFDB
453:The Negroes had been stimulated to freedom by the development of the very wealth which their labor had created. ~ Eric Williams, #NFDB
454:There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. ~ John Astin, #NFDB
455:There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
456:There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
457:This language, which constantly imposes images, militates against the development and expression of concepts. ~ Herbert Marcuse, #NFDB
458:As you move higher and higher in the world of success, more and more of your job becomes “people development. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
459:In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
460:My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development. ~ James Prescott Joule, #NFDB
461:Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
462:On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development. ~ Ted Shackelford, #NFDB
463:...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
464:postwar development of three thousand dream houses for three thousand families with presumably identical dreams. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
465:Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts. ~ James Bryant Conant, #NFDB
466:The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ~ Thorstein Veblen, #NFDB
467:The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
468:Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development. ~ Barry Humphries, #NFDB
469:Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. ~ David Hilbert, #NFDB
470:first step in Yogi development consists of the mastery of the physical body and its care and attention. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
471:Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study. ~ James G Frazer, #NFDB
472:more critical development in the marketplace: that the potential audience has become savvier about animal rights. ~ John Hargrove, #NFDB
473:Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ~ Claude McKay, #NFDB
474:Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. ~ L P Jacks, #NFDB
475:Our life’s improvement and our fight against evil can begin only with the spiritual development of each individual. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
476:Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development ~ David Cortright, #NFDB
477:Senile decay seemed already to have laid its hand on him while he was still in the grip of arrested development. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
478:The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
479:The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. ~ Herman E Daly, #NFDB
480:There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. ~ Ken Livingstone, #NFDB
481:We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development. ~ Ali Abdullah Saleh, #NFDB
482:A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine ~ John Henry Newman, #NFDB
483:"A story told by the conscious mind has a beginning, a development , and an end, but the same is not true of a dream." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
484:Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'. ~ Andrew Mitchell, #NFDB
485:Coghill has shown that the motor patterns of the animal develop prior to the development of sensory innervation. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
486:Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
487:How absurd it would be if the further development of the menagerie itself would be held back by self-inflicted wounds! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
488:It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
489:Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development. ~ Preneet Kaur, #NFDB
490:Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development. ~ Tony Juniper, #NFDB
491:Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence. ~ Aga Khan IV, #NFDB
492:The development of the Internet has posed new challenges to national sovereignty, security and development interests. ~ Xi Jinping, #NFDB
493:The key to overcoming the ill effects of a love of comfort is a commitment to continual growth and skill development. ~ Todd Henry, #NFDB
494:When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed. ~ Martin Fowler, #NFDB
495:A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith. ~ Joel Beeke, #NFDB
496:the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. ~ Anne Truitt, #NFDB
497:The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
498:The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
499:The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
500:The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. ~ Maurice Hinchey, #NFDB
501:the most successful development occurs when developers talk directly to customers or are part of business teams. ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
502:The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
503:The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. ~ Alexander Kotov, #NFDB
504:Development kicked into gear soon after Ford Motor Co. sold most of its 33.4 percent controlling stake in Mazda in 2008, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
505:Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
506:Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
507:People spend so much time on the personal development books that they can't find time for personal development! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
508:The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
509:The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
510:the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
511:The sword fighting turned out to be quite a bit of fun, once the agony of muscle development produced actual muscles. ~ E K Johnston, #NFDB
512:The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global ~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, #NFDB
513:A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
514:I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years. ~ Paul W S Anderson, #NFDB
515:Shall we start over?' I say.
Juliet shrugs. 'No. This has been an important part of our friendship development. ~ Alice Oseman,#NFDB
516:Skill development remains our priority. We are blessed with a demographic dividend that can take us to great heights. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
517:the PlayPump problem: there is a strong incentive in development to focus on projects that look good and sound good. As ~ Tim Harford, #NFDB
518:The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
519:This means that advancement, progress, and development in your life do not come from man’s doing but from God’s. Jesus ~ Myles Munroe, #NFDB
520:We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated. ~ Thom Mayne, #NFDB
521:Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' ~ Declan Donnellan, #NFDB
522:Always remember that when we fail to make time for personal development, we are forced to make time for pain and struggle. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
523:Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
524:Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope—the thing changes entirely in aspect. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
525:I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.' ~ Mae Whitman, #NFDB
526:I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development. ~ Will Self, #NFDB
527:Members of Parliament are eligible for allocation of constituency development fund (MPLADS) of 5 crore every year. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
528:Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
529:Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development. ~ Kenneth E Boulding, #NFDB
530:Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
531:Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
532:This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth. ~ Juan Trippe, #NFDB
533:Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance"— the transmission, and the development of characters; ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
534:We need to provide an education which teaches critical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
535:Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
536:Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg, #NFDB
537:Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
538:The gym and the park are no longer places for personal development or reflection, but just another place to “check in. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB
539:To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. ~ Felix Adler, #NFDB
540:We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
541:We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
542:A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine ~ Saint John Henry Newman, #NFDB
543:...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. ~ Arno Gruen, #NFDB
544:Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture. ~ Marco Arment, #NFDB
545:Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
546:Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
547:It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
548:Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend ~ Albert Bandura, #NFDB
549:No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality. ~ Kara Swisher, #NFDB
550:Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
551:The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development. ~ Antonio Gramsci, #NFDB
552:The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development. ~ Max Ernst, #NFDB
553:We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more…. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
554:When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. ~ Jim Yong Kim, #NFDB
555:Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. ~ Kshama Sawant, #NFDB
556:Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country. ~ Talal Abu Ghazaleh, #NFDB
557:In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
558:State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development. ~ Evo Morales, #NFDB
559:There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city. ~ Juan Enriquez, #NFDB
560:Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world. ~ Kushal Pal Singh, #NFDB
561:Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
562:Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
563:Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion. ~ Judith Hill, #NFDB
564:I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about. ~ Roberta Williams, #NFDB
565:I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror. ~ Les Wexner, #NFDB
566:If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development. ~ Sarah Beeny, #NFDB
567:It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do. ~ Chris Crutcher, #NFDB
568:Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, #NFDB
569:No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
570:Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
571:scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
572:I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction ~ Benazir Bhutto, #NFDB
573:If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. ~ John Henrik Clarke, #NFDB
574:I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development. ~ Nia Long, #NFDB
575:The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
576:When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
577:A story told by the conscious mind has a beginning, a development, and an end, but the same is not true of a dream. P. 12 ~ Carl Gustav Jung, #NFDB
578:Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
579:Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
580:Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
581:It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
582:Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
583:Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
584:Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
585:Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road,” G.K. Chesterton said, “but drawing life from them, as from a root. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
586:The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
587:The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
588:The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
589:This idea began to emerge during the Scientific Revolution, through that era’s hallmark development, the scientific method. ~ Kathryn Schulz, #NFDB
590:When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change. ~ Fred Polak, #NFDB
591:When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. ~ Sheryl WuDunn, #NFDB
592:After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. ~ Janine M Benyus, #NFDB
593:Kaizen is Japanese for resisting the plateau of arrested development. Its literal translation is: “continuous improvement. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
594:Life had tried to kill me in all sorts of ways lately, but falling off of a flying horse was a new and unwelcome development. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
595:Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development. ~ Li Keqiang, #NFDB
596:The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
597:The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
598:Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
599:Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. ~ Yitzhak Rabin, #NFDB
600:The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
601:We’re not giving moms credit when we pose them as the decisive factor in a child’s development, we’re sticking them with the bill. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
602:All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
603:All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. ~ Charles Kettering, #NFDB
604:Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection. ~ Thomas L Friedman, #NFDB
605:Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
606:Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
607:North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa, #NFDB
608:Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
609:The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development ~ Christopher Flavin, #NFDB
610:Have you no idea of progress, of development?"
"I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
611:Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. ~ Christian Lous Lange, #NFDB
612:steps necessary to promote the development and maintenance of expertise almost always entails a sacrifice of speed and productivity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
613:Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. ~ Majora Carter, #NFDB
614:Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
615:The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. ~ Talal Abu Ghazaleh, #NFDB
616:... "the historical necessity of development" -- you can spout that nonsense about anything and you'll always be right. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
617:The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
618:The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
619:The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
620:What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB
621:After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival. ~ Janine M Benyus, #NFDB
622:America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long. ~ Robert M Gates, #NFDB
623:Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men. ~ Harold Ramis, #NFDB
624:For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters. ~ B H Liddell Hart, #NFDB
625:Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
626:If kids stay up late, it's very bad for their brain development...they said that on TV....You want to become a stupid girl, Yuuki? ~ Matsuri Hino, #NFDB
627:I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
628:our levels of success will rarely exceed our level of personal development, because success is something we attract by who we become. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
629:The greatest gift a couple can give their baby is a loving relationship, because that relationship nourishes Baby’s development. ~ John M Gottman, #NFDB
630:The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. ~ Christopher Lasch, #NFDB
631:to engage in any path of well-being or self-development, some small part of us must already believe that we’re worth developing. ~ Ethan Nichtern, #NFDB
632:Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. ~ Noel Tichy, #NFDB
633:Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people. ~ Richard Attias, #NFDB
634:Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. ~ Kenneth Scott Latourette, #NFDB
635:Foci development was almost entirely dependent on how much protein was consumed, regardless of how much aflatoxin was consumed! ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
636:I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
637:Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture. ~ Andrei Sakharov, #NFDB
638:Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
639:Successful software development is hard. It will always be hard. However, doing it smoothly and gracefully has a very real simplicity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
640:The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. ~ Dave Mearns, #NFDB
641:There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one’s development as a human being. ~ William Sutcliffe, #NFDB
642:The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
643:The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
644:When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine, #NFDB
645:Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
646:China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
647:If you’re looking for an abdominal exercise well-suited to power development without bulk, look no further than the Janda sit-up. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
648:I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
649:Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. ~ Rupert Sheldrake, #NFDB
650:nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
651:Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
652:There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. ~ Graham Cooke, #NFDB
653:The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual. ~ Lev S Vygotsky, #NFDB
654:The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others. ~ Anatoly Karpov, #NFDB
655:After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. ~ John Katzman, #NFDB
656:As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
657:David McLellan’s The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx (Macmillan, London, 1969) gives useful background to Marx’s intellectual development. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
658:Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development ~ Stephen D Krashen, #NFDB
659:I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image. ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
660:I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
661:nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
662:Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings. ~ August Wilhelm von Schlegel, #NFDB
663:Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
664:That social organism is embryonic. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to facilitate. ~ Charles Fort, #NFDB
665:The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
666:This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
667:When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
668:You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
669:Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view. ~ James Fallows, #NFDB
670:History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #NFDB
671:Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
672:Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. ~ Friedrich Frobel, #NFDB
673:Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ~ Scott Peck, #NFDB
674:The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft. ~ Vin Diesel, #NFDB
675:The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
676:The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
677:Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects. ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB
678:All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play. ~ Peter Buffett, #NFDB
679:Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. ~ Katherine Waterston, #NFDB
680:Everyone cites [Charles Schulz], but it’s with good reason. He taught me timing, tone, character development, practically everything. ~ Stephan Pastis, #NFDB
681:I think its ridiculous. I mean the voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
682:Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail. ~ Tracy Kidder, #NFDB
683:Oh, that wasn’t a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
684:Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket. ~ Joseph Estrada, #NFDB
685:Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can. ~ Alexis Denisof, #NFDB
686:Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, first coined the term “eugenics” in his 1883 book Human Faculty and Its Development. ~ Elizabeth Letts, #NFDB
687:The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract. ~ Stephen Gaghan, #NFDB
688:The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development. ~ Anna Lindh, #NFDB
689:We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity. ~ Sara Maitland, #NFDB
690:You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. ~ Slavoj Zizek, #NFDB
691:Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business. ~ Wang Jianlin, #NFDB
692:Action in the world is given us first as a means for our self-development and self-fulfilment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Work, #NFDB
693:Even if you can avoid adding unnecessary new features, dead pieces of code will still spring up naturally during your software development. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
694:Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
695:In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, #NFDB
696:I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall. ~ James Van Der Beek, #NFDB
697:No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
698:nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. In ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
699:Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
700:The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. ~ Frederik Pohl, #NFDB
701:The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. ~ Simone Weil, Waiting for God (1951), p. 51, #NFDB
702:The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. ~ Andrew Dickson White, #NFDB
703:There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include personal government will only guarantee our mediocrity. ~ Graham Cooke, #NFDB
704:To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France. ~ Francois Hollande, #NFDB
705:To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
706:What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. ~ Phylicia Rashad, #NFDB
707:A lot of people respond to almost any achievement, positive development, or outright victory with "yes but". Naysaying becomes a habit. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
708:I was meant to be her daughter, and I consider it a damn good thing that she, of all people, was the principal agent in my development. ~ Kelly Corrigan, #NFDB
709:Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
710:The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race. ~ Ernst Mach, #NFDB
711:The development of hoplite warfare took place in this context of novel agrarianism, which promoted a particular type of moral excellence. ~ Donald Kagan, #NFDB
712:The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
713:The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist. ~ Mark Bowden, #NFDB
714:The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
715:The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. ~ Herbert Hoover, #NFDB
716:Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development. ~ Tim Kaine, #NFDB
717:What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
718:All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
719:Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency. ~ Bono, #NFDB
720:For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
721:Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
722:Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
723:Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. ~ Sol LeWitt, #NFDB
724:If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
725:I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future. ~ Jan Egeland, #NFDB
726:I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing. ~ John Petrucci, #NFDB
727:Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows. ~ James McNerney, #NFDB
728:My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
729:Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
730:The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. ~ Manning Marable, #NFDB
731:The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
732:This triple-decker reflects our evolutionary development from the earliest model (single-celled bacteria) to the latest (George Clooney). Each ~ Ruby Wax, #NFDB
733:Establishing your differences with the mentor is an important part of your self-development, whether he is of the good or bad parent type. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
734:If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
735:India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
736:It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
737:One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
738:Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
739:The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
740:Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. ~ Kim Dae jung, #NFDB
741:Does all that exist of itself, or is it only an emanation of myself, a logical development of my ego which alone has existed for ever? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
742:Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
743:I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment. ~ Brett Hull, #NFDB
744:incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren’t used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project. ~ Steve Freeman, #NFDB
745:It does not help for spiritual knowledge to be ignorant of the things of this world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Mental Development and Sadhana, #NFDB
746:It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job. ~ Alan Cooper, #NFDB
747:On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
748:Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. The ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
749:Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
750:Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all. ~ Stephen Baxter, #NFDB
751:The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
752:There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
753:Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
754:Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
755:Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
756:Your product roadmap should slot right in between your company vision and your more detailed development, release, and operational plans. ~ C Todd Lombardo, #NFDB
757:But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. ~ Richard Rhodes, #NFDB
758:Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself. ~ Ken Danby, #NFDB
759:The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. ~ James Mark Baldwin, #NFDB
760:The movement has kept itself from full development by denying, ignoring, and rejecting parts of itself, including its spiritual legacy. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt, #NFDB
761:The self as Jung talked about is not an object, it is not a noun, it does not show up on an MRI... It is a process of growth and development. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
762:The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. ~ Florence Nightingale, #NFDB
763:This complete and automatic development of an isolated idea of the personality, in the fashion of a parasite, is not met with in the normal man. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
764:To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion. ~ Pandurang Shastri Athavale, #NFDB
765:To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.” The ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
766:To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills. ~ Martin Rees, #NFDB
767:Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become, ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
768:Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. ~ Alison Gopnik, #NFDB
769:BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
770:Choose your battles. If rapid development is truly top priority, don't shackle your developers by insisting on too many priorities at once. ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB
771:Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities. ~ Gustav Nossal, #NFDB
772:Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases? ~ Abraham H Maslow, #NFDB
773:The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things. ~ Ajahn Sumedho, #NFDB
774:When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops. ~ Lynda Obst, #NFDB
775:With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. ~ Christian Lacroix, #NFDB
776:Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
777:...God doesn't wait for you to reach maturity before he starts liking you. He loves and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
778:I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
779:If the development of consciousness is disturbed in its normal unfolding, children frequently retire. . . . into an "inner fortress" p. 169 ~ Carl Gustav Jung, #NFDB
780:In other words, economic development should be judged and measured by the per capita real income of the bottom 50 per cent of the population. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
781:Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
782:That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything. ~ Immanuel Wallerstein, #NFDB
783:A broad and far-sighted policy rests on capacity for development; on the inner forces that, once awakened, will sooner or later reveal their power. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
784:Another huge new development was going up to improve life for all of us by turning trees and animals into cement and old people from New Jersey. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
785:At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
786:"From my own limited experience I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion." ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
787:I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
788:if you can clean the code, you can keep the development team from bogging down into the typical Big Ball of Mud. You can keep the team moving fast. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
789:I’m a bad case of arrested development, stuck in early adolescence, more screwed-up-twisted-up-tangled-up than a couple earthworms makin’ babies. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
790:In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. ~ Richard G Wilkinson, #NFDB
791:Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
792:Learn. Unlearn. (Repeat.) Rather than viewing change as an aberration, we understand it as a natural part of the organization’s development. ~ Nilofer Merchant, #NFDB
793:Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
794:She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
795:The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
796:The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
797:There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
798:This is only one short section of the Phenomenology, the whole of which traces the development of Mind as it overcomes contradiction or opposition. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
799:although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In ~ Iain Pears, #NFDB
800:In 1997, the government spent $37 billion on military research and development, nearly two-thirds of what the entire world spent on the same. In ~ Morris Berman, #NFDB
801:India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
802:Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development ~ David Crystal, #NFDB
803:Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
804:The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative. ~ Lester Beall, #NFDB
805:There can be no national development without national liberty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, Shall India be Free? - National Development and Foreign Rule, #NFDB
806:You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
807:Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
808:Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development. ~ Robert Zoellick, #NFDB
809:foundation of all moral development. Children construct their moral understanding on the bedrock of the absolute moral truth that harm is wrong. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
810:If only someone asked my opinion, I'd say the male species is disastrous to the development of womankind and they ought to be removed promptly ~ Christine Lemmon, #NFDB
811:In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
812:Making and keeping these three universal resolutions will accelerate our self-development and, potentially, increase our influence with others. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
813:the first two years of a movie’s development should be a time of solidifying the story beats by relentlessly testing them—much like you temper steel. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
814:There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
815:Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development. ~ Segolene Royal, #NFDB
816:When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. ~ Leni Zumas, #NFDB
817:Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
818:If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
819:Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence, ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
820:On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
821:The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows. ~ Stanley Fish, #NFDB
822:The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer ~ Bjarne Stroustrup, #NFDB
823:With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
824:A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
825:By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. ~ Alan Greenspan, #NFDB
826:Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death. ~ Stephen Mitchell, #NFDB
827:... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
828:if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. ~ David Gelernter, #NFDB
829:I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal. ~ Fiona Apple, #NFDB
830:Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention. ~ Seth Berkley, #NFDB
831:It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities. ~ Shinzo Abe, #NFDB
832:Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
833:Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto, #NFDB
834:Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style. ~ Tyler Cowen, #NFDB
835:Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities ~ Chuck Grassley, #NFDB
836:They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development.” But ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
837:White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
838:With certain kinds of people,we allow for the potential development of all the beauties of human virtue within a faith that is different from our own ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
839:You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful. ~ Virginia Satir, #NFDB
840:Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
841:Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
842:Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
843:[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home. ~ Frances Moore Lappe, #NFDB
844:[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace. ~ Kenneth E Boulding, #NFDB
845:The sampling period is not incidental to the development of great performers—something to be excised in the interest of a head start—it is integral. ~ David Epstein, #NFDB
846:The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC. ~ John Carmack, #NFDB
847:Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
848:Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality. ~ Alejandro Castro Espin, #NFDB
849:True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
850:We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. ~ Jerome Bruner, #NFDB
851:B-quadrant businesses get tax credits for hiring employees, for increasing their research and development, and for investing in green technology. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
852:Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
853:having a development process that integrates stable code across the enterprise is one of the most effective ways of aligning the work across the teams, ~ Gary Gruver, #NFDB
854:Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest. ~ Susan Forward, #NFDB
855:Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
856:On the other hand, the sun of Naples might be conducive to learning something about the biochemistry of the embryonic development of marine animals. ~ James D Watson, #NFDB
857:Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility. ~ Anne Marie Slaughter, #NFDB
858:Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
859:The army uses an analytical framework of mission, enemy, troops, terrain, and time available (METT-T) to guide it in rapid development of its operations. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
860:There are few endeavors in which it is more important to keep options open than in software development. In Chapter 3, “Decide as Late as Possible ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
861:The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit. ~ Lewis Sperry Chafer, #NFDB
862:The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. ~ Barbara Boxer, #NFDB
863:The third aspect of change is a systematic development of respectful and inspiring working conditions for teachers and principals in Finnish schools. ~ Pasi Sahlberg, #NFDB
864:The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture ~ Alvar Aalto, #NFDB
865:They knew each other very well--so well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
866:Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations. ~ Joseph Murray, #NFDB
867:As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development. ~ Shakti Gawain, #NFDB
868:China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
869:Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience. ~ Charles Horton Cooley, #NFDB
870:Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. ~ Lucille Roybal Allard, #NFDB
871:I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. ~ Danielle Trussoni, #NFDB
872:I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development. ~ Joe Armstrong, #NFDB
873:Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader. ~ Georgi Plekhanov, #NFDB
874:Regression is defined here as a psychological retreat to a prior stage of development in order to reduce fear and foster an illusion of security. ~ Robert W Firestone, #NFDB
875:The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all. ~ Ousmane Sembene, #NFDB
876:The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
877:Wayfaring becomes “an ongoing process of growth and development, or self-renewal.” Transport, on the other hand, is “essentially destination-oriented. ~ Nicholas Carr, #NFDB
878:Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
879:I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
880:"If you are able, through your development of wisdom and skillful means, to unite the teachings with your life, then true results will be achieved." ~ Gyatrul Rinpoche, #NFDB
881:I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal. ~ Jenna Elfman, #NFDB
882:My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. ~ Vasily Smyslov, #NFDB
883:Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
884:Spiritual development means the ability to stand still, or stand aside, and let Infinite Intelligence lift your burdens and fight your battles. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
885:The development of capacities is not only permissible but right, when it can be made part of the Yoga ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Consecration and Offering, #NFDB
886:The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world. ~ Alain Aspect, #NFDB
887:The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
888:The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world. ~ Timur Bekmambetov, #NFDB
889:There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful. ~ Amanda Seyfried, #NFDB
890:The team quickly made a surprising discovery: only 50% of the source code in their development and test environments matched what was running in production. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
891:Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored. ~ Max Mayfield, #NFDB
892:We have but to look around us and see how the physical bodies of different men show the different degrees of development under mental control ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
893:What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone ~ Lev S Vygotsky, #NFDB
894:Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
895:Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened. ~ Lee R Raymond, #NFDB
896:At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. ~ John Stott, #NFDB
897:Everyone takes refuge in something, so once again we work with transforming ordinary tendencies into skillful means for spiritual development. ~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, #NFDB
898:I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning ~ Kenzo Tange, #NFDB
899:If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
900:If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
901:I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me. ~ Dougray Scott, #NFDB
902:It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction. ~ Jaron Lanier, #NFDB
903:Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor. ~ Edward Hirsch, #NFDB
904:Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.” – M. Scott Peck ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
905:Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children. ~ Sheikh Hasina, #NFDB
906:The importance of a story doesn't merely lie in the development of its plot and the characters involved in it, but in its exploration of the consciousness ... ~ Gulzar, #NFDB
907:the reading of fiction facilitated the development of social skills because it provides the reader with the experience of thinking about other people. ~ Kelly Gallagher, #NFDB
908:US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
909:Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
910:A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development. ~ Philippa Perry, #NFDB
911:Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
912:C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group. ~ Dennis Ritchie, #NFDB
913:Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
914:I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things. ~ Burt Rutan, #NFDB
915:In 2006 the United Nations Human Development Report estimated that 2.6 billion people, or 40 percent of the world’s population, had no indoor plumbing. ~ Jeremy J Siegel, #NFDB
916:No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality ~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, #NFDB
917:Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
918:People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
919:Religious cults and personal development seminars mainly try to get money from people . To do that , they perform a rather crude form of brainwashing . ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
920:Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. ~ William Easterly, #NFDB
921:Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men. ~ Nawal El Saadawi, #NFDB
922:Some have estimated that the pharmaceutical industry overall spends about twice as much on marketing and promotion as it does on research and development. ~ Ben Goldacre, #NFDB
923:Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations; to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
924:The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea. ~ Nikki Haley, #NFDB
925:The common tendency of product development is to skip straight to the fourth question and build a solution before confirming that customers have the problem. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
926:Apparently the nation’s future lay not in innovation and development but in global finance and telesales, in the entertainment industry and coffee shops. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
927:As is typically the case in large-batch development, both groups had been willing to sacrifice the team’s ability to learn in order to work more “efficiently. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
928:I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others. ~ Ella Baker, #NFDB
929:It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
930:The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
931:They found that the average civic duty measured in different states at several points during US history significantly predict later socioeconomic development. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
932:We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable Development. ~ Jeffrey D Sachs, #NFDB
933:Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends. ~ Wei Jingsheng, #NFDB
934:foreign investors plowed $124 billion into China in 2013, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, but only $28 billion into India. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
935:Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. ~ Georges Cuvier, #NFDB
936:I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB
937:If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
938:In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
939:It may seem like writing tests slows down development; in fact, testing does not cost, it pays, both during development and over the system’s lifecycle. ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
940:Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power. ~ Kesha Rogers, #NFDB
941:The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila, #NFDB
942:The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. ~ Friedrich von Bernhardi, #NFDB
943:There is no novel of world history, which is more wonderful than our party’s development to its present greatness.
Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich ~ Adolf Hitler,#NFDB
944:We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
945:I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. That there is a sacredness to individual rights! ~ Bill O Reilly, #NFDB
946:I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ~ H A L Fisher, #NFDB
947:I have found you can obtain much information from the spirit. But the quality of that information depends upon the evolution or development of that spirit. ~ Dolores Cannon, #NFDB
948:Lamarche, F. (1976), ‘Property development and the economic foundations of the urban question’, in C. Pickvance (ed.), Urban Sociology: Critical Essays, London. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
949:The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
950:The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
951:The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it. ~ Kersey Graves, #NFDB
952:We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed. ~ Akbar Ganji, #NFDB
953:What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
954:You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
955:Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
956:At the heart of iterative development is the notion that you should deliver software as soon as you have something useful to the user, even if it's not complete. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
957:Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development. ~ Salvador Allende, #NFDB
958:Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. ~ Joe Lieberman, #NFDB
959:Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
960:In the early stages of development, growth is constrained by number of potential new ideas, but later on it is constrained only by the ability to process them.19 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
961:I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives. ~ David Batstone, #NFDB
962:Mahindra & Mahindra and Great Wall, car champions from India and China, have a combined research-and-development (R&D) budget that is 3% of Volkswagen’s. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
963:Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
964:Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ~ Barry Commoner, #NFDB
965:The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics. ~ Michael C Burgess, #NFDB
966:The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
967:The way love can disregard fears, however, is an age-old wonder. No fear is able to spoil love's development or keep it from dreaming of its appointed hour. ~ Naguib Mahfouz, #NFDB
968:What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
969:Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
970:Historical materialism is that “the nature of a set of productive relations is explained by the level of development of the productive forces embraced by it”[12]. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
971:If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake. ~ Meles Zenawi, #NFDB
972:I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
973:My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
974:Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development. ~ Ibn Warraq, #NFDB
975:The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ~ George Bancroft, #NFDB
976:The consciousness is there throughout in our occult parts of being, the development is in the manifesting Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Philosophy of Rebirth, #NFDB
977:The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction. ~ Wilhelm Ostwald, #NFDB
978:The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that. ~ Richard Armitage, #NFDB
979:The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development. ~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, #NFDB
980:The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, #NFDB
981:Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
982:Thus, it is not the customer, but rather our hypothesis about the customer, that pulls work from product development and other functions. Any other work is waste. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
983:Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development. ~ Johann Most, #NFDB
984:A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
985:Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible. ~ Le Corbusier, #NFDB
986:Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
987:If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
988:Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
989:My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
990:Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
991:Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft. ~ Nina Jacobson, #NFDB
992:The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme. ~ Hassanal Bolkiah, #NFDB
993:The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. ~ Elliot W Eisner, #NFDB
994:We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space. ~ Nick Lampson, #NFDB
995:When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
996:Whole batteries of genes are turned on and off during fly development, and this
pattern of gene activity serves to demarcate the different regions of the fly. ~ Neil Shubin,#NFDB
997:All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
998:Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs ~ Robert Greenwald, #NFDB
999:He, like so many of them, came from that breed of international development experts unsparing in its love for all humanity but having no interest in people. ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
1000:It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1001:Not to mention, by doing personal development in the morning, I wouldn’t have all of the excuses that accumulate during the day (I’m tired, I don’t have time, etc.) ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1002:Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development. ~ Joe Hyams, #NFDB
1003:Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself. ~ Richard Attias, #NFDB
1004:The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization. ~ Julian Jaynes, #NFDB
1005:The growth is all coming from an engine of growth that is working—running efficiently to bring in new customers—not from improvements driven by product development. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1006:This 'ruthless' determination of morphogenetic fields to assert their individuality reflects, in our terminology, the self-assertive principle in development. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
1007:Travel is crucial to one’s development,” said Miss Peregrine, her tone strangely defensive. “Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1008:What this means is reflecting on your relationships in the past in your own family life and asking yourself how those experiences influenced your development. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
1009:ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species. ~ Tom Perrotta, #NFDB
1010:Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop. ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
1011:[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics. ~ Abraham Pais, #NFDB
1012:Humanity had always trafficked in oppression. Before the corporate marketing department got ahold of it, it was called conquest. Now it was regional development. ~ Daniel Suarez, #NFDB
1013:I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university. ~ Dean Spade, #NFDB
1014:I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1015:Piaget’s work shows that our concepts of logic, space, time, number, quantity, etc., are not given readymade as Kant thought, but undergo a process of development. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1016:The Great Mother impels—pushes (with certainty of mortality) and pulls (with possibility of redemption)—development of consciousness and of self-consciousness. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1017:The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. ~ C L R James, #NFDB
1018:Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1019:To Voordouw, development journalism means "Community journalism to achieve larger objectives - social justice, improving health, education, bringing people together. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1020:You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. ~ Ernest Mandel, #NFDB
1021:As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1022:Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development of a free humanity. ~ Rudolf Rocker, #NFDB
1023:Different rates of development on different continents, from 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1500, were what led to the technological and political inequalities of A.D. 1500. ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
1024:High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. ~ Alan Autry, #NFDB
1025:in the long run the practice of solidarity proves much more advantageous to the species than the development of individuals endowed with predatory inclinations. ~ Pyotr Kropotkin, #NFDB
1026:Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1027:Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this. ~ Ang Lee, #NFDB
1028:Something roughly akin to love is needed for proper biological development, and its absence is among the most aching, distorting stressors that we can suffer. ~ Robert M Sapolsky, #NFDB
1029:Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
1030:That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. ~ Matt Lauria, #NFDB
1031:The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
1032:The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1033: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
1034:The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science ~ Franz Boas, #NFDB
1035:Unfortunately, human progress is generally determined not by our spiritual, our emotional, and our intellectual development but by that of our technologies. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1036:Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1037:Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. ~ Alexander Herzen, #NFDB
1038:If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
1039:I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices. ~ Abdellatif Kechiche, #NFDB
1040:In the spectacle — the visual reflection of the ruling economic order — goals are nothing, development is everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself. ~ Guy Debord, #NFDB
1041:National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution. ~ Ban Ki moon, #NFDB
1042:Spirituality, however, corresponds to the development of human qualities such as love, compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, or a sense of responsibility. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1043:[Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
1044:The Great Mother impels—pushes (with certainty of mortality) and pulls (with possibility of redemption)—development of consciousness and of self-consciousness. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1045:Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development! ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1046:Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go. ~ Jason Dufner, #NFDB
1047:We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded. ~ William Easterly, #NFDB
1048:We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1049:A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1050:Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1051:I am of the firm belief that the nation should progress on the issue of development. And it is necessary that the country moves forward on the issue of development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1052:In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1053:mental power is at least as important for progress and development—for mastering our physical and intellectual environment to get things done—as physical power. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1054:[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.] ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1055:Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1056:Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England’s economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1057:That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
1058:The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is. ~ Jay Nixon, #NFDB
1059:The world of the commodity is thus shown for what it is, because its development is identical to people’s estrangement from each other and from everything they produce. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1060:What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs. ~ Nathan Deal, #NFDB
1061:You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1062:You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
1063:Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1064:However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind. ~ Douglas MacArthur, #NFDB
1065:It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~ Robert Dold, #NFDB
1066:I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square. ~ Louis Kahn, #NFDB
1067:One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented. ~ John Hoeven, #NFDB
1068:Programming in the real world is an interpersonal endeavour, and so is inevitably bound up in relationship issues, politics, and friction from our development processes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1069:Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself. ~ Walter J Phillips, #NFDB
1070:The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
1071:The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'. ~ Ye Xiaowen, #NFDB
1072:We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1073:We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1074:Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights. ~ Christopher Dodd, #NFDB
1075:Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become,” I stopped in my tracks. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1076:A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
1077:But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow. ~ Erwin Schr dinger, #NFDB
1078: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
1079:Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, “inner speech,” and it is this that is indispensable for our further development, ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1080:I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
1081:In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1082:it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1083:It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don’t realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1084:It is very important to have a correct socio-economic development forecast and plan, in which inflation being a vital investment factor should be the key indicator ~ Tatyana Golikova, #NFDB
1085:Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp. ~ Max Planck, #NFDB
1086:The development of the free individual is, we have said, the first condition for the development of the perfect society. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Civilisation and Barbarism, #NFDB
1087:The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
1088:We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development. ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
1089:What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. ~ Susan George, #NFDB
1090:Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives. ~ Michelle Goldberg, #NFDB
1091:As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development. ~ Cher Wang, #NFDB
1092:Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgement. ~ Paul Fussell, #NFDB
1093:During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
1094:I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom. ~ Murray Bookchin, #NFDB
1095:In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be. ~ Jean Baker Miller, #NFDB
1096:In fact, the habit of setting and achieving ever-larger goals is absolutely indispensable to the development of ever-higher levels of self-confidence and personal power. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1097:It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1098:Just because you are born in shit, does not mean you must stay there.” The quote is from a female pilot from WWII, instrumental in the development of the WASP, name unknown. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
1099:Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1100:The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1101:The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. ~ C L R James, #NFDB
1102:There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people. ~ Toru Hashimoto, #NFDB
1103:The role of these New Orleans Creoles in the development of jazz remains one of the least understood and most commonly mis-represented issues in the history of this music. ~ Ted Gioia, #NFDB
1104:We determine scope at the beginning of system development, put a box around it, and figure out how long that scope will take to develop. This is the wrong approach. ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
1105:Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1106:At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. All of us, when we were children, also only imitated. But children grow up and begin their own development. ~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer, #NFDB
1107:But it is not regressive to surrender to our feminine selves. It's the most progressive line if development because it honors, instead of represses, our emotions. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1108:China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development. ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
1109:If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment? ~ Thoraya Obaid, #NFDB
1110:In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . . ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
1111:In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
1112:Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests. ~ Liya Kebede, #NFDB
1113:I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1114:It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about. ~ David Draiman, #NFDB
1115:Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1116:People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
1117:The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. ~ Charles Hard Townes, #NFDB
1118:The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas. ~ Gary Younge, #NFDB
1119:The fact that we advance technologically does not preclude spiritual development. We need to home-grow our own model of development based on our inherent strengths. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
1120:The history of government has been defined by two arcs: the development of our capacity to tolerate theft, and our awareness that we deserve to live without being robbed. ~ Adam Kokesh, #NFDB
1121:The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. ~ Arthur Erickson, #NFDB
1122:There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
1123:zygotes by definition are rather limited in number and most scientists working in very early development use cells from a bit later, the famous embryonic stem (ES) cells. ~ Nessa Carey, #NFDB
1124:Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1125:Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
1126:I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race. ~ Marcus Garvey, #NFDB
1127:In terms of spiritual development, it's not a big deal whether you have sex or not, the question is more of who you have sex with and what their energy is doing to you. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1128:IN THE COURSE of Western development, the essentially positive process of emancipating the ego and consciousness from the tyranny of the unconscious has become negative. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
1129:It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles. ~ Walter J Phillips, #NFDB
1130:Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. ~ Rodrigo Rato, #NFDB
1131:seemed to me that if there were lack of funds to carry on work, then to that degree, in that special development, or at that time, it could not be the work of God. ~ James Hudson Taylor, #NFDB
1132:So this is the development that will make a difference: a method for groups of people and machines to work together to make decisions in a way that takes advantage of scale. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1133:Take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by any country having to do with economic development. It's economic un development as far as America is concerned. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1134:That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction. ~ Cordell Hull, #NFDB
1135:The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe. ~ Ugo Cavallero, #NFDB
1136:The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1137:The struggle between the specifically human and the universally natural constitutes the history of man’s conscious development. ~ Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness, #NFDB
1138:What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1139:You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation. ~ Arthur Lydiard, #NFDB
1140:Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development. ~ Donald Bradman, #NFDB
1141:Differences produce conflicts, which may be beneficial to the development of a country if they occur among true patriots, whose only ambition is the happiness of the citizen. ~ Mariama B, #NFDB
1142:I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1143:I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade. ~ Norman Granz, #NFDB
1144:In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1145:Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1146:No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1147:The greatest risk—and hence the greatest cause of failure—in startups is not in the development of the new product but in the development of customers and markets. Startups ~ Steve Blank, #NFDB
1148:The most important development in the field since Meehl’s original work is Robyn Dawes’s famous article “The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1149:There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1150:Thus, the right way to think about the product development process in a Lean Startup is that it is responding to pull requests in the form of experiments that need to be run. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1151:Toddler assholery” is a normal part of human development. It’s like puberty but focuses mainly on throwing food on the floor and taking swings at people who pay your way. ~ Bunmi Laditan, #NFDB
1152:After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1153:All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews. ~ Anastas Mikoyan, #NFDB
1154:As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development. ~ David Hilbert, #NFDB
1155:Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment. ~ Paul Fussell, #NFDB
1156:churches have unconsciously encouraged the development of fear by using it as a weapon to whip people into church attendance, the performance of church duties, etc.! ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
1157:First stage of Islamic scientific development was essentially an assimilation of imported knowledge and Muslim scholars had only a secondary role to play as translators. ~ Pervez Hoodbhoy, #NFDB
1158:Germany achieved unification as an affirmation of liberal democracy; it reaffirmed its commitment to European unity as a project of common values and shared development. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
1159:I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
1160:Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
1161:Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world. ~ Gerald Edelman, #NFDB
1162:Often, future game-changing trends enter society without attracting media attention or interest from the general public during the early years of development out on the fringe. ~ Amy Webb, #NFDB
1163:Since our insight into the energies pressing toward development aids their unfolding, the seedlings and inceptive beginnings must be made visible and comprehensible." ~ Jean Gebser, [5/5], #NFDB
1164:The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1165:The intentions behind welfare programs, for example, may be noble. But in practice they have slowed the self-development that proved necessary for other groups to advance. ~ Jason L Riley, #NFDB
1166:The rate of the development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.11 ~ Philip E Tetlock, #NFDB
1167:True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection. ~ Nikolai Berdyaev, #NFDB
1168:A configurable set of processes and techniques for the development of software, based on iterative development, object modeling, and an architectural approach to software reuse ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1169:By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade. ~ Shigeru Yoshida, #NFDB
1170:During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind. ~ Xi Jinping, #NFDB
1171:Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred...Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
1172:In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development. ~ Manning Marable, #NFDB
1173:In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development. ~ Neil Postman, #NFDB
1174:I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation. ~ Joe Lieberman, #NFDB
1175:Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1176:Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development. ~ Jim Jefferies, #NFDB
1177:The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1178:The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
1179:As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail. ~ Judith Lewis Herman, #NFDB
1180:Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
1181:Folk wisdom in software development teaches that interfaces shouldn't be unduly influenced by implementations. Writing a test first is a concrete way to achieve this separation. ~ Kent Beck, #NFDB
1182:I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. ~ Vicente Fox, #NFDB
1183:I looked at the Pinocchio clock, and gave it Stan Laurel. “Isn’t this a fine development?” Pinocchio’s eyes went from side to side, but he didn’t say anything. He never does. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
1184:I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles. ~ Morris Chestnut, #NFDB
1185:It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime and by their supporters in Iran and in Russia. ~ Kori Schake, #NFDB
1186:One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
1187:So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race. ~ Arthur Cayley, #NFDB
1188:The group-man follows in the wake of the individual and is always far behind the highest individual development. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Drive towards Economic Centralisation, #NFDB
1189:We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time. ~ Motomu Toriyama, #NFDB
1190:When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison. ~ Angela Davis, #NFDB
1191:You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik, #NFDB
1192:You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language. ~ Marina Abramovic, #NFDB
1193:Above us, within us, around us is the AllStrength and it is that that we have to rely on for our work, our development, our transforming change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Sleep, #NFDB
1194:Another benefit of having Development and Operations using a shared tool is a unified backlog, where everyone prioritizes improvement projects from a global perspective, selecting ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1195:Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development. ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
1196:It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas. ~ Robert Zoellick, #NFDB
1197:My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. ~ Melinda Gates, #NFDB
1198:one of the first steps toward an integral postmodernity is the development and establishment of a genuine environmental ethics, or a moral and ethical stance to nonhuman holons. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
1199:People still dreamed of going on Crusade and liberating Jerusalem, but in an important development, holy warfare was beginning to merge with the patriotism of national war. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1200:Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1201:Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1202:The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1203:The truth is that the greater your spiritual development, the greater your sensitivity to sin. The more you grow in Christ, the more you will be aware of your propensity to sin. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1204:We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other’s garde. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1205:While persisting poverty has been the most important failure in India’s post-independence development, the survival of the democratic structure has been its grandest success. ~ Bipan Chandra, #NFDB
1206:Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1207:Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
1208:In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's evolution and to at its human stage of development ~ Rudolf Steiner, #NFDB
1209:Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. ~ Jamais Cascio, #NFDB
1210:Spiritual development in Paganism can be measured by the maturity of your actions and the degree to which you participate in the interconnectedness of the universe.
We ~ Joyce Higginbotham,#NFDB
1211:The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others. ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
1212:The health of the working relationships in your development team will feed directly into the software design. Unhealthy relationships and inflated egos lead to unhealthy software. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1213:To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts. ~ Wu Bangguo, #NFDB
1214:We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel. ~ Bobby Jindal, #NFDB
1215:When developing a Windows Store business app you should consult the following checklists to accelerate development while ensuring that a maintainable and testable app is produced. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1216:When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices. ~ Lech Walesa, #NFDB
1217:All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all. ~ Joseph Dalton Hooker, #NFDB
1218:I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me. ~ Chris Barber, #NFDB
1219:Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development. ~ Franz Bardon, #NFDB
1220:Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
1221:The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1222:There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms. ~ Charles Lyell, #NFDB
1223:Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1224:We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. ~ Mitchell Baker, #NFDB
1225:What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ~ Alexander Herzen, #NFDB
1226:Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10) ~ Sheldon B Kopp, #NFDB
1227:Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. ~ Anna Lindh, #NFDB
1228:In addition to calling each other standard names like bitch and whore, the Finches incorporated Freud's stages of psychosexual development into their arsenal of invectives. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
1229:Mental health is achieved if man develops into full maturity according to the characteristics and laws of human nature. Mental illness consists in the failure of such development. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1230:Oh, my darling you are not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1231:Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn’t happen to be the usual pace. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1232:Several years ago I concluded that 80 percent of my professional productivity flowed from three activities: Corporate visioncasting Corporate communication Leadership development ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1233:Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field. ~ Vazgen Sargsyan, #NFDB
1234:TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories. ~ Connie Nielsen, #NFDB
1235:As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal. ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
1236:A shroud—to keep anyone from seeing your development and to keep you from seeing any other human worlds. What you call the Fermi Paradox—the fact that human worlds must be abundant, ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
1237:Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
1238:I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet. ~ James Larkin, #NFDB
1239:I grew up babysitting and watching TRL after school. But the fact that I'm part of the whole new scripted development program that they're trying to launch is really awesome. ~ Jillian Rose Reed, #NFDB
1240:It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country. ~ Trevor Manuel, #NFDB
1241:Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. ~ Georg Cantor, #NFDB
1242:The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence. ~ Dan Lipinski, #NFDB
1243:There’s an axiom evolutionary biologists used to like: “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” or the development of the embryonic individual repeats that of its species’ evolution. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1244:The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development. ~ Akbar Ganji, #NFDB
1245:This progression drives home the point that digital innovation is recombinant innovation in its purest form. Each development becomes a building block for future innovations. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1246:A knowledge of reincarnation would also be helpful. But existing conditions of government and religion severely impede the development of such responsibility. ~ Agni Yoga, Agni Yoga, 397, (1929), #NFDB
1247:A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. ~ G H Hardy, #NFDB
1248:If fear can prevent us from potential vital danger, it can also be lethal – kills our dreams, chances, personal development and passion, prevent us from living our life at maximum. ~ Kim Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1249:In short, he was one of those early, daring manipulators who later were to seize upon other and even larger phases of American natural development for their own aggrandizement. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB
1250:It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing. ~ John Doerr, #NFDB
1251:Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease. ~ Aretaeus of Cappadocia, #NFDB
1252:Odysseus’ passage is one that moves through the same waters as does our development today, haunted as we are by the interior forces of psyche and destiny. ~ Bud Harris youtube.com/watch?v=XFrQVV…, #NFDB
1253: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
1254:The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision. ~ Wilhelm Dilthey, #NFDB
1255:The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1256:To this end, Google always strives to staff its SRE teams with a mix of engineers with traditional software development experience and engineers with systems engineering experience. ~ Betsy Beyer, #NFDB
1257:Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market. ~ Keith Ellison, #NFDB
1258:And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans. ~ Daniel Libeskind, #NFDB
1259:Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
1260:If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a hand in the development of humankind, or if you just have a burning desire to improve one small aspect of it, then you have an adventure waiting. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1261:One of the biggest problems with long game development is, when you playtest the game for too long, you invent problems and you add layers to the game that don’t need to be added. ~ Jason Schreier, #NFDB
1262:One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ~ William Irwin Thompson, #NFDB
1263:Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1264:Teams steeped in traditional product development methods are trained to make go/kill decisions on a regular basis. That is the essence of the waterfall or stage-gate development model. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1265:The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood. ~ Margaret Sanger, #NFDB
1266:The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country. ~ Andrew Natsios, #NFDB
1267:[T]he power of willful activity to shape the brain remains the working principle not only of early brain development, but also of brain function as an ongoing, living process. ~ Jeffrey M Schwartz, #NFDB
1268:The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. ~ Earl Browder, #NFDB
1269:We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1270:We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed. ~ Park Geun hye, #NFDB
1271:Bit by bit, system by system, those small investments added up to a robust product development process that allowed all our employees to work more creatively, with greatly reduced fear. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1272:But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
1273:Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development ~ Wangari Maathai, #NFDB
1274:Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1275:Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world. ~ Oliver DeMille, #NFDB
1276:Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars. ~ Harvey Pekar, #NFDB
1277:The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
1278:. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
1279:This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. ~ Christiana Figueres, #NFDB
1280:To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction. ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry, #NFDB
1281:We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
1282:All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development. ~ Friedrich Engels, #NFDB
1283:But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. ~ Ibrahim Babangida, #NFDB
1284:China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
1285:Every development is first rejected,
then skeptically accepted,
next gradually embraced,
and at last abundantly praised.
Let's put it straight:
it's a human trait. ~ Joan Marques,#NFDB
1286:Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. ~ David Hilbert, #NFDB
1287:I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. ~ Jaime Lerner, #NFDB
1288:If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1289:If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1290:I have no clear idea about this development, however, I have full faith in the government's peace talks committee. I suggest TTP choose its representatives from among its own leadership ~ Imran Khan, #NFDB
1291:It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1292:I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
1293:That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing. ~ John Currin, #NFDB
1294:The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
1295:The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1296:There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter ~ Alfred Russel Wallace, #NFDB
1297:The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture. ~ Frances Harper, #NFDB
1298:Bezos believed that high margins justified rivals’ investments in research and development and attracted more competition, while low margins attracted customers and were more defensible. ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
1299:Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child ~ Urie Bronfenbrenner, #NFDB
1300:I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
1301:One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. ~ Albert Bushnell Hart, #NFDB
1302:Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1303:Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB
1304:The ecosystem (users, ownership, management, development, costs, quality, integration, scalability, and security) that surrounds the platform is nearly as critical as the platform itself. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1305:The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. ~ Imelda Marcos, #NFDB
1306:The rule of law is critical for economic development; without clear property rights and contract enforcement, it is difficult for businesses to break out of small circles of trust. ~ Francis Fukuyama, #NFDB
1307:To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward - revolutionary and transforming - and that requires extra factors that were not present before. ~ Belsebuub, #NFDB
1308:We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. ~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, #NFDB
1309:When I heard Jim proclaim with certainty, “Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become, ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1310:A unifying theme in all the classical pragmatists as well as their successors is the development of a philosophical orientation that replaces Cartesianism (in all its varieties). ~ Richard J Bernstein, #NFDB
1311:Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary; it fulfils the same function as pain in the human body, it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. ~ William Manchester, #NFDB
1312:Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates. ~ Derek Bok, #NFDB
1313:In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
1314:It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1315:Since the development of mathematics is often inspired and guided by aesthetic considerations, mathematics can be described as “amphibious”: It is both a science and one of the humanities. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1316:Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. ~ Li Keqiang, #NFDB
1317:The development of mass communications technology enabled governments to assemble massive armies of poor men, not only to fight and die in rich men’s wars, but to do it enthusiastically. ~ Adam Kokesh, #NFDB
1318:The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1319:The Downs hijacking case came to epitomize everything not to do in a crisis situation, and inspired the development of today’s theories, training, and techniques for hostage negotiations. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
1320:The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism. ~ Patrick Swift, #NFDB
1321:The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1322:The State is a convenience, and a rather clumsy convenience, for our common development; it ought never to be made an end in itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Inadequacy of the State Idea, #NFDB
1323:We are not asking for something spectacular but rather for our sisters to find real self-fulfillment through wise self-development in the pursuit of righteous and worthy endeavors. ~ Spencer W Kimball, #NFDB
1324:We perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids [63],#NFDB
1325:Where are the answers to the spiritual needs and troubles of a new epoch? And where the knowledge to deal with the psychological problems raised by the development of modern consciousness? ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1326:Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1327:Call it Talent Development, Human Relations, People Support, or Head of People Experiences — whatever term fits your culture — choose to call this function anything but Human Resources. ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
1328:Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others. ~ Arlene Francis, #NFDB
1329:In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity. ~ Paul Farmer, #NFDB
1330:I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1331:It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace. ~ Ralph Linton, #NFDB
1332:Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
1333:Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1334:The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1335:The development of our personalities doesn’t take place in isolation, but in relationship with others—we are shaped and completed by unseen, unremembered forces; namely, our parents. ~ Alex Michaelides, #NFDB
1336:The portion of the brain which Man uses in this stage of his development is but a tiny part of the entire brain-area. The unused portion is awaiting the evolution of the race. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
1337:There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology. ~ Paul Kagame, #NFDB
1338:They have their place; they play their part in the great system, but they are not isolated and independent, and their development is restrained by the development of all the other thoughts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1339:To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1340:Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
1341:70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
1342:a leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
1343:At any particular stage in the development of science, our concepts concerning the causal relationships will then be true only relative to a certain approximation and to certain conditions. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1344:Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with ’em, and then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1345:Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. ~ Pratibha Patil, #NFDB
1346:Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future. ~ Jay Chiat, #NFDB
1347:Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
1348:My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1349:Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change. ~ Jean Ziegler, #NFDB
1350:That's why movies suck so bad these days; they're making them for people who don't even speak English. Less character development, more explosions and 3D dinosaurs and aliens and whatever. ~ Haydn Wilks, #NFDB
1351:The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor. ~ James Shikwati, #NFDB
1352:There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development. ~ Jason Gann, #NFDB
1353:The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China. ~ Laurent Fabius, #NFDB
1354:The strongest argument for why advanced AI needs a body may come from its learning and development phase—scientists may discover it’s not possible to “grow” AGI without some kind of body. ~ James Barrat, #NFDB
1355:Either everything in man can be traced as a development from below, or something must come from above. There is no avoiding that dilemma: you must be either a naturalist or a supernaturalist. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1356:One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking! ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1357:One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are. ~ Howard Hughes, #NFDB
1358:Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1359:Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1360:the business and marketing functions of a startup should be considered as important as engineering and product development and therefore deserve an equally rigorous methodology to guide them. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1361:The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt, #NFDB
1362:Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development. ~ Jan Tschichold, #NFDB
1363:Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted. ~ Steve Blank, #NFDB
1364:We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development. ~ Babatunde Osotimehin, #NFDB
1365:We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development. ~ Hugo Chavez, #NFDB
1366:A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1367:And instead of their advanced state in science being attributable to a superior development of intellectual faculties,…it is solely owing to…their innate thirst for blood and plunder. ~ Nell Irvin Painter, #NFDB
1368:Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
1369:But if we don’t know that liberty is a contingent reality, with a specific historical development, that needs to be defended if it is to continue to exist, how can we be expected to defend it? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1370:By far the most common project risks in software development are poor requirements and poor project planning, thus preparation tends to focus on improving requirements and project plans. ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB
1371:I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development. ~ Khaled Mashal, #NFDB
1372:Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of 'Now'. Mindfulness is a self development technique that will change the focus of our mind towards happiness. ~ Nata a Nuit Pantovi, #NFDB
1373:Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1374:Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022. ~ M M Pallam Raju, #NFDB
1375:The development of Fiona set the stage for this new phase in Amazon’s history and revealed the company as relentlessly innovative and disruptive, as well as calculating and ruthless. Amazon’s ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
1376:The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own. ~ Helene D Gayle, #NFDB
1377:The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1378:The ritualistic performances of sacrifice are meant for material economic development; in other words, they are meant to keep the body in good condition for cultivation of spiritual knowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1379:The single most important contribution education can make to a child’s development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1380:To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. ~ Leigh K Cunningham, #NFDB
1381:What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets? ~ Jeremy Corbyn, #NFDB
1382:Work is not done when Development completes the implementation of a feature—rather, it is only done when our application is running successfully in production, delivering value to the customer. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1383:All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ~ James Mark Baldwin, #NFDB
1384:As an Agile software development team, we’d been following the hallowed eXtreme Programming tenets, including YAGNI. That is, You Aren’t Gonna Need It: a caution to not write unnecessary code — ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1385:As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained. ~ Chester A Arthur, #NFDB
1386:It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. ~ Arthur Cecil Pigou, #NFDB
1387:I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. ~ Josef Albers, #NFDB
1388:I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
1389:Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
1390:Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1391:Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
1392:... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces. ~ Scott Meyers, #NFDB
1393:This apparent paradox of a development draped in the colours of revolt is a constant psychological feature of all human evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #NFDB
1394:Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
1395:When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative. ~ Kerry James Marshall, #NFDB
1396:Woman is to man as the slave to the master, the manual to the mental worker, the barbarian to the Greek. Woman is an unfinished man, left standing on a lower step in the scale of development. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1397:Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems. ~ George Monbiot, #NFDB
1398:Emotional security, continuity, a sense of being loved unconditionally for oneself—all those turn out to be as important to a child’s development as all but the most basic food and shelter. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1399:I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche. ~ Hugh Laurie, #NFDB
1400:King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
1401:On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1402:Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
1403:Survival, security, personal relationships, prestige, self-development—in my experience, those are exactly the values that a mythically inspired person doesn’t live for. ~ Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss, #NFDB
1404:The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
1405:The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1406:The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different. ~ Elijah Wood, #NFDB
1407:Therefore, let me reiterate that the rate should not meet the interests of a specific group or one or two groups, it should meet the fundamental development interests of the economy itself. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1408:Tolstóy’s immediate predecessors in the development of the modern novel were the great French analytical novelists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Rousseau and Stendhal. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1409:We all are interested in an open development, without any prejudice; this refers particularly and, perhaps, primarily to the Baltic countries, for them it is more important than for Russia. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1410:We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1411:We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans. ~ Jan Egeland, #NFDB
1412:Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
1413:Another vital factor was the development of a leadership style and set of cooperative customs that could allow developers to attract co-developers and get maximum leverage out of the medium. ~ Eric S Raymond, #NFDB
1414:Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone`s agenda. It should be a people's movement. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1415:Dr. Liam Hudson, a British psychologist that headed up Cambridge’s Research Unit of Intellectual Development in the sixties, compared IQ to basketball. If you’re five foot five, your prospects ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1416:Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1417:Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. ~ Anna Lindh, #NFDB
1418:Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1419:From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1420:If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one’s individual development. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1421:In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1422:Mike had explained that agile software development, intentional community, and group dynamics had emerged from a single pool of primordial psychological research and indigenous traditions. ~ William Hertling, #NFDB
1423:One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1424:Psychologists, at least psychologists who write textbooks, not only show no interest in the origin and development of love or affection, but they seem to be unaware of its very existence. ~ Tom Butler Bowdon, #NFDB
1425:Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher? ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1426:The prize and the punishment are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. The ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1427:Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1428:When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them. ~ Alexander Gould, #NFDB
1429:All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work. ~ Sandra Scarr, #NFDB
1430:As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1431:As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention. ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
1432:Douglas MacArthur said it well: “However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and give his life for his country, is the noblest development of mankind. ~ Dave Grossman, #NFDB
1433:In Mencken’s view, “religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress” (“The Ascent of Man”). ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1434:In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1435:Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ~ Christian Lous Lange, #NFDB
1436:Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. ~ Sol LeWitt, #NFDB
1437:probe indicates that Naxals don't want any development in their area. They don't want the children to be educated, they don't want roads to be built. They want tribals to remain in the dark. ~ Vivek Agnihotri, #NFDB
1438:The development of a responsible and effective strategic plan for a nonviolent struggle depends upon the careful formulation and selection of the grand strategy, strategies, tactics, and methods. ~ Gene Sharp, #NFDB
1439:the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1440:There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it. ~ Anthony Michael Hall, #NFDB
1441:Those who are devoted to the cause of the Personality of Godhead live only for the welfare, development and happiness of others. They do not live for any selfish interest. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1442:A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1443:Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise. ~ Deborah Blum, #NFDB
1444:Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1445:Chester, your peer in Development, is spending all his cycles on features, instead of stability, security, scalability, manageability, operability, continuity, and all those other beautiful ’itties. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1446:ERVs are useful during viviparous development. They help us subdue our mothers’ immune systems. Otherwise, her lymphocytes would kill the embryos, because in part they type for the father’s tissue. ~ Greg Bear, #NFDB
1447:If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. ~ Robert X Cringely, #NFDB
1448:If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1449:Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable. ~ Helen Clark, #NFDB
1450:It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1451:Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development ~ Luciano Floridi, #NFDB
1452:The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology. ~ Karl Mannheim, #NFDB
1453:The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. ~ Frank B Kellogg, #NFDB
1454:The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1455:There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1456:The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others ~ Nilakanta Sri Ram, #NFDB
1457:This is the white man’s burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment. ~ Alex Perry, #NFDB
1458:A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1459:Because shelves are Python objects containing Python objects, we can process them with normal Python syntax and development modes. Here, the interactive prompt effectively becomes a database client: ~ Mark Lutz, #NFDB
1460: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
1461:Continuing emphasis on change, on a better method and a better product, in other words, on progress in technology, has been the major force responsible for the growth and development of our country. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1462:Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference. ~ Paul Samuelson, #NFDB
1463:I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them. ~ Columbus Short, #NFDB
1464:I must admit that we have yet to understand how [Donald Trump] will develop his idea, his pledge to make America great again, but I hope this will not hinder the development of our cooperation. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1465:In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. ~ Joshua Leonard, #NFDB
1466:Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1467:The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it. ~ David Foreman, #NFDB
1468:The true culprits that trigger the development of atherosclerosis are oxidation and inflammation, created largely by the Standard American Diet of excess carbohydrates and chemically-altered fats. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
1469:Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1470:While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1471:And in its broadest sense, neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1472:At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development. ~ Eric Schmidt, #NFDB
1473:Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment. —PAUL FUSSELL, Abroad ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1474:Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams. ~ Nita Ambani, #NFDB
1475:Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. ~ Walter Chrysler, #NFDB
1476:I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development. ~ Frank B Kellogg, #NFDB
1477:Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1478:"Once metaphysical ideas have lost their capacity to recall and evoke the original experience they have not only become useless but prove to be actual impediments on the road to wider development." — ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1479:Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield? ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
1480:The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness. ~ K M Soehnlein, #NFDB
1481:Then I felt as if my thoughts were cut off in the middle, absorbing and yet defective, with an urgent need for verification, for development, yet without conviction, without faith in themselves. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
1482:to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial power, as no age had ever witnessed. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
1483:Without being sceptical no spiritual progress is possible, for blind adoration is only the first stage in the spiritual development of the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II, Spirituality and Nationalism, #NFDB
1484:An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1485:Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development. ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
1486:Far from being frivolous, recreational mathematics cuts to the heart of being a mathematician and is deeply linked to development of graduate-level mathematical skills. ~ Peter Rowlett, Twitter, September 9 2019., #NFDB
1487:he wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1488:I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
1489:If I devoted a quarter of the thought I put into the curating and maintenance of my bicycle to my job—or the development of my character, for that matter—I’d be an unstoppable force in the world. ~ The Velominati, #NFDB
1490:I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play. ~ John Guare, #NFDB
1491:People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1492:The growth of the railroads was intimately bound up with the wider development of America as a powerful economic force, and ultimately this process would ride roughshod over parochial concerns. ~ Christian Wolmar, #NFDB
1493:The inescapable truth of any relationship is that it can achieve no higher level of development than the level of maturity that both parties bring to it. ~ James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, #NFDB
1494:The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1495:This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal". ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
1496:To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1497:Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1498:... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death. ~ Franz Bardon, #NFDB
1499:And in its broadest sense, neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life. — ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1500:Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
624 Integral Yoga
83 Occultism
68 Christianity
51 Psychology
44 Philosophy
32 Science
18 Fiction
13 Integral Theory
12 Yoga
12 Theosophy
10 Education
8 Poetry
6 Cybernetics
3 Baha i Faith
2 Hinduism
2 Buddhism
1 Thelema
1 Sufism
1 Mythology
1 Kabbalah
1 Islam
1 Alchemy
482 Sri Aurobindo
266 The Mother
146 Satprem
84 Nolini Kanta Gupta
54 Carl Jung
50 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
26 Aleister Crowley
18 Rudolf Steiner
18 H P Lovecraft
16 A B Purani
15 Plotinus
12 Franz Bardon
11 George Van Vrekhem
11 Aldous Huxley
8 Nirodbaran
7 Plato
6 Swami Krishnananda
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi
6 Norbert Wiener
6 Jordan Peterson
6 Friedrich Nietzsche
6 Alice Bailey
4 Walt Whitman
4 Swami Vivekananda
4 James George Frazer
3 Thubten Chodron
3 Sri Ramakrishna
3 Ken Wilber
3 Baha u llah
2 Saint Augustine of Hippo
2 Paul Richard
2 Jean Gebser
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Bokar Rinpoche
131 Record of Yoga
82 The Synthesis Of Yoga
46 The Life Divine
39 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
32 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
28 Letters On Yoga IV
24 Letters On Yoga II
22 The Human Cycle
21 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
20 The Future of Man
20 Questions And Answers 1955
18 Lovecraft - Poems
17 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
16 The Practice of Psycho therapy
16 Mysterium Coniunctionis
16 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
16 Essays On The Gita
16 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
16 Agenda Vol 10
15 Questions And Answers 1956
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
15 Agenda Vol 06
14 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
14 Liber ABA
13 The Phenomenon of Man
13 Letters On Yoga I
13 Agenda Vol 09
12 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
12 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
12 Magick Without Tears
12 Letters On Yoga III
12 Let Me Explain
12 Agenda Vol 04
11 The Perennial Philosophy
11 Preparing for the Miraculous
11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
10 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
10 Aion
10 Agenda Vol 11
10 Agenda Vol 08
10 Agenda Vol 07
10 Agenda Vol 03
9 Vedic and Philological Studies
9 Talks
9 Essays Divine And Human
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
9 Agenda Vol 02
8 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
8 On Education
8 Agenda Vol 01
7 Questions And Answers 1954
7 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
6 The Study and Practice of Yoga
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Practice of Magical Evocation
6 Theosophy
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Isha Upanishad
6 Initiation Into Hermetics
6 Cybernetics
6 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
6 Agenda Vol 12
6 Agenda Vol 05
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Secret Of The Veda
5 Some Answers From The Mother
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
5 On the Way to Supermanhood
5 Hymn of the Universe
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 Whitman - Poems
4 The Golden Bough
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Questions And Answers 1953
4 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
4 Prayers And Meditations
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
4 Letters On Poetry And Art
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
4 Agenda Vol 13
3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
3 Bhakti-Yoga
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 Words Of Long Ago
2 Walden
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Integral Yoga
2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Book of Certitude
2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 City of God
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
A simple example is the concept of the Trinity in the Christian religion. The student is frequently amazed to learn through a study of the Qabalah that Egyptian mythology followed a similar concept with its trinity of gods, Osiris the father, Isis the virgin-mother, and Horus the son. The Qabalah indicates similar correspondences in the pantheon of Roman and Greek deities, proving the father-mother (Holy Spirit) - son principles of deity are primordial archetypes of man's psyche, rather than being, as is frequently and erroneously supposed a development peculiar to the Christian era.
At this juncture let me call attention to one set of attri butions by Rittangelius usually found as an appendix attached to the Sepher Yetzirah. It lists a series of "Intelligences" for each one of the ten Sephiros and the twenty-two Paths of the Tree of Life. It seems to me, after prolonged meditation, that the common attri butions of these Intelligences is altogether arbitrary and lacking in serious meaning.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
While practising the discipline of the madhur bhava, the male devotee often regards himself as a woman, in order to develop the most intense form of love for Sri Krishna, the only purusha, or man, in the universe. This assumption of the attitude of the opposite sex has a deep psychological significance. It is a matter of common experience that an idea may be cultivated to such an intense degree that every idea alien to it is driven from the mind. This peculiarity of the mind may be utilized for the subjugation of the lower desires and the development of the spiritual nature. Now, the idea which is the basis of all desires and passions in a man is the conviction of his indissoluble association with a male body. If he can inoculate himself thoroughly with the idea that he is a woman, he can get rid of the desires peculiar to his male body. Again, the idea that he is a woman may in turn be made to give way to another higher idea, namely, that he is neither man nor woman, but the Impersonal Spirit. The Impersonal Spirit alone can enjoy real communion with the Impersonal God. Hence the highest est realization of the Vaishnava draws close to the transcendental experience of the Vedantist.
A beautiful expression of the Vaishnava worship of God through love is to be found in the Vrindavan episode of the Bhagavata. The gopis, or milk-maids, of Vrindavan regarded the six-year-old Krishna as their Beloved. They sought no personal gain or happiness from this love. They surrendered to Krishna their bodies, minds, and souls. Of all the gopis, Radhika, or Radha, because of her intense love for Him, was the closest to Krishna. She manifested mahabhava and was united with her Beloved. This union represents, through sensuous language, a supersensuous experience.
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In 1867 Sri Ramakrishna returned to Kamarpukur to recuperate from the effect of his austerities. The peaceful countryside, the simple and artless companions of his boyhood, and the pure air did him much good. The villagers were happy to get back their playful, frank, witty, kind-hearted, and truthful Gadadhar, though they did not fail to notice the great change that had come over him during his years in Calcutta. His wife, Sarada Devi, now fourteen years old, soon arrived at Kamarpukur. Her spiritual development was much beyond her age and she was able to understand immediately her husband's state of mind. She became eager to learn from him about God and to live with him as his attendant. The Master accepted her cheerfully both as his disciple and as his spiritual companion. Referring to the experiences of these few days, she once said: "I used to feel always as if a pitcher full of bliss were placed in my heart. The joy was indescribable."
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supernatural cause to a natural phenomenon. They believed that the Master's body, a material thing, was subject, like all other material things, to physical laws. Growth, development, decay, and death were laws of nature to which the Master's body could not but respond. But though holding differing views, they all believed that it was to him alone that they must look for the attainment of their spiritual goal.
In spite of the physician's efforts and the prayers and nursing of the devotees, the illness rapidly progressed. The pain sometimes appeared to be unbearable. The Master lived only on liquid food, and his frail body was becoming a mere skeleton. Yet his face always radiated joy, and he continued to welcome the visitors pouring in to receive his blessing. When certain zealous devotees tried to keep the visitors away, they were told by Girish, "You cannot succeed in it; he has been born for this very purpose — to sacrifice himself for the redemption of others."
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
developments of One Organ, so also are Life and
Death but two phases of One State. So also the
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for the whole of the development of the A,'.A.'. move-
ment which has been associated with the publication of
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The reader will find mentioned in this work many visions and experiences that fall outside the ken of physical science and even psychology. With the development of modern knowledge the border line between the natural and the supernatural is ever shifting its position. Genuine mystical experiences are not as suspect now as they were half a century ago. The words of Sri Ramakrishna have already exerted a tremendous influence in the land of his birth. Savants of Europe have found in his words the ring of universal truth.
But these words were not the product of intellectual cogitation; they were rooted in direct experience. Hence, to students of religion, psychology, and physical science, these experiences of the Master are of immense value for the understanding of religious phenomena in general. No doubt Sri Ramakrishna was a Hindu of the Hindus; yet his experiences transcended the limits of the dogmas and creeds of Hinduism. Mystics of religions other than Hinduism will find in Sri Ramakrishna's experiences a corroboration of the experiences of their own prophets and seers. And this is very important today for the resuscitation of religious values. The sceptical reader may pass by the supernatural experiences; he will yet find in the book enough material to provoke his serious thought and solve many of his spiritual problems.
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
The supposed location of the threshold between animate and inanimate was methodically narrowed down by experimental science until it was confined specifically within the domain of virology. Virologists have been too busy, for instance, with their DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time to see the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate. The possibility of its existence vanished because the supposedly unique physical qualities of both animate and inanimate have persisted right across yesterday's supposed threshold in both directions to permeate one another's-previously perceived to be exclusive- domains. Subsequently, what was animate has become foggier and foggier, and what is inanimate clearer and clearer. All organisms consist physically and in entirety of inherently inanimate atoms. The inanimate alone is not only omnipresent but is alone experimentally demonstrable. Belated news of the elimination of this threshold must be interpreted to mean that whatever life may be, it has not been isolated and thereby identified as residual in the biological cell, as had been supposed by the false assumption that there was a separate physical phenomenoncalled animate within which life existed. No life per se has been isolated. The threshold between animate and inanimate has vanished. Those chemists who are preoccupied in synthesizing the particular atomically structured molecules identified as the prime constituents of humanly employed organisms will, even if they are chemically successful, be as remote from creating life as are automobile manufacturers from creating the human drivers of their automobiles. Only the physical connections and development complexes of distinctly "nonlife" atoms into molecules, into cells, into animals, has been and will be discovered. The genetic coding of the design controls of organic systems offers no more explanation of life than did the specifications of the designs of the telephone system's apparatus and operation explain the nature of the life that communicates weightlessly to life over the only physically ponderable telephone system. Whatever else life may be, we know it is weightless. At the moment of death, no weight is lost. All the chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients, are present, but life has vanished. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic.
It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HERE are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us high and divine. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis. Secondly, development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation; yet all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old and loses much, if not all, of its virtue; it must be constantly renovated by fresh streams of the spirit revivifying the dead or dying vehicle and changing it, if it is to acquire a new life. To be perpetually reborn is the condition of a material immortality. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces, experimented on, combined and recombined either to perish and provide the scattered material of new forms or to emerge rejuvenated and changed for a fresh term of existence. Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is potentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface
The Conditions of the Synthesis
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
E RECOGNISE then, in the past developments of
Yoga, a specialising and separative tendency which, like all things in Nature, had its justifying and even imperative utility and we seek a synthesis of the specialised aims and methods which have, in consequence, come into being.
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Matter, which, however the too ethereally spiritual may despise it, is our foundation and the first condition of all our energies and realisations, and the Life-Energy which is our means of existence in a material body and the basis there even of our mental and spiritual activities. She has successfully achieved a certain stability of her constant material movement which is at once sufficiently steady and durable and sufficiently pliable and mutable to provide a fit dwelling-place and instrument for the progressively manifesting god in humanity. This is what is meant by the fable in the Aitareya Upanishad which tells us that the gods rejected the animal forms successively offered to them by the Divine Self and only when man was produced, cried out, "This indeed is perfectly made," and consented to enter in. She has effected also a working compromise between the inertia of matter and the active Life that lives in and feeds on it, by which not only is vital existence sustained, but the fullest developments of mentality are rendered possible. This equilibrium constitutes the basic status of Nature in man and is termed in the language of Yoga his gross body composed
The Three Steps of Nature
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If, then, this inferior equilibrium is the basis and first means of the higher movements which the universal Power contemplates and if it constitutes the vehicle in which the Divine here seeks to reveal Itself, if the Indian saying is true that the body is the instrument provided for the fulfilment of the right law of our nature, then any final recoil from the physical life must be a turning away from the completeness of the divine Wisdom and a renunciation of its aim in earthly manifestation. Such a refusal may be, owing to some secret law of their development, the right attitude for certain individuals, but never the aim intended for mankind. It can be, therefore, no integral Yoga which ignores the body or makes its annulment or its rejection indispensable to a perfect spirituality. Rather, the perfecting of the body also should be the last triumph of the Spirit and to make the bodily life also divine must be God's final seal upon His work in the universe. The obstacle which the physical presents to the spiritual is no argument for the rejection of the physical; for in the unseen providence of things our greatest difficulties are our best opportunities. A supreme difficulty is Nature's indication to us of a supreme conquest to be won and an ultimate problem to be solved; it is not a warning of an inextricable snare to be shunned or of an enemy too strong for us from whom we must flee.
Equally, the vital and nervous energies in us are there for a great utility; they too demand the divine realisation of their possibilities in our ultimate fulfilment. The great part assigned to this element in the universal scheme is powerfully emphasised by the catholic wisdom of the Upanishads. "As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-Energy is all established, the triple knowledge and the Sacrifice and the power of the strong and the purity of the wise. Under the control of the LifeEnergy is all this that is established in the triple heaven."2 It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source
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And when the preliminary conditions are satisfied, when the great endeavour has found its base, what will be the nature of that farther possibility which the activities of the intellectual life must serve? If Mind is indeed Nature's highest term, then the entire development of the rational and imaginative intellect and the harmonious satisfaction of the emotions and sensibilities must be to themselves sufficient. But if, on the contrary, man is more than a reasoning and emotional animal, if beyond that which is being evolved, there is something that has to be evolved, then it may well be that the fullness of the mental life, the suppleness, flexibility and wide capacity of the intellect, the ordered richness of emotion and sensibility may be only a passage towards the development of a higher life and of more powerful faculties which are yet to manifest and to take possession of the lower instrument, just as mind itself has so taken possession of the body that the physical being no longer lives only for its own satisfaction but provides the foundation and the materials for a superior activity.
The assertion of a higher than the mental life is the whole foundation of Indian philosophy and its acquisition and organisation is the veritable object served by the methods of Yoga.
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Yoga, the inner instrument.4 And Indian tradition asserts that this which is to be manifested is not a new term in human experience, but has been developed before and has even governed humanity in certain periods of its development. In any case, in order to be known it must at one time have been partly developed.
And if since then Nature has sunk back from her achievement, the reason must always be found in some unrealised harmony, some insufficiency of the intellectual and material basis to which she has now returned, some over-specialisation of the higher to the detriment of the lower existence.
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In each of these forms Nature acts both individually and collectively; for the Eternal affirms Himself equally in the single form and in the group-existence, whether family, clan and nation or groupings dependent on less physical principles or the supreme group of all, our collective humanity. Man also may seek his own individual good from any or all of these spheres of activity, or identify himself in them with the collectivity and live for it, or, rising to a truer perception of this complex universe, harmonise the individual realisation with the collective aim. For as it is the right relation of the soul with the Supreme, while it is in the universe, neither to assert egoistically its separate being nor to blot itself out in the Indefinable, but to realise its unity with the Divine and the world and unite them in the individual, so the right relation of the individual with the collectivity is neither to pursue egoistically his own material or mental progress or spiritual salvation without regard to his fellows, nor for the sake of the community to suppress or maim his proper development, but to sum up in himself all its best and completest possibilities and pour them out by thought, action and all other means on his surroundings so that the whole race may approach nearer to the attainment of its supreme personalities.
It follows that the object of the material life must be to fulfil, above all things, the vital aim of Nature. The whole aim of the material man is to live, to pass from birth to death with as much comfort or enjoyment as may be on the way, but anyhow to live.
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Mind finds fully its force and action only when it casts itself upon life and accepts equally its possibilities and its resistances as the means of a greater self-perfection. In the struggle with the difficulties of the material world the ethical development of the individual is firmly shaped and the great schools of conduct are formed; by contact with the facts of life Art attains to vitality, Thought assures its abstractions, the generalisations of the philosopher base themselves on a stable foundation of science and experience.
This mixing with life may, however, be pursued for the sake of the individual mind and with an entire indifference to the forms of the material existence or the uplifting of the race. This indifference is seen at its highest in the Epicurean discipline and is not entirely absent from the Stoic; and even altruism does the works of compassion more often for its own sake than for the sake of the world it helps. But this too is a limited fulfilment. The progressive mind is seen at its noblest when it strives to elevate the whole race to its own level whether by sowing broadcast the image of its own thought and fulfilment or by changing the material life of the race into fresh forms, religious, intellectual, social or political, intended to represent more nearly that ideal of truth, beauty, justice, righteousness with which the man's own soul is illumined. Failure in such a field matters little; for the mere attempt is dynamic and creative. The struggle of Mind to elevate life is the promise and condition of the conquest of life by that which is higher even than Mind.
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But if Progress also is one of the chief terms of worldexistence and a progressive manifestation of the Divine the true sense of Nature, this limitation also is invalid. It is possible for the spiritual life in the world, and it is its real mission, to change the material life into its own image, the image of the Divine. Therefore, besides the great solitaries who have sought and attained their self-liberation, we have the great spiritual teachers who have also liberated others and, supreme of all, the great dynamic souls who, feeling themselves stronger in the might of the Spirit than all the forces of the material life banded together, have thrown themselves upon the world, grappled with it in a loving wrestle and striven to compel its consent to its own transfiguration. Ordinarily, the effort is concentrated on a mental and moral change in humanity, but it may extend itself also to the alteration of the forms of our life and its institutions so that they too may be a better mould for the inpourings of the Spirit. These attempts have been the supreme landmarks in the progressive development of human ideals and the divine preparation of the race. Every one of them, whatever its outward results, has left Earth more capable of Heaven and quickened in its tardy movements the evolutionary Yoga of Nature.
In India, for the last thousand years and more, the spiritual life and the material have existed side by side to the exclusion of the progressive mind. Spirituality has made terms for itself with Matter by renouncing the attempt at general progress. It has obtained from society the right of free spiritual development for all who assume some distinctive symbol, such as the garb of the Sannyasin, the recognition of that life as man's goal and those who live it as worthy of an absolute reverence, and the casting of society itself into such a religious mould that its most customary acts should be accompanied by a formal reminder of the spiritual symbolism of life and its ultimate destination. On the other hand, there was conceded to society the right of inertia and immobile self-conservation. The concession destroyed much of the value of the terms. The religious mould being fixed, the formal reminder tended to become a routine and to lose its living sense. The constant attempts to change the mould by new sects and religions ended only in a new routine or a modification of the old; for the saving element of the free and active mind had been exiled. The material life, handed over to the Ignorance, the purposeless and endless duality, became a leaden and dolorous yoke from which flight was the only escape.
The schools of Indian Yoga lent themselves to the compromise. Individual perfection or liberation was made the aim, seclusion of some kind from the ordinary activities the condition, the renunciation of life the culmination. The teacher gave his knowledge only to a small circle of disciples. Or if a wider movement was attempted, it was still the release of the individual soul that remained the aim. The pact with an immobile society was, for the most part, observed.
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But their aim is one in the end. The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive mind in Science she seeks to make all mankind fit for the full development of the mental life, so by Yoga must she inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for the higher evolution, the second birth, the spiritual existence. And as the mental life uses and perfects the material, so will the spiritual use and perfect the material and the mental existence as the instruments of a divine self-expression.
The ages when that is accomplished, are the legendary Satya or Krita3 Yugas, the ages of the Truth manifested in the symbol, of the great work done when Nature in mankind, illumined, satisfied and blissful, rests in the culmination of her endeavour.
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This system is the way of the Tantra. Owing to certain of its developments Tantra has fallen into discredit with those who are not Tantrics; and especially owing to the developments of its left-hand path, the Vama Marga, which not content with exceeding the duality of virtue and sin and instead of replacing them by spontaneous rightness of action seemed, sometimes, to make a method of self-indulgence, a method of unrestrained social immorality. Nevertheless, in its origin, Tantra was a great and puissant system founded upon ideas which were at least partially true. Even its twofold division into the right-hand and left-hand paths, Dakshina Marga and Vama Marga, started from a certain profound perception. In the ancient symbolic sense of the words Dakshina and Vama, it was the distinction between the way of Knowledge and the way of Ananda, - Nature in man liberating itself by right discrimination in power and practice of its own energies, elements and potentialities and Nature in man
The Synthesis of the Systems
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Perfection includes perfection of mind and body, so that the highest results of Rajayoga and Hathayoga should be contained in the widest formula of the synthesis finally to be effected by mankind. At any rate a full development of the general mental and physical faculties and experiences attainable by humanity through Yoga must be included in the scope of the integral method. Nor would these have any raison d'etre unless employed for an integral mental and physical life. Such a mental and physical life would be in its nature a translation of the spiritual existence into its right mental and physical values. Thus we would arrive at a synthesis of the three degrees of Nature and of the three modes of human existence which she has evolved or is evolving. We would include in the scope of our liberated being and perfected modes of activity the material life, our base, and the mental life, our intermediate instrument.
Nor would the integrality to which we aspire be real or even possible, if it were confined to the individual. Since our divine perfection embraces the realisation of ourselves in being, in life and in love through others as well as through ourselves, the extension of our liberty and of its results in others would be the inevitable outcome as well as the broadest utility of our liberation and perfection. And the constant and inherent attempt of such an extension would be towards its increasing and ultimately complete generalisation in mankind.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
upon the first, for it assumes a much more advanced state of development. The
Active Night has left the senses and faculties well prepared, though not completely
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Indifference is a stage of development which must lead to a
perfect equality of soul.
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This process of development goes on tirelessly through innumerable lives, and if one is not conscious of it, it is because
one is not conscious of one's psychic being - for that is the
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The growth of a philosophical thought-content in poetry has been inevitable. For man's consciousness in its evolutionary march is driving towards a consummation which includes and presupposes a development along that line. The mot d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imaginationremember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisationsof whatever order or world they may beexpressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But a new turn has been coming on with an increasing insistencea definite time has been given to that, since the Renaissance, it is said: it is the growing importance of Thought or brain-power as a medium or atmosphere in which poetic experiences find a sober and clear articulation, a definite and strong formulation. Rationalisation of all experiences and realisations is the keynote of the modern mentality. Even when it is said that reason and rationality are not ultimate or final or significant realities, that the irrational or the submental plays a greater role in our consciousness and that art and poetry likewise should be the expression of such a mentality, even then, all this is said and done in and through a strong rational and intellectual stress and frame the like of which cannot be found in the old-world frankly non-intellectual creations.
The religious, the mystic or the spiritual man was, in the past, more or Jess methodically and absolutely non-intellectual and anti-intellectual: but the modern age, the age of scientific culture, is tending to make him as strongly intellectual: he has to explain, not only present the object but show up its mechanism alsoexplain to himself so that he may have a total understanding and a firmer grasp of the thing which he presents and explains to others as well who demand a similar approach. He feels the necessity of explaining, giving the rationality the rationale the science, of his art; for without that, it appears to him, a solid ground is not given to the structure of his experience: analytic power, preoccupation with methodology seems inherent in the modern creative consciousness.
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Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has followed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet follows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although often the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. Let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Not only so, the future development of the poetic consciousness seems inevitably to lead to such a consummation in which the creative and the critical faculties will not be separate but form part of one and indivisible movement. Historically, human consciousness has grown from unconsciousness to consciousness and from consciousness to self-consciousness; man's creative and artistic genius too has moved pari passu in the same direction. The earliest and primitive poets were mostly unconscious, that is to say, they wrote or said things as they came to them spontaneously, without effort, without reflection, they do not seem to know the whence and wherefore and whither of it all, they know only that the wind bloweth as it listeth. That was when man had not yet eaten the fruit of knowledge, was still in the innocence of childhood. But as he grew up and progressed, he became more and more conscious, capable of exerting and exercising a deliberate will and initiating a purposive action, not only in the external practical field but also in the psychological domain. If the earlier group is called "primitives", the later one, that of conscious artists, usually goes by the name of "classicists." Modern creators have gone one step farther in the direction of self-consciousness, a return upon oneself, an inlook of full awareness and a free and alert activity of the critical faculties. An unconscious artist in the sense of the "primitives" is almost an impossible phenomenon in the modern world. All are scientists: an artist cannot but be consciously critical, deliberate, purposive in what he creates and how he creates. Evidently, this has cost something of the old-world spontaneity and supremacy of utterance; but it cannot be helped, we cannot comm and the tide to roll back, Canute-like. The feature has to be accepted and a remedy and new orientation discovered.
The modern critical self-consciousness in the artist originated with the Romantics. The very essence of Romanticism is curiosity the scientist's pleasure in analysing, observing, experimenting, changing the conditions of our reactions, mental or sentimental or even nervous and physical by way of discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psychological states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side of things is intimately associated with the poetic genius of Mallarm and constitutes almost the whole of Valry's. The impassioned lines of a very modern poet like Aragon are also characterised by a consummate virtuosity in chiselled artistry, conscious and deliberate and willed at every step and turn.
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Whether the original and true source of the poet's inspiration lies deep within or high above, all depends upon the mediating instrument the mind (in its most general sense) and speech for a successful transcription. Man's ever-growing consciousness demanded also a conscious development and remoulding of these two factors. A growth, a heightening and deepening of the consciousness meant inevitably a movement towards the spiritual element in things. And that means, we have said, a twofold change in the future poet's make-up. First as regards the substance. The revolutionary shift that we notice in modern poets towards a completely new domain of subject-matter is a signpost that more is meant than what is expressed. The superficialities and futilities that are dealt with do not in their outward form give the real trend of things. In and through all these major and constant preoccupation of our poets is "the pain of the present and the passion for the future": they are, as already stated, more prophets than poets, but prophets for the moment crying in the wildernessalthough some have chosen the path of denial and revolt. They are all looking ahead or beyond or deep down, always yearning for another truth and reality which will explain, justify and transmute the present calvary of human living. Such an acute tension of consciousness has necessitated an overhauling of the vehicle of expression too, the creation of a mode of expressing the inexpressible. For that is indeed what human consciousness and craft are aiming at in the present stage of man's evolution. For everything, almost everything that can be normally expressed has been expressed and in a variety of ways as much as is possible: that is the history of man's aesthetic creativity. Now the eye probes into the unexpressed world; for the artist too the Upanishadic problem has cropped up:
By whom impelled does the mind fall to its target, what is the agent that is behind the eye and sees through the eyes, what is the hearing and what the speech that their respective sense organs do not and cannot convey and record adequately or at all?
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Against this tyranny of the group, this absolute rule of the collective will, the human mind rose in revolt and the result was Individualism. For whatever may be the truth and necessity of the Collective, the Individual is no less true and necessary. The individual has his own law and urge of being and his own secret godhead. The collective godhead derides the individual godhead at its peril. The first movement of the reaction, however, was a run to the other extremity; a stern collectivism gave birth to an intransigent individualism. The individual is sacred and inviolable, cost what it may. It does not matter what sort of individuality one seeks, it is enough if the thing is there. So the doctrine of individualism has come to set a premium on egoism and on forces that are disruptive of all social bonds. Each and every individual has the inherent right, which is also a duty, to follow his own impetus and impulse. Society is nothing but the battle ground for competing individualities the strongest survive and the weakest go to the wall. Association and co-operation are instruments that the individual may use and utilise for his own growth and development but in the main they act as deterrents rather than as aids to the expression and expansion of his characteristic being. In reality, however, if we probe sufficiently deep into the matter we find that there is no such thing as corporate life and activity; what appears as such is only a camouflage for rigorous competition; at the best, there maybe only an offensive and defensive alliancehumanity fights against nature, and within humanity itself group fights against group and in the last analysis, within the group, the individual fights against the individual. This is the ultimate Law-the Dharma of creation.
Now, what such an uncompromising individualism fails to recognise is that individuality and ego are not the same thing, that the individual may have his individuality intact and entire and yet sacrifice his ego, that the soul of man is a much greater thing than his vital being. It is simply ignoring the fact and denying the truth to say that man is only a fighting animal and not a loving god, that the self within the individual realises itself only through competition and not co-operation. It is an error to conceive of society as a mere parallelogram of forces, to suppose that it has risen simply out of the struggle of individual interests and continues to remain by that struggle. Struggle is only one aspect of the thing, a particular form at a particular stage, a temporary manifestation due to a particular system and a particular habit and training. It would be nearer the truth to say that society came into being with the demand of the individual soul to unite with the individual soul, with the stress of an Over-soul to express itself in a multitude of forms, diverse yet linked together and organised in perfect harmony. Only, the stress for union manifested itself first on the material plane as struggle: but this is meant to be corrected and transcended and is being continually corrected and transcended by a secret harmony, a real commonality and brotherhood and unity. The individual is not so self-centred as the individualists make him to be, his individuality has a much vaster orbit and fulfils itself only by fulfilling others. The scientists have begun to discover other instincts in man than those of struggle and competition; they now place at the origin of social grouping an instinct which they name the herd-instinct: but this is only a formulation in lower terms, a translation on the vital plane of a higher truth and reality the fundamental oneness and accord of individuals and their spiritual impulsion to unite.
However, individualism has given us a truth and a formula which collectivism ignored. Self-determination is a thing which has come to stay. Each and every individual is free, absolutely free and shall freely follow his own line of growth and development and fulfilment. No extraneous power shall choose and fix what is good or evil for him, nor coerce and exploit him for its own benefit. But that does not necessarily mean that collectivism has no truth in it; collectivism also, as much as individualism, has a lesson for us and we should see whether we can harmonise the two. Collectivism signifies that the individual should not look to himself alone, should not be shut up in his freedom but expand himself and envelop others in a wider freedom, see other creatures in himself and himself in other creatures, as the Gita says. Collectivism demands that the individual need not and should not exhaust himself entirely in securing and enjoying his personal freedom, but that he can and should work for the salvation of others; the truth it upholds is this that the individual is from a certain point of view only a part of the group and by ignoring the latter it ignores itself in the end.
Now, a spiritual communism embraces individualism and collectivism, fuses them in a higher truth, establishes them in an intimate and absolute harmony. The individual is the centre, the group is the circumference and the two form one whore circle. The individual by fulfilling the truth of his real individuality fulfils also the truth of a commonality. There are no different laws for the two. The individuals do not stand apart from and against one another, the dharma of one does not clash with the dharma of the other. The ripples in the bosom of the sea, however distinct and discrete in appearance, form but a single mass, all follow the same law of hydrodynamics that the mother sea incarnates. Stars and planets and nebulae, each separate heavenly body has its characteristic form and nature and function and yet all fulfil the same law of gravitation and beat the measure of the silent symphony of spaces. Individualities are the freedoms of the collective being and collectivity the concentration of individual beings. The same soul looking inward appears as the individual being and looking outward appears as the collective being.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
governs the development of the individual, but the most developed individualities are not necessarily those in whom the ego is
strongest - on the contrary. As the individuality perfects itself,
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of development of the consciousness.
9 September 1964
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integral development.
25 November 1964
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remember them. To construct a system of development is secondary and sometimes harmful.
17 March 1965
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for physical, mental and vital development; but this mechanical
"Experience in thy soul the truth of the Scripture; afterwards, if thou wilt, reason
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rigidity has little or no effect on spiritual development where the
spontaneity of an absolute sincerity is indispensable.
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and on the development of the nature, which is almost unlimited
for those who know how to do it.
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The truth behind a credal religion is the aspiration towards the realization of the Divine, some ultimate reality that gives a permanent meaning and value to the human life, to the existence lodged in this 'sphere of sorrow' here below. Credal paraphernalia were necessary to express or buttress this core of spiritual truth when mankind, in the mass, had not attained a certain level of enlightenment in the mind and a certain degree of development in its life-relations. The modern age is modern precisely because it had attained to a necessary extent this mental enlightenment and this life development. So the scheme or scaffolding that was required in the past is no longer unavoidable and can have either no reality at all or only a modified utility.
A modern people is a composite entity, especially with regard to its religious affiliation. Not religion, but culture is the basis of modern collective life, national or social. Culture includes in its grain that fineness of temperament which appreciates all truths behind all forms, even when there is a personal allegiance to one particular form.
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India's historical development is marked by a special characteristic which is at once the expression of her inmost nature and the setting of a problem which she has to solve for herself and for the whole human race. I have spoken of the diversity and divergence of affiliations in a modern social unit. But what distinguishes India from all other peoples is that the diversity and divergence have culminated here in contradictoriness and mutual exclusion.
The first extremes that met in India and fought and gradually coalesced to form a single cultural and social whole were, as is well known, the Aryan and the non-Aryan. Indeed, the geologists tell us, the land itself is divided into two parts structurally quite different and distinct, the Deccan plateau and the Himalayan ranges with the Indo-Gangetic plain: the former is formed out of the most ancient and stable and, on the whole, horizontally bedded rocks of the earth, while the latter is of comparatively recent origin, formed out of a more flexible and weaker belt (the Himalayan region consisting of a colossal flexing and crumpling of strata). The disparity is so much that a certain group of geologists hold that the Deccan plateau did not at all form part of the Asiatic continent, but had drifted and dashed into it:in fact the Himalayas are the result of this mighty impact. The usual division of an Aryan and a Dravidian race may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races.
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And still this was not the lastit could not be the lastanti thesis that had to be synthetized. The dialectical movement led to a more serious and fiercer contradiction. The Buddhistic schism was after all a division brought about from within: it could be said that the two terms of the antinomy belonged to the same genus and were commensurable. The idea or experience of Asat and Maya was not unknown to the Upanishads, only it had not there the exclusive stress which the later developments gave it. Hence quite a different, an altogether foreign body was imported into what was or had come to be a homogeneous entity, and in a considerable mass.
Unlike the previous irruptions that merged and were lost in the general life and consciousness, Islam entered as a leaven that maintained its integrity and revolutionized Indian life and culture by infusing into its tone a Semitic accent. After the Islamic impact India could not be what she was beforea change became inevitable even in the major note. It was a psychological cataclysm almost on a par with the geological one that formed her body; but the spirit behind which created the body was working automatically, inexorably towards the greater and more difficult synthesis demanded by the situation. Only the thing is to be done now consciously, not through an unconscious process of laissez-faire as on the inferior stages of evolution in the past. And that is the true genesis of the present conflict.
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We may perhaps view the three terms Right, Duty and Dharma as degrees of an ascending consciousness. Consciousness at Its origin and in its primitive formulation is dominated by the principle of inertia (tamas); in that state things have mostly an undifferentiated collective existence, they helplessly move about acted upon by forces outside them. A rise in growth and evolution brings about differentiation, specialisation, organisation. And this means consciousness of oneself of the distinct and separate existence of each and everyone, in other words, self-assertion, the claim, the right of each individual unit to be itself, to become itself first and foremost. It is a necessary development; for it signifies the growth of self consciousness in the units out of a mass unconsciousness or semi-consciousness. It is the expression of rajas, the mode of dynamism, of strife and struggle, it is the corrective of tamas.
In the earliest and primitive society men lived totally in a mass consciousness. Their life was a blind obedienceobedience to the chief the patriarch or pater familiasobedience to the laws and customs of the collectivity to which one belonged. It was called duty; it was called even dharma, but evidently on a lower level, in an inferior formulation. In reality it was more of the nature of the mechanical functioning of an automaton than the exercise of conscious will and deliberate choice, which is the very soul of the conception of duty.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy Encouraged by superficial notions of evolution, Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning the past.17
we have also high flights like the lines I have already quoted:
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Physical education means principally all the various exercises for the development and maintenance of the body.
Naturally, here we have combined the two. But this is mainly
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
contrary be sublimated and used for progress and higher development so as to prepare the coming of the new race. But first, the
vital and the physical have to be free of all desire - otherwise
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birth and development of the new race.
It is only by giving ourselves entirely to the Divine in perfect
0 1956-10-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
One should beware of the charm of memories. What remains of past experiences is the effect they have had in the development of the consciousness. But when one attempts to relive a memory by placing oneself again in similar circumstances, one realizes quite rapidly how devoid they are of their power and charm, because they have lost their usefulness for progress.
You are now beyond the stage when the virgin forest and the desert can be useful for your growth. They had put you in contact with a life vaster than your own and they widened the limits of your consciousness. But now you need something else.
0 1958-02-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Last night, I had the vision of what this supramental world could become if men were not sufficiently prepared. The confusion existing at present upon earth is nothing in comparison to what could take place. Imagine that every powerful will has the power to transform matter as it likes! If the sense of collective oneness did not grow in proportion to the development of power, the resulting conflict would be yet more acute and chaotic than our material conflicts.
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0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My experience is that, individually, we are in relationship with that aspect of the Divine which is not necessarily the most in conformity with our natures, but which is the most essential for our development or the most necessary for our action. For me, it was always a question of action because, personally, individually, each aspiration for personal development had its own form, its own spontaneous expression, so I did not use any formula. But as soon as there was the least little difficulty in action, it sprang forth. Only long afterwards did I notice that it was formulated in a certain way I would utter it without even knowing what the words were. But it came like this: Dieu de bont et de misricorde. It was as if I wanted to eliminate from action all aspects that were not this one. And it lasted for I dont know, more than twenty or twenty-five years of my life. It came spontaneously.
Just recently one day, the contact became entirely physical, the whole body was in great exaltation, and I noticed that other lines were spontaneously being added to this Dieu de bont et de misricorde, and I noted them down. It was a springing forth of states of consciousness not words.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is ones position in the universal hierarchy, which is something ineluctableit is the eternal lawand there is the development in the manifestation, which is an education; it is progressive and done from within the being. What is remarkable is that to become a perfect being, this positionwhatever it is, decreed since all eternity, a part of the eternal Truthmust manifest with the greatest possible perfection as a result of evolutionary growth. It is the junction, the union of the two, the eternal position and the evolutionary realization, that will make the total and perfect being, and the manifestation as the Lord has willed it since the beginning of all eternity (which has no beginning at all! ).
And for the cycle to be complete, one cannot stop on the way at any plane, not even the highest spiritual plane nor the plane closest to matter (like the occult plane in the vital, for example). One must descend right into matter, and this perfection in manifestation must be a material perfection, or otherwise the cycle is not completewhich explains why those who want to flee in order to realize the divine Will are in error. What must be done is exactly the opposite! The two must be combined in a perfect way. This is why all the honest sciences, the sciences that are practiced sincerely, honestly, exclusively with a will to know, are difficult pathsyet such sure paths for the total realization.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This is how it works: the psychic being passes from one life to another, but there are cases in which the psychic incarnates in order to to work out2 to pass through a certain experience, to learn a certain thing, to develop a certain thing through a certain experience. And so in this life, in the life where the experience is to be made, it can happen (there may be more than one reason) that the soul does not come down accurately in the place it should have, some shift or other may occur, a set of contrary circumstancesthis happens sometimesand then the incarnation miscarries entirely and the soul leaves. But in other cases, the soul is simply placed in the impossibility of doing exactly what it wants and it finds itself swept away by unfortunate circumstances. Not only unfortunate from an objective standpoint, but unfortunate for its own development, and then that creates in it the necessity to begin the experience all over again, and in much more difficult conditions.
And ifit can happenif the second attempt also miscarries, if the conditions make the experience the soul is seeking still more difficult for example, if one is in a body with an inadequate will or some distortion in the thought, or an egoism too too hardened, and it ends in suicide, it is dreadful. I have seen this many times, it creates a dreadful karma that can be repeated for lifetimes on end before the soul can conquer it and manage to do what it wants. And each time, the conditions become more difficult, each time it requires a still greater effort. And people who know this say, You cannot get out! In fact, it is this kind of desire to escape which pushes you into more foolish things3 that result in a still greater accumulation of difficulty. There are momentsmoments and circumstanceswhen no one is there to help you, and then things become so horrible, the circumstances become so abominable.
0 1958-11-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As it is, the physical body is really only a very disfigured shadow of the eternal life of the Self, but this physical body is capable of a progressive development; the physical substance progresses through each individual formation, and one day it will be able to build a bridge between physical life as we know it and the supramental life that is to manifest.
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0 1959-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1) The fact that I am plagued by a lack of time and, occasionally, a certain repugnance for mental work. Then the ensuing suggestion: to have a hut in Rameswaram and devote myself exclusively to inner development.
2) I am very pullednot constantly, but periodicallyby the need to write (not mental things) and exasperated by the fact that this Orpailleur is not published because I have not taken the time to carry out certain corrections. When I am in a good mood, I offer all this to you (is it perhaps a hidden ambition? But I am not so sure; it is rather a need, I believe) and when I am not in a good mood, I fume about not having the time to write something else.
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For the West, with all its outward development, a few centuries may be needed before the junction between the two worlds can be made. And yet these two worlds the physical world and the world of Truthare not distant from one another. They are as if superimposed. The world of Truth is there, close by, like a lining of the other.
Shortly before the 15th of August I had a unique experience that exemplifies all this.1 For the first time the supramental light entered directly into my body, without passing through the inner beings. It entered through the feet (a red and gold colormarvelous, warm, intense), and it climbed up and up. And as it climbed, the fever also climbed because the body was not accustomed to this intensity. As all this light neared the head, I thought I would burst and that the experience would have to be stopped. But then, I very clearly received the indication to make the Calm and Peace descend, to widen all this body-consciousness and all these cells, so that they could contain the supramental light. So I widened, and as the light was ascending, I brought down the vastness and an unshakable peace. And suddenly, there was a second of fainting.
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Since the last experience [January 24] I see it daily. The following day, probably for reasons connected with the bodys development and adaptation, I was rather seriously illwhat is usually called painfully ill: the body was suffering a lot, or WOULD HAVE suffered a lot had it been in its former normal consciousness. Thats where I saw the differencea fantastic difference!
I was perfectly conscious (now when I say I, it refers to my body, I am not speaking of the whole higher consciousness), the body was perfectly conscious of its suffering, the reason for its suffering, the cause of its suffering, everything and it did not suffer. You understand, the two perceptions were there together: the body saw the disorder, saw the suffering just as it would have felt it a few weeks earlier, it saw all that (saw, knew I dont know how to express itit was conscious, it was aware) and it did not suffer. The two awarenesses were absolutely simultaneous.
0 1961-01-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But otherwise. Some of the things you note down I just put away. But some I show to Nolini (of them all, Nolini is the one who can best understand). I give him certain things to read, but otherwise, no. It is completely different between us, as I told you completely different. If you benefit from it, so much the better! If it helps you in your inner development, good, I have no objectionon the contrary. Its quite natural, the natural consequence of our meetings.
But if while speaking with Sujata you feel that something might help her, I have no objection to your telling hersimply say that its between the two of you.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theon always told me that the true interpretation of the Biblical story of the serpent in the Garden of Eden is that humanity wanted to pass from a state of animal-like divinity to the state of conscious divinity by means of mental development, symbolized by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. And this serpent, which Theon always said was iridescent, reflecting all the colors of the prism, was not at all the spirit of evil, but the power of evolution the force, the power of evolution. And it was natural that this power of evolution would make them taste the fruit of knowledge.
Now, according to Theon, Jehovah was the chief of the Asuras,6 the supreme Asura, the egoistic God who wanted to dominate everything and keep everything under his control. And of course this act made him furious, for it enabled mankind to become gods through the power of an evolution of consciousness. And thats why he banished them from Paradise.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The worlds outer evolution is moving ahead so rapidlyin terms of scientific developments that this change CANNOT be put off for millions of years. Mans inner development needs to catch up with all that, doesnt it?
Yes, surelyoh, yes!
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A time comes when all these disputesAh, no, this is like this, that is like thatseem so silly, so silly! And there is nothing more comical than this spontaneous reply so many people give: Oh, thats impossible! Because with even the most rudimentary intellectual development, you would know you couldnt even think of something if it werent possible!
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0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Man on earth1 is a transitional being and as a consequence, in the course of his evolution, he has had several successive natures following an ascending curve which they will continue to follow until he touches the threshold of the supramental nature and is transformed into a superman. This curve is the spiral of mental development.
We tend to apply the word natural to all spontaneous manifestation not resulting from a choice or a preconceived decision that is, with no intrusion of mental activity. Thats why a man with an only slightly mentalized vital spontaneity seems more natural to us in his simplicity. But this naturalness bears a close resemblance to the animals and is quite low on the human evolutionary scale. Man will not recapture this spontaneity free of mental intrusion until he attains the supramental level, until he goes beyond the mind and emerges into the higher Truth.
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Man questions himself because the mental instrument is made for seeing all possibilities and because the human being feels he has freedom of choice and the immediate consequences are the notions of good and evil, right and wrong, and all the ensuing miseries. This cant be called a bad thing: its an intermediate stagenot a very pleasant stage, but nevertheless it was certainly inevitable for a total development.
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0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother is alluding to two extracts from Questions and Answers (dated June 19 and July 17, 1957) which she has just reviewed for inclusion in the Bulletin. In them she speaks of the causes of illness and of using the conscious will for physical development.
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0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It depends upon the level of development, thats what Theon used to say: One goes into trance only when certain links are missing. He saw people as made up of innumerable small bridges, with intermediary zones. If you have an intermediary zone that is undeveloped, he said, a zone where you are not conscious because its not individualized, then you will be in trance when you cross it. Trance is the sign of non-individualization the consciousness is not awake and so your body goes into trance. But if your consciousness is wide awake you can sit, keeping full contact with things, and have the total experience. I could go out of my body with no need of trance, except when Theon wanted me to do a particular work. That was a different business the vital force (not the consciousness, the vital force) had to go out for that work, so the body had to go into trance. But even then. For instance, very often when I am called and go to do something in response, my body does become still, but its not in trance; I can be sitting and, even in the middle of a gesture, suddenly become immobile for a few seconds.7 But I was doing another type of work with Theondangerous work, at thatand it would last for an hour. Then all the bodys vital energy would go out, all of it, as it does when you die (in fact, thats how I came to experience death).
But it isnt necessary to have all those experiences, not at allSri Aurobindo never did. (Theon didnt have experiences, either; he had only the knowledgehe made use of Madame Theons experiences.) Sri Aurobindo told me he had never really entered the unconsciousness of samadhi for him, these domains were conscious; he would sit on his bed or in his armchair and have all the experiences.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am seeing this book now. I see it. But when I leave here, with that whole throng around me and all that work to do, it will fade away. I would need to be very quiet, have nothing to do, and just write when it comes to me; because I cannot do things in a logical fashion I have never been able to, never. The experience must come suddenlya memory, an experience then I note it down, put it aside and leave it. And when another comes, the same thing. In this way there would be (smiling) no plan to the book! It would be very simple: no plan of ideas, no plan of development, nothing; simply a story.
For example, the importance of the departure2: how he was present the whole time I was away; how he guided my entire life in Japan; how. Of course, it would be seen in the mirror of my own experience, but it would be Sri Aurobindonot me, not my reactions: him; but through my experience because thats all I can speak of.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And if one adds to this, as I do, a mantric program, that is, a sort of prayer or invocation, a program for both personal development and helping the collective, then it becomes a truly active work. Then theres also what I call external work: contact with others, reading and answering letters, seeing and speaking to people, and finally all the activities having to do with the organization and running of the Ashram (in meditation this work becomes worldwide, but physically, materially, it is limited for the moment to the Ashram).
In the course of my observation, I also saw the position of X and people like him, who practically spend their lives doing japa, plus meditation, puja,4 ceremonies (I am talking only about sincere people, not fakers). Well, thats their way of working for the world, of serving the Divine, and it seems the best way to themperhaps even the only way but its a question of mental belief. In any case, its obvious that even a bit of not exactly puja, but some sort of ceremony that you set yourself to dohabitual gestures symbolizing and expressing a particular inner statecan also be a help and a way of offering yourself and relating to the Divine and thus serving the Divine. I feel its important looked at in this waynot from the traditional viewpoint, I cant stand that traditional viewpoint; I understand it, but it seems to me like putting a brake on true self-giving to the Divine. I am speaking of SELF-IMPOSED japa and rules (or, if someone gives you the japa, rules you accept with all your heart and adhere to). These self-imposed rules should be followed as a gesture of love, as a way of saying to the Divine, I love You. Do you see what I mean? Like arranging flowers in a certain way, burning incense, dozens of little things like that, made beautiful because of what is put into themit is a form of self-giving.
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Certain stages of your development even require the gurus physical presence: you must no longer go into trance unless he is there, sitting beside you. Out of the question! Cant you just imagine me saddled with loads of people! Its impossible; I couldnt even do the job properly. No, its impossible, it would simply mean exposing a lot of people to permanent danger and I dont want to.
So well put this Talk aside.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let me put it to you more clearly: your physical body, for example, should have been either stronger or more supple or endowed with certain very strong vital compensations, so that you wouldnt suffer from your working conditions. Of course, for someone following a yogic ascent, whose soul is in the process of formation, the external conditions of life are normally what is best for inner development, whatever that may beeven if, on the surface, those conditions arent good. So the only advice you can give such a person is, Well, either renounce the spiritual life or else putup with it. But thats not your case. There is a Mission, a work, and a kind of gap between a certain physical formation and that Mission. So if you ask me plainly what I see, I can tell you plainly, instead of saying as I would to certain sadhaks or anyone sincerely wanting to do yoga, Take it or leave it; you must learn to transform yourself inwardly to the point where you can master the body and its needs. I cant tell you that, because thats not how it is for you.
I mean it may beit may be that even an inner transformation (a complete conversion of the vital being, for instance) wouldnt necessarily bring an improvement in your health. It is here where. Its not something I see imperatively. And to go back to ordinary life would be the end of everythingof your physical life and your inner life too.
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why have I left politics? Because the politics of the country is not a genuine thing belonging to India. It is an importation from Europe and an imitation. At one time there was a need of it. We also have done politics of the European kind. If we had not done it, the country would not have risen and we too would not have gained experience and attained full development. There is still some need of it, not so much in Bengal as in the other provinces of India. But the time has come to stop the shadow from extending and to seize on the reality. We must get to the true soul of India and in its image fashion all works.
People now talk of spiritualizing politics. Its result will be, if there be any permanent result, some kind of Indianized Bolshevism. Even to that kind of work I have no objection. Let each man do according to his inspiration. But that is not the real thing. If one pours the spiritual power into all these impure forms the water of the Causal ocean into raw vesselsei ther the raw vessels will break and the water will be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image of an ape and setting it up in the temple of Shiva. If the ape is endowed with life and made powerful, he may play the part of the devotee Hanuman and do much work for Rama,2 so long as that life and that power remain. But what we want in the Temple of India is not Hanuman, but the god, the avatar, Rama himself.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, school years. I was a very bright student, always for the same reason: I wanted to understand. I wasnt interested in learning things by heart like the others did I wanted to understand them. And what a memory I had, a fantastic memory for sounds and images! I had only to read a poem aloud at night, and the next morning I knew it. And after I had studied or read a book and someone mentioned a passage to me, I would say, Ah, yes thats on page so and so. I would find the page. Nothing had faded, it was all still fresh. But this is the ordinary period of development.
Then at a very young age (about eight or ten), along with my studies I began to paint. At twelve I was already doing portraits. All aspects of art and beauty, but particularly music and painting, fascinated me. I went through a very intense vital development during that period, with, just like in my early years, the presence of a kind of inner Guide; and all centered on studies: the study of sensations, observations, the study of technique, comparative studies, even a whole spectrum of observations dealing with taste, smell and hearinga kind of classification of experiences. And this extended to all facets of life, all the experiences life can bring, all of themmiseries, joys, difficulties, sufferings, everythingoh, a whole field of studies! And always this presence within, judging, deciding, classifying, organizing and systematizing everything.
Then conscious yoga made a sudden entry into the picture when I met Thon; I must have been about twenty-one. Lifes orientation changed, a whole series of experiences took place, with the development of the vital giving interesting occult results.
Then, a period of intensive mental development, mental development of the most complete type: a study of all the philosophies, all the conceptual juggling, in minute detaildelving into systems, getting a grasp on them. Ten years of intensive mental studies leading me to Sri Aurobindo.
So I had all this preparation. And I am giving you these details simply to tell you it all began with consciousness (I knew very well what consciousness was, even before I had any word or idea to explain it), consciousness and its forceits force of action, its force of execution. Next, a detailed study and thorough development of the vital. After that, mental development taken to its uppermost limit, where you can juggle with all ideas; a developmental stage where its already understood that all ideas are true and that theres a synthesis to be made, and that beyond the synthesis lies something luminous and true. And behind it all, a continual consciousness. Such was my state when I came here: Id had a world of experiences and had already attained conscious union with the Divine above and withinall of it consciously realized, carefully noted and so forthwhen I came to Sri Aurobindo.
From the standpoint of shakti, this is the normal course: consciousness, vital, mental and spiritual.
Is it different for men? I dont know. Sri Aurobindos case was quite special, and apart from him I dont see any convincing example. But generally speaking, what is most developed in a man, along with the mind, is the physical consciousness; the vital is very impulsive, practically ungoverned. Thats my experience of the hundreds and hundreds of men I have met. Theres normally a physical strength built up through games and exercises, and side by side a more or less advanced, but primarily mental development, very mental. The vital is terribly impulsive and barely organized, except in artists, and even there. I lived among artists for ten years and found this ground to be mostly fallow. I mingled with all the great artists of the time, I was like a kid sister to them (it was at the turn of the century, with the Universal Exposition in 1900; and these were the leading artists of the epoch); so I was by far the youngest, much younger than any of themthey were all thirty, thirty-five, forty years old, while I was nineteen or twenty. Well I was much more advanced in their own fieldnot in what I was producing (I was a perfectly ordinary artist), but from the viewpoint of consciousness: observations, experiences, studies.
I am not sure, but it seems to me that the problem of consciousness ought to come first.
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It is the individual consciousness. Aspiration is almost always an expression of the psychic being the part of us thats organized around the divine center, the small divine flame deep within human beings. You see, this divine flame exists inside each human being, and little by little, through all the incarnations and karma and so on, a being takes shape around it, which Thon called the psychic being. And when the psychic being reaches its full development, it becomes a kind of bodily or at any rate individual raiment of the soul. The soul is a portion of the Supreme the jiva is the Supreme in individual form. And since there is only one Supreme, there is only one jiva, but with millions of individual forms. This jiva begins as a divine sparkimmutable, eternal and infinite too (infinite in possibility rather than dimension). And through all the incarnations, whatever has received and responded to the divine Influence progressively crystallizes around the jiva, which becomes more and more conscious as well as more and more organized. Ultimately it becomes a completely conscious individual being, master of itself and moved exclusively by the divine Will. That is to say, an individual expression of the Supreme. This is what we call the psychic being.
Generally speaking, those who practice yoga have either a fully developed, independent psychic being which has taken birth again to do the Divines work, or else a psychic being in its last incarnation wanting to complete its development and realize itself.
This is what aspires, this is what has the contact.
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Mother clarified: "Actually, a growth of consciousness was going on throughout those years of study; I didn't learn things by rote, I needed to understand them; and as soon as I understood something, I knew it. In other words, because the learning period was not yet intellectual, it can be considered part of the period of consciousness development."
Of course! We can dip into it with our head or with the tips of our toes, but everything bathes in this same river of Force (except what's shut up within the walls of our minds). At certain moments, or in certain places, we are less hardened and it naturally "enters" there. And so we call it the Shakti "From above" or the Shakti "from below" or "from within." But when the walls tumble down, there is neither high nor lowwe are drenched in it.
0 1962-07-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother refers back to the last conversation, where she spoke of her different stages of development.)
I have seen that the different stages of my development occurred in twelve-year periods, though I dont recall the exact dates. The first period, from the age of five (I cant start earlier than five!) to about eighteen, dealt with consciousness. Then came all the artistic and vital development, culminating in the occult development with Thon (I met Thon around 1905 or 06, I think1). Then right around this time an intensive mental development beganfrom 1908 to 1920, or a little before; but it was especially intense before coming here in 1914.
And 1920 marked the beginning of full development. Not spiritual development that had been going on from the very start but ACTION, the action with Sri Aurobindo. That was clearly from 1920 on; I had met Sri Aurobindo earlier, but it really began in 1920.2
And the realization of the inner Divine?
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From 1911 or 12, up to 1914, there was the whole series of inner experiences, psychic experiences, preparing me to meet Sri Aurobindo (so this ran parallel to my mental development).
In practice, these periods overlap, but approximately every twelve years a particular type of development predominated, in this order: consciousness first, then the vital (mainly from the aesthetic point of view, but a study of sensations as well), then the mind, then spiritual realization. And in between the vital and mental phases came the brief period of occultism, serving both as a transition and a basis for spiritual development.
In fact, Mother met Theon for the first time one day in 1904, in Paris. Then she went to Tlemcen in 1905 and again in 1906.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats it. And then illnesses related to colloidal disorders (blood, for example, is a colloidal fluid): when the component elements cease to combine in the normal and natural way. Both are newly recognized causes of illness. And they usually (I dont say in every case) result from what is called an inner discrepancy; that is, when the different parts of the being have not reached the same level of development, things of that nature may crop up.
With very few exceptions, these illnesses are not found to originate from germs, microbes or bacteria. They are frequently classified as mental illnesses, nervous disorders, etc., and they result from that inner discrepancy.
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Thats it. But its not at all indispensable for ones development.
No. But Id still like.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, these are siddhis rather than evolutionary developments: things imposed on Nature.
They are more like seeds, capacities destined to develop later in the new race, and the seed has been made to grow and bloom as an example, before the thing happens on a larger scalethey are examples.
0 1962-11-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats really what it is: to go beyond this present condition and enter a state where everything is stabilized. You cant say immobilized, because that would mean the opposite of movementit isnt the opposite of movement! Its something else. You immediately have the sense of Eternity; not of something endlessly developing, no: everything stops. But everything stops implies the sense of something that moves, yet you no longer have that sense.1 And yet it is Existence, it is BEING: Being, pure Existence; full consciousness without an objectwithout an object of consciousness. Pure Existence without any development.
And its always here, it never leaves you, its always here; you dont have to go off looking for itit is always here. If you start thinking about it, you might say: without that, there can be no world; without that, there can be neither time nor space nor movement nor consciousness nothing. Therefore, it is everywhere.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. () The old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent political division of the country. 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. Indias internal development and prosperity may be impeded, her position among the nations weakened, her destiny impaired or even frustrated. This must not be; the partition must go.8 ()
Sri Aurobindo
0 1963-01-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, yes! In general, these things are terrestrial. But probably its still quite subjective, in the sense that each one has an impression of it according to what he is and his stage of development.
But does it exert a DIRECT action on the earth, just as the vital has an action on the earth?
0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this field, we know nothing. Oh, as soon as we get into the field even the field of sensation, the vital, all problems are solved. Nothing could be easier, theres nothing to discuss; in the field of feelings, the work was done long ago. Thats not what I mean: I mean when we get to the bottom of the problem. There, everything, everything is in a sort of incomprehension, of total ignorance, along with all the ideas that result from the intellectual and scientific development and are so sure of themselves, so full of impregnable certainty! The certainty of the material experience, of the thing you touch.
To use that without being governed by it, to base yourself on that without being influenced by it, is very difficult.
0 1963-06-08, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I am not supposed to know, evidently. Probably I am too much of a chatterbox (!), I always tell you all my stories, which probably isnt necessary, so I am not told. But, you know, people are so fond of putting labels on things: This is what it is, that is what it is. We dont want that! It sounds so smart, you know, like newspapers headlines: The latest development. (Mother sketches big, sensational headlines) We dont want that.
You may have an experience for an hour, two hours sometimes, but here there was an impression that all of a sudden I was made aware. And that I participated: this (the body) was allowed to participate, because for some reason that I dont know (maybe because of the work going on in the body, I dont know, that must be why), it seemed necessary that I should participate. But the impression is that something stupendous is happening right now.
0 1963-06-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So if one can keep ones balance (its almost a question of balance) and not fall on this side or that, if one can keep ones balance and get through that moment, then there could be a whole period of normal development which would be very harmonious.
(long silence)
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, its simply a question of consciousness: people (ordinary people) have a consciousness that reaches up to a certain point (a point not very far away generally), and whats beyond it, to them, is the unconscious (although its full of consciousness!), but its unconscious to them because they cant make contact. Its the same as when at night you wake up in another state of being, become conscious and have a dream (what people call a dream, meaning an experience), then you return to your ordinary consciousness, and as there is no contact between the two consciousnesses, you dont even remember your dream. But you can, through methodical development, extend your consciousness and make a connection between the two; and the minute the connection is mader to bring you into contact with your soul, your psychic b, it takes very little to remember everything. But whats difficult is to extend your consciousness.
Basically, the gurus real power is to fill up the gaps! To bring you into contact: when you are in the higher planes, to bring you into contact with the Highest. Or to bring you into contact with your soul, your psychic being within, or to bring you into contact with the Supreme but that not many can do.
0 1963-08-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, its something I had never experienced [that absence of meaning]; even in my earliest childhood, when there was no development, I always had a perception (not a mentalized but a vibrant perception) of a Power behind all things which is the Raison dtre of all thingsa Power, a Force, a kind of warmth.
It isnt the experience of THIS bodys cells: its an identification with the world in general, with the Earth as a whole. Its an absolutely frightful and hopeless condition: something meaningless, aimless, without raison dtre, without any joy in itself or and worse than disagreeablemeaningless, insensate. Something that has no raison dtre and yet is. It was it is a frightful situation.
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I will look again,2 but for the moment, it seems to me, its a period or a stage in the integral development that brings you into contact with death. Its an impersonal thing and I dont see anything ominous about it, I mean I dont consider your feeling as premonitoryexcept that Death is everywhere in the world, of course! Well, thats all, it boils down to that.
There, mon petit.
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For them, all the experiences men have are the result of a mental phenomenon: we have reached a progressive mental development (they are at a loss to explain why or how!), anyhow it was Matter that developed Life, Life that developed Mind, and all of mens so-called spiritual experiences are mental constructions (they use other words, but I believe thats their idea). It is, at any rate, a denial of all spiritual existence in itself and of a Being or Force or Something superior which governs everything.
As I said, I dont know what their position is today, what point they have reached, but I was in the presence of a conviction of that type.
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then I was told (but not with words), very clearly and very strongly, that it was a transition necessary for your integral development INTEGRAL. And that I shouldnt worry.
Though I do.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the night before, I was with Sri Aurobindo, who gave me a revelation. I was with him, he was reclining (not stretched out but on a sort of chaise longue) and I was supposed to bring him something to eat (not at all like physical food, its something else I dont know what it is its rather different in that world the subtle physical), and it was expressed to me (there were no words in my consciousness; I dont know why, no words), he told me something which I understood perfectly, not only understood but it made me very happy, a joy came into me, and I answered, Yes, exactly! It corresponds to the experience I had today and which is??? (Mother leaves her sentence hanging) You see, I was conscious while I was having all the activity, but it was expressed in words [there] that arent words [here], so I dont know what to do! And he told me in the tone you take when expressing a definitive and overwhelming experience (his tone was one of absolute power) something that was translated like this: Now, the nourishment (it wasnt nourishment but food) comes from the whole of Nature at once. (Mother utters those words like a riddle or an open sesame that has not yet opened the door) And he told me to bring it to him (that too was a translation): Yes, you will bring it (the it was that food coming from the whole Nature at onceits a seemingly silly transcription, but anyway), you will bring it in this translucent bowl. And I replied, Yes, I knew, I knew that I had to use this translucent bowl to bring you the food. But what on earth does that correspond to?? Yet it was so evident! There was such a joy! (Because as I was conscious, I thought, Well, all the same, I am still following him closely in his development, its going on as when he was here: when he wins a victory, it is materialized in me.) Thus I was perfectly conscious and I told him, Ah, I am glad! (I am faltering, of course, it wasnt that at allit was admirable.) Oh, I am glad, I knew that I had to bring you the food in this translucent bowl. And the translucent bowl was a marvel! I had it, you see, it was beautiful! It was like opaline, living glass, all luminous but with all the lights alive and moving, and what colors! Pink, mauve, silver and gold, oh, it was so very beautiful. And I brought it to him.
It impressed me very strongly. Very strongly: I was under a spell, probably because the experience was still too strong and powerful for the material brain. And I saw it immediately; at the very moment of the experience, I saw it was a transcription, and an extraordinarily poor transcription, but nothing better could be done.
0 1963-11-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The entire process of development, at least on the earth (I dont know how it is on other planets) is that way. And perhaps (I dont know very much about the history of astronomy) universes toodo they know if universes perish physically, if the physical history of the end of a universe has been recorded? Traditions tell us that a universe is created, then withdrawn into pralaya, and then a new one comes; and according to them, ours is the seventh universe, and being the seventh universe, it is the one that will not return to pralaya but will go on progressing, without retreat. This is why, in fact, there is in the human being that need for permanence and for an uninterrupted progressits because the time has come.
(Mother remains in contemplation)
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My faith doesnt waver, but I have the impression that except for a certain number of things I have to do and for which I receive a precise help, a help really from above, for the rest, nothing. You understand, its ten years now since I came here, well, theres nothingnot that I lack faith, but theres no development.
Maybe not the development youre expecting.
Well, for me, it has to be a development of consciousness: you SEE. I dont know, you should see!
Ah, always that question of seeing.
0 1964-07-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He has quite a considerable vital capacity. But the true solution lies in the psychic development. Besides, thats how doctors cure people, much more than through medicinesmuch more. With some doctors, when the patient comes into contact with them, he feels supported, helped.
(silence)
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are ups and downs, moments when its more present and moments where its less so; to be exact: moments when its active and moments when it isnt. And whenever there is a period during which it isnt active, when it starts again it does so on a higher rung, that is, more intensely and clearly. The whole thing is obviously following a process of development. Its a sort of the word awareness might be the nearest; it isnt a perception, which still belongs to the mind, its a sort of phenomenon of vision. And it has an absolute character. For instance, from time to time, when I hear people speak of something or other and say, It will be like this and like that, instantly there comes a sort of tactile vision how can I explain this? It resembles touch and sight (yet its neither touch nor sight, but both together): its the thing as it is, thats IT; and they may say what they like, thats IT and it is irrefutable. And so far, there has never been any contradiction.
Its a consciousness in which the mental element is absent. It comes just on its own, and its so clear! Its like an immediate contact with the thing as it is.
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am expressing it with the minds words because theres no other way, but it was in the field of sensation rather than anything else. And it was very clearvery clear and very continuous, without fluctuations. And then, at that moment, the universal Consciousness intervened, saying, But here are the obstacles. And those obstacles were clearly seen: that kind of pessimism of the mind (a formless mind thats beginning to be born and organized in these cells). But the cells themselves didnt care a whit! To them it was like a disease, they said, Oh, that (the word distorts, but it was felt as a sort of accident or an inescapable disease or something that DID NOT FORM A NORMAL PART of their development and had been forced on them), Oh, that, we dont care about it! And then, at that moment, a sort of LOWER power to act on that mind was born; it gave the cells a MATERIAL power to separate themselves from that and reject it.
From that point of view, it was interesting. And it was after that that there was the turning point I told you about: a turning point in things as a whole, as if something truly decisive had taken place. There was a sort of trusting joy: Ah! Were free from that nightmare.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time, I used to seesee images, scenes and so on I used to see, but I didnt hear. Then, all of a sudden, I began to hear; and I would hear the slightest noise, I would hear in a perfectly coherent and natural way. It was as though the sense had suddenly developed. Well, there is a certain state of vision as a result of which I read I read written things; now that I no longer read physically, I read at night. Which means that all this inner development of the physical and subtle physical is still a whole unknown world to be learned.
I dont know its laws, I am only a spectator. And it obeys a will of an absolutely different order from the will at work in the physical world.
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was on the threshold of an understanding (an understanding: I am not talking about a mental understanding, I am talking about the experience of the fact). The experience of the fact is the experience of the coexistence of the static state and the state of developmentof the eternal static state and the state of eternal unfolding (indefinite, rather, not to use the same word). Then, at that point, there was this vision (Mother holds out a note):
When the truth manifests,
0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had some very precise memorieslived memoriesof a human life on earth, quite primitive (I mean outside any mental civilization), a human life on earth that wasnt an evolutionary life, but the manifestation of beings from another world. I lived in that way for a timea lived memory. I still see it, I still have the image of it in my memory. It had nothing to do with civilization and mental development: it was a blossoming of force, of beauty, in a NATURAL, spontaneous life, like animal life, but with a perfection of consciousness and power that far surpasses the one we have now; and indeed with a power over all surrounding Nature, animal nature and vegetable nature and mineral nature, a DIRECT handling of Matter, which men do not havethey need intermediaries, material instruments, whereas this was direct. And there were no thoughts or reasoning: it was spontaneous (gesture indicating the direct radiating action of will on Matter). I have the lived memory of this. It must have existed on earth because it wasnt premonitory: it wasnt a vision of the future, it was a past memory. So there must have been a moment It was limited to two beings: I dont have the feeling there were many. And there was no childbirth or anything animal, absolutely not; it was a life, yes, a truly higher life in a natural setting, but with an extraordinary beauty and harmony! And I dont have the feeling it was (how can I explain?) something known; the relationships with vegetable life and animal life were spontaneous ones, absolutely harmonious, and with the sensation of an undisputed power (you didnt even feel it was possible for it not to be), undisputed, but without any idea that there were other beings on earth and that it was necessary to look after them or make a demonstrationnothing of the sort, absolutely nothing of mental life, nothing. A life just like that, like a beautiful plant or a beautiful animal, but with an inner knowledge of things, perfectly spontaneous and effortlessan effortless life, perfectly spontaneous. I dont even have the feeling that there was any question of food, not that I remember; but there was the joy of Life, the joy of Beauty: there were flowers, there was water, there were trees, there were animals, and all that was friendly, but spontaneously so. And there were no problems! No problems to be solved, nothing at allone just lived!
An uncomplicated life, definitely.
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a rather curious development. For some time now, but more and more precisely, when I hear something, when someone reads something to me or I listen to some music or am told of some event, immediately something vibrates: the origin of the activity or the level on which its taking place or the origin of the inspiration is automatically translated as a vibration in one of the centers. And then, depending on the quality of the vibration, its something constructive or negative; and when at some point it makes contact, however slightly, with a domain of Truth, there is (how can I explain?) like the spark of a vibration of Ananda. And the thought is absolutely silent, still, nothingnothing (Mother opens her hands Upward in a gesture of complete offering). But this perception is growing increasingly precise. And thats how I know: I know the source of the inspiration, where the action is located and the quality of the thing.
What precision! Oh, an infinitesimal precision, in the details.
0 1965-04-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the transition: a conscious and willed utilization by a supramentalized consciousness of a body prepared in that way. This body must be brought to the peak of its development and of the utilization of the cells in order to be yes, consciously impregnated with the supreme forces (which is being done here [in Mother] at the moment), and this to the utmost of its capacities. And if the consciousness that inhabits that body, that animates that body, has the required qualities in sufficient amount, it should normally be able to utilize that body to the utmost of its capacity of transformation, with the result that the waste caused by the death of decomposing cells should be reduced to a minimumto what extent? Thats precisely what still belongs to the unknown.
That would correspond to what Sri Aurobindo called the prolongation of life at will, for an indefinite length of time.
But as things are at present, it would seem there is a transitional period in which the consciousness has to switch from this body to another, better prepared bodybetter prepared outwardly, physically (not inwardly); outwardly, I mean, having acquired certain aptitudes through the present development, which this body doesnt have, of the four qualitieswhich it doesnt have in sufficient amount and completeness. That is to say, those four qualities must be in perfect accord and in sufficient amount to be able to bear the work of transformation.
I dont know if I can make myself understood.
0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I meant by an improved physical body is that sort of mastery over the body thats being gained nowadays through physical training. I have seen lately magazines showing how it had started: the results in the beginning and todays results; and from the standpoint of the harmony of forms (I am not talking about excesses there are excesses everywhere I am talking about what can be done in the best possible conditions), from the standpoint of the harmony of forms, of strength and a certain sense of beauty, of the development of certain capacities of endurance and skill, of precision in the execution combined with strength, its quite remarkable if you think of how recent physical training is. And its spreading very quickly nowadays, which means that the proportion of the human population that is interested in it and practices it is snowballing. So when I saw all those photos (for me, its especially through pictures that I see), it occurred to me that through those qualities, the cells, the cellular aggregates acquire a plasticity, a receptivity, a force that make the substance more supple for the permeation of the supramental forces.
Lets take the sense of form, for example (I am giving one example among many others). Evolution is openly moving towards diminishing the difference between the female and the male forms: the ideal thats being created makes female forms more masculine and gives male forms a certain grace and suppleness, with the result that they increasingly resemble what I had seen all the way up, beyond the worlds of the creation, on the threshold, if I can call it that, of the world of form. At the beginning of the century, I had seen, before even knowing of Sri Aurobindos existence and without having ever heard the word supramental or the idea of it or anything, I had seen there, all the way up, on the threshold of the Formless, at the extreme limit, an ideal form that resembled the human form, which was an idealized human form: neither man nor woman. A luminous form, a form of golden light. When I read what Sri Aurobindo wrote, I said, But what I saw was the supramental form! Without having the faintest idea that it might exist. Well, the ideal of form we are now moving towards resembles what I saw. Thats why I said: since there is an evolutionary concentration on this point, on the physical, bodily form, it must mean that Nature is preparing something for that Descent and that embodimentit seems logical to me. Thats what I meant by an improved physical form.
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Basically, once there is a body formed, precisely, by an ideal and an increasing development, a body with sufficient stuff and capacities, sufficient potential, there may very well be a rapid Descent of a supramental form, just as there was one with the human form. Because I know that (I know it from having lived it), I know that when the transitiona very obscure transitionfrom the animal to man (of which they have found fairly convincing traces) was sufficient, when the result was plastic enough, there was a Descent there was a mental descent of the human creation. And they were beings (there was a double descent; it was in fact particular in that it was double, male and female: it wasnt the descent of a single being, it was the descent of two beings), they were beings who lived in Nature an animal life, but with a mental consciousness; but there was no conflict with the general harmony. All the memories are absolutely clear of a spontaneous, animal life, perfectly natural, in Nature. A marvelously beautiful Nature that strangely resembles the nature in Ceylon and tropical countries: water, trees, fruits, flowers. And a life in harmony with animals: there was no sense of fear or difference. It was a very luminous, very harmonious, and very NATURAL life, in Nature.
And strangely, the story of Paradise would seem to be a mental distortion of what really happened. Of course, it all became ridiculous, and also with a tendency it gives you the feeling that a hostile will or an Asuric being tried to use that to make it the basis for a religion and to keep man under his thumb. But thats another matter.
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Thats how we began, and it began that way because there was a descent of the higher human mental consciousness into the form that existed. The phenomenon may recur in the same way, with the difference that it can be more conscious and willed there may be the intervention of a conscious will. It would, or it could happen through an occult processwell, I dont know, there are all sorts of possibilities, one of which could be the conscious passage of a being who has used the old human body for his development and his yoga, and who would leave that form once it became unnecessary in order to enter a form capable of adapting to the new growth.
Here, the two possibilities meet.
But for the time being, there is no question of that because although the development of physical training is extremely rapid, its still clear that it may take hundreds of years.
There is a quotation from Sri Aurobindo in which he says that the first point to be acquired is prolongation of life at willit isnt directly immortality: it is prolongation of life at will. He wrote it in the articles on The Supramental Manifestation.
0 1965-05-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But everyone takes his stand. I have all the examples here, I have a little selection of samples of all the attitudes, and I see the reactions very clearly. I see the same Force the same single Forceacting in this selection of samples and, of course, producing different effects; but those different effects are, to the deep vision, very superficial: its just they like to think that way, so then they like to think that way. But to tell the truth, the inner advance, the inner development, and the essential vibration arent affectednot in the least. One aspires with all his heart to Nirvana, the other aspires with all his will to the supramental manifestation, and in both cases the vibratory result is about the same. And its a whole mass of vibrations which prepares itself more and more to to receive what must be.
There is a statean essentially pragmatic state, spiritually pragmaticin which of all human futilities, the most futile is metaphysics.
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even with scientific development taken to its utmost, to the point where one really feels there is almost no difference left, when, for instance, they reach the oneness of substance and there seems to remain just an almost insensible or imperceptible passage from one condition to the other [the material to the spiritual], well, no, its not like that! In order to perceive that sort of identity, you must carry already in yourself the experience of the OTHER THING; otherwise you cannot.
And precisely because they have acquired the capacity to explain, they explain for themselves the inner phenomena, so that they remain in their negation of inner phenomena: they say they are like extensions of what they have studied.
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And for me thats how it is, I dont see people, I no longer see (but that has been going on for a long time), I no longer see the way people do, the way they are used to seeing. At times someone tells me, Have you noticed, so-and-so is like this or like that? I answer, No, I havent seen anything. And at other times I see things no one else sees! Its a much more complete development than simply switching from one vision to the other.
But my senses of smell and vision were developed a lot between the ages of twenty and twenty-four. It was a conscious, willed, methodical education, which had interesting results. And which did a great deal to prepare the instrument for now.
0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For snakes, for instance, its quite remarkable. Some, when they dream of snakes, have the feeling theyre going to meet with catastrophes; I myself have had all sorts of dreams with snakes: I had to go through gardens full of snakes everywhereon the ground, in the trees, everywhere and not kindly snakes! But I knew very well what it meant; during the dream itself I knew it: it depended on certain mental conditions around me and ill willmental ill will.2 But if you have mental control and power, you can go through, they cannot touch you. And other people, when they see a snake, think it is the universal consciousness. So we cant say. Thon used to say that the serpent is the symbol of evolution, and those who were with him always saw rainbow-colored serpents, with all the colors, and it was the symbol of universal evolution Basically, to tell the truth, everyone has his own symbolism And for myself, I have seen that it depended on the periods in my life, on the activities, on the degree of development. There are things I see again now in which I see another meaning, which was behind the meaning I had seen.
Its very interesting, but it belongs entirely to the domain of relativity.
0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The international section We have already approached a number of ambassadors and countries so each country would have its pavilion there: a pavilion for every country (that was my old idea); some have already accepted, anyhow its under way. Each pavilion has its own garden with, as far as possible, a selection of the plants and produce of the country represented. If they have enough money and space, they can also have a sort of small museum or permanent exhibition of the achievements of the country. And the pavilion should be built according to the architecture of the country represented: it should be like a document of information. Then depending on the amount of money they want to put in, they can also have quarters for students, conference rooms, etc., the countrys cuisine, a restaurant of the country they can have all sorts of developments.
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0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.
Oh, indeed, as soon as there is a little scratch, something in the being immediately sees terrible illnessesimmediately.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It followed a long curve. It began with a deep disgust for its [the material minds] habitual activity; I started catching (not now: its been going on for weeks), catching all its routine and almost automatic activities I have said it several times: this material mind is defeatist, always pessimistic, meddlesome, grumbling, disgruntled, lacking in faith, lacking in trust. Even when it tends to be joyful and content, something comes and says, Ah, stop it, because youll get another knock. That sort of thing. It went on for weeks, and a continuous, constant work. It always ended in the offering. There was a beginning of progress when No, first I should tell all that happened before. To begin with, the japa, the mantra, for instance, was taken as a discipline; then from the state of discipline it changed into a state of satisfaction (but still with the sense of a duty to be done); then from that it changed into a sort of state of constant satisfaction, with the desire (not desire, but a will or an aspiration) for it to be more frequent, more constant, more exclusive. Then there was a sort of repugnance to and rejection of all that comes and disturbs, mixed with a sense of duty towards work, people and so on, and all that made a muddle and a great confusion. And it always ended in the transfer to the Supreme along with the aspiration for things to change. A long process of development.
Recently there was a sort of will for equality towards activities that had been tolerated or accepted only as an effect of the consecration and in obedience to the supreme Will. And then, all of a sudden they became something very positive, with a sense of freedom and a spontaneity of state, and a beginning of understanding of the attitude with which the action must be done. All this came very, very progressively. And then this morning, there was the experience.
0 1965-09-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In his message of August 15, 1947, on the occasion of India's independence, Sri Aurobindo wrote: "...The old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent political division of the country. 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. India's internal development and prosperity may be impeded, her position among the nations weakened, her destiny impaired or even frustrated. This must not be; the partition must go. Let us hope that that may come about naturally, by an increasing recognition of the necessity not only of peace and concord but of common action, by the practice of common action and the creation of means for that purpose. In this way unity may finally come about under whatever form the exact form may have a pragmatic but not a fundamental importance. But by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must go; unity must and will be achieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future."
Cent. Ed., 26.404-405
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a vicious circle. The impression is that the transformation cannot come about without a development or a general receptivity on the earth, a greater preparation on the earth, and at the same time, that greater preparation on the earth isnt possible without an acceleration of your transforming force.
Yes, but it acts, only its an infinitesimal action. Thats why millions of years are nothing. This stagnation, for instance, exists only for our consciousness; its because the human consciousness, after all, measures everything on its own scale. For it, the history of the earth is an infiniteit isnt so in universal history, but for the human being, the impression is of an infinite (he knows very well that it isnt so, but thats theoretical knowledge), so then, on this scale, nothing changes but thats not true.
0 1965-10-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, there is in fact all that I have told you lately about this phase in the development because of which, outwardly Yes, thats what I hear from everyone: Why dont you change that? Why dont you free me from this? Why dont you eliminate that? So far, the power to do things instantly hasnt been given to me personally. I dont know why. But every time it is necessary to intervene, I pass everything on to the Lord and tell Him, Do it.
(silence)
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was the whole humanity that isnt quite animal anymore, that has benefited from mental development and created a certain harmony in its lifea vital, artistic, literary harmony and the vast majority of which live satisfied with life. They have caught a sort of harmony and live in it a life as it exists in a civilized milieu, that is to say, somewhat cultured, with refinement in taste, refinement in habits. And this whole life has a sort of harmony in which they find themselves at ease, and unless something catastrophic happens to them, they live happy and content, satisfied with life. Those may be attracted (because they have taste, they are intellectually developed), they may be attracted to the new forces, the new things, the future life; for instance, they may mentally, intellectually become disciples of Sri Aurobindo. But they dont at all feel the need to change materially, and if they were to be forced to, it would be first of all premature and unjust, and it would quite simply create a great disorder and would upset their lives quite unnecessarily.
It was very clear.
0 1965-12-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, all those who have your development will understand, but others wont.
No, its a beginning of experience which isnt yet in its final form. I will say it better another time. A day will come when I will say it well. (Poking fun at Satprem) Youll have an opportunity to write it out well!
0 1966-02-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats interesting is that now that this mind of the cells has been organized, it appears to be going with dizzying speed through the process of human mental development all over again, in order to reach the key, precisely. There is of course the sense that the state we are in is a false unreality, but there is a sort of need or aspiration to find, not a mental or moral why, nothing of the sort, but a HOWhow it got twisted this way (Mother bends her wrist in one direction), in order to straighten it out (gesture in the opposite direction).
The pure sensation has the experience of the two vibrations [the false and the true, the twisted and the straight vibrations], but the transition from one to the other is still a mystery. Its a mystery, because it cannot be explained: neither when it goes this way (gesture to the false direction) nor when it goes that way (gesture to the true direction).
0 1966-03-04, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This past week again, there has been a whole development of that experience.
Ultimately, with worlds its the same as with individuals, and with universes the same as with worlds. Its only the duration that differs: an individual is very small, a world is a little bigger, and a universe still bigger! But what begins ends.
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I followed the curve. When you are very small in your consciousness and development, you feel a great need for the earth not to disappear, for it to be perpetuated (while being transformed as much as one likes, but always with the earth being perpetuated). A little further on, when you are a little more mature, you attach much less importance to it. And when you are in constant communion with the sense of eternity, it becomes a mere question of choice; its not a need anymore, because its something that doesnt affect the active consciousness. A few days ago (I dont remember when, but quite lately), for a whole morning I lived in that Consciousness and I saw that, in the curve of the beings development, that sort of need, a seemingly intimate need, for the prolongation of the earths life the indefinite prolongation of the earths life I saw that that need is objectified, so to say, its not so intimate anymore; its like watching a performance and judging whether it should be like this or like that. Its interesting as a change of standpoint.
Its like an artist, but an artist shaping himself, and who makes one attempt, two attempts, three attempts, as many attempts as necessary, then ends up with something complete enough in itself and receptive enough to be able to adapt to new manifestations, to the needs of new manifestations, so that it wouldnt be necessary to draw everything back in order to mix it all together again and put it all out again. But now its now more than that, and, as I said, a question of choice. In other words, the manifestation was made for the delight of objectification (the delight or interest, or anyway), and once what has been shaped has become plastic enough, receptive enough, supple enough and vast enough to be constantly molded by the new forces that manifest, theres no longer any need to undo everything in order to redo everything.
0 1966-04-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Apart from that, I understand: in order to write a book, one generally cannot describe more than one cycle, because theres a beginning, a development, and a culmination, a realization. Then another book, which starts from that realization and has the full experience of its futility. And then, the crowning realization: the return to life, free.
One may have the three together, but it makes a very compact book.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This material mindwhich is organizing itself, which has learned to fall silent, learned to prayhas a sort of spontaneous need or spontaneous thirst for beauty, for a beautiful form. I see this at night, because its need expresses itself in a setting and with eventsencounters and eventsand the setting is always extremely vast and very beautiful, very harmonious. And the people who move about do so harmoniously, too. And in the morning when I come out of that, I see the progress, the direction of the development; well, it has a sort of spontaneous need for a beautiful form.
Just now, while listening to you, it relaxed all at once, it rested in a satisfaction: Ah, at last. And it isnt at all mental: its (how can I explain?) the harmony of form.
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, it has made me understand something, but its something very (how can I put it?), very intimate. When Sri Aurobindo left, I knew I had to cut the link with the psychic being, otherwise I would have gone with him; and as I had promised him I would stay on and do the work, I had to do that: I literally closed the door on the psychic and said, For the moment this doesnt exist anymore. It remained like that for ten years. After ten years, it slowly, slowly began to open againit was frightening. But I was ready. It began to open again. But then, that experience surprised me when I had it; I wondered why it had been like that, why I had received that comm and and had to do it. And when there was in the body that identification with divine Love [a few days ago], after that had left, the cells were ordered to undergo a similar phenomenon [to what happened after Sri Aurobindos departure]. And I understood why the whole material world is closed: its to allow it to exist WITHOUT the experience [of divine Love]. Naturally, I had understood why I was made to close off my psychic, because because it was truly impossible, I couldnt go on existing outwardly without Sri Aurobindos presence. Well then, the cells have understood that they must go on existing and living their life without the presence of divine Love. And thats how it took place in the world: it was a necessary phenomenon for the formation and development of the material world.
But were perhaps nearing We are nearing the time when it will be allowed to open again.
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And there are kinds of rungs or stagesstages in the response of the consciousness; rungs and stages according to the degree of development and consciousness. It makes for, oh, not an immensity, but still a rather extensive world. In this perception, the earth isnt very large.
And there is a precision in details for tiny things, like what goes on in an individuals consciousness, for instance, or the response to certain events. Its very, very precise. But there is always a ban on saying things so as not to give them a power of concretization.
0 1966-09-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, its only when you are absolutely sure you have the vision of the truth that its legitimate to intervene. Not only that, but also the clear vision of consequences. In order to intervene in anothers actions, you must be a propheta prophet. And a prophet with total benevolence and compassion. You must even have the vision of the consequence the intervention will have in the others destiny. People are constantly giving each other advice: Do this, dont do that. I see that, they dont realize the extent to which they create confusion, they add to the confusion and disorder. And sometimes they harm the individuals normal development.
I consider opinions to be always dangerous things, and most of the time without any value whatever.
0 1966-09-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, it sounds like a childs prattling, because The expression of these present experiences isnt an intellectual expression at all, and to those who dont understand that its the experience of the physical substance, of the cells, the most material form, it quite simply sounds like a childs prattling. Its an experience as a child might have, without the complications and explanations supplied by intellectual development.
And this simplicity, this lack of complication and sophistication, is what gives these things great value, in the sense that it gives them perfect sincerity and simplicity. In anything expressed mentally, vitally, intellectually, there is always MORE in the form, in the word, in the expression, MORE than in the experienceit gets enlarged and rounded out (!) What is said is more than what is meant to be said. While here, its the perfectly pure experience, which feels the words as a sort of shrinking, a diminishing, and at the same time as bringing in a complication that doesnt exist in the experience the experience is very simple, very simple: it is truly pure. And anything one says is like adding something that lessens its purity and simplicity.
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Besides, even quite outwardly, that fight between India and Pakistan1 was clearly (how can I put it? The words that come to me are English) initiated and driven, that is to say, set in motion by and under the impulsion of the forces of Truth that wanted to create a great Asian Federation with the power to counterbalance Red China and its movement. It was a federation that, as a matter of fact, needed the return of Pakistan and all those regions, and which includes Nepal, Tibet, also Burma, and in the south, Ceylon. A great federation with each country having its autonomous development, perfectly free, but which would be united in a common single aspiration for peace and fight against the invasion of forces of dissolution. That was very clear, it was willed and its the intervention of this United Nations that stopped everything.2
I am not saying anything officially; because I have said and always repeat that politics is in complete Falsehood, based on Falsehood, and I am not dealing with it, meaning that I am not in politics, I dont want to be but that doesnt stop me from seeing clearly! People have come and asked me (from every side, by the way) for my opinion, view or advice; I said, No, I dont deal in politics. You see, all diplomacy is absolutely based on a DELIBERATE Falsehood. As long as it is like that, theres no hope: the inspirations will always come from the wrong side; inspirations, impulsions, ideas, everything will always come from the wrong sidewhich means the inescapable blunder, for everyone. A few rare individuals feel that and are aware of it, and they are half desperate because nobody listens to them.
0 1966-10-29, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To tell the truth, I dont like mental activity I have never liked it. I worked a lot in the mind for a time: it was a phase, the phase of mental development when I did philosophyall philosophies, comparative philosophiesin order to make the intellect more supple. But to tell the truth, it doesnt interest me. While states of consciousness movements of consciousness, states of consciousness thats tremendously interesting! And going on at the moment there is a very keen, that is, very painstaking study of the relationship between states of consciousness and the phenomenon of death.
Ultimately, all beliefs people have about what happens after death Human beings have long tried to know, of course, and some religions thought they had found an explanation. Ive had personal experiences. And now the problem is put in a new way, as if (I say as if because I havent come to the end and I dont know), as if what is perpetuated from life to life werent personalities but STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, which are immortal and in constant transformation at the same time, and whats transformed through ones lives is the state of consciousness. Some have only one state of consciousness, others have many (there are even certain people who have two nearly opposite states of consciousness, which results in that double personality and those contradictions in life). Some are very simple and have only one, and that results in almost primitive individuals; but they sometimes have a wonderful development in their state of consciousness. That explains many contradictions. Thats what I am clearly shown at the moment: states of consciousness passing through numerous aggregates. And then, there is, there too, a secret to be found for the prolongation of an aggregate, that is, what gives the character not of immortality (which is something very different), but of the indefinite duration of lifeof the FORM, rather (life never stops), of the form. So then, once this study has been done in depth, another secret will have been found.
Its very interesting.
0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its generally fragmentsfragments of life that were individualized, and when in the present life you follow a normal development with the [various beings] gathering around the central consciousness, all those elements come back to gather together. They come back, each with its own memories. For instance, I had a memory like that (I tell you, Ive had hundreds of them) when I was very young (I must have been twenty or so). It wasnt at night, but I was lying down, resting: suddenly I felt myself riding a horse, with tremendous warlike power and the sense a will for victory and the POWER of victory. And I felt as if I was riding a horse: I saw a white horse, I saw my legs, with riding breeches, you understand, and a red velvet costume. And there I was, at a gallop. I couldnt tell what the head was like or anything, naturally! And also, the crowd, the armies, and the rising sun. It was so strong, the sense that it was the sense of the will for victory and the POWER of victory. It came just like that. Then, sometime later, I read somewhere the story of Murat (I forget I think his victory was Magenta3 I no longer remember all that), and I immediately understood that my vision was at the moment of launching the battle: he had an inner call to a Power, so there was an identification [with Mothers power], and thats what I remembered and what came back. If I said (as the Theosophists tell you), I was Murat, it would be stupid. But it was a consciousness coming back. It was so strong! The impression lasted long enough, with the sense of the battle but above all the sense of that POWER making you invincible. It was interesting, because at the time (it was just in the beginning, I was beginning to take interest in these things and I had just come across the Cosmic teaching), I was convinced that a womans psychic being was always reincarnated in a woman and a mans psychic being was always reincarnated in a man (many schools teach that; Thon too believed so, he insisted on it). So it came as a surprise, because it wasnt in conformity with what I thought (!). Afterwards (long afterwards), I realized that naturally all those dogmas were nonsense, but
It fits with what I told you last time: the STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS are what reincarnate, evolving, developing, growing more perfect. Thats rather how it was, thats how that memory came. Its like that with many memories. And I know that to say states of consciousness are what reincarnate, to adopt that as the sole explanation would be incorrectits absolutely incorrect but its one way of looking at the question beyond the sense of the little personality. It broadens the consciousness: one has in oneself things far more universal and far less limited than personal experiences. Just as in life some people have an exceptional life, in the same way they also have exceptional moments in their life, when they no longer are one single little person: they are a force in action. Thats how it is.
0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you know, there are still so many fanaticsmore than we think. You would think all that has disappeared with modern developmentnot at all.
The farther I go, the more I have a perception of a Harmony. A harmony, that is, a vision of the Whole in which everything is in its place: qualities, movements, even forms. Its something being worked out, a vision being worked out.
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother is referring to U Thant, secretary-general of the United Nations. U.N.O., April 10, 1967: "That a fraction of the amounts that are going to be spent in 1967 on arms could finance economic, social, national and world programs to an extent so far unimaginable is a notion within the grasp of the man in the street. Men, if they unite, are now capable of foreseeing and, to a certain point, determining the future of human development. This, however, is possible only if we stop fearing and harassing one another and if together we accept, welcome and prepare the changes that must inevitably take place. If this means a change in human nature, well, it is high time we worked for it; what must surely change is certain political attitudes and habits man has."
La Suisse, Geneva, April 10, 1967, translated from the French.
0 1967-04-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"The sense of touch alone is fully developed (in the newborn). That allows it to remain in intimate contact with its mother and prolong the time of gestation, which is a period of intense development in the security of oneness. The least separation may cause an irreparable trauma, that 'fall on the head' which is the usual but abnormal condition of the newborn in civilized peoples. This is well-known to primitive peoples, where the mother keeps the naked child on her naked skin and never parts with it.... Until the other senses are specialized, it is chiefly through the surface of the skin that the child receives its education.... If one wants it to incarnate really, to be friends with matter, its body to become as intimate as its soul, one must invent for it a yoga of caresses and play." (It is worth noting that an attempt to put these alluring and specious theories into practice was to have catastrophic results, as we shall see later in the Agenda: the main effect of the said "caresses" is to attract into the child's body vital forces of a dark order, and "genii of sex" rather than anything else, are likely to be incarnated.)
This is how Mother replied to the disciple who had sent her her study on the formation of the new child: "I have read your work with keen interestit deals with an important aspect of the problem. But a public presentation is impossible. Seeing and reading this, too many young girls would imagine they are destined to give birth to the 'solar child'that would be a disaster." Then Mother added: "In order to realize this work, one must have gone beyond all desire; and unfortunately, this is not generally the case as yet. Whereas ambition and vanity are rather widespread maladies."
0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future.
January 14, 1932
0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All those vibrations that contri bute to the development of the being weigh the psychic down, he says.
No, it SIFTS them. Thats precisely what happens: the psychic doesnt retain things in their totality: it sifts themit sifts the vibrations as they come along.
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Ive had many such memories, a great many, but that one was interesting, so that I know precisely the nature of the things that remain, that are part of the development of the psychic being.
There was another experience I had a little later (a little later, around eighteen or nineteen), in which I suddenly found myself riding a horse, dressed as a man, leading armies to a fantastic victory; and it was the glory of the sense of the presence of the Force of Victory that made me lead the entire army to victory. Afterwards, I remembered the costume I was wearing, the peoples costumes, everything, and I saw it was Murats famous victory.3 I was (how can I put it?) the victorious spirit in Murat. And ONLY THAT. So when people tell you, I was this person, that person, its all tales: they are forces, states of consciousness that manifested in certain individuals at certain moments in their lives and which, at such moments, touched Matter concretely. And all that is gathered, collected together little by little, gradually, until it produces a conscious being.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Wait, theres something else again. Oh, poor K., he held examinations (theyre out of their minds with their exams!), he held examinations on a text or a subject he had dictated to the students in his class. In other words, they had the answer quite ready. Two of the boys (one of whom K. finds very intelligen the is, moreover and has a liking for, while he doesnt like the other) were late, and K. asked the boy he doesnt like to bring to him at home the result of their work. He brought it. K. read it, and to one of the questions, the two boys answers were not quite identical but extremely similar. It was precisely the subject K. had dictated to them, so it was natural enough that the answers should be similar. K. felt right away that the boy had copied from the other, and told him so! The boy lost his temper and spoke to him rather rudely. So K. writes to tell me the whole story in his own way, and the boy writes to tell me the whole story, in his own way, moreover expressing regret that he was rude to his teacher. But K. remains convinced that he copied. So, a flood of letters Finally I wrote to K., Send me the two texts, I will see (not see with my eyes, but like that, feeling the thing). The boy did NOT copy. But to me, its far worse, because it means K. made a mental formation with wordswords put in a certain order and stuffed it into their brains. And they repeat it parrot fashionnaturally, it bears an extraordinary similarity to his teaching. Finally, K. told me, If I accept that the boy didnt copy, I am obliged to give him a very good mark, which I cant do! (Mother laughs) And he asks me, What should I do? I replied yesterday evening: There is a very simple way out: cancel the exam. Take all the papers, tie them into a bundle, put them away in your cupboard, and pretend it never existed and in future, no more exams! And at the end of the year, when you have to give marks to the students, well, instead of using such an artificial method, you will be obliged to observe attentively, follow the childs inner development, have a deeper contact with him (Mother laughs mockingly), and know if he has really understood or not! Then you will be able to give marks instead of basing yourself on the parrot-like repetition of something they have learned without understanding. And I sent that. So now, theyre in a fix! (Mother laughs) I find it so funny, its very amusing!
They had to hold a teachers meeting to face up to my answer! (Mother laughs) I upset the whole School!
0 1967-08-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That gives a place to all religions in the development from the Inconscient to the divine Consciousness.
It isnt simply a little remark noted down in passing: its a vision. One can always present it as something conceived mentally, but its not that; its not that, but it was, if you like, a necessity in the development. And that PLACES things.
Islam was a return towards sensation, beauty, harmony in the form, and the legitimization of sensations and joy in beauty. From a higher viewpoint, it wasnt of a very superior quality, but from a vital viewpoint, it was extremely powerful, and thats what gave them so much power to spread, to appropriate, to seize, to dominate. But what they did is very beautifulall their art is magnificent, magnificent! It was a flowering of beauty. Then there were othersit all came one after the other. And every religion came as a stage in the development and the relationship with the Divine, to lead the consciousness towards a union which is a totality and not a removal from a whole reality so as to obtain another. The need for totality, completeness, is what caused those religions to come like that, one after another.
Seen in that light, its very interesting.
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Thats why I found it interestingbecause it was the result of a vision, and that vision came because I started concerning myself with religions (started again, to tell the truth, because I was very familiar with that subject in the past). And when I was asked questions on the Israelites and the Muslims, I looked and said, Here is their place. Here is their place and their raison dtre. Then, one day I said to myself, Well, it is true! Seen in that way, its obvious: Christianity is like a rehabilitation of suffering as a means of development of the consciousness.
And so Sri Aurobindos sentence assumes its full value. Christianity came because men were rebelling against pain and trying to escape from the world in order to escape from pain. Then, as the years went by and with the unfolding, men took a liking to suffering! And because they love it (see how Sri Aurobindos sentence becomes clear), Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem. It assumes its full significance.
0 1967-09-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, yes. There have been new developments. The last time I saw her, I clearly perceived she was enveloped in something something that looked very receptive but was in fact completely shut in in its own structure.
Thats right.
0 1967-10-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The ship is the development, the means of advance towards that realization. It all came like that.
So I have every reason to hope it will be for this year. Because it came like that.
0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All who live there will participate in its life and development.
This participation may be passive or active.
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Sections like Industries which participate actively will contri bute part of their income towards the development of the township. Or if they produce something (like foodstuff) useful for the citizens, they will contri bute in kind to the township which is responsible for the feeding of the citizens.
No rules or laws are being framed. Things will get formulated as the underlying Truth of the township emerges and takes shape progressively. We do not anticipate.
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All who live there will participate in its life and development
according to their capacities and means, not a mechanical so much per unit. Thats the point. It must be something living and TRUE, not mechanical. And according to their capacities, that is, one who has material means such as those a factory gives will have to provide in proportion to his productionnot so much per individual or per head.
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Sections like Industries which participate actively will contri bute part of their income towards the development of the township. Or if they produce something (like foodstuff) useful for the citizens, they will contri bute in kind to the township which is responsible for the feeding of the citizens.
Thats what weve said. The industries will participate actively, they will contri bute. If they are industries producing articles that arent in constant need and are therefore in quantities or numbers too great for the townships own use that will be sold outsidethose industries must naturally participate through money. And I take the example of food: those who produce food will give the township what it needs (in proportion to what they produce, naturally), and it is the townships responsibility to feed everyone. That means people wont have to buy their food with money, but they will have to earn it.
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There may be here some debate on this true sense: some, along with the religions we know, will tell you that the true sense isnt here, but in goodness knows what heaven beyond. Its a point of view, but if this material evolution does not hold its own sense within itself, it means we are in the presence of a sinister farce invented by goodness knows what divine masochist. If God exists, he must be a little less foolish than that, and we are entitled to think that this material evolution has a divine sense and that it is the field of a divine manifestation in Matter. Our spiritual discipline must therefore aim at gaining this divine man or perhaps that other, still unknown being who will emerge from us just as we emerged from hominid infancy. What is the place of the sexual function in this evolution? Until now, the progress of consciousness has made use of the progress of species, which means that sexual reproduction has been the key to the proliferation of species so as to reach the form most fit for the manifestation of consciousness. Since the appearance of man two or three million years ago, Nature hasnt produced new species, as if she had found in man the fittest mode of expression. But evolution cannot remain stagnant, or else it no longer is evolution. So it means that the key of evolution no longer lies in the proliferation of species by means of sexual reproduction, but directly in the very power of consciousness. Before man, consciousness was still too buried in its material support; with man, it has disengaged itself sufficiently to assume its true mastery over material Nature and work out its own mutations by itself. From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, this is the end of sexuality. We have reached the stage at which we can switch from natural evolution through sexual power to spiritual evolution through the power of consciousness. Nature generally does not let organs linger that no longer serve her evolutionary design, so we can foresee that the sexual function will atrophy in those who will be able to channel their energy no longer for reproduction but to develop their consciousness. Quite obviously, not all of us have reached that stage, and for a long time Nature will still need sexual power to pursue her evolution in the midst of the human species, that is to say, to lead the rather brute man we still are to a more conscious man, more capable of grasping the true sense of his evolution, and finally wholly capable of switching from natural to spiritual evolution. The inequality of development in individuals is the obvious reason why we cannot make general rules or hand out infallible prescriptions. To each stage its law. But after however long a time, it is equally obvious that, from the point of view of evolutionary biology, the sexual function comes to its end when it has fulfilled its purpose, that is, when it has succeeded in giving birth to a sufficiently conscious man. So we cannot reasonably base a spiritual discipline of accelerated evolution on a principle that runs counter to evolution. Moreover, anyone who has even barely crossed the difficult line, the point X of the transition from natural to spiritual evolution, cannot but realize that all the pseudo-mystic attempts to prettify the sexual relations between man and woman are shams. I have nothing against sexual relations (God knows!), but trying to coat them with a yogic or mystic phraseology is a deceitful illusion, a self-deception. Therefore, in that sense, there is no key to be recoveredit does not exist.
There is a key in the relationship between man and woman, but not in their sexual relations. The so-called left-hand Tantrics (of the Vama Marga) are to true Tantrism what Boccaccios tales are to Christianity, or what the sodden Roman Bacchus is to Dionysos of the Greek mysteries. I know Tantrism, to say the least. As for the Cathars, whom I hold in the highest esteem, it would be doing them little honor to believe that they followed a sort of yoga of sexuality. Through my own experience I have often had the feeling of reliving the Cathars experience, and I see plainly that if some of them attempted to mix sexual relations into the true relationship between man and woman, they soon realized their error. It is a dead-end road, or rather its only end is to show you that it leads you nowhere forward. The Cathars were too sincere and conscious men to persist in a burdening experience. For ultimately, and that is the crux of the matter, the sexual experience in its very nature (whether or not there is backward flow or whatever its mode) automatically fastens you again to the old animal vibrations there is nothing you can do about it: however much love you may put into it, the very function is tied to millennia of animality. It is as if you wanted to plunge into a swamp without stirring up any mudit cannot be done, the milieu is like that. And when one knows how much transparency, clarification and inner stillness it takes to slowly rise to a higher consciousness, or to allow a higher light to enter our waters without being instantly darkened, one fails to see how sexual activity can help you attain that still limpidity in which things can start happening??? The union, the oneness of two beings, the true and complete meeting of two beings does not take place at that level or through those means. That is all I can say. But I have seen that in the silent tranquillity of two beings who have the same aspiration, who have overcome the difficult transition, something quite unique slowly takes place, of which one can have no inkling as long as one is still stuck in the struggles of the flesh, to use a preachers language! I think the Cathars experience begins after that transition. After it, the man-woman couple assumes its true meaning, its effectiveness, if I may say so. Sex is only a first mode of meeting, the first device invented by Nature to break the shell of individual egosafterwards, one grows and discovers something else, not through inhibition or repression, but because something different and infinitely richer takes over. Those who are so eager to preserve sex and to mystify it in order to move on to the second stage of evolution are very much like children clinging to their scootersit isnt more serious than that. There is nothing in it to do a yoga with, nothing also to be indignant about or raise ones eyebrows at. So I have nothing to criticize, I am merely observing and putting things in their place. All depends on the stage one has reached. As for those who want to use sex for such and such a sublime or not-so-sublime reason, well, let them have their experience. As Mother told me on the very same subject no later than yesterday, To tell the truth, the Lord makes use of everything. One is always on the way towards something. One is always on the way, through any means, but what is necessary is, as much as possible, to keep ones lucidity and not to deceive oneself.
0 1968-04-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He spoke to me, but I didnt hear. I dont know what he told me. But I VERY STRONGLY hadvery strongly, and it lasted a long time the sense of the beginning, the commencement the start of something like an action or a series of events that would have great importance for the development of the earth.1 Very strong: it lasted for hours, that impression. And for me its quite unaccustomed, because generally, outward things (Mother shakes her head) its all so relative, all events are so relative that they dont leave any impression.
Quite unusual. And unexpected.
Its like a door opening onto something that will have a rather considerable importance in the development of the earth.
I didnt feel he himself was conscious. It somewhat exceeded human consciousnesses. But I clearly saw, very clearly saw the Pope.
0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first thing, to begin with (this is elementary), is to have no sense of possession Its mine, what does that mean? What does it mean? I cant really understand it now. Why do people want it to be theirs?To be able to use it as they wish, do with it what they wish and handle it according to their own idea. Thats how it is. Otherwise, yes, there are people who love to keep it in a pile somewhere But thats a disease. To be sure of always having money, they heap it up. But if people understood that one must be like a receiver-transmitter set; that the vaster the set (just the contrary of personal), the more impersonal and generous and vast the set is, and the more forces it can contain (forces, that is, to translate materially, banknotes or money). And that power to contain is in proportion to the best capacity of utilization the best, that is, from the standpoint of general progress: the broadest vision, the broadest understanding and the most enlightened, exact, true utilization, not according to the egos falsified needs, but according to the earths general need in its evolution and development. In other words, the broadest vision should have the broadest capacity.
Behind all false movements, there is a true one: there is a joy in being able to direct, utilize, organize things so as to keep wastage to a minimum while having a maximum of results. (Thats a very interesting vision to have.) And that must be the true side in those who want to amass: a capacity of utilization on a very large scale.
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And its not something you can pretend to have; a being cant pretend to have it: either he has it or he doesnt, because (laughing) if its a pretense, life will use the slightest opportunity to make it obvious! And moreover, it wont give you any material powerhere also, Thon said something in this regard, he said, Those who are all the way up (he was referring to the TRUE hierarchy, the hierarchy based precisely on each ones power of consciousness), one who is all the way up (one or those) necessarily has the least amount of needs; his material needs decrease as his capacity of material vision increases. And its perfectly true. Its automatic and spontaneous; its not the result of an effort: the vaster the consciousness and the more things and realities it embraces, the smaller the material needs becomeautomatically sobecause they lose all their importance and value. Its reduced to a minimal need of material necessities, which will itself change with the progressive development of Matter.
And thats easily recognizable, of course. Its difficult to feign.
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Yes, thats right! But I am referring to the system all the way down, socialistic or communistic, which represents material needs. Basically, it corresponds to a sort of absence of government, because they dont have the power to govern others: they are forced to transfer their power to someone who exercises it, like a Lenin, for instance, because he was a brain. But all that all that has been tried out and has given proof of its incompetence. The only thing that could be competent is the Truth-Consciousness choosing instruments and expressing itself through a certain number of instruments, if one cant be found (just one isnt enough, either, that one would necessarily need to choose a whole collectivity). Those possessing this consciousness may belong to any class of society: its not a privilege arising from birth, but the result of personal effort and development. In fact, that would be an external sign, an evident sign of change on the political level: no question anymore of classes or categories or birth (all that is outdated), but those individualities that have reached a higher consciousness would have the right to govern, whatever class they belong toand no others.
That would be the true vision.
0 1968-04-23, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The entire old way of being (way of feeling, thinking, even the state of consciousness) is seen not exactly as a distortion or falsification, but something like thatits not that: its the human way of being. And its necessarily the way of being that resulted from intensive mental development.
Whats growing quite clear isConsciousness. Its no longer explained with words or defined or its no longer that, itsConsciousness (or rather one feels one knows what it is), Consciousness. Thats the state: Consciousness. But its still a fragmented consciousness, which is (I cant say making effort because theres no effort), which is mutating into a total consciousness. So that is the transition (same gesture in suspense). Its still a consciousness (not exactly individual or personal, but fragmented, or in other words, which has been objectified), a consciousness which is AWARE of its movement of union. Its still that, not total union.
0 1968-05-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But one cannot express that, words cant. While I was speaking, it was that Consciousness which spoke. And the two experiences together (the childrens notes, I read them yesterday evening; as for D., I had seen her in the morning), the two together gave me the detachment (its not detachment: its a liberation) from the phenomenon of death in such an absolute way that I was able to look throughout History, far into the past, at the whole human tragedy. That is to say, death is a natural phenomenon in the creation on earth, but as a means of TRANSITIONI clearly saw why it had become necessary, how, with the human consciousness and mental development, it had been turned into a tragedy, and how it was becoming again merely a means of transition (a clumsy means, we might say), which was now becoming unnecessary again.
There was that whole, overall vision of the history of the creation. It was really interesting. Interesting because whew! you felt so free! So free, so peaceful, so smiling! And at the same time, with such a certitude that everything is moving towards a more harmonious, less chaotic, less painful manifestation and that there is only one more step to be made in the creation.
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Yesterday, I saw someone whom I dont want to name and I started talking to her. I didnt know, there wasnt any thought or anything before. I started speaking, and I said, There we are, we are at the time when we are going to see things.2 There are long, long, very long periods during which things are prepared; there is, afterwards, a very long, very long period during which things develop, organize, settle and bear consequences; but between this and that, there is a moment when things are done, when they happen. Its not always very long (sometimes it is, at other times its very brief), but thats when something happens. And that something is what will give the world a new development. Well, we are justas it happens, we are just at such a moment. Which means that if we are (people, most of the time, are blind), if we arent blind, if our eyes are open, we WILL SEE, we will see things.
The occasion for all that (to place the thing) was that I said, The U.S. president will go to Russia to sign a peace treaty with Vietnam.3 There are two similar circumstances at the same time, so that three peace treaties are going to be signed at the same time.
0 1968-06-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have even seen that those cells that have been specially developed and have become conscious of the divine Presence within themselves, when the concentration that gives shape to the body is stopped and the body dissolves (it dissolves little by little), all those conscious cells spread out and enter other combinations in which, through contagion, they awaken the consciousness of the Presence each of them had. So then, its through this phenomenon of concentration, development and scattering that Matter in its totality evolves, so to speak, and learns through contagion, develops through contagion, experiences through contagion.
But what enters other combinations isnt the cell itselfits the subtle consciousness of the cells?
0 1968-06-08, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, every human being (and that resists all developments and all widenings) spontaneously and naturally puts himself in the center and organizes the world around himself; so, for him, the Divine is necessarily something that has put itself in the center and organizes the world in the same way.
For maybe a few hours (I dont exactly know because I didnt pay attention to time), the consciousness was as if I dont know, turned over (I dont know what word I should use), and there was no center anymore, that center with everything organized around no longer existed at all; that is to say, the divine Consciousness wasnt a central consciousness with everything organized around itnot at all, not at all! It was something extraordinarily simple and at the same time extraordinarily complex.
0 1968-06-29, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a movement of acceleration: its the great work of the whole creation to consciously return (return is another silly wordturn to would be better), to become again, to identify again, not by abolishing the whole work of development and ascent, but Its like a multiplication of the facets of Consciousness, and that multiplication is growing increasingly coherent, organized and conscious of itself.
Individualization is only a means to make the innumerable details of the Consciousness more complex, more refined, more coherent. And individualization we shouldnt mistake it for physical life; physical life is ONE of the various means of that individualization, with such fragmenting and such limitation that it compels a concentration that intensifies the details of the development; but once that is done, it [individualization] isnt the lasting truth.
(Mother goes into a long contemplation)
0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, they are a phase in the universal development, and they will be they will fall off as instruments that have outlived their usefulness.
So then, I had the concrete experience of what this matter kneaded by the vital and the mind is, but WITHOUT vital and WITHOUT mind Its something else.
0 1968-10-19, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, I remain for hours and hours on end without speaking, and its like a development unfolding logically, but This cough must be deliberate, to prevent me from speaking. Because I see things clearly. One seems to waste ones time speaking.
I remain, I can remain for hours, hours and hours like that, watching the developmenta development at once universal and personal; but personal, there is so to speak no person, its something curious. Theres a series of states of consciousness being organized.
(silence)
0 1968-11-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The development seems to be moving towards that: an action on people and on the earth, quite physical.
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).
0 1968-12-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it has reached the point where now the body is quite astounded that one can live the ordinary life with the ordinary consciousness and be contented! It finds that appalling, you know, appalling. And that way of living in chaos, ugliness, wickedness, selfishness, violence, oh and cruelty and all possible horrors, and of finding it all perfectly natural. Thats when the body says to itself, It must be it must have been necessary as a stage in the development, and its an effect of the Grace, so theres nothing to say, theres only to admire.
But its absolutely certainabsolutely certain that if the world, if the creation were as it appears to be to this bodily consciousness as it now is, there would be only one thing to doto blot it out! Thats obviously the explanation of, and justification for, all nihilistic religions and philosophies. It takes a thoroughly unconscious insensitiveness to be able to live happily and contentedly in this horror that is the world. And all this IS the Lord, and not only IS the Lord but is WITHIN the Lord; that is to say, its not as we imagine itthings that were driven away, rejectednot at all, not at all: all this is there WITHIN the Lord. So there.
0 1968-12-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body has absolutely wonderful momentsand HOURS of anguish. And all of a sudden, a wonderful moment. But that moment cant be expressed. If we are to judge the degree of development from the proportion of time, well the wonderful moment lasts for a few minutes, and there are hours of anguish. There are even hours of suffering. So if, from that, you judge the proportion, theres still a very, very long, extremely long way to go.
But what can we do? We can only keep going, thats all.
0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the nature of the thing is so special! It has extraordinary precision, and such intensity that the bodys whole attention is turned towards that, but it cant communicate yet. Unless it comes quite naturally with this [superman] consciousness actingacting in others, for some detail or other, for one thing or other (that is to say, people themselves dont know, everyone isnt aware of the whole action, he is aware only according to the development of his consciousness). The consciousness is very clearly active on a large scale, and with results that are quite surprising and look, when seen in isolation, like miracles (small miracles, but they look like miracles). So I have wondered if it was going to make others capable of the same inner work? The hindrance in most people is mental activitytruly, this body is infinitely grateful that it has been liberated from the mental presence so it may be ENTIRELY under the influence of this Consciousness, without this whole accumulated farrago of so-called knowledge people have. Its spontaneous, natural, unsophisticated, very, very simple, and almost childlike in its simplicity. And that [the minds disappearance] is a great advantage. At this speed, things can go very fastone learns a hundred, two hundred things AT THE SAME TIME, you understand, all of it seen at once. This morning, it was particularly intense.
But if its described as it can be described, with words following each other, it becomes like F.s text on Auroville: flat, artificial, devoid of life.
0 1969-03-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Renewed gives the impression that there was a stop. Its not that. It CONTINUES to be like that. Its the consciousness constantly at work, not as a sequel of what was there before, but as a result of what it perceives every instant. In the mental movement, there is the consequence of what youve done beforeits not that, its the consciousness which CONSTANTLY sees what has to be done. Its extremely important to understand that, because thats how its still working for everything. Its not at all a formation whose development you must look after: its the consciousness which, every second, followsfollows its own movement. That allows everything! Its precisely what allows miracles, reversals, and so onit allows everything. Its the very opposite of human creations. It was like that, it continues to be like that, and it will always be like that so long as I am here.
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0 1969-04-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At any rate, it was one more decisive turning point in this bodys development. It once again felt that all it knew, all it thought it knew, all that was rubbish, as they say in English, and that unless you are in this absolutely luminous and tranquil and allcontaining Consciousness [you cannot understand]. Containing still gives the impression of a limit; its not all-containing, its vaster than anything existing. This Consciousness is vaster than the manifested world; theres almost a sort of sensation that theres a vaster Consciousness: the manifested world takes up a certain place in this Consciousness (how can I explain?), its not the WHOLE Consciousness. (Thats probably the bodys difficulty in being completely receptive, yet its for IT to understand.) And that seems to be the attitude to be kept. Is it an attitude?Its a way of being. A way of being. First, there are no limits (but thats an old experience the body has had for a long time), no limits: theres a sort of capacity to identify with things; but thats a consequence, as it were, of the impelling Will (this central Will, if I may say so, which impels to action). And the body is like that (outspread gesture). Its become so acute, this impression of The two things (two absolutely contradictory things) have become so intense: one is an absolute incapacity to understand anything about anything, the realization that the thing anyhow eludes understanding; and at the same time, the experience that the limits of power are progressively lessening, fading, receding. This Power it has become fantastic! Fantastic, this Power.
At the same time, it showed (oh, its constantly, constantly teaching something), it showed how with people who still have the sense of ego, when they receive a little bit of this Power (that is, when this Power uses them), that causes a sort of panic, and it showed why: the ego becomes tremendous. And that was to show, to make the body clearly understand the necessity of its present state: it has almost no more sense of its existence, as little as possible; that mostly comes back with things that still grate quite materially. But if, at such times, the body can, or has the time to, or knows how to go into this state of then the difficulty vanishes as if by miracle, in a trice. There was even something to show how, this way (Mother presses her two index fingers together, then slightly lowers the index finger of her right hand), there is sufferingthis way, theres suffering and when its like that (Mother raises slightly the index finger of her left hand), it no longer exists. (Mother does the same gesture again): This way, suffering; that way, it no longer exists. So the body may know exactly in which position suffering no longer exists.
0 1969-05-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, but I Mind you, if I hadnt had that experience of January 1st, when I felt it come I felt it, saw it come, it was wholly concrete, like like someone coming into the room, you understand, that concrete. So thats what made me take notice, otherwise I would have found it to be the normal course of the development. But that experience alerted me; that, and the fact that three people felt it before I said anything, and those three people told me about it before I even said a word. They told me about it while asking me, What has happened? Thats what I found interesting. But, for me, it was the same thing as for them, there was no difference; I told them there wasnt any difference in gradationit wasnt that this Consciousness was more intimate with me than with you all: its the same thing, it was like someone coming in. But a someone superlatively conscious. Thats what caused me to note the fact; otherwise I would have taken it as the course of the development, like you.
And it did that thing (it was the first time it happened to me) You see, I was asked, What is the condition one should be in to fully receive this Consciousness? So I was here, sitting like this, and the person was sitting where you are (a little more to the side), and I saw with my open eyes the Consciousness (not this consciousness: the Supreme Consciousness) come down (gesture like a column of light before Mother) That, mon petit, it cant be described. I was like this (eyes wide open), and I saw it come (same gesture like a column) and settle down on the wooden floor like that, about this size (gesture: about five feet wide). All the rest was as usual (Mother shows the furniture, her bed, which she could see as usual), and there was that which I saw with these very eyes. Then this Consciousness took my consciousness (revolving gesture starting from Mothers left side, going through the column of light in front of Mother, and returning on the right side): I didnt see anything [i.e., any shadow]. I wondered whether it had gone through the column (yet I FELT it while going through). And then, so I would understand clearly it took the consciousness of the person sitting there and made it go through [the column of light], and I saw a slight form, I saw a blue form in the place of the head. That was a weakness. For a long while I saw, I looked, then it went away all of a sudden. You know, its so independent of ones will, aspiration, movements of consciousnessof everything. And like this: visible for this bodyon its scale, you understand. Fantastic!
0 1969-05-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But by individuality, I dont mean an ego: I mean the something thats identical through all lives, the one thing that progresses through all lives. The something that remains the same and pursues its development.
Thats the Supreme.
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that pursues a line of development.
Yes, thats the process.
0 1969-06-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Working at a hastened pace. The body doesnt complain. It doesnt complain because There are two things at the same time. It has increasingly and in an increasingly precise way the full perception of its to use the exact word, its nothingness (that goes without saying, and without even a shadow of regret, because theres the full awareness that it cant be otherwise; in the present state of matter, it cant be otherwise). Theres an interesting process of development through which the body sees IN DETAILin detail, in every detailhow the Force of Consciousness acts, and what to put things simply, what we turn it into. Its very interesting. For everything, you know, the details of every minute: how the Force of Consciousness acts, and what we turn it into. With, from time to time, a marvelous key for certain problems, and a chance given to apply the key to see how it worksit works admirably!
But all that you understand, its like a few drops in an ocean of work. Thats how it is. The work is terrestrial, of coursemore and more terrestrial, even the body has a connection with the whole and therefore rather tremendous. But the sense of limitlessness in regard to the Force (not only the Consciousness, but the Force), the sense of limitlessness is becoming more and more permanent. The scale of the work in proportion with the form [Mothers body] is very perceptible, and perceptible in a very keen way, but there is the sense of the inanity of this formnot even its relative character: almost its inexistence, something like the sense of a continuing illusion. And then, quite concretely, the wonderful allpowerfulness of the Consciousness-Force; that comes with the impression that so-called miracles are nothing at all, a natural working. But you understand, the work has the proportion of the Consciousness, and it has to be done on (laughing) on the scale of the body. So that gives a sort of perception of an immensity that has to worked out on one point. I cant express it, its something inexpressible with words. But I need to have some peace.
0 1969-06-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It means that in the West (especially in France), the intellectual development has prevailed over the spiritual development and the contact with higher regions, while in India, the inner knowledge has remained more developed than the intellectual field.
We could put the sentence thus:
0 1969-08-06, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body is growing INTENSELY conscious of what responds to the true Influence, and whats still the residue of habit and the universal, terrestrial development (general, terrestrial), very conscious. Sometimes, its almost painful, you know, that old way of being.
And at certain times, the vision is almost veiled, as though I were seeing through a veil; at other times its ABSOLUTELY precise. I cant believe it depends on the eyes.
0 1969-08-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont think they believe so. I think they consider they have reached the height of mental development.
Its for the education of children, taken very small. They are left free in a place, they do what they likeabsolutely free, with all they need at their disposal. So those who spend their time fighting are said to have a fighting character! (Mother laughs) Some remain all alone, others come togetherfrom all that their characters are determined. So she wants to do that in Auroville. I told her, How are they prevented from injuring themselves or having serious accidents? She said they should be put in a place where they can fall without hurting themselves I found it a bit flimsy! But anyway, theres the idea. She wants to have that garden by the sea. I asked her (laughing), How will you prevent them from getting drowned?! She replied, Oh, well put a barrier in the sea to stop them from going too far. (Shes already chosen the spot, near Fs hut, they even want to appropriate one of the places F has bought: theyll put the children there.) I said, There are sharks in the sea. So theyre counting on their barrier to stop the sharksit will have to be strong! These people seem to me to be living in their imagination.
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In my vision (I cant swear its supramental, but at any rate it was much above a mental vision), I chose one man [Deshmukh], and everyone giggled, telling me it was an impossibilityit was the one thing that could make India immediately great. Immediately it gave India a place in the world, which was her true place. Everyone found it profoundly ridiculous. So then, I was asked to choose from among three candidates, and the most obviously incapable of the three was chosen as as the man who would help the most in Indias development and blossoming. There.
After that, you only have to keep quiet.
0 1969-10-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All those difficulties one has with the inner development when one deals with the vital and the mind, the return of old things and all that, here [in the body] its over, its not like that.
The healer gave the following replies to Satprem's questions: "I have not come to India to cure myself, but to put myself at the disposal of the Force and to learn. I don't feel inspired to stop curing people so as to look after myself, and I don't want to make an arbitrary mental decision to stop. Moreover I never 'decide' anything: I do what I am asked to. if Mother asks me to stop and to cure myself, I will do it." He also explained that he had already healed the hernia he had on his left side; there remained that on the right side, which he had purposely allowed to develop so as to have the experience. It was now as big as his fist (a peasant's fist). It was the "last barrier," he said, "after that, nothing will remain impossible."
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And for the Force to be able to go through rapidly so as to reach the body, a GREAT passivity is needed. I can see that: every time there is a pressure so as to act on some part of the body or other, it always begins with an absolute passivity, which is the perfection of inertia, you understand? What inertia imperfectly representsits the perfection of that. Something with no activity of its ownwhich is VERY difficult precisely for those who have a great mental development, very difficult. Because its whole life long, the body has worked to be in that state of receptivity to the mind, and that state, which is what brought about its obedience, docility and so on, is what needs to be abolished.
How can I explain? The development through the mind is a constant and general awakening of the whole beingeven the most material beingan awakening as a result of which there is also something thats the opposite of sleep. But to receive the supreme Force, whats needed is, on the contrary, the equivalent of stillness the stillness of sleep, but an ABSOLUTELY CONSCIOUS sleep, absolutely conscious. The body feels the difference. It feels the difference to such a point that for example, at night I lie down and I am like that, for hours I remain like that, and if after a while I drop into ordinary sleep, my body wakes up with a dreadful anguish! Then it slowly goes back to that State. That anguish, I feel it from time to timeit goes away instantly as soon as the body recaptures the true attitude, which is a state of stillness, but absolutely conscious. Stillness, I dont know how to explain that. Its almost the opposite of inertia in stillness.
Thats what now makes me understand why the creation began with inertia. So then, we had to recover that state (Mother draws an immense curve) after going through all the states of consciousness. And thats what has given us (laughing) for us, its a fine mess! But when its done deliberately, its not a mess any longer.
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It must be that. There are innumerable layers of consciousness. The development (the universal development) has progressively enabled us to become conscious of each layer; the more developed one is, the more one perceives the differences between layers. And its only when one is conscious of ALL the layers of consciousness and when they form nothing but a unity (but a unity conscious of its multiplicity), its only then that whats in the deepest depths the Supreme Consciousness can manifest fully. And in bodies, there are still layers that arent fully conscious; there are still layers that remain as a residue of all that preceded: the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, all that. So the whole fully conscious part of the cells is fully illumined, but Besides, one just has to see (Mother shows the skin of her hands, visibly untransformed). It has become EXTREMELY sensitive, the slightest shock causes a It has become extremely sensitive. It appears not to have the same density but the appearance is exactly the same. Those who have an inner vision see something [another form of Mother], but thats only because they have the capacity of inner vision. So thats it [i.e., the residue]. You understand, in the consciousness of the cells, there is the consciousness which is internal to the cells, so to speak, and which is fully, fully conscious, but theres something that remains like this (Mother gestures to show a crust-like covering the residue). So then, that work a man like A.R. hasnt done, you see: its a sort of hazy general consciousness. He himself is conscious of something stronger than his body, and which uses his body, it seems to me. In the world, its very useful and can give birth to all sorts of things. But he isnt ready for the transformation, you understandhimself, his body. He has a sort of inner certitude that it CAN be, but I dont know unless the Lord wants it to take place that way; that would be amusingreally, I would find it very amusing!
Because he speaks of a work of transformation of the cells.
0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The development of consciousness that leads to
A book it could be a story, that I dont know. But then people wouldnt take it so seriously!
0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A.R.s example is a very clear demonstration of why there was a mental development in the worldindispensable.
Once you have had the full mental development, you can say, Yes, I no longer need it but not before.
Theres a small humorous detail: in The Adventure of Consciousness (which he read), regarding mental silence, I wrote somewhere (I even put it in a footnote): Obviously, we wouldnt recommend mental silence to a peasant of Brittany, for instance! Because mental silence is quite fine once one has come to the end of the curve.
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. But I can see, thats what Sri Aurobindo also had: there is a certain power that comes from the contact with the supramental forces, which Sri Aurobindo had, and which I have experienced (when I said, He takes things away as one would do with ones hand, and nothing remains), but its not cured, in the sense that out of weakness one lets the ailment come back. I clearly see that, I have the same experience now, but thats not what I call cure; and I clearly see that to cure, something else would be needed. Something else would be needed. Ultimately to put it quite tritely, one can cure only if the disease isnt necessary to the individuals development.
One can give the body an indication of the direction it should follow in order to be cured, but ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it wont do it.
0 1969-12-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a FACTUAL demonstrationthrough the experience of every minute that when you do things with this sensation of accepted wisdom, or accepted knowledge, of an experience that has been lived and so on, how false it is, if we may say so (or deceptive, at any rate), and that there is something ELSE behind, which uses this (as it uses everything) but isnt at all tied down to or dependent on this knowledge or what we call the experience of life or anything of that sort. It has a much more direct vision, much deeper and farsighted, much wider and much more forwardwhich no external experience gives . But thats a modest development, not flashy, which cant show off anything: its a very small thing of each minuteeach minute, each second, each thing. As if there were constantly something showing you the ordinary way of living, of seeing and doing things, and then the true way Both like that. For each and every thing.
To such a point that the attitude towards certain vibrations gives you total well-being, or can make you quite sick! And its the same vibration. Things like that, bewildering. And every minute its like thatevery minute, for everything.
0 1970-03-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres something very interesting on a psychological level: its that material needs decrease in proportion to the spiritual growth. Not (as Sri Aurobindo said), not through asceticism, but because the focus of attention and concentration of the being moves to a different domain. The purely material being, quite conceivably, finds only material things pleasing; with all those who live in the emotive being and the outer mind, the interest of the being is turned to for instance, things of beauty, as with those who want to live surrounded by beautiful things, who want to use nice things. Now that appears to be the human summit, but its quite what we might call a central region (gesture hardly above ground level), its not at all a higher region. But the way the world is organized, people without aesthetic needs go back to a very primitive lifewhich is wrong. We need a place where life where the very setting of life would be, not an individual thing, but a beauty that would be like the surroundings natural to a certain degree of development.
Now, as things are organized, to be surrounded by beautiful things you need to be rich, and thats a source of imbalance, because wealth usually goes with quite an average degree of consciousness, even mediocre at times. So theres everywhere an imbalance and a disorder. We would need a place of beautya place of beauty in which people can live only if they have reached a certain degree of consciousness. And let it not be decided by other people, but quite spontaneously and naturally. So how to do that?
0 1970-03-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If Sri Aurobindo refers to moral pain, whatever it may be, I can say from experience that the four stages he speaks of correspond to four states of consciousness that stem from the inner development and the degree of union with the divine consciousness obtained by the individual consciousness. When the union is perfect, there only remains the fiercer form of delight.
If he refers to physical pain endured by the body, the experience does not follow so clearly defined an order, all the more so as union with the Divine most often causes the pain to disappear.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, oh, I get letters from people who have astounding experiences, quite out of proportion with their degree of intelligence or developmentastounding experiences. They themselves are astounded. Experiences very different from one another, but I know them all. I know them to be experiences of the subtle physical. People whom I know or not write to me (they come here, or they have read your book, or they have heard of Sri Aurobindo or), and they describe it as I might describe it myself, that is to say, with the full knowledge. And they know nothing! Its quite astounding, oh!
Yes. And then, when you are in that subtle physical consciousness, the laws changeyou can change the material law if you are in that consciousness.
0 1970-05-02, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The objective study of religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness.
I place religions below, in the mental realm.
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Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Aurovillenot as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to fasten, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation.
So then, Programme [Mother laughs]:
0 1970-06-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All these good people lament and wonder that unaccountably they and other good people are visited with such meaningless sufferings and misfortunes. But are they really visited with them by an outside Power or by a mechanical Law of Karma? Is it not possible that the soul itselfnot the outward mind, but the spirit withinhas accepted and chosen these things as part of its development in order to get through the necessary experience at a rapid rate,
Its wonderful, just whats going on!
0 1970-07-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body has itself reached that point, it finds it very difficult to feel a separate existence for itself, and (laughing) curiously thats only (Mother touches her cheek), only when its in pain. For instance, I constantly have a toothache, here (this area as I told you [Mother points to her mouth and throat]), and thats it, its the only thing that gives me the sense of being my body It doesnt feel separate. So I think thats the natural condition for the normal development.
You understand, the impression of feeling in a certain way, of thinking in a certain way, all that has completely vanished: you receive indications sometimes of the way this person feels or that one reacts but thats when a work needs to be done: its an indication, and its something taking place there, like this (gesture around, some distance away), its not within.
0 1970-08-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Any new development? I havent seen Z1 again.
Neither have I.
0 1970-09-26, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, it has to be something material. Material, but At any rate, maybe with the development of new organs? As man developed language. Something like that.
But when I write, I always feel theres a music behind.
0 1970-10-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ill will, criticism, doubt, skepticism and depression are far more serious obstacles to the spiritual development than lifes trivialities and childish pursuits, if they are accepted without attaching importance to them.
13 May 1965
0 1970-11-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The knowledge of past lives is interesting for a knowledge of ones nature and the mastery of ones imperfections. But to tell the truth, it has no crucial importance and it is far more important to concentrate on the future, on the consciousness we must acquire and the development of the nature, which is almost limitless for those who know how to do it.
We are at a specially favorable time of universal existence, when everything on the earth is preparing for a new creation, or rather a new manifestation in the eternal creation.
0 1971-04-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
His yoga is integral because, instead of confining the quest to the spiritual heights, he has told us repeatedly that our body too must participate and we must bring the Spiritual Truth down into our body and our life. The path of ascent and all the other paths, the other planes of consciousness, are part of an integral development for those who have the time and the special capacities that are required. But it is no longer the time for those excursions, since everything can be found heresince, in fact, Sri Aurobindo and Mother opened the way HERE. Please recall Mothers statement: Sri Aurobindo came to tell us: one need not leave the earth to find the Truth, one need not leave life to find ones soul, one need not abandon the world or have limited beliefs to enter into relation with the Divine. The Divine is everywhere, in everything, and if he is hidden, it is because we do not take the trouble to find him. (Questions and Answers, 8.13.1958) And again this: For many, spiritual life is meditation. As long as that nonsense is not uprooted from human consciousness, the supramental force will always find it very difficult not to be swallowed up in the obscurity of an uncomprehending human mind. (Questions and Answers, 4.17.1957) And if you know how to read Sri Aurobindo and Mother, you will see that they have completely described this road of here and the sunlit pathOn the Way to Supermanhood only puts an intentionally exclusive accent on the here, because there is no time to lose, because everyone does not have the special capacities for making large-scale explorations, and finally because we are at the Hour of Godwe are right there! It has come. Because there really is something different in the world since 1969.
It is not a change in Sri Aurobindos yoga, it is the flowering of Sri Aurobindos yoga, I dare say. I do not think that the flower of the flame tree contradicts in any way the flame tree.
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 1971-09-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It means he would have a two-year old psychic being (you see, they dont have age per se, only in terms of development). And he grew up at your contact.2 Its interesting.
(long silence)
0 1971-10-20, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because I know this very well, I am content to work still on the spiritual and psychic plane, preparing there the ideas and forces, which may afterwards at the right moment and under the right conditions precipitate themselves into the vital and material field, and I have been careful not to make any public pronouncement as that might prejudice my possibilities of future action. What that will be will depend on developments. The present trend of politics may end in abortive unrest, but it may also stumble with the aid of external circumstances into some kind of simulacrum of self-government. In either case the whole real work will remain to be done. I wish to keep myself free for it in either case.
Aurobindo
0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Such is the new adventure to which Sri Aurobindo invites us, an adventure into mans unknown. Whether we like it or not, the whole earth is moving into a new groove, but why shouldnt we like it? Why shouldnt we collaborate in this great, unprecedented adventure? Why shouldnt we collaborate in our own evolution, instead of repeating endlessly the same old story, instead of chasing hallucinatory paradises which will never quench our thirst or otherworldly paradises which leave the earth to rot along with our bodies? Why be born if it is to get out at the end? exclaims the Mother, who continues Sri Aurobindos work. What is the use of having struggled so much, suffered so much, of having created something which, in its outer appearance at least, is so tragic and dramatic, if it is only to learn how to get out of itit would have been better not to start at all. Evolution is not a tortuous course that brings us back, somewhat battered, to the starting point. Quite the contrary, it is meant, says Mother, to teach the whole of creation the joy of being, the beauty of being, the grandeur of being, the majesty of a sublime life, and the perpetual development, perpetually progressive, of this joy, this beauty, this grandeur. Then everything has a meaning.11
This body, this obscure beast of burden we inhabit, is the experimental field of Sri Aurobindos yogawhich is a yoga of the whole earth, for one can easily understand that if a single being among our millions of sufferings succeeds in negotiating the evolutionary leap, the mutation of the next age, the face of the earth will be radically altered. Then all the so-called powers of which we boast today will seem like childish games before the radiance of this almighty embodied spirit. Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is possiblenot only possible but that it will be done. It is being done. And perhaps everything depends not so much on a sublime effort of humanity to transcend its limitations for that means still using our own human strength to free ourselves from human strengthas on a call, a conscious cry of the earth to this new being which the earth already carries within itself. All is already there, within our hearts, the supreme Source which is the supreme Poweronly we must call it into our forest of cement, we must understand the meaning of man, the meaning of ourselves. The amplified cry of the earth, of its millions of men and women who cannot bear it anymore, who no longer accept their prison, must open a crack to let the new vibration in. Then all the apparently ineluctable laws that bind us in their hereditary and scientific groove will crumble before the Joy of the sun-eyed children.12 Expect nothing from death, says Mother, life is your salvation. It is in life that you must transform yourself. It is on earth that you progress and on earth that you realize. It is in the body that you win the Victory.13
0 1971-12-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its effect on us, the sensation it produces in us depends exclusively on the position of our consciousness. There is the consciousness of being in oneself or being in the whole (being in the whole is already a bit better than being egoistically oneself, and it has its advantages and disadvantages, but its not the truth), the Truth is the Divine as totalitytotality in time and totality in space. And that consciousness, the body CAN have, because this body had it (momentarily, for a few moments), and while it has it, everything is so you see, its not joy, its not pleasure, its not happiness, nothing of all that a sort of blissful peace and luminous and creative. Magnificent. Only, it comes and goes, comes and goes. And when you go out of it, you have the impression of falling into a horrible pitour ordinary consciousness (I mean the ordinary human consciousness) is a horrible pit. But we also know why it had to be momentarily that way, for it was necessary in order to go from this to that: everything that happens is necessary for the full development of the goal of creation. You could say (we could word-paint): the goal of creation is for the creature to become conscious as the Creator. There you are.
Its word-painting, but its in that direction.
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That gives both the reason and the goal of creationboth at once and almost the method of development.
(silence)
0 1972-02-01, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Divine alone can liberate us from the mechanism of universal Nature. And this liberation is indispensable for the birth and development of the new race.
Only if we give ourselves entirely to the Divine with total trust and gratitude will the difficulties be surmounted.
0 1972-04-04, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We see that, in practice, this possibility has not been endorsed by you. Is the presence of these elementswhich according to us are undesirablenecessary to Auroville for reasons known to the Divine Consciousness? Are we supposed to build Auroville amidst the difficulties they represent? And are they useful to Aurovilles development?
(Mother speaks in French)
0 1972-04-15, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are immortal, arent they, they are free (to a large extent, they are free and immortal). They have taken part in the earths development only out of curiosity, as a sort of pastime!
Yes.
0 1973-01-20, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Dalai Lama:) It is my dream to have the perfect economic development of Tibet, the perfect organization, the efficiency that we find in Communism, but all this based upon, founded upon the Buddhistic qualities of Compassion and Love, so that the people in power do not degenerate into corruption. What is Mothers view of this dream, and whether such a thing will be realized in Tibet?
It is not a dream. It will naturally be. But the time it will take, I do not know. This is something like what Sri Aurobindo has said about the Supramental.
02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Those that have stood against this Dark Force and its over-shadowing menaceeven though perhaps not wholly by choice or free-will, but mostly compelled by circumstancesyet, because of the stand they have taken, now bear the fate of the world on their shoulders, carry the whole future of humanity in their march. It is of course agreed that to have stood against the Asura does not mean that one has become sura, divine or godlike; but to be able to remain human, human instruments of the Divine, however frail, is sufficient for the purpose, that ensures safety from the great calamity. The rule of life of the Asura implies the end of progress, the arrest of all evolution; it means even a reversal for man. The Asura is a fixed type of being. He does not change, his is a hardened mould, a settled immutable form of a particular consciousness, a definite pattern of qualities and activitiesgunakarma. Asura-nature means a fundamental ego-centricism, violent and concentrated self-will. Change is possible for the human being; he can go downward, but he can move upward too, if he chooses. In the Puranas a distinction has been made between the domain of enjoyment and the domain of action. Man is the domain of action par excellence; by him and through him evolve new and fresh lines of activity and impulsion. The domain of enjoyment, on the other hand, is where we reap the fruits of our past Karma; it is the result of an accumulated drive of all that we have done, of all the movements we have initiated and carried out. It is a status of being where there is only enjoyment, not of becoming where there can be development and new creation. It is a condition of gestation, as it were; there is no new Karma, no initiative or change in the stuff of the consciousness. The Asuras are bhogamaya purusha, beings of enjoyment; their domain is a cumulus of enjoyings. They cannot strike out a fresh line of activity, put forth a new mode of energy that can work out a growth or transformation of nature. Their consciousness is an immutable entity. The Asuras do not mend, they can only end. Man can certainly acquire or imbibe Asuric force or Asura-like qualities and impulsions; externally he can often act very much like the Asura; and yet there is a difference. Along with the dross that soils and obscures human nature, there is something more, a clarity that opens to a higher light, an inner core of noble metal which does not submit to any inferior influence. There is this something More in man which always inspires and enables him to break away from the Asuric nature. Moreover, though there may be an outer resemblance between the Asuric qualities of man and the Asuric qualities of the Asura, there is an intrinsic different, a difference in tone and temper, in rhythm and vibration, proceeding as they do, from different sources. However cruel, hard, selfish, egocentric man may be, he knows, he admitsat times, if hot always, at heart, if not openly, subconsciously, if not wholly consciously that such is not the ideal way, that these qualities are not qualifications, they are unworthy elements and have to be discarded. But the Asura is ruthless, because he regards ruthlessness as the right thing, as the perfect thing, it is an integral part of his swabhava and swadharma, his law of being and his highest good. Violence is the ornament of his character.
The outrages committed by Spain in America, the oppression of the Christians by Imperial Rome, the brutal treatment of Christians by Christians themselves (the inquisition, that is to say) or the misdeeds of Imperialists generally were wrong and, in many cases, even inhuman and unpardonable. But when we compare with what Nazi Germany has done in Poland or wants to do throughout the world, we find that there is a difference between the two not only in degree, but in kind.One is an instance of the weakness of man, of his flesh being frail; the other illustrates the might of the Asura, his very spirit is unwilling. One is undivine; the other antidivine, positively hostile. They who cannot discern this difference are colour-blind: there are eyes to which all deeper shades of colour are black and all lighter shades white.
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We have, till now, spoken of the evolution of consciousness as a movement of ascension, consisting of a double process of sublimation and integration. But ascension itself is only one line of a yet another larger double process. For along with the visible movement of ascent, there is a hidden movement of descent. The ascent represents the pressure from below, the force of buoyancy exerted by the involved and secreted consciousness. But the mere drive from below is not sufficient all by itself to bring out or establish the higher status. The higher status itself has to descend in order to be manifest. The urge from below is an aspiration, a yearning to move ever upward and forward; but the precise goal, the status to be arrived at is not given there. The more or less vague and groping surge from below is canalised, if assumes a definite figure and shape, assumes a local habitation and a name when the higher descends at the crucial moment, takes the lower at its peak-tide and fixes upon it its own norm and form. We have said that all the levels of consciousness have been createdloosened outby a first Descent; but in the line of the first Descent the only level that stands in front at the outset is Matter all the other levels are created no doubt but remain invisible in the background, behind the gross veil of Matter. Each status stands confined, as it were, to its own region and bides its time when each will be summoned to concretise itself in Matter. Thus Life was already there on the plane of Life even when it did not manifest itself in Matter, when mere Matter, dead Matter was the only apparent reality on the material plane. When Matter was stirred and churned sufficiently so as to reach a certain tension and saturation, when it was raised to a certain degree of maturity, as it were, then Life appeared: Life appeared, not because that was the inevitable and unavoidable result of the churning, but because Life descended from its own level to the level of Matter and took Matter up in its embrace. The churning, the development in Matter was only the occasion, the condition precedent. For, however much one may shake or churn Matter, whatever change one may create in it by a shuffling and reshuffling of its elements, one can never produce Life by that alone. A new and unforeseen factor makes its appearance, precisely because it comes from elsewhere. It is true all the planes are imbedded, submerged, involved in the complex of Matter; but, in point of fact, all planes are involved in every other plane. The appearance or manifestation of a new plane is certainly prepared, made ready to the last the last but onedegree by the urge of the inner, the latent mode of consciousness that is to be; still the actualisation, the bursting forth happens only when the thing that has to manifest itself descends, the actual form and pattern can be imprinted and established by that alone. Thus, again, when Life attains a certain level of growth and maturity, a certain tension and orientationa definite vector, so to say, in the mathematical languagewhen it has, for example, sufficiently organised itself as a vehicle of the psychic element of consciousness, then it buds forth into Mind, but only when the Mind has descended upon it and into it. As in the previous stage, here also Life cannot produce Mind, cannot develop into Mind by any amount of mechanical or chemical operations within itself, by any amount of permutation and combination or commutation and culture of its constituent elements, unless it is seized on by Mind itself. After the Mind, the next higher grade of consciousness shall come by the same method and process, viz. first by an uplifting of the mental consciousnessa certain widening and deepening and katharsis of the mental consciousness and then by a descent, gradual or sudden, of the level or levels that lie above it.
This, then, is the nature of creation and its process. First, there is an Involution, a gradual foreshorteninga disintegration and concretisation, an exclusive concentration and self-oblivion of consciousness by which the various levels of diminishing consciousness are brought forth from the plenary light of the one supreme Spirit, all the levels down to the complete eclipse in the unconsciousness of the multiple and disintegrate Matter. Next, there is an Evolution, that is to say, embodiment in Matter of all these successive states, appearing one by one from the down most to the topmost; Matter incarnates, all other states contri bute to the incarnation and uphold it, the higher always transforming the lower in a new degree of consciousness.
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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
02.05 - Federated Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The original unit of the human aggregate is the family; it is like the original cell which lies at the back of the entire system that is called the human body or, for that matter, any organic body. A living and stable nucleus is needed round which a crystallisation and growth can occur. The family furnished such a nucleus in the early epochs of humanity. But with the growth of human life there came a time when, for a better and more efficient organization in collective life, larger units were needed. The original unit had to be enlarged in order to meet the demands of a wider and more complex growth. Also it is to be noted that the living body is not merely a conglomeration of cells, all more or less equal and autonomous something like a democratic or an anarchic organization; but it consists of a grouping of such cells in spheres or regions or systems according to differing functions. And as we rise in the scale of evolution the grouping becomes more and more complex, well-defined and hierarchical. Human collectivity also shows a similar development in organization. The original, the primitive unit the familywas first taken up into a larger unit, the clan; the clan, in its turn, gave place to the tribe and finally the tribe merged into the nation. A similar widening of the unit can also be noticed in man's habitat, in his geographical environment. The primitive man was confined to the village; the village gradually grew into the township and the city state. Then came the regional unit and last of all we arrived at the country.
Until the last great war it seemed that the nation (and country) was the largest living unit that human collectivity could admit without the risk of a break-up. Now it was at this momentous epoch that the first concept or shape of a larger federationtypified in the League of Nationsstirred into life and began to demand its lebensraum. It could not however come to fruition and stability, because the age of isolated nationhood had not yet passed and the principle of selfdetermination yet needed its absolute justification.
02.06 - The Integral Yoga and Other Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Truth Purusha (supramental) and the Bliss Purusha; it says that one has to draw the physical self up into the vital, the vital into the mental, the mental into the Truth Self, the Truth Self into the Bliss Self and so attain perfection. But in this Yoga we become aware not only of this taking up but of a pouring down of the powers of the higher Self, so that there comes in the possibility of a descent of the Supramental Self and nature to dominate and change our present nature and turn it from nature of Ignorance into nature of Truth-Knowledge (and through the supramental into nature of Ananda) - this is the third or supramental transformation. It does not always go in this order, for with many the spiritual descent begins first in an imperfect way before the psychic is in front and in charge, but the psychic development has to be attained before a perfect and unhampered spiritual descent can take place, and the last or supramental change is impossible so long as the two first have not become full and complete. That's the whole matter, put as briefly as possible.
02.10 - Independence and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Precisely, the present war brings to our door the opportunity most suited to the acquisition and development of this power and strength. The very things the Indian temperament once had in abundance but now lacks most and has to recoverdiscipline, organization, impersonality and objectivity in work, hard and patient labour, skill of execution in minute detailsqualities by virtue of which power is not only acquired, but maintained and fosteredare now made more easily available. These qualities cannot be mastered and developed with such facility and swiftness as under the pressure of the demands of a war. This does not mean that we have got to be militarists. But the world is such that if we wish to live and prosper we must know how to make use of the materials and conditions that are given to us. Many good things are imbedded among bad ones, and wisdom and commonsense do not advise us to throw out the baby with the bath-water. That is another matter, however.
If we had joined hands with the British in the war-work on their own termsto try to compel them to our terms is to put the cart before the horsewe would have seen that as we proceeded with the work, more and more of it came automatically under our charge, however small or slight it might have looked in the beginning. In the end or very soon we would have found that our possession of the field was an accomplished fact, there could be no question of denying or refusing, the fact had to be acceptedadmitted and ratified. It is the well-known policy of the camel which Aesop described in one of his Fables. We have to establish the inexorable logic of events which definitively solves the riddle, cuts the Gordian knot as it were. A theoretical, that is to say, a moral and legal pact or understanding is but a dam of sands.
02.11 - New World-Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It must also be noted that all countries need not and cannot have the same pattern of economic life, even that of a successful economic life. A vast country like India, with the manifold resources of a whole continent, can at once be industrial and agriculturalmodern America, to some extent, is an example of this type. She can follow both the lines of economic development with equal vigour and success. And in the midst of an intensive and extensive agricultural and industrial occupation, there may be still room for the age-long, old-world cottage industry, for the individual artisan or craftsman whose God-given hand may always give to things an added value beyond the reach of the mere machine.
With this perspective in view, keeping always in front the probable shape of things to come, one must learn to consider the present, look for those forces that make for the new world and thus help the course of evolution and progress. Nature does not care for her past formations, she is not bound to them; she is always throwing up chances and opportunitiesvariations-for new developments. Nature red in tooth and claw is only one side of the shield; and the picture is not as true today as it was even a few hundred years ago, in spite of the spells of devastating carnage she still allows in her surface movements. It may be that the very pressure and insistence of an inner harmony has brought to the fore, made acute difficulties and contraries that have to be met and solved for good.
International co-operation has become a thing of immediate necessity, of practical utility. We met in San Francisco, not out of the spirit of sheer idealism or altruism but because we were forced to it. Circumstances have come to such a pass that even local needs, natural aspirations can be best met and served in and through international understanding. It is the solution of international problems, the amelioration of international relations first that would more easily lead to the solution of national problems than the other way round, which was perhaps the normal direction of the world-forces even a decade or two ago. Such world-organisations as the UNRRA or even the Red Cross, although they do not go deep enough into the root problems and are not powerful enough to mould or control world-forces, appearing more or less as charitable institutions, are still concrete expressions of an urgent immediate demand for mutuality and solidarity among the nations, even between warring nations.
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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.
At times a remedy was tried: the social pattern was sought to be constructed upon the principle of "Career open to talents"; this was a motto which the great Napoleon endeavoured to carry out in practice. Instead of claims of birth, age or position, he looked for real merit as the "Open Sesame" to the highest ranks involving the gravest duties and responsibilities. Even he, however, could not preserve or carry out fully his good intentions. The Imperator (the First Consul) tried the experiment, but the Emperor already slipped off from the ideal.
02.13 - Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo retired from the outer political world to devote himself more intensively to the discovery and conquestof a new consciousness and force, glimpses of which he was having at the time and which alone could save mankind and recreate it. From 1910 to 1914 he was, he said, silently developing this new power in seclusion and in 1914 he began to give to the world the result of his realisations through his monthly review Arya. In five major sequences published month after month through several years, he envisaged, in the main, the progressive march of man towards a divine life on earth, towards the unity of mankind and a perfect social order. One of these serials was called The Future Poetry in which he traced the growth and development that world poetry is undergoing towards its future form that would voice the dawn of a New Age of the Spirit. Sri Aurobindo hailed those who feel and foresee this distant dawn behind the horizon as the Forerunners of the new Spirit, among whom he included Rabindranath, because he saw in Tagore's the first beginnings, "a glint of the greater era of man's living", something that "seems to be in promise." "The poetry of Tagore," Sri Aurobindo says, "owes its sudden and universal success to this advantage that he gives us more of this discovery and fusion for which the mind of our age is in quest than any other creative writer of the time. His work is a constant music of the overpassing of the borders, a chant-filled realm in which the subtle sounds and lights of the truth of the spirit give new meanings to the finer subtleties of life."
Characterising Tagore's poetry, in reference to a particular poem, Sri Aurobindo once wrote: "But the poignant sweetness, passion and spiritual depth and mystery of a poem like this, the haunting cadences subtle with a subtlety which is not of technique but of the soul, and the honey-laden felicity of the expression, these are the essential Rabindranath and cannot be imitated because they are things of the spirit and one must have the same sweetness and depth of soul before one can hope to catch any of these desirable qualities." Furthermore: "One of the most remarkable peculiarities of Rabindra Babu's genius is the happiness and originality with which he has absorbed the whole spirit of Vaishnava poetry and turned it into something essentially the same and yet new and modern. He has given the old sweet spirit of emotional and passionate religion an expression of more delicate and complex richness voiceful of subtler and more penetratingly spiritual shades of feeling than the deep-hearted but simple early age of Bengal could know."
03.01 - The Evolution of Consciousness, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The process of evolution has been the development from and in inconscient Matter of a subconscient and then a conscious
Life, of conscious mind first in animal life and then fully in conscious and thinking man, the highest present achievement of evolutionary Nature. The achievement of mental being is at present her highest and tends to be regarded as her final work; but it is possible to conceive a still further step of the evolution: Nature may have in view beyond the imperfect mind of man a consciousness that passes out of the mind's ignorance and possesses truth as its inherent right and nature. There is a truth-consciousness as it is called in the Veda, a supermind, as I have termed it, possessing Knowledge, not having to seek after it and constantly miss it. In one of the Upanishads a being of knowledge is stated to be the next step above the mental being; into that the soul has to rise and through it to attain the perfect bliss of spiritual existence. If that could be achieved as the next evolutionary step of Nature here, then she would be fulfilled and we could conceive of the perfection of life even here, its attainment of a full spiritual living even in this body or it may be in a perfected body. We could even speak of a divine life on earth; our human dream of perfectibility would be accomplished and at the same time the aspiration to a heaven on earth common to several religions and spiritual seers and thinkers.
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Hence the Mother gives the direction that though external lapses may be natural to our external nature, now that our inner consciousness has awakened, the vision and the earnestness to see and recognise our mistakes have developedassuming that this much of development has taken place in uswe must awake to the situation and be on the alert, we must bring such control to bear upon our vital impulses, upon our nervous centres as will prevent, for good and all, errors and stupidities from upsurging again and invading our physical self and our field of action. When we have reached this stage, we have acquired the capacity to ascend to another level of consciousness. It is then that we can lay the foundations of a new order in the worldit is then that along with the purification, the achievement will begin to take on a material form.
II
03.04 - Towardsa New Ideology, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, Right, Duty and Dharma are three terms that represent the three stages of an ascending consciousness in its play of forces. At the base and beginning the original and primary state of consciousness is dominated by the mode of inertia (tamas); in that state things are an inchoate mass and are simply jumbled together; they are moved and acted upon helplessly by forces that are outside them. A rise in the scale of growth and evolution occurs when things begin to be organised, that is to say, differentiated and coordinated. And this means at the outset the self-assertion of each and every unit, the claim and the right of the individual to be itself first and foremost. It is a necessary development, for it signifies the growth of self-conscious units out of a general unconsciousness. It is the appearance of rajas, the mode of life and activity. Right belongs to this field and level: it is the lever that serves to bring out the individual nuclei from a general formlessness, it is the force that crystallises and organises the separative centres for separate fulfilment in life. And naturally it is the field also of competition and conflict. This is a stage and has to be transcended, from the domain of differentiation and contrariety one has to rise to the domain of co-ordination and co-operation. Here comes in the concept of duty which seeks to remedy the ills of the modus of rights in two ways, first, by replacing the movement of taking by that of giving, orienting the consciousness from the sense of self-sufficiency and self-importance towards that of submission and humbleness; secondly, by the recognition of the just rights of others also against one's own. Duty represents the mode of sattwa in action.
But the conception of duty too has its limitations. Even apart from the misuses of the ideal to which we have already referred, the ideal itself, is of the mental plane; it is more or less an act of mental will that seeks to impose a rule of co-operation upon the mutually excluding and conflicting entities. The result is bound to be imperfect and precarious. For mind force, although it can exercise some kind of control over the life forces, cannot altogether master them, and eradicate even the very seeds of conflict that breed naturally in that field. The sense of duty raises the consciousness to the mode of sattwa; sattwa holds rajas in check, but is unable to eliminate wholly the propensities and impulses of aberration ingrained in rajas, cannot radically purify or transfigure it.
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We have to recognise that man, in his individual as well as in his collective being, is a complex entity, not something simple and one -dimensional. The healthy growth of himself and his society means a simultaneous development on many lines, all moving together in concord and harmony. And this movement of all-harmony can be found only when the movements are initiated from the very source of harmony which is the soul Certain soul-principles that seek expression in life today thatare necessary to the age or to the coming age, have to be recognised and each given a field and a scope. That should be the basis of social groupings. And a composite variety of grouping with strands and strata, each expressing a particular mode of being of the one group-soulwhich in its turn is an aspect of the Vishva Purusha in his playis the ideal pattern of social organisation. What exactly the lines of grouping would be need not and perhaps cannot be settled now; a certain preliminary growth and change of consciousness in man is necessary before anything definite and precise can be foreseen as to the form and schema that consciousness will manifest and layout.
Still some kind of hierarchy seems tobe the natural and inevitable form of collective life. A dead level, however high that may possibly be, appears to be rather a condition of malaise and not that of a stable equilibrium. The individual man cannot with impunity be brains alonehe becomes then what is called "a barren intellectualist", "an ineffectual angel" ; nor can he rest satisfied with being a mere hewer of wood and drawer of waterhe is no more than a bushman then. Like-wise a society cannot be made of philosophers alone, nor can it be a monolithic construction of the proletariat and nothing but the proletariat-if the proletariat choose to remain literally proletarian. As the body individual is composed of limbs that rise one upon another from the inferior to the superior, even so a healthy body social also should consist of similar hierarchical ranges. Only this distinction should not mean and it does not necessarily meana difference in moral values, as it was pointed out long ago by Aesop in his famous fable. The distinction is functional and spiritual. In the spirit, all differences and distinctions are based upon and are instinct with an inviolable and inalienable unity, even identity. Differences here do not mean invidious distinction, they are not the sources of inequality, conflict, strife, but make for a richer harmony, a greater organisation.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The whole difficulty centres upon the question: who rouses whom, and what is the principle that is meant to rouse. There is a slogan that incited the Red Terror of the French Revolution; there is the other one which inspired the Nazis; there is still another one rampant that had the seal and sanction of Stalin and his politburo. These have spread their dark wings and covered the saviour light. On the other hand, the voice of the Vedic Rishi that hymned the community of faith and speech and act, the kindly light that Buddha carried to suffering humanity, the love and sacrifice of Christ showing and embleming the way of redemption, the saints and sages in our own epoch who have visioned the ideal of human unity in a divine humanity, even secular leaders who labour for "one world", "a brave new world"all point to the other line of growth and development that man can follow and must and shall follow. The choice has to be made and the right direction given. In India today, there are these two voices put against each other and clear in their call: one asks for unity and harmony, wideness and truth, the other its contrary working for separativeness, disintegration, narrowness, and make-believe and falsehood. One must have the courage and the sagacity to fix one's loyalty and adhesion.
A true covenant there can be only between parties that work for the light, are inspired by the same divine purpose. Otherwise if there is a fundamental difference in the motive, in the soul-impulse, then it is no longer a pact between comrades, but a patchwork of irreconcilable elements. I have spoken of the threefold sanction of the covenant. The sanction from the top initiates, plans and supports, the sanction from the bottom establishes and furnishes the field, but it is the sanction from the mid-region that inspires, executes, makes a living reality of what is no more than an idea, a possibility. On one side are the Elders, the seasoned statesmen, the wise ones; on the other, the general body of mankind waiting to be moved and guided; in between is the army of young enthusiasts, enlightened or illumined (not necessarily young in age) who form the pra, the vital sheath of the body politic. Allby far the largest part of itdepends upon the dreams that the Prana has been initiated and trained to dream.
03.07 - Brahmacharya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We do not speak of Brahmacharya in relation to a child. The discipline can be taken up only when the body and the consciousness have attained a certain degree of growth and development. A child grows in the full free play of its life movements: the care or attention of others should weigh upon it as lightly as possible, maintaining only an atmosphere of happy influence and protection. The transition from the stage of free play to conscious control is marked in Indian society by the ceremony of upanayana, the first approach or initiation: it is the beginning of the life of Brahmacharya.
It must be understood that this discipline is not merely for those who wish to follow a religious or spiritual life, but for all without exception. Brahmacharya is the first ashrama, order or stage of life with which one begins one's organisation of life; one has to pass through it to others leading to greater and higher degrees of fulfilment. It forms the foundation, prepares the necessary ground upon which the life structure can safely be raised and maintained. It is the secret fund of strength, the source of pure energies that vitalises life, enhances its values, makes it worth living.
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In recent times, however, we have begun to view children's education in a different light. It is being more and more realised that things are not to be instilled into the child from outside, but that the child should be allowed to grow and imbibe naturally. The teacher is only a companion and a guide: he is to let the child move according to its own inclinations, follow its own line of curiosity; he can open up and present new vistas of curiosity, seek to evoke new interests. Sympathy and encouragement on his side giving scope to freedom and autonomous development for the childthis is the watchword and motto for the ideal teacher.
This new approach has rectified much of the wrong handling of the problem of education to which we have been accustomed. Even this new orientation, however, is not sufficient: along with freedom and autonomy, the element of discipline and order has also to be brought in, if not quite in the old way at least in a new manner. It will not do to say simply that it must be self-discipline and self-order, but the question is how it is to be practically carried out. In ancient times it was done by living the life of an aspirant, not merely by studying and going to school, being only a student but living in the hours of the teacher, in the atmosphere of his direct presence and influence: the teacher too was not a machine issuing mechanical instruction, but a Person who loved and whom one loved, a warm embodiment of the ideal.
03.07 - The Sunlit Path, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Like the individual, nations too have their sunlit path and the path of the doldrum as well. So long as a nation keeps to the truth of its inner being, follows its natural line of development, remains faithful to its secret godhead, it will have chosen that good part which will bring it divine blessings and fulfilment. But sometimes a nation has the stupidity to deny its self, to run after an ignis fatuus, a mymrga, then grief and sorrow and frustration lie ahead. We are afraid India did take such a wrong step when she refused to see the great purpose behind the present war and tried to avoid contri buting her mite to the evolutionary Force at work. On the other hand Britain in a moment of supreme crisis, that meant literally life or death, not only to herself or to other nations, but to humanity itself, had the good fortune to be led by the right Inspiration, the whole nation rose as one man and swore allegiance to the cause of humanity and the gods. That was how she was saved and that was how she acquired a new merit and a fresh lease of life. Unlike Britain, France bowed down and accepted what should not have been accepted and cut herself adrift from her inner life and truth, the result was five years of hell. Fortunately, the hell in the end proved to be a purgatory, but what a purgatory! For there were souls who were willing to pay the price and did pay it to the full cash and nett. So France has been given the chance again to turn round and take up the thread of her life where it snapped.
Once more another crisis seems to be looming before the nations, once more the choice has to be made and acted upon. In our weakness it is natural and easy to invoke God, to feel the presence of a higher Guidance, to trust in a heavenly light; but it is in our strength that we must know whose strength it is, and in whose strength it is that we conquer.
03.08 - The Democracy of Tomorrow, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The earlier stages of human society were chiefly concerned with the development of mankind in die mass. It is a collective growth, a general uplifting that is attempted: the individual has no special independent value of his own. The clan, the tribe, the kula, the order, the caste, or the State, when it came to be formed, were the various collective frames of reference for ascertaining the function and the value of the individual. It is in fulfilling the dharma, obeying the nomoi, in carrying out faithfully the duties attached to one's position in the social hierarchy that lay the highest good, summum bonum.
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.
03.09 - Sectarianism or Loyalty, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A spiritual interest is nothing if it is not in this way a question that touches life to its core. That means a definite goal and appropriate means to reach that goal, and that again necessarily involves a choice, a process of acceptance and rejection. The goal is also called the ista, the godhead that one seeks, the Divine that is fulfilled in oneself. Being a personality, an individual, one has to choose, one can best follow the line of evolution and growth and fulfilment of that personality and individuality that is the call of the Psyche, the direction of the Jiva. In other words, one has to be loyal and faithful to one's nature and being. That is why it is said: Better to perish while fulfilling one's own law of life than to flourish by fulfilling another's law. By being curious about another's Dharmait is this kind of curiosity that led to the original fall of man, according to the Bible that is to say, if one is vitally curious, allows oneself to be influenced and so affected and diverted by what is an outside and foreign force, because not in the line of one's own truth and development, one asks for a mixture and intervention which bring confusion, thwart the growth and fulfilment, as that falsifies the nature.
It is not only bad influences that affect you badly, even good influences do solike medicines that depend upon the particular constitution for their action. In ancient times this was called varasankara or dharmasakara, as for example, when a Kshatriya sought to follow the rule of life of a Brahmin or vice versa. This kind of admixture or msalliance was not favoured, as it was likely to bring about an obscurity in the consciousness and in the end frustration in the spiritual life. That was the original psychological reason why heresy was considered such a dangerous thing in all religions.
03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Over against the personality of Hamlet stands another which represents false height, the wrong perfection, the counterfeit ideal. Polonius is humanity arrested in its path of straight development and deviated into a cut-de-sac of self-conceit and surface urbanity, apparent cleverness and success and pretentious and copy-book morality. When one has outgrown the barbarian, one runs the risk of becoming a snob or philistine. It is a side table-land, as it were, on mid-heights, the standard perhaps of a commoner humanity, but which the younger ideal has to transcend or avoid or even to destroy, so that it may find itself and live its own life. To the philistine too the mere biological man is a taboo, but he seeks to confine human nature into a scheme of codes and maxims and lifeless injunctions and prohibitions. He is also the man of Reason but without the higher inflatus, the living and creative Something More the poetry, the vision, the dream that would transfigure the merely pragmatic, practical, worldly wise the bourgeoisinto the princely aristocratic idealist, elevate the drab terre terre To-day into the glory of a soaring To-morrow.
What is the crisis that confronts the ascending visionary soul? What is the obstacle that the Idealist has to face, the danger zone that he has to traverse in order to arrive at- the realisation of his ideal?
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In these latter the human consciousness has reached its high water-mark of normal development. They are the finest expression of mans capacities and powers in the ordinary nature. Here we have the play of the higher, even perhaps the highest ranges of the Mind the mind, that is to say, of the poet and the philosopher. But here also stands revealed the counterfoil, the obverse of that high achievement the feet of clay on which is reared the head of gold, the flesh that is tied irrevocably to the spirit.
The human soul, as represented in Hamlet, has evolved so far as to stand on a summit from where it can contemplate the entire creation. It has attained a kind of universal consciousness and has the vision of a global movement of natureeven as Arjuna had of the Lord's universal body, and like him is awed and overwhelmeda harsh world, in which one draws one's breath in pain. But this is a mental summit, and the contradiction that is revealed here can be resolved only by passing beyond into a higher domain of consciousness.
03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
These are the two primarytruthsrya saryawhichBuddha's illumination meant and for which he has become one of the great divine leaders of humanity. First, he has discovered man's rationality, and second, he has discovered man's humanity. Since his advent two thousand and five hundred years ago till the present day, in this what may pertinently be called the Buddhist age of humanity, the entire growth, development and preoccupation of mankind was centred upon the twofold truth. Science and religion today are the highest expressions of that achievement.
They speak of the coming of a new Buddha (Maitreya) with the close of the cycle now, ushering another cycle of new growth and achievement. It is said also that humanity has reached its apex, a great change-over is inevitable: seers and savants have declared that man will have to surpass himself and become superman in order to fulfil what was expected of him since his advent upon earth. If we say that the preparation for such a consummation was taken up at the last stage by the Buddha and Buddhism, and the Buddhistic inspiration, we will not be wrong. It was a cycle of ascending tapasya for the human vehicle: it was a seeking for the pure spirit which meant a clearance of the many ignorances that shrouded it. It was also an urge of the spirit to encompass in its fold a larger and larger circle of humanity: it meant that the spiritual consciousness is no more an aristocratic or hermetic virtue, but a need in which the people, the large mass, have also their share, maybe in varying degrees.
03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The cultivation of a world language need not mean a neglect or discouragement of the national or regional language. Between the two instead of there being a relation of competition there can be a relation of mutual aid and helpfulness. The world language can influence the local language in the way of its growth and development and can itself be influenced and enriched in the process. The history of the relation of English and the Indian languages, especially Bengali, is an instance in point.
A question has been raised with regard to the extent of that influence, involving a very crucial problem: the problem of Indian writers in English. Itis said Indians have become clever writers in English because of English domination. Now that India is free and that domination gone, the need of English will be felt less and less and finally it may even totally disappear from the Indian field. What has become of the Persian language in India? There were any numbers of Indian writers in Persian but with the disappearance of the Muslim rule the supremacy, even the influence of that imperial language has disappeared. At the most English may remain as the necessary medium for international affairs, cultivated, that is to say, just learnt by a comparatively few for the minimum business transaction. The heart of the country cannot express itself in that foreign tongue and no literature of the Indo-Anglian type can grow permanently here.
03.13 - Human Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
On a comparatively shorter view of the human evolution we observe as, for example, Spengler has shown, a serial or serials of the rise and fall of races and nations and cultures. Is that a mere repetition, more or less of the same or very similar facts of life, or is there a running thread that points to a growth, at least a movement towards some goal or purpose to attain and fulfil? The present cycle of humanity, which we may call and is usually called the historic age, dates from the early Egyptians and, in India, from the ancestral Vedic sages (prve pitra). On a longer outlook, what has been the nature of man's curve of life since then to the present day? Races and cultures have risen and have perished, but they have been pursuing one line, moving towards one direction the growth of homo fabricus the term coined by NietzscheMan the artisan. Man has become man through the discovery and use of toolsfrom tools of stone to tools of iron, that marks his growth from primitiveness to civilisation. And the degree of civilisation, the distance he has travelled from his origins is measured precisely by the development of his tools in respect of precision, variety, efficiency, serviceability. Viewed from that standpoint the modern man has travelled indeed very far and has civilised himself consummately. For the tools have become the whole man; man has lost his human element and almost become a machine. A machine cannot run indefinitely, it has got to stop when life is not there. So it is often prognosticated now that man is at the end of his career. He is soon going to be a thing of the past, an extinct racelike one of the prehistoric species that died out because they could not change with the circumstances of life, because they became unchanging, hard and brittle, soto say, and fell to pieces, or otherwise they continued to exist but in a degraded, a mere vegetative form.
But, as we have said, man seems to have yet retained his youthfulness. He always just falls short of the perfect perfection, that is to say, in any single form or expression of life. Life did become stereotyped, mechanised, and therefore fossilised, more or less, in Egypt of the later Dynasties; in India too life did not become less inert and vegetative during two long periods, once just preceding the advent of the Buddha,.
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The very lack of perfection and fixity in the human consciousness leaves a kind of plasticity in his nature and therefore an opening towards further life and progress. However perfect man's sten-gun is, it is not as sure and efficient as the bee's sting. Man outlives, because he progresses through apparent regressions. The cycles of human life upon earth are not mere repetitions of the same pattern as some have supposed, they indicate a growth and development. We have referred to the growth and development in the matter of tools, but that is only a sign and expression of another growth and development development in mind and consciousness. In the earlier races of mankind there was a vital, a kind of instinctive and intuitiveBergsonianlight of consciousness; that slowly has grown into a rich intellectual consciousness, and significantly and characteristically, into a more and more self-conscious consciousness. That points to man's characteristic progressive march through all the changes in his life-pattern.
The danger in the growth and progress of the consciousness is that it progresses along a definite line or lines, cuts out a groove and in the end lands into a blind alley or cul-de-sac. This, as I have said, is perhaps the original or secret cause of decline and fall of many individual races and nations. But on the whole mankind steps back, it seems, just at the danger point and escapes the final catastrophe. A new vein of consciousness awakes in man and gives him a new power of self-adjustment. From Imperial Egypt to, say, modern France or Russia is a far cry; the two ends give very different connotations of the human consciousness, although there are many things common in certain life-instincts and some broad mental impulsions. And there is not only progress, that is to say, advancement on the same plane, but there is a kind of ascension on a somewhat different plane. Yajnavalkya represented a type of lite which is far away and far other than that of Vivekananda, for example, today.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This then is the pattern of cultural development as it proceeds in extension and largeness. It moves in ever widening concentric circles. Individuals, small centres few and far between, then larger groups and sections, finally vast masses are touched and moved (and will be moulded one day) by the infiltrating light. That is how in modern times all movements are practically world-wide, encompassing all nations and peoples: there seems to be nothing left that is merely local or parochial. It is a single wave, as it were, that heaves up the whole of humanity. Political, social, economic and even spiritual movements, although not exactly of the same type or pattern, all are interrelated, interlocked, inspired by a common breath and move from one end of the earth to the other. They seem to be but modulations of the same world-theme. A pulse-beat in Korea or Japan is felt across the Pacific in America and across that continent, traversing again, the Atlantic it reaches England, sways the old continent in its turn and once more leaps forward through the Asiatic vastnesses back again to its place of origin. The wheel comes indeed full circle: it is one movement girdling the earth. What one thinks or acts in one corner of the globe is thought, and acted simultaneously by others at the farthest corner. Very evidently it is the age of radiography and electronics.
In the early stages of humanity its history consists of the isolated histories of various peoples and lands: intercommunication was difficult, therefore all communion was of the nature of infiltration and indirect influence. The difference between countries far distant from each other were well marked and very considerable in respect of their cultures and civilisations. To put it in a somewhat scholarly yet graphic manner, we can say, the i sometric chart of the tides of civilisation in various countries over the globe in those days presents a very unequal and tortuous figure. On the other hand, a graph depicting the situation in modern times would be formed by lines that are more even, uniform and straight. In other words, the world has become one, homogeneous: a consciousness has grown same or similar on the whole in outlook and life-impulse embracing all peoples and races in a tight embrace. The benefit of the descending or manifesting Light is now open equally and freely to each and every member of the human kind.
Not only in extension but the growth or evolution has progressed in another direction. There has not only been a quantitative but also a qualitative development. Culture movements have grown in intent, in depth or elevation, in the meaning and significance of the consciousness involved. And they have converged towards a single aim and purpose. That purpose is not only the establishment of the global consciousness, but the expression and embodiment of the highest, the supreme consciousness. The process here too, as in the domain of extension, is one of graduation, advance by stages. The light, the light of awakening consciousness first touches the more easily accessible parts of human nature, the higher domains that are not too much involved in the gross material or animal nature. It is the realm of thoughts and ideas, of idealism, imagination and aspiration: it is man's mind, which is the least heavily weighted or ballasted by a downward gravitational pull and the most buoyant and supple the Ariel in him. It is his head that first receives the glow of the morning sun.
If we look at Europe once again and cast a glance at its origins, we find at the source the Grco-Roman culture. It was pre-eminently a culture based upon the powers of mind and reason: it included a strong and balanced body (both body natural and body politic) under the aegis of mens sana (a sound mind). The light that was Greece was at its zenith a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one the earlierphase through Plato, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and the mystic philosophers, and discursively and scientifically rational through the Aristotelian tradition. The practical and robust Roman did not indulge in the loftier and subtler activities of the higher or intuitive mind; his was applied intelligence and its characteristic turn found expression in law and order and governance. Virgil was a representative poet of the race; finely sensitive and yet very self-consciousearth-bound and mind-boundas a creative artist: a clear and careful intelligence with an idealistic imagination that is yet sober and fancy-free is the very hall mark of his poetic genius. In the post-Roman age this bias for mental consciousness or the play of reason and intellectual understanding moved towards the superficial and more formal faculties of the brain ending in what is called scholasticism: it meant stagnation and decadence. It is out of this slough that the Renaissance raised the mind of Europe and bathed it with a new light. That movement gave to the mind a wider scope, an alert curiosity, a keener understanding; it is, as I have said, the beginning of that modern mentality which is known as the scientific outlook, that is to say, study of facts and induction from given data, observation and experience and experiment instead of the other scholastic standpoint which goes by a priori theorising and abstraction and deduction and dogmatism.
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This episode links up with the inner story of mankind, its spiritual history. The growing or evolving consciousness of man was not only an outgoing and widening movement: it was also a heightening, an ascent into ranges that are not normally perceived, towards summits of our true reality. We have spoken of the Grco-Roman culture as the source and foundation of European civilisation; but apart from that there was a secret vein of life that truly vivified it, led it by an occult but constant influence along channels and achievements that are meant to serve the final goal and purpose. The Mysteries prevalent and practised in Greece itself and Crete and the occult rites of Egyptian priests, the tradition of a secret knowledge and discipline found in the Kabbalah, the legendary worship of gods and goddesses sometimes confused, sometimes identified with Nature forcesall point to the existence of a line of culture which is known in India as Yoga. If all other culture means knowledge, Yoga is the knowledge of knowledge. As the Upanishad says, there are two categories of knowledge, the superior and-the inferior. The development of the mind and life and body belongs to the domain of Inferior Knowledge: the development of the soul, the discovery of the Spirit means the Superior Knowledge.
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.
04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Creation has evolved. That is to say, there has been a growth and unfoldment and progress. From nebulae to humanity the march cannot but be called an advance, a progress, in more senses than one. But the question is about man. Has man advanced, progressed since his advent upon earth? If so, in what manner, to what extent? Man has been upon earth for the last two million years, they say. From what has happened before him in the course of Nature's evolution, it is legitimate to infer that man too, in his turn, has moved forward in the line towards growth and development. In fact, if we admit that man started life as a savage or jungle-man or ape-man, and look at him as he is today, we have perforce to acknowledge that he has not merely changed but progressed too. The question to be answered is in what sense this progress has been made.
Modern knowledge has taught us that what marks the growth of man is his use of tools. An animal has nothing else than its own limbs as its all-serving tool. Man emerged as man the day he knew how to use tools as an extension of his limbs. And the cycles of human growth have, in consequence, been marked off by the type of tools used. As we all know, anthropologists tell us, there have been four such cycles or ages: (1) the Old Stone Age, (2) the New Stone Age, (3) the Bronze Age and (4) the Iron Age.
In the first age, which is by far the longest period, a period of slow and difficult preparation, man had his first lessons in a conscious and victorious dealing with Nature. The day when he first started chipping a stone was a red-letter day for him; for, by that very gesture be began shredding his purely animal vesture. And when he not only chipped but succeeded in grinding and polishing a piece of stone, he moved up one step further and acquired definitely his humanity. Again, ages afterwards when his hand could wield and manipulate as it liked not only a stone but a metal, his skill and dexterity showed a development unique in its kind, establishing and fixing man's manhood as a new emergent factor. In this phase also there was a first period of training and experiment, the period of craftsmanship in bronze; with the age of iron, man's arms and fingers attained a special deftness and a conscious control directed from a cranium centre which has become by now a model of rich growth and complex structure and marvellous organisation. The impetus towards more and more efficiency in the making and handling of tools has not ceased: the craftsmanship in iron soon led to the discovery of steel and steel industry. The temper and structure of steel are symbolic and symptomatic of the temper and structure of the brain that commands the weaponstrong, supple, resistant, resilient, capable of fineness and sharpness and trenchancy to an extraordinary degree.
This growing fineness and efficiency of the tool has served naturally to develop and enrich man's external possession and dominion. But this increasing power and dominion over Nature is not the most important consequence involved; it is only indicative of still greater values, something momentous, something subjective, pregnant with far-reaching possibilities. For the physical change is nothing compared with the psychological change, the change in the consciousness. In taking up his tool to chip a stone man has started hewing out and moulding entire Nature: he has become endowed with the sense of independence and agency. An animal is a part and parcel of Nature, has no life and movement apart from the life and movement of Natureeven like Wordsworth's child of Nature
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Jung speaks of two kinds or grades of thinking: (1) the directed thinking and (2) the wishful thinking; one conscious and objective, the other automatic and subjective. The first is the modern or scientific thinking, the second the old-world mythopoeic thinking. These two lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libidodesire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from, the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic thinking. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was coloured and modulated by his biological make-up out of which it had emerged; the age of modernism and scientism began with the development of a rigorous rationalism which means a severance and transcendence of the biological antecedent.
In other words, it can be said that the older humanity was intuitive and instinctive, while modern humanity is rationalistic. Now it has been questioned whether this change or reorientation is a sign of progress, whether it has not been at the most a mixed blessing. Many idealists and reformers frankly view the metamorphosis with anxiety. Gerald Heard vehemently declares that the rationalism of the modern age is a narrowing down of the consciousness to a superficial movement, a foreshortening, and a top-heavy specialisation which means stagnation, decay and death. He would rather release the tension in the strangulation of consciousness, even if it means a slight coming down to the anterior level of instinct and intuition, but of more plasticity and less specialisation: it is, he says, only in conditions of suppleness and variability, of life organised yet sufficiently free that the forces of evolution can act fruitfully. It has also been pointed out that homo sapiens is not a direct descendant of homo neanderthalis who was already a far too specialised being, but of a stock anterior to it which was still uncertain, wavering, groping towards a definite emergence.
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We can thus note, broadly speaking, three stages in the human cycle of Nature's evolution. The first was the period of emergence of self-consciousness and the trials and experiments it went through to establish and confirm itself. The ancient civilisations represented this character of the human spirit. The subject freeing itself more and more from its environmental tegument, still living and moving within it and dynamically reacting upon itthis was the character we speak of. Next came the period when the free and dynamic subject feeling itself no more tied down to its natural objective sphere sought lines of development and adventure on its own account. This was the age of speculation and of scholasticism in philosophy and intellectual inquiry and of alchemy in natural sciencea period roughly equated with the Middle Ages. The Scientific Age coming last seeks to re-establish a junction and co-ordination between the free and dynamic self-consciousness and the mode and pattern of its objective field, involving a greater enrichment on one side the subjective consciousness and on the other, the objective environment, a corresponding change and effective reorganisation.
The present age which ushers a fourth stagesignificantly called turiya or the transcendent, in Indian terminologyis pregnant with a fateful crisis. The stage of self-consciousness to which scientific development has arrived seems to land in a cul-de-sac, a blind alley: Science also is faced, almost helplessly, with the antinomies of reason that Kant discovered long ago in the domain of speculative philosophy. The way out, for a further growth and development and evolution, lies in a supersession of the self-consciousness, an elevation into a super-consciousnessas already envisaged by Yogis and Mystics everywherewhich will give a new potential and harmony to the human consciousness.
This super consciousness is based upon a double movement of sublimation and integration which are precisely the two things basically aimed at by present-day psychology to meet the demands of new facts of consciousness. The rationalisation, specialisation or foreshortening of consciousness, mentioned above, is really an attempt at sublimation of the consciousness, its purification and ascension from baseranimal and vegetalconfines: only, ascension does not mean alienation, it must mean a gathering up of the lower elements also into their higher modes. Integration thus involves a descent, but it has to be pointed out, not merely or exclusively that, as Jung and his school seem to say. Certainly one has to see and recognise the aboriginal, the infra-rational elements imbedded in our nature and consciousness, the roots and foundations that lie buried under the super-structure that Evolution has erected. But that recognition must be accompanied by an upward look and sense: indeed it is healthy and fruitful only on condition that it occurs in a consciousness open to an infiltration of light coming from summits not only of the mind but above the mind. If we go back, it must be with a light that is ahead of us; that is the sense of evolution.
04.03 - The Eternal East and West, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The East and the West are two recognised wings of humanity. Only the relation between them is somewhat in dispute. According to one view the two are quite separate and irreconcilable entities, because they embody two outlooks that are contradictory to each other. The other view is that they are not contradictory, however distinct they may be; they are complementary or supplementary to each other. The interaction between the two across the centuries recorded in history has been admitted and studied; it considerably influenced the growth and development of each in its line. Only the influence exerted some view with favour, others with disfavour. For some consider the mixture of influence, like that of blood, as a necessary condition of progress and creativity: others again are keen on maintaining, the purity of stock, the particular type of culture to which each is attached and any intrusion of a foreign vein they consider as a lowering, a degeneration of the type.
We all know the great difference between the East and the West that has been pointed out and accepted generally as true is that of the spiritual East and the worldly or materialist West. Crudely and categorically formulated the truth remains no longer true. There is a very large amount of worldliness in the East, on the one hand, and on the other, mystics and spiritual seekers or leaders are not a rare phenomenon in the West. However, it can be said and admitted as a fact that there is in the East an atmosphere that is predominantly spiritual and one can more easily come in contact with it; whereas in the West it is the mental and material culture that predominates and the approach to it is nearer and closer to man. The science of the Spirit has received greater attention in the East; it has been studied, experimented, organised, almost consummated there in a supreme manner. Even as the science of Matter has reached its apotheosis in the West.
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As I said, the East usually ignores this correspondence and posits an exclusive either-or relation between the two terms. The individual, according to it, can reach its true individuality by only dissolving itin the Infinite. Of course, I am referring to an extreme position which is general in the East and symptomatic of its fundamental character. The West does not concern itself with these higher lines of individual growth and fulfilment, it limits the individual within the social frame and his mundane or profane life; but what we learn from this outlook is the necessity of the collective growth through which only can the individual thrive and grow. It is however a growth in extension, rather than in intensity i.e. depth and height. This outlook errs in the limitation put upon individuality, precisely identifying it more or less with the "egoism" to which the spirituality of the East objects. This normal individual in its normal development cannot go very far, nor can he lead the others, the society or humanity, to a perfect and supreme fulfilment. The ego-bound normal individuality must transcend itselfexactly the thing that the East teaches; only this transcendence need not mean an abolition of all individuality, but a transformation, a higher integration in a spiritualised, a universalised and divinised individuality.
Such an individual will not be like the blind leading the blind, one ego, .in its half-light, with its small narrow mental formation imposing its ignorant and ineffective will upon others in the same state of consciousness, but, as I have said, a universalised individual, who has identified himself with all and everyone in his being and consciousness, who has also at the same time transcended himself and others and attained a supreme unitary consciousness and being. It is such a person who is called the leader of human or terrestrial evolution and they who are of the same make are the pioneers who shall build heaven upon earth.
04.06 - To Be or Not to Be, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is a complex problem and the solution too is complex. The GitaHinduism generallydoes not posit a universal dharma, but a hierarchy of dharmas. Men have different natures; so their duties, their functions and activities, their paths of growth and development must naturally be different. A rigid rule does not fit in with the facts of life, and the more absolute it is, the less efficacy it possesses as a living reality. Therefore in the Indian social scheme, there is one dharma for the Brahmin and another for the Kshatriya, a third for the Vaishya and a fourth for the Shudra.
The Brahmin is he who represents in his nature and character the principle and movement of knowledge, of comprehension and inclusion, of peace and harmonyall the qualities that are termed sttwic. A Brahmin does not fight, the very build of his consciousness prevents him from wounding and hurting; he has no enemy; even if he is attacked or killed, he does not raise his arm to protect himself (although Ramakrishna would prescribe even for him a modified or mollified mode of resisting the evil, hissing at least if not biting). The Biblical injunction, we know, is to present the other cheek too to the smiter. This is for those who follow the Brahminical discipline. But a Kshatriya, who in his nature and consciousness is a warrior, has another dharma; he is the armed guard of knowledge and truth, he is strength and force. He has to resist the evil in the name of the Lord, he has to raise his arm to strike. He is the instrument of Rudra and Mahakali. Does not the mighty goddess declare I draw the bow for Rudra, I hurl the arrow to slay the hater of the truth?4 If the Kshatriya does not follow his own dharma, but seeks to imitate the Brahmin, he brings about a confusion liable to disintegrate the society, he is then un-Aryan, inglorious, unworthy of heaven, deserving all the epithets which Sri Krishna heaped upon the dejected, depressed and confused Arjuna. So long as the world is held by brute force, so long as there is the sway of evil power over the material earth and the physical body, there will be the need to resist it physically: if I do not do it, other instruments will be found. I may say like Arjuna, overwhelmed with pity and grief, I shall not fight, but God and the cosmic deities may refuse my refusal and compel me to do what in my ignorance and wrong headedness I would not like to do.
05.01 - Man and the Gods, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Earth symbolises and epitomises material Nature. It is the body and substance, the very personification, of unconsciousness Ignorance carried to the last limit and concretised. It represents, figures the very opposite of the Reality at the summit. The supreme and original Reality is the quaternary:(1) Light, (2) Truth, (3) Love and (4) Life. They are the first and primal godheads with whom creation starts and who preside over the whole play of the manifestation. These gods that emanated out of the supreme consciousness of the Divine Mother as her fundamental aspects and personalities had automatically an absolute freedom of action and movement, otherwise they would not be divine personalities. And this freedom could be exercised and was in fact exercised in cutting the tie with the mother consciousness, in order to follow a line of independent and separate development instead of a merger life of solidarity with the Supreme. The result was immediate and drastic the precipitation of a physical life and an earthly existence which negated the very principles of the original nature of the godheads and brought forth exactly their contraries: instead of Light there brooded Darkness and Inconscience, Truth turned to Falsehood, Love and Delight gave place to Hatred and Suffering and finally, instead of Life and Immortality there appeared Death. That was how separation, "the disobedience" of the Bible, caused the distortion that turned the gods into Asuras, that was how Lucifer became Satan.
And that was how Paradise was lost. But the story of Paradise Regained is yet more marvellous. When the Divine Mother, the creative infinite Consciousness found herself parcelled out and scattered (even like the body of Sati borne about by Shiva, in the well-known Indian legend) and lost in unconsciousness, something shot down from the Highest into the lowest, something in response to an appeal, a cry, as it were, from the depth of the utter hopelessness in the heart of Matter and the Inconscient. A dumb last-minute S O S from belowa De profundis clamaviwent forth and the Grace descended: the Supreme himself came down and entered into the scuttled dead particles of earth's dust as a secret core of light and flame, just a spark out of his own conscious substance. The Earth received the Grace and held it in her bosom. Thus she had her soul born in her the psychic being that is to grow and evolve and bring about her redemption, her transmutation into the divine substance.
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Three courses are open to the perfected and completely developed soul. First, it may remain, contented with its fullness, self-gathered and self-sufficient, dwelling in its own domain the psychic world and enjoying the even, equal, undisturbed felicity and beatitude of union with the Divine. This status may perhaps not be chosen by many or for a long time. The second line that the Psyche can adopt is to come down or remain upon earth and take a share in the fulfilment of the Divine Purpose in the world. That purpose is the transformation of the physical, making the material an embodiment of the divine Light and Power and Bliss and Immortality. A third development also may take place; this is not strictly speaking normal, not the logical and inevitable happening in the course of things, nor does it depend wholly upon any personal choice of the psychic being, so to say. It occurs when the force of a higher destiny operates, for a special work and at a special time. It is when the psychic being is contacted with, made to identify itself with, a godhead under a higher dispensation, when, in a word, a divinity descends into a human soul.
The gods are especial powers and executive agents of the one Divine. They move and act in a special way with a special end in view. They are, we may say, highbrow entities: they carry things with a high hand. That is to say, what they have got to do, they seek to do without any consideration or computation of the means, without regard to the pauses and hindrances that naturally attend all terrestrial and human achievements. God said, let there be light, and there was light. That is also the way of the gods. There is here an imperial majesty and grandeur, a sweeping mastery and sovereign indifference,
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, it has been said, begins where other yogas end. Other yogas end by the attainment of the Brahman or some form or mode of it or something akin to it, which means the transcendent Reality, the supreme status of the Spirit beyond name and form, beyond all particular manifestation. It is the final realisation of the soul in its upward ascent, the nee plus ultra. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga takes that poise for granted and upon it bases its own development and structure. In other words, it works for the descent of the Spirit upon the level from which the Spirit worked up. The Mystery of the descent is the whole characteristic secret of this Yoga.
The general idea of a descent of the Spirit, that is to say, the Divine, the conception of avatra and avataraais, of course, not new. But here there is a difference. Avatara or Avatarana in the older disciplines was more or less an intervention of God as God, the working of a Force come specifically in the midst of the world circumstances, maintaining still its divine transcendental character, to work out a given problem, accomplish a special mission and then, when the work is done, retire to its own status. It is, as it were, a weapon of flame and light hurled into the earthly frayeven like the discus of Vishnu and having accomplished its mission, going back into the hand of the thrower, its fount and origin. The task of the Avatara was usually bhbhra-haraa, lightening earth's load: it means removing the sinful and preserving the virtuous, re-establishing the reign of Law. Esoterically, he also embodied the Way to spiritual fulfilment. There was no question of saving humanityit was more serving than savingby transfiguring it, giving it a new body and life and mind, nor was there any idea of raising the level of earth-consciousness.
05.03 - Bypaths of Souls Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Let us repeat here what we have often said elsewhere. The creation and development of souls is a twofold process. First, there is the process of growth from below, and secondly there is the process of manifestation or expression from above, the movements of ascent and descent, as spoken of by Sri Aurobindo. The souls start on their evolutionary journey on the material plane as infinitesimal specks of consciousness imbedded in the vast expanse of the Inconscient; but they are parts and parcels of a homogeneous mass: in fact they are not distinguishable from each other at that level. There is as it were a secret vibration of consciousness with which the material infinity all around is shot through. With evolution, that is to say, with the growth and coming forward of the consciousness, there arise sparks, glowing centres here and there, forms shape and isolate themselves in the bosom of the original formless mass; they rise and they subside, others rise, coalesce, separatesome grow, others disappear. These sparks or centres, as they develop or evolve, slowly assume definiteness,of form and function,attain an individuality and finally a personality. Looked at from below there is no counting of these sparks or rudimentary souls; they are innumerable and infinitely variable. It is something like the nebula out of which the galaxies are supposed to be formed. The line of descent, however, presents a different aspect. Looked from above, at the summit there is the infinite supreme Being and Consciousness and Bliss (Sachchidananda) and in it too there cannot be a limit to the number of Jivatmas that are its formulations, like the waves in the bosom of the sea, according to the familiar figure. This is the counterpart of the infinity at the other end, where also the rudimentary souls or potential individualities are infinite. Moving down along the line of descent at a certain stage, under a certain modality of the creative process, certain types or fundamental formations are put forward that give the ground-plan, embody the matrix of the subsequent creation or manifestation. The Four Great Personalities (Chaturvyuha), the Seven Seers, the Fourteen Manus or Human Ancestors point to the truth of a fixed number of archetypes that are the source and origin of emanations forming in the end the texture of earthly lives and existences. The number and scheme depends upon a given purpose in view and is not an eternal constant. The types and archetypes with which we, human beings, are concerned in the present cycle of evolution belong to the supramental and overmental planes of consciousness; they are the beings known familiarly as gods and presiding deities. They too have emanations, each one of them, and these emanations multiply as they come down the scale of manifestation to lower and lower levels, the mental, the vital and the physical, for example. And they enter into human embodiments, the souls evolving and ascending from the lower end; they may even take upon themselves human character and shape.
There are thus chains linking the typal beings in the world above with their human embodiments in the physical world; an archetype in the series of emanations branches out, as it were, into its commensurables and cognates in human bodies. Hence it is quite natural that many persons, human embodiments, may have so to say one common ancestor in the typal being (that gives their spiritual gotra); they all belong to the same geneological tree. Souls aspiring and ascending to the higher and fuller consciousness, because of their affinity, because together they have to fulfil a special role, serve a particular purpose in the cosmic plan, because of their spiritual consanguinity, call on the same godhead as their Master-soul or Over-soul, the Soul of their souls. Their growth and development are along similar or parallel lines, they are moulded and shaped in the pattern set by the original being. This must not be understood to mean that a soul is bound exclusively to its own family and cannot step out of its geneological system. As I have said in the beginning, souls are not material particles hard and rigid and shut out from each other, they are not obliged to obey the law of impenetrability that two bodies cannot occupy the same place at the same time. They meet, touch, interchange, interpenetrate, even coalesce, although they may not belong to the same family but follow different lines of, evolution. Apart from the fact that in the ultimate reality each is in all and all is in each, not only so, each is all and all is eachthus beings on no account can be kept in water-tight compartmentsapart from this spiritual truth, there is also a more normal and apparent give and take between souls. The phenomenon known as "possession", for example, is a case in point. "Possession", however, need not be always a ghostly possession in the modern sense of the possession by evil spirits, it may be also in a good sense, the sense that the word carried among mediaeval mystics, viz.,spiritual.
We say commonly souls are immortal. But in an occult sense souls are or may be mortal too. When the Vedantin speaks of laya or the Buddhist of nya, what else is it? It is nothing but the annihilation of the soul, even if it is in the Brahman or some Absolute. But we are not referring to that here. There is a merger of souls, and a dissolution of souls in a somewhat different manner, not on the highest metaphysical heights, but even here below among the growing developing souls embodied upon earth. That is to say, one soul may unite with another and both form one single entity and embodiment.
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Reverting to the original question with which we started, we can say now that the birth of a soul is not like the birth of a living being or organism, that is to say, it does not happen at a given point of time. A soul is truly aja, unborn; it was always there imbedded as the element of secret consciousness in the bosom of the inconscient material Nature. Only it grew out, manifested itself, attaining gradually an individuality and an integrated personality. Neither can it be said that all souls originally, that is to say, at the very beginning of their evolutionary course, were of the same magnitude, equal in all respects. As we know the ultimate material particles the atoms of the different elements or their constituents, protons, etc.have not all the same mass or charge, even so the spiritual elements too have not the same potency or vibration: they are of varying sizes and strengths. The stress of the evolutionary urge in life expressed itself in multiple and varied figures and dispositions, variation being an inherent virtue of the stress. And the development too follows a chequered line: the direction, the tempo, the degree, the manner of the march all differ according to the case, each spark is or tends to be unique and sui generisand even erratic perhapsin its behaviour, like its physical counterpart, the indeterminate and indeterminable material particle. And yet all move towards a heightening, enlarging, deepening of the consciousness rivers flowing and broadening out in their meandering course to the sea: what was unformed, rudimentary, scarcely distinguishable from out of a homogeneous mass, detaches itself gradually, shapes itself into an organised individual entity and finally the fully conscious personality. But, as I have said, the growth does not follow a single one-track straight line: there can be a fusion of souls, the descent and integration of a being or soul from another level of consciousness into a developing soul or psychic element from out of Nature. In this sense then there can be a birth of souls too. The astronomers speak of novae, new stars that suddenly flare out in the sky, as if from nowhereeven though they or their elements were existent before the phenomenon happened. Souls too can come to birth in an analogous way. That is to say, it is due to a special descent of a formed being or consciousness into the human vehicle. The conception of the "twice-born caste" may be remembered in this connection. There is a physical birth and there is a spiritual birth: the latter takes place when the being on the physical plane, yet wholly belonging to evolving Nature, suddenly (it usually happens suddenly) opens and receives into itself a higher principle and becomes a conscious personality.
The soul in Nature grows along a definite line and the descent also of higher principles overarching that soul happens also in the same line connecting it with its archetype in the supreme status. This we may call the major line of development through various avataras one after another: but apart from this there may also be subsidiary formations that are its emanations or are added to it from elsewhere either temporarily or even permanently. The soul can put out derivative or ancillary emanations, parts of its being and consciousness, a mental or vital or even a subtle physical movement or formation which can take a body creating a temporary, a transient personality or enter into another's body and another personality in order to go through a necessary experience and gather an element needed for the growth of its being and consciousness. One can recall here the famous story of Shankaracharya Who entered into the body of a king (just dead, made him alive and lead the life of the king) in order to experience love and enjoyment, things of which, being a Sannyasi, he was innocent. Similarly one can take into one-self such parts and elements from others which he wishes to utilise for his growth and evolution. It is said that a man with low carnal instincts and impulses becomes an animal of that type in his next life. But perhaps it is truer to say that a part only the vital part of animal appetiteenters into or takes shape in an animal: the soul itself, the true or the whole being of the person, once become human, does not revert to animalhood. The animal portion in man that refuses to be taken up and integrated, sublimated into the higher human consciousness has to be satisfied and exhausted, as much as possible, in the animal way.
There is also the other question asked very often whether men and women always follow different lines of growth or whether there may be intermixture of the lines. Although the soul is sexless, still it may be said that on the whole there are these two lines, masculine and feminine; and generally a soul follows the same line in its incarnations. The soul difference is not in the sex as we know it; but there is a disposition and character that mark the difference and each type, masculine or feminine, is that because of some special role to fulfil, a particular kind of work to be done in a particular way. The difference is difficult to define exactly; but one may say, in the language of the mystics, that it "is the difference between the left hand and the right hand. The mystics refer to the two sides of consciousness, that of light and that of force (chit-tapas), that is to say, knowledge and power. It is not that the two are quite separate entities, they are together and grow together; but in actuality one aspect is more in front than the other. The masculine aspect is often termed as the right hand and the feminine as the left hand of the conscious being. And in a general way man represents the knowledge aspect the conceptual dynamism and woman represents the executive dynamism. This definition however should not be taken absolutely or rigidly. So it can be said that a woman generally remains a woman in all her births and man like-wise remains a man. Here too, although there may not be a central metamorphosis, there may be a partial change: that is to say a part of a mantoo womanish, so to saymay enter a woman and live and fulfil itself or exhaust there; and the masculine part of a woman also can identify itself with its type and pattern in a man. The difference, however, between Purusha and Prakriti, philosophically, seems to be very definite and clear; but in actuality, when they take form and embodiment, it is not easy to define the principles or qualities that mark out the two. At the source when the difference starts, it is a matter of stress and temper and not any so-called division of labour as human mind ordinarily understands it.
05.04 - The Immortal Person, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And that is the soul of the man. We have spoken of the body, the life and the mind of the individual, but beside and beyond these elements which are only instruments there is this secret master and overlord. It is the particle of divinity in each, the developing consciousness the spark of Fire, the ray of Light the immortal in the mortal no bigger than one's thumb." The soul is an individual, an individual formation of the divine reality: it is a godhead formulating an aspect or function of God. We may thus say that the whole purpose of earthly evolution is the evolution of this soul-formation, that is to say, its growing individualisation in light and power, in the expression of the godhead. This growth is first in itself and of itself, its inherent being and consciousness; then, the growth is that of its instrumentation, in other words, the development and organisation of the mind, the life and the body.
So the individualisation and growth of the soul means a growth and individualisation of the mental being, the vital being and also of the physical being. Normally the purpose of intellectual culture is the growth and individualisation of the mind, the purpose of moral culture is the growth and individualisation of the vital being and the true purpose of physical culture too should be a well-balanced and well-developed physical body, not only in a general sense, but' in a very individualised mode. But all these varieties and modes of culture can be truly individualised and not merely ordered or organised, more or less on the surface, only when they obey and subserve the culture of the soul. The mind, the vital and the physical each has to grow its individuality in the growing individuality of the soul. The soul, otherwise called the psychic being, is man's spiritual being: the growth of the spiritual being means the advent and establishment of the true personality.
05.06 - The Role of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The advent or the presence of evil upon earth has introduced certain factors in human life that have enriched it, increased even its value. Certain experiences would not have been there, intimate and revelatory experiences, but for this Dark Shadow. One can, of course, conceive a line of growth and development in which it is all light and delight, everything is good and for the good. But then a whole domain of experience and realisation would have been missed. There are certain experiences that one would not like not to have had at all, even though that may mean paying and paying heavily.
Evil is evil, no doubt; it is not divine and it is not an illusion. It is a real blot on the fair face of creation. Its existence cannot be justified in the sense that it is the right thing and has to be welcomed and maintained, since it forms part of the universal symphony. Not even in the sense that it is a test and a trial set by the Divine for the righteous to prove their merit. It has not been put there with a set purpose, but that once given, it has been the occasion of a miracle, it offered the opportunity for the manifestation of something unique, great and grandiose, marvellous and beautiful. The presence of evil moved the DivineGiustizia masse il mio alto Fattorel1and Grace was born. He descended, the Aloof and the Transcendent, in all his love and compassion down into this vale of tears: he descended straight into our midst without halting anywhere in the infinite gradation that marks the distance between the highest and the lowest, he descended from the very highest into the very lowest, demanding nothing, asking for no condition whatsoever from the soul in Ignorance, from the earth under the grip of evil. Thus it was that Life lodged itself in the home of death, Light found its way into the far cavern of obscurity and inconscience, and Delight bloomed in the core of misery. Hope was lit, a flame rising from the nether gloom towards the Dawn. But for the spirit of denial we would not have seen this close and intimate figure of the gracious Mother.
05.08 - An Age of Revolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The search for a universal principle of Nature is a meta-physical as well as a scientific preoccupation. In ancient days, fo example, we had the Water of Thales or the Fire of Heraclitus as the one original unifying principle of this kind. With the coming of the Renascence and the New Illumination we laughed them out and installed instead the mysterious Ether. For a long time this universalreigned supreme and now that too has gone the way of its predecessors. We thought for a time that we had found in Electric Energy the one sovereign principle in Nature. At a time when we had a few elementsdiscrete, different, fundamental units that in their varying combinations built up the composite structure of Nature, apart from the fact that they reposed finally on the ultimate unifying principle of Ether, it was found also that they all behaved in a uniform and identical and therefore predictable manner. The time and the place (and the mass) being given, everything went according to a pattern and a formula, definite, fixed, mathematically rigid. Even the discovery of one element after another till the number reached the famous figure 92 (itself following a line of mathematically precise and inevitable development) did not materially alter the situation and caused no tribulation. For on further scrutiny a closer unity revealed itself: the supposed disparity in the substance of the various elements was found to be an illusion, for they all appeared now as different organisations or dispositions of the same electric energy (although the identity of electric energy with radiant energy was not always very clear). Thus we could conclude that as the substance was the same, its mode of working also would be' uniform and patterned. In other words, the mechanistic conception still ruled our view' of Nature. That means, the ultimate units, the particles (of energy) that compose Nature are like sea-sands or water-drops, each one is fundamentally similar to any other and all behave similarly, reacting uniformly to the same forces that act upon them.
Well, it is now found that they do not do so. However same or similar constitutionally, each unit is sui generisand its movement cannot be predicted. That movement does not depend upon its mass or store of energy or its position in a pattern, as a wholly mechanistic conception would demand: it is something incalculable, one should say even, erratic. In a radioactive substance, the particle that is shot out, becomes active, cannot be predetermined by any calculation, even if that is due to a definitely and precisely arranged bombardment. So we have come to posit a principle of uncertainty, as a very fundamental law of Nature. It practically declares that the ultimate particle is an autonomou unit, it is an' individual, almost a personality, and seems to have a will of its own. A material unit acts very much like a biological unit: it does not obey mechanically, answer mechanically as an automaton, but seems to possess a capacity for choice, for assent or refusal, for a free determination. The mechanistic view presented is due to an average functioning. The phenomenon has been explained by a very apt image. It is like an army. A group of soldiers, when they are on parade, look all similar and geometrically patterned: each is just like another and all move and march in the same identical manner. But that' is when you look at the whole, the collectivity, but looked individually, each one regains his separate distinct personality, each having his own nature and character, his own unique history: there no two are alike, each is non pareil and behaves differently, incalculably.
05.09 - The Changed Scientific Outlook, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Shall we elucidate a little? We were once upon a time materialists, that is to say, we had very definite and fixed notions about Matter: to Matter we gave certain invariable characteristics, inalienable properties. How many of them stand today unscathed on their legs? Take the very first, the crucial property ascribed to Matter: "Matter is that which has extension." Well, an electric charge, a unit energy of it, the ultimate constituent of Matter as discovered by Science today, can it be said to occupy space? In the early days of Science, one Boscovich advanced a theory according to which the ultimate material particle (a molecule, in his time) does not occupy space, it is a mere mathematical point toward or from which certain forces act. The theory, naturally, was laughed out of consideration; but today we have come perilously near it. Again, another postulate describing Matter's dharma was: "two material particles cannot occupy the same place at the same time". Now what do you say of the neutron and proton that coalesce and form the unit of a modern atomic nucleus? Once more, the notion of the indestructibility of Matter has been considerably modified in view of the phenomenon of an electric particle (electron) being wholly transmuted ("dematerialised" as the scientists themselves say) into a light particle (photon). Lastly, the idea of the constancy of massa bed-rock of old-world physicsis considered today to be a superstition, an illusion. If after all these changes in the idea of Matter, a man still maintains that he is a materialist, as of old, well, I can only exclaim in the Shakespearean phrase: "Bottom, thou art translated"! What I want to say is that the changes that modern physics proposes to execute in its body are not mere amendments and emendations, but they mean a radical transfiguration, a subversion and a mutation. And more than the actual changes effected, the possibilities, the tendencies that have opened out, the lines along which further developments are proceeding do point not merely to a reformation, but a revolution.
Does this mean that Science after all isveering to the Idealist position? Because we have modified the meaning and connotation of Matter does it 'follow that we have perforce arrived at spirituality? Not quite so. As Jeans says, the correct scientific position would be to withhold one's judgment about the ultimate nature of matter, whether it is material or mental (spiritual, we would prefer to say): it is an attitude of non possumus. But such neutrality, is it truly possible and is it so very correct? We do see scientists lean .on one side or the other, according to the vision or predisposition that one carries.
From our standpoint, as we view the modern scientific developments, what we see is not that Matter has been spiritualised, but that it has been considerably dematerialised, even immaterialised, that it is in the process of further dematerialisation or immaterialisation. That opens a long and large vista. We say Science by itself cannot arrive at the spiritual, for there is a frontier bar which has to be overleaped, negotiated by something like a somersault. For the scientific view is after all limited by one scope and range of the physical eye. Still, this eye has begun to see things and in a manner to which it was not normally accustomed; it has been trained and educated, made keen and supple so that it seems to be getting more and more attuned even to other vibrations of light beyond and outside the normal sevenfold spectrum.
Science has not spiritualised (or idealised or mentalised) the world; it has not spiritualised itself. Agreed. But what it has done is remarkable. First, with its new outlook it has cut away the ground from where it was wont to give battle to religion and spirituality, it has abjured its cast-iron strait-jacket mentality which considered that senses and syllogism encompass all knowledge and objects of knowledge. It has learnt humility and admits of the possibility of more things there being in heaven and earth which are not amenable to its fixed co-ordinates. Secondly, it has gone at times even beyond this attitude of benevolent neutrality. For certain of its conclusions, certain ways of formulation seem to echo other truths, other manners. That is to say, if Science by itself is unable to reach or envisage the spiritual outlook, yet the position it has reached, the vistas it envisages seem to be not perhaps exactly one with, but in line with what our vision (of the scientific world) would be like if once we possess the spiritual eye. Matter, Science says today, is energy and forms of matter, objects, are various vibrations of this one energy. What is this energy? According to science, it is electrical, radiant, ethereal (Einstein replaces "ether" by "field")biological science would venture to call it life energy. You have only to move one step farther and arrive at the greater and deeper generalisationMatter is a mode of the energy of consciousness, all forms of Matter are vibrations of consciousness.
05.12 - The Soul and its Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have said that the memory of past lives is effaced because of the effacement of the instrument. But there is a higher memory which is the attribute of the psychic consciousness. The psychic being is made of light and knowledge: it knows, rather it sees and can survey the whole curve of its past growth and development. Of course, it may not see or remembervery often it does notall the physical details of things and happenings of an earthly life, the hundred incidents, accidents and contingencies that are not directly linked to its consciousness. But all things that have had its touch and have contri buted to its growth and development and have in their turn received its influenceobjects, persons, happenings or movementsfind themselves harboured in the psychic memory. And thus the only sure way of remembering the past, remembering, that is to say, what is worth remembering, is to go into the psychic being, possess the psychic consciousness. There one has the whole panorama of the soul's odyssey revealed. Any other way leads only to imagination, conjecture and delusion.
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This grouping will appear natural and inevitable when we bear in mind the purpose of creation and the role of the psychic consciousness. For it is not a matter of individual salvation, of the unilateral growth and development and fulfilment of an individual psychic being. The soul is a luminous point in an inconscient universe and its role is to make it conscious, at least a representative portion of it. The psychic being's activity is the means of a new creation, the trans-mutation of the earth-consciousness, the growth and advent of a divine race, the manifestation and embodiment of the Divine and his play upon earth. The souls are the warriors, playmates, the beloved of the Lord. They have to assemble and move together for the interest of the play. They have to be in companies and regiments and battalions, in associations and concert and harmonised formations.
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For it must be remembered that the human soul after all is not a simple and unilateral being, it is a little cosmos in itself. The soul is not merely a point or a single ray of light come down straight from its divine archetype or from the Divine himself, it is also a developing fire that increases and enriches itself through the multiple experiences of an evolutionary progressionit not only grows in height but extends in wideness also. Even though it may originally emanate from one principle and Personality, it takes in for its development and fulfilment influences and elements from the others also. Indeed, we know that the Four primal personalities of the Divine are not separate and distinct as they may appear to the human mind which cannot understand distinction without disparity. The Vedic gods themselves are so linked together, so interpenetrate one another that finally it is asserted that there is only one existence, only it is given many names. All the divine personalities are aspects of the Divine blended and fused together. Even so the human soul, being a replica of the Divine, cannot but be a complex of many personalities and often it may be difficult and even harmful to find and fix upon a dominant personality. The full flowering of the human soul, its perfect divinisation demands the realisation of a many-aspected personality, the very richness of the Divine within it.
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05.13 - Darshana and Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We shall take the case of one such philosopher and try to illustrate our point. We are thinking of Whitehead. The character of European philosophical mind is well exemplified in this remarkable modern philosopher. The anxiety to put the inferences into a strict logical frame makes a naturally abstruse and abstract procedure more abstruse and abstract. The effort to present suprarational truths in terms of reason and syllogism clouds the issues more than it clarifies them. The fundamental perception, the living intuition that is behind his entire philosophy and world outlook is that of an Immanent God, a dynamic evolving Power working out the growth and redemption of mankind and the world {the apotheosis of the World, as he puts it). It is the theme which comes last in the development of his system, as the culminating conclusion of his philosophy, but it is the basic presupposition, the first principle that inspires his whole outlook, all the rest is woven and extended around this central nucleus. The other perception intimate to this basic -original perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and union, viz.,God and the World, Permanence and Flux, Unity and Multiplicity, the Universal and the Individual. The equal reality of the two poles of an integral truth is characteristic of many of the modern philosophical systems. In this respect Whitehead echoes a fundamental conclusion of Sri Aurobindo.
There is another concept in Whitehead which seems to be moulded after a parallel concept in Sri Aurobindo: it is with regard to the working out of the process of creation, the mechanism of its dynamism. It is almost a glimpse into the occult functioning of the world forces. Whitehead speaks of two principles that guide the world process, first, the principle of limitation, and second, the principle of ingress. The first one Sri Aurobindo calls the principle of concentration (and of exclusive concentration) by which the infinite and the eternal limits himself, makes himself finite and temporal and infinitesimal, the universal transforms itself into the individual and the particular. The second is the principle of descent, which is almost the corner-stone in Sri Aurobindo's system. There are layers of reality: the higher forces and formulations enter into the lower, work upon it and bring about a change and transformation, purification and redemption. All progress and evolution is due to this influx of the higher, the deeper into , the lower and superficial plane of existence.
05.18 - Man to be Surpassed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Erich Kahler (a Czech now become an American citizen) in his book Man the Measureseeks to strike a balance, but as the title indicates, evidently leans more to the second, the reactionary, than to the original ideal. He posits that man's humanity is to be preserved and fostered, that is to say, his true humanity, that which distinguishes him from mere animality. The Greek ideal, according to Kahler, was an advance upon the animal man; it brought in the ideal of the rational man. And yet the Greek ideal, in spite of its acceptance of the whole manmens sana in corpore sanoembracing as it did his physical, ethical and sthetic development, laid on the whole a greater emphasis upon reason, upon ration-alising, that is, ordering life according to a rational pattern. And then the Greek ideal was more for the individual; it was for the culture and growth of the individuality in man. Society was considered as composed of such individualised units. The degree of personal choice, of individual liberty, of free understanding that a Greek citizen enjoyed marked the evolution secured by man out of the primitive society. Still the integral man is not the rationalistic man, even as he is not the mere biological man: and he is not predominantly individualistic either.
Yes, man's true humanity, says Kahler, almost echoing Nietzcshe, consists precisely in his capacity to surpass himself. The animal is wholly engrossed in its natural nature and activities; but man is capable of standing back, can separate from his biological self, observe, control and direct. For him "existence" truly means (as the Existentialist declares today) ex+sistere or ex+stare, to stay or stand outside. That is the surpassing enjoyed by him and demanded of himgoing beyond one's natural or normal self. But there is a danger here. For there can be a too much surpassing, a going away altogether, as religion or spirituality usually enjoins. Christianity, for example, which is in many senses a movement contrary to the Greek spirit, taught a transcendence that was for luring or driving the human soul away from the world and men towards an extra-terrestrial summum bonum.
05.27 - The Nature of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Perfection is often understood to mean the highest or the utmost possible development, even if it be in one particular line or direction. That, however, can better be called success or achievement. True perfection is not an extreme growth, however great or commendable it may be: it is the harmony of an all-round growth, the expression of the unified total being. And yet this does not involve a stultification of any limb or a forced diminution of any capacity. Perfection does not consist either in the harmonisation of the utmost possible development of each and every capacity, attribute or power of being. First of all, it is not a possible ideal, given the conditions of existence and manifestation. Secondly, it is not necessary: perfection can be realised even otherwise.
How is the harmony to be brought about in the human system composed of so many different and discordant factors, forms and forces of consciousness? It is not possible if one tries to make them accommodate each other, tone down the individual acuities and angularities, blunt or cut out the extreme expressions and effect some sort of a compromise or a pact of goodwill. It is not the Greek ideal of the golden mean nor is it akin to the modern democratic ideal which lays down that each element is freeto grow and possessto the extent that it allows the same freedom to every other element. No, for true harmony one has to go behind and beyond the apparent divergences to a secret being or status of consciousness, the bed-rock of existence where all divergences are resolved and find their inherent and inalienable unity, their single origin and basis. If one gets there and takes one's stand upon that absolute oneness, then and then only the perfect harmony of all the diversities that naturally rise out of it as its self-expression becomes possible, not only possible but inevitable.
05.33 - Caesar versus the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now there are several things to be distinguished here. First of all, even if it is accepted as true that in the past it is worldly men alone who were dynamically active in the world and that spiritual men were men of inaction whose role was to withdraw from the world, at least to be passive and indifferent with regard to mundane activities, that does not prove that it is an eternal truth and it is bound to be so ever and always. We must remember, if we admit the evolutionary character of Nature, of man and his growth and fulfilment, that spirituality in one of its forms at an early stage is and should be a movement of withdrawal, of diminishing dynamism in the sense of an "introversion". For when man still lives mostly in the vital domain and is full of the crude life urge, when the animal is still dominant in him (as the Tantrik discipline also points out), then a rigorous asceticism and self-denial is needed for the purification and sublimation of the nature. At that stage powers and dynamic capacities that often develop in the course of such discipline should also be carefully avoided and discarded; for they are more likely to bring down the consciousness to the ordinary level. But if that were the procedure and principle in the past, one need not eternise it into the present and the future. We Believe mankinda good part of mankind in its inner consciousness has advanced sufficiently on the vital level as to be able to give a new turn to his life and follow a different course of development. If he has not totally outgrown the animal, at least some higher element has been superimposed on it or infused into it and he can very well find the fulcrum of his nature in this superior station and order a new pattern of values and way of becoming. In other words, he need no longer altogether shun or avoid the so-called inferior forces the physico-vitalin him, but try to control and utilise them for higher diviner purposes in the world, upon the earth. For the earth embodies after all the crucial complex. Whatever is to be done in the end has to be done here, effected and established here. The withdrawal was needed for a purification and husbanding of the forces so that they may be brought forth and applied at the proper time and place, it is reculer pour mieux sauter, to fall back in order to leap forward all the better.
In reality, however, to a vision that sees behind and beyond the appearances, spirituality the force of the Spiritis ever dynamic: the spiritual soul, even when it appears passive and inert, is most active not merely in the subtle psychological domain, but also in the material field. To the gross pragmatic eye Ramakrishna, for example, appears as a less dynamic personality, a less strong and heroic, if not positively weaker character than Vivekananda. Well, that is only face-value reading. Vivekananda himself knew and felt and said that he was only one of hundreds of Vivekanandas that his simple and, modest-looking Guru could create if he chose. Even so a Ramdas. Ramdas was not merely a spiritual adviser to Shivaji, concerned chiefly with the inner salvation and development of his disciple, and only secondarily with the gross material activities, the things of Caesar. The two domains are not separate at least in this case: the spiritual here directly and dynamically affects the physical. The spiritual guide is the dynamo the matrixof the power, the power spiritual; he wields and marshals the hidden, the secret forces that are behind the outward forms and movements. And the disciple by his attitude of obeisance and receptivity becomes all the better a channel and instrument for the actual play and fulfilment of that force. A Govind Singh is another instance of spiritual power made dynamic in mundane things. And we always have the classical instance of Rajarshi Janaka.
Only, in the future a yet greater source of spiritual power is destined to be tapped and brought into play, into the plane of happenings, so that the material domain, the pattern of our actual day to day life will put on a different aspect; for a radiant consciousness will have breathed a new life into our very bodily cells.
06.01 - The End of a Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the same principle can be extended to the wider collective development. Civilisation has reached a status today when the next higher status can be and must be at-tempted. Man has risen to a considerable height in the mental sphere; the time and occasion are now here to step beyond into the supramental, the dynamically spiritual. Dangers are ahead, even around and close: all the forces of the infra-human, the submerged urges of animal atavism are pushing and pulling man down to a regression, to a reversion to type. The choice is indeed crucial. If the civilisation is to perish, it means mankind has to start over again its life course, begin, that is to say, at the baby stage, once more to go through the slow process of centuries to acquire the mastery that has been attained in the physical, the vital and the mental domains. Already there have been such lost periods in man's evolution now submerged in his consciousness and their gains are being with difficulty recovered. But a landslide at this critical hour will be a colossal catastrophehumanly speaking, something almost irremediable.
For here is the sense of the crisis. The mantra given for the new age is that man shall be transcended and in the process, man, as he is, shall go. Man shall go, but something of the vehicle that the present cycle has prepared will remain. For, that precisely has been the function of the passing civilisation, especially in its later stages, viz, to build up a terrestrial temple for the Lord. The aberration and deformation, rampant today, mean only an excess of stress upon this aspect, upon the external presentation which was ignored or not sufficiently considered in the earlier and higher curves of the present civilisation. The spiritual values have gone down, because the material values came to be regarded as valueless and this upset the economy or balance in Nature. It is true that we have gone far, too far in our revanche. And the problem that faces us today is this: whether mankind will be able to change sufficiently and grow into the higher being that shall inhabit the earth as its crown in the coming cycle or, being unable, will go totally, disappear altogether or be relegated to the backwater of earthly life, somewhat like the aboriginal tribes of today.
06.03 - Types of Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first is to think on one subject in a continuous logical order. When, for example, you have to find the solution of a problem, you go step by step from one operation to another in a chain till you finally arrive at the conclusion. The thought is withdrawn from all other objects and is canalised along a single line. This is a kind of meditation, although it may not be usually known by that name. It marks a progress in the make-up of the human consciousness. For normally the mind moves at random, thoughts run about on many subjects, various, contrary and contradictory, from moment to moment. There is neither direction, consistency nor organisation: it is a confused mass of incomplete, inchoate thoughts. The control and organisation of this mass, to start with, in a limited sphere and in a definite direction, the rejection of the unnecessary and the irrelevant and the marshalling and ordering of the required elements form the first exercise towards mental growth. All high intelligence, all effective wielding of thought power needs this discipline. Under the present circumstances of the world the school-life gives the best opportunity for this development. This is a meditation that should be obligatory and universal.
The next type we may call concentration, instead of meditation. Here we do not pursue a thought-line, but fix the thought upon one object unmoved. It means a further process of withdrawing the consciousness from its habitual outgoing and dispersive movement. The thought is held at a point and attention is focussed upon it: it is continuous and unbroken attention, for example, upon an idea, a phrase (mantra) or an image. One can concentrate also upon a physical point, say, fixing the gaze upon the tip of one's nose, or on a luminous point outside etc. In this discipline the whole mind is gathered together and focussed: or, everything else is shut out leaving only one thing upon which all the light of the consciousness is directed. It is a standstill consciousness, like a flame erect and immobile in a windless place.
06.12 - The Expanding Body-Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the present case, the phenomenon happened automatically without any premeditation on the part of the persons concerned; because the sympathy between the two was so strong, other considerations did not weigh in the balance against it. Needless to say, if one wishes to obtain conscious mastery of this occult power, one will have to go through a long and arduous discipline. But, if difficult, the thing is not impossible. In the matter of physical feats, for example, a particular development may seem for the moment beyond your reach; but with practice and perseverance, stubborn will and wise guidance, you can not only arrive at your immediate end but do much more. The story of many who have broken Olympic records is revealing in this respect. In the same way, one can master the subtle forces, if one goes about the thing earnestly and in the right way. It is more difficultmuch more perhaps but the way is there provided the will is there.
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06.18 - Value of Gymnastics, Mental or Other, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is harmful when you take to mental gymnastics only for its own sake, to exclusive intellectual acrobaticsdiscussions, disputations, verbal quibbles, etc., etc.; in that case the result attained is a disproportionate growth. But the development of the mind, even of the logical mind, can be and must be made part of the integral development, it must attain its true form, stature and strength, as a help towards and finally as an expression in its own field of the divinity, the highest and richest consciousness in man, even as the body too is to express and make concrete the supreme beauty and vigour of the perfect being.
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07.07 - Freedom and Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The universe is a huge mass of innumerable elements forming a certain composition and in accordance with this composition all are organised within itself. But such an arrangement is not the end or the culmination; it is not static, but moving forward; it is in the process of development. For at any moment, through the action of a different kind, one or more new elements can be introduced into the total mass that forms the universe at a given time and that will necessarily change the whole inner composition. The universe, the material universe, I mean, is a concretisation of a certain aspect or emanation of the Supreme. This concretisation is progressive, not necessarily in a constant and regular way, but in answer to a law, with a subtle kind or degree of liberty. Thus, in the composition of the universe at each moment new elements are penetrating and altering the organisation. The organisation that was perfect in itself and moved and un-rolled itself according to a definite plan and pattern, suddenly finds itself changed and the inner relations too are modified and attain a different poise. That may give the impression of something incoherent or imprecise or miraculous, according to the manner in which one looks at the problem. So there are these two simultaneous facts or factors: there is a determinism which is absolute in its way with a complementary movement of liberty, the unforeseen addition into a fixed existing sum.
This addition comes from the aspiration for the supreme consciousness. There is nothing to wonder at the phenomenon. There is an aspiration acting in the world, moving with a certain end in view; the purpose is to bring back the fallen and obscured consciousness to its original and normal state of the divine consciousness. Each time that this aspiring consciousness meets an obstacle in its working, a new resistance to conquer or to transform, it calls for a new Force. And this new Force is a kind of new creation. In the human being, too, there are different domains in obedience to a law of correspondence; in each there is for him a different destiny and each is absolute in its line. But there is also in him, through his aspiration, a capacity to enter into relation with a domain higher than where he happens to be and bring down an action of this higher domain into the lower determinism. So we can say that there is a horizontal determinism in each domain, absolute in its normal working; but there is also a vertical intervention from other higher domains or even from the highest and then the lower determinism is changed completely. Thus every human being is at once a sum of various determinisms, absolute in their way, and there is also an absolute liberty that can intervene by bringing down other forces into the apparently rigid frame of destiny of the lower worlds and alter it. That is how things in the world give the impression of the unforeseen, the incalculable, the miraculous.
07.17 - Why Do We Forget Things?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are many reasons, of course. First and the most important is that we use the faculty of memory in order to remember. Memory is a mental instrument depending upon the formation and growth of the brain. Your brain is developing constantly unless, of course, it is already degenerating; the development can continue for a long time, longer than that of the body. In the process there are necessarily things replaced by others; and as the instrument grows, elements that were useful in one state are no longer so in a subsequent state and have to give place to others more suitable. The net result of our acquisitions remains there in essence, but all that had led to it, the intermediary steps are suppressed. Indeed, a good memory means nothing more than that that is to say, to remember the results only, so that the fundamentals are sifted and stored, namely, those alone that are useful for further construction. This is more important than just trying to retain some particular items in a rigid manner.
There is another thing. Apart from the fact that memory by itself in its very nature is a defective organ, there is the other fact that I there are different states of consciousness one following another. Each state faithfully records the phenomena of that moment, whatever they may be. Now, if your mind is calm and clear, wide and strong, you can by concentrating your consciousness on that moment bring out of it and recall in your present active state what is recorded there of your movements then; you can, that is to say, go back to the particular state of consciousness at a given moment and live it again. What is registered in your consciousness is never obliterated and hence not really forgotten. You can live a thousand years and you will not have forgotten that. Therefore, if you do not want to forget a thing, you must retain it through your consciousness, and not through your mental memory. As I have said, the mental memory fades away, new things, things of today replace old things, things of yesterday. But that of which you are conscious in your conscious-ness, you can never forget. It lies somewhere in the background, returns to you at your bidding. You have only to withdraw to that state of the consciousness where it lies imbedded. In this way you can recall things that you knew perhaps centuries ago. It is how you remember your past lives. For, a movement of consciousness never dies out, it is only the impressions on the surface brain-mind that are fugitive. What you have learnt with this superficial instrument laboriouslyonly read, heard, noted, underlinedleaves no lasting mark, but what is imbibed, breathed in into the stuff of consciousness remains. The brain is being constantly renewed and reformed. Old cells, cells that have become weak and atrophied are replaced by younger and stronger ones or the old cells combine differently or enter into other organisations. Thus the old impressions or memories they carried are obliterated.
07.36 - The Body and the Psychic, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You ask why the body has a limited receptive power. The reason is that in the physical world things must not get mixed up, they must remain somewhat stable, in shape and position. For example, if your body suddenly began to melt and flow towards another, it would be rather troublesome; you would find it disgusting if the body of your neighbour, like a fluid, were to pour into your own fluid body. It is to prevent such a mixture that a greater concentration in masses was necessary, a kind of fixity of force that separates them. Indeed it was to separate one individuality from another that this fixity was needed. And it is precisely this fixity again that prevents the body from progressing as rapidly as it could and should. As you grow up and attain your normal size and constitution, you become more and more rigid in your body. As a child you have this plasticity of growth. Children change continually, they change visibly. This plasticity, this growth and development continue, so long as you remain young. But beyond, say, forty, people generally feel that they have reached their goal, they sit down to gather the fruits of their labour; they gradually become dry as dust, hard like old wood, and even like stone in the end. The body then not being able to adapt itself to the movement of the inner change, gets fossilised and crumbles, which means death.
After Death there is then no further progress?
07.37 - The Psychic Being, Some Mysteries, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Everything upon earth progresses, has to progress. All men, without exception, even those who have no sense of the psychic, whether they wish it or not, must progress. The psychic progresses in them in spite of themselves and they have to follow the curve of its growth and development. That is to say, man ascends in the scale of life and grows, grows exactly as a child does. In the process of growth there comes a time when one reaches the summit and one changes the direction or the plane of progress. At the outset there is the purely physical progress, like that of the child; then there comes the mental progress, later on the psychic progress and the spiritual progress, so that unless progress changes it direction, when it has reached its limit on a particular level, one has to come down the curve, that is to say, instead of progression there will be retrogression, which means in the end disintegration and decomposition. Precisely because in the purely physical world there cannot be a perpetual and constant progress, there is in this domain this curve of growth, apogee, decline and decomposition. All that does not advance must recede. This is exactly what happens in the domain of matter. Matter does not know how to progress indefinitely, it has not learnt it; so after a time it is tired of progressing or growing. Given this constitution, one cannot go beyond a limit. But there is in man side by side with his physical growth, a vital growth and a mental growth as well. The mental especially can progress long after the body has ceased to progress. The body does not grow; even when it is declining, the mind still can continue to grow, to rise to higher heights. There is a mental ascension contrariwise to the physical descent. But they who do Yoga, who become conscious of their psychic being and are identified with it, who live with its life, never cease to progress, they move upward till the last breath of their life; even when they die their progress does not stop. The body is on the decline, because it cannot keep pace with the inner march forward, it cannot transform itself and mould itself into the rhythm of the inner consciousness. The discrepancy increases so much between the two, that there is a snap at the end and that is death. However, on the purely spiritual level too there is no progress. The domain of the pure spirit means a static condition; there is no progressive movement there, for it is beyond the field of progress, beyond all manifestation. For when you are merged in the Spirit, you have come out of creation and there is no question of progress, or even of any movement.
When the psychic is about to take rebirth does it choose its form beforehand?
It depends. As I have told you now, there are psychic beings that are just on the way of formation and growth, they usually cannot choose at the beginning, they cannot choose very much. But when they have come to a certain degree of development and consciousness, they make a choice; generally when they are still in the body, when they have gathered a certain amount of experience, they decide what is to be their next field of experience. I shall give you an illustration, although somewhat external. A psychic being, for example, needed the experience of power, authority, comm and and wanted to know the reactions of these movements and also how to turn them towards the Divine, to learn, in a word, what these things can teach. So the soul took the body of a king (or a queen). When it had the necessary experience, learnt what it had to learn, it gave up the body, being no longer useful. It is at that moment, when it decides to leave the body, that the soul still in the body makes the choice of the next experience. The choice very often takes a course of action and reaction. If the soul has experienced and studied a particular field, its choice falls upon a contrary field on the following occasion. Thus if the soul has had the experience of a kingly position and worked through that to enter into a conscious relation with the Divine, then at the moment of leaving the body that served with Power and authority and command, it perhaps would say: This time I shall take a middle position, neither high nor low, where there will be no need to lead mostly an external life, where one is neither in great luxury nor in great misery. With that resolution it returns to the psychic world for the necessary rest, for the assimilation of past experiences and preparation for the future. When the time comes for return upon earth, for the descent into a physical body, it remembers naturally the choice it had made, but from that higher and subtler plane at that moment the material world is not seen in the way we see it, it appears in a different form; still one can notice the differences in the surroundings and activities. One has not the vision of the details, but a total or global vision is there. It can choose an atmosphere, it can choose even a particular country. It has in view a certain kind of education, civilisation and influence, the kind of life that it wishes to lead. Then as it comes down and looks about, it distinguishes very clearly the different kinds of vibrations and makes its way accordingly. It aims, as it were, at the place where to drop. But it can hit the target only approximately. For there are one or two other factors besides which come into play. For there is not only its own choice, from above, there must also be a receptivity from below, an aspiration that draws to it the particular being or the particular type of being. Usually the call is from a mother, sometimes from both the parents. If the parent has some aspiration or receptivity, something that is sufficiently passive and open and looking up towards something higher, in that case, the thing appears to the psychic being as a luminous vibration which beckons it. It is the answer to its will. It shows the place it is to go to. It cannot fix the day of its birth. There will naturally be a period of uncertainty, but that is not expected to go beyond a year. The second factor that somewhat modifies or qualifies his choice comes from the nature of the birth itself. The soul, the conscious being, precipitates into the inconscience, for the physical world, even human consciousness, at its very best, is an inconscient thing when compared to the psychic consciousness. It is as though the soul fell head down-most. That makes it dazed and for a long time it does not know what is what. It does not know where it is, what it is doing nor why it is there; a complete blank possesses it. It is unable to express itself, especially as a baby, it has not the proper amount of brain to understand or manifest anything. Very rarely do children show the exceptional being that they have within them. Cases do occur indeed, but they are very few and far between. Generally it takes time for the soul to come to its own. It wakes up but slowly from its numbness, it is only gradually that it begins to understand that it is there for some reason and by choice. This oblivion is occasioned by the presence of the mind and mental education which completely shuts off the psychic consciousness. All kinds of circumstances, happenings, experiencesexternal and emotionalare then needed to strike open the doors; within, to bring the memory that one has come from elsewhere and for a very special reason. It is the normal longer process. But one may have the chance of meeting early enough some one who knows; then instead of groping and fumbling through ignorance and darkness, you get the light and the help that give you the swift and straight contact.
The psychic will and psychic development are things that are completely outside the range of common notions. Ideas of justice and reward and punishment have no place here at all. Any people come to me and complain: What have I done in my past life that I have to be under such difficult conditions now, to suffer so much! I always reply: But don't you see it is a blessing for you, the divine grace upon you? In your past life perhaps you yourself asked for such conditions so that you may make greater progress through them! This way of looking at the thing may seem very novel. But truth lies that way.
How is it possible for a psychic being once living the life of intelligence and creativity to enter again into a life of stupidity and ordinariness?
08.05 - Will and Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What one may try, in respect of a child, is to turn the direction of his desires, let him desire better things, better because more true and also more difficult to obtain. For example, when you see a child full of desires, put into him a desire of higher quality, that is to say, instead of desiring purely material objects which can give only a temporary satisfaction, one could awaken in him the desire to know, to learn, to become great and so on. That would indeed be a very good beginning. As these things are more difficult to secure, it will serve to develop, to streng then his will. Even if the difficulty is of a physical kind, if, for example, you give the child a doll to prepare, a Chinese puzzle to solve or a game of Patience, the effort helps in the development of concentration, perseverance, a certain clarity of ideas etc. You can in this way divert the child's will from wrong pursuits to right ones. True, it needs constant attendance and application on your part, but that seems to be the surest way. It is not easy, but it is the most effective.
To say "no" does not cure, but to say "yes" does not cure either. I knew some persons who allowed their children to do as they pleased. There was one child who tried to eat anything he could get hold of. Naturally he fell sick and got disgusted in the end and cured of the habit. Still the method means risk. For example, a child one day got hold of a match-box and as he was not prevented, burnt himself in playing with it, although thereafter he did not touch a match-box any more. The method may be even catastrophic. For there are children who are dare-devils most children are soand when a desire possesses them they are stopped by nothing in the world. Some are fond of walking along the edge of walls or on house tops; some have an impulse to jump into water directly they see it. Even there are some who love to take the risk of crossing a road when a car is passing. If such children are allowed to go their way, the experiment may prove fatal sometimes. There are people who do allow their children to have this liberty arid take the risk. For they say prevention is not a cure. Children who are denied anything do not usually believe that what is denied is bad, they consider that a thing is called bad simply when one wishes to deny it. So would it not be better, it is argued, to concede the liberty? The theory is that individual liberty must be respected at all costs. Past experiences should not be placed before beings that are come newly into the world; they must get their own experiences, make their own experiments free from any burden of the past. Once I remonstrated with someone that a child should be forewarned about a possible accident, I was told in answer it was none of my business. And when I persisted in saying that the child might get killed, the answer was, "What if? Each one must follow his destiny. It is neither the duty nor the right of anybody to meddle in the affairs of others. If one goes on doing stupid things One will suffer the consequences oneself and most likely stop doing them of one's own accordwhich is hundredfold better than being forced by others to stop." But naturally there are cases when one stops indeed, but not in the way expected or wished for.
08.24 - On Food, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You can make a very thorough study of taste, for example, you can acquire a detailed knowledge of the different tastes of different things, the association of an idea or notion with taste, which means not perhaps a progress in the vital, but at least a development of this particular sense. That is permissible but there is a great difference between that and eating out of greed, thinking of food all the while, eating not because of its need but because of desire and gluttony.
Indeed, people who try to develop their taste are rarely very much attached to food. They cultivate their taste for developing, refining their senses, not for the sake of eating. In the same way the artist, a painter, for example, trains his eyes so that he can know how to appraise the beauty of form and colour, line and design, composition and harmony that is found in physical nature. It is not mere desire or hunger that drives them, it is taste, culture, development of the sense of sight, appreciation of beauty that is his preoccupation. Generally, artists who are truly artists, who love and live their art, who are in search of beauty are people who do not have many desires. They live in their aesthetic sensibility, in their senses turned to the enjoyment and creation of beauty. They are not the kind of people who live by their vital impulses and physical desires.
In a general way, education, cultures, refinement of the senses are the means of curing movements of crude instinct and desire and passion. To obliterate them is not curing them; instead, they have to be cultivated, intellectualised, refined. That is the surest way of curing them. To give them their maximum growth in view of the progress and development of consciousness, so that one may acquire to a sense of harmony and exactitude of perception is part of culture and education for the human being. Men cultivate their intelligence in the same way: they read, they think, compare and contrast, they make a study. In this way their mind enlarges itself, it becomes wider and more comprehensive than the minds of those who live without a mental education, who possess only a few ideas that perhaps even contradict each other. They are moved wholly by these as they have no other, they think those are the only ideas that should govern them: such minds are extremely narrow and limited. On the other hand, they who have cultivated their intelligence, who have studied and thought, who have widened their mental range a little and so can see and note and compare other ideas and possible notions discover easily that it is sheer ignorance and absurdity to be attached to a limited set of ideas and to consider that alone as the expression of truth.
This training of taste, this education of the senses is a very good, a necessary means to prepare the consciousness for a higher development. There are persons who are very crude and very simple in nature. They can have a strong inspiration and arrive at a certain spiritual growth but the foundation will always remain of a somewhat inferior quality: and when they come back to their ordinary consciousness they find there great obstacles: for the stuff is missing there; there are not, in the vital and physical consciousness, elements enough to enable it to support a descent of the higher force.
How does fasting bring about a state of receptivity?
09.03 - The Psychic Being, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are not very many fully developed souls upon earth. Evidently those who have reached a certain culture, a certain growth, a certain individualisation have instinctively the tendency to come together and form groups. It is then that we come across in particular epochs and climes fully formed beings gathering together. But you must not believe that that gives in any way the exact measure of human culture and growth. That is only a spray of foam on the surface. Even among those who already form a selection, there is not perhaps one in a thousand who can be called truly an individual being, conscious of himself, united with his psychic being, governed by his inner law and therefore partially at least if not wholly free from external influences; because being a conscious entity when these influences come he sees them, those that seem to agree with his inner growth and normal development he accepts and those that contradict he rejects. And instead of being a chaos, or in any case a frightful mixture, he is an organised individual being, conscious of himself, moving in life, knowing where he wants to go and how to go.
That is the best of mankind that Nature is capable of producing. They are men still, but the top of mankind. They are ready to become something else. But unless and until one becomes that, one remains in greater part an animal with only just a little beginning of manhood. It is only that that one can call Man. And I am saying this in the hope that you will become such a one.
09.08 - The Modern Taste, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are things that are considered beautiful these days. I have seen photographs and reproductions which are frightfully vulgar in the perverted sense, and yet people are uproarious about them and find them beautiful. That means there is something there which has not only no culture and development, but has developed in the wrong way, that is to say, is deformed, which is worse, for it is much more difficult to straighten a perverted and deformed object than to enlighten that which is merely ignorant or without education.
I believe there are certain things that have become great instruments of perversion and among them I name the Cinema. The Cinema could have been, and I hope one day it will be, an instrument of education and culture. But for the moment it is largely an instrument of perversion, a truly hideous perversion: perversion of taste, perversion of consciousness, a moral and even a physical ugliness. And yet it is something which can be serviceable for education, for progress, for artistic culture and growth. It can be made a means for the spread of the sense of the beautiful and the creation of things beautiful in a way much more general and accessible to all than was possible by the older methods. But what could have been better, is not better but has become worse.
09.18 - The Mother on Herself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When I began to practise occultism, as I started working with my nights, making them conscious, I found that between the subtle physical level and the most material vital there was a small region, very small indeed, that was not developed well enough to serve as a conscious link between the two. So what happened in the most material vital was not being accurately translated into the consciousness of the most subtle physical. Something was lost in the passage which was however not quite empty but only half-conscious, not adequately developed. I knew there was only one way, namely to go on working for the development. I started working sometime in February, I suppose. One month, two months, three, four months passed with no result. I continued. Five months, six months. Then in July or August I left my home in Paris for the country-side. I came to a very small place near the seaside and stayed with friends. There was a garden there. And in the garden a fine green turf and flowers and trees all round. It was a pretty little quiet place. It was very quiet, very silent. One day I lay myself down on the grass, flat on the face resting on my elbows (among the grass). Suddenly the whole life of this nature, the whole life of the intermediate region I am speaking of, which is most living in the plant and in physical nature, all this domain became all on a sudden, unexpectedly, without any transition, absolutely living, intense, conscious, wonderful. This was the result of the continuous activity of six months that had not given any result till then. I did not know it; just a little favourable condition and the result is there. It is like the chick in the egg. It has been there for a long time but you do not see it. You ask doubtfully if there is any chick at all inside the egg. And then suddenly a crack, a small hole the egg bursts and the chick comes out, quite formed and whole and entire. It took all this time to form itself. So it is like this. When you wish to pre pare something within you it is like the preparation of the chick inside the shell. It takes a long time and there is not the least result. But you must not be disheartened. You must continue your effort, as before, regularly as if the whole of eternity were before you, thoroughly disinterested in the result. One day the result bursts upon you, the whole result of all your work.
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10.04 - Transfiguration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine attributessuch as Peace and Joy, Consciousness and Power, Freedom, etc.each and all of them are self-existent realities, existing by themselves in their fullness and perfection. They are not mere qualities that are acquired by effort through gradual culture and development, they are not acquired piecemeal as other human possessions, material or mental. They are there near us, about us in their fullness and wholeness. We do not see them or seize them as there happens to be a veil in between. We need not strain and struggle, labour and sweat, go through all the pains of the world in order to find them, realise them. It is, as I say, a veil interfering. Remove the veil or even shift it a little, you have a glimpse of them in their full glory.
Brahman, the supreme Reality, is said to be of the same nature and its relation to the world is also of the same kind. Brahman is not there because the world is there. Brahman is not realised through a long process of negating experiences; it is not the sum of all negations, it is an immediate and absolute realisation. When the vision of the world-maya is not there, Brahman stands self-revealed in its absoluteness, then one realises that Brahman only exists, has existed and will exist; there is no maya, it not only does not exist, it never existed. Brahman alone is there always.
10.08 - Consciousness as Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In fact, education means precisely this instilling of the consciousness into the part that is sought to be educated. Usually the thing is done in a different way which is wrong, at least an inefficient way. By education we usually mean exercising, that is teaching some exercises mostly of memory on some subject in which one seeks education. It is more or less an exercise of mechanical repetition. Whether it is of the mind or of the body the procedure is the same. As the muscles of the body are sought to be streng thened and developed through repetitive exercises, the mental faculties too are put under a training that consists of similar repetitive exercises. To store the mind with as many kinds of information as possible, hammer all ingredients of knowledge into the brain cellslearning by rote as it is termed, this is what education normally means; but as I said, it is consciousness that is to be evoked in the mind and it is not done by mere mechanical exercises. Even the body does not reach its true perfection unless the exercises are attended with consciousness, awareness, a play of light into the movements of the body, into the limbs that participate in the play of the exercises. Naturally the vital does not need any exercise for its development, it is naturally exercised, much exercised. It has to be not exercised but exorcised, that is to say, purified and controlled. And that means the introduction of the pure light of consciousness into it.
I have laid stress on consciousness, but consciousness has three facets or steps. The first is simple consciousness, the next is self-consciousness and the last supra-consciousness. First you become conscious of a thing, next you become conscious that you are conscious of the thing, last something else is conscious in and through your consciousness.
10.09 - Education as the Growth of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The brain should be a flowering of this consciousness, a developing vehicle for the expression of the increasing consciousness. For that guidance is needed so that one may always turn within and look for that consciousness, feel it growing, and with one's will and thought and act help its growth and development. A brain is not developed by the mass of information that may be pressed into it. Informations are necessary but they should be presented in such a way that they serve as fuel, helpful fuel to the mounting fire; they must not be merely piled up upon and around the fire or be as so many wet faggots crushing it down with their weight. A true learner is one who seeks sincerely this inner consciousness which is one's own; the true teacher is one who knows how to lead the learner towards this inner light.
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1.009 - Perception and Reality, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Why has this situation arisen? Why this vehement affirmation of the ego, this assertion of the mind in respect of a particular condition which is passing, transitory, phenomenal? The attachment of the mind to a particular condition is the principle of egoism. Why does it happen? Why does it breed the further problems of like, dislike, love of physical life, individual life, fear of death, etc.? This happens because of a background which is still deeper than this particular psychological involvement. The very belief in the reality of externals is the cause for this calamity, because the moment we have a conviction that an object of perception is real, we have to develop a real attitude towards it. The perception of the object as something real is the beginning of the trouble. The trouble then intensifies itself as a compulsive activity towards the development of an attitude towards that object. The precondition of this attitude is egoism.
To describe the series or the successive stages of this development there is, first, a perception of the object, such as a tree, for example, in front. I perceive an object in front of me such as a tree, and I am convinced that it is a real tree. The tree is really there; it is not an unreal perception. The existence of the tree is real. It is really there outside me. The 'outsideness' of the tree is also real. The tree is real, its externality to me is real and, therefore, I am now compelled to develop a real attitude towards it.
Now comes the second problem. What is this real attitude that I have to develop towards it? The force that urges this real attitude towards the object is egoism. It is the breeding ground for the impulsive power which drives the consciousness out towards that object which has been regarded as real. It is not possible to merely perceive an object and have no attitude towards it, because the very consciousness of an object is the demand of the object to be recognised in a certain manner, and this recognition is called attitude. Therefore, we now have to find out the reason for this perception of the object itself.
1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The blending of the three fires, the merging of the three Rays, and the co-operation of the three Logoi have in view (at this time and within this solar system) the development of the Essence of the cosmic Lord of Love, the second Person in the logoic trinity. Earlier it was not so, later it will not be, but now it is. When viewed from the cosmic mental plane these Three constitute the PERSONALITY OF THE LOGOS, and are seen functioning as one. Hence the secret (well recognised as fact, though not understood) of the excessive heat, occultly expressed, of the astral or central body of the triple personality. It animates and controls the physical body, and its desires hold sway in the majority of cases; it demonstrates in time and space the correspondence of the temporary union of spirit and matter, the fires of cosmic love and the fires of matter blended. A similar analogy is found in the heat apparent in this second solar system.
d. The Atom. The inner fires of the atom can likewise be seen functioning along similar lines, their demonstration being already somewhat recognised by science. This being so there exists no necessity for further elaboration. [xxi]21
1.00a - Foreword, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
Just at this time Divine Providence decided to help all those seekers who have been searching with tough endurance to find means and ways for their spiritual development. Through this book universal methods are given into the hands of mankind by a highest initiate who was chosen by Divine Providence for this special task.
It can be said without exaggeration that never before has these complete magical methods been accessible for the public.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Astral travel development of the Astral Body is essential to research; and, above all, to the attainment of "the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel."
You ought to demonstrate your performance of the Pentagram Ritual to me; you are probably making any number of mistakes. I will, of course, take you carefully through the O.T.O. rituals to III as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. The plan of the grades is this:
1.00b - DIVISION B - THE PERSONALITY RAY AND FIRE BY FRICTION, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The karma [xxxi]31, [xxxii]32, [xxxiii]33 of matter itself is an abstruse subject and has as yet scarcely been hinted at. It is nevertheless indissolubly mixed up with the karma of the individual. It involves a control of the evolution of the monadic essence, the elemental essence and of the atomic matter of the plane; it is concerned with the development of the four spirillae, with their activity, with their attachment to forms when atomic, and with the development of the inner latent heat and its gradual fiery increase until we have within the atom a repetition of what is seen within the causal body: the destruction of the periphery of the atom by the means of burning. It deals with the subject of the building of matter into form by the interaction of the two rays, the Divine and the Primordial, producing thereby that fire by friction which tends to life and fusing.
The karma of form is likewise a vast subject, too [76] involved for average comprehension but a factor of real importance which should not be overlooked in connection with the evolution of a world, a synthesis of worlds, or of a system when viewed from higher levels. Everything is, in its totality, the result of action taken by cosmic Essences and Entities in earlier solar systems, which is working out through the individual atoms, and through those congeries of atoms which we call forms. The effect of the personality Ray upon the internal fires is therefore, in effect, the result of the influence of the planetary Logos of whatever ray is implicated, as He works out that portion of Karma which falls to His share in any one cycle, greater or lesser. He thus brings about and eventually transmutes, the effects of causes which He set in motion earlier in relation to His six Brothers, the other planetary Logoi. We get an illustrative parallel in the effect which one individual will have upon another in worldly contact, in moulding and influencing, in stimulating or retarding. We have to remember that all fundamental influence and effects are felt on the astral plane and work thence through the etheric to the dense physical thereby bringing matter under its sphere of influence, yet not itself originating on the physical plane.
1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
We might now narrow the subject down to the consideration of the etheric body of the human being and not touch upon correspondences to things systemic or cosmic at all, though it may be necessary to remind ourselves that for the wise student the line along which wisdom [88] comes is the interpretative one; he who knows himself (in objective manifestation, essential quality, and comprehensive development) knows likewise the Lord of his Ray, and the Logos of his system. It is only then a matter of application, conscious expansion, and intelligent interpretation, coupled to a wise abstention from dogmatic assertion, and a recognition that the correspondence lies in quality and method more than in detailed adherence to a specified action at any given time in evolution.
All that it is possible to give here is material which, if rightly pondered on, may result in more intelligent practical living in the occult sense of the term "living"; which, if studied scientifically, religiously and philosophically, may lead to the furthering of the aims of the evolutionary process in the immediately coming lesser cycle. Our aim, therefore, is to make the secondary body of man more real, and to show some of its functions and how it can eventually be brought consciously into the range of mental comprehension.
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As the nature and functions of the etheric body of man assume their rightful place in the thought of the world and as it is realised that the etheric is the most important of the two physical bodies, man will be brought into closer conscious contact with the other evolutions [90] that evolve in etheric matter just as he does in a dense physical body. There are certain large groups of devas, called "the devas of the shadows," or the violet devas, who are closely allied with the evolutionary development of man's etheric body, and who transmit to him solar and planetary radiation. The etheric body of man receives prana in different ways and of different kinds, and all these ways bring him into touch with varying entities.
1. Solar prana.
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Lastly, all work with fire. Fire internal, inherent and latent; fire radiatory and emanative; fire generated, assimilated and radiated; fire vivifying stimulating, and destroying; fire transmitted, reflected, and absorbed; fire, the basis of all life; fire, the essence of all existence; fire, the means of development, and the impulse behind all evolutionary process; fire, the builder, the preserver and the constructor; fire, the originator, the process and the goal; fire the purifier and the consumer. The God of Fire and the fire of God interacting upon each other, till all fires blend and blaze and till all that exists, is passed through the firefrom a solar system to an antand emerges as a triple perfection. Fire then passes out from the ring-pass-not as perfected essence, whether essence emerging from the human ring-pass-not, the planetary ring-pass-not or the solar. The wheel of fire turns and all within that wheel is subjected to the threefold flame, and eventually stands perfected.
III. THE FUNCTION OF THE ETHERIC BODY
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The above illustration has been used with definite intent, [109] but it should be pointed out that etheric congestion may lead to many forms of disease and of mental incompetence. Etheric congestion leads to the thickening of the web to an abnormal extent, and this thickening may prevent, for instance, contact with the higher Self or principles and its resultants, idiocy and mental unbalance. It may lead to abnormal fleshy development, to the thickening of some internal organ, and consequent undue pressure; one portion of the etheric body being congested may lead to the entire physical condition being upset, resulting in diverse complaints.
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.
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A further interesting correspondence is found in the following facts that are even now in process of development:
The fourth plane of Buddhi is the one on which the planetary Logoi begin to make Their escape from Their planetary ring-pass-not, or from the etheric web that has its counterpart on all the planes.
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When a man takes the fourth Initiation, he functions in the fourth plane vehicle, the buddhic, and has escaped permanently from the personality ring-pass-not, on the fourth subplane of the mental. There is naught to hold him to the three worlds. At the first Initiation he escapes from the ring-pass-not in a more temporary sense, but he has yet to escape from the three higher mental levels, which are the mental correspondences to the higher ethers, and to develop full consciousness on these three higher subplanes. We have here a correspondence to the work to be done by the initiate after he has achieved the fourth solar plane, the buddhic. There yet remains the development of full consciousness on the three higher planes of spirit before he can escape from the solar ring-pass-not, which is achieved at the seventh Initiation, taken somewhere in the system, or in its cosmic correspondence reached by the cosmic sutratma, or cosmic thread of life [liii]51
This fourth earth chain is in this connection one of the most important, for it is the appointed place for the domination of the etheric body by the human monad, with the aim in view of both human and planetary escape from limitations. This earth chain, though not one of the seven sacred planetary chains, is of vital importance at this time to the planetary Logos, who temporarily employs it as a medium of incarnation, and of expression. This fourth round finds the solution of its strenuous and chaotic life in the very simple fact of the shattering of [115] the etheric web in order to effect liberation, and permit a later and more adequate form to be employed.
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If a man persists from life to life in this line of action, if he neglects his spiritual development and concentrates on intellectual effort turned to the manipulation of matter for selfish ends, if he continues this in spite of the promptings of his inner self, and in spite of the warnings that may reach him from Those who watch, and if this is carried on for a long period he may bring upon himself a destruction that is final for this manvantara or cycle. He may, by the uniting of the two fires of matter and the dual expression of mental fire, succeed in the complete destruction of the physical permanent atom, and thereby sever his connection with the higher self for aeons of time. H. P. B. has somewhat touched on this when speaking of "lost souls"; [lx]58 [lxi]59 we must here emphasise the reality of this dire disaster and sound a warning note to those who approach this subject of the fires of matter with all its latent dangers. The blending of these fires must be the result of spiritualised knowledge, and must be directed solely by the Light of the Spirit, who works through love and is love, and who seeks this unification and this utter merging not from the point of view of sense or of material gratification, but because liberation and purification is desired in order that the higher union with the Logos may be effected; this union must be desired, not for selfish ends, but because group perfection is the goal and scope for greater service to the race must be achieved.
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It is not our purpose to give facts for verification by science, or even to point the way to the next step onward for scientific investigators; that we may do so is but incidental and purely secondary. What we seek mainly is to give indications of the development and correspondence of the threefold whole that makes the solar system what it is the vehicle through which a great cosmic ENTITY, the solar Logos, manifests active intelligence with the purpose in view of demonstrating perfectly the love side of His nature. Back of this design lies a yet more esoteric and ulterior purpose, hid in the Will Consciousness of the Supreme Being, which perforce will be later demonstrated when the present objective is attained. The dual alternation of objective manifestation and of subjective obscuration, the periodic out-breathing, followed by the in-breathing of all that has been carried forward through evolution embodies in the system one of the basic cosmic vibrations, and the key-note of that cosmic ENTITY whose body we are. The heart beats of the Logos (if it might be so inadequately expressed) are the source of all cyclic evolution, and hence the importance attached to that aspect of development called the "heart" or "love aspect," and the interest that is awakened by the study of rhythm. This is true, not only cosmically and macrocosmically, but likewise in the study of the human unit. Underlying all the physical sense attached to rhythm, vibration, cycles and heart-beat, lie their subjective analogieslove, feeling, emotion, desire, harmony, synthesis and ordered sequence, and back of these analogies lies the source of all, the identity of that Supreme Being Who thus expresses Himself.
Therefore, the study of pralaya, or the withdrawal of the life from out of the etheric vehicle will be the same [129] whether one studies the withdrawal of the human etheric double, the withdrawal of the planetary etheric double, or the withdrawal of the etheric double of the solar system. The effect is the same and the consequences similar.
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Though no pictures have been drawn of death bed scenes nor of the dramatic escape of the palpitating etheric body from the centre in the head, as might have been anticipated, yet some of the rules and purposes governing this withdrawal have been mentioned. We have seen how the aim of each life (whether human, planetary or solar) should be the effecting and the carrying out of a definite purpose. This purpose is the development of a more adequate form for the use of the spirit; and when this purpose is achieved then the Indweller turns his attention away, and the form disintegrates, having served his need. This is not always the case in every human life nor even in each planetary cycle. The mystery of the moon is the mystery of failure. This leads, when comprehended, to a life of dignity and offers an aim worthy of our best endeavour. When this angle of truth is universally recognised, as it will be when the intelligence of the race suffices, then evolution will proceed with certainty, and the failures be less numerous.
1.00d - DIVISION D - KUNDALINI AND THE SPINE, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The merging of the fires of matter is the result of evolutionary growth, when left to the normal, slow development that time alone can bring. The junction of the two fires of matter is effected early in the history of man, and is the cause of the rude health that the clean-living, high-thinking man should normally enjoy. When the fires of matter have passed (united) still further along the etheric spinal channel they contact the fire of manas as it radiates from the throat centre. Clarity of thought is here essential, and it will be necessary to elucidate somewhat this rather abstruse subject.
1. The three major head centres (from the physical standpoint) are the:
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The other fire of matter (the dual fire) is attracted upward, and merges with the fire of mind through a junction effected at the alta major centre. This centre is situated at the base of the skull, and there is a slight gap between this centre and the point at which the fires of matter issue from the spinal channel. Part of the work the man who is developing thought power has to do, is to build a temporary channel in etheric matter to bridge the gap. This channel is the reflection in physical matter of the antaskarana [lxv]63 that the Ego has to build in order to bridge the gap between the lower and higher mental, between the causal vehicle on the third subplane of the mental plane, and the manasic permanent atom on the first subplane. This is the work that all advanced thinkers are unconsciously doing now. When the gap is completely [138] bridged, man's body becomes co-ordinated with the mental body and the fires of mind and of matter are blended. It completes the perfecting of the personality life, and as earlier said, this perfecting brings a man to the portal of initiationinitiation being the seal set upon accomplished work; it marks the end of one lesser cycle of development, and the beginning of the transference of the whole work to a still higher spiral.
We must always bear in mind that the fires from the base of the spine and the splenic triangle are fires of matter. We must not lose this recollection nor get confused. They have no spiritual effect, and concern themselves solely with the matter in which the centres of force are located. These centres of force are always directed by manas or mind, or by the conscious effort of the indwelling entity; but that entity is held back in the effects he seeks to achieve until the vehicles through which he is seeking expression, and their directing, energising centres, make adequate response. Hence it is only in due course of evolution, and when the matter of these vehicles is energised sufficiently by its own latent fires that he can accomplish his long-held purpose. Hence again the need of the ascension of the fire of matter to its own place, and its resurrection from its long burial and seeming prostitution before it can be united with its Father in Heaven, the third Logos, Who is the Intelligence of matter itself. The correspondence, again, holds good. Even the atom of the physical plane has its goal, its initiations and its ultimate triumph.
1.00d - Introduction, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
It is this opening, this new development we would like to investigate in the light of what we have learned from Sri Aurobindo and Her who continued his work, the modus operandi of the transition, so we can grasp the handle ourselves and work methodically at our own evolution perform experimental evolution the way others try to make test-tube embryos, though they may only hear the echo of their own monsters.
The secret of life is not in life, nor that of man in man, any more than the secret of the lotus is in the mud from which it grows, said Sri Aurobindo; and yet the mud and a ray of sun combine to create a higher degree of harmony. It is this site of convergence, this point of transmutation, that we must find. Then, perhaps, we will rediscover what a quiet child on a beach contemplated in a fleck of wild foam, and the supreme music that spins the worlds, and the one Marvel that was awaiting its hour.
1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
b. By means of these forms He gains the needed contact, and develops full consciousness on the five planes of human development, gradually rarefying and refining the forms as the Spirit of Love or the Flame Divine spirals ever onward towards its goal, that goal which is also the source from which it came.
These forms are the sumtotal of all spheres or atoms within the solar system, or within the solar ring-pass-not, and in their seven major differentiations they are the [144] spheres of the seven Spirits, or the seven planetary Logoi.
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The activity of the second Logos is carried on under the cosmic Law of Attraction. The Law of Economy has for one of its branches a subsidiary Law of marked development called the Law of Repulsion. The cosmic Laws of Attraction and Economy are therefore the raison d'tre (viewed from one angle) of the eternal repulsion that goes on as Spirit seeks ever to liberate itself from form. The matter aspect always follows the line of least resistance, and repulses all tendency to group formation, while Spirit, governed by the Law of Attraction, seeks ever to separate itself from matter by the method of attracting an ever more adequate type of matter in the process of distinguishing the real from the unreal, and passing from one illusion to another until the resources of matter are fully utilised.
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c. His mode of action is a driving forward; the will that lies back of evolutionary development is His, and He it is who drives Spirit onward through matter till it eventually emerges from matter, having achieved two things:
First, Added quality to quality, and therefore emerging plus the gained faculty that experience has engendered.
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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.
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All that is intended to do in this treatise, is to cast some further light upon these centres, to show their interrelation, and to trace the effects produced by their rightful development. To do this, as before stated, the subject will be divided into the following divisions:
1. The nature of the centres.
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4. The circle divided into four. We come now to the point where the centre is exceedingly active, with the cross within its periphery rotating as well as the wheel itself, and causing an effect of great beauty and activity. The man has reached a stage of very high development [172] mentally, corresponding to the fifth root-race, or to the fifth round in the larger cycle; he is conscious of two activities within himself, symbolised by the rotating wheel and the inner rotating cross. He is sensing the spiritual, though actively functioning in the personal life, and the development has reached a point wherein he is nearing the Probationary Path.
5. The swastika. At this stage the centre becomes fourth-dimensional; the inner rotating cross begins to turn upon its axis, and to drive the flaming periphery to all sides so that the centre is better described as a sphere of fire than as a wheel. It marks the stage of the Path in its two divisions, for the process of producing the effect described covers the whole period of the Path. At the close, the centres are seen as globes of radiant fire with the spokes of the wheel (or the evolution of the cross from the point in the centre) merging and blending into a "fire that burneth up the whole."
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The first period is by far the longest, and covers the vast progression of the centuries wherein the activity aspect of the threefold self is being developed. Life after life slips away during which the aspect of manas or mind is being slowly wrought out, and the human being comes more and more under the control of his intellect, operating through his physical brain. This might be looked upon as corresponding to the period of the first solar system, wherein the third aspect logoic, that of Brahma, Mind, or Intelligence, was being brought to the point of achievement. [lxxvi]74 Then the second aspect began in [175] this present solar system to be blended with, and wrought out through it. Centuries go by and the man becomes ever more actively intelligent, and the field of his life more suitable for the coming in of this second aspect. The correspondence lies in similitude and not in detail as seen in time and space. It covers the period of the first three triangles dealt with earlier. We must not forget that, for the sake of clarity, we are here differentiating between the different aspects, and considering their separated development, a thing only permissible in time and space or during the evolutionary process, but not permissible from the standpoint of the Eternal Now, and from the Unity of the All-Self. The Vishnu or the Love-Wisdom aspect is latent in the Self, and is part of the monadic content, but the Brahma aspect, the Activity-Intelligence aspect precedes its manifestation in time. The Tabernacle in the Wilderness preceded the building of the Temple of Solomon; the kernel of wheat has to lie in the darkness of mother Earth before the golden perfected ear can be seen, and the Lotus has to cast its roots down into the mud before the beauty of the blossom can be produced.
The second period, wherein the egoic ray holds sway, is not so long comparatively; it covers the period wherein the fourth and fifth triangles are being vivified, and marks the lives wherein the man throws his forces on the side of evolution, disciplines his life, steps upon the Probationary Path, and continues up to the third Initiation. Under the regime of the Personality Ray, the man proceeds upon the five Rays to work consciously with Mind, the sixth sense, passing first upon the four minor Rays and eventually upon the third. He works [176] upon the third Ray, or that of active Intelligence, and from thence proceeds to one of the subrays of the two other major Rays, if the third is not his egoic Ray.
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We must, nevertheless, recollect that the complexity is increased by the fact that the personality triangles will be brought to full activity according to the ray of the Monad or Spirit. Therefore, no hard or fast rule can be laid down about development. The egoic triangles are dependent largely upon the reflection in the personality of the spiritual life force. They are the midway point, just as the causal or egoic body is the transmitting point (when sufficiently equipped and built) between the higher and the lower.
The permanent atoms are enclosed within the periphery of the causal body, yet that relatively permanent body is built and enlarged, expanded and wrought into [179] a central receiving and transmitting station (using inadequate words to convey an occult idea) by the direct action of the centres, and of the centres above all. Just as it was spiritual force, or the will aspect, that built the solar system, so it is the same force in the man that builds the causal body. By the bringing together of spirit and matter (Father-Mother) in the macrocosm, and their union through the action of the will, the objective solar system, or the Son, was produced that Son of desire, Whose characteristic is love, and Whose nature is buddhi or spiritual wisdom. By the bringing together (in microcosm) of Spirit and matter, and their coherence by means of force (or the spiritual will) that objective system, the causal body, is being produced; it is the product of transmuted desire, whose characteristic (when fully demonstrated) will be love, the expression eventually on the physical plane of buddhi. The causal body is but the sheath of the Ego. The solar system is but the sheath of the Son. In both the greater and the lesser systems, force centres exist which are productive of objectivity. The centres in the human being are reflections in the three worlds of those higher force centres.
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These three groups form the three centres in one great trianglea triangle which is not yet in complete vivification at this stage of evolutionary development.
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b. The Grand Man of the Heavens. The seven Heavenly Men are the seven centres in the body of the Logos, bearing to Him a relationship identical with that borne by the Masters and Their affiliated groups, to some planetary Logos. Systemic kundalini goes forward to the vivification of these centres, and at this stage of development certain centres are more closely allied than others. Just as in connection with our planetary Logos, the three etheric planets of our chainEarth, Mercury and Mars [lxxix]77form a triangle of rare importance, so it may be here said that at the present point in evolution of the logoic centres, Venus, Earth and Saturn form one triangle of great interest. It is a triangle that is at this time undergoing vivification [182] through the action of kundalini; it is consequently increasing the vibratory capacity of the centres, which are becoming slowly fourth-dimensional. It is not yet permissible to point out others of the great triangles, but as regards the centres, we may here give two hints:
First. Venus corresponds to the heart centre in the body logoic, and has an inter-relationship therefore with all the other centres in the solar system wherein the heart aspect is the one of greater prominence.
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As we know, the senses are five in number and in order of development are as follows:
a. Hearing.
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I am differentiating thus for the sake of clarity. In evolution itself, due to the parallelism of nature, the distinctions are not so sharply made, and a man's ray, point of development, the work earlier accomplished, his temporary limitations, and other causes create a seeming confusion, but in the great scheme as seen from above downwards, the work proceeds as described.
Hearing on the astral plane is commonly called clairaudience, and means the ability to hear the sounds of the astral plane. It is a faculty that demonstrates throughout the entire astral body, and a man hears all over his vehicle and not only through the specialised organs, the ears, the product of physical plane action and reaction. This would necessarily be so, owing to the fluidic nature of the astral body. Man on the physical plane hears at the same time a certain range of sounds, and only a small and particular gamut of vibrations impinges upon his ears. There are many of the lesser sounds of nature which entirely escape him, while the major group sounds are not differentiated at all. As evolution proceeds and the inner sense of hearing becomes acute, these other physical plane sounds will likewise swing into his ken, and he will be acutely conscious of all sounds on the astral, and the physical planea thing, which if possible now, would result in the shattering of the body. If the note of nature, for instance, were to strike but once upon the ear of a man (a note made up of the totality of vibrations produced by all dense material forms) his physical body would be completely disrupted. [192] He is not ready yet for such a happening; the inner ear is not duly prepared. Only when the threefold hearing is consummated will completed hearing on the physical plane be likewise permitted.
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Let us now finish what may be imparted on the remaining three sensessight, taste, smell and then briefly sum up their relationship to the centres, and their mutual action and interaction. That will then leave two more points to be dealt with in this first division of the Treatise on Cosmic Fire, and a summing up. We shall then be in a position to take up that portion of the treatise that deals with the fire of manas and with the development of the manasaputras, [lxxxvii]85 both in their totality and likewise individually. This topic is of the most imperative importance as it deals entirely with man, the Ego, the thinker, and shows the cosmic blending of the fires of matter and of mind, and their utilisation by the indwelling Flame.
c. Sight. This sense, as said before, is the paramount correlating sense of the solar system.
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He touches or feels the vibration of the form or not-self in all its various grades, recognises his identity in time and space, and for purposes of existence or being and by means of the three Laws of Economy, Attraction and Synthesis utilises, blends and eventually dissociates himself. He sees the threefold evolutionary process and by means of the development of the inner vision, sees within the heart of the system macrocosmic and microcosmic, the one SELF in many forms, and finally identifies himself with that one Self by the conscious rejection of the not-self after its complete subjugation and utilisation.
d. Tasting. He tastes then finally and discriminates, for taste is the great sense that begins to hold sway during the discriminating process that takes place when the illusory nature of matter is in process of realisation. Discrimination is the educatory process to which the Self subjects itself in the process of developing intuition that faculty whereby the Self recognises its own essence in and under all forms. Discrimination concerns the duality of nature, the Self and the not-self, and is the means of their differentiation in the process of abstraction; the intuition concerns unity and is the capacity of the Self to contact other selves, and is not a faculty whereby the not-self is contacted. Hence, its rarity these days owing to the intense individualisation of the Ego, and its identification with the forma necessary identification at this particular time. As the sense of taste on the higher planes is developed, it leads one to ever finer distinctions till one is finally led through the form, right to the heart of one's nature.
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The consideration of this subject awakens the realisation of the vastness of the region of thought concerned the region of the whole evolutionary development of the human being. Yet all that is possible here, as elsewhere, is to indicate lines of thought for careful pondering, and to emphasise certain ideas which may serve as the foundation thoughts for the future mental activity of the immediate generation. The following facts must also be borne in mind when considering the matter:
a. That the senses have been dealt with in this division of our Treatise on Cosmic Fire because they concern the material form. Strictly speaking the five senses, as we know them, are the means of contact built up by the Thinker (polarised in his etheric body) and find their expression in the physical form in those nerve centres, brain cells, ganglia and plexus which exoteric science recognises.
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This development is paralleled on the two higher planes simultaneously as in the lower, and as the astral senses come into perfected activity, the corresponding centres of force on the buddhic plane begin to function until the vibratory interplay between the two is consummated, and the force of the Triad can be felt definitely in the Personality via the astral.
Again the corresponding vortices on the atmic level come into active vibration as the mental centres become fourth dimensional, till we have a wonderful fiery activity demonstrating on all the three planes.
From the point of view of fire, [lxxxviii]86 leaving the aura and [205] its colors out of temporary consideration, the evolutionary development marks an equally definite process.
a. The vivification of the inner heat of the sheaths, or the tiny point of fire latent in every individual atom of matter. This process proceeds in all three bodies, at first slowly, then more rapidly, and finally simultaneously and synthetically.
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Second. A development of psychic faculty that again may lead to temporary distress, but which eventually causes a recognition of the one Self in all selves, which is the goal of endeavor.
Third. A burning away, through a gradual arousing of kundalini, and its correct geometrical progression through the etheric web. This produces a resultant continuity of consciousness which enables the initiate consciously to utilise time as a factor in the plans of evolution.
1.00 - INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The Ray of intelligent activity. This is a ray of a very demonstrable glory, and of a higher point of development than the other two, being the product of an earlier mahakalpa, or a previous solar system.: [vi]6 It embodies [40] the basic vibration of this solar system, and is its great internal fire, animating and vitalising the whole, and penetrating from the centre to the periphery. It is the cause of rotary motion, and therefore of the spheroidal form of all that exists.
The Ray of intelligent love. This is the ray which embodies the highest vibration of which our solar Logos or Deity is capable in this present solar system. It is not yet vibrating adequately nor has it yet attained the peak of its activity. It is the basis of the cyclic spiral movement of the body logoic, and just as the Law of Economy is the law governing the internal fires of the system so the cosmic Law of Attraction and Repulsion is the basic law of this divine Ray.
The Ray of intelligent will. Little as yet can be said about this ray. It is the ray of cosmic mind and in its evolution parallels that of cosmic love, but as yet its vibration is slower and its development more retarded. This is definitely and deliberately so, and is due to the underlying purpose and choice of the solar Logos, Who seeks on His high level (just as do His reflections, the sons of men) to achieve a more rounded out development, [41] and He therefore concentrates on the development of cosmic love in this greater cycle.
This ray is governed by the Law of Synthesis, and is the basis of the systemic movement which may be best described as that of driving forward through space, or forward progression. Little can be predicated anent this ray and its expression. It controls the movements of the entire ring-pass-not in connection with its cosmic centre. [vii]7
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The divine spark does not as yet manifest (as do the other two fires) as a duality, though what lies hidden in a later cycle, evolution alone will disclose. This third fire, along with the other two, make the necessary five of logoic evolutionary development and by its perfected merging with the other two fires as the evolutionary process proceeds is seen the goal of logoic attainment for this greater cycle or period of this solar system.
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To continue our consideration of the fires which sustain the economy of the visible solar system, and of the visible objective human being, which produce evolutionary development, and which are the bases of all objective efflorescence, it must be noted that they demonstrate as the sumtotal of the vital life of a solar system, of a planet, of the entire constitution of active functioning man upon the physical plane, and of the atom of substance.
Speaking broadly we would say that the first fire deals entirely with:
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c. The development of matter by the means of friction, under the law of Economy. H. P. B. touches on this in the Secret Doctrine. [xiv]14
The second fire, that from the cosmic mental plane, deals with:
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Practically nothing can at this stage be communicated anent this evolution. The development of spirit can be only expressed as yet in terms of the evolution of matter, and only through the adequacy of the vehicle, and through the suitability of the sheath, the body or form, can the point of [50] spiritual development reached in any way be appraised. A word of warning should here be interpolated:
Just as it is not possible upon the physical plane for the physical vehicle fully to express the total point of development of the Ego or higher self, so it is not possible even for the Ego fully to sense and express the quality of spirit. Hence the utter impossibility for human consciousness justly to appraise the life of the spirit or Monad.
b. The working of the flame divine under the Law of Synthesisa generic term which will be seen eventually to include the other two laws as subdivisions.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Promote ye the development of the cities of God and His countries, and glorify Him therein in the joyous accents of His well-favoured ones. In truth, the hearts of men are edified through the power of the tongue, even as houses and cities are built up by the hand and other means. We have assigned to every end a means for its accomplishment; avail yourselves thereof, and place your trust and confidence in God, the Omniscient, the All-Wise.
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1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
THE WAY OF ATTAINMENT OF GENIUS OR GODHEAD CONSIDERED AS A development OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
["Hail, Savior of the Universe."]
1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
2. In 1921, Jung cited the first three verses of this passage (from Luther's Bible), noting: "The birth of the Savior, the development of the redeeming symbol, takes place where one does not expect it, and from precisely where a solution is most improbable" (Psychological Types, CW 6, 439).
3. In 1921, Jung cited this passage, noting: "The nature of the redeeming symbol is that of a child, that is the childlikeness or presuppositionlessness of the attitude belongs to the symbol and its function. This 'childlike' attitude necessarily brings with it another guiding principle in place of self-will and rational intentions, whose 'godlikeness' is synonymous with 'superiority.' Since it is of an irrational nature, the guiding principle appears in a miraculous form. Isaiah expresses his connection very well (9:5) ... These honorific titles reproduce the essential qualities of the redeeming symbol. The criterion of 'godlike' effect is the irresistible power of the unconscious impulses" (psychological Types, cw 6, 442-43).
10.10 - Education is Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Education is organisation. Mind's education means organisation of mental faculties. Organisation naturally involves development. The faculties in the normal and natural state are an undeveloped disorganised lot, a confused mass,unformed, ill-formed ideas, notions, thoughts, form a jumble. They have no purpose, no direction, no common impulse or end, each runs in its own way. The mind's faculties such for example as attention, memory, discrimination, reasoning, cogent thinking have to be clear and efficient and learn how to work harmoniously for a common objective. In the process and for that purpose they have to be developed, that is to say each of them has to be strong, able, ample, concentrated. They have to present a united front and function towards an ever increasing consciousness and knowledge.
As for the mental faculties so for the faculties of the vital. The normal vital being in man is in a greater and perhaps more dangerous chaos. The impulsions, emotions, upsurges that belong to this domain have not so much to be developed or increased as to be purified, made conscious, yoked together in a common drive towards a harmonious dynamic realisation in life and life's achievements. And lastly the organisation in the physical body. The limbs of the body have not even growth, they do not move together in a balanced and rhythmic way. Some are unhealthy, some do not work, some others are overworked. These too have to be co-ordinated, each set in its place and made to function in unison with others. That is physical education and that too means perfect organisation.
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
tions all developments were cyclic. Creation or manifes-
tation ran its course but had no goal, and would start its
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the material development of the universe, almost wholly
irrelevant and readily ignored in any general description
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with the physical development of things in Matter and the
law of development of Life and Mind in Matter; its account
of the process may have to be considerably changed or
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
has a meaning. It is a development that has an inner consistency.
Everything that we have not thought about, and that has there-
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in the individual's development, then that with the anima is the
"master-piece." The relation with the anima is again a test of
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images. Its development usually shows an enantiodromian struc-
ture like the text of the / Ching, and so presents a rhythm of
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Because man has consciousness, a development of this kind does
not run very smoothly; often it is varied and disturbed, because
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
To know this I should not need to look farther than to the shanties which every where border our railroads, that last improvement in civilization; where I see in my daily walks human beings living in sties, and all winter with an open door, for the sake of light, without any visible, often imaginable, wood pile, and the forms of both old and young are permanently contracted by the long habit of shrinking from cold and misery, and the development of all their limbs and faculties is checked. It certainly is fair to look at that class by whose labor the works which distinguish this generation are accomplished. Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world. Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened spots on the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea
Islander, or any other savage race before it was degraded by contact with the civilized man. Yet I have no doubt that that peoples rulers are as wise as the average of civilized rulers. Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a staple production of the
1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
truth contained in the Riks. This last development was left to
our own times and popularised by occidental scholars.
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This change was evidently due to a cultural development in these early peoples who became progressively more mentalised and less engrossed in the physical life as they advanced in civilisation and needed to read into their religion and their deities finer and subtler aspects which would support their more highly mentalised concepts and interests and find for them a true spiritual being or some celestial figure as their support and sanction.
But the largest part in determining and deepening this inward turn must be attributed to the Mystics who had an enormous influence on these early civilisations; there was indeed almost everywhere an age of the Mysteries in which men of a deeper knowledge and self-knowledge established their practices, significant rites, symbols, secret lore within or on the border of the more primitive exterior religions. This took different forms in different countries; in Greece there were the Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries, in Egypt and Chaldea the priests and their occult lore and magic, in Persia the Magi, in India the Rishis.
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of the race as a development out of primitive barbarism or
semi-barbarism, a crude social life and religion and a mass of
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manners and habits through the development of intellect and
reason, art, philosophy and science and a clearer and sounder,
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now form a more accurate idea of the development of the race.
The ancient more primitive civilisations held in themselves the
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the development of Indian culture, an early form of the spiritual
truth which found its culmination in the Upanishads; the secret
1.01 - Fundamental Considerations, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
The structuration we have discovered seems to us to reveal the bases of consciousness, thereby enabling us to make a contri bution to the understanding of mans emergent consciousness. It is based on the recognition that in the course of mankinds history - and not only Western mans - clearly discernable worlds stand out whose development or unfolding took place in mutations of consciousness. This, then, presents the task of a cultural-historical analysis of the various structures of consciousness as they have proceeded from the various mutations.
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.
It is our belief that the essential traits of a new age and a new reality are discernible in nearly all forms of contemporary expression, whether in the creations of modern art, or in the recent findings of the natural sciences, or in the results of the humanities and sciences of the mind. Moreover we are in a position to define this new reality in such a way as to emphasize one of its most significant elements. Our definition is a natural corollary of the recognition that mans coming to awareness is inseparably bound to his consciousness of space and time.
Scarcely five hundred years ago, during the Renaissance, an unmistakable reorganization of our consciousness occurred: the discovery of perspective which opened up the three-dimensionality of space. This discovery is so closely linked with the entire intellectual attitude of the modern epoch that we have felt obliged to call this age the age of perspectivity and characterize the age immediately preceding it as the unperspectival age. These definitions, by recognizing a fundamental characteristic of these eras, lead to the further appropriate definition of the age of the dawning new consciousness as the aperspectival age, a definition supported not only by the results of modern physics, but also by developments in the visual arts and literature, where the incorporation of time as a fourth dimension into previously spatial conceptions has formed the initial basis for manifesting the new.Aperspectival is not to be thought of as merely the opposite or negation of perspectival; the antithesis of perspectival is unperspectival. The distinction in meaning suggested by the three terms unperspectival, perspectival, and aperspectival is analogous to that of the terms illogical, logical, and alogical or immoral, moral, and amoral. We have employed here the designation aperspectival to clearly emphasize the need of overcoming the mere antithesis of affirmation and negation. The so-called primal words (Urworte), for example, evidence two antithetic connotations: Latin altus meant high as well as low; sacer meant sacred as well as cursed. Such primal words as these formed an undifferentiated psychically-stressed unity whose bivalent nature was definitely familiar to the early Egyptians and Greeks. This is no longer the case with our present sense of language; consequently, we have required a term that transcends equally the ambivalence of the primal connotations and the dualism of antonyms or conceptual opposites.
Hence we have used the Greek prefix a- in conjunction with our Latin-derived word perspectival in the sense of an alpha privativum and not as an alpha negativum, since the prefix has a liberating character (privativum, derived from Latin privare, i.e., to liberate). The designation aperspectival, in consequence, expresses a process of liberation from the exclusive validity of perspectival and unperspectival, as well as pre-perspectival limitations. Our designation, then, does not attempt to unite the inherently coexistent unperspectival and perspectival structures, nor does it attempt to reconcile or synthesize structures which, in their deficient modes, have become irreconcilable. If aperspectival were to represent only a synthesis it would imply no more than perspectival-rational and it would be limited and only momentarilyvalid, inasmuch as every union is threatened by further separation. Our concern is with integrality and ultimately with the whole; the word aperspectival conveys our attempt to deal with wholeness. It is a definition which differentiates a perception of reality that is neither perspectivally restricted to only one sector nor merely unperspectivally evocative of a vague sense of reality.
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We have only one option: in examining the manifestations of our age, we must penetrate them with sufficient breadth and depth that we do not come under their demonic and destructive spell. We must not focus our view merely an these phenomena, but rather on the humus of the decaying world beneath, where the seedlings of the future are growing, immeasurable in their potential and vigor. Since our insight into the energies pressing toward development aids their unfolding, the seedlings and inceptive beginnings must be made visible and comprehensible.
It will be our task to demonstrate that the first stirrings of the new can be found in all areas of human expression, and that they inherently share a common character. This demonstration can succeed only if we have certain knowledge about the manifestations of both our past and our present. Consequently, the task of the present work will be to work out the foundations of the past and the present which are also the basis of the new consciousness and the new reality arising therefrom. It will be the task of the second part to define the new emergent consciousness structure to the extent that its inceptions are already visible.
1.01 - Historical Survey, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
To come down to more historic ground, the Qabalah is the Jewish mystical teaching concerning the initiated inter- pretation of the Hebrew scriptures. It is a system of spiritual philosophy or theosophy, using this word in its original implications of 0eo? 2 o$ia, which has not only exercised for centuries an influence on the intellectual development of so shrewd and clear-thinking a people as the Jews, but has attracted the attention of many renowned
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Be that as it may, and ignoring the sterile aspects of con- troversy, the public appearance of the Zohar was the great landmark in the development of the Qabalah, and we to-day are able to divide its history into two main periods, pre- and post-Zoharic. While it is undeniable that there were
Jewish prophetic and mystical Schools of great proficiency and possessing much recondite knowledge in Biblical times, such as that of Samuel, the Essenes, and Philo, yet the first
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The Zohar is the next major development. This book combining, absorbing, and synthesizing the different features and doctrines of the previous schools, made its dd but, creating a profound sensation in theological and philosophical circles by reason of its speculations concerning
God, the doctrine of Emanations, the evolution of the
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The Zohar so impressed the celebrated scholastic meta- physician and experimental chemist, Raymond Lully, that it suggested to him the development of the Ars Magna (The
Great Work), an idea in the exposition of which he exhibits the loftiest conceptions of the Qabalah, regarding it as a divine science and a genuine revelation of Light to the human soul. He was one of those few isolated figures attracted to its study, who saw through its use of a peculiar type of symbol, and endeavoured to construct a workable magical or philosophical alphabet, an explanation of which will be attempted in the remaining chapters of this work.
1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
shown in their childhood by subsequent students of higher knowledge is well known to the experienced in these matters. There are children who look up with religious awe to those whom they venerate. For such people they have a respect which forbids them, even in the deepest recess of their heart, to harbor any thought of criticism or opposition. Such children grow up into young men and women who feel happy when they are able to look up to anything that fills them with veneration. From the ranks of such children are recruited many students of higher knowledge. Have you ever paused outside the door of some venerated person, and have you, on this your first visit, felt a religious awe as you pressed on the handle to enter the room which for you is a holy place? If so, a feeling has been manifested within you which may be the germ of your future adherence to the path of knowledge. It is a blessing for every human being in process of development to have such feelings upon which to build. Only it must not be thought that this disposition leads to submissiveness and slavery. What was once a childlike veneration for persons becomes, later, a veneration for truth and knowledge.
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In all spiritual science there is a fundamental principle which cannot be transgressed without sacrificing success, and it should be impressed on the student in every form of esoteric training. It runs as follows: All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward. This law must be strictly observed, and no student is genuine until he has adopted it as a guide for his whole life. This truth can be expressed in the following short sentence: Every idea which does not become your ideal slays a force in your soul; every idea which becomes your ideal creates within you life-forces.
Inner Tranquility
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development of the inner life. Spiritual science now also gives him practical rules by observing which he may tread that path and develop that inner life. These practical rules have no arbitrary origin. They rest upon ancient experience and ancient wisdom, and are given out in the same manner, wheresoever the ways to higher knowledge are indicated. All true teachers of the spiritual life are in agreement as to the substance of these rules, even though they do not always clo the them in the same words. This difference, which is of a minor character and is more apparent than real, is due to circumstances which need not be dwelt upon here.
No teacher of the spiritual life wishes to establish a mastery over other persons by means of such rules. He would not tamper with anyone's independence. Indeed, none respect and cherish human independence more than the spiritually experienced. It was stated in the preceding pages that the bond of union embracing all initiates is spiritual, and that two laws form, as it were, clasps by which the component parts of this bond are held together. Whenever the initiate leaves
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Now, the scope and significance of these facts must be realized. We must bear in mind that the higher man within us is in constant development. But only the state of calm and serenity here described renders an orderly development possible. The waves of outward life constrain the inner man from all sides if, instead of mastering this outward life, it masters him. Such a man is like a plant which tries to expand in a cleft in the rock and is stunted in growth until new
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1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
precedes development of the latter. Something must have emotional impact before it will attract enough
attention to be explored and mapped in accordance with its sensory properties. Those sensory properties
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to the development of experimental science do not appear valid either as things, or as the meaning of
things, to the modern mind. The question of the nature of the substance of sol the sun (to take a single
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the pre-experimental mind, or have at least ceased to further its development. That loss has left our
increased technological power ever more dangerously at the mercy of our still unconscious systems of
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underlying mythological commonalities might comprise the first developmental stage in the conscious
evolution of a truly universal system of morality. The establishment of such a system, acceptable to
1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
In our modern civilization, we have seen people develop a peculiar attitude toward their own being. For over a century, our civilization has witnessed the ambitious development of natural science and its consequences for humanity; indeed, all of contemporary life has been affected by the knowledge and ideas engendered by natural science. From the perspective of natural science, however, wherever we look and no matter how exactly we observe the mineral king- dom and develop ideas of natures other realms, one thing is clear: although there was close and intimate self-knowledge of human beings in earlier cultural epochs, this is no longer the situation today. Whatever achievements natural science may have brought to humankind, it cannot be applied directly to the human being.
We can ask: What are the laws that govern the development of the world beyond humankind? However, none of the answers come close to the essence of what lives within the limits of the human skin. Answers are so inadequate that people today havent a clue about the ways that external natural processes are actually transformed within the human being through breathing, blood circulation, nutrition, and so on.
Consequently, we have come to the point where, even in terms of the soul, we do not look at the soul itself, but study its exter- nal manifestations in the human body. Today people experiment with external means on human beings. However, I dont intend to criticize psychological or pedagogical experimentation. We have to acknowledge what can be accomplished in this way, but mostly this approach is a symptom of our cultural milieu, since in fact the results of such experiments should at least be mentioned.
In earlier times, people had a sense of inner empathy with the spirit and soul of other human beings, which gave them an intui- tive impression of the souls inner experiences; it made sense that what one knew about the inner spirit and soul life would explain external physical manifestations. Now, we do just the opposite. People experiment with external aspects and processes very effec- tively, since all contemporary natural science is effective. The only thing that has been demonstrated, however, is that, given our modern views of life, we take seriously only what is sense- perceptible and what the intellect can comprehend with the help of the senses. Consequently, we have come to a point where we no longer have the capacity to really observe the inner human being; we are often content to observe its outer shell. We are further removed from the human being. Indeed, the very methods that have so eagerly illuminated life in the outer world the work- ing of naturehave robbed us of the most basic access between souls. Our wonderfully productive civilization has brought us very close to certain natural phenomena, but it has also driven us away from human nature. It should be obvious that the aspect of our culture most harmed by this situation is educationevery- thing related to human development and teaching children. Once we can understand those we are to shape, we will be able to educate and teach, just as painters must understand the nature and quality of colors before they can paint, and sculptors must first understand their materials before they can create, and so on. If this is true of the arts that deal with physical materials, isnt it all the more true of an art that works with the noblest of all materials, the material that only the human being can work withhuman life, human nature and human development?
These issues remind us that all education and all teaching must spring from the fountain of real knowledge of human nature. In the Waldorf schools, we are attempting to create such an art of education, solidly based on true understanding of the human being, and this educational conference is about the educational methods of Waldorf education.
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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.
This is the knowledge I have in mind as I give you a few exam- ples about the intimate ways the teachers soul can affect the childs soul. I will present only a few indications for todaywe will go into greater detail later. We can understand how to prepare the intellect for impulses of the will only if we can answer this ques- tion: What happens between the teacher and the child, simply because the teacher and the child are present together, each with a unique nature and temperamenta particular character, level of development, constitution of body and soul? Before we even begin to teach and educate, the teacher and the child are both present. There is already an interaction. The teachers relationship to the child presents the first important question.
Rather than groping about in abstractions, lets just look at specifics; we shall examine one particular characteristic in human nature the temperament. Lets begin by looking not at a childs temperament, which of course offers us no choicewe have to educate each human being regardless of temperament (and well speak later about the childrens temperaments)but lets begin rather by looking at the teachers temperament. The teacher enters the school and meets the child with a very specific tem- peramentcholeric, sanguine, melancholic, or phlegmatic. The question is: As educators, what can we do to control our own temperaments; how can we perhaps educate ourselves in relation to our own temperament? To answer this question we must first look directly at the fundamental question: How does a teachers temperament affect the child, just by being what it is?
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Lets consider the preschool child. At that stage a child is a single entity; the childs three membersbody, soul, and spirit differentiate themselves later on. Between birth and the change of teeth (which is a very important point in the childs development) theres a period of time when the child is, for all practical purposes, entirely a sensory organ; this is not generally emphasized enough.
Lets imagine a sensory organ the eye, for example. The eye encounters outer impressions, sensations of color. This eye is orga- nized in very delicate ways that unite with the impressions made by colors. Without a person having any say in the matter, the slightest external impression is immediately transformed into something of the nature of will, which is only then experienced by the soul, as we say. The entire life of the child before the change of teeth is ruled8 in this way by sensory perceptions that impress the soul. All inner experiences resemble a kind of perception by the soul.
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
a dynamical process into a pattern of development which reads
in one direction. The theory of tidal evolution is quite definitely
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the main lines of the direction of development of the modern
machine, nor do they seem to have had much of an influence on
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them to a still higher point of development. Scarcely a month
passes but a new book appears on these so-called control mech-
1.01 - Our Demand and Need from the Gita, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That it is not possible, is shown by the divergence of the original commentaries which have been and are still being written upon it; for they all agree in each disagreeing with all the others, each finds in the Gita its own system of metaphysics and trend of religious thought. Nor will even the most painstaking and disinterested scholarship and the most luminous theories of the historical development of Indian philosophy save us from inevitable error. But what we can do with profit is to seek in the
Gita for the actual living truths it contains, apart from their metaphysical form, to extract from it what can help us or the world at large and to put it in the most natural and vital form and expression we can find that will be suitable to the mentality and helpful to the spiritual needs of our present-day humanity.
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We of the coming day stand at the head of a new age of development which must lead to such a new and larger synthesis. We are not called upon to be orthodox Vedantins of any of the three schools or Tantrics or to adhere to one of the theistic religions of the past or to entrench ourselves within the four corners of the teaching of the Gita. That would be to limit ourselves and to attempt to create our spiritual life out of the being, knowledge and nature of others, of the men of the past, instead of building it out of our own being and potentialities. We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future. A mass of new material is flowing into us; we have not only to assimilate the influences of the great theistic religions of India and of the world and a recovered sense of the meaning of Buddhism, but to take full account of the potent though limited revelations of modern knowledge and seeking; and, beyond that, the remote and dateless past which seemed to be dead is returning upon us with an effulgence of many luminous secrets long lost to the consciousness of mankind but now breaking out again from behind the veil. All this points to a new, a very rich, a very vast synthesis; a fresh and widely embracing harmonisation of our gains is both an intellectual and a spiritual necessity of the future.
But just as the past syntheses have taken those which preceded them for their starting-point, so also must that of the future,
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
procedure as the latest phase of psycho therapeutic development. I must
now correct myself and put this procedure in the right perspective: it is
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but a fellow participant in a process of individual development.
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the personality which are capable of development are in an infantile
state, as though still in the womb. Both interpretations can be shown to
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that of the doctor, and consequently that every development in the patient is
to be regarded as valid, unless of course it corrects itself of its own accord.
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that the possibilities of individual development are obscured by being
reduced to some general principle, such as sexuality. This is the prime
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of individual development, it is above all the unconscious that is thrust into the forefront of our interest. The deeper reason for this may lie in the fact
that the conscious attitude of the neurotic is unnaturally one-sided and must
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Hence we can only say that the psychic development of the individual
produces something that looks very like the archaic world of fable, and that
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morbid fantasy. A development of this kind may be dangerous with a
person whose social personality has not found its feet; moreover any
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these circumstances nothing is left but the dialectical development of the
mythological material which is alive in the sick man himself, regardless of
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details of this development would far exceed the limits of a lecture. I must
therefore rest content with having given you at least a general survey of the
1.01 - Seeing, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
tible developments hidden in extreme slowness - extreme
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1.01 - Soul and God, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
Society on January 31,1913, Jung said: The dream is not only the fulfillment of infantile desires, but also symbolizes the future... The dream provides the answer through the symbol, which one must understand" (MZS, p. 5). On the development of Jung's dream theory, see my
Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science, 2.
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Jung wrote that the child motif occurs frequently in the individuation process. It does not represent one's literal childhood, as is emphasized by its mythological nature. It compensates the onesidedness of consciousness and paves the way for the future development of the personality In certain conditions of conflict, the unconscious psyche produces a symbol that unites the opposites.
The child is such a symbol. It anticipates the self which is produced through the synthesis of the conscious and unconscious elements of the personality The typical fates that befall the child indicate the kind of psychic events accompanying the genesis of the self. The wonderful birth of the child indicates that this happens psychically as opposed to physically.
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
It is, however, certain that many activities undertaken by some minds at the present time were not, in the remote past, undertaken by any minds at all. For this there are several obvious reasons. Certain thoughts are practically unthinkable except in terms of an appropriate language and within the framework of an appropriate system of classification. Where these necessary instruments do not exist, the thoughts in question are not expressed and not even conceived. Nor is this all: the incentive to develop the instruments of certain kinds of thinking is not always present. For long periods of history and prehistory it would seem that men and women, though perfectly capable of doing so, did not wish to pay attention to problems, which their descendants found absorbingly interesting. For example, there is no reason to suppose that, between the thirteenth century and the twentieth, the human mind underwent any kind of evolutionary change, comparable to the change, let us say, in the physical structure of the horses foot during an incomparably longer span of geological time. What happened was that men turned their attention from certain aspects of reality to certain other aspects. The result, among other things, was the development of the natural sciences. Our perceptions and our understanding are directed, in large measure, by our will. We are aware of, and we think about, the things which, for one reason or another, we want to see and understand. Where theres a will there is always an intellectual way. The capacities of the human mind are almost indefinitely great. Whatever we will to do, whether it be to come to the unitive knowledge of the Godhead, or to manufacture self-propelled flame-throwers that we are able to do, provided always that the willing be sufficiently intense and sustained. It is clear that many of the things to which modern men have chosen to pay attention were ignored by their predecessors. Consequently the very means for thinking clearly and fruitfully about those things remained uninvented, not merely during prehistoric times, but even to the opening of the modern era.
The lack of a suitable vocabulary and an adequate frame of reference, and the absence of any strong and sustained desire to invent these necessary instruments of though there are two sufficient reasons why so many of the almost endless potentialities of the human mind remained for so long unactualized. Another and, on its own level, equally cogent reason is this: much of the worlds most original and fruitful thinking is done by people of poor physique and of a thoroughly unpractical turn of mind. Because this is so, and because the value of pure thought, whether analytical or integral, has everywhere been more or less clearly recognized, provision was and still is made by every civilized society for giving thinkers a measure of protection from the ordinary strains and stresses of social life. The hermitage, the monastery, the college, the academy and the research laboratory; the begging bowl, the endowment, patronage and the grant of taxpayers moneysuch are the principal devices that have been used by actives to conserve that rare bird, the religious, philosophical, artistic or scientific contemplative. In many primitive societies conditions are hard and there is no surplus wealth. The born contemplative has to face the struggle for existence and social predominance without protection. The result, in most cases, is that he either dies young or is too desperately busy merely keeping alive to be able to devote his attention to anything else. When this happens the prevailing philosophy will be that of the hardy, extraverted man of action.
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The nineteenth centurys mania for history and prophetic Utopianism tended to blind the eyes of even its acutest thinkers to the timeless facts of eternity. Thus we find T. H. Green writing of mystical union as though it were an evolutionary process and not, as all the evidence seems to show, a state which man, as man, has always had it in his power to realize. An animal organism, which has its history in time, gradually becomes the vehicle of an eternally complete consciousness, which in itself can have no history, but a history of the process by which the animal organism becomes its vehicle. But in actual fact it is only in regard to peripheral knowledge that there has been a genuine historical development. Without much lapse of time and much accumulation of skills and information, there can be but an imperfect knowledge of the material world. But direct awareness of the eternally complete consciousness, which is the ground of the material world, is a possibility occasionally actualized by some human beings at almost any stage of their own personal development, from childhood to old age, and at any period of the races history.
1.01 - the Call to Adventure, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism, A Study in the Nature and development of
Man's Spiritual Consciousness (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1911), Part II,
1.01 - The Cycle of Society, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Modern Science, obsessed with the greatness of its physical discoveries and the idea of the sole existence of Matter, has long attempted to base upon physical data even its study of Soul and Mind and of those workings of Nature in man and animal in which a knowledge of psychology is as important as any of the physical sciences. Its very psychology founded itself upon physiology and the scrutiny of the brain and nervous system. It is not surprising therefore that in history and sociology attention should have been concentrated on the external data, laws, institutions, rites, customs, economic factors and developments, while the deeper psychological elements so important in the activities of a mental, emotional, ideative being like man have been very much neglected. This kind of science would explain history and social development as much as possible by economic necessity or motive,by economy understood in its widest sense. There are even historians who deny or put aside as of a very subsidiary importance the working of the idea and the influence of the thinker in the development of human institutions. The French Revolution, it is thought, would have happened just as it did and when it did, by economic necessity, even if Rousseau and Voltaire had never written and the eighteenth-century philosophic movement in the world of thought had never worked out its bold and radical speculations.
Recently, however, the all-sufficiency of Matter to explain Mind and Soul has begun to be doubted and a movement of emancipation from the obsession of physical science has set in, although as yet it has not gone beyond a few awkward and rudimentary stumblings. Still there is the beginning of a perception that behind the economic motives and causes of social and historical development there are profound psychological, even perhaps soul factors; and in pre-war Germany, the metropolis of rationalism and materialism but the home also, for a century and a half, of new thought and original tendencies good and bad, beneficent and disastrous, a first psychological theory of history was conceived and presented by an original intelligence. The earliest attempts in a new field are seldom entirely successful, and the German historian, originator of this theory, seized on a luminous idea, but was not able to carry it very far or probe very deep. He was still haunted by a sense of the greater importance of the economic factor, and like most European science his theory related, classified and organised phenomena much more successfully than it explained them. Nevertheless, its basic idea formulated a suggestive and illuminating truth, and it is worth while following up some of the suggestions it opens out in the light especially of Eastern thought and experience.
The theorist, Lamprecht, basing himself on European and particularly on German history, supposed that human society progresses through certain distinct psychological stages which he terms respectively symbolic, typal and conventional, individualist and subjective. This development forms, then, a sort of psychological cycle through which a nation or a civilisation is bound to proceed. Obviously, such classifications are likely to err by rigidity and to substitute a mental straight line for the coils and zigzags of Nature. The psychology of man and his societies is too complex, too synthetical of many-sided and intermixed tendencies to satisfy any such rigorous and formal analysis. Nor does this theory of a psychological cycle tell us what is the inner meaning of its successive phases or the necessity of their succession or the term and end towards which they are driving. But still to understand natural laws whether of Mind or Matter it is necessary to analyse their working into its discoverable elements, main constituents, dominant forces, though these may not actually be found anywhere in isolation. I will leave aside the Western thinkers own dealings with his idea. The suggestive names he has offered us, if we examine their intrinsic sense and value, may yet throw some light on the thickly veiled secret of our historic evolution, and this is the line on which it would be most useful to investigate.
Undoubtedly, wherever we can seize human society in what to us seems its primitive beginnings or early stages,no matter whether the race is comparatively cultured or savage or economically advanced or backward,we do find a strongly symbolic mentality that governs or at least pervades its thought, customs and institutions. Symbolic, but of what? We find that this social stage is always religious and actively imaginative in its religion; for symbolism and a widespread imaginative or intuitive religious feeling have a natural kinship and especially in earlier or primitive formations they have gone always together. When man begins to be predominantly intellectual, sceptical, ratiocinative he is already preparing for an individualist society and the age of symbols and the age of conventions have passed or are losing their virtue. The symbol then is of something which man feels to be present behind himself and his life and his activities,the Divine, the Gods, the vast and deep unnameable, a hidden, living and mysterious nature of things. All his religious and social institutions, all the moments and phases of his life are to him symbols in which he seeks to express what he knows or guesses of the mystic influences that are behind his life and shape and govern or at the least intervene in its movements.
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From this symbolic attitude came the tendency to make everything in society a sacrament, religious and sacrosanct, but as yet with a large and vigorous freedom in all its forms,a freedom which we do not find in the rigidity of savage communities because these have already passed out of the symbolic into the conventional stage though on a curve of degeneration instead of a curve of growth. The spiritual idea governs all; the symbolic religious forms which support it are fixed in principle; the social forms are lax, free and capable of infinite development. One thing, however, begins to progress towards a firm fixity and this is the psychological type. Thus we have first the symbolic idea of the four orders, expressingto employ an abstractly figurative language which the Vedic thinkers would not have used nor perhaps understood, but which helps best our modern understanding the Divine as knowledge in man, the Divine as power, the Divine as production, enjoyment and mutuality, the Divine as service, obedience and work. These divisions answer to four cosmic principles, the Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things, the Power that sanctions, upholds and enforces it, the Harmony that creates the arrangement of its parts, the Work that carries out what the rest direct. Next, out of this idea there developed a firm but not yet rigid social order based primarily upon temperament and psychic type2 with a corresponding ethical discipline and secondarily upon the social and economic function.3 But the function was determined by its suitability to the type and its helpfulness to the discipline; it was not the primary or sole factor. The first, the symbolic stage of this evolution is predominantly religious and spiritual; the other elements, psychological, ethical, economic, physical are there but subordinated to the spiritual and religious idea. The second stage, which we may call the typal, is predominantly psychological and ethical; all else, even the spiritual and religious, is subordinate to the psychological idea and to the ethical ideal which expresses it. Religion becomes then a mystic sanction for the ethical motive and discipline, Dharma; that becomes its chief social utility, and for the rest it takes a more and more other-worldly turn. The idea of the direct expression of the divine Being or cosmic Principle in man ceases to dominate or to be the leader and in the forefront; it recedes, stands in the background and finally disappears from the practice and in the end even from the theory of life.
This typal stage creates the great social ideals which remain impressed upon the human mind even when the stage itself is passed. The principal active contri bution it leaves behind when it is dead is the idea of social honour; the honour of the Brahmin which resides in purity, in piety, in a high reverence for the things of the mind and spirit and a disinterested possession and exclusive pursuit of learning and knowledge; the honour of the Kshatriya which lives in courage, chivalry, strength, a certain proud self-restraint and self-mastery, nobility of character and the obligations of that nobility; the honour of the Vaishya which maintains itself by rectitude of dealing, mercantile fidelity, sound production, order, liberality and philanthropy; the honour of the Shudra which gives itself in obedience, subordination, faithful service, a disinterested attachment. But these more and more cease to have a living root in the clear psychological idea or to spring naturally out of the inner life of the man; they become a convention, though the most noble of conventions. In the end they remain more as a tradition in the thought and on the lips than a reality of the life.
1.01 - The Ego, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
of the personality that are in the process of development and
is greatly altered by them.
1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas. According to the Jews and Mohammedans, God created man after creating the angels and everything else, and after creating man He asked the angels to come and salute him, and all did so except Iblis; so God cursed him and he became Satan. Behind this allegory is the great truth that this human birth is the greatest birth we can have. The lower creation, the animal, is dull, and manufactured mostly out of Tamas. Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the angels, or Devas, attain to direct freedom without human birth. In human society, in the same way, too much wealth or too much poverty is a great impediment to the higher development of the soul. It is from the middle classes that the great ones of the world come. Here the forces are very equally adjusted and balanced.
Returning to our subject, we come next to Pranayarna, controlling the breathing. What has that to do with concentrating the powers of the mind? Breath is like the fly-wheel of this machine, the body. In a big engine you find the fly-wheel first moving, and that motion is conveyed to finer and finer machinery until the most delicate and finest mechanism in the machine is in motion. The breath is that fly-wheel, supplying and regulating the motive power to everything in this body.
1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
7:For the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of the eternal Knowledge. He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest Scripture. Where the Scripture is profound, wide, catholic, it may exercise upon him an influence for the highest good and of incalculable importance. It may be associated in his experience with his awakening to crowning verities and his realisation of the highest experiences. His Yoga may be governed for a long time by one Scripture or by several successively, -- if it is in the line of the great Hindu tradition, by the Gita, for example, the Upanishads, the Veda. Or it may be a good part of his development to include in its material a richly varied experience of the truths of many Scriptures and make the future opulent with all that is best in the past. But in the end he must take his station, or better still, if he can, always and from the beginning he must live in his own soul beyond the written Truth, -- sabdabrahmativartate -- beyond all that he has heard and all that he has yet to hear, -- srotaryasya srutasya ca. For he is not the Sadhaka of a book or of many books; he is a Sadhaka of the Infinite.
8:Another kind of Shastra is not Scripture, but a statement of the science and methods, the effective principles and way of working of the path of Yoga which the Sadhaka elects to follow. Each path has its Shastra, either written or traditional, passing from mouth to mouth through a long line of Teachers. In India a great authority, a high reverence even is ordinarily attached to the written or traditional teaching. All the lines of the Yoga are supposed to be fixed and the Teacher who has received the Shastra by tradition and realised it in practice guides the disciple along the immemorial tracks. One often even hears the objection urged against a new practice, a new Yogic teaching, the adoption of a new formula, "It is not according to the Shastra." But neither in fact nor in the actual practice of the Yogins is there really any such entire rigidity of an iron door shut against new truth, fresh revelation, widened experience. The written or traditional teaching expresses the knowledge and experiences of many centuries systematised, organised, made attainable to the beginner. Its importance and utility are therefore immense. But a great freedom of variation and development is always practicable. Even so highly scientific a system as Rajayoga can be practised on other lines than the organised method of Patanjali. Each of the three paths, trimarga 51, breaks into many bypaths which meet again at the goal. The general knowledge on which the Yoga depends is fixed, but the order, the succession, the devices, the forms must be allowed to vary, for the needs and particular impulsions of the individual nature have to be satisfied even while the general truths remain firm and constant.
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.
11:Meanwhile certain general lines have to be formed which may help to guide the thought and practice of the Sadhaka. But these must take, as much as possible, forms of general truths, general statements of principle, the most powerful broad directions of effort and development rather than a fixed system which has to be followed as a routine. All Shastra is the outcome of past experience and a help to future experience. It is an aid and a partial guide. It puts up signposts, gives the names of the main roads and the already explored directions, so that the traveller may know whither and by what paths he is proceeding.
12:The rest depends on personal effort and experience and upon the power of the Guide.
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13:The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the Sadhaka. The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can pour itself into the individual mould and transform it. The first determining element of the siddhi is, therefore, the intensity of the turning, the force which directs the soul inward. The power of aspiration of the heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the mind, the perseverance and determination of the applied energy are the measure of that intensity. The ideal Sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase, "My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up." It is this zeal for the Lord, utsaha, the zeal of the whole nature for its divine results, vyakulata, the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine, -- that devours the ego and breaks up the limitations of its petty and narrow mould for the full and wide reception of that which it seeks, that which, being universal, exceeds and, being transcendent, surpasses even the largest and highest individual self and nature.
14:But this is only one side of the force that works for perfection. The process of the integral Yoga has three stages, not indeed sharply distinguished or separate, but in a certain measure successive. There must be, first, the effort towards at least an initial and enabling self-transcendence and contact with the Divine; next, the reception of that which transcends, that with which we have gained communion, into ourselves for the transformation of our whole conscious being; last, the utilisation of our transformed humanity as a divine centre in the world. So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujga, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the Sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga. In the end his own will and force become one with the higher Power; he merges them in the divine Will and its transcendent and universal Force. He finds it thenceforward presiding over the necessary transformation of his mental, vital and physical being with an impartial wisdom and provident effectivity of which the eager and interested ego is not capable. It is when this identification and this self-merging are complete that the divine centre in the world is ready. Purified, liberated, plastic, illumined, it can begin to serve as a means for the direct action of a supreme Power in the larger Yoga of humanity or superhumanity, of the earth's spiritual progression or its transformation.
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16:But still, in the practical development, each of the three stages has its necessity and utility and must be given its time or its place. It will not do, it cannot be safe or effective to begin with the last and highest alone. It would not be the right course, either, to leap prematurely from one to another. For even if from the beginning we recognise in mind and heart the Supreme, there are elements of the nature which long prevent the recognition from becoming realisation. But without realisation our mental belief cannot become a dynamic reality; it is still only a figure of knowledge, not a living truth, an idea, not yet a power. And even if realisation has begun, it may be dangerous to imagine or to assume too soon that we are altogether in the hands of the Supreme or are acting as his instrument. That assumption may introduce a calamitous falsity; it may produce a helpless inertia or, magnifying the movements of the ego with the Divine Name, it may disastrously distort and ruin the whole course of the Yoga. There is a period, more or less prolonged, of internal effort and struggle in which the individual will has to reject the darkness and distortions of the lower nature and to put itself resolutely or vehemently on the side of the divine Light. The mental energies, the heart's emotions, the vital desires, the very physical being have to be compelled into the right attitude or trained to admit and answer to the right influences. It is only then, only when this has been truly done, that the surrender of the lower to the higher can be effected, because the sacrifice has become acceptable.
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.
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21:This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims. As we gain in clarity and the turmoil of egoistic effort gives place to a calmer self-knowledge, we recognise the source of the growing light within us. We recognise it retrospectively as we realise how all our obscure and conflicting movements have been determined towards an end that we only now begin to perceive, how even before our entrance into the path of the Yoga the evolution of our life has been designedly led towards its turning point. For now we begin to understand the sense of our struggles and efforts, successes and failures. At last we are able to seize the meaning of our ordeals and sufferings and can appreciate the help that was given us by all that hurt and resisted and the utility of our very falls and stumblings. We recognise this divine leading afterwards, not retrospectively but immediately, in the moulding of our thoughts by a transcendent Seer, of our will and actions by an all-embracing Power, of our emotional life by an all-attracting and all-assimilating Bliss and Love. We recognise it too in a more personal relation that from the first touched us or at the last seizes us; we feel the eternal presence of a supreme Master, Friend, Lover, Teacher. We recognise it in the essence of our being as that develops into likeness and oneness with a greater and wider existence; for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts; an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image. One who is the Lord or Ishwara of the Yogic philosophies, the Guide in the conscious being (caitya guru or antaryamin), the Absolute of the thinker, the Unknowable of the Agnostic, the universal Force of the materialist, the supreme Soul and the supreme shakti, the One who is differently named and imaged by the religions, is the Master of our Yoga.
22:To see, know, become and fulfil this One in our inner selves and in all our outer nature, was always the secret goal and becomes now the conscious purpose of our embodied existence.
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36:The Sadhaka who has all these aids is sure of his goal. Even a fall will be for him only a means of rising and death a passage towards fulfilment. For once on his path, birth and death become only processes in the development of his being and the stages of his journey.
37:Time is the remaining aid needed for the effectivity of the process. Time presents itself to human effort as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul.
1.01 - The Mental Fortress, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But its use is not as the mind imagines in the arrogance of its knowledge and discoveries, for the mind always mistakes the instrument for the Master. We thought that the mental tool was both end and means, and that that end was an increasing, ever more triumphant and rigorous mastery over the mental field, which it has colonized with marvelous cities and less marvelous suburbs. But that is only a secondary end, a turbulent by-product, and it turns out that the major effect of the Mind in man has not been to make him more intelligent (intelligent with respect to what? The mouse in its hole has the perfect intelligence for its own terrain), but to individualize him within his own species and endow him with the power to change while the other species were invariable and only individualized as a general type and finally to make him capable of casting a look at what exceeds his own condition. With this individualization and power of variation began the errors of man, his sins, his afflicting dualities; yet his capacity for error is also a secret capacity for progress, which is why all our moralities based on right or wrong and all our flawless heavens have failed and will forever fail if we were flawless and irreproachable, we would be a stagnant and infallible species, like the shellfish or the opossum. In other words, the Mind is an instrument of accelerated evolution, an evolver. In fifty years of scientific development, man has progressed more than during all the prescientific milleniums. But progress in what sense? To be sure, not in the sense of the fallacious mastery, nor in the quality of life or the degree of comfort, but in the sense of the mental saturation of the species. One cannot leave a circle unless one has individually and collectively exhausted the circle. One cannot step alone onto the other side; either everybody does it (or is capable of doing it) or nobody does it; the whole species goes together, because there is but one human Body. Instead of a handful of initiates scattered among a semianimal and ignorant human mass, the entire species is now undergoing its initiation or, in evolutionary terms, its supreme variation. We have not passed through the mental circle for the sake of sending rockets to the moon, but in order to be individually, innumerably and voluntarily capable of effecting the passage to the next higher circle. The breaking of the circle is the great organic Fact of our times. All the dualities and opposite poles, the sins of virtue and the virtues of sin, all this dazzling chaos were the instruments of the Work, the tensors, we could say, bending us to the breaking point against a wall of iron which is a wall of illusion. But the illusion falls only when one decides to see it.
That is where we are. The illusion is not dead; it even rages with unprecedented violence, equipped with all the arms we have so obligingly polished up for it. But these are the last convulsions of a colossus with feet of clay which is actually a gnome, an oversized, overoutfitted gnome. The ancient sages of India knew it well. They divided human evolution into four concentric circles: that of the men of knowledge (Brahmins), who lived at the beginning of humanity, in the age of truth; that of the nobles and warriors (Kshatriya), when only three fourths of the truth was left; that of the merchants and middle class (Vaishya), who had only half of the truth; and finally ours, the age of the little men, the Shudra, the servants (of the machine, of the ego, of desire), the great proletariat of regimented liberties the Dark Age, Kali Yuga, when no truth is left at all. But because this circle is the most extreme, because all the truths have been tried and exhausted, and all possible roads explored, we are nearing the right solution, the true solution, the emergence of a new age of truth, the supramental age Sri Aurobindo spoke of, like the buttercup breaking its last envelope to free its golden fruit. If the parallel holds true between the collective body and our human body, we could say that the center governing the age of the sages was located at the level of the forehead, while that of the age of the nobles was at the level of the heart, that of the age of the merchants, at the stomach, and the one governing our age is at the level of sex and matter. The descent is complete. But that descent has a meaning a meaning for matter. Had we stayed forever at the forehead level of the divine truths of the mind, this earth and body would never have been changed, and we would have probably ended up escaping into some spiritual heaven or nirvana. Now, everything must be transformed, even the body and matter, since we are right in it. Ironically, this is the greatest service this dark, materialistic and scientific age may have rendered us: to compel such a plunge of the spirit into matter that it had either to lose itself in it or to be transformed with it. Absolute darkness is but the shadow of a greater Sun, which digs its abysses in order to raise up a more stable beauty, founded on the purified base of our earthly subconscious and seated erect in truth down to the very cells of our bodies.
1.01 - The Science of Living, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the
mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human
1.01 - THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
with the study of their development. Farther on, in the chapter
on Thought, we shall have to describe and interpret the vital
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limited development. And thus it is that this universe differ-
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1.01 - Who is Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
limited stage of spiritual development. Out of compassion, in order to benet
us, Buddhas manifest in our world and appear to us as ordinary beings in
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green color represents successin worldly affairs as well as in spiritual developmentgiving us a sense of delight, hope, and optimism. Aspirations made
in the presence of Green Tara may easily grow into results, and requests made
1.02.3.3 - Birth and Non-Birth, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
movement, active in the development and eating the fruits of
the tree of Life or inactive and simply regarding, there are two
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Ignorance. Afterwards by development in the Ignorance the
soul returns to the capacity of Knowledge and enjoys by the
1.02.4.1 - The Worlds - Surya, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
The enjoyment of beatitude in a heaven beyond is also not the supreme consummation. But Vedantic thought did not envisage rebirth as an immediate entry after death into a new body; the mental being in man is not so rigidly bound to the vital and physical, - on the contrary, the latter are ordinarily dissolved together after death, and there must therefore be, before the soul is attracted back towards terrestrial existence, an interval in which it assimilates its terrestrial experiences in order to be able to constitute a new vital and physical being upon earth. During this interval it must dwell in states or worlds beyond and these may be favourable or unfavourable to its future development. They are favourable in proportion as the light of the Supreme Truth of which Surya is a symbol enters into them, but states of intermediate ignorance or darkness are harmful to the soul in its progress. Those enter into them, as has been affirmed in the third verse, who do hurt to themselves by shutting themselves to the light or distorting the natural course of their development. The Vedantic heavens are states of light and the soul's expansion; darkness, self-obscuration and self-distortion are the nature of the Hells which it has to shun.
In relation to the soul's individual development, therefore, the life in worlds beyond, like the life upon earth, is a means and not an object in itself. After liberation the soul may possess these worlds as it possesses the material birth, accepting in them a means towards the divine manifestation in which they form a condition of its fullness, each being one of the parts in a series of organised states of conscious being which is linked with and supports all the rest.
TRANSCENDENCE
Transcendence is the goal of the development, but it does not
exclude the possession of that which is transcended. The soul
10.26 - A True Professor, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If the teacher is to be a yogi, the pupil on his side must be at least an aspirant. But I suppose a pupil, so long as he is a child, is a born aspirant. For, as the Mother says, a child's consciousness retains generally something of the pure inner consciousness for sometime at least until it is overshadowed by the development of the body and the mind in the ordinary normal way. Something of this, we know, has been expressed in the famous lines of the visionary English poet:
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
10.27 - Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Consciousness essentially is always and everywhere the same. Its own quality is unvarying but in its expression there is growth and development, an increase in intensity and amplitude. The light that your candle gives and the light that comes from the sun are not different in quality but they differ in expression or manifestation, because of the receptacle, the seat or abode of the light. The Vedic fire was lighted on a sacred altar, that is the seat for the God from where to manifest himself. There was a regular ceremony for the preparation of the seat (Barhi) and the value and the success of the sacrifice depended largely on a proper preparation of the seat. The seat, the basic status also indicates that there is an ascending movement of the sacrifice. The sacrifice symbolises consciousness and radiant energy, mounting and travelling upward and forward; the progress or ascent of consciousness means bringing out its inherent potential strength that is behind and within and placing it in front as power of expression. As I have said, if consciousness in matter is like a light of single candle power, on the level of life it becomes a light of multiple candle power and in the mind this multiple power is again multiplied. In this way the consciousness finally attains its solar incandescence on the highest height of the being.
When we speak of the dimensions of consciousness, it means these different levels or status of ascending expression. They also form according to the mode of expression each one a world of its own. We may compare the mounting consciousness to a growing tree, it is the same sap-substance that appears at the outset as a seed, then as the seed opens out and develops it appears or throws up a stem or trunk and as it proceeds it throws up branches and higher up leaves and then flowers and fruit. Apparently however different and diverse these formulations, they are but expressions of the same sap-substance in the original seed. Even so an original seed-consciousness is the basis and essential reality of all the forms in the material universe.
1.02.9 - Conclusion and Summary, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
We have to see all becomings as developments of the movement
in our true self and this self as one inhabiting all bodies and
10.29 - Gods Debt, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, we go beyond the gods, to the very origin, God himself, the Supreme. What is the debt that God, the Supreme, the Divine, owes to us human beings? We owe to God everything, our life, our very existence, our soul and substance given to us by him, then how is he indebted to us? What kind of debt he has incurred which he has to pay to his creature, the human being? Primarily because he is the Divine Father, he has to take charge of his own creation, see to its growth and fruition and fulfilment. Indeed that is the role of the Divine in us (and above us and around us): that is his work, the Divine Work. Since he has put us out of his consciousness (for a special experience of growth and development), it is also his work (and duty) to bring us back to him: after a process of self-separation a process of self-integration. Man, so long as he is a separate consciousness has to dedicate, lift up and unify this separative conscious being to the whole being and consciousness. This is how he discharges his debt to the Divine, and the answering grace of the Divine is the clearing of the debt which He owes to His creatures.
What has been said of man is equally applicable to earth. The destiny of man is the destiny of earth as also the destiny of earth is the destiny of man. For man is an earthly creature, is born out of earth and he grows with the growth of the earth; equally the earth grows with the growth of man.
1.02 - BEFORE THE CITY-GATE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Everywhere form in development moveth;
He will brighten the world with the tints he loveth,
1.02 - Groups and Statistical Mechanics, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
cated above. There are certain modern developments of ergodic
theory in which the measure to be kept invariant under a set of
1.02 - Isha Analysis, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
THE UPANISHADS, being vehicles of illumination and not of instruction, composed for seekers who had already a general familiarity with the ideas of the Vedic and Vedantic seers and even some personal experience of the truths on which they were founded, dispense in their style with expressed transitions of thought and the development of implied or subordinate notions.
Every verse in the Isha Upanishad reposes on a number of ideas implicit in the text but nowhere set forth explicitly; the reasoning also that supports its conclusions is suggested by the words, not expressly conveyed to the intelligence. The reader, or rather the hearer, was supposed to proceed from light to light, confirming his intuitions and verifying by his experience, not submitting the ideas to the judgment of the logical reason.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
enable the development of a provisional general theory of emotional regulation. Description of the role
reaction to novelty or anomaly plays in human information processing is clearly central to such a theory. A
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prefrontal lobes). This level of heightened development accounts in part for increased human intelligence,
behavioral versatility and breadth of experience, both actual and potential, and underlies our capacity to
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into the familiar categories of objective reality. However, this ability is a late development, historically
speaking emerging only four hundred years ago109 and cannot therefore be considered basic to
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direct motor control centers, in the course of cortical evolution.133 More sophistication in development of
the prefrontal centers means in part heightened capability for abstract exploration, which means
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Humans possess cortical development prefrontal and otherwise that is unique in terms of its great
mass and, more importantly, in terms of its structure. Various indices of development have been used to
signify the nature of the relationship between the brain and intelligence. Sheer mass is one measure, degree
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Consideration of this high level of nervous development has led to speculation about the potential
superhuman range of cetacean ability.139 However, it is structure and organization of cortex, not simply
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Even development of spoken language, the ultimate analytic motor skill, might reasonably be considered an
abstract extension of the human ability to take things apart, and then to reassemble them, in an original
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consequences of those patterns. The hand itself was rendered more useful by the development of vertical
stance, which extended visual range, and freed the upper body from the demands of locomotion. The fine
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render subtle communication possible. development of explicit language extended the power of such
communication immensely. Increasingly detailed exchange of information enabled the resources of all to
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higher-order cortical sites,143 was of vital importance to development of visual language, and enabled close
observation, made gathering of detailed information simpler. Combination of hand and eye enabled homo
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takes place during the practice phase of skill acquisition, when awareness appears required for development
of control. The area of such engagement or mobilization shrinks in size as movement becomes habitual and
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constitutes one major advantage of the development of intelligence. The abstract intelligence characteristic
of the human being developed in parallel with rapid evolution of the brain rapid shift in quantity and
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the course of normal development, to dominate one of our twinned cortical hemispheres: the right governs
response to threat (and to punishment), while the left controls response to promise and, perhaps (although
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successful, might be considered development of new skill. Knowing how is skill. The second type of
knowing, which is representational (which is an image or model of something, rather than the thing itself)
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representational, appear physiologically distinct in their material basis, and separable in course of phylo and ontogenetic development.165 Procedural knowledge develops long before declarative knowledge, in
evolution and individual development, and appears represented in unconscious form, expressible purely
in performance. Declarative knowledge, by contrast knowledge of what simultaneously constitutes
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philosopher. This idea echoes the developmental psychologist Jean Piagets notion, with regards to child
development, that adaptation at the sensorimotor level occurs prior to and lays the groundwork for the
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stages of mental development to well-defined neurological levels, the fact remains that, in spite of the
relative discontinuity of the structures, there is a certain functional continuity, each structure preparing for
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rules later in development). The generation and constant refinement of these stories, told and retold over
centuries, allows us to determine ever more clearly just what it is that proper (and improper) behavior
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of historical development development that might not be evidently linked to the final emergence of the
theory.
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of interest, is its (biologically-predetermined) means. With development of the story, mere description of
critically important (and therefore compelling) behavioral/representational patterns becomes able to
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intermediary transforming itself and expanding as it moves. development of narrative means verbal
abstraction of knowledge disembodied in episodic memory and embodied in behavior; means capability to
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action developmentally predates explicit description or discovery of the rules governing action. Adaptation
through play and drama preceded development of linguistic thought, and provided the ground from which it
emerged. Each developmental stage action, imitation, play, ritual, drama, narrative, myth, religion,
philosophy, rationality offers an increasingly abstracted, generalized and detailed representation of the
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procedure itself (as what is imagined can then be acted out). This is the loop that feeds the development of
explicit consciousness itself: procedure is established, then represented, then altered in abstraction, then
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such thinking has become commonplace) people naturally incline towards the development of what has
been described (recently) as the cognitive model. Cognitive models are characterized by a number of
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categorization, and that those initial categories provide the basis for the development of more abstract
concepts (even for the comparison point for determining what we consider abstract). Most naturally
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process of development, originating in action, culminating in production of capacity for abstract cognition.
The episodic system, which generates representations of the experiential world, contains an elaborate
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This development might also be regarded as an illustration of the increasing psychologization,
abstraction and internalization of religious ideation: in the earliest stages of representation, deities are
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related features, comes to dominate. development of monotheism thus parallels intrapsychic and
intracultural moral integration. As the average citizen identifies more and more clearly with this
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seem unreasonable to regard this development as a precursor to the Christian revolution, which granted
every individual the status of son of god, and of our modern notion of the human right, which is our
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will, and follow their own laws of being and development despite our wishes. However, the job of
determining what a thing is in the absence of the subject is much more difficult than might initially be
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is now table also has before it an equally complex and lengthy developmental history waiting in front of
it; it will be, perhaps, ash, then earth, then far enough in the future part of the sun again (when the sun
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This great mythological idea finds its echo in certain modern theories of the development of the subject;
most particularly, among those entitled constructivist. The famous Swiss developmental psychologist Jean
Piaget claimed, for example, that the experiencing subject constructs himself in infancy, as a consequence
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person at any given time even to follow its own intrinsic rules of development yet fail to exist
objectively, as the objective is currently understood.
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who is the world itself, in initial developmental stages (insofar as the world has any motivational
significance, whatsoever). (Indeed, for individuals who are sufficiently stunted in their psychological
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Territory presents one such figure, and its process of development, in comical form.305 Equivalent but more
serious dynamic representations of this type are deities, gods, borne of human experience, possessed of
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inclusive phenomenological accuracy, provided the necessary developmental bridge. The earliest
embodiments of nature are therefore symbolic combinations of rationally irreconcilable attri butes;
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In the course of the later307 development of patriarchal values, i.e., of the male deities of the sun and
light, the negative aspect of the Feminine was submerged. Tday it is discernible only as a content of the
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(with certainty of mortality) and pulls (with possibility of redemption) development of consciousness, and
of self-consciousness. The identity of death with the unknown has permanently and incurably destroyed
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removed and buried in the earth to ensure fertility. The slaughter of animals is a relatively late development
from the psychohistorical viewpoint, and is generally preceded by, and stands in place of, the ritual
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appears to be predicated on some developmental leap at least insofar as the guiding story has become
conscious (or represented in episodic or semantic memory, as opposed to remaining implicitly embedded,
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The earliest stages of the development of the figure of the hero take the form of mythic
representations of the infant or adolescent, fully or partially dominated by potent maternal force.326 This
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The mythology of the hero, in toto, depicts the development and establishment of a personality capable
of facing the most extreme conditions of existence. The heros quest or journey has been represented in
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regarding the core nature of Homo sapiens the historical animal. The development of such containment
followed a complex path of increasingly abstracted description and re-description of self and other.
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gratifications and furthered by every new development which serves the purposes of renunciation.
In all this, we stand before the pure specimen of homo natura: bodily instinct, the gaining of pleasure
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prototype being the family), a developmental history in the sense of ontogenetic and phylogenetic
transformations of outer into inner compulsions, and the inheritance of these transformations.339
1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
inspires us to seek full enlightenment, the total purication of mind and complete development of our positive qualities and potentials. The wisdom realizing emptiness penetrates into the deeper mode of existence of all persons
and phenomena. As the direct antidote to the ignorance which misapprehends the nature of reality, this wisdom is what actually puries our mind.
1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1:All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.
2:But in whatever way it comes, there must be a decision of the mind and the will and, as its result, a complete and effective self-consecration. The acceptance of a new spiritual idea-force and upward orientation in the being, an illumination, a turning or conversion seized on by the will and the heart's aspiration, -- this is the momentous act which contains as in a seed all the results that the Yoga has to give. The mere idea or intellectual seeking of something higher beyond, however strongly grasped by the mind's interest, is ineffective unless it is seized on by the heart as the one thing desirable and by the will as the one thing to be done. For truth of the Spirit has not to be merely thought but to be lived, and to live it demands a unified single-mindedness of the being; so great a change as is contemplated by the Yoga is not to be effected by a divided will or by a small portion of the energy or by a hesitating mind. He who seeks the Divine must consecrate himself to God and -- to God only.
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7:The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for the deeper faith and vision which see only the Divine and seek only after the Divine. The next need is to compel all our lower being to pay homage to this new faith and greater vision. All our nature must make an integral surrender; it must offer itself in every part and every movement to that which seems to the unregenerated sensemind so much less real than the material world and its objects. Our whole being-soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine. This is no easy task; for everything in the world follows the fixed habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that "That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore." Every vital fibre has to be persuaded to accept an entire renunciation of all that hitherto represented to it its own existence. Mind has to cease to be mind and become brilliant with something beyond it. Life has to change into a thing vast and calm and intense and powerful that can no longer recognise its old blind eager narrow self or petty impulse and desire. Even the body has to submit to a mutation and be no longer the clamorous animal or the impeding clod it now is, but become instead a conscious servant and radiant instrument and living form of the spirit.
8:The difficulty of the task has led naturally to the pursuit of easy and trenchant solutions; it has generated and fixed deeply' the tendency of religions and of schools of Yoga to separate the life of the world from the inner life. The powers of this world and their actual activities, it is felt, either do not belong to God at all or are for some obscure and puzzling cause, Maya or another, a dark contradiction of the divine Truth. And on their own opposite side the powers of the Truth and their ideal activities are seen to belong to quite another plane of consciousness than that, obscure, ignorant and perverse in its impulses and forces, on which the life of the earth is founded. There appears at once the antinomy of a bright and pure kingdom of God and a dark and impure kingdom of the devil; we feel the opposition of our crawling earthly birth and life to an exalted spiritual God-consciousness; we become readily convinced of the incompatibility of life's subjection to Maya with the soul's concentration in pure Brahman existence. The easiest way is to turn away from all that belongs to the one and to retreat by a naked and precipitous ascent into the other. Thus arises the attraction and, it would seem, the necessity of the principle of exclusive concentration which plays so prominent a part in the specialised schools of Yoga; for by that concentration we can arrive through an uncompromising renunciation of the world at an entire self-consecration to the One on whom we concentrate. It is no longer incumbent on us to compel all the lower activities to the difficult recognition of a new and higher spiritualised life and train them to be its agents or executive powers. It is enough to kill or quiet them and keep at most the few energies necessary, on one side, for the maintenance of the body and, on the other, for communion with the Divine.
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25:For here, there are two movements with a transitional stage between them, two periods of this Yoga, -- one of the process of surrender, the other of its crown and consequence. In the first the individual prepares himself for the reception o? the Divine into his members. For all this first period he has to work by means of the instruments of the lower Nature, but aided more and more from above. But in the later transitional stage of this movement our personal and necessarily ignorant effort more and more dwindles and a higher Nature acts; the eternal shakti descends into this limited form of mortality and progressively possesses and transmutes it. In the second period the greater movement wholly replaces the lesser, formerly indispensable first action; but this can be done only when our self-surrender is complete. The ego person in us cannot transform itself by its own force or will or knowledge or by any virtue of its own into the nature of the Divine; all it can do is to fit itself for the transformation and make more and more its surrender to that which it seeks to become. As long as the ego is at work in us, our personal action is and must always be in its nature a part of the lower grades of existence; it is obscure or half-enlightened, limited in its field, very partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we must call in the Divine shakti to effect that miraculous work in the individual; for she alone has the needed force, decisive, all-wise and illimitable. But the entire substitution of the divine for the human personal action is not at once entirely possible. All interference from below that would falsify the truth of the superior action must first be inhibited or rendered impotent, and it must be done by our own free choice. A continual and always repeated refusal of the impulsions and falsehoods of the lower nature is asked from us and an insistent support to the Truth as it grows in our parts: for the progressive settling into our nature and final perfection of the incoming informing Light, Purity and Power needs for its development and sustenance our free acceptance of it and our stubborn rejection of all that is contrary to it, inferior or incompatible.
26:In the first movement of self-preparation, the period of personal effort, the method we have to use is this concentration of the whole being on the Divine that it seeks and, as its corollary, this constant rejection, throwing out, katharsis, of all that is not the true Truth of the Divine. An entire consecration of all that we are, think, feel and do will be the result of this persistence. This consecration in its turn must culminate in an integral self-giving to the Highest; for its crown and sign of completion is the whole nature's all-comprehending absolute surrender. In the second stage of the Yoga, transitional between the human and the divine working, there will supervene an increasing purified and vigilant passivity, a more and more luminous divine response to the Divine Force, -- but not to any other; and there will be as a result the growing inrush of a great and conscious miraculous working from above. In the last period there is no effort at all, no set method, no fixed sadhana; the place of endeavour and Tapasya will be taken by a natural, simple, powerful and happy disclosing of the flower of the Divine out of the bud of a purified and perfected terrestrial nature. These are the natural successions of the action of the Yoga.
1.02 - SOCIAL HEREDITY AND PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
teeth, relative development of the brain, etc.), so that certain spe-
cific characteristics are found to have increased throughout the
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own power of evolutionary development; they are its dependents
but incapable of modifying it. It is a highly improbable hypothesis,
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responsibility in the development of the race or the particular
branch of which he is a part.
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tinued development of this personality by transmitting it to the
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from a profound, communicative sense of the developments al-
ready achieved or awaited by Nature. Every lesson he gives should
1.02 - Taras Tantra, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
one's own karma and inner development. Such a
practitioner cannot prove to others that he or she
1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
The Seven Habits are not a set of separate or piecemeal psyche-up formulas. In harmony with the natural laws of growth, they provide an incremental, sequential, highly integrated approach to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. They move us progressively on a Maturity
Continuum from dependence to interdependence.
1.02 - The Age of Individualism and Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
On the other hand, there are in operation forces which seem likely to frustrate or modify this development before it can reach its menaced consummation. In the first place, rationalistic and physical Science has overpassed itself and must before long be overtaken by a mounting flood of psychological and psychic knowledge which cannot fail to compel quite a new view of the human being and open a new vista before mankind. At the same time the Age of Reason is visibly drawing to an end; novel ideas are sweeping over the world and are being accepted with a significant rapidity, ideas inevitably subversive of any premature typal order of economic rationalism, dynamic ideas such as Nietzsches Will-to-live, Bergsons exaltation of Intuition above intellect or the latest German philosophical tendency to acknowledge a suprarational faculty and a suprarational order of truths. Already another mental poise is beginning to settle and conceptions are on the way to apply themselves in the field of practice which promise to give the succession of the individualistic age of society not to a new typal order, but to a subjective age which may well be a great and momentous passage to a very different goal. It may be doubted whether we are not already in the morning twilight of a new period of the human cycle.
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.
We already see a violent though incomplete beginning of this line of social evolution in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia. The trend is for more and more nations to accept this beginning of a new order, and the resistance of the old order is more passive than activeit lacks the fire, enthusiasm and self-confidence which animates the innovating Idea.
1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
Yesterday I spoke of the teachers encounter with the children. Today I will try to describe the child as a growing being, and the childs experience of encountering the teacher. A more exact observation of the forces active in human development shows that at the beginning of a childs earthly life we need to distinguish three distinct stages of life. Only after our applied knowledge of human nature yields insight into the characteristic qualities of each of these three stages can we begin to educate in a way that is more appropriateor rather, an education that is more humane.
The Nature of Proof in Spiritual Matters
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If we consider this we can see that contemporary physiology and psychology simply cannot penetrate the human being with any real depth, since their particular methods (excellent though they may be) were developed to observe only outer physical nature and the soul as it manifests in the body. As I said yesterday, the task of anthroposophical spiritual science is to penetrate in every way the whole human development of body, soul, and spirit.
First, however, we have to eliminate a certain prejudice. This preconception is inevitably a stumbling block to anyone who approaches the Waldorf education movement without a basic study of anthroposophy. I dont mean for a moment that we simply ignore objections to this kind of education. On the contrary, those who have a spiritual foundation such as anthroposophy cannot be the least bit fanatical; they will always fully consider any objections to their viewpoints. Consequently, they fully understand the frequent objection to pedagogical ideas founded upon anthroposophy: you need to prove thats true.
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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.
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Now, whats the relation between the human constitution as a whole and what we receive from the father and mother strictly through heredity? If we study human development with vision that truly creates ideas instead of mere proofs as describeda vision that looks at the spiritual and the evolutionary aspects of human naturewe find that everything in the organism depends on hereditary forces in exactly the same way as the first, so-called baby teeth do. We only need to perceive, with real acuity, the dif- ference in the ways the second teeth and the first are formed. In this way, we have a tangible expression of the processes occurring in human development between birth and the change of teeth.
During this stage the forces of heredity hold sway in the physi- cal body, and the whole human constitution becomes a kind of model with which the spirit and soul element work, imitating the surrounding impressions. If we place ourselves in the soul of a child relative to the environment and realize how every spiritual impulse is absorbed into the whole beinghow with every move- ment of the hand, every expression, every look into anothers eyes, the child senses the spirit inherent in the adult and allows it to flow in then well also perceive how, during the first seven years, another being is building itself on the foundation of the model provided by heredity. As human beings, the earthly world actually gives us, through hereditary forces, a model on which to build our second self, that is actually born with the change of teeth. The first teeth in the body are eliminated by what wants to replace them; this new element, which belongs to our human individu- ality, advances and casts off heredity. This is true of the whole human organism. During the first seven years of life, the organ- ism was a product of earthly forces and a kind of model. As such its cast off, just as we get rid of the bodys outgrowths by cutting our nails, hair, and so on. Were molded anew with the change of teeth, just as these outgrowths are continuously eliminated. In this case, however, the first being, or product of physical heredity, is completely replaced by a second, who develops under the influ- ence of the forces that we bring from pre-earthly life. Thus, dur- ing the period between birth and the change of teeth, the human22 hereditary forces related to the physical evolutionary stream fight against the forces of a pre-earthly existence, which accompany the individuality of each human being from the previous earthly life.
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The Effects of a Teachers Inner development on the Child
Now, what has been the real course of civilization since the four- teenth or fifteenth century? As a result of the great transition, or cultural revolution, that has occurred since then, we can only perceive what has thrust itself forth, as it were, from inwardness to externality. Grasping at externals has become a matter of course for us moderns to the degree that were no longer aware of any other possibility. Weve arrived at a condition in historical evolu- tion thats considered right in an absolute sensenot merely a condition that suits our time.
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When we read modern books on embryology, botany, or zool- ogy, we feel a sense of despair in finding ourselves immediately forced to plunge into a cold intellectuality. Although the life and the development of nature are not essentially intellectual, we have to deliberately and consciously set aside every artistic ele- ment. Once weve read a book on botany written according to strict scientific rules, our first task as teachers is to rid ourselves of everything we found there. Obviously, we have to assimilate the information about botanical processes, and the sacrifice of learn- ing from such books is necessary; but in order to educate children between the change of teeth and puberty, we have to eliminate what we found there, transforming everything into artistic, imagi- nal forms through our own artistic activity and sensibility. What- ever lives in our thoughts about nature has to fly on the wings of artistic inspiration and be transformed into images that then come before the soul of the child.
Artistically shaping our instruction for children between the change of teeth and puberty is all that we should be concerned with in the metamorphosis of education for our time and the near future. If the first period of childhood requires a priestly element in education, the second requires an artistic element. What are we really doing when we educate a person in the second stage of life? The individuality journeying from an earlier earthly life and from the spiritual world is trying gradually to develop and permeate a second self. Our job is to assist in this process; we incorporate what we do with the child as teachers into the forces that inter- wove with spirit and soul to shape the second self with a unique and individual character. Again, the consciousness of this cosmic context needs to act as an enlivening impulse, running through our teaching methods and the everyday conditions of education. We cant contrive what needs to be done; we can only allow it to happen through the influence of the children themselves on their teachers.
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We can hold a balance between the two by what happens in the soul when we allow the will to pass gently into the childs own activity and by toning down the intellect so that feelings are cultivated in a way that doesnt suppress the breathing, but culti- vates feelings that turn toward imagery and express the buoyant capacity I described. When this is done, the childs development is supported between the change of teeth and puberty.34
Thus, from week to week, month to month, year to year, a true knowledge of human nature will help us read the develop- ing child like a book that tells us what needs to be done in our teaching. The curriculum needs to reproduce what we read in the evolutionary process of the human being. Specific ways that we can do this will be addressed in coming lectures.
1.02 - The Concept of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
had dared to predict that our psychological development was
tending towards a revival of the medieval persecutions of the
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observing their development in the series. The same method
can be applied to the products of active imagination. In this
1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
object:1.02 - The development of Sri Aurobindos Thought
author class:George Van Vrekhem
1.02 - The Divine Teacher, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
this eternal divine Consciousness always present in every human being, this God in man, takes possession partly4 or wholly of the human consciousness and becomes in visible human shape the guide, teacher, leader of the world, not as those who living in their humanity yet feel something of the power or light or love of the divine Gnosis informing and conducting them, but out of that divine Gnosis itself, direct from its central force and plenitude, then we have the manifest Avatar. The inner Divinity is the eternal Avatar in man; the human manifestation is its sign and development in the external world.
When we thus understand the conception of Avatarhood, we see that whether for the fundamental teaching of the Gita, our present subject, or for spiritual life generally the external aspect has only a secondary importance. Such controversies as the one that has raged in Europe over the historicity of Christ, would seem to a spiritually-minded Indian largely a waste of time; he would concede to it a considerable historical, but hardly any religious importance; for what does it matter in the end whether a Jesus son of the carpenter Joseph was actually born in Nazareth or Bethlehem, lived and taught and was done to death on a real or trumped-up charge of sedition, so long as we can know by spiritual experience the inner Christ, live uplifted in the light of his teaching and escape from the yoke of the natural Law by that atonement of man with God of which the crucifixion is the symbol? If the Christ, God made man, lives within our spiritual being, it would seem to matter little whether or not a son of
1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
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.
Three great Gods, origin of the Puranic Trinity, largest puissances of the supreme Godhead, make possible this development and upward evolution; they support in its grand lines and fundamental energies all these complexities of the cosmos.
Brahmanaspati is the Creator; by the word, by his cry he creates - that is to say he expresses, he brings out all existence and conscious knowledge and movement of life and eventual forms from the darkness of the Inconscient. Rudra, the Violent and Merciful, the Mighty One, presides over the struggle of life to affirm itself; he is the armed, wrathful and beneficent Power of God who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all that opposes, scourges all that errs and resists, heals all that is wounded and suffers and complains and submits. Vishnu of the vast pervading motion holds in his triple stride all these worlds; it is he that makes a wide room for the action of Indra in our limited mortality; it is by him and with him that we rise into his highest seats where we find waiting for us the Friend, the Beloved, the Beatific Godhead.
1.02 - The Eternal Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
and that he needs to love what he himself understands of God at his own level and particular stage of inner development, and Peter's way is not John's. That everyone should love a crucified god, for instance,
seems unnatural to the average Indian, who will bow respectfully before Christ (with as much spontaneous reverence as before his own image of God), but who will see also the face of God in the laughter of Krishna, the terror of Kali, the sweetness of Saraswati, and in the thousands upon thousands of other gods who dance, multicolored and mustachioed, mirthful or terrifying, illuminated or compassionate, on the deliriously carved towers of Indian temples. A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe,13 said Sri Aurobindo. All is His face, all is His play, terrible or beautiful, as many-faceted as our world itself. For this country so teeming with 13
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and one who is ready to understand a little Lalita's childlike face and to bring her his incense and flowers may not be able to address the Eternal Mother in the silence of his heart; still another may prefer to deny all forms and plunge into the contemplation of That which is formless. "Even as men come to Me, so I accept them. It is my path that men follow from all sides," says the Bhagavad Gita (IV,11). 14 As we see, there are so many ways of conceiving of God, in three or three million persons, that we should not dogmatize, lest we eliminate everything, finally leaving nothing but a Cartesian God, one and universal by virtue only of his narrowness. Perhaps we still confuse unity with uniformity. It was in the spirit of that tradition that Sri Aurobindo was soon to write: The perfection of the integral Yoga will come when each man 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.15
Nor does an Indian ever ask: "Do you believe in God?" The question would seem to him as childish as: "Do you believe in CO2?"
1.02 - The Pit, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
There is, therefore, no possible escape from this bottomless pit of confusion save by the development of a faculty of mind which shall not be manifestly inadequate in any of these ways. 'We must employ means other than, and superior to, ratiocination. We thus approach the problem of the development of the Neschamali (Intuition), and it is here that the Qabalah differs in method and content from
Secular Science and Academic Philosophy.
1.02 - THE PROBLEM OF SOCRATES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Ugliness is not infrequently the expression of thwarted development,
or of development arrested by crossing. In other cases it appears
as a decadent development. The anthropologists among the criminal
specialists declare that I the typical criminal is ugly: _monstrum
1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
When Dr. Manilal arrived, I breathed a sigh of relief! He was not very happy to see the new development, but hoped that everything would be all right. He was confronted with three problems: the swelling, educating the patient to walk and the bending of the knee, all of which he dealt with in his characteristic efficient manner. The swelling according to him would subside in due course. Gentle massage and hot and cold compress continued, followed later by hot douche. We used to note its diminution week by week. But it took some months to disappear completely. The bending of the knee would also take some time in view of the adhesion of the patella to the underlying tissues, in spite of passive movements. The re-education in walking seemed to be rather a straightforward job, though it was the most awkward and difficult one, for Sri Aurobindo had to walk with crutches! All that was needed was a patient and persistent effort. For Sri Aurobindo's nature, unaccustomed to physical or mechanical contrivances, and the narrow space in the room made the venture somewhat risky. The first day he got up to use the crutches was a memorable one for us. In the presence of the Mother we made him stand up, handed him the crutches and showed him how to use them. He fumbled and remarked, "Yes, it is easy to say." Two or three different pairs were tried out, but as he could not handle them properly, the Mother proposed that he had better walk leaning on two persons one on either side; It was certainly a bright suggestion, for Sri Aurobindo walking on crutches would have reminded us of his own phrase about Hephaestus' "lame omnipotent motion", an insult to his shining majestic figure. Purani and Satyendra were selected by Dr. Manilal as his human supports, much less incongruous than the ungainly wooden instruments! That was how the re-education started. The paradox of the Divine seeking frail human aid gave food to my sense of humour. However, both men proved unequal in stature; the Mother made Champaklal replace Satyendra on the left side. Now the arrangement was just and perfect and Champaklal had his aspiration fulfilled. His was the last support Sri Aurobindo was to give up. For, as his steps gained in strength and firmness, he used a stick in the right hand, and Champaklal on the left. Finally he too was dropped. As soon as it came to be known that the Master was using a walking stick, several were presented to him and there was one even of tea-wood from Assam! Thus everyday after the noon and night meals the Mother would come to his room and present the stick, and he would walk about for half an hour in her presence.
While waiting for the Mother's arrival, he would practise various bending exercises for the knee which had been improvised by Dr. Manilal. He did them sitting on the edge of the bed. He actively obeyed whatever was demanded of him. One of the exercises was hanging of the leg which later became a common joke amongst us.
1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
moon on the horizon. Both these feelings are forces which, when duly cultivated and developed to ever increasing intensity, lead to the most significant spiritual results. A new world is opened to the student if he systematically and deliberately surrenders himself to such feelings. The soul-world, the so-called astral plane, begins to dawn upon him. Growth and decay are no longer facts which make indefinite impressions on him as of old, but rather they form themselves into spiritual lines and figures of which he had previously suspected nothing. And these lines and figures have, for the different phenomena, different forms. A blooming flower, an animal in the process of growth, a tree that is decaying, evoke in his soul different lines. The soul world (astral plane) broadens out slowly before him. These lines and figures are in no sense arbitrary. Two students who have reached the corresponding stage of development will always see the same lines and figures under the same conditions. Just as a round table will be seen as round by two normal persons, and not as round by one and square by the other, so too, at the sight of a flower, the same spiritual figure is presented to the soul. And just as the
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nature, forms the best preliminary condition for the development of spiritual faculties. This feeling pierces through the superficial aspect of things, and in so doing touches their secrets.
A further point of importance is what spiritual science calls orientation in the higher worlds. This is attained when the student is permeated, through and through, with the conscious realization that feelings and thoughts are just as much veritable realities as are tables and chairs in the world of the physical senses. In the soul and thought world, feelings and thoughts react upon each other just as do physical objects in the physical world. As long as the student is not vividly permeated with this consciousness, he will not believe that a wrong thought in his mind may have as devastating an effect upon other thoughts that spread life in the thought world as the effect wrought by a bullet fired at random upon the physical objects it hits. He will perhaps never allow himself to perform a physically visible action which he considers to be wrong, though he will not shrink from harboring wrong thoughts and feelings, for these appear harmless to the rest of the world. There can be no progress, however, on
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To this, one thing more must be added before the highest point in this region can be attained. Of very great importance for the development of the student is the way in which he listens to others when they speak. He must accustom himself to do this in such a way that, while listening, his inner self is absolutely silent. If someone expresses an opinion and another listens, assent or dissent will, generally speaking, stir in the inner self of the listener. Many people in such cases feel themselves impelled to an expression of their assent, or more especially, of their dissent. In the student, all such assent or dissent must be silenced. It is not imperative that he should suddenly alter his way of living by trying to attain at all times to this complete inner silence. He will have to begin by doing so in special cases, deliberately selected by himself. Then quite slowly and by degrees, this new way of listening will creep into his habits, as of itself. In spiritual research this is systematically practiced. The student feels it his duty to listen, by way of practice, at certain
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proper direction to thoughts and feelings, for then only can the perception be developed of all that is invisible in ordinary life. One of the ways by which this development may be carried out will now be indicated. Again, like almost everything else so far explained, it is quite a simple matter. Yet its results are of the greatest consequence, if the necessary devotion and sympathy be applied.
Let the student place before himself the small seed of a plant, and while contemplating this insignificant object, form with intensity the right kind of thoughts, and through these thoughts develop certain feelings. In the first place let him clearly grasp what he really sees with his eyes. Let him describe to himself the shape, color and all other qualities of the seed. Then let his mind dwell upon the following train of thought: "Out of the seed, if planted in the soil, a plant of complex structure will grow." Let him build up this plant in his imagination, and reflect as follows: "What I am now picturing to myself in my imagination will later on be enticed from the seed by the forces of earth and light. If I had before me an artificial object which imitated the seed to
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such a deceptive degree that my eyes could not distinguish it from a real seed, no forces of earth or light could avail to produce from it a plant." If the student thoroughly grasps this thought so that it becomes an inward experience, he will also be able to form the following thought and couple it with the right feeling: "All that will ultimately grow out of the seed is now secretly enfolded within it as the force of the whole plant. In the artificial imitation of the seed there is no such force present. And yet both appear alike to my eyes. The real seed, therefore, contains something invisible which is not present in the imitation." It is on this invisible something that thought and feeling are to be concentrated. (Anyone objecting that a microscopical examination would reveal the difference between the real seed and the imitation would only show that he had failed to grasp the point. The intention is not to investigate the physical nature of the object, but to use it for the development of psycho-spiritual forces.)
Let the student fully realize that this invisible something will transmute itself later on into a visible plant, which he will have before him in its
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As a further exercise to succeed the one just described, the following may be taken: Let the student place before him a plant which has attained the stage of full development. Now let him fill his mind with the thought that the time will come when this plant will wither and die. "Nothing will be left of what I now see before me. But this plant will have developed seeds which, in their turn,
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higher stages of knowledge and power is beset with obstacles. A firearm should not be used until sufficient experience has been gained to avoid disaster, caused by its use. A person initiated today without further ado would lack the experience which he will gain during his future incarnations before he can attain to higher knowledge in the normal course of his development. At the portal of initiation, therefore, this experience must be supplied in some other way. Thus the first instructions given to the candidate for initiation serve as a substitute for these future experiences. These are the so-called trials, which he has to undergo, and which constitute a normal course of inner development resulting from due application to such exercises as are described in the preceding chapters.
These trials are often discussed in books, but it is only natural that such discussions should as a rule give quite false impressions of their nature; for without passing through preparation and enlightenment no one can know anything of these tests and appropriately describe them.
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The importance of this trial lies again in the acquisition of a quality. Through his experiences in the higher worlds, the candidate develops this quality in a short time to such a high degree that he would otherwise have to go through many incarnations, in the ordinary course of his development, before he could acquire it to the same extent. It all centers around the fact that he must
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the ability to come quickly to terms with himself, for he must here find his higher self in the truest sense of the word. He must rapidly decide in all things to listen to the inspiration of the spirit. There is no time for doubt or hesitation. Every moment of hesitation would prove that he was still unfit. Whatever prevents him from listening to the voice of the spirit must be courageously overcome. It is a question of showing presence of mind in this situation, and the training at this stage is concerned with the perfect development of this quality. All the accustomed inducements to act or even to think now cease. In order not to remain inactive he must not lose himself, for only within himself can he find the one central point of vantage where he can gain a firm hold. No one on reading this, without further acquaintance with these matters, should feel an antipathy for this principle of being thrown back on oneself, for success in this trial brings with it a moment of supreme happiness.
At this stage, no less than at the others, ordinary life is itself an esoteric training for many. For anyone having reached the point of being able, when suddenly confronted with some task
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or problem in life, to come to a swift decision without hesitation or delay, for him life itself has been a training in this sense. Such situations are here meant in which success is instantly lost if action is not rapid. A person who is quick to act when a misfortune is imminent, whereas a few moments of hesitation would have seen the misfortune an accomplished fact, and who has turned this ability into a permanent personal quality, has unconsciously acquired the degree of maturity necessary for the third trial. For at this stage everything centers round the development of absolute presence of mind. This trial is known as the Air-Trial, because while undergoing it the candidate can support himself neither upon the firm basis of external incentive nor upon the figures, tones, and colors which he has learned at the stages of preparation and enlightenment, but exclusively upon himself.
Upon successfully passing this trial the student is permitted to enter the temple of higher wisdom. All that is here said on this subject can only be the slenderest allusion. The task now to be performed is often expressed in the statement that the student must take an oath never to betray anything
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he has learned. These expressions, however, "oath" and "betray", are inappropriate and actually misleading. There is no question of an oath in the ordinary sense of the word, but rather of an experience that comes at this stage of development. The candidate learns how to apply the higher knowledge, how to place it at the service of humanity. He then begins really and truly to understand the world. It is not so much a question of withholding the higher truths, but far more of serving them in the right way and with the necessary tact. The silence he is to keep refers to something quite different. He acquires this fine quality with regard to things he had previously spoken, and especially with regard to the manner in which they were spoken. He would be a poor initiate who did not place all the higher knowledge he had acquired at the service of humanity, as well and as far as this is possible. The only obstacle to giving information in these matters is the lack of understanding on the part of the recipients. It is true, of course, that the higher knowledge does not lend itself to promiscuous talk; but no one having reached the stage of development described above is actually forbidden
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1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
Above and beyond this Leonardos establishment of the laws of perspective is significant in that it made technical drafting feasible and thereby initiated the technological age. This concluded a process which had required centuries before it entered human consciousness and effected a fundamental transformation of man's world. It is only after Leonardo that the unperspectival world finally passes out of its dream-like state, and the perspectival world definitely enters awareness. Having attempted to show the initial thrust toward awareness of space documented in Petrarch's letter, and to account for the process of painful withdrawal from traditional perceptions, we would here like to indicate the nature of Leonardos decisive development, for it was he who fully realized Petrarch's discovery.
Among the thousands of Leonardo's notes and diary entries, there are several which, if we compare those of presumably earlier with those of presumably later origin, can document the course of his emergent spatial awareness and thus his extrication from the world he inherited.
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Let us again look at our example of the fusion of time and the psyche: as long as time is dredged up from oblivion and thrust into visibility in bits and pieces, our preoccupation with the past aspect of time will bring on further chaos and disintegration. But the moment we are successful, like Picasso, in wresting past "time" - that is latently present time - from oblivion via its appropriate structure and means of expression, and render it visibly anew and thus present, then the importance we accord to the earlier times and their diverse structures of consciousness will become apparent in the development of aperspectivity.
If we fail to recognize this still potent past legacy, it may at any time become critical and threaten to overwhelm us; and this would prevent us from perceiving the new with the requisite vigilance and detachment.
1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
15:The Unknown is not the Unknowable;4 it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. When we have proved Matter and realised its secret capacities, the very knowledge which has found its convenience in that temporary limitation, must cry to us, like the Vedic Restrainers, "Forth now and push forward also in other fields."5
16:If modern Materialism were simply an unintelligent acquiescence in the material life, the advance might be indefinitely delayed. But since its very soul is the search for Knowledge, it will be unable to cry a halt; as it reaches the barriers of senseknowledge and of the reasoning from sense-knowledge, its very rush will carry it beyond and the rapidity and sureness with which it has embraced the visible universe is only an earnest of the energy and success which we may hope to see repeated in the conquest of what lies beyond, once the stride is taken that crosses the barrier. We see already that advance in its obscure beginnings.
1.02 - THE WITHIN OF THINGS, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
connections with the developments that science recognises in the
cosmic energy. These three statements [i.e., that there is a within,
1.02 - What is Psycho therapy?, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
These newer developments of theory have as their therapeutic aim not
only the raising to consciousness of pathogenic contents and tendencies,
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dealing with psychological developments, the doctor should, as a matter of
principle, let nature rule and himself do his utmost to avoid influencing the
1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
68. Whomever We grant old age, We reverse his development. Do they not understand?
69. We did not teach him poetry, nor is it proper for him. It is only a reminder, and a Clear Quran.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
apprenticeship. Childhood dependency must be replaced by group membership, prior to the development of
full maturity. Such membership provides society with another individual to utilize as a tool, and provides
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attained, it may escape the bounds of its developmental precursor. It is in this manner that true freedom is
attained. It is at this level of analysis that all genuine religious and cultural traditions and dogmas are
equivalent, regardless of content: they are all masters whose service may culminate in the development of
self-mastery, and consequent transcendence of tradition and dogma.
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the natural development and flowering of the childs innate potential. So it might be said, using Jungs
terminology, that he was an unconscious exponent, 359 for example, of the philosophy of Rousseau:
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subordination to a potent historically-constructed social institution and the eventual development of true
freedom.
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maternal protection, in the course of development; necessarily attains an apprehension whose desire for
danger, whose need for life, exceeds the capability of maternal shelter. This means that the growing child
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the development of adult personality; follows the fundamental pattern of the cyclic, circular cosmogonic
myth. The culturally-determined rites and biological processes associated with initiation constitute absolute
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stability for necessary catalysis of group identification. Such rituals tend to be more complex and farreaching for males than for females. This is perhaps in part because male development seems more easily
led astray, in a socially-harmful manner, than female (adolescent males are more delinquent and
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takes place at or about the onset of puberty, when it is critical for further psychological development and
continued tribal security that boys transcend their dependency upon their mothers. This separation often
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linguistically-mediated development of religious dogma or codified morality. Advantages of such
codification are the advantages granted by abstraction per se ease of communication, facilitation of
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view such identity as a necessary developmental stage, it is pathological to view it as the end-point of
human development. The present consists in large part of new problems, and reliance on the wisdom of the
dead no matter how heroic eventually compromises the integrity of the living. The well-trained
1.03 - Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
ema to the new developments in scientific method. The exag-
gerated expectations of this experimental laboratory science
1.03 - Fire in the Earth, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
resistible development of those yearnings you im-
planted in me ,as a child, through the influence of
1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: Organisation and work in villages are certainly necessary, but I doubt very much whether the village could be a creative centre. At least in the past it was not, so far as we can see. In the past there were village communities but they do not seem to have been creative. The reason is that the man in the village has his view of life bound up with a small portion of land and things so that he cannot easily breathe that liberal and free air which is necessary for great creation. That is why leaders always came from the cities even in ancient times. I do not think that the villages in India, or anywhere in the world, are able to rule even in democracy. For creation a certain leisure and mental development are wanted.
Question: Do you think that in Russia what they have attempted is real democracy?
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In ancient times each community had its own Dharma and within itself it was independent. Every village, every city had its own organisation quite free from all political control and within that every individual was free free to change and take up another line for his development. But all this was not put into a definite political unit. There were, of course, attempts at that kind of expression of life but they were only partially successful. The whole community in India was a very big one and the community-culture based on Dharma was not thrown into a kind of organisation which would resist external aggression; and ultimately we were brought to the present stage.
Now the problem is how to organise the future life of the country. I myself am a communist in a certain sense but I cannot agree with the Russian method. One may ask: After all what has Russia created? Even among our present workers in India there is a lack of that definite idea as to what they are about and what kind of thing they want. That is the reason why men like Dr. Bhagwandas propose some mental constructions like asking men to go in for politics after 50 years of age and so on. That does not seem to me to be the correct method, and I believe whoever pursues it will encounter complete failure.
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It is possible to know the Kartavyam Karma in that sense, if one can rise to something beyond Mind. You spoke of The Yoga and Its Objects. It was written at a time when my Sadhana had not reached its perfection. It marks a certain stage of my development. But it is not complete. I am not following the idea that is in it.
At present what I am doing is the Supramental Yoga. Man, as constituted at present, is a very imperfect manifestation of the Divine he is very crude. It is so because man is living in an envelope of ignorance in Mind, Life and Body so that he is not conscious of the Reality that is beyond Mind. The Supramental Power is above the Mind. What I am trying to do at present is to call down the Higher Power to govern Mind, Life and Body. The object of this Yoga is not the service of humanity, or the ordinary perfection of man but the evolution of the Supramental Power in the cyclic evolution of the Spirit in the material universe. What one has to do is to rend the veil the thick veil that divides the Mind from the Supermind. That work a man cannot do by himself.
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A photo of Vyas was taken and shown to Sri Aurobindo. It made a favourable impression, as he found on reading it that the psychic could open though there was hardly any development of the mental being and the physical being was too weak for this Yoga. He permitted Vyas to see him after seven days, i.e., today.
Sri Aurobindo: This is a very difficult Yoga and it makes no less demands on the sadhak than the old methods. Everything is to be given up to the Power that is above the Mind. This Yoga accepts life but that does not mean that it accepts the ignorance of life.
1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The Logos passes out of eternity into time for no other purpose than to assist the beings, whose bodily form he takes, to pass out of time into eternity. If the Avatars appearance upon the stage of history is enormously important, this is due to the fact that by his teaching he points out, and by his being a channel of grace and divine power he actually is, the means by which human beings may transcend the limitations of history. The author of the Fourth Gospel affirms that the Word became flesh; but in another passage he adds that the flesh profiteth nothingnothing, that is to say, in itself, but a great deal, of course, as a means to the union with immanent and transcendent Spirit. In this context it is very interesting to consider the development of Buddhism. Under the forms of religious or mystical imagery, writes R. E. Johnston in his Buddhist China, the Mahayana expresses the universal, whereas Hinayana cannot set itself free from the domination of historical fact. In the words of an eminent orientalist, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Mahayanist believer is warnedprecisely as the worshipper of Krishna is warned in the Vaishnavite scriptures that the Krishna Lila is not a history, but a process for ever unfolded in the heart of man that matters of historical fact are without religious significance (except, we should add, insofar as they point to or themselves constitute the meanswhe ther remote or proximate, whether political, ethical or spiritualby which men may come to deliverance from selfness and the temporal order.)
In the West, the mystics went some way towards liberating Christianity from its unfortunate servitude to historic fact. (or, to be more accurate, to those various mixtures of contemporary record with subsequent inference and phantasy, which have, at different epochs, been accepted as historic fact). From the writings of Eckhart, Tauler and Ruysbroeck, of Boehme, William Law and the Quakers, it would be possible to extract a spiritualized and universalized Christianity, whose narratives should refer, not to history as it was, or as someone afterwards thought it ought to be, but to processes forever unfolded in the heart of man. But unfortunately the influence of the mystics was never powerful enough to bring about a radical Mahayanist revolution in the West. In spite of them, Christianity has remained a religion in which the pure Perennial Philosophy has been overlaid, now more, now less, by an idolatrous preoccupation with events and things in timeevents and things regarded not merely as useful means, but as ends, intrinsically sacred and indeed divine. Moreover such improvements on history as were made in the course of centuries were, most imprudently, treated as though they themselves were a part of historya procedure which put a powerful weapon into the hands of Protestant and, later, of Rationalist controversialists. How much wiser it would have been to admit the perfectly avowable fact that, when the sternness of Christ the Judge had been unduly emphasized, men and women felt the need of personifying the divine compassion in a new form, with the result that the figure of the Virgin, mediatrix to the mediator, came into increased prominence. And when, in course of time, the Queen of Heaven was felt to be too awe-inspiring, compassion was re-personified in the homely figure of St. Joseph, who thus became me thator to the me thatrix to the me thator. In exactly the same way Buddhist worshippers felt that the historic Sakyamuni, with his insistence on recollectedness, discrimination and a total dying to self as the principal means of liberation, was too stern and too intellectual. The result was that the love and compassion which Sakyamuni had also inculcated came to be personified in Buddhas such as Amida and Maitreyadivine characters completely removed from history, inasmuch as their temporal career was situated somewhere in the distant past or distant future. Here it may be remarked that the vast numbers of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, of whom the Mahayanist theologians speak, are commensurate with the vastness of their cosmology. Time, for them, is beginningless, and the innumerable universes, every one of them supporting sentient beings of every possible variety, are born, evolve, decay and the, only to repeat the same cycleagain and again, until the final inconceivably remote consummation, when every sentient being in all the worlds shall have won to deliverance out of time into eternal Suchness or Buddhahood This cosmological background to Buddhism has affinities with the world picture of modern astronomyespecially with that version of it offered in the recently published theory of Dr. Weiszcker regarding the formation of planets. If the Weiszcker hypothesis is correct, the production of a planetary system would be a normal episode in the life of every star. There are forty thousand million stars in our own galactic system alone, and beyond our galaxy other galaxies, indefinitely. If, as we have no choice but to believe, spiritual laws governing consciousness are uniform throughout the whole planet-bearing and presumably life-supporting universe, then certainly there is plenty of room, and at the same time, no doubt, the most agonizing and desperate need, for those innumerable redemptive incarnations of Suchness, upon whose shining multitudes the Mahayanists love to dwell.
1.03 - Physical Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The education of the body has three principal aspects: control and discipline of functions of the body; a total methodical and harmonious development of all the parts and movements of the body; rectification of defects and deformities, if there are any.
Physical education must be based upon knowledge of the human body, its structure and its functions. And the formation of the habits of the body must be in consonance with that knowledge.
1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
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which went through countless yogic crises, struggles and
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On that day the Mother noted down: This evening the
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15 This and the following quotations in this section: The Mother: Notes
1.03 - Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of The Gita, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The life of the human creature, as it is ordinarily lived, is composed of a half-fixed, half-fluid mass of very imperfectly ruled thoughts, perceptions, sensations, emotions, desires, enjoyments, acts, mostly customary and self-repeating, in part only dynamic and self-developing, but all centred around a superficial ego. The sum of movement of these activities eventuates in an internal growth which is partly visible and operative in this life, partly a seed of progress in lives hereafter. This growth of the conscious being, an expansion, an increasing self-expression, a more and more harmonised development of his constituent members is the whole meaning and all the pith of human existence. It is for this meaningful development of consciousness by thought, will, emotion, desire, action and experience, leading in the end to a supreme divine self-discovery, that Man, the mental being, has entered into the material body. All the rest is either auxiliary and subordinate or accidental and otiose; that only matters which sustains and helps the evolution of his nature and the growth or rather the progressive unfolding and discovery of his self and spirit.
The aim set before our Yoga is nothing less than to hasten this supreme object of our existence here. Its process leaves behind the ordinary tardy method of slow and confused growth through the evolution of Nature. For the natural evolution is at its best an uncertain growth under cover, partly by the pressure of the environment, partly by a groping education and an ill-lighted purposeful effort, an only partially illumined and half-automatic use of opportunities with many blunders and lapses and relapses; a great portion of it is made up of apparent accidents and circumstances and vicissitudes, - though veiling a secret divine intervention and guidance. In Yoga we replace this confused crooked crab-motion by a rapid, conscious and self-directed evolution which is planned to carry us, as far as can be, in a straight line towards the goal set before us. In a certain sense it may be an error to speak of a goal anywhere in a progression which may well be infinite. Still we can conceive of an immediate goal, an ulterior objective beyond our present achievement towards which the soul in man can aspire. There lies before him the possibility of a new birth; there can be an ascent into a higher and wider plane of being and its descent to transform his members. An enlarged and illumined consciousness is possible that shall make of him a liberated spirit and a perfected force - and, if spread beyond the individual, it might even constitute a divine humanity or else a new, a supramental and therefore a superhuman race. It is this new birth that we make our aim: a growth into a divine consciousness is the whole meaning of our Yoga, an integral conversion to divinity not only of the soul but of all the parts of our nature.
1.03 - Some Aspects of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
which these one-sided developments move. There are two main attitudes
which differ fundamentally, namely introversion and extraversion. Both are
1.03 - Some Practical Aspects, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
THE training of thoughts and feelings, pursued in the way described in the chapters on Preparation, Enlightenment, and Initiation, introduces into the soul and spirit the same organic symmetry with which nature has constructed the physical body. Before this development, soul and spirit are undifferentiated masses. The clairvoyant perceives them as interlacing, rotating, cloud-like spirals, dully glimmering in reddish, reddish-brown, or reddish-yellow tones. After this training they begin to assume a brilliant yellowish-green, or greenish-blue color, and show a regular structure. This inner regularity leading to higher knowledge, is attained when the student introduces into his thoughts and feelings the same orderly system with which nature
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it in self-deception while it plants itself all the more firmly in the depths of the soul. It is only when we ever and again surrender ourselves to a certain definite thought, making it absolutely our own, that any results can be attained. This thought is as follows: I must certainly do everything I can for the training and development of my soul and spirit; but I shall wait patiently until higher powers shall have found me worthy of definite enlightenment. If this thought becomes so powerful in the student that it grows into an actual feature of his character, he is treading the right path. This feature soon sets its mark on his exterior. The gaze of his eye becomes steady, the movement of his body becomes sure, his decisions definite, and all that goes under the name of nervousness gradually disappears. Rules that appear trifling and insignificant must be taken into account. For example, supposing someone affronts us. Before our training we should have directed our resentment against the offender; a wave of anger would have surged up within us. In a similar case, however, the thought is immediately present in the mind of the student that such an affront makes no difference
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of sights and hearing in your soul and spirit. Do not expect immediately to see and hear in the world of soul and spirit, for all that you are doing does but contri bute to the development of your higher senses, and you will only be able to hear with soul and spirit when you possess these higher senses. Having persevered for a time in silent inner seclusion, go about your customary daily affairs, imprinting deeply upon your mind this thought: "Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain," and make no attempt to attract forcefully any of these higher powers to yourself. Every student receives these instructions at the outset. By observing them he perfects himself. If he neglects them, all his labor is in vain. But they are only difficult of achievement for the impatient and the unpersevering. No other obstacles exist save those which we ourselves place in our own path, and which can be avoided by all who really will. This point must be continually emphasized, because many people form an altogether wrong conception of the difficulties that beset the path to higher knowledge. It is easier, in a certain sense, to accomplish the first steps along this path than
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[paragraph continues] Anyone practicing in an environment filled only with self-seeking interests, as for example, the modern struggle for existence, must be conscious of the fact that these interests are not without their effect on the development of his spiritual organs. It is true that the inner laws of these organs are so powerful that this influence cannot be fatally injurious. Just as a lily can never grow into a thistle, however inappropriate its environment, so, too, the eye of the soul can never grow to anything but its destined shape even though it be subjected to the self-seeking interests of modern cities. But under all circumstances it is well if the student seeks, now and again, his environment in the restful peace, the inner dignity and sweetness of nature. Especially fortunate is the student who can carry out his esoteric training surrounded by the green world of plants, or among the sunny hills, where nature weaves her web of sweet simplicity. This environment develops the inner organs in a harmony which can never ensue in a modern city. More favorably situated than the townsman is the person who, during his childhood at least, had been able to brea the the fragrance of pines, to gaze on snowy peaks, and observe
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1.03 - The Coming of the Subjective Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The inherent aim and effort and justification, the psychological seed-cause, the whole tendency of development of an individualistic age of mankind, all go back to the one dominant need of rediscovering the substantial truths of life, thought and action which have been overlaid by the falsehood of conventional standards no longer alive to the truth of the ideas from which their conventions started. It would seem at first that the shortest way would be to return to the original ideas themselves for light, to rescue the kernel of their truth from the shell of convention in which it has become incrusted. But to this course there is a great practical obstacle; and there is another which reaches beyond the surface of things, nearer to the deeper principles of the development of the soul in human society. The recovery of the old original ideas now travestied by convention is open to the practical disadvantage that it tends after a time to restore force to the conventions which the Time-Spirit is seeking to outgrow and, if or when the deeper truth-seeking tendency slackens in its impulse, the conventions re-establish their sway. They revive, modified, no doubt, but still powerful; a new incrustation sets in, the truth of things is overlaid by a more complex falsity. And even if it were otherwise, the need of a developing humanity is not to return always to its old ideas. Its need is to progress to a larger fulfilment in which, if the old is taken up, it must be transformed and exceeded. For the underlying truth of things is constant and eternal, but its mental figures, its life forms, its physical embodiments call constantly for growth and change.
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.
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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.
Already in the practical dealing with life there are advanced progressive tendencies which take their inspiration from this profounder subjectivism. Nothing indeed has yet been firmly accomplished, all is as yet tentative initiation and the first feeling out towards a material shape for this new spirit. The dominant activities of the world, the great recent events such as the enormous clash of nations in Europe and the stirrings and changes within the nations which preceded and followed it, were rather the result of a confused half struggle half effort at accommodation between the old intellectual and materialistic and the new still superficial subjective and vitalistic impulses in the West. The latter unenlightened by a true inner growth of the soul were necessarily impelled to seize upon the former and utilise them for their unbridled demand upon life; the world was moving towards a monstrously perfect organisation of the Will-to-live and the Will-to-power and it was this that threw itself out in the clash of War and has now found or is finding new forms of life for itself which show better its governing idea and motive. The Asuric or even Rakshasic character of the recent world-collision was due to this formidable combination of a falsely enlightened vitalistic motive-power with a great force of servile intelligence and reasoning contrivance subjected to it as instrument and the genius of an accomplished materialistic Science as its Djinn, its giant worker of huge, gross and soulless miracles. The War was the bursting of the explosive force so created and, even though it strewed the world with ruins, its after results may well have prepared the collapse, as they have certainly produced a disintegrating chaos or at least poignant disorder, of the monstrous combination which produced it, and by that salutary ruin are emptying the field of human life of the principal obstacles to a truer development towards a higher goal.
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.
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1.03 - THE EARTH IN ITS EARLY STAGES, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
laws we have felt able to lay down for the development of spiritual
energy, and on the other the physico-chemical conditions we
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important to keep in mind for future developments) is the solid-
arity due to their very genesis which unites the specks of this
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conditions of their origin and development.
Here again, but in a better defined field and on a higher level,
1.03 - The End of the Intellect, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
but something behind it which uses it: The capital period of my intellectual development, Sri Aurobindo confided to a disciple, was when I could see clearly that what the intellect said might be correct and not correct, that what the intellect justified was true and its opposite also was true. I never admitted a truth in the mind without simultaneously keeping it open to the contrary of it. . . . And the first result was that the prestige of the intellect was gone!24
Sri Aurobindo had come to a turning point; temples did not interest him and books were empty. A friend advised him to practice yoga, but Sri Aurobindo refused: A yoga which requires me to give up the world is not for me,25 he moreover added: a solitary salvation leaving the world to its fate was felt as almost distasteful. 26 Then one day Sri Aurobindo witnessed a curious scene, though not uncommon in India (to be sure, banality is often the best trigger of inner movements),
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
a definite cycle of development. To every thinking
man this poses a problem of obvious importance
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words, what phase of its "phyletic" development may we consider
Mankind to have attained at the present time, in comparison with
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be born of our future development? Is the Universe, of its nature,
scattering itself in sparks; or on the contrary is it tending to con-
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world in question shall have reached a stage of development so ad-
vanced that its "soul" can be detached without losing any of its
1.03 - The Human Disciple, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To such a disciple the Teacher of the Gita gives his divine teaching. He seizes him at a moment of his psychological development by egoistic action when all the mental, moral, emotional values of the ordinary egoistic and social life of man have collapsed in a sudden bankruptcy, and he has to lift him up out of this lower life into a higher consciousness, out of ignorant attachment to action into that which transcends, yet originates and orders action, out of ego into Self, out of life in mind, vitality and body into that higher nature beyond mind which is the status of the Divine. He has at the same time to give him that for which he asks and for which he is inspired to seek by the guidance within him, a new Law of life and action high above the insufficient rule of the ordinary human existence with its endless conflicts and oppositions, perplexities and illusory certainties, a higher Law by which the soul shall be free from this bondage of works and yet powerful to act and conquer in the vast liberty of its divine being. For the action must be performed, the world must fulfil its cycles and the soul of the human being must not turn back in ignorance from the work it is here to do. The whole course of the teaching of the Gita is determined and directed, even in its widest wheelings, towards the fulfilment of these three objects.
1.03 - The Phenomenon of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
extraordinary power of thought in the development of the
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places him head and shoulders above all other conscious
1.03 - The Uncreated, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Nothing is more vain than this seeking after what has been; for what has been is what is. All things carry in themselves their own history. The problem of the beginning is, in fact, only the problem of the perpetual development of things,the how of each existence.
The Unique, Impersonal, Immutable being in existence, how can the multiple, individual and transient exist? And what are they?
1.03 - Time Series, Information, and Communication, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
In such constructions, the example of the Fourier developments
suggests that such expansions as Expression 3.44 are convenient
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ory beyond this point, as a practical statistical theory, involves
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mechanics, the whole past of an individual system does not
1.04 - Body, Soul and Spirit, #Theosophy, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
recognizes the revelations of the corporal world; in what is true and good, the revelations of the spiritual world. In the same sense in which the revelation of the corporal world is called sensation, let the revelation of the spiritual be called intuition. Even the most simple thought contains intuition, for one cannot touch it with the hands or see it with the eyes; one must receive its revelation from the spirit through the I. If an undeveloped and a developed man look at a plant, there lives in the I of the one something quite different from that which is in the ego of the other. And yet the sensations of both are called forth by the same object. The difference lies in this, that the one can make far more perfect thoughts about the object than the other can. If objects revealed themselves through sensation alone, there could be no progress in spiritual development. Even the savage is affected by nature, but the laws of nature reveal themselves only to the thoughts, fructified by intuition, of the more highly developed man. The excitations from the outer world are felt even by the child as incentives to the will; but the commandments of
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the morally good disclose themselves to him in the course of his development only as he learns to live in the spirit and understand its revelations.
Just as there could be no color sensations without physical eyes, there could be no intuitions without the higher thinking of the spirit-self. And as little as sensation creates the plant on which the color appears, does intuition create the spiritual realities about which it is merely giving information.
1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
ied. The whole field is undergoing a very rapid development. It
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1.04 - Narayana appearance, in the beginning of the Kalpa, as the Varaha (boar), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
παντα, set his own hand to every work, which, as Aristotle says, would be, ἀπρεπὲς τῷ θεῷ, unbecoming God; but, as in the case of Brahmā and other subordinate agents, that they should occasion p. 33 the various developments of crude nature to take place, by supplying that will, of which nature itself is incapable. Action being once instituted by an instrumental medium, or by the will of an intellectual agent, it is continued by powers or a vitality inherent in nature or the matter of creation itself. The efficiency of such subordinate causes was advocated by Plato, Aristotle, and others; and the opinion of Zeno, as stated by Laertius, might be taken for a translation of some such passage as that in our text: Ἔστι δὲ φύσις ἕξις ἐξ αὐτῆς κινο
μένη κατὰ σπερματικοὺς λόγο
1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
The doctors of the law have not commented upon these topics to the people in general. But this is not to be wondered at, when we consider that the mass of the people regard themselves as fixed in their character and position, and not as pilgrims and travellers to a higher state. There is no possibility of unveiling the things of truth, to those who settle down without desiring to make any progress, and who are contented with the first stages and degrees of the sensible world and of the world of fancy. They can neither attain to a spiritual state, nor understand spiritual laws and precepts. We have ventured, however, to unveil a little of the mysteries, as a type of the knowledge belonging to the future state, so that men might be prepared to understand the questions and affairs relating to that state. But if we had entered into any farther developments, they would not have been able to understand us, for none but those who are endowed with penetration and experience can by any possibility understand the topics to which we have alluded.
There is a class of foolish people, O inquirer after the divine mysteries, who have neither capacity for knowledge, or sound judgment to be able to understand anything of themselves, and who have remained doubting and speculating about the nature of the future state, till they have become bewildered. Finally, as the lusts of the world harmonized with their natures, they have yielded to the whisperings of Satan, and deny that there is any future state. They pretend that the only need there is of speaking of heaven and hell, is for the sake of correcting and guiding the conduct of the people, and they regard as folly the course of those who follow the law and are constant in their devotions.
1.04 - Reality Omnipresent, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
16:We start, then, with the conception of an omnipresent Reality of which neither the Non-Being at the one end nor the universe at the other are negations that annul; they are rather different states of the Reality, obverse and reverse affirmations. The highest experience of this Reality in the universe shows it to be not only a conscious Existence, but a supreme Intelligence and Force and a self-existent Bliss; and beyond the universe it is still some other unknowable existence, some utter and ineffable Bliss. Therefore we are justified in supposing that even the dualities of the universe, when interpreted not as now by our sensational and partial conceptions, but by our liberated intelligence and experience, will be also resolved into those highest terms. While we still labour under the stress of the dualities, this perception must no doubt constantly support itself on an act of faith, but a faith which the highest Reason, the widest and most patient reflection do not deny, but rather affirm. This creed is given, indeed, to humanity to support it on its journey, until it arrives at a stage of development when faith will be turned into knowledge and perfect experience and Wisdom will be justified of her works.
1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
less, owing to the exceptionally rapid development which is a char-
acteristic of the human wave, a direct assessment of the advance
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its development at the stage which anthropologists call Homo sapi-
ens; or at least, if it has continued to develop since then, that the
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Man, the fact of organopsychic development seems to be clearly
manifest in Collective Man: and this, whatever we may think of it,
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But to the enlightened eye this human development, succeeding all
the twists and turns of prehuman consciousness, assumes a daz-
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Is it to be in the development of a common vision, that is to say,
the establishment of a universally accepted body of knowledge, in
1.04 - The Aims of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
their development, to express themselves by means of brush, pencil, or pen
at all?
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
communication, comprehension and development of behavior and behavioral interaction. However, the
capacity to abstract has also undermined the stability of moral tradition. Once a procedure has been
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event that is, the development of self-consciousness is capacity to represent death, and to
understand that the possibility of death is part of the unknown. This contamination of anomaly with the
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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
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under the influence of some wilfully misunderstood malevolent advising force. The development of such an
unpleasant and dangerous situations calls, of course, for the entrance of the hero the lost son of the true
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the development of self-consciousness (how would I behave in a situation like that?)]. In addition,
abstraction facilitates communication of morality (instruction in how to behave), by making it unnecessary
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He is in fact an unconscious exponent of an autonomous psychic development, just like the medieval
alchemist or the classical Neoplatonist. Hence one could say cum grano salis that history could be
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of increasing abstraction and representation is equivalent to development of higher consciousness
(especially if the ever-more enlightened words are in fact utopian wish transformed back down the
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brought about, inexorably, by continued development of abstract consciousness. The first modern man,
Hamlet and those who follow him, in art and in life characteristically respond like Nietzsches pale
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Rapid development of semantic skill (and its second-order elaboration into empirical methodology)
constitutes the third major threat to the continued stability of sociohistorically-determined adaptive cultural
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The intellectual developments which lead to the establishment of modern scientific methodology have
heightened the danger of this partially pathological tendency. The construction of a powerful and accurate
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direction, when such change or development becomes necessary. Under stable environmental and social
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rapid speech development, and was having some trouble controlling his emotions. Mikhaila liked to call
him baby. We had several discussions about the fact that he really wasnt a baby anymore. She told me
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being introduces the most intractable anomaly imaginable into the developmental course of every life.
Myth represents the ever-recurring appearance of this representational ability this emergent selfconsciousness, the heritable sin of Adam as incorporation of the forbidden fruit, development of
knowledge of good and evil, and consequent expulsion from paradise. This appearance is an event of
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characteristic of the development of consciousness, of the capacity to act and represent which is regarded
from the mythic perspective as akin to the creation of the world.
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experience. (The development of consciousness the apprehension of the system by itself adds one
form of self-reference to the universal structure. Self-consciousness the apprehension of the subject by
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The myth of the Buddha is the story of individual development, considered in the ideal. The story opens
with Gautamas father, shielding his child from the dangers of the world much as any child in a healthy
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course of centuries of human cultural endeavor, culminating in development of an elaborated self-model
produced within the individual clear apprehension of mortality as a defining feature of human existence.
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The myth of the Fall, Christian or Buddhist, describes the development of self-consciousness as
voluntary, though pre-arranged, in a sense, by the gods, whose power remains outside human control.
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apprehension: Something that destroys, initially, may still save, in its later development and the process
that undermines may also be the same process that rebuilds, out of wreckage, something stronger.
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inexorably to development of unbearable but potentially redemptive (self)consciousness. Extension of
objective knowledge to the self means permanent establishment of a conceptual connection between
individual existence and certain mortality. development of this connection means existence in endless
conflict, as all human activity henceforth takes place in the valley of the shadow of death. Fate compels all
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consequence of the development of self-consciousness (no, an intrinsic aspect of self-consciousness)
permanently undermines capacity for faith in blind instinctual action:
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perception is self-definition, development of individual self-awareness, under the pressure of immediate
transient experience, individual past, and historical opinion regarding the nature of ones own experience,
1.04 - The Conditions of Esoteric Training, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
If this fact be overlooked, esoteric training can easily appear in the light of a coercion of the soul or the conscience; for the training is based on the development of the inner life, and the teacher must necessarily give advice concerning this inner life. But there is no question of compulsion when a demand is met out of free choice. To ask
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6. A sixth condition is the development of a feeling of thankfulness for everything with which man is favored. We must realize that our existence is a gift from the entire universe. How much is needed to enable each one of us to receive and maintain his existence! How much to we not owe to nature and to our fellow human beings! Thoughts such as these must come naturally to all who seek esoteric training, for if the latter do not feel inclined to entertain them, they will be incapable of developing within themselves that all-embracing love which is necessary for the attainment of higher knowledge. Nothing can reveal itself to us which we do not love. And every revelation must fill us with thankfulness, for we ourselves are the richer for it.
7. All these conditions must be united in a seventh: to regard life unceasingly in the manner demanded by these conditions. The student
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This brings to an end the indications to be given in connection with the attainment of knowledge of higher worlds. In the following chapter, and in further connection with the above, it will be shown how this development affects the higher elements of the human organism (the soul-organism or astral body, and the spirit or thought-body.) In this way the indications here given will be placed in a new light, and it will be possible to penetrate them in a deeper sense.
1.04 - The Core of the Teaching, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Gita. The equality of the will and the rejection of fruits are only means for entering with the mind and the heart and the understanding into the divine consciousness and living in it; and the Gita expressly says that they are to be employed as a means as long as the disciple is unable so to live or even to seek by practice the gradual development of this higher state. And
The Core of the Teaching
1.04 - The Discovery of the Nation-Soul, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The objective view of society has reigned throughout the historical period of humanity in the West; it has been sufficiently strong though not absolutely engrossing in the East. Rulers, people and thinkers alike have understood by their national existence a political status, the extent of their borders, their economic well-being and expansion, their laws, institutions and the working of these things. For this reason political and economic motives have everywhere predominated on the surface and history has been a record of their operations and influence. The one subjective and psychological force consciously admitted and with difficulty deniable has been that of the individual. This predominance is so great that most modern historians and some political thinkers have concluded that objective necessities are by law of Nature the only really determining forces, all else is result or superficial accidents of these forces. Scientific history has been conceived as if it must be a record and appreciation of the environmental motives of political action, of the play of economic forces and developments and the course of institutional evolution. The few who still valued the psychological element have kept their eye fixed on individuals and are not far from conceiving of history as a mass of biographies. The truer and more comprehensive science of the future will see that these conditions only apply to the imperfectly self-conscious period of national development. Even then there was always a greater subjective force working behind individuals, policies, economic movements and the change of institutions; but it worked for the most part subconsciously, more as a subliminal self than as a conscious mind. It is when this subconscious power of the group-soul comes to the surface that nations begin to enter into possession of their subjective selves; they set about getting, however vaguely or imperfectly, at their souls.
Certainly, there is always a vague sense of this subjective existence at work even on the surface of the communal mentality. But so far as this vague sense becomes at all definite, it concerns itself mostly with details and unessentials, national idiosyncrasies, habits, prejudices, marked mental tendencies. It is, so to speak, an objective sense of subjectivity. As man has been accustomed to look on himself as a body and a life, the physical animal with a certain moral or immoral temperament, and the things of the mind have been regarded as a fine flower and attainment of the physical life rather than themselves anything essential or the sign of something essential, so and much more has the community regarded that small part of its subjective self of which it becomes aware. It clings indeed always to its idiosyncrasies, habits, prejudices, but in a blind objective fashion, insisting on their most external aspect and not at all going behind them to that for which they stand, that which they try blindly to express.
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Therefore in nations so circumstanced this tendency of self-finding has been most powerful and has even created in some of them a new type of national movement, as in Ireland and India. This and no other was the root-meaning of Swadeshism in Bengal and of the Irish movement in its earlier less purely political stages. The emergence of Bengal as a sub-nation in India was throughout a strongly subjective movement and in its later development it became very consciously that. The movement of 1905 in Bengal pursued a quite new conception of the nation not merely as a country, but a soul, a psychological, almost a spiritual being and, even when acting from economical and political motives, it sought to dynamise them by this subjective conception and to make them instruments of self-expression rather than objects in themselves. We must not forget, however, that in the first stages these movements followed in their superficial thought the old motives of an objective and mostly political self-consciousness. The East indeed is always more subjective than the West and we can see the subjective tinge even in its political movements whether in Persia, India or China, and even in the very imitative movement of the Japanese resurgence. But it is only recently that this subjectivism has become self-conscious. We may therefore conclude that the conscious and deliberate subjectivism of certain nations was only the sign and precursor of a general change in humanity and has been helped forward by local circumstances, but was not really dependent upon them or in any sense their product.
This general change is incontestable; it is one of the capital phenomena of the tendencies of national and communal life at the present hour. The conception to which Ireland and India have been the first to give a definite formula, to be ourselves,so different from the impulse and ambition of dependent or unfortunate nations in the past which was rather to become like others,is now more and more a generally accepted motive of national life. It opens the way to great dangers and errors, but it is the essential condition for that which has now become the demand of the Time-Spirit on the human race, that it shall find subjectively, not only in the individual, but in the nation and in the unity of the human race itself, its deeper being, its inner law, its real self and live according to that and no longer by artificial standards. This tendency was preparing itself everywhere and partly coming to the surface before the War, but most prominently, as we have said, in new nations like Germany or in dependent nations like Ireland and India. The shock of the war brought about from its earliest moments an immediate and for the time being a militantemergence of the same deeper self-consciousness everywhere. Crude enough were most of its first manifestations, often of a really barbarous and reactionary crudeness. Especially, it tended to repeat the Teutonic lapse, preparing not only to be oneself, which is entirely right, but to live solely for and to oneself, which, if pushed beyond a certain point, becomes a disastrous error. For it is necessary, if the subjective age of humanity is to produce its best fruits, that the nations should become conscious not only of their own but of each others souls and learn to respect, to help and to profit, not only economically and intellectually but subjectively and spiritually, by each other.
--- Overview of noun development
The noun development has 9 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (52) development ::: (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development")
2. (46) development, evolution ::: (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer")
3. (11) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis ::: ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")
4. (9) development ::: (a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!")
5. (7) exploitation, development ::: (the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits")
6. (6) development ::: (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments")
7. (4) development ::: (a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen")
8. development, developing ::: (processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours")
9. development ::: ((music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun development
9 senses of development
Sense 1
development
=> improvement
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
development, evolution
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
development
=> change, alteration, modification
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
exploitation, development
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
development
=> district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
=> region
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 7
development
=> improvement, melioration
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
development, developing
=> processing
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 9
development
=> section, subdivision
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> written communication, written language, black and white
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
=> music
=> auditory communication
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun development
8 of 9 senses of development
Sense 1
development
=> advancement, progress
=> broadening
=> elaboration, working out
=> product development
Sense 2
development, evolution
=> assibilation
=> deepening
=> growth
=> unfolding, flowering
Sense 3
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> culture
=> amelogenesis
=> angiogenesis
=> apposition
=> auxesis
=> blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
=> cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
=> cohesion
=> cultivation
=> cytogenesis, cytogeny
=> foliation, leafing
=> fructification
=> gametogenesis
=> germination, sprouting
=> habit
=> infructescence
=> intussusception
=> juvenescence
=> life cycle
=> masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation
=> morphogenesis
=> myelinization, myelinisation
=> neurogenesis
=> palingenesis, recapitulation
=> proliferation
=> psychogenesis
=> psychogenesis
=> psychomotor development
=> psychosexual development
=> rooting
=> suppression
=> teething, dentition, odontiasis
=> teratogenesis
=> vegetation
Sense 4
development
=> turn, turn of events, twist
=> phenomenon
=> complication, ramification
Sense 5
exploitation, development
=> land development
=> water development, water project, water program
=> overexploitation, overuse, overutilization, overutilisation
=> capitalization, capitalisation
=> commercialization, commercialisation
=> electrification
=> unitization, unitisation
Sense 6
development
=> housing development
=> housing estate
Sense 7
development
=> underdevelopment
Sense 8
development, developing
=> underdevelopment
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun development
9 senses of development
Sense 1
development
=> improvement
Sense 2
development, evolution
=> process, physical process
Sense 3
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> organic process, biological process
Sense 4
development
=> change, alteration, modification
Sense 5
exploitation, development
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
Sense 6
development
=> district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
Sense 7
development
=> improvement, melioration
Sense 8
development, developing
=> processing
Sense 9
development
=> section, subdivision
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun development
9 senses of development
Sense 1
development
-> improvement
=> tenderization, tenderisation
=> development
=> cleaning, cleansing, cleanup
=> correction, rectification
=> optimization, optimisation
=> perfection
=> reform
=> amelioration, melioration, betterment
=> self-improvement, self-reformation
=> clearing, clarification
=> enrichment
=> humanization, humanisation
=> modernization, modernisation
=> renovation, redevelopment, overhaul
=> enhancement, sweetening
=> upturn
=> ventilation, airing
=> repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
=> stabilization, stabilisation
=> upgrade
Sense 2
development, evolution
-> process, physical process
=> phenomenon
=> chelation
=> dealignment
=> decrease, decrement
=> degeneration, devolution
=> development, evolution
=> economic process
=> encapsulation
=> execution, instruction execution
=> human process
=> increase, increment, growth
=> industrial process
=> irreversible process
=> iteration, looping
=> iteration, loop
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> operation, functioning, performance
=> organic process, biological process
=> photography
=> processing
=> reversible process
=> sensitization, sensitisation
=> shaping, defining
=> variation
Sense 3
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
-> organic process, biological process
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> agglutination
=> aging, ageing, senescence
=> anovulation
=> antisepsis, asepsis
=> assimilation, absorption
=> autoregulation
=> bacteriostasis
=> blooming, bloom
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> carbon cycle
=> catabolism, katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism
=> cell division, cellular division
=> crossing over, crossover
=> defoliation
=> deossification
=> digestion
=> eburnation
=> ecchymosis
=> effacement
=> erythropoiesis
=> eutrophication
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
=> expression
=> extravasation
=> gastrulation
=> glycogenesis
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, haematogenesis, sanguification
=> heredity
=> humification
=> hypostasis, epistasis
=> implantation, nidation
=> inhibition
=> invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding
=> involution
=> cytokinesis
=> karyokinesis
=> keratinization, keratinisation
=> Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle
=> lymphopoiesis
=> lysogenization, lysogenisation
=> maturation, ripening, maturement
=> metabolism, metabolic process
=> metamorphosis, metabolism
=> nitrogen cycle
=> nitrogen fixation
=> nondevelopment
=> nutrition
=> organification
=> ossification
=> ovulation
=> oxidative phosphorylation
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> pathologic process, pathological process
=> perennation
=> preservation
=> quellung, quellung reaction
=> quickening
=> regeneration
=> regulation
=> replication
=> reproduction
=> resorption, reabsorption
=> ripening, aging, ageing
=> secretion, secernment
=> segregation
=> shedding, sloughing
=> summation
=> symphysis
=> synapsis
=> synizesis, synezesis
=> transcription
=> transduction
=> translation
=> protein folding, folding
=> translocation
=> translocation
=> transpiration
=> tumefaction
=> ulceration
=> vascularization, vascularisation
=> vesiculation, vesication, blistering
Sense 4
development
-> change, alteration, modification
=> acceleration
=> deceleration, slowing, retardation
=> avulsion
=> break
=> mutation
=> sublimation
=> surprise
=> birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
=> separation, breakup, detachment
=> vagary
=> variation, fluctuation
=> conversion
=> death, decease, expiry
=> decrease, lessening, drop-off
=> destabilization
=> increase
=> easing, moderation, relief
=> deformation
=> transition
=> transformation, transmutation, shift
=> twinkle, scintillation, sparkling
=> shimmer, play
=> transmutation
=> damage, harm, impairment
=> development
=> revolution
=> mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation
=> sex change
=> loss of consciousness
Sense 5
exploitation, development
-> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> practice
=> play
=> misuse, abuse
=> exploitation, development
=> recycling
=> application, practical application
Sense 6
development
-> district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
=> administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
=> borderland, border district, march, marchland
=> city district
=> congressional district
=> development
=> enclave
=> palatinate
=> residential district, residential area, community
=> goldfield
=> jurisdiction
=> mandate, mandatory
=> protectorate, associated state
=> possession
=> trust territory, trusteeship
HAS INSTANCE=> Palatinate, Pfalz
HAS INSTANCE=> Athos, Mount Athos
HAS INSTANCE=> Attica
HAS INSTANCE=> Boeotia
HAS INSTANCE=> Papal States
HAS INSTANCE=> Acadia
HAS INSTANCE=> Northwest Territories
HAS INSTANCE=> Nunavut
HAS INSTANCE=> Yukon, Yukon Territory
HAS INSTANCE=> Northern Territory
HAS INSTANCE=> Northern Marianas, Northern Mariana Islands
HAS INSTANCE=> Acre
=> British East Africa
=> British West Africa
HAS INSTANCE=> Lake District, Lakeland
HAS INSTANCE=> Galloway
HAS INSTANCE=> Lothian Region
HAS INSTANCE=> East Malaysia
HAS INSTANCE=> Sabah, North Borneo
HAS INSTANCE=> Sarawak
HAS INSTANCE=> West Malaysia
HAS INSTANCE=> Natal, KwaZulu-Natal
HAS INSTANCE=> American Samoa, Eastern Samoa, AS
HAS INSTANCE=> Aragon
HAS INSTANCE=> Castile, Castilla
HAS INSTANCE=> Catalonia
HAS INSTANCE=> Darfur
HAS INSTANCE=> Kordofan
HAS INSTANCE=> Louisiana Purchase
Sense 7
development
-> improvement, melioration
=> betterment
=> development
=> reformation
=> renovation, restoration, refurbishment
Sense 8
development, developing
-> processing
=> blowing
=> data processing
=> development, developing
=> refining, refinement, purification
=> vulcanization, vulcanisation
Sense 9
development
-> section, subdivision
=> lead, lead-in, lede
=> canto
=> above
=> sports section
=> article, clause
=> book
=> chapter
=> episode
=> spot
=> spot
=> insert
=> introduction
=> narration
=> conclusion, end, close, closing, ending
=> passage
=> mezuzah, mezuza
=> sura
=> exposition
=> obbligato, obligato
=> recapitulation
=> development
--- Grep of noun development
advanced research and development activity
arrested development
department of housing and urban development
development
developmental age
developmental anatomy
developmental learning
developmental psychology
developmentally challenged
housing and urban development
housing development
international bank for reconstruction and development
international development association
land development
nondevelopment
product development
psychomotor development
psychosexual development
redevelopment
ribbon development
secretary of housing and urban development
social development commission
underdevelopment
water development
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Wikipedia - Developmental psychology -- Scientific study of psychological changes in humans over the course of their lives
Wikipedia - Developmental psychopathology
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Wikipedia - Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre -- Think tank
Wikipedia - Development criticism
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Wikipedia - Development Management Institute -- Business school in Patna, Bihar, India
Wikipedia - Development of doctrine
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Wikipedia - Development of Duke Nukem Forever -- Protracted video game development period
Wikipedia - Development of electronics for GM auto racing -- Electronics for GM auto racing
Wikipedia - Development of Grand Theft Auto V -- Development of 2013 video game
Wikipedia - Development of No Man's Sky
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Wikipedia - Development of Spock -- aspect of the Star Trek character
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Wikipedia - Development of the Christian biblical canon
Wikipedia - Development of the Commercial Crew Program -- NASA space program partnership with space companies
Wikipedia - Development of the digestive system -- The mechanisms that form the digestive system
Wikipedia - Development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- Development of 2005 video game
Wikipedia - Development of the endocrine system -- The mechanisms that form the endocrine system
Wikipedia - Development of the Hebrew Bible canon -- 24 books of the Masoretic Text
Wikipedia - Development of the human body -- Processes of growth from a zygote to an adult human
Wikipedia - Development of The Last of Us Part II -- Video game development
Wikipedia - Development of the nervous system in humans -- The mechanisms that form the human nervous system
Wikipedia - Development of the nervous system -- The process whose specific outcome is the progression of nervous tissue over time, from its formation to its mature state.
Wikipedia - Development of the New Testament canon -- Set of books regarded by Christians as divinely inspired
Wikipedia - Development of the Old Testament canon -- Development of the Old Testament canon
Wikipedia - Development of the reproductive system -- The mechanisms that form the reproductive system
Wikipedia - Development of the urinary system -- The mechanisms that form the urinary system
Wikipedia - Development of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End {{DISPLAYTITLE:Development of ''Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'' -- Development of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End {{DISPLAYTITLE:Development of ''Uncharted 4: A Thief's End''
Wikipedia - Development of Windows Vista -- Overview of the development of Microsoft's 2007 operating system
Wikipedia - Developments in Language Theory
Wikipedia - Development studies
Wikipedia - Development Team Sunweb -- German cycling team
Wikipedia - Development, testing, acceptance and production -- Phased approach of software testing and deployment
Wikipedia - Development testing
Wikipedia - Development theory -- Theories about how desirable change in society is best achieved
Wikipedia - Development tool
Wikipedia - Development town -- Settlements in Israel
Wikipedia - Development West Coast -- New Zealand charitable trust
Wikipedia - Devipur, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Devisthan, Khotang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - DevOps -- Set of software development practices
Wikipedia - Dewal Dibyapur -- Village development committee in Mahakali Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhadhawar -- Village development committee in Province No. 5, Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhanagadi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhanauri -- Village Development Committee in Province No. 5, Nepal
Wikipedia - Dharampani, Rapti -- Village Development Committee in Mid-Western, Nepal
Wikipedia - Dharampur, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dharapani, Khotang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhawa, Nepal -- Village development committee in Gandaki Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhitung -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhodhana -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Diana Baumrind -- Clinical and developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Wikipedia - Didhawa -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Differential technological development
Wikipedia - Digital Government Development Agency -- Digitizing Thai government services
Wikipedia - Dikuwa -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Diman, Nepal -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Diploblasty -- State of having two germ layers in embryonic development
Wikipedia - Diplung -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dipsung -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Disa Park -- Controversial development in Cape Town
Wikipedia - Discovery and development of bisphosphonates -- Drugs used to treat bone disorders
Wikipedia - Distributed agile software development -- Software development methods
Wikipedia - Distributed development
Wikipedia - District Development Council -- Indian political system
Wikipedia - Djibouti Party for Development -- Political party in Djibouti
Wikipedia - Docker, Inc. -- Company behind the development of Docker software
Wikipedia - Dodhara -- Village development committee in Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal
Wikipedia - DOD-STD-2167A -- US defense standard for software development
Wikipedia - Dogadi -- Village development committee in Seti Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Doha Development Round
Wikipedia - Dolphu -- Village development committee in Karnali Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Don't repeat yourself -- Principle of software development
Wikipedia - Dorpa Chiuridanda -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Draft:Ahmed Fatimah Bisola -- Commissioner for Education and Human Development, Kwara State
Wikipedia - Draft:Council for Social Development -- Indian Public Policy Think-tank
Wikipedia - Draft:EuroDEV: European Business development -- Business development group / Consulting
Wikipedia - Draft:Funmi Efuwape -- Commissioner for Women Affairs an Socia Development, Ogun Statel
Wikipedia - Draft:List of regions of Nicaragua by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Draft:Userfacet -- Bengaluru-based UI UX Design & Development company
Wikipedia - Draining and development of the Everglades -- Development of the Florida Everglades
Wikipedia - Drapac Cannondale Holistic Development Team -- Australian cycling team
Wikipedia - Draper Laboratory -- US research and development organization
Wikipedia - Drive for Diversity -- Development system
Wikipedia - Driver development program -- System designed for young racing drivers to perfect their racing skills
Wikipedia - Drivers Edge Development -- Driver development program
Wikipedia - Dubekol -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dublin Docklands Development Authority -- Irish government agency
Wikipedia - Dumari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dumre Dharapani -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
Wikipedia - Duojia Pan -- Chinese-American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - DuPont Experimental Station -- Research and development facility of DuPont
Wikipedia - Durchhim -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Durgapur, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Dutch disease -- The apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector and a decline in other sectors
Wikipedia - Dyadic developmental psychotherapy
Wikipedia - Dynamic Systems Development Method
Wikipedia - Dynamic systems development method
Wikipedia - Dysgenesis (embryology) -- Abnormal organ development during embryonic growth
Wikipedia - Early Childhood Development Agency -- Autonomous Agency in Singapore
Wikipedia - Early Modern English -- Stage of development of English, starting c. 16th century
Wikipedia - East Midlands Hub railway station -- A proposed station at Toton on the HS2 line under development
Wikipedia - Ebbsfleet Valley -- New town and redevelopment area in Kent, South East England
Wikipedia - Eclipse (software) -- Java software development environment
Wikipedia - Ecodistrict -- Term used in urban planning to integrate objectives of sustainable development and reduce ecological impact
Wikipedia - Ecologist Party for the Development of Burkina -- Political party in Burkina Faso
Wikipedia - Economic and Technological Development Zones
Wikipedia - Economic development -- Process and policies to improve economic well-being
Wikipedia - Economic history of Spain -- Development of Spain's economy in history
Wikipedia - ECrew Development Program -- Rare educational video game
Wikipedia - Education for Sustainable Development
Wikipedia - Education for sustainable development -- United Nations program
Wikipedia - Education Index -- Component of the Human Development Index
Wikipedia - Education NGOs -- UNESCO stated M-bM-^@M-^\education for sustainable development
Wikipedia - Educators of Change -- Teacher-development program
Wikipedia - Effects of electronic cigarettes on human brain development
Wikipedia - Effects of nicotine on human brain development -- Effects of electronic cigarettes on the developing human brain
Wikipedia - E-government Development Center -- Government agency in Azerbaijan
Wikipedia - EHealth Ontario -- Agency that facilitates the development of Ontario's proposed public Electronic Health Record system
Wikipedia - Elan vital -- Hypothetical explanation for evolution and development of organisms
Wikipedia - Elizabeth Newson -- British developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Embryo -- Multicellular diploid eukaryote in its earliest stage of development
Wikipedia - Emerging technologies -- Technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized
Wikipedia - Emirates City -- Urban development in Ajman, UAE
Wikipedia - Endochondral ossification -- Cartilaginous bone development that forms the long bones
Wikipedia - End-user development
Wikipedia - Energy development
Wikipedia - Enterocoely -- Development process of some animals
Wikipedia - Enterprise Estonia -- Entrepreneurship and regional development foundation in Estonia
Wikipedia - Enterprise Ireland -- Irish state economic development agency
Wikipedia - Epigenesis (biology) -- Process of development
Wikipedia - Equality and Development Party -- Political party in Egypt
Wikipedia - Erika Hoff -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Erikson's stages of psychosocial development -- Eight stages model of psychoanalytic development
Wikipedia - Essi Viding -- Professor of Developmental Psychopathology
Wikipedia - Ethnic identity development
Wikipedia - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development -- Research institute for improving the health of Americans
Wikipedia - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training -- Agency of the European Union
Wikipedia - Eutechnyx -- Video game development studio
Wikipedia - Evolutionary developmental biology -- Field of research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer the ancestral relationships
Wikipedia - Evolutionary developmental psychology -- Application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution to understand the development of human behavior and cognition
Wikipedia - Evolutionary developmental psychopathology
Wikipedia - Evolution of ageing -- Study of the evolutionary development of ageing processes
Wikipedia - Evolution of cells -- The evolutionary origin and subsequent development of cells
Wikipedia - Evolution of human intelligence -- The development of intelligence in humans and association with evolution of the brain and the origin of language
Wikipedia - Evolution of insects -- Development of insects from an ancestral crustacean and their subsequent radiation
Wikipedia - Evolution of multicellularity -- The development of organisms that consists of more than one cell from unicellular ancestors
Wikipedia - Evolution of nervous systems -- Origin and subsequent variation and development of neurons and neural tissues and organs
Wikipedia - Evolution of sirenians -- Development from a Tethytherian ancestor and radiation of species
Wikipedia - Export Development Bank of Iran -- Iranian banking and financial services corporation
Wikipedia - Exporter (computing) -- Video game development tool
Wikipedia - Extreme programming -- Software development methodology
Wikipedia - Eye development -- Formation of the eye during embryonic development
Wikipedia - Faron Pharmaceuticals -- Innish drug discovery and development company
Wikipedia - Farragut Houses -- Public housing development in Brooklyn, New York
Wikipedia - Feature-driven development -- Software development process
Wikipedia - Federal Land Development Authority -- Malaysian government agency
Wikipedia - Ferrari FXX-K -- Development prototype manufactured by Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari based on LaFerrari flagship sports car
Wikipedia - Ferrari FXX -- Development prototype based on the Enzo Ferrari
Wikipedia - Fibroblast growth factor -- Family of proteins involved in anatomical development
Wikipedia - Fifth Party System -- Fifth phase in development of electoral politics in the United States, 1930-1980
Wikipedia - Finance & Development -- Journal of the International Monetary Fund
Wikipedia - Firebase -- Cloud computing and development platform by Google
Wikipedia - Firebug (software) -- Web development add-on for Firefox
Wikipedia - Firecatcher F-45 -- single-turboprop utility aircraft in development
Wikipedia - First Houses -- Public housing development in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - First Party System -- First phase in the development of electoral politics in the United States, 1792-1824
Wikipedia - Fis Eireann/Screen Ireland -- Irish state development body for film, TV and animation
Wikipedia - Five-Year Plans of South Korea -- Economic development project
Wikipedia - Flight-Plan -- Japanese video game development company
Wikipedia - Flutter (software) -- Open-source UI software development kit by Google
Wikipedia - Fonds de solidarite FTQ -- Quebec-based development capital organization
Wikipedia - Forensic developmental psychology
Wikipedia - Forest Houses -- Public housing development in the Bronx, New York
Wikipedia - Fork (software development) -- New program, and line of software development, derived from an existing one
Wikipedia - Formal development
Wikipedia - Forum for Democracy and Development -- Political party in Zambia
Wikipedia - FOSDEM -- Annual event in Brussels centered on free and open source software development
Wikipedia - Fourth Party System -- Fourth phase in development of electoral politics in the United States, 1896-1932
Wikipedia - FOX proteins -- Family of transcription factors involved in anatomical development
Wikipedia - Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development -- Science funding in Europe
Wikipedia - Frances Horowitz -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Frank Ruddle -- American cell and developmental biologist (1929-2013)
Wikipedia - FreeType -- Software development library to render text onto bitmaps, and other font-related operations
Wikipedia - Friars Quay (Norwich) -- Residential development in Norwich, England
Wikipedia - Frontier Developments -- British video game developer based in Cambridge, England
Wikipedia - Fulbariya -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - FUNDAEC -- Non-governmental organization that focuses on development in the rural areas of Latin America
Wikipedia - Future developments in City of Sunderland -- Proposed development projects
Wikipedia - Futures wheel -- Method for graphical visualisation of direct and indirect future consequences of a particular change or development
Wikipedia - Gadha, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Gadhi -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology -- Public-private organization for vaccine development
Wikipedia - Gambas -- Integrated development environment for the BASIC dialect Gambas
Wikipedia - Game design -- Game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
Wikipedia - Game development kit
Wikipedia - Game development tool
Wikipedia - Game development
Wikipedia - Game engine -- Software-development environment designed for building video games
Wikipedia - Game integrated development environment
Wikipedia - Gamhariya Parwaha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Gamnangtar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Ganapur -- Village development committee in Bheri Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Gangapipra -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Gap year -- Year-long break before or after college/university during which students engage in various educational and developmental activities, such as travel or some type of regular work
Wikipedia - Garma, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Gastrulation -- Stage in embryonic development in which germ layers form
Wikipedia - Gauripur, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Gautari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Geany -- Integrated Development Environment
Wikipedia - Gender Equality and Family Development Select Committee -- Committee appointed by the Malaysian House of Representatives
Wikipedia - General Educational Development
Wikipedia - General Liberation and Development Party -- Political party in Suriname
Wikipedia - Generation Adidas -- Soccer development program
Wikipedia - Generation IV reactor -- New nuclear reactor technologies under development
Wikipedia - Genius Sonority -- Japanese video game development studio
Wikipedia - Geological history of oxygen -- Timeline of the development of free oxygen in the Earth's seas and atmosphere
Wikipedia - Gerald Turkewitz -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - German Development Institute -- Think tank
Wikipedia - Germ layer -- Primary layer of cells in embryonic development
Wikipedia - Ghitung -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Ghodghans -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Ghoghanpur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - GiantLeap -- Child learning development tool
Wikipedia - Global developmental delay -- Umbrella term used when children are significantly delayed in their cognitive and physical development
Wikipedia - Global Goals Week -- Event for awareness for Sustainable Development Goals
Wikipedia - GNU Binutils -- Software development tools
Wikipedia - GNU MIX Development Kit
Wikipedia - Godar -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - GOELRO plan -- 1920 Soviet plan for economic development
Wikipedia - Goithi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Goldenhar syndrome -- Autosomal dominant condition characterised by hemifacial incomplete development
Wikipedia - Goli, Solukhumbu -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Google App Maker -- Application development tool
Wikipedia - Gorakhani -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Gordon Arthur Riley -- An American marine biologist, instrumental in the development of plankton ecosystem models
Wikipedia - Govindapur Malahanama -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Govindpur Taregana -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Gracie family -- Gracie family - known for their development of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Wikipedia - Graduate Institute of Development Studies -- School in Geneva, Switzerland
Wikipedia - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies -- Higher Education Institute in Geneva, Switzerland
Wikipedia - Green Brick Partners -- American home building and land development company
Wikipedia - Green development -- Real estate development concept that considers social and environmental impacts
Wikipedia - Greenfield status -- Term used after a decommissioned site is restored to its original condition prior to any development
Wikipedia - Group Areas Development Act, 1955
Wikipedia - Group development
Wikipedia - Growth of religion -- Development of various religions within society
Wikipedia - GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development -- Regional organization of four post-Soviet states: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova
Wikipedia - Gudel -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hadiya, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hakpara -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Halal Development Corporation -- Malaysian government agency
Wikipedia - HAL AMCA -- Indian fifth generation fighter jet development programme
Wikipedia - Halkhori -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Hanchaur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hannibal Goodwin -- American inventor in film development
Wikipedia - Hansapur Kathpula -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Hanumannagar, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hanumannagar, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Harakatti -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hardeni -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hardiya Paltuwa -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Hardiya, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Hardware-in-the-loop simulation -- Technique used in the development and test of complex real-time embedded systems
Wikipedia - Hariharpur, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Haripur, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Harkapur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Harlem River Houses -- Public housing development in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - Harold L. Ickes Homes -- Former public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Harvard Project Physics -- National curriculum development project
Wikipedia - Hassan Damluji -- British-Iraqi development expert
Wikipedia - HDC Hyundai Development Company -- South Korean company
Wikipedia - Heavy-Chemical Industry Drive -- Economic development plan
Wikipedia - H. Efsun Arda -- Turkish developmental and systems biologist
Wikipedia - Heinz Rudolph Schaffer -- German-born British developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Hellenikon Metropolitan Park -- Planned urban development in Athens
Wikipedia - Hemimegalencephaly -- Disorder affecting development of one side of the brain
Wikipedia - Henry Horner Homes -- Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
Wikipedia - Heterochrony -- Evolutionary change in the rates or durations of developmental events, leading to structural changes
Wikipedia - Hezbollah social services -- Social development programs organized by Hezbollah
Wikipedia - HiFive Unleashed -- Single board computer development board
Wikipedia - Higher Education for Development -- Educational organizations based in the United States
Wikipedia - High Explosive Research -- UK atomic bomb development project
Wikipedia - High Voltage Software -- American video game development company
Wikipedia - Hillary Maddin -- Canadian paleontologist and developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Historical development of the doctrine of papal primacy
Wikipedia - Historical dictionary -- Dictionary covering the historical development of forms and meanings of words
Wikipedia - Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village -- Public housing development located in Houston, Texas, United States
Wikipedia - Historiography of the Paris Commune -- development of the history of the 1871 Paris Commune
Wikipedia - History of Afghanistan -- Historical development of Afghanistan
Wikipedia - History of Albania -- Historical development of Albania
Wikipedia - History of Algeria -- Historical development of Algeria
Wikipedia - History of astronomy -- Historical development of astronomy
Wikipedia - History of aviation -- History of the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft
Wikipedia - History of Botswana -- Historical development of Botswana
Wikipedia - History of Cameroon -- Historical development of Cameroon
Wikipedia - History of cartography -- The development of cartography, or mapmaking technology
Wikipedia - History of Chad -- Historical development of Chad
Wikipedia - History of Chile -- Historical development of Chile
Wikipedia - History of chocolate -- The development of chocolate products and production
Wikipedia - History of Christianity -- Development and growth of the Christian religion
Wikipedia - History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance -- Development of Christian thought in the West
Wikipedia - History of Costa Rica -- Historical development of Costa Rica
Wikipedia - History of Crimea -- Development of the peoples on the Crimean peninsula
Wikipedia - History of Cuba -- Historical development of Cuba
Wikipedia - History of decompression research and development -- A chronological list of notable events in the history of diving decompression.
Wikipedia - History of Djibouti -- Historical development of Djibouti
Wikipedia - History of Dominica -- Historical development of Dominica
Wikipedia - History of Earth -- The development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day
Wikipedia - History of Ecuador -- Historical development of Ecuador
Wikipedia - History of Egypt -- Historical development of Egypt
Wikipedia - History of energy development
Wikipedia - History of England -- Historical development of England
Wikipedia - History of English land law -- Development in England of the law of real property
Wikipedia - History of Equatorial Guinea -- Historical development of Equatorial Guinea
Wikipedia - History of Gabon -- Historical development of Gabon
Wikipedia - History of geometry -- Historical development of geometry
Wikipedia - History of Grenada -- Historical development of Grenada
Wikipedia - History of Guam -- Historical development of Guam
Wikipedia - History of Guatemala -- Historical development of Guatemala
Wikipedia - History of Guernsey -- Historical development of Guernsey
Wikipedia - History of Guinea-Bissau -- Historical development of Guinea-Bissau
Wikipedia - History of Guinea -- Historical development of Guinea
Wikipedia - History of Haiti -- Historical development of Haiti
Wikipedia - History of Honduras -- Historical development of Honduras
Wikipedia - History of Iraq -- Historical development of Iraq
Wikipedia - History of Islam -- Historical development of Islam
Wikipedia - History of Kazakhstan -- Historical development of Kazakhstan
Wikipedia - History of Kenya -- Historical development of Kenya
Wikipedia - History of Kyrgyzstan -- Historical development of Kyrgyzstan
Wikipedia - History of Lebanon -- Historical development of Lebanon
Wikipedia - History of Lesotho -- Historical development of Lesotho
Wikipedia - History of Liberia -- Historical development of Liberia
Wikipedia - History of Libya -- Historical development of Libya
Wikipedia - History of Lithuania -- Historical development of Lithuania
Wikipedia - History of London -- Historical development of London
Wikipedia - History of Luxembourg -- Historical development of Luxembourg
Wikipedia - History of medicine -- Historical development of medicine
Wikipedia - History of Oceania -- Historical development of Oceania
Wikipedia - History of painting -- Historical development of painting
Wikipedia - History of photography -- The invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images
Wikipedia - History of physics -- Historical development of physics
Wikipedia - History of religion -- Historical development of religion
Wikipedia - History of science and technology -- Historical development of science and technology
Wikipedia - History of science -- History of the development of science and scientific knowledge
Wikipedia - History of Scotland -- Historical development of Scotland
Wikipedia - History of television -- Development of television
Wikipedia - History of the British Isles -- Historical development of the British Isles
Wikipedia - History of the camera -- History of the technological development of cameras
Wikipedia - History of the Cayman Islands -- Historical development of the Cayman Islands
Wikipedia - History of the Central African Republic -- Historical development of the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - History of the Comoros -- Historical development of the Comoros
Wikipedia - History of the Cook Islands -- Historical development of the Cook Islands
Wikipedia - History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Historical development of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - History of the Dominican Republic -- Historical development of the Dominican Republic
Wikipedia - History of the Faroe Islands -- Historical development of the Faroe Islands
Wikipedia - History of the Federated States of Micronesia -- Historical development of the Federated States of Micronesia
Wikipedia - History of the Isle of Man -- Historical development of the Isle of Man
Wikipedia - History of the Mediterranean region -- Historical development of the Mediterranean
Wikipedia - History of the Pacific Islands -- Historical development of the Pacific Islands
Wikipedia - History of turnpikes and canals in the United States -- Development of transportation links in the USA.
Wikipedia - History of Wikipedia -- Historical development of Wikipedia
Wikipedia - History of writing -- The creation and development of permanent, physical records of language
Wikipedia - History of Zimbabwe -- Historical development of Zimbabwe
Wikipedia - Hobbyist operating system development
Wikipedia - Holland Land Office -- 1815 building in Batavia, New York, that housed the offices of the company that oversaw the development of Western New York
Wikipedia - Homeobox -- DNA sequence, around 180 base pairs long, found within genes that are involved in the regulation of patterns of anatomical development
Wikipedia - Housing and Development Board -- Organization for public housing in Singapore
Wikipedia - Housing Development Finance Corporation -- Indian financial services company
Wikipedia - Housing estate -- Group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development
Wikipedia - Housing Vermont -- American not-for-profit syndication and development company
Wikipedia - Howard Gardner -- American developmental psychologist (born 1943)
Wikipedia - Howard Hughes Corporation -- US real estate development and management company
Wikipedia - Hudson Yards (development) -- Development project in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project
Wikipedia - Human Appeal -- British international development and relief charity based in Manchester
Wikipedia - Human brain development timeline -- Timeline of the development of the human brain
Wikipedia - Human-centered design -- Approach to design that considers human needs at every step of development
Wikipedia - Human development (biology)
Wikipedia - Human development (humanity)
Wikipedia - Human Development Index -- Composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices
Wikipedia - Human Development (journal)
Wikipedia - Human development (psychology)
Wikipedia - Human Development Report -- Annual report by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme
Wikipedia - Human development theory
Wikipedia - Human evolutionary developmental biology -- Evolution of developmental processes in humans
Wikipedia - Human resources development
Wikipedia - Hyper Hippo Productions -- Canadian online video game and software development company
Wikipedia - Hyperion Entertainment -- Belgian software development company
Wikipedia - Hypodontia -- Developmental absence of one or more teeth excluding the third molars
Wikipedia - Hypopharyngeal eminence -- Midline swelling of the third and fourth pharyngeal arches, in the development of the tongue.
Wikipedia - Hypoplasia -- Underdevelopment of a tissue or organ
Wikipedia - Hypoplastic right heart syndrome -- Congenital heart disease characterized by underdevelopment of the structures on the right side of the heart commonly associated with atrial septal defect
Wikipedia - IBM Journal of Research and Development
Wikipedia - IBM Research -- IBM's research and development division
Wikipedia - I-City -- Urban development in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Iconsiam -- Mixed-use development in Bangkok, Thailand
Wikipedia - Ida B. Wells Homes -- Former public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - IDBI Bank -- Indian industrial development banking company
Wikipedia - Ikechi Uko -- Nigerian Tourism Development Expert
Wikipedia - Illinois Center -- Urban development in Chicago
Wikipedia - Ilyushin Il-112 -- Military transport aircraft under development
Wikipedia - Ilyushin Il-276 -- Medium airlift military transport aircraft under development by United Aircraft Corporation
Wikipedia - Importer (computing) -- Video game development tool
Wikipedia - Iname, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Inarwa Phulbariya -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Inarwa, Saptari -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Inarwa, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Incident pit -- Conceptual model for explaining incident development and recovery
Wikipedia - Independent game development
Wikipedia - Independent video game development
Wikipedia - Indian mathematics -- Development of mathematics in South Asia
Wikipedia - Indian Social Institute, Bangalore -- Jesuit development centre based in India
Wikipedia - Indie game development
Wikipedia - Indieszero -- Japanese video game development company
Wikipedia - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research -- Educational institution in India
Wikipedia - Individual development account -- Asset building tool
Wikipedia - Indonesian Aerospace N-245 -- Utility aircraft under development
Wikipedia - Indrayani Pokhari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan cricket team -- Cricket team
Wikipedia - Industrial park -- Area for development of industry
Wikipedia - Infant cognitive development
Wikipedia - Infant development
Wikipedia - Infocomm Media Development Authority -- Statutory board of the Singapore government
Wikipedia - Information and communications technology in agriculture -- Agricultural and rural development
Wikipedia - Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services -- Infrastructure development and finance company
Wikipedia - Inner source -- Use of open source software development best practices and open source-like culture
Wikipedia - Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
Wikipedia - Instance (computer science) -- Concrete manifestation of an object (class) in software development
Wikipedia - Instar -- A developmental stage of arthropods between moults
Wikipedia - Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man
Wikipedia - Institute of Development Studies -- UK research institute
Wikipedia - Instructional design -- Process for design and development of learning resources
Wikipedia - Integrated circuit development
Wikipedia - Integrated Development Environment
Wikipedia - Integrated development environment -- Software application used to develop software
Wikipedia - Integration Objects -- Software development firm
Wikipedia - Intellectual disability -- Generalized neurodevelopmental disorder
Wikipedia - Intelligent designer -- Hypothetical willed and self-aware entity that the intelligent design movement argues had some role in the origin and/or development of life
Wikipedia - Intel System Development Kit
Wikipedia - Interbau -- Housing Development at 1957 International Building Exhibition, Berlin
Wikipedia - Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders -- Nonprofit organization
Wikipedia - Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development -- Interfaith organization based in Jerusalem
Wikipedia - Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle -- A re-entry vehicle prototype by ESA for the development of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
Wikipedia - International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- Food politics
Wikipedia - International Assistance Mission -- Christian development non-governmental organization operating in Afghanistan
Wikipedia - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development -- The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is one of the lending arm's of the World Bank Organization.
Wikipedia - International Centre for Climate Change and Development -- Research institute in Bangladesh
Wikipedia - International Conference on Population and Development
Wikipedia - International Cooperation Administration -- Predecessor of the U.S. Agency for International Development
Wikipedia - International development -- Concept concerning the level of development on an international scale
Wikipedia - International Finance Centre (Hong Kong) -- Commercial development in Central, Hong Kong
Wikipedia - International Institute for Management Development -- Swiss business education school
Wikipedia - International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development -- International human development learned society
Wikipedia - International Union of Pure and Applied Physics -- International non-governmental organization that assits in worldwide physics development
Wikipedia - Internet Initiatives Development Fund -- Russian venture capital fund
Wikipedia - Inti Creates -- Japanese video game development studio
Wikipedia - Intramembranous ossification -- Mesenchymal bone development that forms the non-long bones
Wikipedia - Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anonima (IRSA) -- Real estate development firm in Argentina
Wikipedia - Invest Atlanta -- development authority of Atlanta, Georgia, US
Wikipedia - Investment Fund for Developing Countries -- Danish government-owned development finance institution
Wikipedia - IOS SDK -- iOS Software Development Kit
Wikipedia - Iranian Rail Industries Development Co -- Rolling stock manufacturer
Wikipedia - Iraq and weapons of mass destruction -- Research and development of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Wikipedia - Irtysh (rocket) -- Russian rocket, in development
Wikipedia - Ishibu -- Village development committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Itahari Bishnupur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Itarhawa -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Itari Parsahi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Itatar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Iterative and Incremental Development
Wikipedia - Iterative and incremental development -- Types of methodology to develop a system through repeated cycles (iterative) and in smaller portions at a time
Wikipedia - JACK Intelligent Agents -- Java framework for system development
Wikipedia - Jacqueline Lerner -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Jaispur -- Village development committee in Bheri Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Jalapa, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jaljale -- Village development committee in Kosi Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Jamadaha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - James A. Cayce Homes -- Public housing development located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Wikipedia - James Monroe Houses -- Public housing development in the Bronx, New York
Wikipedia - James Thomson (cell biologist) -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Jamuni Madhapura -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jamuni -- Village development committee in Province No. 5, Nepal
Wikipedia - Jana Iverson -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Janakinagar, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jandaul -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jane Loevinger -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Janss Investment Company -- family run, real estate development company in southern California (1895 to 1995)
Wikipedia - Jantarkhani -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Janti -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Japanese mathematics -- The independent development of mathematics in Japan during the isolation of the Edo period.
Wikipedia - Japanese National Research and Development Agencies -- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
Wikipedia - Japan KM-EM-^Mgei Association -- Non-profit association dedicated to the protection and development of intangible cultural heritage
Wikipedia - Java Agent Development Framework -- Software framework
Wikipedia - Java Development Kit -- Software development tools for developing Java applications
Wikipedia - Jaypee Sports City -- Indian sports-themed development
Wikipedia - Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Jeffrey Sachs -- | Jeffrey Sachs - Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals (2004-2006), Director of the United Nations Millennium Project
Wikipedia - Jelena Obradovic -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Jennifer Woolard -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- Research and development center and NASA field center in California, United States
Wikipedia - Jewel Changi Airport -- Mixed-use development at Changi Airport
Wikipedia - Jhutaki -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jighaul -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jill de Villiers -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Jogidaha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Joginiya-1 -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Joginiya-2 -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Johari window -- Technique in personality development
Wikipedia - John Cass -- British politician and major figure in the early development of the slave trade
Wikipedia - John F. Rawls -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - John Gurdon -- English developmental biologist (born 1933)
Wikipedia - John Tyler Bonner -- American developmental and evolutionary biologist
Wikipedia - Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation -- United Nations mechanism tasked with monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal Number 6
Wikipedia - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Wikipedia - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Wikipedia - Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease -- Medical journal
Wikipedia - JTC Corporation -- Singaporean agency for sustainable development
Wikipedia - Jubing -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jubu, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Julia A. Horsfield -- New Zealand biochemist and developmental geneticist
Wikipedia - Julia C. Lathrop Homes -- Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Julian Castro -- 16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 181st Mayor of San Antonio
Wikipedia - Julie Lumeng -- American developmental and behavioural paediatrician
Wikipedia - Jumbo-Visma Development Team -- Dutch cycling team
Wikipedia - Jupiter Corporation -- Japanese video game development studio
Wikipedia - Justice and Development Front -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Justice and Development Party (Morocco) -- Moroccan political party
Wikipedia - Justice and Development Party (Tunisia) -- Tunisian political party
Wikipedia - Justice and Development Party (Turkey) -- Conservative-democratic political party in Turkey
Wikipedia - Jyamire, Khotang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Jyotsna Dhawan -- Indian Cell and Developmental Biologist
Wikipedia - Kabilasha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kabilasi, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kachanari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kachan, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kahalle -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - KAI KF-X -- Advanced multirole fighter aircraft under development by South Korea and Indonesia
Wikipedia - Kai Tak Development -- Redevelopment of the former Kai Tak Airport site in Hong Kong
Wikipedia - Kakuda Space Center -- development facility of JAXA
Wikipedia - Kaku, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kalikadevi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kalisto Entertainment -- Defunct French video game development company
Wikipedia - Kalyanpur Jabadi -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Kalyanpur Kalabanjar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kalyanpur, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kamalpur, Nepal -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Kanban (development)
Wikipedia - Kanda, Bajhang -- Village Development Committee in Seti Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Kangel -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kanpur Kalapani -- Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Kaptigaun -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kapustin Yar -- Rocket launch and development site
Wikipedia - Karjanha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University -- State university in Karnataka, India
Wikipedia - Kataiya, Nepal -- Village development committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kate Storey -- British developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Kathryn Virginia Anderson -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Kathy Niakan -- Developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Katunje -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kaule, Khotang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - KDD Group -- Ukrainian real estate development company
Wikipedia - KEH (War Development Aid) -- 2009 Swiss satirical art activism project
Wikipedia - Keith Campbell (biologist) -- British biologist (1954-2012) Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham,
Wikipedia - Kenya African Democratic Development Union -- Political party in Kenya
Wikipedia - Kerung VDC -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kettler Inc. -- American real estate development company
Wikipedia - Ketuke -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kevlin Henney -- author, presenter, and consultant on software development.
Wikipedia - Kew Cottages -- A decommissioned special development school and residential service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Wikipedia - Khadgapur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khaira, Nepal -- Village Development Committee in Rapti Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Khajuri Chanha -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Khaliya Aga Khan -- Princess, Aga Khan Development Network consultant
Wikipedia - Khanbu -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kharpa -- Village Development Committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Khartamchha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kharukyanhi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khesarhiya -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Khidima -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khijiphalate -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khirauna -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khojpur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khotang Bazar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Khumjung -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - KID -- Japanese game development company
Wikipedia - Kindling model -- Model for the development of seizures
Wikipedia - Kirby Deater-Deckard -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Kisanpur -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Knickerbocker Village -- Public housing development in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - Kochabakhari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Wikipedia - Koiladi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Ko. Madhepura -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Konstantin Noskov -- Russian economist and politician; Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (2018-2020)
Wikipedia - Krishnapur Birta -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kubhinde, Khotang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kuibhir -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kuntadevi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kurtha -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Kuruwas Chapakhori -- Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Kushaha Laksiminiya -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Kuznets curve -- Empirical relationship between economic development and inequality level
Wikipedia - KWG Property -- Property development company in Guandong, China
Wikipedia - Kylotonn -- French video game development studio
Wikipedia - Laboratory school -- School designed to facilitate experimentation and development in education
Wikipedia - Lagadi Gadiyani -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lagadigoth -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lake Michigan High-Rises (CHA) -- Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Lakeview Square -- Mixed use development in Winnipeg, Canada
Wikipedia - Lakshminiya, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lakshmipur (Pra. Ma.) -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lalapati -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Lalpur, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Landmark Worldwide -- Company offering personal development programs
Wikipedia - Language change -- Modification or development of a language
Wikipedia - Language development
Wikipedia - Laphagaun -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Laphyang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Launiya -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lauren Adamson -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development -- A psychological theory describing the evolution of moral reasoning
Wikipedia - Leadership development
Wikipedia - Lean software development
Wikipedia - Lean startup -- Early business development tool
Wikipedia - Leapfrogging (urban development) -- Urbanization process
Wikipedia - Learning and development
Wikipedia - Learning disability -- Range of neurodevelopmental conditions
Wikipedia - Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction -- Lebanese governmental organisation involved in repairing infrastructure damaged by war
Wikipedia - LECOM Harborcenter -- Mixed use hockey themed development in Buffalo, New York
Wikipedia - Lekhani, Udayapur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lekhgau -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Le Lignon -- Urban development in Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland
Wikipedia - Leslie Rescorla -- US developmental psychologist (1945 - 2020)
Wikipedia - Liberalism in the United States -- Origin, history and development of liberalism in the United States
Wikipedia - Liberia Education and Development Party -- Political party in Liberia
Wikipedia - Libertarianism in the United States -- origin, history and development of libertarianism in the United States
Wikipedia - Library (computing) -- Collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development.
Wikipedia - Lichki Ramche -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Ligha -- Village Development Committee in Mid-Western, Nepal
Wikipedia - Lightricks -- Software development company
Wikipedia - Limb bud -- Structure formed early in vertebrate limb development
Wikipedia - Limoneira -- Public limited agribusiness and real estate development company in California, United States.
Wikipedia - Limpatar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lincoln Yards (development) -- Proposed development in Chicago
Wikipedia - Linkuwa Pokhari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Linus's law -- 1999 claim by Eric S. Raymond about software development, named after Linus Torvalds
Wikipedia - Lion's Gate Project -- developmental branch of Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Wikipedia - List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of administrative divisions of Myanmar by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of African countries by Human Development Index -- none
Wikipedia - List of alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of ARM Cortex-M development tools -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Arrested Development cast members -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Arrested Development characters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Arrested Development episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Australian states and territories by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Austrian states by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of awards and nominations received by Arrested Development -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Belgian provinces by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Bolivian departments by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Brazilian federative units by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Bulgarian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Canadian provinces and territories by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of CCC Development Team rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of central European countries by development indexes -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Colombian departments by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of companies by research and development spending -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of counties of Albania by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of countries by Human Development Index by region -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of countries by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of countries by Official Development Assistance received -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of countries by research and development spending -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Croatian counties by Human Development Index -- Comparison of Human Development Index of Croatian counties
Wikipedia - List of Czech regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Danish regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of development aid agencies -- Wikimedia list article about development aid agencies
Wikipedia - List of development aid country donors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of developmental and minor sports leagues -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of developmental psychologists -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of districts in Tamil Nadu by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of districts of Sierra Leone by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ethiopian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of federal subjects of Russia by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Finnish regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of German states by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ghanaian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Governorates of Iraq by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Greek regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Honduran departments by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Indian states and union territories by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Indonesian provinces by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan cricketers -- List of cricketers
Wikipedia - List of Iranian provinces by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Irish regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Italian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Japanese prefectures by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Jordanian governorates by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Malaysian states by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Cellular and developmental biology)
Wikipedia - List of Mexican states by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of multinational companies with research and development centres in Israel -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of municipalities of East Timor by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Namibian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Nigerian states by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Nintendo development teams -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Norwegian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Polish voivodeships by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Portuguese regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Presidents of the National Development Council of Rwanda -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of presidents of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of provinces of Kenya by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of provinces of Mozambique by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of provinces of the Netherlands by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Bangladesh by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Guinea-Bissau by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Kazakhstan by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Kuwait by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Lebanon by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Montenegro by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Morocco by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Nepal by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of New Zealand by Human Development Index -- wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Peru by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Saudi Arabia by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Switzerland by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Tanzania by Human Development Index -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of the United Kingdom by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions of Trinidad and Tobago by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Romanian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Salvadoran departments by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Senegalese regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of software development philosophies
Wikipedia - List of South African provinces by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of sovereign states in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index
Wikipedia - List of sovereign states in Europe by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Spanish autonomous communities by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Sudanese states by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Swedish regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Turkish regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ukrainian regions by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of U.S. states by American Human Development Index -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of U.S. states by research and development spending -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of video games in development -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of village development committees of Nepal -- Districts of Nepal
Wikipedia - List of Water and Power Development Authority cricketers -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - Lithuanian Development Agency -- Former non-profit governmental organization of Lithuania
Wikipedia - Liza DiM-CM-1o -- Filipino actress and Chairperson of the Film Development Council of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Local development -- Theory in social sciences
Wikipedia - Loding Tamakhani -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Loevinger's stages of ego development
Wikipedia - Lofts at Cherokee Studios -- Mixed-use development in Los Angeles, California, USA
Wikipedia - Lohajara -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Lokhim -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Los Angeles Science Teachers Network -- Professional development network for science education
Wikipedia - Lot Fourteen -- Cultural and business precinct under development in Adelaide, South Australia
Wikipedia - Lotus Development Corporation
Wikipedia - Lotus Development
Wikipedia - Louise Newman -- Australian developmental psychiatrist
Wikipedia - Lowden Homes -- Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Low-impact development (UK)
Wikipedia - Lucy Shapiro -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Lunar Gateway -- Lunar orbital space station under development
Wikipedia - Mabe, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Machchhegaun -- Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Madar, Nepal -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Madeline Lancaster -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Madhavpur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Madhawapur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Madhubani, Nepal -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Tamilnadu
Wikipedia - Madhumalla -- Village development committee in Koshi Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Madhupati -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Madrid Nuevo Norte -- Urban redevelopment programme in Madrid, Spain
Wikipedia - Magpa -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mahadeva, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mahadevasthan -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mahadewa Portaha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mahanaur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Maheshpur Gamharia -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Maheshpur Patari -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Mahinathpur -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Maina Kaderi -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Maina Sahasrabahu -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Mainpur -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Majhauliya -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Majhaura -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Makhanaha, Siraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Makoto Asashima -- Japanese developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Malawi Forum for Unity and Development -- Political party in Malawi
Wikipedia - Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation -- External Trade government agency of Malaysia
Wikipedia - Malekpur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Maleth -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Malhaniya Gamharia -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Malhaniyakhori -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Malhaniya -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Malpi -- Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Mamkha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mammary ridge -- Primordium specific for the development of the mammary gland
Wikipedia - Management Development Institute Murshidabad -- Business school in West Bengal
Wikipedia - Management Development Institute -- University in India
Wikipedia - Management development
Wikipedia - Mangaltar, Khotang -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Manhattan Project -- Research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs.
Wikipedia - Maqaam -- Spiritual state in Sufi development
Wikipedia - Marcel Adams -- Canadian Holocaust survivor and founder of Iberville Developments
Wikipedia - Margaret-Ellen Pipe -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Margaret Hurlstone Hardy Fallding -- Developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Margaret T. Fuller -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Marian Croak -- Vice President of Research and Development at Google
Wikipedia - Marian Sigman -- American developmental and child psychologist
Wikipedia - Marina One -- Mixed-use development in Marina South, Singapore
Wikipedia - Marine Development -- Scottish linkspan development company
Wikipedia - Mariners Harbor Houses -- Public housing development in Staten Island, New York
Wikipedia - Market development
Wikipedia - Market! Market! -- Real estate development
Wikipedia - Market sentiment -- General attitude of investors to market price development
Wikipedia - Martin Fowler (software engineer) -- American software developer, author and international public speaker on software development
Wikipedia - Mary Bownes -- English molecular and developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Matahiya -- Village development committee in Bheri Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Mattim Birta -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mauricio Claver-Carone -- President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Wikipedia - Mauwabote -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mauwaha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mauwahi -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Maxim Oreshkin -- Russian politician; Minister of Economic Development (2016-2020)
Wikipedia - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Wikipedia - Maxut Shadayev -- Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
Wikipedia - Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development -- A peer-reviewed applied psychology journal
Wikipedia - MediaCityUK -- Property development in Salford
Wikipedia - Media Development Authority -- Statutory board in Singapore
Wikipedia - Media development -- Process of building capacity for media
Wikipedia - Melanie Marquez -- Filipino personality development coach, actress, film producer, author and celebrity endorser
Wikipedia - MELiSSA -- ESA life support system development project
Wikipedia - Melnick-Needles syndrome -- X-linked dominant disorder that affects primarily bone development
Wikipedia - Melpomene Projects -- Housing development in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Wikipedia - Memory development -- Development of memory in children
Wikipedia - MercExchange -- Technology development and online auction company
Wikipedia - Mesenchyme -- Type of connective tissue found mostly during the embryonic development of bilateral triploblast animals
Wikipedia - Metamorphosis -- Profound change in body structure during the postembryonic development of an organism
Wikipedia - Michael Tomasello -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Microphthalmia -- Developmental disorder of the eye
Wikipedia - Microsoft Development Center Norway
Wikipedia - Microsoft Mobile -- Subsidiary of multinational company Microsoft, involved in the development and manufacturing of mobile phones and mobile computing devices
Wikipedia - Microsoft Visual C++ -- Integrated development environment product by Microsoft
Wikipedia - Middle Low German -- Developmental stage of Low German
Wikipedia - Middle Platonism -- Stage in the development of Platonic philosophy (90 BCE - 3rd century CE), starting from when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected the scepticism of the New Academy, ending with the development of Neoplatonism under Plotinus
Wikipedia - Miesian Plaza -- Office development in Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Millennium Development Goals -- eight international development goals for the year 2015 by the United Nations
Wikipedia - Millennium Leadership Initiative -- Higher education leadership development program
Wikipedia - Minhang Development Zone station -- Shanghai Metro station
Wikipedia - Minister for Maori Development -- New Zealand minister of the Crown
Wikipedia - Minister for Social Development (New Zealand) -- New Zealand minister of the Crown
Wikipedia - Minister of Economic Development (New Zealand) -- New Zealand minister of the Crown
Wikipedia - Minister of Housing and Urban Development -- New Zealand minister of the Crown
Wikipedia - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Poland) -- Agriculture ministry of Poland
Wikipedia - Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region -- Government of India ministry
Wikipedia - Ministry of Development (Poland) -- Polish ministry of Development
Wikipedia - Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development -- Government ministry of Kiribati
Wikipedia - Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (Kiribati) -- Government ministry of Kiribati
Wikipedia - Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development -- Government ministry of Kiribati
Wikipedia - Ministry of Human Resource Development
Wikipedia - Ministry of Information, Communications, Transport and Tourism Development -- Government ministry of Kiribati
Wikipedia - Ministry of Investment and Economic Development (Poland) -- Agency of the government of Poland
Wikipedia - Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development -- Government ministry of Kiribati
Wikipedia - Ministry of Local Development -- Egyptian government body
Wikipedia - Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives -- Government ministry of Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Ministry of National Development (Singapore) -- Ministry of the government of Singapore
Wikipedia - Ministry of Regional Development (Brazil) -- Regional Development ministry body Brazil
Wikipedia - Ministry of Social Development (Argentina) -- Ministry in Argentine Government
Wikipedia - Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (Namibia) -- Government ministry in Namibia
Wikipedia - Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation -- Government ministry of India
Wikipedia - Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd. -- British video game development company
Wikipedia - Missouri Department of Economic Development -- State agency of Missouri
Wikipedia - Mistwalker -- American-Japanese video game development studio
Wikipedia - Mixed-use development -- Type of urban development strategy
Wikipedia - Mobile app development -- process to build apps for various mobile operating systems
Wikipedia - Mobile Application Development
Wikipedia - Mobile development
Wikipedia - Model-driven development
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Wikipedia - Moderation and Development Party -- Pragmatic-centrist political party in Iran
Wikipedia - Mohanpur Kamalpur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mohanpur, Saptari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Moli -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Monisha Behal -- Indian social development activist
Wikipedia - Monoxenous development -- One-host parasitic lifestyle
Wikipedia - Moral development
Wikipedia - Moral progress -- The development of morality on a societal scale
Wikipedia - More London -- Development on the south bank of the River Thames in London
Wikipedia - Morphogenetic field -- Developmental biology concept
Wikipedia - Morphogen -- Biological substance that guides development by non-uniform distribution
Wikipedia - Morrisania Air Rights -- Public housing development in the Bronx, New York
Wikipedia - MoSCoW method -- Business analysis and software development technique
Wikipedia - Moth (dinghy) -- A small development class sailing dinghy
Wikipedia - Motor Development International -- Is a French company designing compressed air car prototypes
Wikipedia - Mouse brain development timeline -- none
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy and Development (Central African Republic) -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development -- Political party in Djibouti
Wikipedia - Movement for Development and Solidarity -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - Movement for Development by Culture -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - Movement for Solidarity and Development -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Mozel Sander Projects -- Public housing development located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Wikipedia - Mr. Wendal -- 1992 single by Arrested Development
Wikipedia - MTA Capital Construction and Development Company -- Projects subsidiary of New York City's MTA
Wikipedia - Muir v Glasgow Corp -- Leading case in the development of the law of negligence
Wikipedia - Mukali -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Muksar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Mulkharka -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Multilateral development bank
Wikipedia - Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder
Wikipedia - Murali Chemuturi -- Indian software development expert
Wikipedia - Musical development
Wikipedia - Myakhu -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Myanmar Farmers Development Party -- Political party in Myanmar
Wikipedia - Myogenesis -- Formation of muscular tissue, particularly during embryonic development
Wikipedia - My Philosophical Development -- Book by Bertrand Russell
Wikipedia - Myrtle Byram McGraw -- 1899-1988 , developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Mystery meat navigation -- Concept in software development
Wikipedia - Nadia Frobisch -- German vertebrate paleontologist and developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Nahara Rigaul -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Nakatajhijh -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - NAL Saras -- Transport aircraft under development
Wikipedia - Nametar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Namjung -- Village development committee in Gandaki Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Nancy Birdsall -- Nancy Birdall was the founder and director of the Center for Global Development (CGD)
Wikipedia - Nancy E. Hill -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Nancy Papalopulu -- Professor of Developmental Neuroscience
Wikipedia - Nani A. Coloretti -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Wikipedia - Naraha Balkawa -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Nargho -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Narmedeshwar -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - NASA Academy -- Leadership development training program at NASA
Wikipedia - Natasha J. Cabrera -- Canadian developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - National Aerospace Development Administration
Wikipedia - National Alliance for Law and Economic Development -- Political party in Burundi
Wikipedia - National Centre for Research and Development in Poland -- Polish government agency
Wikipedia - National Centre for Women Development -- States-owned enterprises of women development, Nigeria
Wikipedia - National Centre for Writing -- Literature development agency based in Norwich, England
Wikipedia - National Commission on Teaching and America's Future -- Education policy aims to improve recruitment, development and retention of skilled teachers in U.S.
Wikipedia - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development -- Brazilian government agency for scientific research organization
Wikipedia - National Development Bank of Botswana -- Development bank in Botswana
Wikipedia - National Development Bank of Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan commercial bank
Wikipedia - National Development Front
Wikipedia - National Development Party (India) -- Indian political party
Wikipedia - National Development Party (Thailand) -- Thai political party
Wikipedia - National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning
Wikipedia - National Health Planning and Resources Development Act -- US law
Wikipedia - National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited -- An Indian government owned company
Wikipedia - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Wikipedia - National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies
Wikipedia - National Kinney Corporation -- Real estate development company
Wikipedia - National Mineral Development Corporation -- Indian public sector mineral mining company
Wikipedia - National Movement for Nature and Development -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - National Movement for the Development of Society -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - National Party for Development and Welfare -- Political party in Libya
Wikipedia - National Party for Solidarity and Development -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - National Rally for Development and Progress -- Political party in Chad
Wikipedia - National Rally for Reform and Development -- Political party in Mauritania
Wikipedia - National Research Centre on Camels, Bikaner -- Institute to promote research and development on camels located near Bikaner city in Rajasthan, India
Wikipedia - National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents -- Australian patent law case
Wikipedia - National Research Development Corporation
Wikipedia - National Space Research and Development Agency -- Agency responsible for space in Nigeria
Wikipedia - National Technical Information Service -- US government agency responsible for the collection and organization of scientific, technical, engineering, and business information generated by U.S. Government-sponsored research and development
Wikipedia - National Union for Democracy and Development -- Political party in Burkina Faso
Wikipedia - National Unity, Freedom & Development -- Political party in Madagascar
Wikipedia - Navarajpur -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Necha Batase -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Necha Bedghari -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Negada -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Nele -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development
Wikipedia - Neotenic complex syndrome -- Congenital extreme form of developmental delay and neoteny
Wikipedia - Nerpa, Nepal -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - NetBeans -- Integrated development environment software for software development
Wikipedia - Netherlands Architecture Institute -- Former cultural institute for architecture and urban development in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Wikipedia - Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
Wikipedia - Neural development
Wikipedia - Neural stem cell -- Precursor cells of neurons and glia during embryonic development
Wikipedia - Neural tube -- Developmental precursor to the central nervous system
Wikipedia - Neurodevelopmental disorder -- Group of disorders that affect the development of the nervous system
Wikipedia - Neuro-linguistic programming -- Pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy
Wikipedia - Neurula -- Embryo at the early stage of development in which neurulation occurs
Wikipedia - New Alliance for Democracy and Development in Burundi -- Political party in Burundi
Wikipedia - New Columbia (Portland, Oregon) -- housing development in Portland, Oregon, United States
Wikipedia - New Development Bank -- The Bank started by the BRICS nations in 2014.
Wikipedia - New Glenn -- Rocket in development by Blue Origin
Wikipedia - New Partnership for Africa's Development E-School Program
Wikipedia - New Partnership for Africa's Development -- Economic development program of the African Union
Wikipedia - New product development -- Complete process of bringing a new product to market
Wikipedia - Next-generation crewed spacecraft -- Chinese deep-space crewed spacecraft in development
Wikipedia - Niantic (company) -- Mobile app and video game development company
Wikipedia - Nike Sport Research Lab -- Research and development institute
Wikipedia - NIMBY -- Movement of opposition to development projects by residents
Wikipedia - Nintendo Entertainment Analysis > Development
Wikipedia - Nintendo Integrated Research & Development -- Division of Nintendo
Wikipedia - Nintendo Platform Technology Development -- Nintendo's hardware development division
Wikipedia - Nintendo Research & Development 1 -- Nintendo's oldest video game development team
Wikipedia - Nintendo Research & Development 2 -- Former team within Nintendo that developed software and peripherals
Wikipedia - Nintendo Research & Engineering -- Former hardware development department by Nintendo
Wikipedia - Nintendo Research > Development 1
Wikipedia - Nirmalidanda -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - No-code development platform -- Software development services
Wikipedia - Nodal signaling pathway -- A signal transduction pathway important in regional and cellular differentiation during embryonic development
Wikipedia - Noise (video game company) -- Japanese video game development company
Wikipedia - Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon -- US Army and Air Force award
Wikipedia - Noriko Osumi -- Professor of developmental neuroscience
Wikipedia - Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development -- Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development of the Northern Cape
Wikipedia - Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism -- Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism
Wikipedia - Northern Cape Department of Social Development -- Northern Cape Department of Social Development
Wikipedia - North Korea and weapons of mass destruction -- North Korea's military development for weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological
Wikipedia - Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider -- American bomber aircraft under development by Northrop Grumman
Wikipedia - Northumberland Development Project -- Property development in London, England
Wikipedia - Nova Centre -- Commercial development in Halifax, Canada
Wikipedia - Nunthala -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Nur (biology) -- Family of orphan nuclear receptors which act as transcription factors in neuron development and maintenance.
Wikipedia - Nvidia RTX -- Development platform for rendering graphics
Wikipedia - OBO Foundry -- Collaborative development organization
Wikipedia - Odraha -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Office of Community Services -- U.S. government agency that promotes economic development
Wikipedia - Office of Scientific Research and Development
Wikipedia - Offshore software development
Wikipedia - Okhale -- Former Village Development Committee in Nepal
Wikipedia - Okharkot -- Village Development Committee in Mid-Western, Nepal
Wikipedia - OKO Group -- International real estate development firm
Wikipedia - Oliver Braddick -- British developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Olympia and York -- Defunct international property development firm based in Toronto
Wikipedia - Olympiacos B.C. B Development Team -- Olympiacos BC's Development Team
Wikipedia - Omaveloxolone -- synthetic oleanane triterpenoid compounds currently in clinical development
Wikipedia - Omega (laser) -- Soviet anti-aircraft laser development program
Wikipedia - One Chicago Square -- Proposed real estate development in Chicago
Wikipedia - One Limassol -- Residential development in Cyprus
Wikipedia - One Nation (infrastructure) -- Australian government infrastructure development program
Wikipedia - Online integrated development environment
Wikipedia - Ontogeny -- Origination and development of an organism, usually from the time of egg fertisliation through to adult form
Wikipedia - ONVIF -- Industry forum facilitating the development and use of standard IP-based security products
Wikipedia - Open-design movement -- movement for product development with publicly shared designs
Wikipedia - Open Source Development Labs
Wikipedia - Open-source model -- software development model encouraging open collaboration
Wikipedia - Open-source product development
Wikipedia - Open-source software development model
Wikipedia - Open-source software development
Wikipedia - Operation Warp Speed -- American public-private partnership designed to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development
Wikipedia - Oregon Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development -- Oregon government agency overseeing community college standards and funding
Wikipedia - Oregon Youth Development Division -- Oregon state agency
Wikipedia - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Wikipedia - Organizational development
Wikipedia - Organization development
Wikipedia - Orion (spacecraft) -- American-European spacecraft class in development for the Artemis program
Wikipedia - Orphan Drug Act of 1983 -- Law passed in the United States to facilitate development of orphan drugs
Wikipedia - OSDN -- Web-hosted software development forge service including source code repository management
Wikipedia - Oshiwara District Centre (ODC) -- A land developed by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Wikipedia - Oskar -- Gene required for the development of the Drosophila embryo
Wikipedia - Outline of energy development
Wikipedia - Outline of software development
Wikipedia - Outline of web design and web development
Wikipedia - Overdevelopment
Wikipedia - Overseas Development Institute
Wikipedia - Oviparity -- Animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother
Wikipedia - Oxford Department of International Development
Wikipedia - Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO) -- organization dedicated to promoting role of private sector in Pacific Island development
Wikipedia - Pacific Park, Brooklyn -- Development in Brooklyn, New York
Wikipedia - Pair programming -- Collaborative technique for software development
Wikipedia - Pakari -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Pakha -- Village development committee in Karnali Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Pansera -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Paoli Research Center -- research and development facility of Burroughs and Unisys
Wikipedia - Paon DP -- Japanese video game development company
Wikipedia - Paradox Development Studio -- Swedish video game developer
Wikipedia - Paragon Space Development Corporation
Wikipedia - Parallel evolution -- Similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, in response to similar evolutionary pressure
Wikipedia - PARC (company) -- Research and development company
Wikipedia - Parks at Walter Reed -- Commercial development in Washington DC on the grounds of the former Walter Reed Army Hospital
Wikipedia - Parthenogenesis -- Natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization
Wikipedia - Participatory technology development
Wikipedia - Party for Democracy and Development through Unity -- Political party in Suriname
Wikipedia - Party for Economic Development and Solidarity -- Political party in Mali
Wikipedia - Party for Justice and Development -- Political party in Burundi
Wikipedia - Party for Liberty and Development -- Political party in Chad
Wikipedia - Party for Peace, Democracy, and Development -- Political party in Mozambique
Wikipedia - Party for Solidarity and Development of Senegal - Sunu Party -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Party for Truth and Development -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Party of Development and Reforms -- Political party in Kenya
Wikipedia - Party of Reform and Development -- Political party in Libya
Wikipedia - Party of the Union for Renovation and Development -- Political party in Togo
Wikipedia - Party of Unity and Development -- Political party in Mauritania
Wikipedia - Patrice Engle -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Patricia H. Miller -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Patriotic Movement for Democracy and Development -- Togolese political party
Wikipedia - Patterson Houses -- Public housing development in the Bronx, New York
Wikipedia - Pat Yang -- Chinese-American rural education development expert
Wikipedia - Paula Kantor -- American gender and economic development specialist
Wikipedia - Paul Collier -- British development economist
Wikipedia - Paul J. Tesar -- American developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Peace and Development Party -- Political party in Somalia
Wikipedia - Peace, Unity, and Development Party -- political party in Somaliland
Wikipedia - Pediatric and Developmental Pathology -- Medical journal
Wikipedia - People Everyday -- 1992 single by Arrested Development
Wikipedia - PeopleTools -- Proprietary ntegrated development environment
Wikipedia - PEPPADEP -- 1980s pig health and farming development program in Haiti
Wikipedia - Perkins Homes, Baltimore -- Public housing development located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Wikipedia - Perpetual beta -- Software or a system that never leaves the beta development stage
Wikipedia - Personal Development
Wikipedia - Personal development
Wikipedia - Personality development disorder
Wikipedia - Personality development
Wikipedia - Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
Wikipedia - Pervasive developmental disorders
Wikipedia - Pervasive developmental disorder
Wikipedia - Phabricator -- Suite of web-based software development collaboration tools
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Cooperatives Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Housing and Urban Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Metro Manila Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Rural Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Visayas Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Committee on Youth and Sports Development -- Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Special Committee on Bicol Recovery and Economic Development -- Special committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine House Special Committee on Southern Tagalog Development -- Special committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development -- Standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development -- Standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, Innovation and Futures Thinking -- Standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Phoenix Object Basic -- Application development tool
Wikipedia - Phonological development -- Acquisition of language skills during childhood
Wikipedia - Phonological history of French -- Summary of linguistic developments.
Wikipedia - Physical development
Wikipedia - Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Wikipedia - Pidari, Nepal -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Pipra Rajbara -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Pirelli Star Driver -- Racecar driver development program by FIA and Pirelli
Wikipedia - Pitbull Studio -- British video game development company
Wikipedia - Plant development
Wikipedia - Plant evolutionary developmental biology -- The study of developmental programs and patterns in plants from an evolutionary perspective
Wikipedia - Plant hormone -- Chemical compounds that regulate plant growth and development
Wikipedia - Plata Basin Financial Development Fund -- Multilateral financial entity in South America
Wikipedia - Playgrounds (Xcode feature) -- Feature of the Xcode development environment
Wikipedia - Plus Development -- Hard disk producing company in California, United States
Wikipedia - Point Village -- Mixed-use development in the northern Docklands of Dublin
Wikipedia - Pokharbhinda -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Population and Community Development Association -- Non-governmental organization in Thailand
Wikipedia - Positive adult development
Wikipedia - Positive youth development
Wikipedia - PostCSS -- Software development tool that uses JavaScript-based plugins to automate routine CSS operations
Wikipedia - Postdevelopment theory
Wikipedia - Postliberal theology -- Christian faith development of coherent systematic theology movements
Wikipedia - Poth and Schmidt Development Houses -- Set of six double houses in Philadelphia
Wikipedia - Pothiyahi -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana -- Indian rural development programme
Wikipedia - Prairie Avenue Courts -- Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Preadolescence -- Stage of human development following early childhood and preceding adolescence
Wikipedia - Precambrian body plans -- Structure and development of early multicellular organisms
Wikipedia - Precision Manuals Development Group -- Flight simulation company
Wikipedia - Pre-clinical development
Wikipedia - Pre-dreadnought battleship -- Type of battleship, preceding the development of HMS Dreadnought
Wikipedia - Prehype -- American venture development firm
Wikipedia - Preimplantation factor -- Peptide involved in placental development
Wikipedia - Prenatal dental care -- Care of the oral cavity during fetal development
Wikipedia - Prenatal development -- Process in which an embryo and later fetus develops during gestation
Wikipedia - Preservation development -- Model of real-estate development
Wikipedia - Primary metabolite -- Intermediate or end product of metabolism which is directly and prominently involved in growth, development and reproduction
Wikipedia - Priority Development Assistance Fund scam
Wikipedia - Probinsya Muna Development Initiative -- Political party in the Philippines
Wikipedia - Process Development Execution System
Wikipedia - Product development
Wikipedia - Professional development -- Learning to earn or maintain professional credentials
Wikipedia - Prognosis -- Medical term for predicting the likely or expected development of a disease
Wikipedia - Programmed cell death -- Death of a cell mediated by intracellular program, often as part of development
Wikipedia - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies -- Worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Wikipedia - Project 5-100 -- Russian university development project
Wikipedia - Proposed light rail developments for Cork City -- Proposed transit system for Cork City, Ireland
Wikipedia - Psychiatric genetics -- Research field focused on role of genetics in development of mental disorders
Wikipedia - Psychological development
Wikipedia - Psycho-sexual development
Wikipedia - Psychosexual development
Wikipedia - Psychosocial development
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce -- Government of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank -- Government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Government Development Bank -- Government bond issuer, intragovernmental bank, fiscal agent, and financial advisor of the government of PR
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company -- Government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development -- Government agency in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puja, Nepal -- Village Development Committee in Mid-Western, Nepal
Wikipedia - Punjab Youth -- A youth development programme run by the Government of the Punjab, Pakistan
Wikipedia - Purkot Daha -- Village Development Committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - PyCharm -- Integrated development environment for Python
Wikipedia - QuarkNet -- Teacher professional development in sciences
Wikipedia - Quaternary geology -- The branch of geology that studies developments more recent than 2.6 million years ago
Wikipedia - Queen City Development Bank -- Bank in the Philippines
Wikipedia - Queen Lane Apartments -- Former public housing development in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Wikipedia - Queensbridge Houses -- Public housing development in Queens, New York
Wikipedia - Rabobank Development Team -- Dutch cycling team
Wikipedia - Rachel Keen -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Rail Land Development Authority -- Authority developing land for Indian railways
Wikipedia - Rally for an Alternative of Harmonious and Integrated Development -- Political party in the Comoros
Wikipedia - Rally for Democracy and Development -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Rally for Democracy and Economic and Social Development -- Political party in Burundi
Wikipedia - Rally for Education about Sustainable Development -- Political party in Mali
Wikipedia - Rally for the Support of Democracy and Development -- Political party in Togo
Wikipedia - Rand Conger -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Raniganj, Nepal -- Village Development Committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Rapid Application Development
Wikipedia - Rapid application development
Wikipedia - Rapla, Nepal -- Village Development Committee in Mahakali Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Rautahat -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project
Wikipedia - Raw Materials Research and Development Council -- Agency for raw materials Nigeria
Wikipedia - Real estate development
Wikipedia - Rebecca Bigler -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Rebellion Developments -- Video game company
Wikipedia - Reconstruction and Development Programme
Wikipedia - Red Bull Junior Team -- Red Bull's driver development program
Wikipedia - Redevelopment
Wikipedia - Reform and Development Party (Morocco) -- Political party in Morocco
Wikipedia - Reform Movement for Social Development -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Regina Scheyvens -- New Zealand development academic
Wikipedia - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service -- Research funding service
Wikipedia - Relationship Development Intervention -- Proprietary treatment program for autism spectrum disorders
Wikipedia - Religious development
Wikipedia - Repl.it -- Software development environment
Wikipedia - Republican Party for Independence and Development -- Political party in Guinea-Bissau
Wikipedia - Request for Comments -- Publication of the development and standards for the Internet
Wikipedia - Research and Development Array -- Research and development in the United States
Wikipedia - Research and Development (mod) -- 2009 Half-Life mod and puzzle game
Wikipedia - Research and development -- General term for activities in connection with corporate or governmental innovation
Wikipedia - Reversion (software development)
Wikipedia - Rhinophyma -- Condition causing development of a large, bulbous nose, commonly due to untreated rosacea
Wikipedia - Ribbon development -- Developments around a single road
Wikipedia - Riis Houses -- Public housing development in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - Ring of Fire (Northern Ontario) -- Massive planned chromite mining and smelting development project
Wikipedia - Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
Wikipedia - River District (Chicago) -- Proposed urban development
Wikipedia - Road to Indy -- Racing driver development program
Wikipedia - Robert B. Grady -- American software development engineer
Wikipedia - Robert Chambers (development scholar) -- British sociologist, born 1932
Wikipedia - Robert Taylor Homes -- Former public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Robert Wade (scholar) -- New Zealand development scholar
Wikipedia - Robot Operating System -- Collection of software frameworks for robot software development
Wikipedia - Rockwell Gardens -- Former public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Rosa Beddington -- English developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Rose Catherine Pinkney -- American television development executive
Wikipedia - Roundhill Crescent -- 19th-century housing development in Brighton and Hove
Wikipedia - Royal Agricultural Society of England -- Society; promotes the scientific development of agriculture
Wikipedia - R-Type Final 2 -- Horizontal shooter in development
Wikipedia - Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority -- Malaysian federal government agency
Wikipedia - Ruby Takanishi -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Rudolf Steiner's exercises for spiritual development
Wikipedia - Rupauliya -- A village development committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Russian-American Industrial Corporation -- Economic development venture
Wikipedia - Ruth Lehmann -- German-American developmental and cell biologist
Wikipedia - Ryan Companies -- Building and development company based in Minneapolis
Wikipedia - Sabarmati Riverfront -- Development at Ahmedabad, India
Wikipedia - Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust -- Indian urban development trust
Wikipedia - Sakhuwa -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch -- German-born US developmental geneticist (1907-2007)
Wikipedia - Samanpur -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Sanasa Development Bank -- Sri Lankan specialized bank
Wikipedia - Sandbox (software development) -- Testing environment for software development
Wikipedia - San Francisco Transbay development
Wikipedia - Sanjay R. Bhoosreddy -- Additional Chief Secretary & Cane Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh, Sugar Industry & Cane Development Department
Wikipedia - Santa Susana Field Laboratory -- Industrial research and development facilities in southern California
Wikipedia - Saudi Human Resources Development Fund -- Saudi Arabia government agency
Wikipedia - Say-Meyer syndrome -- X-linked recessive disorder characterised by developmental delay
Wikipedia - Schizocoely -- Development process of some animals
Wikipedia - Scholz Research & Development, Inc. -- Music technology company
Wikipedia - School life expectancy -- UNESCO development statistic
Wikipedia - School of Leadership and Development -- College in Pennsylvania
Wikipedia - Science park -- Area designed to promote science or technology business development
Wikipedia - Scientific Development Concept
Wikipedia - Screenwest -- Screen funding and development organisation in Western Australia
Wikipedia - Scrum (development)
Wikipedia - Scrum (software development) -- Agile software development framework
Wikipedia - Scrum Sprint -- A period of work in software development according to the Scrum method.
Wikipedia - Sea Pines Company -- Real estate development group
Wikipedia - Second Party System -- Second phase in the development of electoral politics in the United States, 1828-1854
Wikipedia - Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico) -- Mexican federal government authority with Cabinet representation; responsibility for overseeing development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards
Wikipedia - Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico -- Government of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing -- Official of the Ministry of Development of the Government of Spain
Wikipedia - Security Development Lifecycle
Wikipedia - Sega AM1 -- Japanese development team within Sega
Wikipedia - Sega development studios -- Internal video game studios of Sega
Wikipedia - Self-development
Wikipedia - Sembcorp -- Energy and urban development company in Singapore
Wikipedia - Sensorimotor development
Wikipedia - Sensory processing disorder -- Neurodevelopmental condition involving heightened and/or muted responses to sensory input
Wikipedia - Sentient (intelligence analysis system) -- Intelligence analysis system under development by the U.S government
Wikipedia - Seth Low Houses -- Public housing development in Brooklyn, New York
Wikipedia - Sexual differentiation in humans -- The process of development of sex differences in humans
Wikipedia - Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Youth Development -- Organisations based in Savar
Wikipedia - Shenyang FC-31 -- Fifth-generation jet fighter currently under development by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
Wikipedia - Sidewalk Toronto -- Urban development project in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Wikipedia - Signature Island -- Indian luxury development project
Wikipedia - Sikhar Ambote -- Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority -- Development authority in West Bengal
Wikipedia - Simara Bhawanipur -- Village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Simtek Corporation -- Flash memory development company
Wikipedia - Singapore Academy of Law -- Legal industry promotion and development agency
Wikipedia - Singapore Science Park -- Research, development and technologies hub in Singapore
Wikipedia - Singyahi Maidan -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Sisne (village) -- Former Village development committee in Province No. 5, Nepal
Wikipedia - Sixth Party System -- Sixth phase in development of electoral politics in the United States, 1980s?-present
Wikipedia - Skanska -- Multinational construction and development company based in Sweden
Wikipedia - Skunkworks project -- Type of research and development project.
Wikipedia - Sledgehammer Games -- American video game development company
Wikipedia - Small matter of programming -- Ironic phrase in software development
Wikipedia - Smart Columbus -- Technology development organization in Columbus, Ohio
Wikipedia - Social development theory -- Development is a process of social change
Wikipedia - Social development
Wikipedia - Social-emotional development in childhood
Wikipedia - Social emotional development -- Specific domain of child development
Wikipedia - Society for Research in Child Development
Wikipedia - Society for the Study of Human Development -- American learned society
Wikipedia - Socioeconomic development and the BahaM-JM- -- BahaM-JM-
Wikipedia - Sociology -- Scientific study of human society and its origins, development, organizations, and institutions
Wikipedia - Software development (disambiguation)
Wikipedia - Software development effort estimation
Wikipedia - Software development environment
Wikipedia - Software development kit -- Set of software development tools
Wikipedia - Software development life cycle
Wikipedia - Software development lifecycle
Wikipedia - Software development methodology
Wikipedia - Software development model
Wikipedia - Software Development Process
Wikipedia - Software development process -- Process by which software is developed
Wikipedia - Software development security
Wikipedia - Software development -- Creation and maintaining of programs and applications
Wikipedia - Software release life cycle -- Sum of the phases of development and maturity for computer software
Wikipedia - Soil Resource Development Institute -- Government Agency of Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Somadi -- Village development committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Somali Family Development Organization -- Somali NGO
Wikipedia - Sotomayor Houses -- Public housing development in the Bronx, New York
Wikipedia - Sources and influences on the development of Dungeons > Dragons
Wikipedia - South Australian Research and Development Institute -- Research institute in South Australia
Wikipedia - Southbank by Beulah -- Skyscraper under development in Melbourne, Australia
Wikipedia - Southeast Financial Center -- Real estate development in Miami, Florida
Wikipedia - SouthSide Works -- Mixed-used development in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Wikipedia - Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference -- Non-profit regional economic development organization for Southwest Alaska
Wikipedia - Space and Missile Systems Center -- U.S. Space Force research and development center
Wikipedia - Space Florida -- Aerospace economic development agency of the state of Florida
Wikipedia - Space Shuttle design process -- Development program of the NASA Space Shuttle
Wikipedia - SpaceX reusable launch system development program -- All about SpaceX's reusable launch system development program
Wikipedia - SpaceX satellite development facility
Wikipedia - SpaceX Starship -- Super-heavy-lift reusable launch vehicle under development by SpaceX
Wikipedia - Sparkling Society -- Game development company
Wikipedia - Specific developmental disorder
Wikipedia - Spike Chunsoft -- Japanese video game development company
Wikipedia - Spiral Dynamics -- Model of developmental psychology
Wikipedia - Spiralia -- Clade of protosomes with spiral cleavage during early development
Wikipedia - Spiritual development
Wikipedia - Spiritual practice -- Regular or full-time performance of actions and activities undertaken for the purpose of inducing spiritual experiences and cultivating spiritual development
Wikipedia - Sporeling -- Developmental stage of plant or fungus
Wikipedia - Sport Ireland -- Statutory body overseeing and part-funding sport development in Ireland
Wikipedia - Spring District -- Mixed-use development in Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
Wikipedia - SRC Inc. -- Non-profit Research and Development Company in Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Wikipedia - Stages of faith development
Wikipedia - St. Anne's on the Sea Land and Building Company -- English development company
Wikipedia - Stapleton Houses -- Public housing development in Staten Island, New York
Wikipedia - Starrett City, Brooklyn -- Housing development in Brooklyn, New York
Wikipedia - Starship development history -- Development history of the SpaceX Starship spacecraft
Wikipedia - State of the art -- English phrase referring to the highest level of general development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field achieved at a particular time
Wikipedia - State Peace and Development Council -- Former military government of Myanmar
Wikipedia - Stateway Gardens -- Former public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Wikipedia - Stem Cells and Development -- Academic journal
Wikipedia - Stephanie J. Rowley -- Developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Stimming -- Repetitive self-stimulatory behaviour common in neurodevelopmental disorders
Wikipedia - Stromme Foundation -- Norwegian non-profit volunteer development organization
Wikipedia - Structured programming -- Programming paradigm aimed at improving clarity, quality, and development time by using control structures
Wikipedia - St. Thomas Development -- Former housing project in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Wikipedia - Stuart B. Munsch -- Joint Staff Director for Joint Force Development
Wikipedia - Student development theories
Wikipedia - Stunted growth -- Reduced growth rate in human development
Wikipedia - Style sheet (web development) -- Form of separation of presentation and content for web design
Wikipedia - Sublogic -- American software development company
Wikipedia - Sukhachina -- Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Sumo Digital -- British independent game development studio based in Sheffield, United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Sundarpur Choharwa -- Village development committee in Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Sun Java Studio Creator -- |Java development tool
Wikipedia - Superior Ink -- Residential development in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Commission -- Ex-UK government advisory organization
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 10 -- The 10th of 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals set in 2015
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 11 -- The 11th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable cities
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 12 -- The 12th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to ensure responsible consumption and production
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 13 -- The 13th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 14 -- The 14th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to conserve life below water
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 15 -- The 15th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to protect life on land
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 16 -- The 16th of 17 sustainable development goals to promote peace, justice and strong institutions
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 17 -- The 17th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve a partnerships for the SDGs
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 1 -- The first of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty everywhere
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 2 -- A global goal to end hunger by 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 3 -- Good Health and Well-Being
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 4 -- The 4th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve qualilty education for all
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 5 -- A global goal to achieve gender equality by 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 6 -- A global goal to achieve clean water and sanitation for all people by 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 7 -- The seventh of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve affordable and clean energy for all by 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 8 -- A global goal to promote decent work and economic growth by 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goal 9 -- Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goals and Australia -- Set of 17 global development goals defined by the United Nations for the year 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goals and Ghana -- Set of 17 global development goals defined by the United Nations for the year 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goals and Nigeria -- Set of 17 global development goals defined by the United Nations for the year 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable Development Goals -- Set of 17 global development goals defined by the United Nations for the year 2030
Wikipedia - Sustainable development
Wikipedia - Suzak Inc. -- Defunct Japanese video game development company
Wikipedia - Swathi, Nepal -- Village development committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Swedish Armed Forces Diving and Naval Medicine Centre -- Diver education and training; diving medicine research and development
Wikipedia - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Wikipedia - Swift Playgrounds -- Development environment for Swift
Wikipedia - System Development Corporation
Wikipedia - System development life cycle
Wikipedia - System development methodology
Wikipedia - Systems Development Life Cycle
Wikipedia - Systems development life cycle
Wikipedia - Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation -- Government agency in Tamil Nadu, India
Wikipedia - Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation Limited -- State-agency in India promoting small-scale industries
Wikipedia - Tanner scale -- Physical development scale of children, adolescents, and adults
Wikipedia - Tannishtha Reya -- Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Targetfollow -- Property investment and development company in Norwich, England
Wikipedia - Tata Research Development and Design Centre
Wikipedia - Team development
Wikipedia - TechEdSat -- Space technology development program
Wikipedia - Technical debt -- Software development concept
Wikipedia - Technical Guidelines Development Committee
Wikipedia - Technology & Engineering Emmy Award -- Award for engineering development in televison technology
Wikipedia - Technology assessment -- Research area dealing with trends in science and technology and related social developments
Wikipedia - TechnologyOne -- Australian software development company
Wikipedia - Teena Willoughby -- Canadian developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Template talk:Aspect-oriented software development
Wikipedia - Template talk:Development of nervous system
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Wikipedia - Tennessee (Arrested Development song) -- 1992 single by Arrested Development
Wikipedia - Tennessee Department of Tourist Development -- Government agency in Tennessee, United States
Wikipedia - Teratology -- The study of all developmental anomalies
Wikipedia - Test-driven development -- Software design using test cases
Wikipedia - The 78 -- Proposed urban development
Wikipedia - Theatre Development Fund -- Non-profit corporation assisting the theatre industry in New York City
Wikipedia - The Bennett Freeze -- Development ban of Navajo lands by the US Federal Government
Wikipedia - The Children's Investment Fund Foundation -- Global development philanthropic organization to benefit children
Wikipedia - The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 -- US law
Wikipedia - The Development of Capitalism in Russia -- Book by Vladimir Lenin
Wikipedia - The Development of Metaphysics in Persia -- 1908 book by Muhammad Iqbal
Wikipedia - Thelarche -- The beginning of development of the breasts in the female.
Wikipedia - The neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development
Wikipedia - The Oracle, Queensland -- Apartment development in Australia
Wikipedia - The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas -- Book by Edvard Westermarck
Wikipedia - Theory of Cognitive development
Wikipedia - Theory of cognitive development
Wikipedia - The Rapid Development
Wikipedia - Thermodynamic process -- Energetic development of a thermodynamic system proceeding from an initial state to a final state
Wikipedia - The Rouse Company -- American real estate development company
Wikipedia - The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and the Development of Homosexuality
Wikipedia - The Theory of Capitalist Development -- 1942 book by Paul Sweezy
Wikipedia - The Wharf (Washington, D.C.) -- Mixed-use development in Washington, D.C.
Wikipedia - Third Party System -- Third phase in the development of electoral politics in the United States, 1854-1900
Wikipedia - Thrissur Urban Development Authority
Wikipedia - Tic disorder -- Range of neurodevelopmental conditions
Wikipedia - Tilakpur -- Village development committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal
Wikipedia - Timeline of human evolution -- Chronological outline of major events in the development of the human species
Wikipedia - Timeline of Jewish history -- Timeline of the development of Jews and Judaism
Wikipedia - Timeline of plant evolution -- Chronological outline of major events in the development of plants
Wikipedia - Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (after 1952) -- Chronological listing of significant events in the history of tectonophysics
Wikipedia - Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954) -- Chronological listing of significant events in the history of tectonophysics
Wikipedia - Timeline of the evolutionary history of life -- Current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life
Wikipedia - Timeline of the James Webb Space Telescope -- Timeline of notable evenrs of the development of the James Webb Space Telescope
Wikipedia - Timeline of virtualization development
Wikipedia - Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae -- Chronological list of developments in knowledge and records
Wikipedia - Time-Sensitive Networking -- set of standards under development by the IEEE for real-time networking
Wikipedia - Timothy D. Johnston -- American developmental psychologist
Wikipedia - Tina Malti -- Developmental and clinical psychologist
Wikipedia - Toolchain -- Set of programming tools that is used to perform a complex software development task or to create a software product
Wikipedia - Tourette syndrome -- Neurodevelopmental disorder involving motor and vocal tics
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Wikipedia - Tract housing -- Type of housing development
Wikipedia - Trade Development Authority of Pakistan -- Department in the ministry of commerce in Pakistan
Wikipedia - Training and development
Wikipedia - Transgender pregnancy -- Development of offspring by trans people
Wikipedia - Transit-oriented development
Wikipedia - Trans Studio Cibubur -- A mixed-development complex in Indonesia
Wikipedia - Treasure Island Development
Wikipedia - Treasury Holdings -- Defunct Irish construction and development company
Wikipedia - Tribe -- Social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states; Alternately, a sovereign nation
Wikipedia - Trident (UK nuclear programme) -- UK nuclear programme for development, procurement and operation of Trident nuclear weapons
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Wikipedia - Trinity Islands, Manchester -- Housing development in Manchester, UK
Wikipedia - Triploblasty -- State of having three germ layers in embryonic development
Wikipedia - Truman National Security Project -- Left-leaning national security and leadership development organization based in Washington, D.C.
Wikipedia - Trumbull Park Homes -- Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Trump Towers (Sunny Isles Beach) -- Condominium development in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
Wikipedia - Turbo C++ -- Compiler and integrated development environment and computer language originally from Borland
Wikipedia - Turkey Creek (Knoxville, Tennessee) -- Mixed use retail and commercial development in Knoxville, Tennessee
Wikipedia - Turquoise Hill Resources -- Canadian mineral exploration and development company
Wikipedia - Twins Early Development Study
Wikipedia - Typhoon Studios -- Canadian video game development company
Wikipedia - Ubisoft Quebec -- Canadian video game development company
Wikipedia - Ujamaa -- Tanzanian concept for social and economic development
Wikipedia - UML-based Web Engineering -- Web development software
Wikipedia - Uniface (programming language) -- Low-code development platform
Wikipedia - Unified Process -- Object oriented software development process framework
Wikipedia - Uniform Land Use Review Procedure -- A New York City legal procedure resulting from a demand for community involvement in the city's development.
Wikipedia - Union for Democracy and Development (Mali) -- Political party in Mali
Wikipedia - Union for Development Party -- Political party in Guinea
Wikipedia - Union for Peace and Development Party -- Somali socially conservative political party
Wikipedia - Union of Democrats for Citizenship and Development -- Political party in Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe
Wikipedia - Union of the People for Republic and Integral Development -- Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - United Development Party -- political party in Indonesia
Wikipedia - United Development System Party -- Political party in Ghana
Wikipedia - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Wikipedia - United Nations Development Programme -- Global development network of United Nations
Wikipedia - United Nations Human Settlements Programme -- UN agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development
Wikipedia - United Party for National Development -- Political party in Zambia
Wikipedia - United States Agency for International Development -- United States federal government agency that funds civilian foreign aid and foreign antipoverty efforts
Wikipedia - United States Department of Housing and Urban Development -- Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government
Wikipedia - United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture -- congressional subcommittee
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Wikipedia - Unit for Research and Development of Information Products -- Research institute in Pune, India
Wikipedia - University for Development Studies -- University
Wikipedia - Upstream (software development) -- Concept in software development
Wikipedia - Urban renewal -- Land redevelopment in cities
Wikipedia - Urban sprawl -- Expansion of auto-oriented, low-density development in suburbs
Wikipedia - Urban village -- Decentralized urban development
Wikipedia - USDA Rural Development -- Mission area within the United States Department of Agriculture
Wikipedia - U.S. International Development Finance Corporation -- US federal agency responsible for providing foreign aid
Wikipedia - USL League Two -- American development soccer league
Wikipedia - Usuda Deep Space Center -- development facility of JAXA
Wikipedia - Uta Frith -- German developmental psychologist
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Wikipedia - Vagrant (software) -- Software for portable virtual development environments
Wikipedia - Valerie Horsley -- American cell and developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Valhalla Game Studios -- Japanese-Canadian video game development company
Wikipedia - Velocity (software development)
Wikipedia - Vermont Council on Rural Development -- Vermont non-profit organization
Wikipedia - Vicarious Visions -- American video game development company
Wikipedia - Victoria Leeds -- Retail development in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Wikipedia - Video game development -- Process of developing a video game
Wikipedia - Video game industry -- Economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sales of video games
Wikipedia - Vienna Development Method -- Formal method for the development of computer-based systems
Wikipedia - Village development committee
Wikipedia - Vivian Li -- Hong Kong-born cell and developmental biologist
Wikipedia - Vladeck Houses -- Public housing development in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - V-Model (software development)
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Wikipedia - Vulcan Centaur -- United Launch Alliance space launch vehicle currently in development
Wikipedia - W3Schools -- Web development information website
Wikipedia - Wahoo Studios -- Computer and video game development company
Wikipedia - Wallonie-Bruxelles Development Team -- Belgian cycling team
Wikipedia - Walt Disney Imagineering -- Research and development unit of The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia - Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation -- Aboriginal Australian youth services organisation
Wikipedia - Washington Harbour -- Mixed-use development at 3000 and 3050 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., United States
Wikipedia - Water and Power Development Authority cricket team -- Cricket team
Wikipedia - Water conservation -- Policies for sustainable development of water use
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Wikipedia - Waterville, Dublin -- Housing development between Castleknock and Blanchardstown, Dublin
Wikipedia - WB Games MontrM-CM-)al -- Canadian video game development studio
Wikipedia - Web application development
Wikipedia - Web.com -- American web registration and development company
Wikipedia - Web development tools
Wikipedia - Web development
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Wikipedia - West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Skill Development -- Organization
Wikipedia - Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism -- Department of Economic Development and Tourism of the Government of the Western Cape
Wikipedia - Westgate Entertainment District -- Mixed-use development in Glendale, Arizona
Wikipedia - Westlife Development -- India fast food holding company
Wikipedia - Wikipedian in residence -- Professional role in Wikipedia development
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:VisualEditor -- Software Development project of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia - William Easterly -- American development economist
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Wikipedia - Williamsburg Houses -- Public housing development in Brooklyn, New York
Wikipedia - Windows Neptune -- Codename for a version of Microsoft Windows under development in 1999
Wikipedia - Wiring (development platform)
Wikipedia - Wirtschaftswunder -- Rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II
Wikipedia - Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development -- Wisconsin State Department charged with building and strengthening Wisconsin's workforce.
Wikipedia - Wnt signaling pathway -- Group of signal transduction pathways involved in embryonic development
Wikipedia - Women in development
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Wikipedia - World Learning -- International nonprofit organization that focuses on international development, education, and exchange programs
Wikipedia - World Vision Australia -- Christian aid and development organization
Wikipedia - World Vision International -- A Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization
Wikipedia - Xbox Development Kit
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Wikipedia - Zimbabwe Development Party -- Political party in Zimbabwe
Wikipedia - Zone of Proximal Development
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Maneka Gandhi ::: Born: August 26, 1956; Occupation: Ministry of Women and Child Development;
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Fred Trump ::: Born: October 11, 1905; Died: June 25, 1999; Occupation: Real estate development;
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https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Historical_development_of_the_doctrine_of_Papal_Primacy
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Tantra#Further_development
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https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/The_Eightfold_Path#DEVELOPMENT_OF_THE_EIGHTFOLD_PATH_IN_THE_DISCIPLE
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Tobacco#Early_developments
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Two_truths_doctrine#Further_developments_in_Nikaya_Buddhism
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Umbanda#First_years_and_the_development
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Unitarianism#Development_in_the_21st_century
https://web.archive.org/web/20140728132544/http://flash.wikia.com/wiki/Flash_Website_Development
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auromere - the-role-of-intellectual-development-in-the-spiritual-path
Integral World - Stages of Social Development, presentation by Don Beck, October 2000 at the State of the World Forum, New York
Integral World - Can you be at a level of development?, Edward Berge
Integral World - Key Elements of Development, part 1, Peter Collins
Integral World - Key Elements of Development, part 2, Peter Collins
Integral World - THE DYNAMICS OF DEVELOPMENT
Integral World - Why Postformal Stages of Development are not Formal, but Postformal, Michael Lamport Commons, Sara Nora Ross, and Jonas Gensaku Miller
Integral World - The Unholy Marriage of Red, Orange, and Blue Levels of Development in American Culture and Society, Joe Corbett
Integral World - The Shadow of "Shadow": Jung, Integral, Spirituality, and Human Development, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - Re-Imagining our Evolutionary Future, Placing Self Development in the Context of Overall Development, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - The Importance of Mundane Relational Exchanges for Integral Development, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - Are We Clever Apes With Guns?, Limitations of Self Development and Evidence for Overall Development, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - Self-Development and Overall Development: Their Differences and Why They Matter, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - Why Humanity Remains Locked in a Mid-Prepersonal Level of Development, Part I: Why We Do Not Recognize that Our Development is Fixated, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - Why Humanity Remains Locked in a Mid-Prepersonal Level of Development, Part 2: Ways Integral AQAL Supports the Thesis That Our Development is Fixated at an Early Developmental Stage, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - Problematic assumptions about AQAL's moral line of development, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - "Aperspectival Madness", Why and How AQAL Grossly Overestimates Your Level of Development, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - The Depth of the Exteriors 2: Piaget, Vygotsky, Harre and the Social Mediation of Development, Mark Edwards
Integral World - The Depth of the Exteriors 3: Cooley and Mead and the Social Behaviourist View of Development in the Exterior Quadrants, Mark Edwards
Integral World - Circular-Axial Representation of Human Evolution and Development in the Integral Theory, Educational Implications, Josep Gallifa
Integral World - The Engine of Development, Michael Garfield
Integral World - The Blood Brotherhoods: A developmental look at terrorism from the perspective of mythos, Ray Harris
Integral World - Spirituality, Development, and Misdevelopement , Zakariyya Ishaq
Integral World - The Human Growth Continuum - The Eight Dimensions of Personal Development
Integral World - The Processes of Human Development, Hugh & Amalia Kaye Martin
Integral World - Esalen and the Development of Integral, Hugh & Kaye Martin
Integral World - Integral Career Development: The Implicit Career Search, by Steve Miller
Integral World - The Ideal Ascent Thwarted: Why are 'Dominator' Hierarchies recreated with each Subsequent Developmental Hierarchy?, Giorgio Piacenza
Integral World - Blended Cultural Stages in Today's World and Individual Development, Giorgio Piacenza
Integral World - The Language of development, How Societies Create Minds, Andy Smith
Integral World - Six Dimensional Space/Time, Mathematical Intuitions Underlying the Integral Meta-Paradigm of Science Named 'Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry', Bill Torbert
Integral World - The Final Cause of Cosmic Development, Nondual Spirit, or the Second Law of Thermodynamics?, Michael Zimmerman
Albert Murrays Lines of Cultural Development
When Buddhists Go Bad: The Tragedy in Myanmar (And Why Development Trumps Doctrine)
Integral Without Borders: International Development in a Post-Trump World
Introduction to Ego Development
In Over Our Heads: Development as a Lifelong Journey
Polarities in Human Development
Supporting Development in Adolescents
Telling the Story of Development
Time, Consciousness, and Development
Trumps War Cabinet Drops a Developmental Level
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selforum - modern developmental psychoanalysis
selforum - evolution and development will go hand
selforum - culture affects our brain development
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Psychology Wiki - Ethnic_identity_development
Psychology Wiki - Evolutionary_developmental_biology
Psychology Wiki - Five_Temperaments#Development_of_related_.22two_factor.22_models_and_the_regaining_popularity_of_the_ancient_temperaments
Psychology Wiki - Forum:Developmental_psychology_forum?t=20070626190400
Psychology Wiki - Human_development
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Psychology Wiki - Integral_yoga#Integral_development
Psychology Wiki - Organizational_development
Psychology Wiki - Sex_linked_developmental_differences
Psychology Wiki - Theory_of_cognitive_development
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - biology-developmental
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - evolution-development
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - intuitionistic-logic-development
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - kant-development
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - proof-theory-development
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Batman The Animated Series (1992 - 1995) - The very successful Batman the Animated Series debuted in 1992 and lasted 85 epiosdes. This cartoon had great character development, voice acting, animation and storylines. It really was the total package and the king of comic book cartoons. Truely one of the greatest cartoons ever.
As Told By Ginger (1999 - 2004) - (Info by Wikipedia.) As Told By Ginger is an American animated series that premiered on Nickelodeon in October 2000. The show focuses on Ginger Foutley and her adventures at Lucky Jr. High, as she records them in her diary. The series was noted for its story lines, character development, and the fac...
Emergency! (1972 - 1977) - This program focused on the implementation and development of the new concept of the paramedic. The show begins with introducing our heros Roy Desoto and Johnny Gage assembling the first paramedic team and breaking new ground with unheard of new ideas, a mobile unit, equipped to stablize a patient a...
Alvin Show (1961 - 1979) - With the success of the Chipmunks, plans were made to produce the animated cartoon series. Herbert Klynn's Format Films was chosen as the animation studio and preliminary plans were made for the series. Format hit a snag during the development stage and ran into numerous delays and unsuccessful att...
Captain Tsubasa (1983 - 1986) - Captain Tsubasa is based on the sport of soccer. Because it may have helped promote the sport, Captain Tsubasa was supported by the JFA: Japan Football Association during the development of the series with the objective to promove the sport in Japan.
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...
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...
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...
Once upon a time... Planet Earth (2008 - 2009) - Maestro will draw the children's attention to the importance of Sustainable Development. Our young heroes are now grown up and will be confronted to the problems related to global warming, pollution, drought, decrease of energy resources, poverty...
Friday Night Fights (1998 - 2015) - In 1998, ESPN premiered Friday Night Fights, a part of its coverage of boxing. The series traditionally featured bouts involving up-and-coming and semi-professional boxers, along with studio segments covering headlines and developments across the sport. As implied by its title, the program was prima...
The Goonies(1985) - A group of Astoria, Oregon kids facing their last days together before a development paves over their homes stumble onto evidence of a pirate (One Eyed Willy's) treasure, They find a dabloon with a hole in it which they match up to an island to find the entrance. Chunk one of their friends gets kidn...
Star Trek: Insurrection(1998) - Engage! Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Next Generation crew are back. From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. But now Picard is confronted with orders that under...
Rocky II(1979) - By concentrating on character development with this first of several sequels to his Oscar-winning smash Rocky (1976), writer/director Sylvester Stallone earned critical praise that would desert him with the boxing saga's shallower subsequent chapters. Stallone returns as Rocky Balboa, a Philadelphia...
Eye of the Stranger(1993) - The plot in this suspenseful mystery evokes the old westerns while dealing with contemporary issues concerning the further development of the West. It all begins when a stranger rolls into a remote little town and discovers that they are doing their best to keep secret the murder of a civil libertie...
Die Another Day(2002) - James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Heatwave(1983) - An architect becomes lovers with a radical during a protest against a Sydney redevelopment that could have mob connections of a block of flats.
Julie & Julia(2009) - In 2002, Julie Powell is a young writer with an unpleasant job at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's call center, where she answers telephone calls from victims of the September 11 attacks and members of the general public complaining about the LMDC's controversial plans for rebuilding th...
Deceived(1991) - A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. Strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past, developments that lead her to believe she has been deceived.
Sonic The Hedgehog: Amgeen(2020) - Sonic the Hedgehog: Wonders of the World is the name of an unfinished film adaptation based off the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise. The film, intended to be a co-production of MGM, Trilogy Entertainment Group and Sega, began development in 1994, and a treatment for it was written by Richard...
Animal Farm (1954) ::: 7.2/10 -- Approved | 1h 12min | Animation, Drama | 19 June 1959 (USA) -- A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas Writers: George Orwell (based on a story by), Lothar Wolff (story development) | 4 more credits
Arrested Development ::: TV-14 | 22min | Comedy | TV Series (20032019) -- Level-headed son Michael Bluth takes over family affairs after his father is imprisoned. But the rest of his spoiled, dysfunctional family are making his job unbearable. Creator:
Carnal Knowledge (1971) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Drama | 30 June 1971 (USA) -- Chronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and befriend one another in college. Director: Mike Nichols Writer: Jules Feiffer Stars:
Detective Conan ::: Meitantei Conan (original tit ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1996 ) -- The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development. Creator:
Einstein and Eddington (2008) ::: 7.3/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 34min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Movie 23 November -- Einstein and Eddington Poster Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas. Director: Philip Martin Writer: Peter Moffat
Kodachrome (2017) ::: 6.8/10 -- TV-MA | 1h 45min | Drama | 20 April 2018 (USA) -- Set during the final days of the admired photo development system known as Kodachrome, a father and son hit the road in order to reach the Kansas photo lab before it closes its doors for good. Director: Mark Raso Writer:
Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 51min | Action, Drama, Romance | 8 August 2003 (USA) -- A developmentally disabled young man tries to continue the work his father did in communicating with extra-terrestrials from outer space, which leads to something miraculous and wonderful. Director: Rakesh Roshan Writers:
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) ::: 7.7/10 -- Memorias del subdesarrollo (original title) -- Memories of Underdevelopment Poster A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami. Director: Toms Gutirrez Alea Writers: Edmundo Desnoes (novel), Edmundo Desnoes (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Radio (2003) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Biography, Drama, Sport | 24 October 2003 (USA) -- The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing. Director: Michael Tollin Writer: Mike Rich
Step Up Revolution (2012) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 39min | Drama, Music, Romance | 27 July 2012 (USA) -- Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans. Director: Scott Speer Writers:
Sunshine State (2002) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Drama, Romance | 12 July 2002 (USA) -- A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development. Director: John Sayles Writer:
The Good Dinosaur (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2015 (USA) -- In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. Director: Peter Sohn Writers: Bob Peterson (original concept & development by), Peter Sohn (story by)
The King of Staten Island (2020) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 16min | Comedy, Drama | 12 June 2020 (USA) -- Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life. Director: Judd Apatow Writers:
Undine (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- Unrated | 1h 31min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 4 June 2021 (USA) -- Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Director: Christian Petzold Writer:
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Aquarion Logos -- -- Satelight -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Drama Fantasy Mecha Romance Sci-Fi -- Aquarion Logos Aquarion Logos -- For thousands of years after its development, mankind used the written word for communication between people and generations. As millenia passed and technology became more prevalent, writing - and thus, communication as a whole - diminished, until it could only be found on cell phones and computer screens. Seeing an opportunity, the sorcerer Sogan Kenzaki starts infecting words with the Nesta Virus, which brings them to life and turns them into monsters called MJBK (Menace of Japanese with Biological Kinetic energy). -- -- To counter this attack against humanity, an organization known as DEAVA (Division of EArth Verbalism Ability) assembles a group of youths with the ability of "Verbalism". They have to pilot the vector machines, which are used to form the mechas dubbed "Aquarions". The one wild card in the situation is the self-dubbed "savior", a young man who is the direct relative of a famous calligrapher, named Akira Kaibuki. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 20,066 5.71
Atom: The Beginning -- -- OLM, Production I.G, Signal.MD -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Mecha Seinen -- Atom: The Beginning Atom: The Beginning -- Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start! -- -- (Source: Showgate) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 27,301 6.84
Baldr Force Exe Resolution -- -- Satelight -- 4 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Drama Mecha Sci-Fi -- Baldr Force Exe Resolution Baldr Force Exe Resolution -- Any network runs all over the world, and the development of the information network reaches its acme. In this age, there are two developed worlds; "the real world" and "wired", or the virtual network world. -- -- Soma Toru belongs to a hacking group, Steppen Wolf, which runs around the network world freely. They attack the database of the UN forces as their last work. During this attack, he loses Nonomura Yuya, his friend as well as the team leader. Toru is arrested by the army. In exchange for letting him free, he has to work for an anti-hacker organization, the first squad of the UN Security Force Information Administration Bureau. -- -- Working for them, he is looking for the person who killed his friend, while the other members also have their own reason to fight. -- -- The three-way fights of the terrorist group, the security enterprise, and the army, continue every day. The various events occurred during the fight seem to be independent of each other at the first glance, but they're converging on one event as if they were attracted by something. -- -- Based on the game by GIGA. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Nov 10, 2006 -- 15,668 6.46
Battery -- -- Zero-G -- 11 eps -- Novel -- Slice of Life Sports Drama -- Battery Battery -- At only 12 years old, Takumi Harada is already hailed as a prodigious baseball pitcher. But when his family moves to the backwater town of Nitta, Takumi has no choice but to join his new school's unskilled baseball team. This development has little effect on the boy, as he believes it is more interesting if this no-name club becomes a powerhouse due to his presence. However, due to his overwhelming talent, Takumi is in need of a catcher able to keep up with his pitches. -- -- His worries are soon put to rest after meeting Gou Nagakura. As his fan and fellow student, Gou is eager to prove that he is not a simple braggart, but rather a player skillful enough to catch Takumi's pitches. Amid struggling to form a "battery" with Gou, Takumi comes into conflict with his new teammates due to his irreverent personality but grapples to find the true joy of the sport under his grandfather's guidance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 46,424 5.72
Classroom☆Crisis -- -- Lay-duce -- 13 eps -- Original -- Drama Romance School Sci-Fi -- Classroom☆Crisis Classroom☆Crisis -- In Martian colony Fourth Tokyo lies a classroom of Kirishina Corporation's brightest minds spearheading aerospace development: A-TEC, led by genius engineer Kaito Sera, eagerly anticipating the arrival of their newest member. It soon becomes clear, however, that the transfer student is hardly ordinary—Nagisa Kiryuu, newly appointed chief of A-TEC and the younger brother of the corporation's CEO, is sent to shut the program down. To keep the classroom alive, Kaito and his students desperately work to develop a successor to their most powerful rocket, the X-2; meanwhile, Nagisa climbs the corporate ladder in pursuit of his own mission. In spite of this, their separate battles soon reveal that much more is going on in Kirishina Corporation than meets the eye. -- -- Classroom☆Crisis follows Kaito and Nagisa, as well as Kaito's younger sister Mizuki and A-TEC's test pilot Iris Shirasaki, in a story of intrigue, political warfare, and, against all odds, romance. As Nagisa and A-TEC are dragged further and further into Kirishina Corporation's conspiracies, friendships grow and pasts are unveiled as they fight to avert their classroom crisis. -- -- 104,511 7.02
Classroom☆Crisis -- -- Lay-duce -- 13 eps -- Original -- Drama Romance School Sci-Fi -- Classroom☆Crisis Classroom☆Crisis -- In Martian colony Fourth Tokyo lies a classroom of Kirishina Corporation's brightest minds spearheading aerospace development: A-TEC, led by genius engineer Kaito Sera, eagerly anticipating the arrival of their newest member. It soon becomes clear, however, that the transfer student is hardly ordinary—Nagisa Kiryuu, newly appointed chief of A-TEC and the younger brother of the corporation's CEO, is sent to shut the program down. To keep the classroom alive, Kaito and his students desperately work to develop a successor to their most powerful rocket, the X-2; meanwhile, Nagisa climbs the corporate ladder in pursuit of his own mission. In spite of this, their separate battles soon reveal that much more is going on in Kirishina Corporation than meets the eye. -- -- Classroom☆Crisis follows Kaito and Nagisa, as well as Kaito's younger sister Mizuki and A-TEC's test pilot Iris Shirasaki, in a story of intrigue, political warfare, and, against all odds, romance. As Nagisa and A-TEC are dragged further and further into Kirishina Corporation's conspiracies, friendships grow and pasts are unveiled as they fight to avert their classroom crisis. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 104,511 7.02
Detective Conan Movie 03: The Last Wizard of the Century -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Mystery Comedy Police Shounen -- Detective Conan Movie 03: The Last Wizard of the Century Detective Conan Movie 03: The Last Wizard of the Century -- Kaitou Kid dares to challenge the police once more, setting his sights on the Russian Imperial Easter Egg. With the date, time, and place, the Osaka police force scrambles to stop him. But this time, Kid may have bitten off more than he can chew—Conan Edogawa, Heiji Hattori, and numerous others are also trying to get their hands on the jeweled egg. -- -- As the race for possession of the egg escalates, a string of murders threatens those after it, and at the same time the tragic truth behind the Romanov Dynasty is finally revealed. At the center of these developments, it is up to Conan to solve the gruesome murders and catch Kid, all while protecting those close to him and concealing his identity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Apr 17, 1999 -- 52,131 8.04
D-Frag! -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Game Comedy School Seinen -- D-Frag! D-Frag! -- The Kazama Family—a gang of three wannabe delinquents and close friends, spearheaded by Kenji Kazama, is trying to make a name for themselves at Fujou Academy. On the first day of the term, the gang finds themselves putting out a fire in the Game Development Club. Instead of thanking them, the eccentric club members attack and knock out Kenji's two friends, forcing Kenji to fight for his life. Failing to escape, the gang leader is coerced into joining the Game Development Club. -- -- As he settles in, Kenji gets to know the four girls responsible for his provisional membership—student council president and general tyrant Chitose Karasuyama, spirited tomboy Sakura Mizukami, negligent club advisor Minami Oosawa, and the school's infamous shadow leader Roka Shibasaki. Throughout the Game Development Club's constant shenanigans and his desperate attempts to leave the club, Kenji begins to realize that he may be actually enjoying himself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jan 7, 2014 -- 323,530 7.56
D-Frag! -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Game Comedy School Seinen -- D-Frag! D-Frag! -- The Kazama Family—a gang of three wannabe delinquents and close friends, spearheaded by Kenji Kazama, is trying to make a name for themselves at Fujou Academy. On the first day of the term, the gang finds themselves putting out a fire in the Game Development Club. Instead of thanking them, the eccentric club members attack and knock out Kenji's two friends, forcing Kenji to fight for his life. Failing to escape, the gang leader is coerced into joining the Game Development Club. -- -- As he settles in, Kenji gets to know the four girls responsible for his provisional membership—student council president and general tyrant Chitose Karasuyama, spirited tomboy Sakura Mizukami, negligent club advisor Minami Oosawa, and the school's infamous shadow leader Roka Shibasaki. Throughout the Game Development Club's constant shenanigans and his desperate attempts to leave the club, Kenji begins to realize that he may be actually enjoying himself. -- -- TV - Jan 7, 2014 -- 323,530 7.56
Dragonaut: The Resonance -- -- Gonzo -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Fantasy Mecha Romance Sci-Fi -- Dragonaut: The Resonance Dragonaut: The Resonance -- Twenty years prior to the story's beginning, an asteroid headed for Earth destroys Pluto. Due to Pluto's destruction, the asteroid, which is dubbed Thanatos, becomes temporarily stagnant. Now, in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear on Earth. -- -- After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident two years ago, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they get deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 4, 2007 -- 67,301 6.64
Dragonaut: The Resonance -- -- Gonzo -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Fantasy Mecha Romance Sci-Fi -- Dragonaut: The Resonance Dragonaut: The Resonance -- Twenty years prior to the story's beginning, an asteroid headed for Earth destroys Pluto. Due to Pluto's destruction, the asteroid, which is dubbed Thanatos, becomes temporarily stagnant. Now, in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear on Earth. -- -- After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident two years ago, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they get deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- TV - Oct 4, 2007 -- 67,301 6.64
Eromanga-sensei -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Drama Romance Ecchi -- Eromanga-sensei Eromanga-sensei -- One year ago, Sagiri Izumi became step-siblings with Masamune Izumi. But the sudden death of their parents tears their new family apart, resulting in Sagiri becoming a shut-in which cut her off from her brother and society. -- -- While caring for what's left of his family, Masamune earns a living as a published light novel author with one small problem: he's never actually met his acclaimed illustrator, Eromanga-sensei, infamous for drawing the most lewd erotica. Through an embarrassing chain of events, he learns that his very own little sister was his partner the whole time! -- -- As new characters and challenges appear, Masamune and Sagiri must now face the light novel industry together. Eromanga-Sensei follows the development of their relationship and their struggle to become successful; and as Sagiri slowly grows out of her shell, just how long will she be able to hide her true persona from the rest of the world? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 543,359 6.46
Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi -- -- Studio Gokumi -- 12 eps -- Game -- Fantasy -- Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi -- This world has gone through many Dusks, and is slowly nearing its end. Within this world, in the western reaches of the "Land of Dusk," there was a nation that prospered thanks to its use of alchemy. -- -- There, in order to survive the eventual arrival of the "Dusk End," the people devoted their efforts to rediscover and recreate lost alchemic technologies. Rediscovered technology from the past era was gathered in the alchemy research city known as "Central," where research was conducted on how to halt the advance of the twilight. -- -- One of the heroes is a young man who researched alchemy in Central, the other a girl living in a small town on the frontier. This girl's name is Escha. In the process of using her knowledge of ancient alchemy to help others, she was assigned to the Development Department. The young man's name is Logy. Having learned the newest alchemic techniques in Central, he requested a transfer to this understaffed town to make use of his abilities, and meets Escha when he is assigned to the Development Department as well. The two make a promise to use their alchemy together, and bring success to the Development Department. -- -- (Source: Tecmo Koei Europe) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 10, 2014 -- 55,103 6.44
Evangelion: Another Impact (VR) -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Mecha Sci-Fi -- Evangelion: Another Impact (VR) Evangelion: Another Impact (VR) -- The all-consuming sense of scale of "evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential)", which was released in the 2015 Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition, gets retouched upon in all new short VR movie. -- -- Another time, another place. An activation test of a decisive weapon was underway. With its development and operational trials shrouded in complete secrecy, the Another Number - Unit Null, suddenly breaks free of human control and goes berserk. -- -- For what purpose was Another Number - Unit Null created? -- -- The story of an Evangelion's activation, rampage and howling in another world... -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- Movie - Jul 2, 2018 -- 11,235 6.42
Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Fantasy Super Power -- Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel -- After the three-pronged conflict between tyrannical electric company Shinra, rebel group Avalanche, and the maniacal Sephiroth, the damaged planet slowly heals its wounds. A rural town dubbed Edge sprouts up on the outskirts of Midgar's ruins. Reeve Tuesti, former Head of Urban Development at Shinra, interviews a young boy named Denzel for potential membership in Reeve's World Regenesis Organization, a group devoted to the restoration and protection of the planet. -- -- Denzel recounts his tragic history to Reeve, detailing how the aftermath of the heroic Avalanche's actions laid waste to Midgar and took the lives of everyone the boy knew. Through reminiscing to Reeve, Denzel discovers a newfound purpose. -- -- OVA - Apr 16, 2009 -- 23,906 7.12
Flag -- -- The Answer Studio -- 13 eps -- Original -- Mecha Military -- Flag Flag -- In 20xx, a civil war broke out in a small country in Asia in spite of the dispatch of UN forces. But a picture taken by accident in the battlefield accelerates the peace process: a photograph of a flag, which became the symbol of peace. However, just before the peace agreement is finalized, the flag is stolen by an armed extremist group in order to obstruct the truce. To rescue the flag, the UN sends the Special Development Command (SDC, which is armed with the High Agility Versatile Weapon Carrier (HAVWC)), along with an embedded photojournalist to record their activities. That photojournalist is Saeko Shirasu—the young camerawoman who took the picture of the flag. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- ONA - Jun 16, 2006 -- 17,237 7.20
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation -- -- Bibury Animation Studios -- 2 eps -- Visual novel -- Action School -- Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation -- Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge. CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development). -- -- The goal of SORD is to train a new generation of operatives to defend the country against future threats. To that end, the organization has established a series of schools up and down the country. Mihama Academy, more-or-less left to rot after its abrupt closure, has been given new purpose as one such 'specialist training school'. -- -- This new incarnation of Mihama Academy is home to a diverse group of students, who every day work to polish their unusual skills – sometimes on the job. Mihama now entrusts the misfit girls who attend it with guns and live ammunition. -- -- Paying their own safety no heed, these students are again and again plunged into dangerous extrajudicial missions - all for the good of the realm. -- -- "We've been provided with a place in the world. That alone isn't enough - there wouldn't be any meaning in living, if that was all we had... It's not enough just to be made use of by others. I live by my own strength, and I fight to survive. That's the only way those of us who actually make it through can find forgiveness..." -- -- No matter how much life grinds them down, what future awaits these girls, who've themselves chosen the path of the gun? -- -- (Source: Kickstarter) -- Movie - Mar 15, 2019 -- 60,507 6.97
Hatsukoi Limited. -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Hatsukoi Limited. Hatsukoi Limited. -- A series relating the intertwined stories about the "first loves" of several middle-schoolers and high-schoolers. Each episode tends to focus on a different character, however the developments established during previous episodes continue to play smaller roles in those following. As the series progresses, an array of unusual and unexpected love webs begin to blossom. -- 84,355 7.32
Id:Invaded -- -- NAZ -- 13 eps -- Original -- Mystery Police Psychological Sci-Fi -- Id:Invaded Id:Invaded -- The Mizuhanome System is a highly advanced development that allows people to enter one of the most intriguing places in existence—the human mind. Through the use of so-called "cognition particles" left behind at a crime scene by the perpetrator, detectives from the specialized police squad Kura can manifest a criminal's unconscious mind as a bizarre stream of thoughts in a virtual world. Their task is to explore this psychological plane, called an "id well," to reveal the identity of the culprit. -- -- Not just anyone can enter the id wells; the prerequisite is that you must have killed someone yourself. Such is the case for former detective Akihito Narihisago, who is known as "Sakaido" inside the id wells. Once a respected member of the police, tragedy struck, and he soon found himself on the other side of the law. -- -- Nevertheless, Narihisago continues to assist Kura in confinement. While his prodigious detective skills still prove useful toward investigations, Narihisago discovers that not everything is as it seems, as behind the seemingly standalone series of murder cases lurks a much more sinister truth. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 227,851 7.89
Joker Game -- -- Production I.G -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Military Historical Drama -- Joker Game Joker Game -- With World War II right around the corner, intelligence on other countries' social and economic situation has become a valuable asset. As a result, Japan has established a new spy organization known as the "D Agency" to obtain this weapon. -- -- Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki, eight agents have been assigned to infiltrate and observe some of the most powerful countries, reporting on any developments associated with the war. In order to carry out these dangerous tasks, these men have trained their bodies to survive in extreme conditions and studied numerous fields such as communications and languages. However, their greatest strength lies in their ability to manipulate people in order to obtain the information necessary to give their nation the upper hand. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 184,426 7.05
Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood -- -- Bakken Record -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Historical Supernatural -- Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood -- Set in alternate history Japan in 1931 and the 64th year of the Meiji era, the Tokugawa shogunate was never abolished and Emperor Meiji was never restored to power. The anime will follow the activities of "Nue," an organization of shogunate executioners who enforce the government. The country has developed its own energy source, the "dragon vein," and has achieved a unique development in which science and the Edo period are mixed. -- -- However, behind the glamorous city, the dissident organization Kuchinawa strives to overthrow the administration, while the Nue of the Tokugawa regime, who was entrusted with its extermination, are in conflict. Sawa Yukimura, whose family was killed when she was young, continues to search for Janome, the executioner of the Nue. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 54,745 6.64
Kakegurui×× -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Game Mystery Psychological School Shounen -- Kakegurui×× Kakegurui×× -- As Yumeko Jabami's fame grows and the reputation of the student council dwindles, Kirari Momobami decides to revolutionize the group. To this end, she announces an election for its next president. The rules are simple: each student in the school receives one chip. Whoever has the most chips by the end of thirty days becomes both the new president and the head of the Momobami clan. -- -- Upon receiving news of this development, the Momobami branch families spring into action. Eleven transfer students arrive at Hyakkao Private Academy, each aiming to lead both the school and the Momobami clan. Equipped with unique talents, they will compete to get as many chips as possible—but their chips are not the only things on the line. -- -- 480,876 7.28
Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Fantasy Military Shounen -- Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e -- With the initiation of the Patrian civil war came the creation of half-beast, half-human soldiers—a development of the outnumbered Northerners in a desperate attempt to counter the overwhelming Southern forces. Able to quickly dominate battlefields and achieve victory with ease, the soldiers' godlike abilities earned them the name "Incarnates." However, as the war raged on, the Incarnates encountered a problem involving the beasts inside them that they were unable to rectify by ordinary means. -- -- Once the war was over, mysteries and accounts of the Incarnates submitting to the misfortune of their war days surfaced. Aware of the horrors they faced during the war, Special Sergeant Major and former captain of the Incarnates Hank Henriette becomes a Beast Hunter—those who take the lives of Incarnates who have succumbed to the issues they experienced on the battlefields. -- -- After witnessing her father, a former Incarnate soldier, meet his end at the hands of one such Beast Hunter, Nancy Schaal Bancroft resolves to hunt the man who took her father's life. However, Nancy's eye-opening encounter with the Beast Hunter influences her to instead seek the reason behind her father's death and the Incarnates' problematic existence in society. -- -- 95,746 6.40
Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor the Movie -- -- Production I.G, Studio Deen -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Mecha Military Police -- Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor the Movie Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor the Movie -- The Babylon Project is a massive renovation of Tokyo's neighborhoods, including the creation of artificial islands in the Bay. Utilizing "Labors," or robots created for the express purpose of doing work, architects and construction crews are able to more efficiently progress development of the overhaul. When a key figure in the Project's conception is found dead after committing suicide under mysterious circumstances, Captain Kiichi Gotou's Patlabor police unit is tasked with getting to the bottom of the bizarre situation. -- -- As several Labors begin to go haywire and a hacked AI program endangers the people of Tokyo, young pilot Noa Izumi and her Patlabor Alphonse work under Gotou's orders to save the city and the entire nation from a massive biblical conspiracy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Visual USA, Maiden Japan, Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Jul 15, 1989 -- 33,720 7.55
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate -- -- AIC Build -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance School -- Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate -- Yuuki Oojima is a member of his high school's Food Research Club, whose main activity is eating snacks bought with funds allocated to them by the school. However, this peaceful and wasteful lifestyle is under threat as the upcoming student election draws near. Satsuki Shinonome, a major candidate and the head of the department of financial affairs, campaigns on a platform that includes disbanding meritless clubs such as the Food Research Club and redirecting their budgets to proper ones. -- -- Understandably, the Food Research Club is in an uproar over this development, with president Chisato Sumiyoshi vowing to preserve it. But what can they even do to stop the highly competent and popular Satsuki from getting elected? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jul 6, 2012 -- 191,814 7.07
Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 -- -- Production I.G, Sola Digital Arts -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Police Mecha Seinen -- Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 -- The year is 2045, and artificial intelligence has undergone tremendous developments. Governments use them as weapons, engaging in never-ending warfare to sustain their economies. The mercenary group GHOST, headed by Major Motoko Kusanagi, is no stranger to this landscape. However, the rapid innovation of this technology causes a new threat to loom over the horizon. -- -- Having left Public Security Section 9, Kusanagi and her group are involved in many operations worldwide related to these proxy wars. But a seemingly simple job of locating an arms dealer drags GHOST into a hidden conflict against cybernetically enhanced individuals, who have inexplicably gained extreme intelligence and physical abilities. Dubbed "post-humans," their emergence sets off a chain of events leading to the reunion of Section 9. Armed with a new mission, it is up to Kusanagi and her reestablished team to prevent global chaos at the hands of these post-humans. -- -- ONA - Apr 23, 2020 -- 26,133 6.67
Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai -- -- Lerche -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Ecchi Fantasy School -- Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai -- The Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart was founded alongside the development of "Machinart," machine magic capable of giving life and intelligence to mechanical dolls subsequently called as "automaton." Its aim: train skilled puppeteers to control the automatons, as militaries across the globe have begun incorporating Machinart into their armies. -- -- After miserably failing the academy's entrance exams, Raishin Akabane and his humanoid automaton Yaya must defeat one of the top one hundred students to earn the right to take part in the Evening Party, a fight for supremacy between puppeteers using their automatons. The last one standing is bestowed the title of "Wiseman" and granted access to the powerful forbidden arts. -- -- Thus, Raishin challenges Charlotte Belew and her automaton Sigmund to a duel, but before they even begin, Sigmund is attacked by other students. After saving his opponents from their assaulters, Raishin cancels the duel but is forced to search for a new way to gain access to the Party. Driven by the tragedies of his past, Raishin fights alongside Yaya to rise to the top and claim the title of Wiseman. -- -- 270,768 7.13
Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai -- -- Lerche -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Ecchi Fantasy School -- Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai -- The Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart was founded alongside the development of "Machinart," machine magic capable of giving life and intelligence to mechanical dolls subsequently called as "automaton." Its aim: train skilled puppeteers to control the automatons, as militaries across the globe have begun incorporating Machinart into their armies. -- -- After miserably failing the academy's entrance exams, Raishin Akabane and his humanoid automaton Yaya must defeat one of the top one hundred students to earn the right to take part in the Evening Party, a fight for supremacy between puppeteers using their automatons. The last one standing is bestowed the title of "Wiseman" and granted access to the powerful forbidden arts. -- -- Thus, Raishin challenges Charlotte Belew and her automaton Sigmund to a duel, but before they even begin, Sigmund is attacked by other students. After saving his opponents from their assaulters, Raishin cancels the duel but is forced to search for a new way to gain access to the Party. Driven by the tragedies of his past, Raishin fights alongside Yaya to rise to the top and claim the title of Wiseman. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 270,768 7.13
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt -- -- Sunrise Beyond -- ? eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt -- Year P.D. 323. Gjallarhorn's political intervention into the Arbrau central parliament escalated into an armed conflict using mobile suits. The incident was brought to an end by Tekkadan, a group of boys who came from Mars. -- -- News of Tekkadan's exploits has also reached the ears of Wistario Afam, a youth born and raised at the Radonitsa Colony near Venus. Venus, which lost to Mars in the contest for development, is a remote frontier planet in which the four great economic blocs show little interest. It is now used only as a penal colony for criminals, whose inhabitants don't even have IDs. -- -- Then Wistario, who hopes to change the status quo of this homeland, encounters a girl who claims to be the guide to the Urdr-Hunt. -- -- (Source: Gundam Global Portal) -- -- ONA - ??? ??, ???? -- 7,528 N/AFinal Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Prologue -- -- Satelight -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action -- Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Prologue Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Prologue -- In an age when gods walk alongside mankind, the world of Eos finds itself falling into darkness. Calamity befalls the human race when malevolent creatures known as "daemons" scourge the land and obliterate armies with seemingly unstoppable brute force. In these dire times, nobles of House Caelum rise to prominence. Owing to their god-given healing powers, which allow them to purge the plague spread by the monsters, they earn the people's trust and allegiance. -- -- With no leader to rule the first human kingdom and guide the masses, the gods fervently seek to fill this vacancy—a man of the Caelum bloodline seems to be a desirable choice. The ambitious and charismatic pragmatist, Somnus Lucis Caelum, is pit against his humble and altruistic brother, Ardyn Lucis Caelum, in competition for the throne. As tensions rise between the rivals and anticipations surge, the fate of the world rests upon one of the two's decisive victory. -- -- ONA - Feb 17, 2019 -- 7,489 6.60
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt -- -- Sunrise Beyond -- ? eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt -- Year P.D. 323. Gjallarhorn's political intervention into the Arbrau central parliament escalated into an armed conflict using mobile suits. The incident was brought to an end by Tekkadan, a group of boys who came from Mars. -- -- News of Tekkadan's exploits has also reached the ears of Wistario Afam, a youth born and raised at the Radonitsa Colony near Venus. Venus, which lost to Mars in the contest for development, is a remote frontier planet in which the four great economic blocs show little interest. It is now used only as a penal colony for criminals, whose inhabitants don't even have IDs. -- -- Then Wistario, who hopes to change the status quo of this homeland, encounters a girl who claims to be the guide to the Urdr-Hunt. -- -- (Source: Gundam Global Portal) -- -- ONA - ??? ??, ???? -- 7,528 N/ASayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki -- -- Studio World, Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama -- Sayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki Sayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki -- Despite the destruction of the mechanization home world Andromeda, the machine empire is still swept across the galaxy and Earth has become a battleground. Having returned from his journey aboard the train Galaxy Express 999, Tetsurou Hoshino joins the resistance and fights alongside others who have retained their humanity. -- -- When the 999 returns to Earth, Tetsurou receives an enigmatic recorded message from his former traveling companion Maetel, telling him to board the train once more. Fighting his way to Megalopolis station, he makes it onto the train just as it departs. This time, however, Tetsurou is met with several mysteries: Maetel is nowhere to be seen, an ominous "Ghost Train" has appeared, and the ultimate destination of the 999 is unknown. Amid all this, Tetsurou finds himself confronted by the mysterious black knight Faust and soon discovers the machine empire's darkest secret. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- Movie - Jan 8, 1981 -- 7,501 7.29
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E.73: Stargazer -- -- Sunrise -- 3 eps -- Original -- Space Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E.73: Stargazer Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E.73: Stargazer -- In C.E. 73, tensions between Naturals and Coordinators continue to persist, eventually leading to another war between the Earth Alliance and PLANT. Sven Cal Bayan is a Natural pilot of the elite EA squad, the Phantom Pain, and carries out his squad's various anti-Coordinator missions without fail. Selene McGriff is a Coordinator researcher at the neutral Deep Space Survey and Development Organization (DSSD) and a developer of the GSX-401FW Stargazer space exploration mobile suit. Though their backgrounds are completely different, the expanding war will nevertheless force their paths to collide. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- ONA - Jul 14, 2006 -- 20,254 7.15
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet -- -- Sunrise -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Mecha Shounen -- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet -- What was the tragedy that decided the fates of Char Aznable, the man later nicknamed the "Red Comet" as an ace pilot of the Zeon forces, and his sister Sayla Mass? -- -- The two siblings' journeys, brought on by the sudden death of their father Zeon Zum Deikun who was a leader of the Spacenoids, are depicted in the four episodes of "Chronicle of Char and Sayla." -- -- The Zabi family who seize control of Side 3 and lead the Principality of Zeon, the early days of many renowned Zeon ace pilots who later fight in the One Year War, the secrets of mobile suit development, conflicts with the Earth Federation Forces, and the road leading to the outbreak of war—all will be revealed. -- -- (Source: Official Website) -- -- Note: A re-edited TV version of the six OVAs released from 2015 through 2018. -- TV - Apr 29, 2019 -- 11,990 8.09
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- -- ixtl, Satelight -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- Since 1973, an invasion of aliens upon Earth known as BETA has driven human civilization to destruction. In order to defend themselves from this enormous mass of enemy force, mankind has developed large humanoid arms called Tactical Surface Fighters and deployed them to its defense lines through out the world. However, its efforts could only slow down the impending defeat, and mankind has been forced to abandon the major areas of the Eurasian Continent. For 30 years, they have been caught in an endless war against BETA without any hopes of victory. -- -- Now in 2001, Imperial Japan faces difficulties in the development of the next-generation of Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) as it defends the front lines of the Far East. The UN has proposed a joint development program between Imperial Japan and the United States as a part of its TSF international mutual development unit, the Prominence Project. -- -- Yui Takamura (a surface pilot of the Imperial Royal Guards of Japan) is given the responsibility of the project and sets off to Alaska. Meanwhile, Yuya Bridges, also a surface pilot of the US Army, heads to the same destination. -- -- They never had any idea just how drastically their encounter would change their fates. -- -- This story of internal dilemma takes place during the development of the new Tactical Surface Fighters, the most crucial and effective weapons against BETA. And this time, the stakes are much higher than a handful of lives and our sanity. -- -- All we can do is fight. -- -- (Source: Muv-Luv Total Eclipse Official English Website, edited) -- 81,759 7.11
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- -- ixtl, Satelight -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- Since 1973, an invasion of aliens upon Earth known as BETA has driven human civilization to destruction. In order to defend themselves from this enormous mass of enemy force, mankind has developed large humanoid arms called Tactical Surface Fighters and deployed them to its defense lines through out the world. However, its efforts could only slow down the impending defeat, and mankind has been forced to abandon the major areas of the Eurasian Continent. For 30 years, they have been caught in an endless war against BETA without any hopes of victory. -- -- Now in 2001, Imperial Japan faces difficulties in the development of the next-generation of Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) as it defends the front lines of the Far East. The UN has proposed a joint development program between Imperial Japan and the United States as a part of its TSF international mutual development unit, the Prominence Project. -- -- Yui Takamura (a surface pilot of the Imperial Royal Guards of Japan) is given the responsibility of the project and sets off to Alaska. Meanwhile, Yuya Bridges, also a surface pilot of the US Army, heads to the same destination. -- -- They never had any idea just how drastically their encounter would change their fates. -- -- This story of internal dilemma takes place during the development of the new Tactical Surface Fighters, the most crucial and effective weapons against BETA. And this time, the stakes are much higher than a handful of lives and our sanity. -- -- All we can do is fight. -- -- (Source: Muv-Luv Total Eclipse Official English Website, edited) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 81,759 7.11
Naruto Movie 2: Dai Gekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Supernatural Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Naruto Movie 2: Dai Gekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! Naruto Movie 2: Dai Gekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! -- In a tumultuous effort, the Sunagakure ninjas attempt to repel an unforeseen invasion of mysterious armored warriors on the Land of Wind. Shortly afterwards, the same armored troops led by Temujin—a skilled knight of impressive power—ambush Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Shikamaru Nara, who are on a mission to recover a lost ferret. Naruto and Temujin engage in a fierce fight that ends with both of them falling off a cliff. -- -- Taken aback by their friend's sudden misfortune, Sakura and Shikamaru witness yet another alarming development: a massive moving structure appears out of nowhere, ravaging any trees and rocks in its path. While Sakura sets off to find Naruto, Shikamaru infiltrates the imposing fortress in hopes of learning more about the critical situation. -- -- Entangled in a relentless conflict, the Konohagakure ninjas join forces with their Sunagakure counterparts to defeat the common enemy. However, amidst the turmoil, a clash between two different visions of an ideal world emerges. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Aug 6, 2005 -- 179,927 6.88
Naruto Movie 2: Dai Gekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Supernatural Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Naruto Movie 2: Dai Gekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! Naruto Movie 2: Dai Gekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! -- In a tumultuous effort, the Sunagakure ninjas attempt to repel an unforeseen invasion of mysterious armored warriors on the Land of Wind. Shortly afterwards, the same armored troops led by Temujin—a skilled knight of impressive power—ambush Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Shikamaru Nara, who are on a mission to recover a lost ferret. Naruto and Temujin engage in a fierce fight that ends with both of them falling off a cliff. -- -- Taken aback by their friend's sudden misfortune, Sakura and Shikamaru witness yet another alarming development: a massive moving structure appears out of nowhere, ravaging any trees and rocks in its path. While Sakura sets off to find Naruto, Shikamaru infiltrates the imposing fortress in hopes of learning more about the critical situation. -- -- Entangled in a relentless conflict, the Konohagakure ninjas join forces with their Sunagakure counterparts to defeat the common enemy. However, amidst the turmoil, a clash between two different visions of an ideal world emerges. -- -- Movie - Aug 6, 2005 -- 179,927 6.88
Nourin -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Parody Romance Ecchi School -- Nourin Nourin -- Idol-obsessed Kousaku Hata is left devastated when his favorite, Yuka Kusakabe, unexpectedly announces her retirement at the peak of an illustrious career. As Yuka’s biggest fan, this news proves to be more difficult than he can bear. Shaken to his very core, he sinks into depression and places himself in self-imposed isolation. However, on the day his friends managed to convince him to attend school again, he gets a pleasant surprise. -- -- It turns out that his beloved idol, under the guise of Ringo Kinoshita, has transferred into his class. This miraculous development fills Kousaku with newfound resolve, as he dedicates himself to take advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With the support of his teacher and friends, Kousaku works toward getting close to the girl of his dreams and uncovering the reason for her retirement from the entertainment industry. -- -- TV - Jan 11, 2014 -- 152,252 6.81
Overlord -- -- Madhouse -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Fantasy Game Magic Supernatural -- Overlord Overlord -- The final hour of the popular virtual reality game Yggdrasil has come. However, Momonga, a powerful wizard and master of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, decides to spend his last few moments in the game as the servers begin to shut down. To his surprise, despite the clock having struck midnight, Momonga is still fully conscious as his character and, moreover, the non-player characters appear to have developed personalities of their own! -- -- Confronted with this abnormal situation, Momonga commands his loyal servants to help him investigate and take control of this new world, with the hopes of figuring out what has caused this development and if there may be others in the same predicament. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 1,101,156 7.94
Perfect Blue -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Dementia Drama Horror Psychological -- Perfect Blue Perfect Blue -- J-pop idol group CHAM! has spent the last two years entertaining its fans. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and CHAM! must see one of its members, Mima Kirigoe, leave the group to pursue her acting career. While Mima's choice is met with a mixed response, she hopes her fans will continue to support her. -- -- However, Mima's life begins to change drastically after her departure from the group. Wanting to shed her pop-idol image, she takes on a role in a crime drama series, and her career as an actress gradually becomes more demanding and taxing for both Mima and her manager, Rumi Hidaka. To add to Mima's growing unease, an obsessed fan who is incapable of accepting that Mima has quit being an innocent idol, begins stalking her; a new anonymous website begins to impersonate her life with intricate detail; and CHAM! also appears to be doing better without her. One by one, each disturbing development drives Mima to become increasingly unhinged and unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS, Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Feb 28, 1998 -- 423,581 8.49
RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida -- -- GEEK TOYS -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Drama -- RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida -- The year is 2050. A young engineer named Derrida Yvain became famous thanks to his contribution to the development of the "Autonomous Machine DZ" at Rebuild, the manufacturing company founded by his father. One day, Derrida and his colleague Nathan discover a flaw in the DZs and try to warn their boss, but are ignored. Although Derrida and Nathan are aware of the danger, they reluctantly decide to put off taking any measures, and instead go to Nathan's daughter Mage's birthday party. The next day, after enjoying a peaceful day, Derrida and Nathan are suddenly attacked by unknown forces. At the end of the escape, Derrida falls into a cold sleep machine and 10 years later, he wakes up to a devastated world in the middle of a war. While Derrida is attacked by a group of out of control DZs, he almost gives up, but he recalls Nathan's last words. -- -- "Take care of Mage." -- -- Despite the harsh fate that has fallen upon him, Derrida sets off to seek Mage. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 36,075 5.69
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 11 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ -- After finally completing the first route of his visual novel, Blessing Software's producer Tomoya Aki is optimistic about the future of his team and achieving their goal of creating the best game of the season. -- -- However, they still have a long way to go. For one, Megumi Katou still has an incredibly flat personality and is unable to fit the role of Tomoya's ideal heroine. The other members of Blessing Software, Eriri Spencer Sawamura, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Michiru Hyoudou, often forget she is even there due to her lack of presence and character. -- -- Throughout the development of their game, Blessing Software learns the struggles of working in an industry where deadlines must be met and edits are made constantly, and the hardships of working in a group setting. -- -- 254,378 7.79
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine -- -- CloverWorks -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine -- With the second Winter Comiket just around the corner, Blessing Software has been vigorously producing its new game, "How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend." Despite Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri Spencer Sawamura leaving the circle, Megumi Katou and Tomoya Aki are hopeful that, by sticking to Tomoya's original vision for the game, their upcoming creation will exceed Blessing Software's previous installment. -- -- With the addition of new members Iori and Izumi Hashima, development ensues—but not without its share of setbacks. Things rarely go as planned in the dating sim industry, with numerous obstacles forcing Tomoya to decide between helping his friends or completing the game. -- -- Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine draws the series to a close as Tomoya selects his final route, both within his personal life and Blessing Software. -- -- Movie - Oct 26, 2019 -- 98,836 8.47
Saishuu Heiki Kanojo: Another Love Song -- -- Studio Fantasia -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Sci-Fi -- Saishuu Heiki Kanojo: Another Love Song Saishuu Heiki Kanojo: Another Love Song -- Before Chise became the "ultimate weapon," there was another—Lieutenant Mizuki. A battle-hardened military woman, she volunteered for an experimental procedure after injuries left her unable to return to the battlefield. As the prototype ultimate weapon, Lieutenant Mizuki was highly successful on the battlefield, however, as the first candidate, her development was limited. -- -- When a more suitable candidate to become the weapon, Chise, is forced into the military, Lieutenant Mizuki thinks that she is silly, weak, and unsuited for the role. As the only other person to have undergone the procedure, however, Lieutenant Mizuki can hear Chise's thoughts and is the only one who understands her. As the war rages on and Chise's development progresses, Lieutenant Mizuki discovers more about Chise, ultimate weapons, and herself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- OVA - Aug 5, 2005 -- 16,216 7.10
Samurai Gun -- -- Studio Egg -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Historical Seinen -- Samurai Gun Samurai Gun -- It is the beginning of the industrial revolution, and feudal Japan is in turmoil. The ruling Shogun are wielding their abusive powers to instill fear and dominance over their oppressed subjects. Beatings, imprisonment, rape and even murder are the adopted tactics chosen to maintain their reign. The bloodshed must end. A group of Samurai have banded together, and, with the development of new weapons and new technology, they have both the will and the hardware to stand up and fight. Ichimatsu is one of these fighters. By day, he works incognito at a local tavern, in the evenings he frequents the brothels, and by the dark of night, he doles out some big-time, gun-barrel justice. He is here to help. He is Samurai Gun. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- TV - Oct 4, 2004 -- 7,980 5.99
Shuang Yue Zhi Cheng -- -- - -- 13 eps -- Original -- Military Sci-Fi -- Shuang Yue Zhi Cheng Shuang Yue Zhi Cheng -- In the year 2200, a new Cold War between two forces is set to end with a peace treaty. However, one side is hiding a dark secret, which results in numerous tragedies in the following months. In the wake of a crisis, a paramilitary team is founded to steal information at the center of the conflict. -- ONA - Mar 30, 2016 -- 553 N/A -- -- Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond Part 4 -- -- I.Gzwei, Production I.G -- 3 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Drama Mecha -- Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond Part 4 Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond Part 4 -- Episodes 10-12 of the Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond series. -- Movie - ??? ??, 2021 -- 542 N/A -- -- Koutetsu no Vendetta Episode 0 -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Koutetsu no Vendetta Episode 0 Koutetsu no Vendetta Episode 0 -- The doujin (self-published) creators of the Koutetsu no Vendetta (Iron Vendetta) military robot anime project released a preview DVD at Tokyo's Comic Market 75 convention. The DVD included the unedited versions of the project's pilot film, special supplemental videos, and a collection of key animation drawings. The running times of the pilot and the supplemental video collection are each under five minutes long. -- -- Note: The project is on hold due to the dissolution of the production division of its sponsor Ankama Japan. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- ONA - Feb 22, 2013 -- 509 N/A -- -- Dalam-iwa Goseumdochi -- -- - -- 32 eps -- - -- Military Historical -- Dalam-iwa Goseumdochi Dalam-iwa Goseumdochi -- Squirrel and Hedgehog documents various animal communities warring and in conflict against one another, each animal being a symbolic representation of real life countries and sometimes political events. -- -- A North Korean propaganda anime that was developed and produced in North Korea to be aired on state television. -- TV - ??? ??, 1977 -- 475 N/AAoi Kioku: Manmou Kaitaku to Shounen-tachi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Drama Historical Military -- Aoi Kioku: Manmou Kaitaku to Shounen-tachi Aoi Kioku: Manmou Kaitaku to Shounen-tachi -- A class of Japanese youths volunteer for the war effort during WWII, but then get stranded in Manchuria. -- Movie - Dec 18, 1993 -- 439 N/A -- -- Guan Hai Ce -- -- Tong Ming Xuan -- 16 eps -- Original -- Action Military Historical Martial Arts Fantasy -- Guan Hai Ce Guan Hai Ce -- (No synopsis yet.) -- ONA - Jun 17, 2018 -- 396 N/A -- -- Konpeki no Kantai: Sourai Kaihatsu Monogatari -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- - -- Military Historical -- Konpeki no Kantai: Sourai Kaihatsu Monogatari Konpeki no Kantai: Sourai Kaihatsu Monogatari -- A special which tells the story of the development of the japanese Sourai interceptor plane. -- Special - ??? ??, 1997 -- 392 N/AZhen Gyi Hong Shi -- -- - -- 52 eps -- - -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Mecha -- Zhen Gyi Hong Shi Zhen Gyi Hong Shi -- This series, which is set in the future, is about several events that break out after troops successfully rescued a teenager who was kidnapped by the mysterious Black Armors. -- Ever since Marty had his first contact with the Black Armors and was subsequently rescued, he has been found to possess mysterious prophetic abilities as he is able to see the future in fragmented visions portraying an avalanche, a tsunami, a storm and other catastrophes. These disasters will always come true after Marty experiences the prophetic visions, but he is unable to predict accurately when and where they will occur. -- When the government learns about this, a unit is sent to protect Marty, and World Peacekeepers, abbreviated as WPK, is established to fight against the Black Armors. In order to defeat the Black Armors, the government grants permission for World Peacekeepers to use Ammobots – mechanical armors which have been developed over many years. -- -- After several battles with the Black Armors, the World Peacekeepers realizes that they are actually linked to the unusual natural disasters and discovers that they originate from a small planet called Mirzam, which is outside the solar system. -- -- Their real intention is to seize the abundant ecological resources on Earth and when these resources are seized, the ecosystem will lose its balance, thus leading to natural disasters. -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- TV - Oct 4, 2014 -- 389 N/A -- -- Spy Gekimetsu -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Military Historical -- Spy Gekimetsu Spy Gekimetsu -- A war propaganda film which begins with Roosevelt and Churchill in a secret meeting preparing their spy plans. Western spies in fancy suits and top hats parachute into Japan, disturbing innocent farmers. The Japanese civilians manage to thwart the spy activities. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - Jul 16, 1942 -- 351 N/A -- -- Malay Oki Kaisen -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Historical Military -- Malay Oki Kaisen Malay Oki Kaisen -- A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou. -- Movie - Nov 26, 1943 -- 345 5.42
Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator -- -- A.C.G.T., J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Super Power Supernatural Fantasy School -- Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator -- Academy City stands at the forefront of scientific and technological progress, best known for their development of espers: those capable of wielding superhuman abilities that alter the rules of reality. The most powerful among them are the Level 5s, and the one known as Accelerator reigns supreme, even after being weakened by a severe brain injury. By his side is the young girl known as Last Order, whom despite his cold demeanor, he holds closely and vows to protect at all costs. -- -- Though Accelerator may be recovering from his injury, the dark side of Academy City never rests, and so he finds himself unwillingly caught up in the midst of a new conflict. When a mysterious young woman approaches Accelerator in pursuit of Last Order, the highest-ranked esper is confronted by a venomous organization that has taken root in Anti-Skill, Academy City's peacekeeping organization. With dangerous forces on the move that threaten to put Last Order and her sisters at risk, the self-proclaimed villain prepares to step into the darkness once again. -- -- 161,567 7.17
Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator -- -- A.C.G.T., J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Super Power Supernatural Fantasy School -- Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator -- Academy City stands at the forefront of scientific and technological progress, best known for their development of espers: those capable of wielding superhuman abilities that alter the rules of reality. The most powerful among them are the Level 5s, and the one known as Accelerator reigns supreme, even after being weakened by a severe brain injury. By his side is the young girl known as Last Order, whom despite his cold demeanor, he holds closely and vows to protect at all costs. -- -- Though Accelerator may be recovering from his injury, the dark side of Academy City never rests, and so he finds himself unwillingly caught up in the midst of a new conflict. When a mysterious young woman approaches Accelerator in pursuit of Last Order, the highest-ranked esper is confronted by a venomous organization that has taken root in Anti-Skill, Academy City's peacekeeping organization. With dangerous forces on the move that threaten to put Last Order and her sisters at risk, the self-proclaimed villain prepares to step into the darkness once again. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 161,567 7.17
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Comparison of integrated development environments
Comprehensive Child Development Bill of 1972
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Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development
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Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study
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Council of Europe Development Bank
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Critical Infrastructure Research and Development Advancement Act of 2013
Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Development Canada
Cuernavaca Center for Intercultural Dialogue on Development
Current Developments in Nutrition
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Cyprus Development Bank
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Danish International Development Agency
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Darfur Peace and Development Organization
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Data Plane Development Kit
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Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace
Defence Fire Training and Development Centre
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Delhi Development Authority
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Democracy and Development
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Democratic Party for the Development of Carchuna
Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act
Denver Developmental Screening Tests
Department for International Development
Department of Aerospace Development (Ecuador)
Department of Agriculture Development & Farmers' Welfare (Kerala)
Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
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Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development (Newfoundland and Labrador)
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Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development
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Department of Supply and Development (193942)
Department of Supply and Development (194850)
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Development as Freedom
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Development, Growth & Differentiation
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Development hell
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Development (journal)
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Development Panel of ICC Umpires
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Dhaniakhali (community development block)
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Dhupguri (community development block)
Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood
Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Differential technological development
Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
Director of Operations, Planning and Development for Military Commissions
Discovery and development of ACE inhibitors
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Discovery and development of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors
Discovery and development of direct thrombin inhibitors
Discovery and development of gliflozins
Discovery and development of HIV-protease inhibitors
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Discovery and development of phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors
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Disorders of sex development
Distributed agile software development
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District Rural Development Agencies
Djibouti Party for Development
Doha Development Round
Domjur (community development block)
Domkal (community development block)
Donghu New Technology Development Zone
Dongying Economic Development Zone
Draft:Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership
Draft:The International Center for Entrepreneurial Development
Draft:Topic Development
Dr. Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute of Telangana
Drug Design, Development and Therapy
Drug development
Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy
Dumri, Giridih (community development block)
Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
Du Toit v Minister for Welfare and Population Development
Dyadic developmental psychotherapy
Dynamic systems development method
Dzongkha Development Commission
Early Childhood Development Agency
Early Human Development
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
East African Development Bank
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Eastern Anatolia Development Programme
Eastern Development Region, Nepal
East Midlands Development Agency
East of England Development Agency
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
Ecologically sustainable development
EcoLogic Development Fund
Ecologist Party for the Development of Burkina
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Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
Economic Development and Cultural Change
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Economic Development and Research Center (Armenia)
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Economic Development Board (Mauritius)
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Economic development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation
Economic Development Quarterly
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Education for sustainable development
Effects of nicotine on human brain development
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Electric Power Development Company
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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
Energy development
Energy Research and Development Administration
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England Rural Development Programme
Englewood Community Redevelopment Area
English Bazar (community development block)
Environmental Development
Environmental impact of development in the Sundarbans
Environmental toxicants and fetal development
Environment and Development Party
Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate
Epigenetics of human development
Epigenetics of plant growth and development
Episcopal Relief & Development
Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
Eritrean Investment and Development Bank
Ethics: Origin and Development
Ethiopian Horticulture Development Agency
Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Center for Leadership Development
European Centre for Development Policy Management
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
European Development Centre
European Foundation for Management Development
European Launcher Development Organisation
European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion
European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
European Parliament Committee on Development
European Parliament Committee on Regional Development
European Regional Development Fund
European Society for Research in Adult Development
European Spatial Development Planning
Evolution & Development
Evolutionary developmental biology
Evolutionary developmental psychology
Evolutionary developmental robotics
Export Development Canada
Extell Development Company
External Development Summit
Eye development
Face and neck development of the human embryo
Falakata (community development block)
Falkland Islands Development Corporation
Falta (community development block)
Farakka (community development block)
Far-Western Development Region, Nepal
Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development
Fassinger's model of gay and lesbian identity development
Feather development
Feature-driven development
Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
Federal Institute for Sustainable Development
Federal Land Development Authority
Federally funded research and development centers
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development
FF Developments
Film Development Council of the Philippines
Finance & Development
Financial market theory of development
Financial Stability and Development Council
Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Fluid Motorsport Development
Flying Tiger Development
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign Market Development Program
For Justice and Development
Fork (software development)
For Latvia's Development
Formula Racing Development
Forum for Democracy and Development
Forum for the Progress and Development of South America
Forum for Women and Development
Foundation for Child Development
Foundation for Development of Ukraine
Foundation for European Economic Development
Foundation for International Development/Relief
Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children
Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development
Foundation of Women's Rights Promotion and Development
Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians
Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
Freedom of Religion South Africa v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development
French Development Agency
Friends Development F.C.
Friendswood Development Company
Front-end web development
Frontier Developments
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
Future developments in Singapore
Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development
Game development tool
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Gangajalghati (community development block)
Gangarampur (community development block)
Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Gazole (community development block)
GD Power Development
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Gender Development Index
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Gender, Institutions and Development Database
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General Liberation and Development Party
General Permitted Development Order
General Secretariat for Development Planning
General Union for Development of Macau
Genes & Development
Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development
Geography and urban development of Dresden
Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency
Geoscientific Model Development
German Development Institute
GermanRomanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries (1939)
Germline development
Ghelardh (community development block)
Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Global Development Alliances
Global Development and Environment Institute
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development
Glucocorticoids in hippocampal development
GNU MIX Development Kit
Gorubathan (community development block)
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Greater Mohali Area Development Authority
Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority
Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal
Green development
Green Development Initiative
Greenhills (mixed-use development)
Green Mada'in Association for Agricultural Development
Green Paper on Constitutional Development
Group Areas Development Act, 1955
Group Racing Developments
GSF Development Driller II
GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone
Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation
Gundwana v Steko Development
Habibpur (community development block)
Halal Development Corporation
Haldibari (community development block)
Hangzhou Yuhang Economic Development Area
Hanskhali (community development block)
Harbour Centre Development
Hariharpara (community development block)
Haringhata (community development block)
Harirampur (community development block)
Haroa (community development block)
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard Developments
Haryana Land Reclamation and Development Corporation
Haryana Seeds Development Corporation
Hasnabad (community development block)
Hawaii Technology Development Corporation
HDC Hyundai Development Company
Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute
Health Research Development Information Network
Heart development
Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
Henderson Land Development
Herbal Research and Development Institute
Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana
Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
Hidili Industry International Development Limited
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
Hili (community development block)
Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act
Hirbandh (community development block)
Hispanic Council On Social Policy Center For Community Development Corp.
Historical development of Church of England dioceses
Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms
History of infrastructure development in Bathurst
History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development)
HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment
Hobbyist operating system development
Hodge v Canada (Minister of Human Resources Development)
Hokkaid Development Commission
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
Homart Development Company
Home Development Mutual Fund
Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Hong Kong Trade Development Council Trade Fairs
Hopson Development
Horn Of Africa Development Initiative
Housing and Community Development Act
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992
Housing and Development Board
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
Housing and Urban Development Company flats
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council
Housing and Urban Development Corporation
Housing Development Fund Corporation
Hudson Yards (development)
Human brain development timeline
Human development
Human development (economics)
Human Development Foundation
Human Development Index
Human Development (journal)
Human Development Report
Human embryonic development
Human evolutionary developmental biology
Human Resource Development Review
Human Resources Development Canada
Human Resources Development Convention, 1975
Human rights and development
Human tooth development
Hungarian Development Bank
Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority
Hyderabad Urban Development Authority
HYDRA Game Development Kit
Hydration (web development)
Hydroelectric Development in Easterville, Chemawawin
Hysan Development
Iberian ship development, 14001600
IBM Journal of Research and Development
ICT Development Index
IHRD (Institute of Human Resources Development)
IIDA Women's Development Organisation
Image development
Imi Tami Institute for Research and Development
Improvement and Development Agency for local government
Indas (community development block)
India Human Development Survey
India Tourism Development Corporation
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Individual development account
Individual development plan
Indpur (community development block)
Industrial Development and Competitiveness Center
Industrial Development Bank
Industrial Development Consultants Ltd v Cooley
Industrial Development Group
Industrial development in the Principality of Wallachia
Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947
Infant Behavior and Development
Infant cognitive development
Infant visual development
Infocomm Media Development Authority
Information Development
Information-led development
Information oriented software development
Information Technologies and International Development
Infrastructure-based development
Infrastructure Development Company
Infrastructure Development Finance Company
Initial Police Learning and Development Programme
Inn National Development Party
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Insect development during storage
Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa
Institute for Productivity & Human Resource Development
Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Institute of Continuing Professional Development
Institute of Development Studies
Institute of Economic Development
Institute of Management Development and Research, Pune
Institutional analysis and development framework
Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority of Bangladesh
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
Integrated Child Development Services
Integrated development environment
Integrated Development Region of Greater Teresina
Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme
Integrated Index for Postal Development
Integration and Development Movement
Intellectuals and Tribes Alliance for Development
Intel System Development Kit
Inter-American Development Bank
Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest
Intergovernmental Authority on Development
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International business development
International Center for Peace and Development
International Centre for Climate Change and Development
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
International Centre for Migration Policy Development
International Centre for Tax and Development
International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development
International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
International Conference on Population and Development
International development
International Development Association
International Development Committee
International Development Law Organization
International Development Markup Language
International development minister
International Development Research Centre
International Disability and Development Consortium
International Fertilizer Development Center
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation
International Institute for Environment and Development
International Institute for Management Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development
International Institute of Peace and Development Studies
International Journal of Behavioral Development
International Journal of Comparative Education and Development
International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience
International Journal of Ecology & Development
International Master of Science in Rural Development
International Relief and Development Inc.
International Research Association for Talent Development and Excellence
International Society for Design and Development in Education
International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
International Society of Developmental Biologists
International Space Development Conference
International Women's Development Agency
Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology Animal
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology Plant
Iowa Tests of Educational Development
Iowa Workforce Development
Ipswich Village Development
Iranian Rail Industries Development Co
Iraq Economic Development Group
Irish Forum for International Agricultural Development
Iskandar Regional Development Authority
Islamic Development Bank
Islamic Development Organization
Islampur, Uttar Dinajpur (community development block)
ISO Development Environment
Israel Land Development Company
Italian Minister of Economic Development
Italian-Thai Development
Iterative and incremental development
IZA Journal of Development and Migration
Jackson system development
Jacksonville Developmental Center
Jalangi (community development block)
Jalpaiguri (community development block)
Japan Electronic Industries Development Association
Japan Social Development Fund
Java Agent Development Framework
Java Development Kit
Java Web Services Development Pack
JDC International Centre for Community Development
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Johnstown Redevelopment Authority
Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
Joint Economic Development District
Joint Planning and Development Office
Joint Training and Training Development Center
Jordan Tourism Development Project
Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri (community development block)
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Journal of Career Development
Journal of Cognition and Development
Journal of College Student Development
Journal of Counseling & Development
Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
Journal of Infrastructure Development
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability
Journal of International Development
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Journal of Race Development
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
Journal of Social Development in Africa
Journal of South Asian Development
Joypur, Bankura (community development block)
Justice and Development Front
Justice and Development Party
Justice and Development Party (Morocco)
Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
Justice and Development Party Youth
Justice for Peace and Development
Kai Tak Development
Kaliaganj (community development block)
Kaliganj (community development block)
Kanban (development)
Kandi (community development block)
Karachi Development Authority
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Project
Kenya African Democratic Development Union
Kenya Institute of Social Work and Community Development
Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation
Kerala Rail Development Corporation
Kerala Small Industries Development Corporation Limited
Keshpur (community development block)
Khargram (community development block)
Kharibari (community development block)
Khatra (community development block)
Khoyrasol (community development block)
Kiamichi Economic Development District of Oklahoma
Kidney development
Kimmage Development Studies Centre
KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development
King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau
King Baudouin International Development Prize
Kingston Foreshore Redevelopment
Knapp's relational development model
Knowledge and Human Development Authority
Kobe City Urban Development
Kolaghat (community development block)
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Konch (community development block)
Korea Development Institute
Korea Mining and Development Trading Corporation
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
Kosovo Centre for Public Safety Education and Development
Kotulpur (community development block)
Kowloon Development Company
Krishnaganj (community development block)
Kuchaikote (community development block)
Kumarkhand (community development block)
Kunming Economic and Technology Development Zone
Kunming High-tech Industrial Development Zone
Kurseong (community development block)
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh
Ladakh Ecological Development and Environmental Group
Laguna Lake Development Authority
Lai Sun Development
Lake Mainit Development Alliance
Lalganj (community development block)
Lalgola (community development block)
Lamaze Infant Development System
Land development
Land development bank
Language and Book Development Agency
Language development
Language for Systems Development
LANSA (development environment)
Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act
Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency
Law and development
Law Development Centre
Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Leadership development
Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development
Lean product development
Lean software development
Learning and Skills Development Agency
Learning development
Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction
Leckwith development
Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Association
LEED for Neighborhood Development
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education
Lend Lease Residential Development
Liberian Bank for Development and Investment
Liberian Development Chartered Company
Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Lijiang Sports Development Centre Stadium
Limb development
Lincoln Yards (development)
List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index
List of administrative divisions of Myanmar by Human Development Index
List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index
List of African countries by Human Development Index
List of Algerian regions by Human Development Index
List of alumni of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index
List of Armenian provinces by Human Development Index
List of Arrested Development characters
List of Arrested Development episodes
List of awards and nominations received by Arrested Development
List of Bolivian departments by Human Development Index
List of Brazilian federative units by Human Development Index
List of Bulgarian regions by Human Development Index
List of Cambodian provinces by Human Development Index
List of Canadian provinces and territories by Human Development Index
List of central European countries by development indexes
List of Colombian departments by Human Development Index
List of community development blocks of Uttarakhand
List of companies by research and development spending
List of Costa Rican provinces by Human Development Index
List of counties of Albania by Human Development Index
List of countries by Human Development Index
List of countries by Official Development Assistance received
List of countries by research and development spending
List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index
List of Croatian counties by Human Development Index
List of Czech regions by Human Development Index
List of Danish regions by Human Development Index
List of departments of Haiti by Human Development Index
List of departments of the Republic of the Congo by Human Development Index
List of development aid agencies
List of development aid country donors
List of developmental administrative units of Tamil Nadu
List of developmental psychologists
List of development projects in Dubai
List of development projects in Tokyo
List of Development Regions of British Columbia
List of developments of The World (archipelago)
List of districts of Belize by Human Development Index
List of districts of Bhutan by Human Development Index
List of districts of Botswana by Human Development Index
List of districts of Kosovo by Human Development Index
List of districts of Lesotho by Human Development Index
List of districts of Sierra Leone by Human Development Index
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List of federal subjects of Russia by Human Development Index
List of Finnish regions by Human Development Index
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List of Gabonese provinces by Human Development Index
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List of governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index
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List of Greek regions by Human Development Index
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List of implicated parties to the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam
List of Indonesian provinces by Human Development Index
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List of Jordanian governorates by Human Development Index
List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index
List of Liberian counties by Human Development Index
List of local government areas of the Gambia by Human Development Index
List of Mauritanian regions by Human Development Index
List of media notable for being in development hell
List of Ministers of Regional Development and Local Governments of Latvia
List of multinational companies with research and development centres in Israel
List of municipalities of East Timor by Human Development Index
List of Namibian regions by Human Development Index
List of Norwegian regions by Human Development Index
List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index
List of Polish voivodeships by Human Development Index
List of Portuguese regions by Human Development Index
List of prefectures of the Central African Republic by Human Development Index
List of presidents of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank
List of provinces and indigenous regions of Panama by Human Development Index
List of provinces of Angola by Human Development Index
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List of provinces of Mozambique by Human Development Index
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List of provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Human Development Index
List of provinces of the Netherlands by Human Development Index
List of regions of Afghanistan by Human Development Index
List of regions of Azerbaijan by Human Development Index
List of regions of Bangladesh by Human Development Index
List of regions of Belarus by Human Development Index
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List of regions of Guinea by Human Development Index
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List of regions of Somalia by Human Development Index
List of regions of South Korea by Human Development Index
List of regions of Switzerland by Human Development Index
List of regions of Tajikistan by Human Development Index
List of regions of Tanzania by Human Development Index
List of regions of the Dominican Republic by Human Development Index
List of regions of the United Kingdom by Human Development Index
List of regions of Trinidad and Tobago by Human Development Index
List of regions of Tunisia by Human Development Index
List of regions of Uganda by Human Development Index
List of regions of Uruguay by Human Development Index
List of regions of Yemen by Human Development Index
List of Romanian regions by Human Development Index
List of Salvadoran departments by Human Development Index
List of Senegalese regions by Human Development Index
List of Singaporean Community Development Councils (19972001)
List of Singaporean Community Development Councils (20012006)
List of Singaporean Community Development Councils (20062011)
List of Singaporean Community Development Councils (20112015)
List of Slovak oblasts by Human Development Index
List of software development philosophies
List of South African provinces by Human Development Index
List of Spanish autonomous communities by Human Development Index
List of Sustainable Development Goal targets and indicators
List of Swedish regions by Human Development Index
List of Togolese regions by Human Development Index
List of Turkish regions by Human Development Index
List of video games in development
List of Vietnamese regions by Human Development Index
List of village development committees of Nepal
List of Zambian provinces by Human Development Index
List of Zimbabwean provinces by Human Development Index
Liuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone
Live Art Development Agency
Lloyds Development Capital
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
Local development
Local development framework
Local development order
Local economic development
Local Government Officials Development Institute
Loevinger's stages of ego development
London Development Agency
London Docklands Development Corporation
London Thames Gateway Development Corporation
Loss development factor
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
Low-code development platform
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council
Low-impact development
Low-impact development (UK)
Low-impact development (U.S. and Canada)
Lumbee Regional Development Association
Lux-Development
Machilipatnam Urban Development Authority
Madarihat-Birpara (community development block)
Madhepura (community development block)
Magellan Development Group
Maharajganj (community development block)
Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority
Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation
Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation
Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development
Mahaweli Development programme
Mairwa (community development block)
Majorganj (community development block)
Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation
Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute
Malaysian Investment Development Authority
MalaysiaThailand joint development area
Mal (community development block)
Mamirau Sustainable Development Reserve
Management development
Management Development Institute
Mandela Institute for Development Studies
Marina District Development
Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development
Marra Developments Ltd v BW Rofe Pty Ltd
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency
Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development
Massive Development
Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Development (MAHE)
Master of Rural Development
Maternity leave and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Matiali (community development block)
Matigara (community development block)
Maynaguri (community development block)
McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
Mechanisms of Development
Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
Media development
Media Development Authority
Media Development Investment Fund
Mejia (community development block)
Mekhliganj (community development block)
Melco International Development
Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memory development
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
Metropolitan Miami (development)
Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority
MFA Development
Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Microprocessor development board
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006
Microsoft Development Center Norway
Microsoft Development Center Serbia
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle
Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Bank
Microwave Tube Research and Development Centre
Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project
Midnapore Sadar (community development block)
Midtown West (commercial development)
Mid-Western Development Region, Nepal
Military Orbital Development System
Military Skills Development System
Millennium Development Goals
Milton Keynes Development Corporation
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002
Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act
Mingyuan Medicare Development
Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade (Finland)
Minister for Development Cooperation (Denmark)
Minister for Digital Development (Sweden)
Minister for Europe and International Development
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (Netherlands)
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development
Minister for Mori Development
Minister for Regional Development
Minister for Regional Development (Western Australia)
Minister for Rural and Community Development
Minister for Social Development (New Zealand)
Minister for Strategic Development and Nordic Cooperation
Minister for Training and Workforce Development
Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, and Bantu Education
Minister of Business Development and Tourism (Manitoba)
Minister of Development (Northern Ireland)
Minister of Employment and Social Development
Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative (Malaysia)
Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Minister of Housing and Urban Development
Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
Minister of Industry, Economic Development and Mines (Manitoba)
Minister of International Development (Canada)
Minister of International Development (Norway)
Minister of Rural Development (Malaysia)
Minister of Small Business Development
Minister of Social Development
Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
Minister of Women, Family and Community Development (Malaysia)
Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
Ministry for Social Development and Social Innovation
Ministry for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee
Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic
Ministry of Agrarian Development (Brazil)
Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food (Greece)
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (Nepal)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Albania)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Colombia)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Israel)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Poland)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Vietnam)
Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment (Moldova)
Ministry of Business Development (Ghana)
Ministry of Children and Family Development (British Columbia)
Ministry of Communities and Territories Development (Ukraine)
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
Ministry of Development
Ministry of Development and Investment (Greece)
Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Peru)
Ministry of Development (Greece)
Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
Ministry of Development (Spain)
Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Russia)
Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry (Kazakhstan)
Ministry of Economic Development
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (Ukraine)
Ministry of Economic Development (Colombia)
Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade
Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
Ministry of Economic Development (New Zealand)
Ministry of Economic Development (Russia)
Ministry of Economic Development (Sri Lanka)
Ministry of Economic Development, Tourism, Trade and Enterprise (Albania)
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (Croatia)
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (Georgia)
Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism (Chile)
Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development
Ministry of Education and Skills Development
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)
Ministry of Energy and Power Development
Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Colombia)
Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development (Colombia)
Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (Ethiopia)
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (Mauritius)
Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development
Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (Saudi Arabia)
Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Codevelopment
Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development (Kazakhstan)
Ministry of Information and Social Development (Kazakhstan)
Ministry of Information, Communications, Transport and Tourism Development
Ministry of Infrastructure Development
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs
Ministry of Investment and Economic Development (Poland)
Ministry of Labour, Trade Union Relations and Sabaragamuwa Development
Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Developments
Ministry of Livestock and Rural Community Development
Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development
Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives
Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment
Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development
Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development
Ministry of Mines and Steel Development
Ministry of National Development
Ministry of National Development Planning of Indonesia
Ministry of National Development (Singapore)
Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development
Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development
Ministry of Planning Development & Special Initiatives
Ministry of Productive Development
Ministry of Public Works and Urban Development
Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia
Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration (Romania)
Ministry of Regional Development (Czech Republic)
Ministry of Regional Development (Poland)
Ministry of Regional Development (Russia)
Ministry of Regional Development (Tunisia)
Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development
Ministry of Rural Development
Ministry of Rural Development (Cambodia)
Ministry of Rural Development (India)
Ministry of Rural Development (Malaysia)
Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Ministry of Social and Family Development
Ministry of Social Development
Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (Brazil)
Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (Thailand)
Ministry of Social Development (Argentina)
Ministry of Social Development (New Zealand)
Ministry of Social Services and Development (Bangsamoro)
Ministry of Sugar Industry Development
Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure
Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment, and Fight Against Climate Change
Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development
Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development (Zimbabwe)
Ministry of Transport, Construction, and Regional Development
Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (Namibia)
Ministry of Urban Development (Albania)
Ministry of Urban Development (Sri Lanka)
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development
Ministry of Works and Development
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development
Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (Zimbabwe)
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Mirik (community development block)
Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region
Missouri Department of Economic Development
Mixed-use development
Mobile app development
Mobile business development
Mobile development framework
Mobiles for development
Mohammad Bazar (community development block)
Molecular Reproduction and Development
Monastic Education Development Group
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
Monoxenous development
Moral development
Moriah Jerusalem Development Corporation
Motor Development International
Movement for Democracy and Development
Movement for Democracy and Development (Central African Republic)
Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development
Movement for Development and Solidarity
Movement for Development by Culture
Movement for Solidarity and Development
Movement for the Development of Mayotte
Mro National Development Party
MTA Capital Construction and Development Company
Multicultural organizational development
Multiple complex developmental disorder
Multisystem developmental disorder
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, Andhra Pradesh
Murliganj (community development block)
Museum of History of Communication Development (Rostov-on-Don)
Musical development
Muyun Economic Development Zone
Myanma Agricultural Development Bank
My Philosophical Development
Nabadwip (community development block)
Nabagram (community development block)
Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Nagrakata (community development block)
Nakashipara (community development block)
Naoda (community development block)
Napa Valley Economic Development Corporation
National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association
National Academy for Planning and Development
National Aerospace Development Administration
National Alliance for Democracy and Development
National Alliance for Law and Economic Development
National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
National Black Child Developmental Institute
National Book Development Board (Philippines)
National Centre for Cold-chain Development
National Centre for Women Development
National Child Development Study
National Commission for Human Development
National Council for Democracy and Development
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
National Dairy Development Board
National Development and Reform Commission
National Development and Research Institutes
National development bank
National Development Council
National Development Council (Taiwan)
National Development Front
National Development Fund of Iran
National Development Initiatives Institute
National Development Party
National Development Party (Brunei)
National Development Party (Myanmar)
National Development Party (Turkey)
National Disabled Development Foundation
National Economic and Development Authority
National Economic and Technological Development Zones
National Economic Development Council
National Energy Education Development Project
National Film Development Corporation
National Film Development Corporation Malaysia
National Film Development Corporation of India
National Fund for Development Projects (Colombia)
National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts
National Health Planning and Resources Development Act
National Information Technology Development Agency
National Infrastructure Development Company
National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development
National Institute of Development Administration
National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development
National Institute of Rural Development
National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies
National Lake Conservation Development Committee
National Movement for Development and Reform
National Movement for Nature and Development
National Movement for Reform and Development
National Movement for the Development of Society
National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents
National Party for Development and Welfare
National Party for Solidarity and Development
National Rally for Development and Progress
National Rally for Reform and Development
National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
National Research and Development Foundation
National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents
National Science and Technology Development Agency
National Skill Development Agency
National Skills Development Strategy Documents
National Space Development Agency of Japan
National Space Development Program (Philippines)
National Space Research and Development Agency
National Survey of Health & Development
National System for Integral Family Development
National Transport Development Policy Committee (India)
National Union for Democracy and Development
National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970
Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center
Naxalbari (community development block)
Neglected tropical disease research and development
Nellore Urban Development Authority
Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development
Network Development Plan Metropolitan Rail
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
Neurodevelopmental disorder
Neurodevelopmental framework for learning
New Alliance for Democracy and Development in Burundi
New Development Bank
New Front for Democracy and Development
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
New Jersey Economic Development Authority
New Jersey Minority Educational Development
New Macau Development Union
New Orleans Downtown Development District
New Partnership for Africa's Development
New product development
New World Development
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
New York City Department of Youth and Community Development
New York City Economic Development Corporation
New Zealand Agency for International Development
NHL Research, Development and Orientation Camp
NHS Gender Identity Development Service
Nicaragua National Institute of Information Development
NIDC Development Bank
Niecon Developments
Niger Delta Development Commission
NigeriaSo Tom and Prncipe Joint Development Authority
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
Nintendo European Research & Development
Nintendo Integrated Research & Development
Nintendo Platform Technology Development
Nintendo Research & Development
Nintendo Research & Development 1
Nintendo Research & Development 2
Nintendo Software Planning & Development
Nintendo System Development
Nishi-Shinjuku 3-Chme Redevelopment
No-code development platform
Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon
Nord-Vest (development region)
North American Development Bank
Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
North East Community Development Council
Northern California Indian Development Council
Northern Nevada Land Conservation and Economic Development Act
North Princeton Developmental Center
North West Cambridge development
North West Community Development Council
Northwestern University Center for Talent Development
Northwestern University Master of Product Design and Development Management
Northwest Regional Development Agency
Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation
Oakley Youth Development Center
Odisha Film Development Corporation
Odisha Tourism Development Corporation
OFC Youth Development Tournament
Office of Astronomy for Development
Office of Community Development
Office of Community Planning and Development
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Agency for International Development
Office of Knowledge Management and Development
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council
Official development assistance
Official Development Assistance Accountability Act
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Oil & Gas Development Company
Okeechobee Youth Development Center
Old Malda (community development block)
Onda (community development block)
One World Week (development charity)
Online integrated development environment
OPEC Fund for International Development
Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine"
Open Smart Card Development Platform
Open Source Development Labs
Open-source product development
Open-source software development
Opus Development
Oracle Application Development Framework
Oregon Business Development Department
Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
Oregon Economic and Community Development Department
Oregon Land Conservation and Development Act of 1973
Oregon Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development
restad Development Corporation
Organic Food Development Center
Organic Process Research & Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development controversy
Organisation of Development, Action and Maintenance
Organization development
Oriental Development Company
O-ring theory of economic development
Osteoderm development
Outline of energy development
Outline of web design and web development
Out of the Park Developments
Outsidein software development
Overseas Development Institute
Oxford Department of International Development
Oxford Development
Oxford Development Studies
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Pacific Century Regional Developments
Pacific Trade and Development Conference
Package development process
Pakistan Development Forum
Pakistan Horticulture Development & Export Company
Pakistan Hunting & Sporting Arms Development Company
Pakistani missile research and development program
Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation
Pakistan Tourism Development Corp
Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction
Pan American Development Foundation
Panorama Developments (Guildford) Ltd v Fidelis Furnishing Fabrics Ltd
Panskura (community development block)
Panuku Development Auckland
Papua and New Guinea Development Bank
Paradox Development Studio
Paragon Space Development Corporation
Participatory technology development
Partnership for Child Development
Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America
Partners in Population and Development
Party for Democracy and Development through Unity
Party for Justice and Development
Party for Liberty and Development
Party for Peace, Democracy, and Development
Party for Solidarity and Development of Senegal Sunu Party
Party for the Economic Development of Abkhazia
Party for Truth and Development
Party of Development and Reforms
Party of Reform and Development
Party of the Union for Renovation and Development
Passage development (Egypt)
Patna Regional Development Authority
Patrasayer (community development block)
Patriotic Movement for Democracy and Development
Payson Center for International Development
Pazflor oil development
Peace and Collaborative Development Network
Peace and Development Party
Peace, Unity, and Development Party
Pearson Commission on International Development
Pediatric and Developmental Pathology
Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Penn Valley Redevelopment Project
Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
Performance problem (organizational development)
Permanent Representative of Australia to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Personal development
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
Personal development planning
Personality development
Perth waterfront development proposals
Pervasive developmental disorder
Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
Petroleum Development Oman
Pharmaceutical Development and Technology
Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority
Philippine Aerospace Development Corporation
Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development
Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority
Philippine House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals
PHP Development Tools
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Pilot (Arrested Development)
Planned unit development
Planning and development in Detroit
Plant development
Planters Development Bank
Plata Basin Financial Development Fund
Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency, 19301970
Polymer Developments Group Ltd v Tilialo
Population and Community Development Association
Population and Development Review
Port and Airport Development Strategy
Port of Hastings Development Authority
Portuguese Institute for Development Support
Positive adult development
Positive Development
Positive youth development
Post-2015 Development Agenda
Postdevelopment theory
Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation
Prague Institute of Planning and Development
Pratt Center for Community Development
Precision Manuals Development Group
Preclinical development
Prenatal development
Preston Tithebarn redevelopment
Priority Development Assistance Fund scam
Private sector development
Probinsya Muna Development Initiative
Problem-oriented development
Process development execution system
Product Development and Management Association
Product Development and Systems Engineering Consortium
Professional development
Progress in Development Studies
Projects and Development India Limited
Proposed light rail developments for Cork City
Proposed light rail developments for Galway City
Provincial Development Service
Psychosexual development
Public research and development
Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce
Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank
Puerto Rico Government Development Bank
Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company
Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Puntland Development Research Center
Puraini (community development block)
Qatar Development Bank
Qatar Investment & Projects Development Holding Company
Qipanshan International Scenery and Tourism Development Zone
Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency
Queen City Development Bank
Quest Development
Rafed Network for Cultural Development
Raiganj (community development block)
Rail Land Development Authority
Raipur, Bankura (community development block)
Rajarhat (community development block)
Rajganj (community development block)
Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
Rally for Democracy and Development
Rally for Democracy and Economic and Social Development
Rally for Education about Sustainable Development
Rally for the Development of Burkina
Rally for the Support of Democracy and Development
Rangli Rangliot (community development block)
Ranibandh (community development block)
Rapid application development
Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority
Ravine Bluffs Development
Rebellion Developments
Redevelopment
Redevelopment agency
Reform and Development Misruna Party
Reform and Development Party
Reform Movement for Social Development
Regional Civil Service Development Institute
Regional Cooperation for Development
Regional development
Regional development agency
Regional Development Commissions
Relationship Development Intervention
Reproduction, Fertility and Development
Research & Development Corporation Newfoundland and Labrador
Research & Development Establishment (Engineers)
Research and development
Research and Development Council of New Jersey
Research and Development Efficiency Act
Research and development in Japan
Research and development in Ohio
Research and Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering
Research and Development (mod)
Research and Development Network in Norway
Research development
Research, Development and Evaluation Commission
Researchers Alliance for Development
Research in Developmental Disabilities
Research in Human Development
Resource Development International
Resources Industry Development Board
Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2013
Restless Development
Results for Development
Reversion (software development)
Review of Development Economics
Ribbon development
Righteous Brothers (Arrested Development)
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
Role of cell adhesions in neural development
Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development
Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences
Royal Norwegian Society for Development
Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority
Rural Agency for Sustainable Development
Rural cluster development
Rural community development
Rural development
Rural Development Council
Rural Development Foundation, India
Rural Development Institute
Rural Education and Development Programme
Russian Regional Development Bank
Sabah Development Corridor
Sadar, Hazaribagh (community development block)
Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency
Sagardighi (community development block)
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Salboni (community development block)
Sales development
Saltora (community development block)
Samserganj (community development block)
Sanasa Development Bank
Sanayee Development Organization
Sandbox (software development)
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
San Francisco Transbay development
Sankrail, Jhargram (community development block)
Santipur (community development block)
SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure
Sarenga, Bankura (community development block)
Sariya (community development block)
Saudi Fund for Development (SFD)
Saudi Human Resources Development Fund
Savannah Accelerated Development Authority
Scarcity development cycle
Scholz Research & Development, Inc.
Science and Development Network
Scientific Outlook on Development
Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Credit Program
Scientific Research Institute of System Development
Scoring system development of badminton
Scottish Council for Development and Industry
Scottish Development Department
Scottish Development International
Scrum (software development)
Secondary palate development
Second Development Cabinet
Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (Mexico)
Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Mexico)
Secretary for Development
Secretary for Economic Development and Labour
Sega development studios
Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme
Self-development plan
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
Sensory maps and brain development
Seplat Petroleum Development Company
Service-oriented development of applications
Seventh Development Cabinet
Severe achondroplasia with developmental delay and acanthosis nigricans
Shanghai Jiading City Development F.C.
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
Shankarpur (community development block)
Shannon Development
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority
Sheffield Development Corporation
Shell Development Emeryville
Shenzhen Development Bank
Shuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone
Signals Research and Development Establishment
Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority
Simkinsky Sustainable Development Reserve
Simlapal (community development block)
Singheshwar (community development block)
Siwan (community development block)
Skills Development Act, 1998
Skills Development Scotland
Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development Agency (Azerbaijan)
Small Industries Development Bank of India
Small Industries Development Corporation
Social development
Social Development Academy, Nanjing Normal University
Social Development Canada
Social Development (journal)
Social Development Network
Social development theory
Social emotional development
Social Policy and Development Centre
Society for Developmental Biology
Society for Development and Change
Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development
Society for International Development
Society for Research in Adult Development
Society for Research in Child Development
Socioeconomic development and the Bah Faith
Software development
Software development effort estimation
Software development folder
Software development kit
Software development process
Software development security
Soil Resource Development Institute
Solar-Powered Aircraft Developments Solar One
Somali Family Development Organization
Sonamukhi (community development block)
Sonoma Developmental Center
Sources and influences on the development of Dungeons & Dragons
South African Chamber for Agricultural Development in Africa
South Australian Research and Development Institute
South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
South East Community Development Council
South East England Development Agency
Southern African Development Community
Southern African Development Community intervention in Lesotho
Southern African Development Coordination Conference
Southernport Developments v Transnet
SouthField, Massachusetts (development)
South Pacific Business Development
South Sinai regional development programme
South Sydney Development Corporation
South West Community Development Council
South Western Oklahoma Development Authority
South West of England Regional Development Agency
Southwest Tennessee Development District
Space Development and Test Wing
Space Development Network
Space Innovation and Development Center
SpaceX reusable launch system development program
Span Developments
Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development
Specific developmental disorder
Spec Property Developments
Sport and sustainable development
Sport for social development
Sports-based youth development
Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co.
Staff and Educational Development Association
Stages of development
Stambadri Urban Development Authority
Stand development
Starship development history
Stem Cells and Development
Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center
Strategies for International Development
St. Thomas Development
Student development theories
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Studies in American Political Development
Style sheet (web development)
Sud - Muntenia (development region)
Sud-Vest (development region)
Suez Canal Area Development Project
Surat Urban Development Authority
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development Goal 1
Sustainable Development Goal 10
Sustainable Development Goal 11
Sustainable Development Goal 12
Sustainable Development Goal 13
Sustainable Development Goal 14
Sustainable Development Goal 15
Sustainable Development Goal 16
Sustainable Development Goal 17
Sustainable Development Goal 2
Sustainable Development Goal 3
Sustainable Development Goal 4
Sustainable Development Goal 5
Sustainable Development Goal 6
Sustainable Development Goal 7
Sustainable Development Goal 8
Sustainable Development Goal 9
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals and Australia
Sustainable Development Goals and Ghana
Sustainable Development Goals and Iran
Sustainable Development Goals and Lebanon
Sustainable Development Goals and Nigeria
Sustainable development in Scotland
Sustainable Development Investment Partnership
Sustainable Development of Croatia
Sustainable development reserve (Brazil)
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Sustainable product development
Sustainable redevelopment
Sustainable Urban Development Network
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority
Sy.Med Development
Synactive Theory of Newborn Behavioral Organization and Development
Systemic development
Systems development life cycle
SYT1-associated neurodevelopmental disorder
Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment
Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone
Taiwan External Trade Development Council
Taiwan Halal Integrity Development Association
Taldangra (community development block)
Talent Resource Development Wing
Tamarack Developments Corporation
Tamil Nadu Horticulture Development Agency
Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation
Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation Limited
Tamil Nadu Technology Development and Promotion Centre
Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation
Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank
Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation
Tapan (community development block)
Task Force for National Strategy for Information Society Development
Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development
Tata Housing Development Company
Tata Research Development and Design Centre
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
Technological Research and Development Authority
Technology Development Foundation of Turkey
Telecommunications Development Levy
Templeton Developmental Center
Tennessee Commissioner of Tourist Development
Tennessee Department of Tourist Development
Terrie Moffitt's developmental theory of crime
Test-driven development
Tester-driven development
Test Flight and Development Centre SAAF
Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development
The American Batticaloa Development Fund
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