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	The Philosophy of Life by Swami Krishnananda
		Philosophy in India is based on the revelations of the sages and provides the necessary strength to the future generation of mankind for realising this goal.
		The philosophy of Swami Sivananda is not any partial approach to Truth; it is that grand integral method which combines in itself the principles and laws discovered and established by science, metaphysics and the higher religion and which embraces in its vast bosom whatever is true, good or beautiful in the universe.
		Philosophy is a term generally applied to a study of all these aspects of life's meaning, and so it forms the most attractive pursuit of the human being in general.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /phil/phil_01a.html (2277 words)

	Involution - Integral Wiki
		The involution is that which occurred that enabled the creation, the universe, the cosmos to manifest from out of the Original Principle, the Divine, God, the Absolute.
		Involution is the process of self-limitation, of densification, by which the Absolute veils itself by stages until it assumes the appearance in the cosmos, the universe we know of.
		As an example, the so-called descent of the monads into matter means an involution or involving or infolding of spiritual potencies into material vehicles which coincidently and contemporaneously, through the compelling urge of the infolding energies, unfold their own latent capacities, unwrap them, roll them forth; and this is the evolution of matter.
	integralwiki.net /index.php?title=Involution (770 words)

	Involution and Envolution: On the Structure and Process of Existence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The word involution, redefined and refined, is used to represent the process and structure of existence which creates this increasing material complexity.
		Hence, I will use the two words: involution and envolution, as semi-neologisms, to refer to the “evolution of complexity” but in the wider context of both life and non-life including the changing of: bosons and the universe, to eucaryotic multicellular life and Gaia, to cyberentities and the Web.
		Both involution and envolution are entangled, for if there is no structure, then there is no function, but also if there is no function, then there is no structure.
	users.viawest.net /~keirsey/Inv2.html (5925 words)

	John Dewey: Psychology as Philosophic Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Philosophy as the science of this whole appears no longer therefore as a science, but as all science taken in its organic systematic wholeness -- not merely to which every so-called special science is something subordinate, but of which it constitutes an organic member.
		First, philosophy can treat of absolute self-consciousness only in so far as it has become in a being like man, for otherwise it is not material for philosophy at all; and, secondly, it falls into the error of regarding this realization in man as a time-conditioned product, which it is not.
		If philosophy does deal with the eternal absolute consciousness as forever realized, yet as forever having time as one of its organic functions, it is not open to anyone to bring charges against psychology as philosophy, for this and no more psychology does.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Dewey/Dewey_1886c.html (6524 words)

	Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Perspective
		Involution is, more or less, the opposite of that – it is the movement whereby Brahman throws itself outward to create the manifest worlds, a process of kenosis or self-emptying which, at the same time, is a process of pure act and pure creativity.
		As evolution is movement from the lower to the higher, involution is a movement from the higher to the lower – a movement which "enfolds" and "involves" the higher levels of being with the lower.
		Intrinsic to Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of the Brahman, with Supermind as the Conscious Force of the Brahman, and therefore both the creative energy and the immortal self of all creation, is the principle of involution.
	www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/i_es/i_es_hemse_wilber.htm (11926 words)

	The Occult Glossary by G. de Purucker - N O P
		Philosophy is one phase of a triform method of understanding the nature of nature, of universal nature, and of its multiform and multifold workings, and philosophy cannot be separated from the other two phases (science and religion), if we wish to gain a true and complete picture of things as they are in themselves.
		Philosophy is that aspect of the human consciousness which is correlative, and which seeks the bonds of union among things and exposes them, when found, as existing in the manifold and diverse forms of natural processes and the so-called laws which demonstrate their existence.
		But in the theosophical philosophy, the word psychology is used to mean something very different and of a far nobler character: we might call it pneumatology, or the science or the study of spirit and its rays, because all the inner faculties and powers of man ultimately spring from his spiritual nature.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/ocglos/og-nop.htm (6259 words)

	Philosophy
		Saiva Siddhanta is the philosophy of Southern Saivism.
		Philosophy has its roots in the practical needs of man. Man wants to know about transcendental matters when he is in a reflective state.
		Philosophy is the self-expression of the growing spirit of man. The philosophers are its voice.
	www.hinduism.co.za /philosop.htm (16004 words)

	Involution (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The involution is that which occurred that enabled the creation, the universe, the cosmos to manifest from out of the Original Principle, the Divine, God, the Absolute, Brahman, Eman.
		Involution is the process of self-limitation, of densification, by which the Absolute veils itself by stages until it assumes the appearance in the cosmos, the universe we know of beginning with unconscious forms.
		Involution": to slowly carry the life into denser and denser matter for the building of forms, till the nadir of materiality is reached.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Involution_(philosophy) (1167 words)

	ATMA JYOTI ASHRAM - Six Systems of Hindu Philosophy - Raghavan Iyer
		Because philosophy works through the medium of the intellect and the intellect has its inherent limitations, it cannot understand or formulate truths which are beyond its scope....
		Philosophy prepares, refines and orients the mind towards a significantly different activity, broadly called “meditation,” the rigorous cultivation of clarity of discrimination and concentrated, pellucid insight.
		Vaishesika philosophy means by yoga the concentrated attention to a single subject through mental abstraction from all contexts.
	www.atmajyoti.org /sw_six_systems_of_hindu_philosophy.asp (9527 words)

	RECENT PHILOSOPHY: Other Contemporary Philosophers
		Ernst Cassirer's (picture) philosophy proceeds from the basic conviction that historical investigation and systematic order do not contradict each other, but rather are conditional and mutually support one another.
		The fundamental idea of Schweitzer's ethics and philosophy is "reverence for life," which involves sympathy with and respect for all creatures, as well as human solidarity and devotion to spiritual progress.
		Philosophy, the social sciences and history are justified only as far as they contribute to the growth of freedom and humanitarian solidarity.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphicontemphilosophers4.htm (2812 words)

	Kundalini Awakening - Kundalini reaches Sahasrara chakra
		Involution and evolution: The process towards realizing and abiding in pure consciousness is one of evolution.
		The involution of consciousness into the human being is conceptualized as being a process of the creative energy of Shakti condensing further and further into solid form, and falling asleep at the first chakra, at the perineum near the base of the spine.
		The process of Kundalini Awakening reverses this involution until the full potential of the human is realized in the return to the pure consciousness.
	www.swamij.com /kundalini-awakening-6.htm (2347 words)

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		Accordingly, creative involution privileges the "unnatural participation" or monstrous coupling which, by generating becoming without heredity, comprises the hidden principle of Nature itself: "We oppose epidemic to filiation, contagion to heredity, peopling by contagion to sexual reproduction....
		Creative involution is thus ultimately synonymous with a sort of cosmic expressionism through which Nature ceaselessly generates differentiation by cutting across any and all boundaries.
		It is one thing for D+G to draw on contemporary biology and on neglected historical pathways to underwrite creative involution as an alternative model of macroevolution and quite another thing to apply this model to the behavior of individuals or use it as the basis for a molecular dissolution of the organism.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.900/11.1hansen.txt (12886 words)

	Cosmology - Involution
		By "Involution" is meant the descent or transformation of "spirit" into "matter".
		Physical reality is thus a sort of maximum involution stage, but also the point of greatest stability (hence the positive interepretation of the Samkhyan guna (quality) of tamas as "stability").
		At least this is what the perennial philosophy would seem to indicate, referring to the higher worlds or realms of Light.
	www.kheper.net /integral/involution.html (554 words)

	20th WCP: Aurobindonian Ontology: Salient Peculiarities
		From 1901 onwards, especially from 1908, he turned to the study and practice of yoga after unravelling the secret of the Veda, the Upanisads, the Bhagavadgita and other sacred writings of India.
		Accordingly, he argues that Brahman by a transmutation in the form of "involution" manifests itself as matter and then progressively brings about an unfolding of its powers through the evolution.
		Chaudhuri, Haridas, The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Onto/OntoVern.htm (2791 words)

	The Meaning of Evolution
		Considering 'involution' can actually be a useful roundabout introduction to the value of 'reductionism', for it is clear that 'evolution' is a better approach in the long run, for it demands accounting, reduction, to basic fundamentals.
		The division of philosophy and science is a positivistic derivative in overspecialized educational systems and is meaningful enough in the context of scientific practice trying to extricate itself from many quagmires, but in the final analysis against the backdrop of history as a whole has little meaning.
		Philosophy's stock rises and falls, but remains as a basic counsel to science (and vice versa), since the two are the same, natural philosophy.
	eonix.8m.com /darw3.htm (14518 words)

	Core concepts: involution and evolution
		The esoteric philsophy holds that evolution is preceded by involution, the inverse movement from Spirit to matter.
		Without involution, evolution is a baffling process of ever new "emergent" realities; with involution, it is a comprehensible process of the grand movement of Life.
		For Wilber's recent views on involution: see "On the Nature of a Post-Metaphysical Spirituality", an interview I did with him for a German transpersonal journal, the English original is posted on the Shambhala website.
	www.integralworld.net /involution.html (458 words)

	Medicator Tarot
		With involution and evolution we have two half circles of nine cards, nine being for a long time a sacred number.
		The philosophy behind the Medicator deck is the basis of all the deck made by Dirk Gillabel.
		Involution is the entering of the spirit into spiritual substances and finally into physical matter.
	www.soul-guidance.com /tarotdecks/medicator_tarot.htm (2390 words)

	The Spiritual Reality, & the Theory of Creation (Involution and Evolution) -- The Omnipresent Reality, Existence, ...
		The Involution in creation that moved from a spiritual source to forms in creation occurred through three fundamental sub-processes, Self-Conception, i.e it conceives what is wishes to achieve (creating a universe), as well as Self-limitation, and Self-Absorption.
		Then the nature of the evolution is explained in greater detail, including an overview of the unfolding of the evolution, the matter that emerged from force and energy, the animated life forms and animus of life that emerged from matter, and the power of mind that emerged from the life forms, particularly the human.
		Involution is the process of self-limitation, of densification, by which the Absolute, Brahman veils itself by stages until it assumes the appearance in the cosmos, the universe we know of.
	www.gurusoftware.com /GuruNet/KnowledgeBase/Spirit/Creation.htm (10476 words)

	The Philosophy of the Panchadasi - Preface
		The Panchadasi is a standard text on the philosophy of the Vedanta, consisting of fifteen chapters, written by Sage Vidyaranya.
		Historians and teachers of philosophy sometimes hold that the later portions of this work were written by Bharatitirtha.
		The present book consists of the lectures delivered on the philosophy and the teachings of this great work to audiences of students at the Headquarters of the Divine Life Society.
	swami-krishnananda.org /panch/panch_pre.html (479 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Involution / Evolution
		Involution is the 'inward' movement into psycho-physical existence (bondage).
		The evolution of the contemplative mind is at the same time involution of the empirical world.
		Mind (small m) is a realm of percpetion, just like eyes and ears, etc. Western philosophy and psychology has a different approach, thinking of the five senses, and mind as basically different in nature.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=344 (3592 words)

	20th WCP: From "Mind" to "Supermind": A Statement of Aurobindonian Approach
		But involution alone initiates the further process of evolution.
		Accordingly, after the Absolute’s involution in the Nescience is complete, its `adventure’ in the form of "ascent" commences in the form of evolution.
		This evolution-oriented return of the Absolute back to its transcendental plenitude retraces the steps of the "descent": its course is from Inconscient to Subconscient, to Matter, to Life, to Mind, to Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Mind/MindKunk.htm (2725 words)

	Structures Of Resisitance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James C. Scott describes ‘involution’ in agrarian enterprises at the economic level as involving ‘the shift to more labour intensive techniques in return for minute, but vital, increments in yield per unit of land.’ Essential to note here is that this shift is likely to occur even while more productive, capital intensive technologies are available.
		With oppressor and oppressed buying into the structure, it is hardly surprising that the economic ‘involution’ of the latifondo was closely accompanied by a social ‘involution’, which exhibited similar trends towards complexity and inflexibility.
		This was the social ‘involution’ associated with the latifondo—‘inward elaboration of detail’ of an ‘established’ social need, making it ‘rigid’ and codifying it in social norms.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/4/alx58.shtml (2233 words)

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