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Solving the Existential Crisis of Humanity Through the Evolution of Consciousness with Practical Applications: Cultural Integration Fellowship 8/7/2022 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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Not on the cloud. Okay, I guess we're ready to get
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started. Yes, we are.
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We are So good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to the
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cultural integration Fellowship. We were founded in 1951 by dr.
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Heidi's and Bina chaudry as a center of universal, religion
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and spiritual practice. And in, keeping with the spirit
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of unity in diversity, we honor the spiritual traditions, of
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diverse cultures, and religions. Today's topic of the talk is
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practical applications for solving the existence of crisis
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of humanity. We will Lucien of is this and we
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are delighted to have Santosh krinsky.
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Giving this talk Santosh has a long relationship with the
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cultural integration. Fellowship was familiar to both
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dr. Heidi's Chaudhary and peanut
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shells re and it was through my conversations with Nina that I
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came to know about Santosh. Santosh has been studying,
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shorten those writing since 1971 and has a daily blog at SRI,
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aurobindo studies Dot World, press.com and podcast, at Anchor
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dot f m-- forward slash Santosh. Dash krinsky.
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He's the author of 16 books and is editor-in-chief at Lotus
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press. He is president of the institute
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for holistic, education, a non-profit focused on
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integrating spirituality into daily life.
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He has spent more than 48 years building and developing
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infrastructure for publishing Distributing and educating about
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the spiritual path of short window as well as developing and
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guiding companies at the Forefront of publishing books
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and distributing books. And products to support the
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Natural Market, as well as the metaphysical Market.
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In North America. Now, before I hand over the
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screen to Santosh, I would like to read a poem.
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From dr. Heidi's Chaudhary, it's a short
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poem. Very beautiful one, and this is
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from The Collection. Once again, the rhythm of Truth.
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My name is wisdom. Oh, the Supreme mystery
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unfathomable in essence. Now are visible only to the
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souls in word. I, for thy name is wisdom.
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Thou'rt. Wisdom in Social Development.
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Wisdom in cultural unfoldment. Wisdom, That Forgives the hand
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that crucifies. Wisdom that tolerates.
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The tongue that vilifies Wisdom, that reveals the Grandeur of
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Truth. Wisdom that teaches the unity of
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all beings wisdom that fights Universal freedom to win.
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Wisdom that sees pervading all existence.
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One, all fulfilling spiritual essence.
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A moment of silence 12 on those beautiful words.
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I will come those prints. Came back to the fellowship once
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again. Thank you.
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Thank you agreeing to give the talks in touch over to you.
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Welcome to everybody a couple of points real quick.
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We've got a lot of ground to cover this morning, so I'm
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hoping if you have any questions or notes or anything you want to
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make, please mark them down and we'll cover them towards the
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end. And in the meantime, we're going
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to roll through the stuff here because there's a lot of
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content. So the topic solving the
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existential crisis of humanity through.
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The evolution of Consciousness needs a little bit of parsing
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because people don't always recognize what is this
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existential crisis. You know, we talked about oh
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there's climate change and there's various problems that
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are coming up and people are fighting with each other but we
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don't really put it all together as an interrelated.
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Complex of symptoms of a larger issue that we're trying to deal
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with here climate change. Is basically not just global
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warming but it's the impacts that take place with global
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warming. You have, as we see, we see the
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forest fires, we see the increased intensity of the
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storms, we see droughts, we see floods but we're not recognize.
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Is that the Glacier melt. That's taking place in Greenland
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and elsewhere is driving a lot of very cold, fresh water.
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Into the oceans and changing the salinity of the oceans with
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potentially catastrophic impacts.
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We're not seeing that. The same process is destroying
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the coral reefs which are the incubators Of the food chain in
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the ocean, if you will. And we don't see that the
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freshwater supply of the earth is dwindling dramatically and
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that places like Lake. Mead are drying out the Colorado
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River. Another major source of water
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for the Western us is a drying up and there are serious
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implications of every one of these changes that lead to the
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Teachers that bring upon us War. Drought famine pandemics mass
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migrations people fighting over basic resources.
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So all of these things, they're not separated symptoms.
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They're actually part of a complex of the disease, which I
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call The evolutionary crisis of humanity.
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According to scientists, were in the midst of what we call, the
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sixth major planetary die off. They're calling it, The Holo
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seen die off because we're in the whole scene error and
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basically they're saying that the species died off that's
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taking place. Today is 100 to 1000 times the
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background rate of species die off that takes place on the
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planet sort of naturally. This is at a level that equates
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to the time of the destruction of the dinosaurs.
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When the asteroid hit and there was a global winter, you know,
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for many, many, many years, and we're in the midst of that
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process right now. What people don't recognize is
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that part of this includes the die-off of the pollinators, we
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hear about the many species of bees that are disappearing and
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Basically, all of our fruits and vegetables depend on
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pollinators. Now, let's say this, the mental
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approach of our scientists and Engineers is working hard to
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solve that one, they're designing little miniature drone
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bees to pollinate things. So that when there are no real
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bees around anymore, we'll have these buzzing little drones
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flying around pollinating things.
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Great illustration of the mental approach to solving our
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problems, but it does. Get to the root of the issue.
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We have an imbalance and access to resources our economic and
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political systems are based in the mental Consciousness and
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everybody has their own ideas. The religions, the philosophies,
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the political systems, the economic systems, everybody has
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their own sense of what it is. It takes to solve our problems.
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and unfortunately, they all disagree with each other, and
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therefore, we wind up with what we see today in the world, which
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is political gridlock, and controlled by certain
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individuals of mass amounts of resources without the ability to
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distribute them equitably across the planet, which accentuates
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the Pain, The Suffering, The Anger, the disruption, and the
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war, as the fighting in the migrations that take place
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Albert. Einstein had an interesting
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statement that I always like to remind people of and that's
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that. He said, we cannot solve our
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problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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And so the existential crisis that we're facing cannot be
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solved with the kind of political and economic and
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societal solutions that the Mind comes up with and that's why we
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have the gridlock that we face today.
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Because nobody has an answer at that level mental Solutions have
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not worked and will not work. We need a new paradigm. it's at
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this point that SRI aurobindo comes into the picture and I
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have to say back in 1971, when I first came across your old
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windows, the life Divine, I was struck by how prescient and how
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clear his view of the process of What I would call the evolution
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of Consciousness or what he calls, the evolution of
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Consciousness was, if you look at Evolution, well, let's step
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back one step. The crisis were facing today is
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not. An impossible challenge.
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It may seem impossible if you really spend time focusing on
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all the things I just mentioned, you'd say, how are we going to
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get out of this? Some people want to just go to
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Mars and abandon the the world other people just hope that
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somehow big Tech is going to solve all these problems and
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we're going to come out of it, but it's actually part of a
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deeper process of nature. Nature creates.
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A major crisis for us to be able to thereby or for all of
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existence to thereby, make the next evolutionary leap.
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When we are happy satisfied, contented, everything going
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fine. We don't make the effort.
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To change things. And as a result, we need and we
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see in Humanity's history, we need a major crisis to focus,
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our attention, and so nature presents this crisis to us.
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And that gives us the energy to move to the next cycle of
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evolution. If we look at the evolution of
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forms and we go back to Darwin and he said, oh, there's an
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evolution of forms and the different beings evolved one
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from another. He got the mechanism pretty much
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right, what he didn't get to was the underlying impetus.
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The impulse that creates the evolution of forms.
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What? Is it that drives us from?
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One level to the next. And that is where SRI aurobindo
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comes in by pointing out that behind the evolution of forms is
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an evolution of consciousness. You see if you go back billions
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a year as you see purely material forms, you see rocks,
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you see magma, you see, volcanic action.
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You see possibly solar energy and water and air and that's
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about it. You don't see any living forms
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there. Somewhere somehow a
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Consciousness, existed was involved in the process and that
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Consciousness when the forms were prepared, when the forms
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were ready to accept, it could bring forth life. now, not every
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bit of matter, is prepared to bring forth life you can Sit on
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and hibernate with a rock of piece of granite or a piece of
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volcanic magma for a billion years and you're never going to
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wind up with a living being coming out of it.
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That's not how it works. What happens is that as the
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material substance set, Eliza's, Chips.
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Prepared to carry the spark of life in those parts of matter.
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Life begins to evolve, we see the development of metals, we
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see the develop development of crystals.
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And then we see the development of material forms that can
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actually hold the Life Energy at which point life evolves.
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Similarly, if we move forward, we see that you go from the
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one-celled plants and the animals to very rudimentary
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forms that have very rudimentary mental process eventually.
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The mental process develops, when the forms are ready to hold
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them. They evolved.
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But they were involved there and We see that now with our
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understanding of genetics and the function of DNA that
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encodes. What's what?
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And what comes out of it, you're not going to get a monkey out of
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an acorn and you're not going to get a human being out of the
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seed of a plant. There's an encoding that takes
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place a Consciousness that is involved.
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That permits that Evolution to take place the evolution of
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consciousness. Is not completed in 3.
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Aurobindo has mentioned that man.
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As a hewmet is a transitional being basically the mental being
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that we embody. In our most ideal form is
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basically not the end of evolution just as life evolved
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out of matter. And mind evolves out of life.
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He turned the next level of evolution to be beyond the mind,
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which he called Supra mental. Literally beyond the mind, it's
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a new form of consciousness. That is taking birth within the
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crisis of evolution within the crisis that we're facing today.
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And that is really that the secret of why we're struggling
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with this. We start to see The signs of
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this taking place the development of new ways of
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looking at things new ways of addressing things.
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The mind is extremely linear and blinkered and focused.
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And it sees one line of approach and doesn't respond to the
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completeness. The wholeness, the Oneness of
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its life, and its environment and circumstances and its
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surroundings. so, The Supra mental Evolution begins to see
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things as part of a Oneness where we take into account the
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Cradle to grave thinking the symbiotic relationships.
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You know, people say oh we need to plant trees because we're
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deforesting trees and they they hold Carbon dioxide and they
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create oxygen. Well, we're actually one being
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with the trees. We provide the carbon dioxide
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that they need to survive and the trees provide the oxygen, we
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need to survive and and not just the trees, all the plants.
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Actually the single-celled plants in the ocean provide more
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oxygen than trees do and we're The process right now of
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destroying the ocean food chain and we're seeing the collapse of
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the Fisheries taking place. These are these are the
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existential crisis. We have, because without the
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oxygen, that they create without the food chain that they
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nurture. And Supply, humanity is
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basically going to go extinct. That is that is the nature of
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our challenge. The super mental Consciousness
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looks at things holistically globally, it sees that all of
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the different solutions and all of the different viewpoints and
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all of the different philosophies and all of the
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different economic systems and all of the different political
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ideologies have some grain of the truth within them, but not
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the entirety. And it is time to have a new
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view of that. And Humanity is preparing just
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as matter was prepared, so that certain parts of it would hold
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life. And life was prepared.
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So that certain parts of it could hold the mental
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consciousness. We see certain aspects and parts
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of humanity that are developing, in order to hold this new
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paradigm and this new energy and people who are motivated, To try
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to live a life that brings in contacts and retuns their
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awareness towards this. New status of consciousness.
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So looking at that, we turn to the type of projects that are
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taking place all over the world that are trying to embody the
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new paradigm. We see First of all, let's let's
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look at what the mental Consciousness is trying to do
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because it recognizes this problem that we're facing, you
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look at big Tech projects and they say, well we need, we need
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energy production, we need Water Production, we're going to drop
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an enormous power plant of ten billion dollars into the middle
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of some Village in Africa. And that's going to solve their
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problem. We're going to put in a borewell
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project or water supply project with a huge water plant and it's
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going to cost 5 or 10 billion dollars and that will solve that
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problem. And what they're not seeing is
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that these enormous High Tech, High cost projects, do not.
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Fit into the environment within which they're being placed.
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And so they find after some years that these projects tend
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to fail and they don't accomplish what they expected
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them to accomplish. That is.
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Essentially, a mental approach to things and it's not
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sufficient for where we are today and where we need to be.
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So what a number of people are starting to do, is trying to
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look at the entirety of the situation.
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And we come down to the project of Oroville which has some 55 or
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60 projects going in different fields.
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In order to begin to apply a new paradigm to many, many different
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fields of human endeavor. Not that.
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Any one of them is going to solve the problem of humanity,
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but that they can begin to integrate.
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This new comprehensive understanding, into the way we
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address, the issues were facing. One example, is they have a
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reforestation project and when they went to do when the normal
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mental solution to reforestation was Illustrated some years ago
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in the island of Haiti, they had, they had a big hurricane,
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they lost a lot of trees, they needed to reforest and the
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governments of the world decided, okay, we're going to do
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that and so they took a lot of tree seedlings and they drop
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them from the sky and they got about a fifteen percent up to
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Take of surviving seedlings and declared success.
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It just so happens that the reforestation project that was
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successful in. Oroville had experimental team
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in Haiti, And they did their method of reforestation with
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something on the order of an 80% success or five times the
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success rate of trees, surviving and thriving, to the normal
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process used by the mental Consciousness.
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How did they do it? What they did when they started
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in Oroville, which was a denuded plane of eroded land.
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The first thing they did was they said well what is the
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natural flora and fauna in this area of India?
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And so they went and sent teams around to study local areas of
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forest to see what type of plants grew their what the trees
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were what the understory was, what the symbiotic
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relationships. Were between the plants in a
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successful thriving Forest Area in that part of the world.
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After doing that, they begin to bring in the right type of
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trees. The right type of supporting
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plants. And if you look at Oroville
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today, it's amazing. I mean, it's like a an amazing
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forested area that is Rich and Lush and Beyond what they
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brought in from the natural surroundings, the other plants
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and the fauna the animals, the insect etcetera that belong in
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that type of area, that type of forested area basically joined
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of Their Own, To create a diverse Rich, natural thriving,
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forested environment, that is salvaging that eroded land and
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turning it into what you might call A Tropical Paradise.
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So, the difference of the two approaches in my mind,
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represents the difference between the mental linear
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blinkered approach and a more holistic approach that looks at
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the entirety of the picture, the complete relationship of
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Oneness, of all the beings that together make an Eco sphere.
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In Oroville, they're doing research on a number of areas,
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not just reforestation, but in things like architecture, the
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Western Approach to Global Warming is what crank up the air
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conditioning. And of course, cranking up the
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air-conditioning, simply makes it worse, you feel better,
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short-term. But you're using more
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hydrocarbons and you're putting more global warming into the
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atmosphere by doing it. So you haven't solved the
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problem, you put a Band-Aid over a symptom and you feel good
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about it. The approach in Oroville is, is
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tremendously different. They look at it and say, well,
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If we could design buildings that do not need as much energy
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for heating or Cooling. That could use natural materials
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and natural design elements in order to optimize human Comfort.
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Without the input of extraneous energy, we could help to keep
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people more comfortable and at the same time, not further,
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contribute to climate change and global warming.
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And so they've done a number of these types of experiments with
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architecture. And they found, they can use
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less air conditioning. Another experiment is to use
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hemp to make hempcrete bricks now, hempcrete is much more
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environmentally friendly than using concrete.
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The Western approach World Approach.
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At this point is to use concrete, which is one of the
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most intensive. Water and energy usage
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Industries in the world. Hempcrete on the contrary is
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much more energy friendly and it has better survivability it's
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stronger. It's also got a better index for
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how it moderate sand insulates energy.
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So it's a better Building Material, it's more durable and
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it costs a lot less in terms of loss of water.
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An energy, so it's a better solution and so they're
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experimenting with that. I understand they're starting to
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work with the concept of 3D printing of buildings and if
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they develop that and that's just in its infancy right now,
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you take the hempcrete and you take 3D printing and you can
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begin to design buildings using these new architectural.
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Apps, that will be truly revolutionary and uplifting.
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So this is a direction that we see there.
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The other thing, they're looking at for instances with the
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collapse of the ocean, fisheries there's a billion or more people
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who are going to be starving on this planet.
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And they're not going to like that.
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They're going to fight for their survival, they're going to
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migrate and this is happening right now, we're overfishing the
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oceans at a tremendous rate. And we're getting these huge
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trawling Nets out there and just scooping up everything in the
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ocean. So in addition, to climate
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change, destroying the food chain, and the incubation
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through the coral, reefs, we're scooping up everything, that's
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mature, and less mature in the entire ocean food chain.
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And basically denuding the oceans of the fish.
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Well I'm a vegetarian that doesn't affect me, I'm actually
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a vegan. So personally I don't eat fish
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but there are a billion people on the planet, who do it's going
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to affect things. And this isn't going to get
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solved unless we change that. Well, how do we change that?
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We need to find alternative food sources and protein sources.
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So in Oroville, they're working on the The idea of developing
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algae-based foods and soy based foods that can hopefully be
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developed as Alternatives. Overtime to help replace the
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missing food items for a large segment of humanity.
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You can see a theme here going across each of these projects
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and there's some 50 plus projects.
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One of them is called Eco Femme it's basically to help Empower
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women to play a more direct and equal role in society.
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Whereas over history, they've had a difficulty both with being
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the carriers of New Birth and the reproductive cycle and the
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menstrual cycle. So e Co Pham says, instead of
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shutting women out there developing Reusable, menstrual
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pads. That are very low cost and
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educating women on how to use them in places where they
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haven't had it, so that they can have much more involvement in
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their social lives in that Society, then they have when
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they're basically kept out for 10 days.
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Or a third of the month. You can say every month in
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addition to their childbearing period and their child rearing
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period. So Oroville has so many numerous
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projects that it's become a beacon for people who are
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interested in solving the issues.
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Now let's say there's Oroville has its own issues because just
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like everywhere in the world, there's human beings living
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there and the human beings are living primarily in their mental
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Consciousness and they have different viewpoints about
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things and so they're also being confronted with the issues of
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human Unity at a much more intense level because they've
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got people from many, many different cultures, backgrounds,
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education's languages, Is religions Etc.
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All trying to find a way to live together there.
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And I'm expecting that one of these days.
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They will do that. But in the meantime they have to
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face these issues while they work on the larger ecological
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and environmental and existential issues that we all
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face as Humanity. One of the things that has come
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out of this in the last couple years, Oroville International
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USA, has developed a project called flourish, and it's, you
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can look it up. It, Avi usa.org forward, slash
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flourish and that project is there to support the Oroville
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projects that are doing these various things.
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And to help them flourish with the idea that they should be
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reproducible, scalable and sustainable.
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And so instead of dropping a large water plant or a large
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electrical plant into a local community where the people
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aren't prepared for it and aren't able to support it and
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deal with it, they want to find projects that are low-tech that
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are suited to a local environment and that the local
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people can apply themselves. Instead of someone coming in
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from outside and doing it for them, they want to provide
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projects and opportunities that people can apply locally and
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grow with and live with using the methodologies similar to
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what we spoke about with the reforestation program.
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There are also programs in Waste Management pollution, and waste
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management. Management is one of the largest
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problems we have as Humanity because we do not recognize what
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we call, the Cradle to grave of the things we produce.
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And so we put large amounts of plastic material into the oceans
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and we're creating a huge garbage patch in the oceans,
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which complicates that problem. Because we have no Solutions the
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solution we have as mental beings is let's ban plastic
38:52
straws and I guess that's fine. Let's ban plastic straws, but we
38:58
haven't got to the root of the problem there.
39:01
So there's a group at Oroville working on how to deal with
39:07
Waste Management, really looking at the end products of what we
39:11
as Humanity are creating in order.
39:14
To live on the planet, how to make sure that we have a life
39:19
cycle that incorporates the death of our fixed finished
39:25
goods. And reincorporate, the Min and
39:29
that project is called waste. Last each of these steps is
39:34
looking at one aspect of the larger issues of humanity, so
39:42
I've become a big fan if you will of that flourish project.
39:46
And I think it, it's not that, that project alone as a solution
39:52
or that Oroville alone is the only place where these things
39:56
are happening. We see rising up all over the
40:01
world. These ideas and these visions
40:07
Oroville maybe one concentrated Beacon of experimentation in
40:14
these directions but in reality, there is one as they are day.
40:19
Showed on said one, newest Fear One mental atmosphere, that
40:25
permeates the entire planet. And as Some individuals begin to
40:33
link to this new paradigm. This new Consciousness.
40:40
We find that it's popping up everywhere in the world.
40:44
And whether people recognize and talk about tree aurobindo, or
40:49
not, or the mother is really not the relevant point.
40:55
The relevant point is, are people starting to recognize
40:59
Guys our interdependence with each other and with the world we
41:04
live in? Are we looking at the Oneness of
41:07
the universe? Are we recognizing that we need
41:10
to be living in a harmonious way to our environment and with
41:17
others? And are they starting to develop
41:20
solutions that implement this paradigm?
41:28
In Oroville then becomes one point of light.
41:32
One example of what's happening and starting to happen all over
41:38
the world. And that is the sign to me.
41:43
That the next phase of the evolutionary development of
41:50
Consciousness is becoming active and is starting to address the
41:58
imbalances. That our mental Consciousness
42:02
has inadvertently created, what you may say, are the unintended
42:07
consequences of the development of mind.
42:11
Now have to be addressed as the intended Solutions of the super
42:17
mental consciousness. And so, I think that's basically
42:22
what I had to say today. I'm sure there are some
42:26
questions and some discussions. So let's open it up.
42:30
We have a few minutes left. Thank you.
42:36
Thank you very much, Santosh. That was absolutely wonderful.
42:41
Beautiful structure. Do you talk when you outlined
42:48
the nature of the problem of existence will Crisis and that
42:52
we as Humanity. Are facing.
42:56
The cause of the problem, of course, the mental and the
43:01
solutions and or will, as a case study.
43:04
So that was absolutely beautiful.
43:05
Very much in line with what both mother and shervin, do have
43:08
emphasized, that bind is certainly not the instrument for
43:15
knowledge, but it can be a wonderful instrument for
43:20
conveying knowledge. And I think that came out very,
43:25
very beautifully. Thank you, once again, let's,
43:29
let's open it up for comments, questions, interactions.
43:33
And so on so forth. Hi Santosh.
43:43
This is Mike evil. My Reflections.
43:49
The the evolution which we have seen.
43:51
Since the Big Bang has been at least from the perspective of
43:56
the modern mind, extremely slow that it takes millions and
44:00
millions of years. For these changes that you have
44:02
talked about to occur, what's the impetus now or the
44:06
propulsion? Now to speed that process up?
44:11
And it will have to be sped up at lightning speeds in order to
44:14
occur. Well, that's a wonderful
44:18
question and it's something that SRI aurobindo and the mother
44:24
have actually addressed and that is that through the conscious
44:29
participation. Of. the human being, the mental
44:36
being, we are able to do things that Could not take place at the
44:44
same speed through the unconscious, slow evolutionary
44:51
process of nature. Now this is an unproven concept
44:56
for us and we're either going to survive or die, whether this
45:00
succeeds or not, but SRI aurobindo and the mother felt
45:06
that as human beings, wake up and become aware of this and
45:12
start to consciously, align themselves with the need and the
45:18
steps to develop a relationship to this new Consciousness that
45:24
it can take place much more quickly than what we might call
45:30
evolutionary time that you're speaking about and we'll see.
45:35
I mean, one of the concepts that that I've always Joy was the
45:42
idea of the hundredth monkey and that is that at a certain point
45:46
in time when enough beings of a certain species, learn something
45:52
that it quickly can promulgate across that entire species.
45:57
And so we don't need 8 billion. People all to evolve to a new
46:04
understanding, for that new understanding to become
46:07
operative. We don't know how How many it
46:12
takes for that hundredth monkey to operate but under the
46:16
pressure that we're in right now, I'm hoping that this
46:22
process will in fact take place relatively quickly.
46:28
Thank you. I'd like to this is Ricky Polly
46:32
Cove and on the heels of what my Keeble, just expressed.
46:39
I've basically had a 41 year career in medicine and have
46:45
proposed to the women that see me in the clinicians that I
46:52
teach that there is biological evolution.
46:56
Which is what Santosh. You've so beautifully.
46:59
It outlined which is at very slow in a certain sense,
47:03
randomly selected adaptive capacity for Life Darwin.
47:11
And then that healthy biologic evolutionary being has this
47:18
other opportunity which is super mind but that awareness that I
47:24
think Gregory Bateson expressed you know in the anthropology
47:27
literature, many, many years Go, that everything is connected
47:31
everything and so one of the joys I feel presently.
47:36
As discouraging as the Sciences is that we have a University,
47:44
California is integral studies. Founded on hard us, choudhary's
47:49
teachings, Timeless teachings, that in the midst of everything
47:54
CIA is is in better shape than ever.
47:57
And so, I'm pretty optimistic that with the kind of wrestling
48:04
and entropy that we have with our courageous students.
48:08
That we're, we're sewing the seas in a way, you know, that is
48:14
in harmony with Oroville but with sort of tentacles that are
48:20
far-reaching because so many of our students are international
48:25
as well as zealot Local, you know, us based students to make
48:31
the world a better place. So I see signs that are actually
48:35
optimistic in the midst of the Shadows.
48:40
Well, that's great. You know, a lot of people say
48:43
that entropy or the dissolution of systems.
48:46
They're the winding down of energy is inevitable and I
48:52
actually see it in the opposite way.
48:55
I see that you have an increasing Mission of
48:59
Consciousness through time and therefore, we're not in a phase
49:05
of entropy. We're in a phase of
49:09
concentration and increase of energy.
49:12
And if you look at it that way, eventually this next
49:17
transitional step will be completed and the new
49:22
Consciousness will take its role in the Universal creation.
49:28
There's no doubt in My mind. And I think, at least, you know
49:34
where science meets the ineffable, is, what one might
49:40
call, Simply the power of prayer, but this higher mind
49:44
state that actually exerts a force.
49:46
And that's where I think it's incumbent upon all of us, who
49:51
hold that wish that Ardent loving light to invest in that.
49:57
And that again, that don't say that at the end of a continuing,
50:00
medical education, Education talk.
50:01
But there's a lot of literature and Medicine published really
50:05
since the 70s, but it's incredible showing the effect of
50:10
distance healing on biologic outcomes.
50:14
So, I we have many examples where it actually affects human
50:21
feelings in Enlightenment that appears to come from nowhere.
50:26
Like, I didn't even try that hard and didn't have to have
50:29
Ayahuasca or LSD. But now I understand I'm at one
50:34
with everyone. So you know, we have to be in
50:36
that little bit more assiduously towards China.
50:40
I think it's we have a few billion people to come on to the
50:46
party. Thank you, thank you.
50:53
Thank you, son, touch so much for for your talk.
50:57
I appreciate it greatly and time.
50:59
Here you commented earlier how we need a crisis to focus
51:06
attention and it struck me, of course one eye I see a yin yang
51:13
you know, on that. But I also can't help feeling
51:18
that the crisis that we are facing.
51:21
As a as a society, as a species, be the pandemic, the global
51:29
warming climate change are all things that are intended to show
51:33
us that we have to recognize our Oneness that we cannot solve
51:40
them as an individual Corporation, as an individual
51:44
Nation at the individual human beings without realizing that.
51:50
As I Robin say we are not, you know, we as seek appear to be
51:54
separate leaves but we are in effect one tree and I'm
51:59
wondering you know global climate change is not just
52:02
global warming but a global warning as to what we have to do
52:07
and how we must get together and like your thoughts is Earth,
52:13
therefore you would agree, I guess would be conscious, that
52:17
is doing this for the good of humanity that you know.
52:21
Coronavirus, it's not just a bad thing.
52:23
When it comes to the long-term picture thousands of years from
52:26
now, we will have taught Humanity how to work together.
52:30
Hopefully. Yes.
52:33
Well it's it's a symptom of the entire complex of pressure that
52:41
nature is putting on us to change as you're as you're
52:43
pointing out. And I think that if you Manatee
52:49
learns how to work together and how to appreciate the Oneness
52:55
of, not only all people, but all species and the entire
53:00
environment of the planet. We can live in a world that is
53:07
harmonious. Beautiful and supportive of
53:13
life, and development in a very positive way, without creating
53:22
waste over on one side, in order to have our enjoyment on the
53:26
other so, I did want to conclude with a short quote, from Sri
53:38
aurobindo and that is the most vital issue of the age is,
53:44
whether the future progress of humanity, is to be governed by
53:49
the modern economic and materialistic mind of the west
53:54
or by a nobler pragmatism guided uplifted and in And by spiritual
54:02
culture and knowledge. And that's really our challenge.
54:11
Hi Santosh, Mike. He began before you go.
54:14
I like the way you put your your talk together today and as I
54:18
know you're the editor-in-chief of lotus is there one or two
54:22
Publications that you have produced in the last several
54:25
years that I could follow up or others could follow up on as a
54:30
way to supplement, the content of your talk today.
54:36
Not directly what we publish at Lotus is primarily the Major
54:41
writings of Sri aurobindo in the u.s. editions and I do a daily
54:47
blog and I've been doing that for over 12 years and
54:53
systematically go Page by Page through SRI aurobindo is Major
54:57
writings and take up whatever. The topic of the day is that
55:02
next page. Today's topic actually was
55:06
something about pain management. And you'd be surprised at how
55:12
much is in there so you can look up any subject you want on the
55:18
blog. And there's a search bar, it'll
55:22
go through 12 years of blog post.
55:25
I mean thousands of posts and give you the quotes on the
55:28
locations of any statements that relate to that whether it's
55:34
super mental or whether it's Evolution or whether it's pain
55:37
management. But we don't We don't actually
55:42
have any books that directly address this topic.
55:49
I've covered the topic a couple of times with a group called
55:52
self-growth.com and on the Lotus press website, we have to video
55:57
interviews up there where they interviewed me on the subject.
56:01
One was the background interview and the other one was the
56:04
Practical applications interview covered a lot of the same ground
56:09
as today but In a question and answer format.
56:17
Thank you. Thank you.
56:20
Thank you very much Santosh for this wonderful talk and
56:24
beautiful interaction. And thank you everyone for
56:29
joining in. I will be reaching out to
56:33
Santosh more often than not in the future so that we can have
56:39
him consistently present at the fellowship.
56:43
These topics are extremely important and I personally feel
56:49
that both mother and sure Urban though are as relevant today.
56:53
As they were when they were in their respective bodies and and
57:00
writing about these stuff, So in fact, I would say that they have
57:04
become even more relevant you know in particular with respect
57:09
to how the mind works. You know how the mind needs to
57:14
be transcended. What happens when my knee Point
57:17
gets transcended, you know, what are the sources of inspiration
57:23
that we come in contact with and so on and so forth?
57:28
At the fellowship, there has been a growing interest in
57:32
making sure window more and more relevant and contemporary.
57:37
And that is something that we are emphasizing on, and we are
57:42
going to emphasize as time progresses.
57:45
I also wanted to remind us all that Sherman.
57:50
Those 1/50 birth anniversary is approaching.
57:54
It is on 15th of August. I'll be giving a talk next
57:59
Sunday on that topic. So if you have some time, please
58:03
press some time and, and join us at the fellowship.
58:07
Thank you once again, and thank you very much so much for your
58:11
talk and your friend, and for your presentation, Hi.