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A NEW WAY OF LIVING
Essays on human evolution and transformation
Roy Posner
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INTRODUCTION
GrowthOnline.org founder Roy Posner presents ~400 short essays on human evolution
and transformation. Influenced by the Indian sage and seer Sri Aurobindo, Roy offers
startlingly new insights into the human condition, and the emergence of a new
consciousness and way of living for individuals and society. Among the topics covered
are the process of creation and accomplishment, the keys to attracting sudden good
fortune, how to experience the spiritual dimension of life, insights into the character of
life, the meaning of world events in light of our evolutionary potential, and many others.
Note: several entries appear more than once as they relate to several topics.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PERSONAL GROWTH .................................................................................................. 1
WHAT WE CAN BECOME .......................................................................................... 1
You Become What You Believe You Can Become................................................................... 1
Human Choice: The Ultimate Determinant ........................................................................... 1
The Determinants of Who We Are and What We Can Become ................................................. 2
Making an Impact on the World ......................................................................................... 3
Four Levels of Human Progress .......................................................................................... 4
OVERCOMING OUR LIMITATIONS ............................................................................... 5
Take Inventory of Yourself as the First Step to Endless Progress ............................................ 5
Overcoming our Blind Spots............................................................................................... 6
Bridging the Psychological and Spiritual Gap ........................................................................ 8
Mr. Darcy's 180 Degree Change ......................................................................................... 9
Overcoming Our Illusions and Superstitions that Replaces the Finite with the Infinite .............. 11
FACTORS, STRATEGIES THAT ENABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT ............................................... 12
Overview ............................................................................................................................. 12
Accomplishment in Life: Levels ........................................................................................ 12
Keys to Infinite Success in Life ......................................................................................... 13
Individual's Capacities and Character ................................................................................ 15
Bringing About Success in Life in Short Order .................................................................... 16
Achievement Concerns, Limiting Attitudes, and Higher Consciousness Strategies ................... 17
Organizing the Lower into the Higher for Accomplishment ................................................... 18
Two Inner Approaches that Will Catapult You to a Whole New Level of Success ...................... 19
Accomplishment in Life: What Creates Unfailing Success ..................................................... 19
Knowledge and Will Fused Enabling Ultimate Accomplishment .............................................. 20
Lessons We Can Learn from Erin Brockovich ...................................................................... 21
Energy and Accomplishment ................................................................................................ 23
Energy Accomplishes ...................................................................................................... 23
Energy at Four Planes ..................................................................................................... 23
Energy-Increasing Strategies ........................................................................................... 24
Our Ability to Respond to, Negotiating Obstacles ................................................................ 26
The Greater the Opposition, the Greater the Opportunity, Progress ...................................... 26
Opposition When A New Positive Force Rises...................................................................... 27
Accomplishment in Life: Social Environment ...................................................................... 28
Non-Initiating ; Life’s Initiatives ......................................................................................... 29
Initiatives of Life Succeed ................................................................................................ 29
Life Coming To You Succeeds ........................................................................................... 30
Life’s Initiative Succeed Much More Often than Your Own .................................................... 31
How Forces of Life Affect Accomplishment .......................................................................... 32
Human Initiative that Leads to Success or Failure ............................................................... 32
Applying the Subtle Principles of Life to Attract Infinite Success ........................................... 34
THE POWER OF INTENTION ..................................................................................... 35
Overview ............................................................................................................................. 35
Intention that Attracts Instantaneous Luck ........................................................................ 35
The Response that Changed My Life.................................................................................. 35
The Power of Intention that is Great; that Backfires ............................................................ 37
Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and the Power of Intention .............................................................. 38
The Power of Intention on the Eve of the IPhone ................................................................ 39
Young Albert Einstein and the Power of Intention ............................................................... 41
Knowledge and Will Together .............................................................................................. 44
Knowledge + Will + the Force that Enables Ultimate Accomplishment in Life .......................... 44
Knowledge that is Matched by a Will to Accomplish It Produces Ultimate Results in Life ........... 45
Harnessing Will-Power .................................................................................................... 46
Subconscious Intention ....................................................................................................... 48
Our Subconscious is Conscious ......................................................................................... 48
The Great Linkup ............................................................................................................ 49
Interest in a Thing Attracts Things Related To It ................................................................. 51
How Life Responds to Focus, Interest, and Aspiration ......................................................... 51
Buddha's Way Out of the Darkness ................................................................................... 52
A Startling Experience Up On the Roof .............................................................................. 54
Incident at McDonald's .................................................................................................... 55
THE PROCESS OF CREATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL ....................................................... 56
Overview ............................................................................................................................. 56
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Evoking Luck.................................................................................................................. 56
Energy in the Process of Creation ..................................................................................... 56
The Complete Act in the Process of Creation ...................................................................... 58
Life Responds to Task Breakdown, Sequence, and Focus ..................................................... 59
THE POWER OF PERSONAL ORGANIZATION ................................................................ 60
Life Response Power of Cleanliness and Orderliness ............................................................ 60
THE POWER OF PERSONAL ATTITUDES ...................................................................... 62
Overcoming Wanting, Maintaining Positive Attitudes .......................................................... 62
The Power of Changing Our Attitudes ................................................................................ 62
The 1000% Solution ....................................................................................................... 63
A Captain's Change of Heart ............................................................................................ 64
Power of Positive Attitude in City of Joy ............................................................................. 64
Embracing the Given Conditions of Life ................................................................................ 65
From Reluctance to Acceptance to the Pinnacles of Success ................................................. 65
The Road to Hana ........................................................................................................... 67
A Reluctance Overcome on the El Camino Real ................................................................... 69
Effect of Taking to Truth in Ordinary and Spiritual Life ......................................................... 69
Overcoming Wanting Attitudes Toward Others .................................................................... 70
Turning a Problem into a Vast Opportunity......................................................................... 70
Moving Beyond Our Contradictions with Others .................................................................. 71
Overcoming Jealousy in Our Lives ..................................................................................... 72
Cause of and Solution to (Negative) Assertion .................................................................... 73
Overcoming the Vitriol of Fans ......................................................................................... 73
Overcoming Wanting Attitudes Toward Self, Life ................................................................. 74
Acceding To the Truth Attracts Overwhelming Good Fortune in Downton Abbey ...................... 74
Negative Attitudes Attract Negatively .................................................................................. 75
Dishonesty Attracts the Negative in Film Win Win ............................................................... 75
DEVELOPING PSYCHOLOGICAL STRENGTH .................................................................. 76
Eowyn's Strength Attracts in 'Lord of the Rings' .................................................................. 76
Decision of Strength Attracts Love in 'The Apartment' ......................................................... 77
Life Response Power of Eliminating a Dominating Negative Influence .................................... 78
Strength of Young Elizabeth ............................................................................................. 79
OVERCOMING LIMITS OF HABIT, THE ROUTINE ........................................................... 80
Breaking the Habit .......................................................................................................... 80
Breaking Our Habitual Nature........................................................................................... 81
Another Road Taken at Fort Mason ................................................................................... 82
Changing the Habit, Routine ............................................................................................ 84
The Life of Spiritual Adventure that Attracts ....................................................................... 85
THE POWER OF PERSONAL VALUES ........................................................................... 87
Application of Specific Values .............................................................................................. 87
Purity of Values Wins Case in Film 'A Civil Action' ............................................................... 87
Power of Values to Shape Our Lives .................................................................................. 89
Cosmic Accounting .......................................................................................................... 91
Less is More ................................................................................................................... 91
POWER OF PERFECTION ......................................................................................... 92
Consultant's Effort of Perfection Rewarded In an Unexpected Way ........................................ 92
THE TRUE PSYCHOLOGICAL, SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUAL .................................................... 92
The True Individual .............................................................................................................. 92
General ............................................................................................................................. 92
Questions and Answers on True Individuality ..................................................................... 92
Power of Human Individuality ........................................................................................... 94
Dan in Real Life .............................................................................................................. 95
The Internet and the Emerging True Individual .................................................................. 96
THE MAKEUP, PLANES OF OUR BEING ....................................................................... 97
Planes of Being of the Individual ....................................................................................... 97
Perceiving Things as Physical, Vital, Mental, and Spiritual .................................................... 99
Considering the Plane from which We Act .......................................................................... 99
HEALTH, WELL-BEING, ENERGY ............................................................................ 100
Reluctance to Overcome Inner Causes of Illness ............................................................... 100
Restoring Our Physical Health ........................................................................................ 101
Power of Preserving our Energies.................................................................................... 101
LOVE, ROMANCE ................................................................................................ 102
Attracting Romantic Love Out of Nowhere ........................................................................ 102
SPIRITUAL GROWTH ............................................................................................. 105
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OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................ 105
A New View of Spirit .......................................................................................................... 105
The Integral View of Spirit and Life Emerging in the World.................................................. 105
Life Divine ... Here on Earth............................................................................................ 106
Connecting to Spirit as Householder, Aspirant, or In Between ............................................. 107
All Paths Are One, and Beyond ........................................................................................ 108
Levels of Spiritual Progress We Can Attain ........................................................................ 109
Yoga and Four Levels of Personal Progress ....................................................................... 109
Spirit-oriented Expression ................................................................................................. 110
Qualities of the Spiritual-Oriented Individual ..................................................................... 110
Spiritual Methods of Progress ............................................................................................ 112
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Overview of Spiritual Habits ............................................................................................ 114
Makeup of Our Being ......................................................................................................... 116
The Spectrum of Human Consciousness ........................................................................... 116
Transforming the Subconscious, Enabling our Supernature ................................................. 117
Positive and Negative Human Traits ................................................................................. 118
EVOLVING OUR BEING ......................................................................................... 120
Bridging the Psychological and Spiritual Gap ..................................................................... 120
The Other Part of Spiritual Growth: The Personal Purification Process .................................. 121
Overcoming the Unique Contradiction of Who We Are ........................................................ 122
Overcoming our Blind Spots............................................................................................ 122
CONSECRATION, I.E. OPENING TO THE SPIRITUAL FORCE ............................................ 124
Overview ........................................................................................................................... 124
The Great Secret: Opening to the Spiritual Force (Consecration) ......................................... 124
Consecration and Life Response ...................................................................................... 128
Consecration and Spirit-based Living ............................................................................... 129
How to Create Luck in Your Life....................................................................................... 130
The Power of the Spiritual Force ...................................................................................... 131
Factors that Determine our Receptivity to Life Power and the Incoming Grace ...................... 132
An Experience at the County Courthouse .......................................................................... 133
Miracle Meetings through the Power of Spirit .................................................................... 133
Miracles of the Divine Mother .......................................................................................... 135
The Divine-Net .............................................................................................................. 136
Case Studies ...................................................................................................................... 137
Overcoming Repetition through the Power of the Spiritual Force .......................................... 137
The Moment that Changed Everything ............................................................................. 139
California Fires and the Response from Life ...................................................................... 140
The DMV: Another Magical Moment through Mother ........................................................... 141
Consecration that Affects Others; the Collective ................................................................ 142
Consecrating for the Benefit of Others ............................................................................. 142
Imagining Spiritual Light Descending on Others ................................................................ 143
Repeating a Life Response for the Collective ..................................................................... 144
FAITH .............................................................................................................. 145
Your Level of Trust in Life ............................................................................................... 145
Taking Our Faith to the Next Level .................................................................................. 146
METHODS OF SPIRITUAL SILENCE .......................................................................... 147
Overview ........................................................................................................................... 147
Spiritual Silence and Inner Equality ................................................................................. 147
Beingness and Life Response .......................................................................................... 153
Inner Strategies of Silence that Move Life......................................................................... 155
Squandering Our Mental Energy ...................................................................................... 156
Moving Life from Within as Harbinger of New Way of Living ................................................ 158
Equality of Being, Non-reaction ......................................................................................... 160
The Phone .................................................................................................................... 160
Detachment that Overcomes Delay .................................................................................. 161
Louis Pasteur and the Power of Inner Equality ................................................................... 162
Consciously Abridging Time ............................................................................................ 164
Around the World with Phileas Fogg ................................................................................. 165
The Nature of Complaining and the Power of Non-Complaint ............................................... 166
Restraint ............................................................................................................................ 168
The Life Response Power of Restraint ............................................................................... 168
From the Liberty of Ego to the Infinite Power of Self-Restraint ............................................ 169
GROW BY GIVING ............................................................................................... 170
Self-Givingness, Goodness ................................................................................................. 170
Overview .......................................................................................................................... 170
The Art of Self-Givingness .............................................................................................. 170
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Life Response Power of Self-Givingness ........................................................................... 171
Subtle Gesture that Overcomes Disharmony in Still Walking .............................................. 172
How Life Responds through Our Relationships with Others ................................................. 174
Breaking a Money Backlog through Self-Givingness .......................................................... 175
Strategies for Meeting with an Acquaintance .................................................................... 175
Self-Giving through Soul Perception and Connection ......................................................... 176
Life Response Power of Self-givingness in Literature and Film ................................................ 177
Acts of Goodness Instantaneously Attract ........................................................................ 177
Generosity of Spirit in Julie and Julia ............................................................................... 178
Self-Givingness Attracts Love in 'Scent of a Woman' ......................................................... 178
Witness for the Prosecution............................................................................................ 180
The Power of Goodness in Arden Forest ........................................................................... 181
Esther Summerson's Goodness in Bleak House ................................................................. 182
Goodwill ............................................................................................................................. 183
Referral of a Lifetime .................................................................................................... 183
Evoking the Darkness and the Light ................................................................................ 184
Complete, 180 Degree Turnaround ................................................................................. 187
Gratitude ........................................................................................................................... 188
Gratitude that Attracts Good Fortune .............................................................................. 188
HARMONY, ONENESS ........................................................................................... 188
Overview ........................................................................................................................... 188
The Infinite Power of Harmony ....................................................................................... 188
Overcoming Ego, Separateness; Power of Harmony ........................................................... 190
Coming Out of Ego as First Step of Conscious Evolution..................................................... 190
Formula for the End of the Reign of Ego .......................................................................... 191
Overcoming Ego ........................................................................................................... 192
Oneness of Life .................................................................................................................. 193
Interconnectedness of All .............................................................................................. 193
Oneness with Life and Surroundings .................................................................................. 194
Experiencing Oneness in the Depths ............................................................................... 194
Discovering the Oneness of Life ...................................................................................... 194
Oneness with Others .......................................................................................................... 196
The Oneness of Adams and Jefferson .............................................................................. 196
JOY, DELIGHT OF BEING ...................................................................................... 197
Bringing the Sweetness of the Spirit to the Surface of Life ................................................. 197
Thoughts on True, Inner Happiness (i.e. Joy and Delight of Being) ..................................... 198
THE TRUE SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUAL ......................................................................... 198
The True and the Spiritually True Individual ..................................................................... 198
Five Levels on the Scale of Personality ............................................................................ 200
Levels of Depth of Being of the Individual ........................................................................ 202
Tending the True Self that Fosters Individuality ................................................................ 205
The Life of Spiritual Adventure that Attracts ..................................................................... 206
DEVELOPING AN INNER LIFE ................................................................................. 208
Living from the Depths ...................................................................................................... 208
Moving to the Depths Within .......................................................................................... 208
Moving Within .............................................................................................................. 209
What Does it Mean to Live in the Depths? ........................................................................ 209
The Psychic Being (True Self, Evolving Soul) ..................................................................... 210
Ways of Connecting to the Evolving Soul ......................................................................... 210
Psychic Being ............................................................................................................... 211
The Personal Evolving Soul (The Psychic Being, the True Self) ........................................... 212
The Amazing Journey of the Evolving Soul ....................................................................... 212
The Psychic Being (the Personal Evolving Soul) ................................................................ 213
Methods of Discovering Our Psychic Being and Our Ultimate Transformation ........................ 213
Connecting with One's Personal Evolving Soul .................................................................. 214
The Journey of the Soul ................................................................................................. 216
The Journey of the Soul and the Fulfillment of Our Life's Purpose ....................................... 218
Surrender .......................................................................................................................... 219
Surrender and Our Ultimate Purpose in Life ..................................................................... 219
ACQUIRING TRUE, INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE ............................................................... 220
Our Essential Ignorance; Movement to Integral Knowledge .............................................. 220
The Journey from Ignorance to Integral Knowledge .......................................................... 220
Progressive Movement Out of Ignorance .......................................................................... 221
Spiritual Approach for Overcoming Human Ignorance Born of Creation ................................ 222
Mind's Limits, Higher Functionings .................................................................................... 222
Beyond the Brain to Mind and Knowledge ........................................................................ 222
Limits of Mind and the Opening to Spiritual Mind .............................................................. 224
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Limits and Higher Functionings of Min d............................................................................ 225
Levels of Mind that Open to Cosmic Planes of Knowledge ................................................... 227
Planes of Mind in the Individual Human ............................................................................ 229
Different Expressions and Results of Mental Energy ........................................................... 232
The Truth About A Sandwich ........................................................................................... 233
Incident at Hearst Castle ................................................................................................ 233
The Delusions of Sense Mind .......................................................................................... 235
Moving from the Part to the Whole .................................................................................... 237
Moving from the Part to the Whole .................................................................................. 237
Perceiving All Sides of a Matter ....................................................................................... 237
The Emerging Multi-sided Understanding in the World ........................................................ 238
Becoming Truth's Instrument .......................................................................................... 239
Opening the Locked Box ................................................................................................. 240
A Thing and Its Opposite are True ................................................................................... 240
Holding a Thought in Our Mind and Its Opposite ................................................................ 241
Taking Another’s Point of View .......................................................................................... 242
Taking the Other Person's Point of View and Life Response ................................................. 242
Embracing Another’s Point of View................................................................................... 243
Insight, Illumination, Intuition, Supramental Perception .................................................. 244
Archimedes Eureka Moment of Vision through Spiritualized Mind ......................................... 244
Ignorance of Mind vs. Integral Knowledge and Power of Supermind ..................................... 245
Practical Applications of Supermind, i.e. Truth Consciousness ............................................. 246
The Coming Super-Revolution in Our Ability to Know ......................................................... 248
Knowing without Thinking .............................................................................................. 249
The Decisive Competitive Advantage of Intuition ............................................................... 250
A New Way of Living through Sudden Descents of Truth Knowledge..................................... 251
"This Morning I Awoke with the Entire Solution in My Mind" ................................................ 252
The Divine-Net .............................................................................................................. 253
Inner Orientation and Integral Knowledge ........................................................................ 254
Go Inward to Soul to Move Upward in Mind to Truth .......................................................... 254
Thought that Evokes Ultimate Response ........................................................................... 255
Consecration that Connects Us to the "Inner Voice" ........................................................... 256
Experiencing the Reality from Within ............................................................................... 257
Overcoming Billions of Error-Filled Perceptions in the World ................................................ 258
The Subliminal Influence that Checks Irritation ................................................................. 259
INNER-BASED DECISION MAKING & PROBLEM SOLVING ............................................. 259
Solving Problems in Life; Decision Making ......................................................................... 259
Overcoming Serious Problems in Life ............................................................................... 259
Problem Solving and Life Response .................................................................................. 262
Supramental Decision Making ......................................................................................... 264
Consecration that Connects Us to the "Inner Voice" ........................................................... 265
Three Levels of Problem Solving: Rationality, Life, and Spirit .............................................. 266
Solving Society's Problems through Higher Consciousness ............................................... 267
Move to a Higher Level to Resolve a Lower Level Problem .................................................. 267
Inner & Outer Strategies to Cope with the World's Problems and Potentials .......................... 268
Solving the Problems of the World through Spiritualized Mind ............................................. 269
Affecting the Problems of the World from Within ............................................................... 270
Spiritual Approaches to a Mission to Mars ......................................................................... 271
Intuitive Knowledge that Overcomes the Expanding Problems of Society .............................. 272
PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION ................................................................................ 273
Astonishing Spiritual Experiences of The Mother ................................................................ 273
The Mind of the Cells ..................................................................................................... 275
OVERCOMING TIME AND SPACE ............................................................................. 276
The Ever-Present and Simultaneous Time ......................................................................... 276
Time's Arrow ................................................................................................................ 276
Becoming the Master of Time .......................................................................................... 278
Beyond Science Fiction to the Truths of Higher Consciousness ............................................ 280
Timelessness in Time ..................................................................................................... 281
Thoughts on the Nature of Time for the Spiritual Individual ................................................ 282
Shifting Our Time Perspective and the Response of Life ...................................................... 282
THE CHARACTER OF LIFE ....................................................................................... 285
Nature vs. Soul's Method of Progress ................................................................................ 285
Nature, Soul, and Human Progress .................................................................................. 285
Nature's vs. Self-Directed Tapas ..................................................................................... 285
Moving Beyond Contradiction ............................................................................................ 286
Progress through Resolution of Contradiction .................................................................... 286
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Contradictions Between Dual Pairs Enables Further Progress .............................................. 287
Methods of Overcoming Our Contradiction with Others ...................................................... 287
Contradictions are Complements .................................................................................... 288
Beyond Division and Contradiction to Higher Resolutions in Life .......................................... 289
Developing Complementarity in Intensifying Relationships ................................................. 290
Seeing Beyond the Positive and Negative .......................................................................... 290
Three Life Principles that Demonstrate How the Darkness Serves the Light .......................... 290
Perceiving the Negative in the Right Light ........................................................................ 292
Seeing the Marvel of Existence ....................................................................................... 292
The Greater the Opposition, the Greater the Opportunity, Progress ..................................... 294
Greater Intensity of the Positive through Its Opposite ....................................................... 295
There's No Success Like Failure ...................................................................................... 295
The Divine Sanctions Progress through Darkness or Light .................................................. 297
The Utility of Evil as Expressed in Mythology and Reality ................................................... 297
Embracing the All ............................................................................................................... 298
Accepting All and Every Thing ........................................................................................ 298
How the Spiritual Aspirant Can Embrace Social Existence .................................................. 299
The Pantheon of the Indian Gods and Beyond .................................................................. 300
Perceiving Life’s Subtle Signs ............................................................................................ 301
Vast Accomplishment by Following the Flow of Life ........................................................... 301
Reading Life’s Subtle (and Not So Subtle) Signs ............................................................... 302
The Ticket ................................................................................................................... 304
Signs Along the Way ..................................................................................................... 304
Fully Engaging the Acts of Life ........................................................................................ 305
The Infinite from the Finite ................................................................................................ 306
How the Small Opens the Portals of the Infinite ................................................................ 306
Predecessor and Beginning Indicators ............................................................................... 307
Preventing Life from Repeating Negatively ....................................................................... 307
Insuring Splendid Outcomes by Tracing Its Beginnings ...................................................... 309
The Phenomenon of ‘Life Response’ ................................................................................... 312
On the Nature of Luck ................................................................................................... 312
Attitude, Aspiration, Decision, Action: Four Determinates that Evoke Great Response from Life313
Spiritual Approaches to Life Response ............................................................................. 314
Subconscious Presentation of Life Response that Can Be Conscious .................................... 315
The Many Methods of Attraction Beyond 'The Secret' ........................................................ 316
The Inner Moves the Outer: Spirit, Aspiration, Attitudes, Values ......................................... 317
Building Up Your Consciousness at the Physical Level ........................................................ 318
Synchronicity and Parallelism ............................................................................................ 319
Focusing on Something Attracts More of It Instantaneously ............................................... 319
Obama – Solyndra – Solar City....................................................................................... 319
THE REALITY, & THEORY OF CREATION ................................................................. 321
The Reality (Brahman) ....................................................................................................... 321
Realizing the Reality (Brahman) In Our Lives ................................................................... 321
Experiencing the Reality from Within ............................................................................... 322
First Glimpse of the Omnipresent Reality ......................................................................... 323
Our Illusory View of Reality ............................................................................................ 323
The Profoundest Friendship with the All of Life ................................................................. 324
Manifesting the Spiritual Aspects of the Creator in Creation ............................................... 325
Theory of Creation ............................................................................................................. 326
The Process of Creation, Involution, and Evolution ............................................................ 326
How Infinite Variety Emerges in the Universe ................................................................... 327
Knower Knowing the Known, Lover Loving the Beloved in Involution and Evolution ............... 328
Self-Conception, Self-Limitation, Self-Absorption in the Creation Process ............................. 329
The Divine's Power of Creation that is Available to Us ....................................................... 331
Creation for the Creator, the Individual, Society, and an Organization ................................. 331
Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intent, Fostering Progress in the World ......................... 332
Application of Satchitananda in Our Lives ........................................................................ 333
Ascent and Integration in the Evolutionary Process ........................................................... 334
Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intention ................................................................... 335
Reason for Physical and Psychological Suffering in Creation ............................................... 336
The Nature of Energy ......................................................................................................... 338
Form and Energy .......................................................................................................... 338
Reemergence of Conscious-Force in Life .......................................................................... 339
Sri Aurobindo’s Vision and Spiritual Life ............................................................................ 340
Divine Life on Earth ...................................................................................................... 340
Sri Aurobindo’s View of Existence ................................................................................... 342
Background to Writing My Book on 'The Life Divine' .......................................................... 343
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