Month: November 2022

• November 3, 2022

  Subration: Concerning The Relative And The Absolute

  In Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction, Eliot Deutsch suggests that subration refers to “the mental process whereby one disvalues some previously appraised object or content of consciousness because of its being contradicted by a new experience.” The process is described at greater length a page later: On the relative level, this process aptly describes what…
• November 1, 2022

  Let Us Just Be

  I’d like to share with you the beautiful final words with which Michael James’s fine book Happiness and the Art of Being: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of the Spiritual Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana concludes. I do so below the “*.” * This world and everything that we experience in it, including…