I remember reading from Eliot Deutsch in 1969, same conference in Hawaii. "Advaita Vedanta and its Philosophical Reconstruction". So, we are very close on this subject. Lately, it has gravitated to Goethe's so-called, "Primal Phenomenon", which Rudolf Steiner made even more evident in his books in honor of Goethe. We need to become objective human beings, first and foremost. This means reversing subject-object, and making it object-subject. This is the main priority of the New Yoga Will, which Steiner amply describes here, and even with diagrams:
I had the opportunity to speak with Professor Eliot Deutsch of the University of Hawaii several years ago in his emeritus days, c. 2004, and we discussed the several versions of Vedanta that had come down out of its original Advaita (non-dual) formulation. He is one scholar I admire very much, although I contested with him about his belief that Sri Aurobindo's spiritual experiences were contrived because no such thing as clairvoyance/clairaudience exists for the scholar. I mentioned that Rudolf Steiner had corroborated Aurobindo's findings with his own brand of exact clairvoyance, and then he didn't want to talk anymore. That is why I usually take scholars with a grain of salt.
Great article Max. I couldn’t help thinking of George MacDonald’s use of shadows in his fairytale The Golden Key. I have also been following the golden thread of myth and story and iconography, so it was wonderful to see you tie them all together! I’d love to hear more from you on these.
I remember reading from Eliot Deutsch in 1969, same conference in Hawaii. "Advaita Vedanta and its Philosophical Reconstruction". So, we are very close on this subject. Lately, it has gravitated to Goethe's so-called, "Primal Phenomenon", which Rudolf Steiner made even more evident in his books in honor of Goethe. We need to become objective human beings, first and foremost. This means reversing subject-object, and making it object-subject. This is the main priority of the New Yoga Will, which Steiner amply describes here, and even with diagrams:
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/MissMich/19191130p01.html
what do you mean, "*it* has gravitated"? the conference or Advaita Vedanta, or something else?
We had talked about this same kind of scheme in this previous essay, and its comments. Check out the last one.
https://theoriapress.substack.com/p/love-and-the-reversal/comments
Hi Max,
I had the opportunity to speak with Professor Eliot Deutsch of the University of Hawaii several years ago in his emeritus days, c. 2004, and we discussed the several versions of Vedanta that had come down out of its original Advaita (non-dual) formulation. He is one scholar I admire very much, although I contested with him about his belief that Sri Aurobindo's spiritual experiences were contrived because no such thing as clairvoyance/clairaudience exists for the scholar. I mentioned that Rudolf Steiner had corroborated Aurobindo's findings with his own brand of exact clairvoyance, and then he didn't want to talk anymore. That is why I usually take scholars with a grain of salt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Deutsch
Great article Max. I couldn’t help thinking of George MacDonald’s use of shadows in his fairytale The Golden Key. I have also been following the golden thread of myth and story and iconography, so it was wonderful to see you tie them all together! I’d love to hear more from you on these.