Responses to Sraddhalu's amusing letter keep coming in. This one is from Filio, an ex-student of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram writing on the discussion list of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram International Centre of Education (SAICE).   more »

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Sixth Issue	PDF
Ulrich J Mohrhoff	1-6

Articles

Money and the Crisis of Civilization	Abstract PDF
Charles Eisenstein	7-13

‘I’ = AWARENESS	Abstract PDF
Arthur J Deikman	15-21

Evaluating Spiritual and Utopian Groups	Abstract PDF
Arthur J Deikman	23-32

The Psychology of Atheism	Abstract PDF
Paul C Vitz	33-44

A Mathematician’s Lament	Abstract PDF
Paul Lockhart	45-71

Lockhart’s Lament — the Sequel	Abstract PDF
Keith Devlin	73-79

Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us (abridged)	Abstract PDF
Bill Joy	81-91

Life-Energy and Spiritual Experience	Abstract PDF
Steve Taylor	93-106

Interview

The Birth of “Ecological Sustainable Society”	Abstract PDF
Charles Birch	107-118

Book reviews

Review of Ghisi: The Knowledge Society	PDF
Ulrich J Mohrhoff	119-133

Review of Sartori: The Near-Death Experiences of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients	PDF
Ulrich J Mohrhoff	135-143

Review of Carter: Parapsychology and the Skeptics	PDF
Ulrich J Mohrhoff	145-153

Book excerpts

Will the Real Charles Darwin Please Stand Up?	PDF
David Loye	155-185

Intuition and Human Knowledge	PDF
Sri Aurobindo	187-204

AntiMatters is an open-access e-journal addressing issues in science and the humanities from non-materialistic perspectives. It is published quarterly by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry.

This is a chapter on Evolution from R.Y. Deshpande's just published book based on Book VI of Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri, The Book of Fate" - which deals with Narad's Arrival at Ashwapathy's kingdom of Madra. Deshpande reviews here the philosophical approaches which try to explain Becoming in the Cosmos, the meaning of Time and human destiny. His wide-ranging contemplation includes the nature of Time as seen through determinism and probability in the debates of Science, early Greek phulosophy in Heraclitus and Paramenides, Kant's reflections on the limits of rational knowledge and empirical experience and more recent evolutionary thinkers, such as Nietzsche, Bergson, Samuel Alexander and Teilhard de Chardin, before settling on Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of Integral Non-Dualism.   more »