Collaboration Journal
Current Edition
Spring 2024, Vol. 49, No. 2
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From the Editors
Music Brings Us Near to the Infinite
It may be said that music is as old as humanity itself. For millennia and across all cultures, music has been used to experience beauty and joy as a form of art, to enhance celebration and ritual, and to put us in touch with the Divine. Music brings us near to the infinite and to the essence of things. It can express what is verbally inexpressible, and if we listen closely and attentively, music can be a method of inner opening to the Divine. Music can uplift the emotions, be used in healing, cultivate suppleness on all levels of consciousness, and deepen our experience of human unity. Read more …
Special Feature
The Wide-Ranging Impact of Maestro Shankar
Philip Goldberg traces the influence of Ravi Shankar on key musicians such as Yehudi Menuhin, Philip Glass, and John Coltrane, and subsequently through their influence on numerous other musicians. However, in Goldberg’s words, “For sheer planetary impact, those friendships were dwarfed by the seismic eruption that followed the meeting of Shankar and George Harrison.” Read more …
Special Feature
Interstates of Consciousness, Integral Yoga, and the Grateful Dead
In this article Lynda Lester explains that Grateful Dead music is known for transporting listeners to a heightened reality that is often called the X-factor, magic, alchemy, hyperspace, or the Zone. Here she documents how these unique states of consciousness—in her case experienced through deep listening, without drugs—might be identified in Integral Yoga terms. She also recommends a list of Grateful Dead songs for further exploration. Read more …
Call for Submission
Whole-Person Psychology
Sri Aurobindo has described his yoga as “practical psychology.” His approach is experiential, with a transformative orientation in the service of the evolution of consciousness, both individually and collectively. This approach, which has been termed integral psychology, integral yoga psychology, and more recently, consciousness-based psychology, is centered around the quest for wholeness as the main motive for human psychospiritual growth and development. It covers the entire physical/vital/mental/psychic/spiritual spectrum and the full range of gradations of consciousness, from the least conscious to the supraconscious levels. We look forward to your submissions in the context of whole-person psychology. Submission deadline is November 1, 2024. Read more …
Call for Submission
Embodiment and Earth Consciousness
In the course of what seems to be millions of years of human evolution on earth, we are entering a new era of “embodied consciousness.” It is time for us to awaken our bodies to the presence of the Divine, to collectively engage in the transformation of material consciousness, and to become increasingly aware of the consciousness of the earth.
We invite you to consider the ways in which we inhabit our bodies and, in doing so, can become aware of the presence of the Divine within ourselves and also within others. Submission deadline is March 1, 2025. Read more …
An Invitation
Would You Like to Be Part of a Collaborative Yoga?
At different points in our aspirational journey to collaborate with the Divine, some are called to work together in spiritual practice, and some are called to pursue a more solitary way. This call is for those who are yearning to be part of a networked laboratory of consciousness, a co-laboratory, and practice an integrated collective yoga by joining our team for Collaboration journal and the Sri Aurobindo Association. We are looking for graphic designers, artists, photographers, copy editors, and project managers to join our team! If this call inspires you, please contact us at info@collaboration.org. Read more…