The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber's Appropriation of Sri Aurobindo's Work and Other Indian Thought Paperback – 17 July 2024

Extraordinary book.

Must read in order to know how Hindu spiritual practices are being repackaged and reintroduced in the West in the name of "Mind Sciences", "Mindfulness" and so on.

Essential reading for all those who wish to fightback the continuing theft of Indian knowledge by the West.

Another great work by Rajiv Malhotra sir to defend the Dharma.

Excellent

As someone one who is interested in both Sri Aurobindo and Ken Wilber, the title of the book sounded promising. I personally found my way to Aurobindo via Wilber and indeed I found things in Aurobindo that I couldn't find in Wilber and reading this book I hoped to get a scholarly comparison about the differences between both philosophers. What I got instead is a hit peace by a self proclaimed intellectual Kshatriya, an intellectual warrior, who seems mostly interested in discrediting a western scholar to separate Sri Aurobindo from a larger philosophical discourse and to let him stand alone as the one and only true source of integral philosophy, spirituality and psychology. The authors do benefit from Wilber's weakness to often prefer good style and comprehensibility over academic rigor and citing of sources, which sometimes makes it difficult to trace all the influences on Wilber's thought. But this is actually not that uncommon in philosophical writing, where it is foremost about transmitting ideas and still, Wilber does mention his major influences. For Wilber Aurobindo is only one of many influences like Koestler, Whitehead, Hegel, Gebser, Piaget, Plotinus and many more. The authors makes it seem like Wilber used all these other names to distract from the fact that he actually only copied Aurobindo, but at the same time are they pointing out, that Wilber distorted Aurobindo's ideas. Instead they could accept that Wilber came to his own unique synthesizing philosophy, that has it's own strength's and weaknesses in describing reality. For any serious scholar of Wilber this will be a painful read for all the misrepresentations and straw manning.Generally the authors treat the whole matter as being about the appropriation of religious ideas, instead of seeing it as a modern, postmodern or metamodern philosophical discourse, which harbours a certain irony, since Aurobindo advocates in a lot of instances to go beyond dogmatic religious believe.

It is very important to know how western scholars stolen from india. This book has done the work brilliantly. Thanks 🙏 Rajiv Malhotra ji for your deep research into Bharatiya knowledge and western manipulation of it.

Westerners are stealing our gold work and they are recooked and selling same indigenous knowledge to us. Rishi like malhotra ji are try to awakening us from last 30 years.