From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: zondag 18 februari 2007 13:26 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] The Schizophrenia of India INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 183 Amsterdam, February 18, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "2006: WHAT A YEAR!" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ Ray Harris has written an essay on the schizophrenia of India, contrasting the Aryan and Dravidian cultures: INDIA: ARYAN PATRIARCHY AND DRAVIDIAN MATRIARCHY - Ray Harris In fact there really is no such thing as Hinduism. The name is derived from the word Indus (a river) and simply means the people of the Indus region. It is where we get the word India (Hindus call India Bharata). Hinduism is a collection of religious and cultural traditions. Today the main religious groups are Arya, Vaishnavites, Shaivites, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs, Tantrikas and Shaktas, in no particular order. ... So whilst there was a great deal of creative synthesis, India is in fact a religiously schizophrenic society. There is a distinct split between the original Dravidian religions, which reject the Aryan system, and the Aryans, who to this day, continue to seek to dominate India. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/harris32.html Ray Harris has responded to Meyerhoff's "The Rationalization of Domination", in which he commented on Harris' original essay on the Middle East: REPLY TO MEYERHOFF - Ray Harris His argument would make perfect sense except for one thing - Jewish immigration helped create an economic boom in Palestine and improved the conditions of Arabs in general, so much so that there was a subsequent Arab population explosion. The exact nature of the increase in the Arab population is in dispute. The Arabs say that it was due to a rapid increase in the birth rate and some Israelis say it was due to significant Arab immigration. Whatever the cause Meyerhoff will need to explain why an allegedly starving population under threat of having their land stolen actually increased its size and even attracted significant Arab immigration. This is critical issue because some Israeli historians argue that some Palestinians are descended from Arabs who immigrated at the same time as Jews (and have no more claim than Jews). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/harris31.html If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html