The Life Sciences Supermind Report represents 18 months of global collaboration and expert synthesis, applying an accelerated methodology to identify solutions amid the urgency of a pandemic. The work builds on the collaborators’ research from 2020, which focused on pandemic response efforts, to outline the most promising solutions to build health resilience for now and the future. and Canadian life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany - together convened more than 200 thought leaders from around the world to collaboratively capture the disruptions caused by the pandemic, and identify the solutions that will help usher in the future of the life sciences.Ī comprehensive report containing synthesized, data-driven insights from this expert group, known as the “Life Sciences Supermind,” has now been published. To help accelerate that innovation, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma - the U.S. That is, in the pure and undivided ‘Being’ where space, time and causality cease to exist and in the multiplicity of the ‘Becoming’ where the limitations of space, time and causality operate.įreedom in ‘Being’ and in ‘Becoming’ – this for him was the vision of the seers in the Upanishads.The Covid-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the life science ecosystem, uniting the scientific community with a common purpose and re-imagining pathways to address global health challenges. It is evident in the writings of Sri Aurobindo that he was as much interested in ‘Being’ as in ‘Becoming’ and the transitions between them. Hence, in a sense, after having a vision of the Supermind, one is not bound to any creation of material matter. The phenomenal appearances recede back into the harmony of the spirit and this could be seen as the creation and destruction of a Loka (world). Once there has been a descension from the Supermind to the Mind – a descension into matter from Spirit, it is always possible to ascend back into the Supermind and to separate the matter from the spirit. The ‘apparently different’ phenomenal constructions which start to appear in the Overmind, never really lose their essential connection to the one undivided spirit of the Supermind.Įven if it appears that there are different phenomena which are coming into existence, and each form might seem to be evolving as per it’s own laws, they retain a relationship of harmony with each other. This involves, in the language of the Sankhya, the beginning of the play of Prakriti on Purusha and the role of Prakriti in the creation of multiplicity. The Overmind essentially contains stages of consciousness which detail how the ‘many’ phenomenal appearances are formed from the ‘one’ spirit. The Overmind begins when the fragmentation of the primal spirit of the Supermind starts to occur and the creation of material phenomena is hence initiated. The Supermind is also associated with a divine feeling of ananda (divine bliss) which is impossible to experience in a divided state of consciousness.īetween the undivided Supermind and the fragmented Mind – are a series of intermediate stages of consciousness and this is what Sri Aurobindo calls ‘Overmind’. Here, the being is the master of existence and the creative forces of nature act in accordance with this state of consciousness. Here, matter and spirit are clearly seen to be separate, and the steps which lead to the creation of matter from spirit are understood. While the Mind is a state of division, suffering and ignorance – the Supermind is the pure spirit – a state of ‘oneness’ and of undivided consciousness, where the being is at the source of creation itself. Sri Aurobindo calls this state as ‘Mind’ and his process of evolution is an ascension from the Mind to what he calls the ‘Supermind’. In this perspective, matter and spirit are seen as inseparable, and the being is for the most part engaged in a multitude of material creation and is ignorant of the role of the spirit (or energy), which is responsible for the creation of materiality. ![]() Sri Aurobindo details out a process through which the process of the evolution of consciousness takes place and a path which takes the being from ignorance to awakening.Īn unawakened view of existence, is one of a divided and fragmented consciousness, where there exists an individual ego and the limited world which he lives in.
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