[M.D. Holloway]

I have always been interested in the difference in regional 'minds' - the perception of reality has a dramatic influence on the society and religion of a region and even a continent. Here is a smattering of an investigation of this:

Eastern vs. the Western Consciousness
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The Role of Nature and Soul in Progress in the World
Nature does not work for progress in all fronts at all places simultaneously. Nature herself is a partial force. Soul and Nature together make for the whole. Nature is a part. A partial force cannot work for total progress. Hence Nature has decided to develop emotion in Asia and Mind in Europe. India was chosen by Nature to develop the Spirit. (MSS)

East and West Have What the Other Lacks
The East has ignored the organization and materialism that the West embodies; the West, the spirituality that the East embodies. In the new age we are entering, this is overcome.

East and West
The East needs to return to its spiritual roots even as it embraces western materialism. It needs to experience spirit in life, not apart from life. The West needs to move away from the sprit-only view to embrace the spirit that the East knows.

Overcoming Western Limits of Mind & Its Evil by Embracing the Consciousness the East Knows
In 1830 China and India had 50% of the world's GDP. What happened thereafter? They failed to improve like the West. In Europe science developed, and then technology. She also shed much of her religious ignorance. The continent (and the US) boomed. Science and technology brought great prosperity to the West.

But then her science brought evil, in the form of Atomic weapons, and in other ways. The mind that had shed the dogma of religion and opted for the rationality of science, had fallen into a limited field of materialism based on science and technology. The consciousness of the new mind of the West was not broad enough to avoid these consequences.

China and especially India had the ancient knowledge of the broader nature of mind, of higher consciousness. The West avoided that knowledge and created destruction to match its vast positive construction. It did not respect and hence follow the wisdom of the East. Now India and China are using the technology of the West, and as a results the West may begin to respect the East, and delve deeper into the knowledge of consciousness the East knows. It will give the West a deeper understanding of the nature of mind, so it can go beyond its current limited Mind, which is separative and non-inclusive, preventing knowledge of the whole truth, which in turns creates evil for every good it creates. This Broader Mind -- i.e. Spiritual Mind -- would embrace all truths of an object, not just the material truth -- including the subtle, the psychological, and the spiritual.


Western and Eastern Genius
Western genius is not in its philosophy or understanding of life's deepest secrets, but that it has brought out the infinite capacities of matter in all facets of life, from material well-being to the energy found in the atom to the cataloguing of the genetic code. Perhaps, we can then say that the West has released the "sprit" in the material. The genius of the East is the knowledge and experience of the spirit. It needs to embrace the spirit in an active material life.

Each side has the secret the other is seeking. The ultimate complements of the world may be the contradiction of these two complementary approaches to life.

East Meets West to Know Infinite in All
The West is evolving material reality to infinity, even as it fails to see the Infinite behind. Now as the movement of technology moves from the US and enjoins India and the East, it can learn to recognize the Infinite behind the material. It can also know not only the material, but every aspect, dimension, current, and force of creation.

Seeing Brahman at All Planes for Easterner and Westerner
The flexibility of life permits any growth at any level to reach its acme in Brahman. Thus the Westerner has discovered Brahman in Matter. The rigidity of life permits progress to freeze at the first step. The priests of the East have taken the rituals of the Veda as ultimate and are stuck with it for the past several thousand years.

If Spirit has developed in Asia and Mind has developed in Europe, each remains a partial achievement. The Spirit has not revealed itself as an integral whole. Mind that has discovered Brahman in Matter is still a stranger to the Spirit in its original integrality.

The Indian should discover the Brahman in Matter, as the Westerner, and the American should discover the Spirit which India knows long ago.

The methods are:
--(especially for the East) The light they are born with in their bodies should rise to the Mind as values organised in life.
--(especially for the West) The values of life and work should penetrate the fabric of existence to discover there a particle of light. Millions of such particles can come together as the Original Light. (MSS, slight modification)