Towards a Cosmic Society

Abstract: With the expansion of I-feeling in living being, there emerges a multifarious transformation in the interactions between individual behaviors, ideological leanings and institutional structures. The inspirational ideology, imaginative individuals and integrative institutions are the socio-psychic - instruments of this transformation from unit - I to cosmic–I.

The socio-cultural-economic-political-

technological changes in the society are the product of environment created by the evolution or devolution of i-feeling of living beings. Hence, there is a close connection between individual growth in consciousness and the humanity's collective consciousness. The collective consciousness has been called by different names such as Bhuma' Ma'nas (Cosmic Mind), the Cultural Soul, the Global Self or the Universal Self or domains of Transcendental Consciousness ( Loka's ) . It stays even when humans die. The collective treasure of humanity lies stored in the archives of the Cosmic Mind and is never lost and can always be accessed with a subtler technology of mind-transcendence. A human with an omni-telepathic mind can know all the secrets of the past. The modalities of a  movement towards Cosmic Society must therefore, involve an expansion of individual consciousness of all beings towards Transcendental Consciousness. In this expansion lies the potentiality of Collective thrival in the future.

Bio: Dr. Dada Shambhushivananda, 56, is currently the Chancellor of Ananda Marga Gurukula,an international network of over 1200 educational institutions operating in over 80 countries. He is also the Rector of Yoga seminary in Sweden and Director of Tantra Vidyapeeth, an Institute of Advanced Studies in Tantra, Yoga and Allied Sciences. He has been a monk in the tantric tradition since 1979 and practitioner of tantra sadhana (meditation) for over 40 years.

Acharya Shambhushivananda holds a Ph.D. in Business and Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at several universities in the United States . He was the recipient of International Mahatma Gandhi Award in 1991 and Karyalaya Shiromani Award given by Indian Research Association in 1992.He has written and spoken extensively on spiritual and social issues from a tantric perspective and has been one of the keynote speakers on several international forums including Parliament of World Religions, Kyoto Forum, Lithuanian Parliament etc.