August 20, 2008 IONS MEETING

            An Evening with
                          Dr. Swami Ramananda Giri Maharaj
      "INDIA from the INSIDE OUT"
        Wednesday, August 20th,
7pm at The Sahara West Library

"Structures in Consciousness"

We are honored to have Swamiji G who will speak on the Phenomenological approach to Indian Philosophy and how it related to todays world.
Based on Husseral's Phenomenology as an approach to scientific investigation. Swamiji will be speaking on his research collected on 17 different pilgrimages to India. and interviews with some of the greatest spiritual persons of India including Sri Ananda Moyi Ma, Sathya Sai Baba, Maharisihi Mahesh Yogi, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Babaji Maharajah and many others.
He will also be reading from his new book FROM INDIA WITH LOVE, his holiness will present himself for Darshan and questions.

What is Phenomenology?
In its most basic form, phenomenology is the study of the consciousness from a first-person perspective, as opposed to, but not exclusive of, a third-person perspective like the neurological perspective. It is the attempt to reflect on pre-reflexive experience to determine certain properties of, or structures in, consciousness.

Who was Edmund Husserl?
Edmund Husserl was a philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology. His work was a break with the purely positivist orientation and understanding of the science and philosophy of his day, giving weight to subjective experience as the source of all of our knowledge of objective phenomena.