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Editorial
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — The Alpha and the Omega
Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet reality. Evolution starts from the Inconscience
is also fashionably used to denote the because whatever has to evolve is already
culmination or crowning moment of a present as a seed in the Inconscience. Sri
movement. Teilhard de Chardin used the Aurobindo explains that the evolutionary
term Omega Point as the goal or end result trajectory can progressively move onwards,
of his evolutionary cosmology. Teilhard’s surpassing the mind-principle to traverse
description of the Omega Point makes it a higher ranges of consciousness till it reaches
transcendent principle for it is outside the the Supermind. Thus on one hand the goal
framework where the universe arises. He of the evolutionary movement is to reach the
postulates that it is by the attraction of the Supermind so as to make its manifestation
Omega Point that the universe moves possible here on earth itself; while on the
towards it through progressively higher other hand, evolution starts from the
forms of complexity, consciousness and Inconscience because the potentialities of
personality (1). the Supermind are already involved and
dormant in it. This is why the Reality, in Sri
Teilhard’s Omega Point has often been Aurobindo’s paradigm is simultaneously
compared with Sri Aurobindo’s Supermind. the culmination (Omega) of evolution as
However, in Sri Aurobindo’s scheme, the well as the initiating point of evolution
Reality is simultaneously transcendent, (Alpha):
universal and individual. The Superconscious
Supramental Reality is therefore implicit at all “Brahman is the Alpha and the Omega.
levels of consciousness, in variable degrees Brahman is the One besides whom there is
of manifestation or dormancy. If evolution nothing else existent (2).”
moves towards the highest goal through
increasing complexity, it has been preceded Frank Tipler expanded the idea of the
by an equally complex involutionary Omega Point to view it as a Transcendent
movement through which the Supermind zone analogous to the Christian heaven where
principle progressively condensed itself to past personalities can be relived through a
be finally veiled in the Inconscience, moving mechanism analogous to resurrection of the
through non-evolutionary typal worlds. The dead and therefore leading to omnipotence
fact of the Superconscient creative principle (3). In Sri Aurobindo’s perspective, the
becoming embedded, veiled and dormant Supramental Consciousness has to manifest
in the Inconscience makes the Inconscience not in a far away heavenly Omega but in
a phenomenal and not a fundamental the earth itself, in the matrix of matter that
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