Introducing your 2017 team Ram Nation TBT team

For the second consecutive year, VCU Ram Nation will enter a team into the 64-team summer hoops tournament simply known as “The Basketball Tournament” (or TBT), with hopes of lifting the championship trophy and the winner-take-all $2 million check. Last year we took an eight-man group of former Rams into the tournament, winning two hard-fought games in Charlotte to advance to the “Super 16” in…

The coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital, and psychical existence of man, but perceive that a greater evolution is the real goal of humanity and attempt to effect it in themselves, to lead others to it, and to make it the recognized goal of the race.” “In proportion as they succeed and the degree to which they carry this evolution, the yet unrealized potentiality which they represent will become the actual possibility of the future.” p. xii The Mandala of Evolution“The ordinary man lives in his own personal consciousness knowing things through his mind and senses as they are touched by a word which is outside him, outside his consciousness. When the consciousness subtilizes, it begins to come into contact with things in a much more direct way, not only with their forms and outer impacts but with what is inside them, but still the range may be small. But the consciousness can also widen and begin to be first in direct contact with a universe of range of things in the world, then to contain them as it were – as it is said to see the world in oneself – and to be in a way identified with it. To see all things in the self and the self in all things – to be aware of one being everywhere, aware directly of the different planes, their forces, their beings – that is universalization.” XXII