One of the challenges our current polycrisis presents is to comprehend the role of our understanding of consciousness in the genesis of this host of intertwined crises. Instead of focusing on the so-called hard problem of how experience and subjectivity arise from matter, the suggestion is that the actual hard problem is how our minds and bodies lost their sensual, nurturing embeddedness in the...
Meditative research at the heart of liberating intelligence offers us a way to explore and live the new way of life, to live reality as a whole, free from divisions. It awakens our awareness of embodying the triadic symbol: creative freedom, universal intelligence and the web of intra-actions constituting the universe. It opens the possibility of living creative freedom, truth, beauty, peace,...
The concept of the mind in philosophy encompasses a diverse range of theories and perspectives, examining its immaterial nature, unitary function, self-activity, self-consciousness, and persistence despite bodily changes. This paper explores the attributes of the mind, addressing classical materialism, dualism, and behaviorism, along with contemporary theories like functionalism and...
The mind is not structured anatomically, as emphasized by modern pathology. Instead, it is expanded as a whole in a subtle form behind the physical body. In the Indian system of medical philosophy, the mind is considered as the astral nerves made third body, which identified as the ‘Manomaya-sharira’ (subconscious mind). The mind is composed of millions of astralnadis, through which...
In 1900 the publication of the book, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud raised very seminal and fascinating questions in the disciplines of psychology and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s intellectual contributions and the discovery of unconscious had given a big jolt to all the classical approaches, shook the disciplinary foundations of psychology and placed ‘psychoanalysis’ as an...
This paper attempts to explore the idea of mind on the basis of René Descartes and Gilbert Ryle’s vision. Descartes, a 17thcentury philosopher, developed a dualistic theory that posits the mind and body as distinct entities. According to him, the mind is an immaterial, non- extended entity with consciousness and rational thought, while the body is a material substance subject to physical laws....
Yoga' is popular in contemporary world and is colloquially interpreted as a method of practicing different postures for maintaining core strength, good physical health with flexibility of one's body.It is a Sanskrit non-translatable and this monograph is an attempt to describe about Yoga and its meaning as per the supreme lord Srikrishna's teachings in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita (SBG).SBG is...
Consciousness is the labyrinth of one's everyday experience.One's experience becomes an authentic episode of verification because it falls in the framework of consciousness.One becomes aware that an experience becomes his/her experience due to the 'owning up of' and this leads to the feeling of 'self'.When a conscious individual experiences 'selfhood' one is able to exercise one's agency and...
This work explores the nature of reason and rationality in Paul C. Mocombe's structurationist theory of phenomenological structuralism.The author, building on the quantum computation of ORCH-OR theory and the multiverse ideas of Haitian ontology/epistemology and quantum mechanics abductively posits that consciousness is a fifth force of nature, a quantum material substance/energy, psychion, the...