Advaita Vedānta has frequently been interpreted as world-negating, giving rise to charges of metaphysical quietism and ethical disengagement. This paper argues, by contrast, that Advaita articulates a fundamentally cosmist vision in which the world is neither denied nor absolutized, but affirmed as contingently real and ethically significant. The argument proceeds through a threefold analysis...
Abstract This article examines the intersections between Indian yogic philosophy and contemporary Western theories of consciousness, arguing that yogic models offer a radical reorientation of the mind-body problem. While Western philosophy has traditionally framed mind and body as separate or as reducible to one another, yogic philosophy offers alternative models that challenge or bypass the...