This article recounts my experiential engagement with the Call of the Time (COTT) dialogue, a collaborative initiative between the Brahma Kumaris (BK) and Minhaj University Lahore’s Shaykh-ul-Islam Spiritual Studies Centre (SISS), facilitated by the Department of Religion and Philosophy. Framed within Brahma Kumaris’ cyclical cosmology and SISS’s mission to synthesise Islamic spirituality with...
Life of human being is said to be relished in the abode of peace only. This manifestation of peace is said to bring real spiritual prosperity. In Sanskrit, "Shānti" translates to "peace," "tranquility," or "calmness". It is often used in prayers and chants to invoke peace, and is frequently chanted three times (aum shānti shānti shānti). In this context, this paper attempts at exploring the...
The article present critically examines the dynamic intersection of gender, spiritual devotion, and indigenous epistemologies within Indian mystical traditions. Through an analysis of the works of key mystic poets such as Kabir, Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi, Lalla, and the women poets of the Therigatha, it explores how mystic poetry operates as both a literary and philosophical repository of...
‘Rung,’ colour, has been a subject of exploration by philosophers as the study of consciousness progresses. They believe colours, besides their objective, physical understanding, also have a phenomenal and subjective understanding, for example, the ‘feeling’ that we get when the redness of the red setting sun is felt, or the blueness of the blue sky is experienced. This feeling or subjective...
This research article examines the profound implications of Neuralink’s brain-computer interface (BCI) technology on religious and psychological experiences. As BCIs advance toward direct neural interfacing, they present unprecedented opportunities and challenges for human spirituality, cognition, and self-understanding. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, we investigate the potential for...
This is a heuristic phenomenological, narrative, reflective and meditative presentation. It is a personal statement, inspired by an Aramic Version of the Lord’s Prayer as gifted by Harry Hawthorne, Medical Doctor Friend at St. Michaels Church, Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa. The spoken Aramaic seemed to closely resonate with words that I feel would have been spoken and transmitted by Jesus Christ...
WThis paper extends the concept of literary tzimtzum from Hasidic mystical pedagogy to medical hermeneutics, proposing that the patient-physician encounter can be understood through the lens of parabolic interpretation. Drawing on the Alter Rebbe's theory of meshalim as forms of divine contraction that make infinite meaning accessible to finite consciousness [1], this study argues that patients...
This article presents a comparative philosophical investigation into three major Indian theories of consciousness, Advaita Vedānta, Sāṃkhya-Yoga, and Buddhist traditions and examines their enduring relevance to contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cognitive science. Focusing on the motif of consciousness as “luminous,” the article analyses Advaita’s doctrine of...
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of trance has become an interesting topic for research, especially from a psychological and theological perspective. This research aims to explore the experiences of individuals who have experienced possession, the role of spiritual and psychological intervention, as well as understanding Christian theology regarding this phenomenon. A qualitative approach was used with...
Objective of the study is a philosophical and methodological analysis of the phenomenon of the actual possibility of self-consciousness emergence in artificial intelligence. Methodological basis of the study. The authors use a transdisciplinary approach that makes it possible to identify an invariant in the spectrum of cognitive practices that confirms the “weak” version of artificial...