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The controversy was more than a disagreement between a scientist and a spiritual thinker. It raised a question that had troubled Indian intellectuals for decades: how could India become modern while deciding what, if anything, should be retained from its intellectual inheritance?
Saha’s answer emphasised scientific and technological development. Roy defended the philosophical resources of Indian civilisation against what he regarded as an overly dismissive interpretation of them. The disagreement therefore reveals something about Roy’s philosophy of history. For him, India’s past was not simply an object of historical memory. It was connected to the question of India’s future.
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Husserl, Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
¨Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) were almost exact contemporaries, both attended Franz Brentano’s lectures in Vienna, and both were involved in the understanding of subjective life and its meaning. As a result, various efforts have been made over the years to explore the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and Freudian psychoanalysis, between the descriptive phenomenological exploration of experienced, conscious life, in all its modalities (including memory, fantasy, emotion, habitual action), and the analytic uncovering of unconscious processes (repression, sublimation) and their effects.¨
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Does consciousness require a human or animal brain?
philosopher of science Natalie Lawrence argues that this long-held assumption is the biggest obstacle to understanding what the mind actually is. Because the tools we use to investigate cognition were built in our own image, we over-attribute "life" to AI while dismissing complex organisms like slime moulds. In this article, Lawrence delves into how Spain's MINT Lab is moving beyond these biases. By designing experiments that don't use human cognition as the template, they aim to build a framework rigorous enough to finally distinguish a system that merely reacts to its past from one that genuinely experiences its present. Tap here to read more. iai.tv/articles/new-s…
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Emperors who used the foulest swear words, "religious reformers" talking farts and faeces and equating their rivals with donkeys, religious festivals where gods are abused--my latest column in @Mint_Lounge on invective and its place in history. livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…
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How the Veda Turns Darkness Into a Journey Toward Consciousness I Richar... youtu.be/NOqQnb4JEIc?si… via @YouTube @PariksithSingh @psitsgayatri @AmazingVedas @sriaurobindochr @sriaurobindofdn
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Vedic History
I am not a historian. But I know literature
This is clear to me, and I believe to most historians, that the Veda is great literature
And this is where the contradiction appears
If the Veda is great literature then it must have come out of a living tradition. For it is extremely sophisticated and refined in its use of language. The Veda couldn’t have appeared out of nowhere
Remember, according to our present textbooks, the Veda is our first poetry. Those of us who write know that a great literature stands on a living culture and civilization. That would mean that our timeline of the Veda is extremely restricted. Nomadic traditions could not have created the Veda
Then the language. Vedic is a highly advanced language with an alphabet and inherent linguistics that too must have taken centuries or millennia to develop
Our present history has not a serious understanding of great literature, art or spirituality. Veda is not AI. It can’t be churned out to order
So, history contradicts itself. The present timeline has an inherent flaw. It doesn’t account for its own greatest achievements
Whom should I believe? My own testimony or their word? The shoe doesn’t fit
And I have tried to write this without any bias for the Indic culture which I adore. Feel free to critique
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The Egyptians told us where their gods came from. We just decided they were speaking poetically. They said the first ones reigned before any human king. They said the land of the god lay to the south, and they called it Punt, and they sent expeditions down the Red Sea to reach it, and they came back with incense and living trees and painted the whole voyage on a temple wall at Deir el-Bahari. Egyptologists read that as myth with a shipping route attached. I read it as an address...
I'll say plainly what this book does and doesn't claim. It doesn't claim Egyptians came from Ethiopia in a single migration; it claims a theology did. It concedes the mainstream chronology of every monument it discusses. And it corrects its own errors in print — several numbers in the current edition replaced earlier ones I had got wrong, and the reasoning for each replacement is on the page. The gods came from Punt. The Egyptians said so for three thousand years, and nobody ever asked them what was there. The Kingdom of the Gods: The Afar Origin of Egyptian Theology amazon.com/dp/B0GTFKDC34
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Interview
Did you know that @rajatchaudhuri’s 2018 climate fiction novel ‘The Butterfly Effect’ has been adopted into the syllabus of Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Aligarh Muslim University among other institutions in India and abroad?
In his other works like the novel ‘Spellcasters’, where smog is a character, or the short story collection ‘Wonder Tales For A Warming Planet’ on the theme of planetary crisis, he makes a conscious attempt to use familiar spaces and narrative tropes to breathe life into mundane facts, especially to make the concepts accessible to young minds.
Chaudhuri, who has advocated for climate solutions, sustainability and justice at global fora, including with the United Nations, has been working to communicate science through fiction, which he believes has a role and responsibility to engage with people’s ecological consciousness.
In this conversation with @preetha___ from @down2earthindia, he talks about the evolving role of fiction in the Anthropocene, the psychology of caring for other species and the traditional ideas of dealing with civilisational crises such as global warming. downtoearth.org.in/environment/ho…
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Earth “Observation” and the Anthropocene: Rethinking the “Observer Effect” Through the Lens of Yoga Philosophy
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[PDF] Shad-Darshanas and Scientific Thought: Ancient Indian Philosophy
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Complicating the Narrative of Hindu American Activism: The Case of the Hindu American Foundation
that are related to caste in India, and the representation of yoga as an exercise
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[PDF] THE INDIAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM AND INDIGENOUS PEDAGOGIES: A HISTORICAL REVIEW
civilization. Educational institutions and libraries became centers of learning,
attracting scholars from across the … Subjects like Sanskrit, Ayurveda, and Yoga are …
[PDF] Bridging Minds: Psychoanalysis and the Indian Knowledge System
the cessation of mental fluctuations" — Yoga Sūtras (1.2) This foundational definition
emphasizes that the goal of yoga practice is not physical prowess or flexibility but …
[PDF] Emotional Intelligence: A Foundation for Human Success
psychology, education, and organizational behavior. In … to concepts rooted in yoga,
mindfulness, and holistic education. Ancient Indian texts, such as the Bhagavad Gita …
[HTML] Simple Steps to Yoga: Breath, Body, and Mind
With this book, my goal is not only to introduce readers to the fundamental aspects of
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an Integral Sustainable Development
societies' common future, its deeper and integral layers need to be further discussed
and explored. … The fast increase of embodiment practices, mindfulness, yoga, and …
Culturally Sensitive Smart City
that enhance urban mobility and comfort for commuters. Across most roads, typical
bus shelters provide essential cover, ensuring passengers can wait for buses …
Psychology of Popular Media
also by a predominantly religion-based radical movement known as Hindutva. This
ideological stance is entrenched in a sociopolitical ambition to establish a Hindu …
