In previous postings (all of which, including this, are based on the appendix, “Science and Yoga”, from our book, “Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing Through the Eyes of Infinity”), I explored attempts to explore yogic topics using ordinary means of knowledge – and to some extent, what modern scientists consider “inner” means… Read More »

In the previous post, I discussed attempts to examine psychological phenomena using the outer mind. This mind generally employs what Sri Aurobindo refers to as “separative knowledge.”  It is a way of knowing in which the subject or knower is thought to be separate from the object, or the “known.” (note that the words “knower”… Read More »

  INTRODUCTION My first blog touched on the problem of physicalism (also known, strangely enough, as materialism – strange since nobody seems to know what “matter” is -  and most strangely, “naturalism”, - exceedingly odd since dead matter is perhaps one of the most unnatural, most abstract ideas anybody has ever come up with).  The… Read More »

“Science in its essence should stand only for a method and not for any special beliefs, yet as habitually taken by its votaries, science has come to be identified with a certain fixed general belief, the belief that the deeper order of nature is mechanical exclusively, and that non-mechanical categories are irrational ways of conceiving… Read More »