A step closer to your inner self

By AditiPosted on July 1, 2016April 22, 2018Cat IPI, Self & Personality6 Comments

I am a true believer of the inner calling; all my attempts are towards being conscious of that inner voice that directs the course of my life. All I have do is, be a little more vigilant and consciously aligned with it, till it becomes a natural process and a way of being, and sure… Read More »

Give that Voice a chance!

By AditiPosted on June 14, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology6 Comments

We all wonder about the story behind, be it a person we meet or a long standing mountain we see. There is an innate tendency of quest we human beings are born with which helps us to discover, to know, and thus be more and more involved and interactive with our surroundings. For many of… Read More »

Teaching Indian psychology

By Navni and AditiPosted on June 9, 2016April 22, 2018Cat IPI, Psychology, Teaching IP2 Comments

Indian Psychology attempts to be a consciously treaded and systematic journey of self-development, which, on progressing, enriches one’s understanding of oneself and consequently one’s interactions with the world; it’s systems and processes are built on this basic premise. Taking consciousness as the fundamental basis behind all operations, it would lend itself most effectively when taught… Read More »

Some thoughts on conducting qualitative interviews

By DivyaPosted on April 26, 2013March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology4 Comments

Talking to people about their perceptions of the world, about their personal experiences, about their beliefs, their interpretations of the Truth, their failures and triumphs, in other words about their subjective world is never easy. Listening to and understanding a narrative requires not just your interest and curiosity but a genuine respect and openness from… Read More »

TIP-2011: Observations from the sidelines

By JyotiPosted on April 29, 2011April 29, 2011Cat IPI, Teaching IP5 Comments

TIP-2011 — IPI’s collaborative workshop on Teaching Indian Psychology — began with much hope, enthusiasm and eagerness, as something, the need for which had been felt since quite some time. In spite of the resistance against the teaching of Indian Psychology in universities and other age-old institutions, where western classical positivist psychology had been the… Read More »

The objective and the subjective!

By DivyaPosted on December 4, 2010March 22, 2017Cat Cognition & Methodology, IPI, Psychology1 Comment

I came across this interesting passage from the book “The Varieties of Religious Experience” by Wiliam James. Here it is: "The world of our experience consists at all times of two parts, an objective and a subjective part, of which the former may be incalculably more extensive than the latter, and yet the latter can… Read More »

Divya’s first blog

By DivyaPosted on November 9, 2010November 13, 2010Cat IPI2 Comments

Hello, I'm Divya and this is my first blog. I hope this addition to the IPI website will bring ever more people together in this beautiful adventure of consciousness and joy! Read More »

A new adventure

By MatthijsPosted on October 27, 2010November 22, 2010Cat IPI4 Comments

Welcome to the Indian Psychology Blogs Blogging is still a new adventure for us, and initially we thought it would take some time before we would open these pages to "the public", but here goes. The basic idea behind the Indian Psychology Blogs has been put into a separate -- and perhaps more permanent --… Read More »