Mental health

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2017

The sense of `time-urgency' arising from impatience is one of the causes of psychosomatic disturbances. This is because our dynamism is not adequately supported by a base of static power. This needs the cultivation of an inner poise through peace, silence and quietude as part of personality development. Such a programme should have its initiation in child development and education.

By Hemant Kapoor - Jul 15, 2017

This article attempts to bring out some of the differences between the mystic and psychotic. It can be confusing for modern psychologists who rely on external behaviour and have a tendency to club experiences of an unusual nature together into one category. In both, the mystic and psychotic, the shell of the ego, in which our soul lies trapped, bursts at some point and there is a rush of certain unusual experiences of a mixed nature. The difference is that the mystic is swimming upwards in the sea of cosmic consciousness to find his or her true spiritual centre, whilst the psychotic is gravitating downwards to the abysses and caverns of nature and drowning in them. Thus while the mystic has simply landed in intermediate worlds, the psychotic becomes possessed by forces and powers that are of a dark and obscure character. Also sometimes there is an actual overlap of the two since Nature abounds in all possibilities. We should not be deceived by appearances and confuse one for the other. A psychologist needs experience of inner worlds to interpret and know the difference.

By The Mother - Oct 15, 2021

Of all lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.

By Natalie Tobert - Jan 15, 2020

This article proposes that war and trauma have multiple side-effects. They directly damage not only soldiers, their ‘victims’ and descendants, but also the wider population indirectly as collateral. People in the general population may energetically ‘pick up’ or spontaneously access the trauma of entities who don’t know they are dead. This may cause deeply uncomfortable visionary memories, depression, or result in further acts of terror. The author provides her personal experiences when memories from beyond influenced her mind and body. She assumed that these traumatic ‘memories’ were normal, though uncomfortable and she did not pathologise them. She discusses unusual, anomalous or extreme experiences and assumes these experiences are a normal part of being human. The author explores the proposition that crisis experiences are caused both by trauma in our present incarnation and they reach us from dimensions beyond. She explores how insights may be transferable to healthcare practice.

By Natalie Tobert - Jan 15, 2016

A special problem is faced in the West, whereby people who have anomalous experiences were often assumed to have a mental health condition. However, survivors (of the mental health system) are rising up, claiming they want a more spiritual interpretation of their experiences. In the field of mental health in particular, problems result from an adherence to a dominant Western knowledge base, and its assumed ‘truth’ over cultural wisdoms. This article discusses the popular demand for a new paradigm for interpreting human experience. It explores cultural truths and presents examples of the urgent call for change in healthcare.