Soumitra Basu
Doctor
Articles by Soumitra Basu (114)
The malady of the impersonality of ethics
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2012
Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist, is the Director of a new school of psychology, the Mira Vision Trust. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — beyond the sense-experience
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2012
The first radical step in spiritual and mystical experience was the transcendence of sense-experience. This did not mean a belittling of sensory functioning and a glorification of sensory impoverishment. Sensory perception is our first gateway to knowledge and this was duly acknow-ledged. In Sanskrit, the term Indriya is used to denote the sensory apparatus and the Vedic god Indra shares the same linguistic root. It is the function of Indra to oversee that the quest for knowledge is not distorted or misled by the senses.
Dealing with stigma
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2012
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The metaphysical basis of Integral Health — the cosmic consciousness
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2011
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Dealing with fear in children — personal notes
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2011
Quite often mothers complain to me about the fears and feelings of insecurity in their children. If the child is very young and there is no obvious family discord, the first thing that I ask is whether the child sleeps at night with the night-lamp on. In most cases the answer is yes. The child has not learnt to enjoy darkness, not been allowed to experience darkness. Has he not played that game of blind man’s buff? Inadvertently, the mother thinks the night-lamp will allay the child’s fear, but actually it increases the insecurity.