Soumitra Basu
Doctor
Articles by Soumitra Basu (114)
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — The Alpha and the Omega
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2016
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead
A journey through pain — a personal therapeutic saga
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2016
A psychiatrist traces a journey of pain-management through adjuncts selected to simulate the benefits of trance states and voluntary control over physiological parameters and discovers the importance of tapping the body-consciousness and working through the impasse created by the Inconscience.
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — relevance of the Individual
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2015
Does spirituality endorse an obliteration of the individual in the vastness of the Absolute? Indeed, the experiential contact with the Absolute is so overwhelming, awe-inspiring and total that individuality loses its relevance and what remains is only a cosmic vastness or an all-effacing transcendence. All material parameters of the illumined individual become insignificant in the vastness of the cosmic consciousness or in the eternity of the transcendence. That is why both Shankaracharya and Buddha advocated that ultimate salvation lay in the cessation from the cycle of death and birth, a movement eulogised in spiritual parlance as liberation. The spiritual illumination of the individual thus came to signify the dissolution of an ephemeral individuality.
Conquering negative attitudes
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2015
Negative attitudes that go on repeating and ruminating actually invite negative consequences in life. The physical mind at the lowest end of the mind-range is characterised by automatic thoughts and needs to be enlightened by higher powers. A methodical discipline can break the impasse and enhance the receptivity to higher thoughts by invoking silence, peace and
Time and choice
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2014
In the presence of depression or under the influence of delusional thinking, decisions about major life events can be wrongly conceived and timed and prove counter-productive. In aspirants in quest for a higher life, sudden decisions to change external circumstances might not be useful too. A disciplining of the vital and emotional repertoire is needed so that one can remain detached and not compete with time, enabling one to take intuitively correct decisions.