Soumitra Basu
Doctor
Articles by Soumitra Basu (114)
Consciousness — the Need for a New Paradigm
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2022
Body Mind Spirit. Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality
Consciousness: An Expanding Experiential Construct
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2022
CWSA, Volume 21Consciousness Based Psychology: Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Yoga, Health and Transpersonal Growth
The art of listening
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2021
In a world of sophisticated gadgetry, the art of listening suffers a great casualty. Listening is a faculty bestowed by Nature and it is a technique that gets perfected in the matrix of interpersonal relationships. Yet, in a world satiated with hedonistic pleasure and the workaholism of corporate culture, who does justice to the art of listening? It would be tragic to squander away a great gift of nature that holds unfulfilled potentialities. Even the great wisdom came down to the listening Self which were articulated by prophets like Moses and expressed as mantras by the great Upaniṣadic seers.
Apropos destruction
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2021
Is the human being alone responsible for all destruction, even that of destruction by Nature’s fury? In a sense, man does destroy through his folly, his jealousy, his hatred, his craving for power and his idiosyncratic ideas. But when a cyclone lashes, or an earthquake quivers or a viral pandemic rages unstoppably — is it facilitated due to some corresponding destructible component in the human psyche?
Moving beyond fear
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2020
We are always told that fear is that which invites catastrophes, precipitates illnesses and robs the possibility of a graceful exit from life.