Soumitra Basu
Doctor
Articles by Soumitra Basu (114)
Omnipresence in healing
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2013
This article talks about the effects of the multi-natured character of life in counselling. All scientific and spiritual disciplines seem to recognise that the whole includes its parts and what happens in a small point affects the whole. The pros and cons of using these subtle truths in practice is a concern of healers and therapists who are involuntarily counsellors also.
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — reconciling spirit and matter
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2013
A new synthesis of Spirit and Matter is the demand of the zeitgeist today. It is only then that spirituality will be effectual in material life and not just confined to ashrams and hermitages. However the reconciliation of Spirit and Matter is difficult to conceive as they represent two entirely different paradigms. The Spirit has been conceived by many spiritual stalwarts as silent, inactive, passive, detached, self-absorbed, self-existent and even as a supreme Nihil, a zero, a denial of reality, an absolute nothingness, an experience that can be facilitated if material life is considered to be illusory. How can such a blankness be reconciled with the turbulence, vitality and throb of material life? In fact, if such reconciliation were to have an effect in the realm of health, wouldn’t it be to encourage a passive acceptance of disease, a glorification of suffering, an eulogising of emaciation, a movement towards dissolution and death, an authentication of euthanasia?
Dementia — personal encounters
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2013
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The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — the inner poise
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2012
In the realm of ‘Matter’, there is usually unanimity of scientific opinion about the general laws of physical sciences (scientists behave as if there is a ‘monism’ in matter itself). However, regarding the ‘Spirit’, there are very different opinions based on different experiences and realisations of different spiritual seekers. Spiritual seekers are not necessarily united in their understanding of spirituality and have not bothered to evolve ‘universal laws’ of spirituality while scientists at least share a modicum of commonality regarding scientific concepts.
The metaphysical basis of Integral Health — the asset of materialism
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2011
Despite its limitations, the materialistic mindset of mankind has served humanity by the light of its rationality, the clarity of its intellect and the discriminatory power of its logic. If this mindset were not there, we would have been unable to rise above superstitions, unrealistic ideas, obscure habits and irresistible dogmas, camouflaging falsehood with an appearance of truth and an excuse of tradition. This rationalistic tendency of materialism has been most explicit in the area of health and well-being. It has reduced the rates of morbidity and mortality, raised standards of healthy living, improved the material quality of life, prevented scourges and epidemics, countered environmental hazards, corrected nutritional deficiencies and rehabilitated the physically and mentally challenged.