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By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2015

In its pursuit of Truth mankind has followed several routes. Each of these routes took lead from something within it, some faculty or capacity with which humanity has been endowed. Philosophies, cults, sects, religions sprang up based on these routes and paths that humanity took to find the Truth of who he is, what is this universe around him and what is his relation with the world. Thus humanity began to group itself not only geographically but also ideologically and psychologically.

By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2015

It requires courage and conviction to break conventions. Dr. Natalie Tobert has achieved that feat in her quest to understand the interaction of healing traditions and modern medicine that exists in a vibrant way in mental health practices in India. It is significant that she chose India for her fieldwork for in no other country would she have got such a rich diversity of cultural and spiritual approaches. China has a larger population but lacks the huge cultural, linguistic, religious and spiritual diversity and variability of India. This has made the present work very rewarding.

By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2014

The New Age market is flooded with gadgets, techniques and processes for better health, each claiming its own space in the human mind and its own share in the race for consumerism. Such movements are aided by a growing dissatisfaction with current medical practice, which is an offshoot of a material and mechanistic view of life. Somehow, humanity is not able to accept this view whole-heartedly despite its ‘spectacular success’ and ‘statistical proofs’. Something in man intuitively feels that he is not matter and chemistry alone. And as this ‘something’ grows stronger he searches for other paradigms, explores other states of consciousness independent of his body and even of his mind. This pull towards a greater, unexplored unknown is the other cause of man’s search for the new, his interest in the unexplained, his fascination for the new and the unknown.

By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2013

Tamātmastham yena paśyanti dhīrā steṣāṁ sukham sasvatim netasreṣāṁ

By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2012

We enter the year of cataclysmic prediction. Prophesies of the end of the world in 2012 have become a popular theme for a number of writings and even cinema scripts. Whether true or not, they portray the kind of cynicism on life that has crept into the human mind. To add to this general air of pessimism, there are events in the financial and political world that show a collapsing old order of life.