Volume 21, Issue 3

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.

By Unknown Author - Oct 15, 2013

We live in an age of rapid transitions and, like all such moments of time, there is great confusion, — a confusion of understanding, a confusion of cultures and values, a confusion of the line of action one may choose. The fixed paradigms of thought and ideas and the institutions and structures that support them are approaching a crossroads where either they must expand and enlarge their scop e to include a new mass of material that is flowing into the fields of human experience, or else, be ready to get relegated to the relics of the past.

By Kayomarz Patel - Oct 15, 2013

This article studies the heritage of the traditional hadvaid in the Parsi-Zoroastrian community and shows how this tradition pre-dates what the world today knows as chiropractic. The article concludes with some interesting, first-hand anecdotes and a background on two of the famed and perhaps the greatest exponents of the Parsi-Zoroastrian hadvaid tradition.

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?

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2013

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