Volume 24, Issue 1

By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2016

Of all the disciplines of knowledge developed by mankind, the foremost is that which deals with health and well-being. Without the human body nothing tangible can be achieved in this earth of ours. We need to be in a mode of well-being to enjoy life, to enjoy the earth, to be happy and contented. Unfortunately, the forces of discord, dissonance and division need to wreak havoc in the earth and whatever medium they might choose to express themselves, it is in the final analysis, the human body which becomes the battling ground for their action. It was therefore not surprising that Āyurveda, the ancient discipline of health and healing, was intuitively constructed by the great Vedic ṛṣis through revelatory illuminations from the Superconscient, the perennial Wisdom-base. After perhaps more than a millennium of its inception, the reasoning intelligence stabilised itself to a point where evidence-based health practices could develop, paving the way for modern medicine. However, a closer scrutiny reveals that quite a significant number of milestones of modern evidence-based medical research has actually corroborated the great intuitive insights of the ancient ṛṣis. (It is a known fact that the only correct psycho-pharmacological agent to treat schizophrenia till the 1950s was the Āyurvedic drug Sarpagandha, Rawalfia Serpentina).

By Ed Bauman, Jodi Friedlander - Apr 24, 2016

Eating for Health is a way of life. It reflects a relationship to food based on consciousness, gratitude and sound science. — Dr. Ed Bauman.

By Yogesh Mohan - Apr 24, 2016

The word’ consciousness’ is coming into wider and wider usage in modern times. It is a sign that we are getting more deeply engaged with the subjective side of human experience. It is also an indication that we are seeking for some fundamental basis of life and existence as we have hit a road-block there, a block that only the introduction and inclusion of Consciousness as a fundamental Reality behind all phenomenon can alone remove. All other theories leave a big hiatus between what is experienced as real and the basis of that experience of reality. However, the word is also used in a more general sense, to describe the state of awareness we are in at a given moment. It is important to draw the distinction since while Consciousness in its deepest sense indicates the fundamental Reality, the base of Knowledge-Power that exists behind all things, the common Matrix of creation so to say, the states of consciousness are limited by the bandwidth of the experiencing person. Thus we can speak of different levels and layers of experience such as mental, vital, physical consciousness or even a subconscious and a superconscious state. In other words, there is only One Consciousness which becomes limited and is experienced as different in different persons depending upon the limitation of the experiencing person. The present article uses the term mostly in the latter sense though there is an obvious undercurrent of the former usage at places.