Volume 25, Issue 3
NAMAH Journal Volume 25, Issue 3
Articles in this Issue
Transmuting the emotions
By James Anderson - Oct 15, 2017
Working on our emotions is essential for growth and well-being. The author shares his experiences, identifying a few difficulties that come from this part of the nature. We need to be very awake to immediately defuse any emotional negativity. Whatever the hindrance however, our nature is capable of change and the solution resides always in our Truth inside.
Time and health
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2017
The sense of `time-urgency' arising from impatience is one of the causes of psychosomatic disturbances. This is because our dynamism is not adequately supported by a base of static power. This needs the cultivation of an inner poise through peace, silence and quietude as part of personality development. Such a programme should have its initiation in child development and education.
The Self and Nature
By Alok Pandey - Oct 15, 2017
The Self and Nature are like the light and its lamp.
The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2017
Generally speaking, perhaps the greatest obstacle in the way of man’s progress is fear, a fear that is many-sided, multiform, self-contradictory, illogical, unreasoning and often unreasonable. Of all fears the most subtle and the most tenacious is the fear of death. It is deeply rooted in the subconscient and it is not easy to dislodge. It is obviously made up of several interwoven elements: the spirit of conservatism and the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure the continuity of consciousness, the recoil before the unknown, the uneasiness caused by the unexpected and the unforeseeable, and perhaps, behind all that, hidden in the depths of the cells, the instinct that death is not inevitable and that, if certain conditions are fulfilled, it can be conquered; although, as a matter of fact, fear in itself is one of the greatest obstacles to that conquest. For one cannot conquer what one fears, and one who fears death has already been conquered by it.
Mystics and Psychotics
By Alok Pandey, Dr. Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2017
There has been a scientific attempt to construct a close parallel between psychotic states, dreams, hypnotic states, effects of hallucinogens along with certain mystic states. Based on this observation, modern psychiatry has validated a search for a common biological substrate underlying all such experiences. It is doubtful whether it would be wise to ignore the body of mystical, occult and spiritual knowledge built up through generations by enlightened seekers and make oversimplified generalisations.