Volume 27, Issue 2
NAMAH Journal Volume 27, Issue 2
Articles in this Issue
Healing and knowledge
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2019
Knowledge aligns our nature to the Truth. The vehicle is consciousness; the searchlight one of observation. Everything is enveloped by the Truth so healing through Works and Love base themselves upon it. The triune approach offers the supreme healing.
Empowerment of the heart, by the heart and through the heart
By Annika Maxwell - Jul 15, 2019
We look at the importance of aligning to the summits of the higher vital, the heart’s infinite love, compassion, kindness, divine truth, honesty and integrity for our own and universal spiritual growth, progress and well-being, clearing and connecting the channel to and from the psychic being1, offering questions for introspection and application in everyday life.
Dealing with the ego
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2019
In Yoga Vasistha, an important Vedanta treatise, the psychological significance of the ego is beautifully described in the parable of the mighty demon, Sambara who had produced from himself three projected formations or emanations in the form of three apparently invincible demons. These were robot-like zombies who had no ego and hence no psychological attributes. They did not know about victory or defeat and were only programmed to kill. The gods were terrified and turned to Brahma, the Supreme Creator, for help.
Dealing with childhood libido — a consciousness perspective
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2019
Childhood libidinal behaviour is complex and may be associated with other behavioural problems. In the absence of a mental ego, the pre-school child at the physical-vital level of consciousness is susceptible to negative vibrations. At the vital-physical level that characterises adolescence, exploratory behaviour is invested with emotions needing sublimation and refinement. A true solution to this problem includes the aspiration for a noble soul by would-be parents.
Cancer: a call to bring forth the Psychic
By Monica Gulati - Jul 15, 2019
Cancer is an illness that has become quite commonplace. Some years ago, one rarely heard of people having this illness, but a few years hence we encounter it pretty frequently. I had the privilege of knowing this illness through my own experience with it at a young age. And what it revealed to me did not reflect its usually publicised image. For me, it turned out to be the biggest gift in this life, without which I would have just roamed around wandering and clueless. Can cancer or any other illness be a friend? A true friend who mentors you and does not let you stray from your path, your raison d’être?