Volume 28, Issue 4

By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2021

Sometimes we go through jump-time when earth goes through a leap. Outwardly this period of time presents itself as a series of challenges through which we must navigate. Inwardly however it is a cry for change, a change not only in our outer behaviour but also in our thoughts and feelings, in our hopes and aspirations, in the very aims and goals that we set for ourselves.

By The Mother - Jan 15, 2021

Naturally, there are many ways, but each person must do it by the means accessible to him; and the indication of the way usually comes spontaneously, through something like an unexpected experience. And for each one, it appears a little differently.

By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2021

Is aggression a basic instinct? Konrad Lorenz had described it to be an innate and heritable trait that facilitated survival. Yet sophisticated studies have found that even the Western Lowland gorilla in the heart of the African equatorial rain-forest demonstrates a dynamic social structure with a high degree of tolerance and peaceful co-existence (1). This raises a metaphysical query, whether harmony is more basic than aggression.

By Lopa Mukherjee - Jan 15, 2021

This article discusses the many personalities each individual possesses that makes him act as though he were many actors, switching roles seamlessly during the course of the day. When this acting is done consciously and for the purpose of healing, it is called drama therapy. It is a form of expressive arts therapy that draws out repressed emotions to the surface for cleansing purposes. A repressed affect causes pathology in other layers of the being and can be an invisible drag on the person’s well-being. The process of expressing it releases the repressed emotion’s hold on the psyche. Trauma victims enact the scenes of their trauma and socialise the crime to heal their own wounding. Those in the audience who may have suffered a similar fate also find solace. In the safe container created by the therapist the drama can be acted out, repeatedly if needed, with new and positive endings. Many festivals and rituals in pre-modern cultures addressed this need to dramatise, to play-act, to externalise, to transcend one’s ordinary reality.