Volume 32, Issue 1

By Unknown Author - Apr 24, 2024

The world is changing at a dizzying pace, as if placed in some fast-forward acceleration mode.

By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2024

The physical mind is that part of the mind enmeshed in sensory schemata and is thus at the lowest end of the mind-range. It goes on ruminating habitual and trivial thoughts that are usually related to life’s ordinary preoccupations. Ordinarily, we are not always thinking of great intellectual stuff or creative things but dealing with everyday matter. We think whether we have locked the door properly or whether we have not forgotten to switch off the cooking gas cylinder connection or whether our daughter has returned from school safely. These are trivial, commonplace thoughts that go on revolving and ruminating at the lowest range of the mind — the physical mind. A great exaggeration of these ruminating stuff leads to the development of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

By Lopa Mukherjee - Apr 24, 2024

This article talks about the human disconnection from Nature and how it is causing pathologies in man. It provides various solutions that eco-therapists can use and which can be taught in schools to develop ecological intelligence. Some of the solutions already exist as traditional ecological knowledge and have been re-purposed for modern situations. Some have been invented by residents of urban nature-less zones. But above all, this article invites people to tune themselves in to the nurturing vibrations of Mother Earth and her gifts of flowers and trees, not just for their personal well-being, but for the future of the planet. There is an urgency in this calling, for man has wronged nature long enough and, in the process, has hurt himself the most.