Volume 32, Issue 4
NAMAH Journal Volume 32, Issue 4
Articles in this Issue
Memories of Beyond
By Natalie Tobert - Jan 15, 2025
Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Describe Their Experiences.
Jump with Faith
By Imran Ali Namazi - Jan 15, 2025
Imran Ali Namazi writes at Imran.yieldmore.org and works as a programmer in Chennai.
Linking the Outer Being and the Inner Being
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2025
The pursuit of personal growth requires a thorough understanding of the planes and parts of the consciousness. Ordinarily, the term, ’personality’ as used in contemporary Western psychology, corresponds to what is known as the outer being in yoga psychology. Sri Aurobindo describes a vaster inner being or subliminal personality behind the outer being, which is in continuum with the universal consciousness. It is not the soul but intermediary between the soul-principle (also known as the inmost being and a projection of the central being poised beyond and above the manifestation).
Expanding the Mind
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2025
The embodied mind, which has a separative view of the universe, is actually an individualised formation of the universal mind which itself is a multi-layered plane of consciousness. The individual mind is not, as mistakenly considered, the brain but it needs the brain for its expression. There are however several gradations of consciousness beyond and above the level of the mind-brain interaction. Sri Aurobindo has explained that there is a subliminal or inner mind behind the separative mentality of the outer mind that extends to the universal mind or the cosmic consciousness. He has also described higher levels above the ordinary mind dealing with supra-cognitive (or meta-cognitive matrices).