Important new anti-materialist textbook from the American Psychological Association

By Don SalmonPosted on September 25, 2016Cat UncategorizedLeave a comment

This is an Amazon review by Larry Dossey: 5.0 out of 5 stars“We are in the midst of a sea change.” By Larry Dossey on September 23, 2016 Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a kingdom called Science whose citizens were guided by a uniform belief — that their consciousness is… Read More »

I Am

By Divyanshi ChughPosted on September 23, 2016Cat All, Poetry, UncategorizedLeave a comment

I am neither here nor there, I am neither young nor old, I neither am, nor I am not, Or maybe I am both, I am here and there I am young and old. I am and I am not Everything that there is Between these two poles, I have got the best and the… Read More »

Sri Aurobindo and Iain McGilchrist on intellect and intuition

By Don SalmonPosted on September 18, 2016Cat Uncategorized6 Comments

Sri Aurobindo and Iain McGilchrist on intellect and intuition In a recent conversation on Auroconference (a worldwide online forum on integral yoga, for those not familiar with it) Rod Hemsell brought up an ongoing dispute between the philosopher Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein, on the nature of time. Einstein took a rather intellectual approach, expressing… Read More »

Words unveiled from your lips

By NachiketasPosted on September 16, 2016September 16, 2016Cat All, Poetry4 Comments

inspired by the poem "Tick-Tocking clocks" Words unveiled from your lips Echoed in the silence Of my mind I saw something of myself Remain in the quiet Left behind. I heard your thoughts Unravel Upon the screen Of my curiosity. I felt them tickle A part of me Immune to All hilarity. I felt the… Read More »

Defected substance

By Navni GujralPosted on September 13, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology1 Comment

One end of my paintbrush is dipped in permanent golden. The other changing colour at every touch, electric. One end burns in blinding light. The other scribbling furiously black stories multi-coloured. From multicolour oozes multicolour building strong-looking prison gates one trapping the other reeking fear of defected substance, grasping the few moments before my thirst… Read More »

Complete Acceptance

By Guest BlogPosted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016Cat All, IPI, Miscellaneous musings5 Comments

By Zalina Gamat At the end of the two-semester course that I attended in IPI from September 2015 to April 2016, one of the last tasks that we were assigned was to write appreciation notes to each other. We were each handed a small white folder, with sheets bearing the names of each of our… Read More »

The Guru-Disciple Relationship — Part 3

By DivyaPosted on September 2, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

The Role of a Guru A friend of mine who is a psychotherapist working in France asked me about my research regarding the Guru-disciple relationship. I gave him a short summary about what all I had done. Interestingly, though the idea of the Divine or That Absolute, whatever we choose to call It, was not… Read More »

Letting Go & Letting God

By Guest BlogPosted on August 31, 2016Cat UncategorizedLeave a comment

By Prema Sankar First I would like to address God and my inhibition to use the word God. In my day-to-day conversations it is so much easier to use the so-called curse words than to mention God. Instead convenient words are used in more abstract terms like “the universe” or “ the heavens” or “events… Read More »

Drunken dancing

By Navni GujralPosted on August 26, 2016October 8, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology, SocietyLeave a comment

In a home built for all each brick insists his red's the best. A test laughs uncontrollably teasing time in it's face: How many games will we play how many robes will I change before your toys trade their nervous fractions for the smell of togetherness, and find infinity dancing drunk on freedom, together singing… Read More »

A peek into myself

By JyotiPosted on August 23, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology11 Comments

As member of the IPI team I had agreed to submit blogs for the ipi-website at regular intervals, and now it was my turn. But… I am engaged in many unrelated things, and I was finding it difficult to put my mind and energy into coming up with something. Helplessly I observed the drama that… Read More »