A few preliminary words…

By David C. NiermannPosted on November 26, 2012December 3, 2012Cat Miscellaneous musings, Psychology1 Comment

Welcome dear reader! You are reading my first blog post for IPI. First of all, a few words about myself. I arrived in Pondicherry about two weeks ago, coming from Germany. Just having finished my university education in psychology and cognitive neuroscience in Maastricht, The Netherlands, I was not satisfied with the kind of jobs… Read More »

Suffering

By MeghaPosted on August 9, 2012April 14, 2013Cat Miscellaneous musings, Psychotherapy and counseling7 Comments

Recently a friend of mine went through a break-up. Needless to say it was a very painful process. (I am of the opinion that breaking of hearts very often turns out to be far more painful and dramatic than it ought/ deserves to be). So coming back to my friend, he went through a miserable… Read More »

Thoughts on the way: My very own Divine

By MeghaPosted on July 19, 2012April 14, 2013Cat Miscellaneous musings, Psychotherapy and counseling4 Comments

Thoughts on the way: My very own Divine Born in a middle-class, traditional Hindu family, the notion of an all powerful and ever present “God” was handed down to me in a natural, easy and obvious manner. I did not consciously have to build up on the idea of the Divine — it came almost on… Read More »

How to do research in Indian Psychology?

By MatthijsPosted on October 9, 2011February 8, 2013Cat Cognition & Methodology2 Comments

One of the hallmarks of Indian Psychology is the central role it gives to consciousness. But how do you study consciousness? Consciousness is quintessentially subjective, and mainstream science does its level best to be as objective as possible. Can subjective and objective research be brought together in one single framework? During the last few hundred… Read More »

Asia

By DivyaPosted on October 5, 2011March 22, 2017Cat Miscellaneous musingsLeave a comment

Okakura Kakuzō, (1862-1913), a Japanese scholar wrote these beautiful lines on Asia : "ASIA is one. The Himalayas divide, only to accentuate, two mighty civilisations, the Chinese with its communism of Confucius, and the Indian with its individualism of the Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of… Read More »

Why do we need Indian Psychology?

By MatthijsPosted on July 17, 2011November 3, 2011Cat Cognition & Methodology, Society2 Comments

When modern psychology discovered in the beginning of the 20th century that introspection was not a very reliable method of enquiry, it did not discover anything new. The Indian civilization had discovered this thousands of years ago. What was different however, was how modernity reacted to this discovery. It is good to stand still at… Read More »

the golden youth cooperative

By MatthijsPosted on May 11, 2011May 31, 2011Cat Miscellaneous musings2 Comments

Just came out of a dream in which I visited the most beautiful place I've ever been to. When I just woke, I thought the place was very well-known, that I and many others had been there so many times; now more fully awake, I realise -- though it feels upside-down to use the word… Read More »

Some further musings on knowledge and the brain, on science and yoga

By MatthijsPosted on May 9, 2011May 9, 2011Cat Cognition & Methodology, Miscellaneous musingsLeave a comment

Even the tiniest particle of matter, however small, must have within itself all the knowledge of the universe. The reason that it must be like this, is that the particle must know the laws that govern it, and as all the laws of physics are supposed to hang together, this means it must know the… Read More »

Early morning musings on mind, brain, time and coffee

By MatthijsPosted on May 8, 2011May 9, 2011Cat Cognition & Methodology, Miscellaneous musings2 Comments

Early morning thoughts stream slowly and meander leisurely through the mind without much of discipline. Yesterday I fixed a new mirror in the bathroom. The old mirror is still laying next to it. Seeing them both, I remember the adventures with "mirror-books" that Fynn describes with so much love in Mr. God, this is Anna. With some… Read More »

TIP-2011: Observations from the sidelines

By JyotiPosted on April 29, 2011April 29, 2011Cat IPI, Teaching IP5 Comments

TIP-2011 — IPI’s collaborative workshop on Teaching Indian Psychology — began with much hope, enthusiasm and eagerness, as something, the need for which had been felt since quite some time. In spite of the resistance against the teaching of Indian Psychology in universities and other age-old institutions, where western classical positivist psychology had been the… Read More »