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The objective and the subjective!

By DivyaPosted on December 4, 2010March 22, 2017Cat Cognition & Methodology, IPI, Psychology1 Comment

I came across this interesting passage from the book “The Varieties of Religious Experience” by Wiliam James. Here it is: "The world of our experience consists at all times of two parts, an objective and a subjective part, of which the former may be incalculably more extensive than the latter, and yet the latter can… Read More »

Time

By MatthijsPosted on November 19, 2010November 20, 2010Cat Miscellaneous musings1 Comment

Psychologically time is quite a strange phenomenon. St. Augustine famously said about it that he perfectly understood what time was ... till someone asked him to explain. In a talk with the children of the Ashram school, the Mother described how it operates in the different inner worlds. Sri Aurobindo gave a marvelous short summary of… Read More »

The Two Birds

By DivyaPosted on November 12, 2010March 22, 2017Cat Psychology, Self & PersonalityLeave a comment

Here is a small imagery from the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad that depicts beautifully the relation we have with the world and The Self. The image, that of two birds, presented here in 3 shlokas gives first the description of ourselves in this world, then presents us with the Problem we face and lastly gives us the… Read More »

Divya’s first blog

By DivyaPosted on November 9, 2010November 13, 2010Cat IPI2 Comments

Hello, I'm Divya and this is my first blog. I hope this addition to the IPI website will bring ever more people together in this beautiful adventure of consciousness and joy! Read More »

A new adventure

By MatthijsPosted on October 27, 2010November 22, 2010Cat IPI4 Comments

Welcome to the Indian Psychology Blogs Blogging is still a new adventure for us, and initially we thought it would take some time before we would open these pages to "the public", but here goes. The basic idea behind the Indian Psychology Blogs has been put into a separate -- and perhaps more permanent --… Read More »