Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

  1. 285 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

About this book

Recent advances in a variety of scientific disciplines have revealed the limitations of the Newtonian-Cartesian model of the universe. One of the interesting aspects of this development is the increasing convergence of science and the "perennial philosophy." The new research has led to a critical revaluation of ancient spiritual systems long ignored or rejected because of their assumed incompatibility with science. Here are Swami Muktananda on the mind. Swami Prajnananda on Karma. Swami Kripananda on the Kundalini. Ajit Mookerjee on the Kundalini. Joseph Chilton Pearce on spiritual development. Mother Teresa on love and service. Jack Kornfield on Buddhism for Americans. Fritjof Capra on the new paradigms. Rupert Sheldrake on morphic resonance. Karl Pribram on the holographic model. Claudio Naranjo on meditation, and more. The papers in this book were presented at the seventh Conference of the International Transpersonal Association held in Bombay. The ITA is a non-profit organization that brings together individuals of different nationalities, professions, and philosophical or spiritual preferences who share in the view that there is a fundamental unity underlying all of humanity and the material world. The cover photo is from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.

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Table of contents

  1. Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. 1. East and West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
  5. 2. The Transpersonal Perspective
  6. 3. Understanding Your Own Mind
  7. 4. Love Until it Hurts
  8. 5. The Cows are Many Colors, But the Milk Is the Same
  9. 6. Science Today and the New Creation
  10. 7. The Evolution of Consciousness and Human Survival
  11. 8. The Mystery of Karma
  12. 9. Kundalini- The Energy of Transformation
  13. 10. The Smile of the Buddha: Paradigms in Perspective
  14. 11. Search Within
  15. 12. Kundalini: The Awakening of the Inner Cosmic Energy
  16. 13. The New Vision of Reality: Toward a Synthesis of Eastern Wisdom and Western Science
  17. 14. Morphic Resonance
  18. 15. The Holographic Hypothesis of Brain Function: A Meeting of Minds
  19. 16. Role Models and Human Development
  20. 17. The Yoga of Androgyny
  21. 18. Jung's Active Imagination: A Technique of Western Meditation
  22. 19. Psychophysiology and Health: Personal and Transpersonal
  23. 20. Science and Psychophysiology, Psychophysics and Mythology
  24. 21. Bringing Eastern Meditation into Western Psychotherapy
  25. 22. Women's Place in Today's World
  26. Bibliographical Notes