INNER SCIENCES
Essays

[* designates links to articles posted outside the mandala site]

Patanjali Yoga and Siddhis: Their Relevance to Parapsychological Theory and Research

William Braud
The Indian Psychology of Values : The Concept of Daanam

Lilavati Krishnan and V.R. Manoj

Indian Buddhist Theories of Persons  
Sequence: From Patanjali to Postmodernity A.V. Ashok
Advaita Vedanta: The Possibility of and Possibilities for Consciousness in a Non-linear World Walter Benesch
Research Trip Report on Yogic Sciences at the Kumbha Mela Festival, Allahbad, India William Bushell, PhD
Worship of the Goddess in Hinduism Sarah Caldwell
Logic, Morals and Meditation: tarka, dharma, yoga Arindam Chakrabarti
A follow-up on the New Value System in the Mahabharata Sitansu S. Chakravarti, PhD
Consequentialism And The Gita Sitansu S. Chakravarti, PhD
The Central Philosophy Of The Mahabharata Sitansu S. Chakravarti, PhD
Vedic Ritual and Its Symbolism Usha Choudhuri
Integrality Matthijs Cornelissen
Introducing Indian psychology: the basics Matthijs Cornelissen
The Integration of Psychological Knowledge from the Spiritual Traditions into the Psychology Curriculum Matthijs Cornelissen
Towards an Integral Epistemology of Consciousness - A radical proposal based on Sri Aurobindo's Work Matthijs Cornelissen

The Antonio T. de Nicolas Collection

Antonio T. de Nicolas, PhD
Indic Mathematics: India and the Scientific Revolution David Gray, PhD
Reasoning - Scientific and Doctrine-Based T.V. Gopal, PhD
Emerson and Sankara Robert C. Gordon, PhD
Emerson's Earliest Interest In India Robert C. Gordon, PhD
Emerson, Evolution, and Transmigration Robert C. Gordon, PhD
Tantra and Transcendentalism – The Philosophies of Emerson and Aurobindo Robert C. Gordon, PhD
*Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Tantra But Were Afraid To Ask - An interview with Miranda Shaw Craig Hamilton
Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Perspective Rod Hemsell
Karma, Metapsychological Art & Raja Yoga
From: "The Idea Game: Religious & Symbolic Game Theory"
William W. Higgins
Critique of Bhedaabhedavaada Phillip Hill
Response to Ken Wilber's, "Integral Theory of Consciousness" Garry Jacobs
Epistemological challenges: language
from: Global Strategies Project – Notes and Commentaries
Anthony Judge
Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes
Annexes to Patterns of N-foldness
Anthony Judge
The Gods Within (on the vedic understanding of mind and neuroscience) Subhash Kak, PhD

On the Science of Consciousness in Ancient India

Subhash Kak, PhD

Transformation of Consciousness: The Power of Om

Audrey E. Kitagawa

Relativism, Self-Referentialilty and Beyond Mind

Kundan

An Evolutionary Agenda for the Third Millennium
A Primer for the Mutation of Consciousness

Alan Sasha Lithman (Savitra)
Trying to Become Real: and the Fear of Death David R. Loy, PhD
Yoga and Unpleasant Actions Rajiv Malhotra
Global Renaissance and the Roots of Western Wisdom* Rajiv Malhotra and David Gray, PhD
The Hindu Predicament and Indian Music Raghava R. Menon
Beside the 'Intentor' and the 'Integrator': Looking at Two 'Faces' of Consciousness Sangeetha Menon, PhD
Towards a Sankarite Approach to Consciousness Studies:
A Discussion in the context of recent interdisciplinary scientific perspectives
Sangeetha Menon, PhD
Understanding the 'what' and 'where' of consciousness:
Revisiting the Bhagavad Gita to ask a few more questions
Sangeetha Menon, PhD

Devas: Outer, Inner, Both or Neither?

Paul Muller-Ortega, PhD
Sri Aurobindo, the Divine Mother and a New Global System William Netter
Rethinking the Metaphysical: Western Science and the Advaitic Critique Mark Noble
Deep sleep awareness Shashikala Padaki
The Dharma of India Raimon Panikkar
Challenges and opportunities for Indian Psychology in a rapidly globalizing post-modern world Anand C. Paranjpe
The Mind-Body Problem in Three Indian Philosophies, Sankara's Advaita Vedanta, Gangesa's Navya Nyaya, and Aurobindo's Theistic Monism Stephen Phillips
Yogis score high on happiness* Angela Pirisi
Essentials Of Transformative Psychology Ananda Reddy, PhD
Eleanor Rosch on Adhyatma-Vidya and Cognitive Science* Eleanor Rosch
Seer-Seen Discrimination Vikram S
Indic Influences on Modern Psychology Don Salmon, PhD
Is India Civilized?
Some Personal Reflections On Prevailing Views Of Indian Culture
Don Salmon, PhD
Overview of Ken Wilber's Theory of Integral Psychology Don Salmon, PhD
Sri Aurobindo And Psychoanalysis Don Salmon, PhD
Three Ways of Knowing: Scientific, Phenomenological and Spiritual Don Salmon, PhD
What if We Took Indian Psychology Seriously? Don Salmon, PhD
Yoga Psychology In The Schools: Some Insights from the Indian Tradition Don Salmon, PhD

Maharishi Vedic Science and TechnologySM:
The Solution to Fundamental Epistemological Issues at the Basis of Modern Scientific Thought

David Scharf, PhD
The Message of Sri Aurobindo Dr. Karan Singh
Relativism and Its Relevance for Psychology Kundan Singh
Pleasure and the Plotinian Good Sumi Sivaratnam
Consciousness, Kundalini Yoga & Body Development Stuart Sovatsky, PhD
Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam

Abhinavagupta's Conception of Humor

Introduction
Chapter 2 – Gurdjieff's Theory of Laughter
Chapter 7 – Hâsa and Hâsya distinguished in Rasa-Theory
Chapter 8 – The Role of Hâsya in Shrngâra
Chapter 9 – Rasâbhâsa and Hâsya
Conclusion

Sunthar Visuvalingam

Between Srinagar and Benares:
Kashmir's Contribution towards a Synthesis of Indian Culture

Sunthar Visuvalingam

Jung and Indian Thought

Pravrajika Vrajaprana

Research and Education in Consciousness Science: Outline of Proposal for Stanford University

Alan Wallace, PhD

Towards an Adequate Epistemology and Methodology for Consciousness Studies – Contributions from the Western Contemplative Tradition

Arthur Zajonc

Pondicherry Manifesto of Indian Psychology

delegates who participated in the 2002 National Conference on Yoga and Indian Approaches to Psychology

University of Hawaii's Infinity Foundation Essay Collection

Various