If you lift a ball in your hand while awake, you feel downward pressure. If you ask a physicist why that is the case, then
It is common to think that a person has a body and a mind. But when groups of people act in concerted ways, it seems
I have recently received several questions about Sāñkhya. These include the differences between senses and organs, that between inert matter and a living body, how
As mental illnesses become prominent in today’s world, and science doesn’t believe in the existence of anything that cannot be sensually perceived, the cure of
I used to think that happiness is caused by other people, situations, and things. If only they would just behave, I would be happy. As
This post offers some practical advice on how to deal with different kinds of people in this world based on some ideas drawn from Vedic
The initial thesis of Freudian psychoanalysis and that of Vedic philosophy are similar—namely, that our surface behaviors are the result of a deeper “unconscious” reality.
An earlier post outlined the differences between physical space and conceptual space. The next post then outlined how the conceptual space is suited to describe
In an earlier post, I discussed how the Sāńkhya notion of manifest and unmanifest matter addresses some fundamental problems related to perception and realism. In
Modern atomic theory describes perception as a change both to reality and to our perception. For instance, when we see the redness of an apple,
In earlier posts—such as here—I described the notion of space in which words are identical to their meanings, and connected it to a tree-like structure
When John von Neumann introduced the idea of the “conscious collapse” into quantum theory, he committed a heresy—or at least something that would have been
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