Monthly Archives: December 2010

Obsessive-compulsive spirituality by Dr Ramesh Bijlani

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Among the visitors to spiritual organizations like Sri Aurobindo Ashram are some dead serious, sincere and intense young people who claim to be on the spiritual path but seem to be on the verge of losing their mental balance, if they have not lost it already. The question naturally arises what makes something as laudable as the spiritual path a risky road to walk on. The risk lies in a faulty approach to spirituality. Young people who become miserable as a result of their engagement with spirituality invariably treat spirituality as yet another worldly achievement. They go about searching for techniques that would take them to the peak by the easiest, shortest and fastest route. They treat spirituality like mountaineering…. Continue reading →

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Sleep disorders : somnambulism and somniloquy

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

In this article, we discuss sleep disorders such as somnambulism and somniloquy from an occult perspective. There are supposed to be five concentric sheaths in our consciousness and during sleep, the subtle sheaths eject themselves from the gross physical sheath to travel in their corresponding subtle realms, as was discussed in an earlier article on Explaining out-of-body and near-death experiences. Some sleep disorders can be attributed to the irregularity in the manner in which these sheaths interact with each other during sleep. Continue reading →

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Sri Aurobindo on synchronicity

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

Synchronous events occur because, unbeknownst to us, we are eternally in communion with the people around us through the inner sheaths of our consciousness, and sometimes those hidden perceptions float to the surface, making us respond in some striking fortuitous manner that our plodding reasoning mind would not have otherwise reacted. Continue reading →

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Raising a child prodigy

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married couple in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a whizkid. In today’s hyper-competitive world, harried parents are incessantly searching for and investing in innovative methods to secure the ultimate edge for their bewildered toddler. In the mad rush to turn the child into the next Einstein, one area which seems to have been overlooked is the time before childbirth. Few seem to have asked the question : can the pre-natal period be tweaked to pre-select a genius? Continue reading →

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