Science, Psychology and Spirituality

Re: # 5
Dear Charlie....the point humanist psychologists are making is that many human beings

have subjective experiences that are real to them but their interpretaion depends upon their

personal belief system and cultural traditions. Each culture have devised different traditions

to deal with mysteries of life. In the past those mysteries belonged to religions but now

we are exploring them and understanding them through science and psychology. If you

ever get a chance please read Sigmund Freud`s wonderful booklet call

THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION. You will thoroughly enjoy it....sincerely sohail

Re: # 2
Dear Charlie....thank you for your inspiration to write more.....sincerely sohail

Re: # 1
Dear VRV, thank you for appreciation. I would recommend that you read a wonderful book

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS by Dr. Richard Bucke, a Canadian psychiatrist who discusses

the evolution of consciousness....simple consciousness of animals....to....self consciousness

of human beings ...to....cosmic consciousness of mystics....not from a religious but from a

psychological point of view....sincerely sohail

Dr Sahib, I have a question.

a) Have you ever met someone who saw a dream and it proved to be true i.e. An incident taking place thousands of kilometers away and a person dreaming the same thing at the sametime?

If so, any explanation in terms of neuro-psychological point of view?

In this article, are you saying that ``peak experiences`` are not real. If someone listens to strange sounds, signals, hallucinations, it should not be considered seriously.

nice analysis.

Interesting article - but what do we do now that we nabbed that crook temporal lobe who gives us all kinds of hallucinations?

Grab hold of all the saint-like preachers and send them to your couch to get that lobe examined?

Dear Dr Sohail,

Great article. It was perhaps the best ever article published over chowk. Keep on writing and enlightening us.

Regards,

Mr. Sohail,

Another illuminating piece fom you.

I hope to read on ESP in future. I dont know if animals feel the way we feel about the supernatural powers. (Consciousness is unique to humans, I guess).

Best regards,