Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science, livre ebook

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.

Preface

Part I Introduction

1 East and West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

Stanislav Grof

2 The Transpersonal Perspective

Frances Vaughan

Part II Ancient Spiritual Traditions

3 Understanding Your Own Mind

Swami Muktananda

4 Love until It Hurts

Mother Teresa

5 The Cows Are Many Colors, but the Milk Is the Same

Dastoor Minocher Homji

6 Science Today and the New Creation

Father Bede Griffiths

7 The Evolution of Consciousness and Human Survival

Karan Singh

8 The Mystery of Karma

Swami Prajnananda

9 Kundalini: The Energy of Transformation

Swami Kripananda

10 The Smile of the Buddha: Paradigms in Perspective

Jack Kornfield

11 Search Within

Yashpal Jain

12 Kundalini: The Awakening of the Inner Cosmic Energy

Ajit Mookerjee

Part III New Paradigms in Western Science

13 The New Vision of Reality: Toward a Synthesis of Eastern Wisdom and Modern Science

Fritjof Capra

14 Morphic Resonance

Rupert Sheldrake

15 The Holographic Hypothesis of Brain Function: A Meeting of Minds

Karl Pribram

16 Role Models and Human Development

Joseph Chilton Pearce

17 The Yoga of Androgyny

June Singer

18 Jung's Active Imagination: A Technique of Western Meditation

Cecil E. Burney

19 Psychophysiology and Health: Personal and Transpersonal

Alyce M. Green

20 Science and Psychophysiology, Psychophysics and Mythology

Elmer E. Green

21 Bringing Eastern Meditation into Western Psychotherapy

Claudio Naranjo

22 Women's Place in Today's World

Swami Sivananda Radha

Biographical Notes