THE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT JOURNAL
NAMAH is a pioneer, peer-reviewed, internationally indexed body, mind and spirit journal with an integral vision looking at the influence of the spirit or soul in psychology and health.Soul
What the Soul Sees, It Knows
9 — What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows;
the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
This amounts to saying that all knowledge which is not the result of the soul’s vision or experience is without true value.
But the question immediately arises — it was, in fact, put to me — “How do we know what the soul sees?” Read more...
The Mind
Expanding the Mind
The embodied mind, which has a separative view of the universe, is actually an individualised formation of the universal mind which itself is a multi-layered plane of consciousness. The individual mind is not, as mistakenly considered, the brain but it needs the brain for its expression. There are however several gradations of consciousness beyond and above the level of the mind-brain interaction. Read more...
Inner approach to health
Embrace Your Loneliness
We are never really alone. The sense of isolation is only an illusion. To address this malaise, our human love needs to translate into a love that exists just for the sake of loving. To be conscious of the Divine Presence is the only panacea. Aspiration is essential. The author describes a simple practice to help make this shift. Read more...
Perspective
The Third Method of Research in Psychology
Research in psychology, these days, are predominantly following the objective scientific method and its underlying worldview of materialism. While this method has its place, the very method limits the scope of our understanding and the perspectives we can get through it. On the other hand, there are other methods of research, particularly Vedic, that are hardly known or used these days, methods that rely on higher-order cognitive faculties. This paper is an attempt to discern between three different methods of research to show the need for understanding and using the Vedic or Yogic method of research in psychology that can give us a method appropriate for the domain of research. Read more...
Consciousness and health
Man and beyond Man
Life is evolving constantly at different paces. What about man? This article discusses certain lines of human evolution so far and the further prospects of future evolution of going beyond man. Read more...
