Compiled and edited by Ac. Shambhushivánanda Avt.P.R. Sarkar Institute of Indology, Anandanagar, Bengal, India Evidence of an ancient “lost river civilization” was uncovered off the west coast of India in 2001. Local archaeologists claim the find could push back the currently accepted dates of the emergence of the world’s first cities.1 Underwater archaeologists at the…
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Civilization, Science and Spiritual Progress
Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar What is civilization? The subtle sense of refinement that we encounter in the various expressions of life is called civilization. Let me give you an example. Suppose some guests have arrived at our home. We may address them imperatively, “Come”, or we may welcome them by saying, “Please come in.” This…
River Valley Civilizations
Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Human civilization is created in, and moves along, river valleys. Like a river, human civilization also has three stages – hill stage, plain stage and delta stage. From the hill stage, it moves to the plain stage and from the plain stage to the delta stage. A civilization starts in the…
The Orthodox Homeopath Who Shakes Up His Field
Erik Van Woensel interviewed by Anthony Carlyle How did you come across homeopathy?Our mother was always interested in natural healing methods and for instance, in springtime she used to give us herbal teas to ’clean the blood’. We were also never vaccinated. The only allopathic medication we used was aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid a very common…
Music and Agency: The Philosophical Voice of Tagore, Sarkar and Spivak
Sumaya Machado Lima Abstract: This article investigates the philosophical agency potential in Bengali music, framing social constraint via Bourdieu’s Habitus and Symbolic Power. Using a hermeneutic approach, the study compares Tagore’s “Ekla Chalo Re” with Sarkar’s “E gán thámibe ná”. Results show Tagore emphasizes individual courage, while Sarkar’s music infuses a collective mandate, linking action…
The Discipline of Love
Richard Hames Without the deliberate cultivation of love as method – in law, economics, technology and security, not just in families and faiths – we are unlikely to become a species that deserves to survive. This is not a call for everyone to be nicer. It’s a structural question: what happens when we treat love…
The River Within Us: Rediscovering Our Sacred Bond with Rivers
Shermon Cruz There is a moment I return to often in my memory where I stand at the edge of a river at dawn, and I feel that boundary between myself and the river dissolves. Then I sense, in silence, that the water flowing before me is memory, it is life itself. It is something…
Transhumanism – Promise or Peril? A Critical Reflection
Aaron Frank In November 2018, a landmark summit in Hong Kong convened 500 of the world’s leading biomedical researchers, policymakers, and ethicists to confront a suite of pressing issues that a new technology had forced upon the world. Just six years earlier, a research team led by two biochemists, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, published…
Tantra and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Justin Hewitson This essay was funded by The National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan. NSTC 113-2410-H-A49-044- Abstract: This essay engages with the debate over the hard problem of consciousness formulated by David Chalmers: why does sentience arise in matter? It interrogates Western physicalism via idealist arguments to challenge the philosophical incoherence of strict empiricism….
AI and the Global South: Colonialization or Emancipation?
Sudhir Tiku The term “Global South” represents a fundamental reorientation of global discourse, moving away from outdated, hierarchical classifications like “First World,” “Second World,” and “Third World.” It’s not a geographical designation but a socio-political and economic concept that groups together countries that share a common history and a position of relative disadvantage in the global…