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…
Category: History
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 Evolutionary History of Humans
By Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar According to many scholars, the first expression of creation took place not on land but in water. Living protoplasm, thoroughly drenched in carbon materials, appeared as a unicellular entity, as kaoshikii sattá, for the first time in water. It is in water that the unicellular entity or elementary cell evolved…
Neohumanist Review 5: Letter to the Editor
Tao and Tantra By Taraka Ghista, May 2025 Regarding your article on Tantra and I-Ching (Tao and Tantra; A New Translation and Interpretation of I-Jing, Neohumanist Review 4, March 2025), I would like to draw your attention to Acarya Bhaskarananda’s chapter on Shavisim in Chinese Civilization from his book Social Dynamics and Social Movements (Psychospiritual…
From the Ancient Alpine to the Vedic Civilization
By Avtk. Anandarama Ac. The above picture shows the Aletsch Glacier viewed from Eggishorn at Fiesch, Valais, Switzerland. The Alps are formed by the African and Eurasian plates which have been moving towards each other since 700 million years. The continental plates pushed to mountain heights and enclosed the Tethys Sea. The position of the…