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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…
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…
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….
By Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Excerpted from “Struggle and Progress,” Subháśita Saḿgraha Part 7, Ananda Marga Publications. The above illustration depicts Shri Caetanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) performing Nagar kiirtan, devotional chanting and dancing, in the streets of Nabadwip, Bengal. 19th Century painting, Kolkata Physical clash leads to psychic progress. But is absolute psychic progress possible through physical…
Dr. Shambhushivananda, the Editor-In-Chief of Neohumanist Review, delivered a session on “Authentic Futures: Crafting Conscious Pathways for the Asia-Pacific” at the 10th Asia Pacific Futures Network Conference held at SASIN Graduate School of Management, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Dr. Sohail Inayatullah, a celebrated futurist and NR Editorial Board member, emphasized the importance of acknowledging the…
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti With spiritual progress the mind grows in magnitude, the mind increases its periphery, until it finally merges in the Supreme Entity. During the course of this progress a spiritual aspirant will develop many faculties or attributes, but one must always be vigilant that these faculties do not divert one from the chosen…
Ladli Prasad Bhargava The late Professor L.P. Bhargava was a Faculty Member,Tantra Vidyapeeth, Ananda Marga Gurukula A serious student of Tantra must have knowledge of the origin of the Sanskrit alphabet, and of the basic principles of Sanskrit grammar. The entire Tantra literature has two meanings: the exoteric and the esoteric. The former gives us…
By Ac. Shambhushivananda Avt. Introduction When prehistoric humans separated from their nonhuman ancestors, they had not even the slightest inkling that one day their descendants would touch the stars, split the atom, discover the genetic codes that carry the secrets of life, communicate through a rich vocabulary, unravel the mysteries of the brain, or fathom…
Image above: Tantra diagram showing seed-sounds for control of the flow of forces in the subtle veins. Yadupati on Flickr By Ramesh Bjonnes Tantra has received increasing interest among scholars and the public in recent years. Its historical origins and practices, however, are not so well understood. Sometimes misinterpreted or misrepresented, traditional Tantra is often…