A conscious Approach to Stress and Anxiety, By Dr. Soumitra Basu
A conscious Approach to Stress and Anxiety, By Dr. Soumitra Basu
How we should act during Corona
How we should act during Corona
What Consciousness Is – In the light of Mother and Sri Aurobindo (in Bengali)
What Consciousness Is — In the light of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. A discussion by Dr. Soumitra Basu. Live at 8 PM on 23th August 20
Dissociation of consciousness — implications in psychology and yoga
Abstract Dissociation of consciousness is not only a psycho-pathological construct but has cultural and spiritual connotations too. While clinical psychology would explore multiple personalities resulting from dissociation, a consciousness perspective would reach beyond multiple self-states at the outer being to an Unitary Self deep within that transcends the ego. It is well known that an…
Analytical and synthetic approaches in psychology and psychiatry
Abstract A whole-person narrative needs both an analytical and synthetic approach for psycho-pathology. Creativity and spirituality can co-exist in a single individual. An analytical perspective that encompasses physical, psychological and social dimensions needs to be studied in the context of a spiritual dimension of consciousness. One major problem with consciousness is that it is a…
Radical Culture Dr Basu 4pm 04.04.2020
Radical Culture for World Wide Transformation organised a Zoom group talk and discussion with Dr Soumitra Basu, consultant psychiatrist in Kolkata and Pondicherry, India. He practices using Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of consciousness.
The ‘I-Am’ Experience
The ‘I-Am’ experience is an important psychotherapeutic tool. Existentialists shifted the ‘I’ from the mental ego of Descartes to the ‘sense of being’ that was different from the ego. In the consciousness perspective, the ‘I’ can be shifted still behind to the universal ‘I’ and finally to the True Self or Person giving a radical view to existence.
Dealing with broken love
A broken love is an important issue in counselling. Its genesis lies in the severance of oneness and is experienced vitally as depression or aggression leading to vengeance. Instead of an analytical approach, the passion and anguish of love can be shifted to a new poise of consciousness or a higher paradigm of love.