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Namah The Unfinished Chapter of Psychology

material. Man is neither a physical birth which we fell, to put it metaphorically. We
alone, - he is also and much more truly a can call it Indian psychology, though the
spiritual being awaiting the spiritual birth. mystical experience is the same everywhere,
because it has been best studied, documented
And just as physical birth is accompanied by in great detail, replicated again and again
labour pains and the perils of the passage so in various persons and its science and
too with the new spiritual birth, that Nature philosophy still preserved in its books and
seems to be now facilitating by quickening persons who have had and still have a living
the womb of our present human nature, contact with these sealed domains thereby
we find the corresponding labour-pains in changing our entire self-view and world-
the psychological being of man leading to view.
various disorders, new and old. To address
the psychological problems of today, neither This is the unfinished chapter of psychology,
our extreme reductionist models of biological whose illumined letters put all other chapters
psychiatry, nor the analytical models of in place and give their secret sense and
psychiatry, that open the doors of the animal purpose. We may name this new chapter
forces within but have no clue or access to Evolution Next or simply Spiritual Evolution
the higher spiritual forces that await man’s that is seeking to seize upon the human race
discovery, are enough. more and more. What was seen as a promise
in a few individuals here and there is now
seeking to generalise in the race. Instead of
seeing one as a mainstream and the other
as an alternative, we need to integrate the
two. The mainstream represents the more
common, average humanity but this is only
because we have never explored its deeper
potential. The alternative is simply a word
we use to dominate one kind of world- view
but if we sincerely seek for truth and not be
The wave of a New Psychology by whatever slaves to systems and theories then we may
name it is called is passing through the human well discover that the alternate was the real
mind to rekindle his interest in spiritual and the mainstream was only a temporary
awakening and its sense in our everyday life. passage, a dark night of the soul, below which
It is the demand of Time which is pressing another current ran throughout as the true
more and more upon man to discover and sustaining source of all that we call as our
reclaim our lost portions, — the heights from humanity.

Dr. Alok Pandey, an editor of NAMAH and a member of SAIIIHR, is a doctor practising at the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram.

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