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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 1, 24th April 2023

“micro psi atoms”, which were symmetrically called the science of siddhis, in Western
arranged groups of particles or points of professional description, it is the study of
light bound together in rapid complex cognitive anomalies (6).
orbital motion. This description predated
Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic The term cognitive anomalies finds acceptance
nucleus. The micro psi atoms were further because psi phenomena deal with information
broken down to quasi-nuclear matter which acquisition and are therefore cognitive,
in conventional parlance may be labelled as but as they do not fit with current rational
quarks and subquarks. Though the concept conceptions of cognition, are better con-
of sub-quarks has not been yet accepted by sidered as anomalies. Rao comments
science, Leadbeater and Besant’s description of that the sharp division between the
3,456 quasi-nuclear particles during their step- natural and supernatural and between
wise disintegration of gold was corroborated subjectivity and objectivity, as is prevalent
by Stephen Phillips in 1980. in the Western mindset, prevents a full
exploration of psi phenomena in the
It is presumed that the supercollider West, where at best the accumulated data
accelerator whose construction was would merely point to the existence of
abandoned could not have broken the some type of cognitive anomaly.
nucleus into sub-quark components to the
extent that was achieved by psychokinetically Sri Aurobindo’s insights
imparting tremendous energy to the atomic
system! During their pursuit of occult In contrast, the Indian tradition would
chemistry, Leadbeater and Besant had offer fresh direction and impetus to the
discovered that all matter essentially study and exploration of psi phenomena.
consisted of bubbles or holes in space “like In fact, a detailed study of the ‘Inner
pearls upon an invisible string”. Stephen Being’ or subliminal personality that
Phillips later linked this insight with the stands behind the Outer Being (which is
“Super String Theory” of contemporary studied as “personality” in contemporary
particle physics (5). psychology), described by Sri Aurobindo,
offers plausible explanations to many of the
Siddhi and cognitive anomalies psi-phenomena and provides a heuristic
scope of further exploration.
The micro-psi exercised by Leadbeater and
Besant is in Indian parlance a siddhi Some of the really anomalous psi phenomena
(a realisation accomplished through (anomalous in the true sense of the term
spiritual power or psychic ability) termed like hallucinations and pseudo-intuitions
as “Anima” in Aphorism 3.26 of Patanjali’s and not just because they do not fit with
Yoga Sutras, which states that a yogi can the rational mindset) may be traced to the
attain the knowledge of the hidden ‘intermediate zone’ between the ‘inner’ and
and smallest through the light of supra- ‘outer’ beings (the subliminal personality
physical faculty. Rao describes that while and surface personality respectively) of which
parapsychology in Indian parlance can be Sri Aurobindo has left a detailed account (7).

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