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The Matrix Of The Mind (Part III)
This is the concluding portion of the Trilogy Matrix of the Mind. It explores the totality of the mind, and the wisdom inherent in remaining in the “here and now” of mindfulness.
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The Matrix of Our Mind (Part – I)
Namo Tassa Bagawato Arahato Sammasambuddhasa Dedicated with gratitude, reverence and supplication to the meditations that have enabled the investigations and in-depth, personal experience of the matrix of my own mind. When I first saw them at the turn of the century, the Matrix trology left a very deep impression on my mind. The Wachowski brothers […]
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Why is Graceful Aging becoming such a passe…?
A personal experience of aging, by someone who is speeding across 55….and loving every moment of it.
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The Underappreciated Mooladhara…..
Kundalini – The serpent power associated with wisdom, grace and power
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Of pimps and (a)dharmic men….
! What prompted me to write today is a look at the signature on my email account, a dream sequence of Draupdi’s cheerharan, and an altercation with the dharmic police (in reverse order). My email signature is an ancient Indian proverb “Yatra Naryastu Pujyanta, Ramate Tatra Devata” – literally meaning, where women are worshiped/respected, divinity […]
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The Human, the God and the Space Between….
Something I wrote eons ago….sharing now, as it seems less threatening… Long ago, in 1993 or thereabouts, I worked as a CIO at Sharjah Airport in UAE. One late evening , everyone had left as it was around 7:00pm. Being an IT professional, I – as IT professionals often do – often worked […]
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Be the Change…
There has been a lot of controversy lately about the role of Gandhi in the liberation of India. Regardless, Gandhi’s contributions, along with his quotes, reverberate and resonate across the world even now, decades after his death. One of the quotes that I often meditate on, and which has guided me in my personal life, is […]
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The Divinity Within Us
According to an old Hindu legend, there was a time when all human beings were gods, but they abused their divinity. So, Brahma, the chief god, decided to take the divinity away from them and hide it somewhere they could never find it. Brahma called a council of the gods to help him decide where […]
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Early winter morning
It is cold here, most days are overcast. Often it rains. But the showers are intense and quick to end, and the sunshine returns within minutes. That is the kind of rain I like. It rejuvinates without overwhelming. The days are getting longer and warmer. The winter ebbs, yielding to the early spring. All is […]
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Memory Trace and its Discontents
Memory Traces have been implicated under psychoanalytic theories, and are designated as the root cause of psychopathology, and behavioral issues. I have been thinking about about memory traces over the last few days, trying to conceptualise them, define them, and understand what the term entails. Finally, after several hours of thinking thru, and reading, I decided […]
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Dualism & Opposites
Many years ago, one day, out of the blue, I suddenly awakened to the world of opposites, of dualism. I had comfortably existed as an undifferentiated part of the universe, without any special awareness of the nature of the universe, or my part in it. Either I was an extension of the universe, or the […]
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On Spiders and Bugs…
Lately, I have had neither time, nor the emotional strength to write much. I suppose when one is overwhelmed with stress (which I suppose is a short word for distress), the psyche tries to conserves all intellectual energies in service of survival. All creative endeavors, that would lead to optimal health, become secondary to survival […]
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Originally posted on Senselogic:
In his lecture On Melancholy and an essay entitled Melancholy and the Act, Slavoj Žižek claims that melancholia occurs not when we lose the object, but rather when the object is still here although we no longer desire it. According to Zizek, melancholia as Freud defines it in Mourning and Melancholia,… -
Schrodinger’s Cat : Not This, Not That
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” – Isaac Asimov Here is a post I wrote up a little while ago, but had forgotten to make visible. I had initially jotted down these ideas in order to prepare a paper for the Consciousness Conference in Tucson, but eventually did not present at the […]
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ADHD – The how, what and why….and what now?
I am told that September has been nominated as an Autism and ADHD month. My blog is an offering to those unfortunate children whose anxiety is demonised because of ignorance about this so called “disorder”. Thousands of kids in US are labelled as ADHD kids everyday. Their lives are torn apart by the diagnosis that […]
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better – Camus (reposted)
India – Tujh Per Dil Qurban A trubute to my symbolic mother, one who gave me life, love, and dignity. On her 64th Independence Day celebrations… Twenty eight states, seven union territories, 1618 languages, 6400 casts, 6 religion, 29 major festivals – one country ! A country of infinite wisdom, love and tolerance! Durlabhe Bharate Janam – […]
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Transformations Thru Creativity
I love gardening. I simply love it. And I love growing roses in my garden. I currently have over 200 of them. When they bloom together in early spring, I feel I am in heaven. Thousands and thousands of happy rosebuds open themselves up to the elements in a display that is beyond words. My […]
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Karmic Justice
For some reason, this blog, the blog about Karmic Justice, published quite some time ago, has been making news in the blog statistics. It has been meaningful to me during this interval, a beacon of light that I myself read often. It is something that allows me to stay the course of ethics, and morality, […]
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On the role of the Mother….
“In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of […]
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Honesty, Integrity and Trust….
A few days ago Karin wrote a wonderful blog on trust, that started me thinking about the construction of trust as well. What is trust, do we ever stop to think of what the word actually represents ? I mean what does it contain, beyond the word-symbol ? Trust is a composite feeling that we experience […]
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Religious Identity, and Eid-Ul-Zuha
Ramadan Mubarak. Reblogging this old post without any dilution of feelings… Religious Identity, and Eid-Ul-Zuha.
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Creativity As The Need to Know
Thousands before me have pondered on the origins of creativity and creative impulses, each coming up with their unique definitions. I too have wondered why we create, what is it that drives us to create. There have been several answers, but one that came to me today was pretty powerful, so I share it here. […]
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Complexes and Black Holes
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11542570 Ive been tied up with a bunch of joyful stuff. Life’s a peach that prevents me from returning here, despite all my good intentions. And even today, I am tied up, but this thought has been gestating in my psyche for well over 5 months, yet today there seemed to be a compulsion associated with […]
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The Morphed Psyche – Developmental Perspectives on Hate (II)
The edited version of the paper I presented at the Conference for Hate Studies at Spokane, WA. I have deleted citations and references for ease of reading. The last paper on Music had been, I realised, a difficult read with all those citations etc. Introduction This paper has grown out of my own ambivalence and […]
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The loveable homeless cat…
For the last 2 months, our family has been adopted by a beautiful, white stray cat. It has unilaterally decided that we belong to her, and no amount of reasoning and dissuading has been acceptable. With a commendable single minded determination, it has made itself comfortable outside on our varandah on a couch, surrounded by cushions and blankets that had been accidentally […]
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Prometheus’ Bane : Music – the food of life
I haven’t been able to write much in the last few weeks. Life has moved at a hectic pace, and in an effort to slow it down, I have had to give up some of my favorite things, one of them being writing. And for the next few weeks the pace is not going to […]
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Karmic Justice II
yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham SYNONYMS yada–whenever; yada–wherever; hi–certainly; dharmasya–of religion; glanih–discrepancies; bhavati–manifested, becomes; bharata–O descendant of Bharata; abhyutthanam–predominance; adharmasya–of irreligion; tada–at that time; atmanam–self; srjami–manifest; aham–I. TRANSLATION Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion–at […]
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Residual Feelings
Something that went unpublished from 2011. Judith Soley passed away in 2011. XOXOXOXOX Sometimes synchronicities just dot the horizons, and I begin to wonder whats going on. I suppose this is the phase of death and dying in my life…. Judith Soley, one of Fresno‘s leading attorney, is dead. She died yesterday, at Duceys, an […]
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On Aging, Death and Dying
I haven’t been writing much lately. It seems that the words have died, that there is a dearth of meaningful emotions, of consciousness. In exchange, and as a compensation for that lack, I have experienced a slew of defensive strategies unfolding in my psyche, pushed into the external world. The psyche, it seemed, went round doing the […]
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Othering of the Mother
Quite a number of my friends, foes, colleagues, neices, nephews, and others, are dealing with pregnancy and childbirth at the moment. I reblog this post for them, and all those others who have kept it alive by returning to it day after day since it was first written. Be well. Be happy. M. http://www,madhusameer.com Of recent, my psyche has gravitated […]
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The dynamic dance of Non-duality & Separation
For a long time, I have been wanting to write about the dance of duality and non duality that engages us in our everyday life even if we have little awareness of the moves. I had abundant experiences but few words to describe them – perhaps they were not organized into cognition. For an unknown […]
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Religious Identity, and Eid-Ul-Zuha
A few weeks ago, during the auspicious week of Diwali, I held back from writing about the sacred day that is so special for Hindus in India and abroad. As a therapist, I did not wish to compromise my perceived neutrality. However, come Eid, I wished to share myself with others, and experienced no need […]
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better – Camus
India – Tujh Per Dil Qurban A trubute to my symbolic mother, one who gave me life, love, and dignity. On her 64th Independence Day celebrations… Twenty eight states, seven union territories, 1618 languages, 6400 casts, 6 religion, 29 major festivals – one country ! A country of infinite wisdom, love and tolerance! Durlabhe Bharate Janam – […]
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How to choose a counselor
So you have decided to seek therapy, but now you don’t know how to go about selecting a therapist. Here are a few guidelines that will help make this daunting task easier. Psychotherapy vs Counseling You can choose a counselor, or you can choose a psychotherapist. Whereas you may not think the difference is important, […]
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Technology: An exquisitely detailed projection of the psyche
“Whatever is inside, is replicated outside in the external reality” This is a common mantra in psychological circles. Carl Gustav Jung’s extensive work with alchemical processes helped rescue alchemy from the dungeons of mere chemical strivings of a few men who existed in the margins of society. He helped explicate alchemy as a search for the Self and a projection of […]
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The Fathered Psyche
What do fathers really do? What function do they achieve in a child’s life? How do fatherless children fundamentally differ from those that are fathered? How boys are affected vs how girls are affected. Based on the works of Mahler, Lacan, jung, Chodorow and Winnicot, this article that explores how our fathers have unconsciously affected our values, beliefs […]
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Our relationship with our fathers
Your relationship with your father and then fathering your own child is a very special, and developmentally significant experience that enables you to learn a lot about human interaction – not just within your family system, but with people on the outside of thatcircle, with the world, and all inanimate objects and processes that surround us […]
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The shared world of religion, alcohol, meditation, sex, drugs and work…..
On the intrapsychic level of human existence, there appears little difference between religion, alcohol, meditation, sex and drugs. This might come as a surprise to a lot of people, and the more religious minded may think of it as blasphemy, but it isn’t, so bear with me as we walk thru the psychological pathways populated with […]
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Starting a public blog…
……appears such a monumental task to me. Its almost like marriage, a commitment to myself, to my readers, to the community, to the world at large. A commitment for quality, to leave the world a “better” place for the words that I distribute here. And I wondered why I took upon such a heroic task […]
Madhu Sameer 