Foundations and applications of Indian psychology, 2e, 2nd Edition

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Integrating yoga epistemology and ontology into an expanded integral approach to research

William Braud

This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet… and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings…is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below… The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above. … [You] ...