Contents
R. M. Matthijs Cornelissen, Girishwar Misra, Suneet Varma
The Psychological Perspectives of Our Times…Three Shifts of a Rhythm
I. The Social and Philosophical Context
1. Indian Psychology: Implications and Applications
2. A Journey Back to the Roots: Psychology in India
3. Psychological Ideas in the Vedas and Their Relevance to Contemporary Psychology
4. On the Vedic Symbolism in the Light of Sri Aurobindo
5. Beyond Mind: The Future of Psychology as a Science
6. Indian Psychological Thought in the Age of Globalization
7. Ego and Ahaṁkāra: Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought
8. Models of Personality in Buddhist Psychology
9. Integral Psychology: A New Science of Self, Personality, and Psychology
10. An Integral Approach to our Psychic Centre
11. The Sufi Path of Self-Transformation
12. Being an Authentic Self: Some Insights from the Lives of Sri Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi
13. Indian Psychology and the Scientific Method
14. Integrating Yoga Epistemology and Ontology Into an Expanded Integral Approach to Research
15. Knowing in the Indian Tradition
16. What is Knowledge? A Reflection Based on the Work of Sri Aurobindo
17. The Noetic Process (Citta Vīthi): A Therāvāda Buddhist View
IV. Affect, Motivation and Creativity
18. Psychology of Emotions: Some Cultural Perspectives
19. Why am I here? Implications of Self and Identity for Conceptualizing Motivation
20. The Principles and Practice of Karma Yoga in the Writings and Life of B. G. Tilak
21. From Dejection to Action: A Narrative Analysis of the Transformation of Arjuna and Yudhiṣṭhira
22. Cultural Construction of Creativity: Dualism and Beyond