Consciousness - Based Psychology - Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Yoga, Health and Transpersonal Growth - by Dr Soumitra Basu MD & Michael Miovic MD. Sri Aurobindo (1872 -1950) was the most important Eastern thinker in over 2000 years and his transformational worldview integrates the essential truths of biology, psychology, sociology and spirituality. This book is an East-West collaboration between two psychiatrists who show how Sri Aurobindo's model of consciousness-based psychology is relevant to contemporary thought and practice. The authors include:
Extensive case studies from both India and the US that make the concepts relatable and applicable to real life.
Fresh insights on a wide range of topics, from depression, trauma, and suicide to more controversial subjects such as parapsychology, reincarnation, alien abduction, and possession states
A synthetic approach that is as comfortable with medications and psychotherapy as it is with chakras, energy healing, meditation, higher levels of consciousness, and supra-physical phenomenon.
Because the authors see no contradiction between science and the experiential knowledge of Indian yoga, they are able to:
Understand possession states as involving an interaction among occult factors, psychological vulnerabilities, and biological mechanisms that serve as gateways
Embrace the full range of human psychology from psychiatric conditions to normal ego development and transpersonal growth
Use both science and spirituality to help real people with mental health conditions across continents, cultures, and a wide range of diagnoses and types of transpersonal development.
This book will be useful to anyone who is interested in spiritual, integrative, cross-cultural, or mindfulness-based approaches to mental health.