Towards A Spiritual Psychology: Essays in Indian Psychology

513From the JacketTowards a Spiritual Psychology is a collection of papers by eminent psychologists and philosophers living and teaching in such faraway countries as USA, Japan and India.What is spiritual psychology? In the Indian tradition this is asserted as atmanam viddhi. The duty is to know the self. Spiritual psychology is the discipline that studies the ways of knowing and realizing the self. By postulating the primacy of the spirit/self, the principle or center of consciousness, spiritual psychology explores mind as the interface between the spirit and the body in the person. In so doing, it builds disciplinary and conceptual bridges between science and spirituality, the subjective and the objective, the personal and the transpersonal, and the cognitive and the transcognitive in the human condition.Inasmuch as it asserts the primacy of the spirit as the center of consciousness and its non-reducibility