RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is a fascinating dictum that exemplifies an intriguing simile — that Westerners think with their left brain, the ‘seat’ of our conscious mind, while Easterners think with their right brain, the ‘hub’ of their unconscious mind. The ‘maxim’ is too composite, except for one’s own point of reference that separates and connects […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It evolved ages ago — the pristine idea that crying has therapeutic effects on our psyche. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that crying could purify the mind by alleviating emotional stress — through the expression of emotions. Contemporary psychologists call this progression as catharsis. The idea of catharsis too is not new — […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “The real voyage of discovery,” wrote Marcel Proust, the French novelist-essayist, “consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” This bids fair to three innovatively alluring medical possibilities: how we think, or feel, love, and find meaning in our life. New research suggests that the human heart thinks and […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There’s been a demanding relationship between the study of substance and the study of form all through history — be it philosophy, or science. Well, if the study of substance began in Greek antiquity, we’ve come a long way — from the idea of four fundamental elements, earth, air, fire and water to […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We all voyage through life like combers over matter, or slow, measured surges — a form of explicit, or resourceful, transformation. This is part of our time and space expanse, or continuum. It delineates us and précises our existence — of who we are, as self-regulating entities, with each of us being as […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We all know what anger is. We have all felt it, more or less, on a regular basis, whether as a definitive, or fleeting, epithet of annoyance, or as full-fledged rage. Anger is, in précis, a normal phenomenon. It is also a healthy human emotion. It becomes a dilemma, a difficult-to-handle emotion, or […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All that is old need not be dated. Take for instance, our ecological heritage. It has been rightly proposed by scholars that countless enlightened ideas may be drawn from old precepts of previous civilizations, especially from ancient India. More than that, knowledge may also, in today’s context, be derived from the traditional individual […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR William Faulkner was a consummate genius, a craftsman without a peer. He was wholly contingent on his writing prowess for his livelihood, and so he had to imperatively write what he thought would sell rather than what he wanted, or desired, to write. Despite such an allegory to life’s commonplace chemistry and basic […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Socrates believed that one should find buoyancy in one’s own beliefs without getting ‘swayed’ by others. Well, the point is we just can’t learn if we are not open to other beliefs — yet, it is important that we form our own beliefs by viewing situations objectively, while eliminating most of […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR What makes us ‘hit’ the floor each morning and reach out from sleep to awareness, emptiness to existence and dream to reality? It is energy — of our mind and body. The equation is remarkably apparent. We need body energy to move in the physical sense and mind energy to ‘prompt.’ This is […]