December, 2015

• 2 December

  What are the basic and most primal aspects of human nature?

  

  Are we as humans driven by some primal needs and urges that inherently influences each decision of ours?                                                                   …
• 1 December

  Is Motivation Hard-wired into the Brain?

  

  Does motivation stem from a physical part of the brain? If yes, which part of the brain is responsible for the same?                                                         …

November, 2015

• 30 November

  Do Empaths really Exist?

  

  Do empaths really exist? Can these people actually step into others’ shoes and sense their feelings?                                                                     …
• 28 November

  Dissecting Reality 101: Truth, The Journey or the Destination?

  

  EINSTEIN: There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe. One is of the world as a unity dependent on humanity. The second is that of the world as a reality independent of the human factor. TAGORE: When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we …
• 28 November

  Dissecting Reality 101: Religion, a Poetry of Paradoxes

  

  EINSTEIN: Do you believe in the Divine as isolated from the world? TAGORE: Not isolated. The infinite personality of Man comprehends the universe. There cannot be anything that can be subsumed by the human personality, and this proves that the Truth of the Universe is Human Truth. I have taken …
• 27 November

  Dissecting Reality 101: Art, A Privilege or a Perspective?

  

  TAGORE: Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be beautiful, and the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet, color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value …
• 26 November

  Dissecting Reality 101: Emotion, the Engines of Action

  

  EINSTEIN: Clouds look as one from a distance, but if you see them nearby, they show themselves as disorderly drops of water. TAGORE: I find a parallel in Human Psychology. Our passions and desires are unruly, but our character subdues these elements into a harmonious whole. Does something similar to …
• 26 November

  Reality Dissection 101: Language, the framework of our realities

  

  EINSTEIN: In Europe, music has come too far away from popular art and popular feeling and has become something like a secret art with conventions and traditions of its own TAGORE: In India, the measure of a singer’s freedom is his own creative personality. He can sing the composer’s song …
• 24 November

  Reality Dissection 101: The Art of Perception

  

  PERCEPTION and PARADIGM TAGORE: Duality is in the depths of existence; the contradiction of Free Impulse and the Directive Will which works upon it and evolves an orderly scheme of things. EINSTEIN: Modern physics would not say that they are contradictory. Clouds look as one from a distance, but if …
• 23 November

  When Einstein met Tagore: Intro to Reality 101

  

  Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore (the luminary-est of many luminaries) met in 1930 in Berlin through a common friend, Dr Mendel (himself an eminent Neurologist and Psychiatrist). There ensued between them a conversation meandering over the nature of Truth, Beauty, Divinity, Music and glancing upon the different facets of philosophy. …