February, 2016

• 20 February

  Mind and the Conscience: The Science of Morality

  

  The mind is the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel. This faculty of consciousness and thought is assisted by the conscience in making moral judgments and in distinguishing right from wrong. For those who are …
• 19 February

  Parallel Universes: Inside the Corridor of Dreams

  

  When I say the words “Parallel Universes,” the first thing that comes to your mind must be the intricate workings of quantum physics, scientists haggling over equations that are pages long, or maybe even something like a pseudoscientist or conspiracy theorist being laughed at in a conference. Well, what if …
• 18 February

  The Ocean In You: Tapping Into the Subconscious Mind

  

  The human mind is undeniably the most magnificent, and arguably the most powerful thing in the universe. It has the amazing ability to learn, mold and even retrain itself through the process of unwiring and rewiring. Being a set of cognitive faculties, enabling consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, and memory, the …
• 17 February

  Going Beyond The Mind: How to Transcend the Voice in your Head

  

  “You are not the mind; you are beyond mind. You have become identified, that’s true, but you are not the mind.” – Osho It has been almost two years since I began practicing Vipassana meditation; even now it surprises me, little by little, as to how I have not yet …
• 16 February

  Meet John: A Personal Introduction to the Voice(s) in My Head

  

  Ah, it has been a while since I played around with my old friend, the mind. Well, depending on your opinions on the thing, mind can have numerous definitions: the collective consciousness that drives everyone forward in life, the egoistic devil on the shoulder along with the sweet angel on …
• 14 February

  My Musical Journey: Four Ways Music Changed My Life

  

  There was a time when nothing was going right in my life. Family, friends, love, relationships… Either they were out of reach or they were too superficial for me to bask in the ecstatic joy that should be characteristic of every relationship. I joined my Hindustani music class just to …
• 13 February

  Demons: A Tale of Musical Melancholy and Frailty

  

  Whenever I listen to a song, I can’t help but see images, words and even complete stories forming in my mind’s eye; essentially guided by the lyrics taking up the reins of an esoteric narrative, while the music acts as the much-needed web of intricacy which the narrative is built …
• 12 February

  Are DJs Musicians?: Is Electronic Music Actually “Music”?

  

  Through this article, I’ll be resurrecting a debate that has been going on for a while, on music forums, Youtube comments and all over the place since the start of the ever-flowing transformation of the music industry. This debate stems from a belief that music is restricted to real instruments …
• 11 February

  Music and Mind Control: Is the Music Industry Brainwashing You?

  

  “Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul; hence, when one listens to music that imitates certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; … In short, if one listens to the wrong kind of music he will become the wrong kind of person; but, conversely, if …
• 10 February

  The Music of Nature: A Perpetual Performance

  

  Music, in general, is defined as the art of combining vocal and instrumental sounds (sometimes just one of them) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. But the more we explore about music, just then we would realize that it is not only a rhythm, a melody …