Psychological Aspects in Ancient Spiritual Traditions of IndiawithKiran Kumar Salagame

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Kiran Kumar Salagame, PhD, is former chairman of the psychology department at the University of Mysore, India. He is also vice-president of the International Transpersonal Association. He is author of The Psychology of Meditation: A Contextual Approach.

Here he reviews historical efforts to develop forms of academic psychology in alignment with the classical philosophical and spiritual traditions of India, starting with the work of Swami Vivekananda near the end of the nineteenth century. He explains that Indian psychology focuses on transcendental states of consciousness that are generally overlooked in Western psychology.

(Recorded on January 7, 2020)

Published on January 26, 2020

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