"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell." ~ Zora Neale Hurston

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“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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contemporary science and psychology associate consciousness with the mind and the mind with the brain. As a result of this finding, researchers attempt to improve our mental and emotional functioning by altering brain chemistry with pharmaceutical preparations. Though some new physics trends are beginning to suggest it, mainstream science rarely recognises consciousness as a spiritual or cosmic principle separate from the mind. Modern medicine has a physical view of the mind.

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Advaita and Modern Psychology

However, the yogic perspective on the mind is quite different. Rather than outer experimentation, it is based on meditation and inner experience. Rather than analysing external mental patterns, it attempts to comprehend the mind through introspection or turning our awareness within. It encourages us to observe our thoughts rather than react to them. Rather than simply examining our memories, it teaches us to understand the process of perception and how it affects us.
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