Oldest spiritual scriptures: Rig Veda (video)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove, June 10, 2019; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Understanding the Rig Veda with Debashish Banerji

(New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove) The guest is Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and Chairman of the East West Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco Debashish Banerji, PhD.

Prof. Banerji is the author of Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo and also The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore, a book about his great grandfather.

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He edited an anthology about his great uncle, Rabindranath Tagore in the Twenty-First Century. His newest anthology is titled Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Here he discusses the cosmology inherent in what is arguably the world's oldest religious scripture, the Rig Veda, aspects of which are surprisingly modern.

He points out that the Vedas share many Indo-European traits. The ancient Greek pantheon is similar to Rigvedic deities, which predates it by millennia. Dr. Banerji refers to hymns celebrating the use of a mysterious bliss-inducing entheogen known as "Soma."

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He elaborates upon the role of sacrifice in ancient India. He also notes that this ancient proto-Indian (Indus Valley Civilization) scripture can be viewed in a psychological context.

New Thinking Allowed Host Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is the author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man.

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ABOUT: Between 1986 and 2002 Dr. Mishlove hosted and co-produced the original "Thinking Allowed" public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded (1980) by an accredited university -- in this case the greatest public school in the world, the University of California at Berkeley.

He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(This interview was recorded on May 22, 2019). 

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