Regarding the editing of Srila Prabhupada’s books, Srila Prabhuapda rarely checking his own books for errors during his life time is not the same as never checking them–not even close. Let’s say that a book has an average of one error every ten pages. That means that if you openContinue Reading
There is a pre-test of a survey on a statement of Srila Prabhupada’s from his purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.25.41 that is currently in progress. The pre-test is accessible here. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CMXJ2ZQ You are encouraged to take the test and provide feedback, which will be used to improve the survey. The ongoingContinue Reading
This recent bit of news shows why pratyakṣa (direct sense perception) and anumāna (inference) as pramāṇas are imperfect means of acquiring correct knowledge. Washington (AFP) – A few years ago, two researchers took the 50 most-used ingredients in a cook book and studied how many had been linked with a cancer risk or benefit, basedContinue Reading
Social science must have a theistic basis because the big issues in society cannot be decided merely by measurable characteristics or by speculative morality. Start with imprecise numbers. We are told that there are currently 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. Others say it’s closer to 20 to 25Continue Reading
The science is settled. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you? In the paper, published online by University of Southampton and due to be published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers note that Buddhism’s teachings that a meditation practice helps overcome the ego conflicts with U.S. psychologist William James’sContinue Reading
Born in Manhattan in 1902 to a pharmacist and a housewife, Berg played baseball at Barringer High School in Newark, NJ. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in classical and romance languages and became notorious for practicing Sanskrit from behind home plate. Michael Kaplan, “This baseball player was secretlyContinue Reading
One of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology turns out to have been faked. There is so much cheating in the field. Why do we put our trust in these “experts” and entrust our children to them? From Medium: It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971,Continue Reading
It looks like psychotherapy doesn’t help people all that much. When it comes to America, we must notice, as I have often said, that far too much American therapy is of the touchy feely variety. Patients are induced to get in touch with their feelings and to feel their feelings.Continue Reading
As a follow-up to the posting on MS-13 and ISKCON, I received a number of interesting reactions. But before I share some of those, I would like to make a few summary points: ISKCON and the MS-13 Gang’s point of commonality is that women are kept out of decision-making onContinue Reading
Chanakya Pandit says, viśvāso naiva kartavyaḥ strīṣu rāja-kuleṣu ca: “There are two persons one should not trust—a politician and a woman.” And then there is this bit of recent news from the Washington Post: In the summer of 2003, an angler working the dark waters of the Shenandoah River inContinue Reading