Modern World

Can society be moral without Varnasrama-dharma?

Over at American Greatness is this piece on recent revelations of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church (bolding added):…

8 years ago

Most scientific studies are wrong

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)…

8 years ago

Social Science Requires Theism

Social science must have a theistic basis because the big issues in society cannot be decided merely by measurable characteristics…

8 years ago

People’s Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study (qz.com)

The science is settled. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you? In the paper, published online by University…

8 years ago

A Most Unlikely Sanskrit Enthusiast

Born in Manhattan in 1902 to a pharmacist and a housewife, Berg played baseball at Barringer High School in Newark,…

8 years ago

Cheating in the Field of Psychology

One of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology turns out to have been faked. There is so…

8 years ago

Psychotherapy is useless

It looks like psychotherapy doesn’t help people all that much. When it comes to America, we must notice, as I…

8 years ago

Modern Civilization of Mudhas

Modern civilization is about ahara(eating), nidra(sleeping) , bhaya(defense), maithuna(Sex) or sense gratification. In modern society nobody knows his original position…

8 years ago

The Limits of (Social) Science

The American Psyhciatric Association has produced this position statement about “Same Sex Unions” (gay / lesbian marriage): “The American Psychiatric Association supports the legal…

8 years ago