Elusive Consciousness

SR No.: 007004
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 150
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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from Oklahoma University discusses his famous work related with the application of quantum physics in social systems. It is well known that human decision making is highly uncertain and is many times quite random and probabilistic. He briefly summarizes that the process of human decision making does not follow the laws of classical probability but rather follows probability theory developed for quantum physics. This study indicates that quantum physics may be playing a significant role in the process of understanding of consciousness.
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Professor Narayan Lal Kachhara discusses the concept of soul and matter in Jainism, an ancient religion of origin in India. He describes interaction between soul and matter known as karma in Jainism in details. The subjective and objective nature of soul is discussed. The most important aspect of his presentation is description of forty seven characteristics of soul as given in Jainism, which could provide many new ideas to the modern science.
Professor Sudhir Shah, an eminent neurophysiologist of international repute, describes two case studies which is a big challenge to the modern science. The first describes case of Shri Hira Manak Moti who did fast for 411 days at a stretch taking only boiled water in the day and nothing in the night and no other solid or liquid food. Mr. Heera Marrak Moti claims that his major source of energy was from the Sun. It appears that this is one of the phenomenon observed during what is know as higher stages of consciousness.
Second study which Dr. Sudhir Shah describes is an experiment conducted on a person who claims to have not taken any food, liquid or water for the last 75 years. This person is Shri Prahalad Bhai Jani, also known as "Mataji", being a disciple of "Amba Mata", a great deity worshipped in the whole India. He lives in a cave in Ambaji and occasionally come out for public to have his darshan. He agreed for a scientific experiment on himself for 11 days in which, he was locked in a room for observation and a team of 21 doctors from different fields of medical sciences studied him for several body parameters and made extensive measurements. They observed that his claims were completely true for 11 days at least. Again he is described by the public as a great saint living in a higher state of consciousness. These are very rare events. However, if we look at the history of science then we find that most of the new scientific discoveries took place with careful observations of a new phenomenon which was rare at that particular point of time. Thus discovery of a new element or a new galaxy or a new virus or any new phenomena were made. These rare phenomena are then studied and conditions under which they occur are found and these phenomena become quite common under that set of conditions. Similarly, the rare phenomena described above should