The Oneness / Otherness Mystery (The Synthesis of Science and Mysticism)

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This is a work about our very existence, about Reality, about the relationship between the individual personality and the cosmos in which that personality exists, showing how the person is a microcosm, a little part of the cosmos, subtly reflecting his 'world' however autonomous or independent he may believe he is. It intends to resolve the central problems of Eastern and Western philosophy, the question of the meaning of the mystical union and the question, which has arisen in the modern West, of the relationship between consciousness and the so-colled 'physical world'.

The final essay presenting the Science-Mysticism synthesis, provides a convenient basic framework for convenient basic framework for categorizing the various aspects of yogic mysticism which are often jumbled together haphazardly by uneducated holy men and commentators who often have little appreciation of the real significance of the various mystical realizations.

About the Author:

SUTAPAS BHATTACHARYA was born in Guahati, Assam, India in 1964. His family moved to London in 1967 where he has lived ever since. His formal education led to a First Class Honours degree in Molecular Biology from London University in 1986 with prizes from his college for top student in the school of Biological Sciences in both the second and final year of his studies.

Since graduation he has worked in scientific publishing. He continued to develop his interest in the philosophical questions relating to Science.

Working for a major international publishing company, he has amazed academics in numerous scientific disciplines with his claim to have identified the physical correlate of the Divine Light, the Pure Consciousness of Indian Philosophy, with a physical process well-known to Science.

The creation of the sutra
Traditional elite transcendentalism versus superficial mass culture
The 'true brahman' and Western academic mythologies
The 'true philosopher' and social concerns
Human variation and the pursuit of so-called happiness
The social utility of the philosopher
Narrow-minded dogmatism in modern scientific scholasticism

Neo-Hinduism, Brahmanism and Indian Nationalism
A continuation of the Indian approach to philosophy
Western attitudes to Indian thought
The bigotry of the scientific establishment
Jung as a bridge between East and West
Metaphysics as the study of 'the world as a whole'
The feminine aspects of the Self
Scientific modernization and Indian Nationalist aspirations
Western humanistic rhetoric and Indian Nationalism
Indian Nationalism and Neo-colonialism
Indian spirituality and Western social materialism
Pernicious Western relativism and universal degeneration
Hopes for a future Universal Civilisation
My bonds to Bharat Mata

The materialist creed
Idealism and the transcendental realm
The Sanatana Dharma
Understanding Science from the deeper perspective

    I.	This Oneness / Otherness Mystery
   II.	And Both Was I
  III.	Rashtra is My Word for Nation
   IV.	Bonds of Kinship
    V.	Two Two-legged Human Races
   VI.	Thou Art the Reason
  VII.	We are Two Branches of One River
 VIII.	Bande Mataram
   IX.	Satanic Mills
    X.	Lebensratum
   XI.	Indo-Europe

XI(a). Chol Dilli
XI(b). Old Indian Air
XI(c). A Nation Born Through Synthesis
  XII.	No sure Ground
 XIII.	That One

XIII(a). Tad Ekam
XIII(b). Tat tuam asi
  XIV.	Mind Games
   XV.	This One
  XVI.	The Web Intricate

Western mythology and Indian reality
The modernization and globalisation of Indian civilization
Western universalist pretensions
Historical development relativism
The interchange of ideas

The individual as a microacosm
The 'true brahman' and the 'world of banias'

Post-colonial changes in Western perceptions
International solidarity against colonialism
Differing politico-historical perspectives in Asia and the West
International repercussions of internal class struggles

The male-female dyad and the 'feminine' Hindu Mind
Masculine 'imperialism' and historical progress
Patriarchal institutions and the status of women
Negative and positive manifestations of male tendencies

Market Forces and the Nation - the modern gods
The Green Revolution and the rise of Backward castes
The politics of accommodation
Secularism in India
Scientific modernization, development and social justice
The rejection of simplistic Christian Humanism
Learning lessons from China
Asian social values versus the 'Free market'

The savage birth of the Capitalist world market
The Ruin of Bengal and the Industrial Revolution
Economic development in the Cold War
The Bengal Famine of 1942-3: A British-inflicted holocaust

European savagery in the Americans and Australia
US settler colonialist imperialism and Nazi parallels

British myths about the End of Empire
Bengali bhadralok nationalism and Gandhian nationalism
Defending the actions of Subhas Bose

Indomania and the second European Renaissance
Continuing Indian influences upon the West
The Philistinism of the English establishment

The sword and the pen of resurgent Hinduism
Origins of the Bengali Renaissance
The introduction of English education
The use of English in independent India
Bankim and the regeneration of Indian culture
Racial discrimination and the rise of nationalism
The influence of France and Soviet Russia

The globalisation of the Capitalist industrial phenomenon
Mass market society and cultural degeneration
Hereditary myths, elitism and consumerism
American culture imperialism and India's strategic interests
Prelude to the metaphysical essay

My teenage encounters with the metaphysics
My panpsychist theory of 1983
The 1987 paper on consciousness
The encounter with Indian philosophy
Moksa and Near-Death Experiences: An intuitive leap
Learning the meaning of Spirit

Learning from Jung and synchronicities
Learning the significance of the Light
Divine Light, Nothingness and Saccidananda
Scientific perplexity over the Light
The puzzle of coherent alpha rhythm
Zen meditation and alchemy
The Light as experienced in the slow paths
Eureka

The Christian myth of Creation ex nihilo and Spirit / Nature dualism
Mystical influences on early science
Kant's a priori dismissal of Mysticism
Freud and the uterine myth
Jung's reduction of the spiritual to the psychic
Bohm, Pribram and the Holographic / Holonomic Metaphor

EEG coherence, meditation and brain death
Some Materialist pseudo-explanations
Subcortical and brainstem involvement in mysticism

Dissipative structures and the brain
Auto-reverberation and lucidity
Individuated complexes and Multiple Personality Disorders

Origins and nature of the concepts of energy
Energy and matter in mysticism and altered states of consciousness
The Prana / Atman relationship

Microcosm / macrocosm, analogy and projection
Realms of potentialities, actualization and transcendental causation
Mythology, ignorance, prophets, icons and scripture in modern science
Broadening perception and shifting frames of reference

LSD experience and dimensionality
The time / space matrix of perception
Cosmic and microcosmic space-time emergence in Quantum Theory and Holonomic models
Energetic vibrations, phase-locking and Time as the process of Creation

Self-luminosity
The Unmoved Mover
Mind moments and undivided wholeness
Self-limitation and Maya

Matter as energetic vibrations in physics
The wave-like fluctuations of the mindstuff
Contemplating the reality underlying scientific abstractions
The Vibratory Creation and the Big Bang hypothesis

The Light as the all-pervading Ground
The development of lucidity
Increasing freedom and creativity in dream-like states
Shifts in perceptual focus and the subject / object distinction

The Christian myths of the Laws of Nature
Transcendental creativity and emergent habits
Mechanistic, holistic and transcendental perspectives on free will and Life
Human creativity, intuition and gnosis
Knowledge by identity and divine realizations

The siddhis (supernormal powers) and space-time transcendence
Aurobindo on psychical development and the subtle ether
The subtle ether and the notion of resonance
Human body fields and psychic phenomena
Quantum non-locality and actualization of phenomena evidence for a transcendental realm
Academic Parapsychology: The failings of mimicking physical science
Clairvoyant reality and the mystery of 'normal' reality
The myth of psychical energy in relation to space-time transcendence
The involvement of the atman
Jahn and Dunne on psychokinesis
Walker on quantum uncertainties and psychic phenomena
Imagination, resonance of form and physical manifestations

The Cartesian split in medicine and the rediscovery of pranic healing
Reductionist myths and the mysterious 'life force'
Fields and 'downward causation' in the Placebo effect and hands-on healing
Conventional and paranormal processes in pranic healing
Psychosomatic processes and body-organizing fields
The misunderstanding of vitalistic and transcendentalist notions
The organism as a coherent, emergent space-time structure
Psychoneuroimmunology and visualization in mind-body interactions

Origins of the Classical Karma and Rebirth doctrines
Eradication of habitual memory traces (samskara) in Patanjali Yoga
Karma as avidya / maya and transmigration as dependent co-origination
Events as the moment of death
Insights from Rajneesh on Karma and Rebirth
Insight from LSD psychotherapy on Karma and the mythology of Rebirth
Reincarnation phenomena and parapsychological approaches to 'Afterlife Survival'
A consistent interpretation of past-life memories, 'liberation' and supposed reincarnation phenomena
The general meaning of Karma

The glaring absurdity of Materialism
The modern West's subliminal Christian legacy
The incompatibility of theistic religion and the perennial wisdom
The 'Eternal Truth' of the Sanatana Dharma
What am I why am I here?