Podcast appearances and mentions of abhijit naskar

You might have noticed a widespread issue with young people suffering from many emotional issues (not talking about conditions, diseases, sindromes etc here). In this interview with Anastasia Chai, a California-based mum, trauma informed hypnotherapist and specialist in pediatric issues, we will delve into how to improve the well being of our amazing kids. Some of the aspects we will cover are: How the home environment can support instead of hindering young people Why it's a natural phase to feel a bit strange about a changing, growing body we don't recognise anymore Why there is nothing wrong with being young How media, peers and society might influence kids to feel they don't measure up Why attaching labels may build up a mental program that is not helpful after all And much more! Feel free to ask questions to Anastasia by going to her site: https://www.anastasiachai.com Also, if you end up having a session with her she will offer you a special discount if you mention this podcast! Many thanks also to a skilled audio engineer who rescued this episode from a low volume issue! If you need help with your podcast, contact Michael Allan here:  https://www.fiverr.com/s/RRmlEN?utm_source=CopyLink_Mobile #anxiety #teenanxiety #teenlowselfesteem “Watch your children grow, and they will teach you what you've taught them.” ― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others “The best kind of parenting is that of exemplarity.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables “You, my dear, are a child of God. Let you honor the creation that you are, equally to the beauty of a sunset or a newborn baby or a beautiful vista. You are glorious.” ― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism Photo credit: ©Pexels, Ron Lach

Today's meditation comes from The Psalms in The Old Testament and from the writings of Abhijit Naskar, with music by Acreage.Passage: Those who adore God's ways are truly happy. Their descendants will be strong. Their offspring will be blessed; abundance will be in their houses. They shine in the dark for others. They are merciful and compassionate. They conduct their affairs with justice. They give freely to those in need and their strength increases. —Psalm 112Perspective: Your field of work doesn't make you a good person. If you are a good person, you make that field a good field. —Abhijit NaskarMusic: “Lately” by AcreageNarrator: Ryan Phipps

Summary:  In this episode, we review the many ways we fail to love ourselves, through self-hatred and through indifference toward ourselves.  We discuss the ways that unlove for self manifests itself, contrasting a lack of love with ordered self-love through the lens of Bernard Brady's five characteristics of love.  We discuss the impact of a lack of self-love on your body.  I then invite you into an experiential exercise to get to know a part of you that is not loving either another part of you or your body.   Lead-In “Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie--Dust unto dust--The calm, sweet earth that mothers all who dieAs all men must; Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell--Too strong to strive--Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,Buried alive; But rather mourn the apathetic throng--The cowed and the meek--Who see the world's great anguish and its wrongAnd dare not speak!”― Ralph Chaplin, Bars And Shadows Intro I am Dr. Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist and passionate Catholic and this is the Interior Integration for Catholics Podcasts, coming to you from the Souls and Hearts Studio in Indianapolis, Indiana.   This podcast is all about bringing you the best of psychology and human formation and harmonizing it with the perennial truths of the Catholic Faith.  In this Interior Integration for Catholics podcast, we take the most important human formation issues head on, without trepidation, without hesitation -- we don't mince words as we directly address with the most important concerns in the natural realm, the absolute central issues that we need to address with all of our energy and all of our resources.   We have been working through a series on trauma and well-being -- starting with episode 88.  In the last episode, episode 96, I Am a Rock: How Trauma Hardens us Against Being Loved -- we discussed the impact of trauma on us accepting love from others, including God.   In this episode, we're addressing how trauma sets us up to refuse to love ourselves.  Welcome to Episode 97 of Interior Integration for Catholics, titled "Unlove of Self:  How Trauma Predisposes You to Self-Hatred and Indifference"  It's released on September 5, 2022.   It is so good to be with you, thank you for listening in and for being together with me once again.  I'm glad we are here and that we are exploring the great unlove of self.   The great unlove for self -- like the uncola ads from 7-UP in the late 60s throughout the 70s and 80, even into the late 90s. What does unlove of self mean -- OK, I get it that it's refusing to love myself -- but what does that mean?   You might tell me that if I don't love myself, then I am hating myself.   All right.  Let's go with that.  Let's explore self-hatred and self-loathing  Define self-hatred Self-hatred is hatred directed toward oneself rather than toward others  Verywellmind.com article titled "Self-loathing" by Jodi Clarke, a licensed professional counselor  Self-loathing, or self-hatred, is extreme criticism of oneself. It may feel as though nothing you do is good enough or that you are unworthy or undeserving of good things in life. Self-hate can feel like having a person following you around, all day every day, criticizing you and pointing out every flaw, or shaming you for every mistake.   Brennan Manning  In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. Not sure I agree with that -- depends on the definitions.  Shame and the fear of shame overwhelming the self are such drivers of self hatred.   Angel Ploetner, Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor “Shame plays a huge part in why you hate who you are.” Shame is so central  Check out episodes 37 to 49 of this podcast for a whole series on shame.    Eric Hoffer It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. Basil W. Maturin  We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.  Lori Deschene  “We can't hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.” The primary way we hate ourselves -- for parts of you to hate other parts of you.  I am talking about intra-psychic hatred.  Hatred within you, for you, by you.   IFS description of the self Reference Episode 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others  Definition of Parts:  Parts are like separate, independently operating personalities within you, each with own unique prominent needs, roles in your life, emotions, body sensations, guiding beliefs and assumptions, typical thoughts, intentions, desires, attitudes, impulses, interpersonal style, and world view.  Each part also has a different attitude or position toward other parts of you and different beliefs and assumptions about your body.  Robert Falconer calls these parts insiders.   Like in the movie Inside Out.  Your parts have different roles within your self-system.   Your parts have a very narrow, limited vision when they are not in right relationship with your innermost self.  Each of your parts usually has a strong agenda, something that they trying to accomplish, some good that that part is seeking for you.    Polarizations  Examples of polarizations in the most recent weekly reflection -- The Counterfeits of Self-Giving from August 31,2022.  How parts get polarized around the idea of giving of self Compliant surrenderer vs. feisty protector  Self-sacrificer vs. rebel  Check that out.   Bessel van der Kolk, in his excellent book "The Body Keeps the Score" devotes all of chapter 17 to Internal Family Systems.  Very accessible book, I've recommended it before to many non-clinicians.  There's a reason it has been the top selling book on trauma for the last seven years running.  A book like that comes around once in a generation.  In 1992, It was Judith Herman's seminal book Trauma and Recovery.  23 years later, it was The Body Keeps the Score.   To examine Unlove, we are going to contrast unloving with loving.  Let's review the five general characteristics of love -- from Bernard Brady, his 2003 Christian Love: How Christians through the Ages have Understood Love.-- drawing heavily from the work of Christian phenomenologists.  I introduced his five characteristics of in Episode 94, The Primacy of Love and I expanded on them in Episode 95 Trauma's Devastating Impact on our Capacity to Love.  Love is affective, love is affirming, love is responsive, love is unitive, love is steadfast.  Those are the five characteristics of love that Bernard Brady distilled from his historical review of how Christians have seen love through the ages.  Love is affective, love is affirming, love is responsive, love is unitive, love is steadfast.  So let's break down what happens when one part of you is hating another part of you.   Love is affective -- love is emotional Love rejoices in the beloved -- Protestant Theologian R.H. Neibuhr writes in his 1977  By love, we mean at least these attitudes and actions: rejoicing in the presence of the beloved, gratitude, reverence, and loyalty toward him.  p.35   Many positive emotions are associated with love Delight, Bliss, Happiness  A sense of fulfillment  Warmth, appreciation   What does hatred or loathing for another part look like?  How do parts hate each other? Self hatred is also affective -- it's also emotional.  But in a very different way that ordered self-love is.   Disgust regarding the another part  Anger toward another part  Contempt for the body -- anger + disgust = contempt  Example:  Let's say there is a fearful part of you that is very frightened of public speaking – of making presentations in front of other people. And now, for your work, you are required to make an important presentation in front of your supervisors and more senior executives within your company. Another part of you, your perfectionistic part, has led you to rehearse your presentation, to the point where you almost have it memorized. Your last performance in front of your bedroom mirror was so good. But now, in front of your audience, your fearful part locks you up. You find yourself stuttering, stammering, and your inner critic is a railing in hatred against your fearful part. That inner critic is saying things like, "Why are you such a sniveling frightened little coward? It's just a simple presentation, dumb ass, we've practiced it over and over, we have it down.  Get yourself together, this is really important, and you are screwing it up and making us all look bad.  Who knows what will happen if we can't pull this off." The more intense your inner critic gets in its hateful attack on your fearful part, the more the fearful part freezes.  After the presentation ends, the inner critic continues to bash the fearful part, ruminating about how poor the presentation was.   Love is affirming Love says yes to the other at the same time as love says yes to oneself.  In parts thinking, there is a open-hearted yes to all the parts.  Not just some parts, not just the "acceptable" parts of us.  All part are welcome to the table.   In self-hatred, one or more parts attack the unloved part -- not just superficially, but they hating parts go after the identity of the unloved part the self-hating parts want to destroy the hated part, or at least banish the hated part from having a voice, from having a seat at the table  In our example, you can see how the inner critic is trying to get rid of the fearful part, trying to suppress that part with its fear.    From Jodi Clarke's Verywellmind.com article:  Typical self-hating thoughts may include:     "I knew we would fail."       "Why do I even try?"     "I'm a loser."     "No one wants to be around me."     "Look at me screwing up again."     "Can't I just be normal?"     "I hate myself." Richard Bach   The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.  When other people affirm the person who is dominated by a self-hating part, the affirmation doesn't really sink in.  It doesn't work.  The person all caught up in self hatred can't hear the affirmation, can't take the affirmation in.  Richey Edwards  “People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.' But when they don't like themselves they don't notice anything. They don't care about what people think of them. When you hate yourself, whatever people say it doesn't make sense. ‘Why do they like me? Why do they care about me?' Because you don't care about yourself at all.”   Love is responsive:  Love is an active response for the well-being of the other.  It's about participating in the promotion of the highest good for the other, potential for the other How can I help you to flourish?  How can I help you toward your highest good?   In self-hatred one or more parts tear down the hated part.  There is a response to the hated part, but it's not a positive one.   Rather than attuning to the hated part, the hating parts seek to silence it and suppress it without really getting to know the hated part.  Not interested in the hated part's experience -- why the hated part thinks, feels or assumes what it does.   In our example, the inner critic is responsive to the fear of the fearful part, but in hateful way -- seeing the fearful part as counterproductive and threatening the wellbeing of the whole person, and thus feels justified in the bullying, heavy-handed approach taken.   Love is unitive  Bernard Brady:  The fruit of love is unity.  Love unites.  It is in the very nature of love to bring together.  p. 279 Hatred divides.  It polarizes within.  The fearful part and the inner critic have no common ground because of the hatred.   Hatred fragments within.  It shatters the self.  Order self love helps to integrate all the parts, providing space for all parts to be seen, heard known, and loved. Love integrates parts, inviting them into a collaborative, cooperative relationship with the innermost self and with all the other parts.  We give this internal unity a special name -- interior integration.  That is what this podcast is all about.  Interior integration for Catholics.   Love is steadfast Steadfastness in self-love requires acceptance of all parts for there to be resilience.  Hatred contributes to the inner system of the self being brittle and fragile.     Hatred doesn't generally come from our innermost selves  Self:  The natural core of the person, the center of the person in the natural realm.  This is who we sense ourselves to be in our best moments, and when our self is free, and unblended with any of our parts, it governs our whole being as an active, compassionate leader.  Unharmed by trauma, by attachment injuries, by relational wounds, by negative life experiences.   Catholics don't believe in John Calvin's concept of total depravity, that we are sinful and morally corrupt through and through.  Catholics don't believe we are snow-covered dung heaps, like Martin Luther taught.  We are still ontologically good, still made in the image and likeness of God.   We want to be recollected, we want the self governing all of our parts Like the conductor -- leading the musicians in an orchestra Like the captain -- leading and governing all the sailors on a ship.   When we are recollected, in self, 8 C's Calm  Curiosity  Compassion  Confidence  Courage  Clarity  Connectedness  Creativity   We also have the capacity for kindness The only exception:  unless we've committed the unforgivable sin, blaspheming against the Holy Spirit  CCC 1864:  “There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss” (No. 1864). Repudiating life, love, truth, mercy, forgiveness -- irrevocably, through hardness of heart.  That is possible, or Jesus would not have warned against it.  Walking dead.   What does self-hatred mean for our relationships with our body? We are body and soul composites.  We are embodied beings.   Bessel van der Kolk:  The Body Keeps the Score -- groundbreaking work summarizing how much trauma becomes embodied  Another way for you to hate yourself  -- or more specifically, for a part of you to hate your body.   Examples of actively hating the body  Active examples 4 Extreme cases -- starting with extreme cases -- Suicidal Acts, Body Dysmporphic Disorder, Body Integrity Identity Disorder, Self-Harm (aka Self-mutilation).   Suicidal acts -- I did a whole series on suicide in this Interior Integration for Catholics podcast.  Episodes 76-80 Suicidal part -- desperately seeking relief from intense pain and distress   Other Reason -- these are the core reasons. -- review them in episode 76 and got into how parts are active around suicide in episode 78 The Desperate Inner Experience of Suicidality  Attachment needs not met -- Episode 62 A felt sense of safety and protection, deep sense of security felt in the bones  Feeling seen and known heard and understood -- felt attunement  Felt comfort, reassurance  Feeling valued, delighted in, cherished by the attachment figure  Felt support for the best self   Integrity Needs not met All of the above.  Each one of us needs help to develop our sense of self, our identity  I exist  my existence is separate from others --  I exist in my own right, a separate personIs bounded, has boundaries  My identity is stable over time and across different situations -- there is a continuity  I can regulate myself -- I have some self-control.   Is integrated -- coherent interconnections inside between aspects of experience -- self-cohesion  Is active, with agency, can effectively function in the world  Is morally good -- ontologically or essentially good and thus has intrinsic value and worth, apart from others' opinions.   I can make sense of my experience and the world around me  Mission and Purpose in life  We also need to make good choices -- seek what is good, true and beautiful in life   Body dysmorphic disorder   Appearance preoccupations: The individual must be preoccupied with one or more nonexistent or slight defects or flaws in their physical appearance. Verbally abusing the body Body shaming yourself -- a part of you calling your body fat, ugly, physically unattractive, calling your body out on the perceived unattractive features -- my eyes are too far apart, my lips are too thin, my skin is too bumpy, and what about that zit that just appeared.   Repetitive behaviors: The individual must perform repetitive, compulsive behaviors in response to the appearance concerns.  Behaviors: mirror checking, excessive grooming, skin picking, reassurance seeking, or clothes changing.  mental acts such as a part of you comparing one's appearance with that of other people.   -- getting on tiktok and saying, that person's body is so gorgeous and I'm a just a pig.  Ruminating about what others have said about your body or what they might say about your body.  Sometimes it's all just in the realm of fantasy.   Differentiation from an eating disorder: Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is a rare, infrequently studied and highly secretive condition in which there is a mismatch between the mental body image and the physical body. Subjects suffering from BIID have an intense desire to amputate a major limb or severe the spinal cord in order to become paralyzed or to become blind or deaf. Self-harm  or self-mutilation, sometimes called cutting Really not understood well by most people -- dismissed as something only a crazy person would do.   It's a symptom.   Forms include Cutting  Burning or branding, scalding with hot water  Picking at the skin, reopening wounds or severe scratching  Carving the skin  Trichotillomania   Head banging Hitting oneself Biting oneself Self-poisoning Self-starvation (deliberate) Getting into fights Reasons for Self Harm  The Punished Self, the Unknown Self, and the Harmed Self – Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Self-Harm Among Adolescent Girls -- August 2021 Frontiers in Psychology Norwegian researcher Line Indrevoll Stänicke1 -- Qualitative Study of 19 adolescent girls  Superordinate themes “I deserve pain,”  “I don't want to feel anything,”  “I'm harmed, and no one cares.”  “I deserve pain,”  “I don't want to feel anything,”  “I'm harmed, and no one cares.”  8 Reasons for Self-harm Desire to release unbearable tension or providing relief from overwhelming emotions  At times [self-harm] also silenced the chaos in my head, briefly pausing the repetitive flashbacks and body memories."  Desire to regain control  Fighting depersonalization -- "Self-harm proved to me I was real, I was alive.  (mind.org.uk)   Numbness can feel like death -- need to feel anything at all.   Self-hatred  Feeling the need to self-punish "I hated my body and blamed it for what I'd been through, so felt it needed punishing. (mind.org.uk) Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia   “I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can't quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death.”  Blaming your body for others' actions romantic partner breaking up with you -- not attractive enough  Being raped -- hating body because it attracted unwanted attention of the rapist.   To express pain, communicate or share the internal experience to others, to make visible what is felt within.   A way to distract from some worse experience, e.g. intrusive thoughts.   Association with others who self-harm -- peer group.   Five general characteristics of love from Bernard Brady -- looking at how they contrast with parts' hatred for the body.  Love is affective -- love is emotional Hatred regarding the body  Disgust regarding the body  Anger toward the body  Fear of the body  Contempt for the body -- anger + disgust = contempt  Fueled by envy of other people's bodies.   Love is affirming  Devaluing the body -- Body Shaming Seeing the body as evil   De-facto Manicheanism All matter are seen as evil -- including our bodies  St. Augustine adhered to Manicheanism for a while before his conversion, and then strongly refuted it.   Hatred of the body.   Love is responsive And love is responsive to the body's legitimate needs.   or ignored.  In self-hatred toward the body, those needs are condemned  Love is unitive Can be a kind of separation of the body from the self.  I am not my body.  This is not by body.   Love is steadfast   So that is self-hatred.  But self-hatred isn't actually the most common or important form of failing to love the self.   What is the most common and most important failure to love the self?  The great sin against the self, if you will? Indifference.  The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.  “The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche” by prominent Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Stekel. The text was translated from German into English by Rosalie Gabler and published in 1921.  The quote was expanded and made famous by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in a 1986 US News and World Report article The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.   Indifference is so, so common.  We can be so indifferent to ourselves and to others. ― David Mitchell  “The world's default mode is basic indifference. It'd like to care, but it's just got too much on at the moment.”  Aristotle “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”     W. Somerset Maugham British playwright, novelist, short story writer The tragedy of love is indifference Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote in his book Prayer for Beginners that Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time What does indifference to the self mean to the parts The biggest form of unlove -- indifference.   Define indifference --  an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical, virtual, or physical life.   and the world. not caring about oneself.  Disregarding oneself, Abandoning oneself, not caring about oneself. Wait a minute, Dr. Peter -- I thought that was what we Catholics were called to do.  Being dead or numb to oneself  Evil is the absence of good (privatio boni) -- privation theory of evil --  this idea was implicit in some of Plato's writings, but he never stated it implicitly   Plotinus further developed the idea And St. Augustine really refined it.  City of God:  For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name “evil.” Examples of indifference to the parts  Lack of awareness Parts disconnected from the self or fused with the self have very partial vision      Lack of caring Make up some examples here.   Five general characteristics of love -- from Bernard Brady Love is affective, love is affirming, love is responsive, love is unitive, love is steadfast.   Love is affective -- love is emotional Apathy toward the parts.  Not caring about them, not interested.  Parts pursuing their own agendas inside with little regard for the wellbeing of others parts.   Trauma begins in terror but ends in apathy.”  ― Brian W. Becker ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen  “Apathy is as dangerous, invisible, and contagious as an asymptomatic virus carrier.” “Apathy is a silent killer.” ― Frank Sonnenberg,     Love is affirming “The stronger you cling to your armor of indifference, the more it strips you of your humanity.” ― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family    Love is responsive “there are people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony”― StephanieR oberts, Rushes from the River Disappointment   Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung  “His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be."  “We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.”― Ken Wytsma,  Love is unitive Love is never fragmented; it's an inseparable whole which does not delight in bits and pieces. John A. Andrews  Love is steadfast Polarizations lead to tension inside and instability   What does indifference to the self mean to the body Bessel van der Kolk:  … traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: the past is alive in the form of annoying interior discomforts. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and in an attempt to control these processes, the often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings in a numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from themselves.   Examples of indifference to the body  Lack of awareness Parts disconnected from the self or fused with the self have very partial vision   Less extreme, passive examples of indifference to the body -- we've all done at least some of these.   Problematic eating or drinking Too much caffeine (hooked on energy drinks or coffee)  Misuse of alcohol  Overeating  Too much sugar  Too much junk food  Eating to soothe oneself when upset, sometimes called emotional eating  Eating when bored  Skipping meals   Smoking Not exercising at all -- too little physical activity -- or too much exercise Poor ergonomics Overdoing the screen time -- 10 hours a day on the computer is hard on the eyes Low activity levels  9.3 hours of sitting per day, more than 7.7 hours of sleeping today Not going outside Allowing yourself to get really sunburned or dehydrated or exhausted Not using the bathroom when you need to Poor clothing choices -- not bundling up in winter -- the man in the hoodie when it's 15 degrees out in wintertime, woman wearing high heels when it's not a good choice,  Misuse of the smartphone -- using your smartphone in bed Poor sleep habits, going to bed too late Misuse of sex -- not caring for your body in sexual situations.   Not getting medical or dental care for your body that would be good and right ignoring a treatable condition  Ignoring symptoms   Poor hygiene Five general characteristics of love -- from Bernard Brady Love is affective, love is affirming, love is responsive, love is unitive, love is steadfast.   Love is affective -- love is emotional Indifference to the body.  Just not caring about the body, apathy toward the body.  Looking at only the utilitarian functionality of the body.  The body as a container or vessel for your mind or soul or psyche.     Love is affirming -- indifference to the body can mimic detachment or poverty Love is responsive -- Lack of awareness about the body.  Very disconnected.   La belle indifference:  The term “la belle indifference” is a French term, which translates to “beautiful ignorance.”[1] La belle indifference is defined as a paradoxical absence of psychological distress despite having a serious medical illness or symptoms related to a health condition. Not being interested in your body.  Love is unitive Not seeing your body is part of you, disconnecting from your body Love is steadfast 1 Cor 3:16-17.   Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.   Experiential Exercise on Unlove -- the failure to love  Cautions difficult material -- how and why we don't love ourselves.   window of tolerance Upside -- Fight or flight, sympathetic activation  Downside -- Free response -- dorsal vagal activation, shutting down, numbing out,  don't have to do this exercise, can stop at any time, reground yourself  no steamrolling parts  Good to do this exercise when you have the time and space and privacy -- not while driving or engaging in other activities that would require you to divide your attention.   Options Take what is useful to you  Feel free to go your own direction if that seems what's best  Feel free to pause the audio and really settle in and do extended work inside if that seems best  Can have pens, pencils and paper to write down things that are helpful -- like a journal -- or to map out things, draw if that's helpful.  Can pause the recording at points where you would like to have more time to do your internal work.   A lot of gentleness with and for yourself.  Moment here for your to really care for yourself.   Luke 10:27 Love your neighbor as yourself -- we are supposed to love ourselves in an ordered way And that means loving the parts of ourself that are in need.  With care and compassion If you get distracted, that's ok, that's common.  You can just refocus, or if that's not possible, then focus in on that distraction -- get curious about why a part of you needs to distract you.   Body scan -- locating -- finding. -- Call that a trailhead Tension in muscles  Stomach pain or gastrointestinal distress  Headaches  Fatigue   Could be other trailheads Images or dreams that come back to mind  Memories, sounds, beliefs or assumptions   Focus in on that one sensation or inner experience that reflects some kind of distress or agitation about you not loving you.   That experience will lead you to a part -- we will call the part you are focusing on, your target part.  A part that is not loving some other part of you in some way Your target part Might be hating another part of you  Your target part Might just not be caring about another part of you.   Your target part Might be trying to suppress or silence that other part.   Listen in to what that experience, that body sensation or that impulse or desire or image or memory or belief. Really notice that target part.  How do you experience it?  Let's see if we can work with one part at a time.  You can do this reflection and guided exercise over again with multiple parts if you'd like.  But see if your parts inside can agree to let you work with one part.   We are going to ask that one part not to flood you with its intensity.  That's a safety thing.  We are asking that part not to overwhelm you with its distress.  We want to be separate but near, so that you as the self can have a relationship with that part.  If your target part fuses with you or blends with you, you can't have a relationship.  See if that part will agree not to overwhelm.  Just ask it.  See what the response is.  If it agrees, then  Really sense that part.  See that part or sense that part, however that part is becoming more apparent to you.  How old is that part?  Some parts of us are very, very young.  Even preverbal.   Really listen to what that target parts wants to share with you, what it wants you to know.   How is that target part trying to help you?  What is that target part's good intentions.   How are you feeling toward that part, toward that experience Compassion  Connection  Curiosity -- genuine interest  Calm   If feeling negative, can we get concerned protector parts to soften, to relax back so that you, as the self, can connect with your distressed target part?  If not, focus on the concerned protector part.  Really get interested about why that part is not ready to let you connect with your target part.  There's a reason.  Parts always have good intentions for us.   Let your target part tell you all about what its experiencing with the other part -- the unloved part.   Emotions Anxiety  Sorrow -- deep emotional pain  Anger  Numbness   Thinking -- assumptions, beliefs Really be open to these beliefs, asking protectors not to censor them if possible.  Concentration issues.   Behaviors -- why does the part do what it does? What does this conflict connect back to for your part -- when did the part feel the same way in your history?  Checking to see if there's a concerned protector part trying to speak for your target part -- like a spokespart who wants to interpret the parts experience.  See if that concerned protector part can soften and relax back and let the target part speak for itself.   How is that part doing now?  Changes in your body?   Can the part feel love from you?  xWhere are you with: Compassion  Connectedness  Curiosity  Calm   Winding up Can write down what you learned, what was helpful, what came to you -- giving your parts a voice on paper.   Can do this exercise again with a different part  Gratitude for all your parts -- all have good intentions are trying to help  This doesn't have to be the end of connecting with your target part -- doesn't have to be a one-off experience, can check in with that part again.  Action Plan Looking ahead: next episode, number 98 -- ordered self-love -- now that we've covered all the ways that we can fail to love ourselves, we will be learning what it means for us to be loving ourselves in an ordered way.   Fr. Jacques Philippe -- 2008 Book Called to Life:  This self-love is good and necessary, not egoism that refers everything to "me," but the grace to live in peace with one's self, consent to be what one is, with one's talents and limitations. Love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self grow together and sustain one another as they grow. If one is absent or neglected, the other to suffer. Like the legs of a tripod, all three are needed in order to stand in each leans on the others. St. Thomas Aquinas  -- bringing in some of the work of Dr. Mary Julian Ekman, Religious Sister of Mercy. Self-love is the ground of human action, where the conscious choice to love self transforms self- love into self-friendship.  Proper self-love (amor sui ordinatus) is indispensable for perfecting the human person by making the soul more like God, who knows and loves himself by his very essence.    This movement toward self-perfection is hindered by improper self-love (amor sui inordinatus)   St. Augustine will also help us, as we explore how disordered self-love regards the self as an end, but ordered self-love sees the self as a means to the proper end of love.   Promotions  Ann-Marie Klobe -- Ready for Love: An online retreat for single Catholic women over 35 who are ready to connect deeper with their Faith, the Saints, and find a Godly relationship.  The Ready for Love retreat airs October 3-17, 2022  So many single Catholics are operating from a place of disconnection, and my goal is to restore their trust in God's plan for their life, help them feel like they have a purpose in this world, and provide training on topics such as the Saints, forgiveness, beauty, and trusting in God.  Anne-Marie did an extended experiential exercise with me as part of this retreat.  She discovered and explored some hidden reasons that could be obstacles in romantic intimacy.  She did some beautiful work that she will share with the women who attend the retreat.   Anne Marie and I are also planning for me to do a 60-minute live Q&A for the Ready for Love retreat -- where the women on the retreat can bring their questions to me about the ways that they reject ourselves as persons, the ways in which they refuse to love themselves, what it would mean to be married, and about discovering their primary identity as a beloved daughter of God.   The website for the retreat was not quite up yet at recording time.   You can go to Anne Marie Klobe's website -- https://www.anne-marieklobe.com  I will be letting you know more about it and provide links in the weekly reflections that I email out on September 14 and 21-- if you haven't been getting the weekly email reflections, sign up for them, and have them delivered to your email inbox every Wednesday.  Go to Souls and Hearts.com and click  the box that says "Get Dr. Peter's weekly reflection in your email inbox each Wednesday. Those weekly reflections are deep dives that I write each week about critical human formation topics -- those weekly reflections are the written companions to this podcast.   The Resilient Catholics Community.  The RCC.  I am inviting you on an adventure of being loved and of loving.  That is what the Resilient Catholic Community is all about.  Check it out at soulsandhearts.com/RCC   The RCC is all about working through your human formation issues -- the ones that lead to all the unlove you have for yourself.  The self-hatred and the indifference to self, the failures to love yourself in an ordered way, so that you can love got with all of your being -- with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind and all your strength, with every fiber of your being.   It's all about learning to be gentle but firm with yourself -- it's all about integration.  It's all about resilience.   All about restoration -- recovering from being dominated by shame, fear, anger, sadness, pessimism, whatever your struggle is in the depths of your human formation We do this work experientially -- so many experiential exercises -- so we work not just in your head, and not just in your soul, but also in your heart.   And we do the work step by step -- in a very clear program.   Check it out at soulsandhearts.com/rcc -- we open registration for new members every June and December.   I'm inviting you to join me and more than 100 other faithful Catholics on this pilgrimage to much better human formation.  Get on the waiting list for the cohort that begins in December 2022.  soulsandhearts.com/rcc Talk with me about it in conversation hours call my cell 317.567.9594 any Tuesday or Thursday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern time for conversation hours.    

Learn more about Super Connected Abhijit Naskar is a  neuroscientist, author and public speaker, specialising in mental health, self-reliance, and neuro-leadership.  Connect with Abhijit here.

20. Every Spear-Dragging Yokel “It's the lost souls that lay the foundation for a better tomorrow, because those beings are not afraid to be lost, they are not afraid to fail, in the pursuit of something greater, something grander, than to just survive no different than the dogs do on the streets.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Time To Save Medicine The first show to be featured on the podcast THE UNUSEFUL HOUR, Alaxsxaq features the writing and acting of DW Draffin, who has been doing both for a very long time.

A dialogue on religious authoritarianism and the future of religion between Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar and Theologian Krzysztof Charamsa (kcharamsa.com). The discussion took place on January 20, 2021

"Science is not more important than people - philosophy is not more important than people - religion is not more important than people - people first, then everything else." - Abhijit Naskar, on New Left Radio organized by Democratic Socialists of Canada

Excerpt from "Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac"

London Police Services have ignored Pride London's request not to fly the Pride Flag in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. We're joined by Andrew Rosser, Pride London Festival Board President, to talk about the process and why BLM & Pride are common struggles. The DSC is launching Canada's only democratic socialist public policy research centre, the Centre for Canadian Progress, because policy gives power to ideas. Hear about the effort and what you can do to help move Canada forward. Then we're joined by neuroscientist, prolific writer, and humanist, Abhijit Naskar for part two of our interview about how we can change human behaviour to create a better world. Support this podcast

We're joined by MLA Marie Renaud who was removed from chambers after speaking out about the physical intimidation on the floor from UCP members. It's time for action on a wealth tax and the DSC is organizing for change. Then we're joined by neuroscientist, prolific writer, and humanist, Abhijit Naskar for part one of our interview about how we can change human behaviour to create a better world. Support this podcast

“No god is coming to save you - no messiah is coming to save you - all the gods and all the messiahs that can save our world are already here - they are us - each one of us - so, open your eyes o mighty lords of time, and cleanse this world of all barbarian impurities, with the force of your bold, brave and humane actions.” ― Abhijit Naskar, All For Acceptance

“I give you today this simple principle of social progress - adopt a neighborhood, make the problems of that neighborhood your own problems and work to solve them in any manner possible. See your neighborhood as your very own family and act upon that sense of responsibility and eventually the whole world will have enough individuals to take care of all the problems of all the neighborhoods in the world.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

I give you "The Human Hymn" for the times when you feel depleted, desolate and defeated.

Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar and Lawyer Veronica Pana Igube discuss the implications of the COVID19 pandemic in policymaking and maintaining order. The discussion took place on April 15, 2020. Check out the work of Veronica Pana Igube at https://thinkingoutloudwithveronica.com/

Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar and Actress Nika Khitrova discuss the implications of the COVID19 pandemic in the creative circle. The discussion took place on April 13, 2020.

Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar and Mathematician Ronald Cicurel discuss on the implications of the COVID19 pandemic in the global human society. The discussion took place on April 7, 2020. #COVID19 #Pandemic #StayHome #SocialDistancing #Lockdown #Panicbuying

Audio version of Abhijit Naskar's COVID19 Statement published on March 24, 2020.

The sonnet "World in Peril", read by Abhijit Naskar from the 2020 book Mad About Humans: World Maker’s Almanac

Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar, the author The Art of Neuroscience in Everything, is giving information about neuroscience and answering our questions, on the Turkey based show #teatalks. Questions answered: 0:15 Is it ethical to use neuroscience methods in marketing? 3:38 Are findings in neuroscience researches effecting science of sociology? 4:45 Can we monitor some kind of evolution of human brain? 6:05 What are the neuroscience methods to work with futurists? 8:10 Is “control of society“ possible? What are the risks if methods are used in bad way? 9:54 As we know more about human brain are we figuring out it is working more simple than we thought or just the opposite? 10:42 Will everything lose its meaning when we learn evetything about human brain?

"Lives to Serve Before I Sleep" read by Abhijit Naskar, from the 2019 book with the same title.

Season 1: Virtues of Medicine! Peer Med by Leah Sarah Peer welcomes world renowned speaker Abhijit Naskar. He is a leading neuroscientist, an international best-selling author of more than 40 books, and a global advocate of peace. He tackles fascinating questions about the human mind, neuroscience and dives into the psyche of the deeper emotions, thoughts and behaviours of human beings. He started off studying computer engineering but things took a different turn for Mr Naskar when he discovered his passion for scientific research and the study of human life. He is a champion of human rights and actively advocates for eradicating religious differences and all forms of discrimination; and for this he has been popularly hailed as a humanitarian guiding civilization as a whole. This episodes captures the two in conversation about his book Time to Save Medicine and asks for his advice to clinicians serving on the front-lines of the current health care crisis.  Abhijit Naskar: https://www.amazon.com/Abhijit-Naskar/e/B00URWDBJ8%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share The Peer Post: https://thepeerpost.wordpress.com/ 

A sonnet's glee may maketh the mind a little free from the clouds that hover above on a sickness spree.

"Sonnet of Human" read by Abhijit Naskar, from the 2018 book "Fabric of Humanity"

"Do Something So Radical" read by Abhijit Naskar, from the 2018 book "Build Bridges Not Walls: In The Name of Americana"

"Sonnet of Mind" read by Abhijit Naskar, from the 2018 book "Fabric of Humanity"

"Sonnet of Sapiens" read by Abhijit Naskar, from the book "Fabric of Humanity" published in the year 2018.

“Stop quarreling, once and for all, because once you stop quarreling, your children will stop quarreling, and then their children - and slowly the world will eventually turn into a real civilized, sentient and serene society. Your ancestors tore this whole world apart into pieces and now you are doing the same. Don't repeat their mistakes my friend and take control of your world - not your neighborhood, or your state or your country - but your world, because the whole world is your family. My Christianity is the best and your Islam is the worst - my America is the best and your Russia is the worst - my India is the best and your Pakistan is the worst - my Bulgaria is the best and your Turkey is the worst - my Britain is the best and your France is the worst - stop this 'mine and yours' business once and for all and start thinking as 'ours' - our America - our Russia - our Christianity - our Islam - our Britain - our France - our Bulgaria - our Turkey - all of it either belongs to all of us or to none of us. Stop thinking tribal and start thinking human.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“It is a mistake to look upon liberty as just a set of principles – just so much language printed on fine heavy paper – something you recite and then lean back and take it for granted that liberty has just been given to you. Liberty must be engraved in our heart and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit. We cannot even exist as first class human beings, unless we are willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day in our lives to preserve it against all prejudicial odds, for ourselves as well as our neighbors.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“Do you know who is a human? Every creature that doesn't walk away at the sight of injustice, is a human. Every creature that doesn’t look the other way, when faced with corruption, is a human. Every creature that doesn’t turn a deaf ear to discrimination, is a human.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

"Climate change is a human rights infringement - also it is a criminal offence, because by not taking action to fix it, a citizen would be essentially committing homicide of countless citizens of the future." "Providing food, shelter, clothing and education is not enough any more, because all of this would have no meaning in the end, if your children do not have a planet to live on with health and prosperity." "If you don't act against climate change, then no matter how much money you leave for your children, it'll not even cover their healthcare bills, due to living in an unhealthy planet. What can you do, you ask! Avoid unnecessary use of cars and motorcycles, consume electricity less and plant trees more." - Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“I belong to America, as much as I belong to Russia - I belong to England, as much as I belong to France - I belong to Bulgaria, as much as I belong to Turkey - I belong to India, as much as I belong to Pakistan, Bangladesh and so on. I belong to every nation on this planet. Every country is my country - every culture is my culture - every history is my history. One who sacrifices the self in the service of others, no longer sees any separation whatsoever between the self and the rest of the world - it all becomes one.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Rise, my thinking sibling, wherever you are right now, and take the eternal pledge with me - "I, a living, breathing and above all, conscientious creature of planet earth, do solemnly swear to none but myself, that no matter the circumstances, I shall always stand by the people of my kind, my humanity, beyond the bounds of race, religion, gender, tradition and sexual orientation - I shall accept differences, but not differentiation - I shall accept both belief and disbelief, but not discrimination - I shall accept both intellect and ignorance, but not arrogance - I shall observe the good and bad from all backgrounds, and accept only the good while discarding the vices and violence.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

Neuroscientist, Author and Peacemaker Abhijit Naskar takes us on an investigative journey of beliefs and their implications in the human society.

Abhijit Naskar's famous statement "we are but a bunch of neurons", has triggered some people to proclaim Naskar to be a "Reductionist". In this brief message the celebrated Neuroscientist addresses the issue.

In response to the religious extremists, Abhijit Naskar reminds us once again, that he is an advocate of harmony and equality, not of atheism. Suggested Reading: 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All, 2019

In response to emails that criticize Abhijit Naskar for calling fundamentalists "stone-age" and for advocating LGBT Rights. Suggested Reading: Illusion of Religion, 2017

Abhijit Naskar's response to Whoopi Goldberg's criticism of Bella Thorne for taking nude pictures.

In this talk Abhijit Naskar sheds light on the practical place of reasoning and rational thinking in our daily life. Suggested Reading: A Push in Perception, 2017

"To disagree doesn't mean to hate." - Abhijit Naskar. Suggested Reading: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders, 2019

Abhijit Naskar reads to us an excerpt from his book "The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth."

An insightful and inspiring talk on Mental Health by the Celebrated Neuroscientist, Bestselling Author and renowned Speaker on health and harmony Abhijit Naskar. Also, in this talk he reveals to us how his own OCD has not stopped him from being one of the most influential minds in Neuroscience.

An insightful talk on #FakeNews by the Celebrated Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar. You can send your questions at neurocookies@outlook.com

An insightful talk on the phenomenon of Enlightenment by the world's beloved Humanitarian Neuroscientist and Bestselling Author Abhijit Naskar, brought to you by The Naskar Store ( www.teespring.com/stores/naskar ), where you can buy all sorts of humanitarian t-shirts and other merchandise, from the literary universe of Abhijit Naskar.

This is an interview of Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar by Damien Marie AtHope, where they address the human mind as well as terms like religion, spiritual, soul, god, humanism, and religion. Original Interview Link: http://damienmarieathope.com/2018/05/abhijit-naskar-neuroscientist-bestselling-author-acclaimed-speaker-on-the-human-mind-and-peace-advocate/

  What does neuroscience say about the effects of abuse on a developing brain? Why do parents become abusive? How to end the pattern of abuse if you were abused as a child. Our guest, Abhijit Naskar, is a world famous Neuroscientist, International Bestselling Author and a Popular Speaker on issues of mental wellness and global harmony. He has written 31 books on the human mind.   ----more----Some of his popular books are "The Art of Neuroscience in Everything", "What is Mind?", and "Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting". His extensive and rejuvenating works of Science and Philosophy have taught us how the basic awareness of the brain can completely redefine our perception of life and help us live better lives. His has inspired millions around the world to take a deeper and fresher look within to create a healthier self and a healthier society. Contact Info: Website: www.naskarism.wordpress.com Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/abhijitnaskar Email: naskarism@gmail.com ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Click on this link https://goo.gl/Hx92H1 to get my Amazon #1 Bestselling book titled “Your Amazing Itty Bitty™ Family Leadership Book: 15 Simple Tips Successful Companies Use That Families Can Implement At Home” Go to www.ParentPumpRadio.com to leave your questions, comments, and suggestions for future shows.  #abhijitnaskar #effectsofabuse #endingabuse #happyfamily #harmoniousfamily, #parentpumpradio #integrativeminds #Jacquelinetdhuynh #Jacquelinehuynh     

What does neuroscience say about the effects of neglect and isolation on a developing brain? Is technology necessarily bad for a child's brain? How can we raise healthy kids with healthy minds and body? Our guest, Abhijit Naskar, is a world famous Neuroscientist, International Bestselling Author and a Popular Speaker on issues of mental wellness and global harmony. He has written 31 books ----more----on the human mind.   Some of his popular books are "The Art of Neuroscience in Everything", "What is Mind?", and "Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting". His extensive and rejuvenating works of Science and Philosophy have taught us how the basic awareness of the brain can completely redefine our perception of life and help us live better lives. His has inspired millions around the world to take a deeper and fresher look within to create a healthier self and a healthier society. Contact Info: Website: www.naskarism.wordpress.com Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/abhijitnaskar Email: naskarism@gmail.com …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Click on this link https://goo.gl/Hx92H1 to get my Amazon #1 Bestselling book titled “Your Amazing Itty Bitty™ Family Leadership Book: 15 Simple Tips Successful Companies Use That Families Can Implement At Home” Go to www.ParentPumpRadio.com to leave your questions, comments, and suggestions for future shows.   #abhijitnaskar #effectsneglect #effectsisolation #happyfamily #harmoniousfamily, #parentpumpradio #integrativeminds #Jacquelinetdhuynh #Jacquelinehuynh 

In this episode, we venture into a warm and personal exchange between Abhijit and Alise that explores how understanding neuroscience can help our relationships across all of life. We talk about how meditation and mindfulness can give us access to our inner state and how doing so can help us continue our spiritual journeys in ways that may even contribute to a more peaceful world.

In this episode, we venture into a warm and personal exchange between Abhijit and Alise that explores how understanding neuroscience can help our relationships across all of life. We talk about how meditation and mindfulness can give us access to our inner state and how doing so can help us continue our spiritual journeys in ways that may even contribute to a more peaceful world.

In this episode, we venture into a warm and personal exchange between Abhijit and Alise that explores how understanding neuroscience can help our relationships across all of life. We talk about how meditation and mindfulness can give us access to our inner state and how doing so can help us continue our spiritual journeys in ways that may even contribute to a more peaceful world.

We all agree that meditation is very important, but what exactly is meditation? Abhijit Naskar invites us to think in terms of functionality as opposed to tradition. Not that there is anything wrong with traditional meditation practices… but we may be unnecessarily limiting our options.  In this conversation, we talk about finding ways to develop […]

We all agree that meditation is very important, but what exactly is meditation? Abhijit Naskar invites us to think in terms of functionality as opposed to tradition. Not that there is anything wrong with traditional meditation practices… but we may be unnecessarily limiting our options.  In this conversation, we talk about finding ways to develop […]

We all agree that meditation is very important, but what exactly is meditation? Abhijit Naskar invites us to think in terms of functionality as opposed to tradition. Not that there is anything wrong with traditional meditation practices… but we may be unnecessarily limiting our options.  In this conversation, we talk about finding ways to develop […]

"Real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one." - Abhijit Naskar

In this episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar sheds light on the psychological elements that make religion an obstruction in human progress.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Religion-Treatise-Religious-Fundamentalism/dp/154704540X/Transcript:Religion - this is the term that every human being is very deeply acquainted with, and it has a lot of significance in the human society. More importantly, to some humans this term induces feelings of comfort and serenity, whereas to some others, it induces a sense of violence and stupidity. So in this episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons I, Abhijit Naskar, will mention five psychological elements that make religion an obstruction in human progress not an aid in human development. In the next episode I shall mention the elements that make religion an aid in individual life.Number 1Fundamentalism - this is the biggest threat to the human society and in today's world this term is associated more with the so-called realm of religion than with any other system of the society. Fundamentalism means literal interpretation of every word of a scripture and accepting those words with utmost obedience. And that leads to chaos in the world, because scriptures not only have good teachings, they also have evil instructions, originally meant for the spreading of the exclusive authority of their corresponding religions. And this leads to nothing but bloodshed.Number 2Bigotry - my God is the only God and yours is false, and if you don't believe in my God then you are doomed. You'll burn in hell after you die for eternity. This kind of mentality requires medical attention. Never engage i a conversation or debate with such an individual, because it won't get you anywhere. You'll only waste precious time of yours.Number 3Indoctrination of children - indoctrinating children from a very age to believe in imaginary stories such as the biblical story of creation is only an obstruction in the path of human progress.Number 4Unwillinglness to evolve - as I have said in one of my books "any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world". And that's exactly where most of today's so-called religions fall short. They don't wanna evolve, although they are evolving through their people, because the human mind cannot stay rigid, it has to evolve on its own in order to be suitable with the time and environment. And that's the only way that today's religions are evolving, quite unwillingly. That's why the process is happening in the speed of a turtle. But if humanity is to progress then turtle speed won't do.Number 5Obedience to scriptures - in order to become effective, healthy and progressive, religions of the world have to break free from their innate obedience towards their scriptures. Religion cannot bring progress, like Science does, unless it breaks free from its ancestral bondage with the scriptures. Books of the dead people cannot be instruction manual for religion in a civilized human society. The human heart and the human behavior are to be the guiding elements in religion, not scriptures.We are scientists and philosophers, and we bring progress in the human world, not because we are smart, but because the sole purpose behind our endeavors is to be better in our thinking than we were yesterday. We are changing. We are evolving, with every single step that we take. We never hold on to one book and say that everything written in that book is irrefutable, unless such statement can be backed up with robust evidence. And the moment, the religions of the human society adapts this simple characteristic of progress, that will be the moment when every single scientist and philosopher will salute religion with respect not due to fear of being beheaded.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

"There is no absolute, pure form of the idea of God." - Abhijit Naskar

In this episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar reveals the biological truth underneath the claims of afterlife experiences.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-God-Biopsy-Cognitive-Reality/dp/152296942X/Transcript:A lot of people apparently have visited heaven - and yes they do claim so. And even though it sounds preposterous to rational thinkers, in reality their experiences are quite peculiarly true. Let me shed light on this matter on today's episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons. And I am Abhijit Naskar. Heaven is real - naaaaah, I'm just messing with ya. Let me tell you five facts about heaven.Number 1The idea of an afterlife was created by the imagination of our ancient ancestors who lived in tribes and had way little intellectual capacity. And further this idea fueled in people's actual encounter with heaven.Number 2There are people who have actually gone to haven and come back. Well, in their subjective reality, it is like that anyways. Which means, even though they did not actually budge even a little from their mortal body, the experience of visiting heaven did manifest in their mind as an actual lively experience.Number 3Such encounters often occur when a person faces a life and death situation. I have discussed this matter in detail in my book "Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality". So when people face death, in that extreme stress the brain releases a uniquely special neurochemical which happens to be more powerful in terms of its hallucinogenic properties than LSD. This chemical is called DMT, or DimethylTryptamine.Number 4When your brain releases substantial amounts of DMT in times of distress such as a near death event, your mind goes into an altered state - a state of profound hallucinations where your deepest desires or darkest fears manifest as reality. And this reality seems so damn real that even a neurosurgeon can become the dumbest man on earth and start to hail it as a real experience in heaven where he apparently flies around on the back of a butterfly. Really!Number 5Consciousness is the product of electrochemical signalling in the neurons of your brain. So when the brain stops functioning fully, your consciousness, or to a broader aspect your mind ceases to exist with its unique individualistic qualities. This means that you die with the death of your brain.Hard as it may sound to some, there is no heaven, or hell, or an ever-enchanting realm of brothels that you go to after you die. And that is more reason that you need to pay attention to this life. Because one life is all you got. Make the most out of it.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature, Naskar & Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

"Free will does exist, but not exactly the way you think." - Abhijit Naskar, Neuroscientist

In this episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar sheds light on the exact benefits that the practice of meditation brings in your life!Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Divinity-Journey-Conscience-Neurotheology/dp/1539562670/Transcript:You obviously know what meditation means. And you'd also know that meditation brings benefits in human life. But do you know what kind of benefits does meditation brings exactly? I am Abhijit Naskar and welcome to Nature, Naskar & Neurons. Today I'll you give five reasons for practising meditation.Number 1Meditation makes you have better grip over your emotions. Daily practice of it makes you emotionally more stable than usual. Which means with daily practice of meditation, over time you'd get angry less - you'll get disturbed less - you'd get anxious less.Number 2Meditation improves memory.Number 3Meditation influences your autonomic functioning in a positive manner. Which means though meditation is specifically good for your mind, it also improves your physiological state of being. In short meditation takes care of your physical health as well alongside being extremely effective in uplifting the mind.Number 4Doing meditation in a group such as with friends or family can increases its efficacy. But here one thing you need to know is that, practise meditation in a group only if you are comfortable with the people in the group, otherwise it is better to practise alone.Number 5If you can influence your child to make meditation their daily habit, then the possibility of them suffering from anxiety and depression in later life would drop to a huge extent.Remember, meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

In this episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar clears the confusion surrounding the glorious idea of transcendence!Further Reading:https://www.amazon.com/Search-Divinity-Journey-Conscience-Neurotheology/dp/1539562670/Transcript:Human history is replete with incidents of an apparently divine state of mind. It is commonly what you's know as transcendence. And because it is a rarely attained state of mind, it induces of lot mysticism and confusions in the human mind. I am Abhijit Naskar, and welcome to Nature, Naskar & Neurons. Today I'll attempt to clear your confusion about the so-called glorious idea of transcendence with six simple facts about it.Number 1Transcendence has nothing to do with a Supernatural Entity. It is exclusive a matter of the human mind - the human brain.Number 2Transcendence is an altered state of consciousness, in this state various subconscious ideas that your conscious mind never had access to, suddenly bubble to the surface, and make things more clear to you. Suddenly everything begins to make sense.Number 3Because these ideas are coming from the depths of your own mind they can have both good and bad elements. Often due to preconceived exaggerated notion of this state, it manifests in the human mind according to that notion. Which means, if a person truly believes that it is the state where a mortal meets God, he or she would actually experience a personal encounter of God, where the image and personality of that God would be made by the brain cased on the person's preconceived ideas of God.Number 4In Neuroscience we have pinpointed various regions of the brain that actually become unusually active in this state of mind, while some other regions turn inactive.Number 5The state of transcendence often influences a person's moral compass to a great extent. It can also rewire the brain circuits in a way that can turn even an immoral person into a highly moral being. Also the state of transcendence can rewire a person to perceive deeds of great evil such as killing people who hold different belief system, as a divine act. Basically a person goes through an utter personality shift by going into transcendence. In most cases throughout history good people have come out this state of great people, and narcissists have come out as human-looking monsters. There are also occasions where ill minded people have become good and dedicated their lives for a great cause after coming out of transcendence.Number 6Any human being can attain the state of transcendence. All you need is dedication and patience. And the most effective way to attain it is through meditation - every day a little bit of practice would bring you closer to that state. And do not worry about coming out of that state as an evil psychopath. If your mind is free from prejudices, then you shall rise from that state as a true sage. And if you ask why would you even bother to attain the transcendence - well there is no great reason really except for experiencing what most of the prophets of human history experienced. So basically you'd be experiencing the birth state of all religions in the world. As I have said in my book "In Search of Divinity: Journey to the kingdom of conscience", it is the "fountain head of all religions". And still if all these do not seem appealing to you, then let me give you the physiological perspective on this matter. The best part of the pursuit of transcendence is that, practice of meditation every day basically makes your mind and body healthy whether you ultimately attain transcendence or not.So my dear friends, think of it as scavenger hunt where the ultimate reward lies within your own mind. So begin your journey right away with at least ten minutes of meditation daily. This will impact your mind as well as body, but specifically your mind. You shall attain emotional stability like never before.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

In this episode of Consciousness with Naskar, Abhijit Naskar illuminates the foundation of afterlife in the human brain.

In this episode 6 of Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar illuminates the issue of social programming and mentions four facts about it.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Islamophobic-Civilization-Voyage-Acceptance-Neurotheology/dp/1542561817/https://www.amazon.com/What-Mind-Abhijit-Naskar/dp/1535080558/Transcript:The human mind is a sponge that is relentlessly absorbing information from the environment. This ceaseless stream of information influences the mind and contributes to the shaping of your psyche. This is basically what you commonly know as social programming - which means the predominant habits of a society become the habits of its inhabitants. I am Abhijit Naskar, and welcome to another episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons. Today I'll address the issue of social programming and mention four facts about it that you need to know.Number 1Social programming occurs throughout a person's lifetime - since birth till death. It is a relentless process which programs your mind without you being even aware of it.Number 2The society you are born in determines your character and personality to a huge extent. In fact the power of social programming can be so intense that the predominant prejudices of a society can become the prejudices of the newly born members of that society when they grow up.Number 3Very few individuals with a strong conscience and an active faculty of reasoning can actually look beyond the predominant norms and habits of their surroundings. These people are not specifically immune to social programming, or which we clinically call "social conditioning". They simply have a more rational mind which overpowers the society's influence.Number 4The earliest scientific experiment which brought the attention of our scientific community towards the vast impact of conditioning was an experiment conducted on dogs by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov discovered that any object or event which the dogs learnt to associate with food would trigger them to salivate. In his experiment, Pavlov used a bell as his neutral stimulus. Whenever he gave food to his dogs, he also rang a bell. After a number of repeats of this procedure, he tried the bell on its own without giving the dog any food. As you might expect, the bell on its own now caused an increase in salivation. Which means he basically programmed the dog to salivate not at the sight of food but simply at the sound of the bell. This same phenomenon happens to general human population all through lifetime in various walks of life. One of the most horrific examples of such conditioning of the human mind is the phenomenon you know today as Islamophobia, as I have depicted in my book "The Islamophobic Civilization". Either directly or indirectly the media has conditioned the minds of the general population to associate acts of terrorism with the religion Islam. For example the other day I watching an old episode of Homeland and I came across that even that specific TV Show has the potential to induce Islamophobia in its viewers as it gloriously depicts a simple religious conversion of an American man from Christianity into Islam as his communion with terrorism.So you see conditioning occurs in the human society without most of the humans even being aware of it. Those with a stronger mind are the only ones who can actually stand invincible to such conditioning. I am Abhijit Naskar wishing you a life less conditioned.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

In this episode of Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar illuminates human stupidity with four examples.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Neurosutra-Abhijit-Naskar-Collection/dp/1516804538/Transcript:Knowledge is something that can be backed up with reasoning. If an argument cannot be reasoned with then that argument has nothing to do with knowledge, rather it has to do with ignorance and bigotry. I am Abhijit Naskar and welcome to Nature, Naskar & Neurons. Today's episode is a little different than the ones you have enjoyed so far on this show. Today I'll address the Illusion of Knowledge. I'll mention a few examples of the fake glory of human stupidity.Number 1The earth is not flat. You'd be surprised to know that even in this age of satellites and space probes there are some people who genuinely believe that the earth is flat, not an oblate spheroid. Such belief is mostly motivated by pseudoscience and literal interpretation of scriptures. In 1881, English writer Samuel Rowbotham published Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe, a 430-page book in which he affirmed that Earth is flat. After he passed away in 1884, Lady Elizabeth Blount, who admired his work, established a Universal Zetetic Society whose objective was "to carry on the work of the master." So yes, they still do carry on the work with their argument being, I quote "sensory observation prevail over scientific theory."Number 2Vaccines do not cause Autism. A vaccine introduces a diminished form of a pathogen into the body in order to stimulate the immune system to develop adaptive immunity to that pathogen. The idea that vaccination causes autism was attractive to some people who wanted to find a clear cause for Autism, and unfortunately the idea still prevails in some people. However, this idea arose from a few studies that were badly conducted and have since been proven wrong. Many high quality studies have compared the health of large numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated children over many years. The largest study included 537,303 children born in Denmark and found that unvaccinated children were just as likely to develop autism as vaccinated children. So rest assured, there is no correlation between vaccination and autism.Number 3Global warming is real. It is as real as the sun being hot or poo being disgusting. Anyone who does not know this yet, well, we'll all drown anyways, so who cares? The bottom-line is, take action to cool your planet or the planet will take action and cool your life - forever. Here are a few actions that you can take right away in order to make a significant impact, or don't and let your grandchildren suffer for your mistakes. Driving is one of the biggest ways people contribute to global warming, so minimize driving in any manner you can, by car pooling to work, riding a bike or using public transportation, or any other way. And also consume as less energy as you can.Number 4Scriptures are not books consisting factual truth. The only way that we humans can accept scriptures as part of modern human life, is to accept them as metaphorical. The best thing that you can do however, as a rational human being with a brain, is to read all the scriptures and then accept all the good parts and reject the rest. Remember, humanism first, then books, regardless of whether those books have great value in your culture.I am Abhijit Naskar, wishing you a planet of less illusions. And just for the record, me wishing you, won't change anything, unless you take action. So take action and bring the change you wish to see in your planet.References:https://www.amazon.com/Neurosutra-Abhijit-Naskar-Collection/dp/1516804538/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7b77ng/flat-earth-society-interview-876Madsen, KM. et al. A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism. New England Journal of Medicine 2002;347:1477-1482Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

Abhijit Naskar shares five interesting tricks to keep a relationship strong and healthy.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mating-Treatise-Monogamy-Humanism/dp/154681759Xhttps://www.amazon.com/Love-Sutra-Neuroscientific-Manual/dp/1515324400Transcript:A pleasurable romantic relationship is something that everybody wants in this world, yet when they have it, after some time they begin to feel less and less pleased with their choices. But why? I am Abhijit Naskar, and you are watching Nature, Naskar & Neurons. In this video I'll give YOU five tricks to keep your relationship strong and healthy through time.Number 1Commit to a relationship only after you are convinced that the other person is good human being and truly trustworthy. And once you commit, do not ever show mistrust with your partner's behavior no matter how weird the situation is. If you must then have an open conversation out of curiosity, not out of mistrust. Never let your partner feel mistrust towards him or her. Be mad, be sad, be jealous, but never mistrustful.Number 2Here I would bring up a quote from my book "Wise Mating""Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself." Which means, choose the person who makes you a better human being.Number 3Again I'd quote from my book "Wise Mating""Try to respond to your partner instead of reacting." So whenever you have an issue, try your best to understand the situation and respond to it softly, instead of react to it like a wild animal.Number 4When things go out of hand, you find yourself extremely angry to make any rational decision, train your mind to refrain from having an angry outburst at your partner. Remember, words do more harm than you think. And when your brain is kicked into fight or flight mode it rarely thinks things rationally. So in such a mental state walk away from the situation for a while and calm your mind. And you'll see that when you are calm, all those negative thoughts that you were having towards your partner would suddenly appear meaningless. So don't talk when you are mad. Tell your partner that you need some time and walk away for while to calm your mind.Number 5A relationship is not a competition. You don't always have to win. Sometimes it is healthy to simply lose. And if you ask why? I'd say this. Because studies have shown that those who successfully manage to keep their relationship alive and healthy, have healthier and longer lives.This is Abhijit Naskar and you were watching Nature, Naskar & Neurons. For more videos like this hit the subscribe button down below. And remember, always respond, not react.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

Abhijit Naskar destroys Homophobia with five intriguing facts of Homosexuality, while destroying Homophobia.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Either-Civilized-Phobic-Treatise-Homosexuality/dp/1546603034/Transcript:If you live in a human society, then hopefully you have heard these phrases - "homosexuality is a sin", "homosexuality is blasphemy", "homosexuality is against god". So do these phrases have even an ounce of truth behind them? I am Abhijit Naskar, and you are watching Nature, Naskar & Neurons. In today's video I'll address the issue of homosexuality and mention five facts of it.Number 1Homosexuality is not a sin, it is a biological variation. As I have said in my treatise on Homosexuality "Either Civilized or Phobic" - "being homosexual is no more abnormal than being left handed."Number 2Homosexuality is a neurological diversity which cannot be reversed or muted.Number 3Homosexuality is not a disease that needs to be fixed. It is a common variation of sexual expression. And the only disease that actually needs to be fixed is the notion that homosexuality is a disease or a sin.Number 4Here I'd quote from my book "Either Civilized or Phobic" - "Homosexuals are not made, they are born."Number 5The evolutionary purpose behind homosexuality is to serve as a population control mechanism.This is Abhijit Naskar and you were watching Nature, Naskar & Neurons. For more videos like this hit the subscribe button down below. And remember, those who hail homosexuality as a disease or a sin are the real disease on this planet. Prejudices have no place in the society of civilized humans. As the title of my treatise "Either Civilized or Phobic" implies - one cannot be both civilized and homophobic. A person simply cannot want to be hailed as a human being and at the same time be homophobic. Homophobia, Islamophobia, Misogyny - these are the greatest threats of today's society. So you must my friend, work to get your environment rid of those heinous elements - these heinous mental elements. And the most effective way to start that is to make your kids real conscientious beings - raise your kids as civilized, conscientious human beings without the evils of prejudice in their heart.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar sheds light on the idea of God and elucidates its rise in the human mind as an evolutionary mechanism.Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-God-Biopsy-Cognitive-Reality/dp/152296942X/Transcript:Mankind has slaughtered more innocent lives throughout the ages in the name of God than for any other reason. So what is this God thing? Is it a delusion, a parasite, a poison or a placebo. I am Abhijit Naskar, and you are watching Nature, Naskar & Neurons. And in this video I'll tell you 5 things that you need to know about God.Number 1There are at least two Gods that you need to be aware of, not one. First and foremost is the God or the pack of Gods that humanity has been worshipping till now - the Abrahamic God, the Gods of the Vedas, and all those mythological divine figures. And the second God is the one that is the actual driving force behind the universe, of which we know nothing - if there is any such force that is.Number 2The idea of a supreme divine entity evolved in the human mind to serve the purpose of self-preservation. Which means this notion was born through the process of natural selection as an important evolutionary element of the human mind. This God is the first God that I mentioned earlier.Number 3The God or Gods that humans from all over the world have worshipped through ages are all human creations - these gods are all created in the human mind either through imagination or in a transcendental state. In short, the God or Gods mentioned in the scriptures do not exist in reality. Belief keeps those gods alive in the human mind. Once the humans stop believing in them, they would cease to exist.Number 4The God of the human society acts basically as an effective placebo for the masses, which in reality does indeed have both physiological and psychological benefits in the individual. And that is the reason that this very notion has survived till now. However, what I must mention here is that belief in a personal God may be okay, but fighting with the fellow humans to prove the exclusive authority of that God over all others, is not only not okay, but basically an act of an animal, not human.Number 5Now comes the actual kind of God - the God that we scientists, or basically any rational being could consider to be the actual driving force behind the universe. Despite all our technological achievements, we humans are simply still too dumb a species to fathom such a grand force in action behind the enigma of the universe. Which means the real God, if there is any such thing, would be something beyond our puny human understanding at this point of time. May be in distant future, some day our distant progeny will be mentally capable enough to understand this grand force, but right now we are at infancy as a species.Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

First Episode of "Nature, Naskar & Neurons" where celebrated Neuroscientist and Abhijit Naskar reveals five things about Consciousness.Further Reading: http://www.amazon.com/What-Mind-Abhijit-Naskar/dp/1535080558http://www.amazon.com/Neurosutra-Abhijit-Naskar-Collection/dp/1516804538Transcript:As a Neuroscientist, one question that I encounter a lot is what is consciousness? So in this video I shall be addressing five things you need to know about consciousness.Number 1.Consciousness is the functional expression of the the nervous system, or to be more precise - the brain. The neurons create consciousness.Number 2.The brain is not a receiver of consciousness. It is the creator of consciousness. Consciousness does not come from the outside world into the human body and suddenly makes you become conscious. It is exclusively an internal process - a biological process. Without biology, consciousness does not exist.Number 3.Because the neurons construct consciousness - the moment these neurons stop working the consciousness ceases to exist. Which means, there is no afterlife, no heaven, no hell - only now and this life. All you got is one life, so make the most of it. You consciousness is born with your brain, and once the brain stops working, you cease to exist as your unique individual self.Number 4.There is no hard problem of consciousness. This problem - that is how consciousness is physically produced in biological life, used to haunt philosophers for ages. And it did exist until we started to understand the human brain. And now that we know how the brain works and how every single element of human mental universe is constructed in the neurons, the problem of consciousness no longer exists. The collective expression of the neurons in your anatomy is consciousness.Number 5.Consciousness cannot be transferred into computers. Computers can only record information, but they still cannot feel that information outside the programming of their creator. Whatever a computer does, it has to be programmed for it. So, machines can be made a lot smarter than the humans, they cannot be made conscious like humans. If strong artificial intelligence is ever constructed, it will be something radically different than the human mind. It will be something unique.That's it for today's video my friends. I am Abhijit Naskar, and you are watching Nature Naskar & Neurons. To see more videos like this hit the subscribe button down below. If you have an idea for a new video related to the human mind, leave a comment and we'll be sure to check it out. Wishing you fantabulous moments, this is Abhijit Naskar saying "be Gods and make Gods".Follow Nature Naskar Neurons here:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarismWordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgWljSCanyPv56GlEY6thggYou can support Nature Naskar Neurons here: http://www.patreon.com/naskarism

In this episode of Consciousness with Naskar, Abhijit Naskar explains how life is purely about survival, if there is no human to glorify it. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/naskarism Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarism Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/naskarism Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/naskarism Wordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.com

In this episode of Consciousness with Naskar, Abhijit Naskar explains why science and religion are still at war with each other. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/naskarism Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarism Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/naskarism Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/naskarism Wordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.com

Celebrated Neuroscientist Naskar reveals the path to peace on earth. Also, Abhijit Naskar's exclusive WebSeries "Nature, Naskar & Neurons" is now online. Go right ahead on YouTube and subscribe to the channel "Nature Naskar Neurons. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/naskarism Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarism Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/naskarism Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/naskarism Wordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.com

In this breathtaking episode, Abhijit Naskar answers one of the most controversial questions of modern society - is Islam a religion of peace or violence? Support us: https://www.patreon.com/naskarism Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naskarism Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/naskarism Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/naskarism Wordpress: http://www.naskarism.wordpress.com

Looking for more One Last Thought content? You can now join the OLT Insider program at: glow.fm/oltinsider and unlock your very own private feed packed with exclusive episodes!To find out about our different tiers and all the perks that go along with them, please visit: www.patreon.com/onelastthoughtWant to join the One Last Thought newsletter? I’d love to stay in touch! Please sign up using this link: https://mailchi.mp/3bac16511abb/onelastthoughtpodGuests: Christine Chen, Abhijit Naskar.In this week’s episode of The One Last Thought Podcast, we are joined by two great leaders in Christine Chen, and Abhijit Naskar. Unbeknownst to one another, they were both talking about the purpose of life as they see it, the importance of death to living fully, and what it means to be truly alive.Guest bios: Christine Chen is the Author of "Psychology of Third Culture Kids".Abhijit Naskar is one of the world's most celebrated Neuroscientists, an International Bestselling Author of numerous books and an untiring advocate of mental wellness and global harmony. His TED talk is entitled "Neurons Giveth, Neurons Taketh Away".Connect with our guests:Christine Chen:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinechen/Twitter: https://twitter.com/cristineChenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/cristinechenshinpeiInstagram: https://instagram.com/cristineshinchen/Email: cristinechenmindset@gmail.comWebsite: https://cristinechen.comAbhijit Naskar:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naskarinfo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/naskarismWebsite: https://naskarism.wordpress.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/naskarism/Facebook: https://facebook.com/naskarismTEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNX-Q0ySm80Book: https://amazon.com/author/abhijitnaskarSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-last-thought/exclusive-content