Foundations of Indian Psychology, Volume 1

Record summary

This 2008 edited volume gathers essays on Indian approaches to mind, self, perception, cognition, meditation and consciousness. It is relevant as a map of indigenous conceptual frameworks that can be compared with Western parapsychology and altered-state research, especially where Sanskrit philosophical categories are used to interpret extraordinary experience. It is not itself a single experiment, and individual chapters differ in method and evidential standards. Researchers should verify chapter authorship, terminology and the distinction between historical doctrine and contemporary psychology.