Psychics as clairvoyants, fortunetellers, and earth-bound connections to the spirit world can be traced back thousands of years and as far away as ancient Egypt. As an element of American popular culture in the 1990s, the Psychic Friends Network is as...

Americans have a strong belief in psychic phenomena. A 2001 Gallup survey found that 50 percent of Americans believe in extrasensory perception and 54 percent believe in psychic healing. Just over one—third (36 percent) believe in telepathy, while...

Integral psychology, in the adaptation of Sri Aurobindo's spiritual teachings, refers to an understanding of the various planes and parts of being, which is essential to the practice of integral yoga. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText =...

History Musa xparadisiaca The term banana is Spanish-Portuguese from Guinea. Plantain (the other term whose origin is not known) refers in India to a coarse banana. Though the two terms are regarded as almost synonymous, banana refers botanically to Musa paradisiaca,...

Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit by Sampadananda Mishra; Institute of Research in Social Sciences, a unit of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, India. There is no doubt that the Sanskrit language made a very deep inmpression on Sri Aurobindo. It might even be said...