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Understanding Our Minds and How We Can Liberate Ourselves and Others From the Hex of the Internet: A Vedantic Case Study

Understanding Our Minds and How We Can Liberate Ourselves and Others From the Hex of the Internet: A Vedantic Case Study

Sister Gayatriprana
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522530329|ISBN10: 1522530320|EISBN13: 9781522530336
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch018
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Gayatriprana, Sister. "Understanding Our Minds and How We Can Liberate Ourselves and Others From the Hex of the Internet: A Vedantic Case Study." Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age, edited by Bruce L. Cook, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 257-274. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch018

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Gayatriprana, S. (2018). Understanding Our Minds and How We Can Liberate Ourselves and Others From the Hex of the Internet: A Vedantic Case Study. In B. Cook (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age (pp. 257-274). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch018

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Gayatriprana, Sister. "Understanding Our Minds and How We Can Liberate Ourselves and Others From the Hex of the Internet: A Vedantic Case Study." In Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age, edited by Bruce L. Cook, 257-274. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch018

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Abstract

In facing the frustration and anger generated by the imposition by the digital world of the power of conceptual thinking and unseen algorithms, the West has sought to find the balance of inner experience. From progressive developments in psychology and a study of the great spiritual teachers of the world a model of balance between conceptual thinking and internal experience emerges: There is a need, not only to think clearly and rationally, but also to feel and empathize with all, to know deep from within what is of primary human value and the innate relationship between all beings, from the physical world to the greatest Buddha. The suggestion is that, through a secular type of spirituality integration of all of those qualities, an overall worldview will emerge. Such integration will lead directly to exuberant action that not only benefits individuals, but all whom they meet and from there outwards, outwards, and outwards, to integrate and bless the contents of the entire universe.

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