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Astonishingly rich is the heritage of Indian psychology. Embodied in some of the better-known, traditional philosophical systems, it convincingly spells out the rationale behind memory, recognition, emotions, instincts, reasoning, creativity, and myriad other mind-related phenomena, which sofar remain baffling, unanswered questions in modern cognitive sciences, mechanistic psy-chology and their kindred disciplines. Mind and Supermind, for the first time, systema-tically unfolds Vedantic psychology in its larger effort not only to evolve an integrated perspective on mind, but also to synthesize ancient wisdom with contemporary sciences. A distinguished scholar of Sanskrit, philo-sophy and science, Professor Panda here re-explores the nature of mind, its Indian concept and how it compares with its Western world-view: religious, philosophi-cal, psychological, and scientific. Thus elabo-rating the concepts of mind as set out in the Sankhya, Yoga, Tantra, Vedanta and other orthodox systems vis-a-vis (a) philosophical perspectives: from Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Strawson, (b) psychologi-cal viewpoints of William James, Freud, Jung, Watson and others, (c) theories of modern physiologists/physicists governing brain, mind, and artificial intelligence; the author builds a solid foundation for the superstructure of parapsychological pheno-mena. And also speculates about the possibi-lities for (individual) 'mind' to link up with the 'Supermind', which, in Vedantic concept, is Brahman: fundamental Consciousness that illumines everything living and non-living. Growing from years of Dr. Panda's indepth, analytical studies, the book is offered to dis-cerning audiences in two parts: Indian Pers-pective (Volume 1) and Western Perspective (Volume 2), with relevant illustrative material. AUTHOR DETAILS: Nrusingh Charan Panda is the 1929-born 'Scientist Emeritus' having retired from the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, as Professor and Dean of the Veterinary Faculty. Notwith-standing his specialization in Nutritional Biochemistry with M.Sc and Ph.D degrees of the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, Dr. Panda is essentially a versatile personality, combining in him the endow-ments of a scientist, a Sanskritist, a philoso-pher, and a litterateur. And his achieve-ments have been recognized, at different times, with a number of prestigious awards/honours, like the Membership of America's Gamma Sigma Delta Society, Orissa's Sahitya Academy Award and Sarala Award. Internationally reputed for his scientific interpretations of Vedic literature, Professor Panda has also authored the widely acclaimed books: Maya in Physics and The Vibrating Universe. His is at once integral, synthetic, holistic approach.