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How to Defend Peace and Resolve Conflicts among Ancient, Modern and the Contemporary Civilizations with the help of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Comparative Religious Studies has all of the posts and the articles that are based on my discussions with the Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of
Adelaide, South Australia, Prof. Gill who replaced Prof. John as the Head in 1990. It also includes the discussions with other professors of Philosophy and Logic. It also includes many thesis works I have been submitting since then.
The richness that I received in this discussion and such articles also includes the discussions with Prof. Simpson from Physics, Human and Society, a subject that I studied in the First Year of B.Sc. (Math). Prof.
Paul Davies, who is one of the most renowned writer and lecture in the Physics and Science in general was the Head, Department of Mathematics Science. His lectures also influenced me a lot.
The lecture that he delivered in 1990 described that all of the students in our class attended was on Nature, Big Bang and Humans dealing with it: "The hypothesis is that with scientific discipline and mathematics, human minds are able to progressively capture Nature's onion-like structure because that structure, which includes the structure of the mind itself, is basically mathematically regular (with lots of accidents). (With thanks from the source:
http://www.edge.org/discourse/science_faith.html)
Image via WikipediWhat I enjoyed most as well in 1990 was that he (his photo is on the right) was Head of the Department of
Mathematical Science, I am proud to be his student as Paul Davies has worked a lot on this topic: "Paul Davies, professor of mathematical physics at the
University of Adelaide, published
God and the New Physics (Cambridge University Press 1984), only to receive a further (and unintended) boost from the sensational success of
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (Oxford University Press 1988), a book that ends with the sentence, "If we find the answer [to the problem of a complete theory of the universe] . . . it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would truly know the mind of God." It was this comment that prompted Paul Davies to write The Mind of God (Heinemann 1992) in which he tries to prove logically and scientifically that God, or some sort of supreme being, must exist. Other writers have followed Davies's lead and tried to show that it might be scientifically possible for a God to intervene in the universe without breaking the laws of nature, while more recently Frank Tipler, in The Physics of Mortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead (Macmillan 1995), has tried to argue that the universe was created so that we could be here to observe it, and consequently that theology should be conceived as a branch of physics..." (With thanks from the source:
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Science.htm)
Personally Paul Davies is a very calm, humble and noble person as far as I know: "In 1990 Davies went to Australia when appointed as Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Adelaide. He held this position until 1993 when he became Professor of
Natural Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. In 1998 he became a Visiting Professor at
Imperial College, London, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland. In 2001 he became Adjunct Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology,
Macquarie University, New South Wales having helped to found this Centre. In 2003 he married Pauline, a science broadcaster. He became
College Professor and Director of Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University, in 2006. His efforts to communicate the latest ideas in science to a general audience have, particularly over the last ten years, made him a household name [1]:-
He gives numerous public lectures each year throughout the world and has written twenty-seven books, both popular and specialist works, which have been translated into many languages. He writes regularly for newspapers, journals and magazines in several countries. Among Davies's better-known media productions were a series of 45 minute BBC Radio 3 science documentaries. Two of these became successful books and one, 'Desperately Seeking Superstrings', won the Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship. In early 2000 he devised and presented a three-part series for BBC Radio 4 on the origin of life, entitled 'The Genesis Factor'. His television projects include two six-part Australian series 'The Big Questions' and 'More Big Questions' and a 2003 BBC documentary about his work in astrobiology entitled 'The Cradle of Life'. ..." (With thanks from the source:
http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Davies_Paul.html)
During my discussion about why the Philosophers and Thinkers have been ignored in our modern world, Prof. Gill said wisely that it is a mistake to ignore and that I need to write at least 15 books to prove that Philosophy is a Bridge between Science and Religion. Even then it would not be approved easily, he said in 1990 as my professor of Philosophy and the Head, Department of Philosophy.
I have written more than 50 books about role of philosophers and thinkers in our modern society as well its impact in great Civilizations in which great people like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle lived. This also includes what my father Prof. Harnek Singh has studied in Philosophy, Psychology, Divinity and so many other subjects in which he has great insight due to his in-depth studies.
He is an Arjuna Award Winner Sportsman of India, the Living Legend who has been the best Player of Volleyball of Asia (Asian Champion) and Decathlon Champion of India. He has retired from Government College of Physical Education, Patiala in 1994. Along with my elder sister, I live with him and my mother. My elder sister Jasvir Kaur has done B.A. in Classical Music and Dance, and M.A. in Classical Music. She is a very good singer and dancer in the Indian Classical's.
I must add that I sincerely started to listen to him and the books he recommended that includes Yoga as well. The first ever book that I read was well elaborated about What is Philosophy, but my interest was to bring Philosophy as practical in life rather than just making it knowledge. For this reason I decided in 1986 to give a new name to it as to blend Philosophy with Science, Religion and other branches of human knowledge and wisdom. So, the name was Philselfology. It was great opportunity to materialize this thought in the University of Adelaide.
After coming back to India in 1991, I continued these studies and thus is what I write and speak, delivering lectures. Let us start with and from Indian perspective. When we say Indian, its Indian Civilization not just a nation that we know as India (also Bharat or Hindustan). Whatever we share and discuss needs some sound grounds.
And thus I also learned Yoga and Meditation (without really knowing all about it when I was studying in Class of Grade 3, and won the Third Position in the State Level Championship in 1981), yes I learned all from my elder sister Kuldeep Kaur, who is C.P.Ed., B.P.ED, M.A. in Dramatic Arts and Media (Television in particular by then), B.Ed in Yoga from Punjab (Panjab) University, Chandigarh (a 2 years intensive course by then when she finished it). I have been teaching and tutoring yoga and meditation (concentration and focus) since then.
She remained State Yoga Champion and as well as Third in the National Yoga Championship. Later I studied more in got MD in Naturopathy and Yoga and also PhD in the same for Multiple Counseling named Philselfology that I use in my practice of Multiple Counseling here in Patiala at my home. Its focuses on the role of Comparative Research Studies.
The other person did the similar is my younger sister Noni Kaur, who is M.A. in Music and P.G. Diploma in Sanskrit (University Gold medalist in both). She has won many prizes in Music, Folk Arts and some others at State to National Level Youth Festivals held by and for the colleges and the universities. She has also been State Champion in Yoga Champion many times, and participant in the National Yoga Championship. She lives in Canada now from last more than 5 years.
Australian radio broadcasted a program named Music in the House of Milk based on our family life style in which we also have had dairy farm with cows, buffaloes along with some other pets from mid 70 to mid 2010's.
All of it has an impact on my works but English is my Third Language, the Punjabi being the First and the Hindi as the Second Language, and even though I studied ESL from Muirden Colleges (Muirden High and Senior Secondary Schools) at Adelaide in South Australia in 1989.
As we have discussed one of the main post relating to the above is: Why and How European, Indian and Greek Aristocracy Influenced World - Ancient and Modern Bodies of Governance
Thanks for your time reading it.
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