Sangeetha Menon
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Sangeetha Menon is a Professor at the School of Humanities, National Institute of Advanced Studies
(NIAS), Bangalore
. After graduating in science (zoology) she took her postgraduate degree in philosophy from University of Kerala. She joined National Institute of Advanced Studies in 1996.
Dr Menon has been working in the area of consciousness
studies for over eighteen years. She has given numerous lectures and presentations in her country and also in United States and Europe on wide-ranging issues relating to consciousness, mind, and science-spirituality interface issues. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology published an article on her research work and unique contributions (2002) to bring consciousness studies into the Indian psychological context addressing scientific and spiritual questions. Her book "Dialogues: Philosopher meets the Seer" (2003, Srishti Publishers) is a set of nine dialogues with her spiritual teacher on socio-cultural issues of contemporary importance and the common concerns of science and spiritual quest. "The Beyond Experience: Consciousness in Bhagavad Gita" is Menon’s latest book (2007, Blue Jay Books, New Delhi).
Dr Menon has visited and spoken at several Universities and academic institutions in her country and United States, Germany, Paris, Italy, Spain, England, Taiwan and Japan. More recently, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), Oxford University, for the Spring (Trinity Term) of 2007, and a Visiting Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Japan (October, 2007).
National Institute of Advanced Studies
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(NIAS), Bangalore
Bangalore
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. After graduating in science (zoology) she took her postgraduate degree in philosophy from University of Kerala. She joined National Institute of Advanced Studies in 1996.
Dr Menon has been working in the area of consciousness
Consciousness
Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
studies for over eighteen years. She has given numerous lectures and presentations in her country and also in United States and Europe on wide-ranging issues relating to consciousness, mind, and science-spirituality interface issues. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology published an article on her research work and unique contributions (2002) to bring consciousness studies into the Indian psychological context addressing scientific and spiritual questions. Her book "Dialogues: Philosopher meets the Seer" (2003, Srishti Publishers) is a set of nine dialogues with her spiritual teacher on socio-cultural issues of contemporary importance and the common concerns of science and spiritual quest. "The Beyond Experience: Consciousness in Bhagavad Gita" is Menon’s latest book (2007, Blue Jay Books, New Delhi).
Dr Menon has visited and spoken at several Universities and academic institutions in her country and United States, Germany, Paris, Italy, Spain, England, Taiwan and Japan. More recently, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), Oxford University, for the Spring (Trinity Term) of 2007, and a Visiting Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Japan (October, 2007).
Education
- Ph.D. PhilosophyPhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, University of Kerala - 1995 - M.A PhilosophyPhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, University of Kerala - 1990 - B.Sc.ZoologyZoologyZoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
, University of Kerala - 1987
Research interests
- Definitions of and methods to understand ConsciousnessConsciousnessConsciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
- Intentionality and self-awarenessSelf-awarenessSelf-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals...
- Experience-Experiencer duality problem Levels of I-ness
- Advaita vedanta of Adi Sankaracharya
- Novel methods in Digital archiving and Electronic publication