 163. Terminology |
HINDUISM: Indian religious thinking based on the ideas of dharma, or duty, and karma, or action.
HUMANISM: Renaissance philosophical attitude toward human beings and human activity as an expression of divine purpose.
HUME'S FORK: The idea that facts do not exist in any necessary logical relationships and relationships do not presuppose any particular facts. Facts and relationships are joined only through association. Hume used his "fork" to criticize metaphysical notions, including causality.
HUME'S LAW: See naturalistic fallacy.
HYPNOTISM: Should never be used except under the most stringent conditions. Causes brain damage.
HYPOTHESIS: A theoretical statement that explains things but that may be refuted or confirmed by new evidence.
ICHCHHASHAKTI: Means "will power." Special will power, to see the future, the probable future, levitation.
IDA: A column of sensory or motor nerves on the left side of the spinal cord. They have a special relationship between the body and the astral body.
IDEALISM: The belief that everything is "in the mind," and physical reality does not exist. Made famous by George Berkeley.
IDEOLOGY: A system of beliefs or ideas that reinforce the values of a particular class or group of people.
ILLUMINATION: Divinely inspired insight and wisdom. St. Augustine believed that this was a necessary ingredient to true knowledge.
ILLUSION: Earth is an illusion, earth is one of the "hells." It is where we get the hellish physical experiences and illusions. "The worst thing about hell is that you don't know you are already in it."
IMMANENT: Something that is directly experienced. The opposite of "transcendent."
INCARNATION: A person comes to earth in order to have experiences which can be analyzed by the oversoul for its development. Each incarnation is in a different sign of the zodiac in order to get balanced knowledge.
INDIVIDUALISM: The view that individual rights and freedoms should form the basis of society.
INDRIYAS: The "ten" indriyas or ten organs in the body by which the oversoul, super consciousness receives specialized information. The organs of hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch, and organs of more direct action, excretion, generation, propulsion (feet), touch (hands), and taste (tongue).
INDUCTION: Drawing general, probable conclusions from particular evidence; if certain things are true in particular, we can induce that things of the same kind will be true in general.
INFRASTRUCTURE: Includes the aspects of society that have to do with economy and what Marx called "the relations of production," centered around money, labor, and material goods.
