These days, there is much talk about the great powers and possibilities of what is called ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)—a recent invention that is truly awesome, or so we are told. But what about the truly awesome powers and possibilities of The Supreme Intelligence (TSI), which has been in existence even before Time, as we understand it, itself began and which brought into being our present Universe (which, already infinite as it is, is constantly expanding, and that, too,

Rather late in life I discovered an amazing source of learning: meeting, listening to, interacting with or simply being in the presence of inspiring people who are doing good, positive things with their lives. This sounds simple enough, but it was something that no one told me about, neither at home nor at school, or, later on, in college and university (where learning was thought of as something one acquired basically from books and not from real life). But now, thankfully,

Recently, I received a mail from a friend informing me that she was writing/planning to write/had already written (I can’t remember which) an article on the ‘evil eye’. Presumably, she was referring to a practice in some parts of the world of casting an ‘evil eye’ on someone in order to harm them. My friend’s mention of the ‘evil eye’ brought to my mind its opposite—what can be called the ‘good eye’. Surely, if there is really something like an ‘evil eye’, a ‘good eye’ also e

Introduction Perhaps I was not yet in my teens when I was filled with a very dark fear. This fear, far from soon disappearing, only became more entrenched as time went by. Some events in my life succeeded in further solidifying it. At this time, I was just too scared to share my condition with anyone, including my parents. And so, I kept my fear to myself even as it continued to mount. Things remained so for many years, with me nursing my hidden fear by myself. It was only