The 10 week Introductory course offers an entirely practical approach to the study and practice of the philosophical principles governing human society. It draws from the great teachings of East and West, and provides guidance for a deeper understanding of ourselves, the world in which we live and the purpose of human life, and a fresh way of dealing with the challenges that we face in everyday life.

Topics include:

Session 1: What is Philosophy? A very practical exercise.

Session 2: Self-knowledge. Observation and verification. Neither accepting, nor rejecting.

Session 3: Knowledge vs information. Levels of awareness. The spirit of enquiry.

Session 4: Levels of awareness (cont). Full potential. Transcending fear.

Session 5: Reason, justice and injustice. Experiencing deeper levels of being through stillness.

Session 6: Consciousness. The nature of Beauty - a description from Plato's 'Symposium'.

Session 7: The question: 'What am I?'

Session 8: Three fundamental universal forces. Freedom from pleasure and pain.

Session 9: The Self beyond the universal forces. Attention - free and bound.

Session 10: The nature of truth and goodness.

"The general uplift in society remains the immediate aim, while help on the way of liberation remains the ultimate aim."
Shri Shantananda Saraswati