Cognitive Bias and the Spiritual Mind: Transforming Cognitive Bias Through the Bhagavad Gītā and Vedantic Psychology (Vedantic Psychology Research) - Couverture souple

Jadhav, Kavita Arjun

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ISBN 13 : 9798997399504

Editeur : Vedantic Psychology Research Press, 2026

Synopsis

Can spiritual sincerity protect us from self-deception?
Cognitive Bias and the Spiritual Mind examines seventeen distortions—including confirmation bias, authority bias, cognitive dissonance, spiritual ego, and the sunk-cost fallacy—and shows how modern psychology and Bhagavad Gītā wisdom can help us see more clearly.

The most convincing illusions are the ones we mistake for insight. Every day, the mind filters, edits, and rearranges reality before we are ever aware of it — and the more sincere we are, the more convincing those distortions become.

In Vedantic thought this is avidyā, the ignorance that clouds clear understanding of the self; in cognitive science it is bias, the systematic patterns that bend perception, judgment, and memory. Two traditions, millennia apart, arrive at the same startling truth: the instrument through which we interpret reality can itself become conditioned and distorted. Cognitive Bias and the Spiritual Mind bridges these two worlds. Across forty-four chapters, it examines human perception through three complementary lenses:
Cognitive Science — how attention, memory, emotion, and identity produce systematic distortions in judgment.
Vedantic Psychology — how the Bhagavad Gītā describes attachment, aversion, egoic identification, and the failures of discernment that shape what we see.
Transformative Practice — concrete methods for self-awareness, ethical restraint, attentional stability, and clearer judgment.

More than a map of the mind’s traps, this is a guide to freedom from them — a practical framework for recognizing bias, refining perception, and meeting the world as it actually is. For readers of behavioral science and timeless wisdom.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kavita Arjun Jadhav is a software engineer and applied AI researcher, and the founder of the Initiative for Vedantic Psychology Research (IVPR), where she brings the psychology of the Bhagavad Gītā into dialogue with modern cognitive science and consciousness studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vedantic Psychology Research Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798997399504
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 814
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