SANGEETHA MENON National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore, INDIA 560012 [email protected]	Publications

Most Recent Publications:
Papers and Chapters
Menon, S. 2005. Hinduism and Science (forthcoming)
In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Ed. Philip Clayton

Menon, S. 2005.  Advaita Vedanta (forthcoming) Entry for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Menon, S. 2005. Basics of ‘Spiritual Altruism’ (forthcoming)
In Cross-cultural perspectives on altruism, SETI

Menon, S. 2005. Cognition, Consciousness & Experience: Towards a new Epistemology (forthcoming)
In History and Philosophy of Science PHISPC-CONSSAVY / Volume 2, Part VI, Indian Council of Philosophical Research

Menon, S. 2005. Transpersonal Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita: Consciousness, Meditation, Work and Love: (forthcoming)
In Indian Psychology series for University students, Institute for Human Services, India

Menon, S. 2005. Spiritual Healing
Heritage Amruth, magazine pulished by Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions
Vol1. April 2005 pp 38-40

Menon, S. 2005. Book Review of ‘Cit: Consciousness (Bina Gupta, 2003)
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, XXI.1 pp279-287

Menon, S. 2005. Self and self-transcendences in the Bhagavad Gita
In Self, Society and Science: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives Vol XI Part 2 of ‘History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Ed. DP Chattopadhyaya, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, pp217-229

Menon, S. 2004. Experience of Expression: Instances from Indian dramaturgy and
a discussion on ‘consciousness’
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo

Menon, S. 2004. Being and wellbeing in the Upanisadic lietrature
In Spiritual psychology, Institute for Human Services, Vizag India

Menon, S. 2004. Beyond what and what is beyond? 
In: Science and Beyond: Consciousness, cosmology and technology in Indic traditions
Eds. S. Menon, , A.Sinha, B.V.Sreekantan, R Narasimha and Philip Clayton
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 2004, pp 185-190

Menon, S. 2003. Getting digital manuscripts: New technologies for digital preservation and publication
In: The Indian Archives, Special Number: Information Technology and Preservation, National Archives of India, Vol XLIX, Numbers 1-2, pp 41-44

Menon, S. 2003. Being Free: 'Consciousness' and 'freedom' according to the Bhagavad Gita
In: 'Applications of oriental philosophical thought in mental health', Ed JP Balodhi, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, NIMHANS Publication No 47, pp 43-49

Menon S. 2003. Binding experiences for a first person approach: Looking at Indian ways of thinking (darsana) and acting (natya) in the context of current discussions on 'consciousness'.
In: On Mind and Consciousness (eds Chhanda Chakraborti, Manas K Mandal and Rimi B Chatterjee),Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Department of Humanitiees and Social Sciences IIT Kharagpur, pp 90-117

Menon, S. 2002. Research Brief (on consciousness and self-exploration in
Indian thought)
In: Meet the Researcher series, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Stanford, Vol.34, No.1, October 2002, pp 67-71

Menon, S. 2002. The Selfish Meme and the Selfless Atma
Sophia: International journal for philosophy of religion, metpahysical theology and ethics, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 41.1, May 2002, pp 83-88

Menon, S. 2002. Structure of Mind and Structured Mind
Indian Philosophical Quarterly, 29:2-3, April-July 2002, pp 334-344

Menon, S. 2002. The ontological pragmaticity of karma in the Bhagavad Gita: A mind to meditate and the meditative mind.
In: Perspectives on Indigenous Psychology (eds. G Mishra and A K Mohanty), Advances in Psychological Research in India - Series 3, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, pp 326-338

Menon S. 2002. Beside the intender and the integrator": Looking at two "faces" of consciousness.
In: Science and Metaphysics: A Discussion on Consciousness and Genetics (eds S Menon, A Sinha and B V Sreekantan), National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, pp. 164-177

Books:
Science and Beyond: Cosmology, consciousness and technology in Indic traditions
Eds. S. Menon, B.V.Sreekantan, Anindya Sinha, Philip Clayton, R Narasimha, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 2004

Binding Experiences: Looking at the Contributions of Adi Sankaracarya, Tuncettu Ezuttacchan and Sri Narayana Guru in the Context of Recent Discussions on Consciousness Studies
Monograph published under the program Knowledge Dissemination series, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2002

Dialogues: Philosopher meets the seer
Menon S. and Swami Bodhananda, BlueJay Books, New Delhi, 2002

From Shelves to Digital Media: On digital archiving and publication
R1-2002, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 2002

Binding Experiences for a First-Person Approach: Looking at Indian Ways of Thinking (darsana) and Acting (natya) in the Context of Current Discussions on 'Consciousness'
WP1-2002, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 2002.

Science and Metaphysics: A discussion on consciousness and genetics
Eds. S. Menon, M.G.Narasimhan, A.Sinha, B.V.Sreekantan, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 2002

Scientific and Philosophical Studies on Consciousness
Eds. S. Menon, M.G.Narasimhan, A.Sinha, B.V.Sreekantan, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 1999

Other Publications:
· Concepts of consciousness and materiality in Bhagavad Gita
Encyclopedia of Indian Culture, Vol. 8.on Science and Society, Bharatiya Samskrti Samsad, Calcutta , 1997

· The ontological pragmaticity of Karma in the Bhagavad Gita
Journal of Indian Psychology, Andhra University, January 1998

· Novel, Cost-effective Methods of Archiving Manuscripts
Current Science,Vol.76, No.10, May 1999

· Towards a Sankarite approach to consciousness studies: A discussion in the context of recent interdisciplinary scientific perspectives
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Vol. XVIII, No.1, 2001

· The ontological pragmaticity of karma in the Bhagavad Gita: A mind to meditate and the meditative mind.
In: Perspectives on indigenous psychology, eds. G Mishra and A K Mohanty, Advances in Psychological Research in India-series 3, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2001

· Beside two faces of consciousness: Looking at the 'intentor' and the 'integrator'.
In: Consciousness and its transformations, Ed. Matthijs Cornelissen, Sri Aurobindo International Centre for Eductaion, Pondicherry, 2001

· Understanding the 'what' and 'where' of Consciousness: Revisiting the Bhagavad
Gita to ask a few more questions
(monograph): published by National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 1999

Some Papers online:
1. Beside two faces of consciousness: Looking at the 'intentor' and the
'integrator'.
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/ECITtwofacesframeset.htm

2. Understanding the 'what' and 'where' of consciousness: Revisiting the
Bhagavad Gitato ask a few more questions.
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/ECITgitamenonframeset.htm

3. Towards a Sankarite approach to consciousness studies: A discussion in
the context of recent interdisciplinary scientific perspectives.
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/ECITsankariteframeset.htm

4. Binding Experiences: Looking at the contributions of Adi Sankaracarya, Tuncettu Ezuttacchan and Sri Narayana Guru in the context of current discussions on 'consciousness'
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_pr/i_pr_ker_menon_frameset.htm

5. Binding Experiences for a First-Person Approach: Looking at Indian Ways of Thinking (darsana) and Acting (natya) in the Context of Current Discussions on 'Consciousness'
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_pr/i_pr_menon_paper_frameset.htm