Program of lecture subjects for discussion at The Self-Culture Institute of Punjab



DESCRIPTION
Photocopy of the program for lecture subjects at the Self-Culture Institute of Punjab, held in May 1959. Topics include "How to Evolve a Better Man," "The Aesthetic World," "Nationalism," and "Internationalism."

THEMES
Philosophy & Spirituality

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: May 1959
Language: English
Creator: Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
Location: Chail, India

TRANSCRIPTION
PROGRAM
of
LECTURE SUBJECTS for DISCUSSION at

THE SELF-CULTURE INSTITUE OF PUNJAB

CHAIL, Punjab, MAY 1959

1-
  HOW TO EVOLBE A BETTER MAN: Eugenics, Heredity, Hygiene

2- WHAT YOU EAT BECOMES YOU: Processes of Assimilation and Elemination

3- THE WISDOM OF THE BODY: Can we respond to its subtleties

4- HABIT PATTERNS: Constructive or Destructive. – Yours to choose

5- DISCIPLINES AND SPORTSMANSHIP: Their contributions to the Individual and to Society
6- CONFLICTS OF INTELLECT AND EMOTION: Wherein lies the Solution,- Science, Psychology, Religion, or Philosophy?
7- THE TWO FACES OF MAN: Is man by nature a Split-Personality?

8- THE JUNGLE OF EGOS: Who devours WHOM?

9- CAN MAN BE CIVILIZED: If so, HOW?

10- EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN MAN: Is it wise to be ignorant?

11- WHEN EVOLUTION FAILS, WHAT THEN? Revolution of Extinction?

12- POLITICS IN ACTION: Intentions, Contentions, Tensions, Pretensions

13- NATIONALISM, OLD AND NEW: Its Types and Effects upon Survival

14- INTERNATIONALISM: With WHAT? For WHOM?
15- GEO-POLITICS: Highways and Byways of Destiny of Nations

16- ECONOMY OF A NATION: Its Methods of Production and Distribution
16a-SOCIAL PROBLEMS: Their Individual and National Implications
17- A NEW CONCEPT OF SOCIAL ORGINATION: For a Society in Turmoil and Fermentation
18- THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: How to USE Knowledge and Power Wisely

19- THE ART OF LIVING: A Philosopher’s Life Lived Philosophically

20- THE AESTHETIC WORLD: Importance of Beauty in Creation

21- MORAL DECLINE, ITS CAUSE AND CURE: Can Youth be saved

22- EVOLUTION OF THE IDEAL MEN: What has Religion done

23- MAN’S MENTAL HORIZONS: Limitations and Possibilities

24- PATTERN OF THE UNIVERSE: Man’s place in it
25- ATTITUDES AND OUTLOOKS: The keys to Man’s Inner Nature
26- WHAT IS SELF-CULTURE: Its Philosophy, Science and Metaphysics.

PROVENANCE
Collection: Bhagwan Singh Gyanee Materials
Donor: S.P. Singh
Digitizer: Anne Vagts, Samip Mallick
Item History: 2012-07-23 (created); 2013-05-03 (modified)

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