Recap on the Psychology & Spirituality Talk at NYU

The talk at the NYU psychology club concluded successfully. In attendance were undergraduate students majoring in psychology, in their junior and senior years. Some were familiar with spirituality, to others it was a new subject. The discussion was lively. 

Here is a recap: 
- What are all people striving for, what is everyone searching for in life? Students gave answers: a sense of meaning, to attain happiness, exercise power, leave a legacy behind, and others.
- We discussed the evolution of various schools of psychology. Psychodynamic school arrived at intersubjectivity. Child Psychology arrived at the true self. Behavioral/cognitive school and its ACT theory arrived at the observant self. Humanistic school with Gestalt Psychotherapy arrived at the field of awareness and idea of wholeness, and Carl Rogers centered on the agency of the self.
- The tradition of Vedanta was introduced and described for its focus on realizing this very Self that is in all of us. Yuriy discussed its nature as being pure awareness, love, truth and peace.
- Students asked questions and discussed: "What is real love?", "How does one get to the Self?", and "What practical things can we do to get there?"