There is an uncanny agreement between the ancient scriptural wisdom on one side, and modern social and life sciences on the other. This leads to the importance of interdisciplinary research, and also of expert research from the perspectives of various disciplines and religions. Human understanding can be enriched with a variety of explorations.

Human brain as the physiological correlate of the human mind. The diagram shows how our psychology and physiology are connected.

From the table presented above, we can see how amazingly the wisdom of various human scriptures on the structure of human mind and behaviour converges with each other on one side, and the narratives of life and social sciences on the other. In addition, the wisdom of human scripture is consistent with modern narratives of evolution of life on the planet and development of mind and brain since conception. Terminology may be different but essence is not.

This remarkable convergence is not just accidental. The authors of the scripture were serious researchers exploring the truth and truths are not many. Their methods were contemplative rather than empirical. The contemplatives with their one-pointed focus can perceive nuances and connections with their minds that empirical researchers miss with their experiments. That is why the discovery of energy-mass equivalence and the theory of relativity had to wait for Einstein to come to light. The world needs both empirical and contemplative explorers as they complement and not conflict with each other in spite of their differences in approach. What is needed is an examination of the truths revealed by one method in the light of the other to see if there is an independent validation of them as was done here with the use of the application to the evolution of the brain, mind, and behaviour as life as a whole evolved on the planet and as it evolves in every individual with growth from a single cell at conception to an adult of 37.2 trillion cells.

Yet, humanity at large has not been able to apply this perennial truth for one’s own individual good let alone the common good of all. It is a systematic failure of modern research and exploration processes.

The adoption of the assumption of the Cartesian split between mind and body by the western health care establishment is as much as a compromise with the truth of common human experience as a compromise can be. It is no wonder that we are unable to explore what is good for an individual human being and for humanity as a whole.