Course Handbook The Practice of Integral Education

PIE Study Unit 1 Study Notes

PSYCHIC: THE STARTING POINT

Brief: Understanding what is the psychic, how it impacts progress, its importance in education,
some methods to evoke it, what is psychic education. Reviewing ones own present practice in
this light.


Assignment 1.1
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You have to make a presentation to the a group of educational policy makers (in Government of
India) who have no prior orientation towards Integral Education and explain to them what is
Psychic education and why it should be included in education. Please write out your
presentation.

Quiz 1.1
1. The Mother offers a few words of advice for psychic discovery in the chapter on Psychic
Education. Even though these are meant for a seeker who wishes to engage in this self-
discovery, it is possible to incorporate these in educational interactions and settings. Reflect
on each of the points and present ways on how this could be done.

Quiz 1.2
1. Analyse two or three behavior problems you have come across in students, in the light of
Pavitras exposition on the need s of the child.


Essential/Required reading:
- The Mother. Psychic and Spiritual Education, On Education (vol.12 of Collected Works of the
Mother). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
- Pavitra (PB Saint-Hilaire). The Needs of the Child, Education and the Aim of Human Life.
Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.

Recommended reading/resources:
- ICIS (comp). Psychic Education (Extracts from the works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother). New
Delhi: ICIS, 2010.
- Pavitra (PB Saint-Hilaire). The Psychic and the Spiritual Education Sri Aurobindos Integral Education,
Education and the Aim of Human Life pp.70-78. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre
of Education.
- Ameeta Mehra. The Key to Change: The Psychic Being (a talk). New Delhi: The Gnostic Centre.
- ---. Meditation & Concentration (a talk).



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The assignments are available online. The responses must be uploaded and submitted online. They have also
been included here to retain the flow and start you off in your reflections, research, etc.