Science and Spirituality for Global Peace and Harmony

 Institute of Ancient Philosophy (IAP) is a TRUST registered in Hyderabad, Telangana State on December 16, 2021 with 21 objectives. The major objectives of this TRUST are: (i) to conduct, spread, encourage and promote Indian culture, higher education, scientific, technical, agricultural, medical and other professional education for national development, (ii) to undertake education, research, training, publication and scientific, technological, agricultural, cultural, spiritual and medical innovations and to link them for building up and offering “Social Justice” with the main objective of contributing towards the advancement of human development based on equal opportunity approach as well as eco-friendly and pro-poor approaches and gender equity requirement. More than ninety members are in the TRUST activities. Many of them are world class scientists and technocrats.

 The term ‘science’ refers to the intellectual and practical activity, encompassing a systematic and empirical study of the relational structure and functional dynamics of the external world defined by ‘space’, ‘time’ and ‘consciousness’, through sense perception and experiment. The term ‘spirituality’, on the other hand, refers to the conscientious activity encompassing a voluntary and intuitive study of vagaries of internal world constituted by ‘body’, ‘mind’ and ‘intellect’. All scientific revelations could be perceived by spiritual means without any ambiguity, but not all spiritual revelations perceived likewise by scientific means. In other words, many spiritual truths and revelations cannot be explained using scientific terms. One can model all scientific theories in a deductive logical framework, whereas spiritual paradigms are theorized in an intuitionistic logical framework. Classical logic is fundamentally based on the law of excluded middle, that is an ordered dichotomy, whereas intuitionistic logic does not accept it. Of course, one can realize part of intuitionistic logic in constructive logical terms, which in turn advocates ‘potential realizability of infinity’ and not infinity as an existing entity.

Most of the spiritual theories evolved so far, each theory advocating certain ‘stringent religious principles and practices’, are closed under all kinds of social activities. Any closed system will contradict itself in some domain of interpretation, and turn into a ‘paradoxical’ system. All paradoxical systems indeed lead to confusions and self-contradictions causing lack of coordination and coexistence among their practitioners.

Today’s world experiences a threat to peace and harmony because science and spirituality are not properly understood in a holistic manner. It is in this context, one feels the necessity for creating awareness among people about understanding spirituality in science and science in spirituality, in order to develop functional procedures aiming at global peace and harmony.  

Papers on original and unpublished research / developments / applications are invited. Authors are requested to submit a paper prepared using the template along with completed attachment forms provided on conference website (pentagramresearch.co.uk). Submission should be sent before September 30, 2022. Submission must be in MS word format and with correct category (Contributed Paper / Student Paper) mentioned in the subject line of the submission. The author should send the details of the person for correspondence in case of multiple authors. For any further inquiries, please contact us on contact@pentagramresearch.co.uk. Papers will be selected for publication / presentation upon peer review. A paper sent without the completed forms will not be considered for a peer review. 

• Prof Dr. Ethirajan Govindarajan, General Chair, Managing Trustee, IAP
• Prof. Dr. Michael Patrick Coyle, Conference Chair, Retd. From Brody Medical School, ECU, NC, USA
• Prof. Dr. Rajiv Sharma, Conference Co-Chair, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras
• Mr. S. Muralidharan, Conference Secretary, Director, IAP, Tamil Nadu Region
• Mrs. Renuka Vijairaghavan Conference Jt. Secretary, Director, IAP, Pune Region
• Dr. Nisheeta Dixit Conference Jt. Secretary, Director, IAP, Hyderabad Region
• Ms. Roona Shukla Conference Jt. Secretary, Director, IAP, Lucknow Region
• Muralikrishna Gummadivalli Chief Coordinator, Secretary, IAP 
• Anantram, Financial Advisor, Fellow, IAP
• H. B. Nayak Public Relations Officer, Fellow, IAP
• Prof. Dr. Ajeet Singh Chief Coordinator, Technical, Fellow, IAP 

• Mrs. Chitra Govindarajan, Trustee and Vice President, IAP
• Prof. Dr. D. Swaminadhan, Former Member, Planning Commission, Govt. of India
• Mr. Venkatraman Perigandur, CEO, Pentagram Research UK Ltd., United Kingdom
• Admiral Mohan Das, Former Rear Admiral, Indian Navy, Government of India
• Prof. Dr. Ponraj Vellaichami, Former Advisor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India