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  • Detoxing Gen Z: Substance & Ideology

    Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

    This mentoring lecture treats two dependencies with one framework. The first is familiar: substances, screens, and the dopamine economy engineered around young attention. The second is subtler: ideological intoxication — outsourcing one’s judgement to whichever total explanation arrived first, and mistaking the resulting certainty for thought.

    The Indic counseling frame addresses both the same way: through the restoration of agency. Practices of attention (the oldest technology we own), the ashrama insight that a student’s dharma is formation before position, and honest mentorship over moralizing. Practical, unpreachy, and built for the students’ corner it serves.

    Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Counseling & Indic Psychology shelf.

    Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.

  • AI and Civilizational Identity

    Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

    Artificial intelligence learns a civilization from whatever that civilization has put online — and for India, what is online is disproportionately what others wrote about her. This lecture works through the consequences: AI systems that repeat colonial-era framings by statistical default, heritage questions answered from secondary sources, and the quiet disappearance of anything undigitized.

    The constructive half is a programme: documentation as a civilizational duty (our own heritage-mapping work is offered as a case), source digitization, and the discipline of publishing primary-source-grounded material where the machines — and the students using them — will actually find it.

    Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Kashi & Living Heritage shelf.

    Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.

  • Concept of Time: Indian vs Western

    Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

    How a civilization imagines time shapes everything downstream — its history-writing, its ambitions, its patience. This lecture puts the two great models side by side: the linear, once-through time of the Abrahamic and modern-scientific West, and the vast cyclical architecture of Indic cosmology — yugas, kalpas, the breathing of Brahma — with its startlingly modern comfort with deep time.

    The session neither mystifies nor dismisses: it examines what the cyclical frame made possible (astronomy on great timescales, equanimity about decline, a non-apocalyptic ethics) and what the linear frame powers (progress narratives, urgency, the historical method itself). Listeners leave able to say what each model is for.

    Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Indian Knowledge Systems shelf.

    Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.

  • Indian Philosophical Traditions

    Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

    Indian philosophy is not a single doctrine but a two-thousand-year argument conducted with extraordinary manners: each school stating its opponents’ case before answering it. This lecture provides the map — the six classical darshanas, their questions (what exists, how we know, what liberation means), and the debate lines that connect Nyaya’s logic to Vedanta’s metaphysics to Mimamsa’s philosophy of language.

    Designed as an entry point: no Sanskrit prerequisites, generous with examples, and closing with a guided reading path for whichever school a listener finds themselves unable to stop thinking about.

    Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Dharma & Philosophy shelf.

    Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.

  • Myth vs Reality of Metanarratives

    Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

    A metanarrative is a story large enough to organize all the smaller ones: ‘India was always conquered’, ‘the village never changed’, ‘modernity arrived by ship’. This lecture takes three such storylines and does source criticism on the stories themselves — who first told each one, on what evidence, serving what need, and how later scholarship has complicated or collapsed it.

    The takeaway is a portable toolkit: four questions any reader can put to any grand claim about the Indian past before granting it belief. History as a discipline of verification, not allegiance.

    Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the History & Civilization shelf.

    Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.

  • Decolonizing Enslaved Minds

    Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

    Political freedom arrived in 1947; narrative freedom did not arrive with it. This lecture maps the machinery by which a colonized account of India — of its history, capabilities, and worth — outlived the colonizers: the curriculum that carried it, the prestige economy that rewarded it, and the reflexes it installed so deep that they now feel like personal opinion.

    The session’s method is diagnostic rather than resentful: participants trace one inherited belief of their own back to its source, and test it against evidence. The lecture closes with the discipline of replacement — not swapping one dogma for another, but rebuilding judgement on primary sources and honest comparison.

    Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Indian Knowledge Systems shelf.

    Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.