Mind Management, Sustainability and Democracy: the contribution of the epistemic framework of non-duality in Western and Indian philosophies Dr. Evandro Vieira Ouriques
The accelerated presence of algorithmic digital devices is accompanied by discussions that have in common an analogy between the human being or spirit, on the one hand, and the artifact and machine, on the other. How does this presence affect, transform and disturb the specific structures of the psychic apparatus, the individual and collective "life of the mind" and the consciousness? And, therefore, how does it affect the pedagogical guidelines of Management teaching and practice that wants to be more sustainable and democratic? The solution depends on an epistemic framework that understands that it is the mind -the "mental images"- that define the reality we live in -the "material images"; therefore, depends on understanding that accountability and compliance consistent with the communicational condition of human being depends on the requalification of the desire (the mental state) that is authorized to be the reference for the decision. This is what the Mind Management methodology does, based on the bridge between Western and Indian philosophies that deal with non-duality.
Dr. Evandro Vieira Ouriques is political scientist, philosopher and clinical therapist from Brazil, is currently doing a Senior Postdoctoral Research in the Department of Philosophy, University of Paris 8. He is a permanent professor at the Communication School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an acclaimed Brazilian scholar, with extensive publications on the communicational condition of human being, and its applications in strengthening sustainability and democracy actions in public policies, corporations, voluntary organizations and NGOs. His work functions both as a critical discourse on western modernity and a bridge for a dialogue with eastern thought. (ufrj.academia.edu/EvandroVieiraOuriques). Her current work includes field researches in India and Japan. With his methodology, he designed for the UNDP, the UNEP and the Ministry of the Environment of Brazil, in 2013, the Strategic Matrix of Environmental Education and Social Communication of the National Solid Resources Plan.