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Vibes, Energy, Aura: New-age Nonsense || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Guwahati (2023)
Breaking Free
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Vedanta
Ego
Superstition
Consciousness
Materialism
Conditioning
Subjectivity
Prakriti
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the concept of positive and negative vibrations, arguing that such experiences are entirely subjective and rooted in the observer's own prejudices and conditioning rather than the object itself. He references historical atrocities like medieval witch hunts to illustrate how the perception of 'bad vibes' has been used to justify violence. He explains that attributing internal feelings to external objects is a form of materialism, whereas Vedanta teaches that the experiencer is the source of the experience. He draws a parallel with modern physics, noting that at an elementary level, the act of observation influences the observed phenomena, meaning properties are a function of the observer.