Buddhism

In the West, scientists have predominantly thought of reality as external to the human thought world, as the physical world, the outer world, the world 'out there.' It has seemed to scientists that the environment needed to be tamed, controlled and engineered to suit human needs. Thus physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy, armed with mathematics and geometry, have been considered the most important sciences in the West. The psyche was left to the priests, who eventually differentiated into philosophers, poets, artists and psychiatrists.
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Robert A. F. Thurman	"Tibetan Psychology: Sophisticated Software for the Human Brain" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994
Symposium held by the Harvard Medical School and Tibet House.