Contents

• 1. Introduction
• Sect. 1. Viewing Science without Eurocentric Blinkers. 2. The Trajectories of Civilizational Knowledge. Enlarging the Social-Knowledge Field. "Starting Points" of Science. The Sociological Explanations of "Western" Science. Science’s Cognitive Elements. General Approaches to "Mining" 3. The Background to Crossflows: Where the East and the West did Meet. Classical Crossflows. The Arab Connection. The Voyages of Discovery and After. 4. Transformations. Key Turning Points in Science. The Search for Valid Knowledge, Reason, and Blind Faith. The Scientific Revolution and Social Life. On Eurocentric Blinkers and Contrary Evidence
• Sect. 2. Examples of Mining for Contemporary Science. 5. Indigenous Knowledge: Coming into its Own. Contemporary Uses of Indigenous Knowledge. 6. Medicine: Ayurveda. Ayurveda Methodology. Knowledge Acquisition Techniques. Transfers. Current Research on Legitimizing. Estimating the Reservoir. Limits and Cautions. 7. Mathematics. Three Seedbed Mathematical Traditions: The Greek, the Indian (South Asian), and the Chinese. What the Arabs Transmitted to the Modern Era. Post-Transmission Modern (European) Developments and Untransmitted South Asian Parallels. Post -Transmission Modern Western Developments and Post- Transmission South Asian Parallels. Contemporary Searches for the Modern in South Asian Traditions. Extracting Hidden Mathematical Knowledge. 8. A Search for New Psychologies. Meditation on the Electronic Rack. Mindfulness. Imagery Techniques. Behavior Change in General. Stress Treatment, Anxiety, Panic, and Phobias. The Biology of the Internal Sciences. Legitimization of Practice. Spread and Popular Acceptance. Comparisons of Eastern and Western Psychologies. Encroaching on the Mainstream
• Sect. 3. More Imaginative Explorations. 9. Traversing Future Technologies through Some Past Concepts. The Emerging Technologies. Merged Information. Bioethics of Transplants, Reproductive Technology, Implants, and Prosthetics. Streams of "Information" in Buddhism. 10. Virtual Reality: Philosophy on the Nintendo. Virtual Reality and the New Computer Interface. Philosophy in Virtual Reality. Reality Questions in South Asian Philosophy. Knowledge of Reality in South Asian Systems. Virtual Reality and South Asian Philosophy. 11. Digging Deeper: Exploiting Philosophy for Science. Developments in Logic and Causality. Systems Thinking. Evolutionary Processes. Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence. 12. Toward a New Millennium. The Transdisciplinary Construction of Science