Dr. Alok Kanojia

You are capable of – I'm not capable of observing your thoughts.

But you can – whether you detect all of them, whether they're right or wrong, that question is separate.

Just the fundamental idea of like you can measure an axon.

You can detect your thought, right?

We all live in this way, right?

So we can get to the edge cases later.

So here's the cool thing.

So when I went to India and I studied for seven years –

The difference between the psychology that was developed from the contemplative traditions is its foundation is internal observation.

So yogis are capable – we're all – it's not like some special ability, but they based their theory of mind on what they could observe.

Whereas in the West, that is not something we have access to.

So their theory of mind is very different.

So when I was training to become a psychiatrist, people were like, this is how the mind works.

And I'm like, no, that's not true, right?

There is a different way.

So here's one example, getting to the roadmap.

So the biggest thing that I think is different is the ego.

So in the East, they have the concept of a part of our mind that is the ego.

And in the West, we use the word ego.

Freud defined it in some way.