The Turtle
The Turtle is a space for diasporic Hindus to imagine how Hinduism continues to unfold across time, place, and generation.
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Topics Episode 8: Hindu View of Consciousness and AI (opens the original)
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What does a Hindu view of consciousness offer to our rapidly changing relationship with AI? In this episode, Indu and Sneha question the increasingly common tendency to treat the human mind as a computer and ask what gets lost when intuition, creativity, writing, art, and even spiritual wisdom are reduced to pattern recognition and information processing.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.<a class="button primary" href="https://theturtlemagazine.substack.com/p/topic
The Turtle's First Birthday (opens the original)
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Write for The Turtle (opens the original)
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The Turtle is a place to imagine how Sanatana Dharma can flourish for Hindus in the diaspora for generations to come and how it can guide us to imagine and contribute to cohesive, integrated, eco-loving, pluralist societies beyond our own communities. It asks how new expressions of Hinduism might inspire and support the world. We believe in writing that connects rather than divides, making room for compassion, care, and generosity. When critique is called for, we also look for it to be generativ
Topics Episode 7: Hindu Chaplaincy (opens the original)
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What does it mean to accompany someone through the most difficult, and even the most beautiful, moments of their life?We don’t often talk about Hinduism in terms of spiritual care. Yet there is a path for this work. In this episode of The Turtle, we are thrilled to welcome Swathi Ananda, a professionally trained Hindu chaplain. Indu and Sneha speak with her about her unconventional journey from public health to life as a brahmacharini and, eventually, to chaplaincy, and about what Hindu spiritua
Three Threads of Indigeneity (opens the original)
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