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*** At The Very Start… … To be truly and
really knowledgeable and wise is a definition, shrouded in mysticism of
dualism. Somehow, this uncertainty truly delineates the ultimate state of ‘Singular
Wisdom’ available and desirable for we all. It is there for humble, sincere and
innocent acceptance that to be knowledgeable is to internalize in all layers of
consciousness that Reality Is Always
PROBABILISTIC, therefore life-living was, is and shall always be Conflicted,
Confused and Chaotic. This arrives humanity to singular and definitively finite
wisdom that there can be and is only one Intelligence for all humans in all
stages and situations of life-living. This singular intelligence is COMPASSION.
All other subsidiary intelligence must fall in linearity and symmetry of the
primary one… Human history of thousands
of years of civilization and cultures has been a documented evidence of how misplaced
ingenuity of minority of humanity, especially in powerful leadership positions,
has always ruled over this mass idealism of compassion to shove the human world
to the brink of extinction, with conflicts, confusion and chaos ruling all
milieus and lives in them. The current diminutive and enslaved status of singular
wisdom of compassion in contemporary human world is foolproof evidence that Sanity Is Impossibility in contemporary
world and collective life-living. Those who truly understood Reality, humbly accepted
compassion as only wisdom and lived and died in peace and wellness. Compassion
remains the only singular Possibility of Sanity, at personal levels, as at
collective level, compassion has lost the chance to reinstate itself long-long
back…! ** Acknowledgement Writing for me is an
enterprise in self-negation. I am in peaceful acceptance of the futility of words
as carriers of intent and content. Still, I write, continuing with this 39th
eBook and if life allows, shall keep writing, negating my own deep sense of
futility of the exercise. I write just for the sake of my humble self-belief
that whatever I have internalized in life through a long and painful process of
learning and especially unlearning; must be documented, so that if probability
has it, someone may save some precious time and energy in his or her own internalization
process. This probably is what one may accept as an inheritance worth half a
dime. Compassion is what I inherited and compassion is what I can leave as
legacy. I dedicate my writings to that someone, who shares my humility for
acceptance of compassion. Thanks…! ** Navigation Blues A humble admittance �"
Any word, however well meant and well spelt, is a possible suspect of
misinterpretation and unintentional violation. Simple reason is, people are in
different consciousnesses and culturally as well as personally inclined to
specific Realities and their utilities. As a writer, it is a huge temptation to
take liberties, with not only imaginations but also with the words, as against
their common and popular use. Do kindly accept my latitude with language and
personal coinages of words, as they may not always conform to popular usages. I
share with you whatever is part of my consciousness; what I have internalized
in my life. This may not be mainstream stuff; but may have utility in some
meaningful way. I believe you shall enjoy this novelty and pleasant awkwardness
of the writing. ** A Humble Request… It is reasonably beyond
doubt now that the most difficult task for a human being is to see, understand
and accept things ‘objectively’ and ‘holistically’. Why? It is because
contemporary knowledge of human brain states makes us accept that human mind is
notoriously poor at accepting holism of reality and is rather genius at happily
‘picking’ and accepting a ‘part’ of it and invest all his or her intellect into
it. Moreover, given the very nature of mind consciousness, objectivity is
impossible for humans. However, objectivity and holism are very much required
for understanding some very core and critical issues pertaining to humanity and
our own world. Tragically enough, no academic institution, not even society or
family imparts the skill-training for attaining these two critical
intelligences of objectivity and holism. It is up to an individual to strive
for it at personal initiative. The key question is;
how to start the process of attainment of objectivity and holism? To begin
with, it needs to be accepted that human mind is a huge potential but nothing
comes automatic to it except the wired instincts of survival. Our mind consciousness
does not automatically arrive at objectivity and holism. It is evolved,
nurtured and persevered in a long period of time. Therefore, it is a humble
request that this eBook be approached with loads of compassionate openness by
consciously dumping the ‘reactionary mindset’ and being in an accommodative
reception of everything, even if at first instance it may look untenable. The content
of intent of this eBook shall gradually evolve and get internalized in time.
Only compassion can lead the journey ahead; be with it…! Thanks. ** PREFACE It
is something probably everyone has faced in his or her life. Talk of all good
and right things, which should happen and prevail in life and living and prompt
comes the rejoinder, stop being a stupid and face the Reality of life! So, does
it mean, Reality is something, which definitely is not good and right? Does it
mean, people in general accept that Reality is so positioned and situationed
that it usually leaves something desirable in its expressions? Therefore, can
we definitively say that Reality of human world and life-living is always a
dream, never to be realized? Reality always falling short of good and right! The larger question is,
‘What is Reality?’ Is reality as real and actual as it seems or is made to accept?
More important question is; does this question matter? It seems, it does matter
and that is probably why best of human brains have engaged their lives over
this question. Somehow, this happens to be the primary, core and cardinal basis
of all other questions and answers of life-living in particular and humanity in
general. The probability of a possible ‘Theory of Everything’, which explains all
structures and functions around us beyond any reasonable doubts, rests on a
singular and over-encompassing hypothesis about Reality. However, there is still
no singular definitive answer to this cardinal question for humanity. Probably,
there may never be, even as passage of time keeps adding more informative
dimensions to this core and complex issue of Reality. Why? Because, it seems, human
brain and its potential for deciphering Reality is too insufficient to unravel
the cosmic proportions of the Holism of mechanism and process of the very constitution
of Reality. It is probably easy for humanity to say and even accept that two
ends of the universe are over 90 billion light years apart but it is always
impossible for even the best empowered brain of a human to truly and really ‘realize’
and ‘actualize’ this colossal vastness of the ‘proposed’ Reality of the size
and magnitude of 90 billion light years! This is permanent and absolute limitation
of approaching Reality. If we look at Reality at
its macrocosmic expanse and microcosmic bare-basics, we can have this
definitive feel that there is something inherently ‘mechanismic’ or structural in
the idea and realism of Reality, which ensures that humanity at best can have a
singular and common hypothesis only about a humanly amenable ‘Model’ of Reality
and never the real or actual reality. Naturally, if we accept this proposition,
which seems the most probable one at this point of time-space situation of
humanity; the next critical question is �" Is that enough? Can we humans have knowledge
of only a model of Reality and then proceed onto engender the Theory of Everything
and other key life-living realities of human world, based on the proposed Model
Reality? Here, at this stage of contemporary
understanding, people may have two basic questions �"
In this eBook, as we
are going to inquire, discuss and deliberate about ‘Reality Of Humanity’, the
microcosmic portion of the macrocosmic Reality, with a proposed hypothesis that
Sanity Is Impossibility in human
world and life-living; it is very essential that we first have a clear answer
of the above two questions. That shall prove to be the primary hypothesis,
which shall energize our inquiry into human reality and a probable theory of
life-living reality. This eBook is all about
that. We shall first try to detail the issue of overall Reality, install a
probable hypothesis about Reality. Next, we shall examine the probability
whether there can be sanity, system and order in human world and life-living. This
eBook works on the humble hypothesis that Sanity
Is Impossibility and therefore, it naturally also has to spell out
probabilities of a possible ‘Mechanism and Process’, which still can lead us to
peace, wellness, happiness, system, order and sanity at personal level, even
while collectively, Sanity Remains an Impossibility. This we shall definitely attempt
to do in this eBook, with humility but optimal sincerity for practical utility. The very purpose of
this eBook is to devise and design personal wellness and sanity. The very
hypothesis that sanity is impossibility at collective domain and a possibility
at personal levels is just to underline the dualism that Reality has. In fact, many
people already believe that sanity is impossibility for humanity but what we
are aiming at in this eBook, is to detail the dynamics of Reality to elaborate as
holistically as possible, the structures, functions, mechanism and processes of
this hypothesis that Sanity Is Impossibility. This itself shall prove to be the
basis of how and why we still can have sanity and system in our personal
domains. The idea is simple �"
when we see and accept that there is this overall design of Reality that makes
it an impossibility for a reasonable and lasting sanity and order, we actually are
able to decipher those elements, which can help us install sanity, system and
order at personal level. In the genetics
of problem and trouble stands embedded the genesis
of answers and solutions. Understanding problems is the best enabler of all
probabilities of solutions as all solutions are embedded in problems itself. Almost
often, solutions have similar elements as those in a problem, but arranged in
an alternative ways. That is why, what we are underlining and detailing in this
eBook is the elements of Impossibility of
Sanity of Reality so that we have the mechanism and process of sanity,
system and order installed at personal levels. Somehow, it may humbly
be accepted that knowledge has similar trajectory of journey and arriving. The first
stage of knowledge is hugely unsettling. When you first know and realize how it
is what it is, the primary accrual is consternation and destabilization. Knowledge
begins by exposition of problems and troubles in all its dimensions and shades.
This is like opening the door and getting blown up by gush of trapped energy of
realism. This is unsettling also in the sense that most people get stuck in the
magnitude and complexities of the first stage of trouble-exposition and begin
to look for solace and support from spiritualism, psychology or philosophy to escape
from the acceptance of the reality. It is another dimension of ‘Ignorance Is
Bliss’. Some also develop sense of egoism and pride that they now know the
reality and therefore they are free-willed to lead their ‘post-reality life’ not
bothered by other shades and aspects of reality that others have. The true journey begins
only after this stage. The next stage is unraveling the elements that
constitute the vastness and complexities of troubles. This stage of knowledge
is the doorstep for arriving at true wisdom. When we persist and keep
journeying the knowledge trajectory with innocence and compassion, not allowing
ego and escapism to divert our journey ahead, we move onto this next stage of
deciphering the genetics of the problems and troubles. As we do this, we come
to understand and accept that the problems themselves have elements of
solutions. Rather, in the final stage of the trajectory of knowledge, we
clearly see that problems and solutions have the same constituting elements and
only difference is cognitive �" that is how we observe and accept them arranged
and situationed in our life and living. This then facilitates all solutions,
all sanities, order, poise and then begins our infinite journey to bliss and wellness. As has always been with
my writings, I insist that I never say ‘I Know’ and that is why I am telling
you. I very humbly and sincerely insist that you should never accept anything I
say, without assigning it to the primary and transcendental energy of skepticism. I wish you to test the
validity of any probability or hypothesis I am building up in this eBook. Why I
say this? Because I believe, reading is a collaborative process. I have
internalized and experienced things, which I am sharing with you. I have also
gone through long process of learning and unlearning and observed skepticism. All
this needs to sink in and get internalized in your consciousness. It shall sink
in and get internalized through the same process of learning/unlearning and observed
skepticism by you. Do step in, involve,
evolve and optimize your best potentials by partnering into this eBook
enterprise. Welcome. ** Thanks For Your Magnanimity, The First Chapter Begins... PART 1 CHAPTER 1 It
is precarious and rather interesting situation, when we look up to pure science
for singular and definitive answers of a question. Human intelligence has shifted
from social sciences to pure sciences for finality of wisdom and especially in 21st
century, the new millennium intelligence is definitively scientific, with
highest possible element of singular objectivity. We sure have come far ahead
of those days when humanity looked for answers from philosophy, spiritualism
and psychology; that too in segregated fashion. They however remain side by
side with science to keep supplying more questions and qualify answers. Even
though science has also not been very successful in ‘integrating’ other fields
of knowledge and somehow failed in arriving at the much required Holism, still,
thankfully, science itself successfully stands as the best skeptic and critic
of science, installing the constant cataclysmic energy of perpetual evolution
of knowledge to higher levels. This is best hope for humanity. However,
when we enter highest echelons of pure science, very often than not, almost at
the stage of finality, we face with the archetypal dilemma as science would conclude
that this and that in this or that finality of reality is not scientifically
effable but stands in the domain of philosophy! It often happens that certain
hypothesis that stands critical to the understanding of finality of a reality
is referred to as philosophy, even by scientists. This happens with the idea of
Reality too! So
much of new age quantum science is ascribed as philosophical premise. Naturally,
the dilemma lingers as philosophy always stands on the platform of dualism and
science is looked up to primarily because we want singular objective
non-dualistic position about a reality. This does not happen and probably can
never happen, as we have hypothesized earlier. Why? This needs to be
understood. It is a rather critical point of ascertainment, before we can
anyway talk about human and life-living reality. Quantum
mechanics happens to be the most popular and frontier tool for defining Reality
and that is why we need to accept what contemporary human wisdom makes us to
accept. In quantum science, Reality, at all time and space is considered being superpositioned
probabilities. Quantum science says, Reality happens as it is observed because
observance collapses superspositioning and creates a reality. Before that, Reality
always stands as probabilities. Does it make us accept that Reality is not a
‘Always There’ situation, rather, Reality ‘Collapses’ as something, depending
on observance? Does this mean, observance ends dualism and enters non-dualism? The
next big question is, is observance critical to a reality? It seems as quantum
scientists say, it ends probabilities and installs a Reality, though for the
observer! Now, there still remains dualism about the idea of observer. Who can
be accepted as observer? Majority
opinion is that observance is essentially consciousness. It is consciousness
that observes and installs reality or ‘collapses’ Reality. This is somewhat agreeable
quantum science factuality for us. In simple terms, Reality is a dualistic,
superpositioned probability at all times as elements that create reality have
wave function dualism. Reality however is created or collapsed as dualism ends
and superposition collapses the moment there happens an observer. And, this
observer is consciousness. Therefore,
the core and cardinal element in the idea of Reality is Consciousness as it is
believed to be the ‘Protagonist’ that scripts a Reality. At this point of time,
we shall have to stop our focus on everything else and zero down to this
singular idea of Consciousness. The scientific reality of consciousness is the most
pampered subject of new millennium, even as we all know from our knowledge of
human history that consciousness as a philosophical and spiritual idea has
always remained with humanity since almost 3000-4000 years back. Does this
itself mean that pure science never stands aloof and alienated to philosophy
and rather, sort of runs parallel to it? Does the same dualism exist between
science and philosophy �" when something works but cannot be described how or
why, it is referred to as philosophy and if it works, is empirically verifiable
and is mathematically explainable, it stands as science? Probably,
even quantum scientists feel that they have rested the onus of Reality on an
element of realism, which itself is by nature dualistic. Probably therefore,
there is a strong advocacy by new age quantum scientists to present a valid
case of non-dualistic consciousness. We need to first understand the basic
hypothesis of this ‘dualism’ of consciousness, before we proceed onto larger
issues. The
primary idea is, if observance is mechanism and process of consciousness, this
makes observance open to dualism �" Generic
and Specific observance. This dualism
is �" 1.
There is an observance of consciousness, which emanates out of functionality of
five senses and sensory inputting. As brain organization at macro level is
largely singular for most humans, there is a broadly singular reality of
observation, like rivers, mountains and other tangibilities. This is what we
may call Generic Observance. This
observance is processing of common and non-dualistic subconscious mind states. No
doubt, as science insists that no two minds are same, there is bound to be dualism
in generic observance too. However, it may be accepted that as the differences
are small and there is overbearing generalization of commonality of languages
for expression of the reality by generic observation, the dualism is seldom ‘observable’.
For
example, I and nine other people may see a door and because of our different
mind processing of inputs from five senses, all ten may see the door
differently but as this tangibility of door still shall have almost 95 percent
of details as common for all ten, we all still shall call it a door as our
language commonality cannot express a door with 5 percent difference as
anything else! However, if any of the ten has one or two sensory organs tweaked
or part of his or her brain states affected, the door may look, say 40-50
percent different. However, as all nine shall call it a door, a deviant
observance shall not change the realism of the door. Still,
it is debatable whether this reality is the same for other higher organisms
like dogs, elephants, etc as their sensory observation by their brain
organizations are not known! Though, we now accept that these higher animals do
have consciousness of varied shades. Therefore, somehow, whatever is the
reality, we have to limit it to the observance of human consciousness only.
That itself is a restrictive hypothesis and negates singular objectivity rule
of science. Therefore, even this so-called singular Reality of generic
observance may not truly be accepted as non-dualistic. 2.
Second observance by consciousness is of intangibilities by conscious brain
states, which is dualistic, differentiated by variegated cognitive shades,
because of varied experiences and memories of experiences of every single
individual. Like happiness, wellness, love, compassion, right and wrong, etc
are intangibilities observed by conscious mind states and is always
dualistically oriented. Like all ten people may call a door a door but ask them
whether the door is good or bad, there shall be five or six different
observations about the same door. Therefore, the specific observance by consciousness, as against the generic observance can never be non-dualistic
and therefore realities in these domains shall never be singular. Hence the
trouble for humanity, not probably extended to other higher organisms. To simplify what we
have talked so far, we need to see and internalize the primary idea that Reality
in its innate and elemental form always remains as probabilities. This means,
there is probably no Definitive and Singular face, shape, size and dimension
of Reality that could be narrated and explained in humanly possible language of
words. However, Reality Happens, or
in simple sense, takes definitive dimensions of Locations as it is Observed.
Therefore, Reality, in any possible way is a function of Observance. Naturally, the ensuing and inevitable question is �" Who is the observer? Who observes? The contemporary
popular hypothesis is �" Consciousness creates observance. The consciousness is
therefore the observer. However, what we discussed earlier is the hypothesis
that Reality can be singular and definitive only when consciousness is also
non-dualistic or singular. Then, as we talked about how consciousness seems to
have universal propensity and probability of being dualistic, there is underlying
assertion that Reality therefore can never be non-dualistic and singular. Naturally,
as Reality is not singular and non-dualistic, there shall always be 3Cs �"
Confusion, Conflict and Chaos around the very notion and realism of Reality! And,
as Reality itself is dualistic, there probably cannot ever be non-dualistic and
singular human world and life-living reality for we all! Here, at this stage of
our progression into the understanding of Reality, we have our singular focus
on Consciousness and its elemental nature. It is because on this depends the understanding
of the idea and realism of Reality. Also, as we are primarily concerned with Human Reality, it is furthermore
critical to understand Consciousness and its nature in every possible detail of
all possible hypotheses. It is because we are all in possession of
consciousness or the vice-versa realism of consciousness possessing all of us. This truly leads us to a
singular hypothesis, at this point of progression, that primary task at hand is
unraveling all possible details of Consciousness. If we truly and unequivocally
accept a singular and definitive understanding of consciousness, we sure can proceed
onto the finality, whether Reality is effable and internalizable. That shall further
ease our understanding whether Sanity is a Possibility or not. Therefore, next,
we deal with Consciousness in full. ** CHAPTER 2 There is an archetypal dilemma
or dualism about approaching realism for expression and communication. There is
an insistence that Reality must always be scientifically explained and
understood and for that to happen, the expression and communication can never
be anything else but mathematical. Mathematics is the singular definitive
language of pure science realism as it alone seems to have the singular, objective,
measurable and two-way verifiable vocabulary and grammar! However, as we have
earlier stated, at some point of higher realism, even pure science delegates some
critical elements to the domain of philosophy for expression and communication. For example, there is
this very famous slice of realism,
which is worded as �" ‘Do Not Be, You Shall Be’. This sure is a huge element of
Reality but it cannot ever be amenable to mathematical expression or mathematical
linguistics. It has to and remains in the domain of philosophy. Naturally, philosophy
has to ride on the vehicle of vocabulary of languages, resulting in vitiation
of the possibility of mathematical precision and irrevocability. When we talk about the
realism of consciousness, this dualism stands before us in its utmost and
optimum vulnerability. Consciousness, as human knowledge understands it today,
probably cannot be expressed and communicated through a mathematical model. There
have been claims of having a mathematical interpretation of consciousness but still
not acceptable by scientists. The primary reason being the critical assertion
that Cognitive capacities or realism
of brain states are not truly Computational
and therefore not replicable and verifiable. It is believed that specificity (exactness) of consciousness
is cognitive, emergent and vectoral, therefore not amenable for computational singularity.
This very dualism stems out of the till date restricted knowledge of humanity
about human brain mechanisms and processes. There are great ideas about mechanisms
and processes of human brain functioning and also fascinating attempts to structure
a mathematical equation to that but, as usual, the fine-line between
mathematics and philosophy is blurred. Therefore, as things
stand today, Reality is observer-dependent and observer being consciousness, cannot
divest itself of dualism as consciousness itself is a dualistic property or
function, because of the way consciousness has been designed and evolved, as an
emergent, collaborative and integrated function of body-brain-milieu causality.
This of course is the primary and archetypal dualism about arriving at Reality,
which we always have to keep in mind, when we later talk about Human and
Life-Living Reality and hypothesis of Impossibility of Sanity. However, it needs to be
accepted that talking about consciousness and understanding it is a hugely difficult
task because of its abstract nature and predisposition to philosophical expression.
Even for scientists, consciousness till very recent times had been a rather
taboo subject as it was considered a sure case of discredit and disrepute to the
scientists handling it. It is said that there are over 20,000 research enterprises
on consciousness and still, definitiveness is missing. There is this hugely
dualistic cyclicality between quantum science and its philosophical dependence on
idea of consciousness as it is believed, consciousness itself is probabilistic
because human brain behaves like quantum particles in dualistic probabilities
of wave as well as particle. Then, the natural question that arises here is if brain
is probabilistic and superpositioned in nature, what is the factor or element
within human brain or outside, which can be accepted as the ‘Observance’ or
observer that makes a Reality collapse for final decision-making of brain
states? There is no answer yet on how brain states decide on a particular
decision-making, when there are two or more probabilities competing for being
Real and True. So, is there another element of observer-consciousness, within the human consciousness, which is
being labeled as the ‘Observer’? Ancient Oriental spiritualism claims to have
the answer, we shall talk later! That is probably why
when Reality is attempted to be explained with consciousness as its prime
platform, it does not suit mathematically but philosophically to quantum
science. Dualism explained by another dualism! This creates confusion and conflict.
Usually, science corroborates a philosophy but philosophy becoming the basis of
scientific hypothesis as well as a theory cannot possibly be considered as objective
and singular. Therefore, when we talk
about consciousness and attempt to understand it as a common person, with
little take away from pure science mathematical discourse, we need to simplify
things and use such language and communication methodology that we all can relate
to and internalize easily. This we are going to attempt to do next, with all
possible optimality of sincerity. With all humility at my
behest, I wish to state here that the very purpose of my writings is presenting
in my own language what I have internalized in my life, through the long
process of learning and unlearning, catalyzed by the energy of skepticism. It
is a realism in my part that usually, the scientists or experts of specific
fields and domains explain their knowledge and wisdom in such words and
language, which is rather academic and highly focused on specific idea, replete
with subject-specific terminologies. This makes it difficult for common men and
women to understand it as average person requires a generalized explanation and
holistically related narration, in language and terminology that he or she is
familiar with. For example, if a scientist explains a knowledge, which is
fourth stage of a research finding, an average person must always be aware of
rest of the three stages of knowledge. The scientist usually does not start
from scratch and focuses only on last part of a finding. For an average person, it
is tough to spare that much time to get into all details and then relate this
new knowledge to his or her earlier knowledge base. The very purpose of my
writings is that. I do not say I know and I have discovered. I have internalized
things that are there, with persevered attention and then present them in my
eBooks so that average reader does have the ease to internalize what I am
saying, trying my level best to speak the way we all usually talk and explain. I
humbly admit that I am still learning and evolving as a confabulator. No doubt,
there are limitations to how much knowledge can be simplified and made expressible
for easy apprehension. The complex idea like consciousness defies easy
explanations as it involves some ideas and notions that are very modern and seldom
talked about in our daily lives. I am hopeful that in partnership with your
magnanimity and compassion, we shall have ease in understanding the difficult
idea of Consciousness. The beginning and end
of everything is Self. What someone can and does have within the probable and
practically feasible domain of perception of Self alone can be subject matter
of foolproof verifiability. Otherwise, things begin to slip into the domain of
philosophy and literary imagination. Therefore, the primary aspect, which humanity
as a whole and an individual in particular should ideally focus about is the very
mechanisms and processes that create, shape and stand ‘I’ or Self. Thankfully, when
scientists work on the macrocosmic aspects of Reality, it is only an automatic facility
that wisdom and knowledge about understanding of ‘Self’ is bettered and facilitated. It is not that understanding
of ‘I’ or Self has been a modern or new phenomenon. Since over 5000 years or
more, many arrived humans have realized and even documented so many aspects
about existence, self and ‘I’. No doubt, modern science has only put them into great
perspective for improved understanding. There have also been corrections and
facilitations by modern science. The quantum debate of dualism and non-dualism has
always been there with humanity, thousands of years back. Now that we have ease
of scientific explanation and secular-objective literature, we can understand
it better. The primary thing about
Self or ‘I’ is dualism of its situation or position as ‘Karta’, subject, observer or protagonist. The very complex and yet unresolved
idea of Consciousness plays out and installs this situation and position of
Dualism very intelligently and categorically. Modern science also somehow
establishes that self, ‘I’ or consciousness is not automatically and innately
the ‘Karta’, observer or protagonist.
It is rather only a ‘Medium’. Consciousness is a medium and it itself is an
emergent and evolving entity of the body-mind medium. Therefore, in a sense,
consciousness is a medium within a medium! This primary and most critical idea
of ‘Consciousness As Medium Within Medium’ needs to be understood
with perfect clarity. There is a very famous
metaphor used by both spiritualism and science for explanation of Realism. It
is about a honeybee sucking nectar from a flower. A honeybee comes flying, sits
over a flower, sucks its nectar and then moves away. Traditionally, or in
populist perception and linguistic sensitivity, there seems no Dualism in this act
as it is believed that from the perspective of what is being observed, the
honeybee is the Subject, ‘Karta’,
observer or protagonist and the bee sucking nectar is clear ‘act’. Of course,
the flower is the Object as it is doing nothing. The honeybee is the doer of
action and therefore singularly qualifies for being the Subject or Protagonist. The dualism however creeps
in when we see and accept the other perspective that is equally true but not
‘observable’ to general sight mechanism. This other perspective says; honeybee
and flower are both only Objects as the supposed ‘Action’ is being done on both
equally. The action is not honeybee sucking nectar as it is only the Effect of
a Cause that is actually energizing the Action. Naturally, it is this ‘Causality’,
which is true Subject as it is this Cause, which has created the ‘act’ of this
effect playing out between honeybee and flower. It is the energy of causality
that created the ‘media’ of a ‘giver’ and another as ‘taker’ but both are just
expressing or playing out the ‘script’, directed by the energy of causality. This Causality, which
is the Subject, is the innate symbiotic relationship between honeybee and the
flower. The real and true Subject is the innately wired ‘Connect’ of the
honeybee to seek nectar from the flower. Two elements are in a relationship,
which is an effect of the core causality of survival-symbiosis between the two.
Therefore, both the elements of honeybee and flowers are only Objects and both
are equally reacting to and effecting something, the cause of which is scripted
in the ‘Relationship’ or ‘Context’ between the two. This intangible Causality
is the Subject and true Protagonist. This of course is the microcosmic
interpretation of the larger macrocosmic Realism. The macrocosmic Realism says
that consciousness is not in flower or honeybee, even while both may be living
entities. In other words, consciousness that exists in honeybee or flower is
only a small and dualistic medium of the larger and non-local and non-dualistic
consciousness, which exists and stays elsewhere or everywhere. The real and
true non-local and non-dualistic Consciousness is the Causality of ‘Context and
Relationship’ that is just having a medium of body-mind of honeybee and flower.
It is the Causality that is the Real and True Subject and Protagonist as it is
this Causality, which goes on to create the ‘Matter’ in the form of different
‘Media’ for its unraveling and final expression. This final expression is
usually accepted as Reality by all of us as it is what our five senses can
perceive and react to. However, this sure is not Reality. In simple words, it is the
Causality that is true, real, core
and critical element of Observance
but is not automatically observable to we humans through our sensory mechanism
and therefore does not qualify as Reality
for us. However, this causality, even while being the true Observer, requires the Media
for its expression or for playing out its effects. Consciousness of living
beings is the media that causality as observance uses for playing out reality,
which our sensory mechanism and processes can and does easily see, feel and
accept. It is because this consciousness is also a media of our body-mind
tangibility, enabling consciousness to perceive reality, thus extending it a misplaced
sense of being the observer but it is not as consciousness is just media. In Oriental spiritual
traditions, they called this playing out of the true and real Subject as ‘Maaya’ (the web of causality) and the material
medium of body-mind effecting it, as ‘Leela’
(the effect-driven action and behavior) . In Yoga philosophy, there is categorical
and definitive reference to the idea of True Subject or Protagonist and also,
there is an insistence to rise above and detach from all Causalities to attain
the highest position that is ‘reserved’ for humanity. The idea is that every
empowered human has to first detach its own ‘Consciousness’ from the
Causalities of body and mind as it is the primary ‘Liberation’ of human life.
However, in Yoga philosophy it is insisted that even Human Consciousness is a
Media and therefore, this too has to be dumped and an empowered human must also
rise above and detach from the Causalities of Consciousness too to ultimately
be in Union (Yoga) with cosmic
consciousness. This cosmic consciousness is probably what quantum scientists
and super string theory proponents call as non-local and non-dualistic
consciousness. In microcosmic religious terms, this probably is referred to as
God and the causalities are labeled as Design of Divinity. It is rather interesting
that the Buddhist philosophy, which emerged around the same era Yoga philosophy
was consolidating, says similar things. Buddha is believed to have insisted on ‘Observing’
the ‘Causalities’ that are causing ‘effects’ within body-mind structures as
well as outside in the milieus. Buddha’s famous saying �" ‘There Is Suffering And It Has A Cause’, probably pertains to
Buddha’s personal experiences with sufferings. He probably understood as how
human consciousness and cognition is just a poor and microcosmic Media of infinite
causalities in the internal as well as external milieus. He probably reiterated
that by observing the causalities, human consciousness could probably rise
above and detach from the situation of being a ‘Media’ and thus liberate itself
from sufferings. This is something about which we earlier talked detailing the
trajectory of knowledge evolution. So, where do we reach? What
we come to accept as finality of acceptance? It seems, we can safely
hypothesize, from emergent and assimilative holism of what available wisdom of
contemporary as well as ancient philosophical knowledge accepts, that there is
a Reality, which is not automatically and innately available for unraveling to a
localized consciousness of body-mind-milieu mechanisms and processes. True, right
and holistic understanding of Reality is not available to a Media and as human
consciousness is just a secondary Media of the primary and macrocosmic Media of
cosmic causalities, it does not qualify to be the ‘Observer’. Reality is
non-local and non-dualistic and therefore, it is ‘Observable’ only to an entity
that too is non-local and non-dualistic. Human consciousness however can never
be non-local and non-dualistic and therefore, Reality is never amenable and
decipherable for human being. This hypothesis is also what majority of
scientists are willing to accept. There is another way to
understand this above proposition. There is a famous saying about Media, which
goes like �" ‘Medium Is The Message’. What
does this mean and what way it is related to what we are discussing right now? The adage, ‘Medium is Message’
deeply relates to ancient classical philosophy as well as modern quantum
science of dualism of observer. The medium is supposed to be neutral and
objective, definitely oblivious and detached to whatever it is communicating or
expressing. However, it never happens! Why? Simply because in case of humans as
body-mind medium, there is a complex media, working out its own causalities and
therefore can probably never ever be objective, detached and oblivious to its
communication and expressions. Even in case of non-living
media, as we have popularly known as and for which this ‘medium is message’
quote referred to, there are inbuilt, innate and embedded complexities of
causalities. Therefore, finally, it is the medium, which itself becomes the
message or majorly shapes it. Means, the media, which is supposed to be carriers
of ‘content of intent’ of the milieu with objectivity and with whatever is
assigned to it, instead starts to load its own intents and contents that essentially
has the ‘agenda’ emanating from its own structural and functional mechanisms
and processes. Though humans are best
examples of this tumultuous case of ‘Medium Is Message’, with every human becoming
a localized and dualistic consciousness, communicating and installing its own
personal ‘agenda’, it is widely applicable on all media that humanity creates
and thrives on. When in contemporary age, we are experimenting incessantly with
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foraying into high-end humanoid robots, there
is always this lurking fear that the ‘Medium’ we are creating and infusing with
complexities of perceptional elements, may ultimately stand to develop its own animalistic
cognition and organic consciousness to override the installed ‘purpose’ and
load its own message and randomly emergent agenda. There are already primary
evidences of such eventualities. This however is not our
domain in this eBook. What we are talking about and are attempting to
understand is the idea of Consciousness, Cognition and Causality. Our purpose
is to see and realize that our body-mind Media uploads its own ‘Message’ and
‘Agenda’ on our Consciousness, through which we as humans perceive Reality. Our
own consciousness is also a media and it also uploads its own message and
agenda on our meta-cognition of Reality. In simple words, what we as humans
see, perceive and express as Reality is and probably shall always be ‘Crude’,
colored and doctored Reality. It is because Reality is sensed by us through multiple
‘Filters’ and never as objective, singular and elemental. Therefore, this
‘Medium Is Message’ realism also points out to the situation that Reality
cannot be singular and non-dualistic as it is always a summation of different
media-engendered parts where ‘messages’ or expression of reality changes or
plays out differently. It is interesting how humanity
across Earth, who were separated by huge geographical divides around 2000 years
back, could perceive this singular reality about ‘Media’ and ‘Message’ dualism,
even though their language differed. The ancient Christian world wisdom and classical
Yoga traditions spoke of the same Reality. The Biblical saying of ‘Do Not Be,
You Shall Be’ and Yogic philosophy insistence on making distinction between Reality
and cognition (pratiti) of Reality
have singular reference to the fact that Medium itself has the innate and
embedded tendencies to upload its own structural and functional agenda over the
‘message’ it has been chosen to communicate and express. Therefore, people must
be watchful to observe distinction between what the media actually has been
assigned to communicate and what actually the final message that comes out of
it is. This seems to clearly hint that it is well within potential of humanity
to understand the dualism that Reality orchestrates and plays out. However, history
also clearly proves that only a handful of humans have the empowered
consciousness and evolved cognition to see, realize and then act upon this fact
about Reality for sanity and lasting wellness. Therefore, we seem to
have good reasons to accept that Reality, whatever it may be, may never be
singular and above and all, it may not be something, which average human mind
potentials could ever decipher, unravel and establish. Simply because, Reality
is not a fixed idea as its pre-state (nothing) is potential of probabilities. Reality
is created and installed as a ‘Causality’ comes to stand as the ‘observer’, ending
the superpositioned probabilities and thus ‘collapses’ a Reality. Naturally, there
are infinite ‘Causalities’ because nothingness has infinite ‘Probabilities’. As
there are infinite causalities, there are infinite ‘Contexts’ of observance.
Naturally, different observance points and probabilities shall always create infinite
cognitions of Realities. Causalities play up and ‘Effect’ different Realities
through differentiated media and all different media innately shall affect
causalities by uploading their own messages and agenda. In simple words �" There
may not and never be a singular definitive and irrevocable Reality; at least
for human potentials of perception. And, this shall ensure that human world and
human life-living always remains mired in 3Cs �" Confusion, Chaos and Conflict,
which in turn shall incessantly keep the quantum of insanity sufficiently high. ** CHAPTER 3 For a moment, we need
to stop and think; why we are anyway concerned about what Reality is and how
can we be definitive about it? We need to stop and ask, when we are debating
whether Sanity Is Possible for humans and in this humanly possible world of
life-living, where is this need to first arrive at a conclusive, definitive and
singular answer about the very nature and realism of Reality? The fact is; we
have begun with this very crucial exercise of finalizing the hypothesis that for
human perception, at least at this point of time and space, we have only one,
single and most conclusive realism to accept that Reality is not Singular. The next we have to debate
and discuss is what this non-singular nature and scope of Reality means and
plays out for humanity and possibility of sanity in human world and our
life-living. As we shall go deep into the question, its historicity and
importance, we may possibly have a roadmap to possible sanity of humanity in
the long run. If not, then at least we shall have a reasonably clear sight on a
model of personal sanity and system, even while collectively, sanity may always
remain an impossibility for humanity in general. Here, we shall have good
help in understanding a few things, if we have a short yet consolidated
discussion on the historical background of humanity’s journey over the quest of
Reality and its impact on human civilizations and cultures. This may facilitate
how at this stage of time and space, humanity can learn from its past and use
it for shaping a better future. It seems, there may not be enough factual data
available for clarity, yet enough has been documented to lay out humanity’s
tryst with Reality, since at least 5000 years back. Human history is
sufficiently long now and much has been recorded and explained now for we
living in the new millennium of 21st century to decipher a pattern
as how and why humanity progressed, ruled largely by what elements of
Causalities of Reality. Broadly, global history of humanity has had similar and
generic trends, even though they may sound different in details. Naturally,
human history now stands as big learning opportunity for us to finalize the
best possible and optimum life-living principles and practicalities. The earliest and
possibly the most common trend of ancient humanity globally was what we may
call the Coding of Causalities,
within human body-mind system as well as outside in physical milieus. In
contemporary times, we may call this ‘Coding of Causalities’ as philosophy,
spiritualism or even mathematics but early humans simply ‘Observed’ the
‘Causalities’ �" the replicable Cause-Effect
Cyclicality of realism within and outside the self or ‘I’ and then attempted
to ‘Decode’ how they could be used for benefit of life-living situations. When
early humans could successfully replicate the Causalities, they were coded as
wisdom for posterities. So, we can say, history
is all about human evolution and progress to decipher and decode ‘Causalities’
around them and code them as Reality. In simple sense and words �" Human
progress is primarily about unraveling of Reality at successive stages of
evolution, through the twin energy of skepticism and causative observance. The
philosophy, spiritualism, mathematics, etc all can be accepted as practical
expressions of this generic exercise of ‘Decoding
Causalities To Code Reality’. In contemporary times, modern science is also
an exercise in same genre. We also know from study
of history of humanity that within this singular framework of history as
generic exercise of ‘Decoding Causalities
To Code Reality’, there were two broad themes or streams of acceptance of
Reality. First, there was this majority view and popular acceptance that Reality
as created or as it stands, is designed for a purpose and it was noble and
righteous. This view accepted that Reality is good but humans in their own
weakness and ignorance are not automatically attuned to the same goodness and
nobility. They required to be made aware of goodness and nobility of purpose by
discipline, education and training. Probably, this idea of nobility of purpose
of Reality created the idea of God as epitome of all nobility and righteousness.
It originated the ideology of humanity to march in the light of God and divinity. The second and
seemingly contrasted view always remained there but was persistently in
minority status and unpopular acceptance that Reality has no purpose. Things do
not stand for any nobility and righteousness. That is why humans have a free
will that does not require adhering to any discipline and educational training
or other rigors for a specific behavioral or action regime. This view of
Reality naturally didn’t see any utility of the idea of God or divinity as it
accepted that Reality does not stand in any symmetry or perfection of purpose. The
only reality that matters, is what is there and impacting and not what is not
there but claimed as ideal for working. Broadly, since the
beginning of history of human civilization, these two key and contrasting ideas
about Reality got seeded and later, both viewpoints and perspectives branched
into diverse and more specific ideologies, forming basis of philosophies, religion
and political structures. As humanity evolved, milieus started to become
complex, man-made causalities begun to overrun the natural causalities and human
needs established itself as primary Reality, overshadowing all causalities of
realities, these two broad perspectives of Reality branched into complex
systems of philosophies, religion, cultural practices and political ideologies. The Hindu and Buddhist oriental
traditions and philosophies are the best examples of how that happened in the
history of humanity. It is never categorically known as what actually Buddha
said or meant to be preserved for others. It is because first Buddhist inscription
making started only after nearly four hundred years after his death. However,
later, in the coming one thousand years, as Buddhism spread to many other
countries, it was diversified into different practices and ideologies with
branches like Heenayan, Mahayan and Vajrayan, etc. Similar branching and
diversification happened with ancient Indian spiritual philosophies popularly
bracketed under Hinduism. This of course is the story with other religions of
humanity. This itself is the historical testimony of how and why singular and ‘as
it was’ ideas and ideologies could not remain so and got diversified into
innumerable branches and sects. The early philosophies about basic and core
‘Causalities’ got many new names, shapes, forms and formalities as humanity
evolved and it traversed the time-space dimensions in many centuries and in
many geographical-cultural regions. This probably is a
historical record of the fact that Reality, whatever it may be, is essentially
never singular as Reality always happens and stands in ‘Contexts’ and
‘Relationships’. As the contexts and relationships can be infinite, the Reality
as expression of these two elements can never be singular. This is what the
modern scientific belief about Reality says. We have already discussed this
aspect in earlier chapter, where we understood how different media through
which Reality expresses itself, add and live up their own subjective context
and relationship to collapse Reality in a way the media itself desires and is
inclined towards. There is a primeval and
transcendental physics working in cosmic time and space that actualizes this
core nature and expression of Reality. Brilliantly enough, this science of
Reality expression has been dexterously mentioned and coded in Yoga philosophy
of ancient Indian philosophical traditions that dates back to around 4000-5000
years back. In Yoga traditions there is philosophical explanation of the Physics of Causality that cyclically works
on all realism �" tangible or intangible. Yogic philosophy speaks of ‘Contextual
and Relational’ expression of Reality by maintaining that there is difference
between Reality and its Cognition (pratiti)
that varies from person to person, depending on the specificity of that
person’s consciousness. It is therefore only natural that Reality shall always
be dualistic for every individual and also, Reality shall have as many shades
of expression, as are cognitive shades of consciousnesses in different people,
in different internal and external milieus as well as in different time-space
dimensions. Secondly, Yogic
philosophy also explains the cyclicality of causalities between consciousness,
cognition and milieus. The core hypothesis about an ever-evolving and ephemeral
cyclicality is the realism that all elements in cosmic construct are in
perpetual and dialectic relationships with each other. Therefore, no elements
are static and they cannot allow a singular and static Reality to happen and
remain installed. This dialectics was later explained in political philosophy
by Hegel. It accepts that elements
that create a Reality or the cognition of a shade of Reality automatically and
innately come into a relationship or context of the observance of
consciousness. As both consciousness and contextual relationships are emergent
and evolving, there is a cycle of thesis-antithesis-synthesis that constantly
works on consciousness as well as contextual relationships of elements
‘collapsing’ a Reality. Naturally, Reality and its cognitive expressions keep
changing and cannot remain singular in time and space. The primary hypothesis,
which all these aspects of discussion probably install is the realism that Reality,
whatever it may be, cannot be singular and its expression shall always vary for
different individuals in time and space. Therefore, probably the static and
transcendental fact we can be reasonably sure of is that humanity shall always
remain a divided and competing collective of individuals, who cannot ever have
singular belief and acceptance of one common and definitive Reality. This
probably scripts the destiny of humanity on Earth. Diversity is core creed of
not only humans but all living organisms but as is the design of subjective
consciousness of humans, most humans have this innate and instinctive tendency
to feel uncomfortable with diversity. This is the seed of all troubles of
humanity. Therefore, the core creed itself is the seed of inevitability of
insanity in human life-living and the human world. We humans have a destiny
that has been scripted in disaster and improbability of sanity for which we may
not be entirely blamed. It is essentially the very nature of Reality in our
cosmic construct that installs the Realism that Sanity Is Impossibility. However,
what we humans are condemnable for and stand liable for foolish culpability is
our stupid refusal to see this Reality and not work towards a practical
solution of humungous problems that emanate out of this nature of Reality. When
we know and still cannot understand, learn and correct our mistakes, we must
qualify for being the most stupid and most corrupted living and surviving
species in the universe. We have come a long
way. Even before, we entered the so-called ‘rational’ phase of human
civilization, we had the knowledge and wisdom to attain lasting sanity for
humanity but we squandered it. Now is the time we unlearn our disastrous
cultures and embark on the definitive road to sanity in personal lives, as the
human world collectively is now beyond redemption. The new millennium is on
a stage of classical dualism �" the macrocosmic space of humanity in its
entirety is almost beyond redemption and probably cannot be brought to any
reasonable semblance of sanity, even as almost near perfect universality of
human knowledge about core and critical issues, such as Reality, consciousness,
cognition and construct of cosmic causalities, etc have provided a platform to
launch personal sanity, system and order for lasting wellness, empowerment and prosperity. Why do we say that? How
can we be sure that such a hypothesis can be true and genuinely real? How can
we accept that just because Reality is not singular and dualistic, it translates
into Impossibility of Sanity for humanity at collective level? These questions
are valid and must first be answered to reasonable satisfaction, before we move
on to the real purpose of writing this eBook �" How personal sanity, system and
order can be attained in overall impossibility of the same at collective domain
of humanity. There may seem like a
contradiction here as one can ask, ‘When sanity can be possible at personal
levels, why not at collective levels?’ This is valid query and its explanation
is crucial for next level of our enquiry into larger issue at hand. There are complex
theoretical issues when we discuss as why sanity is impossibility at collective
levels of humanity, even as it is possible at personal levels. We can also go
into detail and understand the whole picture as it shall convince us with deep
and lasting conviction. However, it may be easy to understand the whole issue
with the help of a small metaphor, which may not be wholly applicable but can
well lend reasonable insight into the whole dualism. For the sake of simplicity
and primary understanding, we can say, everywhere humanity has build big dams
on different rivers of the world, however mighty they might be but, nowhere
there is a dam on Seas and Oceans. It simply seems a matter of scale and
magnitude! There are structural
limitations that decide the scope of functionality. There are structural
limitations of what human endeavors can do and attain functionally. For
example, when we humans investigate Reality, there is a limit up to what we can
check and test for empirical evidences. The particles and sub-particles of
matter and the possible 21 dimensions that scientists talk of, cannot be
empirically tested as they stand beyond possibility of human observations. Even
today, most micro-realities are corroborated no by direct empirical evidences
but by subsidiary effectual fall outs that a micro-reality engenders. For
example, existence of Higgs boson was confirmed not by scientists directly
observing the elementary particle but by observing what it decayed into. That
is why at a certain stage of investigation or knowledge, humanity only has the
available scope of philosophy and theoretical mathematical model building to express
a Reality. The structure is the limiting dimension of probabilities of
functionality. The same is
theoretically applicable on the collective magnitude of human world and its colossal
expanse of expressions. Probably, we are the rivers and we can tame a river and
build dams on ourselves, individually, irrespective of the nature of the
structure of the river. This magnitude is structurally within the possibility
of designing and installing probability of functionality. The human world and
its colossal expressions are like Oceans. Oceans have multidimensional and
complex diversities of its magnitude and therefore, it limits so many
probabilities of functionalities. We also need to
understand the theoretical perspective of why sanity is impossibility at
collective level for human world and possible at individual levels for personal
sanity. We have already discussed how Reality is never singular and rather, it
is different depending on cognitive shades of context and relationships. Therefore,
between the two ends of a general dualism, there shall always be different
shades of Reality, depending on the situation of the consciousness of the
observer and its contextual relationship with the observation. There is always the two
ends of a Reality �" Utility and Futility, Good and Bad, Right and Wrong. However,
it is impossible to divide the large magnitude of humanity only on the two
extremes of the dualism. It can never be that on the scale of the dualism of
Utility and Futility, Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, one portion of the
magnitude of humanity stands on one extreme and rest on another extreme with
little or none in between. There shall always be equitable spread of enough
people at almost every point of the different stages of the scale. This variety
of shades has been classified into seven shades of consciousness by modern
science but there can be more than that. Therefore, any truth, any Reality can
be perceived and accepted as true and real from seven and more perspectives by
this colossal magnitude of humanity. For example, ask
different people about what and how do they perceive and accept love. Love is
something almost every individual feels and have experienced. There is this
scale that stretches between Utility and Futility, Good and Bad, Right and
Wrong. Ask the straight question as whether Love is Utility and Futility, Good
and Bad or Right and Wrong and find how the answers come. Anyone can find that answers
shall come from different perceptions of Love, emanating out of different
experiences of Love for every individual and after asking a reasonable number
of people the same question, one can see that the answers shall broadly be
classified into seven or plus shades. It is largely because humans or human
minds come in broad seven shades of consciousnesses. What we mean to say is Reality
is dualistic only at theoretical levels at macrocosmic domain. For human world,
the Reality is always multidimensional and almost broadly in seven shades,
still having innumerable sub-shades. Also, the perception is never static and
keeps changing. The same person may speak about Love differently at different
time and space context and relationship. Change the context of Reality of Love
and the same ‘observer’ or consciousness is in most likelihood shall visualize
and relate with the Reality differently. This is true with almost all Realities
of human world. Given the nature of
Reality, as it is perceived and accepted by different human beings, it is
somehow easy to handle and manage when the scale of magnitude of humanity is
small. In small magnitude, it is easy to manage differences and bring in
cohesion and symmetry in ideas and perspectives. Also, in small group of humans,
it is possible to play up a one identity of commonality and gravitate all
differences around them to install order and symmetry. Small group of people
can be reached out well, trained successfully to see and accept singular
perspective of a Reality for larger wellness. However, the tragedy is
that we are around over 7.5 billion people and spread over a vast area of the
Earth with varied physical, social, cultural, economic and political contexts
and relationships. With such a magnitude, it is now almost impossible to work
out singular worldview and perspective of Reality. Moreover, the biggest
trouble is the stonewalled identity of nation-state, the nationality factor of
identity between humans, which is now so powerfully hijacked by politicians and
their benefactors that any effort of commonality and universality shall stand
defeated. Look at how emaciated and drifted the United Nations stand today,
despite its high ideals and common goals for humanity. Empirically, we can see
how people usually behave reasonably well individually and in small, dedicated
socio-cultural or political groups where it is easy and amenable to install a
singular Reality for all to see, accept and follow. We also know from experience
that small countries with manageable population, largely homogenous demography and
history of uniform cultural evolution have better discipline, sanity, system
and order in socio-cultural as well as political-economic domains. It is
structural because as we all know, human mind consciousness is hugely stupid at
seeing and understanding holistic ideas and realism. However, it is genius at
breaking something to small ‘parts’ and invest all its genius onto that for
success. There is a clear
pattern of the chaos, confusion and conflict that takes away the possibility of
sanity in most collectives of humanity. It is simple and easy to understand it.
It needs to be accepted that what the core and transcendental nature of Reality
envisages is Liberty. Liberty is the canvas that is primary and critical to the
expression of differentiated shades of Reality by different people in a
collective milieu. No doubt, humanity has struggled a lot in past centuries to
install Liberty as the core and cardinal principle of human life-living
excellence. This itself somehow proves that the core causalities of nature, have
powerful and predominant expression, which runs deep and thick through the
‘media’ that human consciousness is. Now it is another
debate whether causalities create its suitable medium and its message or physics
of elements randomly create media and later causalities are created as per the
nature of media. Both ways, what concerns we humans is there seems an emergent
and evolving cyclicality between causalities, media and message in our
immediate and larger milieus and together they not only impact how Reality is
perceived as but also installs a ‘specificity’, which is seed proceeds of 3Cs �"
Confusion, Chaos and Conflict in human world and life-living. Therefore, it is
pertinent question to ask, ‘What Liberty entails?’ It simply underlines the
core nature of Reality. Liberty emanates out of the primary acceptance that
Reality cannot be singular and as there shall always be different shades of
Realities for different people, everyone must be at free will to accept Reality
as per his or her individual cognitive expressions and practice whatever principles
he or she deems fit. Liberty therefore underlines the Reality of human world
and human life-living. It allows accommodation and prosperity of relativity of
context and relationship that humans have for acceptance of Reality. Liberty creates
causalities that require specific media and as Liberty is human expression of
Reality, it is only natural that Liberty installs media, which are human
creations within societal life-living domain. This social-societal necessity of
Liberty originates political ideas and spaces and in turn, the emergent and
evolving political causalities create economic structures and functions. That is probably why as
early as 16th-17th century; humanity had accepted
individual liberty as the singular guiding principle of all human practices in
collective domains. It clearly accepted all human institutions and groupings,
even state power and society as subservient to the individual will. This universal
idealism of liberty and its optimal expression postulated the central and
predominant position of individual in all human scheme of things to come in
future march of civilization and culture. However, this idealism
had always had roadblocks and vitiation primarily because humans could not
ensure the quantum of compassion required in social, cultural, political and
economic milieus for the idea and idealism of liberty to play out. Rather, gradually,
the reverse happened as state authority and nationalistic sentiments made
liberty subservient to state power. The compassion element gradually gave way
to competitiveness and conflicts. Interestingly, this was done on the name of
individual’s empowerment and wellness! The brute force of state power however,
happily termed itself as ‘Welfare State’! It has to be understood
that the big trouble is that the very idea of Liberty is highly entropic in
nature as it unleashes powerful energies of diversity and asymmetry. It is only
natural that such powerful energy field has to have enough scale magnitude of
operative space so that it does not interfere with the energy field of another
individual. Also, it was essential that overall milieus remained sufficiently compassionate
to minimize conflicts and competitiveness. Politics came into being in human
world with this specific requirement. Politics by definition of its nature
means humanly designed and devised structures and functions to accommodate,
assimilate and systematize different competing and conflicting shades of
Realities. Politics by its very origin means a compassionate meeting point of all
competing energies in society and cultures to optimize Liberty by arraying and
aligning conflicting ideas and demands into a System of Sanity. And, democracy
was accepted globally as the single working tool of political maneuvering for
Sanity. It is altogether
different matter that politics itself had such inherent and innate
‘Causalities’, which engendered the Frankenstein of Insanity and Conflicts. The
‘media’ of politics may have been designed to communicate and express the compassionate
element of assimilation and accommodation in social-cultural life-living but as
discussed earlier, this ‘medium’ of politics had its own ‘message’. The massive
power structures, causalities of authoritative control and legitimacy for violence
etc ensured that politics itself turned out to be the single largest killer of
compassion, assimilation and accommodation. Contemporary nature of
politics globally has come to stay as ‘Dispenser of Solutions’, which it is not
designed for. Politics has no solutions to offer, instead, politics in
contemporary world is the single largest trouble of humanity! Politics in
contemporary human world is the best example of the calamitous reality of
‘Medium Is Message’. Interestingly, modern politics is behaving almost similar
to the ‘mechanism of evolution’, which is accepted by most as ‘stupid
engineering’. Liberty, by very
definition is itself contextual and relational as Liberty is a Reality only in
societal context and social relationships. There is no meaning of the reality
of Liberty in a vast jungle where a single human being lives. Liberty is a
socially-contextual Reality and as a natural corollary, stands as a competing
idea just because of the fact that its operative domain is a physically defined
space of society where people with different perceptions and perspectives live
side by side; often in uncomfortably intrusive limits. Human population is now many
many times more than what could be the idea of ‘enough space’ for every
individual to practice his or her personal diversities peacefully. The
population is also not equitably dispersed. Also, in modern times, all human
lives with their stakes on available resources on Earth are so intricately
linked to each other that it is truly tough for an individual Liberty to
express itself and not interfere with that of others. The very idea of
liberty stands as a competitive entity as its innate nature, which makes it
highly entropic. It is simply because Liberty has meaning only in human world
and humans live in finite domains of space, time, resource, etc. Naturally,
liberty of different individuals shall always compete with each other to
optimize the energy field of Liberty. As human population is much beyond
sustainable limits of the Earth, every passing day, the operational space
available for each energy field of individuals liberty is shrinking, making the
competition harsher and exceed the probabilities of compassion, accommodation
and inclusiveness. So, liberty itself engenders such causalities that play out
their realities in a way that erodes compassion. Erosion of compassion in
life-living and human milieus is such powerful causality that it unleashes elements
that murders sanity. In contemporary human
world, it is this hugely entropic energy of Liberty, which is incessantly
hiking the quantum of insanity and disorder in societies. Take the example of how
modern world has come to stay as a major theatre of liberty of women, across
the globe. Since thousands of years, women liberties were suppressed and now
they have come to the forefront of all major societal, political and economic
discourses. However, as majority of men world have not taken this women
enterprise for liberty with sufficient quantum of compassion, accommodation and
inclusiveness, the entropic structures between men and women have only
strengthened, causing more chaos, conflict and confusion between them. Similar
is the case with all other hitherto ‘marginalized’ sections, who are attempting
to take their liberties to the mainstream of societal-political-economic
discourse. Every new expression of liberty is shrinking compassion and
enhancing stress of conflict. It is however
debatable, whether there could be a possibility of sanity and non-conflict if
there were only five humans in the entire cosmos, living in far away galaxies. It
seems, even then there probably could not be peace because some day, the five
would get connected and even while there would be enough space, the causalities
of Liberty would creep in and at least one of the five humans might feel that he
or she should ideally own 95 percent of the cosmos, instead of the current 20
percent! Liberty as the expression of reality that human consciousness
perceives is a ‘causality’, which automatically finds a ‘media’ for entropic
probabilities. The idea is that Reality
shall always find expression as it essentially is contextual and relational. Reality
happens or it is installed only when a context of a causality collapses it. Therefore,
it seems very probable that Reality can never allow its own permanency and stability
because Reality is created with this innate, entrenched and embedded energy of ‘Context’,
which in turn enters into dialectical evolution. A ‘thesis’ is created along with
‘antithesis’, a matter is created with anti-matter. So, Reality probably cannot
be without context and context cannot be without dialectical evolution.
Naturally, entropic energies shall always remain working, never allowing stability
and permanency. This by very nature of energy shall keep enhancing entropy
quantum, till it annihilates the system for creation of another; if ever. Essentially, Liberty is
also dualistic, like all realism of life and living. As the famous saying goes,
‘My right to swing my arm ends where the nose of other begins’; this very dualism
makes liberty a recipe of chaos and conflict. Liberty cannot stand divested of Duties
as every individual is entitled to liberty of his or her personal perspective
and viewpoint of a Reality but then, so are others. And in a collective space,
where energy fields of personal liberties are uncomfortably close, because of huge
population pressure and limiting resources, it is only very natural that even a
‘small swing’ of arm by an individual gets restricted by the intrusive ‘nose’
of other individual. Naturally, liberty in modern world is getting ‘restricted’
by loads of burden of ‘duties’, usually very harshly imposed and administered
by state power and even societies. It is only very natural that compassion in
contemporary times is tested hard and probably cannot stand the heat of conflicting
competitiveness. The ‘space-resource-crunch’ is however only one aspect of the trouble
for Liberty. Another crucial and more
concerning aspect of trouble for Liberty administration is the role of state or
politics, which governments come up with in countries. Liberty by its very
nature is entropic and therefore, for Liberty to thrive and spread, it requires
less controlled socio-political-economic milieus. By its innate positioning, liberty
is best expressed in milieus where duties are less and authoritative restrictions
are fewer. This very positioning is recipe of disaster for political systems
and governments, which by their own nature and positioning, thrive on disciplinary
restrictions and larger duty compliances of individuals. Interestingly, this
modern ‘welfare state’ is so colossal in structure and function that it swallows
most of the available ‘spaces’ for its own ‘Liberty-Expression’, which often uploads
such huge loads of duties on individuals that personal liberties are always
gasping for a few breaths. The conflict between liberal individual and authoritative
state is a classical battle in human world and it keeps going out of hand as
human world is evolving as it is. There is a history of how the so-called democratic
‘welfare states’ have wreaked stringent authoritative controls on individuals
and their liberties. Globally, in so many
countries, which have had a good record of Liberal traditions and cultures, there
has been a rise and emboldening of right wing nationalist political ideology. This
rising right wing nationalist voice is against ‘unfettered’ liberty and wants
to install selective restrictions on the name of nationalistic sense of duties.
In USA, in many countries of Europe, even very liberal nations like Sweden, India,
etc, the right wing nationalistic surge has taken over the erstwhile ‘Liberal’ traditions. The idea behind this
global development is primarily about the dualism of Liberty itself. The idea
of optimization of liberty is a vast-resource enterprise. Liberty is a
happy-times manifestation of human individuality. The very rise of right wing
nationalistic sense of duty-restrictions over liberal rights is the
manifestation of bad and crippling times for humanity globally. The issue of
‘Ethnicity’ and ‘Localization’, as against the post-second world war era of liberalism,
open trade and globalization is the reiteration of shrinking space for energy-fields
of liberty. The right wing insurgence of the restrictive nationalistic ideology
of ethnicity and localization is aimed at ‘elimination’ or ‘taming’ of those
‘noses’, which the majority ethnic group, having some sort of commonality, symmetry
and uniformity sees and accepts as ‘alien’ or ‘misfit’ into their own worldview
and perspective of ‘Reality’. For those, who see,
belief and accept Reality in its holism, have the reason to feel warned. This
is sure sign of what we know as the most lethal and incurable malaise of
humanity. This is called the Auto-Immune-Syndrome. It is a situation where body’s
own immune system begins to eat and feed into one’s own body. It is suicide
stage for humanity. It is what the scientists have been warning that
‘Intelligent Races Make Themselves Extinct’. When individual liberty gets restricted,
pruned and killed by the very structures and layers of human world, which have
the primary duty and responsibility to feed, nurture and empower liberty, it is
the primary symptom of beginning of the end of Possibility Of Sanity in human
world and life-living. We already seem to have entered the stage and it is
dangerously maturing globally, with ever increasing advocacies of insanities in
the name of better world. There are other emergent
factors in our contemporary life-living that add increasing and powerful
entropies into our world. We can list so many factors and many are also being
debated and discussed by scientists as well as other intellectuals. However, we
are not going into details of all these. Instead, we shall only talk about the macro
principles and broad holistic aspects of contemporary life-living reality of
our world, which shall help us understand better many microcosmic trends that
are heading us towards Impossibility of Sanity. This holistic idea is
simple and over-encompassing. We just need to understand that Reality has its
own innate and intrinsic nature, which itself is hugely entropic. However, when
Reality operates or unravels in systems that have vast magnitude and matures over
a long period of time, the levels of entropy become hugely complex and hence
unmanageable. The human world, human life-living and its practices are
acquiring more magnitude and complexities every passing day. Naturally, we are
definitely heading towards greater entropy, which shall unleash more
chaos-confusion-conflict in human world and life-living. That shall keep
enhancing the already humungous challenge and threat on Possibility Of Sanity
in life-living and our world. Moreover, as the
entropy quantum is enhancing fast and sure, humanity urgently and decisively
requires embarking on such ideas and practices that must counter the entropy
and lead to restoration of sanity in the system. However, just the opposite is
happening. Not only humanity is failing to apprehend the real and core trouble
and threat, rather, it is unleashing such energies that are fanning the already
calamitous entropies. Possibility of Sanity is fast dwindling away and we
humans are squandering it. Rather, we are even celebrating our stupidities! There is a long history
of humanity that tells us categorically that humanity has passed through unimaginably
tough and disastrous times and situations. However, humanity could survive and still
progress because it always kept the collective quantum of compassion high
enough to limit the calamitous causalities of all entropies. It seems, this
collective quantum of compassion was high enough because average individual in
its own personal capacity held compassion as core element of human life-living.
The biggest repository of compassion probably was the ‘family system’, which could
survive and prosper only because of this single major resource of mutual
compassion. This repository is in major crisis and like the denuded forest
cover on Earth, compassion has denuded from families as family system itself is
deeply stressed under contemporary expression of liberties. No doubt, there always
were many, especially those who wielded power, authority and wealth, who worked
against compassionate life-living but they too could not subdue compassion in
consciousness of average person. The human history is too long and varied but
still, it seems that there was this single uniform element of ‘compassionate
community living’ at grassroots levels in all histories of all geographies primarily
because life-living in general and especially for average population was tough
and therefore compassion was instinctive in the part of average individual for survival
and wellness needs. This seems to have changed in contemporary times with life-living
becoming reasonably easy as humanity reached new heights of growth and
development. The instinctive compassion seems to have given way to evolved smartness
and ingenuity of individual. Individual growth naturally weakened the instinctive
bond of compassionate community living. In contemporary human
world however, there is an emergent realism that politics and economy have gained
predominance over familial and societal live-living and the former have occasioned
themselves as the largest annihilators of compassion. Democracy and market
economy mechanism and processes seem to have changed radically the old world foundation
of life-living. The competitive individualism that stood to gain in the new
polity and economy from detaching itself from societal fabric of compassionate
bonding may well be accepted as the late 20th century evolution of
modern humanity. This in turn has eroded the quantum of personal and individual
compassion. Naturally, the contemporary world with ever diminishing quantum of
compassion is conditioned stage for entropies to go out of hand and thus kill
the possibility of sanity in human world and collective life-living. Therefore, individual
men and women alone can make an enterprise to restore compassion, allow
liberties the less competitively conflicted milieus to enhance possibility of
personal sanity, even as collective space has lost it. This restoration process
may begin by every individual consciously attempting to align more of his or
her individual aspirations with collective ones and side by side become less intensely
attached with polity and economy. The family and society must get back their due
and innate superior situation and position in human life-living, compared to
polity and economy. The polity and economy induced competitive individualism must
accommodate compassionate community life-living elements to make them breathe
easy and fine. If we look at journey
of humanity so far, we may say that probably, the worst mistake humanity has
done is not that it has not understood the Reality or the core trouble humanity
has because of this innate nature of Reality. Rather, the single largest
trouble for humanity is that even while it had and still has rather sound and singular
knowledge and wisdom about its core trouble and possible solution, humanity has
always failed in inducting this wisdom into the mainstream of life-living practices
and functions. Not to have something is bad but have it, squander it and not utilize
it for any worthwhile purpose is worst. Humanity seems to have excelled in
squandering all precious wealth of wisdom of the past and even present. Even in contemporary human
world, the modern science has acquired indisputable knowledge that somehow reiterates
the transcendental wisdom humanity could decipher many millenniums back. Yet,
humanity seems oblivious of them and it still seems, this scientific knowledge is
meant only for labs and handful of researchers. Moreover, the contemporary
Media goes a long way to ensure that when they reach science to common men and
women, they get reduced to ‘Pseudo Science’, causing more confusion. It is a travesty of our
contemporary world that even today in 21st century, humanity lives in
different timelines. There are millions of humans in this world who still live in
5th century before Christ time realism. Most humans are living in
medieval ages, many are regressing to past century beliefs and practices and only
a miniscule percentage of humans in contemporary times actually live by the current
timeline of 21st century ideas, ideals, beliefs, perspectives and functions,
which our contemporary wisdom puts us to. If we look at the
contemporary world situation and attempt a correction of everything that have
gone wrong and in reverse direction of sanity and system, we can easily see and
accept how impossible the task is. The magnitude of human population that shall
require upside-down change by a new mindset training and persistent education, a
hugely powerful, corrupted and mindless lobby of politicians, corporations and money-lords
who profiteer of the contemporary insanity of the system and overall, the deeply
ingrained and embedded sensitivity of ethnicity, religious dogmatism and
nationalism along with many other small factors make it impossible for even
start of any step towards sanity. The human world has now
sort of institutionalized insanity to such powerful and impregnable structural excellence
that any voice of sanity and change shall be eliminated at very inception. The profit
empires of a handful of only five percent of humans are so massive and deep
rooted and they have acquired so much clout and control over most structures of
power in contemporary world that it is almost impossible to even initiate any
change that essentially has to be against the status quo. The entire 20th
century has successfully worked out and strengthened such symbiotic structures
of greed between politics and economy, that in 21st century, as the
realism seems to stand today, the human world is a theatre where only five
percent humans are controlling the lives of rest of 95 percent humans, relegating
them to the status of slaves and puppets in their hands. The last decades of 20th
century somehow very meticulously and successfully eliminated the dominant and cardinal
position of philosophy from the global human discourse. The philosophy always ruled
human cultures as it perpetually pushed ahead and atop the need for evolving
idealisms for higher purposes of human life-living. Philosophy was dangerous for
gangs of profiteers as the powerful advocacy of liberal minds and liberal attitudes
stood as sentinel against conspiracy of politician-corporate nexus to enslave
human minds. The dying years of 20th
century however successfully ousted philosophy from its crown position and
instead installed the new king called psychology. Psychology is convenient tool
in the hands of politician-corporate gang as it portrays humanity ‘As It Is’ as
against philosophy, which speaks of humanity ‘As It Should Be’. The last
decades of 20th century almost killed philosophy and the new king
psychology was dexterously used to install and spread the agenda of ‘Five
Percent’ over the ‘95 Percent’. The 21st century has succeeded in complete
transformation of the idea and expression of Liberty. Liberty in contemporary
human world lexicon stands to mean ‘Full Freedom of Complete Consumption of Market
Manufacturing’. Globally, there are passionate
talks of more growth in economy and it dominates all human discourse. Money and
investments has emerged as the only truly ‘global citizen’, with liberty to
travel anywhere and be welcomed. It is the only single language that the entire
world speaks and understands without confusion and conflict. People seems to have
been conditioned to see and accept that Rights and Liberties essentially mean
how more people should consume and how more and more people should avail whatever
is there for consumption. Globally, a small group
of rationalists have been warning that there has been a constant and persistent
effort by politics and market forces to unleash such trends that blunt the propensity
of human minds to think and rationalize. The education systems globally has
been divested of liberal thinking and rationality discourses and invested with skills
for human minds to perform ‘assigned tasks’ to repetitive uniformity and compliance.
This needs to be understood not only as a localized or regional reality but a
global causality. Earlier, at the end of
20th century, education was designed to create humans who could work
uniformly like machines. Now in 21st century, the machines and
artificial intelligence has replaced humans as they do the same task better. Now
economy, markets and corporate do not need humans as work force but only as
consumers. People are now being trained, not by education system but my
‘media-message-management’ to become insatiable consumers with little or no ability
to think and rationalize. Ideal situation for insanity to prevail and sustain
for optimum profiteering! We can surely put this
phenomenon into a perspective. As we proceed into a life-living situation,
where milieus around us have become growingly and unimaginably complex and
expansive, the modern average consciousness of common men and women develops
the propensity for ‘entropy suppression’ to avoid abstractions and confusion of
thinking and action. This is natural. When reality or perception of it becomes
complex and confusing, there is a natural urge to make things simple and easy
to avoid complexities. Thinking and rationalizing is surely not easy and
simple! So, this rising trend
has its own set of troubles and allied repercussions on cultures and society. The
entropy expansion; the reverse of entropy suppression, usually leads to
independence and liberal expressions of consciousness as the accommodation
space expands. Historically, liberty and its optimum expression has been
directly associated with entropy expansion mode of consciousness. This however
leads to larger randomization and diversities of thoughtfulness, perspectives
and behavior-actions in society and cultural landscape. This liberal
consciousness and independent cognition is a definite recipe of trouble for
society, culture and especially the political set up and government. Political structures always
have trouble with liberal and expansive perspectives as it weakens the
legitimacy of authoritative patterns of governments. Liberal governments historically
have been associated with less nationalistic and ethnicity fervor and less
authoritative administration. This has changed as governments are under pressure
to perform batter, look after the growing consumption demands of people and
compete better in their global economic adventures of moneys and investments.
This has made the modern governments to seek and administer more authority,
more discipline and more uniformity of actions. The liberal population with
larger independence to thought-action expression is now in direct clash with
political authority. This may be called the China-Model of Growth, which is threatening
all other erstwhile big and powerful economic powers of post-second world war
era. Somehow, many countries are now happily following the Chinese model of growth-governance,
even while braving up to counter surging Chinese power. Naturally, average
individual facing political and societal repression for ‘uniform’ and ‘unified’
behavioral regime, willfully starts doing entropy suppression. This compresses
accommodation and assimilation urges of consciousness and therefore, many
liberal elements and their asymmetrical expressions are either mitigated,
subdued or squeezed. This itself in long run creates another set of trouble for
societies, cultures and politics. This entropy suppression and adherence to
uniformity of consciousnesses creates deep crisis of Monolithic Cognition. Monolithic
cognition means majority of people have singular, partial and uniform viewpoint
and perspective on core belief and utility that political masters offer. This
kills holism. Initially, the
monolithic cognition suits the political structures as it enables and ensures discipline
and uniformity but in long run, this becomes the license to autocratic
tendencies and kills democracy. This is already happening in many parts of the
globe. Experts warn that in USA, India and many European countries, the
monolithic cognition of collective consciousness has dawned upon and
consolidated itself. It has begun to influence the political structures and
popular psyche there, especially in USA and India, where majoritarianism has started
to supply license of autocratic behavior to the political system and violence
to societal layers. It has already percolated down to demographic levels where
majority identity behaves autocratically and violently towards minority expressions.
Naturally, the minority cognition and perspectives are in dire threat. The societies
and cultures are under huge threat of uncontrolled entropy that is set to unleash
catastrophic energies of conflict and chaos. They already are! The discerning minds
and receptive people with rational and holistic perspectives can see and
visualize that at macrocosmic levels, things have moved to such extremes that a
correction and restitution to normal is now almost impossible. The trouble for
humanity and its growing propensity towards insanity seems to have become
systemic. The milieus have become so charged and filled with reactionary
energies and belligerent competitiveness that it is gradually but decisively shaping
and coloring average consciousness of even normal men and women to self-centered
and self-obsessed cognitions. The end result of this prolonged self-obsession,
which majority of people believes is a must for survival in contemporary
socio-cultural and political-economic milieus, has considerably eroded and
dwindled the collective altruism, especially personal as well as collective
quantum of compassion, which is core to the sanity of system. ** CHAPTER 4 Somehow,
given the current hypothesis about Reality, which contemporary human wisdom
accepts; the entire idea opens up for novelty of diverse interpretations and
philosophization. Objectively speaking, even average people have their reasons
to see and accept that as Reality is not singular and definitive, probably
intellectuals and experts of different domains are ‘cherry-picking’ suitable
perspectives from contemporary world milieus and theorizing as per their own
predilections. This perception is common among masses, globally. This emergent
trend has twin troubles of intellectuals not caring enough for non-reactionary
and holistic expression of their genuine concerns on one hand and average men
and women growingly becoming less open to criticisms of their fixed beliefs.
Unfortunately, both troubles are maturing and consolidating. It
is the same situation, which has often been associated with history. It has
been said that history is not the expression of ‘what was there’ but what
someone ‘wants to see’ what must have been there. Somehow, very few people are
willing to learn from history that world is always a better place to live when
all possible shades of Realism is allowed compassionate and accommodative
advocacy as well as hearing. It is because holism must have as many possible
dimensions of realism and they all must have equitable playing field in
society, culture and politics. Contemporary world has this aspect hugely missing.
History’s lessons seem to have never been dumped and sidelined as summarily as
it is being done now. For
example, there are serious voices that warn about twin disasters that are
imminent and ready to explode anytime, threatening to make organized human live
extinct from Earth. These voices cite threat of Nuclear War and Environmental
Changes as imminent and already big threats on face of humanity. Still,
majority of average men and women are least bothered about them and many even
think that such threats are only unreal and perceptional, created and lobbied
by a section of intellectuals and experts to install their own personal or
group agenda. Similar
is the situation with issue of rising threat of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
and other cutting-edge technology like 5G internet system, etc. Globally, there
are voices that are listing some imminent threats to organized human
life-living in the new millennium and they also put out strong advocacies for
governments to pay attention for corrective measures for restoration of sanity
in the system. However, average people and even governments globally seem to be
oblivious of them. Rather, there seems to be an unobserved skepticism and
observed disdain about such concerns. The
basic and primary idea is that as Reality itself is an elusive proposition in
human scheme of perception and communication, there probably can never be
singular and unified human initiative towards any threat to sanity and system.
Probably, the very dualistic nature of Reality orchestrates an ever present,
innate and intrinsic ‘Causality’, which lines up one group of humanity as
beneficiary of an ‘Insanity’, even while larger human population may remain
devastated by the same insanity. For
example, the very threat of nuclear weapon insanity evolved in the same line.
The environmental issue also has same story. The technology as threat also has
same old reality. The very idea of nuclear weapon was an insanity that a
country created and executed on humanity. Ideally, there should have been
global and complete annihilation of all nuclear weapons so that history could
never be repeated. However, what happened was that few nations have them and
they are not interested in destroying the weapons but using all possible power
and clout to stop all other nations from having it. So, the Reality has just
shifted shades. Insanity is not killed but what is done is stop it from
spreading to others, even while monopolizing the insanity as an ‘asset’ and as clear
threat to others for submission and one-upmanship. So,
broadly, Reality itself is neutral. The perception of good and bad Reality is
only contextual and relational. Therefore, history tells us that since
inception of human civilization, what humanity has always done and has accepted
as benchmark of success is to control and monopolize ‘contexts’ and
‘relativity’ in such a fashion that it makes Reality collapse in their favor
and profit, even as it creates disaster for rest of humans. Human definition of
success is in positioning ‘Causalities’ in their favor so that the Realties
these causalities or contexts collapse and create stands and remains in their
favor and benefit, even while the same stands as authoritative command over
rest of humanity for subjugation. It
is this transcendental approach of humanity towards Reality that has the seed
of insanity in human world and life-living. This hypocrisy as singular basis of
all benchmarks of successes has been with humanity since long and there has
never been any organized initiative and enterprise to correct it. This is
primary reason why Sanity Is Impossibility for collective humanity. This
eventuality is so deeply wired in the body-mind mechanism and process of not
only humans but probably all living organisms. That is why it is said that medium
is message and Reality itself is entropic. The relational and contextual
character of Reality seeds and nurtures deep-seated entropy, which finally
shall reach its destination of final annihilation of the media that expresses
Reality. Human insanity therefore seems systemic and headed towards the
finality of self-annihilation. History of humanity has proved beyond reasonable
doubt that Sanity Is Impossibility as it is the way Reality happens and
expresses itself in human body-mind mechanisms and milieus. The
relationship of Reality with its Media is something, which humanity has
experienced since long and at every stage of evolution of human civilization,
many humans have understood it and have also warned against it. History has
enough proofs to show that at individual and personal levels, it is somehow
possible to rise above the wired hypocrisy that character of Reality and
body-mind mechanism has. That is probably why there have been documented texts
that talk about ways and means to do it. From
ancient times to contemporary world, many evolved and empowered humans have
talked about this. However, the magnitude of cosmic energy of the ‘Causality’
between the Reality and its Media is so colossal that humans cannot override it
and probably cannot stop or reverse its trajectory at collective domain. If
Sanity Is Possibility, it is always at individual and personal levels because
it is here that entropy is somehow manageable. Before we proceed, we
must deal in some detail about this notion of Entropy, which happens to be at
the center of our hypothesis that Sanity Is Impossibility at collective levels
but a Possibility at personal level. No need to say that even this notion of
entropy has similar fate that is common to all Realities �" Dualism about it
being what it is said it is. Let us talk about it and unravel entropy issue to
decipher why entropy is crucial in our hypothesis. There
is a basic hypothesis, which needs to be accepted so that we could consider a
probability about human world and life-living. This somehow shall help in
widening the scope of our discussion and debate about our core hypothesis that
Sanity Is Impossibility. This hypothesis, we have for our consideration is �" As
contemporary science does not singularly explain a Reality from beginning to
the end, we have the intellectual latitude to fill in possibility of situation,
which broadly conforms to overall picture yet adds new dimensions. Accepting
this opens up probability of novel scientific philosophizations, we are
attempting here. The
evolutionary theory of human existence on Earth is such a scientific
postulation, which is widely accepted but surely does not tell us everything
from start of evolution to current time. It leaves many blanks in the line it
draws about evolutionary journey. This allows us to fill in with novel
possibilities that should conform to overall postulation of evolution
principles but adding new dimensions of probabilities. We are doing some
‘filling in’ here to see and hope that it helps us in widening our perspective
on the hypothesis that Sanity Is Impossibility. There
has been a general acceptance that evolution is a ‘stupid engineering’ with
accidents piling up to create species and finally we humans, with no specific
and auspicious goal in mind. Somehow, the details and undeniable proofs about
this hypothesis are not available. Like all Realities, evolution is also viewed
and accepted with diverse acceptances even by scientists, while the majority of
masses take it with varied forms of convenient thinking. However, it seems
quite possible that evolution principle, if juxtaposed with contemporary
knowledge of matter that forms everything in cosmos including us, has enough
data to prove as sufficient platform for assuming some detailed prognosis. One
such assumption or hypothesis, we are going to attempt here. And, I insist, as
always, this must be accepted with energy of skepticism and personal testing
before internalization. There
are questions hidden in the evolutionary design and outcomes that need
explanation so that we could understand as what essentially is the core and
critical energy that powers the way evolution happened. For example, when you
visit a super store you find at least a hundred varieties of body soaps with
different shapes, colors, fragrances, packaging, pricing, ingredients, etc.
However, scientifically saying, all body soaps have singular role and utility
for us. The evolution of body soaps also seems to have been on the same line
the way species evolved. We can see, there are hundreds of small insects around
us, every species varying in some small detail of form and features but we are
not sure do they have any specific roles, without which evolution could not
have inched ahead the way it did! This bio-diversity is more prominent in
oceans. We
have already admitted that evolution principle leaves many blanks in the long
linearity of progression it explains to us. We do not sufficiently know why and
how two rather similar insects with seemingly only small difference in a few
details actually hold irreplaceable importance in evolutionary chain or not.
Like, if humanity had only five types of body soaps, instead of a hundred, we
do not sufficiently know how and why it would have made any irreplaceable
impact on the way our personal hygiene optimality would have evolved and
continue to evolve towards a better future or not! So,
given that we do not have enough and genuine data about the above questions
that could stand us in good stead about answering them, can we say, it somehow
puts a question mark on the very genius and meticulousness of evolution? The
same way, can we say, having a hundred types of body soap instead of only five
comprehensively complete varieties puts a question mark on the very genius and
meticulousness of human intelligence? Therefore,
given the hypothesis that evolution principle gives us enough latitude to sneak
in philosophical questions, which may have critical ramification on our
hypothesis that Sanity Is Impossibility, we may supply three broad questions �"
I
very humbly leave the possible answer for the above questions on reader’s
enquiry and future evolution of science itself. However, what we can and must
do is talk in general about certain aspects of progression of things in time
and space domain. This may help us answering the above question or at least
head in right direction searching answers. This is somehow easy too as for that
we do not require data of facts from as distant a past like a billion years.
Rather, we can and we shall look for possible data in our contemporary world
and current life-living. There
is a basic question as what creates causality and subsequent causalities, which
in turn create a chain of progression we know and accept as evolution. We still
do not know what ‘caused the first causality’; that is how and why big bang
happened. We also do not know with utmost clarity about early stages of
universe and therefore not very sure how other sub-causalities worked out.
However, scientists do tell us that just after the big bang only energy
existed. However, as the universe cooled down and expanded, matter and anti-matter
were produced in equal amounts. However, what scientists are not able to tell
us as why and how in our visible universe only matter exists and very miniscule
antimatter are found. Usually, matter and antimatter collide and annihilate
everything. We
know how everything in our universe is made of matter and antimatter, which
could annihilate everything, is missing hugely, even when big bang created
equal amount of both. So, the first causality of Reality is unknown to
humanity. There is a hypothesis that probably matter was created more than
antimatter and therefore even after annihilation, sufficient matter could
remain intact to form galaxies and stars. And, therefore journey of Reality
began. So, what we have is a philosophy that is at the genesis of Reality and
not the definitive science. This
leaves us with some latitude to consider more philosophical probabilities about
how Reality, which we are in and part of, unfolded and how evolution drew its
primary and sustained energy for the massively long progression of time since
big bang. From what humanity has known about start of Reality after big bang,
there emerges a probability of a philosophical hypothesis that at every stage
of progression after big bang; from the first few seconds, where major
happenings emerged to current timeline of 21st century, it was
entropy that constantly supplied Causalities energizing evolution. Evolution
itself may be postulated as systematic and patterned progression of entropy,
which always meets its finality in entropy annihilating a probability. This
philosophization about entropy as primary and sequential energy for causalities
of evolution seems to have enough existing support for validity, which we
humans can see and do see in our life and living. We all know that ‘Mortality’ remains the only
singular reality of the cosmos, be it the universe or we humans, who have deciphered
and known the universe. This inevitability of mortality itself seems to suggest
that Entropy probably has the last laugh and it is the singularly powerful
Reality, above which nothing stands. Ancient Indian Yoga philosophy has
documented this cardinal positioning of mortality almost 3000 years back, as
core and cardinal element around which all causalities of realities are created
and plays out. Mortality may well qualify to be the definitive stamp of entropy
and its transcendentality and omnipotence. So can we say, this is also what
shapes all causalities so that everything could lead to finality of mortality? Not
with any definitiveness of surety! The trouble is; the very scientific concept
of Entropy and its philosophical manifestation and outreach are faced with the
same dualism, which all Realities are. Many may not accept the very hypothesis
that entropy was minimal at the time of big bang and it amplified later. Also,
many even doubt that universe is a ‘closed system’, which is essential for the
very concept of entropy to stand its ground. The fact remains that as we have
already discussed, contemporary scientific explanation of Reality has many
philosophical hypotheses, which some may agree to, others may not and still
others may never! However,
this itself is the platform for beautifully spacious domain of acceptance of
Liberty with philosophy. When we are not sure, there is this empty space for
all sorts of other and related ideas to have equitable acceptance and currency.
And, why we are hypothesizing on Entropy being the core and cardinal
‘Causality’ of all Realities that we humans have known in long history of
evolution, is because of the fact that it seems, entropy, or what we may call
in more generality and holistic sense as ‘Propensity Of Probability Of
Disorder’, has the most lateral as well as vertical manifestation all around
us. Also, humanity has understood the ‘entropic nature’ of Reality since
thousands of years. There
is strong and sufficient illustration in over 3000 year old Yoga philosophy
about how Reality manifests itself in different shades of entropic expressions.
It is believed that these shades of entropic expressions engender different
cognitions of a reality to different people, even different organisms, in turn
impacting differentiated behavior-action patterns. These different patterns
then create milieus for more and varied entropic expressions. This dialectics
of Reality keeps energizing the chain of evolution, which is a succession and
progression of a set of behavior-action engendered in response to a causality
that presents at a point of time and space as Reality. This all must only be
accepted as a philosophical hypothesis but it seems, this hypothesis somehow
matches up with how evolution has been described to work as. Evolution
has been said to work as a patch up mechanism, not looking for long term
solution but short term diversion to survive against an immediate trouble. This
supports the entropic nature of evolution of Reality. For example, it is said
that if by a certain development in physical milieu of a species, it becomes
tough for the species to sustain itself, evolution would respond by shortening
the gestation period of the maturity of the infant in the womb of the female of
the species. This would be the response of evolutionary adjustments so that the
new born has better probability of survival and species could have better
freedom in moving to other physical milieus where life is easy. It
is said, evolution would not create any solution by installing such physical
changes in the species that would help it improve its milieus to make life
easy. This patch up adjustment of shortening the gestation period of womb may
affect the infant’s strengths and abilities and this shall itself create more
entropic progression in evolution but evolution does not care. It is believed
evolution comes up with stupid engineering solutions and thus adding entropic consequences. Though
nothing can be said with surety but it seems around 10,000 species go extinct
every year on Earth now as out of the estimated 100,000,000 different species
on Earth, we lose .01% of them every year. This may be explained as an
indication that evolutionary engineering may not have been working out
sufficient solutions to these extinct species, which perish in their ambient
milieus. May be, evolution is busy patching up things for other species and in
turn engendering such entropic situations that prove fatal for these extinct
species. Or, as many believe, changes in milieus are happening fast and
evolutionary tools cannot catch up with this speed, making survival impossible
for these extinct species. Whatever be the reality, it seems probable that evolution
works on entropy energy, in turn adds more to keep complicating the life-living
milieus and finally appropriating annihilation of species. A stupid engineering
can do no better! Or, for that matter, no engineering can do anything about finality
of entropy. Like,
evolution gave a powerful and un-satiating sex drive to humans to probably fix
a possible trouble in its mechanism. However, it did not care enough not to
create the HIV virus that has killer potentials for humans. The evolution gave
venom to snakes for its own survival potential but did not have the idea that
someday they would kill thousands of humans. Evolution seems like a very
localized and short term adjustments to entropy situations, which itself
becomes a mega factory of successive and subsequent trigger of endless and
probably bigger entropies. It seems; there is an entrenched theme of
cannibalism as well as inter-species conflict in the evolutionary scheme of
things. These themes are also deeply manifested in wired human subconscious
layers and this may well be termed as ‘stupid engineering’ by evolution as it
installs permanency of 3Cs �" Chaos, Confusion and Conflict in milieus within
body-mind media as well as the milieus. Somehow,
it seems a rather likely hypothesis that had evolution been a progression
towards perfection, excellence and innate ‘extropy’, human world would have
been different. Philosophically speaking, humanity understood at least 5,000
years back that the core element that predominantly shapes human life-living
and world view is its mortality. Still, evolution seems to have added more and
even easy avenues of death for humanity, instead of pruning them. It is
accepted by a section of scientists that the human consciousness itself is the
accidental or progressive outcome of ‘Entropy-Expansion’ as human brain reached
a threshold of complexities and excellence of information handling and memory of
experiences. This human consciousness is now considered not only at the center
of our understanding of Reality but also happens to be the singular element of
almost all troubles of humanity. The
idea is that philosophically, there is a strong and reasonable case of
acceptance of a hypothesis that entropy is the primary causality and successive
and subsequent entropies are sub-causalities of progression of the way Reality
expresses itself and chooses suitable media to communicate this expression.
Naturally, as time progresses and evolution keeps up pace with its
transcendental stupid engineering, larger and more diverse entropies shall
unleash themselves till the ultimate and inevitable finality of mortality is
attained. Somehow, many people can
very rightly dispute this hypothesis. And they have reasons to believe so
because overall, the human world seems to be doing very well. Rather, there are
definitive indicators globally that human life and living is getting ‘better’ every
passing day. This however is classical dualism of human world. This we need to
understand to have a holistic picture of Reality in our world and our
life-living. The primary reason why the
world seems to be becoming a better place to live every passing day on one hand
and still, the sanity of the system is eroding and dwindling fast on the other,
is the way Reality is presented, portrayed and made to be consumed by average
people. There are enough economic data about tangible consumptions of market
utilities and it is periodically dished out by governments and market
mechanisms. No doubt, technologies are improving and better and more consumptive
availabilities are being ensured; laterally and vertically. However, when we
seek a data about societal, cultural, psychological or behavioral wellness and availabilities,
there are none or very sketchy ones. Rather, in many researches, the derivative
outcomes are not commensurate to the positives in consumptive domains. The fact
is that average humans are dished out and displayed only a part of the Reality
that has tangible data, which supports improvements and growths. The holism is
never available for visibility, let alone scrutiny. So, in a country like
India, ask for data about gross domestic product (GDP) growth and it shall come
up in seconds, showing it is improving every quarter. It is altogether
different thing that governments and its agencies have now devised smart ways
of ‘managing’ real data and presenting a skewed or perspective data to show up
their rosy sides. Data mining is now very well a part of data management skill.
Ask for data of sale of vehicles, housing, consumer items, etc and they are
everywhere. Ask for share market and mutual fund data and there are good
reports. Everywhere there are talks about the data and emerging realities and
media is dished out ‘commanded info’ to show up satisfactory efforts of
governments. No doubt, there are real data too and they are good. This feels
great and ushers in confidence. But it cannot be denied that as economics in
contemporary world is intrinsically linked and aligned to politics, no economic
expression is free of political interference and expediency. This apart, ask for
data on inter-religious solidarity, inter-caste stresses, behavioral patterns
of lower-middle class, wellness perception of demographic divides, happiness
index and other social and cultural data, there shall be none or very sketchy
ones. Even the economic data is confined only to selective broad indices, which
are easy to be managed. Ask for GDP data and it comes quick. However, ask for data
of share market and mutual fund investment of different age group, demography,
ethnicity, income groups and gender divide and there shall be either no data,
sketchy ones or a data that has not been revised since a decade. We need to understand
how relevant and critical data about core and cardinal realities of life-living
are not only bothered about but also intentionally vitiated so that current
insanity is sustained, because this insanity feeds the un-satiating greed
empire of ‘5 Percent’ over the rest of ’95 Percent’. This very data mining enterprise
of modern world, be it economic ones or even socio-cultural ones, is
essentially a politically aligned and linked exercise and therefore, information
in contemporary world is seldom sacrosanct. For example, global
researches point out to the fact that diabetes is a manifestation of growing stress
within the body-mind system and outside in milieus, both being interlinked. There
are updated global data about number of diabetic people and on what medical
support they are. It is there as it suits the industry and profiteers. However,
ask for a data about how growing menace of monolithic cognition is affecting
the stress pattern of minority communities globally or in a country and how these
stresses are linked to probable surge in number of diabetic people within the
group. Let alone the data, this very probable idea shall be dismissed and even openly
flayed by authorities. Try to relate socio-religious issues and especially
political decisions with lifestyle changes and seek a data about that and you
shall be in for trouble. This is primarily because, it does not fall into the purview
of mainstream business of profiteering from a situation of insanity in society
and culture. The modern age is no
doubt the era of information surplus but the fact remains that enough data may
be available but it is never across the board and holistic. Moreover, there seems
to be a conscious effort by concerned authoritative layers to flood in contradictory
data and information so that there could never be a singular Reality for
average person. The confusion is not only natural but also intentional for
specific and ‘desired’ end results by people who rule and dictate. These details can be
endless but we are not going into those. What we can summarize is the
hypothesis that at micro levels, it may seem that individuals or group of
humans are responsible for this or that troubles of human world and life-living
but the macro level fact remains that they are not the actual protagonists of
trouble and insanity. The trouble is innately and intrinsically in the very
make up, nature and structure of the Reality, as it is unraveled and expressed
to Human mechanism and system of observation and perception. The real
protagonist of troubles and insanity therefore is not the human body-mind but
the Reality itself that plays out in human milieus on Earth. However, from this
hypothesis emanates the sub-reality, which is the basis of our assertion and
the core content of this eBook that Sanity may be Impossibility at macro levels
in our human world, it is very much possible at individual levels. The primary reason
for this assertion is the realism that whatever be the finality of reality, it
essentially plays out, is unraveled and deciphered only at the lowest level of
an individual body-mind mechanisms and processes. Reality plays out and is actualized
only at the microcosmic and local levels of individual self consciousness. So, effectively, this
eBook proceeds on the hypothesis that though, the primary culpability of
troubles and insanity does not stand with individual consciousness, the only
media that plays out and executes the actual ‘offence’ and wrongs, is the
individual consciousness. Therefore, it is at individual level of microcosmic
Reality that sanity could be possible, if ever. That is why there is old saying
that there is no need to change the society, nation or the world; rather change
should be designed and installed at individual level, for every man and woman
as it is the people who are the last and the only effective ‘media’ to message
any change about Reality and its possible alternative expression. This hypothesis brings
us to the task of elaborating how sanity can be made a possibility at
individual or personal levels, even while remaining and interacting with the
larger milieu, which is innately and intrinsically antagonistic to sanity,
system and order. Before we begin, we have already understood that in our
further enquiry into this discussion about how personal sanity can be made
possible, we must be first sure and definitive about two core elements �"
In simple words, we
need to understand the dynamics of why both human world and human consciousness
have innate, embedded and inbuilt mechanisms and processes, inclined towards ever-ready
disorder, chaos, confusion and conflicts. Why is it necessary? It is because
when we are enquiring about possible sanity solutions of the trouble of human
world and human life-living, a clear and categorical understanding of the dynamics
of the entropic nature of both shall help a great deal. It is because, solutions
are not external to troubles, rather embedded and internalized into troubles
themselves. Almost always, solution is elements arranged in an ‘alternative
ways’ to the arrangement of elements that create and sustain a trouble. For the sake of
convenience and continuity, we are not detailing the two issues here but they have
been dealt with in separate chapters in the second part of this eBook. It is up
to your choice and priority whether you first read them before we move onto our
next chapter or after. In the next chapters, we are discussing ways to install
and sustain possibility of sanity at personal levels. ** CHAPTER 5 At the very outset,
before we talk about actual and effective ways to work out a model of Sanity
System in personal domain, it is mandatory to accept something, which shall brace
us up for the tough task we have at hand. There has to be a humble and very
sincere acceptance of the fact that there is huge problem in explanation of
frontier ideas with the help of humanly designed words and languages. The trouble
emanates primarily because of the way our brain has been designed and works for
us to have perception and acceptance of realism through linguistic expressions
and communication. When we talk about possibility of personal sanity, we run
the same trouble with our perception that has to depend on language-led communication.
The content of intent is
not foolproof and optimal when the content is only language. Intent is a vast
territory and content that transfers intent from one person to another is restrictive
if only words are the singular carrier. Option-less-ness of linguistic communication
as sole media of intent transfer is suffocatingly crippling. This must be borne
in our mind consciousness when we proceed ahead. Secondly, also very
importantly, there is a primary need to ‘unlearn’ so many things, to begin with
a ‘neutral’ mind consciousness. It shall then have ease in accepting new ideas that
shall be required to be allowed central position in new thinking. From what
modern scientists have known about brain mechanism so far, we know that human
learning is a complex mechanism. Our brain itself is hugely complex and precarious
mechanism. It is believed that a child is born with a brain, which is already
loaded with ‘archetypes’. This means, the brain is created with a ‘pre-designed’
framework that sort of already contains encoded information about human world,
even before it consciously begins to realize and learn them through the five
senses. Long years of more than 4 million years of evolution has evolved a
brain that comes pre-loaded with predilections and conforming attributes in its
trillions of neural plexus for survival in the world a human infant is about to
step in. The evolutionary
process follows the cyclicality of phenotype shaping up genotype and genotype
in turn affecting the phenotype. It means, humans are genetically wired for
suitability and survival in the environment they live and as humans change the
environments they live, their genetic make-up is suitably altered. Therefore,
long years of evolution in the physical milieus of our Earth has shaped and formed
the neural structures and functions of human brain, which are pre-loaded in
every new brain of an infant coming in the world. These fixed and innate wirings
of human brain even in an infant is called ‘archetype’, which means old and
continued choices and preferences already there in brain states, before the
child even begins to learn anything new. For example, scientists accept that belief
in God and a world beyond is some sort of archetype that every child is born
with. He or she may later ‘Unlearn’ this archetypal belief. We may also include
in archetypes those genotypes that an infant acquires from parent’s phenotype. That
is those genetic inclinations of an infant, which come to him or her from the
milieus in which the parents have survived and adjusted to. Much of this too
has to be unlearnt. Unlearning begins by testing
the validity of these archetypes. This is toughest for any human being. Not
only unlearning archetypes of our subconscious mind states is tough but it is
also singular misfortune that human system of education and learning, be it
familial, societal or institutional, has never been designed to help a child or
a young man or woman in this difficult enterprise. Every single individual on
Earth is left on his or her own to evolve ways and seek guidance from whatever
source it feels fit. No institutional help in the form of education and
learning mechanism is available anywhere in the human world. It seems, almost 90
percent of humans in contemporary world are seeking and are under some form of
guidance either from spiritualism, religion, psychology, philosophy, ritualism,
cult practices, etc at personal or group levels for peace, wellness and empowerment.
All these can be clubbed into a singular need of all humans to seek and find
help and support in dealing with so many issues of life-living that unsettle
them and affect their wellness. However, globally, nowhere there is an
institutionalized and authorized platform for learning and education of mind
consciousnesses. Unfortunately, this issue is considered something as a subject
matter for scientists to discuss among themselves but never the role of
governments and politics to assimilate it into curriculum for universal
education and learning. The second element of
‘unlearning’ is pruning the ‘auto-learning’ or what we may call automatic
creation of a replica of localized and ambient milieu in the subconscious mind
states of a child in the first seven or eight years of his or her life. Unlearning
this is also equally tough as this is also aligned to the very survivalist instinct
of human brain mechanism. In contemporary scientific discourse, it is believed
that in the first eight years of his or her life, a child imbibes almost
everything that is part of his or her ambient milieu and also subconsciously accepts
as his or her base reference point for all utilities and futilities, good and
bad and right and wrong. The child picks up these benchmarks largely from the
parents, physical elements of the ambient milieus, perceptions and practices that
are prevalent and dominant in the ambient milieus. This forms as the primary
and base template of all future learning that keeps happening through
associations. They are essentially the strongest ‘contexts’ and ‘relationship’,
which make Reality happen or collapse for a man or woman. All future realities
that a growing up child accepts happens through a process of association and dissociation
that brain states make with this base-reference learning of utilities and
futilities, good and bad and right and wrong, acquired in the first eight years
and consolidated as primary subconscious mind states. As we have talked
earlier, Reality is always contextual and relational and therefore, a growing
up child sees and accepts Reality in context of what the subconscious mind paradigm
presents as primary benchmarks of utilities and futilities, good and bad and
right and wrong. This subconscious mind ‘context’
and relativism of association has to be unlearnt as we grow up and mature as a
young person in our twenties �" the earlier the better! How we can unlearn, we
shall talk later and it is relatively easy, once we accept the utility, worth,
goodness, righteousness and indispensability of ‘Unlearning’ the archetypes and
auto-mode subconscious mind programming. We first need to understand why
‘Unlearning’ is indispensable for Possibility Of Sanity at personal levels. It
should not be very difficult to understand as now we have known the idea and
situation of ‘context’ and ‘relativity’ in the framework of Reality expression
and acceptance. This idea of approaching
Reality sans fixated contexts and relationship with something tangible or
intangible is as old as 4000 years for humanity. This is also the cardinal
principle behind the very cherished and critical notion of objectivity of mind
consciousness. This objectivity leads us to the idea of Holism, which is the singularly
most cherished and ideal situation for acceptance of Reality in human
life-living and world as well as in all other extended milieus. This all may seem
complicated but the simple and one line meaning of all these is �" Our brain is
designed and evolves in our early life for subjective, localized and automatic self-learning
to optimize survival potential of an infant. However, this creates a fixated,
very restricted and monolithic perception and worldview for a grown up person. This
surely was a good design for early humans who lived in small tribal communities
and did not move much because of fear of conflict with rival tribes. Also, in
small homogenous human collectivity like a small tribe or regional community,
this instinctive design definitely augmented survival chances. However, humanity has journeyed
a long way from this early life-living. We live in multi-ethnic, cosmopolitan
and diverse demography and move to far off parts of the world, beyond societal,
regional and national boundaries. Already over 50 percent of global population
lives in urban spaces and we can say with surety that modern global culture has
come to stay predominantly as urban culture, shaping even rural live-living. This
massive change in life-living milieus has happened very fast, in just the last
50 years. Add to it the reach that modern technologies have provided to average
human. Milieus have changed fast but our mindset has not coped up with these
fast changes. Urban life-living is
complex and diverse with little propensity for homogeneity. In contemporary world
and life-living, it is a natural progression for every individual to consciously
prune and unlearn those archetypal and instinctive elements of subconscious
learning, which restrict and hinder the growth of objective, holistic,
universal and evolved perspectives and worldviews. This is not easy task as
‘Unlearning’ makes an individual feel like opting for self-destruction as it
involves a tough emotional and intellectual decision of letting go many ideas
and preferences that we held dear and thrived on them for years since
childhood. Unlearning is a conscious process and it naturally clashes with one’s
own subconscious mind layers, seeking to overrule it and install new regime of
reality, the subconscious has linked with survival. Unlearning is tough because
it is like ‘I’ being pitted against ‘I’ itself. It is a battle of self-negation
for augmentation of empowerment, which most people lose as quantum of inner
conflict is colossal. The subconscious shall
resist it with its life and for a moment, it shall prove that the ‘self’ is
battling against the self itself! This shall create a feeling of split within and
shall unsettle an individual attempting unlearning for some good amount of
time. This is a rather tough period for self. Unlearning is tough not only
because starting this process is met with resistance from within as well as
outside but also because unlearning process is a long and persevered one. This needs
assistance, support and encouragement from family, friends, peer groups,
milieus, society, polity and economy in general. Tragically, none is usually
forthcoming and rather, there shall be reverse of it all! As we said earlier, this
happens to be the tragedy of humanity that it has failed to install a singular
and effective institutional mechanism for true and right learning of humanity, despite
having this wisdom about human life-living since thousands of years. It seems a
true human tragedy that we evolved languages thousands of years back, evolved
to have scripts and publishing. We evolved educational systems as early as 4000
years back. However, humanity failed in installing a singular, optimal and universal
educational and learning regime, which could attain this simple task of moving
a person’s infantile subconscious of subjectivity, locality and rigidity of
partiality to objectivity, universality and holism. This failure is a huge
causality of sanity becoming impossibility in contemporary world. Even in contemporary
world, where we do have enough scientific evidence about how human learning
should be designed, the world does not have a singular educational and learning
model and paradigm. Humanity is still experimenting with education and learning
and the biggest tragedy is that these experiments are carried and installed not
by scientists and academicians but by politicians. Moreover, high quality
education is still available to may be less than 10 percent of human
population. That is probably why majority of grown up people have to struggle
individually to seek guidance from spiritualism, religion, psychology,
philosophy, rituals, cults, isms and even science for personal wellness, poise
and peace. Therefore, ‘unlearning’
is the primary task at hand, before we begin to ‘learn’ about the next good
thing for possibility of sanity in personal lives. We need to understand and
accept why unlearning is indispensable today. Also, we must address a possible
query here, which some people may ask is �" when ‘unlearning’ is such a cardinal
aspect of growth and optimality of wellness, why then it is not an automatic
process for brain states and why ‘Unlearning’ requires to be conscious
enterprise? If ‘unlearning’ is so critical to survival optimality, it must have
been an auto-learning process of subconscious mind states? This question is
valid and must first be answered. The evolution itself
seems to offer the answer. It seems, probably initially in the early stages of
human civilization, when humans lived in small tribes and had just begun to lead
a settled life, it was important that all members of the tribe behaved and
acted in one way. This itself was a lineage carried forward from almost all
mammals who live in small groups or packs. Early, fast, rigid and conformist assimilation
and acclimatization of the newly born towards milieus, prevailing practices and
accepted realities were basic requirements for survival. It is essentially
called wired behavior of newly born to ‘ape’ others to be part of the ‘survival
package’. This wired instinct of
survival, which is common in almost all species in our world, is one of the
many tribal instincts that modern humanity has to ‘unlearn’. This instinctive
subconscious mind state is referred to as ‘mammalian brain’ that is genius at
aping. Scientists maintain that many instinctive behavior and actions of even
modern day humans are vestiges of not only of tribal lives, a few thousand
years back but millions of years back. For example, it is believed that modern
humans still get unsettled in full moon nights as thousands of years back, it
was a phenomenon that exposed early humans to risk of predation. The risk and
threat has gone away for modern humans but yet, the fear psychosis remains as we
are genetically wired for such behavior. Scientists believe, evolution does not
dump old genetic expression, rather overwrites the new genetic writing over the
old ones. Therefore, effectively, it may be said that humans have huge genetic
debris accumulated in their genome. This is debatable and we are not going into
this! The idea is, in the
long progression of time and space, the milieus humans move into or settle change
fast. However, genetic changes that evolutionary processes could bring in do
not happen this fast and automatic. And, even when genetic changes happen, they
do not replace the old and redundant ones but instead pile up new and required genetic
changes over the old and redundant ones. Moreover, there are views that
evolution has stopped to work the way it was as humans have now unsettled and overcome
the natural forces that worked as tools of evolution. So, we can say, the
nature is not bringing in the adjustments and pruning anymore and therefore, we
humans have to consciously and decisively carry in the ‘unlearning’ of all
those vestiges of past life-living that evolution forced on us but are now a burden
on us, affecting our wellness and sanity. Even if we consider
that evolution is still working and making suitable adjustments, we can clearly
see that changes in modern life-living are too fast for evolution to keep pace
with. It is there even for an average person to see and realize that modern
life-living milieus have become very complex and huge in a short span of time. They
present huge challenges to modern humans for life-living wellness. Moreover,
everyday things change and bring in new challenges as we live in an age where
technology brings in fast changes in milieus. Adjustments by an individual
means not only learning new things but also equally importantly ‘unlearn’ old
behaviors, actions, attitudes, psychosis, perspectives, beliefs, etc. For example, by 1900, only
16 percent global population lived in urban areas and rest of 84 percent in rural
regions. Naturally, human world could well have been termed as rural living and
its cultures majorly rural oriented. However, in 2016, only in 116 years, around
55 percent of global population lives in urban areas. Naturally, it can be seen
that on around a century, the world has turned upside down, from essentially
rural to predominantly urban. As we discussed earlier, there is little study, very
sketchy data about how this major transformation has affected and shaped human
consciousness and cognition. There is also very limited information about how this
fast change in physical and cultural milieus has impacted life-living and added
new elements of unlearning and learning for humanity. There are so many similar
causalities that has emerged and emerged fast in human world and life-living and
average person has no information and no readiness to deal with it. The
politics and economics of the day are not helping anything. There are peripheral,
short-term and behavioral changes that is rather easy for most humans to actualize
as part of adjustment to changes in life-living and milieus. However,
deep-seated, core, attitudinal and perceptional adjustments to changing milieus
and life-living challenges are tough and it is where most humans fail and in
turn add entropy to already troubled collective sanity. This needs to be
understood. It is rather easy for average man or woman to shift from landline
phones to mobile phones and from mobile to smart phones with little discomfort.
Shifting from 3G to 5G data spectrum is not tough. However, handling the smart
phone and 5G unleashes number of attitudinal, behavioral and sociological changes
that average humans find tough to do successfully, despite best efforts. So we
already have smart phone de-addiction support system working to pull out growing
number of kids and young ones. Medical as well as social advisory is in place warning
against the addictive and debilitating propensities of technologies. This aspect of milieu
changes and failure of humanity to consciously adjust to the causalities the
changes unleash for entropic probabilities needs to be understood in detail. There
is a great example, which we talk here showing this critical issue that there
is no auto-correction mechanism in body-mind processes. One only has to
consciously work out the adjustments and corrections. In modern day world, there
are many places where wild animals are kept in man-made milieus, where they are
trained for behaviors and actions suitable to their new and changed milieus. An
ideal example of this is a place in Africa where a man keeps many lions,
tigers, cheetahs and hyenas. They have been brought up in humanly made milieu
where they do not follow any natural rules of their wild world. They rather
behave and act like pet and tamed animals. The wild predators play and live
peacefully with the man who has trained them. However, when asked did he not
fear living and sharing space with these giant wild predators, he said that he
no doubt did all his activities with them within a well specified limits as it
is always in his mind that any given time, even when trained long for domesticated
and conformist behavior, they remain wild and killer animals. Their raw and
base instincts have not changed even when there have been peripheral changes
that successfully, with a few manageable accidents, make them behave and act in
coexistence and cooperation mode. We all can see and have
enough proofs of the same with most humans. The societal, cultural and personal
training, apart from whatever institutional education one gets, varies unimaginably
in this world. This makes loads of difference in individual’s behavior,
actions, attitudes, perceptions, perspectives, beliefs, etc. This in turn affects
the potential of one’s assimilation and accommodation in collective space of
societies and cultures. There are contrasting beliefs in the way societal,
cultural and personal training is imparted to every individual. One belief
says, plants and kids grow by themselves and do not need nurturance as nature
provides them with everything. Second and contrasting belief accepts, it takes
a whole village and society to nurture a child to adulthood. Moreover, there is
also difference of approach towards societal, cultural and personal training. One
belief maintains that humans are born with animalistic instincts but can be made
to fit in nicely into cultured and civilized life-living by societal, cultural
and personal training. The contrasting thought believes that humans are born with
all ingredients of perfection as they have been created as the most excellent
creatures in universe and it is essentially the societal, cultural and personal
training in civilized life-living that corrupts their innate virtues and excellence.
Whatever be the reality, it is manifest that even well educated and well trained
human minds often exhibit raw and animalistic attitudes and behaviors. This points
out to the fact that ‘course correction’ is not innate and natural for humans.
It needs deep conscious mind training and persevered practice of the art. It is a huge tragedy that
humanity has made such remarkable progress in understanding so many crucial aspects
of how our brain works and how we process reality, still, there is no
willingness to make them applicable for all by a universal education training. Modern
science understands beyond any reasonable doubts as how a human child is born as
a package of raw and wired instincts and requires persevered societal, cultural
and personal training and disciplined practice to enable an adult person to fit
into a civilized and cultured human milieu. This human milieu requires human
instincts to become acquiescent to commonly learnt behavior, actions,
attitudes, perceptions, perspectives, beliefs, etc. This is possible only by a universal
and objective mind training. However, the human world seems oblivious of almost
most grassroots realities. The only way out of
this situation is to personally unlearn this archetypal mindset and mentality
and accept the new and objective wisdom that contemporary scientific knowledge brings
us for all of us. We know that probably the collective domains of humanity
shall never ever care for sanity, system and order and therefore, individually,
at personal level, anyone can work out its own model of sanity and system for
lasting wellness and peace. This is what we are talking about in this eBook. Before we begin to
outline steps to begin the journey towards a model of personal sanity and system
in this world full of entropic probabilities, we must also accept that we are
talking about evolving ourselves to personal sanity, living a normal life, well
within this human world and not leaving the average life-living for a reclusive
life-living in jungle or a solitary place. We are accepting a model of wellness
and personal sanity amidst the chaos, confusion and conflict of the world we
live on daily basis. This is tough. This situation presupposes that we accept
the two broad principles as pre-conditions to our personal sanity enterprise �"
Very much like a farmer
preparing his field rather meticulously and persistently for a crop, we too
shall have to invest strong conviction and long periods of persevered practice
to ready ourselves for initiating the journey towards personal sanity. Therefore,
before we begin our talk about personal sanity model, it is equally important
that we list and remind ourselves of nine impediments, which often keep us away
from success in any venture of life. It is human nature and once we admit that
we all are human and have this natural inclination to drift away from our
goals, we are better off. Knowledge of a possible reason of failure surely
enhances the probabilities of success. These nine hindrances to success, as
listed in ancient Yogic philosophy and reiterated by all wisdom, are:
As the task of
attaining personal sanity in the contemporary world of highly entropic
probabilities is a tough enterprise, let us be firm and focused on our goals. In
the next chapter, we begin to list out steps for our journey towards a model of
personal sanity. ** CHAPTER 6 There is this specific
need to mention and reiterate that nothing external to us has any meaning,
utility and worth for us; we can attain something for which we have mechanism
and processes already innately ingrained in our body-mind system. Therefore,
when we say, there is a possibility of sanity at personal levels, it is because
we have the mechanism and process within us to launch it and successfully preserve
it. And why do we say this? Science has proved it
beyond reasonable doubts that our mind mechanism, with all its trillions of
neural plexuses, is neutral. It is not preloaded and preoccupied with any inclination
for anything good or bad. Brain states are least bothered about how we program neural
networks. Universe does not have a ready and deterministic agenda for anything
good or bad. It is for we humans as what we feed into our brains, what good or
bad we condition our brain states to and which way we shape our behavior and
actions for whichever goals. As the brain states and neural plexuses are
neutral, we humans at personal levels have the potential to attain mastery of
the artistry of shaping and conditioning our own lofty and specific goals for life-living
behaviors and actions. This is some basic framework, which works in favor of
possibility of sanity. Therefore, the primary question
at this stage of our deliberations is �"
We have already discussed
in details about how even our consciousness, the ‘I’ or self is not the
protagonist, Karta or subject but
just a media. Therefore, for all practical purposes, even the ‘Higher
Consciousness’, which we can say does the ‘un-shaping’ and ‘shaping’ exercise
of our mind consciousness layers is a media. However, this higher consciousness
Media is an evolved, objective, holistic and detached one, which has the
discipline and dexterity of controlling and managing all communication that the
body-mind media expresses in terms of behavior and actions. The average self or normal
mind consciousness must first rise to the evolved state of ‘Higher Consciousness
Media’ and there is a process to it. Evolution of ‘I’ or self to higher
consciousness primarily has cognitive aspect and therefore, external initiatives
do not weigh in, rather it is predominantly an internal enterprise. Evolution
to higher consciousness is primarily about how we accept reality in a novel and
holistic way, which makes the enterprise purely cognitive, intangible and perceptional.
It is all about internalizing Reality in holistic way. In the eBook titled, ‘Optimality
Of I Potentiality: Consciousness, Cognition, Causality And Criticality Of
Communication’ by this author, we have deliberated in all possible details
about this issue of attainment of Higher Consciousness. That is why we are not
repeating it here to avoid this eBook being unnecessarily bulky. Like all the
eBooks of this author, it is also available for unrestricted download. Therefore,
we shall proceed to our next level deliberation here, humbly inviting you to kindly
refer to the aforesaid eBook if you wish to have details about higher
consciousness media of body and mind. When we talk about how
to construct a personal model of sanity, we shall divide the whole enterprise
into two distinct stages �"
Essentially, first
stage works as ‘Un-Shaping’ of old and existing consciousness and then the
second stage belongs to ‘Shaping’ the new and emergent consciousness for finality
of the possibility of sanity in personal life-living and one’s own personal cognitive
world. As we have deliberated on the problem of insanity of life-living and
human world in every possible detail, we do not need to go into much detailing
of ideas, when we talk of the issue of personal sanity. Why? Because, as we have
already mentioned, problem and solution are not two mutually exclusive things,
rather they are just two sides of the same coin. We have already understood
that solution of a problem is just an alternative arrangement and positioning
of the same elements, which create a problem or trouble. As we have understood
the elements of potentials and probabilities of insanity in detail in earlier
chapters, we shall have ease in understanding the elements of solutions as they
are the same. What we are doing in the next paragraphs as deliberation of
solution is talking about the alternative arrangement, situationing and
positioning of the same elements, which we have already known and understood in
our detailed talks about the problem of insanity. So, here we go… Stage 1 Acceptance One:
It probably has to be accepted that we must not still remain lingering with the
primary question of life and living, even when we are in 21st
century. The question, Who Am I or to say what is ‘self’, needs finality of
answer as without this, there probably cannot be any movement towards personal
sanity. The singular answer to this question cannot be ever arrived at and
accepted, this we all know. We have already discussed as why there cannot be a
singular reality and that is why no possibility of any singular answer of
questions that is at the core of our life-living. However, what we all need to
accept that there probably is a possibility of an easy and singular acceptance of
something, which is broadly tangible or tangibility-driven and therefore secularly
and singularly objective for we all to accept. There shall always be dualism
about origins and purpose of universe and all lives around us, including
humans. But we all can and should ideally accept that now in 21st
century, there is little confusion or disagreement about the mechanism and
processes of human body and mind. It does not matter whether God created humans
or humans created God! It is also irrelevant whether evolution designed us or
not. What matters is that we have a certain and common design of body and mind
and that does not anyway change irrespective of who created or designed us. The
‘design’ and ‘creation’ is well there. Let the debate as who created the design
remain be endless. It does not matter. What actually matters is what we do
next, after the design is there. This is something,
modern contemporary scientific wisdom can and does tell us with little dualism
and confusion. True that we haven’t yet understood fully the entire mechanisms
and processes of human body and brain but yes, we know for sure that we have moved
in right direction to know quite a lot about how our body and mind works and the
journey of understanding more is heading in right direction. Like, may be
scientists shall find some new particle or new element that shall make
understanding of matter better in future but it is for sure that it shall not
change the current reality about what we so far have understood about different
particles and constitution of matter. At this stage of contemporary knowledge, we
sure shall get better but miniscule chances that we shall find something that
shall reverse or dump our current wisdom about reality and body-mind mechanism. This acceptance of the
secularly and objectively singular knowledge and reality of ‘I’, self or subjective
sense of ‘me’ is indispensable for any headway towards personal sanity. We
surely cannot reach out to the very process of arriving at personal sanity if
we do not accept the mechanism and process of our body and brain. This
contemporary knowledge of ‘I-Mechanism’ itself displays and defines as how
sanity can be a possibility only at personal level. If ever, collective and societal
sanity is to happen, it shall be possible only through the route of aggregation
and summation of personal sanities of individuals constituting a society and
other collectivities. As we have talked
earlier, it does not matter much as what Reality is and how it plays out in the
universe. What matters is what is our own body-mind design, mechanisms and
processes that make Reality play out for us, as it does. It is the reality that
a person has to handle that matters most. And, as an individual, we all must
have this secularly singular acceptance about these body-mind designs,
mechanisms and processes to install personal sanity. This aspect of ‘I-Centric
Reality’ as singular and secular tool for launching personal sanity has to be instituted
as universal cultural requirement, if humanity is to survive and excel in long
run. Reality has situational
utility and worth only at a contextual level of life. Reality matters only as
there are lives that have a context within the Reality. If there is no context,
does it anyway matter what reality is? After all, Reality was always there before
life happened and shall always be there even after life is no more there to
present a ‘context’! Every individual can
realize this and it is a must to understand, realize and internalize it, even when
at the face value, it may seem to be the worst possible realization for any
human being. Somehow, the basic hypothesis is that personal sanity may never be
attained if an individual does not muster up the courage and option-less
enterprise of unlearning and shedding loads of hypocrisies that one is
surrounded with and lives up. Hypocrisies may never be dealt a ‘Death Blow’ if an
individual fails to accept this singular secular realism that the individual
himself or herself is the only practically ‘Real’ context for the Reality to
happen, collapse and play out. It needs to be
internalized very consciously. I am alive and in good knowledge of everything
that happened to this universe and all lives on Earth in the past 14 billion
years. So, I am aware of Reality of everything but it happened because I was
born and I happened to have a body and mind. Billions of lives and deaths
happened, trillions of things happened and infinite events happened but I didn’t
see, experience and remember anything. I saw and experienced everything only in
the last few years as ‘I’ happened, my body-mind happened. Also, billions of
lives and deaths shall happen, trillions of things shall happen and infinite
events shall take place after my death and I shall not see, experience and know
them. Reality, whatever it may be, is continuous and non-contextual in its holism,
only ‘I’ happen in between at some tiny ‘dot’ in the infinite continuation as some
‘media’ and contextualize the reality, as per the design of my body-mind media. Reality had and shall
play out infinite shades of things but ‘I’ as a temporary ‘Media’ come and go,
without having any substantial role in past and future of the cosmic Reality. Almost
infinite aspects of the Reality of universe and lives in it are now available
for me and they exist. As they exist now, I am aware of the past 14 billion
years and can also imagine about next 14 billion years. However, as ‘I’ die,
all realities disappear. Nothing ‘exists’ anymore. Realities end! It is because
the ‘Media’ of ‘I’, which was the ‘context’ of the Reality to play out and
express itself, is dead, disappears and is not there. Realities are infinite
as ‘I’ as media is alive. Realities are zero as ‘I’ as media is dead! Realities
as it is or as it might be, exists and still plays out in infinite shades but
only through different ‘Media’ of individual ‘Is’, presenting ‘context’ to
Reality. Therefore, for all practical purposes, only the individualistic and
personal reality exists and as we have talked earlier that even the collective
reality stands as the summation of assimilation of all personal realities,
there shall always be 3Cs �" Chaos, Confusion and Conflict in all collective
domains. This also is the primary basis and validation of the hypothesis that sanity
of collectivity is actually a misnomer; it does not exist as some entity on its
own. Only the possibility of sanity of individual and personal exists and this is
something all men and women must strive for. Reality may look like a
continuous and singular entity, irrespective of whether ‘I’ am or other ‘Is’
are alive or dead but, this seems so only because of the continuity in ‘Media’
and ‘context’ of ‘I’, which have a common body-mind mechanism. Therefore, if
Reality is ever a singular and continuous realism, it is not because what it is
but because of what ‘I’ is and because the commonality of mechanisms and
processes of all ‘Is’. This is the singular secular Reality and everything else
is variegated mix of hypocrisies. Unfortunately, very few
individuals accept and more importantly ‘internalize’ this Reality. If we
realize and internalize this calamitous but singularly secular Reality, we can
easily and surely accept that ‘Reality’ is what the ‘Media’ observes and
therefore, ‘I’ or self or ‘Myself’ as body-mind Media can only reach out to ‘My
Own’ tiny and insignificantly miniscule fragment of Reality. This shall lead to
the inevitability of all our focus and energy being assigned and aligned to
nothing else but ‘Personal Sanity’. The universe has no
meaning and destined purpose. Lives on Earth or if elsewhere too have no
purpose and meaning. Reality itself is nothing and unworthy of any utility. All
meanings, all purposes, all Realities start and end with ‘I’ or self. The
universe, the Earth, the lives have only those meanings, purposes, utility and
worth what ‘I’ or self assigns and accepts. Therefore, if ‘I’ is in Sanity,
System, Order, Righteousness, Goodness and Wellness, then only the universe,
the Earth, the lives have. It is ‘I’, the self that matters and has any
utility. This is the singular notion installed and elaborated 3000 years back in
ancient Indian philosophical traditions of ‘Aham
Brahmasmi’ (I Am God). The author has elaborated this theme in eBook
titled, ‘I Am God’, available for unrestricted
download. This acceptance is the
first primary requirement for installation of personal sanity. It can be said
with all possible humility and sincerity of consciousness that contemporary
humanity must see, understand, accept and internalize that in our
civilizational and cultural march to modernity of institutional and organizational
life-living, we have almost dumped the primary reality of human life-living. This
primary reality, which thinking minds and philosophers of early humanity listed
out with strong conviction, is that the individual, the person, an average man
or woman is the everythingness of all somethingness that social and collective
living can design and execute for sanity of system. It is tragic and
decisively the biggest and worst hypocrisy of humanity that now this individual
or person is nowhere in picture in scheme of things of society, culture,
economy, markets, politics and even scientific and technological advancements. Rather,
personal sanity gets more degraded and emaciated as collective efforts for so-called
‘betterment’ of life-living of common men and women go up. The most glaring
example of this worst hypocrisy is how globally, human education system is
being majorly shaped, designed and devised to generate ‘Efficient Workers’ for economic
activities, which in turn create handful of billionaires and reduce the
majority of average men and women as ‘machines’ and slaves. Human education is
no more designed for enhancing and improving personal sanity and system of
individual because, as we have discussed earlier, it shall create men and women
with a strong sense of liberty, purpose and direction. This shall be trouble
for politics, governments and businesses! An individual must see
and accept this ‘causality’ of chaos in his or her life and living. As and when
a person sees and accepts this hypothesis that sanity is a possibility only at
personal levels, he or she shall easily accept that it is now incumbent only
upon him and her to begin a personal enterprise for his or her own sanity as
the world and its human institution is primarily against personal sanity. If an
individual is the sole media of all reality, if ‘I Is God’, none and nothing
else can be of any help for the Reality he or she accepts. This acceptance is option-less! ** Acceptance Two:
From the first acceptance follows the second acceptance as it is just the
extension of the same Reality. The second acceptance, which follows the primary
acceptance of the Reality of ‘I’ or self and its mechanism and process, is about
the notion and realism of causality, context and relativity. This shall lead an
individual to the very crucial and critical realism of Holism. This holism shall
then unleash a magic that shall do wonders for the sanity of a person and his
or her overall wellness and excellence in life and living. The aspect of this
second acceptance is not difficult to understand as we have already discussed
before as how Reality is always contextual and relational. We have talked about
how causalities are infinite and omnipresent all around us in different milieus
we move in and out in our life and living. These causalities are essentially
the Karta, the protagonist and the
real and true subject of all actions and behaviors. The causalities themselves
are created as contexts and relativity is presented as position and situation
in milieus. It is only natural that the ‘Media’ of a person’s body and mind
shall play true and real to the causalities fed to it. As an individual stops,
drops his or her reactionary-mode behavior and actions, he or she can lead the
reception-mode consciousness to decipher the ‘causality’ that is prompting and designing
a possible action or behavior. As and when as individual is able to clearly see
and realize the ‘causality’, it shall have ease in further unraveling the
‘context’ or ‘relativity’ that are behind the causality. This is what the
ancient Yogic philosophy and Buddha wisdom called for. When the Buddha says,
‘There are pains and there are causes for it’, it actually asks an individual
to stop, be in receptive mode consciousness and decipher the ‘causality’ and
the ‘context’ that creates it. Once an individual is
able to do so, he has attained the status of a Buddha �" The Enlightened One! By
the very process of baring and making naked the common, core and critical elements
constituting a causality, an individual potentials the probability of all the
answers of all the questions and all solutions of all problems. There is a very famous
story about Buddha, which probably exemplifies this entire process of being
enlightened by deciphering the causality and its elements of contexts. There is
a story that a young woman came crying to Buddha. Her small child had died and
she was inconsolable. She told Buddha in a mix of grief and anger that he would
have to make her dead child alive by using his powers as she had heard that
Buddha was a great saint. The angry woman also threatened Buddha that if her
dead child is not brought back to life, she would spread the news to everyone
that he was a fake saint with no powers. Buddha kept a smiling
face and told the woman that he would certainly bring her dead child back to
life but for that she would be expected to do a small thing. The woman happily
agreed to do anything for her child. Buddha told her to bring a small cup of
water from a household, where no one had died. The woman rushed back to village
and kept asking every household but could not find a family where no one had
died. After many hours she came back to Buddha and fell on his feet. She
apologized for her behavior and thanked Buddha. She took the dead child in her
lap, hugged the child and took her back to village with no tears in her eyes. The story simply points
out at two crucial things. Certain causality, a specific context that creates a
causality, makes us ‘reactionary’, which is how our body-mind Media and its
mechanism and process is designed for. This reactionary mode consciousness blinds
us to the causality, which we fail to see and accept. When we stop, recall our
receptive mode consciousness and settle down to see the causality and its
context, we can and we do see, understand and accept the Reality with better
sanity and poise. The woman had to react the way she did as the causality and
its context no way could have elicited other response from her body-mind media.
However, when Buddha made her see and accept that mortality is a common, inevitable
and generalistic causality, which is not specific to her and her child in any biased
or designed way, she arrived at her personal sanity and poise. The woman could
see and accept the Holism of Reality and that alone could help her personal
sanity. Buddha did nothing; he could not, not anyone else! It was the woman,
who did the magic �" internalizing the holism of reality of causality and
context. What we all need to do,
at our individualistic and personal level is wait and stop, let the reaction of
any causality settle down and play out its tenure. All during its onset and playing
out tenure, we must consciously call upon our higher consciousness to look for
causality and its context. It is always there as no reality is possible without
a causality and no causality happens without a context. The whole purpose of
seeing, accepting and then internalizing a causality is to arrive at the Holism
of the Reality, which a causality suddenly or otherwise presents before us. The moment this Holism
is arrived at, we shall hit the sanity and poise. The reactionary behavior and
action shall be automatically subtracted out of the probabilities a causality
presents before us. This is definitive recipe for personal wellness,
empowerment and excellence. It is however very critical
to go beyond the idea of causality and holism and understand the details of the
causality as it is what seeds the tree of sanity for a person. If we wish to decipher
causality for it to seed our sanity, we first need to understand the seeding of
causality itself. As we have understood before, the genesis of all solutions is in deciphering the genetics of the problem itself. Therefore, understanding the
genetics of causality is a must. It seems, for most
practical purposes, there shall always be core element of physicality in any
causality and even intangible elements of causality shall sustain its life from
the tangible element. Often, there is an element of causality and it naturally and
automatically aligns with related causalities. This somehow alters the ‘specificity’
of the expression of that causality. We may say that an element of physicality
either on its own or its expression may align with related element or its
expression and jointly, they create a specificity that shall play out differently.
Therefore, it is relevant to understand that when we look out for a causality
that leads or shapes our cognition and resultant behavior/action, we look for
the ‘specificity’ or what we may call the ‘exactness’ of the core and primary
element of the causality as well as other elements it has aligned with. The best example of this
all can be the most common and transcendental causality of Love in human
life-living. Love is a hugely powerful ‘causality’ and we all know from our
experiences as well as from vast inventory of love’s historicity and literature
that the singular causality of love plays out and expresses itself differently
for people, milieus and also in different time and space dimensions. Unraveling
the causality of love shall make us understand how we need to look for the
‘seed’ element or elements of a singular causality as well as the other aligned
elements, which affect its specificity, playing out and expressions. There is a famous
triangular theory of love, which somehow beautifully describes how causalities
work in our lives. The theory says that love is a holism of three different
parts or elements. This means �" Love as an intangibility or non-physical
emergent realism constitutes of three elements. They are �" Intimacy, Passion
and Commitment. Now let us decipher and
unravel love as a causality and its expressions. The first thing to notice and
explain is that at face value, not only love but also all its three constituent
elements seem intangibles with no physicality attached to them. However, it is
just the opposite. Intimacy and passion are deeply seeded in physicality. There
is a bio-chemical or neural basis to all possible shades of intimacy and
passion. Science has shown us that how emotions and feelings are two different
expressions of a seemingly singular realism. Emotions have a physical basis in
bio-chemical and neural circuitry and it is a result of tangible sensory
inputting of our five senses. Every emotion has a physical basis wired and
genetically embedded in our brain states. The reaction that emotions engender is
feelings, which may seem like an intangibility but feelings too have neural
basis of expression. The modern contemporary
scientific headways in brain researches have shown us how damage of some part
of brain, affecting neural circuitry affects empathetic behavior. The latest
brain scanning technology at least tells us as how human behavior and actions
are expressions of complex and cooperative processing of sensory and other
inputs of information by different parts of our brain. If any part is damaged
or affected, the emergent cooperative property of information processing is
altered, affecting the resultant behavior and actions. This issue need not be
elaborated here as what we are concerned is to make a logically appropriate hypothesis
that it is always the brain states and body’s hugely complex neural and
bio-chemical media plexus that processes the elements of a causality. Therefore,
it is safe to conclude that any causality that we are looking for has a
physical basis in our tangible body-mind media plexus. Therefore, the elements
of intimacy, passion and even commitment has tangible basis in our brain states
and body media. Naturally this hugely powerful and critical causality of love too
has a tangible basis, even as when it plays out as a holism of the three
elements, it may seem like an intangibility. That is why love is globally
accepted with 3Ms �" Magic, Mystery and Marvel. The triangular theory
of love describes eight shades of love, depending upon which of the three
elements are present, missing or dominant and not dominant. Therefore, it is
safe and seemingly logical and even corroborative by our own practical
experiences that causality of love is an emergent and evolving causality
playing out in intangible space, having physical elements or constituents with discernible
pattern of their expression of specificities. This very hypothesis makes it
easy for us to decipher and unravel a causality, discover its distinct
constituent elements and have perfect understanding of how a causality plays
out and expresses itself, which way affecting our subconscious or even
conscious behavior and actions. This surely allows us the latitude and skill to
consciously decide, how we accept a causality in our life-living and how we
allow it to play out it our life and living. When an individual sees
and accepts a causality in this light, it shall be easy to maintain sanity when
this causality plays out for us. For example, a woman must not see and accept
that she is in love with a man. It is better to see and accept that this man, I
am in relationship with, has intimacy for me but seems to have no or little
passion and commitment for me. Therefore, it shall be ideal for the woman’s
personal sanity to say and accept that she may have intimacy, passion and
commitment for the man but the man is responding to only one of the three
elements of intimacy and not passion and commitment. This acceptance has better
sanity prospects than the usual and populist perception and perspective that ‘she
loves him but he loves her not’. This holism of seeing and accepting causalities
helps us to arrive at the ‘specificity’ of its expressions and playing out its
effects on us, making us more skilled in holding our sanity in place. When a causality plays
out, the reality it presents to us, always has many elements and different
contextual points. Holism means, every individual is aware of them and accept
their presence in his or her cognition of reality. In above example, ‘she loves
him’ is very true but ‘he loves her not’ is also equally very untrue. The man’s
love is also love but it is a shade of love that has only one part of the
singular causality of love, even while the woman who loves him has love with
all three elements. But both man’s and woman’s situation is the singular
causality of love. This arriving of mind consciousness to ‘specificity’ of how
the causality of love plays out differently for the man and woman, is definite
basis of better prospect of personal sanity, both for man and woman. This is what we have
talked earlier. Reality is always contextual and relativistic. What supplies
‘context’ and ‘relativity’ is the different ways elements constituting a
causality plays out or expresses itself differently to different body-mind
media. The body-mind media of the man and woman are playing out and expressing
the three elements constituting the causality of Love differently and
therefore, the Reality of Love stands differentiated for the two. Acceptance of
this contextual and relativistic holism of the Reality is perfect artistry to
arrive at and install personal sanity. And, this happens as we decipher and
decode the ‘Seed-Level’ constitution of causality. This acceptance however is
not automatic for an individual. It is the artistry of higher consciousness,
which an individual evolves and empowers through a determined process. To emphasize the
importance of our hypothesis about causality and its decoding, let us continue
this idea with another very powerful causality that hugely affects human life-living
and majorly affects personal sanity. This causality is Fear and Anxiety. This
causality is even more critical than love in its potential and propensity to
affect human life-living and sanity. Let us see how this causality too can be
decoded and deciphered to ensure sanity in our lives. We begin by accepting
the above hypothesis again that all causalities have a physical and tangible
basis. Like love and all other emotions, Fear and Anxiety also are seeded in
the vast and complex bio-chemical and neural plexus of the body-mind media, working
in a cooperative process. Fear and anxiety become a reality not because there
are elements or factors outside in physical milieus that are repositories of
fear and anxiety. It is because the assigned brain states processes the
received info about them through inputting of our sensory organs. Fear and
anxiety are seeded in brain states within and not outside in milieus. Therefore,
when we decode and decipher the constituent elements of fear and anxiety and
accept them, we perfectly change the way the causality of fear and anxiety
plays out Reality for us and expresses itself. How? Suppose, there were two
boys on two bicycles and both fell down at one time on the road, having similar
injury and almost same amount of blood coming out from their respective wounds.
One boy saw the wound and started crying inconsolably. The other boy just
smiled and continued with his ride. Why? How come the same Reality play out
differently for two individuals? The first boy, who cried, did so not because
the wound hurt him that much to make him cry but because in the past, he was scolded
and even beaten up many times before by his mother whenever he met with any
accident. So, the first boy cried out of the perceived and pending fear and anxiety
of the inevitable prospect of another scolding and beating up by his mother.
The other boy did not cry and even smiled because for him too, the wound did
not hurt him enough and most importantly, his mother always told him that brave
boys smile when they fall. His mother rather taught him how to keep his cool
and clean and protect a wound in case of an accident. Let us talk of another
example about how decoding fear and anxiety helps us retain sanity in worse of
situations. It is all about how an individual sees, understands and accepts the
genetics of a causality that confronts him or her in life-living. Most people react
with uncontrollable fear and anxiety when they see a venomous snake. However, a
trained snake catcher does not fear the same snake and rather, catches the
snake with utter ease and confidence. What makes the single causality play out
differently for two different persons? It is how the two
persons decode and decipher the seeds or genetics of the causality of fear and
anxiety. It is only natural reaction of an average person to feel fear and
anxiety with snakes. It is wired in our subconscious brain states. However, the
person who is not fearing and is not in any perceptible anxiety handling the
same venomous snake because he knows all possible details of the behavior and
actions of snakes he handles. He also has impeccable support system in case of
any accident. The snake catcher is trained about different snakes, how they
move and how they behave towards their enemies. The snake catcher is in advance
knowledge of any possible move the snake may make to endanger him. Also, when
he is out catching, he has his medical box full with all preventive devices and
medications, in case of a mishap. He also has the nearby hospital on alert in
case there is a mishap in handling the snake. The idea is �" he has understood
the entire probabilities of the possibility of the causality of fear and
anxiety and has readiness for any eventuality. This allows him to ‘unlearn’ his
innate and instinctive subconscious fear and anxiety, as he has consciously
decoded the seeds and genetics of it. This is artistry of higher conscious that
wins over the wired and auto-learned behavior and action. The small but important
thing we are attempting to hypothesize is there is a definitive mechanism and
process for arriving at and sustaining sanity, system, order and poise in our
personal life-living, even while everything else may be in the domain of insanity
of hypocrisies in human world and life-living. First we need to be in
acceptance of and aware of what is the mechanism and process of our own ‘I’ or
self as a media to express, communicate and play out the Reality for us. This
first acceptance makes us humbly see and realize the ‘Stupidity of Self’ as we can
see how ‘I’ or self as media of Reality expression has inbuilt entropies and
troubles. Secondly, as we begin
to consciously decode and decipher the causality and the context and relativity
of how the causalities play out Realities in our body-mind media, we definitively
are in command and control of a causality. This way, we empower ourselves to be
more than a stupid media of the causalities and the Reality they play out for
us. We shall still fear, still love, still feel angry and frustrated but as an
empowered body-mind media, our ‘I’ or self shall have better endowments and
skills to handle the entropic part of fear, love, anger and frustration to minimize
their propensity to trouble us. This way, we shall have better skills to
optimize our sanity possibilities in life-living experiences. ** Stage 2 Cognitive Change One: We
humans have a strange but very powerful situation that needs to be altered and
won over. Science says, ‘You are in your perspective and your perspectives are
in you’. This is some omnipotent and omnipresent ‘causality’ that keeps us entwined
in the hypocrisies and stupidities of insanity. The above statement is a
powerful explanation of the trap that we all are in and how we need to break
free of it. It explains what we have already discussed �" Medium is the Message! Our personal sense of
‘I’ or self, or call it the layers of consciousness is just a media of the
body-mind causalities. This means that we may keep thinking happily that ‘I’ or
myself is seeing and accepting a Reality but the fact may remain there that
actually, the specific Reality is playing it out using our body-mind as media
to express itself in a way, which makes us accept a Reality the way we do. That
is why earlier we mentioned the ancient prescription to humanity �" ‘Don’t Be,
You Shall Be.’ The prescription is to come out of the consciousness of ‘I’ that
is in an auto-reaction mode working mechanically and stupidly as ‘Media’ of twin
internal and external causalities �" the first causalities of body and mind and
second causalities in the milieus. It is to be realized
with utmost humility and sincerity that consciousness itself is just a media of
body and mind and the ‘I’ of average person simply works as media to play out
the realities that internal and external causalities make him to. This has to
stop and an individual needs to detach himself or herself from this auto-mode reactionary
‘I’ or self, which acts and behaves like a media, without ever understanding
the ‘self’ and the causalities that it works with and works on him or her. So,
the primary cognitive change is to be aware of self and causalities and detach the
consciousness from the internal and external causalities; as far as possible. As we have talked about
it earlier, we need to understand and accept that evolving and growth has two
stages �" auto-mode learning and conscious unlearning. From infant stage to adulthood,
an individual keeps assimilating information and available knowledge from its
milieus in subconscious state of ‘auto-mode learning’. Very few individuals,
who have managed to evolve strong consciousness as early as 14-16 years of age,
may begin to start the parallel process of ‘conscious unlearning’ or pruning of
subconscious auto-mode learning. However, after the stage of adulthood, say 20-25
years of age, an individual needs to accept that he or she as a ‘Media’ must
change. The media must shift its primary situation from a ‘Reactionary-Subconscious
Being’ to a ‘Receptive Conscious Being’. It means; the higher consciousness begins
to shape up as aware and holistically inclined ‘authoritative command’ center
to effect engineering and management of the body-mind media’s causative auto-behavior
and action. Then the primary
question is; what is this higher consciousness, which emerges as protagonist of
conscious engineering and management of ‘I’ or self? Higher conscious is not an
external mechanism of body and brain but a specificity of the body-mind media
itself. The seed of higher consciousness is planted by an individual when it
begins to attain a stage of maturity, age-wise or experience-wise and both, to have
enough information-connect with his or her internal as well as external milieus
to allow and accept the powerful energy of skepticism. To doubt, to question
to accept something different and non-conformist to one’s own knowledge and
belief is the seed stage of higher consciousness. It has been mentioned in
ancient wisdom that those who begin the process of higher consciousness, before
they reach the stage of consciousness are the blessed ones. This happens when
parents play their rightful role and allow a child to grow in a family
environment where skepticism and questioning is encouraged and rewarded. This
shall implant energy of skepticism deep in subconscious, helping the child to grow
his or her conscious self, preparing the platform for the child to evolve his
or her higher consciousness early and strong. In simple one line �"
Higher Consciousness of an individual is his or her understanding and
acceptance of the idea of Holism Of Reality. This holism of reality is seeded by
the powerful energy of skepticism. A young child or a maturing teen may be
accepted as moving towards evolving to higher consciousness if he or she asks
questions and is not only allowed but also encouraged by family, friends, peers,
society, politics and cultures to keep asking questions and strive for
alternative answers. And, more importantly, all the while keep respecting
other’s questions and their respective answers. As we said earlier,
this is not happening in contemporary world, rather the politics and economy is
smothering liberty of questioning and skepticism, thus killing the very
prospect of evolution of higher consciousness in average minds. Families,
societies and cultures are also adding their stupid ‘restrictions’ on the innate
or evolved inquisitiveness and skepticism of growing individual. This is ill-preparing
individuals to handle insanity of external world, thus adding more entropy to
already chaotic world and life-living. It is sad state of reality
of humanity that such a maturing person, who asks questions, puts skepticism
upfront, is often labeled as undisciplined and unruly teenager. The societies
and cultures seldom allow, let alone encourage non-conformism and inquisitiveness.
As discussed earlier, collectivity does so because of its own agenda to keep people
in a state of reactionary subconscious media. That is why it is for every
individual to accept that this task of evolving one’s higher consciousness is a
tough task and can be attained only through personal enterprise and personal resolve
for persevered practice. As this higher
consciousness is seeded well and begins to blossom into a healthy branching
tree, expect the flowers and fruits of holism to come calling. The fruits of
holism shall further facilitate detachment of consciousness from the
causalities and its context and relational elements. The higher consciousness shall
lead the journey to disengagement of ‘I’ or self as Media to internal as well
as external causalities. It means, an individual shall not be an ‘object’ but
gradually shape itself to become a true and real subject. This true and real
subject shall have the empowered and authoritative Will and Cognition to command
all causalities to play out Realities in a way that optimize sanity, system,
order, purpose and poise. This real and true subject, the empowered and evolved
individual shall be ‘master’ of all causalities of love, fear, anxiety, desire,
empathy and associations and not the ‘slave’ of them all. From ancient times, dating
back to over 3000 years, philosophy as well as spiritualism has talked about arriving
at this holism of higher consciousness for attainment of sanity, purpose and
poise. The Yogic philosophy spoke of evolving consciousness to such a stage
where it is aligned and assimilated to the holism of cosmic causality, rising
above the microcosmic causalities of body, mind and milieus. The very word Yoga
(Union) means this emancipation of an individual from localized and reactionary
causalities and assimilation into the more holistic, objective and macrocosmic
causality of the cosmos. Ancient philosophies are not religion; they are
objective expression of realism of holism, which larger humanity must acquire
but always squanders. The Buddhist philosophy
also speaks of the same eventuality but in a slightly different language. The
difference is only linguistic; the intent of the content is the same. Buddhist
philosophy speaks of observance of all elements of context and relativism of
causalities that are there within and outside the body-mind media. It also suggests
the principle of final utility of holism by ‘prescribing’ the mystical
‘middle-path’. This middle path is actually the hint at holism as the middle is
symbol of having the reality of everything. The Yogic philosophy also spoke of
‘Witness-Mode’ consciousness as situation of higher consciousness, which stands
aloof and away from body-mind media and could ‘witness’ with objectivity every sensory
causalities that the media receives and transmits. The western philosophy
of ‘Do not be, you shall be’ also hints at the same notion. It speaks of the realism
that if you do not become the ‘being’ that is shaped and designed by the
causalities of the body-mind media, you shall become the true and real ‘being’
�" the higher consciousness of Holism. Therefore, it seems that human wisdom has
always been common because we all have this mechanism of our body-mind media
itself to attain and arrive at personal sanity, system, order, purpose and
poise. If all ancient wisdoms from all parts of the different and segregated
humanity had common thread of realism, it can be concluded that sanity is
actually embedded in human mechanism of body-mind media itself. All we need is
to arrive at the right consciousness of Holism and unleash the right processes
to attain sanity. Here, it is important to
mention that in ancient Indian philosophy, there is a mention of a step further
in evolution to ultimate empowerment. We have talked about the need to detach consciousness
from the causality and its context and relativism for attainment of sanity,
system, order, purpose and poise. The Yogic philosophy and spiritualism however
accepts this as only the first step towards total empowerment and emancipation.
This is perfectly in line with contemporary scientific realism too. It says,
the consciousness, or for that matter higher consciousness is a media too and perfect
and total emancipation means detachment from all media. Therefore, an
individual has the further journey of ‘unlearning’ the consciousness too. The
journey shall end when an individual dumps, disconnects and detaches from Higher
Consciousness too and delinks from all causalities, be it microcosmic or
macrocosmic. The modern science calls it the non-local consciousness and
ancient Yogic philosophy called it the state of Kaivalya �" The finality of ‘Onlyness’. This is some very tough
and debatable idea, which we are not going to venture into as it requires bigger
canvas for deliberations. It is rather hugely debatable whether this state of
perfect detachment and delinking is even possible or not. The state of Onlyness
is a huge topic and the author wishes to talk about it all in his next eBook, sometimes
later, if life permits! For most practical purposes, an individual should limit
himself or herself to the first stage of detachment and delinking as it is
sufficient enough for sanity. The only condition is that this needs to be kept
practicing life-long as personal sanity shall always be tested and intruded
upon by collective insanity, hypocrisies and stupidities. Also, only practice
makes things perfect. Sanity is for life and therefore, practicing should also
be life-long! ** Cognitive Change Two: Since
thousands of years, humanity has had the critical question of who he or she is
and what is his or her situation in the station of life as well as in the
larger context of cosmos. This question has been the very basis of all
spiritualism as spiritualism simply means deciphering the ‘Causality of
Connect’ of individual with all entities in internal as well as in external
milieus, extending to the universe itself. Somehow, the first part of the
transcendental question as ‘Who Am I’ has been handled well by spiritualism,
philosophy and now modern science. However, the second part as what is the
causality or context of connect of an individual with all external milieus has
not been duly and appropriately handled either by spiritualism, philosophy or
science. A singular, holistic and objective answer to the second part of
question is a must for sustenance of personal sanity, system, order, purpose
and poise. This probably is however
another domain of impossibility. This impossibility stems out of the very contextual
and relativist nature of Reality. As different people shall accept different
contexts and relative positioning of ‘I’ or self vis-à-vis the milieus, there
can never be a singular idea or idealism about human context of connect with
external world. Moreover, as milieus always present powerful causalities to all
humans living at a time and space, the ever evolving and changing milieus and
their emergent trends shall keep changing individual’s context of connect with milieus
and the universe. As average individual has ingrained propensity for aping or
going with the mainstream, there shall always be a majority-trend that shall
define, shape and design collective consciousness and cognition, which majority
of individuals shall love to follow and accept. Therefore, there is
always a populist answer of what the purpose of life is and what individuals should
accept as core principle of the connect and interaction with external world. Any
alternative answer or interpretation may exist and stay but shall always be a
minority viewpoint and shall trade behind the populist perception. Globally, what
we are seeing in contemporary world is this situation where majority of people
are almost blindly in linearity and sync with populist majority worldview of accepting
‘Evolving and Empowerment’ as continuous growth of consumption and comfort. This
core populist idea may have many shades and varieties, having a mix of consumption
and even a rebel against it but actually, every shade shall essentially be a
manifestation of the populism of consumption and comfort. There are alternative
viewpoints and perspectives of human connect and context with external milieus
but they are very much a minority viewpoint, only few individuals follow in
their personal life-living. The most critical
question that humanity confronts today is, do we have a possibility of accepting
that the contemporary populist viewpoint, which majority of over 7.5 billion
people are accepting and following may not be the right or appropriate one and secondly,
can we have a singular alternative perspective that can be accepted as the holistic,
objective and right realism for human connect with its milieus? We try to test
the possibility of such a probability here and then move onto our slated acceptance
of the cognitive change about how for personal sanity, an individual should
accept a model of connect and context with his or her milieus. Any model of personal
sanity must take into account the basics of our brain mechanism and process as it
is where Reality is created, plays out and ends. We now know a lot about how
our brain works and that alone determines what possibly could be a model of
personal sanity. We can say with reasonable amount of conviction that brain
works on the basis of association. This process of association starts in the
womb itself. Scientific researches tell us that even while still in mother’s
womb, the baby begins to associate with the sound of the mother and other things
in the ambient milieus. It is because brain is designed for optimizing survival
and therefore, even before the child could begin his or her journey out of the
mother’s womb, the brain begins to associate all information from the external
milieus. The brain of the new born continues to do so up to the age of eight or
ten. This we have talked
about as the auto-mode learning process of brain states, especially the
subconscious mind, which constitutes major portion of our early learning. The subconscious
brain state ensures suitability and optimization of a child in his or her
milieus by this innate, wired and automatic process of association, thus creating
a pattern and plexus of belief-system, perspectives and worldviews as the child
grows and attains adulthood. These belief-systems, which association processes create
as auto-mode learning, engender a plexus of identities for an adult to which a
person adheres to as dearly as for his or her life. These identities and
belief-systems become his or her personality. That is why it becomes a trap for
him, illustrated in the above-mentioned reality of ‘You are in your
perspectives and your perspectives are in you’. Most troubles begin from
here. This identity and association dualism breeds loads of hypocrisies and in
long run traps a person in deep abyss of insanity that the world is so full of.
We need to see and understand that human crisis and the resultant crisis of the
human world emanate out of this ‘stupidity’ of the brain mechanism and process,
which Mr. Brain thinks is the most ‘intelligent’ thing to do! Why? This dualism
needs to be unraveled and understood to clearly understand how the solution of
everything is in our brains itself as it is our brain mechanism and process,
which are behind most of our troubles and that of the humanity. Science clearly says
that humans are not, by nature a logical,
reasoned and receptive creature. Humans are instead totally reactive, instinctive
and intuitive being. Human behavior is determined entirely by the interaction �"
competition, cooperation, coordination, between his various instincts, which
are genetically determined neural mechanisms provided by evolution for
behavioral guidance. Therefore, an adult men or woman is wired to grow as an
instinctive being, if he or she is not trained for alternative intelligence,
required for sanity in societal living. It is so because evolution’s
‘intelligence’ is not aimed at making a man or a woman as a good, compassionate
and righteous person. Evolution didn’t come up with these packages. Evolution
was designed for singular intelligence of survival. That is why our brain is
designed and genetically wired for this ‘intelligence’ of association-building
and identity-generation. This identity generation ensures success of a human
child in the milieus he has to live because human body-mind make up has evolved
as gregarious creatures. That is why aping, association building with prevalent
and dominant identities and belief-systems of the milieus and demography has
been embedded in human brain mechanism and processes as ‘Primary Intelligence’. However, this
intelligence of our brain becomes the single largest causality of most of human
troubles, be it at personal levels or at societal levels. This evolutionary
intelligence was good for very early lives of our ancestors thousands of years
back. Modern human dates back to 4 million years and science confirms that even
the modern human has the original genetic design dating back to the suitability
of that time period. However, as humanity evolved, history is testimony of the
fact that this instinctive design of humanity brewed all troubles for human
world. This design for
associations installed in human behavior and action, a subconscious rigidity
and dogmatism for ‘Identities’. This resulted into creation of tribes and reactionary
tribal loyalty for the identity. Therefore, human history has been a sordid and
bloody saga of wars between different tribes and identities. Modern scientists
warn that this tribal instinct is still very much alive and kicking in modern
human and human world. In fact, the new millennium of 21st century
has witnessed the revival of identity instincts and contemporary global crisis has
this very powerful degenerative and regressive reversal to ‘ethnicity’ conflict
and cooperation, pushing the world into another crisis. The two calamitous
world wars of humanity also had their seeds in this tribal instinct of
identity. This identity instinct
and ethnicity-loyalty is singular major insanity-point for average man and
woman at individual and personal level too. As we have talked earlier, humanity
has come a long way since 4 million years back, when our tribal instincts ruled
us and made life-living succeed. This age-old instinct is now regressive and
degenerative. This primary ‘intelligence’ of 4 million years back is singular calamitous
‘stupidity’ in 21st century world. Our regressive and degenerative
tribal instinct of rigidity and dogmatism of ‘Identity’ is surely leading us to
extinction. This is evident and overly manifested everywhere �" society,
culture, politics, economy, markets and even family relationships. This is the
biggest ‘unlearning’ challenge for humanity. However, as we have talked
in detail earlier, humanity at collective levels have always been blind to these
realities and remain so. Earlier humanity could probably be forgiven for
pushing fellow humans into miseries of war and distress as they were not aware
of the scientific facts about human nature and functioning of human mind
consciousness. However, contemporary humanity cannot be pardoned for continuing
to ape and even augment the same age-old regressive and degenerative
stupidities and insanities. But the fact remains that given the attitude of
contemporary societal, cultural and political leadership and the complex state
of international economics, it seems impossible that sanity can ever have any
possibility in modern world. Therefore, sanity is possible only at personal
levels and individualistic domain. So, we have a clear and
singular model of personal sanity, which an individual can follow and practice
to engender, install and sustain sanity in his or her life-living. Let us now fill
in the details of this model of personal sanity by narrating and inculcating
the cognitive change an individual needs to install in his or her consciousness. It is human design and
also innate need to connect with all elements outside in the milieus. The very
innate process of association building is for the crucial need to express one’s
connect with all elements within and outside, as a child grows into adulthood. In
broad terms an individual’s journey to maturity requires this essential liberty
to establish association and connect with all elements in the milieus to
express his personality, feelings, beliefs and perspectives. Liberty means this
freedom of every person to express himself or herself. However, we know that this
liberty is a contextual reality. It is because, an individual’s growth and
evolving into adulthood happens in society, culture and a political-economic
system. Liberty of an individual therefore is contextual to society and other
collectivities and it means, an individual’s liberty is always conditional to some
reasonable restrictions and authoritative collective norms and rules. Naturally,
liberty of a person, the rights of an individual to grow in expression of his
or her associations and connects with elements in milieus are always competitive
and restrictive. This creates a struggle, which in turn encourages reactionary and
instinctive energies, leading to augmented probabilities of hypocrisies and insanity. It is a precarious
dualism, which needs to be resolved for personal sanity. An individual’s expression
of his or her ‘I’ or self is meaningful and of a utility and worth only when it
is associated and connected with collective spaces like society, culture, markets,
nations, etc where billions of other individuals are out vying for the same. It
has no meaning if a person opts to leave human world and live in a jungle
alone. He or she has 100 percent liberty and zero percent competition but also no
association and connect. This happens only in human world of society and
cultures. An individual has meaning, utility and worth only in collective
spaces and all his or her troubles and conflicts also come from this same
realism. A person needs collective
spaces for growth, evolving and validation of ‘I’ or self and this itself
stands out as most powerful causality of most of his or her 3Cs �" Conflicts,
Chaos and Confusion. An individual shall keep struggling for his or her liberty
and freedom to have his or her own way of shaping reality for his or her
life-living and as there shall always be many times more people already, vying fiercely
to have their own respective liberties to prevail, struggling to install their
own or even antagonistic realities. This causality of struggle and battle for liberties
instigate the animalistic tribal instincts in humans and in turn unleash huge loads
of stress and conflicts. This is perfect causality for impossibility of sanity. It is only natural and
amply clear that personal sanity can be attained only when an individual comes
out of this causality �" this dualistic contextuality and relativism between
individual and society. Does this mean that a person shall have to abandon all
his liberties in favor of society? No, certainly not. All he or she has to do
is to accept the holism, understand and accept this dualism and suitably condition
his consciousness towards this contextual reality. As a person sees and
understands this causality between him or her and the collective spaces, he or
she shall not fall in the trap of reactionary and instinctive anger and
frustration. Rather, he or she shall grow more receptive, skillful and objectively
accustomed to the inbuilt conflict. He or she shall become more compassionate
towards others and that alone has the potential to install lasting sanity. This is what we have to
do for personal sanity. We have two ways out of this trap of duality �"
It has to be admitted
here that this all may seem easy at theoretical level but hugely tough to
practice. It is primarily because an adult has had this populist and prolonged
mind-training to be ‘passionate’ about his life goals and be ‘intuitively crafty’
in facing competition head on and maneuver his or her way out of the crowd to
shine alone as a pole star. This is basic and bare hypocrisy that humans relish
and then expect sanity, system and order in the society! How? It is because an
individual needs the collective spaces for his or her very growth and journey
to adulthood. It is in society and culture that he or she finds meaning and validity
of his or her liberty. A child cannot reach to happy and poised adulthood if
society as a whole is not compassionate about his or her individual liberties. However,
when an individual grows to adulthood, he or she passionately manipulates this
very society and culture to seek individualistic and personal attainments and expression
of his or her ‘I’ or self. If the adult is not paying back to society in the
same compassion-coin, it is biggest hypocrisy and definitive road to insanity. In passion driven milieus,
the situation has gone worse. It is this passionate individualism that has created
this contemporary calamitous reality of ‘5 Percent’ having income and wealth
more than that of the rest of ‘95 Percent’. The compassion-deficit society and
cultures have become so competitive and individualistically so rigid and
dogmatic about passionate individual goals and attainments of life that a
growing up child is not getting the desirable compassion from the collective
space at the first instance. This itself infuses conflict and competitiveness in
an adult. It is only natural that this compassion-deficit adult shall not be
innately inclined to pay any amount of compassion back into the system of
collective spaces. This shall augment and embolden the cyclicality of causality
of more brutal and passion-driven competitiveness and conflict in human world
as well as in individuals. This is perfect recipe for hypocrisies and insanity.
This we have to come out of, if we wish to extend any reasonable chance to
personal sanity in contemporary world. The first step of
course is to understand this causality of conflict between individual and
society and other collective spaces and design small but compassionate steps to
stay away from this passion-driven reactionary and hypocritical causality. Secondly,
an individual has to look for a probable pattern of interaction with collective
spaces, which allows less competitive field of operation to personal liberty. Thirdly,
an individual also has to make suitable enterprise to seek utility and value in
such self-expressions which are more internal and personal, not requiring validation
from collective spaces. It may seem tough but only because we see and accept
things from our current and contemporary mind training and cognition. There are
enough such spaces and many young people are already into it. All it may take
is compassionate acceptance of alternative cognition of utilities, value and
worth of other non-conventional and non-conformist parts of Reality, which
constitute the holism of worldview. For example, we all
know how in the last 60-70 years, there has been a mad rush of people towards urban
spaces from rural landscapes. In popular perception, good life has come to be
solely associated with urban and metropolis living. There is a decisive movement
of people towards cities and it has created such complexities and
competitiveness in urban life-living, which is becoming seed content of most chaos
and conflicts in average life-living. It is such a tragedy that average person
does not understand that even while in popular perception it may seem that the
world lives in town and cities, the reality is that the entire urban landscape
is only less than one percent of the total global land. The trouble is that this
less than one percent urban land accommodates over 54 percent of global
population. On the other hand, rural
lands with different farming and non-farming potentials occupy around 40
percent of global land but homes only less than 50 percent of global population.
Then, there are forest lands that occupy 30 percent of global land but even
small tribal population in forested regions are being fast removed. The scary
detail, which is so apparent yet neglected by most of us is that things were
not in such a mess only a century back. Humanity was primarily a rural living
reality with urbanized living less than 10 percent. In the second half of 20th
century, humanity created its own trouble by clustering most economic
activities and facilities in handful of urban centers. That was probably not
enough of a stupidity so, humanity ensured that rural areas got gradually
neglected and dilapidated so that urban life-living could get cheap labor
force. The contemporary human
life-living is in such disaster that globally, especially in developing world of
China and India, thousands of villages have been completely deserted and even
developed countries like most European nations have villages where little
sustainable activities are taking place. In only last 50 years, humanity has destroyed
completely the cradle of its own civilization by making rural landscape unviable
and unsustainable. This in turn is impacting the sanity and system of urban
spaces, which have emerged as the only spaces where life-living could be
sustained. It is easily imaginable as what is the state of life-living in most
urban spaces when the reality remains that over 50 percent of global population
live in less than one percent of global land. And, the remaining half of the global
population not in urban space is trapped in a landscape, which has become
unsustainable. It is not that global
think tanks and intellectuals are not pointing out to these huge anomalies in contemporary
civilized life-living but the fact remains that majority of people do not see
and accept this insanity as they have this populist mindsets and cognition to
blindly and madly follow what looks like the ‘smart’ thing, everyone is doing! There
is some thinking at political levels in some developed countries to correct
this huge anomaly but it is doubtful whether any meaningful step shall ever be
taken. However, good news is that some aware and conscious young men and women
have understood this modern trap and working their way out to sustainable
life-living in rural landscapes. This is a pointer to the fact that only
personal sanity and individualistic enterprise is the possibility in
contemporary state of insanity. Another big trap
situation and huge anomaly, which is major causality of contemporary human insanity
and hypocrisy is in global economic and financial systems. Like the urban-rural
hypocrisy, the economic and financial ecosystems are living wildly and madly with
stark stupidities, despite warning emanating from the ecosystems itself as well
as from experts, who see the root of trouble. Post Second World War, the
shaken up humanity desperately sought a global order, which worked out a political
and economic model for the world to avoid any such calamitous probability like
the two world wars. The human and other costs of the two world wars were so colossal
that humanity, especially the intellectuals and leaderships of the world sat
together to work out global system of sanity in the years to come. Liberalism,
open trade, free market economy, anti-imperialism, disarmament and international
dialogues were accepted as the singular and common creed for all nations of the
world to follow. In next few years, things were also started in the right note.
However, it is common knowledge how everything lost its fizz and national
identity, national interest and supremacy politics once again led humanity to
the same old and oft-trodden road to major conflicts, wars and armament. Not only politics
failed, the global economic sanity was also shattered with politics deciding to
disrespect all sanity principles of peace and order. The post world wars resolve
of free trade, cooperation and sharing of resource and expertise were thrown to
the winds. The powerful and disastrous element of nationalism, identities and narrow-wallism
of domestic growth superseded the compassionate and idealistic imagery of global
wellness and altruistic sustainable growth for all humanity, across nation-state
boundaries. So, manufacturing boom and
technological upsurge in countries created trade war conflicts. Global trade redesigned
the old fashioned imperialism and global finances worked overtime like national
armies to churn the world into domination triggered international relationship.
Strategic interests and geopolitics were redesigned to remodel and de-contextualize
human slavery and human deprivation into novel terminologies of international
monetary mechanism and finances. Disarmament was gradually and conveniently forgotten
and rather, diplomatic artistries were honed up to ensure perpetual
strife-zones across globe to keep afloat the lucrative money-minting arms
bazaar. And where humanity has reached!
Latest world inequality report tells it all as how humanity has failed big time
in ensuring wellness for all. The model of polity and economy has miserably failed
in ensuring equitable growth and distribution of incomes and wealth. Contemporary
reality of a handful of billionaires pocketing massive majority of wealth and
incomes, leaving over 90 percent of human population struggling for a descent
life-living is the perfect picture of human insanity in the post world war era.
It is definitively hugely contrary to the dream and aspiration of humanity in middle
of 20th century of a world order, which could have ensured reasonable
parity in life-living essentials. There is almost a
common hypocrisy globally and there is little initiative to do away with it. From
the available knowledge of human body-mind mechanism and processes, it is evident
to all that the worst enemy of human wellness and excellence is STRESS �" Physical
as well as Mental. The pollution in milieus, cluttered unnatural living, precarious
work cultures, unhealthy and suicidal lifestyle choices, tainted and imbalanced
food, complex life-living, stressed relationships, insecurities, conflicts,
confusion, anxieties, etc. They are mostly the outcome of the personal,
societal, political and economic choices the humanity has made and continues to
plunge deeper into the malady every day. This central issue is not being
addressed by the contemporary intellect of humanity. If scientific studies
confirm that global wellness levels has not enhanced post second world war in
nearly 75 years, as wellness is a function of many tangible and intangible
elements, then what is the good news behind all that obsession with economic growth
and technological advancement? In fact, it may well be accepted that probably
this very contemporary model of economic growth and technological advancement
have unleashed such entropic energies in human life-living that it has nullified
and zeroed whatever gains growth-story could muster up in the last century. This
may be debatable as there is no definitive global data or deep study that could
prove it. Still, this much we all can see and say that the very innocuous and
simple question, ‘Are You Happy’, has come to stay as so much complex and
complicated one that the ‘Conflict and Confusion’ over this question itself and
its answer has soared sky high! This conflict and
confusion has evolved so fast and deep �" laterally and vertically that it has come
to stay as defining emotion or state of mind of average human in contemporary
world. It is definitely contrary to the very core notion of ‘growth’ and
development. With time, as a natural progression, human knowledge and wisdom increases
and with enhancement of collective human knowledge comes growing clarity, objectivity,
linearity of perceptions and most importantly, a confidence in average person
that he or she lives in a world that has the intellect to ensure his or her wellness.
But it seems, the reverse has happened with passage of time. The level of
conflict and confusion has enhanced. Much of it can safely be ascribed to growing
volatility and hypocrisies in political and economic domains. Science has also added
its own quota of confusion and conflict, instead of removing them as what
reaches average person is pseudo science and not the pure science. Human life-living is most
powerful continuity of the universe. Humanity has survived and prospered,
despite all odds and challenges that often threatened to mitigate it. This happened
primarily because average human mind consciousness has firm and archetypal belief
in continuity. This continuity comes from his or her linkages with past and associated
hopes of betterment in future. Everything from religion to culture and from family
to society have been designed on the basis of this strong and ingrained belief
in his or her continuity in life and even after life. This continuity is the singular
most powerful support system for sanity of average man and woman. It is still
debatable, because of lack of sufficient data, yet seems sufficiently perceptible
that there is loads of confusion and conflict in contemporary milieus and
life-living that has eroded or we may say, eroding the Sanity of Continuity for
average person. It is for everyone to
see and accept that most of humans have this populist perception and belief
that contemporary politics and economy has solutions for whatever problems and
troubles it has in his or her life-living. In contemporary world, average
person’s linkages, dependence and adherence to politics and economy has
increased, compared to 20th century life-living, when it was norm to
look for solutions in personal, familial and societal spaces. This itself is a huge
shift from somehow more compassionate and less competitive spaces to a hugely
competitive and least compassionate domain. This shift is telling on the sanity
of individuals as it has shaken up the core comfort of continuity in
life-living as both politics and economy are majorly instable and discontinuous
landscape compared to family, relationships and society. Though there is insufficient
data to have any definitive linkages between suicides and this contemporary
world shift in ‘linkages-dependence’ of average person, we can clearly see how
trends suggest, this is no impossibility. As per the world health organization (WHO)
report, close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, which is one
life lost every 40 second. More calamitous fact is that, as per WHO, for each
adult who died by suicide, there may have been more than 20 others attempting
suicide. Interesting is the fact that suicide is the second leading cause of death
among 15-29 year olds globally. Moreover, around 80 percent of all suicides
occurred in low and middle-income countries in 2016. Experts do admit that
suicides rates have increased sharply and prime reason is growing stress but it
is still difficult to detail the specificities of suicide. However there are
enough indicators. It is estimated that suicide rates may have increased around
30 percent in just last 20 years. It is also known that suicide rates are
considerably high among males, especially in higher income countries. All these
hint at the pattern, we have mentioned in above paragraphs. It is accepted that
men have more ‘linkages-adherence-dependence’ on polity and economy compared to
women, who are known to have deeper and more stabilized ‘linkages-adherence-dependence’
on family and society. Also, suicide being second largest killer in 15-29 age
group also points at the possibility that this age group have more augmented
and predominant ‘continuity-deficit’ and insecurity about their future. They
also may be accepted as a section of population having more ‘linkages-adherence-dependence’
with polity-economy than family-society. The very fact of sharp rise of
suicides in most societies, irrespective of economic status is also effectively
points out at a possibility that there probably is some ‘critical shift’ in the
traditional support systems that average person had in the past. We do not have enough
data support and history of suicides over the decades and therefore,
specificity is missing but probabilities do point out to a probable change in some
critical element that is disturbing some old and traditional sanity. This same fact
can be said about depression, which is also rising fast across the globe and is
definitely linked with suicides and other entropic behavior. There is now
reasonably sufficient data about the crisis of depression in contemporary
life-living. As we have mentioned earlier, experts do tell us that there is sound
tangible aspects of the growing menace of depression. It is estimated that depression
and anxiety disorders cost global economy US$ 1 trillion each year. If the troubles
like suicide, depression and many more human incapacitations have grown to such
huge magnitude, it needs to be accepted that globally, things are not precisely
well. There are tangible causes of such troubles and humanity and its mightily
intelligent leadership cannot say this all is merely personal crisis. We are not intending to
go into detail of this possibility of linking major human troubles to polity
and economy. This is not the professed goal of this eBook. This is also not
possible for an individual to do just by assessing available data. It requires global
studies and detailed scientific researches to arrive at any definitive
conclusion. What we intend to do here is just be aware about this majorly critical
possibility. For this eBook, we are just inclined to accept it as a hypothesis
that contemporary global scenario very potently hints at the possibility that most
contemporary human troubles have linkages with the way current day polity and
economy have shaped up in the last 50 years and how they handle their assigned
task for human wellness. This hypothesis is being
accepted to enlist the need for a cognitive change in the way an individual associates
himself or herself with polity and economy in contemporary times. This
hypothesis also works for an individual to allow the energy of skepticism to revisit
his or her current linkages with polity and economy for his or her personal
sanity, wellness, order and poise. Moreover, this hypothesis also seeks to alarm
an individual to reassess and revisit his or her personal connect and context
with family and society. There is this perspective
to test the validity that probably, there is an urgent requirement of
course-correction by an individual about how he or she relates and associates
with family and society on one hand and polity and economy on other hand. It is
also about how there happens a cognitive change in these associations, so that an
individual himself or herself gets to assess what is better option for his or
her sanity and wellness. We have just hypothesized and presented a probability
of causality. Before we conclude this
talk, we must summarize and list the gist of our talks so far. We have
discussed and deliberated over complex issues and multiple details and therefore,
to avoid confusion and augment clarity, we shall sum up the entire deliberations
so far in a few passages so that it could remain available for quick recall
later. This we are doing after Part two of this eBook, dealing with entropy,
which we had mentioned earlier. ** PART TWO Entropy Of Milieus Of Human World It is a hypothesis,
which is tough to accept, even when there are enough evidences all around us to
substantiate it, if not corroborate it. This hypothesis says, ‘Disorder and
entropic chaos is far more creative energy. You are better off only when you
land in the probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty and completely taken to
randomization of eventualities by the typhoon of disarray and anarchy.’ This
hypothesis somehow seems to be what we all live with but seldom care to
decipher a pattern of. This hypothesis seems like
a humdrum of an insanely stupid mind, who is in the habit of mouthing gibberish
insinuations just for populist consumption. In lighter vein, it seems like what
intellectualism is all about! But then, people have since ages seem to have
spoken of such nonsensical causality to draw attention of mindless millions
about shades of Reality we all live in and with. The idea is, this hypothesis
looks like close to what thermodynamics says about energy and its
situationalism. Understanding the basics of energy and its intuitive mechanism
helps a lot in understanding not only the societal space around us but also the
systemic stupidities of our inner-selves. The state of physical realism
is that the total energy of the universe is constant. The more important
factual physicality is that everything tends to become less organized and less
orderly over time. No doubt, even this physical reality of ‘entropy’ is open to
debate but it surely is available for causal philosophizing. It needs to be insisted
here that this causal-philosophizing is for restrictive purpose of
paradigm-building for a very metaphoric-mechanism; having utility largely for
arriving at a dimension which otherwise may not be possible. This process has
derivative utility only! Energy being constant
is a huge hypothesis for human social realism. It provides great insight into
humanity’s incessant enterprise to construct and destruct the world around for
increasing conveniences. What it means in general understanding is, we humans
have this capacity only to devise the usages of the energy already available
and still it remains what it was. We convert the potential energy into kinetic
energy and this very moment entropy sets in. No usage-device of any advancement
can use the energy 100% and part of it goes into the system. The hypothesis is, as
energies are used for creating order within a mechanism, part of it, often a
considerable part; is always lost in the process and this is the disorder which
goes into the system or the immediate environment where the mechanism operates.
As energy can never be destroyed, the disordered energy, lost in the mechanism
is stored as entropic energy in the system. The construction process releases
the entropic energy which is stored in the system as destructive energy. In
simple words, the process or mechanism of ‘order’ itself releases the entropic
energy which is stored as ‘disorder’ in the system, within which the process
works. This happens as energy
is constant; it is always conserved but takes different shapes �" from potential
to kinetic and part going to energy fields (systemic). The other aspect of
energy is that isolated systems gravitate towards thermodynamic equilibrium,
which means a state of maximum entropy or disorder. This means, every system
and its mechanism and processes tend to become less organized and less orderly
over time. So, greater the time-period of ‘order-building’; larger is the
propensity of ‘disorder-building’ in the system. Given that systemic efficiency
has a larger impact on the efficiency of the process and mechanisms within it,
entropic energies in the Long-Run
would ensure recurring disorders in the overall working-efficiencies of order
processes. We shall talk about the
idea of ‘Long Run’ later and before that, we need to know in detail this
element of entropy and inevitability and omnipresence of disorder in all
orders. We can
say, there is this Rule Of Causality
in the cosmos as well as in the milieus, which plays around us, muffles us and
makes us sing and dance to its tunes. It is this rule of causality, which
unleashes its embedded energy and we, as individuals are run into actions and
behaviors by this energy; either in inertia, by choice or by status quo. If we take the liberty to enter
philosophy into this physical law and move to see its application in societal
and personal life-living, we can have a sound perspective of how with passage
of enough time, everything tends to become more chaotic, confusing and
conflicting. This includes, personal lives as well as societies and cultures. The
simple thing is; a ‘Probability’ eith in our personal lives or in the lives of
societies and culture, has its own energy of ‘Causality’ and even when this
probability is playing its energy on us, at one time/space situation, the other
aspect of this probability, usually the inverse of it, or the flip side of the
probability, is still there, though in static energy form. So, a ‘Heads’ in the
toss of coin plays out some causality or set of it for us, even as the
probabilities and related causalities of ‘Tails’ of the same coin is lying
latent in the same milieu and for the same person. The trouble is, mostly,
people accept only the kinetic energy of ‘Heads’ playing at the moment for us
and refuse to accept the inevitability of the static or latent energies of the
‘Tails’ of the same coin of life, which always has the ‘Dual’ causalities of
twin probabilities. In this dialectics of causalities, it is always the
‘thesis’ which is upfront and observed, even as the very causality of thesis
automatically creates its antithesis, which is always ignored. But, it cannot
be wished away. This ignored energy of ‘anti-causality’ is very often the
entropic energy that remains uncared and in long run shapes up a more entropic
synthesis, as dialectic chain completes its cyclical course. If you accept ‘Heads’, or it
happens to you, by choice or by inertia, its energies lead your actions and
behaviors but never ever believe that the static or latent energy of ‘Tails’ is
not playing its own energies of causalities of probabilities. The coin is never
only heads or tails, it is always both. If ‘Heads’ is ‘Good’ for me and I am
consciously seeking it for my benefit, then ‘Tails’ is also trailing me and its
causalities are also there in the same milieu (Often with inverse
probabilities), where Heads is operating for me. This is the way Reality works
for all. The dialectics is omnipresent and omnipotent. Good and bad are always
operating in its entirety and that is why, throughout our lives everyone of us
is in the midst of the dualism, which in its holism is affecting us. In our subjective consciousness,
we fail to see and accept the holism of the dualism playing every second for us
and this is our core trouble. The dualism mothers loads of hypocrisies all of
us dump into the milieus and add to the already overdose of 3Cs �" Conflict,
confusion and chaos. Science has confirmed �" The vacuum in the space is not
‘Nothingness’. There always are ‘vacillations’ in the vacuum and these
vacillations shape up the ‘Somethingness’ in the causalities of rainbow of
probabilities. This partial and
lopsided perspective of Reality, which believes in only one aspect of dealing
with energies of causalities is the prime culprit of adding more and more
entropies in personal lives as well as in the ambient milieus we live. There is
a famous quote of Dalai Lama, which points out this hypocrisy and lack of
holism in average men and women. He said, we spend most precious part of our
youth in earning big moneys and wealth, compromising with our naturally
available health and peace of mind. And, rest of our lives in later
youthfulness, we spend the same money and wealth to get back the lost health
and peace of mind. What this statement points out is the common practice of
hypocrisy that humanity has always been associated with. We are always very
partial and lopsided in using energies in our life-living, always ignoring the
very nature and make of the physics and biology of energy in its holism. When
we chase Heads of a coin, we do not care for the energies of the latent
energies of the causalities of Tails. Therefore, later, when the entropies of
the uncared and ignored energies of Tails hot us hard, we leave the Heads and
spend the energies of attainments of the causalities of Heads to minimize the
onslaught and pathology of the Tails. This leaves us as the most stupid
engineers and managers of energy operations and processes of life-living. What we are also trying
to hypothesize and philosophize is the probability of we all standing in the
midst of a time-space situation, where entropies have become too unmanageable
because they have been there since quite a long time. The contemporary humanity
seems to be standing in the time-space of ‘Long Run’ and this has ensured that
accumulated entropies have disordered the system of our world and life-living
beyond the point of probable return and restoration. Now, the key question
is; what we can accept as ‘Long-Run’, where entropy starts taking its toll in
such a way that it is irreversible? It is crucial to know that because, only then
we can gauge the extent and intensity of the disorder and entropic energy in
our systems. If the period is short, we have a system, which has low disorder
and low entropic energy, and if the period is long one, we are in a chaotic and
catastrophic system, tough to get restored, if not impossible. Consider the scientific
facts available about the life of our Sun and the universe we live in. The Sun
is the source of life on Earth that’s why, its end means end of all things,
living or non-living on the Earth. Now, we all know, our dear Sun came into
existence some 4.6 billion years ago. The scientists are affirmative that after
4 billion years, the Sun shall be so hot that all life on Earth shall vanish. Some
however have belief that such a stage can come even after just 2.5 billion
years. The universe however has longer life. It came into being almost 14
billion years before and shall survive about 35 billion years more. What does this mean? It
seems, we are halfway through our entire life period on this earth! Is that a
period enough to be termed as ‘Long-Run’ of time? It seems, looks like a
possibility. Even if we consider the entire life-period of universe, we are past
one quarter of it. So, can we assume, we, humanity as a whole, have passed Long Enough time on earth to make the
hypothesis true that �" Everything tends
to become less organized and less orderly over time. Do we need to align
ourselves to this possibility that as we are halfway through, we must all
understand and accept that we live in times when our mechanisms of order and
construction has spewed out reasonably high amounts of ‘Disorder and Destruction’.
This is a systemic trouble; a procedural predicament that we humans cannot wish
away. Can we? What this causal
philosophizing on the thermodynamics realism means for humanity in general and
in particular? It is not that this hypothesis about ‘Long Run’ and ‘Entropy’ is
what we need to feel scared about. The only insinuation is that somehow, in our
zeal to maximize joys and comforts, this probability of causality about
systemic entropy is not even being accepted in sidelines. We at least need to
bring this issue to debate and discussion at the center of all talks about
development. Thinking of development is always good but being oblivious of
entropy that the enterprise of energy for development is unleashing fast in the
milieus is call to calamity. It seems so. Stephen Hawking said, ‘A
frightening possibility is that intelligent life is not only common, but that
it destroys itself when it reaches a stage of advanced technology. That’s why
we have not met aliens as yet…’ Yes, this is disorder
and entropic energy at its best. What Hawking is probably hinting at is the
systemic causality of development and entropy, which all humans need to
understand and accept. The intuitive mechanism of energy, in and around us must
be accepted by all; at least our decision-makers. We always see a lot of
chaos, confusion, conflict, catastrophe around us and more often, these
destructive energies are so potent and omnipresent that we feel frustrated and
often start believing that our systems have gone so much wrong and humanity is
doomed. Somehow, as human brain/mind is only 15 percent genetic and majorly 85
percent milieu-driven, major part of this chaos, confusion, conflict percolates
to individual consciousness and collective unconscious. In all nations, be it
developed or developing, the systemic entropies make a larger population feel
frustrated and in anger of the system. May be, the human system and milieus
have become so large and their working has become so complex in long march of
humanity that level or content of entropy has risen very high, unleashing loads
of conflicts and confusions. We all think, our leaders or those in control of
resources and authority have misused their briefs to create such a chaos and
conflict. We almost always fail to see the larger picture. The entropy is
systemic. We all contribute to it. It is there because it has to be there. There
is no wishing away. And as time passes, every next day brings about more
entropic energy into play in the system. We think and believe that they are
people-specific troubles, unleashed by politicians or others but the fact seems
like it is all systemic entropy. This is cardinal
principle of physical realism of the universe. More we grow in time and space,
larger becomes our systems and mechanisms for excellence and order and more and
more grows the disorder and entropy in the system. We need to accept, we have
come halfway mark. Too much we have constructed for the destructive energy to
be under control and within comfort zone. Scientists warn, the forces of nature
and evolution has ceased to be and human intervention has come a long way. The
entropy somehow also balances developmental energies but as natural entropy is
non-operative, it is human entropy into the system, which has gone out of
limits and is set to go berserk. We have become a
complex living conundrum. We all see it around. We all have ourselves
discovered the rules of physicality. Still, we do not wish to accept it. It is
interesting how we all rather prefer the energy of entropy in our lives and the
life-enterprises. See, for example, we say it to ourselves and everyone, ‘If
you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have
always got. Stretch it out, leave the comfort zone and dabble into the pond of
uncertainty to catch a larger and better fish…’. This ‘maximization’ motto of
life-living attainments and wellness is sure invite to more entropic energies
in the system. Everyone is adding loads of it in the milieus and system. The
sanity of survival is pumping in loads of pollution of elements of entropic
insanity into the human system. We all add entropy into
the system. Intelligence and all good societal benchmarks of goodness add a
hell lot of entropic energy into the system and it is only natural that systemic
health is hitting abysmal low. This is what Hawking says when he predicts, intelligent races are suicidal in tendencies…
Why only living beings, our dear Sun is also becoming more intelligent as it is
burning more fuel and getting hotter by the day. And around 2.5 billion years
from now, it shall become so intelligent and ‘good’, would warm up so much that
it would end all lives and things on earth, finally burning itself in 4.5
billion years. Brilliance beyond limits of ‘utility’ is not only a ‘futility’
rather it is calamitous and catastrophic. Now, coming back to where
we started, ‘Disorder and entropic chaos is far more creative energy. You are
better off only when you land in the probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty
and completely taken to randomization of eventualities by the typhoon of
disorder and chaos…’ Yes, this is what fuels ‘intelligence’. Being intelligent,
of course in contemporary established benchmarks of millions of years; is
riding the entropic energy and fueling all such constructive probabilities and
options for human consumption which would result into more and more entropic
eventualities. John Stevenson said it
in his ‘one life’ discourse, ‘Evolution is a chain of accidents’, call it
‘probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty, completely taken to randomization
of eventualities’… Loren Eiseley said very
rightly, ‘It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they
had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call
evolution.” That’s why, John says, evolution is a stupid engineer…’ The randomization of
eventualities of the entropic energy established through ages of evolution,
happily benchmarked by humanity as ‘successes’ is what we all know as entropic
mechanism of intuitive physicality but fail to see and accept. This has to be
understood, accepted and remedial measures taken. This paradox and hypocrisy
about what humanity considers and places sky high as ‘intelligence’ having
equitable elements of stark stupidities need to be understood and accepted.
Many awakened and evolved people are already distancing them away from such
intelligence and moving back to simplicity of life-living goals. There are
small bunch of people all over the globe who have understood this dualism of
Reality that a coin never comes only with Heads or tails. Both sides of the
coin have their energies of causalities and they shall unleash in simultaneous
expressions. Entropy cannot be wished away as thermodynamic equilibrium is
primary ‘Rule of Causality’. Mortality, complete annihilation and inevitable
extinction is what we all are heading towards and we all are actually
augmenting the speed of arriving at the finality of eventuality by being more
‘intelligent’. As we have talked earlier, mortality is the inevitability of
finality of all energy enterprises that cosmic causalities are engaging in.
Human body-mind media and its own media of consciousness is naturally
auto-designed and auto-oriented for this finality. That is why collectively,
sanity is never a possibility. There are enough indicators already in
contemporary world, which show us brazenly how we are hastening our own
finality of mortality. We shall talk about it. Stephen Hawking calls
for this remedial step and terms it as humanity needing to enter into a new
phase of ‘self designed evolution’, rather than random and accident-designed
evolution, in which we the intelligent humans will be able to change and
improve our DNA. This shall enable us to take humanity even to other planet,
long after our Sun dies…’ This is however still a
bit far away. It shall take time before humanity comes with a technology to
create ‘super-humans’ who shall then write a different history of humanity. But
till then, we all poor normal humans have to survive and sustain in this chaos
and conundrum. So, we have to understand this entropic energy and also the
‘success-benchmarks’ that we all follow without scant understanding of what and
how they are and what randomization of further entropic eventualities they lead
us to. There are huge entropic
footprints of what has been labeled as human success and it is big time
perceptible and impacting the overall sanity, system and order of the human
world and life-living. There is even some sort of acceptance too of their
debilitating impact on our world but in our madness for more success and more
attainments, humanity is happily ignoring them. The biggest example of this
happy ignorance and even wishful denial is the crisis of environmental
degradation. On one hand, there is a section of humanity who takes it as
biggest looming threat on survival of humanity, even while majority of
population, especially the nexus of politician-corporate are consciously
downplaying the threat. Same is the situation with nuclear weapons, the way
global hotspots are handled and also the very casual way nuclear threat is put
in global political discourse. Consider a small but
very powerful entropy that humanity handles very casually. Globally, around 1.4
million people are killed in road traffic mishaps every year. This is around
3800 people every day are dead in road accidents involving different vehicles.
Moreover it is estimated that 20-50 million people are injured, huge many of
them disabled every year in road mishaps. This is global trouble and yet
neither the public nor government agencies take this seriously. People happily
drive irresponsibly and authorities have little inclination to design and
implement road safety and driving sanity. On the other hand, globally,
automobile sales are considered the most crucial indicator of growth in an
economy. The vehicle manufacturers globally are vying madly for technological
edge in their vehicle manufacturing to launch new state of the art vehicles on
the road. Huge number of new vehicles land on road every year as even
governments are pushing for auto sales to show off their growth figures and
health. However, very little, almost negligible is done on the front of road
infrastructure, road safety, traffic regulation, driving sanity and course
correction to minimize accidents. The technology is used even at rising vehicle
cost to augment look of the vehicle, power and other comfort features but even
when technology is possible, no investment and care is assigned to those
technological and other features in vehicle that could ensure road
infrastructure, road safety, traffic regulation, driving sanity and course
correction to minimize accidents. There are so many areas
of human life-living where this partial perspective of acceptance of reality is
so accentuated that they are destroying sanity. The growing dependence of
average human on technology even in daily lives, the ever increasing
complexities in relationships, the growing levels of stress in life-living and
as small as food and other lifestyle choices, etc are glaring examples of how
humanity has always cared for only the ‘Heads’ of a reality and seldom bothered
to accept and accommodate the flip side of ‘Tails’ in its march for growth and
betterment. The tragedy is that even when in contemporary times, we have enough
factual data available about how our poor and lopsided choices, behavior and
actions are leading us to calamitous causalities, humanity in general is not
interested in learning any lesson. Just take a glimpse on
this seemingly very irrelevant social data, which has not even caught
imagination of the mainstream consciousness. We have this piece of US data
about changing food behavior of millennial and young generation. A Harvard
study says, total amount of money spent on food away from home has risen 94
percent since 2003, with average American household spending average of 3000
dollar per year on dining out. The study says, only a miniscule 15 percent of
Americans said they loved to cook, 50 percent said they hated to cook and 35
percent were lukewarm to the idea of cooking. Market research says, in 1984
over 70 percent of meals eaten were cooked at home which has fallen to less
than 60 percent in 2014. There is already
question in air in USA as, ‘Is The Home Kitchen Dead’, as analysts predict that
online food ordering and delivery would grow by 20 percent per annum between
now and 2030. The US online food market orders is said to be set to reach 365
billion dollars from current 35 billion dollars in just 11 years. Now place these factual
data with health warning handed out by experts who believe, majority of human
diseases and health issues are related with food we take. There is a growing
call by experts to observe sanity in what we eat and how we eat. Since long,
almost all researches on longevity of human life have clearly state that it is
the home food, cooked with local resources, consumed fresh and taken in loving
family gathering that is at the root of long life. In sharp contrast,
breakfast, lunch and dinner are being taken, away from homes, ordered from
outside or packaged foods are replacing freshly cooked food. It is also stated
that food is taken in very unhealthy ways as millennial are said to be
growingly eating alone, away from homes and in runaway mode. As we said, we may not
be having enough data on emerging trends in human cultures, lifestyle choices
and societal behaviors but we surely have sound indicators to warn us that we
are all failing in singular front and this is �" we are ignoring the holism of
our life-living Reality and taking care of only partial aspect of ‘successes’
in growth and attainments. In our zeal to maximize the attainments and proceeds
of ‘Heads’, we are happily ignoring the causalities of the probabilities of
‘Tails’ and thus in a definitive way, augmenting the innate and systemic
entropies. In a way, we are ourselves being the facilitator of our own troubles
and the final destruction. And then, if we assume that such a life-living
milieu can have the possibility of sanity, we are simply not helping ourselves.
That is why this is high time we take it to our personal and individual enterprise
to begin the right process in our personal domains to revert back to ways and
initiate novel ones to install and sustain sanity in personal life-living.
Sanity is impossibility in collective spaces. ** Entropy Of Human Consciousness We need to assess
first, how our consciousness seems to have been designed and how our brain
states communicate with body structures, using which media. There is enough
scientific knowledge available now and it is a huge sense of satisfaction that
modern quantum science has focused very intently on the idea of
‘Consciousness’. There is a primary
hypothesis that is now being widely accepted in new millennium of scientific
mindset, which underlines that humans are very closely associated with their
close cousins, the chimps and other mammals as huge majority of our genes are
common. We humans are different and way ahead of all other species of complex
organisms primarily because we have highly advanced brain states. That
exclusivity of large and complex brain structure with all its yet un-deciphered
mechanism and processes make us stand on top of the pyramid of lives on Earth.
It is this complex brain that has made possible a ‘Consciousness’ in we humans,
which is rare and probably exclusive in this universe. But, now we have known
that this exclusivity is good in many senses but also happens to be the primary
cause of almost all troubles that humanity has had and continues to add more.
This is interesting…! When we look at and
accept life-living realism and ‘I’ or self positioned in them from the modern
and path-breaking concept and realism of ‘Consciousness’, we have ease in
internalizing the ideas of the ‘Media’ that our body-brain uses for
‘Communication’. We also get to feel less revolted by this precarious realism
that ‘I’ or self operates simultaneously in different layers of consciousness
and almost certainly, our unconscious and subconscious selves dominate almost
over 90 percent of our thoughts, behaviors and actions. It is a miniscule
percent of thoughts behaviors and action that ‘I’ or self takes as ‘Conscious
Self’ that is fully aware and in control of them. This stupidity is our design,
we cannot help. There are three major
aspects of the realism called Consciousness, as science has so far deciphered.
The ancient Oriental spiritualism had hinted about them many thousand years
back but they could not clearly know the Rules of Causality. It could be
because realism has always been there and available for those who cared. Truth
is singular and already there, we humans cannot create truth or realism but
always can decipher and unravel it. This science of consciousness and cognition
and the causality among them is deciphering many aspects of that singular
realism but still evolving and has not yet reached a definitive stage. Still,
the three aspects we are going to discuss here that science has successfully
deciphered shall help us big way in understanding Consciousness. The three
aspects of consciousness we list as: 1. Entropic:
There is this seemingly very valid and probably self-verifiable interpretation
of consciousness as an entropic situation and expression of human brain. In the
long, varied and potentially complex process of evolution, human brain states
probably developed and evolved to such an intricate and multilayered system
that reached a criticality of entrenched entropy. This entropic ecosystem of
advanced brain engendered consciousness that stood exclusive to humans as no
other complex organism had this level of ‘Criticality of Entropy’ of such a
complex brain. What does this mean? What we can make out of this scientific yet
ambiguous idea of Entropic Consciousness? We all know that
entropy itself is a complex idea yet in simple terms, we accept entropy as
measure of order or disorder in a system. A high entropy system is one with
higher measure of disorder. This disorder is broadly expressed in terms of the
system’s higher propensity towards randomization. This disorder may in broad
sense be accepted as something that makes the overall optimal efficiency of a system
uncertain. So, when we say that human brain has far more and greater entropy
than any other animal, we are essentially saying that human brain states have
greater range and repertoire of mental awareness and cognitive capacities. The
core hypothesis is that the consciousness we humans have that makes us aware of
‘I’ or self, as distinct and exclusive from others, is because of our brain
evolving to unparalleled complexities, thus having a critical level of entropy
that in turn engenders consciousness that we have. Other animals, especially
higher organisms also have consciousness but as their brain is less complex and
therefore the entropy level is much below the criticality that human brain has,
only humans have a consciousness that finds expression in much higher and
deeper awareness of ‘I’ or self. Now, as we have
understood and can accept the idea of entropic consciousness, we need to look
at the modern and contemporary explanation about ‘I-Awareness’ or what we may
call levels of self-awareness. It is accepted by scientific experimentation
that consciousness, as it was engendered and happened because of
‘entropy-expansion’, it is designed and wired to a higher state of
randomization. Why? It is explained that thermodynamics theory has established
that a closed system is always naturally aligned to optimize the system
entropy. That is probably why human consciousness that is the outcome of
entropy-expansion has this innate and intrinsic orientation and propensity for
entropy-optimization. This means, human consciousness, in its innate and
intrinsic character is given to higher randomization. Science accepts
entropy-expansion as the ‘defining property’ of consciousness but also admits
that it has to be automatically followed by entropy-suppression to bring about
system reorganization or systemic settlement. So, what we can
conclude for ease of understanding and also for accepting a simplified
hypothesis for our further journey is that human consciousness is innately
randomized and disorderly because this very entropy made consciousness possible
and therefore there is this auto-process within the ecosystem of brain states
itself to introduce and install a process of order and stability. In other
words, human consciousness has in-built mechanism for disorder and disruption
but the same consciousness has the in-built mechanism to feel and recognize the
disorder. Naturally, when consciousness can decipher disorder, it also has the
mechanism to correct them. Therefore, it is only
natural that within the ecosystem of consciousness, there are tangible media
and communication plexus to ‘identify’ and then ‘correct’ entropic expressions.
We are traversing this undulating path of consciousness and cognition to
decipher the causality of that ‘media’ and ‘communication’ plexus. This needs
to be understood then only we can arrive at our hypothesis that sanity is
impossibility in collective spaces primarily because of the entropic design of
the media of consciousness but at the same time, the consciousness also is a
media powerful enough to organize back the disorder it is naturally inclined to
and thus sanity can be possible at personal level. Disorder is an innate design
(subconscious) but restoration is an evolved artistry (conscious), requiring
personal enterprise to grow in desired neural plexus. 2. Emergent:
Having discussed the probable origin and innate nature of consciousness, we now
have the task at hand to have a feel and internalization of the realism of
consciousness. This shall facilitate the understanding of the media and
communication system of our body-mind mechanism. Defining consciousness and
having a definitive idea about consciousness is a tough task. Why? Because,
primarily, when we speak of consciousness, we know we are dealing with
something that does not have a physicality to it. It is a realism that has all
trappings of virtualism. Consciousness is an intangibility that we have to see
and understand not with the help of our five senses but with a mechanism, which
itself is very much our consciousness. Therefore, the challenge is to
understand the realism of a virtualism with the help of the virtualism itself. So, without further
complicating the issue, we begin to attempt a defining process that helps us
understand consciousness. There is a rather simplified yet smart interpretation
of consciousness that maintains that consciousness is an intangible, emergent
and ever transient (shifting) property of two-way information processing by
brain states and mega plexus of neurons, spread throughout the body. First, it
works as a storehouse of information, which is gathered from sensory organs. It
matches these info with the milieus around and creates an imagery of physical
model for the body to deliberate on a decision for appropriate action. This
imagery is intangible. This is first part. Simultaneously, when
these models lead to tangible actions and behaviors by body, it also stores
those ‘experiences’ emerging out of these set of actions of body and converts
them into processed information for future decision-making (memory of
experiences). Therefore, consciousness works not only as warehouse but also as
agent of gathering and processing multi-dimensional information. As
deliberating imagery of workable models out of the previously stored
information is an intangible facility, whereas storing information from actual
actions taken by body is a tangible work, the consciousness as a dual mechanism
is intangible, emergent, ephemeral and virtual processing of information. Its dual character
makes consciousness a virtual agency. It is not body, not purely brain, not
entirely the full spectrum of what we know as mind, but a part of mind. That is
why consciousness has an emergent and virtual skin and flesh. At best, it is a
bridge between the body and brain, very much part of mind and always evolving.
This mechanism makes consciousness a virtual agency and that is why there is so
much of mysticism and marvel associated with the idea of consciousness. It is
because of the virtual nature of consciousness �" the sense of ‘I’, mysticism
stands as instinctive first choice of acceptance of realism. That is why the
old wisdom as well as science maintains that God, ghosts, angels, soul and
after life et al are mystical realisms, which are all inside our conscious self
and what we do with the above idea in physical world is a virtualism, emanating
out of the very character and nature of our consciousness. This is what we
called archetypes in our deliberations earlier. The dualism, which the
idea of consciousness creates is �" ‘You’ are in your perspective and your
perspective is in ‘you’. This needs elaboration. Modern scientific insight into
mechanism of consciousness says nothing new or against what old wisdom of
ancient world had elaborated thousands of years back. Science however puts
facts in objective way, elaborating the details of the mechanism, which creates
the dualism of consciousness. The primary hypothesis is the fact that human
evolution designed a brain, which is far more complex and multi-functional than
other developed organisms. In addition, human brain is not a typical single
part, like other organs, e.g. liver. It has evolved in a way, which makes it a
layered organ, with every new layer evolving as a pile up on previous layer.
Brain is a complex ‘cooperative’ of multi-functional parts working in an
auto-mode synchrony, which we are mostly unaware of and yet to be fully
deciphered and understood. From this analysis
emerge two important facts about consciousness. First, consciousness is a
virtual intangibility that emerges or is realized because of the very complex
collaboration and co-option of multiple and multidimensional plexus of organic
layers and channels of brain, nervous system and body’s own electro-chemical
systems. Therefore, it is only very natural that conscious is always emergent,
hence transient. Consciousness being an entropic expression of the body-brain
system, it always has this innate propensity for randomizations. However, this
same consciousness has this evolved awareness about the entropy-expansion and
therefore a potential ingrained for entropy-suppression. 3. Vectoral:
The third aspect about consciousness is referred to as Vectoral property of
consciousness. What does it mean? By definition, Vector is a phenomenon that
has two independent properties �" magnitude and direction existing
simultaneously, like electromagnetic field. When science says consciousness is
a vectoral realism, it means that consciousness is a variable and ever
transient situationalism because of simultaneous operation of not only two but
may be many independent, yet cooperating properties. This needs to be
understood. When we say,
consciousness is a vectoral property of information processing, we need to
realize that brain states is constantly processing huge amount of information
from different channels. There are information coming constantly from outer
milieus, of which we are aware only of a very miniscule part. Still, the
processing of huge amount of info data is continuously going on. Then we have
information channels constantly feeding inputs from the internal milieu within
our body to which brain states respond, even while we are not always aware of.
There are thought processes, emotional elements, attitudinal aspects, quotient
of fear and insecurity, etc that are constantly inputting unimaginable amount
of data for brain states to process. As consciousness is an emergent property
of collective and cooperative summation of multiple agencies, it is easy to
accept that our consciousness is transient, shifting as per the dominant
inputted info. Therefore, the ‘I’ or self is different when with the family,
watching a soccer match, on the busy streets, in the office board room, at the
church, etc. The vectoral consciousness suggests that consciousness being a
multi-dimensional situation of an emergent vitualism, it is constantly shaped
up and reshaped as per the new situation that milieus and other elements unveil
on daily basis or in course of life and living. The three aspects of
consciousness that we have discussed is aimed at understanding the idea of
consciousness in holism and entirety. This shall help when we now move on to
the real issue we started with. For ease and convenience of recollection and
swift reference, we list the reality that we can hypothesize after we have
detailed consciousness �"
** Epilogue: Finality Of Sanity As we come to the last
part of the eBook and begin to end the talk, we once again need to go back to
where we started from. The start was with assertion of compassion as the only
human attainment that has the seed-utility and finality of fruition in the
lives of we all. We therefore shall also end it with the re-assertion of
compassion, however this time with greater belief and conviction. This
confidence in compassion as the core and critical sanity point emanates because
now we have reasons to accept that the very design of Reality in our cosmos,
the world we live in and the way our own consciousness accepts it have inbuilt,
innate and embedded entropic causalities. Therefore, the only way out to have
sanity and install it deep in our lives is to accept the finality of singular
and irreplaceable element of personal compassion. As we have talked
earlier, the energy of conscious and logical skepticism must always be our
guiding force for evolving and becoming empowered. There is no reason to
believe or disbelieve anything as the very energy of skepticism shall always
keep both beliefs and disbeliefs evolving and changing shades. The energy of
persevered and unstoppable skepticism is our life force to keep growing,
evolving and learning. The thing that we always need to keep in mind is that
while keeping the energy of skepticism alive and kicking, we always shall be
required to remain compassionate. Skepticism cannot be of any utility and worth
if it is not aligned with compassion. This is the simple recipe of personal
sanity, irrespective of what the world does and which way our milieus lead us.
This no doubt shall be toughest as other people and the milieus shall test our
resolve and persistence with compassion. Easy it is to give way to passion! The very purpose of
writing this eBook is to bring to deliberation the very crucial and critical
idea of compassion at the center-stage of human world and life-living as it has
always been compromised at and remains the only hope for successful future of
humanity. The very hypothesis this eBook has dwelt upon that sanity is
impossibility in collective spaces of human world and life-living and therefore
sanity is possible only in personal domain, revolves round the core idea that
compassion is deeply and laterally only personal and individualistic. And as
compassion is possibility at only personal level, sanity too stands a
definitive possibility but only at personal level. However, what we have
talked in this eBook is the idea and notion of compassion, completely different
and novel from what populist beliefs accept compassion as. The popular
definition of compassion stands it in linearity with pity, sympathy, fellow
feeling, tolerance, benevolence, sensitivity etc. What we have proposed is that
compassion is not about being caring, accommodative, assimilative, and
affectionate. All these are of course the ‘effects’ or expressions of the
situation of compassion in someone’s consciousness but compassion is not purely
behavioral or actionable. It is far more broad, holistic and over-encompassing. In this eBook, we have
accepted the utility and fruition of Compassion as Higher Consciousness, which
can and does see, accept and practice the ‘Holism of Reality’ that is always
probabilistic and contextual. Compassion, as we have defined in this eBook is a
Cognitive Position of an evolved and
empowered Higher Consciousness, which is non-reactive, receptive and
contemplative in all life-living situations, being in perpetual, deep and
lateral acceptance that Reality is never singular and it is always good, right
and healthy to be respectful to all different ‘parts’ of Reality, constituting
the Holism of Reality. As a person
internalizes this higher consciousness evolution of acceptance of Holism of
Reality, he or she successfully makes compassion his or her first instinct and
option-less attitude. The elements of pity, sympathy, fellow feeling,
tolerance, benevolence, sensitivity, caring, accommodation, assimilation, and
affection, etc shall automatically fall in place. In simple terms, compassion
is not a fruit, it is not even a tree; it is rather the soil, which must remain
fertile and objectively facilitative. This soil of compassion shall
automatically and instinctively grow all trees and all fruits of best utilities
and worth. The insanity of collective spaces may rob the fruits and cut the trees
but the soil shall always remain there to grow more trees and fruits. The humble and sincere
purpose of writing this eBook is to re-emphasize what the greats of humanity
have always reminded us that it may be accepted that different people of this
world may have different and even competing goals and purposes but everyone
must first have this Compassionate Higher Consciousness. They understood that
Reality being contextual and relative, instinctively every person would be
competitive and conflicted. Therefore, human world would always remain the
theatre of compounding competition and conflict among people. This
inevitability would always remain in human world in all times and space as the
most powerful and calamitous entropic element, which could kill the sanity of
life-living and human world itself. That is why the greats of humanity insisted
that there should always be compassion as the evolved higher consciousness of all
humans as lasting guarantee that sanity would be preserved. This could not happen
as humanity never ever invested predominantly in compassion, instead diverted
all its energies and enterprises on instinct-driven ‘Passion’. Tragically,
compassion remained there hanged up on all walls of humanity as ‘poster’ only,
presenting a façade to spectrum of passion-driven competitiveness and
self-aggrandizement. The worst however began in modern world of 20th
century when politics entered as the most influential element of human
life-living. Politics of all shades �" be it the Left or the Right, played with
the divisive sentiments of ‘Identities’ and accentuated the ‘divides’ between
people, groups of people and geographical regions. It is this massive and
all-pervading stupidity of populist politics that has infused overdose of
passion and killed compassion in contemporary world, where every nation and
every identity-driven group within nations have been made to compete brutally
against each other. It is the politics of the day that has colluded with
economic institutions of nations, captains of industry and big corporate
entities to shape the economy in a way that remains in perpetual grip of one
crisis or the other. All major global crises �" be it actual wars, trade wars,
economic crises like recession, human rights violations, extreme inequality of
incomes and wealth, governance mismanagement, etc are causalities of
stupidities of politics, as it has come to stay in human world in modern times.
Is this a hypothesis or a Reality? Definitely open to skepticism! It is the urgent need
of humanity to debate and deliberate those elements in complex modern organized
world and life-living, which are proving to be highly entropic, accentuating
insanity of the system, instead of mitigating it. Many experts in the field of
social sciences believe that one single element that is hugely missing in later
half of 20th century and massively absent in 21st century
is the ‘Integration’ of humanity. They believe even human knowledge and wisdom
of modern times remains scattered and could not ever be integrated and
consolidated for common use of humanity. Not only knowledge,
even people and their competing ‘identities’ could not be integrated, within
nations and between nations. Globally, this non-integration is blamed on petty
politics over ‘nationalism’ and other infinite shades of ‘Identity-Politics’.
Almost all political structures and dispensation are to be directly blamed for
not only failing to integrate people and nations but also primarily for
unleashing such maneuverings that actually disintegrate and delink things. As we end the eBook, I
reiterate that you should not believe what we have deliberated here so far. I
humbly invite you to keep your skepticism upfront and enquire yourself about
all aspects and only after internalizing Reality, through the compassionate
process of Holism, you should lead your life-living choices. My only insistence
is on universality of compassion in all your enterprises of skepticism. We are
listing points that we have deliberated in the course of this eBook, which is
in the form of gist. This shall help in recalling all aspects we have talked
about. Here we go �"
***** Accept My Gratitude Writing something is a
daunting task as there is always a lurking apprehension of it not being of
utility for some readers. I however feel at ease, because of my faith in
magnanimity of readers. I am happily sure; you shall forgive if my efforts
could not be up to your expectations. Thank you so much for being with me and
allowing me to share with you. Wish you an empowered life; with the prosperity
of the consciousness. *** About The Author
People say, what
conspire to make you what you finally become are always behind the veil of
intangibility. Someone called it ‘Intangible-Affectors’. Inquisitiveness was
the soil, I was born with and the seeds, these intangible-affectors planted in
me made me somewhat analytical. My long stint in media, in different capacities
as journalist, as brand professional and strategic planning, conspired too!
However, I must say it with all innocence at my behest that the chief
conspirators of my making have been the loads of beautiful and
multi-dimensional people, who traversed along me, in my life journey so far. The
mutuality and innocence of love and compassion always prevailed and magically
worked as the catalyst in my learning and most importantly, unlearning from
these people. Unconsciously, these amazing people also worked out to be the
live theatres of my experiments with my life’s scripts. I, sharing with you as
a writer, is essentially my very modest way to express my gratitude for all of
them. In my stupidities is my innocence of love for all my beautifully worthy
conspirators! ** Other Titles By
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Santosh JhaDehradun, Uttrakhand, IndiaAboutAuthor, Poet, Journalist, Confabulator I may have written 47 eBooks but I believe, I am more an affectionate and compassionate confabulator, not truly a writer in traditional sense of the term. It .. more..Writing
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