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Acknowledgement It was meant to be a
usual long letter to my niece, Anu,
with whom I share my consciousness and vice-versa. However, it went beyond and
is now an over 100-page eBook. Words are always poor carriers of intent but if
the ‘Connect’ is Compassionate, communications discover utility and worth. This
persevered assurance has been the energy behind my 38th eBook in your hands.
Thanks…! ** Navigation Blues A humble admittance �"
Any word, however well meant and well spelt, is a possible suspect of
misinterpretation. Simple reason is, people are in different consciousnesses
and culturally as well as personally inclined to specific 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. ** PREFACE Thanks for downloading
this eBook. There is a way to proceed to get optimal utility out of reading
this eBook. This enterprise of words essentially involves you as equal
collaborator in deciphering a possible mechanism, which shall empower you in
shaping your life-living wellness and successes. In this eBook, I am not
saying, I know something and I am telling it to you. Rather, I am presenting to
you a hypothesis and invite you to be my collaborator in arriving at a probable
‘Theory Of Reality’. The hypothesis is that our own consciousness has
definitive Media and Communication structures, which we as Aware-Selves can use
dexterously to lead our body and mind to specific life-living goals of wellness
and success. This eBook has two
parts. In the first part, we shall talk about all those ideas that shall
journey us into understanding in detail what essentially this ‘hypothesis’ is
and how it stands to be a possibility. That is, we shall discuss the
probability of how we can facilitate the launch of a ‘Conscious Enterprise’ to use
the ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ plexus of our body-mind to achieve whatever
wellness and success goals we consciously set for our life and living. In the second part,
which may well be optional, there are chapters where some key issues and
aspects, involved in first part, have been detailed to facilitate deeper
understanding of this hypothesis. When I say, I accept
you to be the collaborator and equal partner in this enterprise; I mean to say
that you should never accept anything I say, without assigning it to the energy
of skepticism. I wish you to test the validity of any probability or hypothesis
I am accepting in this eBook. Why I say this? Because, as a collaborator, you
shall like to ‘Own The Finality’ of what this eBook arrives at. We are journeying
a hypothesis to arrive at the destination of a Theory. When we reach there, you
should be equally in ownership and possession of the finality, which I have
realized and internalized. I am sharing with you what I have experienced and
internalized with this very humble intent that you should benefit like me. This
is possible only when you are my collaborator and equal partner in the
enterprise. What we are discussing
in this eBook is still in the domain of scientific philosophization. As science
is yet to arrive at a definitive theory about what we are discussing here, we
are attempting to decipher a probability with all possible scientific
objectivity and logicality. However, science is usually complex and given to
its own objectives of theorization, not always facilitative of pragmatism of
life-living experiences. What we are doing in this eBook is accepting holism of
approach �" assimilating life-living experiences with objective scientific
reality and creating our own personalized model of reality for our life-living
wellness and success. Welcome to the
enterprise and thanks for being my collaborator and equal partner…! ** At The Very Outset…! It is said, in
contemporary age of information obesity, it is tough for an individual to
believe and accept something as true and right. There is a huge plexus of
information coming to us from wide variety of ‘media’ and ‘communication’
platforms. The multitude of information is so contradictory and conflicting in
nature that they leave people only with more confusion, conflicts and chaos.
The media and communication are powerful but probably has already lost the
sanity of trust. Our wellness has this critical requirement of trust in our
milieus and as media and communication is incessantly splitting our singular trust,
conundrum rules people as well as societies. There is vocal
communication from different media that this world has become a better place to
live and continuously evolving to excellence. Equally potent and persistent is
the communication just contrary to it that gradually, humanity is moving
towards its doom and final extinction. What an individual should believe and
trust is precarious. Facts are complex and advocacy of both viewpoints is
almost always ‘missaionary’ and reactionary. We can say, we should trust
science as it probably is the sole objective and logical fact domain. But even
among scientists, there is dualism of reality. Moreover, usually science is so
complex that average person stands more confused when confronted with
scientific findings. For example, a section
of scientific communication tells us that we as humans now stand as genetic
dumps and evolutional junks, on the wrong side of timeline, facing almost
imminent extinction because of our obsolete and faulty physical-mental designs,
subsequent sedimentation of overwhelming deleterious genes; as against our
popular perception that we are the finest and loftiest creatures made by God
and, modern human, being highly intelligent and omnipotent in his
physical-mental abilities. It says, humans are at their worst stage in
evolution terms, the degradation starting almost 10,000 years ago. We have a
skeleton design that is best suited for four-legged creature but still we carry
it with loads of trouble, being on two legs! Our genetic make-up has over 97%
as junk and already 15000 genetic defects have been catalogued. All this has
made humanity a warehouse of deadly and crippling diseases and untold miseries
as most of these genetic defects have affected our mental capacities as a
cultural being. Genetically, we are designed not to be purely intelligent but
only be somewhat intelligent on top of our almost entirely instinct-driven
personality. Etc. On the other side,
there is hugely encouraging communication and visuals about glittering world
around �" big malls and multiplexes with brilliant technological devices and
gadgets. Scientists are making breakthroughs in medical research, space
technology, mobility, energy and communication techniques, etc. Then every day
there is encouraging information about technology becoming cheap and
penetrating downwards, making it affordable to more and more people. There is
peripheral reminder that we are living in most peaceful and prosperous times,
even when constant media outreach shows us how wars are on, trade tussles are
surging, democratic idealisms are withering, terror is spreading, wellness
challenges are enhancing, billions are still poor and malnourished, etc. The fact of the matter
is there are always grains of truth in both sides of communications. The world
is good and bad, right and wrong at the same time and has been like that. The
trouble is usually one side of communication seldom accepts the truth and
reality of the other side, even when everyone knows that good and bad always
exist side by side. This world we live is surely getting better but this
betterment is in parts. Similarly, things are also getting bad but they also
are only in parts. The holism of reality always has this ‘equilibrium’ of good
and bad. The golden wisdom is to be aware of both good and bad, right and wrong
and then, very consciously align ourselves and our life-living energy to good
and right. What we have to be
interested in is the positives we humans have for our better future. One might
say; if the above-mentioned words are fact, then in such disastrous
circumstances, it looks almost impossible to say that there is still some hope
for humanity; but there is. Actually, as trends have already started to show
signs, future may be better for humanity if cosmic systems otherwise allows
enough time-frame of 500-1000 years for humanity to correct its inherent faulty
genetic design and degenerating ways, embarking on a path that is aimed at
species intelligence and suitability for not only survival but overall
excellence of all lives in the universe. We do not have to go into details of
all this here. Few shall have the patience and interest to go through the
advancements made on molecular biology, nanotech, space tech, quantum mechanics
and other breakthroughs for eugenics as genome and cloning. But then, it is a
good reality that all these technological advancements hold key to the better
future of humanity. What we intend to do
here is to sum up what we as individuals need to do to stay as truly
intelligent beings and create a personal space (also collective space, if
possible) for us which ensures not only our survival but excellence in the
lives we live and leave for generations to come. And, despite huge deficiencies
and defects in our own genetic and instinctive make-up as well as degeneration
and chaos in the physical environment and socio-economic-political culture we
live in, we as individuals do stand a chance to do so. How? The first and foremost
requirement is huge courage, determination and resilience. What we are today, physically
as well as mentally, is largely a product of years of brain and body evolution.
Our consciousness, this definitive sense of me or ‘I Am’, is also now accepted
as hugely precarious and at the root of most troubles of humanity. Similar is
culture and our mind-training. Our mind training is not what we desired or what
real knowledge wished. Humanity has been equipped with sanity of objectivity
and logicality, which critical scientific knowledge has made possible, only in
the last few centuries, which is a timeline too small when we compare it to the
fact that we humans have been on Earth for over 4 million years, in our current
form. The primary trouble in
the new millennium is that our mindsets have concretized over a huge period of
thousands of years. This mindset is used to of accepting what is and has been
icons and benchmarks in our popular culture. Lateral, plural and unfounded
behavior patterns and mindsets created by religion, philosophies, psychologies
and the popular culture, which are based on their subjective notions and ‘part
truths’ have made us what we are today. Accepting something new and contrary to
our mind and cultural training would be not only tough but also very painful
for us. Most of us are geniuses of ‘parts’, not trained mentally and culturally
to accept finality of utility of ‘Intelligence of Holism’. This we all need to
do. That’s why, the first
requirement is this huge courage, determination and resilience in our part to
come out of this mould and accept an entirely new mindset which shall look like
as completely contrary to what we so far hold as not only true but ‘sacred’. We
need to be accommodative to this new knowledge and modern scientific facts,
parallel to our traditional cultural ideas and benchmarks. There is actually no
contradiction in what we have been told since ages by subjective religion and
philosophies on one side and objective science on the other. This may help in
acceptance. In this eBook, we are accepting this holism of wisdom. The second requirement
is to accept and understand how our mind and consciousness have been designed
and how this new wisdom can be used with objective intelligence for our
individual and collective excellence. Coming out of the dualism of ‘body and
soul’ and ‘instinct and intellect’ shall help us do that. We have to accept that
mind is very much like a computer but much more than that. It can provide only
those answers and perform only those tasks, which it would be programmed for.
Brain is just a referral mechanism for processing facts; deciding ‘right’ and ‘wrong’
for motor action. All its decisions, based on instinctive value summation, are
therefore subjective and never objective. There can be objective values of
goodness and righteousness now for individuals and our culture as it now has a
scientific basis added for better judgment. But, a human mind decides on an
individual’s goodness and righteousness not on the basis of this objectivity
but on the basis of the values that it has been programmed (neural circuitry)
with. As someone said, ‘The
human mind has instinctive mechanism to universalize goodness as well as evil.
What we feed in it is not its concern. This is the role of intellect. The
universe has not put us where we are today with any specific purpose of
designed goodness. We have to design our purpose.’ We cannot accept survival as
our purpose. That we are already designed for, though very poorly! We, as
intellectual beings, need to set lofty and larger goals for ourselves and then
program our minds to attain it. As we repeat this objective mind training to
our brain, the objective goodness would spread all throughout its neural
circuitry and then, we won’t have to think twice to perform goodness and
righteousness as it would then become an instinct, and thus an involuntary
mechanism, like a hand moving away involuntarily as it touches fire. A real good and
empowered human is not one who needs to think and then behave and act good.
Rather, it is one who does not have to think as all his behavior and actions
are instinctively bound to be good. We don’t consciously remember when we drive
a car or cook a meal as it is instinctive, even when they were once learned
behavior. Objective goodness is also learned behavior but when we repeatedly
practice it, it becomes instinctive. Mind is value neutral.
Mind spreads values that it is assigned by an individual (chosen software) or a
culture to every part of its neural circuitry. That’s why we have to use our
objective intellect to input only objective value benchmarks that has singularity
of value-decision and weed out unproven and pluralistic values, which allows
cunning and devilish inventiveness of mind’s value summation. All these are core and
critical content of this eBook. We are going to talk about Consciousness,
Cognitions and Causalities that are key elements of empowerment. We are however
focusing on the very crucial aspects of body-mind ‘media’ and ‘communication’,
which we as conscious beings have to use dexterously to attain everything we
seek for our overall wellness and success in life and living. Do step in,
involve, evolve and optimize your best potentials… ** Thanks
For Your Magnanimity, The First Chapter Begins... PART
ONE CHAPTER 1 This precarious yet
definitively palpable experience of your ‘Conscious Self’ summoning and then
having an audience with your own Subconscious space is a hugely rewarding
feeling. The communication between two layers of ‘I’ or self, is neither new
nor is it something somebody has to do. It is an auto-process, keeps happening
and the conscious and subconscious layers are entwined in a two-way
communication loop in some dialectic causality. This means, the conscious is
affected by subconscious and also affects it and the vice-versa. This lop is
repetitive yet evolving. However, this auto-process
of communication between the two layers of ‘I’ seems like a silent and mute
mechanism and their interactions are not usually registered by conscious self.
Moreover, the causality or purpose of the communication is internalized process
of different brain states. A fragment of its sparks may be felt either in
dreams or thought pop ups in awakened state or very rarely in fleeting
epiphanies but seldom registered by our conscious self for active recall and
replication. That is, a person is not usually aware of the purpose, process and
outcomes of the conscious-subconscious communication. What we are talking
here is another dimension or domain of communication between the two layers
that is initiated by the conscious self, the awakened and fully aware ‘I’, with
a purpose that is well designed and thought of, fully mindful of the process
that the communication needs to have along with a definitive goal as the
finality of outcome. This is what we called the well-aware process of the
conscious self summoning and then having an audience with its subconscious self
to accomplish a definitive and even tangible outcome. This not only is a very
rewarding feeling but also a hugely potent tool for infinite wellness
successes. This is what we are talking about in this eBook. What we are intending
to do here in next paragraphs is first narrate the chain of experiences that I
had as these would help you understand many aspects of communication within
different layers of ‘I’ or self and the huge potential this artistry can have
on our wellness and excellence in life and living. Also, later, we shall also
be able to relate reasonably well with the fact that all that we are talking
here is not new as humanity has successfully practiced the artistry since
thousands of years. And, the most important aspect that we shall discuss is how
‘I’ or self is the primary and ultimate ‘Karta’,
the protagonist of all realism of our world and life-living experiences and how
this ‘I’ or self can consciously create tangible probabilities with intangible
mechanism-processes of body and mind. That is, how our conscious self, a very
‘Aware-I’ can successfully use the ‘Media’ of body-mind for a ‘Communication’,
the purpose and outcome of which we have opted for and wished to. In later chapters we shall
discuss in details almost everything to understand the mechanism and processes
of consciousness, body-mind media, the communication plexus and a lot more to
arrive at a hypothesis about how we can consciously use the same media and
communication channels that our subconscious mind states use as an
auto-process, not felt or registered by us. In a way we shall also talk about
the idea of ‘I’ or self �" the ‘We’ which is being referred here as the doer or
‘Conscious Self’ or ‘Aware-I’. And why we are doing it? To unravel a very
powerful and well practiced artistry of ‘I’ to consciously manage our body-mind
media and its communication plexus for life-living attainments of wellness and
success. This definitively is the ultimate empowerment anyone can think of. So, here we go… ** CHAPTER 2 It started around more
than a decade back. I was traversing an age where futility of this conflicted
instinctive self, which largely defines subconscious mind states, was settling
in. It was beginning to descend down on the horizon of the conscious
thoughtfulness that the situational success that I was in, had made the
subconscious ingenuity enslave the conscious ‘I’. The protagonist that the
conscious self was on the stage of life-living was in fact only enacting the
script that subconscious success-benchmark had screen-played in advance. It
happened in such unease of tumult of disharmony and dichotomy between two
dimensions of the Self. Third day in a row and
my fever was abnormally high, refusing to die down. The pain, unease and
incapacitation were calamitous but that was not troubling my conscious self. In
the next three days, I had a very crucial event in my office and I had to be in
good readiness to match and even surpass the benchmark of excellence that I had
established for myself. I desperately needed to be fighting fit. Late in the evening, I
surrendered. My conscious self admitted defeat and accepted that I had lost the
opportunity that the event could extend to bolster further success in my
career. This very acceptance somehow seemed to have brought my being in sync
with present-ness of time and space. I surrendered my conscious self that was
living up the probabilities of potentials of a near future. This brought it in
close proximity to my own subconscious self that instinctively was there,
well-informed of the ‘troubled’ situation at hand. This situationed the
inevitability of the interface of conscious with subconscious �" both stood in
linearity with singular moment of situation of the present. This is the least
and simplest of narrations of probably a rather complex body-mind situation
that was there. Probably, both
conscious and subconscious layers being in linearity and symmetry, they jointly
addressed the singularity of situation �" my pain and incapacitation. This
linearity and symmetry potentialed the probability of a magnificent magicality.
Why I say this? Because now I can say that it is very rare in our busy and
multi-tasking world of life-living to have a situation where our subconscious
and conscious mind layers stand in linearity for a singular situation of joint
enterprise. Almost often, our conscious self is busy with one issue and the
subconscious is engaged in another usually unrelated task. The ‘connect’
between the two is either missing or too weak. This dualism, conflict or
asymmetry between two layers is something we do not even register but it always
happens. This ‘split’ is probably our body-mind make up and an innate
situation, thanks to the evolution of our complex brain states. That late
evening this linearity and symmetry happened, which I can speak of only now.
However, still, something was missing for the magic to unravel and unleash…! Few minutes later, I
consciously began to sing, with lots of gathered strength, a song my departed
father used to sing. It was worded as, ‘Suniye
Nath Gareeb Nawaj… Aayi Sharan Mein Tujhe Meri Laaj… (Do kindly listen O
Lord of the needy and destitute. I have surrendered to you and you have to help
me).’ With high fever, pain and incapacitation, it was tough to sing and
therefore required a very ‘Conscious’ effort in my part. Also, as the song
itself had a deep association and ‘connect’ with the memory of my father, who
used to sing this song, I also wept and kept singing for an hour or so. The
subconscious state that was completely drenched and drowned in helplessness and
debilitation, probably found itself a supportive advocacy of conscious self and
together there was a singular, definitive and unflinching expression and
communication of an emergency need for immediate ‘help’…! The night I slept and
could not remember much as probably I was in a delirium. Early morning I found
myself in the pool of sweat. I experienced untold weakness but my mind felt
fresh. My conscious self had clarity of thoughtfulness and fever was down to
normal. The day passed and fever did not come back. In the night, when usually
fever used to be high, the fever returned but was very mild. Next day, I was
normal and on my toes and eventually made it to my crucial office event and did
well. This experience and
experiment has been repeated three more times successfully since then and every
time a new element was added, even when I could ascertain that the core ‘magic’
remained the same. We shall try to decipher the ‘magic’ after detailing the
other three experiments as every other experience had something new in them… Four years back, my
lower back pain came to stay as a permanent thing in my life. Initially, the
pain was very crippling in the morning and as the day progressed, it was
bearable. I sort of accepted that as it was something very common, especially
for tall man like me, I ignored it. I did some yoga exercise but it worsened
the pain. In the next two months, pain and stiffness worsened and it became
tough for me to do even my daily routine. I had in my mind the ‘magic’ that I
had earlier experimented as only a year back, I had repeated this successfully
with another fever bout. However, I realized that as lower back was something
always there with me, even since my youth days and so I believed it was
something related with my skeletal frame, which was naturally deteriorating
with age. I was reluctant to repeat my experiment with back pain as I was sure
it was not a malaise but a physical reality of a degenerative body that was
only natural. This time, it all
happened unplanned and spontaneous. One morning not only the back pain was
acute and intense but also, the pain moved up to upper back and reached bottom
of my neck. The whole day, I had nothing to do and there was no business at
hand. I just kept lying on my bed, was silent and as usual, surrendered myself
to the situation. I didn’t sing. I could not as even breathing was a tough ask.
Didn’t remember my father, didn’t invoke divinity. I simply focused on my pain.
It was like I called up my pain and sat with it and respectfully and humbly
showed up my tears. I remembered a folklore about a fakeer (hermit) who wailed and wept inconsolably and cured any
diseased person who came to him. I wept and wailed and all along consciously
focused on the pain as if it was a person and I was directing my tears and
wails to ‘him’… Nothing magical
happened next day. Probably, the pain and intensity were the same. However,
next day, there were troubles with my mother. She had serious trouble with her
health and I simply forgot my own self and almost subconsciously dived into a
routine of unending work to extend best possible care and support to her.
Almost 15 days passed and as she continued to be serious all these days, I
simply could not even register the actuality of severity of my own pain and
incapacitation. My mother started to be well and I too had some leisure time
first time in 15 days. Suddenly, I registered that somehow I had managed
single-handedly everything in past 15 days, even when my condition was such
that I even had huge trouble moving around. I realized the lower back pain was
still there but very mild and even disappeared for day or two and would again
come back. In months to come, the inflammation that was so intense that even
slight press of the affected area was impossible, I could now massage it and
felt no pain. Of course, lower back pain is not fully gone but it is not
permanent; comes back occasionally and that too very mild, whenever I
overstretch things. Similar success
happened with what looked like initial prostate trouble. It is common in
maternal side of my family and I was already expecting it. This experiment was
somewhat similar to what had happened with back pain. Again, it was like
summoning the problem, having an audience with it and respectfully expressing
my incapacitation with simplicity of honesty and humility. This time, there
were no tears, no wails just an intense and long conscious talk with my own
‘self’. Things began to improve after a week and I kept the ‘talk process’ on
for two-three times… Most interesting
and very appealing is the last experience, which happened a few months back. I
had tooth pain and it had lasted a week. I rarely take a pain killer but I did
all home remedies like salt-turmeric paste rubbing, clove oil, etc. No relief.
After a week, the pain shot up and spread to ears and forehead. The pain was
shooting and pulsating, making it hard even to sleep. I took painkillers
reluctantly for two days but it only provided relief for few hours. The pain
intensified. On probably 9th day of
my tooth pain, it was unbearable and still, there was no rest possible. I had a
long day of work and it could not be possibly avoided. As I mustered up courage
to begin the day with my work, it flashed in my mind that I should do the
experiment that had thrice been successful. However, deep inside, I felt this
time it wouldn’t work as I thought, as I had planned it, my brain has already
got aware that I was consciously attempting to selfishly use the experiment for
relieving pain and that would alert my subconscious. I dropped the idea. An hour later, I
changed my mind and thought, why not take a chance, the pain is killing me,
what is the loss; anyway I am up and doing my work. This time however, very
consciously, I changed the core element of my experiment. I chose a song I had
heard from the legendary musician of India, Bharat Ratna, Ustad Bismillah Khan
Saheb, based on Raag Bhairav Of
Indian classical musical tradition that is worded like, ‘Allah Hi Allah Jalle Shan Allah… Rim jhim Baras Ho Noor Tazalla… Allah
Hi Allah…(A praise of the almighty Allah). I kept with my work and
recited the composition 40-50 times throughout the day. It is irrelevant, yet
being mentioned just for information that I am born Hindu, Brahmin but do not
engage in the question of traditional religion and divinity. The day passed and
late in the night, I could manage to sleep. It was a dreamless sleep and so
deep that I could not even register how long I had slept. Early morning, I woke
up an hour before sunrise on my fixed time. It was winter night and I had my
quilt over me. As I awoke, I felt numbness in my body. It took a few seconds
before I could register that I could move my body. Seconds later I could
realize I was in a pool of sweat and as I checked my skin, I could feel that
sweating had been profuse and probably the whole night as there was thick
sticky layer on my skin. Probably after five minutes I could shift my attention
to my tooth pain, which was still there but felt very much bearable. As the day
progressed, the pain died down considerably and in the next two days, there was
only this somatic sensation that reminded that there was this massive pain
there. Third day, everything was normal… Before we proceed to
interpretation of different probable aspects of the experiments and experiences
sketched above, there are a few important things that need categorical mention.
The experiments may seem to suggest religious insinuations as it may look like
God or divinity are being invoked and connected with. However, I must make it
amply clear that it was not. My position regarding God and divinity is neither
atheist nor a theist nor an agnostic. I have already written an eBook on this
issue titled, ‘I Am God’. We shall deal with it later. Secondly, it may seem
that experiment is primarily associated with pain, physical trouble and its
cure, but I must say it is not. The broad idea is about a situation of
destabilization of any sort and then the way out of it. The experiments may seem
like an intangible process facilitating a solution of tangible trouble but it
can also be intangible situations too. These four experiences or experiments
have been mentioned for ease of accepting a hypothesis about media and
communication of consciousness. The experiments
narrated above broadly falls in the domain of three probabilities. Though I
have experimented and experienced things and successfully worked out a process
of solution and relief, I shall not say what exactly it is. I shall rather
analyze all possible aspects and dimensions of these processes and shall always
call them as probabilities. I shall also appeal you not to fall for any
interpretation or conclusion and always remain skeptic. We are not dealing here
with science, which itself is not always above the scope of skepticism. We are
essentially attempting scientific philosophizing, building up probabilities to
unravel and decipher the entire spectrum of realism that ‘I’ or self can
associate itself with. That is why I said we shall discuss these experiments
and experiences under three probabilities.
Ideally, how our brain
functions and how different layers of consciousnesses connect and communicate
with each other is not something that should be talked in terms of
probabilities and philosophizing. However, as contemporary science has not yet
fully and irrevocably concluded this knowledge, we have this freedom and also
the necessity to explore all probabilities. These probabilities themselves have
been made possible because of great deal of objective and definitive knowledge
that science has provided us. Also, there is surely no better empowerment for
an individual to have inquisitiveness and knowledge about how our body-mind
works and how we, as conscious selves can effectively use this ‘media’ of
body-mind mechanism to attain optimal wellness and success in life and living.
Therefore, we are always better off analyzing all possible ‘causalities’ of
this media and communication that our conscious selves can have. This is what
we are attempting in this eBook. Gradually, we
shall move towards a sense or system of Everythingness that may be accepted as
the right and true hypothesis. In the next chapter, we briefly discuss
different probabilities about how intangibilities affect and shapes up tangible
outcomes in our body and brain. This shall help us accept the hypothesis that
when we talk about how our body and mind works, there are emerging evidences
that our subconscious and conscious structures of self or ‘I’ have a causality,
which we are attempting to discover in this eBook, outlining that together they
work as ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ plexus for each other. ** CHAPTER 3 An individual surely
has the liberty to choose any one of the three probabilities that we have
listed above. However, as we have talked earlier, as contemporary science has
not yet fully and irrevocably deciphered the entire spectrum of brain mechanism
and processes, we should ideally be happily skeptic and entertain every
possibility. This leads us to a larger and deeper understanding of how ‘I’ or
self as body-mind platform of inter-activity works and potentials artistries
for our wellness and excellence. We pick up as many
probabilities of realism that can emerge from the experiments and experiences
we have narrated above. They are surely based on what science has also realized
and experimented with, even while they still have to come up with definitive
rules of engagement or law of causality. Moreover, science also progresses on
hypotheses that emerge from experiences of human consciousness. Humans first
decipher a pattern or a causality and then as we mature and evolve in
knowledge, we objectively test the validity and logicality of those hypotheses.
This itself is the progression of science. Therefore, scientific
philosophization itself is the primary enterprise of being scientific. This is
what we are doing. The first aspect about
the experiences we mentioned above is that scientific experiments tells us that
even when we fake a smile, our body mind responds to it as if we are actually
happy. This means, if we are depressed and do not feel like being happy at all,
scientific experiments have confirmed that if we fake a smile, if just move our
facial muscles that simulates a smile or laughter, it also has similar impact
that an actual smile backed by actual happiness has on our body and mind. This
idea is the core principle of a huge study domain of cognitive science that modern
science has been able to venture into with success. As neuro-science has made
great breakthroughs into brain function and its neural mechanism and processes,
first time in history of humanity, we have a novel and very powerful prism of
looking at ‘I’ or self in a new light. We all know how in
contemporary world, we have moved from behavioral economics that was based on
archaic principles of psychology to neuro-economics based on understanding of
brain science. Cognitive science weighs in how people see and accept a reality
based not on objective facts and elements of physical reality but on emotional
elements. For example, great numbers of middle-class people are buying big SUVs
or luxury cars and large houses even when they do not need them. They do it
because of their cognitive acceptance that as everyone is doing the same, it is
the ‘right’ thing to do. This is neuro-economics at work, which markets and
businesses pick up for brand messaging. On the contrary, if some communities in
some European nations are consciously opting for small houses, cycles or shared
vehicles, they too are guided by collective cognitive acceptance of this being
good and right for them. The idea is, human
body-mind mechanism and its outcome that we study as different layers of
consciousness seems to journey successfully with the media of emotionalism as
cognitive domain seems to have a mix of physical as well as emotional elements.
However, even as science has not fully established which factor weighs in how
much and which way for brain states to take a final decision but it is now
increasingly being accepted that cognitive factors of emotional realism stands
as most dominating factor in finality of decisions. For example, a man is
out doing a risky job. His unconscious layers are perfectly wired to avoid any
risky action. His subconscious layer is fully aware about the risks involved in
doing the job. Still, his conscious self knows it very well that he needs good
money not for his own benefit and pleasures but for education of his kids and
treatment of his wife’s illness. He knows that risky jobs pay better and
therefore, his decision-making is dominated by emotional elements, even while
his cognitive spectrum is weighing in physical as well as instinctive elements
of the realism. This cognitive economics is the most-traded coin in
contemporary markets as brand communications are being done keeping emotional
elements in mind. Here, it is also
relevant to talk about placebo effect that has been debated globally. We shall
not discuss much about it but just mentioning it to keep in mind that placebo
effect itself has been accepted by science. This suggests, there is a causality
between ‘conscious’ acceptance of an element, which in turn somehow affects the
subconscious and triggers some kind of positive change in body and mind
mechanism. The role of conscious ‘thoughts’ and emotions in shaping some
processes in subconscious layers is something we shall discuss in later
chapters. Also, there is a rather
debatable role of Homeopathic treatment of diseases or symptoms. Many
scientists believe that homeopathy is nothing but some sort of sorcery.
However, fact remains that millions of people benefit from homeopathy drugs and
line of treatment of many chronic and other diseases. Many governments spend
big amount promoting homeopathy treatment as alternative medicine. We can
probably see and accept that the way homeopathy treatment is done, there is an
emphasis on patient-doctor emotional-connect and psychologies are played out in
minute details while arriving at a diagnosis. Moreover, the idea of the
mechanism of placebo effect also cannot be ruled out. Then, it may also be
possible that whatever is administered as drug, it is in fact a chemical
element that may well be akin to some ‘communication’, using the media of
body-mind plexus. How it works may be unknown but it works, is a fact. Then, we have a rather
fascinating and modern scientific element of ‘Orientation-Healing’. This says,
you are as sick or as healthy as you ‘accept’ yourself as. This is especially
true about many body-mind conditions or symptoms like depression and many other
mind disorders. This healing process lays emphasis on ‘Conscious’ orientation
of ‘self’ towards a positive emotion and feeling, through aware thoughtfulness
that ‘I Am Fine And Shall Overcome’. Even modern medical science suggests such
‘Orientation-Healing’ complementing the popular medical process through drugs
and surgical interventions. The core causality that
is common in all the above healing or corrective processes are some sort of
Conscious ‘Communication’ using the same subconscious media that every one of
us have. The simple Rule Of Causality is that our consciousness has a mechanism
and process where there is a structure of media in our body and mind, which is
subconscious. However, this media does respond well to a communication that our
‘Conscious’ self inputs. This causality between subconscious and conscious that
plays out between the ‘Media’ and the ‘Communication’ plexus is what we are
attempting to unravel in this book with as much holistic wisdom as is available
to humanity till date. In the next chapter, we
are going into details of this very core concept of ‘Consciousness’ as when we
understand the consciousness structures and functionalities in detail, we shall
have ease in moving confidently into the aspects of ‘Media’ and
‘Communication’. Consciousness has emerged in the new millennium of 21st
century as the core realism around which the theory of Everythingness can be
built. Knowing consciousness well also opens up better understanding of the
infinite causalities that affect our life-living wellness and excellence. ** CHAPTER 4 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’. We are attempting to elaborate on these issues to first arrive
at a definitive probability as to what essentially is the ‘media’ that our
brain states uses for communication between mind and body structures as well as
between brain-body system and external milieus. Once we have a reasonably convincing
idea about the ‘media’, we have better understanding of the communication
mechanisms and processes that works for ‘I’ or self. That shall facilitate our
own conscious and aware artistry of skillfully using the communication platform
and pathways for wellness and excellence in all life-living situations, be it
health, curative processes or general intelligence and common sense. 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 primarily 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. Important here it is to
mention that it seems a definitive reality that all three major layers of
consciousness �" unconscious, subconscious and conscious, have a singular
‘Media’ for all sorts of communication, even while we are not even registering
the presence of media and its communication plexus in majority of over 90
percent of situations. As and when we get to unravel the ‘Media’ and the
communication mechanism and processes, we probably can understand better how
‘I’ or self stands in the milieus and acts and behaves. Also, we shall have
good understanding of how consciously and effectively we can use this ‘Media’
and communication channels and plexus as the artistry we have narrated in the
experiences and experiments above. 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 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. After that, we shall talk
about the ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ realities. The three aspects of
consciousness we list as:
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, 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 towards exploration of ‘media and
communication’ of consciousness, 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. It also has the mechanism to correct them. Therefore, it is only
natural that within the ecosystem of consciousness, there are 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.
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. 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 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. 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. 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. Secondly,
science has not yet definitively deciphered as to which way consciousness
reaches at the finality of a value-summation, or what we may simply know as
decision for behavior or action. This question relates to media and
communication of consciousness system. As science has not established the
finality of media and communication within and without consciousness, it is
open to scientific philosophization or what we may simply term as probability
of hypothesis building, based on available objective and logical facts. This we
are doing and attempting to do in some credible way in this book.
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. That is the issue of media and communication
that consciousness uses or has at its command to effect a range of realism at
conscious and subconscious levels. Our primary concern is to discuss and
unravel the media and communication system that has the potential to effect and
install what we wish to accomplish in our life-living. This media and
communication system can and does bring about effective changes in our body
wellness and mind sanity and stability. The very idea of discussing
consciousness and its nature in detail was to establish some reality that we
can hypothesize and philosophize as science has not yet fully and definitively
established. For ease and
convenience of recollection and swift reference, we list the reality that we
can hypothesize after we have detailed consciousness �"
** CHAPTER 5 Now, we have the core
question as what possibly is the media and communication plexus that a
conscious self or ‘Aware-I’ has at his or her disposal to enterprise the
optimality of Consciousness towards our avowed goals of life of wellness and
success. It needs to be understood as why we are focusing on the media and
communication plexus that work between different layers of consciousness. The
primary purpose of this enquiry and inquisitiveness is to arrive at a possible
framework of mechanism and process, which we as conscious self can use to
orient ourselves towards solutions using the platforms of media and
communication plexus. It needs to be stated
here with humility and innocence that we are not attempting to delve deep into
scientific processes, rather we are relying on our own experiences that
everyone of us have. No doubt, these experiences we have can be explained in
true scientific language or terms but this is not our concern. We are focusing
on what we know, what we experience and what we keep doing in our normal lives
and from these experiences we shall try to decipher the media and communication
plexus. We just have to be aware and above all, innocently non-judgmental as we
hypothesize and philosophize about processes. From our experiences,
we know it and have a deep sense of acceptance about how we all go about our
lives. So, we know and feel that we have two broad processes that we use for
communication. These two processes are not exclusive to humanity as many in
animal kingdom also have. We humans have them hugely complex and well evolved
and that is why they impact our lives in a big way. These two processes are �"
Somehow,
languages that we speak have a cyclical impact on our consciousness. We humans
could develop a complex system of language and could speak with good ease
because human brain could evolve to a stage where linguistic skills became
possible. It is common feeling that our consciousness gets the depth and
substance when we speak and express ourselves well with our spoken abilities.
Linguistic experiences and memories are huge input of communication that
evolves pathways in brain states and helps consciousness mature, enrich and
empower. It
is to be noticed that linguistic skillfulness is a very potent communication
platform for consciousness. Somehow, clarity, propriety and excellence of
spoken and written language are key elements in ‘Content-Potentiality’ of
consciousness and its cognitive brilliance. It is common knowledge that
proficiencies of linguistic skills are directly related to overall personality
magnificence and character impact. Also, poor and destabilized linguistic
abilities may be correlated with confusion, chaos and conflict of personality.
It is primarily because of the fact that linguistic skills are result of
cooperative functions of different brain states in a complex synchrony and
therefore, linguistic platform is associated with harmony and cooperating
functionality of brain states. It is only natural that it has a direct correlation
with quality and content maneuvering of consciousness. Linguistic status may
well be accepted as indicator of entropy-expansion as well as potential of
entropy-suppression. Important
it is here to mention that part of the linguistic platform is the skills of
singing and all other arts. They are huge communication plexus and has lateral
and vertical connect with language that we know and speak. Music, especially
singing can be accepted as a huge interface between language, thoughts and
emotions. Even instrumental music has the base structure of singing. We can say
that music and singing as communication or expression platform preceded well
before the advent of languages as they have active and deep-seated elements of
thoughts and emotions. In classical Indian musical traditions, rendition of
music, especially singing was considered the sole and most potent communication
with self and divinity. Early singing tradition didn’t rely on words or
language as it experimented with sounds of syllables and acoustics of primary
sounds of voice. Music essentially was woven to and synced with feelings and
emotions and was vehicle of expression of deep thoughtfulness of consciousness.
Music and singing was associated with ‘navras’
(nine expressions) of human consciousness. This
we shall discuss later in detail but for simple hypothesis building, we can
accept that music and singing is another level of language that consciousness
uses for communication, largely for expression of realism within and on an
intangible domain. Also, we can surely put dance in the same league of
‘communication’ structure as music and singing. All forms of dance traditions
have had symmetry with acoustics and rhythm. No dance can be possible without
the beat sound of fixed rhythm. Both song and dance preceded evolution of
language and now both stand in complex symbiosis with linguistic structures of
modern times. For
consciousness, music and dance are huge system of communication primarily
because both song and dance engender brilliant intangibilities through tangible
processes. This suits and syncs with the dualism of Consciousness, which itself
is like a bridge between tangible and intangible. It is for everyone of us to
see and accept that most of those people, who are great in music and dance have
less entropic consciousness and usually have simple personalities, given to
innocence of compassion. Compassion itself is the property of
‘Entropy-Suppression’. There
is a famous story about musicality. A world renowned musician was on his death
bed and his closest disciple asked him what he considered as the best music of
the world. The great musician answered, ‘The best music of the cosmos is the
compassion in human heart’. This example is a suggestion that human
communication potential is not in phonetics of syllables but the conscious
emotion and thoughts that energize them.
In
human life-living, what baffle most to an average person are his or her
thoughts. This equally baffles scientific community. It does not take a person
to have knowledge of complex scientific facts to experience his or her own self
and realize that thoughts often pop up so randomly and are so erratically
mismatched to populist reality. This in a way makes thoughts a very crucial and
critical platform of communication with self and others. It is again to be
reiterated that thoughts have entropic roots, like consciousness and like
consciousness; thoughts also require entropy-suppression for its effectiveness
and optimality. In simple terms, we can say that people need to use the
potential of thoughts as media and communication platforms by consciously
introducing elements of logic, structure, factuality and verifiability. We need
to ‘rein in’ the horses of thoughts so that all horses pull the cart in
singular linearity for a journey to happen. In later chapters, we shall deal
with the importance of ‘reining in’ of thoughts. Now that we have zeroed
in on two broad modes of communication, we can say with utmost conviction that
for consciousness, the media and communication may look like it is an
intangibility but we already know that these intangibilities are only the
‘Emergent and Evolving Property’ of a rather definitively tangible mechanism
and processes. Consciousness is also a virtualism but its basic mechanism and
process are the tangibility of two realism �" 1.
Neural processes that are
electro-chemical signaling domain. 2.
Chemical processes of hormones working
as messengers. For purpose of basic
scientific knowledge, we are told that body and mind communicate through the
two media of neural electro-chemical plexus, spread throughout the body and
chemical processes of hormones, reaching out, riding on blood streams to all
parts of body. However, what is now subject matter of higher scientific
exploration and scientific philosophization, is the ‘energy’ or ‘causality’
that makes the neurons and hormones work the way they do. This means, there are
emerging knowledge about how the neural plexuses communicate with each other,
how neurons fire and how there firing creates subconscious mind states, how an
info is passed onto billions of other cells and trillions of synapses and how the
‘receptors’ of a given info or stimulus makes ‘sense’ out of them to create a
real and true linearity of purpose. However, there still is no definitive
finality on the core issue of the entire spectrum of ‘media’ playing out
‘communication’ for shaping up and engendering a reality for us. Still, from varied and
emerging facts about neural journeys and hormonal trajectories, we have a
rather emergent hypothesis that even while neural and hormonal structures stand
out as tangible and broadly algorithmic media, we have enough insight into
brain-body complexities and many other realities to see and accept that the
electro-chemical as well as chemical media are also innate and embedded ‘part’
of the ‘holism’ of consciousness. This means that the media of consciousness
also have the same ‘Entropic and Emergent’ character and property that
consciousness itself has. Therefore, the media is also randomized, given to
heuristic expressions and impressionable to the same intangibilities and
virtualism of ‘causalities’ that consciousness has. This hypothesis makes
us see and accept that how the ‘Media’ of neural plexus and hormones play out
‘Communication’ to our brain states and other receptors in our body to effect
an optimal, streamlined and fruitful value-summation for actions and behavior
is uncertain and given to unpredictability and randomization. It is therefore
very clear that if our consciousness is in a state of high ‘entropy-expansion’
�" that is, if our consciousness is in a state of confusion, chaos and conflicts,
the ‘media’ that ‘communicates’ with consciousness is also bound to have the
same or probably more confusion, chaos and conflict. This unseen ‘causality’
between consciousness and its media is also true and real with media and
society that we see almost daily. The media is not an external agency. It is
rather very much part of the holism of society. Therefore, we can clearly see
globally, in societies where sanity and symmetry of societal milieus are in
disarray and dissipation, the media there �" institutional, social as well as
personal, shall be insidious, chaotic, cacophonic and corruptible. So, the core hypothesis
that we are attempting to arrive at is, even while we all know and accept that
in any milieu, be it our body, mind, family, society, nation, etc, it is so
very important that we have the ‘Media’ that is objective, sanitized,
reliable-responsible and singularly algorithmic, the stark and innate reality
remains that the very nature and structure of ‘Media’ makes it naturally
inclined to just the reverse of it. It is simply because of the fact that in
the cosmos, in the external as well as internal milieus of we humans,
everything is innately and intrinsically ‘part’ of the singular ‘holism’ and
therefore, they are bound to be connected, linked and synced by a ‘causality’.
Only very naturally, when a ‘part’ is affected, the ‘holism’ is bound to and
the vice-versa. Importantly, when we have discussed in detail to arrive at this
core hypothesis that as the ‘holism’ itself is entropic, emergent and
heuristic, all ‘parts’ are bound to display the same characteristic in their
individuality too. Now, this core
hypothesis leads us to the subsidiary hypothesis that we have already discussed
over the chapter on consciousness. That is �" Consciousness is innately an
expression of entropy-expansion and therefore, an empowered person needs to be
in higher awareness mode to install conscious entropy-suppression for effecting
optimality of sanity, symmetry and wellness in life-living situations.
Similarly, the ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ also requires the same mechanism of
entropy-suppression to ensure its objectivity and logicality. This challenge is
huge. We can say, in contemporary life-living and modern milieus, most personal
as well as inter-personal troubles and conflicts emerge and sustain because of
dystrophy and dissipation of our own ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ system. We
shall talk about that later in this book. We started this book
with the probability of a hypothesis that our own conscious self or ‘I’ can
summon all other layers of consciousness, especially the subconscious and
establish an audience with them. Then, there can be a successful communication
with these layers over a specific target at hand and get it achieved. We also
attempted to work on a possible hypothesis that there is a potent ‘media’ that
pervades all layers of consciousness that we can effectively use to communicate
with high optimality what we wish to achieve. Then, probably the whole system
of body and mind responds singularly to the ‘wish’ and speeds up processes for
its fruition. There is a more popular
version of this same hypothesis, which says, when you consciously opt out a
probability that you dearly wish to happen and sustain, the entire cosmos
conspires to direct and catalyze all elements to orchestrate and enterprise the
finality of fruition of that probability. This suggests that there is a
‘generalized’ or ‘generic’ causality in nature or in natural state of milieus,
which is randomized and not given to any ‘specific’ plan of action and
behavior. However, when you choose a particular probability of a life-living
situation, this ‘generic’ causality is handed over the energy of ‘specificity’
of causality. This then communicates every element present in the milieus internal
and external to proceed and progress towards that avowed goal for its
successful fruition. The million dollar question however remains as how this
conscious communication happens? What makes it happen? How the ‘media’ can be
managed to launch this ‘specific’ communication towards the avowed goal? What
else this ‘generic’ media and communication otherwise do, when they are not
doing this handed out ‘specific’ task by our conscious selves? This is what we
are attempting to hypothesize in this book. We are proceeding step by step to
make it as logical as possible, if not fool proof. As we have moved step
by step to other peripheral concepts that we needed to know, we can now unravel
this core question, as we have the pulse on the media and communication. We have
understood that by very nature of our own body-mind make up, we are given to
3Cs �" Confusion, Chaos and Conflict. Our consciousness itself is entropic. The
sense of self, the ‘I’ is innately destabilized and abstracted. The media and
communication that our body and mind has, being part of the holism of
consciousness, also is innately abstracted and unspecific. However, we have
discussed, this same consciousness, this very emergent intangibility of self or
‘I’ has inbuilt and embedded potential for higher consciousness �" a
definitively aware sense of ‘I’ or self, which consciously puts in the process
of entropy-suppression for sanity and wellness. Therefore, what we next have to
discuss is the core question �" ‘How our higher conscious or aware self, our definitive
sense of ‘I’ can successfully and effectively install and facilitate the
critical mechanism and process of ‘Entropy-Suppression’? ** CHAPTER 6 Before we pick up the
question and discuss the idea of ‘Entropy-Suppression’, it is relevant here to
mention a body-mind process that is an auto-mode media and communication,
working for us at subconscious levels, which we are never aware of. This shall
probably lead us to understand how we can use the media and communication at
level of awareness of higher consciousness and what the challenges in
effectively doing it are. This shall also answer to the question as what else
this ‘generic’ media and communication otherwise do, when they are not doing
this handed out ‘specific’ task by our conscious selves? This is important. This ‘auto-mode’ media
and communication process is known as Homeostasis. Contemporary scientific
knowledge of body-mind mechanism and processes has begun to reiterate the
structure and function of Homeostasis process in its broadest possible
manifestations for overall wellness of we all. Globally, aware and empowered
people are embracing the holism of Homeostasis process and making conscious
efforts to practice the lifestyle choices that facilitate Homeostatic sanity. We shall discuss the
issue of Homeostasis in details in coming chapters to understand it in detail
as why and how it is such an important aspect of life and living wellness.
However, for now, we are only trying to refer to Homeostasis to arrive at the
idea of how to use our own ‘media’ and ‘communication’ for our wellness. Scientists maintain
that ageing is 30 percent gene function and 70 percent lifestyle choices. This
suggests, Homeostasis decides our wellness and life. Homeostasis is essentially
a biological term but has utility and reference in all walks of life and
living. Homeostasis is all about balance, poise, equability, equilibrium and
what we have learnt since ages - the ‘Golden Mean’. In all our religious books,
folklores, spiritual discourses, philosophies and societal wisdom talks, we can
find the core concept of ‘balance’ and ‘poise’ in everything we perceive,
accept and do. The poise and balance is surely not an external idea or a value
that is alien to us. It is in fact what we have been designed for and is very
much our central mechanism. We are endowed with it but seldom at it! The human organism
consists of trillions of cells all working together for the maintenance of the
entire organism. While cells may perform very different functions, all the
cells are quite similar in their metabolic requirements. Maintaining a constant
internal environment with all that the cells need to survive (oxygen, glucose,
mineral ions, waste removal, and so forth) is necessary for the well-being of
individual cells and the well-being of the entire body. The varied processes by
which the body regulates its internal environment are collectively referred to
as Homeostasis. Homeostasis in a
general sense refers to stability, balance or equilibrium. It is the body's
attempt to maintain a constant internal environment. Maintaining a stable
internal environment requires constant monitoring and adjustments as conditions
change. This constant adjusting of physiological systems within the body is
called homeostatic regulation. This idea is similar to what we have discussed
earlier. Body’s very natural process of working involves huge complexities of
cooperative actions to get it going. The big challenge is to keep its working
optimal and right even as we all move in and out of varied and complex milieus
that constantly requires adjustments and course correction within body-mind
systems. It is only natural that such huge and complex system-working engenders
entropic outcomes. Therefore, Homeostasis is always challenged and needs
specific regulations and adjustments. The challenge for
Homeostatic regulation is far more intense and complicated in contemporary
societies and cultures as we have gone a long distance on the wrong path of
lifestyle choices and milieu-sanity since ages. Moreover, the environment we
live in is so much polluted, the food we eat is so unhealthy and lacking
natural sanity, the lifestyle we lead is so full of excesses and extremities
that together they all put us off this precious ‘balance’, miles apart. Most of
modern degenerative diseases, also called ‘lifestyle-diseases’ are the result
of this affected homeostasis of human body, living choices and external
environment. It is only very natural
that the Homeostasis is troubled in contemporary times. Naturally, restoration
process of poise and balance is also bigger challenge today. The equilibrium
state has physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and environmental
dimensions. The body sure has an auto-process of restoration. Body-mind
processes adjust to restore the individual to homeostatic equilibrium through a
combination of physical, emotional, behavioral and psychological adjustments.
This behavioral readjustment processes are known as Allostasis. So, the simple point
is, there is a constant subconscious ‘communication’ going on inside our
body-mind, which is what Homeostasis is all about. Our subconscious self is
using the same ‘media’ of neurons and hormones through subconscious
communication through languages of physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual
and inert thoughts. However, these processes are not felt or registered by
conscious self as they are happening in subconscious domain of our
consciousness. What scientists and
health guardians keep telling us is that our body’s subconscious, auto-mode or
innate in-built mechanism for Allostatic processes for restoration of
Homeostatic equilibrium is too stressed in contemporary times as body-mind
system entropy has escalated to unprecedented heights. Therefore, we all have
to ‘Consciously’ intervene in our own Homeostatic process and be aware about
‘Aware-Personal’ initiatives to help strengthen the Allostatic adjustments. And
how we can do this? Yes, simply by consciously using the same media and
communication plexus that our body-mind system has by installing aware
personalized inputs so that our own auto-process of Allostatic routine is
bolstered and Homeostasis is restored and sustained. We simply have to be
conscious at two levels �" first, be aware of the subconscious process of our
internal media and what communication is going on and secondly, intervene
consciously to correct and input new conscious communications so that the
subconscious media is altered and managed to our desired goal of life and
living. This means, we have to train ourselves to rise to the level of
self-awareness where we can receive signals or communications from our
subconscious body-mind layers about the emerging entropic conditions. And then,
have the conscious initiatives of behavioral and thought adjustments to correct
and restore the homeostasis. It is important to
mention here that our body-mind media is always in constant communication with
our subconscious self. The neural or hormonal signals do express themselves in
some physical ways or at least in emotional psychological ways. The
consciousness at its highest levels of awareness has this ability to sense out
the signals and realize about something wrong or troubled going on inside our
body and mind. If we are in a state of peace, poise and receptive awareness
mode, we can realize that the same media of neural and hormonal plexus
communicates to subconscious state about a homeostatic crisis and it is
communicated through same communication plexus of language, thoughts and
emotions to our conscious self. However, as we do not have the required mind
training to ‘sense out’ the communication, we fail to diagnose wrongs and
troubles. It is believed that
human brain is so complex and it has such a structure of having a cooperative
symmetry of different layers evolved in millions of years, it is a marvel of
cosmos. Human brain has structures and functionalities that make it capable of
sensing even small changes in homeostatic equilibrium. However, the trouble is
that our body-mind media of neural and chemical plexus communicates through a
language to our consciousness, which an individual has to master with
persevered practice. The communication is happening all the time but our
consciousness must be trained for deciphering it. Since thousands of
years, humanity has understood the need for a person to accept that the first
duty we have is to be aware of ‘Why And How We Are What We Are’. Self-Awareness
has always been considered a virtue that everyone should extend highest
priority to. However, in contemporary milieus and cultures, average person is
so little informed and aware about self and one’s own body-mind mechanisms and
processes that he or she fails to sense out what his or her body-mind system is
trying to communicate. Also, the constant flux of life-living never makes our consciousness
to settle in for receptive-mode awareness. In this book we are
essentially trying to focus on a probable hypothesis that our body-mind media
and its communication plexus is a potent two-way process. It probably can and
does communicate current and evolving body-mind realism to consciousness and as
a reverse process, our consciousness probably can and does communicate to our
body-mind structures, using the same media platform of neural and hormonal
plexus. The two-way communication structures are language, thoughts and
emotions and every individual probably can use them to sense out troubles and
also correct them. It is here also
relevant to mention about a newly emerging creditable science of Epigenetics.
It is a fast emerging scientific process that is being experimented with so
many other related ideas to work out a model of ‘Conscious-Enterprise’ for
personal wellness and excellence. Epi-Genetics literally means something
‘above’ genetics. This is interesting because earlier, there was this popular
scientific belief that we are basically a fixated genetic code and it cannot be
changed. Epigenetics is a science that accepts that even though genetic
structures remain the same, the way our genes express themselves can be altered
by environmental factors. There is this related modern scientific concept of
Neuroplasticity, which we shall detail later in this book. Epigenetics now delve
into aspects of behavioral and psychological elements of our consciousness that
have power and ability to alter genetic expressions. Without going into details
of its complex and serious scientific descriptions, what we wish to derive out
of this new science of new millennium is that part, which we are discussing in
this book. This relates to the strongly emerging hypothesis that our internal
linguistic communication, thoughtfulness of aware self and guided emotions
together can create a phenotype, which has the potential to alter the way our
genetic structure expresses itself. Genetic expressions are very crucial to our
wellness and excellence in the sense that our genes express themselves in two
ways �" activate communication and suppress communication to cells. This in turn
decides how our cells of different organs make relevant proteins that work to
maintain our body-mind Homeostasis by initiating the Allostatic processes. What we have to take
out of this mention of Epigenetics science is a hypothesis that the primary
‘Media’ of genome and cellular plexus can be used by a ‘Conscious
Communication’ to alter the content and intent of cellular expressions.
Epigenetics primarily dealt with intervention by chemicals to alter the genetic
expressions and cellular communication. However, recent expansion of researches
is dealing with how emotional, psychological and thought milieus can affect the
body’s own chemical communication to effect the neural-hormonal expressions for
a specific change in body-mind homeostasis. We have outlined this idea of
Epigenetics to open up our awareness towards this probability, which happens to
be the core content of this book. I humbly suggest you to keep in touch with
current and future advancements into researches in this field. Now, we come down to
the singular issue, for which this book has been initiated. We have come this
far, talking about all those issues that help us hypothesize a probability that
we can see and accept as ‘Conscious Enterprise’ to use the ‘Media’ and
‘Communication’ plexus of our body-mind to achieve whatever wellness and
success goals we set for our life and living. So, we now have to zero down to
basics of what possibly can be the ‘Mechanism’ and ‘Process’ of this ‘Conscious
Enterprise’ of ‘Media-Management’ of Consciousness layers. It may seem to us that
from what we have discussed so far, it is very much clear that there is this
media of electrochemical and chemical structures present in our bodies that
have a wired process of communication, which we are not aware of as everything
is happening in subconscious or unconscious layers. What we have to do is to be
aware, be in higher conscious mind state and consciously input such physical,
emotional, behavioral, thought and psychological elements that communicate to
our subconscious mechanism the specific goal we wish to achieve. This is
broadly what we said at the very start of the book. That process is first
to be aware as what probably is going on in subconscious state to understand
where and what the troubles are. Then, consciously bring up the subconscious
mind to an audience with conscious self and introduce the desired communication
we wish for a specific goal. Then sustain this communication of ‘Conscious’ to
‘Subconscious’ in an intense mix of behavioral, emotional and physical signals
so that the subconscious ‘Media’ owns this process and begins its wired
‘Communication’ plexus towards attainment of our desired goals. This broadly
was what happened in all my four experiments that we have discussed at the
start of this book. The conscious signaling had all the right mix of elements
of physical language (Wordings of song), thoughts (connect to my departed
father as savior), emotions (the wails and tears) and psychology (intangible
mental state of painfulness and incapacitation). That probably together worked
as right ‘Conscious-Enterprise’ to the ‘Media’ of my body-mind to unleash the
communication for emergency situation, requiring immediate intervention of all
possible Allostatic process to restore the missing Homeostasis of my body. This process of
body-mind ‘Media-management’ seems easy and also appropriately effective as it
seems that the conscious self is doing nothing magical or mysterious but simply
using the same and already existing system and network of auto-mode ‘Media’. It
also may seem like the media is a piece of paper and there are already
something written on it. The media is there and the communication etched on it
is something the body-mind follows or enacts, accepting it as ‘Script’ of life
and living. Then, the conscious self, the ‘Aware-I’ can bring up this piece of
paper and use one’s own dark pen to write some lines on the paper so that the
same ‘Media’ has a ‘modified’ or altered communication and the body-mind
readjusts its enactments to the consciously introduced changes. However, it is
not that simple and easy. Why? We shall elaborate that. The easy part of the
‘Conscious-Enterprise’ of ‘Media-Management’ is probably the first step of
summoning the subconscious for an audience with the conscious self or
‘Aware-I’. Globally, there are innumerable spiritual traditions that are
popular with billions of people, which facilitate this audience. This is
broadly the singular technique of what we know as ‘Meditation’. Meditation
processes may have different physical and psychological techniques to bring the
wavering ‘I’ to a higher conscious state. Some techniques focus on
strengthening the higher consciousness whereas some reiterate on the importance
of your conscious self summoning the subconscious domain to watch what’s
happening there. The classic Yoga
meditation is probably the most evolved and holistic idea about conscious self
being in linearity with not only other layers of self but also every element in
the milieus inside and outside body and mind. Yoga is overall a rather holistic
life-living concept but most people see and accept only the Meditation part in
yoga. Yoga is much beyond meditation and exercises. The other meditation
traditions of Oriental world Like Zen methods and Vipasna also restrict themselves to the art and science of
conscious self focusing on all other layers of consciousness. As this is only
the first step towards communication process with media of body and mind and
therefore an easy attainment for an average person, millions of men and women
in contemporary world are into meditation. The cardinal mistake and trouble
with meditation spiritualism is that it takes us to a stage of ‘preparation’
for a certain journey but leaves us there. Meditation is just
preparing and being ready for some enterprise that is not easy and certainly
not simple. First, one must know with utmost clarity as to why and for what he
or she is preparing or readying by doing the meditation. Secondly, there should
also be clarity on what it takes for the success of the next level enterprise �"
that is what we have talked earlier. This enterprise is Media-Management of
conscious communication for attaining specific goals of life and living. This
enterprise requires persevered practice and pre-hand preparation of specific
nature. We talk about it next. ** CHAPTER 7 Do kindly allow me to
tell you a true story. That shall help understand a few things. Way back, when
computers had just begun to penetrate our work spaces, I was struggling with
latest software that was introduced in media offices. I complained to my
colleague, who was genius with computers and the software I was handling that I
could not do a certain function. He looked at my efforts and said laughing,
‘You cannot do anything with computers if you do not first create the pathway
for your commands’. Later in my life, I realized that this was true with all communications
in all media. There is a specific and decisive ‘Pathway’ that must be at place
so that the media could effectively launch and sustain a communication. What I was trying that
day was write something on the page that the software provided. My colleague
told me to first create a text-box, which then could support my writing. So,
clicking on the side menu bar for creating a text-box was the ‘Pathway’ that I
was not creating first and therefore was unable to write anything. Later, when
I had learnt computers well, my sister was the novice and she had the same
trouble. She complained that she wanted to have some of her words she had
written on Word file as bold letters but it was not happening even while she
was clicking the bold option on the menu bar. She was also doing the same
mistake. She had not created the required ‘Pathway’ in the media and therefore
her ‘Communication’ to make a letter bold was not being heeded to. I told her
to create the pathway by ‘Selecting’ or highlighting the specific word she
wanted in bold letters and then click the bold option. She did it and the same
irresponsive media launched the required communication within split second. She
was happy as well as embarrassed that she could not do as simple a routine like
selecting. But, it is not always simple. The pathways may at times be simple
but without first having them at place the media we are using cannot do any
communication. At other times, the pathways can be complex and also, the
communication for desired attainments may not be as simple as clicking the bold
option or text-box option on the side menu bar. The media and
communication we are talking about has similar challenges that a computer or
specific software have but we are faced with far more tough challenge because
we are dealing with body-mind and its hugely complex system as media and
communication. The computer is one great marvel of algorithmic system with
singular and replicable media and communication. However, our body-mind system
is not algorithmic but highly heuristic. This media and communication of
body-mind plexus as well as its pathways and commands are highly randomized and
precariously placed. A computer’s entropic environment is very negligible as
its algorithmic structures and functions are purely physical. Our body-mind
media and communication structures and functionalities are highly entropic as
they are majorly virtual, vectoral as well as emergent. Therefore, effective
and appropriate media management and communication with consciousness is neither
simple nor easy. It requires ‘Pre-Hand Preparation and Persevered Practice’ so
that we have not only a definitive ‘Pathway’ for communication but also a
deeply installed effective and optimal one. Next, we talk about how we can go
about it. As we now zero down to
the core issue for which this book had to take shape, we need to keep in our
minds two very basic things. That shall help us in not only understanding the
issue at hand in facilitative holism but shall also make us efficient in
handling our own media and communication. These two elements are �"
Therefore,
it is very natural for us that we have to take personal and very conscious
initiatives to ensure that we have a facilitative milieu, not only external but
primarily the internal milieu. The holism of classical Yogic Philosophy
elaborates in details about ways to have facilitative internal as well as
external milieus for attainment of poise and purpose. As we are discussing the
intangible process of media and communication of our consciousness, we must
accept that most of our conscious efforts and enterprises must focus on
ensuring that either we have facilitative, or at least not a stressed and
diastrophic internal milieu. No amount of conscious and qualitative
communication with consciousness can work effectively with our body-mind media
if our physical-mental-psychological milieus are not facilitative. This surely
needs persevered practice and constant investing. This is also where most
contemporary spiritual processes of healing and wellness fail as the populist
demands for instant success and missionary insinuations eliminate the core
process of milieu correction and sanity.
Scientific
studies reveal that over 90 percent of human population does not breathe the
correct way! Why? Simply because we are not aware! Our body needs right
breathing because we survive and excel on Oxygen. We all take breathing as
taken for granted because it is an auto-process controlled by unconscious
layers and monitored by subconscious layers of our brain states. That is
primarily why most meditative processes begin by asking a person to focus on
inhaling and exhaling of air through nostrils. It is however only a basic
process to enter the ‘Door’ of conscious domain. One needs to journey deep
inside and this breath watching alone cannot do. It requires more. Most people
are happy doing aware breathing and think, they have hit finality! The
primary reality is that most processes inside our body-mind mechanism are
subconscious and as they are ruled by an auto-process, a wired proposition, we
do not need to bring things into aware and conscious domain. Being aware is a
holistic notion, which entails having conscious and definitive registry of
infinite processes and causalities that work inside us and outside in external
milieus. It is the level of awareness that decides the potential of empowerment
of a person. There is no limit to how much and to what extent we can be aware
of as there are infinite causalities and processes going on inside and outside
us. Awareness is a life-long learning and unlearning process. But it has a
process too. We need to know that. Awareness
is a dialectical process. From our childhood, we are made to get exposed to
different types of information and every new information that makes us aware of
a realism, opens up a gateway to one or two level up of awareness. We learn the
language first, then we get aware of poetry and later we get aware of how
poetic excellence creates magic with self and consciousness. Therefore,
awareness comes in steps and if we miss out on one or two steps of the ladder
of information and knowledge, we cannot get to higher levels of awareness. This
means, there cannot be a short-cut or easy route to awareness. Awareness is
evolutionary mechanism. It requires continuity and perseverance of practice of
the art. Then,
the most critical part of awareness process is its dialectical nature. We get
to one level of awareness and that makes us stand on the door of dualism. Every
next level of awareness requires that we learn something new of higher levels
but at the same time also unlearn something that holds us back from moving up
the ladder of awareness. For example, a child learns things in his or her life
and becomes aware of the idea of divinity and religion that his or her family
and current societal and cultural milieus extend. He or she follows it and
keeps evolving. Surely, the next level of awareness requires that he or she
unlearns his or her existing awareness about God and religion and use the
higher levels of his or he awareness to present a logical critique, using his
or her energy of skepticism to what he or she knows so far. If he or she is
stuck with what he or she has already ‘known’, they cannot move up the ladder
of awareness about divinity and religion because both the domains offer
infinite conscious thoughts and emotions as we keep evolving to higher levels
of awareness. Therefore, leaning and unlearning are equally critical in
awareness evolution. As most spiritual traditions seldom stress on unlearning
processes, the practitioners fail to rise to higher consciousness. Third
important aspect about awareness relates to the very crucial brain mechanism of
‘Recall’, ‘Relate’ and ‘Replicate’. All information that we have or we get
exposed to is stored in brain states in the form of synapses. There is
insufficient knowledge about how brain stores and processes information but we
know that not everything we learn or get informed is available for later recall
and replication. It is believed that brain has its own process of assigning
value and worth to an information for the purpose of memory. Information or
learning that is associated with conscious and aware inputting has better
chances of future recall. Science accepts that there are definitive pathways
created in brain states when it stores some information. Therefore, when we
recall it later, the pathways need to be reactivated. Therefore, if the pathway
is weak, faint and unrelated to already entrenched precedents of utility and
worth of our brain states, the recall process is abstracted and our brain
states either fails to replicate the information or in most cases, it
virtualizes the information, churning out a poor copy of the stored
information. Therefore, it is very
important that whatever information or learning we feel we shall need in
future, we must be in higher state of awareness when assigning it to our brain
states. Also, there must be definitive logic or emotional worth assigned to a
stored info so that its pathways in brain states are deep and thick. Moreover,
for better recall and optimality of replication of memory, we should also
assign clear ‘relational’ element to it. For example, if I am undergoing an
experience of meditation, I shall ensure that whatever feelings I am going
through, I register them with high awareness. Also, I ensure that I repeat to
myself time and again that this particular feeling was like something important
in my earlier experiences so that I could relate to the feeling when I recall
it later. Human brain accepts metaphors easily so I can say to myself, this
sedate feeling of meditation was like sitting under the mango tree in my
village home in hot summer day. As my mind consciousness has already created
deep and thick pathways for my village experiences, because of earlier assigned
emotional utility and worth to it, I have great ease in recalling and
replicating my meditational experience awareness. Scientific studies
reveal that our subconscious brain states entrench communication and engender
awareness in two broad ways. First stage is the first seven to eight years of
early life of a child when he or she accepts all information from his or her
parents, family, ambient socio-cultural-geographical milieus and this become
his primary domain of awareness. That almost decides the destiny of the child
as this ‘Pre-Consciousness’ awareness works as base benchmark to judge utility
and worth of all later experiences and information. However, this primary
awareness can be altered later when the child is adult and his or her
consciousness has matured. This can be altered only by inputting a conscious
element or information of learning and unlearning and repeating it time and
again. Like, nobody is born with driving skills but as we enter adulthood, we
practice for long how to drive a vehicle and later, this awareness of driving
becomes a subconscious task. Later, when we achieve good driving skills, we do
not even remember how we drive. But, such learning and awareness possession
comes only through conscious inputting of the new desired awareness and
continuously practicing it. This is the primary
hypothesis of newly emerging field of experiments in Epigenetics domain, which
maintains that a person born poor shall not only remain poor for life but has
more likelihood of fathering or mothering poor children. Why? Because the
Epigenetics science says that poor people pass on the heretic genetic
expression to their offspring and as the kids born to poor parents receive such
early information from their parents and ambient socio-cultural-physical
milieus that create and sustain ‘Causalities’ of poverty and deprivation that
they too continue to be poor. This is just the reverse with kids born to rich
parents. The Epigenetic science
however insists that this subconscious realism can be changed through
linguistic, thoughtfulness, emotional and psychological inputs of our own
‘Conscious Self’ when we enter adulthood. It is the phenotype that can be
changed and this in turn alters the early entrenched subconscious communication
of our brain states and body functionality. So, the deprivation phenotype can
be consciously altered by altering the communication to the body-mind media by
‘Conscious-Enterprise’. And, what it takes? It takes to alter the ‘Milieus’ by
Conscious Awareness’. This is what we are talking about in holistic details. So, what we underlined
in above paragraphs is the importance and criticality of the twin factors of
Milieus and Awareness, especially the later. Higher Consciousness is one of the
most ‘traded’ idea in contemporary societies and cultures, where people in
general are faced with confusion and conflicts of self or ‘I’. But, most
spiritual and psychological traditions and systems shall never tell us about
how difficult is this task of attaining higher consciousness as it requires a
pre-requisite of long stint of awareness practice and background. They shall
simplify things by offering a few fast-track meditation techniques that shall
make you feel better for a while but shall not last. Simply because, very few
people have the required level of ‘awareness-quotient’ and right facilitative
milieus back at their homes and work place to sustain the ‘feel-good’ moments
they had while meditating at a certain spiritual facility. Therefore, before we
begin the next chapter that lists out the ways to facilitate media-management
and communication with consciousness, it is important to reiterate that
consciousness and its mechanism is a complex process and they evolve in time.
They dawn upon and become an operative reality for us only after we work long
and hard to attain the eligibility of self or ‘I’. There is no short-cut and no
easy way to have it and sustain it. But we all know, assets are not created
overnight. Things that last with us are created in time and with persevered
enterprise. And when we create such assets, they not only last lifelong but
also prove to be great investments for further attainments of higher value and
worth. Worth and utility never come easy. If something comes easy and quick,
its ephemeral sustainability is definitive. ** CHAPTER 8 As I have always
maintained and here too I shall reiterate it that humanity has traversed a long
journey, it has gone through untold challenges and has very wisely and
successfully relied on its innate and evolved power of individual as well as
collective experiences. Since ages, early humans could experiences troubles and
also devise solutions. Why and how? It is simply because the problems and
solutions are entwined realisms. If you have a problem, you already know it
that solution is somewhere ‘Inherent and Embedded’ in the problem itself. The
milieu around us presents some factors in an ‘arrangement’, which stand in our
disadvantage, at a particular stage of our life positioning and we call the
outcome of such an arrangement as a ‘problem’. Often, solution presents itself
as some ‘alternative’ arrangement or placement of the same factors in such a
way that they turn advantageous for us, hence qualifying as a ‘solution’. This understanding
about problems and solutions in so many areas of our life and living comes
naturally to us because both exists within us and all we need is to be in such
higher awareness that we could feel it, see it unraveling and decipher it. In
long discussion of different aspects of life and living we have attempted to
decipher that there are infinite ‘Causalities’ around us and within us. Why? It
is because it is the way realism is designed. We all can feel the causalities
because they are innate part of the holism of realism. It is the way this
cosmic realism and all its microcosmic parts have been designed. Science has come
a long way deciphering and then explaining to us about these causalities and
the transcendental ‘Law Of Causality’ that pervades all realism, we see and
accept or cannot see and accept. Just because there is
‘Realism’, it is definitive that it shall have ‘Causalities’ and as there are
realism and causalities, they are very much decipherable to anyone who has this
well-earned eligibility of higher consciousness. It is possible to decipher
‘Causalities’ and then be aware of all problems and all solutions simply
because we all are part of this same reality and causalities. The media and
communication of these realism and causalities run through our own body-mind
system. We are very much a ‘part’ of the ‘holism’ of cosmic realism and as our
complex and long evolution has ensured, we ourselves have microcosmic system of
these complexities to unravel them. It is different matter that gradually,
science is arriving at the ‘Laws’ that govern the causalities but the
causalities of realism were always there and shall remain there. Humanity
deciphered them since thousands of years back and shall continue to realize
them. Of course science helps us in our understanding but finally, our own
conscious self has to realize them. Even science has to be internalized. Realism
needs to ‘sink in’ and what sink in; stays. The tragedy with
humanity is that even when personal and collective experiences have been
documented and passed on to generations, this knowledge of early humanity about
consciousness, self-awareness and self-realization of ‘causalities’ about
realism and their media and communication remained unpopular and not in
mainstream collective thoughtfulness. This happened primarily because this
higher awareness is not an automatic endowment and therefore remained restricted
to a handful. Naturally, minority wisdom seldom shapes up as populist knowledge
need. Thankfully, modern human population is gradually becoming more inclined
to scientific temper and objective orientation. Therefore, new millennium
humanity is getting more exposed to what science is now throwing up in
mainstream space. What we are going to
talk in this chapter is also something realized and well documented by early
humanity but remained relegated, only to be brought into mainstream by modern
science. We shall talk now about the ways to facilitate the launch of a
‘Conscious Enterprise’ to use the ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ plexus of our
body-mind to achieve whatever wellness and success goals we consciously set for
our life and living. We shall discuss in detail about how we can facilitate the
shaping up of our Higher Consciousness, which has the mastery of artistry to
not only receive and decipher the subconscious media and its communication very
effectively but also unleash a conscious communication, using the same media to
attain whatever goal of life-living about wellness and excellence we decide for
ourselves. There are three aspects
to it. We discuss them in detail with as much simplicity as may be possible,
even while they remain complex issues �"
We
have discussed it earlier and we also know by our own experience that any
system that is more complex and diverse shall naturally have better optimality
and excellence. However, more complex a system becomes, higher is its entropy.
It is all about how simple and less stressed is a system that shall ensure less
chances of it going awry. This has a simple rule �" if there is higher demand on
the system for performance and productivity, there shall be more complexities
involved to ensure the quantity and quality of supply. Naturally, high system
demand puts pressure on supply requisites, requiring systems to gradually grow
complex and diversified. This in turn shall generate innate and entrenched
propensities for entropy. From
our experiences we all know how every system in our milieus have become hugely
complex, diversified and multi-faceted because of high demand pressure for
supplies. Thanks to the unmanageable population and its demands for ‘Good
Life’. Naturally, most systems are stressed and this innately unleashes
entropic elements of 3Cs �" Confusion, Conflict and Chaos. All human systems, be
it personal, familial, societal, cultural, political, economic or spiritual;
has now become complex and stressed because of over-performance and higher
optimality. This is because of ever-enhancing demand pressure, requiring
increased supply optimality. The entropy has to increase proportionately as
system excellence for enhanced performance goes up beyond a certain point of
criticality. As is common in most system, there always are planned backups and
support systems for higher optimality of performance but very few systems have
strong structures with functional excellence to restore and rehabilitate the
destabilizations and diastrophic situations caused by compounding entropy. We
can understand these aspects by carefully and patiently looking at our own
body-mind system. We are wired for a reactionary consciousness that is guided
primarily by reward and punishment sentiments. We always wish to feel rewarded
and avoid punishment. This is simple demand-supply economics. Our wishes are
demands on our body-mind system and if we are supplied with optimal quantity
and quality of what we wished, we feel rewarded and happy. If the supplies are
not commensurate, we feel punished and irritated. A child is usually happy
because his or her demands are simple and few. However, deny a toy demand to a
kid and he or she shall be instantly irritated. This
reward-punishment causality or what we can accept as demand-supply relationship
is cardinal to our general wellness; we are designed this way. This becomes
more complex and varied as we grow and mature. Our demands get diversified and
complex and it is only natural that in a physical milieu, where humans have
become many many times more than what our dwindling resources can support,
there is always huge competitiveness for supply availability. The growing gap
in demand and supply is bound to enhance system entropy and hence our growing
irritation and conflicts. Scientists
have been studying the very disastrous entropic symptoms of depression in
global population, irrespective of geography. It is believed that over 75
percent of global population are or have been in and out of either short-term
or long-term depression. Science maintains that depression is basic entropic
symptom of a stressed system, where the demand side has been putting pressure
on disproportionate supplies. This ‘gap’ may be cognitive but it matters as for
most practical purpose, ‘Perception Is Reality’ for a subjective self. In
researches, it has been found that most lonely and depressed people complained
that they loved and cared people but they were not getting back the same. It is
a deficit, which may well be real but often, its perception is also
disproportionate! The
ancient spiritual system in Oriental world stressed on simple and minimalist
living so that there is less pressure on demand side and therefore, less
propensity of consciousness for entropic feelings, assuming that supply side is
always less than demand. In Yogic philosophy there is detailed explanation of
mechanisms to describe how demand-supply gap is the core trouble for human
consciousness and therefore, every person and society in general must have
demand-moderation. The modern psychological perspective also mentions about the
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle to have better poise and sanity in
personal and well as societal life and living. However,
we in the new millennium have to be more aware and better endowed to handle
this all. When we talk about ‘Conscious-Enterprise’, we surely do not accept to
stand in deniability of the cardinal principle of an enterprise �" that is
maximization-optimization of proceeds of labor and investment. As a conscious
person, we surely do not have to accept the classical position that ‘A System
Low In Demand Is The Best Option’. Why? Because, our proposition is optimization
of wellness and there cannot be optimization if we insist on ‘Low Demand’
causality of our life-living enterprise. We would rather work out a holistic
model of ‘Conscious-Enterprise’ that weighs up and factors in every possible
element and design and devise such a model of communication to our
consciousness that shall be all-weather optimization mechanism. We would rather
accept ‘Demand-Supply-Sanity’ and discretionary control over all production
processes of the system, instead of a perpetual ‘Low-Demand’ system. As
we have already talked about, not only our body-mind system, consciousness and
milieus but every system out there is a randomized reality. Our body-mind
homeostasis is always in different capacities, the milieus we live in may stand
sometimes in our favor and sometimes against us and we cannot do much about it.
Also, our consciousness may also be in different states. Therefore, what our
conscious self shall do is first assess what is the current status of our
body-mind system? How much demand pressure it can safely accept? How is the
current milieus, suitable or not for a particular demand? Also, how are the
elements that affect or shape up supplies? Are they favorable or not? The
simple plan is to have a very aware and consciously logical and objective
assessment of all possible elements that form the ‘Causality’ of a systemic
process. If things are favorable for system optimality, it shall be stupid of
us to opt for ‘Low Demand’. That itself have entropic outcome on our
consciousness. Therefore, what we are proposing is that we need to be very
aware to assess with high objectivity and logicality the system-readiness and
then suitably decide what to communicate to our consciousness so that we could
attain the best possible optimum output. For
example, suppose I have a close friend with whom I am having troubles. I am
feeling offended and even outraged at times because I feel that he is not
understanding and accepting my viewpoint and position. Also, I feel he is being
reactionary and unnecessarily critical of my behavior-action for him. There may
well be other conflicting issues between me and him. So, what I do? What I
communicate to my conscious self so that situation could stop going to worse
and amicability and understanding could be restored. This is a very common
situation for most of us. We all know, vast majority of literature, be it
poetry or prose, has been ascribed to this primary human causality that we
often have most conflicts and confusion with those whom we love most and find
closest to our lives. So, what we should do, ideally? This
is the situation, where troubles start and deepen because very often, close
relationships and their interactions become a routine of our subconscious
selves and they get carried out without we seldom consciously assessing them
and presiding over their optimality questions. What we need to do is apply the
principles we have discussed so far in this book. That we list here step by
step. The
first thing to do is to sit back, relax and ensure that consciously, you
segregate two layers of your consciousness. You summon your ‘subconscious’ to
stand a trial but not before you ensure that your ‘conscious’ self is in the
mode of an objective, logical and impartial ‘Judge’. This we ensure by ensuring
that we have practiced enough hours of relaxed, calmed and inward reflections.
The simple idea is that we realize that there were troubles in relationships
because our subconscious brain states went on judging things from a ‘Media’
that probably engendered ‘inappropriate’ communication. So, we consciously
change the ‘Media’ to alter and then present a fresh communication. How
we do it. We all know our neural plexus fires (connects to other neuron) in
different frequencies and at the root of all our thoughts, emotions and
subconscious attitude is this neural communication. Somehow, these neural
firings are auto-process ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ structures. They decide
our internal thought-emotion milieu without we ever consciously being aware.
The neural electrical pulses have different frequencies depending on the levels
of activity the body-brain has to do. So
usually, when relationships issues confront me, my subconscious mind naturally
becomes over-active; a precedent of ‘reactionary milieu’ already being there,
beta waves take over, deciding my behavior and emotions. So, very consciously,
I have to relax and stabilize myself to ensure that I am in conscious mind
state where my brain waves are in lower Theta or Delta frequencies. These
frequencies are non-reactive, receptive, analytical and amenable to reflective
mode. This brain wave change comes through calm and consciously thoughtful
process, which we may call meditation but it is just a conscious choice. Secondly,
when I ensure that I am in an ideal internal milieu, where my body-brain
‘Media’ is suitable for a reflective and analytical behavior, I begin with me
and use a logical communication with my subconscious self, asking tough
questions, whether my own behavior and actions are true, right and appropriate
towards the person I have trouble with? This is never easy as always,
subconscious self is prompt and prejudiced to present an advocacy and witnesses
for ‘Self-Acquittal’. Therefore, I have to rely on a witness that is another
objective person, who has seen me communicating with the person I have troubles
with. Then,
after I have got sense of what probably I am doing wrong, I communicate with my
subconscious self to suitably alter it next time onwards. I also practice this
resolve many times so that new communication to my subconscious state is deep
and thick. After that, I begin to assess whether the current physical,
psychological and emotional milieu between me and that person I have troubles
with is entropic or facilitative. We all know, between two people in
relationship, there is an intangible psychological and emotional milieu that
keeps changing in time and space. Our subconscious however does not always
update these changes and seldom alters the behavior-action suitably. This only
our conscious self can do for us. Therefore, I very logically and with high
conscious content of compassion in my internal emotional space, assess the
current psychological and emotional milieu between me and that person. This is
the ‘media’ and if the media is entropic, it is only natural that my
communication with him is also embedded with confusion, conflict and chaos. Apart
from this media, there is another dimension to the media, which is the internal
psychological and emotional subconscious state of the person I have troubles
with. I also have to very objectively and compassionately assess whether that
person is settled in his life-living situations or is he going through some
troubles �" physically, psychologically and emotionally. After
conscious assessments of all possible ‘Causalities’ that stand between me and
that person, I accept a situation logically and objectively about how is the
current ‘Media’ around and between me and him and then suitably decide on an
altered ‘Communication’ that shall help restore amicability and poise with him.
This
is simple Homeostasis challenge and requirement of an Allostatic process to
restore equilibrium. So, I may decide and suitably communicate to my
subconscious mind that the current media between me and him is already entropic
and as nothing concrete can be done in immediate time and space, I should
consciously lower the ‘Level of Engagement’ with the person I have troubles
with and wait compassionately for a time and space when the entropy level comes
down and the milieu is right for engagement of fresh communication. This
communication I shall repeat to my subconscious mind time and again in
different ways of language, emotions and thoughtfulness so that my subconscious
is communicated well about my new realism. This
is a broad way we have discussed here. Every person may decide on different
modes of this process but the core idea is to have conscious awareness of all
possible ‘Causalities’ about the current ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’ so that an
altered new communication could be consciously and successfully launched to
attain optimal wellness and excellence in our life-living. There is definitely
no fixed position about a preferred choice of ‘Media’. There is always
‘suitability’ factor. A reactionary media is equally useful as is a thoughtful
and relaxed media. It depends on task at hand. Similarly, it is not that
entropy-expansive media is always bad and entropy-suppressive media is always
good. If I have to take a decision about a key issue in life that requires
definitive action, I have to rely on entropy-suppressive media because my
decision must be logical and objective. However, if I am in love or I require
to show my compassionate self or experience higher epiphany virtualism, I sure
need to call upon my entropy-expansive media to lead my conscious
communication. It
must be kept in mind that an empowered person shall practice consistently to
swiftly and effectively switch over from one media to another. That requires
repeated practice of differentiated communication in different suitability.
However, in the ultimate analysis, we can say with definitive assurance that
ideal it is to have a poise and equilibrium between demand and supply of our
consciousness system but, this is tough in contemporary milieus. Therefore, it
seems advisable that we consciously remain in a consciousness system that is
relatively ‘Low In Demand’ so that our system as well as milieus are not
stressed. It is for every individual to consciously assess and decide what it
takes to have a ‘Low In Demand’ system. It is discretionary as different
persons can have different capacity for systemic stress. Also,
equally crucial aspect of system-sanity, which classical spiritualism has
insisted and detailed in length, is the idea of ‘Self-Supply’. Thousands of
years back, it was realized by humanity, which modern science confirms, that
‘Nothing Exists Outside Self And Nothing Outside Self Has Any Meaning, Utility
And Worth’. This suggests, when this very conscious self, the ‘Aware-I’ has all
elements of utility and worth, it is the best supplier of most happiness and
wellness cognitions. Therefore, the higher consciousness has the task of not
only opting for a conscious system ‘Low In Demand’ but also ‘Be The Supply’.
Here comes the role of cognitive changes. Here comes the utility of the
artistry of music, dance and artfulness. Here comes the worth of love and
compassion in hearts. They all help in ‘Be The Supply’ artistry of
consciousness.
Secondly,
the communication itself needs to have clarity and exactness. Even if my media
is in sync with mood and modality of my communication to my consciousness, if I
am not inputting exact and pinpointed communication to the media, I shall only
get abstracted and confused output. As we had discussed earlier, the computer
requires that we select the right pathway but we must also select the right
command for computer to do the required task. This exactness of communication
is tough task. It has got to do with how we have learnt our languages with good
depth and command, how from early childhood we have managed our emotions well
and how we have managed our thoughtfulness to exact needs. Globally,
there seems a common trend everywhere that communication clarity and exactness
has been eroded and there is growing abstractness and waywardness in
communication �" both internal as well as external. Much of the blame for this
muddled up communication exactness goes to emotional instabilities of average
person and little practice of self-introspection. Average person in
contemporary cultures and milieus has lost touch with the brilliant human
ability and artistry of ‘self-dialogue’. In ancient Oriental spiritual
traditions, there is great stress on continuous and persevered
self-investigation and self-enquiry. These are essentially aimed at honing the
skills of communication with self. To
make the idea of optimality of specificity in communication clear and also to
emphasize its importance in life-living wellness and success, I share a true
story with you. Few months back, a dear friend of mine shared with me an idea
and he insisted that I do research on this issue. The issue was that in his
long list of acquaintances, friends and relatives, there were large numbers of
families that had only single child, be it a girl or boy. There was a growing
feeling among them that there single grown up offspring did not seem sensitive
enough towards their emotional and other needs and therefore, there is a common
overriding wish that these families must work together to evolve and create a
support structure in coming years so that they are independent and
self-sufficient in their old age. My dear friend wanted me to do a research on
what’s going on around the world and how we can go about it. Not
to my amazement, I found a clear global trend and commonality of causality,
when I researched over this issue. Almost in most developed country, there is
around 10-15 percent families with single offspring and globally, there was a
fast emerging complaint among many families, be it with single child or many
children that the parents felt a growing gap between them and their offspring.
There were common emotional issues and conflicts of assumptions were on both
sides. I wish to share my findings that may help us understand how critical the
issue of exactness of ‘communication’ is. First,
there was no clarity on both sides about the specificity (exactness) of the
trouble between parents and the offspring. Rather, the entire stress factor
between the two had very abstracted situation and acceptance. Is there a
dignity issue at hand? Are offspring treating parents badly? Are they abusive?
The research seems to suggest, there is no definitiveness to it. For example,
an old lady living alone complained that she was very upset with her daughter
because when she came to her house on a vacation or otherwise, the daughter
would check her food packets and confront her mother as why she was eating this
and why she was still stacking the spices that were well past expiry date, etc.
The old mother felt this as intrusive behavior and though she may not take it
as a ‘dignity’ issue, she still was ruffled up by her daughter entering her
space and trying to order her. The daughter on the other side felt she was
doing the right things as she was concerned about her mother’s wellbeing. Now,
there is no data available as which way she was telling her mother about what
she was telling. There are innumerable such examples where both parents and offspring
would stand to appear as both are right and genuine in their feelings, yet,
trouble pervaded their relationships. So,
broadly, what is the specificity-trouble in this issue of parent-offspring
communication crisis? It is very clear, if we see the broad picture. The
primary issue is that two people are having a crisis in relationship, where the
root of trouble is that there is a gap of ‘perceptions’. Only in few rare
cases, there is an element of dignity as abusive behavior between two are not
the rule. The majority cases have communication collapse or abstraction. The
parents are probably not receiving the perception and perspective of offspring
and the vice-versa. Both sides have right and wrong in their perceptions and
perspectives. Usually, both sides have the problem of gap between ‘Media’ and
‘Communication’, which we have discussed earlier. Like, children are not
sensitive to the reality that parents may not be logical about their right and
true wellness concerns towards them as they may be emotionally instable. The
parents may also be insensitive to the fact that the grown up child has moved
away and may have his or her own emotional crisis about how he or she can
handle parents’ safety and wellness. May be, both sides have emotional ‘Media’
and they are attempting a ‘Logical’ communication through it and naturally,
abstractions creep in and specificity (exactness) is missing by huge margins. So,
what is the trouble? The trouble is; the specificity or exactness of the
situation demands that both sides sit together and discuss ways to improve
communication and weed out elements of distrust and abstraction about it
between them. However, what parents are doing is focusing on how to get rid of
this crisis by devising a ‘disconnect’. They are not focusing on root of
trouble but the inverse of it by planning to be ‘independent’ of offspring. The
offspring are also not focusing on how to alter communication so that their
concerns of safety and distant-care perspectives are understood in right spirit
by parents. Rather, they are also planning to fill in more vacuum with their
parents by ‘providing’ but not ‘intervening’. So, the outcome is growing gap
between the two sides. The
same situation happens with internal communication within an individual too.
Like in my case, as I had mentioned at the start of the book, I was in high
fever and incapacitation but I was not thinking about the body situation.
Rather, I was more worried about the success in my office event that was slated
three days ahead. Therefore, my own media required my conscious self to focus
my communication about the fever and pain but I was communicating my media
signals about my worries about success in office event. I
must share with you a classical example of this conscious-subconscious gap and
conflict, which is global in nature and intent. This shall help understand why
specificity or exactness is so critical in media and communication optimality.
It is widely accepted by most scientific thinking that working actionable
structure of brain states is subconscious layer. The conscious states may opt
for a decision but it is only intangible. The decision in mind always has to be
converted into definitive action and for that only the subconscious has
tangible structures. Therefore, there must be very specific linearity between
conscious and subconscious about a situation. If not, abstractions shall creep
in and hypocrisies shall usurp domain. This
is primary reason that globally, average person shall almost always mouth good
and lofty ideals and words. This happens because in almost all cultures,
goodness and righteousness is common. Therefore, it is always easy and prompt
for anyone to think right and mouth most appropriate words. However, most
people shall seldom do the same good and right thing. That is why ‘hypocrisy’
is the greatest malaise of human world. Our conscious self shall usually think
great things but as it seldom is made to stand in sync and symmetry with
subconscious, which carries the commensurate ‘action’, most of us seldom carry
out the same and exact righteousness that we think. Hypocrisy is entropic
situation of conscious-subconscious gap. Globally,
we have witnessed that in most nations, there is a gap between what the
political leadership ‘thinks’ and what bureaucracy ‘carries’. The visions or
righteous ‘intent’ of ‘decision-makers’ or law-makers are usually good and
right. The policy-frameworks probably cannot be wrong and bad as they are
guided by constitutions of nations. However, only the bureaucracy can carry
this intent into actionable work. There is clear divide between two pillars of
governance. It is very rare that decision-makers take into full confidence the
bureaucracy and it is equally rare that bureaucracy stand in full cooperation
with law-makers. This is akin to gap between conscious and subconscious �" the
‘thinking’ and ‘acting’ layers seldom being on one page. Naturally, most
nations, especially developing nations have low optimality of their governance
systems. In contemporary times, it is rather tragic that politicians and
bureaucracy has even come to open fights and abuses. The level of distrust and
anger against each other is calamitously high. This crisis of governance has
been widely documented by intellectuals of society time and again but still, no
concrete measures are taken by governments to work on improved symmetry and
synergy between two key layers of governance. Therefore,
the primary specificity (exactness) is to have both our subconscious and
conscious in singular and present linearity. This ensures that entire
consciousness system is in singular media to receive and execute appropriate
communication. This requires practice. In contemporary world of fast paced life
and multi-tasking demands, often, two domains of consciousness are usually in
competing and conflicting platforms. Secondly, be very aware of the character
of communication so that an appropriate media is consciously chosen for it.
Third, the communication itself has to be very specific, sans emotional
abstractions. Lastly, the communication has to be sustained and repeated so
that conscious communication is etched deeply and decisively on the
subconscious structures. As we have discussed above, even as a decision for
action is taken on conscious levels, it shall have to be translated to existing
subconscious plexus and pathways for finality of action. That is why we earlier
insisted on good practice of language, emotions and thoughts as communication
tools. This ensures that subconscious already has deep pathways for exactness
of our communication signals for effective recall and replication.
I
am attempting to present a short explanation of this element of �"I-Mortality’
of higher consciousness here and shall elaborate it in details in later
chapters for deeper understanding. Here I confine the explanation of this
element in relation to media and communication aspect only. Though, the issue
has deeper significance, which we shall discuss later. In
our discussion over the realism of consciousness, we have talked about how it
has different layers of unconscious, subconscious, conscious and higher
consciousness. We have also accepted that all layers are part expressions of
the singular holism of consciousness and they exist in cooperative entanglement
bound by causalities. Therefore, it is very tough to have a defined clear cut
divide between our conscious and subconscious. However, when we say that our
conscious self must be aware enough to have an audience with subconscious and
then communicate with it, we presuppose that the two layers can stand
segregated. But this is never possible. This
is what presents as big challenge for us. Both spiritualism and science accept
that ‘Objectivity’ is an impossibility for we humans as even when we stand in
utmost higher consciousness, there shall always be grains of subconscious and
unconscious entrenched in it. The causalities between these layers shall remain
ingrained. It is like; the ‘objectivity’ itself can be seen, realized and
deciphered by none other but our own ‘subjective’ self. Naturally, subjective
sense cannot fully be detached and segregated from any objectivity enterprise.
It is here this ‘I-Mortality’ element of higher consciousness helps attain
optimality. The
basic premise is that usually, a person is a subjective expression of his or
her own body-mind milieus and the media of his or her memories of experiences.
It is because of the very nature of evolution of consciousness, which we have
already discussed. This subjective expression, this sense of me or ‘I’, as
unique and differentiated to all others is a property of ‘Entropy-Expansion’
that essentially is the way we have been designed. However, for logical,
objective and reasoned out thoughts, beliefs, emotions and behavior, we all
have to undergo a process of ‘Entropy-Suppression’, as we grow, mature and as
our media and communication pathways have enough critical mass of experiences. However,
this entropy-suppression is no segregated function. The higher consciousness or
what we understand as higher awareness; has to do it but it is very much an
inseparable ‘part’ of the ‘holism’ of consciousness. In other words, it is the
‘I’ that checks and controls the stupidities and conflict-confusion of ‘I’.
This is the dualism that is defining property of our consciousness and it is
not easy to get over it. But the fact remains that empowerment is not possible
if we do not rise above the dualism and master the artistry of our higher
consciousness, which itself is only ‘part’ of our singular consciousness,
managing and optimizing other parts. We
shall elaborate this dualism in later chapters but here our task at hand is to
explain as how ‘I-Mortality’ element can help us rise above this dualism. There
is a simple explanation that classical spiritualism provided, which shall help
us understand the core process, even while we have all the reasons to believe
that it stands on some hypothesis, which may not be tenable today. The
classical spiritualism accepted that body is mortal and consciousness is
immortal. The body, which is just the media of all ‘Karma’ has a ‘Lord’ and
this is our consciousness, which is transcendental and immortal. This is
classical body-soul segregation. What
we take from it is that it is this primary reality of mortality that is biggest
subconscious tool for rising above the dualism. We do not have to accept this
classical hypothesis of consciousness (soul) being immortal and re-installable
in another birth. We are not concerned about it here. What we take out of this
is that mortality is a subconscious wiring, which is an entrenched facility for
consciousness to build a successful enterprise on. Our body is discontinuous
and mortal is always in subconscious awareness, whatever we do. It is a reality
that cannot be wished away. However, what soul-hypothesis facilitates for us is
segregation of two parts and making them distinct. This helps us rise above
dualism. We
all need to consciously take out his mortality element from subconscious and
install it in our conscious mind states. As we practice enough and successfully
pervade our higher consciousness with this central and cardinal realism that
our body, the so-called protagonist is only a temporary media, we facilitate
greater objectivity. The very pervaded consciousness that our body-mind is
mortal, segregates ‘us’ from it. As we practice it, we shall feel that there is
a growing ‘detachment’ of conscious self from our body-mind media. This happens
because we cannot happily accept that ‘I’ can wither away. Gradually, there is
a higher consciousness cover that makes us feel that the Real ‘I’ is not our
body-mind and this media is only temporary and therefore inferior. Our
subconscious is designed to never accept discontinuity of self or ‘I’.
Therefore, conscious acceptance of mortality shall gradually make us detach
from our body-mind media. This is what facilitates a consciousness position,
which classical spiritualism called ‘Witness-I’ and science refers to as
‘Non-Local Consciousness’. What
we are trying to hypothesize that this element of conscious mortality
facilitates a consciousness, which stands as continuous ‘Witness’ to whatever
our mortal and wavering body-mind media is doing. His happens because our
higher consciousness is able to ‘detach’ itself in a long way with body-mind
subconscious media and communication as it cannot accept something that is
mortal and discontinuous as part of self or ‘I’. So, what the higher
consciousness is able to do by pervading the ‘I-mortality’ realism throughout
its awareness plexus is attain this segregated ‘Witness-I’ consciousness. This
in turn facilitates a better objectivity and logicality. When a ‘Detached-I’ is
standing above as witness to everything the subconscious and mortal body-mind
media is doing, this protagonist is better placed to have higher objectivity,
logicality and reasoned assessments. This is the idealism we all must have
because then only we can launch a ‘Conscious-Enterprise’ Of ‘I-Media
Management’ For Life-Living Wellness and Excellence. As we come to conclude
the talk about consciousness, its media and communication, we can sum up this
long discussion into a small wisdom. This wisdom has three simple points that
we need to remember �"
We have discussed
consciousness and causality in this book to understand the idea of media and
communication. In the next part of the book, there are chapters about those
issues, which we encountered in course of earlier chapters, about which I had
said we shall discuss later. These chapters are optional but recommended so
that you could have more detailed understanding of what we have discussed so far.
As we were focused on the core element of media and communication, I had
consciously chosen not to divert our attention away from it by going into these
topics. As you shall read them, you can relate them to the media and
communication aspect of our discussion. Thanks for patiently
being with me this far. Wish you all best in live and living. May you all have
more empowered consciousness and great success in handling your media well with
excellent and specific communication to attain whatever life-living wellness
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Consciousness In Detail Science maintains that
the conscious feeling that we all have is primarily because we have an evolved
and matured process of storing experiences as memories, with a definitive sense
of we as our bodies present in all such memories. These memories in which the
subject is definitively our own body, creates a sense of self-awareness in our
brains. This we refer to as knowledge. This needs to be understood very
carefully. Knowledge is not information, our sensory organs collect and pass on
to our brains for processing. Knowledge is the ‘processed’ info as physical
imagery in brains, which goes through the filters of mind’s memories of
experiences, instinctive inclinations as well as those collective experiences,
passed onto us from our ambient culture. We have awareness that
‘we’ are experiencing something. We also have memories of other experiences of
our past. More importantly, we have a definitive and exclusive mental facility
of recalling, relating and collating all past imageries of experiences and
imagining a novel imagery of possible model action and behavior for future.
This facility of intra-polation and extra-polation of imageries in our
knowledge inventory has been a decisive tool with us, helping humans produce
brilliant solutions of innumerable troubles and problems. However, we need to
accept the fact that this facility itself also doubles up as a major trouble
for us. Imagining and extrapolating singular and objective real facts can lead
to tested and replicable solutions but in situations, when the collated facts
are virtual, subjective and mystical, solutions arrived at shall be subjective,
untenable and non-replicable. We can design futuristic spacecrafts as we
collate and juxtapose objective, tested and replicable facts of aerodynamics
and navigation. However, we fail to create futuristic solutions to our
emotional and psychological troubles, like those in the realm of love, faith,
culture etc, as we collate only subjective, virtual and non-replicable facts.
This we have to be wary of and change our attitudes and perspectives to use our
consciousnesses for attaining the objectivity and singularity of decision-making
matrices. Also, the ‘knowledge’
ascribed to and installed in subconscious for all future references of
experiences are in a way cause of trouble too. This makes the case that our
higher consciousness must be equipped with aware requirement of ‘Unlearning’
for continuous updating. Why? Suppose I have an
injured finger. There is inflammation and if I press or even touch it, pain
surges up and I feel troubled. Why? Simply because my subconscious mind state,
which handles my auto-mode action-reaction based on reward-punishment
assessment, has entrenched ‘Knowledge’ of pain and my natural reactions to it.
If I say, ‘pain is not what it actually is but because of the ‘Knowledge’ of
pain that I have’, an average person shall feel confused and never believe it.
But, it is a reality. This is what cognitive science tells us. To prove it,
what I have to do is be in calm and relaxed state of mind. Change my brain
waves to meditative state and consciously repeat to myself that the pain I am
feeling is not actual but just a ‘memory’ of the ‘Knowledge’ of pain that I
have subconsciously assigned to my being. This I am going to change and
‘unlearn’. Therefore, I am going to meet the ‘pain’ in new light and have an
audience with it from a new and fresh perspective. I shall focus it right there
to ‘unlearn’ my past knowledge and face it anew. After practicing this
conscious resolve for a good one hour, I again touch or press the wounded
finger with the same intensity as I did previously. It is for sure I shall feel
less pain and even while pain may at times try to fall back to my previous
‘feel’, it shall be a different feel. This is some practice that Monks do and
successfully unlearn their subconscious ‘knowledge’ of pain by persevered
practice. A well practiced Monk shall feel the pain in completely different
light and therefore, his or her level of tolerance of pain shall be much higher
than an average person. This is what the Dalai Lama said, ‘Pain is inevitable
but suffering is optional’. This is cognitive change that higher consciousness
can bring about in subconscious ‘knowledge’. The simple idea, which
we have to consciously accept and practice, is to have clear distinction
between ‘reality’ and ‘knowledge’ of expression of the reality. Pain is one
thing but suffering from the same pain is altogether different aspect of the
reality. Consciousness has this artistry of cognition to live up and sustain
this distinction for wellness and success. This knowledge aspect
of consciousness needs to be understood well. Other advanced organisms, like a
dog or a lion also may have consciousness, which creates set of experiences for
them. The difference seems to be the fact that they experience but do not have
evolved and permanent sense or knowledge that they are experiencing. The
definitive sense of their body into their experiences is either completely
missing or is too feeble to admit. The same happens with a baby. It also
experiences things and stores many of them as memories but as the brain has not
yet developed and systematized the necessary physical pathways, the sense of
they actually experiencing them is too feeble to recollect later. That is
probably why a baby’s threshold of pain is higher than grownups. Their sense of
a definitive body in their experiences is somehow missing in their
experiencing. It is similar in higher animals with sensory system. As we
consciously segregate ‘Me’ from experiences and make clear distinction between
experience and ‘knowledge’ of the same experiences, we can have better
management of pains and other troubles. The subjective
consciousness in us that ‘we are’, seems a function of the knowledge the
consciousness builds up by storing different body experiences as memories,
which the actionable body creates. The dualism of consciousness is created
because of the cyclicality of experiences and knowledge. The body’s sensory
organs provide information from the milieus to the brain. The brain is physical
part of information processing. It is like the hardware part of computation.
The mind however is the functional part, the software part. This functional
part, the mind controls the brain, the physical part. Mind is the knowledge,
which is memories of experiences of body’s actions, stored in consciousness.
The feeling of ‘self’, the sense of ‘me’ is a virtual realism as this ‘self’,
the subjective consciousness is an intangible connect, a bridge between the
physical and functional �" the brain, and mind. The brain is the
physical pathway that makes the body act in a particular way. However, the physical
pathway, the brain does not itself decide all actions. This is crucial
distinction and needs to be understood. There is a key difference in
deliberating and deciding an action and actually executing the action. The
brain makes physical action possible by physically moving concerned parts of
the body. However, whether the action should be taken or not or if taken then
in what measure and intent, is what the mind works at, with its ‘knowledge’ of
antecedents of ‘experiences’. This is functional part of information
processing. We all have empirical
experience of this typical dualism of hardware-software cyclicality. In a
computer, software deliberates a particular function but the software is not
designed to execute the function as it is the role of the hardware. Software
must have a pathway connecting hardware. The software shows the priorities and
choices and the hard disk actually engenders the physical pathway to get the
function done. Similar is the situation with our consciousness. The intangible domain
of knowledge (the software part) deliberates an action and behavior priority
and choice. The knowledge is a functional facility, a software faculty and
therefore, it cannot itself execute the physical action and behavior. The brain
shall execute the action and it shall be done because of the physical pathways,
the brain has created for it. If the brains have not created the necessary and
synchronous pathways (the hardware facility), there shall not be an action or
the action shall be different than what the knowledge (software) had
prioritized or chosen. Often, we see that our
computer does some task on its own will or different from the command we
selected. This is typical software-hardware dualism. Consciousness also
sometimes does the same as it also has the same built-in dualism, like a
computer. Therefore, we need to change the way we look at and accept ourselves
as. Our consciousness must be accepted in its entire mechanism and its
mechanism entails that software choices must have commensurate and synchronous
hardware pathways. Otherwise, the dualism of consciousness shall create its own
scary choices, often constricting our wellness and excellence. We have to be in
perpetuity of our higher consciousness, which ensures the symmetry and harmony
of software-hardware (body-mind) dualism. We are humans, having a definitive
edge and therefore, we cannot act and behave the way other organisms do. The consciousness of
other organisms, like dog or lion primarily has physical part of information
processing �" the hardware. The brain does take most decisions based on
instincts, which are codes already written in the genetic navigation system.
They too have minds, which takes into account some of the past experiences
(software) but as they do not have evolved and complex memory mechanism, they
have very fleeting sense of self-awareness. Even the memories become part of
rote function, very much part of instinctive decision-making. The same happens
in small kids. However, even in grownups, this instinctive action-reaction
dominates decision-making. This leads to larger troubles and needs to be
changed. Usually, in humans the
mind, the functional part of consciousness dominates the decision-making. That
is why; the consciousness in us has dualism far more accentuated than other
organisms. This dualism also splits the subject, the subjective feeling of we
as the action doer. There is a physical processing of information and brain
handles them, we being little aware of them. This part is instinctive response
to stimulus provided by sensory organs and such actions are generic actions.
This subject, which does these actions, is referred as ‘generic subject’.
Science says, 90 percent of brain’s structures are dedicated to handling those
action-reaction functions, which we are not aware of. They happen in
unconscious or subconscious minds, where our body is the action-doer but the
definitive sense of we doing them, as our bodies, is missing. Only two percent
part is conscious action of brain, where decisions of action are taken in total
consciousness, with perfect sense of we as our bodies involved in them. This
itself presents a huge causality for dualism about our consciousness. In babies
and higher animals, this conscious action is very negligible, not even this two
percent. We have evolved and
complex mind mechanism, the functional part of consciousness. It dominates the
processing of information, filtering it through personalized and subjective
memories of experiences of past actions and those experiences gathered from popular
experiences of the milieus, called contemporary culture. The actions,
deliberated after such filtering are ‘specific’ and creates a ‘specific
subject’. The dualism of
consciousness creates loads of troubles for average people. It is because of
the mechanism we have and the way our brain and mind consciousness has evolved.
However, knowing and understanding this dualism in detail makes us clearly
understand that what we predominantly are; is a function of our perspectives
and attitudes and in turn, our attitudes and perspectives are what we are. Here is the idea of
change in all of us. We are humans and we live in complex societies, which are
so laterally and vertically interlinked that every individual’s action-behavior
has catalytic impact on the wellness and excellence of millions of us. That is
why in modern contemporary societies, relationship troubles in familial,
societal and workplace domains are number one troubles of humanity. We all have
a responsibility towards not only us as an individual but also towards all of
us in the society we live. We, as aware and responsible citizens of a nation
and societies, need to own every action and behavior. We already see the world
we live in utter chaos, conflict and violence. Nations and societies need to be
collective domains of wellness and excellence. They are not in contemporary
world as this happens only when each of us consciously own and be responsible
towards each of our actions and behaviors; not only two percent of them. We have to understand
and accept that in our usual consciousness, we are seldom aware of our actions.
Most of our actions are very generic actions as we are usually in control of
our generic subject. This has to change. We need to be aware of our bodies, and
always be in the higher consciousness state, where the specific subject takes
control and owns every action and behavior. The contemporary culture also makes
us behave and act in a generic way. The pop culture pampers the generic
subject. This needs to change. We are humans, we have the facility of higher
consciousness, which separates us from a baby or an animal. We need to stretch
our consciousness by being consciously aware of all our decisions of actions
and behavior. We are humans with faculty of a super consciousness, which makes
us, a definitive sense of we as a body, to hold back our instincts and
emotions, assess their utility in a larger sense of collective wellness and
excellence. A decision, when processed in a non-reactive and receptive mode, in
a holistic-assimilative-integrative perspective by our super consciousness, the
specific subject within us, shall be far more amenable to our own wellness and
excellence and that of the society and nation. We are in our
perspectives and our perspectives are in we. Therefore, if we all understand
and accept the singularity of the utility of the above-mentioned perspective in
prioritizing all our actions and behavior, we shall ensure larger wellness and
excellence of not only we, as an individual, but also the collectivities of society
and the nation. Now, the same ideas we
need to understand also from the perspective of the ancient wisdom, the
classical Oriental wisdom, explained in terms of kaaya (Body), maaya (external
world/milieus), karma (Actionable duties) and karta (Subject). There is huge
commonality, even as the symbols and means used in explaining these terms vary.
The ancient wisdom also explains the dualism of consciousness and minute
details, elaborates how there is a mystical causality between the kaaya, maaya,
karta and karma, which decides cognition of the consciousness. In some way,
scientific explanation may not be very conducive for average person’s
understanding as we are still not used to many ideas of the modern science.
Average person’s age-old faith mechanism also makes science a bit less
acceptable in the subconscious mind. Let us delve into the old wisdom’s
perspective on 3Cs �" Consciousness, Causality and Cognition. This may
facilitate our understanding about self or ‘I’. The consciousness is a
stupid engineering. Its mechanism is so intricate and mystically
multidimensional that it keeps people in constant state of flux; engendering
layers of realisms, not amenable for linear understanding of individuals. The
elements of milieus outside body-mind mechanisms keep interacting with
disposition of consciousness within. This action-reaction cyclicality engenders
information, which mind stores as intangible experiences and memories in the
subconscious. The totality and
wholeness of it is a person’s culture, which sets the boundaries of his
thought-action-behavior domain. As the milieus change in the course of life’s
randomized journeys, the patterns of its interactions with disposition alter
synchronically. This energizes the incessant cyclicality of learning and unlearning,
which keeps an individual’s overall culture of consciousness in continuous
flux. This flux has the energy of creation and destruction, making and unmaking
going in an intertwined way. This cyclicality of changes in personal milieus,
which makes a person’s subjective perspectives and personality change and in
turn the later altering his or her inner milieus, creates a dualism, which is
tough to understand if the person is not aware of the mechanism of cyclicality.
It is only the higher consciousness, which understands this dualism and
deliberates on a desirable poise for larger wellness. We are talking about it
right here from the perspective of ancient wisdom, as we have already dealt
with scientific perspective. The ancient wisdom
talked of the desirability of a higher consciousness in every person as chief
aim of life and living. This was considered essential as only this state of
higher consciousness or the ‘super consciousness’, could be a vehicle of larger
wellness of the person and his or her personal excellence. The ancient Oriental
wisdom said: There is a super consciousness within, evolved through discipline
of body and mind, which enables the self (an individual) to decide the matrix
of all decision-making of action-behavior, independent of the innate instincts
and subconscious mind. Usually, for an untrained and unattained mind �" an
average person with no mind-training, it is either his or her instincts or the
prevailing popular culture, which decides the benchmarks of right and wrong of
any action/behavior and this happens almost unconsciously. However, one has to
attain this facility of being the ‘conscious decider’ of what should ideally
present oneself with his or her decision-matrix at any point of time in life. For example, suppose, a
man and a woman are madly in love with each other. The man in an emotional
state, picks up a pebble from the riverbed and gifts it to his beloved saying,
he is also like a pebble, non-egoistic yet unworthy. He says, ‘This pebble was
once a huge rock, thousands of years back but after eroding and shedding its
mass and bulk of undesired egoism, it has finally reduced to a well-rounded
pebble with no sharp edges. I have also shed my egoism in my love for you and I
give this pebble to you to symbolize this transformation’. The woman in extreme
gesture of love says that she values it more than a diamond as it is given by
the man she loves more than any possession of life. The very emotion and
idea which made the woman accept a pebble as more precious than diamond;
inspired a worth and utility of value of a diamond in a useless pebble. The
woman truly and deeply felt huge joy about its possession. This way, the
woman’s ‘super conscious’ prevailed over her instinctive and cultured self,
which would have otherwise thrown away the pebble in disgust. This state of
consciousness engendered a novel matrix of a decision-making, independent of
and beyond her intelligence, disposition and instinctive nature, which
otherwise would never ever accept the utility of a pebble at par with a
diamond. Within our
consciousness, there is a culture as well as an innate judgment mechanism,
which usually assigns values and decides the utility of an entity. They would
usually have decided that a pebble is worthless and a diamond is precious.
However, the super consciousness of the woman in love overruled all fixed
parameters of her conscious and subconscious minds and came forward as the
‘conscious decider’ of what should ideally present her with her decision-matrix
at this point of time in life. Her super consciousness aligned with continuous
and immortal intangible entity �" intimacy and compassion in this case,
renouncing the mortal value and utility of the tangible matter. This is something
available to humans only. This facility is our super conscious mind. This
facility is essentially a function of imagination, which is duly supported by
memories of experiences we have. Early humans succeeded in evolving fast and
better by using their power of imagination to win over all obstacles. We have
the facility to imagine ourselves out of the body and even out of the milieu to
intangibly position ourselves in a situation, which is virtual and then weave
possibilities to turn this virtual realism into a largely realistic one. In
Indian spiritual philosophy, the ancestors prescribed a mechanism to be in
exalted state of this super consciousness. Science also explains
the same mechanisms but uses different terms and frameworks. The Indian
spiritual philosophy maintains that there is a continuous and complex
interaction always going on between nature (external milieu) and human mind
(internal milieu). It defines nature as drishya,
something, which is seen and observed. It constitutes of two parts �" the first
being the tangible factors in external environment, which includes the
contemporary culture, in which a human being lives. The second part is the
intangible factors of body’s intrinsic nature or disposition. This intrinsic
disposition has three attributes �" sato
gun (receptive mode), rajo gun
(action mode) and tamo gun (inertia
mode). These attributes suitably align with commensurate elements present in
external milieus. These three attributes
are simultaneously present in all humans, even while different people may have
different mix of the three attributes. Even science says, people can be
identified as of a particular shade of consciousness, depending on amount and
intensity the three attributes of reception, action and inertia in a person.
One single person can be in different shades of consciousness, at different
stages of life, as there are changes taking in the quotient of the three
attributes. The society or larger physical milieu, we live in, also has these
three attributes of reception, action and inertia. It is self-evident that
in a small and simple society, where material pursuits are very limited and
small population naturally has larger proximity and intimacy between them, the
predominant attribute of the milieu shall be reception. This shall make the
society and its people in larger internal wellness but external discomfort. However, in the
unmanageably large and complex societies, we live today, where there is a
deluge of material pursuits to attain, the predominant attribute of milieu
shall be action and such societies, there shall be physical comforts for people
but there shall be larger conflict and competitiveness among people in the
society, economy and politics. In many societies, where physical comfort and
personal attainments have become high, or in such societies where knowledge and
development are miniscule, the predominant attribute shall be inertia. It is
only natural and self-evident that such later societies shall have more
conflicts, larger competitiveness, greater violence and less tolerance and
stability but better external comforts. This is so self-evident for all of us. Every attribute comes
with an associated package of societal culture and individual behavior-action.
A person living in a society where reception is predominant attribute shall
behave differently than a person living in the society where predominant
attribute is action or inertia. It is empirically observable to all that the drishya (nature or milieus) is a
realism, which is in continuous change as the attributes and elements
constituting it are mutually contradictory in nature. Modern psychology too
accepts this. A person, who has a dominant consciousness of action, may
eventually realize its futility and shall accept the utility of reception mode
in later stage of life. A spendthrift may eventually start practicing the
virtues of misery after indulging sometime in former mode. The vice-versa is
also possible. The same is true with societies. It is our mechanism. In many contemporary
developed societies, like USA, the predominant attribute is action, even while
large part of it has inertia, because of larger availability of comforts. It is
only natural that many there are fed up with existing milieu and look for a
life in reception mode. Many old developing societies, like India have largely
been in the dominant attribute of reception. However, as material well-being is
rising, it is going the old American way and now attributes of action and
inertia are taking over. This change is cyclic with newer elements being
introduced in every new cycle. This is why we all behave in a way, which a
dominant culture prescribes to us. Societal personality becomes an overriding
consciousness for most of us. The popular benchmarks become a rule for us. This
is why ancient as well as contemporary wisdom tell us to rise above the
populism and be your own conscious decision-maker. Ancient Indian wisdom
called the consciousness as drishta,
a virtual agency, which sees and observes the intelligence of a person, which
his or her current consciousness lands him or her in. The consciousness has
been referred to as the observer of human intelligence, which decides the
matrix for any decision of life, in the larger realism of drishya (nature and culture). The Indian spiritual philosophy
observes that the drishya and drishta (nature and consciousness) are
continuously interacting with each other in a cyclic causality, in which, each
affects other and in turn gets affected. The randomly multidimensional
juxtaposition of drishya and drishta (nature and consciousness)
engenders different cyclical expressions of disposition. These cyclical
expressions are infinite and all of them lead an individual to pains and
troubles. This is because, these expressions link the ‘self’, the consciousness
with discontinuous and immortal elements of drishya
and drishta (nature and
consciousness). The interaction of drishya
and drishta (nature and
consciousness) elements leads an individual to both gratification as well as
renunciation. The Indian spiritual philosophy maintains that this cycle of
gratification and renunciation is such a naturally intense and powerful realism
that most people on earth remain attracted to it and become a part of the
cyclic drift. To come out of this
cyclic causality of gratification and renunciation, which takes one away and
aloof from this powerful drift is the role and function of this super
consciousness. This is the difficult part of the entire idea of consciousness.
This is probably an idea, which is tough for the consciousness to imagine. The
practice of it is far more difficult. The yoga philosophy says, there is a
state of super consciousness, which is called ‘Kaivalya’. This Sanskrit word has almost no parallel word in modern
languages. We can say, it literally means a state of singleness, a conscious
position of Onlyness. For most of us, it is
difficult to understand its true meaning as since long; we have been accustomed
to collective and mutual existence and awareness of self. There is so much of
contemporary culture within our conscious and subconscious minds. We are so
used to our consciousness in complete collaboration and concomitance with our
external as well as internal milieus that for us, an idea in the domain of
total and perfect singleness and onlyness is beyond even imagination. The idea,
as elaborated by Indian spiritual philosophy enshrines that super consciousness
is a state of being, where there is complete and perfect lack of any
connection, causality and coexistence between the drishta and drishya. The
subject, the consciousness, which observes the nature and the decision-making
matrices of life, becomes completely free and detached from the causality and
utility of external as well as internal milieus and nature. This super
consciousness is a state of singleness and onlyness �" the kaivalya state of consciousness. The idea is �" in both
the consciousnesses of gratification as well as renunciation, if there is
causality and utility of the subject with object, the consciousness acquires
the element of ego and sense of self, as distinct and different from others.
This ego has to go in the state of super consciousness, as this element of
sense of self is actually a mortal and discontinuous element. Kaivalya is a
state of consciousness, which is devoid of ego and sense of self as this state
is the true element of immortality and continuity. The singleness and onlyness
has only a singular element of continuity and immortality. This sense of self
needs to go away then only one can truly attain the state of kaivalya, the state of singleness and
onlyness. This is very tough.
There have been people on earth, who attained greatness and even understood the
utility of it all. They became saints and helped the masses. Still, they could
not devoid themselves of the sense of self, and this made them create rifts
between different persons. The evil, which all cultures portray in human beings
is this sense of self, which remains attached to egoistic attitudes. Kaivalya is possible only when this
sense of self withers completely. Even greats are affected by the attributes of
inertia and they stop practicing when they attain greatness. This dooms them
and humanity. Kaivalya needs to be
practiced lifelong. This is the state, in
yogic philosophy, where jeevatma
(human soul/consciousness) unites with parmatma
(cosmic soul/consciousness). This is what they called yoga, the union. The
different yogasanas are different
ways to discipline your body and consciousness to arrive at the state of kaivalya. This is also something, the
spiritual philosophy of Geeta, the
chief holy book of Hinduism says. Somehow, the modern concepts of
psychosynthesis and psychoenergetics also work around the similar ideas. There is a cardinal
rule to the success of every enterprise of life. At the start, every enterprise
looks huge and tough. Human mind, as we discussed, is not good at seeing far
ahead. Therefore, it is always advised to take small steps towards achievement
of part of the enterprise and set aim for smaller goals. Your innocence and
honesty is your best preparations to attain your goals. The simple idea is; it
is your imagination, which makes you a winner, when you have to make any
important decision in life. This imagination puts you above and aloof from the
immediate milieus, culture and body-mind instincts, which often either blur
your judgment or keep you in a flux. Worse, it makes you drift with it, beyond
your conscious control. You have to use your
power of conscious imagination to accept your being and self as someone, not
only your body, not only your mind, not only your milieus and not even the
interaction between them. You have to accept it as some super consciousness,
which observes each of your thought-action-behavior matrices from a position
above and aloof from all the dimensions of your consciousness and being. This
enables you to hold every emotion, instinct and ideas back for a while, sit
over them with an objective and independent super consciousness. As this super
consciousness is a receptive mode facility, you shall be endowed with a power
to observe and control all your instinctive and culturally induced
thought-action-behavior of action-reaction mode. As you keep practicing to
remain in this super consciousness self, you shall finally attain the kaivalya realism. Then, this super
consciousness shall become your single and only consciousness. This is the stage
where, you become the conscious decider of what should ideally present yourself
with your decision-matrix at any point of time in your life. This is a sure
facility for personalizing your own wellness and making them independent of
milieus, culture and instincts. Anything you wish to attain in life, in
societal milieu, which cultural benchmarks label as worthy, you shall
decisively find yourself in competition and conflict with so many others, who
want the same attainment and that too exclusively. The success of the
enterprise shall only partly depend on your efforts and merits as there shall
always be many factors in milieu and people, which shall be equally decisive. That is why successes
in our societies are exception, not a rule. However, when you wish to attain
something, which is possible only just by your simple and innocent resolve, you
shall be always successful. Like your resolve to find utility and worth in
intangibles like love, compassion or attach value to being in nature with trees
and birds is only your own personal attainment. This enterprise is successful
any number of times you do it. For example, the worth the woman in love in our
story above created in a pebble, installing more value to it than a diamond, shall
always remain with her as this is an intangible utility, nobody can take away
from her, unlike a real diamond. The ancient philosophies tell us to align
ourselves only with these intangibles as utility because; our own consciousness
has worth only as intangible. Our consciousness is intangible and continuous
and that is why, it shall find lasting and continuous wellness only in
intangible elements. That is why, the philosophy prescribes, true and lasting
relationship can happen only between similar and generic elements. Our
consciousness is intangible and values the intangibles in our lives more than
anything. If we align our consciousness with value, worth and utility in
tangibles, there is bound to be pain, conflict and confusion as these elements
are not similar and generic to the true character of our consciousness. This is
the change we all need to instill in our conscious mind. This power of
imagination, our super consciousness has, is our most precious endowment but
this treasure has to be protected against misuse. This is best ensured when you
have innocence and honesty of character. You need to be cautious that you keep
yourself in milieus, both internal and external, which are conducive to
protecting and prolonging your innocence and honesty. If not, then this power
of imagination shall always be involved with your ego and sense of self, which
shall then lead you away from objectivity and innocence of imagination. You
shall then begin to be intelligent, instead of innocence and subjective in assigning
value and worth to possessions. The kaivalya state shall be unavailable, as
this sense of self shall put you in the groove of subjectivity, making you
trapped in the cyclic causality of action-reaction. It is equally important
that the body-mind entity remains ensconced in a conducive internal and
external environment. This is crucial initially. Once you have attained the kaivalya state, you can live in any
milieu, as you would then rise above all to be affected by them. Initially, you
have to keep away from contemporary milieus and culture of gratification and
action-reaction mode. ** CHAPTER 2 Understanding
Causality In Detail Everything around us,
be it our little home or the colossal cosmos, has a mechanism and a process,
which makes the mechanism work. As this mechanism and process works,
perceptible and discernible patterns emerge, which we all can understand and
accept. ‘God’ is unraveled and ‘His’ will is deciphered in the mechanism,
processes and patterns around us. The wise have said it that ‘God is in
details’. If we open ourselves to this consciousness, where we can understand
and accept these mechanism, processes and patterns around us, we shall not need
to delegate all happenings to ‘God’. Of course, still loads of probabilities shall
be there for ‘God’ to handle but we can make ‘Him’ happy by picking up those
for ourselves, which we can and should do. This is the idea of
‘Causality’ for us. This causality may be simple or complex, expressed in
simple structures or in complex ones. However, the core and cardinal rule of
causality shall remain singular and that is �" All Realism Is A Function Of Some
Causalities And This Realism In Turn Structures Alteration In Causalities. This
means, causalities have dialectical cyclicality. As we are aware of
causalities, many of the probabilities of happenings become replicable and
doable by ourselves. There is no need to trouble ‘God’ or destiny to make it
happen. With our personal inputs and with some calculated design of destiny, we
can make many of these probable events and things happen the way we wish them
to happen. For example, an ocean
is colossal mechanism. It has complex processes and patterns. There are
trillions of living organisms and each one having its own destiny in the ocean.
Each passing minute, millions of organisms are killed and another millions are
born and survive. There is a pattern of this killing and surviving in the
oceanic food chain. ‘God’ is not supervising all lives and each second of the
lives of the trillions of organisms. We can say, ‘God’ created a mechanism of
oceans, infused Oxygen into it to energize the mechanism and created a process
of working of the mechanism called ocean. This mechanism evolves and patterns
are created, which we all can see. Scientists have now known the working of the
oceanic life cycles up to its deepest bottom. They have given us a pattern of
how life works in oceans. Now, I can enter an
ocean for fishing and someday I catch a big beautiful fish. I have a sumptuous
dinner and I thank ‘God’ for that. Another day at ocean, I catch a shark in my
net and escape a certain death. I again thank ‘God’ for the escape, though with
serious injuries. ‘God’ is not interested either in my first thank nor in my
second. He created a mechanism, which has all patterns and they stand in the
ocean in neutral probability. It is destiny in my hand. If I understand the
pattern well, I shall go to ocean well prepared. I shall carefully select the
fishing zones and timings. I shall first gather all possible information
available to gear myself up for a safe and successful catch, avoiding
probabilities of accidents. The mechanism of ocean has both probabilities of a
good fish and a shark in equitable proportions. If I am not prepared, I shall
meet with that destiny, which the mechanism’s own set of probabilities has
there. If I am prepared well,
equipped with the knowledge of the mechanism of the oceans and its
multidimensional probabilities, I shall have a destiny of happenings, very much
skewed in my favor. This way, I shall have the larger input in the destiny,
which ‘God’s’ mechanism has in store for any person. ‘God’s’ will has to be
neutral and unbiased as ‘His’ mechanism is also objective, neutral and equal
for everyone. The simple idea is; we
have patterns all around us and these patterns, emerge out of the processes of
working of a mechanism, which has been created. This mechanism works equitably
for all of us. We need to have our personal inputs to manage our own destinies
of probabilities of the mechanism’s possibilities on us. We have so many
examples in our daily lives, where we see that if we are aware of the patterns
(causalities), have prepared ourselves well for multiple factors and have
anticipated rightly the dynamic interplay of these factors, which are there in
a mechanism, we are successful in having a smooth and safe go. For example, I am
driving a car on the busy highway. Highway has its own mechanism and driving
too has its own mechanism. Now, whether I meet with an accident or reach my
destination safely depends very much on my own personal input �" the knowledge
of both mechanisms. Of course, the precarious probabilities of highway driving
shall always be there. However, whatever shall be my destiny; it shall have
larger inputs of my own preparedness and less of the probabilities of the
mechanism of highway driving. Driving itself is a
multi-tasking skill. Those, who have better coordination of their eyes, hands
and legs, shall be drivers with lesser chances of accidents. This is however
only one part of successful driving. You also need to have intuitive
anticipation towards possible mistakes of not only your own driving, but also
of others, who shall be ahead and behind you on the highway. You have to
anticipate correctly and in time, if a driver ahead you does something silly.
Accident happens not only when you do a wrong, but also when others do wrong
with you. You are in trouble both ways. Moreover, on the
highway, you need to know, where those accident-prone zones are and where
drivers usually make errors of judgment. There may be a signboards warning you
but you must have this pre-knowledge, back in your subconscious. It means; you
must be very aware of the entire stretch of the highway. We can see, how a
simple thing like driving a car opens up so many probabilities for us, which
are always there for anyone driving. While driving, we have to master the
inter-play of so many factors, which the mechanism has. Somehow, accidents can
happen to anyone, even when he or she is best prepared. Still, for a driver,
who understands the mechanism of highway driving better and is well aware of
the patterns of highways as well as driving, has lesser probabilities of
accidents. Knowing the mechanism and discerning its inherent patterns can mould
the destiny in our favor. ‘God’s’ probabilities for accidents or safety are
neutral as it is part of the mechanism. It is believed that
some people are born with the quality of an ‘intuitive’ mind. There is a belief
that they could predict events from past and future. There is a cult of
‘Tantricism’, an occult tradition as well as mainstream tradition of meditative
powers to develop intuition, which was used to predict past and future. The core idea behind
all these was to have a mind consciousness, which could have the receptive
brilliance of discerning the ambient patterns of life-living mechanisms. It is
clear that the ability to predict right about past and future, which masses
called magic, the artistry is essentially that of a mind consciousness, which
has special abilities of deciphering the patterns, which are intangible but can
be unraveled. There was a very famous
‘tantric’ (Practitioner of occult) renowned for his magical power to see and
predict future. Many aggrieved people would come to this ‘tantric’ and tell him
their problems. For example, a woman came and asked the tantric to trace his
son, who had gone missing for last one year. The tantric listened to the woman
and then closed his eyes. Minutes after, he said, he had the divine vision that
her son is still alive and he left home on his own accord. Tantric asked the
woman to search for the son in a place 500 kilometers east from the place he
lived. The woman later found her son after a year in a city around the same
vicinity the tantric had said. I sat with a tantric and talked about all this.
My friendliness to him made him say things, which he would not reveal to
others. He said, ‘When a person
is in trouble, especially for long period, his or her natural abilities for
rational thinking is eclipsed. People who generally come to us have little
education or unsound reasoning faculties. They tell us everything. We then ask
for some specific information about their trouble and about the environment,
where the trouble started. We then close our eyes, sit in a meditative
consciousness of complete reception. All these information we leave with this
meditative unconscious mind for churning. We have evolved this facility to
switch off our conscious mind. The intuitive unconscious mind has a strange
facility of doing its own strange mathematics and pattern building. It does its
own interpolation and even extrapolation. It may take some minutes or few hours
but the unconscious mind finally puts all these information into a template of
sorts, where we can see pictures of past and future arranged in a particular
order. We then use the faculty of the conscious mind to create a pattern or
sequence of events. On this basis, we predict and it usually comes true.’ There are great
similarities between what the tantrik
did and what doctors used to do 50-60 years back. Then, there were little
specialist diagnostic tests of modern times available to the doctors and
patients were in general averse to such tests. For diagnosis, they had to
depend largely on the symptoms the patients described of his troubles or any
external symptoms visible. The most popular doctor was one, who could diagnose
the disease correctly. Many of the doctors of
old school used the power of ‘intuitive mind’ to diagnose the diseases
correctly. Many of them practiced the art of meditation, worships, occult
practices and even playing musical instruments to attune and align the mind
towards a state of high reception. They depended heavily on details and then
used the intuitive minds to work out a pattern, which would then help them in
predicting the right diagnosis. Somehow, we all do it
in one form of the other. Just visit a casino to see how the master gambler is
the one who is sharp and prompt enough to predict a pattern in all games and
make the right choices. It is our mind, which is constantly doing the
calculations of the permutations and combinations, scattered all around us. The
interpolative and extrapolative mind consciousness is a random facility of
mind, which we all can master. Naturally, some are more favored to attain the
mastery because of their natural abilities. Still, we all can do it. The mechanism and its
pattern or causalities work on their own accord. The probabilities, which
emerge out of the processes of the mechanism is what we can say as ‘common
destiny’ for all, who are part of this mechanism. ‘God’ is neutral as ‘His’
mechanism is neutral. What falls in our laps as destiny of probability is a
function of how much personalized input we can assign to the working processes
of the mechanism. We cannot avoid the destiny, as we are part of it. However,
we can alter the probabilities of destiny by adding our personalized input. Somehow, if we
consciously look at it and use our logical and reasoned awareness for
deciphering the causality, we can find that even this idea of ‘God’ or divinity
is also a ‘Causality Of Consciousness’. God is probably the finest example of
the idea of ‘Causality’ and as it is related with the reality of consciousness,
it is interesting to look into it, accepting with open mind that this could be
a possible hypothesis. Let us elaborate that. If you accept and allow
the macrocosmic perspective to build on a hypothesis that singular objective
truth and realism apart, whatever seems and presents itself for observation, is
a registry and artistry of the hugely mystical marvels of brain, which unravels
them through our mind consciousness. This hypothesis is not a figment of pure
imagination; rather it is a primary acceptance of innocence of intelligence.
This hypothesis is an initiation into the complexity of this multidimensional
universe of mysticism, marvel and magic, which are now ensconced and embedded
deep into our mind consciousnesses. It is even accepted that these cultural
ideas of mysticism, marvel and magic are now very much part of our instincts,
our genetic wiring. This mysticism and
marvel of mind consciousness of contemporary humans, engenders an ‘I’, a sense
of subjective self, which has now put the idea of divinity into an external
domain. However, some five-six thousand years back and even beyond, this mind
consciousness of early humans were not what it is today of we people. The early
consciousness could see and accept that all ideas and dimensions of divinity
were not external but deep within. This consciousness defined and accepted
divinity not in a cultural way, as we accept it today. It was only natural that
early consciousnesses of humanity, thousands of years back created such
beautiful and insightful metaphors of divinity, which now stand as completely
degenerated. It is tough to understand and accept those metaphors as
contemporary mind consciousnesses have become highly cultured by degenerated
notions of divinity. We shall attempt to
recreate the old consciousness here and this shall lead us to understand the
internalized idea of divinity, where God is only within, experienced with such
intensity of pure consciousness that it was somehow possible for a mind then to
engender a metaphor of ‘I Am God’, documented in classical Indian spiritual
traditions. When a mind
consciousness, positioned in a state of poise of all tangible and intangible
elements of being and cosmos expresses this idea of ‘I Am God’, it creates a
marvelously precarious superposition of entities. This super consciousness,
assimilating and identifying the ‘self’ in complete linearity with the idea of
divinity, has almost no choice to express its situationalism in any other set
of words. This super consciousness, understands, accepts and internalizes the
3Ms �" Mysticism-Marvel-Magic, with a perfectly novel perspective of 3Cs �"
Consciousness-Cognition-Causality. The expression, ‘I Am
God’, can be anything but never the narcissistic expression of an intelligent
mind consciousness. Rather, it must be primarily accepted as the self-negating
expression of an innocent mind consciousness, stretching the self beyond all
signs and semblances of ‘self’. We shall attempt to unravel all possible aspect
of this expression of ‘I Am God. At the very start, we
need to accept a very natural and fruitful mechanism of mind consciousness,
which shall help us in understanding, why the proposition, ‘I Am God’ becomes a
realism. You must have noticed; when you listen to your favorite music, you
start with listening music, then your consciousness moves with the music and you
feel like being part of the music and finally your consciousness merges with
the music and you become music. The best experience of
this merger of identities �" external and internal into singular identity
happens in love. Be in love and you will see and experience the
multidimensionality of all realisms around you �" be it within self or in the
milieus outside, merging into a singular consciousness. Be in love to
experience the magic and then you yourself become The Magic. Deep within the
body-mind intimacy and emotion of love, you shall cease to be an experiencer
and turn to be experience itself. You start as being in love and then become
love. Love happens and this merger happens �" the experiencer becoming the
experience. All pluralism, all dualism and all multidimensionality of
consciousness and realisms merge into singular linearity. All ‘somethingness’
first enters the domain of ‘nothingness’ and then finally it swims effortlessly
in the ocean of everythingness. The same and even far
more spontaneous and lasting is the experience of the experiencer of divinity
becoming the experience itself and in the state of such ultimate consciousness,
where all somethingnesses become singular everythingness, the conscious self
merges into the unity and linearity of cosmic consciousness. As this merger,
dissolution and ultimate union ends up the segregation of external and internal
realisms and people start feeling being the love or music itself, a
consciousness in the domain of divinity also feels being divinity itself and
what comes out as a light from the consciousness is put in humanly designed
words as �" ‘I Am God’. This however is difficult to happen, because in the case
of divinity, there is a missing tangible of physicality of lover and music. As we have talked about
it earlier, the mind consciousness does not speak in the language we humans
designed for our social exchange of ideas. The experiences of mind
consciousness and its expressions are not amenable to be put in human words.
That is why, when someone says in exalted state of higher consciousness that he
or she is the music, the love or the God, there has to be an innocent and
compassionate acceptance that the words are just extremely poor shadow of the
pure and primary imagery of the experience and expression in his or her mind
consciousness. Now, we need to
understand that the purpose of the above metaphors of music and love was used
to simply and facilitate the above hypothesis, we had accepted earlier. The
hypothesis was �" “Singular objective
truth and realism apart, whatever seems and presents itself for observation, is
a registry and artistry of the hugely mystical marvels of brain, which unravels
them through our mind consciousness.” This hypothesis was
necessary to arrive at the theoretical realism that when a consciousness says,
“I Am God”, it is this same registry and artistry of the hugely mystical
marvels of brain, unraveled through his or her mind consciousness. Moreover,
those minds, who object to it and arrive at different interpretations of realisms,
are also because of this same registry and artistry. That is why there has to
be huge amount of innocence and courage of compassion to rise above the
constraints of a cultured mind consciousness, which sees and accepts
hypocrisies of all shades. Now, we shall discuss
in detail about the mechanism of this “Registry and Artistry of Mystical
Marvels of Mind Consciousness”. We shall attempt to arrive at the processes of
mechanisms, which engenders the possibility of a consciousness state, which
accepts this proposition of “I Am God”. There is a mechanism of
human consciousness, much of it is now understood and this facilitates
understanding of how all realisms, we see and accept, are within mind
consciousness. There is a cyclicality among elements in external milieu,
elements within self (instinct and culture) and the subjective consciousness.
It is highly discernible and even replicable fact that constitution of the idea
and expression of divinity has always had only those elements, which are
instinctively present both inside human mechanism as well as in the external
milieu. This is an interesting and ubiquitous ‘Causality’. It is such a
ubiquitous commonality that all elements of human consciousness, culture and
divinity are the same. This is in sync with ancient wisdom that nothing
external to consciousness exists. Science also says the same. We talk in detail
about the commonality of these elements below. Ancient Indian wisdom
talked about seven elements of life and delegated these elements in ownership
of different Gods. I humbly request you to accept my hypothesis that when our
forefathers deciphered these ideas and created a wisdom of oral traditions,
they did not mean them to be what we now know as ‘religion’. It was then a
social collective wisdom, very much a local culture of few thousand people,
living in a physical milieu, which was tough, as humanity had not tamed the
wild nature by then. Only hundreds of years later, these wisdoms were crafted
in written literary tradition, with their objectivity being lost considerably
in subjective consciousnesses of their writers. Then, the larger population,
which had become more settled and comfortable with life, named it religion and
suitably wrapped these wisdoms with opulence of rituals of personal and societal
conveniences. Let us talk about the
commonality of elements in the three domains of consciousness, culture and
divinity. As we said earlier, there are seven core and predominant elements in
nature and all matters of the universe, which stand to be observed by humans,
shall have these seven elements �" be it human culture, societal interaction
structures, subjective self as well as divinity. These seven elements are
essentially intangible imageries of brain and mind mechanisms, but as they
stand to be observed by humans in an instinctive causality with ambient
physical nature, these seven elements stand to be expressed and communicated
socially, culturally and personally in tangible terms of words and physical
symbols of life and living. We shall discuss this
causality later but first, we must name the seven elements. Before we do it, it
must again be emphasized that these intangible elements are being made to ride
on the back of humanly designed words and therefore, the resultant conflict and
confusion in their true shade of meanings shall ever remain. That is why a
humble request is to accept these seven elements in terms of words in
holistic-assimilative-integrative perspective, allowing innocence of compassion
to come to the forefront of reception. These seven elements in words are �"
It is easy to
understand and accept that within an individual, these seven elements are
deeply ingrained in subconscious layers of self and are expressed in
multidimensional plurality of action and behavior. These elements are core
instincts of a subjective consciousness and as these elements are intangibles
for success of survival of a person, their expressions in behavior and actions
are vocal and ubiquitous. It is also equally
visible to all that all cultures of all human societies, across geographical
divide in the world have the same seven elements. All cultures are mystical and
magical expressions of the marvel of these seven elements. It is a huge domain
of empirical study and analysis as how the same elements act and interact with
each other in the respective domains of individual self and society. These
seven elements engender a mystically marvelous causality between the individual
and societal domains and in turn, this causality influences in shaping up the
rainbowish shades of cognition both in an individual as well as in contemporary
popular societal culture. We can talk in lengthy
details about these cognitions and causality of seven elements but this is not
our focus area in this book. We shall talk about them in another book in
future. Here, our purpose and utility is to draw the mechanism as how these
cognition and causality engender the divinity and its multidimensional
realisms. In ancient Indian wisdom, as we said earlier, all these seven
elements were made to be owned separately by seven Gods, who are the seven core
Gods in Indian tradition. Though in contemporary Indian religious traditions,
there are now 330 million deities, a deep look into their historicity of origin
and traditions of worship shall very clearly reveal that all of them are owners
of only these seven elements. As we said, there are
seven original Gods and Goddesses, who were assigned the ownership of each of
these seven elements. Now we once again present the seven elements with their
reigning deity marked alongside �"
We all need to be
humble and innocent when it comes to acceptance of anything new, which is not
part of our subjective consciousness, cognition and causality. The ancient
Indian wisdom cautions that knowledge has utility only if it creates humility,
as it is the humility and innocence, which extends the eligibility of wisdom.
We are simply creating a hypothesis that ultimately proves, what ancient wisdom
observed thousands of years back and what science now accepts as objective and
replicable reality. The hypothesis is the acceptance that all realisms are
expressions of the intangible processing mechanism of the mind consciousness.
The hypothesis is �" “Singular objective truth and realism apart, whatever seems
and presents itself for observation, is a registry and artistry of the hugely
mystical marvels of brain, which unravels them through our mind consciousness.”
Modern science and
contemporary social sciences, based on the objectivity of the natural sciences
have accepted the same ancient observation and wisdom. They have however
explained the same in the light of the brain mechanism and new insights into
the processing mechanism of consciousness. The 3Cs �"
Consciousness-Cognition-Causality, which happens to be behind the 3Ms �"
Mysticism-Marvel-Magic stands to be seen, interpreted, analyzed and accepted in
a new light of holistic-assimilative-integrative perspective. This unravels the
objective and singular perceptions of the 3Cs and in turn, settles the age-old
multidimensionality and plurality of the 3Ms in an objective and replicable
way. This new causality
makes it clear that consciousness has this within itself to engender all sorts
of mysticism, marvel and magic. The marvel and mysticism is in the mechanism of
the processing of elements of nature, within and outside human body and as
these elements are intangible, they are bound to be expressed in a
multidimensional way, depending on the interplay and randmomized causalities of
these seven elements. Modern science admits
that there are seven shades of consciousness and all shades are present in a
single individual. It is like a singular source of light splits into seven
colors of spectrum as it is made to pass through a prism. An individual’s
current personality at a time-space situation is primarily decided by those
elements of the seven shades, which are predominant in the same time-space
bracket. This however may not be permanent, though many people can remain in
the same personality element or elements all throughout their lives. The social scientists
have started to design a consciousness mapping of nations and societies on the
basis of these seven shades of personality. It is said that in the existing
world, people with red shade of consciousness, which marks the predominance of
2nd and 6th elements of indulgence and status. This shade of consciousness
always has been the majority personality grouping at any time of the human
civilization. All elements are equally important and inevitable for the
evolution of life on this planet. We are not judging on the utility and
superiority of any element or any shade of human consciousness and personality.
Our enterprise is to observe a causality between consciousness, cultures and
divinity. It is very much easily
observable that a person shall usually pick up a ‘Generic God’ to his or her
own predominant consciousness. Ancient Indian wisdom said, “Only generic and
similar elements can have lasting relationship.” Divinity choices can therefore
be observed as causality of personal positioning of subjective consciousness
and generic perception of a personal deity. In the long history of humanity,
societies have evolved into a collective consciousness of a particular shade
and accordingly, their presiding deities have changed too. The mind consciousness
is a strange subject. This subject �" the source and dispenser of all actions
and behavior has a mechanism, which engenders a beautifully mystical dualism.
It is this dualism, which makes him or her engender realisms from within its
consciousness and then in turn itself make it an external realism. We are not
going into detail of this dualism of consciousness but we shall however talk
about how the dualism of human consciousness creates so much of magic and
marvel. We shall primarily talk about how divinity is one such mysticism and
marvel of the human consciousness. This shall finally reach us to a situation
where the consciousness finally accepts the end of this dualism, the
dissolution and assimilation of the dualism into one singular holism. At this
consciousness, the expression, ‘I Am God’ is the only realism. The idea or feeling of
‘self’, a subjective consciousness of ‘I Am’, as separate and different from
‘them’ is a complex mechanism. Modern contemporary knowledge about this
consciousness, which defines us, is now at a level, where we can understand why
we as consciousnesses are a very complex entity. This complexity has evolved in
a rather stupid way as evolution of humanity in the long journey of billions of
years has been the primary stupidity. This subjective sense of ‘I Am’ is one
huge potential of joy and wellness at one hand. However, this same subjectivity
of consciousness makes it stand as the worst stupid of the universe,
unparalleled in the millions of existing species on earth. Modern objective
knowledge unravels to us the complex mechanism of this subjective
consciousness. Like the seven intangible elements of consciousnesses, science
says that the individual personality has seven layers of consciousnesses
within. They are �"
All seven elements are
within an individual and operate simultaneously. An individual’s personality
has all seven stages of personal growth and evolution, alive and functioning at
any point of time and space. The lower unconscious contains elements of various
instincts, tendencies and complexes. In the higher unconscious are individual
talents and potentials which, a person acquire by practice, reveal inner
strengths and visions of the. The collective unconscious is the culture within.
The life journey is shifting gears from these spheres of consciousnesses. We
need to understand this. From ancient wisdom to
modern science, all wisdoms say the common thing. They say �" ‘You are in your
perspective and your perspectives are in you.’ This means, the personality
traits and choices define you and you in turn are defined by these personality
choices and perspectives. The common wisdom is �" your subjective consciousness,
the idea of ‘I Am’, is not a purely physical realism. This sense of ‘I’ is
filtered through multiplicity of conflicting elements within mind
consciousness, which are intangibles and it is expressed through brain’s
mechanism, which is tangible. This ‘I’ is essentially an emergent and virtual
agency, which acts like a virtual bridge between the tangibles and intangibles.
That is why the consciousness, the sense of ‘I Am’, sways between the seven
layers of consciousnesses, defined cyclically by seven elements of personality. Modern social sciences
maintain there are seven drives or instinctive intangibles within
consciousness. They are : 1. Sensation 2. Emotion/Feeling 3. Impulse/Desire 4.
Imagination 5. Thought 6. Intuition & 7. Will. The sense of ‘I Am’ presides
over all these seven instinctive drives. These elements themselves function
within a consciousness as sub-personalities. A consciousness is defined by the
elements it allows to dominate itself. The element in turn starts defining the
consciousness. The personality of the ‘I’ shall be what a dominant element desires.
A woman with predominance of element of imagination may be a good poetess,
writer or a painter and naturally, her personality shall evolve in a way it is
culturally commensurate for an artist. Suitably, she shall attract all such
elements from external milieu, which aids and enhances her dominant choice of
the element of imagination. Therefore, the element shall start defining her
perspectives and personality. Her personality shall be the sub-conscious
decider of her consciousness. Even her inner culture shall draw those elements
from societal cultures, which are of the same color, which her consciousness
is. That is why probably her divinity shall also draw elements from her
dominant element of imagination. Her consciousness defines her perspectives and
in turn, her perspectives start shaping her consciousness. Divinity is a
culture within her consciousness and its elements. So, we can see how
‘causalities’ are created and define everythingness. In India’s most revered
spiritual book, Geeta, the Krishna, who is accepted as the
incarnation of Vishnu, the God of nurturance and stabilization, says �" ‘He who
seeks me in whichever disposition, I meet him in the same facilitative
consciousness’. This is the most impacting and futuristic expression of divinity
ever made. This speaks of the critical idea of ‘Causality’. Vishnu, the most
popular and dominant God in Hindu religious traditions accepts something, which
is what modern science keeps telling people about the core idea of divinity.
What Vishnu says means �" ‘Divinity is
the idealism of consciousnesses. It is a facility, a functional superposition
of consciousness, which is the ultimate arriving for all subjective
consciousnesses. Divinity is the dissolution of all dualisms and ultimate
destination of all journeying consciousnesses, where all seven elements of
consciousnesses merge into a singular super consciousness.’ Subjective
consciousnesses of individuals are split between seven elements of
consciousnesses. This dualism makes them confused and conflicted. This
subjective consciousness, in its dualism and resultant conflict fails to see
that divinity is nothing external to its consciousness, it is a realism within.
As the ‘I Am’ feeling is conflicted and in a flux of dualism, his or her
consciousness engenders the divide for him or her. He or she thinks, his or her
God is some entity or function outside her faculties. The un-arrived and
dualistic consciousness shall always seek divinity, his or her personal God
outside her consciousness. The consciousness then unravels its own artistry of
marvel and magic. It starts drawing similar elements from outside physical
milieu and culture. If consciousness accepts the intangible element of divinity
as outside entity, the subconscious layers of consciousnesses starts aligning
with all similar and generic tangibles from the milieu and culture. You are
what your perspectives are and your perspectives make what you are. Therefore,
divinity when accepted as outside entity, engenders all external rituals and
cultural necessities. Arriving is all about
mind training to lead the consciousness to a certain positioning or
situationalism of complete reception, where all dualisms end. In all religions,
the divinity tells people �" ‘Stop seeing me, you shall see’, ‘stop searching
me, you shall find’. Now, there are semantic conflations also in these words,
apart from the dualism, which is purely a mind and consciousness positioning.
One feels the dualism in the lines as it says to ‘stop’ doing something for its
‘fruition’. We must understand why there is no dualism in it. The simple idea is, you
and me cannot find or search God or love. It is there in whatever shape, color
or positioning irrespective of our semantic and mental confusion about what and
how God and love is. We get God and love not by finding or searching for it but
by stopping doing it as, this leads us to be assimilated in God and Love, as
both are in everything and everywhere. And the most important fact is that what
we are searching and looking outside in the domain of mysticism and marvel is
actually our own consciousness or its expressions. You actually stop the
dualism and conflict, the moment you stop looking outside. At this state of
your consciousness, dualism stops and non-dualism is arrived at. The divinity
is identified with and the super consciousness expresses this realism in the
poorly designed human words of ‘I Am God’. Both science and
ancient wisdom talk about a singular facility, which leads us to this super
consciousness, where ‘I Am God’ expression becomes a realism. This intangible
element is called ‘Will’. Will as an intangible element of consciousness grows
like a seed in the soil of the subjective sense of ‘I Am’. The ultimate
destination of this growth and personal evolution is expressed in terms of ‘I
Am God’. This will is evolved in stages and each stage deals with another set
of intangible. The evolution of will also goes through seven stages of personal
growth. These seven stages are �"
It has to be understood
that ‘Will’ affects the evolution of the higher personality, not the
sub-personalities. A whole range of intangibles like concentration,
determination, patience, perseverance, courage, discipline, mastery, artistry,
intensity, power, organization, integration, and synthesis are required for the
process of evolution of the Will. If you match these
seven intangibles with the first classification of seven elements, owned by
different deities, you can easily understand, how cyclical this causality of
dualism is. These elements are similar. This reflects the realism that divinity
is an intangible mechanism of reaching your own potential as consciousness.
This sums up as why, a consciousness, when arrives at the optimality of his or
her potential as a consciousness, he or she reaches and merges with the
singularity and here, ‘I’ is ‘Divinity’ �" this realism is �" ‘I Am God’. ** CHAPTER 3 Understanding
Specificity In Detail Much has changed,
especially in the last decade, in the domain of human wisdom of ‘self’, which
expresses itself in such ways that creates all entities in life and living.
Much has changed as science has now begun to understand well enough this
mystery of how our brain works and creates this sense of ‘I’ or ‘Me’ or the
‘Self’. Science says, we and as our brain creates realities for us, essentially
are ‘Love-Belief-Systems’. Now, we need to
understand this idea of ‘Love-Belief-Systems’. When we see and accept our
life-living realism and even our own ‘self’ or sense of ‘I’ from the new
millennium perspective of ‘Love-Belief-Systems’, we shall stand truly
empowered. The core idea behind this hypothesis of ‘Love-Belief-Systems’ is �" human
brain, which engenders ‘I’ or this subjective sense of ‘Me’, ‘Mine’, ‘They’,
‘Their’, etc, works on the basis of an algorithm, which we can broadly list as
‘Beliefs’. We are essentially what we believe and feel as something ‘true and
right’ for us. If I am ABC, then ABC is essentially the XYZ beliefs that it
has. This algorithm of ‘beliefs’ is a complicated mechanism and it is difficult
how it is created and works for us. However, what we can do here is accept it
as a function of something called ‘specificity’. Brain and its working
with algorithm is an intangible mechanism. Brain does not hold tangible
elements like apple, mango and strawberry. It only holds images, in terms of
electro-chemical and neuro-chemical impulses. Therefore, what it accepts for
its algorithm design is ‘specificity’. Specificity is the ‘intangible’ outcome
or functional feel of the interaction of two or more tangible things… Let us understand
‘specificity’ in terms of what we all can in easy way �" that is LOVE. Love is
also a ‘specificity’ of tangible elements, which brain accepts for its
algorithmic tasking. Science says, you see a person, which is tangible, you see
the physical and other tangible elements in him or her. You talk, you get to
know, etc. All these elements of tangibility interact with brain’s already
wired ‘Belief System’, which then creates an emotion, which is physical
feedstock to your brain, in terms of tangible chemical signals. These then
create a ‘Specificity’ �" The Feeling of LOVE. Love, as ‘specificity’
is not tangible or a material with any physicality. However, Love is the
intangible ‘specificity’ of interaction of tangible elements, conveyed to brain
with tangible system of hormones and other chemical-neural impulses. Like love, in our life
and living, our own consciousness is expressed as intangible ‘specificity’ of
tangibles, which is a mechanism of what we earlier termed as
‘Love-Belief-System’. This specificity can also be understood in terms of
‘Vector-Realism’, about which we have already talked. The process of making
of consciousness, which stays with us lifelong, starts even when we are in
mother’s womb. The sense of ‘self’ or to say, the question as ‘who I am’,
starts to take shape when in womb, a child gets the feel of sounds and
vibrations around. The unconscious mind of child starts accepting these
elements of his immediate milieu as part of its homeostasis requirements.
Homeostasis, in common person’s definition is a body-mind requirement of
survival of the body. We have already talked about homeostasis. Science admits;
a newborn child is designed to be born as a genius. It readies itself for the
environment outside the womb by imbibing the signals it receives inside the
womb. That is why; modern couples start the education of their kids well in the
womb itself. From the day first, the
human child is instinctively loaded with one facility, which helps him or her
evolve his or her ‘self’ �" the subjective consciousness. This facility is
instinctive inquisitiveness �" the insatiable inclination to know and then
imbibe it as part of what we call his ‘Love-Belief-System’. The animals also
learn and survive by accepting what their mother does. This aping is primary
wired algorithm of ‘Love-Belief-System’. This desire also seems to be a
beautiful expression of the homeostasis mechanism of body-mind consciousness.
The mind can maintain poise only when it incessantly updates information about
the surrounding environment and makes prompt decisions about the utility of
these information for maintaining homeostasis. Human brain, since its inception
begins to write its algorithms, by accepting, loving and believing in what he
or she finds suited to its survival. So, a mother majorly shapes whether a new
born shall remain a non-vegetarian or a vegetarian for life. The kid simply
falls in love with whatever his or her mother feeds him or her as it is his/her
survival/homeostatic need. It is here the trouble
seems to start for humanity. The need to know, to survive and excel, since
infant stage, exposes the nascent mind to loads of multiplicity of information
in the larger environment. As subconscious mind of the child starts to accept,
love and adopt most of them as ‘essential’ for his homeostasis, he or she
becomes unconsciously predisposed to these information and they become part of
his or her larger consciousness, which science refers to as
‘Love-Belief-System’. When science says, ‘You
are in your perspectives and your perspectives are in you’ it is essentially a
reference to the mechanism of this ‘Love-Belief-System’. You are majorly what
your ‘Love-Belief-System’ shapes you since infant stage, or even when in womb.
That is why, science also warns �" The true empowerment and maturity comes when
a person ‘unlearns’ and ‘prunes’ from his ‘Love-Belief-System’, those elements,
beliefs and loves, which are antithetical to social peace, harmony and personal
wellness. Unlearning is always the key element of empowerment and maturity. Even before a child
grows up to become an adult, he or she already accepts thousands of beliefs.
However, most of these beliefs are based on his or her personal and subjective
interpretations of experiences, inferences, assumptions, probabilities,
deductions, inductions, and loads of oversimplifications, which the
subconscious mind is expert at making. Most of these beliefs are very much part
of the subconscious mind and continue to present themselves as potent referrals
for conscious mind even years after. We all have heard people saying, an
adult’s love is very much a reflection of what he or she got in childhood. We
all know, a love-deficit childhood engenders an adult with troubled love life. All these beliefs,
which a child acquires, form part of the ‘self’, the subjective consciousness,
about which we always keep asking question as ‘who I am’. Our subconscious mind
starts building an image of ‘self’ and this process expresses itself in
mystically intangible ways. We unconsciously start extending the limits of our
‘self-image’ in things and beliefs around us. It starts with we identifying with
our body first, then with our mind, our family, friends, neighbors, teachers,
partners, the special someone and later with our career, assets, ethnicity,
nationality, gender etc. As we grow in life, we identify more with ideas and
issues, fall in love with our beliefs and dogmatically refuse to test their
validity and righteousness, as is common with lovers. All these are expression
of our ‘self’, the consciousness. We adopt our
‘Love-Beliefs’ in our minds and guard them very ferociously as if they were part
of our ‘self’. We fight for our people and beliefs like we fight for our dear
life and well-being. It is because, they are part of our self and anything
against them threatens our homeostasis, making us react fiercely. This is
mystical. We may think, we are fighting for the cause of our dear ones or dear
beliefs but essentially, we are fighting for our own survival, which is
expressed in terms of homeostasis. The mechanism of ‘Love-Belief-System’ does
his for us. We all know how people
feel so strongly about their family, loved ones, ethnicity and nationality.
People go to the extent of sacrificing their lives for the dear cause of family
and even nation. It is very simple to understand why people do not think twice,
giving up their lives for lovers and even something as vague as loss of their
favorite football club. People commit suicide even when their favorite pop star
falls from stairs and hurts him or her seriously. This is no joke. These
incidents somehow are very intense and as most people accept it as something
seriously threatening their ‘self �" their very homeostasis wellness, they feel,
their very survival is threatened. The reaction can be very disproportionate
and precarious. They often are in love! Now, when we have entered a new
millennium of wisdom and reason, which unravel to us the mysteries of
consciousness, we need to know and be guarded about how our brain system works
and creates realities for us. Scientific observation
accepts that our being self-aware is a product of knowledge. Knowledge is an intangible. Experience on the
one hand is a material characteristic of our organism. Knowledge on the other hand is the intangible
contents (information) found in the ‘Specificity’ of physical relationships in
the brain. Knowledge is at least in part
supported by the same brain states that are experiential. The situation is this: If we did not have
knowledge, then we would not know of our experience and if there were no
experience then we would not experience our knowledge. This leads us to a very
insightful notion of ‘Specificity’. Somehow, as evolving men and women, we need
to accept that every stage of human evolution is defined by a ‘milieu’ or what
we may refer to as ‘ideational-time/space’. This we can safely accept as
‘Specificity’ of realism, which defines and shapes the ‘collective
unconscious’, the archetypes or what we know as memes. Our subconscious then is
shaped up by the memes. As subconscious rules 95% of our behavior and actions,
we can see how we all are designed and defined by this notion of ‘Specificity’. Broadly, specificity is
about zeroing down, settling for exactness, pin-pointing to a singularity, or
simply, deciphering the single largest ‘affector’ of a realism. We all
understand how difficult this task of seeking ‘exactness’ is. We have already
talked about how our brain hallucinates realism. How our past experiences
stored in subconscious and collective unconscious (called memes) affect our
perceptions of realism. We already know how our body-mind design is actually the
primary reason making us fail in installing this exactness or specificity. But
then, the beauty of science is in scaling something, which is tough and
transient, yet amenable to structured interpretation. As humans, we rely
heavily on our language as communication tool to express ourselves in
‘definitive terms’. The humanly designed words, we feel are our best tools for
exactness and specificity. This is biggest misnomer and the hypocrisy of
primary intent. Why? Primarily, when our own
body-mind mechanism is so infested with dualistic consciousness, we seldom
perceive reality as it is. How can then we design something of exactness.
Naturally, our languages and words are only a very poor means of transference
of our intents and perceptions. That is why it is said, most societies and
cultures are infested with conflicts and confusion and majority of societal and
cultural troubles are only Semantic �" emanating out of difference of
perceptions in meanings and intents we ascribe to wordings. Secondly, languages we
speak are for external milieus. They are at best a poor tool for societal and
collective space for facilitating interactive needs. Language is okay when I
talk to you. However, there is a language of our body and mind, which we do not
know and has only begun to decipher. The language our cell speaks to other
cell, our tissues speak to nerve cells, our sensory organs speak to our brain
are all beyond our own designed words and languages. They speak chemical and
electrical languages, most of us are not even aware of. It is only recently
that we have begun to know how our Liver speaks to Pancreas when the blood
stream speaks to it about sugar content. We simply know about something called
diabetes but seldom care for ‘Exactness’, the Specificity of the mechanism.
Most importantly, the ‘Genetic Expression’, which is core and critical for our
survival and proliferation is a language, scientists have only just begun to
fathom. These molecular languages are what we are talking about �" the
Specificity. Therefore, in future,
in the coming years, those, who truly wish to stand empowered and evolved, need
to delve deep into this notion of specificity. The idea if specificity also
helps us in improving the efficacy of our inter-personal interactions. When we
understand how molecular communication or genetic expressions have to work with
needle-point precision to enable us survive on daily basis. When we understand
how a miniscule deviation or aberration in molecular communication or genetic
expressions can kill us, or already killing us in plenty, we become aware as
how poorly we express and communicate through our words and languages we have
designed. We rather seldom care before speaking. We never think of and plan for
the needle-point precision of ‘specificity’ (exactness) in our languages and
communications. It is only very natural that we live in societies and cultures,
where everyone and everything is misunderstood or un-understood, causing hell
loads of chaos, confusion and conflicts… Someone said, ‘The most
rewarding feeling of life and living is the assurance that I am understood’.
Probably right! Why? Because, most people have this inner realization that
either they are hypocritical or unclear in their communication and expression.
Therefore they are always skeptical about whether they are being understood or
not. It is probably because we have not bothered to master the craft of
‘specificity’ in our life and living. This is the language of
future of humanity. A brilliant scientist, Stephen William Hawking said that
future of humanity rested with molecular biology and artificial intelligence.
It is the new language of specificity that would shape new human, evolved by
controlled human design. If we do not master the artistry of the linguistic
excellence of Specificity, we decay and dissipate. We do not survive and excel. ** CHAPTER 4 Understanding
Homeostasis In Detail Scientific evidences
maintain that ageing is 30 percent gene function and 70 percent lifestyle
choices. Homeostasis decides it all. Anthropologists say, more than 100,000
years ago when hunting and gathering were the primary economic activities,
humankind was in a homeostatic equilibrium with the natural environment. We
have lost it way back. Global researches
confirm that the aggregate levels of happiness and well being are not
appreciably higher now than they were at the end of World War II (1945), even
though per capita income has increased by several hundred percent and in all
aspects of life and living, we are now many times better off and comfortable. It is not that these
are stupid data or findings of a science lab, which we are not aware of. It
surely looks like we all feel it but cannot say why? We all somehow promptly
confirm, something is hugely amiss around us, but when it comes to pinpointing
it, we have trouble. Be it our body, mind, family system, society at large,
cultures, nations or global order, we all feel, things are not the way it needs
to be and there is something small or big, which we are missing, which makes us
uncomfortable, missing the desired wellness. It is not that humanity
is not doing anything about all this. There are researches going on. Lots of
money and intellect are being invested to know exactly what and why. However,
somehow, it is not such a complicated thing that an individual, busy in his or
her life and living blues cannot understand and answer. It is indeed a simple
common sense, which humanity, some thousands of years back could fathom and
point out. The explanation about
the idea of homeostasis is scientific and it needs expert knowledge. That is
why I accept that most things about the concept of homeostasis, I have taken
from what experts have said. Even most of the words in the following
paragraphs, about homeostasis are that of the experts, not truly mine. I surely
cannot explain it in layman’s terms as it shall not be appropriate. Science says,
homeostasis allows the body to adapt to a wide variety of environments, both
internally and externally. In order for the body to maintain healthy, it needs
to remain in a state of balance, homeostasis. When the body is unable to
maintain homeostasis, disease often ensues. A great many factors can affect the
body in such a way as to throw off homeostasis. Stress is one of these many
factors. As is commonly known, stress on the body can induce both physical and
psychological changes in the body. Science says, while the
body is able to adjust to natural changes within the body, and generally
without (temperature changes, etc), it cannot adjust to activities which we subject
ourselves to. Smoking promotes changes within the body which homeostasis has no
control over. It cannot defend against the harmful effects of smoking, drinking
alcohol in excess, or depriving our bodies of necessary sleep and nutrients.
Poor dietary habits can take a toll on the body for which homeostasis can do
nothing to recover balance. What is important is to
know that disease and cellular malfunction can be caused in two basic ways:
either, deficiency (cells not getting all they need) or toxicity (cells being
poisoned by things they do not need). Contemporary environment and lifestyle
choices are doing both at the same time and that too very badly. In our
fast-paced lives and peer-pressured race for unending marathon of
instant-self-gratifications, we are not only depriving our bodies of the basic
needs for survival but also adding hell lot of toxicity than our bodies could
handle. Survival is all about homeostasis in nature as well as nurture domains.
Tragically, we live in a cluttered milieu and annihilated nature as well as
nurture. Now, it is crucial to
understand and accept, how in our drift and flux lives, we are actually killing
our homeostasis, which in turn is creating havoc with our life-living wellness
and personal excellence. It is so very important to understand and accept that
in addition to the internal control mechanisms, there are external influences
based primarily on lifestyle choices and environmental exposures that influence
our body's ability to maintain cellular health. They are: Nutrition: If
your diet is lacking in a specific vitamin or mineral your cells will function
poorly, possibly resulting in a disease condition. Usually people take overdose
of macro nutrients like carbohydrate, protein and fat but seldom nourish their bodies
with micronutrients like vitamins and very important minerals which are key
elements for homeostasis and homoeostatic regulation. We need to understand, a
deficiency of even a nondescript mineral called zinc could create havoc with
body homeostasis. Equally crucial are potassium, calcium, phosphorus, etc.
Balanced diet in today’s fast-paced life is most crucial requirement and this
is what most people ignore. It needs to be reminded that in contemporary
clutter culture, the mass media, pep psychologists, markets and celebrities are
all spreading inappropriate and extrapolated information about not only right
food and right diet but almost all aspects of life-living choices. That is why
there is that overload of confusion about what is right and good for us. We
need to stop and check things for our wellness. Toxins:
Any substance that interferes with cellular function, causing cellular
malfunction are toxins. This is done through a variety of ways; chemical,
plant, insecticides, and/or bites. A commonly seen example of this is drug
overdoses. When a person takes too much of a drug their vital signs begin to
waver; either increasing or decreasing, these vital signs can cause problems
including coma, brain damage and even death. As per latest info, an average
American has 12 prescriptions a year. All over the globe, average people too
are taking far many medicines than necessary. In America, more people die of
prescription drugs than any other single disease. Moreover, the toxins in the
environment in major cities are major culprits of homeostasis. The air we
breathe, especially in bigger cities is calamitous. The food we eat is so much
laced with harmful chemicals, pesticides and adulteration that every day we are
adding loads of toxins in our bodies. The toxicity has already penetrated to
genes and dangerous mutations are devastating next generation. Psychological:
Your physical health and mental health are inseparable. Our thoughts and
emotions cause chemical changes to take place either for better as with
meditation, or worse as with stress. Our hormones, which are agents of
homeostasis, get hugely affected by our mind state and lifestyle choices. The
psychological factors are the most crucial ones in degrading homeostasis. It
has been found that in modern living spaces, most diseases have psychological
reasons which finally take the shape of psychosomatic diseases. They get listed
in broad classification of lifestyle diseases, which are the largest killers
and cripplers of humanity in contemporary clutter culture. It has been clearly
stated that when in a mind state of chaos and confusion or state of
extremities, the hormones of the body get very poorly affected. As homeostasis
is largely a function of hormonal interplay in the body, volatility of hormones
causes havoc with homeostatic balance. This calamity is cyclic. Physical:
Physical maintenance is essential for our cells and bodies. Adequate rest,
sunlight, and exercise are examples of physical mechanisms for influencing
homeostasis. Lack of sleep is related to a number of ailments such as irregular
cardiac rhythms, fatigue, anxiety and headaches. It is the most common trouble
of clutter culture. In a zeal to multitask, remain ever-connected and be in
ever-happy mode, people are not only not sleeping enough hours but have also
become victims of disturbed sleep. People generally believe that a walk in the
evening or morning is sufficient. It is not. If you understand human evolution,
you can easily understand how much physical labour is required for the maintenance
of body balance. This natural body homeostasis was disturbed 10,000 years back
when humans developed farming and started living a settled life. Consider what
sort of life we lead. A good game of tennis, half an hour of swimming daily or
some good running is the bare minimum we need. However, it also has to accept
that rest and work go hand in hand. Either of the two is a recipe of disaster. Genetic/Reproductive:
Inheriting strengths and weaknesses can be part of our genetic makeup. Genes
are sometimes turned off or on due to external factors which we can have some
control over, but at other times little can be done to correct or improve
genetic diseases. Medical:
Because of genetic differences some bodies need help in gaining or maintaining
homeostasis. Through modern medicine our bodies can be given different props,
but the potential for harmful effects is present. Most drugs have side effects
and inappropriate drug administration is commonplace. Whether by infections, or
wrong dosage of medication, homeostasis can be altered by that which is trying
to fix it. Trial and error with medications can cause potential harmful
reactions and possibly death, if not caught soon enough. The factors listed
above all have their effects at the cellular level, whether harmful or
beneficial. It also has to be understood that the homeostasis imbalance in one
system out of many body systems alone can cause other systems under stress as
all systems are linked. We need to understand various body systems, which are
related with each other for well-being. So, if our digestive system is in poor
homeostasis, other systems like respiratory system or circulatory system also
becomes stressed. This however is not all
about this very crucial realism of homeostasis. Homeostasis is not only about
biological or physiological; it has wider manifestations. There are a growing
number of economists, psychologists and other social scientists that have
become interested in research on the determinants of wellness and happiness. It
has been found after years of rigorous researches that individuals achieve a
higher state of well being and happiness when they are in a homeostatic
equilibrium, in larger sense of the term. This equilibrium state has physical,
emotional, psychological, spiritual and environmental dimensions. Behavior
adjusts to restore the individual to homeostatic equilibrium through a
combination of physical, emotional, behavioral and psychological adjustments.
This behavioral readjustment is known as Allostasis. It is now beyond doubt
that when people are in a nurturing and free environment where there is trust,
stability, good health, a satisfactory work environment, companionship with
friends and family, people are generally happy and have a strong sense of well
being. This represents the attainment of a homeostatic equilibrium at the
environmental social, emotional and psychological levels. However, overall
homeostatic poise is not a permanent realism. Throughout their lives, people
experience excitations to this equilibrium. Some of these excitations may be
positive �" a better job, promotion, birth of a child, marriage, movement to a
better and more desirable living environment, greater security and trust,
development of a more well integrated social life, exercise and more robust
health, enjoyment of hobbies, friends and family, and so on. This would lead to
a higher level of well being as the individual moves to a new homeostatic
equilibrium. On the other hand, a downward displacement from a homeostatic
equilibrium would lead to a lower level of well being. Experts say, it is
interesting that at a more fundamental level, the underlying model and
motivations that drive behavior in a model of homeostatic and Allostatic
adjustment are different from the maximizing calculus (instant-self-gratification)
of microeconomic theory. Rather than decision being motivated by purely
cognitive factors, the adjustment mechanism that drives behaviors in the case
of homeostasis, involves a combination of cognitive as well as emotional imperatives. This is interesting.
Researches maintain that incomes do matter; comfort has a role in wellness but
only till a stage. As wellness is a function of wider homeostasis, which
includes factors, which are not only cognitive but also emotional, a person is
in complete wellness when there is a balance between the cognitive factors such
as income, wealth, comfort, leisure and health as well as emotional factors
such as trust, security, integration with family-friends-colleagues,
connectivity, stability, sense of desirability and spiritual purpose, etc. Research confirmed that
across geographies and ethnicity, people have shown the general tendency to
move towards restoration of this homeostasis in case of a major shift away from
it. This clearly suggests, like our biological system, homeostasis is our
natural and desirable state of being, in all aspects of our life and living
choices and there is a natural and instinctive urge to restore it. We are
designed to act and behave in a way to return to set point of poise. However, what is very
important to understand and accept here is that even as most behavior and
actions of average people are aimed at attaining or restoring this crucial
overall homeostasis, the actual choices depend mostly on how an individual subjectively
perceives his or her life situation and what emotions shape or guide his or her
choices. For example, a man, even in poor health, may opt for working more
hours in office, instead of taking proper rest, if he perceives that he needs
more money for better education of his kids. This leads us to this very
important topic of how we all do risky behaviors, even when we are all wired to
seek our overall homeostasis equilibrium. We have explained
earlier that you are in your perspective and your perspective is in you. This
means, what and how an individual perceives his or her actual and real life
situation can be very subjective. This reflects on the very common life-living
situation of loneliness. We are as lonely as we think we are. Similar is the realism
with our perception about all things and life situations. This subjectivism of
cognition is what we are talking about as we delve into this crucial subject as
why people do loads of risky behavior, which we see all around in contemporary
clutter culture. Scientists say, risky
behavior supports the hypothesis that a failure to adapt to losses or to attain
an expected gain, to restore the homeostatic equilibrium induces risk seeking.
Most kinds of risk seeking behaviors can be interpreted as a desire to return
to an equilibrium level of wealth or any other parameter. This motivation is
particularly strong when losses are involved. It is because sense of loss has
more emotional impact than the sense of gain. This suggests, emotional inputs
have larger subjective impact on perceptions and choices. Therefore, after a
gain, many gamblers may take greater risks, guided by the emotion of larger
gain. However, some gamblers may take a bigger risk, even when they lose, as
they may be led by desperation to win at any cost. This aspect of the
relationship between risks and the homeostatic equilibrium relates to behavior
that has been dubbed risk homeostasis. This behavior implies that there is an
optimum or equilibrium level of risk that people are generally comfortable
with. If this is true, then efforts to decrease risk may be met by riskier
behavior. For example, when highways are designed to be safer, drivers increase
their speed and take more risks and the accident rate remain at previous levels
when highways were not safer. So, the finality of all behaviors depends on
subjective sense of perception of realism. Scientists say, this
interpretation is crucial to understanding the variety of and huge amount of
risky behaviors that we all see around us in our modern living environment. All
around us, there are people, of all age groups, taking far too many risks that
seem quite contrary to the belief that people in general have this intuitive
inclination to move back to homeostatic balance. But, it has to be understood
that any cognitive factor of wellness is also subject to emotional
interpretation. Like; income and wealth as a key cognitive factor for wellness
is important but only up to a limit after which it rather has negative impact.
But, what actually is the optimum level of income and wealth is a subjective
and emotional decision, given also the fact that we all live in a modern
environment where income and wealth disparities are huge. Only 5 percent of
global population owns 95 percent of wealth. This contemporary clutter culture
has loads of such chaos, conflict and confusion, which irrationally affect
choices of behaviors. In such an environment,
decision-making is more tilted towards emotional rather than logical.
Scientists confirm that this cognitive-conundrum is biological, part of our
body-mind mechanism, which we have already stated. Science says, confusion and
chaos makes one emotional in thinking and value-summation as limbic system is
activated. So, emotions make the fine-line between optimum and maximum blurred.
This prompts risky behavior, even though, the behavior is towards restoring the
homeostatic equilibrium. In modern environment,
there is a sense of relative safety and stability. This also prompts people to
take more risks in creating wellness. Then, people have their own levels of
emotional value-summation. A person may react very deeply and heavily if
divorced and start taking risky behaviors, another may move on. So, individual
reaction to homeostasis requirements and allostatic corrections may vary. Understanding the
dynamics of homeostasis and its functional mechanisms give us great insight as
we can understand our own internal design of things and external environmental
factors that have the potential to disturb our balance and poise of life.
Balance in modern environment is something so rare but this is what we all need
to have. That’s why, understanding this poise in all aspects of life and living
can help. It should. This entire lengthy
discussion on homeostasis was aimed at knowing and accepting the two core
facts. First scientific fact is �" the contemporary clutter culture is a
dysfunctional and debilitating realism as it makes most of us land in chaos,
conflict and confusion. This in turn lands us in a charged up emotional state
affecting our logical and appropriate decision-making, as it blurs our
perceptions about actualism of realism. The clutter culture affects our
consciousness negatively and this in turn affects our cognition. Naturally,
affected consciousness and illogical cognitions throws us in the deep oceans of
bad and calamitous causality. Second core fact
emanates out of the first. That is; when the crucial 3Cs �" Consciousness,
Cognition and Causality are hit by another 3Cs �" Chaos, Conflict and Confusion,
we begin to lose the sense of appropriateness of self-awareness, self-control
and self-actualization. That is why we begin to perceive some good and right
things as bad and wrong and the vice-versa. This perception about the worth and
utility of loneliness as some bad and wrong thing comes out of that situation,
which most of us find ourselves deep into. ** CHAPTER 5 Understanding
Neuroplasticity In Detail Let me tell you a
story. Twin boys were born to a couple. One of them was healthy and normal but
another had congenital heart trouble. The doctors declared that the unhealthy
boy shall not survive long as his weak heart shall not allow him to see his
third birthday. The couple was strong
and they decided to make everything count for the abnormal boy. They believed
in their abilities and resolve. They took great care of this boy and made him
live a life, which consciously consisted of all healthy efforts and practices.
This abnormal boy had no choice as he did what his parents made him to. Destiny
sure was changed as this boy lived for 80 long years, living within his
limitations, but surely evolving everyday to attain in life what a normal
person could. However, his healthy
brother, who was supposed to be normal and under no limitations, died at the
age of 22. He was killed in a motorcycle accident, when trying to race it
beyond reasonable limits. The couple believed this normal child was good enough
to care for himself and therefore spared little attention for him. He was a
mainstream person and lived a life even he didn’t choose for himself! This is a metaphor of
what plasticity is all about and how it writes its own beautiful script of
life, which the decisive destiny makes no provision of. Neuroplasticity is a
term, which has similar connotation, which we all must understand and accept as
potent tool to override our destinies, adding all those beautifully endowed
shades of life and living experiences, which destinies make little provision
of. Neoroplasticity is a
term given to a mechanism, which is about physiological changes actually
happenings in the brain states, brought about by mind consciousness. It refers
to changes in neural pathways and synapses owing to changes in behavior,
environment, neural processes, thinking, and emotions, as well as to changes
resulting from bodily injury. This is very real yet
seems so magical and mystical. This shows how brilliant yet so complex and
mesmerizing our body-mind mechanism is. What this magic is all about? The magic
and marvel is about how the intangible elements of our life-living experiences
become so powerful that they actually bring about tangible changes in the
brain. The intangibles are behavior, emotions, thinking, attitude, orientation,
resolve, etc. These intangibles are about our personal choices of conscious
mind, which we put in place in our lives for certain desirable destiny. And,
our brain responds to that. Sure, this stupid called brain is wayward and likes
to be in the comfort of inertia, if we choose to be in the drift of our
subconscious minds. However, the same brain becomes our great facilitator
friend, the moment our conscious mind takes control and invests rightly in the
intangibles. This as we now know, is a process called neuroplasticity, which
signifies that destinies can be changed and this happens by actual and
physiological changes in our brains. In contemporary world,
especially the developed societies, people are growingly accepting the realism
that mind is the centre of all realism. The realism, we think as something
external to us, in our pop belief, designing our destinies is a huge misnomer.
The reality is �" everything is engendered within us and we see only their
images in the external world. What truly matters to us are not the tangibles
but the intangibles. Life is about
plasticity, destinies we all have and end up with are about plasticity. That is
probably why we have our brains, which also has plasticity. The neurons do it
for us. We cannot change
things; we primarily cannot even know what needs to be changed. We cannot
because, as science says, we buoy up and down in the vast ocean of
sub-consciousness for most of our lives, only occasionally surfacing on the
environment of consciousness. This happens to most of us and is surely
aggrandized in those who live a life of drift and flux because of deep
indulgence in the clutter culture, mad multitasking and instant
self-gratification. We need to stop, keep away from this drift and think about
self in a qualitative leisurely state of positive solitude about what changes
we need to bring in our lives for our wellness. We then have to consciously
bring in those relevant intangibles in our mind consciousness, which can effect
physiological changes in our brains. This shall institutionalize wellness and
goodness in our lives. Millions of people all
over the world have been into this meditation. Meditation is nothing but a
conscious choice of our minds, to physically keep away from those tangible
elements in our external milieus, which are causing drift and flux in our
lives. And then, with practice, meditative loneliness consciously brings about
the intangibles into our mind consciousness. Gradually, as our brains build up
new and facilitative neural pathways and synapses, we begin to feel the joys
and satisfaction of the true wellness and happiness. The brain changes
physiologically and gets aligned to the actual wellness and happiness. The human mind, the
functional mechanism of brain structures, has instinctive mechanism to
universalize goodness as well as evil. What we feed in it is not its concern.
This is the role of intellect. The intellect is the intangible faculty to be in
control of the instinctive as well as the culturally learnt behaviors, to
objectively assess all life-living choices with holistic logic. The universe has not
put us where we are today with any specific purpose of designed goodness. We
have to design our purpose. As we repeat this objective mind training to our
brain, the objective goodness would spread all throughout its neural circuitry.
The notion of neuroplasticity says that brain can actually create new pathways
to institutionalize this objective goodness. And then, we won’t have to think
twice to perform goodness, as it would then become an instinct, and thus an
involuntary mechanism, like a hand moving away involuntarily as it touches
fire. It has to be understood
and accepted with all humility and compassion that a real good human is not one
who needs to think and then behave and act good. Rather, it is one who does not
have to think, as all his behaviors and actions are instinctively bound to be
good. We don’t consciously remember when we drive a car or cook a meal as it is
instinctive, even when they were once learned behaviors. Objective goodness is
also learned behavior. But when we repeatedly practice it, it becomes instinctive. Neuroplasticity is also
about this objective intellect. It is about consciously aligning with desirable
intangibles of life and then practice them with mindfulness of higher
consciousness, helped by meditation. This then becomes structured in our brains.
This means, goodness and wellness is no more our choice, but it has become an
auto-mode virtue, an option-less absoluteness for us. ** CHAPTER 6: Understanding
‘I-Mortality’ In Detail We are about to deal
with an idea, which has its origin over 3000 years back. It sure is tough to
visualize a time that far in history but can understand it and feel it in our
consciousness. It was time when there were very few people around and
naturally, the level of proximity and intimacy between them was far deeper than
today. The nature then was wilder and far more intense and people had to always
remain in high awareness state to pre-conceive and pre-empt any probability
that threatened their survival. Naturally, we can safely presume that average
people had their consciousness in ‘Entropy-Expansion’ mode. In such world and
life, it becomes so much easy and available to observe even the most intangible
of feelings, emotions, ideas, patterns and structures. Our early ancestors had
little distractions of modern and contemporary life. As population pressure on
natural resources was very little and needs of life were few, they probably had
sufficient quality leisure time. The poise they had within and utility they
accepted of this precious leisure, led them to be keen observers of every
little thing around. They had to because in tough natural state, survival
depended on ‘Aware-I’ mode life-living. They could decipher a design, a
pattern, a ‘causality’ in almost everything that happened or presented
themselves to them. Humans have the most
developed facility of observance and imagination. These two innate facilities
made our ancestors decipher so many patterns in the nature and in their lives.
They started to put them into actionable ideas. It is also very natural and we
all even today do the same. Those were days, when our ancestors only had the
human tools of observations and imaginations as means of corroboration.
However, they had the genius to engender such ideas, which were self-evident
and self-corroborative in their immediate milieus. They beautifully picked up
symbols and metaphors from nature to elaborate and substantiate their ideas.
They are part of philosophic and spiritual traditions but actually, they also
happen to be the crude resource for scientific enquiry and substantiation. The
core philosophy is based not on ideas, which modern contemporary world can
label as pure imagination of idle and primitive minds. They can be accepted as
observations of realisms, present in the cosmic mechanism and in the microcosm
of human lives and their social living by people, who had the most receptive
mind consciousness. That is why the core philosophy seems so self-evident and
self-corroborative. The core idea emanates out of a realism, which is finality
even today and shall always remain the ultimate finality. This finality is
mortality, which we shall discuss here in spiritual-philosophical mode but has
scientific insinuations. To internalize the idea
and utility of ‘Mortality’, we need to put aside our consciousness, which is so
used to popular modern ideas and benchmarks. It is a popular way of thinking
that death is the end. Classical spiritual philosophy accepted it as the
beginning of life. The core Indian philosophy starts with finality as the
initiation of all ideas of life. That is why it is self-evident and
self-corroborative. Our worthy ancestors could decipher that even in the
definitive and inevitable pattern of mortality; there was overall continuity
and immortality, which permeated in the milieus around them. They could
decipher that in nature, there were elements, which remained continuous and
immortal in totality, even while part of it decayed in cyclic mechanism. This masterly
observation was made available to the genius of imagination and it could be unraveled
to them that every life on earth too had core elements, which were continuous
and immortal, even when part of it decayed in time. This core observation
engendered the idea of two distinct but simultaneous elements of the cosmic
realism �" the mortal and discontinuous and; the immortal and continuous. They
also discovered that within human life too, the same twin elements existed. The
body was mortal and aligned to discontinuous cosmic elements but the elemental
consciousness deep within was immortal and aligned with continuous elements. The subjective feeling
of me, the self as distinct and different from other human being was just a
virtual bridge between the twin realisms of mortality and immortality. This
core idea became the cornerstone of a philosophy, which is enshrined in the
cardinal Indian spiritual system. The yoga philosophy also adheres to this core
idea. Yoga in ancient Indian language of Sanskrit means union of the immortal
elements within a human being with the cosmic elements of immortality. Yoga is
a process of attaining the union of jeevatma (the soul of living beings) with
parmatma (the ultimate soul). This core idea also led to a belief-system, which
decided the ultimate utility and purpose of all lives. Yogic philosophy
presents a self-evident and self-corroborative idea of why and what is the true
way of living one’s life. The core idea was
tested empirically in the social milieu. The best laboratory to test and
validate any idea empirically is the human body-mind mechanism itself. The
patterns of human action and behavior corroborated the idea and they finally
became a social practice and part of the larger culture of that time. The
culture this core idea evolved, accepted that in life, everyone is naturally
inclined to maximize joys and minimize pains. It was accepted that self-welfare
is the cardinal goal of life for every living being and this is attainable
through self-interface or self-dialogue (aatma-sakchhatkar). The wise of our
civilization empirically observed that living beings are in constant and
causative relationship with elements of nature. This nature also exists in
microcosmic form within living beings. In nature, there are both mortal and
immortal elements. They observed that mortal elements are usually expressed in
tangible matter and immortal ones in intangible form. They deciphered that
human being could attain their lasting and continuous wellness only when they
establish a relationship with immortal and intangible elements of nature and
life. The philosophy they engendered says �" True And Lasting Relationship Can
Happen Only Between Similar And Generic Elements. This is the idea, yogic
philosophy practices in totality and perfection. Yogic philosophy maintains
that even the matter shall finally lead to a-matter, tangible shall lead to
intangible and mortal elements shall lead to immortal elements. This is
because, empirically, true and lasting relationship can happen only between
similar and generic elements. The five senses of body mechanism shall initially
orient a person to consumption and gratification. However, the same five senses
automatically and finally leads to the realization that these consumptions and
gratifications are ephemeral and mortal. This is self-evident
and self-corroborative as every human knows that mortality is inevitable and
the ultimate realism. Yogic philosophy admits it as self-evident for all that
all pleasures of body and all joys of gratifications have the inbuilt and
inherent energy advocating against it. The energies of attachments and
gratifications are entwined with the inverse energies of detachment and
renunciation. That is why, within a human being, the desire and will to have a
life of absolute detachment and renunciation is as powerful as the desire and
will for a life of attachment and gratification. The philosophy, which
enshrines the ideals of purpose of life as attainment of perpetuity of
wellness, therefore extends this empirically self-evident and
self-corroborative fact. It says that every human being should consciously opt
for a relationship with only the intangibly expressed continuous and immortal
elements of nature, both within the nature of the body-mind consciousness as
well as the nature outside in physically and tangibly expressed domain. It says
that anyone can decipher the practical realism that the flow of energy of
gratification is also joyous but it ends up in the finality of pain and
emptiness. Whereas, the energy flow of detached consciousness keeps augmenting
like a flame in the fireplace, which is self-energized by constant offering of
renounced elements of consciousness. There is this very
pragmatic and self-evident realism that the powerful energy of joy in
consumption and gratification is entwined with its end in pain and
discontinuity. There is this famous metaphor of equating it with the joy of
itching. It starts with so much pleasure when we scratch an itch. If we
continue with it, it finally ends up in sharp pain and even bleeding in very
short time. The idea is that the very core and perennial realization of painful
mortality and regret of any gratification joy, even while we are at the peak of
its enjoyment is there from the very start. The fruit of gratification has
seeds of pain and regret of its inevitable discontinuity loaded within it. Yogic philosophy lists
three broad types of grief and pain for humans. As it is the essential nature
of a tangible gratification element, the person who starts enjoying it has this
grief and pain well on in his or her mind that this joy shall finally land him or
her in trouble. It is in fact instantaneous. People globally know that more
people are dying because of overeating and overindulgence. The moment you
overeat, you start feeling uneasy. As is human instinct, there is also a sense
of guilt after the action, which we happily ignore but it is stored in the
subconscious. This is first type of grief. The second grief
emanates out of the mortality and discontinuity of the very element of tangible
gratification. If I have million dollars, I am always stressed and in perpetual
consternation that this money I may lose in business or in other way. Worse,
the moneys may be robbed or authorities may take it away as tax. Worst enough;
I am also unhappy that my neighbor probably has more wealth and better prospect
of being wealthier than me. The third grief is that
when I have once got the taste of a particular gratification, it is stored in
my memory and subconscious mind. When finally the gratification is no more
available to me, its memory becomes an excruciating source of grief and pain. So, what we are trying
to arrive at by mentioning this idea about ‘I-Mortality’, which classical
spiritual philosophy has documented well, is a ‘causality’ between tangible and
intangible. We have already talked about how consciousness itself has this
dialectic energy of entropy-expansion leading to entropy-suppression. This idea
of ‘I-Mortality’ emphasizes the reality that as mortality is entrenched deep in
our subconscious mind states, this unleashes ‘Causalities’ in our conscious state.
What we require to do is consciously re-design and ‘re-shape’ this
‘I-Mortality’ element to help us remain in stable and sustained homeostatic
equilibrium, physically, emotionally, intellectually, psychologically and
spiritually. ***** 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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