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October 13 Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? – Podcast Episode 37
Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? - Introduction
Learning from Mistakes Is An Exclusive Human Prerogative... But Are We Really Doing So?
Welcome back to the 37th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom!” will tell you about
learning from mistakes as an exclusive human prerogative, though humanity has not yet been able to do so in its totality.
Learning from mistakes is what stops history from repeating itself. But as we still use the adage 'history repeats itself' clearly indicates that we as humans haven't yet started using our great human potential of learning from mistakes so that the unwanted history doesn't repeat itself anymore.
Human history though being a proud document of its scientific and technological development has also been a shameful document of its inhuman sociocultural misdeeds resulting in numerous episodes of massacre, genocide, ethnic cleansing and holocaust throughout the world in its different parts at different times.
All these differently named episodes have one thing in common in that they all have been the shameless mass killings in the names of religion, politics, race, lifestyles and, nationalities.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
It took me quite a few years to analyze it fully, and then a few more to turn the results of my analysis into a feasible action plan.
I come up with a new weekly episode every Tuesday morning for miraculous healing enthusiasts to effectively start their weekdays with what they like the most!
Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? - Show Notes
Welcome back to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
In today's thought-provoking episode titled “Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES?”, I raise the profound question of whether learning from past mistakes is truly a human prerogative.
Despite our advanced intellect, history often repeats itself, leaving us to wonder if our species is as barbaric as any beast.
I explore the dark chapters of human history marked by genocide, massacre, and ethnic cleansing, revealing a troubling pattern of violence driven by religion, politics, and race.
From the atrocities of the ancient world to modern conflicts, this episode compiles a harrowing list of events that illustrate humanity's failure to learn from its past.
As I reflect on these grim historical episodes, we are challenged to confront the uncomfortable truth: have we truly learned from our mistakes? Or do we continue to perpetuate cycles of violence and intolerance?
Join me as I seek to understand the implications of our collective history and the potential for healing through the Skeletal Leap philosophy, which advocates for personal and communal transformation.
Tune in to discover how acknowledging our past can pave the way for a brighter future for all Homo sapiens.
Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? - Chapters
Chapters:
Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? - Video
Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? - Transcript with Timestamps
0:00 Going through such horrendous lists at times creates a doubt if learning from mistakes is really a human prerogative or our species is as barbarian as any other beast can be.
0:24 My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
0:29 Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
0:33 Today’s episode will tell you about learning from mistakes as an exclusive human prerogative, though humanity has not yet been able to do so in its totality.
0:45 Learning from mistakes is what stops history from repeating itself. But as we still use the adage 'history repeats itself' clearly indicates that we as humans haven't yet started using our great human potential of learning from mistakes so that the unwanted history doesn't repeat itself anymore.
1:04 Human history though being a proud document of its scientific and technological development has also been a shameful document of its inhuman sociocultural misdeeds resulting in numerous episodes of massacre, genocide, ethnic cleansing and holocaust throughout the world in its different parts at different times.
1:25 All these differently named episodes have one thing in common in that they all have been the shameless mass killings in the names of religion, politics, race, lifestyles and, nationalities.
1:37 Since very ancient times the human history of religious, political, racial and national expansion has been a history of ruthless violence done on the masses in the name of various fads that the rulers of the specific times and areas had in their minds.
1:54 There were no attempts at learning from mistakes as these atrocities kept getting repeated throughout the centuries we have been living a so-called civilized life on the planet.
2:06 Here is a sample list of the major and the cruelest ones of these!
2:10 350 AD: Ancient Chinese texts record that General Ran Min ordered the extermination of the Wu Hu, especially the Jie people, during the Wei-Jie war in the fourth century AD. People with racial characteristics such as high-bridged noses and bushy beards were killed; in total, 200,000 were reportedly massacred.
2:33 1250-1500 AD: From the 13th to the 16th centuries many European countries expelled the Jews from their territory on at least 15 occasions. Spain was preceded by England, France and some German states, among many others, succeeded by at least five more expulsions.
2:54 From 1894-1896, in an effort to islamize the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered the killing of ethnic Armenians (along with other Christian minorities) living in the Ottoman Empire, based on their religion. These killings later became known as the Hamidian massacres, named after Sultan Abdul Hamid II. It has been estimated that the total number of people killed ranges from 80,000 to 300,000.
3:27 German Empire during First World War planned to annex about 35 thousand square kilometers of pre-war Poland and ethnically cleansed between 2 and 3 million Poles and Jews out of all these territories to make room for German settlers.
3:45 The Bolshevik regime killed or deported an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 Don Cossacks during the Russian Civil War, in 1919-1920. Geoffrey Hosking stated "It could be argued that the Red policy towards the Don Cossacks amounted to ethnic cleansing. It was short-lived, however, and soon abandoned because it did not fit with normal Leninist theory and practice”.
4:12 The Armenian Genocide took place during and after World War I and was implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. The total number of people killed as a result is most commonly reported to be 1.5 million.
4:38 Second Sino-Japanese War, in which the Imperial Japanese Army invaded China in the 1930s. Millions of Chinese were killed, civilians and military personnel alike. The Three Alls Policy that was used by the Imperial Japanese Army resulted in the deaths of many of these Chinese. The Three Alls Policy was Kill all, Burn all, and Seize all.
5:01 The Holodomor (1932-1933) is considered by many historians as a genocidal famine perpetrated on the orders of Josef Stalin involving widespread ethnic cleansing of ethnic Ukrainians in Soviet Ukraine. An estimated 2.5 to 8 million Ukrainians were exterminated in the famine.
5:23 Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, The United States government forced the Japanese residing in the United States, including American Citizens, to be brought to an Internment Camp. Approximately 110,000 to 120,000 Japanese were relocated and incarcerated during World War II.
5:44 The expulsion of 14 million ethnic Germans from the Former eastern territories of Germany after World War II. This policy was decided at the Potsdam Conference by the victorious powers.
5:59 During the Partition of India 6 million Muslims fled ethnic violence taking place in India to settle in what became Pakistan and 5 million Hindus and Sikhs fled from what became Pakistan to settle in India.
6:16 In 1948, approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees fled or were expelled during the Arab-Israeli war and were prevented from returning to their homes in present-day Israel.
6:31 Shortly after Muammar Gaddafi gained power in Libya, the Libyan government forcibly expelled some 150,000 Italians living in the country on October 7, 1970, in retaliation for Italy's 1911 colonization of the country. The expulsion is known in Libya as the "Day of Vengeance”.
6:54 Idi Amin's regime forced the expulsion in 1972 of Uganda's entire ethnic Asian population, mostly of Indian descent.
7:04 The Sino-Vietnamese War resulted in the discrimination and consequent migration of Vietnam's ethnic Chinese. Many of these people fled as "boat people". In 1978-79, some 250,000 ethnic Chinese left Vietnam by boat as refugees or were expelled across the land border with China.
7:26 In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984, the ruling party Indian National Congress supporters formed large mobs and killed about 3000 Sikhs around Delhi in what is known as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots during the next four days. The mobs acting with the support of ruling party leaders used the Election voting list to identify Sikhs and kill them.
7:54 In Jammu and Kashmir, a separatist insurgency has targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority, 400,000 have been displaced, and 1,200 have been killed since 1991. Islamic terrorists infiltrated the region in 1989 and began an ethnic cleansing campaign to convert Kashmir to a total Muslim state. Since that time, over 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus have either been murdered or forced from their homes.
8:25 Going through such horrendous lists at times creates a doubt if learning from mistakes is really a human privilege or our species is as barbarian as any other beast can be.
8:36 We still maintain armies, we are still war-ready, and we still have narrow national interests over and above a liberal all-encompassing worldview!
8:46 Who will be the pioneers of learning our lessons from our blunders we committed to write a new era of understanding on our planet???
8:54 They are certainly going to be the pioneers who have already healed themselves creating their personal heaven in life via Skeletal Leap in their body, mind and spirit. Learning from mistakes is going to be another step to create a collective heaven on earth for all Homo sapiens that we ARE.
9:14 Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about thinking as the best human privilege that may turn into humanity’s worst handicap too.
9:26 Be a part of Skeletal Leap Community! Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter. Click on the link in the description to subscribe.
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Are Humans REALLY Learning From Their MISTAKES? - Get Skeletal Leap Book 1: The Mind Body Connection
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October 06The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! – Podcast Episode 36
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 36th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom!” will tell you about the human potential to attain freedom for itself which it has not yet been able to do in its totality.
The entire history of human evolution speaks of its constant hunt to attain more and more safety, comfort and the most importantly freedom for itself.
As this ape that we once were, underwent a series of mutations and finally stood on its two feet without a tail at its back, severing its last connection with its predecessor; it kept looking for newer and newer ways to harness the forces of nature for its benefit.
It attained its first major freedom from the compulsion of consuming raw food when it invented fire and turned its food much more edible as well as tastier than ever before.
As it evolved from being a hunter-gatherer to being a farmer, it earned its next major freedom from the compulsion of always being on its toes to go out in search of food every single day.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
It took me quite a few years to analyze it fully, and then a few more to turn the results of my analysis into a feasible action plan.
I come up with a new weekly episode every Tuesday morning for miraculous healing enthusiasts to effectively start their weekdays with what they like the most!
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! - Show Notes
Welcome back to the latest episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
In this compelling episode titled "The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom!" I explore humanity's enduring struggle for freedom throughout history. From our primal origins to the complexities of modern society, we delve into the profound implications of our quest for autonomy.
As we journey through time, I reflect on how our ancestors transitioned from raw food consumption to agricultural practices, marking significant milestones in the pursuit of freedom.
The invention of fire and the wheel liberated early humans from their limitations, yet the establishment of societal structures has often come at the cost of personal liberties.
I discuss how the institution of marriage emerged, shaping gender roles and subjugating half of humanity. The consequences of these societal norms have led to a legacy of gender discrimination and violence that continues to resonate today.
Moreover, I examine the nexus of politics and business, highlighting how the pursuit of wealth has further enslaved humanity, creating barriers that separate us from one another.
Despite advancements and changes in governance, the dream of true freedom remains elusive.
This episode calls for a collective awakening—an invitation to reclaim our freedom from the clutches of money-power. It emphasizes that the pioneers of this new era will be those who have embarked on their own journey of healing through Skeletal Leap, paving the way for a shared paradise on Earth.
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:00) - Introduction to Skeletal Leap and Human Freedom
(00:00:52) - Early Human Evolution and Technological Freedoms
(00:01:52) - Rise of Society, Marriage, and Gender Subjugation
(00:03:53) - Consequences of Gender Discrimination
(00:04:47) - War, Money, and Political Power
(00:05:32) - Modern Subjugation to Money and the Path to Freedom
(00:06:52) - Closing Remarks and Next Episode Preview
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! - Video
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! - Transcript with Timestamps
0:00 We as humans need to regain our freedom to walk on our planet without being obstructed by the barbed wires on the borders protected by the armies on both sides of them.
0:24 My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
0:29 Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
0:33 Today’s episode will tell you about the human potential to attain freedom for itself which it has not yet been able to do in its totality.
0:42 The entire history of human evolution speaks of its constant hunt to attain more and more safety, comfort and the most importantly freedom for itself.
0:52 As this ape that we once were, underwent a series of mutations and finally stood on its two feet without a tail at its back, severing its last connection with its predecessor; it kept looking for newer and newer ways to harness the forces of nature for its benefit.
1:10 It attained its first major freedom from the compulsion of consuming raw food when it invented fire and turned its food much more edible as well as tastier than ever before.
1:22 As it evolved from being a hunter-gatherer to being a farmer, it earned its next major freedom from the compulsion of always being on its toes to go out in search of food every single day.
1:35 Then it became free from carrying its agricultural produce on its back from one place to another when it invented wheel and built ox-driven and horse-driven carts on wheels to carry heavy loads as far as it liked without doing any strenuous labor itself.
1:53 But it took a complete U-turn holding its freedom at ransom when it started weaving the fabric of society in order to live a settled life in villages along with its fellow humans.
2:05 These evolved humans were intelligent enough to invent technological advances to achieve freedom from their cumbersome ways of life, but they were not wise enough to understand the far-reaching implications of what they were going to design their society like.
2:20 The institution of private property had already started establishing itself with the advent of agriculture as the main occupation of these evolved humans.
2:31 First of all they curbed their members' freedom to follow instinctual drives of interacting freely between the two genders by subjugating their females to males' whims and desires.
2:42 They didn't want females to freely have sex with the males they spontaneously felt like having it with. If they did, they wouldn't be able to know who their offshoots were whereas females would easily know who their sons and daughters were.
2:56 It was jealousy working in the male mind that got the institution of marriage established commanding men and women to have sex with and procreate from one single partner all through their life so men would be able to know who their sons and daughters were.
3:11 It was another thing that these commandments had been scripted much more strictly for women in the names of morals than they had been for men. As a result although it distorted men's outlook toward sex making it more insensitive and violent against women, it very inhumanly suppressed women's drive and freedom to move around and interact freely with the men of their choice.
3:34 Half of the human population was robbed of its right to freedom by this one single act alone! Women were forced to turn submissive losing all their instinctual passion whereas forcing them into submission turned men insensitive and violent thus losing all their instinctual passion as well.
3:52 We have been paying a huge price for this unnatural regimentation through ages of gender discrimination and exploitation extending to eve teasing, rapes, wife-beating and killing female embryos during pregnancy to this date in our society.
4:07 The institution of marriage also gave birth to the institution of family reinforcing the institution of private property to be inherited, later turning into the most coveted institution of money.
4:21 Once the institution of marriage got firmly rooted in the pattern of society, men who by now had been severely distorted with suspicion, ego and violence felt a need to take it out on those they thought could prove to be a challenge to them. The strongest and the cleverest among them took the leadership in their hands.
4:41 They needed to assemble fighters to do so by paying them with favors to fight for them. Money had already come into existence to facilitate trading by now and it proved to be the best favor that anyone could be paid with. Thus came into existence the nexus between politics and business.
4:59 Men fought wars enslaving those who they defeated. They robbed the losers of their money and forced these slaves to work for them. Freedom of men got robbed in the hands of other men! Humanity witnessed the worst genocides and the fiercest wars in the hands of the most violent men on the face of earth.
5:19 The world got demarcated into various different countries with barbed wires on their borders between them!
5:25 Ages passed by, empires turned to democracies, businesses turned to large corporate houses, armies adopted the most lethal weapons by testing them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for once; but the freedom of man is still a distant dream on the planet.
5:42 The modern culture has subjugated man's freedom to its most lethal weapon ever created in the name of money. Whatever we do in life on earth today is directed to earning and hoarding as much of money as we can. Not a single action of ours has remained free of this unfortunate motive to earn money out of it.
6:03 We as humans need to regain our freedom to walk on our planet without being obstructed by the barbed wires on the national borders protected by the armies on both sides of them.
6:14 We have our human potential on our side to attain our freedom from the clutches of money power and political power to write a new era of freedom on our planet.
6:24 Who will be the pioneers of attaining our freedom from the clutches of money power and political power to write a new era of freedom on earth?
6:33 They are certainly going to be the pioneers who have already healed themselves creating their personal heaven in life via Skeletal Leap in their body, mind and spirit. Attaining freedom is going to be their next step to create a collective heaven on earth for all Homo sapiens that we are.
6:52 Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about the human potential of its learning from its own mistakes.
7:02 Be a part of Skeletal Leap Community! Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter. Click on the link in the description to subscribe.
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! – Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter
Get my book ‘Eyesight To Insight Memoir’ FREE when you Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter: https://www.SkeletalLeap.com/newsletter
The Greatest Human Potential Lies In Its Being Able To Attain Freedom! - Get Skeletal Leap Book 1: The Mind Body Connection
The paperback version of SKELETAL LEAP BOOK 1: The Mind Body Connection is available on https://www.SkeletalLeap.com/themindbodyconnection
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August 04Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! – Podcast Episode 35
Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 35th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled "Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years!" will tell you about historical reference with historical timeline of the past 12,000 years.
Human cultural and social institutions are the most recent developments to emerge from a speedy evolution of the brain.
Around 12,000 years ago, the mind had already established its dominance as a partially autonomous entity vis-à-vis the brain.
It was around then that human cultural and social institutions started getting structured as hunter-gatherers adopted an agricultural lifestyle.
This lifestyle comprised farming and rearing domestic animals for food, milk and wool. It marked the end of the Paleolithic period and the beginning of Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Show Notes
In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled "Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years!", I take you on a journey through the evolution of human culture and social institutions over the past 12,000 years.
Beginning with the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, I explore how this pivotal shift not only changed lifestyles but also led to the establishment of permanent settlements and the concept of private property.
As humans began to cultivate land and rear animals, the foundations of societal structures were laid, giving rise to rudimentary monarchies and the birth of business.
The episode explains the health implications of these changes, revealing how a once-active lifestyle gave way to sedentary habits, leading to health issues and the rise of patriarchal system that altered family dynamics.
I highlight the emergence of marriage as a formal institution and discuss the complex relationship between property ownership and societal evolution.
As I progress through history, I witness the rise and fall of civilizations, the impact of warfare, and the advent of money as a means of trade.
The narrative culminates in a reflection on the achievements and losses humanity has faced, particularly in light of the challenges posed by industrialization and climate change.
You will find within...
(00:00:00) - From hunting, gathering to farming. Historical timeline of the past 12,000 years
(00:05:00) - During Paleolithic period, there was a naturally balanced distribution of labor
(00:11:22) - Neolithic period witnessed systematic warfare aimed at capturing and securing women
(00:22:01) - Human History in Terms of Accidents and Losses
Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - Human History
(00:05:00) - What happened to the social structure of communities?
(00:11:22) - Warfare in human history
(00:22:01) - Human History in Terms of Accidents and Losses
Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Video
Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Transcripts with Timestamps
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Industrial revolution was a great
achievement but it also created the
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demon of impending human-induced climate change.
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s
life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you
about historical reference with
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historical timeline of the past 12,000 years.
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Historical Timeline of The Past 12,000 Years
Human cultural and social institutions are the
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most recent developments to emerge from a speedy
evolution of the brain. Around 12,000 years ago,
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the mind had already established its dominance as
a partially autonomous entity vis-à-vis the brain.
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From Hunting-Gathering to Farming
It was around then that human
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cultural and social institutions started
getting structured as hunter-gatherers
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adopted an agricultural lifestyle.
This lifestyle comprised farming and
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rearing domestic animals for food, milk and wool.
It marked the end of the Paleolithic period and
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the beginning of Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
Humans slowly and gradually stopped living
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in caves that they had adorned with
paintings, in favor of huts and skin tents.
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They had already started using fire for heating
and cooking as early as 0.5 million years ago.
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They had also developed language to communicate
with others between 150,000-50,000 years ago. Now,
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with the agricultural revolution,
they started constructing individual
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dwellings with mud bricks and timber on
the lands they had started cultivating.
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Paleolithic humans had started wearing loincloths
and tunics prepared from plants and animal skins
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by chewing them to make flexible. They also wore
rudimentary shoes. In the Neolithic period, woven
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garments started appearing, mostly from wool.
Lifestyle Changes
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Nomadic tribal lifestyle gave way to
permanent settlements on the farmlands
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as farming became the major source of food.
It gave them more control over their lifestyle
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with largely increased food production
and a more efficient security system.
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The tools became sharper from grinding.
With the faculty of the mind having gained
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dominance over the faculty of the brain,
the control of the tribes shifted from
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elders to military and religious leaders,
giving birth to rudimentary monarchies.
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Personal Ownership of Resources Was Born
At this juncture of time came one of
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the most important shifts in human
culture. In the Paleolithic period,
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there was no concept or need of private property
ownership. By the Neolithic period, though,
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people started having individual ownership of
land, domestic animals and tools. Thus entered
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the concept of the crudest form of prosperity
in human culture, changing it forever. It
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was the seed that ultimately grew up as a huge
and mighty tree of money ruling the world.
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Health Took Its First Toll
Paleolithic humans were taller and healthier
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owing to a primarily active lifestyle that was
combined with lots of free time at their disposal.
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The relatively more sedentary lifestyle
of the Neolithic period turned people
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shorter and more prone to diseases.
Tooth decay and typhoid were the main ones
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among them which lowered their life expectancy.
As people got settled, women started bearing
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more children resulting in a population explosion.
Their food comprised more cereals like wheat, corn
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and rice. It wasn’t as nutritiously balanced as
that of Palaeolithic humans which comprised meat,
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fruits and roots. That is how farming not only
took its toll on Neolithic humans’ health but
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also made them much busier than before.
The Birth of Marriage & Family
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Apart from private property, another
institution started appearing in its
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rudimentary form - the family.
During the Paleolithic period,
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there was a naturally balanced distribution of
labor between males and females. While men went
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for hunting, women took charge of gathering
and they all ate together. Life was simple.
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Sex happened in a spontaneous way of attraction
rather than a lifelong commitment to one single
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person. Children belonged to the community
along with their mothers. Fatherhood wasn’t
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exclusive but inclusive.
But in the Neolithic period,
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all these equations started changing. As a result
(or cause) of population explosion, women had to
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be much busier in the act of bearing children.
Most of the time, they weren’t fit enough to
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carry on the laborious chores of farming. With the
passage of time, it gave them a subjugated status
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where the male headed the family and the female
status got degraded. Her main role got limited
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to that of being a child-bearing machine and her
main value to that of being the object of sex.
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She almost lost her natural right to
sleep with the man of her choice. In fact,
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she slowly got restricted to just playing
the role of a bed partner to her children’s
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father. This was a gradual shift from an
egalitarian society toward patriarchy.
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It went on like this until it officially got
approved as marriage. Marriage as an institution
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was announced to be a lifelong one-man,
one-woman relationship ultimately around 2350 BC.
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From there, it evolved to be the most basic unit
of society, spreading far and wide separately by
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every culture, surprisingly all through the world.
The Birth of Rudimentary Business
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Transition from the mode of hunting-gathering to
that of agriculture and cattle-rearing resulted in
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increased food production. Nomadic life had come
to an end as sedentary lifestyle became a norm,
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adversely affecting health through increasing
infections. Only a few members of a community
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were sufficient to grow food for the needs
of the entire community. This left members of
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communities with a lot of free time on hand.
Side by side, communities started needing a
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few more things than food alone. The main
ones among these new impending needs were:
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Permanent durable building structures | Clothes |
Medical treatment | Education | Tools | Utensils
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There were members of the agricultural
communities who specialized in learning
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and providing for these new needs. Thus came into
existence different kinds of trades and tradesmen
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like farmers, masons, weavers, healers, teachers,
blacksmiths, potters et cetera. They offered their
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services and products to others. In turn, others
provided them with what they had in surplus.
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The Birth of State
This was how the ancient
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business started taking shape with a barter
system as its primary mode of transaction.
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First, small villages took shape, followed
by bigger towns in their vicinity serving
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as market hubs for barter-based businesses.
Ultimately, an entity called the state took
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shape comprising a number of towns and villages
to keep them secure. Other communities could
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attack them and snatch away what they had. In
the absence of a means to wider interaction,
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communities had their world-view limited
to the boundaries of their own communities.
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Arms & Ammunition to Armies
The state needed the strong
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men of these communities to promise safety to all
its members and their businesses. For this, they
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would require more strength under their control.
Hence the friendly ones combined to make states
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and created armies equipped with new products
for them called weapons. The person at the helm
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of this new institution became the autocratic
king whose wishes became the laws of the land.
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Many such states came to existence that would,
again, often keep fighting against one another.
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With the passage of time, the winners kept on
getting stronger by extending their control
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over bigger chunks of land. Thus empires came into
existence merging identities of small communities
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into a new concept of nationality. Big cities were
populated to centralize big businesses further.
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From Ownership of Resources to Ownership of Money
The sizes of businesses grew larger and barter
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system didn’t seem to be working efficiently for
them anymore. In such a scenario, token money
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got conceptualized by the state that became the
commonly used currency for exchange of goods and
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services. These currencies were given different
names by the states issuing them. Currency as
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metal coins was way more portable than an item
to be used as barter for business deals. It
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also enabled standardization of prices of various
commodities, services and products. No one other
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than the state itself could mould those coins
as they were marked with the seal of the state.
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Warfare
Adding to these woes
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was the beginning of systemic warfare during this
same period, owing to the population increase and
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land ownership that arose from those institutions
of property ownership, patriarchy and marriage.
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Several evidences of such warfare have been
found in the excavations of Neolithic skeletons.
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One such representative evidence has been found
in the massacre of Talheim Death Pit of 5500 BC
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in Germany. It points to two neighboring tribes
in war with each other with the sole purpose of
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capturing and securing each other’s women. This
can be deduced from the fact that there were no
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female skeletons found on the defending tribe’s
turf suggesting that they were not killed but
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taken along. There have been quite a few such
excavations suggesting that the main purpose of
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Neolithic warfare was capturing women.
When evolution entered the Copper Age
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from the Stone Age, more organized warfare took
place with the help of copper weapons. Soldiers
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had started getting employed by city states
professionally as far back as 4,300 BC. In
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3,000 BC, Hamoukar was completely destroyed
by warfare. Later city states were engulfed
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by newly built empires like Babylonia and
Assyria in Mesopotamia. By 1700 BC, chariots
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started playing the central role in warfare.
The Copper Age transitioned to the Bronze Age,
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marking a gradual transition from prehistoric
age to historic times. Weapons turned more
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lethal and empires kept fighting with one another.
Whenever warfare happened, thousands of soldiers
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fought from each side. By now, army had gotten
professionally established as another inseparable
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socio-political institution of human culture.
It only expanded further as the Bronze Age
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transitioned to the Iron Age.
Warfare kept getting more lethal
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and more organized by Homo sapiens
to kill members of their own species.
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So, concluding up to this
point, during the Neolithic Period:
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Achievements:
Replacing hunting gathering
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with agriculture and rearing domestic
animals which is there in place to date
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Establishing strong security systems
against attacks from predators
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Accumulation of extra food storage
to use at times of emergencies
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Sparing a chunk of population to engage in
developmental occupations other than food
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production making life more comfortable
Losses:
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Beginning of private property
turning life stressfully complex
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An overall toll on human
health with lifestyle diseases
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Matriarchy replaced with patriarchy
subjugating women as the secondary gender
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Let us now proceed further beyond the Neolithic
period to assess human achievements and losses
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to date. From the prehistoric age, we
are moving on to historic times below.
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The rise of ancient civilizations
(3,000 BCE - 500 BCE):
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The first complex civilization came up in the
city state of Sumer in Mesopotamia around 3,000
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BCE. It started with a pictorial form of
writing system known as cuneiform script.
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The trend further spread in the fertile river
valleys of the Old World. These included Tigris
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and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Nile in Egypt, Indus
in India with Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in China.
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City states later turned into huge empires by
expanding their control, first, on neighboring
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and, later, on far spread regions. New empires
kept rising and destroying the older ones to
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establish their rule and control through warfare.
Post Classical History (500 BCE - 1,500 CE):
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Post classical era marks…
Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine
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Empire in Europe | Ottoman Empire in Central Asia
| Various Islamic Empires in India | Mali and
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Songhai Empires in Western Africa | Sui, Tang,
Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties in China | Inca,
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Maya and Aztecs in South America
later conquered by European Colonists
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Early Modern Period (1500 CE - 1800 CE):
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Early modern period is marked by…
Renaissance - rise of capitalist economies;
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cultural, scientific and technological
achievements; economical and social rise
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of Europe; artistic creations of polymaths
like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo;
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fall of feudalism and the power of the Catholic
Church; rise of Humanism, Scientific Revolution
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and Age of Enlightenment | Thirty Years War - from
1618 CE - 1648 CE within Holy Roman Empire killing
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many millions of people | The Age of Discovery -
covering the Age of Sail discovering sea routes to
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distant lands | European Colonial Expansion
throughout the world | Witch-hunt - tens of
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thousands of witches practicing witchcraft
were burned alive between 1450 CE - 1750 CE
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Late Modern Period (1800 CE to Date):
This period is marked by…
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Industrial Revolution – transition to new
manufacturing processes in the UK, Europe and the
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USA as a result of scientific revolution | Age of
Imperialism – annexing control over many countries
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the world over by the UK, France, Spain, Portugal,
Netherlands and Prussia | Age of Revolution –
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numerous revolutions in Europe and Americas
changing autocratic monarchies to democratic
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governments | World Wars - entire world turning
into two blocks fighting with each other to
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ultimate destruction. World War 1 during 1914 CE
1918 CE killed 20 million and wounded 21 million
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people. World War 2 during 1939 CE - 1945 CE
killed 85 million people | Roaring Twenties - the
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decade of 1920s marked by economic prosperity in
the USA and Europe with a unique cultural edge |
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Great Depression - a daunting worldwide economic
depression during 1930s | Cold War - acute
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political tension between the USA-led Western
and the USSR led Eastern Bloc after WWII | Green
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Revolution - a set of research technology transfer
increasing agricultural production all over the
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world starting from 1960s | Space Exploration -
using astronomy and space technology to explore
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the outer space and far-off satellites and planets
| Digital Revolution - extensive use of digital
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computers for computing and record keeping
in the latter half of 20th century | Economic
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Globalization - breaking the national boundaries
for commercial activities through use of the
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Internet | The Internet - a global system
of interconnected computer networks | Mobile
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Phone - communication revolution through making
phone calls wireless and approachable all the time
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over the world | Great Recession - a daunting
period of recession in the national economies
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during 2007 CE - 2009 CE | Worldwide Competition
for Natural Resources - the new currency for
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prosperity and growth | Environmental Degradation
human activities interfering with the quality of
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environment getting deteriorated | Climate Change
comprises human-induced and rapidly changing
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climate patterns threatening to kill all life on
earth | Covid-19 - a global pandemic that killed
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more than 7 million people. And that’s only the
official figure! If that weren’t enough, it also
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seriously disrupted global trade, generating
widespread economic recession the world over.
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Let us now synthesize the aforementioned
data of historical records in terms of
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achievements and losses.
Achievements:
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Spread of civilization | Renaissance |
Discoveries and inventions | Industrial
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revolution | Change from autocracy to democracy
| Economic prosperity | Green revolution | Space
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exploration | Digital revolution | Economic
globalization | The internet | Mobile phone
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Losses:
Never-ending warfare | Wastage of human resources
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on warfare | Huge loss of human lives in warfare |
Colonialism | Witch-hunt | Imperialism | Economic
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depression | Economic recessions | Cold
War | Worldwide competition for natural
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resources | Pandemics | Environmental
degradation | Human-induced climate change
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Let us consider that this, our common history,
has brought us Homo sapiens to the present day
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and placed us on the precipice of imminent
threat to all life on earth by human-induced
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climate change. As we grapple with this reality,
it seems as though the scale of human progress
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seems to have tilted toward losses a bit more
than toward achievements. Industrial revolution
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was a great achievement but it also created the
demon of impending human-induced climate change.
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Manifesting A Cool Heaven on Earth with Skeletal Leap! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 34th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled "Manifesting A Cool Heaven on Earth with Skeletal Leap!" will tell you about manifesting a collective heaven on earth via a paradigm shift in everything we do whether biologically or socioculturally.
If we want peace on earth, we first need to have our minds at peace..
It is only possible by emptying the mind and returning it to the job that it has been designed for.
The said job is to review the psychedelic perceptions of the brain and comprehend them while staying in tune with human instincts.
The actions are all taken by the brain itself in an instantly spontaneous way.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
Manifesting A Cool Heaven on Earth with Skeletal Leap! - Show Notes
Welcome back to the 34th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
In this enlightening episode titled "Manifesting a Collective Heaven on Earth with Skeletal Leap!", I explore the profound connection between individual transformation and collective evolution.
As we stand at this pivotal evolutionary juncture, I explain the significance of achieving inner peace as a precursor to world peace.
Through the lens of Skeletal Leap, I discover how emptying the mind and aligning with our natural instincts can unlock the true potential of our intelligence, leading to spontaneous and joyful actions.
The episode highlights the urgent need for a collective push toward a new consciousness—a movement that can dismantle outdated socio-cultural institutions and guide humanity toward a harmonious existence.
I also contemplate the challenges faced by pioneers of this new paradigm and how they might navigate a world that often contradicts their enlightened perspectives.
The role of individual transformation in creating a collective heaven
The importance of aligning our actions with our instincts for a joyful life
How a shift in consciousness can lead to the dissolution of harmful sociocultural structures
The potential for a world without borders, fostering unity over division
Innovative proposals for reimagining societal institutions like marriage and sports
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(00:03:25) - Skeletal Leap vs Real Life
(00:14:54) - Holistic Healing vs Pharmaceutical Medicine
(00:18:02) - Skeletal Leap
(00:21:02) - Skeletal Leap
(00:24:30) - Skeletal Leap
(00:34:00) - Cognitive needs, clubs of knowledge
(00:41:20) - Ah, A Living Adventure
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Manifesting A Cool Heaven on Earth with Skeletal Leap! - Transcript with Timestamps
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I think our species, at this
evolutionary juncture of time,
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is the apt custodian of life on the sole
‘living planet’ in the entire known universe.
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s
life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
manifesting a collective heaven on earth
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via a paradigm shift in everything we do
whether biologically or socioculturally.
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If we want peace on earth, we first
need to have our minds at peace.
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It is only possible by emptying the mind
and returning it to the job that it has
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been designed for. The said job is to review
the psychedelic perceptions of the brain
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and comprehend them while staying
in tune with human instincts.
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The actions are all taken by the brain
itself in an instantly spontaneous way.
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The combination of all natural instincts
and curious perception arising from the
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ultimate intelligence of our human brain
automatically leads to spontaneous action.
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This intelligence doesn’t bother about being
morally good or bad, it is simply beautiful
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and creates passionate joy in life.
An intelligent brain is the ultimate
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state that Homo sapiens can achieve by
taking the next step in their evolution.
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Real intelligence facilitates a joyful life
resulting in a beautiful and a peaceful mind.
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A beautiful and a peaceful
mind makes love, not war.
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Skeletal Leap ensures everything
falls into its right place to
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enable just that - an intelligent brain.
Good is a mere concept, beauty is the sheer joy.
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One more thing…
Just like lifestyle diseases,
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faultily designed sociocultural institutions
are also erected upon very shaky foundations.
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One collective push, and they will all
come crumbling down within no time!
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The said collective push has its roots deeply
ingrained in central fixation through Skeletal
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Leap. An individual Skeletal Leap leads to our
personal heaven in life. A collective Skeletal
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Leap has a potential to lead us, the Homo sapiens,
to our sociocultural heaven on the planet.
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Soon our planet may hopefully have a sufficient
number of people already having taken their
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Skeletal Leaps. A new stream of a superior
consciousness may pave its way into the corridors
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of the existing sociocultural stream. Once it
reaches a critical number of people having taken
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their Skeletal Leaps, this new consciousness
is poised to become an inevitable force.
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What about those who have taken their Skeletal
Leaps before this critical number is reached?
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How will they cope with the ways of the
world that go against their newly acquired
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emancipated nature? Will they feel isolated
under the pressure of presently prevailing
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competitive ways of the world? How will they
balance their peaceful lives with the coercive
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demands of the present sociocultural
structures? Will they be ridiculed
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when they step out of the rat race that is the
hallmark of our present sociocultural system?
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All these are very pertinent questions. But these
pioneers of a new world order will certainly have
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achieved something unique that their peers
would obviously lack. They will always have
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their personal heavens intact with them oozing
energy, joy, passion and, above all, health.
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There certainly have been such people
before in the history of mankind.
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A few names out of those spell like Jesus
Christ, Gautama Buddha, Laozi and Nanak.
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The early pioneers are going to be
resembling these emancipated souls
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who lived their lives in the most meaningful
ways. They are going to be the leaders of
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a revolutionary phase of evolution so
emergently needed by Homo sapiens today!
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The way they live their personal lives will
be spontaneously decided by their intuitive
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brains in different parts of the world. But one
thing is certain that whatever they do will be
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fulfilling not only for themselves but also for
humanity around them. The way they go about their
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lives will also be exemplary in all respects
in line with the new evolutionary standards.
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How can such a beautiful society
organize itself in such a healthy way
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that all its sociocultural
chakras dissolve, you ask?
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Let’s look into it, starting where we left
off in Episode 33, i.e. transcendence needs.
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Transcendence Needs – Mysteriology Vs Religion
What sub-fragment or sub-sub-fragment of religion
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will the pioneers of Skeletal
Leap commit their allegiance to?
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Well, they may quite simply
revert to the origin of religion,
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i.e., to the awe its mysteries inspire. That
is what I am doing through my investigations
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into those miracles as I deliver this podcast.
All religions have this awe as their most basic
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pillars on which entire buildings were erected
in many different shapes and styles. Their
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walls were constructed with the bricks of various
faiths, instead of simply relying on the pillars
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that had already given them sufficient strength
to investigate into the deepest mysteries of life.
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It is time to remove all those walls
and turn those buildings into gazebos
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through which fresh winds can freely flow
across. The same wind of curious investigation
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of miracles and mysteries flowing across all those
buildings turns them sacred science laboratories!
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We can even name this new sacred science
‘Mysteriology’ or else ‘Mysterionomy’.
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All existing religions can merge their separate
identities into one sacred science supported by
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those central pillars of awe rather than many
peripheral walls with various shades of faith.
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Religion turns into a sacred
science investigating patterns
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of all existing miracles and mysteries
for the ultimate benefit of mankind.
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That is the new ‘religion’ pioneers of
Skeletal Leap may commit their allegiance to.
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No more violence in the name
of religion needs to occur.
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All beliefs, faiths and morals would turn to
ethics creating a new aesthetic value system
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that could preoccupy itself
with investigating mysteries.
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Physiological Needs – Personal
Vs Social Ownership of Resources
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On the other end of Maslow’s Hierarchy
of Needs lie physiological needs.
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It is not a coincidence that the bullet train of
human progress seems to be propelled at breakneck
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speed by the alternating poles of ‘faith’ and
‘money’. Our closed sociocultural root chakra
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instantly needs to be opened, bringing us back
to a genuine pursuit of our physiological needs,
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this time, unadulterated by personal
ownership of resources. To achieve this,
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we would have to re-shape the entire structure
and function of business on earth before the
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earth teaches us a lesson. And it is already on
the verge of doing so, thanks to climate change.
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Here, I just want to discuss the connection
between psychology and economics.
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Money, not in its form as currency but as the
concept of personal ownership of resources,
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i.e., private property, is a
construct of the mind alone.
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Mind looks upon the self as an individual
entity in isolation from everyone else.
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Hence it needs to create a safety wall
around itself in the form of an isolated
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private property. No one else has a right to
trespass it. But greed knows no end to it.
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And then the mind wants to extend its boundaries
as far as we can. The larger it grows,
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the safer the mind feels in that isolation.
So much so that the mind would force the
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self to do any damn thing to keep extending and
expanding that property ethically or unethically.
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When the brain is in charge rather than the
mind, we don’t need to create all those walls.
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The corrupted currency, namely ‘personal ownership
of resources’ and all its associated distortions
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will no longer be important to us. As a result,
the sociocultural root chakra will dissolve,
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thus letting the society focus on the underlying
needs - physiological and safety needs - instead.
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That is the kind of a healthier world that
Skeletal Leap will result in creating at
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an individual and a sociocultural level. In
that kind of world, business would no more
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be a tool to earn profit alone. It would rather
be the voice of one’s passion, making it a real
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mission than a mission statement alone.
Physiological Needs – Mission Vs Business
0:11:07.720,0:11:13.160
No one ever does anything unethical
when it comes to one’s real mission,
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provided it doesn’t get corrupted by a perceived
“need” to accumulate as much profit as possible.
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Otherwise those real missions get limited to
their mission statements alone which lead to
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ambitious demonic businesses ultimately.
In a purely mission driven scenario,
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profit remains as mere data for economic
discipline to be maintained. It doesn’t morph
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into the greed of extending and expanding the
size of one’s personal ownership of resources.
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There is no need left to resort
to unethical business practices.
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Real mission becomes the central theme of the
entity called business. Now, it can be renamed
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simply as mission rather than business.
When will Homo sapiens’ sociocultural
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evolution start turning businesses
into real missions on this planet?
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It needs to be done well before
human-induced climate change kills us all.
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It needs to be done NOW!
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We are sitting right at the top crater
of a volcano that may erupt any moment.
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We cannot afford to stay sleeping over it.
Safety Needs – Health
0:12:39.640,0:12:44.120
We, Homo sapiens, have a very limited
concept of health in our minds.
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If a human body is just devoid of all diseases,
both physical and mental, we consider it healthy.
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But health has numerous other
dimensions beyond this. First of all,
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it is not the absence of disease alone. More
so, it is just not limited to human body either.
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In my opinion, human health should be defined
as a state of wellness that includes physical,
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mental and spiritual wellness, be it an
individual body or a systemic institution.
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These healthy systemic institutions can be
cognized as new alternatives in society and
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culture to currently existing versions of
economy, business, industry, judiciary,
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arts and entertainment networks, marriage
institution, organized sport, value system,
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education system, self-improvement
industry and organized religion.
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What would result is nothing but holistic
health whether individual or systemic.
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This would place health in a realm that is above
and beyond the deficiency need of safety alone.
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And when a society operates from
such a ‘healthy’ foundation,
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it would detach from the shackles of
sociocultural root chakra automatically,
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thereby not allowing its corruption
by any currency whatsoever.
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Another in-built advantage of such a healthy
society would be uncorrupted cognition
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that is driven by the brain alone
and not the collective mind.
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Such an inclusive definition of health places it
as the ultimate parameter of the quality of life
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including its meaning, aesthetic and ethics. All
other parameters lose their significance when
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it comes to ascertaining the ultimate value
of an individual or a systemic institution.
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Safety Needs – Holistic Healing
Vs Symptomatic Treatment
0:15:00.000,0:15:06.640
Holistic healing treats both, acute diseases
caused by pathogens and lifestyle diseases
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caused by a fragmented mind.
The only permanent way to
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cure both types of diseases, once and
forever, is to change one’s lifestyle.
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For it is the lifestyle that has been responsible
for causing them in the very first place.
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Holistic healing has quite a few ways
up its sleeves to address the causative
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factors in an effective manner.
Stringent Laboratory Testing
0:15:37.680,0:15:41.840
Now let’s come to the objection raised
by mainstream pharmaceutical medicine
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against the ways of holistic healing
the one about stringent laboratory
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tests and efficacy that I mentioned earlier.
To carry out monitored tests on a sample of
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ill subjects, holistic healing has certain
obstructions in its way. Holistic healing
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procedures not only require a much longer duration
of time but also much larger sums of money.
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Pharmaceutical medicine requires
much shorter spans of time to carry
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out such monitored tests on control groups of
patients. Such patients are readily available
0:16:22.640,0:16:28.040
owing to its popularity as well as shorter
commitments of time requirement from them.
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Paradigm Shift in Culture
In order for holistic healing
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to become mainstream healing, we need to bring
a paradigm shift in our culture. At present it
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favors fast movies, fast music, fast sex, fast
food, fast medicine and just fast life overall.
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If it ever happens, holistic healing
has the true potential to become the
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ultimate solution to deteriorating human health.
Skeletal Leap is one such approach that has the
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capacity to heal almost all lifestyle diseases
at their roots, as enumerated in Episode 22.
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A skeletally transformed society
will simply not need as much of
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institutionalized healthcare as it does right now.
0:17:23.560,0:17:29.360
That is because the entire process of Skeletal
Leap is basically a health-oriented process.
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Of course, humanity will still need a few areas of
mainstream healthcare that have seen exceptional
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progress. In fact, despite all its shortcomings,
modern healthcare has done an excellent job in
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these fields, namely: surgical intervention,
vaccines, prosthetics and physiotherapy.
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The contributions of these fields
to human health are unchallengeable.
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Safety Needs – Security
Army – A Case of Fragmented Sensitivity
0:18:11.080,0:18:15.000
Doesn’t a fanatic love for one’s
so-called motherland automatically
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create a fertile ground for hatred
toward other lands and their peoples?
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Especially whenever they get conveniently
tagged as enemy lands by the respective
0:18:26.400,0:18:31.800
political bosses of these chunks of land
as and when it suits their narrative?
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Even if some lands are spared being tagged
as adversaries by the political bosses,
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our sensitivities are never with them. We turn
insensitive to the people residing in those lands.
0:18:47.760,0:18:51.040
How can sensitivity become fragmented like this
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if it is a genuine concern arising
from our awareness of life?
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Why would I not feel sad if an earthquake kills
a few thousand people in some foreign land?
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What if I compare it with a similar disaster or
a different havoc in what I call my motherland?
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What justification does humanity have to fragment
the natural expanse of land on our planet?
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That too, by becoming willing pawns to our
political bosses’ nefarious game plans?
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How will Skeletal Leap pioneers
respond to such a situation?
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The pioneers obviously cannot
do much to reverse the trends.
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But a society transformed with Skeletal Leap
will never entertain these institutions.
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Armies and warfare will exist only till the
borders demarcating countries as fragmented
0:19:50.880,0:19:58.760
chunks of lands continue to exist on earth.
In a transformed society, these fragmented
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chunks would dissolve exactly like the fragments
of mind do. That is what opening the 7 chakras
0:20:06.280,0:20:14.120
and getting the Kundalini activated does to these
mental fragments. Till that time, Skeletal Leap
0:20:14.120,0:20:20.360
pioneers will passionately work toward taking the
number of transformed people to a critical one.
0:20:21.800,0:20:26.280
Once the critical number is reached,
the transformation process will get
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exponentially accelerated automatically. It is
exactly like it happens in nuclear reactors with
0:20:33.840,0:20:40.880
the minimum fissile material necessary to achieve
a self-sustaining fission chain reaction thereon.
0:20:42.480,0:20:45.960
What will the millions of
soldiers do when this is achieved?
0:20:47.480,0:20:52.600
They will simply be a great asset for the
society by dint of their specialized training.
0:20:54.200,0:20:58.800
They will make wonderful teams needed
to fight the challenges such as the one
0:20:58.800,0:21:05.640
already posed by climate change!
Love and Belonging Needs – Marriage
0:21:07.360,0:21:15.640
How could new social systems like marriage, sports
and nations heal themselves in a society energized
0:21:15.640,0:21:23.000
by Skeletal Leap from this point forward in our
evolution? These are only the suggestive samples
0:21:23.000,0:21:29.600
that a skeletally transformed society could
tentatively lead to, not the final blueprints.
0:21:31.200,0:21:36.680
Where should the institution of marriage
go from here? This is one of the toughest
0:21:36.680,0:21:41.760
questions to answer even for someone
who has already undergone Skeletal Leap.
0:21:43.120,0:21:45.480
It is because marriage is not marriage alone,
0:21:46.240,0:21:51.960
it also leads to reproduction and parenting
where a third person enters the equation.
0:21:53.400,0:22:00.520
But there is at least one solution that may seem
to work. And it can prove to be a revolutionary
0:22:00.520,0:22:05.800
solution that takes care of the ultimate love
and belonging needs in the most natural way.
0:22:07.360,0:22:13.960
When a couple enters a relationship, they should
avoid traditional marriage and keep living under
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separate roofs instead. They should also be free
to enter as many other romantic relationships
0:22:21.480,0:22:28.880
as they feel like, again without sharing
roofs. This takes care of all three sexual
0:22:28.880,0:22:36.760
tendencies present in the Homo sapiens psyche,
namely monogamy, serial monogamy and polygamy.
0:22:38.320,0:22:42.640
Whenever one feels like meeting the
other, one should take an appointment.
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Such a distance between the two doesn’t
let the relationship go stale and dull.
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Passion and romance are kept intact for a
long time to come. This applies to lovers
0:22:57.360,0:23:03.680
with all three tendencies…monogamist,
serial monogamist and polygamist.
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Once the woman has conceived, the child’s
responsibility should be legally assigned to her
0:23:11.360,0:23:17.880
along with its biological father lifelong.
The custody of the child should always remain
0:23:17.880,0:23:25.360
with the mother as she is the more natural
parent between the two. In such a scenario,
0:23:25.360,0:23:31.240
the child would get accustomed to stay with
the mother alone since the very beginning.
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No divorces would ever be there as they
are irrelevant in the absence of marriage.
0:23:39.360,0:23:44.440
Nor would there be any trauma to the child
from the separation of their parents ever.
0:23:46.120,0:23:51.280
Also, the child would be guaranteed to get
the care and finances from both parents
0:23:51.280,0:23:53.640
until they start earning on their own.
0:23:55.200,0:24:00.280
It is a win-win situation for all three in
the family living under two different roofs!
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This is the system that marriage may get
replaced with in a society that has already
0:24:07.240,0:24:12.120
taken its Skeletal Leap.
It is just a proposal.
0:24:12.800,0:24:18.240
Many more such proposals may come from a
variety of skeletally transformed Homo sapiens.
0:24:19.880,0:24:26.400
Like the fittest survived during the early phases
of evolution, so would the best proposal be
0:24:26.400,0:24:33.520
adopted in action in the present scenario.
Love and Belonging Needs – Sport
0:24:34.880,0:24:39.560
Can we be intelligent enough to design
sport in a more aesthetic way today?
0:24:41.040,0:24:43.880
How will Skeletal Leap deal with this issue?
0:24:45.320,0:24:52.000
We have fragmented sportsman spirit in
two ugly fragments, namely win and lose.
0:24:53.480,0:24:59.120
The two teams or else two or more
individuals compete with one another
0:24:59.120,0:25:06.240
trying to perform better than the opponents.
That is a fragmenting competition aimed at showing
0:25:06.240,0:25:11.280
the other down. The right competition
should be there with your own self.
0:25:12.840,0:25:16.880
How can a team or individual
player compete with themselves?
0:25:18.480,0:25:19.680
It is very simple.
0:25:20.320,0:25:25.840
We just need to change the criteria of winning
or losing to a self-competitive paradigm.
0:25:27.240,0:25:33.080
Every team or individual player may enter the
venue of the match with a statistical record of
0:25:33.080,0:25:40.720
their past performances. This record may underline
the level of their past performances till date.
0:25:42.040,0:25:49.000
While the match is on, each team or individual
could focus on improving their past record
0:25:49.000,0:25:55.840
while performing against the other. This is in
complete contrast with concentrating on defeating
0:25:55.840,0:26:05.200
the opponent. There is a difference between focus
and concentration. Focus happens on the entire
0:26:05.200,0:26:12.440
undivided whole whereas concentration happens only
partially and only on the fragmented parts of the
0:26:12.440,0:26:20.280
whole. Improving one’s own performance amounts
to dealing with the entire undivided whole.
0:26:21.720,0:26:26.680
On the other hand, just defeating the
opponent amounts to dealing with one of
0:26:26.680,0:26:32.800
its fragmented parts against the other.
Brute winning and losing shouldn’t be as
0:26:32.800,0:26:36.840
important as an overall improvement
in the quality of the match.
0:26:38.000,0:26:43.720
Which team or which individual contributed more
in improving the overall quality of the event?
0:26:44.880,0:26:49.400
It can easily be calculated through the
improvement in each one’s performance
0:26:49.400,0:26:55.360
against the opponent. This improvement can
be calculated through comparing present
0:26:55.360,0:27:00.640
performance with its past performance
statistics vis-a-vis the same opponents.
0:27:02.080,0:27:07.920
This way, it is even possible for a team or
an individual scoring less on the scoreboard
0:27:07.920,0:27:13.280
getting declared as winner.
Makes sense! Doesn’t it?
0:27:14.800,0:27:20.880
That is how Skeletal Leap pioneers might
deal with this issue in a holistic manner
0:27:20.880,0:27:24.160
establishing sportsman spirit back in the sports.
0:27:25.600,0:27:30.160
Again, it is just one of the proposals
among thousands more of them coming from
0:27:30.160,0:27:38.240
the most creative sports designers. We just
need to stay open to all such new proposals
0:27:38.240,0:27:43.240
for further evolution of sports as an
important activity coloring the human life.
0:27:44.800,0:27:53.120
Let the best one win whosoever it comes from!
Love and Belonging Needs – World Government
0:27:54.520,0:28:01.360
We have been victims to the worst of all the
social institutions - the politics-business nexus.
0:28:02.800,0:28:09.040
We had created it to live life in a more
meaningful way but it stealthily cheated us.
0:28:10.600,0:28:13.160
Countries and nationalities have reduced
0:28:13.160,0:28:18.280
our status from being humans to being
mere nationals of this state or that.
0:28:19.800,0:28:24.880
The pioneers of Skeletal Leap would most
probably seek a world government that would
0:28:24.880,0:28:32.440
end all countries and eliminate the very idea
of nationalities. Such a world government could
0:28:32.440,0:28:39.600
break all boundaries and dissolve all borders
on the face of the planet. For too long now,
0:28:39.600,0:28:46.560
these borders have been making our beautiful world
look ugly from within as well as from a distance!
0:28:48.040,0:28:53.360
And the best thing is that in the present day
scenario of already having developed a global
0:28:53.360,0:29:02.960
consciousness, we, the Homo sapiens, CAN do it.
An Improbable (Almost Impossible) Utopia:
0:29:04.400,0:29:11.040
What if Israel and Palestine decide to break their
borders and unite as one single nation one day?
0:29:12.280,0:29:16.920
I know it is not very probable but it
is not theoretically impossible either.
0:29:18.440,0:29:23.160
Just for the sake of argument, let
us assume that it happens some day.
0:29:24.720,0:29:29.000
Today’s Israelis and Palestinians
will keep living where they are.
0:29:30.520,0:29:34.480
In fact, they will start living a much
better life than they are living now.
0:29:35.960,0:29:41.240
The definitions of patriotism and
sedition will change for them overnight.
0:29:42.800,0:29:50.120
The best that will happen is they will stop hating
each other. That is since the two of them will
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be each other’s ‘countrymen’ now.
Extending Utopia A Step Further
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We can extend the same argument to
all the other lands under conflict.
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We can further expand our national borders
from one corner of the world to the other.
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Patriotism and sedition as concepts as well as
moral or immoral values will become history.
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They will be left with no role
to play in the new world order.
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We will be able to love all of humanity
without any condition defining and
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describing one’s nationality.
What Stephen Hawking Had to Say:
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I must quote what Stephen Hawking, the renowned
physicist, had to say before his death.
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It was in the context of nationalities especially
at a crucial point of time in human history.
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It was when newly surging right wing politics
had started spreading almost all over the world.
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It had already strengthened the
sentiments of narrow nationalism
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and the subsequent chunks of patriotism:
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Stephen Hawking, physicist of the
left — particularly because of his
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insistence there is no God but rather a Mother
Nature that’s gone haywire from human-induced
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climate change — has just released his brainiac
solution to so-called Mankind’s Biggest Threat,
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technology, and it can be summed in this simple,
easy-to-remember phrase: “World government.”
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Courtesy: Washington Times 9th March, 2017
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Skeletal Leap always aims at dissolving all
kinds of fragmentation whether in the mind
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or else in the world. It looks at Gaia, a concept
in which the earth is a female living organism
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as one single whole which should
never be divided in any further parts.
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There is no place for any divisive
concept like patriotism in its worldview.
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Pioneers of Skeletal Leap would consider
themselves to be world citizens and humanity
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as their nationality. It recognizes and then
discards all other notions of nationality as
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faulty constructs of the mind. That was what
Jiddu Krishnamurti who was an enlightened soul
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always did too, declaring himself a world-citizen.
Esteem Needs – Ethical Insight Vs Value Systems
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What will the pioneers of Skeletal
Leap do with their value system?
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Let us peep inside a few glimpses of how
new value systems could heal themselves
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in a society energized by Skeletal Leap at
this evolutionary juncture of time, today.
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These are only the suggestive samples
that a skeletally transformed society
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could tentatively lead to,
not the final blueprints.
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It is simple. They won’t need any defined value
system to guide them. When our brain thinks
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independent of any interference from the mind,
it follows aesthetically dynamic and innately
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ethical actions automatically. Empathy and
compassion guide our actions in such a scenario.
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On the other hand, all those established values
play a very aggressive role in suppressing our
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natural flow of energy. Aggression is a
male characteristic that turned a natural
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matriarchal system into an artificial patriarchy
with the help of an imposed value system.
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Something that we are still paying a
heavy price for as modern human society!
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Cognitive Needs – Education
Clubs of Knowledge
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We need to change the academic regimentation in
our schools and replace it with something more
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interesting. And that may, for example,
be an interesting array of activities
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assimilated and distilled by the insightful
masters of the connected disciplines.
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And that array of activities might
demonstrate their discipline in action.
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It could also tell stories of the developments
achieved by the great masters in the discipline.
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It might even be the history
of that particular discipline.
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It will tend to turn schools
into clubs of knowledge.
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Replacing Schools with Clubs of Knowledge
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It is a well-known fact that the naive
minds don’t assimilate abstract knowledge.
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They have an innate tendency to get attracted
to real activities and the stories behind them.
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Not the fabricated ones that are
being practiced in most schools today!
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These clubs of knowledge can easily
attract and, more importantly,
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hold the attention of these naive minds.
It only happens if they are left free to
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move around any area of activity
going on in such proposed clubs.
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Soon these naive minds show an inclination to
frequent a specific activity more than the rest.
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That is when the insightful
masters should catch hold of them
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and move further from that point onward.
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Academics Takes A Secondary
But More Effective Role
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Now they have a real natural motivation to learn
the abstract tools of knowledge aka academics.
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They would otherwise have despised them earlier
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when they hadn’t really known
why they were learning them.
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They will automatically learn to use
these required abstract tools later
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if they have a clear idea why they
are learning them in the first place,
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i.e., to solve a real problem springing up while
they are on to some task in the said discipline.
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A Win-Win Situation
The crux of the solution is
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that if we really want to nurture talent, we
should discover it first. It is best done in the
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very beginning of primary education, designing
it around the disciplines of their talents.
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They will love their clubs of knowledge
way more than their current schools
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and humanity will enjoy the benefits from
their contributions to these disciplines.
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This will be one of the most creative roles
Skeletal Leap plays in the sociocultural
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evolution of humanity by changing
schools into clubs of knowledge.
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Aesthetic Needs
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A new consciousness courtesy Skeletal Leap would
automatically pervade through all aesthetically
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creative pursuits including poetry, drama, cinema,
fiction and other forms providing great classics.
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We might not need making any conscious
efforts to actuate this state of affairs
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in the world of aesthetics.
Self-Actualization Needs
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Again, Skeletal Leap in itself is the
mother of all self-actualization skills.
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And the best thing is that it does not
require ambition to activate it. We just
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need to take a leap into it out of curiosity
and the said leap takes care of all the rest!
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Personal Heaven Leading to Collective Heaven
Miracles do happen.
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We just need to take their cognizance
and analyze their patterns.
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It takes a lot of sensitivity to take their
cognizance. And it takes a lot of experimentation
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to analyze the patterns they follow.
I had always been quite sensitive to
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take cognizance of biological processes and of
their consequent sociocultural effects in groups.
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I would also analyze their patterns in their
minutest details along with their consequent
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effects on the subjects’ health and personalities.
If it improves their health conclusively,
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it is bound to change their
personalities in the right direction.
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It is a change in an individual personality that
initiates the process of a sociocultural change
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in a society. And when a sufficient number of
individual personality changes has taken place,
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the process of consequent
sociocultural change gathers momentum.
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There is always a condition that these personality
changes must be profound enough to do the needful.
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They should also be aligned with one another
to effect the consequent sociocultural changes
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in a single, desired direction.
How can that individual personality
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change be initiated? And how can it be
ensured that such a change is profound?
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The answer to both in the context of
the present podcast is: Skeletal Leap.
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An individual Skeletal Leap transforms an
individual life into one’s own personal heaven.
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A collective Skeletal Leap has the
potential to transform the entire
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world into a collective heaven worth living in.
I think our species, at this evolutionary juncture
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of time, is the apt custodian of life on the sole
‘living planet’ in the entire known universe.
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Are we ready to gift a better life to ourselves
today and bequeath a better world to our loved
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ones for tomorrow? A life devoid of disease,
stress, despair and unfulfilled emotions!
0:40:41.320,0:40:49.080
And a world devoid of barbed wires, turmoil,
confusion, competition, conspiracies,
0:40:49.080,0:40:56.240
scarcity and, most significantly, a world devoid
of a lurking threat of climatic apocalypse!
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It has the potential to lead us to a
life replete with health, energy, joy,
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passion and fulfillment! And a world replete
with freedom, peace, insight, collaboration,
0:41:12.680,0:41:19.440
opportunities, abundance and a safe
future for all species of life on earth!
0:41:20.960,0:41:25.680
Let’s first take our personal Skeletal
Leap to create our personal heaven now.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal
Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode,
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I will tell you about historical reference with
historical timeline of the past 12,000 years.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs!
Welcome back to the 33rd episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs!” will tell you about corruption in education system, self-improvement industry and organized religion.
In Episode 29, we saw how humanity handed over the reins of cognition to its collective autonomous mind instead of a spontaneous collective brain.
Thus our very cognition was the first casualty.
Therefore, when we started pursuing our collective growth needs, all of which are based on our cognition, we were already operating from a closed sociocultural solar plexus chakra and a host of other closed chakras due to corrupted pursuits of our deficiency needs.
It is no surprise that we ended up with more corrupted institutions that claim to fulfill our cognitive, self-actualization and transcendence needs.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! - Show Notes
In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs!”, I explain the intricate corruption present within our education system, the self-improvement industry, and organized religion.
As I explore the impact of closed socio-cultural chakras on our collective growth, I uncover how the pursuit of social status has overshadowed genuine cognitive and self-actualization needs. The education system, designed to nurture knowledge, has instead become a factory for producing mere qualifications, transforming eager learners into mechanical cogs in a relentless production wheel.
I also examine the self-improvement industry, where ambition has eclipsed passion, leading to a commodification of self-actualization that prioritizes perfection over excellence.
Furthermore, organized religion emerges as a complex web of competing beliefs, often sacrificing the true essence of transcendence for the sake of dogma and division.
Join me as I navigate through these pressing issues, questioning the very foundations of our societal structures and their effects on our individual and collective well-being. This episode is a call to reflect on the true nature of our needs and the systems that claim to fulfill them.
In this episode, I explore the following:
The impact of social status on education and its implications for cognitive growth.
How ambition has transformed the self-improvement industry into a pursuit of perfection.
The fragmentation of organized religion and its consequences for societal unity.
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - Education System
(00:11:51) - What is Religion
(00:15:04) - Questions of Science vs Religion
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! - Video
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! - Transcript with Timestamps
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Is it just random that the best talent humanity is
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benefiting from comes mostly from
the echelons of college dropouts?
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s
life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
corruption in education system,
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self-improvement industry and organized religion.
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In Episode 29, we saw how humanity handed over the
reins of cognition to its collective autonomous
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mind instead of a spontaneous collective brain.
Thus our very cognition was the first casualty.
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Therefore, when we started pursuing our
collective growth needs, all of which are
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based on our cognition, we were already operating
from a closed sociocultural solar plexus chakra
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and a host of other closed chakras due to
corrupted pursuits of our deficiency needs.
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It is no surprise that we ended up
with more corrupted institutions
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that claim to fulfill our cognitive,
self-actualization and transcendence needs.
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Our education system falls under sociocultural
solar plexus chakra that aims to fulfill
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cognitive needs by renewing the brain
continuously and energizing it cyclically.
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However, the currency it uses is ‘social status’
such as qualifications and specializations
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that fall in the domain of the mind rather than
brain, thus closing the sociocultural solar plexus
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chakra. Qualifications and specializations
turned more important than fulfilling
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cognitive needs in an insightful manner.
Thus, the noble pursuit of educating
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the new generation with insight turned
into regimented knowledge replicators.
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Today, it has reduced itself to transforming new
generations into efficient mechanical cogs in the
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ever-rotating wheel of unending production. It all
happened using the currency of ‘social status’.
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This directly led to the social disease of elitism
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that looks down upon the masses and is akin to
closing our sociocultural solar plexus chakra.
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Sociocultural Systems for
Cognitive Needs: Education System
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Homo sapiens had always had the
onus of educating their young ones
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to the level of knowledge that the
former generation had reached up to.
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With Homo sapiens as opposed to with any other
species, it has always been necessary to do so.
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And with the passage of time through their
evolution, our species has been experimenting
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with various ways to do it most effectively
ever since our brain size started enhancing.
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As far as we have reached up to this point
of time, the education system has become
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one of the most important social
institutions in modern human life.
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I always had my reservations about the education
system that we were being subjected to.
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It had dawned upon me as soon as I first set
foot inside a school more than 60 years ago.
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The way this system works is like a machine
churning out manufactured goods on an assembly
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line. The only difference is that it manufactures
graduates in various disciplines of learning.
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The onus of educating the new generation is
on the shoulders of the immediately older one.
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That is how the new generation starts its
journey of growing and developing knowledge.
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And that is how knowledge grows further from the
point that the older generation has brought it to.
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Education System for Junior Classes
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The knowledge that humanity has gathered and
developed up to this point of time is vast.
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It is so vast that no single individual
can ingest it all in its totality. We can,
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at best, have a bird’s eye view of its entire
repertoire and call it our general knowledge.
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That is what we are taught up to our
high school or higher secondary classes.
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General knowledge doesn’t make us
a master in any of its disciplines.
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And, unless we master a discipline in
its entirety, we can neither practice
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it properly nor develop it further.
Education System for Senior Classes
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So, after our high school or
higher secondary education,
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we need to choose any one of these endless number
of disciplines to specialize in. Then, we need to
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study it as wide and as deep as we can or wish to.
Ability to wisely choose what we effectively can
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and wish to study in detail
depends on our aptitude.
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It doesn’t merely depend on what we studied in
our junior classes but on how we studied them.
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And this is where our education
system fails us miserably.
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It doesn’t nurture talent well. It rather
suppresses it to a detrimental level.
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Pitfalls in Our Primary Education
The moment we are made to start our education,
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we are subjected to a complicated array
of academic regimentation. We are taught
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mechanically without any real insight into
the subject on the part of the teacher.
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They teach academics to the naive minds that
have naturally been designed to exploring
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what their elders have in store for them.
Unfortunately, we are discouraged to explore.
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We are rather expected to conform to the authority
by simply practicing the tools of knowledge.
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These tools are like written symbols of
spoken language and mechanically taught
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procedures of mathematical operations.
In addition, we are expected to learn
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uninteresting academic details of scientific
and social achievements of mankind.
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We do it to the satisfaction of the
examining authorities who assess us.
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They grade us based on how much of this
nonsense we were able to vomit out in tests.
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Curiosity Gets Killed
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We start hating academics and try
to avoid it as much as we can.
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Our curiosity gets killed in this mechanical
process of learning. As curiosity gets killed,
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we cannot discover our talents. They rather get
suppressed deep inside us never to show up again.
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Every single child who takes birth on earth
brings at least one talent that s/he can
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develop to master. But that is only in case s/he
is able to discover it in the very first place.
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The best talent we are born with is our
aptitude for a specific discipline of knowledge.
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Humanity Loses An Opportunity
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We are rarely able to discover our talents
and therefore don’t pursue them in the later
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years of our education. We rather pursue
another discipline for some other reason.
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We will never excel in it as much as we would if
we had discovered and pursued our inborn talent.
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As it happens, humanity loses another great
opportunity to benefit from another great talent.
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It is tragic that it loses a talent
in a discipline that never got
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discovered and was lost in the oblivion.
Is it just random that the best talent
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humanity is benefiting from comes mostly
from the echelons of college dropouts?
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Sociocultural Systems for Self-Actualization
Needs: Self-Improvement Industry
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Soft skill development falls under sociocultural
third eye chakra which strives to lead to self
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actualization in the society. The currency it
uses is ‘ambition’. Ambitions spring out of
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the mind alone. Our brains want us to pledge and
commit but our ambitious minds come in the way.
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When ‘ambition’ became more important than
fulfilling self-actualization needs, it defeated
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the whole purpose of self-actualization which
is to let passion and joy flourish within us.
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Achieving goals became more important than the
joy of the process that could take one there.
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It is no wonder, then, that ends
started justifying the means,
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thereby rendering the sociocultural
third-eye chakra firmly shut.
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The self-improvement industry was
born right out of this chakra.
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Self-actualization needs were originally meant
to be fulfilled via soft skill development as
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a personal concern of an individual. It enabled
passion and joy to flourish, driven by curiosity
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to extend and expand hard skills learnt in the
education system. Such passion and joy has the
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power to drive one toward achieving excellence in
their self-actualization pursuits. However, slowly
0:10:53.080,0:10:59.240
and gradually, the currency, namely ‘ambition’,
itself became more important than passion and joy.
0:11:00.680,0:11:07.320
This gave rise to an entirely new industry that we
now know as the ‘self-improvement’ industry which
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commercialized self-actualization. Consequently,
excellence got replaced by perfection.
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Self-actualization needs got
usurped by the currency of ambition.
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Excellence is a perennial process that
never stops, it is rather a way of life.
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On the other hand, perfection is an end in
itself which has no further prospects to improve.
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This ended up closing the sociocultural
third eye chakra generating an army of
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ambitious humans paying lip-service to idea of
excellence while chasing perfection all along.
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Sociocultural Systems for
Transcendence Needs: Organized Religion
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Organized religion falls under
sociocultural crown chakra looking
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forward to transcendence in society.
The currency it uses for the purpose is
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Unfortunately, this currency has corrupted
the genuine need for transcendence
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resulting in multiple religions, almost
all of them at daggers drawn between them.
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The highly revered rituals of ‘faith’ became more
important than the ultimate needs of transcendence
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that they were meant to serve as a currency.
Religion started with the expression of awe
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for natural order and a recognition of the
growth needs of transcendence in society.
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But it soon fragmented itself into
organized religions which ultimately
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devolved into contending systems of belief,
blind faith and fanatic moralistic reverence.
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Religion as an entity started with an expression
of awe over the miraculous events happening
0:13:06.000,0:13:14.880
around a recently evolved brain. But as early Homo
sapiens could not find any rationale for the same,
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they took an easy way out. They constituted
a new element of faith in the supernatural
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which all religions share
with one another till date.
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During both the hunting-gathering
and, later, the agricultural eras,
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the following traits of religiosity prevailed:
Animism | Belief in an afterlife | Shamanism |
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Ancestor worship | High gods who created human
life | High gods who are active in human affairs
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Animism amounts to attributing intent and
lifelike qualities to inanimate objects.
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This might have caused a belief in supernatural
aspects of unexplained natural facts seen around.
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The seed of animism could easily spill
over to a belief in an afterlife, shamanism
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and ancestral worship. Later when hunter-gatherer
communities turned into agricultural communities,
0:14:24.800,0:14:31.840
social hierarchies started coming into
existence. Thus, the egalitarian pattern
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of the hunting-gathering era gave way to
a paradigm of ‘rulers versus the ruled’.
0:14:39.120,0:14:43.880
High gods must have been in tune
with the newly emerging experiences.
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Consequently, a belief in high
gods having created humans
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and then actively controlling their affairs might
have been formed. As a result, the king started
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getting considered to be a representative of these
high gods in controlling his subjects’ lives.
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Today two-third of human population identifies
with one religion or another. But the geographical
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distribution of this percentage is in a state
of flux presently and in future projections.
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For example, at present China is going
through a phase of religious revival.
0:15:26.440,0:15:31.400
Protestant Christianity is growing
at an annual rate of 10% there.
0:15:32.880,0:15:35.360
It has already crossed the 100 million mark.
0:15:36.760,0:15:42.840
It is projected that it will become the world’s
largest Christian population by the year 2030.
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In contrast, the number of believers is sharply
going down in Western Europe. In Scotland,
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59% of its population has gone non-religious
openly, with 66% being women and 55% men.
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This might be a result of people’s exposure to
a scientific outlook and a rational world view
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in developed countries. Science and religion
have always gone along two opposite tangents.
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Both claim to establish the truth but there
is a huge difference in their approaches.
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While science is only one
single body all over the world,
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there are more than 1000 religions, many of
them making claims contradictory to one another.
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Also, science has always proved what it says
is true either logically or statistically
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whereas religion hasn’t been able
to prove even one of its own claims.
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I remember an amusing story from my life when
I had just secured my graduation in electronics
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engineering. I applied for a government job
in Defense Research Development Organization
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as a scientific officer in
one of its laboratories.
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After a few days, I received an interview
call from Union Public Service Commission.
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I headed to its venue to face the
interview on the scheduled date.
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As I reached the venue of the interview, I saw
hundreds of candidates waiting to be interviewed
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for the same post. It was only one single vacancy
and there were so many candidates vying for it,
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it being a premium position. Seeing such a
huge crowd, I immediately made up my mind
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for psychologically getting ready to be rejected.
Mathematically speaking, I had only 0.5% chance
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of getting selected. And the interview board had
to complete all the interviews in one single day.
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Hence everyone was being given around 2.5
minutes to prove their worth for the post.
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After a long wait, came my turn. I entered
the interview hall. There was a board of
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four interviewers headed by the chairman
sitting on the other side of a huge table.
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I greeted them and the chairman offered me a seat
on the lone chair kept in front of their table.
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I was ready to answer any questions they
would ask me for the next 2.5 minutes.
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My application form was lying in front
of the chairman who looked perplexed
0:18:42.560,0:18:48.360
as he pored over it. I waited quietly
to meet his first question with the
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best technically correct answer I could muster.
After a long eerie silence, came the chairman’s
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first question in the form of a blame. He really
attacked me, saying, “What have you written here
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in your form under the “religion” column? You
have written “N.A.”. What do you mean by that?”
0:19:12.000,0:19:18.320
I was amused. I said, “Sir,
N.A. means not applicable.”
0:19:19.760,0:19:26.120
He got offended, “Well, I know
what N.A. means. What I am asking
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is how it’s possible that it’s not applicable.”
I coolly said, “It’s because I don’t have any.”
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“Any what?” he was getting impatient
as well as irritated with me.
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“Religion! I don’t have any religion.”
0:19:46.200,0:19:50.920
“But how’s that possible?” he wasn’t
able to believe what I was saying.
0:19:52.440,0:19:58.240
“It’s possible, sir. You can see one in
front of you sitting here,” I smiled.
0:19:59.520,0:20:04.040
“Don’t your parents have a religion?”
came the next question from him.
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The other three members were absolutely quiet.
“They do,” I said.
0:20:12.640,0:20:18.360
“Then by default you have inherited it
from them,” he tried to make me understand.
0:20:19.880,0:20:22.880
“I don’t think religion is an inheritable entity.
0:20:23.560,0:20:28.760
One needs to develop one’s own faith
to follow a certain religion,” I said.
0:20:30.120,0:20:35.880
He further got more perplexed, “And do you
say you haven’t developed your faith yet?”
0:20:37.240,0:20:43.000
“Yes, I couldn’t,” I said, “and I don’t
think we should develop any faith ever.”
0:20:44.440,0:20:47.120
He wasn’t able to believe what I was saying.
0:20:48.200,0:20:53.880
He almost shrieked, “What are you
talking? Are you a negative personality?”
0:20:55.400,0:21:00.680
I didn’t lose my cool, “No sir,
I am an agnostic personality.”
0:21:02.160,0:21:07.480
“Do you mean atheist?” the inflection
in his voice suggested scorn.
0:21:08.920,0:21:15.160
I still kept my cool, “I am an agnostic.”
“What does that mean?”
0:21:16.000,0:21:20.640
looked like he wasn’t much familiar with
the deep meaning of this particular word.
0:21:22.040,0:21:25.480
I tried to tell him the
differences between, theism,
0:21:26.120,0:21:31.120
atheism and agnosticism. But
he didn’t look convinced.
0:21:32.520,0:21:38.600
We kept discussing on this same topic for
15 long minutes when, suddenly, he realized
0:21:38.600,0:21:45.120
he was under pressure of time. He immediately
said, “Let’s have the technical interview now.”
0:21:46.520,0:21:50.880
He wasn’t looking very pleased with the
direction that our discussion had taken
0:21:50.880,0:21:58.880
exposing his intolerance. Under the influence
of his value system, he might have pre-assessed
0:21:58.880,0:22:06.520
my technical knowledge to be pathetic. Hence, to
show me down, he might have thought of mocking me.
0:22:08.120,0:22:14.960
He asked me the easiest question on the topic at
hand to check if I knew at least that much or not.
0:22:16.360,0:22:21.560
“Can you even draw an adder circuit?”
he was smiling conspiringly.
0:22:23.120,0:22:27.640
“No sir, I don’t remember it
right at the moment,” I said.
0:22:28.840,0:22:33.920
His smile went wider, “You don’t even
know how to draw an adder circuit?”
0:22:34.440,0:22:40.640
his tone oozed with condescension.
“No sir, I do know how
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but not off-hand because I don’t keep my mind
burdened with information alone,” I explained.
0:22:48.280,0:22:54.040
“What’ll you do if you need to draw it during
your work?” he challenged me once again.
0:22:55.480,0:23:00.240
“I will deduce it then and there,”
I offered the immediate solution.
0:23:01.480,0:23:03.880
“And how much time will you take deducing it?”
0:23:04.600,0:23:08.040
he was trying to show that it
wasn’t a feasible solution.
0:23:09.440,0:23:13.560
“Say, 20 seconds,” I threw
his challenge back to him.
0:23:15.000,0:23:19.280
“Here is your paper and here is
your pen. Your time starts now!”
0:23:19.800,0:23:22.720
he started looking at his watch as he said this.
0:23:24.280,0:23:29.360
I was on my job without losing any
time. And when I gave back my paper
0:23:29.360,0:23:35.000
in just 15 seconds with deduction and
drawing, he could not believe his eyes.
0:23:36.560,0:23:41.240
“Did you really deduce it right now
or are you just trying to impress us?”
0:23:42.000,0:23:48.240
he asked, doubting my intentions.
“I don’t think I need to impress you, sir,”
0:23:48.800,0:23:52.640
by this time I had become fed
up of his senile behavior.
0:23:54.120,0:23:58.960
“Okay, that’s it. You can go
now,” he said in a curt voice.
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As I was going back, I heard him saying
in a sorry tone, “God bless you!”
0:24:07.560,0:24:15.760
It was as if he was seeking His pardon on my
behalf. While walking out of the interview hall,
0:24:15.760,0:24:21.880
I checked the time and realized that I
had been in there for full 18 minutes.
0:24:23.280,0:24:27.080
And none of the other three members
of the interview board had asked me
0:24:27.080,0:24:29.920
a single question during all that time.
0:24:31.360,0:24:35.920
I gave up all hopes of getting selected
and started applying elsewhere.
0:24:37.440,0:24:43.080
But, to my utter astonishment, one day I received
a letter informing me that I had been selected.
0:24:44.440,0:24:49.600
I could not believe that such an antagonistic
interview would ever end up in my selection
0:24:49.600,0:24:54.840
for such a coveted position.
Anyway, I joined the job and
0:24:54.840,0:25:00.440
discovered that the chairman of that interview
panel was a deputy director in the laboratory
0:25:00.440,0:25:07.200
and its second in-charge. He didn’t look happy
to see me there and never talked to me cordially.
0:25:08.520,0:25:14.120
By the way, there was another deputy director
in the laboratory who was third in-charge of it.
0:25:15.400,0:25:17.440
He somehow took a liking for me.
0:25:18.960,0:25:26.000
He would often call me to his office after lunch
to have a cup of coffee or tea together. Though I
0:25:26.000,0:25:32.680
was way younger and even way junior to him yet for
some reason, he became fond of our informal chats.
0:25:34.160,0:25:38.120
One day, while we were
chatting, he suddenly asked me,
0:25:38.120,0:25:45.600
“Do you know how you were selected for your job?”
“No!” I said, “Even I was surprised when
0:25:45.600,0:25:50.520
I got the selection letter. There were
hundreds of candidates in the interview,
0:25:50.520,0:25:56.080
many of them being quite experienced as
well. I really wonder how it happened.”
0:25:57.320,0:26:01.560
“You scored the highest points in the
board members’ assessment!” he smiled.
0:26:02.960,0:26:06.440
“But the chairman had sounded quite
annoyed with me in the interview,”
0:26:06.960,0:26:12.280
I put forth my point of doubt.
“That’s why he gave you a score of
0:26:12.280,0:26:18.000
zero out of a maximum of fifty that he
could give,” I saw a smirk on his face
0:26:19.360,0:26:26.280
“Then?” I was really confused now, “ How was it
possible for me to get selected in that case?”
0:26:28.000,0:26:32.120
“You got the highest 150 marks out of 200.
0:26:32.680,0:26:37.880
And it was because the other three members
scored you at the maximum of fifty each.”
0:26:39.200,0:26:43.120
And he burst into a loud
laughter as did I along with him.
0:26:44.480,0:26:47.760
This experience had shown
me the level of orthodoxy
0:26:47.760,0:26:55.000
that believers in religion could go up to!
Religious minds are driven by morality that is
0:26:55.000,0:27:02.920
based on differentiating between ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
Empty minds are driven by curiosity and creativity
0:27:02.920,0:27:06.560
leading to a beautiful life that
is filled with passion and joy.
0:27:08.160,0:27:14.480
To add to this, unluckily religion didn’t go
along sociocultural evolution as a common,
0:27:14.480,0:27:22.240
homogenous entity, unlike business and education.
It may have been so in the very beginning of this
0:27:22.240,0:27:28.160
process of splitting the mind into fragments that
eventually ended up at odds with one another.
0:27:29.560,0:27:33.440
It was initiated by the generation
of a moral fragment in the mind.
0:27:35.040,0:27:40.240
But then this moral fragmentation went a
step further by fragmenting the fragments
0:27:40.240,0:27:46.360
as religion slowly changed from a homogenous
single entity to several diverse religions.
0:27:47.920,0:27:52.400
Religions comprised multiple entities
as sub-fragments of multiple-morals
0:27:52.400,0:27:58.800
within a broad moral fragment. Christian
morals were different from Muslim morals
0:27:58.800,0:28:05.600
as both of them were further different from
Hindu morals and so on. Morals always assume
0:28:05.600,0:28:13.240
a dominating tendency within the mind unlike
instincts. They are aggressive simply because
0:28:13.240,0:28:18.600
they want to spread their message even at the
cost of suppressing and repressing instincts.
0:28:20.040,0:28:26.200
But with the multiplicity of sub-fragmented
morals, the fragmented and then indoctrinated
0:28:26.200,0:28:33.960
mind sides with one of them and decides to
suppress the rest. The Christian sub-fragment
0:28:33.960,0:28:40.080
tries to suppress the Muslim, Hindu,
Buddhist and other morals, for example.
0:28:41.560,0:28:48.760
And this suppression then moves outward from
the mind to the outside physical world. That is
0:28:48.760,0:28:54.800
what culminates into all kinds of religious wars
and conflicts on the planet from time to time.
0:28:56.240,0:28:59.520
And ironically, it doesn’t even stop there.
0:29:01.040,0:29:06.440
There are further sub-sub-fragments that
get generated within sub-fragments as well.
0:29:07.960,0:29:14.280
Shia-Sunni, Protestants-Catholics,
Kshatriya-Shudra et cetera are examples
0:29:14.280,0:29:21.440
of such sub-sub-fragments. These follow the
same pattern of trying to uphold the ones
0:29:21.440,0:29:28.920
that the mind sides with and suppress the rest
in the outside world. It further gives rise to
0:29:28.920,0:29:35.840
newer intra-religious wars and conflicts in the
world, like in Ireland or the Iran-Iraq wars.
0:29:37.120,0:29:42.400
All along our sociocultural evolution, our
minds have gotten more and more complex.
0:29:43.960,0:29:51.720
A complex mind gives birth to the perception of a
similarly complex world. The result has been all
0:29:51.720,0:29:57.560
kinds of religious wars and communal conflicts
killing innumerable people on the planet.
0:29:59.120,0:30:04.760
It is only Homo sapiens who kill the members
of their own species in such an organized way!
0:30:05.960,0:30:08.760
Don’t we need to stop this nonsense now?
0:30:10.280,0:30:15.840
What will happen to all these compromised
sociocultural systems and/ or institutions
0:30:15.840,0:30:21.520
in a society which starts moving toward filling
the holes of Homo sapiens bipedal evolution?
0:30:23.040,0:30:29.600
It is my contention that the said sociocultural
systems/ institutions will dissolve automatically
0:30:29.600,0:30:33.040
in much the same way as opening
the biological chakras ends up
0:30:33.040,0:30:36.200
dissolving them in individual biological systems.
0:30:37.720,0:30:40.280
How would this dissolution
come into manifestation?
0:30:41.760,0:30:44.920
Let us now peep inside for a few glimpses of how
0:30:44.920,0:30:49.960
new social systems could heal themselves
in a society energized by Skeletal Leap.
0:30:51.160,0:30:56.000
Thanks for listening to this episode
of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
0:30:56.600,0:31:02.600
In the next episode, I will tell you about
manifesting a collective heaven on earth.
0:31:03.760,0:31:09.120
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 32nd episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs!” will tell you about corruption in charitable organizations.
Value systems fall under sociocultural throat chakra to fulfill the needs of self-esteem. The currency here is ‘morals’.
‘Morals’, the sociocultural currency of the next deficiency need, i.e., self-esteem, turned more important than need itself.
The cultural extension of morals, i.e., value systems, started as ethical codes for social esteem but soon turned into moral codes for suppressing the individual spirit.
Charitable and non-profit organizations became the face of this suppression and resulted in the sociocultural throat chakra getting closed.
In our journey of sociocultural evolution, our value systems have also been disintegrating and are confusing us at each and every step we, the Homo sapiens, take today.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs! - Show Notes
In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs!”, I dive deep into the intricate relationship between morality, self-esteem, and the socio-cultural structures that shape our society.
Join me as I explore how the moral values created by humanity, which were intended to serve our self-esteem needs, have been corrupted and manipulated by those in power.
Discover how these moral codes, initially designed to uphold social esteem, have transformed into instruments of suppression that close the socio-cultural throat chakra.
Through a critical lens, I examine the disintegration of value systems and their impact on charitable and non-profit organizations, revealing how they have become emblematic of this suppression.
I question the very foundation of our moral values and their relationship with our instinctual drives, challenging you to reconsider what it means to live authentically in a society riddled with contradictions.
As I navigate this complex terrain, I uncover the unfortunate consequences of these moral constructs on personal relationships and societal cohesion.
This episode encourages you to reflect on the true essence of charity and the implications of a system that prioritizes moral currency over genuine need.
Don’t miss this enlightening discussion that sheds light on the corruption of our charitable institutions and the broader implications for humanity.
Here are the highlights...
(00:00:00) - Why did humanity need to create moral values at all if they weren't naturally
(00:09:18) - All social morals that were implemented went against human instinctual drives
(00:19:48) - Loyalty is a highly respected moral value which supposes commitment
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - What are Moral Values in our Socio-cultural Evolution?
(00:09:18) - Human Morals
(00:14:59) - Sense of Duty and Respect
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs! - Video
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs! - Transcript with Timestamps
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Why did humanity feel the need
to create moral values at all
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if they were not naturally built
in our psychobiological structure?
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s
life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode titled “Corruption Unleashed:
How It Distorts Our Self-Esteem Needs!”, I will
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tell you about corruption
in charitable organizations.
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Value systems fall under sociocultural throat
chakra to fulfill the needs of self-esteem.
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The currency here is ‘morals’. ‘Morals’,
the sociocultural currency of the next
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deficiency need, i.e., self-esteem,
turned more important than need itself.
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The cultural extension of morals, i.e.,
value systems, started as ethical codes
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for social esteem but soon turned into moral
codes for suppressing the individual spirit.
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Charitable and non-profit organizations became
the face of this suppression and resulted in the
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sociocultural throat chakra getting closed.
Value Systems
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In our journey of sociocultural evolution, our
value systems have also been disintegrating
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and are confusing us at each and every
step we, the Homo sapiens, take today.
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Moral Values & Instinctual Drives:
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We are born with a set of instinctual drives which
are inherent in our psychobiological structure.
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We don’t have to go anywhere in order
to learn about them. On the other hand
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we are not born with any set of moral values
in our psychobiological structure. Hence,
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they are not inherent to the human being and
need to be taught anew to every new child born.
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Is there any relationship between the two?
Certainly yes!
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But before investigating into this relationship,
we need to ask another more important question.
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Why did humanity feel the need to create
moral values at all if they were not naturally
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built in our psychobiological structure?
Moral values became necessary because a few
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of those purely instinctual drives scared humans
who then perceived them as threats. This happened
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when humans set out to create a new social
order for the first time in our distant past.
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Which social order were
they scheming to establish?
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It was a plutocratic (the rule or power of wealth)
male dominated social system, operating from an
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already closed sociocultural root chakra, that
these moral values were plotting to uphold.
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And the plutocrats could simply go ahead and
push these so-called values using their wealth.
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They could apply that wealth to either bribe
or starve their subjects to buy their opinion.
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Wealth in the form of personal ownership of
resources had very recently made its entry
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into human life. The ones who were either
strong or cunning or both, for that matter,
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were able to amass these resources more than
the rest, like we discussed in Episode 30.
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And why were these initiators predominantly males?
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It was so because males were stronger (even
if not more cunning) than females. Also they
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had more time at their disposal to accumulate
more wealth than their female counterparts.
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It was simply because females lost time
in delivering and rearing up their kids.
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The kids decidedly belonged to their mothers
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and not fathers since no one could establish
fatherhood beyond doubt. And as they grew,
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they would support their mothers in the pursuit
of amassing wealth. In a way, it could be seen as
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the wealth regained that their mothers had lost
access to while delivering and rearing them up.
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So, males needed a way to know, beyond
doubt, who the father of any given kid was.
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With their sociocultural throat chakras closed,
the males felt ignored as compared to the females,
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thus hurting their esteem. But this would only
be possible if the females agreed to it as well.
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For this, they needed to stop following their
instinctual drive to have sex with any males of
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their choice at any time.
Why would they agree?
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Powerful males in those early societies designed
a new faculty of thought which would uphold newly
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envisioned ‘moral values’ as essentially opposite
alternatives to certain instinctual drives
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predominantly including sex. They did so because,
by this time, their collective sociocultural
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throat chakras were already closed. They were
supported by so-called supernatural practitioners
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who enjoyed a high status among
ignorantly naive early human dwellings.
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These supernatural practitioners,
initially looking forward to transcendence,
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had already fallen prey to
its currency named ‘faith’,
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thus closing the sociocultural crown chakra
of the society. More on that in Episode 33.
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The first of such newly established moral values
declared sex as the basic sin to be avoided as
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much as possible. But since curbing such a
powerful instinct en masse wasn’t feasible
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practically, a new rule was framed that one female
having sex with multiple males was ‘immoral’.
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If she did, she would be severely punished by
another new entity created by the supernatural
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practitioners, named ‘God’.
An Unfortunate Consequence:
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In order for this rule to look unbiased between
genders, it was framed as such for both of them.
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But as an unfortunate consequence, it was
never implemented for males as strictly
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as it was done for females. This was
because human biology went against females.
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Any female engaging in stealthy sex
would sooner or later conceive children
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and be caught for her transgressions. On the other
hand, males could easily evade detection of their
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own transgressions without any telltale signs.
Monogamy – Marriage Comes Into Existence:
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To put an official stamp on this rule, a new
social institution named marriage was designed.
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It limited the choice of sex partners to just
one over an entire lifetime as against many
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for as much time as desired. In some societies a
male could marry several females simultaneously.
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But females were rarely, if
at all, provided this luxury!
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Monogamy, initiated under the domination of
morals effecting sociocultural throat chakra,
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changed its shape to a new social
institution, namely marriage.
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Marriage, designed under the domination of the
currency we are calling ‘personal ownership of
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resources’ further extended adherence to monogamy,
thereby effecting the sociocultural root chakra.
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This enhanced adherence ensured that
the males could be surer about being the
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biological fathers of their spouse’s children.
It turned them all into a close-knit family,
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another sociocultural institution that came
into existence. Hence, before they died,
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the males could hand over their personal ownership
of resources to their children without any doubt,
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like their mothers had always done. Thus marriage,
further strengthening sociocultural root chakra,
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facilitated males to weave a close-knit safety
network in their immediate familial vicinity, too.
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Human Mind:
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Now, a new moral science was
envisaged comprising a set of morals.
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These were the morals that humans ought to follow
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even if they were directly against the
calls of their own instinctual drives.
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Eventually, all such social
morals that were implemented
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went against those allegedly dangerous natural
instinctual drives in one way or the other.
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We as humans are born with instinctual
drives alone in our mind-body system.
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We don’t have any sort of human emotions or
morals in our mind that we start our life with.
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Later, in our journey from childhood to adulthood,
we learn the history of human development.
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We learn it in each and every subject and store
it in the knowledge base of our mind. Then,
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as we grow, we add to that knowledge base from our
own personal experiences to enhance it further.
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This is what the ideal development of human
mind is supposed to be like. It is a set of
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instinctual drives along with a knowledge base
of human achievements in various subjects.
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However, in practice, that is not all that our
mind is subjected to during the formative years of
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our development. It is also indoctrinated with a
value system which is not limited to morals alone.
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Consequently, it tries to turn them
into our aesthetic values as well.
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Presently, our culture very eagerly nails
down several moral values onto our minds.
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Sex As A Necessary Evil
We are taught by our religious
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culture that sex is a necessary evil. This is
done at a stage in our lives when we have not
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even experienced it as a fully developed
instinctual drive in our mind-body system.
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Our minds get conditioned against sex even before
our body grows to incorporate it into our system.
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And the time it does, our conditioning
starts making us feel guilty about it.
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Truthfulness
We are taught that
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truth is a desirable parameter of integrity
even when we don’t know what a lie is. Hence,
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the very inception of truth as a desirable moral
value sows the seeds of learning how to tell lies.
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Prior to sociocultural evolution, our instinctual
drives may not have felt a need to tell a lie.
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But we may not have said we
were speaking the truth either.
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We may have simply said we were speaking. We
may not have needed either of the two concepts.
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Plainly speaking about what we saw
and what we did may have been enough.
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But the same social system that
established monogamy and plutocracy
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realized it was suppressing extremely
strong instinctual drives. It also realized
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people WOULD tend to satiate these drives
stealthily and then claim they did not.
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So, a new concept of truth was envisaged as
opposite to a more basic concept of a lie.
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If a lie were never needed, there wouldn’t have
been any need for a concept of truth to exist too.
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But lies entered the domain of human action
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owing to the establishment of a cunningly
unjustified as well as an unhealthy society.
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Hence, truth was designed as a moral value
to stop people from lying. People, however,
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lied innocently only to satiate their instinctual
drives and hide it from those in authority.
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That is why speaking the truth should
be brought down from its high pedestal.
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We need to peel off the facade of reverence
that our moral values have assigned to it.
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Honesty
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Same is the story of honesty. The very
inception of honesty as a desirable moral value
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sows the seeds of learning how to be dishonest.
Prior to sociocultural evolution, there may not
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have been anything like dishonesty in our
instinctual drives that we needed to act on.
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But the newly established and unjustified
social system feared that people could plot
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secret schemes to rebel against its inherent
suppression. The said moral termed any such
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possibility as dishonesty and coined a desirable
behavior named honesty as its antithesis.
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It is interesting to note that most so-called
anti-moral values are named to be the antithesis
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of moral values; dishonesty vs honesty, for
example. But in fact, conceptually speaking,
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these were morals that were actually conceived as
the antitheses of the so-called anti-moral acts.
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Sense of Duty
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Sense of duty is a set of actions we ought
to do whether we feel like doing them or not.
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Why do we need a stipulation like this
if we already feel like doing those?
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And why do we need the ones being stipulated
if our mind does not feel like doing those?
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Our culture seems to have decided the validity
of ‘duty’ even if it goes against the natural
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composition of the human mind. What good
can we expect to come out of those dutiful
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actions if they don’t have the energy
of our natural willfulness behind them?
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They will simply get reduced to a level of being
artificially performed as forced rituals. We
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will undertake and then perform them only to keep
away the guilt of not having done them at all.
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Prior to sociocultural evolution, we may
have lived with our instinctual drives
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guiding our actions and behavior. And we may
not have needed a concept like a sense of duty.
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We may have simply acted out what our
spontaneous feeling guided us to do.
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It is plausible that any such spontaneous feeling
may primarily have been of concern and sympathy
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for one another. So we may not have needed a sense
of duty in order to act in the most desirable way.
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But with the suppression of our instinctual
drives, we wouldn’t feel such concern and
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sympathy for those who have themselves
also suppressed those same drives.
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Once again, as yet another anti-thesis to
instinctual drives, the sense of duty was
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formulated as one more moral value. Morals were
supposed to be upheld under any circumstances.
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Otherwise, the sin that we committed would
not let us live without a feeling of guilt.
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Respect
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We are taught to respect our elders and seniors.
We are not taught to respect our juniors.
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Why this one-sided approach to something that
our culture considers such an important value?
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Therefore, respect as a value immediately
strikes us as feudal in its very inception.
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The human mind is not designed to respect. It is
designed to interact. It is designed to share. And
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it is designed to love. Respect is a very formal
concept that requires a distance between the two
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individuals involved. The respected one stands
on a higher pedestal than the one who respects.
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The more we respect like we do our fathers,
especially in the developing countries,
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the less we love them. That is because
respect necessitates kind of separation.
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And the more we love like we do our mothers,
the less we need to respect them. That is
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because love eliminates any such separation.
It is still customary in the Eastern societies
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(and used to be in all societies until a few
centuries ago) for fathers to act like an
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authoritarian judge in the family court passing
sentences on kids that are generally corporal.
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Mothers can, at best, play the role of kids’
advocates pleading mercy for their ‘crimes’.
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Same, till very recently, had been true in case
of teachers in schools as well. Teachers have been
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preoccupied with enforcing respect as a means to
extracting their desired behavior from students.
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This has created an authoritative chasm between
the teacher and the student, thereby eliminating
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any possibility of a healthy kinship. Such kinship
may have resulted in the desired behaviors more
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organically in the first place. Laws have been
made in some of these countries prohibiting
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teachers assigning corporal punishments to
the students though they are often broken.
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Obedience
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Obedience, as a value, is a sub-set of respect. As
a younger person, we are not supposed to question
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or raise doubts against the orders of our
elders. This again is a very feudal value.
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Here again, in the Eastern countries, kids are
supposed to be more obedient to their fathers
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than to their mothers who they can argue with at
times, though in the absence of their fathers.
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Similarly they are culturally supposed
to be obedient to their teachers as well.
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As a result, they seldom question their teachers
even if they have genuine queries in their minds.
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Questioning teachers is not culturally
encouraged as learning is supposed to be
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a one way communication from the teacher
to the student. The students are supposed
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to learn by rote what instructions
their teachers have passed on to them.
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The human mind is not naturally designed for
feudalism. And if we force it to conform,
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we are simply suppressing the instinctual
drives we are naturally born with.
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Good Manners
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Good manners are all protocols in their essence.
We are supposed to behave a certain way in a
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certain scenario. And we do so whether we
are feeling like behaving that way or not.
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The more we follow these dictats,
the less authentic we become.
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We must say, “Very pleased to see you,”
on meeting someone even if we are not so.
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Aren’t we telling a lie which violates
another moral value named truthfulness?
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Faith
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If we have faith, we don’t question.
But our minds are wired to question.
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And faith as a moral value tries its best to
suppress curiosity that we are born with as an
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instinct. Unfortunately, it doesn’t limit itself
to being a moral value alone, it also plays its
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role as a currency for transcendence needs. As the
currency becomes more important than fulfilling
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the genuine need as such, the sociocultural
crown chakra falls prey and gets closed as well.
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We are going to look into it in Episode 33.
Loyalty
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We have already talked about loyalty clouding
real love and belonging needs as their currency
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through a closed sociocultural heart chakra in
Episode 31. But it goes a step further from there
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as it assumes the status of ‘morals’ as well,
closing sociocultural throat chakra along.
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Loyalty is a highly respected moral
value which supposes us to be committed.
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It is a commitment to a certain
person, institution or an idea.
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In addition, loyalty is uniquely characterized by
its blind and unconditional support for the same.
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Our minds, however, are not so
indiscriminate in their natural structure.
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Loyalty simply stands against our judicious sense
of discernment between one action and another.
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Now, we can go into further details of each
one of these values. We can easily show that
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they all stand against instinctual drives
either overtly or else in a covert way.
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Instinctual Drives:
Eating | Drinking | Excreting | Curiosity |
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Movement | Play | Adventure | Interaction |
Love | Grouping | Sex | Reproduction | Parenting
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The moral values are nailed very hard
and deep into the structure of the mind
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and away from the structure of the brain.
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They play their role very well in suppressing
the energy of our death instincts and keep it so.
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But, like water, energy can never be kept
suppressed for long. And like water finds
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new channels for its flow, energy also
invents new channels for its expression.
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Human Emotions
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The channels that the energy of these suppressed
instinctual drives invents for its expression are
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named human emotions. Of these, the main ones are:
Desire | Greed | Hope | Happiness | Surprise |
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Anger | Envy | Jealousy | Disappointment |
Guilt | Sadness | Fear | Anxiety | Depression
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These human emotions are channelled to express
the energy of the blocked instinctual drives.
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But they are never as innocent and as
straightforward as the instinctual drives
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themselves are. They are rather the distorted
forms of expressing the suppressed energy.
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And they do so in bursts rather than
a smooth flow, unlike instincts.
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Will vs. Will Power
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Human emotions generate a new faculty of will in
the structure of our mind. Will is nothing but an
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urge to compensate for the loss of sensitivity,
joy and creativity suffered by instinctual drives.
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Moral faculty is very much able to see through
the real purpose behind the generation of this new
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faculty. And in its attempt to keep it suppressed
as it was before its inception, it comes up with
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a newer faculty that we call will power.
Contrary to what we believe it to be,
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will power, in reality, is the power acting
against the execution of will, not for it. Will
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power is armed with the appeal of being morally
judicious to work against the execution of will.
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It does so by projecting will as irresponsible
even if it cannot brand it as immoral.
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Will is not a very healthy faculty in our mind
but will power is even less so! Will, comprising
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both positive and negative human emotions, creates
sharp edges in our personality. It is because will
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expresses energy in hot aggressive bursts and not
in a cool smooth flow like instinctual drives do.
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And as far as will power is concerned, its sole
purpose is to block the flow of life energy.
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It doesn’t bother if this energy belongs
to instinctual drives or to human emotions.
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How Established Value Systems
Resulted In Charitable Organizations
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We saw how moral value systems always
worked to suppress and even repress
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the passion and joy of the free instinctual drives
of sex, curiosity, adventure and interaction.
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They turned life mechanical and the
masses into cogs of the incessant wheel
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of consumerist production. Consequently, despite
the abundant material progress that humanity made,
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the individual cogs of the wheel always
felt a sense of spiritual scarcity.
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The fruits of this abundant growth
were never distributed liberally.
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Hence the masses always felt
material scarcity as well.
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As cogs of the wheel, the individuals also
seriously limited their potential for insight.
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Insight could have turned humanity
into a real abundant society for all
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and not for only a chosen few sitting at
the helm of those wheels of production.
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However, we took the less valuable path of
mere innovation, arising from a sharp mind
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as opposed to a truly intelligent brain. Thus,
moral value systems ruined it once again.
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The more materially abundant humanity grew,
the more impoverished its individuals felt.
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Moral value systems worked very well to keep its
individuals alive enough to keep working as those
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cogs in its giant wheel of perennial growth. It
very cunningly created charitable organizations,
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putting charity at a high
pedestal as a liberal moral value.
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Do you see the pattern yet? When esteem needs
got corrupted by the currency of morality,
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we ended up, yet again, with an institutional
manifestation of another sociocultural chakra,
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this time the throat chakra.
Charitable organizations gradually
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gained credence to such a degree that, today,
a significant portion of the population is
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surviving on the government charity in
some parts of the developing world today.
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Thanks for listening to this episode
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self-improvement industry and organized religion.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 31st episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!” will tell you about corruption in marriage, organized sport, and nation state.
The institutions of marriage, organized sport and nation state make up the sociocultural heart chakra that aims to fulfill the needs of love and belongingness in society.
The currencies it uses are ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’. Identification and attachment turned more important than fulfilling the needs of compassionate love and belonging in society.
Corrupted by the currencies of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, these needs gave rise to social institutions such as marriage, organized sport and nation state.
Today, the institution of marriage has come down to the verge of extinction, thanks to the ever-increasing rate of divorces.
Sporting spirit took a big hit the moment it got redesigned on the lines of mini warfare, thereby corrupting its whole foundation.
Loyalty and patriotism promoted love and belonging in society but in an extremely fragmented way, leading to nation states.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! - Show Notes
In this compelling episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, I dive into the intricate web of corruption woven through the institutions of marriage, organized sport, and nation states.
Titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!” this episode explores how these societal pillars, designed to fulfill our needs for love and belonging, have been compromised by the currencies of identity and loyalty.
As we unpack the socio-cultural heart chakra, we reveal how the essence of love has been distorted, leading to the disintegration of marriage and the transformation of sports into a battlefield of ego.
The episode highlights the increasing divorce rates that threaten family structures and the rise of nationalism that fosters division and hatred.
I investigate the implications of these corruptions on our relationships and societal cohesion, questioning what true love means in a world where identity and loyalty overshadow genuine connection.
Through this exploration, I aim to shed light on the profound effects of a fragmented mind on our collective well-being.
Join me as I navigate the complexities of love, loyalty, and the societal constructs that shape our lives.
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - Corruption in Marriage, Sports and Nation State
(00:03:20) - What is Love and Its Definition?
(00:10:33) - The disintegration of traditional marriage
(00:11:55) - What is patriotism in sports?
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! - Video
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! - Transcript with Timestamps
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Love is actually sensed through a flow
of energy in the body while interacting.
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That is what makes one
spiritually healthy as well.
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s
life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about corruption
in marriage, organized sport, and nation state.
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The institutions of marriage, organized sport
and nation state make up the sociocultural heart
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chakra that aims to fulfill the needs
of love and belongingness in society.
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The currencies it uses are ‘identity’ and
‘loyalty’. Identification and attachment
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turned more important than fulfilling the needs
of compassionate love and belonging in society.
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Corrupted by the currencies
of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’,
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these needs gave rise to social institutions such
as marriage, organized sport and nation state.
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Today, the institution of marriage has
come down to the verge of extinction,
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thanks to the ever-increasing rate of divorces.
Sporting spirit took a big hit the moment it got
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redesigned on the lines of mini warfare,
thereby corrupting its whole foundation.
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Loyalty and patriotism promoted love and belonging
in society but in an extremely fragmented way,
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leading to nation states. It
also promoted the “othering”
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and hatred against the so-called enemy
societies. It never had a compassionate
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concern for the undivided humanity despite
the numerous slogans it raised along the way.
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This gave rise to disparate ideologies that
often ended up in arms against one another.
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That was what happened during the Cold
War that lasted almost half a century.
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Result – sociocultural heart chakra shut!
Marriage
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In the wake of the present human awareness, the
institution of marriage seems to be moving toward
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disintegration. Divorces are at an all-time
high creating a traumatic hell for the children
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whose lives are irreparably disrupted
as and when a marriage breaks down.
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It is too late to go back to the old
community patternh1 of hunter-gatherers
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where fatherhood was inclusive. The reason is
that, today, a father can very easily know who
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his offshoot is with a simple DNA test.
Even an offshoot can do it later in life.
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All this can lead to many kinds of
complexities in relationship patterns.
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Let’s investigate Maslow’s deficiency need
for love and belonging a little deeper.
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If we objectively look at it,
neither psychology nor literature
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has yet been able to provide an authentic
definition of the phenomenon called love.
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And the hard fact is that love occupies the most
central stage in the human psyche as a drive.
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All our literature including poetry, drama,
cinema and fiction thrives on love the most.
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Even religion vouches by it. At times,
philosophers did try to define the phenomenon,
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but there has not been any consensus among them
yet. Humanity still understands love only in an
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intuitive sense. But this intuitive sense about
love is the strongest among all other mental
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phenomena whether emotional, instinctual or moral.
I think majority of humanity would vouch for it.
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And at least in the modern society, people marry
only when they have fallen in love with someone.
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So, how do we define love? It certainly has
something to do with a sense of belonging.
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But that does not take us any closer
to an objective definition of love.
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At best, it simply acts as a synonym.
Is love an emotion?
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No. Love cannot be an emotion. Emotions
have their abode in mind alone,
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not in the mind-body system as an organic part
of it. Love is actually a mind-body state.
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Is love a moral value?
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Not even that! Morals are all foreign concepts
nailed into mind alone while we grow up.
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They, too, are not there in the mind-body
system as an organic part of it.
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Is love an instinct?
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Exactly! We are born with it in our body even
when our mind has not yet started developing.
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The newborn immediately starts feeling a sense
of belonging to their mother. Later in life, we
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sense it via interacting with anyone or anything
through our senses. The deeper the interaction,
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the stronger is the sensation of love!
Thus love is a sensation. The more we
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have it through our interactions in-depth, the
more it makes us sensitive. The deeper we sense,
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the stronger we love. This deep sensitivity
enables us to feel the other inside out.
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Why don’t we feel this sensation, then, while
interacting with others all day, everyday?
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Simply because we lose our sensitivity
considerably as we grow up in an
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unhealthy environment. Here comes the
debilitating role of the heart chakra
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sticking the chest ‘in’ instead of protruding
it ‘out’ via abducting shoulder joints
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posturing them away from the torso as the first
nature of the body. They rather drop down via
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adducting shoulder joints posturing them stuck to
the torso as an unhealthy habit. This unhealthy
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habit is responsible for closing heart chakra
as it generates a defensive muscular armor (by
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habitually keeping the muscles named pectoralis
major and pectoralis minor rigidly contracted)
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seriously limiting the openness of chest and
arms ready to embrace anyone and everyone around.
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It mentally results in keeping our ‘self’
protected from an imaginary threat of an attack on
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it. On the other hand, the openness of chest and
arms ready to embrace anyone and everyone around
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plays a key role in dissolving one’s ‘self’ with
an open heart chakra in combination with rest of
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the 6 chakras opened. This results in feeling the
sensation of love while interacting with others
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through the day everyday. A healthy mind-body
system is an acutely sensitive system. The more
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it is sensitive physically as well as mentally,
the deeper it interacts and the more it loves.
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Love is actually sensed through a flow of
energy in the body while interacting. That
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is what makes one spiritually healthy as well.
And when a healthy mind-body system interacts
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in-depth with another mind-body system of
opposite gender in adulthood, the two interacting
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personalities not only sense love but may also
feel like making love between the two of them.
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That is how two personalities may get
attracted to and fall in love with each other.
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How do sociocultural systems for love and
belonging needs get affected when their
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currencies, namely ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’,
become more important than the real need itself?
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They close the sociocultural heart
chakra of our society en bulk.
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It is just like ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’
work in closing the biological heart chakra
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via keeping our ‘self’ protected from
an imaginary threat of an attack on it.
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These two limiting currencies become the central
theme of the need for love and belonging.
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Once it happens, these currencies
make boundaries around the ‘self’.
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This keeps people isolated and
alienated from other people around them
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in the name of an imaginary safety and security
to keep their ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ intact.
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How much do we interact with our neighbors in the
modern apartment buildings we live in these days?
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And how readily do we unconditionally
interact with people across the boundaries
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of our ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, be
those the boundaries of nationality,
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religion, caste, class, faith, belief-system,
ideology, gender, possessive attachment,
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emotional attachment, moral attachment,
generation, and orthodox political affiliation?
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These are the tags of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’
that keep us away from loving people through
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unconditionally interacting with them in-depth.
True love never happens without deep interaction.
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Also, love never happens without an acute
sensitivity to feel the other while interacting.
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No doubt, then, that in the wake of the present
human awareness, the institution of marriage
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seems to be moving toward disintegration. Divorces
are at an all-time high creating a traumatic hell
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for the children whose lives are irreparably
disrupted as and when a marriage breaks down.
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How important is a father for a child?
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And how important is fatherhood for
a sensitive father in today’s life?
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If we look at it from this angle, traditional
marriage seems to be the best solution.
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Even a divorce has no place in it since it
traumatizes children’s life irreparably.
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But divorces cannot be stopped from taking place.
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In fact, they are well on their way to
becoming the rule rather than exception.
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Even if divorces didn’t exist, marriages
turn from fond to dull relationships between
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spouses within no time. When this happens, sex
turns from a romantic and passionate affair
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into a mechanical rut sooner than later.
It is a catch-22 situation.
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Organized Sport
Sports Vs Sportsman Spirit:
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Sports and sportsman spirit have come to be in
conflict with each other in today’s society.
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It is simply owing to the way sports have been
designed and organized all over the world.
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Why do we play sport?
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I think a rational answer should be
‘to enjoy skilled physical activity’.
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We enjoy the sporting skill that is required
in order to make strong and specific moves
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demanded by any given sport. We also enjoy
corresponding moves by opponent players or teams.
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This makes it an awe-inspiring scene not only
for the players but for the spectators as well.
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Win Or Lose:
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It would be good enough if it were celebrated
like a festival to inspire awe in the players
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and spectators. But their designers went a step
ahead and tagged the same moves and counter-moves
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with victory and defeat. This introduced
the element of ego in their fabric.
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Who wants to get defeated? No one!
Who wants to win? Everyone!
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Thus, winning turned out to be
the prime motto of playing sport.
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The beauty of the skilled moves got pushed to the
margin. The result became more important than the
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enjoyment springing out of the aesthetic
of the awe-inspiring moves themselves.
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We humans have a very crude habit of quantizing
quality which tends to kill its subtleness.
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Being an instinct, love as a need for belonging
is always a subtle one. But when it gets
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replaced with its currencies named ‘identity’ and
‘loyalty’, we start assessing it in these terms.
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Our intention behind this is always to strengthen
our own limited ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’.
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Assessment is only possible between quantities or
numbers that we start assigning to this quality.
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No wonder, then, that we invent ways to
assign those quantities to the quality
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displayed in a sporting event ending up
with victory for one and defeat for another.
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It is again a very clear case of our sociocultural
system of sport getting afflicted with a closed
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sociocultural heart chakra. Combined with the
rest of other closed sociocultural chakras,
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it ultimately ends up getting afflicted
with practices like match-fixing, betting,
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violence in sports and many more ills.
Brute Force to Win:
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Then brute force becomes the rule of the game.
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Let’s ask the same question again…
Why do we play sport?
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This time the answer is going
to be ‘in order to win’!
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Where is the existence of sportsman spirit lost?
It is only left in the sloganeering aimed at
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glamorizing sports for the very
thing they are no longer about!
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Can you see how the motive
to play changed diametrically
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opposite to the spirit of the sports this time?
And this is what inspires us to play sports in
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the present day scenario to win them at any cost.
Sports have been designed on the model of war.
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Nation State
Patriotism
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Patriotism is a highly revered value all over
the world. It means love for one’s motherland.
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Ironically the word patriotism has originated
from the Greek word patēr, which means father.
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Yet, it has been used to
express the love for a land
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that has been associated not
with father but with mother.
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Logically, it should have been ‘matriotism’ if
it was to express our love for our motherland.
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It simply shows our male gender
bias. ‘Father’ crept in even in the
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formulation of a word that is touted as the
embodiment of something related to ‘mother’.
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But it is not simply a slip of gender that
crept into the naming of something wrong.
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It is much more than that.
The Male-oriented Mindset:
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The two mindsets were different…
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The mindset that formulated
the concept of patriotism.
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The mindset that perceived the land of one’s
birth as the land belonging to one’s mother.
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Our So-called Motherlands:
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Our political bosses condition
us to be adversarial in nature.
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They make our soldiers kill and get killed
without knowing the real reasons why.
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They brainwash us into believing that
they are doing so to defend their
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motherland from ‘our’ enemies,
simply because they love it.
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The same is expected from soldiers as far
as their emotional and moral obligations go.
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How do we define our motherland?
It may be the village I was born in or the city
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or the district or the state or else the country!
Why can’t it be the planet we were born on?
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It all depends on how narrow or wide our
field of vision and extent of sensitivity are.
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Why are our sensitivities limited to a
political expanse of land and its people?
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Why not beyond it as well?
An Example from Nazi Germany:
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By that token, if a German spoke against
Hitler in the late 1930s or early 1940s,
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s/he would be tagged as a
traitor or a seditionist.
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But there were many Germans who did exactly that.
Today, they are not at all tagged as traitors,
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only because Hitler lost the war. Had
Hitler come out victorious in World War
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II (WWII), they would certainly have been
dragged out on the streets and hanged publicly.
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Did these Germans not love their land then? Did
they not love their country while Hitler ruled?
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They certainly did! But they were simply not
patriots in the narrow sense of its meaning.
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That aggressive patriotism would have asked for
their loyalty to any official stand their country
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took against the world.
Power Rules The World:
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So were they villains?
As said earlier,
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they would certainly have been tagged as
villains if Hitler had been victorious in WWII.
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Were they traitors or seditionists?
Again, they would certainly have been
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tagged as traitors and seditionists
if Hitler had been victorious.
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So, patriotism has to do nothing
with the love for one’s motherland.
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It simply deals with the loyalty to the
interests of those who control one’s motherland.
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It is irrelevant how unjustified
or immoral those interests may be.
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It all depends on who is ruling
one’s motherland at present.
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The interests are not in favor of the motherland
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but of those who are ruling
it at any given point in time.
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Sedition means conduct or speech inciting
people to rebel against the authority
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of a state or monarch.
A Political Conspiracy:
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Isn’t it simply because our political bosses have
an unwritten, secret conspiracy hatched between
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themselves? A conspiracy that propagandizes
the love for one’s so-called motherland
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as one of the most sacred forms of love on earth?
Doesn’t this fanatic love for one’s so-called
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motherland automatically create a fertile ground
for hatred toward other lands and their peoples?
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Especially whenever they get conveniently
tagged as enemy lands by the respective
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political bosses of these chunks of land
as and when it suits their narrative?
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Rules Are Made by Rulers, Not by Ethics:
Patriotism and sedition are concepts
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that are defined and held up only by the rulers
of the land. They have their vested interests in
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people being patriots and never seditionists.
Patriotism can very easily and effectively
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be exploited to sow the seeds of
hatred for the people of other lands.
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It especially applies to the rulers of those
lands that are in conflict with the interests
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of rulers of their own land. All these rules are
defined and decided by the rulers of the land.
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Why should an Israeli hate a Palestinian
or vice versa if the two countries are
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at war with each other?
But man, the concept of
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patriotism does make them do so!
Another Example from An Epic:
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In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the character of
Vibhishana has been portrayed as fleeing his
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motherland. He requests Rama, a staunch enemy
at war with his country, to give him shelter.
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He even reveals the most classified secrets
of his own country to Rama in return.
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But no one including the author ever criticizes
him for what he has been portrayed as doing.
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Why? Isn’t his character, the way it is
portrayed, that of a seditionist or a traitor?
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Vibhishana’s character is not looked down upon
for what he did. It is simply because the epic was
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written by the author who sided with the character
of Rama, the eventual victor in the story!
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History is definitely written by the victors.
As it turns out, so also is mythology!
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Patriotism as a concept originated
not out of love for our land.
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It rather came out of our loyalty to the interests
of those who controlled our land, come what may.
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It happens through falling prey to the narratives
that are generated using ambiguous words and
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phrases acting as emotional slogans addressing
the fallible psyche of the common masses.
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These narratives hold their superficial
interests high on a pedestal
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arising from the already unfortunate cognitive
assessment of their love and belonging needs.
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In the process, their mere currencies,
namely ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, take over.
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Another case of sociocultural
heart chakra getting closed!
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 30th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs!” will tell you about corruption in industrial complex, big pharma & insurance, military-industrial complex and politics-business nexus.
The first casualty, as was the case with our biology, was the sociocultural root chakra.
As it stands today, closed sociocultural chakras have blocked the human energy right at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, namely physiological and safety needs.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Show Notes
In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs!”, I explore the intricate relationships between socio-cultural institutions and the pervasive corruption that has taken root within them.
Join me as I guide you through a thought experiment inspired by Dr. Albert Einstein, challenging listeners to reflect on the distinctions between needs and wants.
Discover how societal wants have increasingly overshadowed genuine needs, leading to a fragmented understanding of our physiological and safety requirements.
This episode explores the historical evolution of socio-cultural structures, tracing the origins of corruption from the industrial complex to the military-industrial nexus and the intertwining of politics and business.
Learn how the quest for personal ownership and wealth has distorted our priorities, transforming essential needs into mere commodities.
As I discuss the implications of this corruption on our health and well-being, I emphasize the importance of returning to a state of balance and understanding.
I posit that a collective emptying of the mind is necessary to restore genuine health and foster spontaneous decision-making aligned with our true needs.
This thought-provoking episode invites you to consider how the socio-cultural root chakra has been compromised and what steps can be taken to reclaim our health and humanity.
Can we learn to prioritize genuine needs over corrupted wants?
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - What is the Corruption in our Social Systems?
(00:09:39) - Living a comfortable life
(00:14:13) - Power of Business nexus in politics
(00:18:37) - Socio-cultural Root Chakra
(00:20:31) - What is it that makes us prone to falling in the trap of
(00:25:03) - Health of Modern People vs Holistic Healing
(00:31:47) - Healthcare and the military
(00:42:05) - Art and Entertainment: Verbal Needs
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Transcript with Timestamps
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Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most
favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein).
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Think of yourself as an idealist for a moment.
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about corruption
in industrial complex, big pharma & insurance,
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military-industrial complex
and politics-business nexus.
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The first casualty, as was the case with our
biology, was the sociocultural root chakra.
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As it stands today, closed sociocultural
chakras have blocked the human energy right
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at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs, namely physiological and safety needs.
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As explained above, the root of the problem lies
in faulty cognition of reality whereby societal
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wants function as proxies for social needs.
Personal ownership of resources became more
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important than the physiological or aesthetic
needs it fulfilled. Thus, money, as a means to
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personal ownership of resources, became a
currency for the exchange of the goods and
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services that fulfilled these needs. Sociocultural
institutions belonging to the sociocultural root
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chakra include the most sought after core of
society at present. Physiological needs comprise
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the biological component of human survival
guaranteeing homeostasis to the human body.
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These are provided by the social systems
such as industrial complexes for jobs and
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financial complexes to enable and manage
transactions using ‘personal ownership’
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of resources as its main currency.
However, this currency turned into a
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source of widespread corruption.
Pursuit of Genuine Physiological
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Needs Instead of Its Corrupted Currency,
Personal Ownership of Resources (Money)
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Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most
favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein). Think
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of yourself as an idealist for a moment.
What if you tell me that I will get
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whatever I need whenever I need
as much I need unconditionally?
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Imagine what would my reaction be.
If I am fearful, controlled by my mind, I
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could easily turn greedy. I may say, “Just change
the word need with the word want and I am okay.”
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Needs are physical phenomena whereas wants
are psychological in their basic etymology.
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What decides what I need and
what decides what I want?
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Aren’t these two entities the calls given
by the brain and the mind respectively?
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Back to the thought experiment…had
I not been corrupted by my mind,
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I would have been the happiest man on earth to
have been offered this proposal by you! I would
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have immediately accepted your proposal
and asked you what I need to do for that.
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However, let’s continue with the version
of me that IS being driven by fear.
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You say, “Throw the yoke of all your possessions
off your shoulders and just be a free man.”
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I may not believe you for a
moment and retort, “Why? Do
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YOU want to take away all my possessions?”
“I don’t need to…,” you smile. “I don’t
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need to want,” you repeat.
“Won’t you like ruling the world? Don’t you want
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that?” I sound stupid to my own self as I ask.
“Why would I?” you give a carefree look,
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“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!”
“But what would I do if I get what I need without
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doing anything for getting it?” I am intrigued.
“Decide it for yourself if you really feel like
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doing something,” you are still smiling.
“It would turn me crazy,” I retort.
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“That you already are,” you show me
the mirror, “A slave to your mind!”
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“By the same token, aren’t you a
slave to your brain too?” I challenge.
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“My brain is my friend. Your mind is your boss. It
keeps you scared with a threat of starving in case
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you don’t earn the right to live,” you sound cool.
“And your brain?” I ask again.
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“It doesn’t think of future. It lets me do
what I feel like doing right now,” you reveal.
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“YOU do what you feel like doing. What
would I do, I don’t know,” I nervously say.
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“Enable me to enable my guarantee that
I just gave you!” you start laughing.
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I get taken aback for a moment.
Then I start laughing along.
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That ends our thought experiment.
It tells us idealism is not as
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impossible as it is presented to be.
The entire question swings between two different
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approaches to life, ‘to have’ or ‘to be’.
Do we have a gene within us that would
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answer this question? If it says the
fittest survives, doesn’t our thought
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experiment hint toward that possibility even
when threatened by human-induced climate change?
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Cavemen never felt they ever
required any private property.
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If it were in our genes, we would
have started going along that track
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right then and there. If we did it later,
something new must have conspired to do so.
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I hypothesize, it was simply our mind
gone greedy, trying to save itself from
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starving to death in future.
We had evolved to grow our
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own food on the fertile land.
But we hadn’t evolved to own
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the land primarily and go on expanding its
perimeter to the last days of our lives.
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Doing so through putting the yoke of all its
stressful burdens on our shoulders took its
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toll on our health. No other species
in the entire animal world ever does
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that. And if we got a brain, did we get
it for wasting it on such petty concerns?
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We certainly went wrong somewhere when we
shifted from hunting-gathering to agriculture
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and personal ownership of resources. We
thought it would give us freedom but what
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it gave us was slavery and disease alone. The
more personal resource ownership we amassed,
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the more it impoverished us in other ways.
Have we ever thought how much energy we waste
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just in the petty pursuit of staying alive and
comfortable? In fact, to secure our comfortable
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living in the future, we ‘want’ to amass resources
that are many times more than we would ever really
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need. Doesn’t this amount to stealing from
others who could have used those resources
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to live a comfortable life? But unluckily 80% of
the human wealth lies under the control of 20%
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of the human population. The rest 80% live
a life of have nots. And majority of these
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20% people has acquired the 80% of the human
wealth through unethical if not illegal means.
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Here are two quotes of this Pareto’s
principle of 20-80 distribution…
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Pareto’s observation was in connection with
population and wealth. Pareto noticed that
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approximately 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20%
of the population. He then carried out surveys on
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a variety of other countries and found to his
surprise that a similar distribution applied.
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Courtesy Wikipedia 2022
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A chart that gave the effect a very visible
and comprehensible form, the so-called
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“champagne glass” effect, was contained in the
1992 United Nations Development Program Report,
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which showed that distribution
of global income is very uneven,
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with the richest 20% of the world’s population
receiving 82.7% of the world’s income.
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Courtesy Wikipedia 2022
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If we don’t have sufficient ownership of
resources in order to live a comfortable life,
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we will keep dreaming of it all the time. If we
have way more resources than needed, it keeps us
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too busy not to lose them and, therefore, to
grow them further. Why? It is because nothing
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is sufficient for human greed which is driven
by the human fear of losing everything one has.
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In both cases, we are not living a life full of
freedom. We are doomed to remain slaves to the
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same wicked design that we ourselves created as
our sociocultural structure. It not only robs us
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personally of our joy of living a free life but
also socially of the countless geniuses hidden
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in broad daylight amidst us. This is because
they never become free to exhibit their talents
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while they are busy dreaming of and toiling for
the ownership of a bigger chunk of resources.
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Slaves never enjoy. They don’t enjoy because
they are not free. Slave holders never enjoy
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either. They don’t enjoy because they are
busy keeping slaves as slaves forever.
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Hence their slaves don’t let them be free.
They become the slaves of their slaves. I
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still remember a couplet that I
had read in my early childhood:
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Leave your birthplace, And roam around the world;
Refusing either to be a slave, Or a slave holder
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I wouldn’t be surprised if you are asking as you
read this, “Who decides what is comfortable?”.
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Well, it is my contention that ‘Skeletally Leapt”
humans, operating primarily from their brains,
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would answer that question organically and would
arrive at similar, if not the same, answers as a
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society. Therefore, we don’t really need to take
any direct corrective action in order to resolve
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this dilemma. We just need to empty our mind via
Skeletal Leap to regain our health. And leave it
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to our brain to take the right spontaneous
decisions. What constitutes a comfortable
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life would be as obvious to them the same way that
existence of matter is self-evident to science and
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that of life is self-evident to each one of us.
Sociocultural Root Chakra: Industrial Complex
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The first 6000 yearsh1 after the transition
from the mode of hunting-gathering to that of
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agriculture and cattle-rearing resulted
in two strong social institutions:
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business and the state. Business was in the
rudimentary form of loosely organized crafts,
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trades and services while the state gradually
evolved into aggressive empires that constantly
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fought with one another and extended their control
over further chunks of lands and populations.
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Everything remained in flux for a very long
period of around the next 6,000 years. Empires
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kept changing hands by new power centers forcing
businesses to keep changing their currencies.
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Much later, after the Industrial Revolution in
Europe took place in the eighteenth century,
0:13:22.720,0:13:28.880
businesses were able to revolutionize their
speed of production. Their sizes started
0:13:28.880,0:13:33.440
getting bigger and bigger needing
bigger markets for their products
0:13:33.440,0:13:40.560
and more raw materials for their production.
This started an era of certain European nations
0:13:40.560,0:13:48.560
colonizing far-flung countries in Asia, Africa
and South America mainly for the resources that
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lay untapped therein. The ones that missed
the bus then tried to compensate later by
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waging the two World Wars that they eventually
lost. Still, these two wars left the imperial
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powers’ control on their colonies severely
depleted. They were forced to move out,
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limiting them back to their own homelands.
Since the world came out of the trend of
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nations attacking others to extend their
boundaries and control, political control
0:14:22.080,0:14:28.640
has given way to business control all over the
world. The power of big business has assumed
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the size of financial empires, bestowing them
with real powers to manipulate governments.
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Business morphed into a profit generating machine
more than a responsible facilitator of comforts
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and innovations. Politics-business nexus began
centralizing unprecedented powers to control
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almost every single aspect of people’s lives.
As of today, business as an entity has started
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controlling every single
aspect of our life on earth.
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Sociocultural Root Chakra: Politics-Business Nexus
Power got concentrated in the hands of the cunning
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and the corrupt. And they took extra care to
ensure that it never slipped off their hands.
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All the instruments of the state that existed
in the name of serving the masses actually
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started being co-opted by secret agenda.
These agenda took care that the cunning
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and the corrupt were able to maintain their
control over people’s lives and prosperity.
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Countries were never a part of
the package that we received as
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we evolved into a thinking species on earth.
What was offered to us was an unnamed vast
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expanse of land to live and move around on.
This nexus between the state and the
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business threatens the very welfare of humanity.
Business, as an entity, has grown so powerful that
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it can even make or break political structures
anywhere. Both of them have their respective
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vested interests which generally don’t align
with the genuine interests of the very populace
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that they each claim to ‘serve’.
Human-induced climate change is
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a direct outcome of this misalignment.
During the COP26, the yearly UN climate summit
0:16:36.400,0:16:44.800
held in Glasgow in 2021, the well-known climate
activist Greta Thunberg protested in Glasgow,
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saying COP26 wasn’t leading us anywhere. Only
pledges and commitments aren’t going to stop
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temperature from rising beyond 1.5C. We do need to
implement them under a strict regimen holding all
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parties accountable to their commitments.
COP27 was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt,
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from 6 November until 20 November 2022. Its
credibility was dealt a serious blow by the
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absence of big powers, Russia and China.
COP28, held from 30 November to 13 December
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2023 at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates received widespread criticism
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as it lacked a clear-cut time-based commitment
to either fossil fuel phase-out or phase-down.
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China and India did not even sign the pledge to
triple their output of renewable energy by the
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year 2030 and committed to coal power instead.
COP29 held from 11 November to 22 November
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2024 in Baku, Ajerbaijan couldn’t break any new
ground too, limiting itself to lip service alone.
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Who will ensure that the targets of these
summits are met before it is too late?
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Unluckily, here again, the national
ambitions of the politics-business
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nexus are coming in the way of its success.
The point of no return is very close and,
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when it arrives, it will be no less than Nero
playing the fiddle while Rome was burning!
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This, though, is only half the story
of the sociocultural root chakra.
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The other half of the sociocultural root
chakra got closed by the corruption of our
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safety needs through the ‘currency’ we know
as ‘public welfare’. Safety needs comprise
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healthcare along with security. These
are provided by healthcare facilities,
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judiciary for providing justice, army and warfare
for defense and governments for making policies.
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Sociocultural Root Chakra:
Big Pharma & Health Insurance
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Healthcare has, of course, helped the masses in
a great way but only to manage ailing conditions,
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not curing them permanently. It definitely did its
bit in surgical interventions excellently but then
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fell short of energizing society cyclically.
As far as judicial systems are concerned,
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they do their job only up to the point
where the political system at the helm
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of power doesn’t get challenged. After
that point is reached, politics-judiciary
0:19:54.800,0:20:00.960
nexus immediately gets created by those in
political power at the moment in a covert
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dictatorial way. We have seen it happening in
more than one countries in the recent past.
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Similarly, public welfare got diminished by
sloganeering that takes center stage rather than
0:20:14.320,0:20:22.320
fulfilling safety needs in reality. Armies have
always remained an instrument of offense rather
0:20:22.320,0:20:31.520
than genuine defense for safety. Warfare has
been a way of life along the passage of history.
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What essentially is it that makes us prone
to falling in the trap of an unhealthy life?
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An Unhealthy Fragmented Mind:
As already described in Episode 26 in detail,
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a fragmented mind is an unhealthy mind.
Okay, but what exactly do we mean by
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the fragmentation of mind?
Well, fragmentation simply
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means divided in two or more parts rather
than being one single entity as a whole.
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When it comes to an undivided mind, it means a
mind focused at one single thing at one given
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time. It happens when the mind is emptied of all
its motivations and left alone with its passion.
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From Interest to Involvement to Focus:
When the mind is focused at one single thing
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like this, it works at its best. All its energies
get aligned, producing a laser-like effect in
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order to deal with the concern in question.
Such focus comes with absolute involvement in
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the process that the mind is busy with.
But generally, the mind lacks that
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level of involvement in almost
anything it lays its hands on.
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Why?
Simply because it is not REALLY interested in it!
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It is interested in what it
is going to get out of it.
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Herein lies the biggest lacuna of human health,
i.e., the way humanity lives an unhealthy life.
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Passion Vs Motivation:
We do an action not because that action
0:22:21.040,0:22:28.160
is our passion. We rather do it based on the
motivation for what it is going to reward us with.
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We act out of motivation, not out of passion.
If motivation is the driving force behind our
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mental action, it has already fragmented
our mind. Mind is doing one thing in the
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present and thinking about another in
the future or the past, for that matter.
0:22:49.600,0:22:56.400
It is not really involved in the action, simply
because it is not really interested in the action.
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Motivation Is A Mirage:
It is interested in something other than
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acting in the present. It is rather the action of
dreaming about the future when it hopefully will
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have rewarded us with its outcome.
Motivation and passion don’t ever
0:23:14.560,0:23:20.880
go hand in hand with each other.
Motivation comes from outside. It is
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needed only when we are not passionate
about what we are doing from within.
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In that sense, we can think of punishment
as its opposite. If we are not passionate,
0:23:32.720,0:23:39.600
we are shown a carrot to do a thing to the
best of our efficiency. If that fails, a rod
0:23:39.600,0:23:47.120
as punishment is the next option that is applied.
If we are passionate from within, we neither need
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a carrot as motivation nor a rod as punishment.
The greed for a carrot or the fear of a rod can
0:23:56.160,0:24:03.040
only make cosmetic enhancements in efficiency.
Neither can ever match the efficiency that comes
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from passion for the action at hand. This
is simply because the reward-punishment
0:24:08.720,0:24:15.120
approach doesn’t enjoy the process, it
is rather preoccupied with outcome alone.
0:24:15.840,0:24:20.320
But humanity performs almost all
its actions out of motivation for
0:24:20.320,0:24:29.760
the outcome, not out of passion for the action.
The results are always much less than optimal.
0:24:29.760,0:24:36.800
It further fragments our mind, looking for an
even stronger motivation the next time. Our
0:24:36.800,0:24:44.080
petty vision keeps us limited but still satisfied
in just doing the job a little better each time.
0:24:44.080,0:24:49.040
But it is never going to happen!
We may come up with various acceptable
0:24:49.040,0:24:54.880
outcomes that our society has become
accustomed to. But we will never be able
0:24:54.880,0:25:03.280
to come up with an optimally excellent outcome
generating an exhilarating experience in life.
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Mind Affecting Body:
This was all about the
0:25:07.680,0:25:14.000
dynamics of an unhealthy mind in action.
What about its effects on the body?
0:25:14.000,0:25:19.520
The body is responsible for healthy
physiological processes, after all.
0:25:19.520,0:25:25.600
Well, it turns out that an unhealthy
mind makes the body unhealthy too.
0:25:25.600,0:25:28.800
When two opposite driving
forces pull the mind in two
0:25:28.800,0:25:36.960
opposite directions, the body mirrors the same.
This results largely due to the nerves carrying
0:25:36.960,0:25:43.040
two or more opposing signals from the brain.
These conflicting signals confound the muscles
0:25:43.040,0:25:50.000
to move in two or more opposite directions.
In such a situation, it becomes physically
0:25:50.000,0:25:55.360
impossible for the muscles to follow
such opposing signals from the brain.
0:25:55.360,0:26:01.200
Fragmentation Generates Stress:
An unhealthy fragmented mind
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makes the brain go haywire.
When the muscles are not able
0:26:05.840,0:26:10.880
to follow the conflicting signals
from the brain, what do they do?
0:26:10.880,0:26:16.400
They just get set in a state of
limbo, which turns them rigid.
0:26:16.400,0:26:20.800
Rigidified involuntary muscles
inside the body as well as the
0:26:20.800,0:26:28.480
voluntary ones outside it turn the body rigid.
This rigidity manifests itself in the body’s
0:26:28.480,0:26:35.120
internal physiological processes
as well as its external actions.
0:26:35.120,0:26:41.520
This is how mental stress, which is nothing but
a state of fragmented mind, turns into physical
0:26:41.520,0:26:49.120
stress. It debilitates the body and renders
it prone to all kinds of lifestyle diseases.
0:26:49.120,0:26:53.040
Holistic Healing Vs Modern
Pharmaceutical Medicine:
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Holistic healing is a philosophical approach to
healing. It stands 180o opposite to the approach
0:27:00.640,0:27:08.320
of modern pharmaceutical medicine. This is as
far as taking care of human health is concerned.
0:27:08.320,0:27:13.520
Pharmaceutical medicine, also known as
‘Big Pharma’, is a big business with its
0:27:13.520,0:27:20.880
size being over one trillion U.S. dollars per
year. It is very natural that business will do
0:27:20.880,0:27:28.080
its best never to let its grip loosen on such
a large market. Especially when an alternative
0:27:28.080,0:27:33.600
approach such as holistic healing starts
growing roots in the mindset of the masses.
0:27:34.240,0:27:39.840
I would like to point out here that it is not
a mere coincidence that, whenever a social
0:27:39.840,0:27:46.560
institution such as pharmaceutical medicine
attempts to fulfill a real safety need (health,
0:27:46.560,0:27:53.920
in this case), the already corrupted institution
of business takes over. It is much the same way
0:27:53.920,0:27:59.760
that an individual human body in which the root
chakra is closed is prone to the higher chakras
0:27:59.760,0:28:07.760
getting closed as well. No wonder then, that we
are dealing with “too big to fail” monsters such
0:28:07.760,0:28:16.240
as politics-business nexus, politics-judiciary
nexus, ‘big pharma’ and many other harmful nexuses
0:28:16.240,0:28:22.720
that we will talk further about.
Scientific Validity:
0:28:22.720,0:28:28.320
The way big business thwarts an alternative
approach to healing is by challenging its
0:28:28.320,0:28:35.360
scientific validity. Its main assertion is
that any such procedures need to undergo
0:28:35.360,0:28:42.400
strict laboratory testing. Health authorities
always look for convincing statistical data to
0:28:42.400,0:28:48.480
establish the efficacy of any new
approach to address human health.
0:28:48.480,0:28:54.640
But in doing so, the field of pharmaceutical
medicine ignores the most basic philosophy of
0:28:54.640,0:29:01.920
healing which is to do away with the root cause
of any health problem. It is not sufficient to do
0:29:01.920,0:29:09.280
away with the symptoms of the problem alone.
If the symptoms alone are done away with,
0:29:09.280,0:29:15.840
the problem tends to relapse. Almost
everyone has experienced this. That is,
0:29:15.840,0:29:23.360
perhaps, why the modern medical approach calls
their procedures ‘treatments’ and not ‘cures’.
0:29:23.360,0:29:28.080
Treatment Vs Cure:
Healing, on the other hand,
0:29:28.080,0:29:33.520
concerns itself with curing an illness
permanently as opposed to treating it
0:29:33.520,0:29:41.600
temporarily by focussing on its symptoms alone.
Treating symptoms temporarily can be a much
0:29:41.600,0:29:48.080
swifter process than curing the root cause
permanently. This is the reason why modern
0:29:48.080,0:29:54.960
pharmaceutical medicine has gained acceptance
among the masses. In the age of fast food,
0:29:54.960,0:30:02.720
people look for fast medicine as well. It doesn’t
matter if it damages their health in the long run.
0:30:02.720,0:30:09.680
Treating Symptoms Alone Spoils Health:
How does treating only symptoms damage
0:30:09.680,0:30:15.040
health in the long run?
It does so in two main ways:
0:30:16.000,0:30:22.560
First, as the symptoms temporarily disappear,
the patients psychologically feel that the
0:30:22.560,0:30:29.600
problem has been eliminated. Hence they revert
to their old lifestyles that had caused the
0:30:29.600,0:30:37.120
problem in the very first place. As a result,
the problem relapses after some time turning
0:30:37.120,0:30:43.840
them weaker and weaker every time it does.
Second, the symptoms cannot be naturally
0:30:43.840,0:30:50.000
eliminated without addressing the causative
factors. What pharmaceutical medicine actually
0:30:50.000,0:30:57.120
does is that it suppresses the symptoms
artificially by sending an army of antibodies
0:30:57.120,0:31:03.040
from outside. It doesn’t strengthen the
antibodies that the innate immune system
0:31:03.040,0:31:10.240
generates within. The immune system is just
not given enough time or chance to fight the
0:31:10.240,0:31:17.760
illness with its own natural antibodies.
As a result, in the long run, it gets
0:31:17.760,0:31:23.600
conditioned not to be able to generate
these antibodies efficiently anymore.
0:31:23.600,0:31:29.760
It leads to incrementally reduced immunity
in the mind-body system after taking every
0:31:29.760,0:31:36.000
course of modern pharmaceutical medicine.
Every new relapse of the same condition
0:31:36.000,0:31:43.680
proves to be more serious than the former,
complicating the treatment more complex each time.
0:31:43.680,0:31:50.400
Health deteriorates further!
Lifestyle Diseases:
0:31:50.400,0:31:56.480
Apart from normal acute diseases, there
are more permanent lifestyle diseases too.
0:31:56.480,0:32:04.000
migraines | diabetes | hypothyroid |
hyperthyroid | hypertension | heart
0:32:04.000,0:32:10.800
conditions | acidity | constipation
| obesity | liver cirrhosis | kidney
0:32:10.800,0:32:16.240
failure | asthma | anxiety |
depression | and many more.
0:32:17.040,0:32:23.040
Unfortunately, modern pharmaceutical medicine
doesn’t have any permanent cure for them. It
0:32:23.040,0:32:29.680
only has a few options to merely manage
the above-listed conditions somehow.
0:32:29.680,0:32:34.080
Role of Money:
Significant resources are required
0:32:34.080,0:32:41.680
in carrying out such monitored tests on sample
sets of patients. ‘Big Pharma’ is the entity that
0:32:41.680,0:32:49.120
funds this research and then has to make it all
back by lobbying for, marketing and force-feeding
0:32:49.120,0:32:58.160
medicines that only cure symptoms to a populace
that, at best, gets habituated and, at worst, gets
0:32:58.160,0:33:05.520
addicted to them. It is something like pop music
and popular movies selling way more than classical
0:33:05.520,0:33:13.920
ones or fast food more than nutritious diet.
Both time and resources go against holistic
0:33:13.920,0:33:20.640
healing procedures. They aren’t effectively
able to carry out monitored tests on large
0:33:20.640,0:33:26.080
enough sample sizes of patients for a
long enough time. Hence they are at a
0:33:26.080,0:33:33.280
loss to show better statistical results
in a scientifically convincing manner.
0:33:33.280,0:33:38.480
It is very much like the rich becoming
richer even if inefficient, and the poor
0:33:38.480,0:33:45.200
becoming poorer even if more virtuous.
Healthcare also brings in another
0:33:45.200,0:33:51.120
big business as a huge commercial
activity called health insurance.
0:33:51.920,0:33:58.960
It benefits from people’s fear of falling ill
or else dying prematurely, both of which have
0:33:58.960,0:34:07.120
scary consequences to deal with. There is also
a much costlier fear of losing what one has,
0:34:07.120,0:34:15.040
including one’s business and costly belongings.
In a healthy society supported by strong pillars
0:34:15.040,0:34:23.760
of closely-knit communities, such fears wouldn’t
have rooted themselves deep enough. But since that
0:34:23.760,0:34:32.400
is not what it is, an individual feels alienated,
scared of being left alone in any such emergency.
0:34:33.200,0:34:38.160
The only available option one finds
to feel reasonably safe and secure
0:34:38.160,0:34:46.800
is a legally binding insurance to take care in
case any such casualty happens. And ironically,
0:34:46.800,0:34:54.080
the agency that provides this feeling of safety
is one of the biggest businesses on earth.
0:34:54.800,0:35:00.320
Although it does provide the feeing of
a legal safety, the socio-psychological
0:35:00.320,0:35:07.200
security network is awfully missing.
On top of it, recurring payments for
0:35:07.200,0:35:14.080
various kinds of insurance add up fast to a
considerable sum to part with, every month.
0:35:14.800,0:35:21.360
The insurance companies have the last laugh
with a heavy bank balance at their disposal.
0:35:21.360,0:35:29.680
Even after the legal safety is purchased, the
lonely individual mind never sits relaxed!
0:35:29.680,0:35:37.680
It is always the mind that fears. Brain simply
acts in a passionately focused manner if needed.
0:35:37.680,0:35:44.880
Sociocultural Root Chakra:
Military-Industrial Complex
0:35:44.880,0:35:53.200
Army - A Social Institution Licensed to Kill:
Army is one of the most weird social
0:35:53.200,0:35:58.240
institutions that Homo
sapiens ever built on earth!
0:35:58.240,0:36:04.720
Is it possible for a sensitive soldier to kill
an enemy soldier without feeling bad about it?
0:36:05.360,0:36:12.240
Killing a man is not like killing an animal.
Had it been so, consuming human flesh could
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have been a norm like eating animal flesh is.
But we don’t eat our own species simply because
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we sense a common link among us. Even the thought
of doing so invokes a strong revulsion not only
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in our mind but in our body too.
Won’t a real killing of a real man
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invoke a similar reaction in someone
with a normal level of sensitivity?
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It should! It ought to!
Sensitivity Vs Insensitivity:
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If it doesn’t, it simply shows
that the person concerned is not
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sensitive enough to feel bad about it.
But then, throughout the history of
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mankind there have been armies invading
other armies to kill soldiers in wars.
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Who are these people who do so and
don’t ever feel a tinge about it?
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One can only infer that the human mind can
certainly be trained to become insensitive enough
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not to feel bad about killing other humans.
But is that a healthy state to achieve?
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What implications will such insensitivity have
on the mental health of the person concerned?
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The real act of love depends on sensitivity
in order for its subtleties to be felt! Will
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a killer ever be able to love another human
being with all the soft and tender feelings?
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Certainly not!
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His/her act of love would also be
something like an act of winning a war.
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An Army Against Another Army:
That was from the perspective of an
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individual soldier who is trained to kill.
Let’s ponder upon it from a
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totally different perspective now.
How can the collective humanity justify
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raising armies aimed at killing other humans?
What turns certain armies enemy to one another?
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Soldiers in the two enemy armies don’t even know
one another, let alone being each other’s enemies!
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The same enemies might have been the best of
friends, had they met one another in different
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circumstances elsewhere in life.
Why all this enmity?
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And who can guarantee it will continue
like this in the future? On retirement,
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they may settle down in some foreign land and end
up being next door neighbors. They may even turn
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out to be passionately fond of each other!
Anything is possible! We just investigated
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one such hypothetical situation.
Even if some lands are spared being
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tagged as adversaries by the political bosses, our
sensitivities may never be with them. We may turn
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insensitive to the people residing in those lands.
We inherited this beautiful earth and
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we divided it into countries and
nationalities making it look so ugly!
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In today’s world, this enmity is further
strengthened by mainly two kinds of narratives.
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The first one is the border disputes that
generally afflict neighboring nations.
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The second narrative has to do with the
ideological differences. Nations tend to
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resist worldviews that affect the kind of society
they have designed for themselves, even if such
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resistance comes from thousands of miles away.
Any suspicious move by one is interpreted as a
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conspiracy on their behalf intending to
devour the very existence of the other.
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In such a scenario, every nation is
always in a constant state of paranoia.
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Politicians very well know how to create
narratives benefiting them in strengthening
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their control on the internal politics of
their own states. They can easily turn them
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as a dangerous threat to their very existence
as a nation. A sprawling wave of fear spreads
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all over in the minds of its inhabitants who,
then, are ready to unconditionally support
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their rulers. The armies are alerted, recruiting
more soldiers and purchasing new lethal arms for
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them. Everyone shuns their brains, panicking
and acting emotionally in a haphazard manner.
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We have seen it happening all around
the world for various political motives.
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Fast Forward to The Present Day:
Let us fast forward to the present
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day scenario of the state.
The state changed its form in
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almost all countries and nationalities from
feudal kingdoms to the so-called democratic
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republics. They should actually have been
called plutocratic republics instead.
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The dominance of resources in the present form of
money still persists as far as formation of the
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governments in all countries and nationalities
is concerned. It was only the form of the state
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that changed, not its essential character.
The cunning and the corrupt are still in
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power in every state of the world. Thanks to
the power of money that gets them elected to
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represent millions of people under the mask of
patriotism. This is now an irrefutable fact.
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Aesthetic Needs
Arts and entertainment
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networks are social institutions that fall under
sociocultural sacral chakra arising from the
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suppression/ repression of sexual gratification.
The currencies it uses are ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’.
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The growth needs that these institutions
aim to fulfill are aesthetic needs. However,
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these aesthetic needs got corrupted by the
currency of ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’ into phenomena
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such as the ‘star system’ in the film industry.
And since the suppression/ repression of sexual
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gratification was an intensive as well as an
extensive phenomenon, almost everyone looked
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forward to aesthetic experiences either in the
form of a creator or else a consumer. Consuming
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was way easier than creating aesthetic experiences
offering day-dreams to them. Naturally,
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consumers of such aesthetic experiences found an
element of entertainment in them. As a result,
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such experiences started pulling in huge crowds to
their performances. Their creators and performers
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started acquiring fame and celebrity resulting in
a special status for them in society. This helped
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them to not only become rich but also objects
of desire for their consumers. This also helped
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them in coming out of suppression/ repression of
their sexual gratification. Soon, they started
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acquiring a larger than life stature in society,
epitomizing its most sought after desires.
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Thus, art, the purpose of which was to fulfill
aesthetic needs got waylaid by the artist and,
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consequently, the sociocultural
sacral chakra got closed.
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Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution! - Introduction
Today’s episode titled “Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution!” will tell you about sociocultural chakras on the lines of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs turning to wants and thus affecting sociocultural evolution negatively.
Before we get to the social approach of Skeletal Leap, let us first look at how societies and cultures evolved, from a sociological and anthropological standpoint.
There have been a number of historical attempts by anthropologists and sociologists to understand how sociocultural evolution takes place.
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Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution! - Show Notes
In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap, titled “Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution!” I explain the intricate relationship between sociocultural structures and the mind's role in shaping our evolution.
Join me as I present a thought-provoking analogy between Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the chakra system, revealing how our societal constructs have been influenced by a fragmented mind's perceptions and fears.
Discover the historical context of socio cultural evolution, from unilineal to multilineal theories, and explore the emergence of Marxism as a lens for understanding cultural development.
As we navigate through the complexities of human nature, I argue for a new perspective on sociocultural evolution: the 'multi unilineal' approach. I examine how our sociocultural institutions, often flawed and harmful, have been erected by a fragmented mind, turning genuine needs into mere wants.
Furthermore, the episode discusses how the collective fragmented mind can create sociocultural chakras, leading to societal ailments like consumerism and the fragmentation of our consciousness. I emphasize the importance of recognizing and addressing these issues to pave the way for a more harmonious existence.
This episode invites you to reflect on the nature of your needs versus wants, and how understanding this distinction can lead to a more fulfilling life.
Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - Skeletal Leap
(00:00:48) - Sociological and anthropological perspectives on socio-cultural evolution
(00:05:49) - Sociological cultural chakras
Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution! - Video
Weird Sociocultural Evolution Comprising Social Evolution & Cultural Evolution! - Transcript with Timestamps
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As I was building up my case against
our sociocultural structures getting
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erected by the mind, an analogy dawned upon me.
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
sociocultural chakras on the lines of
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs turning to wants and
thus affecting sociocultural evolution negatively.
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Before we get to the social approach
of Skeletal Leap, let us first look at
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how societies and cultures evolved, from a
sociological and anthropological standpoint.
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There have been a number of historical attempts
by anthropologists and sociologists to understand
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how sociocultural evolution takes place.
These attempts study how sociocultural
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institutions change over time, thus weaving
together different evolutionary theories.
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Most of the nineteenth century approaches based
themselves along unilineal evolution. They
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believed that all of humanity socioculturally
evolved along the same process worldwide.
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It was only that some of them were ahead
of the rest who would, nevertheless,
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follow them along the same path in times to come.
On the other hand, most of the twentieth century
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approaches based themselves along multilineal
evolution. They believed that different societies
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evolved along their specific historical
contexts. They rejected the theory that
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every society would be evolving along the
same cultural progress sooner or later.
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They argued that different societies adapted
to their own uniquely different environments,
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technological breakthroughs and outside cultural
influences. Multilineal approach also rejected
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any similarity between cultural and biological
evolutions. It argued that cultural patterns
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in far-off lands were genetically unrelated.
But in the latter part of the twentieth century,
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several multilineal anthropologists shifted
their approach. Through numerous incremental
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shifts in sociocultural hypotheses, they arrived
at Marxism. Marxism made a speedy entry into the
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world of politics adopted by almost half
the population worldwide. The lens that it
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used to look at sociocultural development was
dialectical and historical materialism. But
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toward the end of the twentieth century, it
started crumbling down under its own weight.
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You may know it better as the fall of the
Soviet Union or the falling of the Berlin Wall.
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The most modern twenty-first century
anthropologists have taken another step to reject
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the very concept of cultural evolution outright.
They are rather exploring new approaches to the
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relationship between culture and its environment.
One of them is a general systems approach
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exploring emergent systems including political,
economic and social interactions among cultures.
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As a special mention here, evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins came up with his book The Selfish
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Gene in 1976. Dawkins’ book was voted as the
most influential science book of all time in
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July 2017 on the 30th anniversary of the Royal
Society. He proposed a gene-centered hypothesis of
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sociocultural evolution stating that genetically
related individuals cooperate the best between
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them. And genes replicate themselves better when
they themselves get benefitted, at times even at
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the cost of the entire organism. ‘Selfish’
replication may model culture successfully
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via memes that are self-replicating units of
human cultural transmission analogous to genes.
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This is where we are, at this moment,
as far as understanding sociocultural
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evolution is concerned. And, in my
opinion, this is not sufficient.
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‘Multi-unilineal’ Approach
I think we have missed something very basic.
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We either look at sociocultural evolution as being
entirely unilineal or else entirely mutilineal.
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Reality looks to be somewhere in between. It very
obviously has always been a combination of both,
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in my opinion. Some parts of it have always been
unilineal, not necessarily through intercultural
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interaction but independently evolving on
their own. Some other parts have certainly
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been mutilineal, varying from culture to culture
depending on their specific genetic histories and
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environments. I would like to address them all
with a new inclusive name ‘multi-unilineal’.
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Let us look a little deeper into
these multi-unilineal patterns of
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sociocultural evolution all around the world.
These are the patterns that essentially evolved
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almost the same way, yet slightly differently,
in their local hues throughout the world.
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Surprisingly enough, all our sociocultural
institutions have majorly been erected by
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the mind and not through the dictates of the
brain alone. The brain had worked independently
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when it devised wearing leather and burning
fire to ward off cold and cook food. The same
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was true of inhabiting caves and inventing
languages. And these were four supremely
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intelligent inventions that all tribes and races
arrived at in differently similar ways globally.
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But the sociocultural structures erected
by the mind were unfortunately not so
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intelligent. They were flawed at best
and harmful at worst in their design.
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And why it happened so was because the
mind subjectively attached itself to its
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faulty apprehensions of threat to life, in other
words to its self-preservative instincts. Hence,
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it cunningly took control of the brain’s activity
in its fearful stupidity, thereby turning human
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needs into wants. All these structures were
multi-unilenial in their evolutionary process.
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Sociocultural Chakras
As I was building up my
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case against our sociocultural structures getting
erected by the mind, an analogy dawned upon me.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Before I come to the analogy, let us take a little
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detour. Abraham Maslow came up with ‘A Theory
of Human Motivation’ in the year 1943. Later,
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he refined it in ‘Motivation and Personality’ in
1954 introducing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs comprises
physiological needs, safety, love
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and belonging and esteem as deficiency
needs, and cognition as a growth need.
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Growth needs further include aesthetic,
self-actualization and transcendence needs.
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And now, let’s come back to my analogy. I
find that the lowest two deficiency needs,
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namely “physiological needs” and “safety needs”,
are parallel to the concerns of the root chakra
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within the chakra system. The third need from
the bottom, “love and belonging”, parallels
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the heart chakra. The fourth deficiency need,
“esteem”, is akin to the throat chakra. Moving
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to Maslow’s growth needs, “cognitive needs”
parallel solar plexus chakra while “aesthetic”,
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“self-actualization” and “transcendence”
needs find their chakra equivalents in sacral,
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third-eye and crown chakras, respectively.
Now that we have established that Maslow’s
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Hierarchy of Needs is analogous to
the chakra system, I would like to
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bring our attention to a second analogy.
We know that an individual autonomous mind
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generates closed biological chakras in the
human body by corrupting skeletal anatomy.
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I asked myself if a collective autonomous
mind could have generated similarly closed
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sociocultural chakras in human society.
The modus operandi could have been the
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corruption of social needs into societal wants.
Things started getting distorted since the very
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beginning of our evolution into Homo sapiens. It
all started with pursuing cognitive needs. We,
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as a society, cognized reality within what was a
suffocating environment dotted with threats and
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challenges. And that perceived reality continues
till date. Humanity is yet to take a sigh of
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relief, thereby seriously corrupting its breathing
pattern. It was this corruption that gave birth to
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a blocked sociocultural solar plexus chakra.
Acting out of the mind’s fearful perception
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of so-called threats and challenges, humanity has
always been in a hurry to control the environment
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which is a mirage in itself. Just like the solar
plexus charka leads to asthma and other diseases
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in the body, this sociocultural solar plexus
chakra, i.e., hurry to control the environment,
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gives rise to social ‘diseases’ such as the ‘rat
race’. And thus, humanity handed over the reins
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of cognition to its collective autonomous mind
instead of a spontaneous collective brain. We know
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that an open solar plexus chakra means renewing
the brain continuously and thus energizing it
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cyclically. Unfortunately for us, since our
sociocultural solar plexus chakra got closed,
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it left the collective autonomous mind stuck at
its aggressive cognitive wants rather than needs.
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These wants individualized personal ownership of
resources used to fulfill genuine social needs
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before. As this personal ownership of resources
assumes a bigger-than-necessary stature, social
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needs start turning into personal wants. Needs are
the realm of the brain while the mind is the abode
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of wants. Thus, they get corrupted and end up in
sociocultural chakras in the hands of a collective
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autonomous mind. After all, human society is just
a collective extension of multiple human bodies.
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And these sociocultural chakras would tend to
block collective human energy flow exactly like
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biological chakras block individual energy flow.
Let us now combine the above two analogies,
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i.e. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
vis-a-vis chakra system + sociocultural
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chakras mirroring individual chakras.
When individual energy flow gets blocked
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at the base of the chakra system, it results in a
closed root chakra. Similarly, when the collective
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human energy flow gets blocked at the base of the
chakra equivalent in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,
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it does so at the lowest two levels of social
needs, i.e., physiological and safety needs.
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Same would be true about the deficiency needs
of love and belonging and esteem needs as well.
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It is my contention that we, Homo sapiens,
find ourselves today struggling with an
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imbalance in the mind-brain equilibrium as we
go along Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from the
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lowest (physiological) deficiency needs to the
highest (transcendence) growth needs. Individuals
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and societies that are stuck in making ends meet,
i.e., meeting their physiological needs, tend to
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operate primarily from the brain. As they ‘climb’
up the Hierarchy and their deficiency needs are
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met, a major shift seems to occur. This is where
the mind starts taking over and the brain’s
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functionality starts getting stunted inflicting
the lower chakras as well, along with the higher
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ones. In other words, needs start yielding to
wants. It is no surprise, then, that most of
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the growth needs are governed by the concerns
of the mind way more than those of the brain.
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Real Needs Overshadowed by Greedy Wants
This had its debilitating effect on the
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sociocultural equivalent of sacral
chakra, namely aesthetic needs,
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as well. And it did so by negatively affecting the
quality of sex that humanity was meant to enjoy.
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When sex gets frustrated, it tends to take
refuge in its sublimation through arts in
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creative and aesthetic pursuits. This sublimation
is the handiwork of none other than the mind!
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In the process of sublimation, however, the mind
does lose a little bit of its control as emotions
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give way to passion and sexual frustration
yields to a broader creative perception.
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This works, but only partially, as a therapeutic
process that addresses the aesthetic needs
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in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs at an individual
level. In society, this partial therapy addresses
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this sociocultural sacral chakra in the form of
cinema, poetry and other artistic expressions.
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However, the unaddressed part of this chakra
results in the social disease that we know as
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‘consumerism’. And we have even given it
a rather ironic name, ‘retail therapy’.
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No wonder slogans like “the more, the better”
appear to provide solace to our frustrations.
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Moving higher along the Hierarchy, the growth
need of self actualization aims at discovering
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one’s inherent talents and developing them
further. It results in achieving one’s full
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potential as far as socially productive soft
skills are concerned. This is synonymous with
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the concerns of the third eye chakra. However,
once corrupted by the mind at a social level,
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it leads to an analogous collective third eye
charka resulting in social ‘diseases’ such as
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‘professional qualifications’ as a want
that is detached from the original need.
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Transcendence needs are the ultimate that
an individual in a society can cultivate,
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giving oneself to something beyond oneself. It
enables one to create one’s personal heaven for
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oneself. At a social level, it parallels the
sociocultural crown chakra which, when closed,
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leads to the social malaise of ‘acute
insensitivity’. Consequently, opening this
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chakra sets the highest levels of collective
human consciousness. Simultaneously, it sets
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all the lower chakras open as well, automatically
addressing their related sociocultural ailments.
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This has the potential to turn human
life on earth into a collective heaven.
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However, in reality, the collective mind fragments
itself exactly like the individual biological mind
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and, thus, belittles every single real need in
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and, by extension,
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its analogous sociocultural chakra.
When it comes to our collective needs,
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human societies use various ‘currencies’ to enable
exchange of these needs between their individuals
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or groups. It is these currencies that we used to
fulfill real needs which later started assuming
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bigger stature in an individual mind, shifting
the focus from needs to wants. As a result, those
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currencies got corrupted away from their original
purpose and became ends in themselves as opposed
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to serving as mere means toward the ends which
have always remained as those underlying needs.
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These corrupted currencies have led to
several institutions in our societies that,
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I contend, are the physical manifestations
of the underlying sociocultural chakras.
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Within the construct that I have presented above,
we can now look at sociocultural evolution in
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light of genuine needs getting usurped by the
mere wants for their corrupted currencies.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal
Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode,
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industrial complex, big pharma & insurance,
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military-industrial complex
and politics-business nexus.
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Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date!
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Today’s episode titled “Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date!” will tell you about human achievements vs losses through homo sapiens bipedal evolution.
We humans have been extremely successful in achieving an unchallenged control over the planet we live on, something none of the other 8.7 million living species could even dream of.
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Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! - Show Notes
In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap, titled “Homo Sapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date,” I explore the remarkable yet tumultuous path of human evolution and the consequences of our advancements.
Join me as I dive deep into the duality of human achievements versus losses throughout our bipedal evolution. Discover how Homo sapiens have gained unprecedented control over the planet, surpassing the capabilities of our fellow species, yet simultaneously sowing the seeds of our own potential demise.
From the dawn of tool-making to the rise of complex societal structures, learn how our superior communication skills and abstract thinking have propelled us forward. However, this journey has not been without its pitfalls; the very myths we created to unite us have also led to fragmentation and conflict.
As we stand on the brink of irreversible climate change, I challenge my species to confront the greed and fear that have driven our unsustainable progress. I emphasize the urgent need for a shift in our collective mindset—from competition to cooperation, from a fragmented mind to a unified consciousness.
This episode invites you to reflect on our collective responsibility and the power of an empty mind in fostering genuine understanding and action. Can we learn from our past mistakes and pave the way for a sustainable future?
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“What to Do Now?
Today, if we are humble enough to learn
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our lesson, we need to take immediate action.
How do we do that?”
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about human
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achievements vs losses through
homo sapiens bipedal evolution.
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We humans have been extremely successful in
achieving an unchallenged control over the
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planet we live on, something none of the other
8.7 million living species could even dream of.
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Homo sapiens are ruling the planet
at present like dinosaurs once did.
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As a species, we have made immense progress in
creating tools that gave us the power to establish
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the said control. The tools kept getting more and
more sophisticated as did our brain’s ability to
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think in abstraction. We, the sapiens, had
another exclusive advantage at our behest.
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We could communicate much better with one
another through the use of our language that
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was way superior to that of other Homo species.
Hence we were better able to cooperate in groups
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while fighting with our competitors for the
purpose of dominance over them. Neanderthals
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who were physically stronger and other Homo
species could not do it so effectively among
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themselves and slowly went out of existence.
It was then that the Homo sapiens discovered
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the power of the mind in creating mythological
stories, thanks to their superior language. And
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then, they soon started believing in them! As
this happened, it acted as a double-edged sword.
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It started imparting an autonomous status to the
mind as separate from a reviewer of the brain’s
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perception and action. It helped the Homo sapiens,
driven by their fictitious beliefs, to start
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cooperating in bigger and bigger groups to achieve
dominance over the planet as a species. But then,
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humanity didn’t stop over there. It allowed these
fictitious beliefs to turn into a unique kind of
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auto-immune disease, not of the individual but of
society. A disease that we have been dealing with
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the repercussions of, ever since.
Wars became the order of the day.
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Marked by the dominance of massive groups
cooperating among themselves in an effort
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to annihilate other massive groups, these
wars paved the path for the competitive
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growth of Homo sapiens’ civilization.
Since then, the story of the growth of
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human civilization has remained much the same
to date. That is why and how these mythological
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stories acted as double-edged swords. Though
they created vast cooperating groups furthering
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tremendous growth and development, the
said growth always remained fragmented.
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The groups remained disparate, miserably
failing to operate as one single cooperating
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group of a species called Homo sapiens.
This was the power of our fragmented minds
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following our fragmented beliefs via our
fragmented stories that took dominance
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over the marvels of the spontaneous brains of a
unique species that we, the Homo sapiens, were.
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Nevertheless, the power to think
in abstraction was a great leap in
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the evolution of the human brain. It gave
birth to new disciplines in science, arts,
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technology and commerce. Human culture started
prospering with inventions of digits and letters
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resulting in mathematics to calculate on one
hand and language to communicate on the other.
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Today, we marvel at our own achievements
within such a short span of time,
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evolutionarily speaking. Once we, the Homo
sapiens, started galloping along the track
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of new discoveries and inventions, we never
stopped. It has been too fast an evolution of
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the brain in too short a span of time. Overall,
our brain size has increased 2-3 times within
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the last 3 million years, starting with the
species named Australopithecus. This was a
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group of hominins from which humans are supposed
to have descended. These 3 million years is quite
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a small fraction of time when compared
to the 3 billion years of life on earth.
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And surprisingly, that process of evolution
is still on! And at the same break-neck speed!
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The Tipping Point of Crisis
We have almost reached the edge
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of the point of no return from the harmful
effects of human-induced climate change.
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As of today, the two major ice sheets
at Greenland and Antarctica are melting
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speedily. If the greenhouse gases are not
stopped from emitting further, the rise of
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the global sea level is going to cause havoc.
If the global temperature ultimately increases
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by 1.5-2oC, the melting of these ice sheets
may become irreversible. Higher rainfall and
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higher flooding events would engulf the northern
hemisphere. It would end up in the extinction
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of quite a few species of plants, insects and
vertebrates. Under extreme weather conditions,
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there are going to be way more spontaneous forest
fires. And we have already started seeing all
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these effects in just the past few years!
As David Attenborough said,
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“What we do in the next twenty years will
determine the future of all life on earth.”
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Who is to be blamed for it?
Our mind, our society and our culture! Who else?
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Our mind is greedy. It is greedy because it is
fearful. We, as a species, wanted to progress
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as much as we could, as fast as we could.
We overexploited our planet’s resources,
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without giving it back what we took from
it. Earth wants to take everything back now.
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Isn’t it a lesson for our mind? Isn’t it a lesson
for the way we have structured our society?
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Isn’t it an indictment of the value system
that we have erected human culture on?
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Where did we go wrong? What
was our earliest mistake?
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Remember I had said that the mind gets
subjectively attached to its faulty apprehensions
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of threat to life, in Episode 20? It overrates the
instincts of self-preservation. On the other hand,
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it suppresses and even represses death instincts.
That is how it distorts reality and corrupts human
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action. It is because all death instincts
including curiosity, interaction, adventure,
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love and sex turn us passionate, insightful
and people-centric. On the other hand,
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self-preservative instincts turn us stupidly
emotional, greedy and self-centric more than
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people-centric. They want growth as much and
as fast as possible whereas death instincts
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are way saner in their approach. In its greed,
humanity sided with the fastest possible rather
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than sustainable growth that is in tune with all
of nature and, therefore, would have given rise to
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a different paradigm of ‘quality’ of life.
That is why and how the brain is way more
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intelligent than the mind. In fact, the mind
can very easily go stupid. Brain never does.
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That was our very first mistake. In fact, that
was our Original Sin, if any. We gave the entire
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reigns of comprehending psychedelic (incognizable)
reality in a cognizable way to the mind. Reality
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is right, only its cognition is not. We shouldn’t
have made the mind an autonomous entity having the
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power to comprehend reality anyway it likes. It
should have been kept subservient to the brain,
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the real master of perception and action.
Had we managed to do that, psychology as an
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autonomous science would have been redundant.
It would rather have been a subordinate
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discipline under physiology or neurology.
Even with our bloated, fragmented minds,
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we can still get rid of our old prejudices
for/ against fragmented groups that are busy
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cooperating within themselves in order to compete
with or even annihilate others within our own
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species. Today, we can give credit to our expanded
awareness of undivided humanity and stop believing
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in the fragmenting stories created by our
fragmented minds all those thousands of years ago!
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I know I am asking for a big, huge lot. I am
asking for a paradigm shift in our comprehension
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of reality. For this to be possible, the mind
needs to comprehend reality as per the neural
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dictates of the nervous system. It needs to
follow commands of the brain and its entire
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nervous system without trying to affect them
at all. As it right now is, the mind limits
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the efficiency of the brain by corrupting its
perception and consequent spontaneous action.
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That is how, in its greed, it gave a signal
to the best of the human brains to make
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so-called progress as fast as possible.
And look where that has brought us today!
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What to Do Now?
Today, if we are humble enough to learn
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our lesson, we need to take immediate action.
How do we do that?
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We simply need to empty our mind of all the
garbage it has collected in the past thousands of
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years. All its beliefs, all its attachments, all
its prejudices, its morals and emotions! It needs
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to be left alone with what it is there for, i.e.,
the subjective cognition of instinctual awareness.
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It should be left alone as the sense
of ‘I’ with just the set of instincts
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human nature has already provided us with.
We can afford to do it today although we could
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never have done so till date without risking
our very existence on the planet. Right now,
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no other species is left to claim
its dominance on the planet. We don’t
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need to compete with our siblings any more.
Competition has already played its commendable
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role in safeguarding us up to this point of time.
But if it continues, it will turn against our own
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self, as a species. Where else does this happen?
In our own bodies. Exactly like the immunity in
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our bodies that competes against foreign entities
to protect us sometimes turns on itself leading
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to autoimmune diseases, our intra-species
competition is threatening to wipe us out.
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What we need today is a world-wide
cooperation or else, we will run
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our species out of existence. It will be nothing
less than a suicidal act on our collective part.
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Cooperation over competition! Brain over
mind!! Even better, an empty mind!!!
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Okay, what does the mind
do when it is left emptied?
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It gives a cognizable meaning to the psychedelic
perceptions and spontaneous actions of the brain
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without generating beliefs around them.
We need to go agnostic in the truest sense
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of the word. When that happens, we stop living in
our past and/ or future with emotional attachments
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to them. Passion replaces emotions. We are able
to centrally fixate our passionate attention on
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the perception and action of the very present
moment. Central fixation makes it possible for
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the brain to spontaneously think the best without
being distorted by emotional thoughts of the mind.
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When this happens, action is the next spontaneous
step taken by the brain instantaneously. Even
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artificial intelligence (AI) will never
be able to match the human brain since,
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even at its best, it can only
achieve speed but never spontaneity.
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In my first language named Hindi, past is named
‘bhoot’ meaning ’ghost’. I find that hilarious.
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It seems to me to be the best description of
the past. Past is dead and we keep emotionally
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clinging to its ghost or to its cousin,
i.e., its own projection as the future.
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These ghosts masquerading as thoughts possess
our brain and limit or distort its capability
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to spontaneously think without any deterrents.
Thinking is the handiwork of the brain. Chewing
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the cud of thoughts is the handiwork of
the mind. Thinking and chewing the cud of
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thoughts are two diametrically opposite
actions. Let us start thinking as real
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intelligent organisms. Let us stop chewing
the cud of thoughts as stupid dead ghosts.
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Let us tackle these impending emergencies of
human-induced climate change in an absolutely
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intelligent way…while we still can! And that
absolute intelligence can only arise from an
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empty mind.
But what’s
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the modus operandi of emptying the mind?
We have already discussed this in all its
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conceptual details as Skeletal Leap in Episode 26
and Episode 27. However, that is at the level of
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an individual. It is my contention that a similar
approach can be extended to society, as a whole.
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Thanks for listening to this episode
of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
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In the next episode, I will tell you about
sociocultural chakras on the lines of Maslow’s
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hierarchy of needs turning to wants and thus
affecting sociocultural evolution negatively.
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SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take the way it habitually postures its joints.

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