Holistic Healing

Holistic healing is a philosophical approach to healing which stands 180 degree opposite to the approach of modern pharmaceutical medicine.

Pharmaceutical medicine is a big business with its size being over one trillion U.S. dollars per year. It’s very natural that this business will not let its hold go loose in case an alternative approach starts holding roots in the mindset of the masses.

It does so by challenging the scientific validity of any such holistic healing approach. Its main assertion is that any such holistic healing procedures haven’t undergone strict laboratory testing methods to come up with convincing statistical data establishing their efficacy.

But in doing so, it ignores the most basic philosophy of healing which asserts that holistic healing is supposed to do away with the basic root cause of a health problem rather than doing away with the symptoms of the problem alone.

If only the symptoms are done away with, the problem tends to relapse which almost everyone is quite familiar with at one’s experiential level. That’s why the modern medicinal approach calls their procedures as treatment and not cure.

Holistic Healing Concept

Holistic healing as a concept addresses curing an illness permanently as opposed to treating it temporarily for the time being.

Treating symptoms temporarily can be a much swifter process than curing the root cause permanently. This is the reason why the modern pharmaceutical medicine has established its acceptance among the masses. In the age of fast food, people look for fast medicine as well, no matter if it spoils the health further in the long run.

How Health Deteriorates with Pharmaceutical Medicine

How does treating symptoms alone spoil health further in the long run?

There are two reasons for it.

First, as the symptoms temporarily disappear the patients psychologically feel that the problem has fully and finally been taken care of and revert to their old lifestyles that had caused the problem in the very first place. As a result the problem relapses after sometime turning them weaker and weaker every time it does.

Second, since the symptoms cannot be naturally removed without removing the causative factors, what actually the pharmaceutical medicine does is that it suppresses the symptoms artificially by sending an army of antibodies from outside rather than strengthening the antibodies that the immune system generates within. The immune system is just not given enough time and chance to fight with the illness causing bacteria and viruses.

As a result, in the long run, it gets conditioned not to be able to generate them efficiently anymore. It ends up in a reduced immunity in the mind body system after every episode of gulping a handful of the modern pharmaceutical medicine.

Every new relapse of the same condition proves to be more serious than the former one turning even the treatment much more complicated.

Health deteriorates further!

Then, apart from normal acute diseases, there are more permanent lifestyle diseases too which unfortunately the modern pharmaceutical medicine doesn’t have even a treatment for. In such cases; like in migraines, diabetes, hypothyroid, hyperthyroid, high blood pressure, heart conditions, acidity, constipation, obesity, liver damage, kidney damage, asthma, anxiety, depression and many more, it only has a few options to merely manage them somehow.

Holistic Healing for Acute Diseases & Lifestyle Diseases

Holistic healing treats both, acute diseases and lifestyle diseases, being caused by faulty lifestyles.

The only permanent way to cure them for once and forever is to change the lifestyle that has been responsible for causing them in the very first place.

Holistic healing has quite a few ways up its sleeves to address the causative factors in an effective manner.

Holistic Healing Vs Stringent Laboratory Testing

Now let’s come to the objection raised by the mainstream pharmaceutical medicine against the ways of holistic healing in that they have not undergone stringent laboratory testing methods to come up with convincing statistical data establishing their efficacy.

As has been stated before, treating symptoms temporarily can be a much swifter process than curing the root cause permanently. Now in order to carry out monitored tests on a sample of ill subjects, holistic healing procedures not only require a much longer duration of time but also much larger sums of money.

Pharmaceutical medicine requires much shorter spans of time to carry out such monitored tests on a sample of patients readily available because it anyway has them because of its popularity along with shorter commitments of time on their behalf.

As far as large sums of money are requires in carrying out such monitored tests on samples of patients, pharmaceutical medicine has no dearth of it which it has earned by selling popular medicine in place of the right one. It’s something like pop music and popular movies selling way more than classical or fast food selling lot more than healthy nutritious diet.

Both these factors, the time and the money, go against holistic healing procedures to be effectively able to carry out such monitored tests on large enough samples of patients for a long enough time to show better statistical results in a scientifically convincing manner.

It’s very much like the rich becoming richer even if corrupt and inefficient and the poor becoming poorer even if virtuous and effective.

Holistic Healing to Become Mainstream Healing

In order for holistic healing to become mainstream healing (except for emergency conditions where fast medicine does have a genuine temporary role to play), we need to bring a paradigm shift in our culture which at present favors fast life, fast movies, fast music, fast sex, fast food and fast medicine over their slower and much healthier counterparts.

If it ever happens so, holistic healing has the true potential to become the ultimate solution of deteriorating human health on the planet.

In the next posts to come explaining Skeletal Leap as the most effective holistic healing procedure, I will be explaining various different procedures employed by the discipline of holistic healing in order to heal the illness at the very core of it where it started afflicting the mind body system in the very beginning of it.

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Chakra Healing Streamlines The Flow Of The Cosmic Energy AKA Kundalini Through The Body!

What is chakra healing?

Chakra Healing

Chakra healing is a holistic healing process that has a real great promise in its store to offer for the sake of the entire human health on the planet.

I know it’s a big claim but chakra healing is no small modality too! It’s a modality that was framed and perfected in the ancient Indian healing procedures. In fact it’s not just a procedure; it’s a total philosophy of life that uses no intellectual theories to propound itself. The very process establishes and explains it all.

Many people confuse it as a part of or as a co-process of yoga which it is not. It’s a totally independent modality to stand by itself on its own alone. In fact it had never been an organic part of yogic system at all. It was originally a procedure used by the tantric system which was violently suppressed by the established yogic system around two thousand years ago. Later the yogic system borrowed it from the then inactive tantric system and modified it to suit their worldview.

Chakra Yoga Feud

In the feud between the two systems, the elaborate details of the chakra healing process somehow got lost in the oblivion. What remained intact were the introductory symbols used to initiate the practitioner on the path of an otherwise elaborate procedure that would do the needful to heal the body and the mind.

In the absence of the elaborate procedural details, the introductory symbols got highlighted and made the main course of chakra healing modality in the hands of the yogic system. It also added a few postures named mudras which the tantric system had never used to facilitate opening chakras to actuate chakra healing. It made chakra healing a real tedious process to practice. But then the two of them had entirely two opposite worldviews as well!

Today the situation is that there are rare people who have any real insight into the system of chakras and the process to open them in a proper scientific way. Majority of the so-called chakra specialists keep beating about the bush with the introductory sticks of symbols in their hands and hope that this alone would enable them to open chakras activating the chakra healing process.

Chakra Symbols

Some of these introductory symbols are named like chakra symbols, chakra colors, chakra sounds, chakra crystals, chakra stones, chakra music, chakra candles, chakra chart, chakra art, chakra mantras, chakra images, chakra tones, chakra gates, chakra pictures and chakra breathing.

The real information got lost somewhere during those early days of suppression behind the multiplicity of so many symbolic representations and then people started interpreting symbols alone as the only information that this miraculous discipline of chakra healing ever had.

And the funny part was that everyone dealing with these symbols would interpret them as per one’s own imaginary whims. Since the discipline had gone esoteric by now, everyone claiming to be the master of one’s own interpretation had one’s day since there was no authentic source left to verify the same.

Kundalini: The Cosmic Energy

The same happened with the connected discipline of kundalini, the cosmic energy that was said to constantly keep flowing through the body with its chakras open which was otherwise blocked as the chakras lay closed. It was presumed that once chakra healing was able to open all the chakras, kundalini would automatically get awakened and starts flowing through the body unobstructed without any blockage in its path.

In the absence of the original authentic process that got lost, people started making mysteriously esoteric procedures claiming them to be opening chakras, awakening kundalini and activating chakra healing. Since people are generally driven by faith and not by scientific verification, they accepted whatever was offered to them and imagined they had successfully undergone the healing procedure.

Healing

Now, healing as perceived by the masses is a very vague term. A little arbitrary improvement in one’s condition is sufficient to confirm one’s faith in the procedure one is undergoing. And when faith is already there, it does act as a placebo to virtually imagine getting that little arbitrary improvement in reality. Such placebos even work in the mainstream medicine as well.

You would ask me how I know what all I am telling about chakra healing here!

Well, I know because I have a firsthand experience of opening my own chakras although I did it accidentally in the beginning and then perfecting the procedure after a long strenuous research in the field in which no authentic literature was available.

This article that I have started writing about chakras is the first of a series of articles that I will be writing here as my further blog posts in the same space on the subject of chakra healing in days to come.

I will be explaining my entire journey into opening chakras and developing the modality as a reliable promise to take care of the human health on the planet.

Continue reading my future posts here!

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Mental Health Awareness

Mental health awareness is something people rarely know anything about. They don’t even know that mental health has a very close association with their physical health through the mind body connection.

We think if we don’t have any debilitating mental disease, our mental health is good.

Nothing can be farther from truth than this!

Mental Health

Mental health is not merely the absence of mental illnesses, it’s rather the well-being of mind meaning thereby mind to be at peace with itself.

We all know very well we are not at peace with our own selves. Our mind almost always keeps fighting with its own self.

What makes us do so?

We fall prey to sociocultural demands that our society and our culture impose on us and expect us to fulfill the same as fast as we can.

It makes our mind run and keep running until it has achieved the elusive target these sociocultural demands have put in front of it which it is never able to do.

It keeps running round and round and never reaches anywhere.

Mental health awareness simply means knowing that mind is keeping running an endless futile race.

Physical Heath

When mind is not at peace, how can body keep relaxed?

Following the instruction from the mind, the body also keeps its muscles contracted all the time.

Mind is the engine that runs the car of the body.

If the body keeps its musculature contracted all the time, its physiological processes get negatively affected.

These physiological processes include digestion, breathing, blood circulation, immune system maintenance, hormonal secretions, sexual drive, sensory and motor functions along with keeping the body posture loosely erect to act in a relaxed manner.

As you can very well see, almost all physical ailments are caused by any one or more of these physiological processes gone wrong in the body.

It’s our mind that does this to us.

The only permanent way out is to develop mental health awareness to an extent that it immediately senses that something wrong is going on in the mind which is making it stressed.

The Mind Body Connection

Developing such acute mental health awareness requires developing an equally acute sensory perception in our mind body system.

That’s what is called the mind body connection!

Heal your mind in order to heal your body.

Now the question arises how to heal the mind for it to reach its absolute potential.

Here mental health awareness comes to our rescue. We need to start sensing the infighting going on inside the mind.

The Fragmented Mind

As a result of falling prey to the unjust sociocultural demands, the mind fragments it in more than one compartments trying to pacify each one of them by trying to fulfill each one’s demands.

But the unlucky part of this all is that those fragments are in contradiction with one another. Each one pulls the mind to the direction of its own fulfillment which stops the others from driving mind to take action in the directions of their demands.

They all keep stretching the mind in opposite directions ending up in a state of no action despite a huge effort exercised on mind’s part.

It’s like the engine keeping idling with the race paddle pressed hard but the car not moving in any direction ahead.

The engine gets choked.

The mind gets stressed.

We all know what stress is.

What Is Stress?

What our choked mental health awareness does is that it keeps tiring us all day long (as well as all night long!).

We keep wasting our energy turning our bodies to a state of partial paralysis.

Our immune system along with others in the row doesn’t get renewed sufficiently and easily falls prey to even the weakest onslaught of illness carrying microbes.

The next in line stand the lifestyle diseases affecting digestion, breathing, and blood circulation along with hormonal secretions causing constipation, obesity, asthma, heart conditions, diabetes, hypothyroid/hyperthyroid, kidney and liver problems along with many more like these.

Real mental illnesses including acute anxiety, panic attacks, depression with other neurotic and psychotic conditions are the last to attack the mind body system.

Stress is the most basic root cause of all illness on earth.

Now the main question facing humanity is how to deal with stress to turn it out of mind and life for once and forever.

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Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Introduction

The Industrial Revolution marked a turning point in human history, ushering in an era of unprecedented achievements and profound losses.

In this episode of Skeletal Leap, I present a historical timeline that spans over 12,000 years, illustrating how human cultural and social institutions evolved from simple hunter-gatherer societies to complex civilizations.

The episode begins with a fascinating overview of the Agricultural Revolution, a pivotal moment that transitioned humans from nomadic lifestyles to settled farming communities.

I highlight the significant lifestyle changes that accompanied this shift, including the development of private property and the emergence of patriarchal structure.

This transformation not only altered social dynamics but also had lasting implications for human health, as sedentary lifestyles led to new diseases and a decline in overall well-being.

As I navigate through the timeline, I discuss the birth of rudimentary business practices that arose from increased food production and the need for specialized trades.

This transition laid the groundwork for the formation of states and empires, which further complicated human relationships and societal structures.

Warfare, driven by competition for resources and territorial expansion, became a recurring theme, showcasing the darker side of human progress.

The episode also touches on the rise of ancient civilizations, the Renaissance, and the Age of Discovery, highlighting significant achievements in culture, science, and technology.

However, I don’t shy away from addressing the losses that accompanied these advancements, including imperialism, economic depressions, and the ongoing threat of climate change.

In a thought-provoking conclusion, I emphasize that while the Industrial Revolution brought about remarkable progress, it also introduced significant challenges that continue to impact our world today.

As we grapple with the consequences of our actions, it becomes clear that understanding our history is crucial for navigating the future.

Tune in to this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap to explore the intricate tapestry of human history and reflect on the lessons we can learn from our past. Whether you’re a history enthusiast or simply curious about the evolution of human societies, this episode is a must-listen!

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• (00:00:00) - Human History: From hunting, gathering to farming. Historical timeline of the past 12,000 years

• (00:05:00) - What Happened to the Social Structure of Communities: During Paleolithic period, there was a naturally balanced distribution of labor

• (00:11:22) - Warfare in Human History: Neolithic period witnessed systematic warfare aimed at capturing and securing women

• (00:22:01) - Human History in Terms of Accidents and Losses

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Historical Reference: Historical Timeline of 12k Years! - Transcript

“Industrial revolution was a great achievement but it also created the demon of impending human-induced climate change.”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode will tell you about historical reference with historical timeline of the past 12,000 years.

Historical Timeline of The Past 12,000 Years¹

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.

From Hunting-Gathering to Farming²

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.

Humans slowly and gradually stopped living in caves that they had adorned with paintings, in favor of huts and skin tents.

They had already started using fire for heating and cooking as early as 0.5 million years ago

They had also developed language to communicate with others between 150,000-50,000 years ago. Now, with the agricultural revolution, they started constructing individual dwellings with mud bricks and timber on the lands they had started cultivating.

Paleolithic humans had started wearing loincloths and tunics prepared from plants and animal skins by chewing them to make flexible. They also wore rudimentary shoes. In the Neolithic period, woven garments started appearing, mostly from wool.

Lifestyle Changes

Nomadic tribal lifestyle gave way to permanent settlements on the farmlands as farming became the major source of food.

It gave them more control over their lifestyle with largely increased food production and a more efficient security system. The tools became sharper from grinding

With the faculty of the mind having gained dominance over the faculty of the brain, the control of the tribes shifted from elders to military and religious leaders, giving birth to rudimentary monarchies.

Personal Ownership of Resources Was Born

At this juncture of time came one of the most important shifts in human culture. In the Paleolithic period, there was no concept or need of private property ownership. By the Neolithic period, though, people started having individual ownership of land, domestic animals and tools. Thus entered the concept of the crudest form of prosperity in human culture, changing it forever. It was the seed that ultimately grew up as a huge and mighty tree of money ruling the world.

Health Took Its First Toll

Paleolithic humans were taller and healthier owing to a primarily active lifestyle that was combined with lots of free time at their disposal. The relatively more sedentary lifestyle of the Neolithic period turned people shorter and more prone to diseases.

Tooth decay and typhoid were the main ones among them which lowered their life expectancy. As people got settled, women started bearing more children resulting in a population explosion. Their food comprised more cereals like wheat, corn and rice. It wasn’t as nutritiously balanced as that of Palaeolithic humans which comprised meat, fruits and roots. That is how farming not only took its toll on Neolithic humans’ health but also made them much busier than before.

The Birth of Marriage & Family³

Apart from private property, another institution started appearing in its rudimentary form - the family

During the Paleolithic period, there was a naturally balanced distribution of labor between males and females. While men went for hunting, women took charge of gathering and they all ate together. Life was simple. Sex happened in a spontaneous way of attraction rather than a lifelong commitment to one single person. Children belonged to the community along with their mothers. Fatherhood wasn’t exclusive but inclusive.

But in the Neolithic period, all these equations started changing. As a result (or cause) of population explosion, women had to be much busier in the act of bearing children. Most of the time, they weren’t fit enough to carry on the laborious chores of farming. With the passage of time, it gave them a subjugated status where the male headed the family and the female status got degraded. Her main role got limited to that of being a child-bearing machine and her main value to that of being the object of sex.

She almost lost her natural right to sleep with the man of her choice. In fact, she slowly got restricted to just playing the role of a bed partner to her children’s father. This was a gradual shift from an egalitarian society toward patriarchy. It went on like this until it officially got approved as marriage. Marriage as an institution was announced to be a lifelong one-man, one-woman relationship ultimately around 2350 BC. From there, it evolved to be the most basic unit of society, spreading far and wide separately by every culture, surprisingly all through the world.

The Birth of Rudimentary Business⁴

Transition from the mode of hunting-gathering to that of agriculture and cattle-rearing resulted in increased food production. Nomadic life had come to an end as sedentary lifestyle became a norm, adversely affecting health through increasing infections. Only a few members of a community were sufficient to grow food for the needs of the entire community. This left members of communities with a lot of free time on hand.

Side by side, communities started needing a few more things than food alone. The main ones among these new impending needs were:

Permanent durable building structures | Clothes | Medical treatment | Education | Tools | Utensils

There were members of the agricultural communities who specialized in learning and providing for these new needs. Thus came into existence different kinds of trades and tradesmen like farmers, masons, weavers, healers, teachers, blacksmiths, potters et cetera. They offered their services and products to others. In turn, others provided them with what they had in surplus.

The Birth of State⁵

This was how the ancient business started taking shape with a barter system as its primary mode of transaction.

First, small villages took shape, followed by bigger towns in their vicinity serving as market hubs for barter-based businesses. Ultimately, an entity called the state took shape comprising a number of towns and villages to keep them secure. Other communities could attack them and snatch away what they had. In the absence of a means to wider interaction, communities had their world-view limited to the boundaries of their own communities.

Arms & Ammunition to Armies⁶

The state needed the strong men of these communities to promise safety to all its members and their businesses. For this, they would require more strength under their control. Hence the friendly ones combined to make states and created armies equipped with new products for them called weapons. The person at the helm of this new institution became the autocratic king whose wishes became the laws of the land.

Many such states came to existence that would, again, often keep fighting against one another. With the passage of time, the winners kept on getting stronger by extending their control over bigger chunks of land. Thus empires came into existence merging identities of small communities into a new concept of nationality. Big cities were populated to centralize big businesses further.

From Ownership of Resources to Ownership of Money⁷

The sizes of businesses grew larger and barter system didn’t seem to be working efficiently for them anymore. In such a scenario, token money got conceptualized by the state that became the commonly used currency for exchange of goods and services. These currencies were given different names by the states issuing them. Currency as metal coins was way more portable than an item to be used as barter for business deals. It also enabled standardization of prices of various commodities, services and products. No one other than the state itself could mould those coins as they were marked with the seal of the state.

Warfare⁸

Adding to these woes was the beginning of systemic warfare during this same period, owing to the population increase and land ownership that arose from those institutions of property ownership, patriarchy and marriage. Several evidences of such warfare have been found in the excavations of Neolithic skeletons. One such representative evidence has been found in the massacre of Talheim Death Pit of 5500 BC in Germany. It points to two neighboring tribes in war with each other with the sole purpose of capturing and securing each other’s women. This can be deduced from the fact that there were no female skeletons found on the defending tribe’s turf suggesting that they were not killed but taken along. There have been quite a few such excavations suggesting that the main purpose of Neolithic warfare was capturing women.

When evolution entered the Copper Age from the Stone Age, more organized warfare took place with the help of copper weapons. Soldiers had started getting employed by city states professionally as far back as 4,300 BC. In 3,000 BC, Hamoukar was completely destroyed by warfare. Later city states were engulfed by newly built empires like Babylonia and Assyria in Mesopotamia. By 1700 BC, chariots started playing the central role in warfare.

The Copper Age transitioned to the Bronze Age, marking a gradual transition from prehistoric age to historic times. Weapons turned more lethal and empires kept fighting with one another. Whenever warfare happened, thousands of soldiers fought from each side. By now, army had gotten professionally established as another inseparable socio-political institution of human culture.

It only expanded further as the Bronze Age transitioned to the Iron Age.

Warfare kept getting more lethal and more organized by Homo sapiens to kill members of their own species.

So, concluding up to this point, during the Neolithic Period:

Achievements:

• Replacing hunting gathering with agriculture and rearing domestic animals which is there in place to date

• Establishing strong security systems against attacks from predators

• Accumulation of extra food storage to use at times of emergencies

• Sparing a chunk of population to engage in developmental occupations other than food production making life more comfortable 

Losses:

• Beginning of private property turning life stressfully complex

• An overall toll on human health with lifestyle diseases

• Matriarchy replaced with patriarchy subjugating women as the secondary gender

• Let us now proceed further beyond the Neolithic period to assess human achievements and losses to date. From the prehistoric age, we are moving on to historic times below. 

The rise of ancient civilizations (3,000 BCE - 500 BCE)⁹:

The first complex civilization came up in the city state of Sumer in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE. It started with a pictorial form of writing system known as cuneiform script. The trend further spread in the fertile river valleys of the Old World. These included Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Nile in Egypt, Indus in India with Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in China.

City states later turned into huge empires by expanding their control, first, on neighboring and, later, on far spread regions. New empires kept rising and destroying the older ones to establish their rule and control through warfare.

Post Classical History (500 BCE - 1,500 CE)¹⁰:

Post classical era marks… 

Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire in Europe | Ottoman Empire in Central Asia | Various Islamic Empires in India | Mali and Songhai Empires in Western Africa | Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties in China | Inca, Maya and Aztecs in South America later conquered by European Colonists

Early Modern Period (1500 CE - 1800 CE)¹¹:

Early modern period is marked by… 

Renaissance - rise of capitalist economies; cultural, scientific and technological achievements; economical and social rise of Europe;  artistic creations of polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; fall of feudalism and the power of the Catholic Church; rise of Humanism, Scientific Revolution and Age of Enlightenment | Thirty Years War - from 1618 CE - 1648 CE within Holy Roman Empire killing many millions of people | The Age of Discovery - covering the Age of Sail discovering sea routes to distant lands | European Colonial Expansion throughout the world | Witch-hunt - tens of thousands of witches practicing witchcraft were burned alive between 1450 CE - 1750 CE

Late Modern Period (1800 CE to Date)¹²:

This period is marked by…

Industrial Revolution – transition to new manufacturing processes in the UK, Europe and the USA as a result of scientific revolution | Age of Imperialism – annexing control over many countries the world over by the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands and Prussia | Age of Revolution – numerous revolutions in Europe and Americas changing autocratic monarchies to democratic governments | World Wars - entire world turning into two blocks fighting with each other to ultimate destruction. World War 1 during 1914 CE - 1918 CE killed 20 million and wounded 21 million people. World War 2 during 1939 CE - 1945 CE killed 85 million people | Roaring Twenties - the decade of 1920s marked by economic prosperity in the USA and Europe with a unique cultural edge | Great Depression - a daunting worldwide economic depression during 1930s | Cold War - acute political tension between the USA-led Western and the USSR led Eastern Bloc after WWII | Green Revolution - a set of research technology transfer increasing agricultural production all over the world starting from 1960s | Space Exploration - using astronomy and space technology to explore the outer space and far-off satellites and planets | Digital Revolution - extensive use of digital computers for computing and record keeping in the latter half of 20th century | Economic Globalization - breaking the national boundaries for commercial activities through use of the Internet | The Internet - a global system of interconnected computer networks | Mobile Phone - communication revolution through making phone calls wireless and approachable all the time over the world | Great Recession - a daunting period of recession in the national economies during 2007 CE - 2009 CE | Worldwide Competition for Natural Resources - the new currency for prosperity and growth | Environmental Degradation - human activities interfering with the quality of environment getting deteriorated | Climate Change - comprises human-induced and rapidly changing climate patterns threatening to kill all life on earth | Covid-19 - a global pandemic that killed more than 7 million people. And that’s only the official figure! If that weren’t enough, it also seriously disrupted global trade, generating widespread economic recession the world over.

Let us now synthesize the aforementioned data of historical records in terms of achievements and losses.

Achievements:

Spread of civilization | Renaissance | Discoveries and inventions | Industrial revolution | Change from autocracy to democracy | Economic prosperity | Green revolution | Space exploration | Digital revolution | Economic globalization | The internet | Mobile phone

Losses:

Never-ending warfare | Wastage of human resources on warfare | Huge loss of human lives in warfare | Colonialism | Witch-hunt | Imperialism | Economic depression | Economic recessions | Cold War | Worldwide competition for natural resources | Pandemics | Environmental degradation | Human-induced climate change

Let us consider that this, our common history, has brought us Homo sapiens to the present day and placed us on the precipice of imminent threat to all life on earth by human-induced climate change. As we grapple with this reality, it seems as though the scale of human progress seems to have tilted toward losses a bit more than toward achievements. Industrial revolution 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

In a world filled with chaos and uncertainty, the quest for peace and fulfillment has never been more pressing.

In 34th episode of my podcast, I explain the transformative concept of Skeletal Leap, a journey that promises to elevate not only individual lives but also the collective experience of humanity.

I emphasize that we are at a crucial evolutionary juncture, serving as custodians of life on the only known planet that supports it.

Skeletal Leap is not just about personal development; it’s about creating a collective heaven on Earth. I argue that to manifest this paradise, we must first cultivate peace within ourselves.

By emptying our minds and tuning into our instincts, we can unlock the true potential of our intelligence. This journey leads to spontaneous actions driven by joy rather than moral dilemmas, allowing us to foster a culture of love instead of war.

One of the most compelling aspects of this episode is the idea that our societal structures, much like our health, are in dire need of a paradigm shift. I draw parallels between holistic healing and the transformation of sociocultural institutions, suggesting that a collective push toward a new consciousness can dismantle outdated systems built on shaky foundations.

This shift is not merely theoretical; it requires a commitment to ethical insights and a redefinition of our value systems. As I explore the implications of Skeletal Leap, are are invited to consider how we can reshape our businesses into missions that prioritize passion over profit.

I argue that when we align our actions with our true missions, we can create a healthier world that transcends the greed and corruption often associated with traditional business practices.

Moreover, the episode challenges you to rethink their understanding of health. I posit that true health encompasses physical, mental, and spiritual wellness, urging us to adopt a holistic approach to well-being.

This perspective not only applies to individuals but also to systemic institutions, suggesting that a healthy society can emerge when we prioritize collective needs over personal ownership of property.

The conversation takes a bold turn as I advocate for a world government that transcends national boundaries, promoting a universal identity as world citizens.

This radical idea encourages us to envision a future where patriotism and nationalism give way to global unity and cooperation, ultimately leading to a more compassionate and connected humanity.

In conclusion, this episode of Skeletal Leap is a call to action for all of us. It invites you to take your personal leaps toward transformation and contribute to a collective shift in consciousness.

By embracing the principles of Skeletal Leap, we can pave the way for a future filled with health, joy, and peace.

Join me on this journey and discover how you can be part of the change. Tune in now!

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• 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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Manifesting A Cool Heaven on Earth with Skeletal Leap - Transcript

“I think our species, at this evolutionary juncture of time, is the apt custodian of life on the sole ‘living planet’ in the entire known universe.”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode 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

The combination of all natural instincts and curious perception arising from the ultimate intelligence of our human brain automatically leads to spontaneous action. This intelligence doesn’t bother about being morally good or bad, it is simply beautiful and creates passionate joy in life.

An intelligent brain is the ultimate state that Homo sapiens can achieve by taking the next step in their evolution. Real intelligence facilitates a joyful life resulting in a beautiful and a peaceful mind. A beautiful and a peaceful mind makes love, not war.

Skeletal Leap ensures everything falls into its right place to enable just that - an intelligent brain.

Good is a mere concept, beauty is the sheer joy.

One more thing…

Just like lifestyle diseases, faultily designed sociocultural institutions are also erected upon very shaky foundations. One collective push, and they will all come crumbling down within no time!

The said collective push has its roots deeply ingrained in central fixation through Skeletal Leap. An individual Skeletal Leap leads to our personal heaven in life. A collective Skeletal Leap has a potential to lead us, the Homo sapiens, to our sociocultural heaven on the planet.

Soon our planet may hopefully have a sufficient number of people already having taken their Skeletal Leaps. A new stream of a superior consciousness may pave its way into the corridors of the existing sociocultural stream. Once it reaches a critical number of people having taken their Skeletal Leaps, this new consciousness is poised to become an inevitable force.

What about those who have taken their Skeletal Leaps before this critical number is reached? How will they cope with the ways of the world that go against their newly acquired emancipated nature? Will they feel isolated under the pressure of presently prevailing competitive ways of the world? How will they balance their peaceful lives with the coercive demands of the present sociocultural structures? Will they be ridiculed when they step out of the rat race that is the hallmark of our present sociocultural system?

All these are very pertinent questions. But these pioneers of a new world order will certainly have achieved something unique that their peers would obviously lack. They will always have their personal heavens intact with them oozing energy, joy, passion and, above all, health.

There certainly have been such people before in the history of mankind. A few names out of those spell like Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, Laozi and Nanak. The early pioneers are going to be resembling these emancipated souls who lived their lives in the most meaningful ways. They are going to be the leaders of a revolutionary phase of evolution so emergently needed by Homo sapiens today!

The way they live their personal lives will be spontaneously decided by their intuitive brains in different parts of the world. But one thing is certain that whatever they do will be fulfilling not only for themselves but also for humanity around them. The way they go about their lives will also be exemplary in all respects in line with the new evolutionary standards.

How can such a beautiful society organize itself in such a healthy way that all its sociocultural chakras dissolve, you ask? Let’s look into it, starting where we left off in Episode 33, i.e. transcendence needs.

Transcendence Needs – Mysteriology Vs Religion

What sub-fragment or sub-sub-fragment of religion will the pioneers of Skeletal Leap commit their allegiance to?

Well, they may quite simply revert to the origin of religion, i.e., to the awe its mysteries inspire. That is what I am doing through my investigations into those miracles as I deliver this podcast. All religions have this awe as their most basic pillars on which entire buildings were erected in many different shapes and styles. Their walls were constructed with the bricks of various faiths, instead of simply relying on the pillars that had already given them sufficient strength to investigate into the deepest mysteries of life.

It is time to remove all those walls and turn those buildings into gazebos through which fresh winds can freely flow across. The same wind of curious investigation of miracles and mysteries flowing across all those buildings turns them sacred science laboratories!

We can even name this new sacred science ‘Mysteriology’ or else ‘Mysterionomy’. All existing religions can merge their separate identities into one sacred science supported by those central pillars of awe rather than many peripheral walls with various shades of faith.

Religion turns into a sacred science investigating patterns of all existing miracles and mysteries for the ultimate benefit of mankind.

That is the new ‘religion’ pioneers of Skeletal Leap may commit their allegiance to.

No more violence in the name of religion needs to occur. All beliefs, faiths and morals would turn to ethics creating a new aesthetic value system that could preoccupy itself with investigating mysteries.

Physiological Needs – Personal Vs Social Ownership of Resources

On the other end of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs lie physiological needs. It is not a coincidence that the bullet train of human progress seems to be propelled at breakneck speed by the alternating poles of ‘faith’ and ‘money’. Our closed sociocultural root chakra instantly needs to be opened, bringing us back to a genuine pursuit of our physiological needs, this time, unadulterated by personal ownership of resources. To achieve this, we would have to re-shape the entire structure and function of business on earth before the earth teaches us a lesson. And it is already on the verge of doing so, thanks to climate change.

Here, I just want to discuss the connection between psychology and economics. Money, not in its form as currency but as the concept of personal ownership of resources, i.e., private property, is a construct of the mind alone. Mind looks upon the self as an individual entity in isolation from everyone else. Hence it needs to create a safety wall around itself in the form of an isolated private property. No one else has a right to trespass it. But greed knows no end to it. And then the mind wants to extend its boundaries as far as we can. The larger it grows, the safer the mind feels in that isolation. So much so that the mind would force the self to do any damn thing to keep extending and expanding that property ethically or unethically.

When the brain is in charge rather than the mind, we don’t need to create all those walls. The corrupted currency, namely ‘personal ownership of resources’ and all its associated distortions will no longer be important to us. As a result, the sociocultural root chakra will dissolve, thus letting the society focus on the underlying needs - physiological and safety needs - instead. That is the kind of a healthier world that Skeletal Leap will result in creating at an individual and a sociocultural level. In that kind of world, business would no more be a tool to earn profit alone. It would rather be the voice of one’s passion, making it a real mission than a mission statement alone.

Physiological Needs – Mission Vs Business

No one ever does anything unethical when it comes to one’s real mission, provided it doesn’t get corrupted by a perceived “need” to accumulate as much profit as possible. Otherwise those real missions get limited to their mission statements alone which lead to ambitious demonic businesses ultimately.

In a purely mission driven scenario, profit remains as mere data for economic discipline to be maintained. It doesn’t morph into the greed of extending and expanding the size of one’s personal ownership of resources. There is no need left to resort to unethical business practices. Real mission becomes the central theme of the entity called business. Now, it can be renamed simply as mission rather than business.

When will Homo sapiens’ sociocultural evolution start turning businesses into real missions on this planet?

It needs to be done well before human-induced climate change kills us all.

It needs to be done NOW!

We are sitting right at the top crater of a volcano that may erupt any moment. We cannot afford to stay sleeping over it.

Safety Needs – Health

We, Homo sapiens, have a very limited concept of health in our minds. If a human body is just devoid of all diseases, both physical and mental, we consider it healthy.

But health has numerous other dimensions beyond this. First of all, it is not the absence of disease alone. More so, it is just not limited to human body either.

In my opinion, human health should be defined as a state of wellness that includes physical, mental and spiritual wellness, be it an individual body or a systemic institution. These healthy systemic institutions can be cognized as new alternatives in society and culture to currently existing versions of economy, business, industry, judiciary, arts and entertainment networks, marriage institution, organized sport, value system, education system, self-improvement industry and organized religion.

What would result is nothing but holistic health whether individual or systemic. This would place health in a realm that is above and beyond the deficiency need of safety alone. And when a society operates from such a ‘healthy’ foundation, it would detach from the shackles of sociocultural root chakra automatically, thereby not allowing its corruption by any currency whatsoever.

Another in-built advantage of such a healthy society would be uncorrupted cognition that is driven by the brain alone and not the collective mind.

Such an inclusive definition of health places it as the ultimate parameter of the quality of life including its meaning, aesthetic and ethics. All other parameters lose their significance when it comes to ascertaining the ultimate value of an individual or a systemic institution.

Safety Needs – Holistic Healing Vs Symptomatic Treatment

Holistic healing treats both, acute diseases caused by pathogens and lifestyle diseases caused by a fragmented mind.

The only permanent way to cure both types of diseases, once and forever, is to change one’s lifestyle. For it is the lifestyle that has been responsible for causing them in the very first place.

Holistic healing has quite a few ways up its sleeves to address the causative factors in an effective manner.

Stringent Laboratory Testing

Now let’s come to the objection raised by mainstream pharmaceutical medicine against the ways of holistic healing - the one about stringent laboratory tests and efficacy that I mentioned earlier.

To carry out monitored tests on a sample of ill subjects, holistic healing has certain obstructions in its way. Holistic healing procedures not only require a much longer duration of time but also much larger sums of money.

Pharmaceutical medicine requires much shorter spans of time to carry out such monitored tests on control groups of patients. Such patients are readily available owing to its popularity as well as shorter commitments of time requirement from them.

Paradigm Shift in Culture

In order for holistic healing to become mainstream healing, we need to bring a paradigm shift in our culture. At present it favors fast movies, fast music, fast sex, fast food, fast medicine and just fast life overall.

If it ever happens, holistic healing has the true potential to become the ultimate solution to deteriorating human health.

Skeletal Leap is one such approach that has the capacity to heal almost all lifestyle diseases at their roots, as enumerated in Episode 22.

A skeletally transformed society will simply not need as much of institutionalized healthcare as it does right now. That is because the entire process of Skeletal Leap is basically a health-oriented process.

Of course, humanity will still need a few areas of mainstream healthcare that have seen exceptional progress. In fact, despite all its shortcomings, modern healthcare has done an excellent job in these fields, namely: surgical intervention, vaccines, prosthetics and physiotherapy. The contributions of these fields to human health are unchallengeable.

Safety Needs – Security

Army – A Case of Fragmented Sensitivity

Doesn’t a fanatic love for one’s so-called motherland automatically create a fertile ground for hatred toward other lands and their peoples? Especially whenever they get conveniently tagged as enemy lands by the respective political bosses of these chunks of land as and when it suits their narrative?

Even if some lands are spared being tagged as adversaries by the political bosses, our sensitivities are never with them. We turn insensitive to the people residing in those lands.

How can sensitivity become fragmented like this if it is a genuine concern arising from our awareness of life?

Why would I not feel sad if an earthquake kills a few thousand people in some foreign land? What if I compare it with a similar disaster or a different havoc in what I call my motherland?

What justification does humanity have to fragment the natural expanse of land on our planet? That too, by becoming willing pawns to our political bosses’ nefarious game plans?

How will Skeletal Leap pioneers respond to such a situation?

The pioneers obviously cannot do much to reverse the trends. But a society transformed with Skeletal Leap will never entertain these institutions.

Armies and warfare will exist only till the borders demarcating countries as fragmented chunks of lands continue to exist on earth.

In a transformed society, these fragmented chunks would dissolve exactly like the fragments of mind do. That is what opening the 7 chakras and getting the Kundalini activated does to these mental fragments. Till that time, Skeletal Leap pioneers will passionately work toward taking the number of transformed people to a critical one. Once the critical number is reached, the transformation process will get exponentially accelerated automatically. It is exactly like it happens in nuclear reactors with the minimum fissile material necessary to achieve a self-sustaining fission chain reaction thereon.

What will the millions of soldiers do when this is achieved?

They will simply be a great asset for the society by dint of their specialized training. They will make wonderful teams needed to fight the challenges such as the one already posed by climate change!

Love and Belonging Needs – Marriage

How could new social systems like marriage, sports and nations heal themselves in a society energized by Skeletal Leap from this point forward in our evolution? These are only the suggestive samples that a skeletally transformed society could tentatively lead to, not the final blueprints.

Where should the institution of marriage go from here? This is one of the toughest questions to answer even for someone who has already undergone Skeletal Leap. It is because marriage is not marriage alone, it also leads to reproduction and parenting where a third person enters the equation.

But there is at least one solution that may seem to work. And it can prove to be a revolutionary solution that takes care of the ultimate love and belonging needs in the most natural way. When a couple enters a relationship, they should avoid traditional marriage and keep living under separate roofs instead. They should also be free to enter as many other romantic relationships as they feel like, again without sharing roofs.

This takes care of all three sexual tendencies present in the Homo sapiens psyche, namely monogamy, serial monogamy and polygamy. Whenever one feels like meeting the other, one should take an appointment. Such a distance between the two doesn’t let the relationship go stale and dull. Passion and romance are kept intact for a long time to come. This applies to lovers with all three tendencies…monogamist, serial monogamist and polygamist.

Once the woman has conceived, the child’s responsibility should be legally assigned to her along with its biological father lifelong. The custody of the child should always remain with the mother as she is the more natural parent between the two. In such a scenario, the child would get accustomed to stay with the mother alone since the very beginning.

No divorces would ever be there as they are irrelevant in the absence of marriage. Nor would there be any trauma to the child from the separation of their parents ever. Also, the child would be guaranteed to get the care and finances from both parents until they start earning on their own.

It is a win-win situation for all three in the family living under two different roofs!

This is the system that marriage may get replaced with in a society that has already taken its Skeletal Leap.

It is just a proposal. Many more such proposals may come from a variety of skeletally transformed Homo sapiens. Like the fittest survived during the early phases of evolution, so would the best proposal be adopted in action in the present scenario.

Love and Belonging Needs – Sport

Can we be intelligent enough to design sport in a more aesthetic way today?

How will Skeletal Leap deal with this issue?

We have fragmented sportsman spirit in two ugly fragments, namely win and lose. The two teams or else two or more individuals compete with one another trying to perform better than the opponents.

That is a fragmenting competition aimed at showing the other down. The right competition should be there with your own self.

How can a team or individual player compete with themselves?

It is very simple.

We just need to change the criteria of winning or losing to a self-competitive paradigm.

Every team or  individual player may enter the venue of the match with a statistical record of their past performances. This record may underline the level of their past performances till date.

While the match is on, each team or individual could focus on improving their past record while performing against the other. This is in complete contrast with concentrating on defeating the opponent. There is a difference between focus and concentration. Focus happens on the entire undivided whole whereas concentration happens only partially and only on the fragmented parts of the whole. Improving one’s own performance amounts to dealing with the entire undivided whole. On the other hand, just defeating the opponent amounts to dealing with one of its fragmented parts against the other.

Brute winning and losing shouldn’t be as important as an overall improvement in the quality of the match.

Which team or which individual contributed more in improving the overall quality of the event? It can easily be calculated through the improvement in each one’s performance against the opponent. This improvement can be calculated through comparing present performance with its past performance statistics vis-a-vis the same opponents.

This way, it is even possible for a team or an individual scoring less on the scoreboard getting declared as winner.

Makes sense! Doesn’t it?

That is how Skeletal Leap pioneers might deal with this issue in a holistic manner establishing sportsman spirit back in the sports.

Again, it is just one of the proposals among thousands more of them coming from the most creative sports designers. We just need to stay open to all such new proposals for further evolution of sports as an important activity coloring the human life.

Let the best one win whosoever it comes from!

Love and Belonging Needs – World Government

We have been victims to the worst of all the social institutions - the politics-business nexus. We had created it to live life in a more meaningful way but it stealthily cheated us. Countries and nationalities have reduced our status from being humans to being mere nationals of this state or that.

The pioneers of Skeletal Leap would most probably seek a world government that would end all countries and eliminate the very idea of nationalities. Such a world government could break all boundaries and dissolve all borders on the face of the planet. For too long now, these borders have been making our beautiful world look ugly from within as well as from a distance!

And the best thing is that in the present day scenario of already having developed a global consciousness, we, the Homo sapiens, CAN do it.

An Improbable (Almost Impossible) Utopia:

What if Israel and Palestine decide to break their borders and unite as one single nation one day? I know it is not very probable but it is not theoretically impossible either.

Just for the sake of argument, let us assume that it happens some day. Today’s Israelis and Palestinians will keep living where they are. In fact, they will start living a much better life than they are living now.

The definitions of patriotism and sedition will change for them overnight.

The best that will happen is they will stop hating each other. That is since the two of them will be each other’s ‘countrymen’ now.

Extending Utopia A Step Further

We can extend the same argument to all the other lands under conflict. We can further expand our national borders from one corner of the world to the other.

Patriotism and sedition as concepts as well as moral or immoral values will become history. They will be left with no role to play in the new world order.

We will be able to love all of humanity without any condition defining and describing one’s nationality.

What Stephen Hawking Had to Say:

I must quote what Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, had to say before his death. It was in the context of nationalities especially at a crucial point of time in human history. It was when newly surging right wing politics had started spreading almost all over the world. It had already strengthened the sentiments of narrow nationalism and the subsequent chunks of patriotism:

Stephen Hawking, physicist of the left — particularly because of his insistence there is no God but rather a Mother Nature that’s gone haywire from human-induced climate change — has just released his brainiac solution to so-called Mankind’s Biggest Threat, technology, and it can be summed in this simple, easy-to-remember phrase: “World government.”

Courtesy: Washington Times 9th March, 2017

Skeletal Leap always aims at dissolving all kinds of fragmentation whether in the mind or else in the world. It looks at Gaia, a concept in which the earth is a female living organism as one single whole which should never be divided in any further parts. There is no place for any divisive concept like patriotism in its worldview.

Pioneers of Skeletal Leap would consider themselves to be world citizens and humanity as their nationality. It recognizes and then discards all other notions of nationality as faulty constructs of the mind. That was what Jiddu Krishnamurti who was an enlightened soul always did too, declaring himself a world-citizen.

Esteem Needs – Ethical Insight Vs Value Systems

What will the pioneers of Skeletal Leap do with their value system?

Let us peep inside a few glimpses of how new value systems could heal themselves in a society energized by Skeletal Leap at this evolutionary juncture of time, today. These are only the suggestive samples that a skeletally transformed society could tentatively lead to, not the final blueprints.

It is simple. They won’t need any defined value system to guide them. When our brain thinks independent of any interference from the mind, it follows aesthetically dynamic and innately ethical actions automatically. Empathy and compassion guide our actions in such a scenario.

On the other hand, all those established values play a very aggressive role in suppressing our natural flow of energy. Aggression is a male characteristic that turned a natural matriarchal system into an artificial patriarchy with the help of an imposed value system. Something that we are still paying a heavy price for as modern human society!

Cognitive Needs – Education

Clubs of Knowledge

We need to change the academic regimentation in our schools and replace it with something more interesting. And that may, for example, be an interesting array of activities assimilated and distilled by the insightful masters of the connected disciplines. And that array of activities might demonstrate their discipline in action. It could also tell stories of the developments achieved by the great masters in the discipline. It might even be the history of that particular discipline.

It will tend to turn schools into clubs of knowledge.

Replacing Schools with Clubs of Knowledge

It is a well-known fact that the naive minds don’t assimilate abstract knowledge. They have an innate tendency to get attracted to real activities and the stories behind them. Not the fabricated ones that are being practiced in most schools today!

These clubs of knowledge can easily attract and, more importantly, hold the attention of these naive minds. It only happens if they are left free to move around any area of activity going on in such proposed clubs.

Soon these naive minds show an inclination to frequent a specific activity more than the rest.

That is when the insightful masters should catch hold of them and move further from that point onward.

Academics Takes A Secondary But More Effective Role

Now they have a real natural motivation to learn the abstract tools of knowledge aka academics.

They would otherwise have despised them earlier when they hadn’t really known why they were learning them.

They will automatically learn to use these required abstract tools later if they have a clear idea why they are learning them in the first place, i.e., to solve a real problem springing up while they are on to some task in the said discipline.

A Win-Win Situation

The crux of the solution is that if we really want to nurture talent, we should discover it first. It is best done in the very beginning of primary education, designing it around the disciplines of their talents.

They will love their clubs of knowledge way more than their current schools and humanity will enjoy the benefits from their contributions to these disciplines.

This will be one of the most creative roles Skeletal Leap plays in the sociocultural evolution of humanity by changing schools into clubs of knowledge.

Aesthetic Needs

A new consciousness courtesy Skeletal Leap would automatically pervade through all aesthetically creative pursuits including poetry, drama, cinema, fiction and other forms providing great classics. We might not need making any conscious efforts to actuate this state of affairs in the world of aesthetics.

Self-Actualization Needs

Again, Skeletal Leap in itself is the mother of all self-actualization skills. And the best thing is that it does not require ambition to activate it. We just need to take a leap into it out of curiosity and the said leap takes care of all the rest!

Personal Heaven Leading to Collective Heaven

Miracles do happen.

We just need to take their cognizance and analyze their patterns.

It takes a lot of sensitivity to take their cognizance. And it takes a lot of experimentation to analyze the patterns they follow.

I had always been quite sensitive to take cognizance of biological processes and of their consequent sociocultural effects in groups.

I would also analyze their patterns in their minutest details along with their consequent effects on the subjects’ health and personalities.

If it improves their health conclusively, it is bound to change their personalities in the right direction.

It is a change in an individual personality that initiates the process of a sociocultural change in a society. And when a sufficient number of individual personality changes has taken place, the process of consequent sociocultural change gathers momentum.

There is always a condition that these personality changes must be profound enough to do the needful. They should also be aligned with one another to effect the consequent sociocultural changes in a single, desired direction.

How can that individual personality change be initiated? And how can it be ensured that such a change is profound?

The answer to both in the context of the present podcast is: Skeletal Leap.

An individual Skeletal Leap transforms an individual life into one’s own personal heaven.

A collective Skeletal Leap has the potential to transform the entire world into a collective heaven worth living in.

I think our species, at this evolutionary juncture of time, is the apt custodian of life on the sole ‘living planet’ in the entire known universe.

Are we ready to gift a better life to ourselves today and bequeath a better world to our loved ones for tomorrow? A life devoid of disease, stress, despair and unfulfilled emotions! And a world devoid of barbed wires, turmoil, confusion, competition, conspiracies, scarcity and, most significantly, a world devoid of a lurking threat of climatic apocalypse!

It has the potential to lead us to a life replete with health, energy, joy, passion and fulfillment! And a world replete with freedom, peace, insight, collaboration, opportunities, abundance and a safe future for all species of life on earth!

Let’s first take our personal Skeletal Leap to create our personal heaven now.

Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, 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 - Introduction

In 33rd episode of Skeletal Leap, I challenge the conventional wisdom surrounding education, self-improvement, and organized religion. I raise an intriguing question: is it merely coincidental that some of our most innovative talents emerge from the ranks of college dropouts?

This episode explains the systemic flaws of our education system, which often prioritizes rote learning and social status over genuine cognitive development and curiosity.

The episode begins by exploring how humanity has inadvertently surrendered its cognitive abilities to a collective autonomous mind. Instead of fostering a culture of exploration and insight, our education system has evolved into a factory-like model, producing graduates who are more like mechanical cogs than critical thinkers.

I emphasize that this regimentation not only stifles curiosity but also suppresses the innate talents that every child possesses.

As the conversation unfolds, I highlight the detrimental impact of ambition in the self-improvement industry, where the pursuit of perfection often overshadows the joy of the learning process. I argue that this shift in focus has led to a generation of individuals who pay lip service to the idea of excellence while chasing unattainable perfection.

The discussion also touches upon organized religion, which I critique for fragmenting the very essence of transcendence it aims to promote. I point out that the rise of multiple religions has often resulted in conflict rather than unity, demonstrating how moral fragmentation can lead to societal discord.

I encourage you to reflect on these themes and consider how our socio-cultural systems might evolve to better nurture human potential.

I conclude with a thought-provoking proposition: as we begin to open our biological chakras, the outdated institutions that no longer serve us may naturally dissolve, paving the way for a more enlightened society.

If you’re ready to challenge your perspectives and explore the intersections of education, self-improvement, and spirituality, tune into this compelling episode of Skeletal Leap. It’s time to embark on a journey toward a collective heaven on Earth.

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.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• (00:00:01) - Education System

• (00:11:51) - What is Religion

• (00:15:04) - Questions of Science vs Religion

• (00:22:57) - Ideas of Religions

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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs - Transcript

“Is it just random that the best talent humanity is benefiting from comes mostly from the echelons of college dropouts?”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode 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.

Our education system falls under sociocultural solar plexus chakra that aims to fulfill cognitive needs by renewing the brain continuously and energizing it cyclically. However, the currency it uses is ‘social status’ such as qualifications and specializations that fall in the domain of the mind rather than brain, thus closing the sociocultural solar plexus chakra. Qualifications and specializations turned more important than fulfilling cognitive needs in an insightful manner.

Thus, the noble pursuit of educating the new generation with insight turned into regimented knowledge replicators. Today, it has reduced itself to transforming new generations into efficient mechanical cogs in the ever-rotating wheel of unending production. It all happened using the currency of ‘social status’. This directly led to the social disease of elitism that looks down upon the masses and is akin to closing our sociocultural solar plexus chakra.

Sociocultural Systems for Cognitive Needs: Education System

Homo sapiens had always had the onus of educating their young ones to the level of knowledge that the former generation had reached up to

With Homo sapiens as opposed to with any other species, it has always been necessary to do so.

And with the passage of time through their evolution, our species has been experimenting with various ways to do it most effectively ever since our brain size started enhancing.

As far as we have reached up to this point of time, the education system has become one of the most important social institutions in modern human life.

I always had my reservations about the education system that we were being subjected to. It had dawned upon me as soon as I first set foot inside a school more than 60 years ago. The way this system works is like a machine churning out manufactured goods on an assembly line. The only difference is that it manufactures graduates in various disciplines of learning.

The onus of educating the new generation is on the shoulders of the immediately older one. That is how the new generation starts its journey of growing and developing knowledge. And that is how knowledge grows further from the point that the older generation has brought it to.

Education System for Junior Classes

The knowledge that humanity has gathered and developed up to this point of time is vast. It is so vast that no single individual can ingest it all in its totality. We can, at best, have a bird’s eye view of its entire repertoire and call it our general knowledge. That is what we are taught up to our high school or higher secondary classes.

General knowledge doesn’t make us a master in any of its disciplines.

And, unless we master a discipline in its entirety, we can neither practice it properly nor develop it further.

Education System for Senior Classes

So, after our high school or higher secondary education, we need to choose any one of these endless number of disciplines to specialize in. Then, we need to study it as wide and as deep as we can or wish to.

Ability to wisely choose what we effectively can and wish to study in detail depends on our aptitude. It doesn’t merely depend on what we studied in our junior classes but on how we studied them.

And this is where our education system fails us miserably. It doesn’t nurture talent well. It rather suppresses it to a detrimental level.

Pitfalls in Our Primary Education

The moment we are made to start our education, we are subjected to a complicated array of academic regimentation. We are taught mechanically without any real insight into the subject on the part of the teacher. They teach academics to the naive minds that have naturally been designed to exploring what their elders have in store for them.

Unfortunately, we are discouraged to explore. We are rather expected to conform to the authority by simply practicing the tools of knowledge. These tools are like written symbols of spoken language and mechanically taught procedures of mathematical operations.

In addition, we are expected to learn uninteresting academic details of scientific and social achievements of mankind. We do it to the satisfaction of the examining authorities who assess us. They grade us based on how much of this nonsense we were able to vomit out in tests.

Curiosity Gets Killed

We start hating academics and try to avoid it as much as we can. Our curiosity gets killed in this mechanical process of learning. As curiosity gets killed, we cannot discover our talents. They rather get suppressed deep inside us never to show up again.

Every single child who takes birth on earth brings at least one talent that s/he can develop to master. But that is only in case s/he is able to discover it in the very first place. The best talent we are born with is our aptitude for a specific discipline of knowledge.

Humanity Loses An Opportunity

We are rarely able to discover our talents and therefore don’t pursue them in the later years of our education. We rather pursue another discipline for some other reason. We will never excel in it as much as we would if we had discovered and pursued our inborn talent.

As it happens, humanity loses another great opportunity to benefit from another great talent. It is tragic that it loses a talent in a discipline that never got discovered and was lost in the oblivion.

Is it just random that the best talent humanity is benefiting from comes mostly from the echelons of college dropouts?

Sociocultural Systems for Self-Actualization Needs: Self-Improvement Industry

Soft skill development falls under sociocultural third eye chakra which strives to lead to self actualization in the society. The currency it uses is ‘ambition’. Ambitions spring out of the mind alone. Our brains want us to pledge and commit but our ambitious minds come in the way.

When ‘ambition’ became more important than fulfilling self-actualization needs, it defeated the whole purpose of self-actualization which is to let passion and joy flourish within us. Achieving goals became more important than the joy of the process that could take one there.

It is no wonder, then, that ends started justifying the means, thereby rendering the sociocultural third-eye chakra firmly shut. The self-improvement industry was born right out of this chakra.

Self-actualization needs were originally meant to be fulfilled via soft skill development as a personal concern of an individual. It enabled passion and joy to flourish, driven by curiosity to extend and expand hard skills learnt in the education system. Such passion and joy has the power to drive one toward achieving excellence in their self-actualization pursuits. However, slowly and gradually, the currency, namely ‘ambition’, itself became more important than passion and joy.

This gave rise to an entirely new industry that we now know as the ‘self-improvement’ industry which commercialized self-actualization. Consequently, excellence got replaced by perfection. Self-actualization needs got usurped by the currency of ambition. Excellence is a perennial process that never stops, it is rather a way of life. On the other hand, perfection is an end in itself which has no further prospects to improve.

This ended up closing the sociocultural third eye chakra generating an army of ambitious humans paying lip-service to idea of excellence while chasing perfection all along.

Sociocultural Systems for Transcendence Needs: Organized Religion

Organized religion falls under sociocultural crown chakra looking forward to transcendence in society. The currency it uses for the purpose is ‘faith’

Unfortunately, this currency has corrupted the genuine need for transcendence resulting in multiple religions, almost all of them at daggers drawn between them. The highly revered rituals of ‘faith’ became more important than the ultimate needs of transcendence that they were meant to serve as a currency.

Religion started with the expression of awe for natural order and a recognition of the growth needs of transcendence in society. But it soon fragmented itself into organized religions which ultimately devolved into contending systems of belief, blind faith and fanatic moralistic reverence.

Religion as an entity started with an expression of awe over the miraculous events happening around a recently evolved brain. But as early Homo sapiens could not find any rationale for the same, they took an easy way out. They constituted a new element of faith in the supernatural which all religions share with one another till date.

During both the hunting-gathering and, later, the agricultural eras, the following traits¹ of religiosity prevailed:

Animism | Belief in an afterlife | Shamanism | Ancestor worship | High gods who created human life | High gods who are active in human affairs

Animism amounts to attributing intent and lifelike qualities to inanimate objects. This might have caused a belief in supernatural aspects of unexplained natural facts seen around.

The seed of animism could easily spill over to a belief in an afterlife, shamanism and ancestral worship. Later when hunter-gatherer communities turned into agricultural communities, social hierarchies started coming into existence.

Thus, the egalitarian pattern of the hunting-gathering era gave way to a paradigm of ‘rulers versus the ruled’. High gods must have been in tune with the newly emerging experiences.

Consequently, a belief in high gods having created humans and then actively controlling their affairs might have been formed. As a result, the king started getting considered to be a representative of these high gods in controlling his subjects’ lives.

Today two-third² of human population identifies with one religion or another. But the geographical distribution of this percentage is in a state of flux presently and in future projections.

For example, at present China is going through a phase of religious revival. Protestant Christianity is growing at an annual rate of 10% there. It has already crossed the 100 million mark. It is projected that it will become the world’s largest Christian population by the year 2030.

In contrast, the number of believers is sharply going down in Western Europe. In Scotland, 59% of its population has gone non-religious openly, with 66% being women and 55% men.

This might be a result of people’s exposure to a scientific outlook and a rational world view in developed countries. Science and religion have always gone along two opposite tangents. Both claim to establish the truth but there is a huge difference in their approaches.

While science is only one single body all over the world, there are more than 1000 religions, many of them making claims contradictory to one another. Also, science has always proved what it says is true either logically or statistically whereas religion hasn’t been able to prove even one of its own claims.

The Story of My First Interview for My First Job after Graduation

I remember an amusing story from my life when I had just secured my graduation in electronics engineering. I applied for a government job in Defense Research Development Organization as a scientific officer in one of its laboratories. After a few days, I received an interview call from Union Public Service Commission. I headed to its venue to face the interview on the scheduled date.

As I reached the venue of the interview, I saw hundreds of candidates waiting to be interviewed for the same post. It was only one single vacancy and there were so many candidates vying for it, it being a premium position. Seeing such a huge crowd, I immediately made up my mind for psychologically getting ready to be rejected.

Mathematically speaking, I had only 0.5% chance of getting selected. And the interview board had to complete all the interviews in one single day. Hence everyone was being given around 2.5 minutes to prove their worth for the post.

After a long wait, came my turn. I entered the interview hall. There was a board of four interviewers headed by the chairman sitting on the other side of a huge table. I greeted them and the chairman offered me a seat on the lone chair kept in front of their table. I was ready to answer any questions they would ask me for the next 2.5 minutes.

My application form was lying in front of the chairman who  looked perplexed as he pored over it. I waited quietly to meet his first question with the best technically correct answer I could muster.

After a long eerie silence, came the chairman’s first question in the form of a blame. He really attacked me, saying, “What have you written here in your form under the “religion” column? You have written “N.A.”. What do you mean by that?”

I was amused. I said, “Sir, N.A. means not applicable.”

He got offended, “Well, I know what N.A. means. What I am asking is how it’s possible that it’s not applicable.”

I coolly said, “It’s because I don’t have any.”

“Any what?” he was getting impatient as well as irritated with me.

“Religion! I don’t have any religion.”

“But how’s that possible?” he wasn’t able to believe what I was saying.

“It’s possible, sir. You can see one in front of you sitting here,” I smiled.

“Don’t your parents have a religion?” came the next question from him. The other three members were absolutely quiet.

“They do,” I said.

“Then by default you have inherited it from them,” he tried to make me understand.

“I don’t think religion is an inheritable entity. One needs to develop one’s own faith to follow a certain religion,” I said.

He further got more perplexed, “And do you say you haven’t developed your faith yet?”

“Yes, I couldn’t,” I said, “and I don’t think we should develop any faith ever.”

He wasn’t able to believe what I was saying. He almost shrieked, “What are you talking? Are you a negative personality?”

I didn’t lose my cool, “No sir, I am an agnostic personality.”

“Do you mean atheist?” the inflection in his voice suggested scorn.

I still kept my cool, “I am an agnostic.”

“What does that mean?” looked like he wasn’t much familiar with the deep meaning of this particular word.

I tried to tell him the differences between, theism, atheism and agnosticism. But he didn’t look convinced.

We kept discussing on this same topic for 15 long minutes when, suddenly, he realized he was under pressure of time. He immediately said, “Let’s have the technical interview now.”

He wasn’t looking very pleased with the direction that our discussion had taken exposing his intolerance. Under the influence of his value system, he might have pre-assessed my technical knowledge to be pathetic. Hence, to show me down, he might have thought of mocking me. He asked me the easiest question on the topic at hand to check if I knew at least that much or not.

“Can you even draw an adder circuit?” he was smiling conspiringly.

“No sir, I don’t remember it right at the moment,” I said.

His smile went wider, “You don’t even know how to draw an adder circuit?” his tone oozed with condescension.

“No sir, I do know how but not off-hand because I don’t keep my mind burdened with information alone,” I explained.

“What’ll you do if you need to draw it during your work?” he challenged me once again.

“I will deduce it then and there,” I offered the immediate solution.

“And how much time will you take deducing it?” he was trying to show that it wasn’t a feasible solution.

“Say, 20 seconds,” I threw his challenge back to him.

“Here is your paper and here is your pen. Your time starts now!” he started looking at his watch as he said this.

I was on my job without losing any time. And when I gave back my paper in just 15 seconds with deduction and drawing, he could not believe his eyes.

“Did you really deduce it right now or are you just trying to impress us?” he asked, doubting my intentions.

“I don’t think I need to impress you, sir,” by this time I had become fed up of his senile behavior.

“Okay, that’s it. You can go now,” he said in a curt voice.

As I was going back, I heard him saying in a sorry tone, “God bless you!”

It was as if he was seeking His pardon on my behalf. While walking out of the interview hall, I checked the time and realized that I had been in there for full 18 minutes.

And none of the other three members of the interview board had asked me a single question during all that time.

I gave up all hopes of getting selected and started applying elsewhere. But, to my utter astonishment, one day I received a letter informing me that I had been selected. I could not believe that such an antagonistic interview would ever end up in my selection for such a coveted position.

Anyway, I joined the job and discovered that the chairman of that interview panel was a deputy director in the laboratory and its second in-charge. He didn’t look happy to see me there and never talked to me cordially.

By the way, there was another deputy director in the laboratory who was third in-charge of it. He somehow took a liking for me. He would often call me to his office after lunch to have a cup of coffee or tea together. Though I was way younger and even way junior to him yet for some reason, he became fond of our informal chats.

One day, while we were chatting, he suddenly asked me, “Do you know how you were selected for your job?”

“No!” I said, “Even I was surprised when I got the selection letter. There were hundreds of candidates in the interview, many of them being quite experienced as well. I really wonder how it happened.”

“You scored the highest points in the board members’ assessment!” he smiled.

“But the chairman had sounded quite annoyed with me in the interview,” I put forth my point of doubt.

“That’s why he gave you a score of zero out of a maximum of fifty that he could give,” I saw a smirk on his face

“Then?” I was really confused now, “ How was it possible for me to get selected in that case?”

“You got the highest 150 marks out of 200. And it was because the other three members scored you at the maximum of fifty each.”

And he burst into a loud laughter as did I along with him.

This experience had shown me the level of orthodoxy that believers in religion could go up to!

Religious minds are driven by morality that is based on differentiating between ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Empty minds are driven by curiosity and creativity leading to a beautiful life that is filled with passion and joy.

To add to this, unluckily religion didn’t go along sociocultural evolution as a common, homogenous entity, unlike business and education. It may have been so in the very beginning of this process of splitting the mind into fragments that eventually ended up at odds with one another. It was initiated by the generation of a moral fragment in the mind.

But then this moral fragmentation went a step further by fragmenting the fragments as religion slowly changed from a homogenous single entity to several diverse religions. Religions comprised multiple entities as sub-fragments of multiple-morals within a broad moral fragment. Christian morals were different from Muslim morals as both of them were further different from Hindu morals and so on.

Morals always assume a dominating tendency within the mind unlike instincts. They are aggressive simply because they want to spread their message even at the cost of suppressing and repressing instincts.

But with the multiplicity of sub-fragmented morals, the fragmented and then indoctrinated mind sides with one of them and decides to suppress the rest. The Christian sub-fragment tries to suppress the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and other morals, for example. And this suppression then moves outward from the mind to the outside physical world. That is what culminates into all kinds of religious wars and conflicts on the planet from time to time.

And ironically, it doesn’t even stop there. There are further sub-sub-fragments that get generated within sub-fragments as well. Shia-Sunni, Protestants-Catholics, Kshatriya-Shudra et cetera are examples of such sub-sub-fragments. These follow the same pattern of trying to uphold the ones that the mind sides with and suppress the rest in the outside world. It further gives rise to newer intra-religious wars and conflicts in the world, like in Ireland or the Iran-Iraq wars.

All along our sociocultural evolution, our minds have gotten more and more complex. A complex mind gives birth to the perception of a similarly complex world. The result has been all kinds of religious wars and communal conflicts killing innumerable people on the planet.

It is only Homo sapiens who kill the members of their own species in such an organized way!

Don’t we need to stop this nonsense now?

What will happen to all these compromised sociocultural systems and/ or institutions in a society which starts moving toward filling the holes of Homo sapiens bipedal evolution? 

It is my contention that the said sociocultural systems/ institutions will dissolve automatically in much the same way as opening the biological chakras ends up dissolving them in individual biological systems.

How would this dissolution come into manifestation?

Let us now peep inside for a few glimpses of how new social systems could heal themselves in a society energized by Skeletal Leap.

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References

1. Saroglou, Vassilis (2002). “Religion and the five-factors of personality: A meta-analytic review”. Personality and Individual Differences. 32: 15–25. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00233-6

2. Gallup Poll. (2015, June 8). Losing our religion? Two thirds of people still claim to be religious. Gallup International. https://www.gallup-international.bg/en/33531/losing-our-religion-two-thirds-of-people-still-claim-to-be-religious/

Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs: Introduction

In 32nd episode of Skeletal Leap, I embark on a profound exploration of moral values and their origins. I pose a thought-provoking question: Why did humanity feel the need to create moral values if they were not inherently part of our psychobiological structure?

This episode explores the intricate relationship between our instinctual drives and the moral codes that govern our lives. From the outset, I highlight how moral values were established as a means to navigate the complexities of human existence.

These values, often perceived as necessary for social order, were born out of fear. It was the fear of our instinctual drives that, when left unchecked, could lead to chaos.

As humanity transitioned into a more structured society, particularly under a plutocratic male-dominated system, the need for moral guidelines became apparent. However, these guidelines also served to suppress individual spirit and autonomy, particularly in the context of charitable organizations.

One of the most striking revelations in this episode is the idea that while we are born with instinctual drives—such as the need for interaction, love, and adventure—we are not born with moral values. These values must be taught and indoctrinated, often leading to confusion and internal conflict as individuals navigate their desires against societal expectations.

I argue that this suppression has resulted in a spiritual scarcity, where material abundance does not equate to emotional or spiritual fulfillment. The episode also critiques the role of charitable organizations, which, while appearing altruistic, can perpetuate the very systems of oppression they claim to combat. By placing charity on a pedestal, society may overlook the deeper issues of inequality and moral corruption that these organizations can embody.

I emphasize that the true essence of human interaction should be rooted in love and connection, not in the rigid structures of moral obligation. You are encouraged to reflect on your own understanding of moral values and how these have been shaped by cultural and societal influences. As we navigate through our lives, it is essential to recognize the distinction between our natural instincts and the moral codes imposed upon us.

The episode concludes with a promise of further exploration in upcoming episodes, including discussions on the corruption within the education system and organized religion.

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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs: Transcript

“Why did humanity feel the need to create moral values at all if they were not naturally built in our psychobiological structure?”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Esteem Needs!”, I 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.

Value Systems

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.

Moral Values & Instinctual Drives:

We are born with a set of instinctual drives which are inherent in our psychobiological structure. We don’t have to go anywhere in order to learn about them. On the other hand we are not born with any set of moral values in our psychobiological structure. Hence, they are not inherent to the human being and need to be taught anew to every new child born

Is there any relationship between the two?

Certainly yes! But before investigating into this relationship, we need to ask another more important question.

Why did humanity feel the need to create moral values at all if they were not naturally built in our psychobiological structure?

Moral values became necessary because a few of those purely instinctual drives scared humans who then perceived them as threats. This happened when humans set out to create a new social order for the first time in our distant past.

Which social order were they scheming to establish?

It was a plutocratic (the rule or power of wealth) male dominated social system, operating from an already closed sociocultural root chakra, that these moral values were plotting to uphold. And the plutocrats could simply go ahead and push these so-called values using their wealth. They could apply that wealth to either bribe or starve their subjects to buy their opinion.

Wealth in the form of personal ownership of resources had very recently made its entry into human life. The ones who were either strong or cunning or both, for that matter, were able to amass these resources more than the rest, like we discussed in Episode 30.

And why were these initiators predominantly males?

It was so because males were stronger (even if not more cunning) than females. Also they had more time at their disposal to accumulate more wealth than their female counterparts. It was simply because females lost time in delivering and rearing up their kids.

The kids decidedly belonged to their mothers and not fathers since no one could establish fatherhood beyond doubt. And as they grew, they would support their mothers in the pursuit of amassing wealth. In a way, it could be seen as the wealth regained that their mothers had lost access to while delivering and rearing them up.

So, males needed a way to know, beyond doubt, who the father of any given kid was. With their sociocultural throat chakras closed, the males felt ignored as compared to the females, thus hurting their esteem. But this would only be possible if the females agreed to it as well. For this, they needed to stop following their instinctual drive to have sex with any males of their choice at any time.

Why would they agree?

Powerful males in those early societies designed a new faculty of thought which would uphold newly envisioned ‘moral values’ as essentially opposite alternatives to certain instinctual drives predominantly including sex. They did so because, by this time, their collective sociocultural throat chakras were already closed.

They were supported by so-called supernatural practitioners who enjoyed a high status among ignorantly naive early human dwellings. These supernatural practitioners, initially looking forward to transcendence, had already fallen prey to its currency named ‘faith’, thus closing the sociocultural crown chakra of the society. More on that in Episode 33.

The first of such newly established moral values declared sex as the basic sin to be avoided as much as possible. But since curbing such a powerful instinct en masse wasn’t feasible practically, a new rule was framed that one female having sex with multiple males was ‘immoral’. If she did, she would be severely punished by another new entity created by the supernatural practitioners, named ‘God’.

An Unfortunate Consequence:

In order for this rule to look unbiased between genders, it was framed as such for both of them.

But as an unfortunate consequence, it was never implemented for males as strictly as it was done for females. This was because human biology went against females. Any female engaging in stealthy sex would sooner or later conceive children and be caught for her transgressions. On the other hand, males could easily evade detection of their own transgressions without any telltale signs.

Monogamy – Marriage Comes Into Existence:

To put an official stamp on this rule, a new social institution named marriage was designed. It limited the choice of sex partners to just one over an entire lifetime as against many for as much time as desired. In some societies a male could marry several females simultaneously. But females were rarely, if at all, provided this luxury!

Monogamy, initiated under the domination of morals effecting sociocultural throat chakra, changed its shape to a new social institution, namely marriage. Marriage, designed under the domination of the currency we are calling ‘personal ownership of resources’ further extended adherence to monogamy, thereby effecting the sociocultural root chakra.

This enhanced adherence ensured that the males could be surer about being the biological fathers of their spouse’s children. It turned them all into a close-knit family, another sociocultural institution that came into existence.

Hence, before they died, the males could hand over their personal ownership of resources to their children without any doubt, like their mothers had always done. Thus marriage, further strengthening sociocultural root chakra, facilitated males to weave a close-knit safety network in their immediate familial vicinity, too.

Human Mind

Now, a new moral science was envisaged comprising a set of morals.

These were the morals that humans ought to follow even if they were directly against the calls of their own instinctual drives.

Eventually, all such social morals that were implemented went against those allegedly dangerous natural instinctual drives in one way or the other.

We as humans are born with instinctual drives alone in our mind-body system. We don’t have any sort of human emotions or morals in our mind that we start our life with.

Later, in our journey from childhood to adulthood, we learn the history of human development. We learn it in each and every subject and store it in the knowledge base of our mind. Then, as we grow, we add to that knowledge base from our own personal experiences to enhance it further.

This is what the ideal development of human mind is supposed to be like. It is a set of instinctual drives along with a knowledge base of human achievements in various subjects.

However, in practice, that is not all that our mind is subjected to during the formative years of our development. It is also indoctrinated with a value system which is not limited to morals alone. Consequently, it tries to turn them into our aesthetic values as well.

Presently, our culture very eagerly nails down several moral values onto our minds.

Sex As A Necessary Evil

We are taught by our religious culture that sex is a necessary evil. This is done at a stage in our lives when we have not even experienced it as a fully developed instinctual drive in our mind-body system. Our minds get conditioned against sex even before our body grows to incorporate it into our system. And the time it does, our conditioning starts making us feel guilty about it.

Truthfulness

We are taught that truth is a desirable parameter of integrity even when we don’t know what a lie is. Hence, the very inception of truth as a desirable moral value sows the seeds of learning how to tell lies.

Prior to sociocultural evolution, our instinctual drives may not have felt a need to tell a lie. But we may not have said we were speaking the truth either. We may have simply said we were speaking. We may not have needed either of the two concepts. Plainly speaking about what we saw and what we did may have been enough.

But the same social system that established monogamy and plutocracy realized it was suppressing extremely strong instinctual drives. It also realized people WOULD tend to satiate these drives stealthily and then claim they did not.

So, a new concept of truth was envisaged as opposite to a more basic concept of a lie. If a lie were never needed, there wouldn’t have been any need for a concept of truth to exist too. But lies entered the domain of human action owing to the establishment of a cunningly unjustified as well as an unhealthy society.

Hence, truth was designed as a moral value to stop people from lying. People, however, lied innocently only to satiate their instinctual drives and hide it from those in authority.

That is why speaking the truth should be brought down from its high pedestal. We need to peel off the facade of reverence that our moral values have assigned to it.

Honesty

Same is the story of honesty. The very inception of honesty as a desirable moral value sows the seeds of learning how to be dishonest.

Prior to sociocultural evolution, there may not have been anything like dishonesty in our instinctual drives that we needed to act on.

But the newly established and unjustified social system feared that people could plot secret schemes to rebel against its inherent suppression. The said moral termed any such possibility as dishonesty and coined a desirable behavior named honesty as its antithesis.

It is interesting to note that most so-called anti-moral values are named to be the antithesis of moral values; dishonesty vs honesty, for example. But in fact, conceptually speaking, these were morals that were actually conceived as the antitheses of the so-called anti-moral acts.

Sense of Duty

Sense of duty is a set of actions we ought to do whether we feel like doing them or not. Why do we need a stipulation like this if we already feel like doing those? And why do we need the ones being stipulated if our mind does not feel like doing those?

Our culture seems to have decided the validity of ‘duty’ even if it goes against the natural composition of the human mind. What good can we expect to come out of those dutiful actions if they don’t have the energy of our natural willfulness behind them? They will simply get reduced to a level of being artificially performed as forced rituals. We will undertake and then perform them only to keep away the guilt of not having done them at all.

Prior to sociocultural evolution, we may have lived with our instinctual drives guiding our actions and behavior. And we may not have needed a concept like a sense of duty. We may have simply acted out what our spontaneous feeling guided us to do.

It is plausible that any such spontaneous feeling may primarily have been of concern and sympathy for one another. So we may not have needed a sense of duty in order to act in the most desirable way.

But with the suppression of our instinctual drives, we wouldn’t feel such concern and sympathy for those who have themselves also suppressed those same drives.

Once again, as yet another anti-thesis to instinctual drives, the sense of duty was formulated as one more moral value. Morals were supposed to be upheld under any circumstances. Otherwise, the sin that we committed would not let us live without a feeling of guilt.

Respect

We are taught to respect our elders and seniors. We are not taught to respect our juniors. Why this one-sided approach to something that our culture considers such an important value? Therefore, respect as a value immediately strikes us as feudal in its very inception.

The human mind is not designed to respect. It is designed to interact. It is designed to share. And it is designed to love. Respect is a very formal concept that requires a distance between the two individuals involved. The respected one stands on a higher pedestal than the one who respects.

The more we respect like we do our fathers, especially in the developing countries, the less we love them. That is because respect necessitates kind of separation. And the more we love like we do our mothers, the less we need to respect them. That is because love eliminates any such separation.

It is still customary in the Eastern societies (and used to be in all societies until a few centuries ago) for fathers to act like an authoritarian judge in the family court passing sentences on kids that are generally corporal. Mothers can, at best, play the role of kids’ advocates pleading mercy for their ‘crimes’.

Same, till very recently, had been true in case of teachers in schools as well. Teachers have been preoccupied with enforcing respect as a means to extracting their desired behavior from students. This has created an authoritative chasm between the teacher and the student, thereby eliminating any possibility of a healthy kinship.

Such kinship may have resulted in the desired behaviors more organically in the first place. Laws have been made in some of these countries prohibiting teachers assigning corporal punishments to the students though they are often broken.

Obedience

Obedience, as a value, is a sub-set of respect. As a younger person, we are not supposed to question or raise doubts against the orders of our elders. This again is a very feudal value.

Here again, in the Eastern countries, kids are supposed to be more obedient to their fathers than to their mothers who they can argue with at times, though in the absence of their fathers.

Similarly they are culturally supposed to be obedient to their teachers as well. As a result, they seldom question their teachers even if they have genuine queries in their minds. Questioning teachers is not culturally encouraged as learning is supposed to be a one way communication from the teacher to the student. The students are supposed to learn by rote what instructions their teachers have passed on to them.

The human mind is not naturally designed for feudalism. And if we force it to conform, we are simply suppressing the instinctual drives we are naturally born with.

Good Manners

Good manners are all protocols in their essence. We are supposed to behave a certain way in a certain scenario. And we do so whether we are feeling like behaving that way or not.

The more we follow these dictats, the less authentic we become.

We must say, “Very pleased to see you,” on meeting someone even if we are not so. Aren’t we telling a lie which violates another moral value named truthfulness?

Faith

If we have faith, we don’t question. But our minds are wired to question. And faith as a moral value tries its best to suppress curiosity that we are born with as an instinct. Unfortunately, it doesn’t limit itself to being a moral value alone, it also plays its role as a currency for transcendence needs. As the currency becomes more important than fulfilling the genuine need as such, the sociocultural crown chakra falls prey and gets closed as well. We are going to look into it in Episode 33.

Loyalty

We have already talked about loyalty clouding real love and belonging needs as their currency through a closed sociocultural heart chakra in Episode 31. But it goes a step further from there as it assumes the status of ‘morals’ as well, closing sociocultural throat chakra along.

Loyalty is a highly respected moral value which supposes us to be committed. It is a commitment to a certain person, institution or an idea. In addition, loyalty is uniquely characterized by its blind and unconditional support for the same.

Our minds, however, are not so indiscriminate in their natural structure.

Loyalty simply stands against our judicious sense of discernment between one action and another.

Now, we can go into further details of each one of these values. We can easily show that they all stand against instinctual drives either overtly or else in a covert way.

Instinctual Drives

Eating | Drinking | Excreting | Curiosity | Movement | Play | Adventure | Interaction | Love | Grouping | Sex | Reproduction | Parenting

The moral values are nailed very hard and deep into the structure of the mind and away from the structure of the brain. They play their role very well in suppressing the energy of our death instincts and keep it so.

But, like water, energy can never be kept suppressed for long. And like water finds new channels for its flow, energy also invents new channels for its expression.

Human Emotions

The channels that the energy of these suppressed instinctual drives invents for its expression are named human emotions. Of these, the main ones are:

Desire | Greed | Hope | Happiness | Surprise | Anger | Envy | Jealousy | Disappointment | Guilt | Sadness | Fear | Anxiety | Depression

These human emotions are channelled to express the energy of the blocked instinctual drives. But they are never as innocent and as straightforward as the instinctual drives themselves are. They are rather the distorted forms of expressing the suppressed energy. And they do so in bursts rather than a smooth flow, unlike instincts.

Will vs. Will Power

Human emotions generate a new faculty of will in the structure of our mind. Will is nothing but an urge to compensate for the loss of sensitivity, joy and creativity suffered by instinctual drives.

Moral faculty is very much able to see through the real purpose behind the generation of this new faculty. And in its attempt to keep it suppressed as it was before its inception, it comes up with a newer faculty that we call will power.

Contrary to what we believe it to be, will power, in reality, is the power acting against the execution of will, not for it. Will power is armed with the appeal of being morally judicious to work against the execution of will. It does so by projecting will as irresponsible even if it cannot brand it as immoral.

Will is not a very healthy faculty in our mind but will power is even less so! Will, comprising both positive and negative human emotions, creates sharp edges in our personality. It is because will expresses energy in hot aggressive bursts and not in a cool smooth flow like instinctual drives do.

And as far as will power is concerned, its sole purpose is to block the flow of life energy. It doesn’t bother if this energy belongs to instinctual drives or to human emotions.

How Established Value Systems Resulted In Charitable Organizations

We saw how moral value systems always worked to suppress and even repress the passion and joy of the free instinctual drives of sex, curiosity, adventure and interaction.

They turned life mechanical and the masses into cogs of the incessant wheel of consumerist production. Consequently, despite the abundant material progress that humanity made, the individual cogs of the wheel always felt a sense of spiritual scarcity. The fruits of this abundant growth were never distributed liberally. Hence the masses always felt material scarcity as well.

As cogs of the wheel, the individuals also seriously limited their potential for insight. Insight could have turned humanity into a real abundant society for all and not for only a chosen few sitting at the helm of those wheels of production. However, we took the less valuable path of mere innovation, arising from a sharp mind as opposed to a truly intelligent brain. Thus, moral value systems ruined it once again.

The more materially abundant humanity grew, the more impoverished its individuals felt.

Moral value systems worked very well to keep its individuals alive enough to keep working as those cogs in its giant wheel of perennial growth. It very cunningly created charitable organizations, putting charity at a high pedestal as a liberal moral value.

Do you see the pattern yet? When esteem needs got corrupted by the currency of morality, we ended up, yet again, with an institutional manifestation of another sociocultural chakra, this time the throat chakra.

Charitable organizations gradually gained credence to such a degree that, today, a significant portion of the population is surviving on the government charity in some parts of the developing world today.

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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs: Introduction

In 31st episode of Skeletal Leap, I take you on a profound journey exploring the corruption rampant in the sociocultural institutions of marriage, organized sports, and nation states.

I begin by addressing the spiritual essence of love, emphasizing that it is not merely an emotion but a deep-seated sensation experienced through energy flow during interactions.

This fundamental understanding of love sets the stage for a critical examination of the institutions that shape our social fabric.

I further argue that the institution of marriage is teetering on the brink of extinction, with divorce rates soaring and families suffering the consequences.

I highlight that the traditional values of love and belonging have been overshadowed by the currencies of identity and loyalty, leading to a fragmented society.

This fragmentation not only affects personal relationships but also extends to organized sports, which have transformed from a celebration of skill and camaraderie into a battlefield of egos, where winning takes precedence over enjoyment.

The discussion continues further into the concept of patriotism, questioning its true meaning and the motives behind it.

I point out that patriotism, often glorified as love for one’s motherland, can lead to an adversarial mindset that fosters hatred toward others.

By examining historical examples, I illustrate how loyalty to political interests can distort our understanding of love for our homeland, suggesting that true love should extend beyond borders.

Throughout the episode, I invite you to reflect on your own relationships and societal structures, urging you to consider how your interactions are shaped by these broader socio-cultural forces.

I also emphasize the importance of deep, meaningful connections, asserting that true love can only flourish in an environment of openness and sensitivity.

As the episode concludes, I leave you with thought-provoking questions about the future of marriage, the role of fatherhood, and the necessity of compassion in our interactions.

I encourage you all including myself to engage in deeper conversations about love and belonging, reminding us that our understanding of these concepts is crucial for fostering a healthier society.

Tune in to this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap and explore the profound connections between love, identity, and the institutions that govern our lives.

Don’t miss the opportunity to gain insight into the human experience and the complexities that define our love and belonging needs today.

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• (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?

• (00:22:06) - Why is Patriotism celebrated in India?

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“Love is actually sensed through a flow of energy in the body while interacting. That is what makes one spiritually healthy as well.”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode 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. It also promoted the “othering” and hatred against the so-called enemy societies. It never had a compassionate concern for the undivided humanity despite the numerous slogans it raised along the way. This gave rise to disparate ideologies that often ended up in arms against one another. That was what happened during the Cold War that lasted almost half a century.

Result – sociocultural heart chakra shut!

Marriage

In the wake of the present human awareness, the institution of marriage seems to be moving toward disintegration. Divorces are at an all-time high creating a traumatic hell for the children whose lives are irreparably disrupted as and when a marriage breaks down.

It is too late to go back to the old community pattern of hunter-gatherers where fatherhood was inclusive. The reason is that, today, a father can very easily know who his offshoot is with a simple DNA test. Even an offshoot can do it later in life. All this can lead to many kinds of complexities in relationship patterns.

Let’s investigate Maslow’s deficiency need for love and belonging a little deeper. If we objectively look at it, neither psychology nor literature has yet been able to provide an authentic definition of the phenomenon called love. And the hard fact is that love occupies the most central stage in the human psyche as a drive. All our literature including poetry, drama, cinema and fiction thrives on love the most. Even religion vouches by it.

At times, philosophers did try to define the phenomenon, but there has not been any consensus among them yet. Humanity still understands love only in an intuitive sense. But this intuitive sense about love is the strongest among all other mental phenomena whether emotional, instinctual or moral. I think majority of humanity would vouch for it. And at least in the modern society, people marry only when they have fallen in love with someone.

So, how do we define love? It certainly has something to do with a sense of belonging. But that does not take us any closer to an objective definition of love. At best, it simply acts as a synonym.

Is love an emotion?

No. Love cannot be an emotion. Emotions have their abode in mind alone, not in the mind-body system as an organic part of it. Love is actually a mind-body state.

Is love a moral value?

Not even that! Morals are all foreign concepts nailed into mind alone while we grow up. They, too, are not there in the mind-body system as an organic part of it.

Is love an instinct?

Exactly! We are born with it in our body even when our mind has not yet started developing. The newborn immediately starts feeling a sense of belonging to their mother. Later in life, we sense it via interacting with anyone or anything through our senses. The deeper the interaction, the stronger is the sensation of love!

Thus love is a sensation. The more we have it through our interactions in-depth, the more it makes us sensitive. The deeper we sense, the stronger we love. This deep sensitivity enables us to feel the other inside out.

Why don’t we feel this sensation, then, while interacting with others all day, everyday?

Simply because we lose our sensitivity considerably as we grow up in an unhealthy environment. Here comes the debilitating role of the heart chakra sticking the chest ‘in’ instead of protruding it ‘out’ via abducting shoulder joints posturing them away from the torso as the first nature of the body.

They rather drop down via adducting shoulder joints posturing them stuck to the torso as an unhealthy habit. This unhealthy habit is responsible for closing heart chakra as it generates a defensive muscular armor (by habitually keeping the muscles named pectoralis major and pectoralis minor rigidly contracted) seriously limiting the openness of chest and arms ready to embrace anyone and everyone around.

It mentally results in keeping our ‘self’ protected from an imaginary threat of an attack on it. On the other hand, the openness of chest and arms ready to embrace anyone and everyone around plays a key role in dissolving one’s ‘self’ with an open heart chakra in combination with rest of the 6 chakras opened. This results in feeling the sensation of love while interacting with others through the day everyday. A healthy mind-body system is an acutely sensitive system. The more it is sensitive physically as well as mentally, the deeper it interacts and the more it loves.

Love is actually sensed through a flow of energy in the body while interacting. That is what makes one spiritually healthy as well.

And when a healthy mind-body system interacts in-depth with another mind-body system of opposite gender in adulthood, the two interacting personalities not only sense love but may also feel like making love between the two of them. That is how two personalities may get attracted to and fall in love with each other.

How do sociocultural systems for love and belonging needs get affected when their currencies, namely ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, become more important than the real need itself? They close the sociocultural heart chakra of our society en bulk. It is just like ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ work in closing the biological heart chakra via keeping our ‘self’ protected from an imaginary threat of an attack on it. These two limiting currencies become the central theme of the need for love and belonging. Once it happens, these currencies make boundaries around the ‘self’. This keeps people isolated and alienated from other people around them in the name of an imaginary safety and security to keep their ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ intact.

How much do we interact with our neighbors in the modern apartment buildings we live in these days? And how readily do we unconditionally interact with people across the boundaries of our ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, be those the boundaries of nationality, religion, caste, class, faith, belief-system, ideology, gender, possessive attachment, emotional attachment, moral attachment, generation, and orthodox political affiliation?

These are the tags of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ that keep us away from loving people through unconditionally interacting with them in-depth.

True love never happens without deep interaction. Also, love never happens without an acute sensitivity to feel the other while interacting.

No doubt, then, that in the wake of the present human awareness, the institution of marriage seems to be moving toward disintegration. Divorces are at an all-time high creating a traumatic hell for the children whose lives are irreparably disrupted as and when a marriage breaks down.

How important is a father for a child? And how important is fatherhood for a sensitive father in today’s life?

If we look at it from this angle, traditional marriage seems to be the best solution. Even a divorce has no place in it since it traumatizes children’s life irreparably.

But divorces cannot be stopped from taking place. In fact, they are well on their way to becoming the rule rather than exception.

Even if divorces didn’t exist, marriages turn from fond to dull relationships between spouses within no time. When this happens, sex turns from a romantic and passionate affair into a mechanical rut sooner than later.

It is a catch-22 situation.

Organized Sport

Sports Vs Sportsman Spirit:

Sports and sportsman spirit have come to be in conflict with each other in today’s society. It is simply owing to the way sports have been designed and organized all over the world.

Why do we play sport?

I think a rational answer should be ‘to enjoy skilled physical activity’.

We enjoy the sporting skill that is required in order to make strong and specific moves demanded by any given sport. We also enjoy corresponding moves by opponent players or teams. This makes it an awe-inspiring scene not only for the players but for the spectators as well.

Win Or Lose:

It would be good enough if it were celebrated like a festival to inspire awe in the players and spectators. But their designers went a step ahead and tagged the same moves and counter-moves with victory and defeat. This introduced the element of ego in their fabric.

Who wants to get defeated? No one!

Who wants to win? Everyone!

Thus, winning turned out to be the prime motto of playing sport. The beauty of the skilled moves got pushed to the margin. The result became more important than the enjoyment springing out of the aesthetic of the awe-inspiring moves themselves.

We humans have a very crude habit of quantizing quality which tends to kill its subtleness.

Being an instinct, love as a need for belonging is always a subtle one. But when it gets replaced with its currencies named ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, we start assessing it in these terms. Our intention behind this is always to strengthen our own limited ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’. Assessment is only possible between quantities or numbers that we start assigning to this quality.

No wonder, then, that we invent ways to assign those quantities to the quality displayed in a sporting event ending up with victory for one and defeat for another. It is again a very clear case of our sociocultural system of sport getting afflicted with a closed sociocultural heart chakra. Combined with the rest of other closed sociocultural chakras, it ultimately ends up getting afflicted with practices like match-fixing, betting, violence in sports and many more ills.

Brute Force to Win:

Then brute force becomes the rule of the game.

Let’s ask the same question again…

Why do we play sport?

This time the answer is going to be ‘in order to win’!

Where is the existence of sportsman spirit lost?

It is only left in the sloganeering aimed at glamorizing sports for the very thing they are no longer about!

Can you see how the motive to play changed diametrically opposite to the spirit of the sports this time?

And this is what inspires us to play sports in the present day scenario to win them at any cost.

Sports have been designed on the model of war.

Nation State

Patriotism

Patriotism is a highly revered value all over the world. It means love for one’s motherland.

Ironically the word patriotism has originated from the Greek word patēr, which means father. Yet, it has been used to express the love for a land that has been associated not with father but with mother.

Logically, it should have been ‘matriotism’ if it was to express our love for our motherland.

It simply shows our male gender bias. ‘Father’ crept in even in the formulation of a word that is touted as the embodiment of something related to ‘mother’.

But it is not simply a slip of gender that crept into the naming of something wrong. It is much more than that.

The Male-oriented Mindset:

The two mindsets were different…

The mindset that formulated the concept of patriotism.

The mindset that perceived the land of one’s birth as the land belonging to one’s mother.

Our So-called Motherlands:

Our political bosses condition us to be adversarial in nature. They make our soldiers kill and get killed without knowing the real reasons why.

They brainwash us into believing that they are doing so to defend their motherland from ‘our’ enemies, simply because they love it. The same is expected from soldiers as far as their emotional and moral obligations go.

How do we define our motherland?

It may be the village I was born in or the city or the district or the state or else the country! Why can’t it be the planet we were born on?

It all depends on how narrow or wide our field of vision and extent of sensitivity are.

Why are our sensitivities limited to a political expanse of land and its people? Why not beyond it as well?

An Example from Nazi Germany:

By that token, if a German spoke against Hitler in the late 1930s or early 1940s, s/he would be tagged as a traitor or a seditionist.

But there were many Germans who did exactly that. Today, they are not at all tagged as traitors, only because Hitler lost the war. Had Hitler come out victorious in World War II (WWII), they would certainly have been dragged out on the streets and hanged publicly.

Did these Germans not love their land then? Did they not love their country while Hitler ruled?

They certainly did! But they were simply not patriots in the narrow sense of its meaning. That aggressive patriotism would have asked for their loyalty to any official stand their country took against the world.

Power Rules The World:

So were they villains?

As said earlier, they would certainly have been tagged as villains if Hitler had been victorious in WWII.

Were they traitors or seditionists?

Again, they would certainly have been tagged as traitors and seditionists if Hitler had been victorious.

So, patriotism has to do nothing with the love for one’s motherland.

It simply deals with the loyalty to the interests of those who control one’s motherland. It is irrelevant how unjustified or immoral those interests may be.

It all depends on who is ruling one’s motherland at present.

The interests are not in favor of the motherland but of those who are ruling it at any given point in time.

Sedition means conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

A Political Conspiracy:

Isn’t it simply because our political bosses have an unwritten, secret conspiracy hatched between themselves? A conspiracy that propagandizes the love for one’s so-called motherland as one of the most sacred forms of love on earth?

Doesn’t this fanatic love for one’s so-called motherland automatically create a fertile ground for hatred toward other lands and their peoples? Especially whenever they get conveniently tagged as enemy lands by the respective political bosses of these chunks of land as and when it suits their narrative?

Rules Are Made by Rulers, Not by Ethics:

Patriotism and sedition are concepts that are defined and held up only by the rulers of the land. They have their vested interests in people being patriots and never seditionists.

Patriotism can very easily and effectively be exploited to sow the seeds of hatred for the people of other lands. It especially applies to the rulers of those lands that are in conflict with the interests of rulers of their own land. All these rules are defined and decided by the rulers of the land.

Why should an Israeli hate a Palestinian or vice versa if the two countries are at war with each other?

But man, the concept of patriotism does make them do so!

Another Example from An Epic:

In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the character of Vibhishana has been portrayed as fleeing his motherland. He requests Rama, a staunch enemy at war with his country, to give him shelter. He even reveals the most classified secrets of his own country to Rama in return.

But no one including the author ever criticizes him for what he has been portrayed as doing.

Why? Isn’t his character, the way it is portrayed, that of a seditionist or a traitor?

Vibhishana’s character is not looked down upon for what he did. It is simply because the epic was written by the author who sided with the character of Rama, the eventual victor in the story!

History is definitely written by the victors. As it turns out, so also is mythology!

Patriotism as a concept originated not out of love for our land. It rather came out of our loyalty to the interests of those who controlled our land, come what may.

It happens through falling prey to the narratives that are generated using ambiguous words and phrases acting as emotional slogans addressing the fallible psyche of the common masses. These narratives hold their superficial interests high on a pedestal arising from the already unfortunate cognitive assessment of their love and belonging needs. In the process, their mere currencies, namely ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, take over. Another case of sociocultural heart chakra getting closed!

Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about corruption in charitable organizations.

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Introduction:

In a world increasingly driven by the pursuit of wealth and resources, this 30th episode of Skeletal Leap poses critical questions about our societal structures and their impact on our lives.

I invite you to engage in a thought experiment inspired by the great Albert Einstein, challenging our perceptions of needs versus wants.

The episode deals with the concept of the socio-cultural root chakra, which I argue has been corrupted by the relentless pursuit of personal ownership and material wealth

I highlight the alarming reality that 80% of the world’s wealth is controlled by just 20% of the population, raising concerns about the ethical implications of such inequality.

I suggest that our collective focus on money and ownership has led to a fragmented society, where genuine physiological and safety needs are often overlooked.

Throughout the discussion, I draw parallels between various societal institutions, including the military industrial complex, big pharma, and the politics-business nexus.

I argue that these entities prioritize profit over people, perpetuating a cycle of corruption that hinders true progress and well-being.

The episode emphasizes the importance of holistic healing and the need to address root causes rather than merely treating symptoms, a concept that resonates deeply in today’s fast-paced, outcome-driven world.

You are encouraged to reflect on your own lives and consider whether you are living as slaves to your minds, driven by fear and greed, or if you can embrace a more aesthetic approach to existence.

I conclude by asserting that true freedom comes from within, urging you to empty your mind and reconnect with your innate sense of purpose and passion.

This episode is not just a critique of modern society; it’s a call to action for you to reclaim your lives from the grips of corruption and rediscover what it means to live authentically.

Join me on this enlightening journey and explore the profound implications of our socio-cultural structures.

Tune in to Skeletal Leap and take the first step toward a more liberated existence.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• (00:00:01) - What is the Corruption in our Social Systems?

• (00:09:39) - Living A Comfortable Life

• (00:14:13) - Power of Business-Politics Nexus

• (00:18:37) - Socio-cultural Root Chakra

• (00:20:31) - What makes us prone to falling in the trap of an unhealthy life?

• (00:25:03) - Health of Modern People vs Holistic Healing

• (00:31:47) - Healthcare and the Military

• (00:42:05) - Art and Entertainment: Aesthetic Needs

• (00:44:14) - Skeletal Leap: Corruption in Marriage

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Transcript:

“Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein). Think of yourself as an idealist for a moment.”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode 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.

As explained above, the root of the problem lies in faulty cognition of reality whereby societal wants function as proxies for social needs.

Personal ownership of resources became more important than the physiological or aesthetic needs it fulfilled. Thus, money, as a means to personal ownership of resources, became a currency for the exchange of the goods and services that fulfilled these needs. Sociocultural institutions belonging to the sociocultural root chakra include the most sought after core of society at present. Physiological needs comprise the biological component of human survival guaranteeing homeostasis to the human body.

These are provided by the social systems such as industrial complexes for jobs and financial complexes to enable and manage transactions using ‘personal ownership’ of resources as its main currency.

However, this currency turned into a source of widespread corruption.

Pursuit of Genuine Physiological Needs Instead of Its Corrupted Currency, Personal Ownership of Resources (Money)

Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein). Think of yourself as an idealist for a moment.

What if you tell me that I will get whatever I need whenever I need as much I need unconditionally?

Imagine what would my reaction be.

If I am fearful, controlled by my mind, I could easily turn greedy. I may say, “Just change the word need with the word want and I am okay.”

Needs are physical phenomena whereas wants are psychological in their basic etymology.

What decides what I need and what decides what I want?

Aren’t these two entities the calls given by the brain and the mind respectively?

Back to the thought experiment…had I not been corrupted by my mind, I would have been the happiest man on earth to have been offered this proposal by you! I would have immediately accepted your proposal and asked you what I need to do for that.

However, let’s continue with the version of me that IS being driven by fear.

You say, “Throw the yoke of all your possessions off your shoulders and just be a free man.”

I may not believe you for a moment and retort, “Why? Do YOU want to take away all my possessions?”

“I don’t need to…,” you smile. “I don’t need to want,” you repeat.

“Won’t you like ruling the world? Don’t you want that?” I sound stupid to my own self as I ask.

“Why would I?” you give a carefree look, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!”

“But what would I do if I get what I need without doing anything for getting it?” I am intrigued.

“Decide it for yourself if you really feel like doing something,” you are still smiling.

“It would turn me crazy,” I retort.

“That you already are,” you show me the mirror, “A slave to your mind!”

“By the same token, aren’t you a slave to your brain too?” I challenge.

“My brain is my friend. Your mind is your boss. It keeps you scared with a threat of starving in case you don’t earn the right to live,” you sound cool.

“And your brain?” I ask again.

“It doesn’t think of future. It lets me do what I feel like doing right now,” you reveal.

“YOU do what you feel like doing. What would I do, I don’t know,” I nervously say.

“Enable me to enable my guarantee that I just gave you!” you start laughing.

I get taken aback for a moment. Then I start laughing along.

That ends our thought experiment. It tells us idealism is not as impossible as it is presented to be.

The entire question swings between two different approaches to life, ‘to have’ or ‘to be’.

Do we have a gene within us that would answer this question? If it says the fittest survives, doesn’t our thought experiment hint toward that possibility even when threatened by human-induced climate change?

Cavemen never felt they ever required any private property.

If it were in our genes, we would have started going along that track right then and there. If we did it later, something new must have conspired to do so.

I hypothesize, it was simply our mind gone greedy, trying to save itself from starving to death in future.

We had evolved to grow our own food on the fertile land.

But we hadn’t evolved to own the land primarily and go on expanding its perimeter to the last days of our lives.

Doing so through putting the yoke of all its stressful burdens on our shoulders took its toll on our health. No other species in the entire animal world ever does that. And if we got a brain, did we get it for wasting it on such petty concerns?

We certainly went wrong somewhere when we shifted from hunting-gathering to agriculture and personal ownership of resources. We thought it would give us freedom but what it gave us was slavery and disease alone. The more personal resource ownership we amassed, the more it impoverished us in other ways.

Have we ever thought how much energy we waste just in the petty pursuit of staying alive and comfortable? In fact, to secure our comfortable living in the future, we ‘want’ to amass resources that are many times more than we would ever really need. Doesn’t this amount to stealing from others who could have used those resources to live a comfortable life? But unluckily 80% of the human wealth lies under the control of 20% of the human population. The rest 80% live a life of have nots. And majority of these 20% people has acquired the 80% of the human wealth through unethical if not illegal means.

Here are two quotes of this Pareto’s principle of 20-80 distribution…

“Pareto’s observation was in connection with population and wealth. Pareto noticed that approximately 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20% of the population. He then carried out surveys on a variety of other countries and found to his surprise that a similar distribution applied.”

Courtesy Wikipedia 2022

“A chart that gave the effect a very visible and comprehensible form, the so-called “champagne glass” effect, was contained in the 1992 United Nations Development Program Report, which showed that distribution of global income is very uneven, with the richest 20% of the world’s population receiving 82.7% of the world’s income.”

Courtesy Wikipedia 2022

If we don’t have sufficient ownership of resources in order to live a comfortable life, we will keep dreaming of it all the time. If we have way more resources than needed, it keeps us too busy not to lose them and, therefore, to grow them further.

Why?

It is because nothing is sufficient for human greed which is driven by the human fear of losing everything one has. In both cases, we are not living a life full of freedom. We are doomed to remain slaves to the same wicked design that we ourselves created as our sociocultural structure.

It not only robs us personally of our joy of living a free life but also socially of the countless geniuses hidden in broad daylight amidst us. This is because they never become free to exhibit their talents while they are busy dreaming of and toiling for the ownership of a bigger chunk of resources.

Slaves never enjoy. They don’t enjoy because they are not free. Slave holders never enjoy either. They don’t enjoy because they are busy keeping slaves as slaves forever. Hence their slaves don’t let them be free.

They become the slaves of their slaves. I still remember a couplet that I had read in my early childhood:

Leave your birthplace

And roam around the world,

Refusing either to be a slave

Or a slave holder.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you are asking as you read this, “Who decides what is comfortable?”. Well, it is my contention that ‘Skeletally Leapt” humans, operating primarily from their brains, would answer that question organically and would arrive at similar, if not the same, answers as a society.

Therefore, we don’t really need to take any direct corrective action in order to resolve this dilemma. We just need to empty our mind via Skeletal Leap to regain our health. And leave it to our brain to take the right spontaneous decisions.

What constitutes a comfortable life would be as obvious to them the same way that existence of matter is self-evident to science and that of life is self-evident to each one of us.

Sociocultural Root Chakra: Industrial Complex

The first 6000 years after the transition from the mode of hunting-gathering to that of agriculture and cattle-rearing resulted in two strong social institutions: business and the state. Business was in the rudimentary form of loosely organized crafts, trades and services while the state gradually evolved into aggressive empires that constantly fought with one another and extended their control over further chunks of lands and populations.

Everything remained in flux for a very long period of around the next 6,000 years. Empires kept changing hands by new power centers forcing businesses to keep changing their currencies.

Much later, after the Industrial Revolution in Europe took place in the eighteenth century, businesses were able to revolutionize their speed of production. Their sizes started getting bigger and bigger needing bigger markets for their products and more raw materials for their production.

This started an era of certain European nations colonizing far-flung countries in Asia, Africa and South America mainly for the resources that lay untapped therein. The ones that missed the bus then tried to compensate later by waging the two World Wars that they eventually lost. Still, these two wars left the imperial powers’ control on their colonies severely depleted. They were forced to move out, limiting them back to their own homelands.

Since the world came out of the trend of nations attacking others to extend their boundaries and control, political control has given way to business control all over the world. The power of big business has assumed the size of financial empires, bestowing them with real powers to manipulate governments.

Business morphed into a profit generating machine more than a responsible facilitator of comforts and innovations. Politics-business nexus began centralizing unprecedented powers to control almost every single aspect of people’s lives.

As of today, business as an entity has started controlling every single aspect of our life on earth.

Sociocultural Root Chakra: Politics-Business Nexus

Power got concentrated in the hands of the cunning and the corrupt. And they took extra care to ensure that it never slipped off their hands.

All the instruments of the state that existed in the name of serving the masses actually started being co-opted by secret agenda. These agenda took care that the cunning and the corrupt were able to maintain their control over people’s lives and prosperity.

Countries were never a part of the package that we received as we evolved into a thinking species on earth.

What was offered to us was an unnamed vast expanse of land to live and move around on.

This nexus between the state and the business threatens the very welfare of humanity.

Business, as an entity, has grown so powerful that it can even make or break political structures anywhere. Both of them have their respective vested interests which generally don’t align with the genuine interests of the very populace that they each claim to ‘serve’.

Human-induced climate change is a direct outcome of this misalignment.

• During the COP26¹, the yearly UN climate summit held in Glasgow in 2021, the well-known climate activist Greta Thunberg² protested in Glasgow, saying COP26 wasn’t leading us anywhere. Only pledges and commitments aren’t going to stop temperature from rising beyond 1.5C. We do need to implement them under a strict regimen holding all parties accountable to their commitments.

• COP27 was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 6 November until 20 November 2022. Its credibility was dealt a serious blow by the absence of big powers, Russia and China.

• COP28, held from 30 November to 13 December 2023 at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates received widespread criticism as it lacked a clear-cut time-based commitment to either fossil fuel phase-out or phase-down. China and India did not even sign the pledge to triple their output of renewable energy by the year 2030 and committed to coal power instead.

• COP29 held from 11 November to 22 November 2024 in Baku, Ajerbaijan couldn’t break any new ground too, limiting itself to lip service alone.

Who will ensure that the targets of these summits are met before it is too late?

Unluckily, here again, the national ambitions of the politics-business nexus are coming in the way of its success. The point of no return is very close and, when it arrives, it will be no less than Nero playing the fiddle while Rome was burning!

This, though, is only half the story of the sociocultural root chakra.

The other half of the sociocultural root chakra got closed by the corruption of our safety needs through the ‘currency’ we know as ‘public welfare’. Safety needs comprise healthcare along with security. These are provided by healthcare facilities, judiciary for providing justice, army and warfare for defense and governments for making policies.

Sociocultural Root Chakra: Big Pharma & Health Insurance

Healthcare has, of course, helped the masses in a great way but only to manage ailing conditions, not curing them permanently. It definitely did its bit in surgical interventions excellently but then fell short of energizing society cyclically.

As far as judicial systems are concerned, they do their job only up to the point where the political system at the helm of power doesn’t get challenged.

After that point is reached, politics-judiciary nexus immediately gets created by those in political power at the moment in a covert dictatorial way. We have seen it happening in more than one countries in the recent past.

Similarly, public welfare got diminished by sloganeering that takes center stage rather than fulfilling safety needs in reality. Armies have always remained an instrument of offense rather than genuine defense for safety. Warfare has been a way of life along the passage of history.

What essentially is it that makes us prone to falling in the trap of an unhealthy life?

An Unhealthy Fragmented Mind:

As already described in Episode 26 in detail, a fragmented mind is an unhealthy mind.

Okay, but what exactly do we mean by the fragmentation of mind?

Well, fragmentation simply means divided in two or more parts rather than being one single entity as a whole.

When it comes to an undivided mind, it means a mind focused at one single thing at one given time. It happens when the mind is emptied of all its motivations and left alone with its passion.

From Interest to Involvement to Focus:

When the mind is focused at one single thing like this, it works at its best. All its energies get aligned, producing a laser-like effect in order to deal with the concern in question.

Such focus comes with absolute involvement in the process that the mind is busy with.

But generally, the mind lacks that level of involvement in almost anything it lays its hands on.

Why?

Simply because it is not REALLY interested in it!

It is interested in what it is going to get out of it.

Herein lies the biggest lacuna of human health, i.e., the way humanity lives an unhealthy life.

Passion Vs Motivation:

We do an action not because that action is our passion. We rather do it based on the motivation for what it is going to reward us with.

We act out of motivation, not out of passion.

If motivation is the driving force behind our mental action, it has already fragmented our mind. Mind is doing one thing in the present and thinking about another in the future or the past, for that matter.

It is not really involved in the action, simply because it is not really interested in the action.

Motivation Is A Mirage:

It is interested in something other than acting in the present. It is rather the action of dreaming about the future when it hopefully will have rewarded us with its outcome.

Motivation and passion don’t ever go hand in hand with each other.

Motivation comes from outside. It is needed only when we are not passionate about what we are doing from within.

In that sense, we can think of punishment as its opposite. If we are not passionate, we are shown a carrot to do a thing to the best of our efficiency. If that fails, a rod as punishment is the next option that is applied.

If we are passionate from within, we neither need a carrot as motivation nor a rod as punishment.

The greed for a carrot or the fear of a rod can only make cosmetic enhancements in efficiency. Neither can ever match the efficiency that comes from passion for the action at hand. This is simply because the reward-punishment approach doesn’t enjoy the process, it is rather preoccupied with outcome alone.

But humanity performs almost all its actions out of motivation for the outcome, not out of passion for the action.

The results are always much less than optimal.

It further fragments our mind, looking for an even stronger motivation the next time. Our petty vision keeps us limited but still satisfied in just doing the job a little better each time.

But it is never going to happen!

We may come up with various acceptable outcomes that our society has become accustomed to. But we will never be able to come up with an optimally excellent outcome generating an exhilarating experience in life.

Mind Affecting Body:

This was all about the dynamics of an unhealthy mind in action.

What about its effects on the body? The body is responsible for healthy physiological processes, after all.

Well, it turns out that an unhealthy mind makes the body unhealthy too.

When two opposite driving forces pull the mind in two opposite directions, the body mirrors the same.

This results largely due to the nerves carrying two or more opposing signals from the brain. These conflicting signals confound the muscles to move in two or more opposite directions.

In such a situation, it becomes physically impossible for the muscles to follow such opposing signals from the brain.

Fragmentation Generates Stress:

An unhealthy fragmented mind makes the brain go haywire.

When the muscles are not able to follow the conflicting signals from the brain, what do they do?

They just get set in a state of limbo, which turns them rigid.

Rigidified involuntary muscles inside the body as well as the voluntary ones outside it turn the body rigid.

This rigidity manifests itself in the body’s internal physiological processes as well as its external actions.

This is how mental stress, which is nothing but a state of fragmented mind, turns into physical stress. It debilitates the body and renders it prone to all kinds of lifestyle diseases.

Holistic Healing Vs Modern Pharmaceutical Medicine:

Holistic healing is a philosophical approach to healing. It stands 180 degree opposite to the approach of modern pharmaceutical medicine. This is as far as taking care of human health is concerned.

Pharmaceutical medicine, also known as ‘Big Pharma’, is a big business with its size being over one trillion U.S. dollars per year. It is very natural that business will do its best never to let its grip loosen on such a large market. Especially when an alternative approach such as holistic healing starts growing roots in the mindset of the masses.

I would like to point out here that it is not a mere coincidence that, whenever a social institution such as pharmaceutical medicine attempts to fulfill a real safety need (health, in this case), the already corrupted institution of business takes over. It is much the same way that an individual human body in which the root chakra is closed is prone to the higher chakras getting closed as well. No wonder then, that we are dealing with “too big to fail” monsters such as politics-business nexus, politics-judiciary nexus, ‘big pharma’ and many other harmful nexuses that we will talk further about.

Scientific Validity:

The way big business thwarts an alternative approach to healing is by challenging its scientific validity. Its main assertion is that any such procedures need to undergo strict laboratory testing. Health authorities always look for convincing statistical data to establish the efficacy of any new approach to address human health.

But in doing so, the field of pharmaceutical medicine ignores the most basic philosophy of healing which is to do away with the root cause of any health problem. It is not sufficient to do away with the symptoms of the problem alone.

If the symptoms alone are done away with, the problem tends to relapse. Almost everyone has experienced this. That is, perhaps, why the modern medical approach calls their procedures ‘treatments’ and not ‘cures’.

Treatment Vs Cure:

Healing, on the other hand, concerns itself with curing an illness permanently as opposed to treating it temporarily by focusing on its symptoms alone.

Treating symptoms temporarily can be a much swifter process than curing the root cause permanently. This is the reason why modern pharmaceutical medicine has gained acceptance among the masses. In the age of fast food, people look for fast medicine as well. It doesn’t matter if it damages their health in the long run.

Treating Symptoms Alone Spoils Health:

How does treating only symptoms damage health in the long run?

It does so in two main ways:

• First, as the symptoms temporarily disappear, the patients psychologically feel that the problem has been eliminated. Hence they revert to their old lifestyles that had caused the problem in the very first place. As a result, the problem relapses after some time turning them weaker and weaker every time it does.

• Second, the symptoms cannot be naturally eliminated without addressing the causative factors. What pharmaceutical medicine actually does is that it suppresses the symptoms artificially by sending an army of antibodies from outside. It doesn’t strengthen the antibodies that the innate immune system generates within. The immune system is just not given enough time or chance to fight the illness with its own natural antibodies.

As a result, in the long run, it gets conditioned not to be able to generate these antibodies efficiently anymore. It leads to incrementally reduced immunity in the mind-body system after taking every course of modern pharmaceutical medicine.

Every new relapse of the same condition proves to be more serious than the former, complicating the treatment more complex each time.

Health deteriorates further!

Lifestyle Diseases:

Apart from normal acute diseases, there are more permanent lifestyle diseases too.

migraines | diabetes | hypothyroid | hyperthyroid | hypertension | heart conditions | acidity | constipation | obesity | liver cirrhosis | kidney failure | asthma | anxiety | depression | and many more.

Unfortunately, modern pharmaceutical medicine doesn’t have any permanent cure for them. It only has a few options to merely manage the above-listed conditions somehow.

Role of Money:

Significant resources are required in carrying out such monitored tests on sample sets of patients. ‘Big Pharma’ is the entity that funds this research and then has to make it all back by lobbying for, marketing and force-feeding medicines that only cure symptoms to a populace that, at best, gets habituated and, at worst, gets addicted to them. It is something like pop music and popular movies selling way more than classical ones or fast food more than nutritious diet.

Both time and resources go against holistic healing procedures. They aren’t effectively able to carry out monitored tests on large enough sample sizes of patients for a long enough time. Hence they are at a loss to show better statistical results in a scientifically convincing manner.

It is very much like the rich becoming richer even if inefficient, and the poor becoming poorer even if more virtuous.

Healthcare also brings in another big business as a huge commercial activity called health insurance. It benefits from people’s fear of falling ill or else dying prematurely, both of which have scary consequences to deal with. There is also a much costlier fear of losing what one has, including one’s business and costly belongings.

In a healthy society supported by strong pillars of closely-knit communities, such fears wouldn’t have rooted themselves deep enough. But since that is not what it is, an individual feels alienated, scared of being left alone in any such emergency. The only available option one finds to feel reasonably safe and secure is a legally binding insurance to take care in case any such casualty happens.

And ironically, the agency that provides this feeling of safety is one of the biggest businesses on earth. Although it does provide the feeling of a legal safety, the socio-psychological security network is awfully missing. On top of it, recurring payments for various kinds of insurance add up fast to a considerable sum to part with, every month.

The insurance companies have the last laugh with a heavy bank balance at their disposal. Even after the legal safety is purchased, the lonely individual mind never sits relaxed! It is always the mind that fears. Brain simply acts in a passionately focused manner if needed.

Sociocultural Root Chakra: Military-Industrial Complex

Army - A Social Institution Licensed to Kill:

Army is one of the most weird social institutions that Homo sapiens ever built on earth!

Is it possible for a sensitive soldier to kill an enemy soldier without feeling bad about it?

Killing a man is not like killing an animal. Had it been so, consuming human flesh could have been a norm like eating animal flesh is.

But we don’t eat our own species simply because we sense a common link among us. Even the thought of doing so invokes a strong revulsion not only in our mind but in our body too.

Won’t a real killing of a real man invoke a similar reaction in someone with a normal level of sensitivity?

It should! It ought to!

Sensitivity Vs Insensitivity:

If it doesn’t, it simply shows that the person concerned is not sensitive enough to feel bad about it.

But then, throughout the history of mankind there have been armies invading other armies to kill soldiers in wars.

Who are these people who do so and don’t ever feel a tinge about it?

One can only infer that the human mind can certainly be trained to become insensitive enough not to feel bad about killing other humans.

But is that a healthy state to achieve?

What implications will such insensitivity have on the mental health of the person concerned?

The real act of love depends on sensitivity in order for its subtleties to be felt! Will a killer ever be able to love another human being with all the soft and tender feelings?

Certainly not!

His/her act of love would also be something like an act of winning a war.

An Army Against Another Army:

That was from the perspective of an individual soldier who is trained to kill.

Let’s ponder upon it from a totally different perspective now.

How can the collective humanity justify raising armies aimed at killing other humans?

What turns certain armies enemy to one another?

Soldiers in the two enemy armies don’t even know one another, let alone being each other’s enemies!

The same enemies might have been the best of friends, had they met one another in different circumstances elsewhere in life.

Why all this enmity?

And who can guarantee it will continue like this in the future? On retirement, they may settle down in some foreign land and end up being next door neighbors. They may even turn out to be passionately fond of each other!

Anything is possible! We just investigated one such hypothetical situation.

Even if some lands are spared being tagged as adversaries by the political bosses, our sensitivities may never be with them. We may turn insensitive to the people residing in those lands.

We inherited this beautiful earth and we divided it into countries and nationalities making it look so ugly!

In today’s world, this enmity is further strengthened by mainly two kinds of narratives. The first one is the border disputes that generally afflict neighboring nations. The second narrative has to do with the ideological differences. Nations tend to resist worldviews that affect the kind of society they have designed for themselves, even if such resistance comes from thousands of miles away.

Any suspicious move by one is interpreted as a conspiracy on their behalf intending to devour the very existence of the other. In such a scenario, every nation is always in a constant state of paranoia.

Politicians very well know how to create narratives benefiting them in strengthening their control on the internal politics of their own states. They can easily turn them as a dangerous threat to their very existence as a nation. A sprawling wave of fear spreads all over in the minds of its inhabitants who, then, are ready to unconditionally support their rulers. The armies are alerted, recruiting more soldiers and purchasing new lethal arms for them. Everyone shuns their brains, panicking and acting emotionally in a haphazard manner. We have seen it happening all around the world for various political motives.

Fast Forward to The Present Day:

Let us fast forward to the present day scenario of the state.

The state changed its form in almost all countries and nationalities from feudal kingdoms to the so-called democratic republics. They should actually have been called plutocratic republics instead.

The dominance of resources in the present form of money still persists as far as formation of the governments in all countries and nationalities is concerned. It was only the form of the state that changed, not its essential character.

The cunning and the corrupt are still in power in every state of the world. Thanks to the power of money that gets them elected to represent millions of people under the mask of patriotism. This is now an irrefutable fact.

Aesthetic Needs

Arts and entertainment networks are social institutions that fall under sociocultural sacral chakra arising from the suppression/ repression of sexual gratification. The currencies it uses are ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’. The growth needs that these institutions aim to fulfill are aesthetic needs. However, these aesthetic needs got corrupted by the currency of ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’ into phenomena such as the ‘star system’ in the film industry.

And since the suppression/ repression of sexual gratification was an intensive as well as an extensive phenomenon, almost everyone looked forward to aesthetic experiences either in the form of a creator or else a consumer. Consuming was way easier than creating aesthetic experiences offering day-dreams to them.

Naturally, consumers of such aesthetic experiences found an element of entertainment in them. As a result, such experiences started pulling in huge crowds to their performances. Their creators and performers started acquiring fame and celebrity resulting in a special status for them in society.

This helped them to not only become rich but also objects of desire for their consumers. This also helped them in coming out of suppression/ repression of their sexual gratification. Soon, they started acquiring a larger than life stature in society, epitomizing its most sought after desires.

Thus, art, the purpose of which was to fulfill aesthetic needs got waylaid by the artist and, consequently, the sociocultural sacral chakra got closed.

Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about corruption in marriage, organized sport, and nation state.

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Morals vs Ethics vis-à-vis Natural Instincts: Morals Are to Keep Until Natural Instincts Rebel. Ethics Still Survive

I remember two different stories that took place with two different females coming intimately close to me in my life. Both of them were extremely moralistic in the most traditional way as they joined my soft skills training sessions.

I was in my late fifties. And one of these trainees was in her late thirties whereas the other one was in her early twenties. Their names were Lata and Meghna respectively. Lata was married and had two kids. She was working as a PGT lecturer in a government school. Meghna was still a student pursuing her degree course in an engineering college. Apart from being traditionally moralistic, they both had another common point they shared. They were quite beautiful to look at.

Lata had an undaunted reputation of being a committed and a faithful wife. She even had thwarted sexual advances from a senior officer from the education department promising huge benefits to her. It became public as she got a departmental complaint registered against him and got him suspended. There was still a departmental inquiry going on against him ruining his entire career.

Meghna as she joined my training gave a clear statement in her introduction speech that she hated falling in love. Her statement was a plain declaration that she would marry someone her parents chose for her. She had used the customary introduction ritual to warn others they shouldn’t try to make any advances toward her.

Lata had a tendency of accumulating fat around her belly. But she always kept it at bay through religiously following a strict dieting regimen and a regular cardio workout. She was extremely concerned about keeping her figure in shape. But her strict dieting regimen was proving to be a bit too much of effort pressing heavily on her psyche. She loved eating tasty snacks to satiate her taste glands, but she couldn’t. On the other hand, she saw me eating up whatever came my way without ever adding inches to my belly. I didn’t even do any cardio workouts.

Morals vs Ethics vis-à-vis Natural Instincts: Lata Asks My Secret of Keeping Fit

She came to me after a session, asking my secret to keep my shape as fit as a teenager’s body. I asked her to breathe in front of me as I closely watched her breath while inhaling and exhaling. I found she was doing it through her chest involving her intercostal muscles.

I had always breathed through my abdomen through using thoracic diaphragm. It was one of the best cures for belly fat in particular and weight loss in general. I asked her to breathe like I was doing. It employed contracting thoracic diaphragm, a muscle located between thoracic and abdominal cavities, for inhaling air inside the lungs.

It comprised slow and deep inhalation through the nose followed by slow and complete exhalation through relaxing thoracic diaphragm back. It required keeping the thoracic diaphragm relaxed in general to keep the thrust of breathing on exhalation rather than inhalation. Keeping it relaxed kept the synergetic abdominal muscles always contracted never allowing fat to get accumulated over there.

She couldn’t follow my verbal instructions to change her breathing pattern to turn her intercostal breathing into diaphragmatic breathing. Ultimately, I had to hold her intercostal muscles with my hands stopping them from moving while she breathed.

She went breathless for a while but then she raised her shoulders and collarbones while contracting the abdomen for inhalation. She had taken refuge in clavicular breathing which was a very tiring process. It simply couldn’t be held for long durations of maximum air intake.

I locked her clavicles (collarbones) as well, through aligning them with her neck. For this I had to employ my hands holding her arms up toward her head from under her armpits. Now my forearms were pressing on her intercostal muscles tight. Hence, she couldn’t use her intercostal as well as her clavicular breathing muscles for intercostal or clavicular breathing.

She went breathless again, but I didn’t release her held up muscles. Her face went red, and her eyes came popping out. I still didn’t release my pressure until she was able to relax her thoracic diaphragm and contract it to inhale.

As she was able to do it once, I released my pressure on her intercostal and clavicular muscles. I asked her to use her thoracic diaphragm on her own again without me holding her wrong breathing muscles. But she again slid back to her habitual intercostal breathing.

I was left with no alternative but to assist her physically again for her to release her thoracic diaphragm. It was an unconscious muscular habit that kept her thoracic diaphragm always contracted not allowing further contraction to inhale. It was something like unconscious domains of mind keeping habits intact while trying to change them consciously. In fact, that’s what makes habits die hard.

Morals vs Ethics vis-à-vis Natural Instincts: My Intervention Helps Lata Change Her Posture

It went on the same way for the next few days until her thoracic diaphragm learned how to relax itself. But learning how to relax it was not sufficient to change the pattern. It also required learning to keep it relaxed so that exhalation employed double duration of inhalation through contracting it briefly.

As my intervention continued for a few days, I smelt something extra getting added to it. Although she had made a considerable improvement in changing her intercostal breathing with diaphragmatic, she still insisted on my intervention. I felt she had started enjoying my intervention at another level which was sexual in nature.

First, she started getting physically seduced and then she started mentally enjoying getting physically seduced. At times she gave me hints to proceed further by letting her torso completely loose through faking fainting. But I didn’t pay heed to those hints.

Finally, when her patience crossed her control, one day she asked me straight if I would have sex with her. I wasn’t ready for it but I found it extremely tough to break her heart by saying a curt no.

“Look Lata, there is a reason I won’t,” I slowly introduced my denial trying to make it less obtrusive.

She kept looking at me intently.

I continued, “I am not a moralist, and I don’t think adultery is a sin. But I have made a promise to my wife I wouldn’t have sex outside marriage. It’s only for her satisfaction simply because I entered a contract with her when I married her. Everyone does that when one marries because marriage is nothing else but a contract though people often break those contracts. I would rather break my marriage before I ever think of breaking my contract.”

She kept looking at me with a great sense of satisfaction on her face. Then she blurted out, “You have been my best teacher ever. I love you beyond limits!”

“I love you deeply too, Lata!” I spoke as I wondered how morals were to keep only until natural instincts rebelled. Ethics still survived.

Morals vs Ethics vis-à-vis Natural Instincts: Meghna Mimics My Accent Very Well

With Meghna, the story unfolded in a totally different way on the very first day she started her training. I was familiarizing people on voice modulation for the perusal of neutral accent while speaking English, a highly accented language. But they were finding it difficult to mimic the accent I was trying to make them reproduce.

When everyone else failed, Meghna exactly reproduced it without seemingly making any extra effort on her part. I was greatly amazed at her performance that she had come up with, in such a casual manner. I asked her to reproduce a few more samples as I spoke up those. She came up with the same miraculous performance every time I tested her.

I saluted her for doing it so easily in such an impeccable manner. But she was looking at something deeper involved into the entire process of this reproduction.

She curiously said, “I don’t know how I am doing it but when I do I feel highly energetic inside.”

“Exactly! It’s also a process of summoning up energy in your body. And you can summon it up even without reproducing voice modulation for the perusal of neutral accent,” I revealed.

“How?” Meghna went more curious, “Energy is the most important thing for me in life. How to summon it up?”

“You may not only summon it up, but you can also store it inside and keep it there for good,” I further revealed.

“What’s the modus operandi? I badly need to learn it for myself,” she blurted.

“You can only get on to it slowly and gradually. It’s not a one-day job,” I replied.

“I can’t wait,” she murmured.

“You have to,” I smiled as I said this.

As the session ended, she waited for everyone else to leave. Then she spoke,” I love you!”

Morals vs Ethics vis-à-vis Natural Instincts: Meghna Proposes

I didn’t take it as a real proposal. I just took it as a philosophical expression of her awe that she had gone through during the session. Hence, I replied, “I love you too.”

“Really? I have fallen for you. I no more hate falling in love,” she exclaimed.

I still didn’t take it as a real proposal. It was since I couldn’t imagine a girl in her early twenties proposing to a man in his late fifties.

The training kept going on with the passage of time. I had always set my chairs in a circle, and I too sat on one of them during my sessions.

One day as she sat next to me in the circle, she whispered something in my ear. I couldn’t get it in the first go as to what she had whispered. I looked into her eyes with a question in mine asking her what she had said. She whispered again, “Do you love me as much as you love your wife?”

I was taken aback by what she had said. Still, I decided to take it as a philosophical expression of her awe for what she went through during training. Hence, I replied philosophically, “Yes, exactly!”

“I have even declared my love for you in front of my parents,” she whispered back.

I got alarmed. What was she up to? I whispered, “What did they say?”

She smiled as she whispered back, “My father said he needed to join your sessions too. He wants to know what is so magnetic in your personality that changed his obedient daughter overnight.”

I decided to ignore what all she had said. I actually took it to be an immature infatuation of hers toward me. I tried to make myself believe it was a temporary phase of hers and would automatically get diluted with time.

But then what happened after a few more days shook me off up to my core. I was sitting in my office working on my computer during my free hours there as Meghna barged in. I offered her a seat beside mine on my computer table. As she sat down, she didn’t take time to come to the point she had come for.

“I want to kiss you,” said she.

I kept looking at her for a long while. Then I asked, “Why? I am 58 and you are 22. What makes you feel like kissing me?”

“Energy! That you are full of, but my peers are not! That’s what has made me fall for you,” she said in a matter-of-fact voice.

“Would you like to fall for me, or would you like to fall for energy?” I posed a real difficult question to her.

“To me both are the same,” she responded.

“Would you like to pursue sex, or would you like to pursue energy?” I reframed my question.

“I want both now,” she sounded determined.

“Okay, let me propose playing a game of sex and energy together to you. Are you ready?” I asked for her approval before proposing it to her.

“What’s that?” She questioned.

Morals vs Ethics vis-à-vis Natural Instincts: I Offer A Totally Different Proposal

“Don’t kiss me. Don’t even touch me. I too won’t. But since we are extremely attracted toward each other, let’s use this as an opportunity to kindle this attraction further. Are you ready?” I gave her a hint.

“How exactly?” she wanted to know the exact details.

“Let’s bare our bodies and try to excite the other with our gestures without touching each other. The attraction will go on increasing exponentially. That will summon up incredible energy within our bodies. And since we won’t even touch each other, it won’t even tend to leak outside. We will make it a point not to throw it out once we have summoned it in,” I explained.

“Where will it ultimately lead us to?” she went curious.

“Let that be a suspense,” I proposed.

“Sounds interesting! I am ready,” she went enthusiastic about it.

“We will have to make some preparations before we embark on to doing it in real life,” I said.

“I can see it will totally change me as a person. How did you design it so creatively?” she went all praise for me.

“I have played it before and that was what changed me as a person. But there are no limits to change. Let’s start a new journey together. And I can guarantee you playing this game is way more enjoyable than repeating the old mechanical rut of sex. It doesn’t throw out, it keeps energy while playing the game of sex,” my voice went enthusiastic.

“I am looking forward to it,” she took my leave as she said these words.

I kept wondering again how fast morals got washed off the moment natural instincts turned rebellious! Ethics still survived.

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An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: People Judge You by What You Have Been A Victim To

I took my family to my favorite place in Manali to Marhi on the way to Rohtang pass. My daughter had turned 6 by then. There were huge glaciers in Marhi ideal for practicing skiing. Even otherwise the way from Marhi to Rohtang pass hadn’t been officially declared open for vehicular traffic that year yet.

So, I thought I would teach skiing to my daughter for the first part of the day. My plan was to climb Rohtang pass on foot after lunch and come back before evening tea.

As we were enjoying our skiing, we thought of having a tea break in between. Sipping hot tea in that cold weather was a joy in itself. Some hot snacks together felt like adding cherries to the cake. We got friendly with two honeymoon couples sipping tea on the next table. They very eagerly wanted to visit Rohtang pass but got disappointed as they came to discover it wasn’t opened yet. I told them we would be climbing it up on foot after lunch and they could join us along.

An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: Chilling at Marhi

In the meantime, they got another offer from a van driver who had just arrived there. He somehow had managed a special permit to drive up to the pass and offered them his services. They immediately hired him despite his charges being a lot more than normal taking benefit of his special permit.

Before leaving, they came back to us and said we could also get accommodated in the van if we wished. But I refused saying I still wanted to do some more skiing before lunch. I also added I felt like climbing it on foot. I told them it would remind me my old memories of having climbed it many times in the past.

Anyway, they left in the van heading toward the top of the pass. We went back to the glacier to continue with our skiing. After another hour and a half session, we packed our skis and moved up to the same restaurant for lunch.

An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: Two Couples Hire A Van

By the time we finished our lunch, I spotted the same van at a height coming back down. But as I spotted it, I immediately saw it tumbling down the high ditch. It was rolling down like a ball bouncing high each time it hit the side of the ditch. Within moments it reached hundreds of feet below turning into a squeezed lump of steel.

An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: The Van Rolling Down The Road to Rohtang

Everyone rushed toward the van as it came to a standstill. After the immediate rescue was provided, five people got evacuated out of its remains. The two husbands were found dead, the driver seriously injured, and the two wives hadn’t even got a single scratch. It was because the two husbands were sitting by the door sides with the wives sandwiched between them. Hence their bodies acted like cushions to their wives while they themselves got the entire grunt of the shock.

The wives sat in a state of shock as the bodies of their husbands were laid in front of them. The driver was semiconscious opening eyes intermittently and then closing them back.

They were immediately rushed to the government hospital down in Manali. We too canceled our program to climb up the pass on foot and returned to our hotel. It had been a close shave with death for us too as we might have accepted their invitation and died.

An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: We Visit Another Ski Resort Auli

Three years after this accident, we visited another ski resort Auli a few thousand miles away in the Himalayas. We stayed in the beautiful tourism accommodation that was the only place to stay in that newly come up resort. In the morning we sat out in the sun waiting for our breakfast to be served in the open. There was another family sitting on an adjacent table having their breakfast. We started chatting aloud from a distance.

“This new ski resort has a potential to become one of the best in the country,” I expressed my opinion.

“Certainly yes, next only to Gulmarg!” The family seemed interested in skiing as one of them replied to my comment.

“I like Rohtang and its vicinity as well. It has some very challenging slopes over there,” I added another input.

“Rohtang gives us a shudder. We lost our son in law there three years ago,” he said in a sad voice.

“Three years ago? Was it there in a van accident?” the entire scene came to my mind as a flashback.

“Yes, how do you know?” he was surprised.

I was very much there. In fact, we could have been killed in the same accident as well,” I narrated what had happened.

“Oh, what a small world is this!” he took a deep sigh.

“What about their wives? Did they get married again?” I asked out of curiosity.

“No one is ready to marry them now,” he uttered in extreme disappointment.

“But why?” I was surprised.

An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: The Girls Have Ill-Omens in Their Destiny

They say these girls have ill-omens in their destiny. They would harm anyone they marry. Both are still unmarried. We have lost all hopes for them,” his tone went bitter as he said this.

We kept wondering about how people start judging others by what they have been a victim to.

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A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: Adventure Is The Main Driving Force Behind Adultery

I was around 40 years old when a close friend of mine gave me a phone call from his town. They had married around five years ago and had no kids yet.

“I don’t know what to do,” his feeble voice laden with depression reached my ear through the phone receiver.

“What happened?” I went worried as he had never sounded so low before.

“I had never thought I would have to face it,” sounded like he couldn’t find words to explain his predicament.

“Tell me what happened,” I insisted again.

“I just caught my wife red-handed with someone else,” his voice was just sounding lost somewhere deep within himself.

A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: My Friend Takes An Emotional Shelter in Me

“What did you say to her?” I immediately asked.

“Nothing! I don’t know what to say,” he was totally lost in his intrigue.

“And what did she say to you?” I came up with my next question.

“Nothing! She doesn’t seem to know what to say,” he said on her behalf.

“Are you angry?” I wanted to know his emotional state.

“I am perplexed,” his tone was absolutely indecisive.

“Are you in two minds?” I tried to put words in his mouth.

“I am in twenty of them. I am almost gone blank. Am I losing my mind?” He answered me with a question.

“Try to speak to your wife,” I suggested.

“She is not in a state to speak either. I am getting scared,” his condition was really bad.

“Give phone to her,” I thought I should rather speak to her.

A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: My Friend Makes His Wife Speak to Me

“Hello,” her voice came.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“What should I do?” she was equally out of her mind.

“Do you want to continue together or…,” I left my sentence incomplete.

“I don’t know,” she mumbled.

“Put phone on speaker,” I thought I should speak to them together.

As they switched the speaker on, I immediately suggested, “Come to my place by the next bus available.”

There was no reply for a while. I asked again, “Will you?”

“Okay,” the two voices came together.

“You should be here by tomorrow. And stay with me for the next few days,” I gave my verdict for the time being.

A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: My Friend and His Wife Reach My Place

Next day, they were there. They were not in a position to initiate talking to each other. In fact, they needed a catalyst to make it happen. And that was the role I was playing.

“Do you people want to continue together or break your relationship?” I started with the most pressing question.

They looked into each other’s eyes. Then she said, “He has every right to turn me out of his life.”

“Do you want that?” I steered the talk to what she wanted.

“No, I don’t. But if he says, I will,” said she.

“Do you want that?” I asked him.

“I don’t want to punish her. But I am feeling I have been punished. What had I done wrong?” he asked to himself.

A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: What Went Wrong? And Why?

“Nothing! I did it all wrong. I messed up the whole thing,” she was in a pensive mood.

“Do you regret it?” I tried to put words in her mouth.

“Surprisingly not,” her eyes went wide open.

“Will you do it again?” I questioned further.

“No,” said she.

“What do you say?” I looked toward him.

“If she says she won’t do it again, it’s okay for me. I am not bent upon making her regret,” he gave his verdict.

“Are you okay with what he says?” it was time for her to answer.

“But why is he letting me go unscathed. It’s making me feel guilty. I expected him to hit me hard,” she murmured.

“That’s what he is like. I have known him since ages. Haven’t you known him yet? He never acts with vengeance,” I said.

“In fact, I love him,” she blurted her feelings out.

“As if I don’t! Do you really know how much I love you?” he blurted out too.

“So, you people are not breaking up. Am I right?” I presented a resolution.

Both nodded in the affirmative.

“I am sorry,” she spoke direct to him this time.

“Never say sorry again,” he held her up in his arms.

A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: Relationship Gets Saved

“Shall we open a bottle of whisky on the occasion?” I proposed. Everyone seemed to agree. And soon the dull and gloomy atmosphere changed into a vibrant party mood.

While sipping my whisky, I came up with a curious question to my friend’s wife.

“Tell me one thing I am curious about. What exactly was the feeling that drove you toward adultery?” I looked at her as I waited for an answer.

She kept thinking for a while. Then she took a big sip and kept her glass back on the table. Taking the rest at the back of the chair, she came up with one single word, “Adventure!”

A Sinful Life Lessons Story of A Sneaky Adventure: Thrill of Adventure Pushes Her to Adultery

She further added, “I recognized it after you asked it to me just now. It was a feeling of adventure that drove me toward breaking the rules of marriage.”

“Strange!” she repeated wondering about her adventure and picked up her glass to have another big sip out of it.

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People Love You When You Love What They Love Too

At the time of marriage, my wife and I had decided to have a kid after five years of marriage. That required pregnancy after four years and three months after it. And we easily managed that trying to match the delivery date with the date of our fifth marriage anniversary. Just for fun!

We both wanted to have a daughter very passionately. But we didn’t know what it was going to be. It could be either of the two, a daughter or a son. But then, we were extremely curious to know it beforehand in our eagerness. Sex-determination tests were illegal to get done.

A Revealing Life Lessons Story About Love Psychology Facts: We Passionately Want A Girl Child

The only alternative left was to scan the movements of the baby in the uterus on an ultrasound monitor visually. That too after many months of pregnancy! And even then, it wasn’t easy to do as it required extreme patience to spot a penis.

At times the visual scanning needed to wait for as long as one full hour to predict it with some confidence. One needed waiting for the position of the embryo to make it possible spotting the penis if it was there.

And its presence was always a surer test than its absence. Hence checking the embryo for determining if it was a male was easier than checking if it was a female.

Also, there were no provisions provided to record a graphical display of the positions while checking them live. In fact, they were intentionally not provided so that the ultrasound tests couldn’t be abused for determining sex before birth.

A Revealing Life Lessons Story About Love Psychology Facts: People Prefer A Male Child

People in our country abused sex-determination tests for ascertaining if it was a male. Unluckily our decadent culture largely preferred a male child to a female one. Birth of a boy was widely rejoiced whereas the birth of a girl was taken as a burden to carry. Sex-determination tests made it possible to get the pregnancy aborted in case it confirmed a girl child. It started skewing the male-female ratio in the society leading to a huge gap between the two. That was the reason sex-determination tests had been made illegal to get done.

We went to a female gynecologist for a regular ultrasound test meant to check if the position had no complications. It took just a few minutes. The position showed it was perfect in its development and there was no cause for worry. As the gynecologist noted down about the ultrasound report on her prescription, I came up with my curiosity.

A Revealing Life Lessons Story About Love Psychology Facts: Is It A Girl Or A Boy?

“Doctor, is it a girl or a boy?” I dared asking her.

“Why do you want to know? Do you know I can call the police and get a report done against you?” the doctor yelled loud.

“I want to know because we both very passionately want a daughter and not a son as a personal preference.”

“REALLY?” her tone immediately changed like she had got the most pleasant shock of her life. She said, “You are the first parents in my entire career who said these words. They are music to my ears. It’s almost unbelievable for me. Anyway, come with me.”

A Revealing Life Lessons Story About Love Psychology Facts: Gynecologist’s Tone Suddenly Changes

She got her next appointments postponed to a later hour. Then she took us back to her ultrasound laboratory and made my wife lie down on the bed again. She once again switched her system with her ultrasound monitor on and started looking to spot a penis intently. Also, she very cordially made me sit beside her and kept explaining as she went on scanning the changing positions.

It took her more than an hour to reach a probable conclusion. She hadn’t been able to spot a penis through the entire 360-degree rotation of the embryo during that time. The absence of a penis was what we were looking for so passionately.

In the end, she declared, “There is 99.99 percent probability you got a girl child in your womb.”

A Revealing Life Lessons Story About Love Psychology Facts: Gynecologist Predicts A Girl Child

I sprang up with joy and almost started dancing. The doctor kept looking at our enthused faces with a satisfied smile.

She took us back to her consultation room and congratulated us once again for having our most passionate desire fulfilled.

I took out my wallet to pay her for what all she had done for more than an hour. But she asked me to put it back in my pocket.

“This is a gift to you from my side. You kindled a new hope in my heart that things may change for good. You have already paid me way more than I ever expected from you. Go get ready to welcome your daughter,” she called for her next patient as she said this to us.

I learned how people love you beyond all limits when you passionately love what they love passionately too!

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Patriarchy Flows in Our Blood, We Need to Change It All by Way of Transfusion

After my marriage in 1981, we had planned a long honeymoon in my hometown in the Himalayas. It was a very pretty and homely hill station where I had spent the initial 16 years of my life. It looked down at a beautiful valley toward its south and up at snow-covered high hills toward its north. I was eager to show all that scenic beauty to my wife. My home was at the most central location with a sprawling view of the valley from its bedroom windows.

We reached there in a few hours. My elder brother’s family lived there along with my mother as my father had passed away two years ago. They were all ready to host a warm welcome to my wife on her first visit over there.

After a long session of introductory chit chat, we went out for a leisurely evening walk on the mall road. A leisurely evening walk was the main characteristic phenomenon of that town’s culture. All inhabitants of the town made it a point to have an evening walk on the mall road every day. It acted like an evening club out in the open on which everyone socialized with everyone else in the evening.

A Disruptive Life Lessons Story Breaking Down Patriarchy: My Brother Throws A Drink Party

I met tens of my old acquaintances spending a few minutes with each one introducing my wife to them. By the time we reached back home, it had already gone dark. My brother had arranged for a drink party before the dinner.

As we sat down for a few sips together, I noticed there were only two glasses served on the table. I asked for a third one for my wife which my brother didn’t accept.

He said, “We don’t have a culture of women drinking in our family. Don’t ask for something that hurts our cultural values.”

I was overwhelmed with a weird feeling, not knowing how to react to it. I also belonged to the same culture, but I had not even an inkling of what he was saying! I had started drinking later in my life after I had left my hometown to a liberal environment. In that environment everyone was welcome to share sips despite their gender.

A Disruptive Life Lessons Story Breaking Down Patriarchy: Patriarchy Raises Its Head

Finally, I said, “Okay, then please remove my glass too. You can enjoy your sips alone.”

“No, how is that possible? It’s a party in your welcome. How can you not be a part of it?” said my brother.

“But you are forcing me to opt out of it by not welcoming my wife equally,” I replied.

“She is more than welcome for everything else here except this,” he tried to justify himself.

“That’s why I have also pulled myself out of it. You please go ahead,” I repeated my stance.

“No, but that’s not okay,” he insisted again.

“Then this is not okay too,” I tried to make him aware of how he was insulting my wife.

“What?” came an ignorant question from his side.

“What you are doing is considered insulting women in the present-day culture. It’s an obsolete patriarchal culture that you are advocating sitting in your posh drawing room in this beautiful town. Mind it you are giving it a bad name,” I said in a very cool voice not matching my words.

A Disruptive Life Lessons Story Breaking Down Patriarchy: Patriarchy Breaks Down

He kept looking at me for a long while. We were all sitting in the midst of an eerie calm. It was like a war of nerves from my side challenging a long-established patriarchy rejecting it on its face.

I broke the silence saying, “Look, you are just 8 years older than I am. And then look again which decadent culture you are siding by. That is a huge gap of an entire century between the two of us today.”

He was still looking at me without blinking his eyes. Finally, he stood up, went to the kitchen and brought the third glass for my wife.

And the next moment, we all shouted, “Cheers!” including his four daughters along.

It wasn’t less than a major surgical operation with blood transfusion replacing every single drop of patriarchy flowing through it.

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“As I was building up my case against our sociocultural structures getting erected by the mind, an analogy dawned upon me.”

My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.

Today’s episode 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. These attempts study how sociocultural institutions change over time, thus weaving together different evolutionary theories.

Most of the nineteenth century approaches based themselves along unilineal evolution¹. They believed that all of humanity socioculturally evolved along the same process worldwide. It was only that some of them were ahead of the rest who would, nevertheless, follow them along the same path in times to come.

On the other hand, most of the twentieth century approaches based themselves along multilineal evolution². They believed that different societies evolved along their specific historical contexts. They rejected the theory that every society would be evolving along the same cultural progress sooner or later. They argued that different societies adapted to their own uniquely different environments, technological breakthroughs and outside cultural influences. Multilineal approach also rejected any similarity between cultural and biological evolutions. It argued that cultural patterns in far-off lands were genetically unrelated.

But in the latter part of the twentieth century, several multilineal anthropologists shifted their approach. Through numerous incremental shifts in sociocultural hypotheses, they arrived at Marxism. Marxism made a speedy entry into the world of politics adopted by almost half the population worldwide. The lens that it used to look at sociocultural development was dialectical and historical materialism. But toward the end of the twentieth century, it started crumbling down under its own weight. You may know it better as the fall of the Soviet Union or the falling of the Berlin Wall.

The most modern twenty-first century anthropologists have taken another step to reject the very concept of cultural evolution outright. They are rather exploring new approaches to the relationship between culture and its environment. One of them is a general systems approach exploring emergent systems including political, economic and social interactions among cultures.

As a special mention here, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins came up with his book The Selfish Gene³ in 1976. Dawkins’ book was voted as the most influential science book of all time in July 2017 on the 30th anniversary of the Royal Society. He proposed a gene-centered hypothesis of sociocultural evolution stating that genetically related individuals cooperate the best between them. And genes replicate themselves better when they themselves get benefitted, at times even at the cost of the entire organism. ‘Selfish’ replication may model culture successfully via memes that are self-replicating units of human cultural transmission analogous to genes. 

This is where we are, at this moment, as far as understanding sociocultural evolution is concerned. And, in my opinion, this is not sufficient.

‘Multi-unilineal’ Approach

I think we have missed something very basic. We either look at sociocultural evolution as being entirely unilineal or else entirely mutilineal. Reality looks to be somewhere in between. It very obviously has always been a combination of both, in my opinion. Some parts of it have always been unilineal, not necessarily through intercultural interaction but independently evolving on their own. Some other parts have certainly been mutilineal, varying from culture to culture depending on their specific genetic histories and environments. I would like to address them all with a new inclusive name ‘multi-unilineal’.

Let us look a little deeper into these multi-unilineal patterns of sociocultural evolution all around the world

These are the patterns that essentially evolved almost the same way, yet slightly differently, in their local hues throughout the world.

Surprisingly enough, all our sociocultural institutions have majorly been erected by the mind and not through the dictates of the brain alone. The brain had worked independently when it devised wearing leather and burning fire to ward off cold and cook food. The same was true of inhabiting caves and inventing languages. And these were four supremely intelligent inventions that all tribes and races arrived at in differently similar ways globally.

But the sociocultural structures erected by the mind were unfortunately not so intelligent. They were flawed at best and harmful at worst in their design. And why it happened so was because the mind subjectively attached itself to its faulty apprehensions of threat to life, in other words to its self-preservative instincts. Hence, it cunningly took control of the brain’s activity in its fearful stupidity, thereby turning human needs into wants. All these structures were multi-unilenial in their evolutionary process.

Sociocultural Chakras

As I was building up my case against our sociocultural structures getting erected by the mind, an analogy dawned upon me

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs⁴

Before I come to the analogy, let us take a little detour. Abraham Maslow came up with ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ in the year 1943. Later, he refined it in ‘Motivation and Personality’ in 1954 introducing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. 

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs comprises physiological needs, safety, love and belonging and esteem as deficiency needs, and cognition as a growth need. Growth needs further include aesthetic, self-actualization and transcendence needs.

And now, let’s come back to my analogy. I find that the lowest two deficiency needs, namely “physiological needs” and “safety needs”, are parallel to the concerns of the root chakra within the chakra system. The third need from the bottom, “love and belonging”, parallels the heart chakra. The fourth deficiency need, “esteem”, is akin to the throat chakra. Moving to Maslow’s growth needs, “cognitive needs” parallel solar plexus chakra while “aesthetic”, “self-actualization” and “transcendence” needs find their chakra equivalents in sacral, third-eye and crown chakras, respectively.

Now that we have established that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is analogous to the chakra system, I would like to bring our attention to a second analogy.

We know that an individual autonomous mind generates closed biological chakras in the human body by corrupting skeletal anatomy. I asked myself if a collective autonomous mind could have generated similarly closed sociocultural chakras in human society. The modus operandi could have been the corruption of social needs into societal wants

Things started getting distorted since the very beginning of our evolution into Homo sapiens. It all started with pursuing cognitive needs. We, as a society, cognized reality within what was a suffocating environment dotted with threats and challenges.

And that perceived reality continues till date.

Humanity is yet to take a sigh of relief, thereby seriously corrupting its breathing pattern.

It was this corruption that gave birth to a blocked sociocultural solar plexus chakra. Acting out of the mind’s fearful perception of so-called threats and challenges, humanity has always been in a hurry to control the environment which is a mirage in itself.

Just like the solar plexus charka leads to asthma and other diseases in the body, this sociocultural solar plexus chakra, i.e., hurry to control the environment, gives rise to social ‘diseases’ such as the ‘rat race’. And thus, humanity handed over the reins of cognition to its collective autonomous mind instead of a spontaneous collective brain.

We know that an open solar plexus chakra means renewing the brain continuously and thus energizing it cyclically. Unfortunately for us, since our sociocultural solar plexus chakra got closed, it left the collective autonomous mind stuck at its aggressive cognitive wants rather than needs. 

These wants individualized personal ownership of resources used to fulfill genuine social needs before.

As this personal ownership of resources assumes a bigger-than-necessary stature, social needs start turning into personal wants. Needs are the realm of the brain while the mind is the abode of wants. Thus, they get corrupted and end up in sociocultural chakras in the hands of a collective autonomous mind. After all, human society is just a collective extension of multiple human bodies. And these sociocultural chakras would tend to block collective human energy flow exactly like biological chakras block individual energy flow.

Let us now combine the above two analogies, i.e. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs vis-a-vis chakra system + sociocultural chakras mirroring individual chakras

When individual energy flow gets blocked at the base of the chakra system, it results in a closed root chakra. Similarly, when the collective human energy flow gets blocked at the base of the chakra equivalent in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it does so at the lowest two levels of social needs, i.e., physiological and safety needs. Same would be true about the deficiency needs of love and belonging and esteem needs as well.

It is my contention that we, Homo sapiens, find ourselves today struggling with an imbalance in the mind-brain equilibrium as we go along Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from the lowest (physiological) deficiency needs to the highest (transcendence) growth needs. Individuals and societies that are stuck in making ends meet, i.e., meeting their physiological needs, tend to operate primarily from the brain.

As they ‘climb’ up the Hierarchy and their deficiency needs are met, a major shift seems to occur. This is where the mind starts taking over and the brain’s functionality starts getting stunted inflicting the lower chakras as well, along with the higher ones.

In other words, needs start yielding to wants. It is no surprise, then, that most of the growth needs are governed by the concerns of the mind way more than those of the brain.

Real Needs Overshadowed by Greedy Wants

This had its debilitating effect on the sociocultural equivalent of sacral chakra, namely aesthetic needs, as well. And it did so by negatively affecting the quality of sex that humanity was meant to enjoy. When sex gets frustrated, it tends to take refuge in its sublimation through arts in creative and aesthetic pursuits. This sublimation is the handiwork of none other than the mind!

In the process of sublimation, however, the mind does lose a little bit of its control as emotions give way to passion and sexual frustration yields to a broader creative perception. This works, but only partially, as a therapeutic process that addresses the aesthetic needs in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs at an individual level. In society, this partial therapy addresses this sociocultural sacral chakra in the form of cinema, poetry and other artistic expressions. However, the unaddressed part of this chakra results in the social disease that we know as ‘consumerism’. And we have even given it a rather ironic name, ‘retail therapy’. No wonder slogans like “the more, the better” appear to provide solace to our frustrations

Moving higher along the Hierarchy, the growth need of self actualization aims at discovering one’s inherent talents and developing them further. It results in achieving one’s full potential as far as socially productive soft skills are concerned. This is synonymous with the concerns of the third eye chakra. However, once corrupted by the mind at a social level, it leads to an analogous collective third eye charka resulting in social ‘diseases’ such as ‘professional qualifications’ as a want that is detached from the original need.

Transcendence needs are the ultimate that an individual in a society can cultivate, giving oneself to something beyond oneself. It enables one to create one’s personal heaven for oneself. At a social level, it parallels the sociocultural crown chakra which, when closed, leads to the social malaise of ‘acute insensitivity’. Consequently, opening this chakra sets the highest levels of collective human consciousness. Simultaneously, it sets all the lower chakras open as well, automatically addressing their related sociocultural ailments.

This has the potential to turn human life on earth into a collective heaven. 

However, in reality, the collective mind fragments itself exactly like the individual biological mind and, thus, belittles every single real need in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and, by extension, its analogous sociocultural chakra.

When it comes to our collective needs, human societies use various ‘currencies’ to enable exchange of these needs between their individuals or groups. It is these currencies that we used to fulfill real needs which later started assuming bigger stature in an individual mind, shifting the focus from needs to wants. As a result, those currencies got corrupted away from their original purpose and became ends in themselves as opposed to serving as mere means toward the ends which have always remained as those underlying needs

These corrupted currencies have led to several institutions in our societies that, I contend, are the physical manifestations of the underlying sociocultural chakras.

Within the construct that I have presented above, we can now look at sociocultural evolution in light of genuine needs getting usurped by the mere wants for their corrupted currencies.

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References

1. Morgan, L. H. (1907). Ancient society, or researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism, to civilization, by Lewis H. Morgan .. H. Holt.

2. White, L. A. (1959). The evolution of culture. Mcgraw-Hill.

3. Dawkins, R. (1976). In The selfish gene (pp. 15–15). essay, Oxford University Press. “At some point a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by accident. We will call it the Replicator. It may not necessarily have been the biggest or the most complex molecule around, but it had the extraordinary property of being able to create copies of itself.”

4. Maslow, A. H. (1973). The farther reaches of human nature. Penguin Books.

An Eye-opening Life Lessons Story About Love and Marriage: Marriage As A Tradition Is The Enemy of Uniqueness in Relationship

Marriage is a tradition in all the cultures over the world that got established in each one of them separately. This happened when there was no direct or indirect communication owing to large geographical distances among them.

Does it mean that all human tribes through their separate journeys on the paths of evolution thought alike? Does it also mean that marriage as a sociocultural institution was a part of natural sociocultural evolution worldwide? We cannot take it for granted and need looking deeper into what established it as a global lifestyle.

Anyway, I personally could never accept it as a natural bent of my cultural orientation as an individual since childhood. On turning an adult, I started having affairs with females around. But having even a deep emotional affair with one never stopped me from getting attracted to others too. I surveyed many people including both genders who in their most intimately expressive moments admitted multiple attractions affecting their minds. It was another thing that the majority shrugged them off ‘nipping the evil in the bud’. But the fact was that attractions did instinctively arise before they were morally shrugged off.

An Eye-opening Life Lessons Story About Love and Marriage: An Affair Develops

Anyway, in 1980 at age 29, I was directing a theatrical production in a satellite town of Delhi. It happened so that an affair developed between the heroine of the production and me during its rehearsals. It went on fine until her parents got to know about it who raised a huge objection to it. We ignored their resistance and kept meeting each other stealthily. We weren’t very keen on marrying each other and were happy with our affair going strong.

After around a year, we made a program to visit my hometown in the Himalayas for a few days together. For this, we needed to inform her parents. We went to them and informed them about our program about leaving for the trip the next day.

On hearing what we had in mind, they immediately got alarmed. They had never known our relationship had gone so strong by then. Going out of station together as two opposite sexed friends like this was unimaginable to their cultural mindset. They realized things had gone out of their hands by then. Their minds raced fast to mend the situation so that it would become acceptable to them.

An Eye-opening Life Lessons Story About Love and Marriage: Her Parents Object

“We cannot allow her to go out of station with a stranger like that,” said her father.

“But our purpose is not to seek your permission, we have rather come here to inform you about our trip. Moreover, I am not even a stranger to her anymore,” I registered my objections to what he said.

“You said you people are going to your hometown. Won’t your parents have any objection in your coming along with a girl unknown to them?” said her mother.

“I don’t think they will,” said I in a matter-of-fact voice.

“Maybe because you are a boy and not a girl,” came her father’s logic, “or maybe we aren’t so modern as your parents might be.”

“And if you are bent upon going out like this together, we need to get you married before that. Get married at 8 in the morning tomorrow before you leave,” said her mother this time.

I looked toward my friend who gave me a silent nod for her parents’ proposal. Even I didn’t have any qualms regarding getting married or not. In fact, it didn’t make any difference to us. At least that was what we felt.

“We have no problem in getting married if it gives you peace of mind,” I said finally. It was 12 o’ clock at midnight that time.

We decided that we would go for a simple traditional marriage at 8 in the morning. After that I left for home to have a sleep before our marriage.

An Eye-opening Life Lessons Story About Love and Marriage: We Get Married

At 7:30, my friend came to wake me up and we hurriedly left for the venue of the wedding. There were around 15 people who had come along from their side. From my side, I was the only person present. All the rituals got performed within an hour and we were conferred the status of wife and husband. There was a certificate provided as a proof of marriage that her parents carefully kept with them.

We were free to go to my hometown now. I went to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to my mother saying, “Got married.”

Within a couple of hours before we left, my mother’s reply telegram arrived saying, “Congratulations! Visit home.”

And we boarded the bus headed towards my hometown together. As we occupied our seats, we relaxed ourselves after a hectic schedule of the last few hours.

An Eye-opening Life Lessons Story About Love and Marriage: I Try to Keep Our Marriage Unique

We had a unique relationship that her parents had tried to turn into a traditional one. But we were resolved for it not to turn into a run of the mill kind relationship.

I said, “What do you think we should do to keep our new traditional status still unique?”

“You suggest,” she threw the ball back into my court.

“What if we don’t stay under one roof? I suppose that may keep it very unique and fresh throughout our life,” I suggested.

“That’s okay but it will hurt my parents who may think we have ditched them,” she rejected my proposal.

“But think how fresh it will keep our relationship. No expectations, no protocols, no over-familiarity and hence no contempt! We will meet each other only when we passionately feel like doing so. And that too if the other one wants so as well,” I enumerated the benefits.

“But it may land us up in social trouble. People may start thinking we have relationship problems. Rumors spread like wildfire,” she expressed her apprehensions.

“Why to bother about others? I have seen people living together and dragging relationship even when they have gone sick of seeing each other’s face. It’s a fact that too much familiarity breeds contempt. Living together all 24 hours brings them a bit too close to each other. We need to keep a minimum gap to keep our romance alive. I suppose you know it very well,” I put my point across.

“I do,” she seemed to agree with me.

“Then?” I needed listening to her subjective reaction.

“But it’s scary,” I could see her visualizing living alone from her face as she said these words.

“Every adventure scares the adventurer, but that’s what makes it worth doing it,” I commented.

“But should we give each other this much of freedom?” she was sounding anxious.

An Eye-opening Life Lessons Story About Love and Marriage: Lover Turns into Wife in Her Spirit

I immediately came to assess that the mere ritual of a traditional marriage had turned my lover into a wife. A wife who had started putting safety first and freedom or romance afterwards as something secondary! The mere ritual of a traditional marriage had killed the entire spirit of adventure that she was always full of.

I immediately understood we had committed a blunder, but the sad part was we had already done so. And once we had committed it, we needed to go along with all the commitments made to each other lifelong.

And we did so. We are living ‘happily’ with each other to date. It was only that the spirits of uniqueness, adventure, freedom and romance took a little dip. Everything else went fine.

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A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: We Can Read Others’ Minds through Mirroring Their Eyes

In 1980, I once went to my friend Somesh’s hometown at a distance of three hours of drive from Delhi. I had another friend of mine along with me. On our way back from there, Somesh’s family arranged a vehicle heading to Delhi carrying two females along who we were not familiar with.

We introduced ourselves to them and started chatting about casual issues. After some time, there was nothing left to chat about in a casual manner.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: Let’s Play A Game

It was then that I spontaneously came up with an idea of playing a game among the four of us. I had never played this game in my life nor had its design in my mind before.

I proposed everyone to look at other three people’s faces for as long as they wanted. The target was to guess as closely as possible what kind of thoughts they were having in their minds. There were no winners and no losers to be there in the game. It just aimed at having some interesting fun together.

Once a round was over, everyone was free to shake off their thought of the earlier round. Then they could implant a new thought for the next round and the game would continue like before. There were no time limits in the game to stick to.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: Trying to Read Minds

Everyone tried to read everyone else’s mind to the best of their creative ability turn by turn. But most of them were wild guesses not matching others’ thoughts satisfactorily. Even if they came a bit close to them by fluke, it was very remotely so when they did.

I employed another technique when my turn came. I looked at the expressions in the eyes of the person I was trying to read the mind of. Then I tried to copy the same expressions into my eyes as closely as possible. Doing so kind of transposed my mind to a totally different feeling that started telling its own story to me.

I hadn’t yet made my readings public but when I did, all three of them were taken aback. They thought like I had done some magic to read their minds so close to what they were really thinking. They asked me how I did it, but I just smiled and didn’t divulge my secret out.

We played many rounds in three hours that our vehicle kept running on its way to Delhi. Every time similar results kept repeating themselves. The game kept turning more and more exciting with my guesses coming closer and closer every time. No one else could come even remotely close to what I every time came up with.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: They Think I Am A Magician

They thought I was a magician who had learned this secret from someone before. They kept changing their thoughts and challenging me with new ones time and again. Even I was surprised at how I had hit the jackpot by mirroring their eye-expressions into mine. The technique had made my way into their minds not only to their contents alone but also to their feelings. It made me empathize with them at the same time I was reading their minds. In fact, I wasn’t reading their minds, I was rather feeling their minds from within themselves.

Time flew on wings, and we didn’t even realize how fast three hours had passed. We took leave of one another and went our ways.

But the next day, I saw the same two girls looking for me near the grounds of National School of Drama. One of them said she wanted to speak to me in private. We sat down in a remote corner of ground, and I asked her what she wanted to say.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: There Comes A Proposal

What she came up with was sufficient enough to take me aback. In fact, she proposed to me for starting an affair between the two of us. I couldn’t find words to say no to her thinking she would get hurt if I plainly refused her. But I had to since I was already in the midst of an affair with my present wife.

As I hesitantly told her about my current affair going on, I saw tears rolling down her eyes. I spontaneously mirrored her eye-expressions and found my eyes had gone wet as well. I had started feeling her from within herself again.

We both kept shedding tears without uttering a single word after that for more than an hour. But surprisingly time again flew on wings, and we didn’t even realize how fast a full hour had passed.

It was empathy that drove me as I kept shedding tears with her for one full hour. Her friend came in looking for her after having waited for her return for long. The two left with an expression of gratefulness in their eyes.

I learned that day how powerful the eye-expressions were and what all miracles they could perform. And not only could they perform miracles, but they could also change us into extremely sensitive persons.

I learned eyes were the real windows to the mind, that day!

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A Sly Life Lessons Story of Ignoring The Hammer of Justice: Justice Is A Concept Alone, Not A Reality

In 1978, two people from our theater group in the valley applied for admission to National School of Drama. One was Shivani who had turned my ex after a fierce fight between the two of us by then. And the second one was I.

The two of us weren’t even at talking terms with each other. It simply showed we both had badly hurt each one’s expectations from the other. But the expectations were still alive though in a badly hurt state. We were still bothered about them. We weren’t free from the concern for the other and that was why we had stopped talking to each other.

Anyway, we both harbored a lot of bitterness within as we went for facing the interview for selection. Our behaviors vis-a-vis each other very conspicuously revealed telltale signs of something extremely wrong going on between us. Otherwise, why wouldn’t two candidates from the same town seen at least casually talking throughout interview processing even once? People guessed it all.

A Sly Life Lessons Story of Ignoring The Hammer of Justice: I Do My Act of Voice Modulation

As I appeared for the interview, I was asked to present a voice modulation sample of my choice. In fact, this presentation was the main criterion of selection. I enacted a deeply emotional and a highly challenging poetic monologue of at least three minutes of duration. My voice naturally had a very deep base notes and my abdominal breathing added a reverberation to its modulation. As I started rendering the presentation, all interviewers suddenly turned alert in their sitting stance abandoning their seat rests. I felt I had gone into a trance-like state while presenting my piece. A deep silence pervaded the interview hall.

And when I finished my performance, the silence still kept continuing for a long while. There was no doubt it had been an extraordinary performance without needing any comment from anyone around.

A Sly Life Lessons Story of Ignoring The Hammer of Justice: The Director Praises Me

Finally, the director asked me, “You are so highly qualified and also worked as a scientist in defense ministry. What makes you join a professional course in theater now?” he was looking at my admission form as he spoke.

“Passion! I have decided to follow the call of my heart now onwards which I never did before,” said I.

“What’s your specific field of interest in drama?” he shot his next question.

“Writing and direction! But I recently discovered I have some acting talent as well,” I stated in a matter-of-fact voice.

“That is obvious. We just witnessed it,” he murmured before he officially declared, “thank you gentleman, the interview is over. You will soon hear from us.”

“Thanks a lot, sir!” I said as I made my way out.

A Sly Life Lessons Story of Ignoring The Hammer of Justice: I Get Rejected

The interview results were out the next day. And when I checked it, my name wasn’t there in the list of selected candidates. It was unbelievable. Everyone was expecting I would top the list. But strangely, I hadn’t been selected at all. Shivani was ranked fifth among selected candidates.

Somesh was also present there and he was equally shocked too. He immediately managed for my stay in the vicinity and lined up my recently written play for performance. A staff member from the drama school took up the direction. The director of the school took up composing music for the play himself. That started my professional theatrical journey in the National School of Drama right then and there despite my admission rejected.

It was an ambitious project and the best theatrical talents joined hands to make it a memorable performance. As the school director completed his musical compositions, he invited the play director and me to his place. Unlike a corporate meeting, it was a work cum pleasure get together as is customary with artists everywhere.

A Sly Life Lessons Story of Ignoring The Hammer of Justice: The Whisky Party Chat

We sat on pegs of whisky going through all the musical compositions that the school director had composed by then. Whisky and music made a very good combination to enjoy joining the elements of the play together.

At one point while setting the lyrics with the musical notes, the school director turned very emotional. Partly it was whisky showing its effect as well.

“This composition has come out to be great. Lyrics are equally great too. I must congratulate you for having created a great piece of art as a play,” he mumbled.

“That was why you had rejected me in the interview!” I turned a bit satirical.

He immediately stood up straight saying, “I remember it all. In fact, you had topped the list of successful candidates.”

“Then? What happened?” asked the director of my play.

“You know this head of the acting department! No one knows him better than I do. He had set his evil eyes on Shivani. And he guessed this man would be the biggest hurdle in his evil flirtatious designs. So, he vetoed him out making an excuse that he had an exceptionally pronounced vein on his forehead. He argued it was a sign of an impulsive emotional state which could turn difficult for the school to handle. That son of a bitch!” his face turned bitter as he blurted out the truth.

“But wasn’t it unjustified? How did you agree to it?” exclaimed the play director.

A Sly Life Lessons Story of Ignoring The Hammer of Justice: The Sly Theory

He slowly sat down and looked at both of us as he said, “Do you think justice really exists?”

We just kept looking at his face.

He continued, “What we call justice is just our concept of it. You see we have formed Society for Prevention of Cruelty toward Animals. Which animals are these? Certainly not the ones that we gulp down into our stomachs every day! Can you show me a single example of real justice throughout the world through its entire history? Every country has its different code of justice the way it deems fit. Can you even say that the food chain of nature is a justified design? The bigger fish eating the smaller one! Justice is nowhere there,” he kept blurting his emotions out.

He stopped for a while and then said a single sentence before refilling our glasses, “Sorry! We had our warped justice which said that we couldn’t veto someone else’s veto. I couldn’t veto the veto of that cunning head of the acting department. I am really sorry!”

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A Life Lessons Story of My Best Teacher: Real Teachers Are Not Found in Classrooms Alone

At times in our theater group, we had our rehearsals going till late at night owing to the pressures of performance schedules. But since Shivani and I had started an affair by then, she didn’t bother much about getting late. I was always there to drop her back home safely at any hour. Others also offered their company along.

A Life Lessons Story of My Best Teacher in Life: The Four of Us Stop at A Tea Shop

After such a late rehearsal one day, I set off to drop Shivani back home. Two other members joined us along. On our way back, we passed by a tea shop that kept open all through the night. We decided to sip tea together before proceeding further. There were already two people sitting over there sipping their tea on another table.

We chatted about adding new elements to the upcoming performance while sipping tea. Such unofficial spontaneous meetings at times proved to be more creative than the official ones. They were truly brainstorming in their nature.

A Life Lessons Story of My Best Teacher in Life: The Police Hit A Child Outside

Suddenly we heard a loud cry of a child as if he was hit by someone. We found it was the tea vendor’s employee who was being bullied by the night police patrol. They had hit him with their baton on some issue we knew not. We didn’t want to get involved in the affairs of the police, so we kept being silent observers. But one of the other two sitting on the nearby table raised his voice loud, “Hello officer!”

The officer casually peeped inside from where the voice had addressed them. Then he tended to ignore it and kept hitting the child.

“I am addressing you, officer. Respond to me,” he again raised his voice toward them.

“Who wants a response here inside?” the officer peeped inside the shop again but couldn’t ignore the call this time.

“I am the one,” he raised his hand.

“What’s your problem?” shouted the officer.

“It’s not my problem. I am asking about yours. I want to know why you are hitting this little child so mercilessly,” said the man.

“Do you really want an answer?” The officer challenged him armed with the power the state had vested in him.

“Yes, I do want an answer,” replied the man fearlessly undeterred by the officer’s challenge.

“Okay, come out in the open if you want an answer,” the officer dared him out.

The man immediately stood up and went out where they were hitting the child. His companion followed him out as well.

“Tell me now. I am out in the open for an answer,” he dared the officer back.

By now their focus had got shifted from the child to the man challenging their authority.

The officer kept staring at the man for a while. When the man didn’t let his gaze down, the officer again asked, “So you want an answer, right?”

“Right,” said the man.

“Okay, come to the police station with us. You will get your answer in detail over there,” the officer tried his next scaring tactic.

“Well, I have no problem in going to your police station if you are more comfortable answering my question there. I just want my answer wherever you give,” the man said in a very cool voice.

A Life Lessons Story of My Best Teacher in Life: All of Them Move Toward The Police Station

They all started moving toward the police station. By that time, we had also finished our tea. Without a single word uttered among us, we automatically started following them as if pulled by a magnet behind them. The road had gone absolutely empty by then at that hour.

“The best of all the gutsy soon start panting inside a police station. Some of them even wet their pants,” the officer painted a macabre image of the police station to scare him.

“I don’t mind that. You said you would answer my question in the police station, so I am going there with you. It doesn’t matter to me what all happens there,” his tone was still the same way cool.

It was time for the officer to get alarmed now. Who was this man not losing his cool despite the impending threat of what could happen with him there? He himself started getting scared a bit now.

“Who are you by the way? What connections have you got?” the officer wanted to clarify.

“Why are you getting scared? I am an ordinary man. I really don’t have any connections too. So, you can try any of your methods you are trying to scare me with. In the end, I simply want an answer to my question,” the man said in a matter-of-fact voice.

“We also have some experience of who sounds like what. The ones who don’t have any approach shout out the loudest of their imaginary connections trying to scare us. And the ones who really have them never disclose before they set off using them in real action. I can bet you have very high connections,” the officer was in a mood to hush up the matter now.

“That’s for you to decide. I simply told you the truth I don’t have any. I am on my own alone standing in front of you in my personal capacity. You can do whatever you feel like doing. But I just want the answer to my question,” the man still insisted on what he really wanted from them.

A Life Lessons Story of My Best Teacher in Life: Four of Us Follow Them A Little Behind

It was a war of nerves that the police had already appeared to have lost in a pitiable manner. The officer didn’t want to take any further risk.

“Let’s compromise,” the officer suggested as they stopped moving ahead. We also stopped where we were, trying to listen to every single word they were exchanging.

“Sorry, I don’t want any compromise, officer! I just want you to answer my question,” the man still stuck to his ground.

By then, the officer had really got frightened. He offered an unconditional apology,” We are sorry we hit the child.”

“But why did you?” the man still didn’t accept their apology.

“We found him an easy target to take out our grudges we had to suppress within,” he was looking ashamed.

“Now I got my answer. I just wanted to show you the mirror. Do you see how ugly you look in the mirror?” his tone was again the same way cool.

“Sorry sir, we will never repeat it again,” the officer looked like an erring child caught.

“And if you are so frustrated in your job, why don’t you resign and do something better? There are hundred and one better ways to earn a living,” the man still sounded equally cool.

The officer kept looking down in shame as did his entire team along.

We all dispersed as the police left from there, but I got my best teacher in the man forever. And that too when I didn’t even know his name. What he taught me alone was way more meaningful than everything together all my teachers had ever taught me in classrooms.

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A Revealing Life Lessons Story: Everyone Is the Same Way Naked Under One’s Clothes

I was 27 when I shifted from my hilly hometown to the valley below to join a theater group there. I was an aspiring writer and soon I got a mentor named Rohit Roy who was an established writer himself. Luckily, he was also a member of the same theater group and appreciated my writing style a lot. He was all out to help me whenever he could, wherever he could. I was welcome to his place all 24 hours of the day. At times I slept there at night as well. His wife took me as a family member too.

I revered Rohit to the point of having an unquestionable faith in him. Therefore, I said nothing when he directed a play written by me and changed its subtle end with a gimmick. It was despite my feeling that doing so had robbed it of its real soul. But I kept mum.

A Revealing Life Lessons Story: I Start Writing A New Play As Does Rohit

Anyway, I started writing a new play. At the same time, it coincidentally happened so that Rohit started writing a new play too. Two new plays were going to come into existence and hence everyone in the group was excited to welcome them. We both took around a couple of months to complete our scripts.

Incidentally the script completion coincided with Somesh Garg’s visit to the group, a theater activist from National School of Drama. Being an extra-intelligent person, he enchanted the group with his presence. As the new plays had already been completed, Somesh suggested a play reading session for both of them together. Rohit offered to host the session at his place with tea and snacks to make it more enjoyable.

A Revealing Life Lessons Story: The Play Reading Session

At the specified time, the session started. Somesh was ready to take notes in his notebook while the session was in progress. The first part started with the reading of Rohit’s play giving him the due respect of being a senior writer.

After the reading was over, it was time to review the play by everyone present in the session. A detailed discussion went on concerning different aspects of the play. Somesh’s notes had been the most elaborate ones as he was professionally trained in theater genre. Hence his participation in the discussion was also the most vocal. His opinions seemed to affect others’ minds as well.

In the end, everyone was supposed to give a star rating to the play in a step of half-a-point out of 5.

Rohit’s play received a whopping 4 out of 5 stars by the members of the group and Somesh.

After a refreshment break, the next was the turn of my play to be read. The same procedure was repeated again. Tea kept being served continuously by Rohit’s wife through the session.

After the reading was done, a lengthy discussion followed. In the end, the star rating was given.

I was hardly expecting 3 or 3.5 out of 5 at the most. But to my utter astonishment, my play received an exceptional 4.5 out of 5!

A Revealing Life Lessons Story: Star Rating

I wasn’t emotionally ready to ingest that much of appreciation and that too in comparison with my mentor’s play. Although it wasn’t a comparative review but it turned so as the two reviews were placed back-to-back. My eyes automatically fell on Rohit’s face and I could clearly see it turning pale. But he kept his composure and congratulated me. I wished the two plays shouldn’t have been read back to back together. But the arrow had already been shot. What had happened, had happened.

It had already turned quite late at night. Everyone took leave of one another and left. Since I lived alone, Rohit’s wife suggested me to stay back as I wouldn’t get food anywhere at that hour. She said I could stay there overnight. I agreed.

It wasn’t that Rohit’s play was criticized or got any bad reviews, but everything got centered on the star rating. Even his star rating was exceptional, but its sheen had gone paled when kept along my star rating.

We had a relationship of a mentor and a mentee with the mentee revering the mentor. It needed a gap of levels and a distance between the two as far as the creative skill levels were concerned. But all the gaps had been bridged and all the distances had been vanished in that day’s play reading session.

Rohit didn’t speak much while eating and soon after the dinner, we all went to sleep.

A Revealing Life Lessons Story: Rohit Wakes Me Up At Night

At night, at around 3 o’clock, I heard someone waking me up from my deep sleep. As I opened my eyes, I saw Rohit standing by my bed.

“What happened? Is everything okay?” I got worried.

“I just discovered why your play got 4.5 out of 5-star rating. It’s because you have used a gimmick in your play at the end that everyone fell into the trap of. But gimmicks never make a great piece of art. I think you should change the end and get another reading done for your play,” mumbled Rohit.

Although I didn’t agree with what Rohit said but I apparently acted as if I fully agreed with him. I didn’t want him to keep feeling bad about his star rating not being as good as mine anymore.

I didn’t even tell him about what he had done to the end of my old play while directing it recently. I hadn’t liked the end because he had replaced its subtle ending with a noisy gimmick himself that time.

I also didn’t want him to realize the awkwardness of telling this to me by waking me up at 3am!

I just kept mum and acted as if I fully agreed with him.

When my acceptance convinced him about the validity of his assertion, he felt relieved and went back to sleep peacefully.

But I learned a precious lesson from this entire episode. I learned that reverence was not a right thing to have for anyone anywhere on earth. I learned everyone was the same way naked under one’s clothes.

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