Preface:
There are questions of life and living. Everyone has them. They have been there since thousands of years. Since the time, these questions came into existence, the answers also started to take shape. The old wisdom attempted answers to these questions and many of us have good faith that the answers provided by old wisdoms of religion, philosophy and spiritualism are right and probably the only answers. However, for many, they are not satisfactory answers and the questions remain valid and in search of ‘right’ answers.
You have a tough task in your hand. You want new answers and in fact, it is only natural, as we all are living in a new world, where realisms have a different perspective; needs to be in sync with modern scientific logic. The old wisdom, somehow, does not seem to be galvanized to update their answers in the light of the new awareness and knowledge of humanity.
However, the contemporary modern realist in us has to do more than just seeking answers. We all have to Revisit and Reassess the questions first. We have to works on the premise of objective and measurable logic, a common sense, which has to be in perfect symmetry with modern knowledge of humanity. That is why; even the age-old questions need to be revisited, reframed and even reassigned and realigned in a secular and temporal perspective. This is primary requirement for wellness and lasting peace.
For every one of us, living in modern contemporary world, seeking answers in milieu-specific pragmatism, the context needs to be understood by some contemporary example and for that let us use the metaphor of a computer. We all operate the computer; even kids do it smartly, some even better than adults! However, only a miniscule percentage of us know exactly how the computer is made and what scientific mechanisms and processes make it work. Most of us are operative geniuses of computer, successfully doing all functions that a computer is designed for. However, when someone asks us about how the computer does this function or than one, we are in trouble answering.
The reason is; an average person does not know the scientific or technological details of the working mechanisms and processes of the computer. We actually do not have the need as we all have mastered the operative functions and it is enough to make full potential use of the computer. Kids run the android operative system on hand devices and nobody has to bother about the technological details of the jelly beans and ginger breads!
The trouble starts when questions are generated for answers, which pertain to finer details of the working system of a realism, the operative masters of which we happily are. So, when a kid shall ask, how the pictures sneak into the screens of your computer, we shall device ‘smart answers’ but they shall never be ‘true answers’, as we do not know the system functioning.
Empowerment and personal excellence is not only about the operative knowledge of the system called life and living; it is much beyond that. We have a mechanism, the life around us has a mechanism and the cosmic order has a mechanism and process. Usually, we do not have the express need to be in complete knowledge of the entire mechanism of the ‘computer of life and living’. Most of us do quite well without it. However, it has to be accepted with humility and innocence that questions shall always emanate, wherever there is an intricate and multidimensional mechanism and process. Questions are embedded in the mechanism. We may do without it and still do reasonably well. That is another thing. Still, questions cannot be wished away.
The humble assertion is; we all are designed to have excellence, not just bare survival. Excellence is systemic too in the mechanism and process of all designs, even as entropy always sneaks in. This excellence is a must for ‘Optimizing Operative Efficiency’. When we talk about the idea and idealism of spiritualism in modern context, we are essentially talking about knowing the mechanism well, the processes well, so that we have the questions right. Then only we can think of having the right answers.
Spiritualism is an intangible, innate, instinctive, embedded and essential consciousness of overall excellence of life and living. Spiritualism is your mind-positioning for this avowed excellence of life and living.
We all can operate a computer but those with overall knowledge of the technological mechanism and process of the digital computing and artificial intelligence shall have the overall excellence in using the computer to its best possible potential. Moreover, they shall also be more adept at handling the entropy of the system. Naturally, as the computer is designed for enhancing and catalyzing the excellence of the operator, those in complete knowledge of the design and its mechanism-process shall be better positioned to land at the potential excellence.
Moreover, one does not have to be a computer engineer to understand the mechanism-process of the design of a computer. We just have to expand the limits of our natural inquisitiveness to get to the core principle of digital computing and artificial intelligence. All sciences and technology, in fact all wisdoms and knowledge have a ‘Simple Model’ to get to its core system. Religion provided its own model, using simple ‘metaphors’ from nature around us. Science does it by using analogies with other simpler models.
The same complex scientific theory is taught in class six, which scientists learn for a lifetime, in their labs. We all have the mind-mechanism to understand everything in simpler and less complex models. Spiritualism is also about assimilating a simpler and easily amenable model of the complex cosmic system and life and living mechanisms. Our own body-mind homeostasis is one simple model to understand the colossal and complex mechanism of cosmic poise.
It also needs to be talked here that spiritualism has no answers of its own. A computer engineer shall never give you an answer of his or her own. Being an engineer, being a spiritualist, does not qualify us to ‘create’ answers. It only enables us to develop and assimilate a simpler and understandable model of an answer already embedded in a system. How a computer works has a singular and objectively replicable answer. The answers cannot change for you or me even when you and me become a computer engineer. It just extends us an endowment, an ability to understand the already present answers.
The cosmic realism, the life and living mechanism and processes already have answers. The answers are as real, ingrained, systemic, objective and replicable as are the questions. The realism and mechanism itself engenders all questions and all answers. Humanity has just been able to create a knowledge and wisdom, which helps us unravel and understand the questions and their answers already there.
Spiritualism has no answers of questions of life-living and cosmic realism. This is simply because; it has no questions of its own. Both questions and answers pertain to realisms, which have been there billions of years before spiritualism or humanity came into being. Spiritualism, however remains and shall always be the ‘facility and wisdom’ to unravel and assimilate the answers as well as the questions in personalized models, a subjective metaphor of an objective realism, which were, are and shall always be.
Now, the big issue at hand for all of us is what is the nature, scope and structure of this new contemporary collective wisdom, which a modern aware person can have to optimize his potentials as a human and also be able to unravel the already available key answers of life and living questions. We talk about all this in this eBook…
… when we accept that life, the milieus around us and we in it have a mechanism and process and even these mechanism and processes have a pattern to it, we are essentially on the doorstep of peace and lasting wellness. What next we need is to step inside the door…
The computer analogy we used for understanding spiritualism however has its own limitations. Cosmic system, in its vastness and multidimensionality of life and living cannot be akin to a simple computer. The trouble starts from here.
The cosmic system and the life-living realisms are billions of years old and even scientists believe, they are so vast and intricate that human mind is insufficient to understand them fully ever. Moreover, there is one fact that has to be taken in mind.
It is eccentrically fascinating, extremely bizarre, stupidly enjoyable yet, probably the most critical and grim fact of humanity and its living experiences on this planet. We all are into something, which has no parallel in the history of living being, probably anywhere in the universe!
We had questions, which originated few thousands of years back for we humans but the questions actually had their origins billions of years back. From about ten thousand years, we humans started attempting their answers. Answers first came with religion, then with philosophy and finally, early science stepped in.
Now, the modern humans have the wherewithal of modern science and technology to understand all transcendental questions in a new light and present novel set of answers. Still, the troubles are the same. Even thousands years back, the data which were available for testing the validity of facts and separate fiction from objective fact were very negligible as all facts were billions or millions of years old, randomly and erratically available.
It is a strange situation. Incidents happened billions and millions of years back but the consciousness and wisdom of humanity to be able to fathom all these happened merely a few thousands of years back. The universe came into being 14 billion years back and humans happened 4 million years back. There is a popular belief that the evolutionary model of life and living, which science presents as alternative to ‘God’s Design’, has so many missing links. The popular big-bang theory of creation of universe and the contemporary quantum mechanism are considered to have so much elements of philosophical imagery and postulations that it is even tough for scientists to present a simpler and amenable model for understanding of an average person. Many believe, such science is a very complex fictionalism of factual realisms. The debate is never ending.
A simpler interpretation is; as humans developed the subjective consciousness – the feeling of ‘me’ and ‘self’; something unique and exclusively available to human species only, humans could formulate questions, which had their origin way back in time. Modern humans today can hardly visualize the distant past even in its best of consciousness as the links, the requisite factual data to all these incidents are missing and can never ever be recreated and re-imaged to perfection either in human mind or in a human-created lab. It is a sad thing to say but the fact looks like; the very distant past is beyond replication in its finest details.
It only seems natural that despite best of scientific advances today and more finesse coming in coming decades, humanity probably cannot find the actual, objective, singular and the right answers. We do not have the requisite data now and may not ever have, even if we have the consciousness and logistics.
Then, the billion-dollar question is, are the answers to all the questions of life-living really important and necessary for successful life and living of humanity in coming centuries? Do we really need these answers for creating a world where all humans have a peaceful, prosperous and enjoyable life and which next generations could inherit from us?
No doubt, if we have a singular answer for all these questions of humanity, we naturally shall be better off. But, as it is apparent that this is just an idealism which shall always remain confined to the realm of ‘should’ and ‘prescriptions’, we all need to move ahead for something practically possible which could be actually achieved, despite the above limitations of human consciousness and mind.
The idea is, it shall take another hundreds of years before, science could evolve itself to such a capability where it creates a singular, objective and integrative platform for assimilation of all human wisdom so far to explain all realism, be it physical, cognitive consciousness or pre-cognitive and non-physical consciousness. On the other hand, it may never happen. The later has larger probability!
So, can it happen that humanity drops these contentious and conflicting issues for a while and concentrate on building an integrative, holistic and globally workable and acceptable paradigm, which could be the singular basis of developing a worldview that works commonly for all humans? Accepted, any procrastination is not a welcome thing to do. Especially; when the issue at hand; is of such paramount importance to larger humanity! Still, procrastination is better than confused and chaotic continuity.
A simple and innocent query is; can we drop the ‘larger questions’ of life and living for a while to focus on so-called ‘smaller questions’ of humanity? The smaller yet very crucial issues at hand are world peace, personal peace, sustainable development, an alternative global economy based on larger wellness of humanity rather than pure profit, a compassionate framework for family and social living based on collective wellness rather than individualistic instant self-gratification, etc. Can we accept that there may not be a situation of impeccable joy for all but there can always be a possibility of an individual attaining his or her own subjective peace and poise…?
As it seems, humanity has been very well ensconced and in perpetual pursuit of the larger questions and it is actually the smaller questions mentioned above that are being procrastinated for ages. If compared, we can see that humanity has made larger advancement in understanding and even answering the larger questions but has made very little headway in settling the smaller questions. Many of these issues have rather regressed in the march of civilization and we all are easy victims of this procrastination and regression.
Well, it looks like another presupposition for ‘shoulds’ and idealistic ‘prescriptions’ but then, is there a better option? It is as open to unending debate as anything is. People may say that crucial and cardinal questions, such as what is ‘consciousness’, what is actual realism, what is life and how things came to be, etc must first be truly answered. Only then there could be a basis for a singular paradigm for a singular worldview, which then could be true basis for building a new and lasting worldview for a rational and lasting world order.
The only rejoinder to these debates is an idea that cardinal questions may never be resolved as the requisite empirical data for this is not available and may never be as they are somewhere billions and millions of years away with so many missing links.
Even if they get resolved in next few hundred years from now, it would take another thousands of years for all humanity to accept them. This is too long a period for all smaller questions of humanity to wait.
It seems only practical that as humanity grapples with larger questions, in the meantime, let us take all smaller questions in all sincerity and urgency as humanity is in such a stage where these questions have put a question mark on the very survival of human species on the earth.
No doubt, we all need our answers right and first but we all actually first need to survive and be rationally empowered to reach up to such a stage in human evolution where we actually remain there to enjoy the answers.
The way our smaller questions have made this world a virtual calamity, it seems improbable that humanity can survive such long till the answers are found and even if it survives that long, will the humanity be in such state of consciousness to even accept and appreciate that?
One may say, it is a Hobson’s choice. Finding answers for smaller questions of humanity are far more challenging and impossible than answering the larger question and no amount of answer of larger question can settle the smaller ones.
Then, what we should do? A section of objective people say, “humans do not become what they think they should or they would but they become what the randomized and probabilistic energy of stupid engineering of evolution thinks humanity should and would”.
However, some great minds of contemporary wisdom appeal, “Let this evolution cease to be as randomized and probabilistic as it had been thus far, let conscious and rational humanity be the new and controlled energy of a new evolution which is well directed and well planned”. Is that another presupposition for ‘shoulds’ and idealistic ‘prescriptions’? You decide!
… if you accept that your own evolution to peace and lasting wellness must never be energized by random elements of milieus but by planned and controlled elements of higher consciousness, then this eBook has utility and fruition for you…
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...For Finality Of Fruition
It is not that people await good times, the good times also await good people to come and hoist the potential seeded in the soil of future. Good words also wish for good readers, to be in reception of and be in linearity of the innocent intent, which ride on the shoulders of the words, for the finality of their fruition...
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… On Navigation And Expression Of Intent
There has to be a humble admittance – Any word, however well meant and well spelt, is a possible suspect of misinterpretation. There is a simple reason. People are in different consciousnesses and culturally as well as personally inclined to a specific value-summation of utilities. As a writer, it is a huge temptation to take liberties, with not only imaginations but also with the words, as against their common and popular use. Do kindly accept my latitude with language and personal coinages of words, as I understand, many times, they may not conform to popular usages. I share with you whatever is part of my consciousness. All wisdoms say, what stays with you is what sinks in. Wisdom is what we internalize. I share with you whatever I have internalized in my life. This may not be mainstream stuff; but may have utility in some meaningful way. I believe, as a reader, you shall enjoy this novelty and pleasant awkwardness of the writing.
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Thanks For Your Magnanimity, The Book Begins Now...
Rule Of Causality And Probability Of Disorder…
Disorder and entropic chaos is far more creative energy. You are better off only when you land in the probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty and completely taken to randomization of eventualities by the typhoon of disorder and chaos…
The above rhymes seem a humdrum of an insanely stupid mind who is in the habit of mouthing gibberish insinuations just for populist consumption. People have since ages seem to have spoken of such nonsensical causality to draw attention of mindless millions; no doubt. But, the idea is, looks like close to what thermodynamics says about energy and its situationalism. Understanding the basics of energy and its intuitive mechanism helps a lot in understanding not only the societal space around us but also the systemic stupidities of our inner-selves…
The state of physical realism is that the total energy of the universe is constant. The more important factual physicality is that everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time. The resultant wisdom of the physicality rule is now available for causal philosophizing…
It needs to be insisted here that this causal-philosophizing is for restrictive purpose of paradigm-building for a very metaphoric-mechanism; having utility only for arriving at a dimension which otherwise may not be possible. This process has derivative utility only…!
Energy being constant is a huge hypothesis for human social realism. It provides great insight into humanity’s incessant enterprise to construct and destruct the world around for increasing conveniences. What it means in general understanding is, we humans have this capacity only to devise the usages of the energy already available and still it remains what it was. We convert the potential energy into kinetic energy and this very moment entropy sets in. No usage-device of any advancement can use the energy 100% and part of it goes into the system.
The hypothesis is, as energies are used for creating order within a mechanism, part of it, often a considerable part, is always lost in the process and this is the disorder which goes into the system or the immediate environment where the mechanism operates. As energy can never be destroyed, the disordered energy, lost in the mechanism is stored as entropic energy in the system. The construction process releases the entropic energy which is stored in the system as destructive energy. In simple words, the process or mechanism of ‘order’ itself releases the entropic energy which is stored as ‘disorder’ in the system, within which the process works…
This happens as energy is constant; it is always conserved but takes different shapes – from potential to kinetic and part going to energy fields (systemic). The other fact is that everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time. So, greater the time-period of ‘order-building’; larger is the propensity of ‘disorder-building’ in the system. Given that systemic efficiency has a larger impact on the efficiency of the process and mechanisms within it, entropic energies in the Long-Run would ensure recurring disorders in the overall working-efficiencies of order processes.
We shall talk about the idea of Long Run later and before that, we need to know in detail this element of entropy and inevitability and omnipresence of disorder in all orders.
We can say, there is this Rule Of Causality in the cosmos as well as in the milieus, which plays around us, muffles us and makes us sing and dance to its tunes. It is this rule of causality, which unleashes its embedded energy and we, as individuals are run into actions and behaviors by this energy; either in inertia, by choice or by status quo.
The simple thing is – A ‘Probability’ Has its own ‘Causality’ and even when this probability is playing its energy on us, at one time/space situation, the other aspect of this probability, usually the inverse of it, or the flip side of the probability, is still there, though in static energy form. So, a ‘Heads’ in the toss of coin plays some causality or set of it for us, even as the probabilities and related causalities of ‘Tails’ of the same coin is lying latent in the same milieu and for the same person. The trouble is, mostly, people accept only the kinetic energy of ‘Heads’ playing at the moment for us and refuse to accept the inevitability of the static or latent energies of the ‘Tails’ of the same coin of life, which always has the ‘Dual’ causalities of twin probabilities…
If you accept ‘Heads’, or it happens to you, by choice or by inertia, its energies lead your actions and behaviors but never ever believe that the static or latent energy of ‘Tails’ is not playing its own energies of causalities of probabilities. The coin is never only heads or tails, it is always both. If ‘Heads’ is ‘Good’ for me, then ‘Tails’ is also trailing me and its causalities are also there in the same milieu (Often with inverse probabilities), where Heads is operating for me. Good and bad are always operating in its entirety and that is why, throughout our lives, everyone of us is in the midst of the dualism, which in its holism is affecting us.
In our subjective consciousness, we fail to see and accept the holism of the dualism playing every second for us and this is our core trouble. The dualism mothers loads of hypocrisies, everyone of us dump into the milieus and add to the already overdose of 3Cs – Conflict, confusion and chaos…
Science has confirmed – The vacuum in the space is not ‘Nothingness’. There always are ‘vacillations’ in the vacuum and these vacillations shape up the ‘Somethingness’ in the causalities of rainbow of probabilities…
If we see and accept the dualism and its energies in life, we can clearly see that in most cases, especially in the modern day problems we face, the artistry of arriving at solutions or goodness-wellness is not in ‘creating’ or generating something externally but in ‘rearranging’, ‘repositioning’ and ‘realigning’ the already present factors and elements in the dualistic energies of holism, in some alternative ways…
The coin is always there with dual probabilities… Everythingness is what we all are muffled with like ambient air… nothingness is a subjective stupidity…
Often, in our daily lives, we are in drifting ‘reactive-mode’ of consciousness. This is our mechanism; we have been designed this way for survival. This mode is for quick-fire response of the stimulus in the ambient environment for survival-success. Tougher life shall be, more reactive we become. This is one ‘trap’ situation, which we need to understand.
Now, the key question is; what we can accept as ‘Long-Run’, where entropy starts taking its toll. It is crucial to know that because, only then we can gauge the extent and intensity of the disorder and entropic energy in our systems. If the period is short, we have a system, which has low disorder and low entropic energy, and if the period is long one, we are in a chaotic and catastrophic system.
Consider the scientific facts available about the life of our Sun and the universe we live in. The Sun is the source of life on Earth that’s why, its end means end of all things, living or non-living on the Earth. Now, we all know, our dear Sun came into existence some 4.6 billion years ago. The scientists are affirmative that after 4 billion years, the Sun shall be so hot that all life on Earth shall vanish. Some however have belief that such a stage can come even after just 2.5 billion years. The universe however has longer life. It came into being almost 14 billion years before and shall survive about 35 billion years more.
What does this mean? It seems, we are halfway through our entire life period on this earth! Is that a period enough to be termed as ‘Long-Run’ of time? It seems, looks like a possibility. Even if we consider the entire life-period of universe, we are past one quarter of it. So, can we assume, we, humanity as a whole, have passed long enough time on earth to make the hypothesis true that – Everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time. Do we need to align ourselves to this possibility that as we are halfway through, we must all understand and accept that we live in times when our mechanisms of order and construction has spewed out reasonably high amounts of ‘Disorder and Destruction’. This is a systemic trouble… a procedural predicament that we humans cannot wish away. Can we?
What this causal philosophizing on the thermodynamics realism means for humanity in general and in particular? Yes, this is now the most important aspect to explore and understand. It is not that this hypothesis about ‘Long Run’ and ‘Entropy’ is what we need to feel scared about. The only insinuation is that somehow, in our zeal to maximize joys and comforts, this probability of causality about systemic entropy is not even being accepted in sidelines. We at least need to bring this issue to debate and discussion at the center of all talks about development. Thinking of development is always good but being oblivious of entropy that the enterprise of energy for development is unleashing fast in the milieus is call to calamity. It seems so…
Stephen Hawking says, ‘A frightening possibility is that intelligent life is not only common, but that it destroys itself when it reaches a stage of advanced technology. That’s why we have not met aliens as yet…’
Yes, this is disorder and entropic energy at its best. What Hawking is probably hinting at is the systemic causality of development and entropy, which all humans need to understand and accept. The intuitive mechanism of energy, in and around us must be accepted by all; at least our decision-makers.
We always see a lot of chaos, confusion, conflict, catastrophe around us and more often, these destructive energies are so potent and omnipresent that we feel frustrated and often start believing that our systems have gone so much wrong and humanity is doomed. Somehow, as human brain/mind is only 15 percent genetic and majorly 85 percent milieu-driven, major part of this chaos, confusion, conflict percolates to individual consciousness and collective unconscious.
In all nations, be it developed or developing, the systemic entropies make a larger population feel frustrated and in anger and revolt of the system. May be, the human system and milieus have become so large and their working has become so complex that level or content of entropy has risen very high, unleashing loads of conflicts and confusions. We all think, our leaders or those in control of resources and authority have misused their briefs to create such a chaos and conflict. We almost always fail to see the larger picture. The entropy is systemic. We all contribute to it. It is there because it has to be there. There is no wishing away. And as time passes, every next day brings about more entropic energy into play in the system. We think and believe that they are people-specific troubles, unleashed by politicians or others but the fact seems like it is all systemic entropy.
This is cardinal principle of physical realism of the universe. More we grow in time and space, larger becomes our systems and mechanisms for excellence and order and more and more grows the disorder and entropy in the system. We need to accept, we have come halfway mark. Too much we have constructed for the destructive energy to be under control and within comfort zone. Scientists warn, the forces of nature and evolution has ceased to be and human intervention has come a long way. The entropy somehow also balances developmental energies but as natural entropy is non-operative, it is human entropy into the system, which has gone out of limits and is set to go berserk.
We have become a complex living conundrum. We all see it around. We all have ourselves discovered the rules of physicality. Still, we do not wish to accept it. It is interesting how we all rather prefer the energy of entropy in our lives and the life-enterprises. See, for example, we say it to ourselves and everyone, ‘If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got. Stretch it out, leave the comfort zone and dabble into the pond of uncert