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Science Vs Spirituality As Two Popular Approaches To Life!
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Today’s episode titled “Science Vs Spirituality As Two Popular Approaches To Life!” will tell you about materialistic vs vitalistic approaches to life.
As early as I came to my senses, I found myself wondering.
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Science Vs Spirituality As Two Popular Approaches To Life! – Show Notes
Welcome back to the latest episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
In today’s episode titled “Science Vs Spirituality As Two Popular Approaches To Life!”, I address the two popular approaches to life that shape our understanding of existence.
From my innocent musings of my childhood to the profound complexities of my entire life, I reflect on my journey of self-discovery and my quest to understand the essence of life. Through engaging real life stories, I navigate the complexities of materialism, which views living beings as intricate machines, and contrast it with vitalism, a belief in the cosmic life energy that animates matter.
You will find here:
– The historical context of materialism and vitalism, featuring insights from thinkers like René Descartes and Charles Darwin.
– The implications of these philosophies on our understanding of consciousness and existence.
– Personal stories that illustrate the unexpected intersections of these approaches in real-life situations.
– The vitalistic perspective’s enduring influence on alternative medicine and cultural beliefs.
Science Vs Spirituality As Two Popular Approaches To Life! – Chapters
Chapters:
00:00:01) – Materialism vs Vitalism
(00:05:40) – Vitalism and its implications
(00:15:05) – The Essentialism of Neurosurgery
(00:18:46) – The Miracle of My Eyes
(00:27:28) – Skeletal Leap
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Was he a materialist or a vitalist?
Almost every single person is a
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complex integration of both these approaches.
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal
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Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
materialistic vs vitalistic approaches to life.
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As early as I came to my senses,
I found myself wondering.
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I remember the little kid that I was, wondering
who he was or even what he was. It was like a
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third person wondering about my self, the self
that I thought I was. I also wondered if stones
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could do the same. I was told they could not.
Today, I comprehend it as something very unique.
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It was the awareness of being aware. I also
wondered if animals could do the same. No
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one could tell me anything about this for
sure. I wished I could turn into a cat,
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even if only for a moment, to know
the answer. But that was not to be.
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Later, I tried to satiate my curiosity
from the stores of knowledge, i.e.,
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books. Those were the days when the worldwide
web hadn’t yet come into existence. So I devoured
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anything and everything that I could
get my hands on regarding the subject.
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What I first came to know from there
about life were its characteristics13
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in the living beings, such as:
Homeostasis meant regulating
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their internal environment.
Organization meant being composed of one
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or more of the basic units of life called cells.
Metabolism meant decomposing chemicals turning
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them to energy for cells to maintain life.
Growth meant increasing in size in all its parts.
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Adaptation meant evolving to adapt
with the changing environment.
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Response to Stimuli meant moving
for safety and other purposes.
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Reproduction meant ability to create
similar life as their offsprings.
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What I also came to know from there was that
people had two basic approaches to life. One sided
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with materialism and the other, vitalism.
Materialism
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Materialism opines that animals including humans
are extremely complex machines. They are so
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complex that we haven’t yet been able to fully
understand this level of complexity. But we may,
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someday. Or we will, one day.
Rene Descartes was the first to
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propose this hypothesis in the seventeenth
century. Later, in the nineteenth century,
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biologists discovered the cell theory
of life. It established, without doubt,
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that all living things were cellular in structure.
Then came Charles Darwin with his impeccable
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theory of evolution. This striking theory
said that evolution took effect through an
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automatic natural selection of genes
within those cells. And it was this
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alone that enabled Homo sapiens to turn bipeds.
A little before Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had
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proposed that animals could pass on their acquired
characteristics to their offsprings. These were
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the characteristics that they had acquired in
their lifetime through use or disuse of select
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anatomical features, consciously, as a choice.
The two theories appeared to be in contrast
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with each other. Darwin’s theory sided with
natural selection whereas Lamarck had sided
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with conscious use or disuse responsible for
evolution. But Darwin never negated Lamarck’s
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proposition even once in any of his works. He
rather supported it. This is simply indicative
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of the weight in both their propositions.
In fact, the latest synthesis of human
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evolution by the Baldwin Effect is a
reconciliation between the neo-Darwinian
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and the neo-Lamarckian approaches. It shows
Lamarckian adaptive changes being followed
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by Darwinian genetic changes without needing
to inherit them directly from the parents.
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Here is a quote by Ian Alexander…
“Lamarckian use and disuse compared to Darwinian
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evolution, the Baldwin effect, and Waddington‘s
genetic assimilation… all the theories offer
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explanations of how organisms respond to a changed
environment with adaptive inherited change.”
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Courtesy, Ian Alexander
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That was a bird’s eye-view of the materialistic
approach to the question of life and evolution.
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The other less scientifically accepted but
extremely widespread approach in people’s psyche
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has been the vitalistic approach to life.
Vitalism
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Vitalism opines that life comes to
existence only when matter imbibes life
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energy that is cosmic in nature. This energy
is supposed to be non-physical in its nature.
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It has been given different names in different
cultures and different disciplines. It enjoyed
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the status of a testable hypothesis in
the field of biology till as recently as
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the nineteenth century. But despite several
experiments, vitalism has failed to provide
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any substantial evidence to prove its verity
as yet. Hence it has been denigrated to the
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level of a superseded scientific theory
at best in the scientific community.
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The scientific community, despite quite
successfully dealing a lot with the question
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of how matter came into existence, accepts it
as self-evident as matter is always visible to
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us. There has never been a necessity to explain
its existence. Isn’t it the same way that life
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is always visible to us too? Hence, why can’t
we start taking life as self-evident as well?
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That is what vitalists say when they challenge
materialism to prove exactly what that complexity
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is about. This question comes up when materialism
claims complexity in the material organization
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as the precursor of life. But materialistic
science has no irrefutable answer to it yet.
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Vitalists claim that, in this context, science
has no moral ground to criticize vitalism as a
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superseded scientific theory. They argue
that, by the same token, complexity could
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also be called a superseded scientific theory.
Vitalism claims that non-physical life energy
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can exist on its own without
being imbibed by the matter.
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It claims its omnipresence as cosmic energy.
In fact, vitalism has a very long history,
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especially in the field of alternative medicine.
The list is extremely long but the main proponent
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systems as vitalistic medicine are homeopathy,
acupuncture, acupressure, aromatherapy,
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chiropractic, Chakra healing, Reiki, Pranic
healing, cupping therapy, energy healing,
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Ayurvedic medicine, hypnotherapy, naturopathy,
mind-body Interventions and quite a few more.
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Also, apart from the field of medicine,
vitalism has its roots dug really deep in
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human culture in the form of religion,
spiritualism, morality, piety, yoga,
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meditation, rebirth, enlightenment, karma theory
and the most importantly the concept of theism.
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A majority of the world’s population
believes in almost all these aspects
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as part of its culture. I don’t need to go
numerical here posting their percentages
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but everyone knows they are quite high.
Then there are materialists in various spheres
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who are also vitalists in their wider approach
to life. A certain Dr. Einstein comes to mind!
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The Story of A Materialist
Who Was A Vitalist Deep Within
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Let me tell you a story that took place in
the year 1981. I had just gotten married when
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I met with an accident. It was a serious
accident that seemed to have severed one
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of the tendons on my right biceps.
I was admitted in one of the best
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government hospitals. As I was whiling
away my time sitting on the hospital bed,
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waiting to get my tendon stitched surgically, the
head of the orthopedic department came with his
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students. He had planned to demonstrate
my condition as a case study to them.
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He started explaining how it was a
classical case of biceps severed at
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its tendon at the elbow joint. I immediately
took objection. I said I felt it was at the
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shoulder joint and not at the elbow joint.
“Are you a doctor or I?” he challenged.
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I got offended by the tone of his voice. “Are
you suffering from a severed tendon or I?” I
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retorted in the same tone.
He started muttering,
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trying to save face from his students.
“I know better than you do. So better keep
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shut,” he came up with his next attack without
even being humble enough to listen to his patient.
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“I feel I have lost faith in you. So I wouldn’t
like to continue with my treatment here,” I
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declared my decision then and there.
“It will be your responsibility alone
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in case your problem gets worse
because of this,” he threatened me.
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“I know that and I will indemnify the
hospital when I sign my papers relieving
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me from here,” I gave my final verdict.
After I got relieved, I immediately went
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to another private orthopedic surgeon and told
him the entire story. He checked my arm very
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cautiously for a long time. Then he silently came
up with the words, “You are right. My teacher is
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wrong. It is severed on the shoulder joint.”
“So?” I asked.
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“Please don’t tell the orthopedic head that I said
so. In fact, he has been my teacher. Let him not
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get hurt further on knowing I have taken up your
case. I can immediately start the operation if
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you are ready,” he looked for my approval.
I immediately agreed, “Please go ahead.”
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It was a long operation and I got my biceps
stitched with 22 sutures on my right shoulder.
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He discharged me saying that I would be able
to start lifting my arm in a month or so.
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I went back home and waited for a full month to
pass. But even after that, there seemed to be no
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signs of me being able to lift my arm at all.
I rushed back to the doctor. As he checked
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my arm again, his face went serious.
“You’ve been very unlucky,” he said.
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“Your tendon has nicely gotten attached
to your shoulder joint. But unluckily the
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musculocutaneous nerve has also got crushed in
the accident, I suspect,” he further explained.
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“So?” I asked again.
“I am referring your case
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to the head of neurosurgery in the government
hospital famous for its neurosurgeons,” he said.
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The said hospital was just across the
road and I immediately met the head
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of its neurosurgery department. He
checked my arm and confirmed that my
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musculocutaneous nerve had, in fact, been crushed.
“As this nerve is located deep inside the arm,
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we generally don’t touch it. That is because
it is extremely tedious and the success rate
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is not very high either. So we do it only if
it is a case of life and death or livelihood.
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You will have to learn living with it the way
it is right now,” he gave me his prognosis.
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“But doctor, it is a case of life
and death in my case too,” I said.
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“How come? What do you do?” he asked.
“I write for a living, which I will no more
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be able to do with my left hand,” I replied.
“Why? You can always train your left hand to
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be able to write as easily as with
your right hand!” he suggested me.
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“I am afraid waiting for it to get trained
will prove to be a big handicap in my career.
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I will be left with no alternative but to
commit suicide,” my tone sounded like a cool
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determination to do what I had said I would.
The head suddenly went hyper-emotional, “No,
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don’t do that!” I could see tears
along with empathy in his eyes.
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“I’ll be compelled to!” I said
in a depressed tone of voice.
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“Okay, I am ready to take a chance on operating
on your nerve. At least it will be better than
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dying. Just don’t commit suicide,” and he gave me
an appointment for an operation on the 26th day of
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the month and it was only the 1st that day.
I went back home and kept counting days for
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the date of my operation to arrive. It was
going to be an operation conducted by one of
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the country’s most skilled neurosurgeons.
But it was another thing that the chances
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of success were as low as hardly 50%.
The 26th day kept coming closer and
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closer but at a snail’s pace. Every morning,
I would look at the calendar and count the
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days left for the appointment date all over.
I would also keep trying to lift my arm, the
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first thing to do each morning. It became a daily
routine as soon as I woke up. I did so despite no
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hope for such attempts to be successful at all.
And then the miracle happened on the 26th day!
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I woke up in the morning thinking I would
rush to the hospital for my operation. It
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was then that I got the most pleasant shock
of my life. Out of habit, I tried to lift
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my arm and could not believe what followed.
I was able to lift it well above my shoulder.
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I lifted it many times until I was
100% sure that I was actually able
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to do so. I was successful every time!
And the first thing I did was to rush to
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the hospital in order to show this miracle
to my surgeon. As he saw me lifting my arm
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every time without any obstruction,
he looked to be extremely elated.
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I could again see the tears in his eyes
though, this time, they were the tears of
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happiness. He raised his hands toward the
sky and could only say, “God is great!”
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I was excited to relive my life without carrying
a tag of a disabled man written on my body.
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Later, when I reassembled the entire scene in my
critical memory, I really wondered. I wondered how
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a top ranking expert of a strictly materialistic
discipline had spontaneously reacted to what had
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happened. It hadn’t ignited any spirit of
curiosity in his mind as to how it could
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have happened. It had rather ignited a spirit
of gratitude for something his materialistic
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discipline had never adhered to.
Was he a materialist or a vitalist?
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Almost every single person is a complex
integration of both these approaches.
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This great neurosurgeon was no different.
There is a reason for it. There are quite a few
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phenomena that the materialistic approach explains
and handles way better than the vitalistic
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approach. But then, there are quite a few other
phenomena that the vitalistic approach claims it
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can explain better. These are the ones that the
materialistic approach has no clue about yet.
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At this point, I urgently feel a real need
to tell you another story from my life.
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These are the stories that I can personally
authenticate to be true, word for word. And it
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is their authenticity that makes them meaningful
vehicles to investigate into the nature of life.
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It is again a story of another
miracle that happened many years ago.
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The Story of An Instant Materialistic
Miracle That Happened to My Eyes
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I still remember the date. It was on 12 December
2004 that I was standing near Sarojini Nagar
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Market in Delhi. I was waiting for my wife to
join me for some shopping. She had gotten a
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little late leaving me standing for a while.
It was then that the miracle happened.
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I stretched my body a little in order to come out
of my static inertia. It was the static inertia of
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keeping standing at one place for a long time.
As I looked around after this stretch,
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I got a tremendously pleasant shock of my life. I
was suddenly seeing everything in the field of my
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vision, far and wide, absolutely crystal-clear.
I had never seen so clear in my life before.
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It was a pleasant shock because I had been
a myope since I came to my senses. I had
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been provided with a pair of glasses. That
was the first pair of glasses that had been
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given to me. They had a diopter number of
—5.00 in my left eye and 0.00 in my right.
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Since my right eye was fine, I had kept those
glasses in my drawer and forgotten about them.
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Days had kept passing by and I had forgotten
everything about my myopic eyesight. More so
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because I had been able to see clear
with at least one of my eyes. It had
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also been because I had never liked the
idea of wearing those crutches on my eyes.
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A few years later… by this time, I had completed
my engineering and gotten a job as a scientist
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in the defense ministry. Before starting at
my job, I had to get my medical exam done at
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a scheduled government hospital. When they
had tested my eyes there, it had again come
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to me as a surprise. Both my eyes had needed
a corrective diopter number of strength —2.25.
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What a surprising change it had been! My right
eye (pun intended) had gone wrong from 0.00 to
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—2.25. On the other hand, my left eye had improved
tremendously from —5.00 diopter to —2.25 on its
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own. No theory in mainstream ophthalmology
had been able to explain this improvement!
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Back (in fact, forward) to the clarity of
vision that I experienced on 12 December 2004!
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I was seeing crystal clear in both eyes. It
was instantaneous! I wasn’t able to believe my
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eyes. In fact, I didn’t blink for a long time.
And then I blinked. As my eyes opened again,
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they were back to the same old blurred
vision, far and wide, that I was used to.
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I felt disappointed. But I was not
the kind of a vitalist that would say,
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“God is great!” for my instantaneous
experience of clarity. Had I been one,
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I would have forgotten it forever after thanking
God for blessing me with a one-time miracle.
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No! Unlike the neurosurgeon who had been
so kind to me, I wouldn’t leave it at that.
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I didn’t know how I was able to see so clearly
just a minute ago. But I was curious enough to
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want to know. My mind was totally clueless about
it. Keeping this in mind, I turned to my body
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to repeat what it had done a few seconds ago.
Luckily, the body still had its memory of the
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maneuver it had done a few seconds ago, intact.
It rolled me back into the same clarity of vision
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again. I tried with my mind to take notes of the
body maneuver but failed. The maneuver, though
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instantaneous, was so complex that my mind wasn’t
able to understand it in clear steps of action.
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It was frustrating not to be able to know it
as a clear series of steps. At the same time,
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though, it was also exciting to experience
my body being able to jump into it at will.
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In the coming days, I kept playing this mind-body
game. It went on for two full years. That is how
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long it took for my body to slowly and steadily
explain all the steps it had used in the maneuver,
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to my mind. One by one…by one! It was my
perseverance alone that got it done, though
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it had taken two full years in the process. I had
to upgrade my mind to achieve this; something I
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did through a lot of research. Research in any and
every discipline I suspected of having an answer.
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During my research, I studied mainstream
German ophthalmology which was unable to
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explain how I was able to correct my own eyesight.
I then came across the works of Dr W.H.Bates,
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an American ophthalmologist. I learned that
Dr. Bates had discarded mainstream German
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ophthalmology very early in his ophthalmology
practice as far as the process of accommodation
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was concerned. In return, mainstream
German ophthalmology had ostracized him;
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something that stands till date. That had
never bothered Dr. Bates himself, though.
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He was a perfect materialist who created his
own version of the process of accommodation in
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ophthalmology. German ophthalmology has
always maintained that it is impossible
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to reverse eyesight once it has gone bad.
Bates, however, claimed otherwise. In fact,
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he claimed to have cured thousands of
myopic patients during his lifetime.
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Regardless, Bates’ method had a serious
shortcoming in that its results were not
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instantaneous. It almost never showed an
instantaneous effect to its practitioners.
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They needed to have a great amount of
patience which very few of them really had.
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The reason was that Bates primarily targeted
the relaxation of mind rather than that of
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body. It was not a direct physical method. It was
rather a more circuitous one addressing the mind.
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It depended on the mind to convey the message
of relaxation to the eyes in an indirect way.
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And that was why it took so much time.
Moreover, mind is never a concrete and
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always a vague entity. It may delude itself
into believing that it is in a relaxed state
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even when it is not at all so. Therefore,
maneuvering the body is way more concrete
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than maneuvering the mind. In the domain of the
body, one can be 100% sure that one is following
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the exact procedure laid out in front of them.
Bates was more concerned with central fixation
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of the mind in order to achieve
central fixation of the eyes.
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I was lucky enough to be able to turn it around.
I could focus my research on central fixation of
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the eyes via physical maneuvering
of the extra ocular muscles.
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Just as changes in the mind affect the body,
changes in the body affect the mind as well.
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That is why and how a skeletal procedure for
achieving relaxation is able to demonstrate
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instantaneous effects in its small, little steps
of achievements. An instant feedback at each and
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every step assures one that they are on the right
track. Imagine being able to read an extra line on
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the Snellen chart in a few minutes if not seconds.
How much will that enthuse us to proceed further
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with the meditative procedure of central fixation!
That is what Skeletal Leap has replaced the Bates
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method with as far as vision
improvement is concerned.
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The Chakra Discipline
However, there was much
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more to my research than this. I accidentally
came across an ancient Indian procedure of
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opening chakras in the body in order to achieve
a complete relaxation of the mind-body system.
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The problem with this system was that it was quite
esoteric in its structure. It was esoterically
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enshrined deep inside multiple layers of secrecy
and an extremely complex mysterious vitalistic
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framework. All that we can find on the Internet
about chakras is merely plagiarized copies of the
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same esoteric scriptures. Their so-called authors
are mostly equally devoid of personal experience
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and hence a real insight into the discipline.
The Chakra discipline really helped me a lot
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in my research. I was again very lucky in
being able to shift its central theme from
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complexity to simplicity. I could turn its
vague and complex ‘spiritual’ procedures to
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extremely simple skeletal procedures to
open chakras for mind-body relaxation.
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The best test of my being on the right
track was that these procedural shifts
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produced their intended results exactly
as well as instantaneously. Instant
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eyesight improvement was only one of them.
Here is what I ultimately came up with…
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7 chakras, when they are closed, are anatomical
deformities in functional groups of internal
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body organs. These are the groups of skeletal
joints along with muscles, nerves and blood
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vessels attached to them. The vagus nerve is also
a part of them. They block Kundalini from moving
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up through Sushumna to the brain in a streamlined
flow. As a result, it starts rotating in a circle,
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like a vortex, at the location of the
block rather than moving ahead straight.
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That is why the said blocks are called
chakras. The ultimate results of opening them,
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as predicted in the scriptures, are a gushing
surge of energy from the gut to the brain.
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It is called Kundalini Awakening in the language
of the Chakra discipline. And this is what
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the most central theme of Skeletal Leap is.
Skeletal Leap: Materialistic Or Vitalistic?
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In the system of Skeletal Leap, the skeletal
posturing corrections are called skeletal
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meditations. This is because they are as
intense as they are simple when it comes
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to making them one’s first nature 24 x 7 x
- It means being in a meditative state
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every single moment and not only for the
duration of sitting in meditation alone.
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That is why I call skeletal meditations the
mother of all mediation on earth. They are more
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physical than spiritual, constantly ensuring
that we are undoubtedly on the right track.
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We simply cannot delude ourselves with
something absolutely non-meditative
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while doing these skeletal meditations.
Siding with physical skeletal meditations doesn’t
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mean that I ignore the mental and spiritual
realities. I only say that we should start our
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journey into the unknown from the well-known
grounds of familiarity and clarity. That way,
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we are less prone to get lost in its labyrinth.
And the ultimate skeletal meditation has the
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power to take us to spiritual awakening.
In the language of skeletal meditation,
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it means freedom from all illusion. It is illusion
that blocks our sensitivity from sensing the
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free flow of energy in our mind-body system.
The physical approach is the surest and the
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shortest way to all salvation, be it physical,
mental or spiritual. And this is so, even if our
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ultimate goal is spiritual alone. That is
what Skeletal Leap ultimately stands for.
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Thanks for listening to this episode
of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
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In the next episode, I will tell you
about bioenergetics vs kundalini and
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which one of the two passes to
be the energy that creates life.
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