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Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date!
Welcome back to the 28th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date!” will tell you about human achievements vs losses through homo sapiens bipedal evolution.
We humans have been extremely successful in achieving an unchallenged control over the planet we live on, something none of the other 8.7 million living species could even dream of.
Homo sapiens are ruling the planet at present like dinosaurs once did.
As a species, we have made immense progress in creating tools that gave us the power to establish the said control.
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Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! – Show Notes
In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap, titled “Homo Sapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date,” I explore the remarkable yet tumultuous path of human evolution and the consequences of our advancements.
Join me as I dive deep into the duality of human achievements versus losses throughout our bipedal evolution. Discover how Homo sapiens have gained unprecedented control over the planet, surpassing the capabilities of our fellow species, yet simultaneously sowing the seeds of our own potential demise.
From the dawn of tool-making to the rise of complex societal structures, learn how our superior communication skills and abstract thinking have propelled us forward. However, this journey has not been without its pitfalls; the very myths we created to unite us have also led to fragmentation and conflict.
As we stand on the brink of irreversible climate change, I challenge my species to confront the greed and fear that have driven our unsustainable progress. I emphasize the urgent need for a shift in our collective mindset—from competition to cooperation, from a fragmented mind to a unified consciousness.
This episode invites you to reflect on our collective responsibility and the power of an empty mind in fostering genuine understanding and action. Can we learn from our past mistakes and pave the way for a sustainable future?
Tune in to find out!
Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! – Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) – Human Accomplies vs Losses
(00:11:32) – What to Do Now?
Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! – Video
Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! – Transcript with Timestamps
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“What to Do Now?
Today, if we are humble enough to learn
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our lesson, we need to take immediate action.
How do we do that?”
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about human
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achievements vs losses through
homo sapiens bipedal evolution.
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We humans have been extremely successful in
achieving an unchallenged control over the
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planet we live on, something none of the other
8.7 million living species could even dream of.
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Homo sapiens are ruling the planet
at present like dinosaurs once did.
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As a species, we have made immense progress in
creating tools that gave us the power to establish
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the said control. The tools kept getting more and
more sophisticated as did our brain’s ability to
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think in abstraction. We, the sapiens, had
another exclusive advantage at our behest.
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We could communicate much better with one
another through the use of our language that
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was way superior to that of other Homo species.
Hence we were better able to cooperate in groups
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while fighting with our competitors for the
purpose of dominance over them. Neanderthals
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who were physically stronger and other Homo
species could not do it so effectively among
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themselves and slowly went out of existence.
It was then that the Homo sapiens discovered
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the power of the mind in creating mythological
stories, thanks to their superior language. And
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then, they soon started believing in them! As
this happened, it acted as a double-edged sword.
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It started imparting an autonomous status to the
mind as separate from a reviewer of the brain’s
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perception and action. It helped the Homo sapiens,
driven by their fictitious beliefs, to start
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cooperating in bigger and bigger groups to achieve
dominance over the planet as a species. But then,
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humanity didn’t stop over there. It allowed these
fictitious beliefs to turn into a unique kind of
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auto-immune disease, not of the individual but of
society. A disease that we have been dealing with
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the repercussions of, ever since.
Wars became the order of the day.
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Marked by the dominance of massive groups
cooperating among themselves in an effort
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to annihilate other massive groups, these
wars paved the path for the competitive
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growth of Homo sapiens’ civilization.
Since then, the story of the growth of
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human civilization has remained much the same
to date. That is why and how these mythological
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stories acted as double-edged swords. Though
they created vast cooperating groups furthering
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tremendous growth and development, the
said growth always remained fragmented.
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The groups remained disparate, miserably
failing to operate as one single cooperating
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group of a species called Homo sapiens.
This was the power of our fragmented minds
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following our fragmented beliefs via our
fragmented stories that took dominance
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over the marvels of the spontaneous brains of a
unique species that we, the Homo sapiens, were.
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Nevertheless, the power to think
in abstraction was a great leap in
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the evolution of the human brain. It gave
birth to new disciplines in science, arts,
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technology and commerce. Human culture started
prospering with inventions of digits and letters
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resulting in mathematics to calculate on one
hand and language to communicate on the other.
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Today, we marvel at our own achievements
within such a short span of time,
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evolutionarily speaking. Once we, the Homo
sapiens, started galloping along the track
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of new discoveries and inventions, we never
stopped. It has been too fast an evolution of
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the brain in too short a span of time. Overall,
our brain size has increased 2-3 times within
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the last 3 million years, starting with the
species named Australopithecus. This was a
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group of hominins from which humans are supposed
to have descended. These 3 million years is quite
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a small fraction of time when compared
to the 3 billion years of life on earth.
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And surprisingly, that process of evolution
is still on! And at the same break-neck speed!
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The Tipping Point of Crisis
We have almost reached the edge
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of the point of no return from the harmful
effects of human-induced climate change.
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As of today, the two major ice sheets
at Greenland and Antarctica are melting
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speedily. If the greenhouse gases are not
stopped from emitting further, the rise of
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the global sea level is going to cause havoc.
If the global temperature ultimately increases
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by 1.5-2oC, the melting of these ice sheets
may become irreversible. Higher rainfall and
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higher flooding events would engulf the northern
hemisphere. It would end up in the extinction
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of quite a few species of plants, insects and
vertebrates. Under extreme weather conditions,
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there are going to be way more spontaneous forest
fires. And we have already started seeing all
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these effects in just the past few years!
As David Attenborough said,
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“What we do in the next twenty years will
determine the future of all life on earth.”
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Who is to be blamed for it?
Our mind, our society and our culture! Who else?
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Our mind is greedy. It is greedy because it is
fearful. We, as a species, wanted to progress
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as much as we could, as fast as we could.
We overexploited our planet’s resources,
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without giving it back what we took from
it. Earth wants to take everything back now.
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Isn’t it a lesson for our mind? Isn’t it a lesson
for the way we have structured our society?
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Isn’t it an indictment of the value system
that we have erected human culture on?
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Where did we go wrong? What
was our earliest mistake?
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Remember I had said that the mind gets
subjectively attached to its faulty apprehensions
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of threat to life, in Episode 20? It overrates the
instincts of self-preservation. On the other hand,
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it suppresses and even represses death instincts.
That is how it distorts reality and corrupts human
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action. It is because all death instincts
including curiosity, interaction, adventure,
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love and sex turn us passionate, insightful
and people-centric. On the other hand,
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self-preservative instincts turn us stupidly
emotional, greedy and self-centric more than
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people-centric. They want growth as much and
as fast as possible whereas death instincts
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are way saner in their approach. In its greed,
humanity sided with the fastest possible rather
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than sustainable growth that is in tune with all
of nature and, therefore, would have given rise to
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a different paradigm of ‘quality’ of life.
That is why and how the brain is way more
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intelligent than the mind. In fact, the mind
can very easily go stupid. Brain never does.
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That was our very first mistake. In fact, that
was our Original Sin, if any. We gave the entire
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reigns of comprehending psychedelic (incognizable)
reality in a cognizable way to the mind. Reality
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is right, only its cognition is not. We shouldn’t
have made the mind an autonomous entity having the
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power to comprehend reality anyway it likes. It
should have been kept subservient to the brain,
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the real master of perception and action.
Had we managed to do that, psychology as an
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autonomous science would have been redundant.
It would rather have been a subordinate
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discipline under physiology or neurology.
Even with our bloated, fragmented minds,
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we can still get rid of our old prejudices
for/ against fragmented groups that are busy
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cooperating within themselves in order to compete
with or even annihilate others within our own
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species. Today, we can give credit to our expanded
awareness of undivided humanity and stop believing
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in the fragmenting stories created by our
fragmented minds all those thousands of years ago!
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I know I am asking for a big, huge lot. I am
asking for a paradigm shift in our comprehension
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of reality. For this to be possible, the mind
needs to comprehend reality as per the neural
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dictates of the nervous system. It needs to
follow commands of the brain and its entire
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nervous system without trying to affect them
at all. As it right now is, the mind limits
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the efficiency of the brain by corrupting its
perception and consequent spontaneous action.
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That is how, in its greed, it gave a signal
to the best of the human brains to make
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so-called progress as fast as possible.
And look where that has brought us today!
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What to Do Now?
Today, if we are humble enough to learn
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our lesson, we need to take immediate action.
How do we do that?
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We simply need to empty our mind of all the
garbage it has collected in the past thousands of
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years. All its beliefs, all its attachments, all
its prejudices, its morals and emotions! It needs
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to be left alone with what it is there for, i.e.,
the subjective cognition of instinctual awareness.
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It should be left alone as the sense
of ‘I’ with just the set of instincts
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human nature has already provided us with.
We can afford to do it today although we could
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never have done so till date without risking
our very existence on the planet. Right now,
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no other species is left to claim
its dominance on the planet. We don’t
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need to compete with our siblings any more.
Competition has already played its commendable
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role in safeguarding us up to this point of time.
But if it continues, it will turn against our own
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self, as a species. Where else does this happen?
In our own bodies. Exactly like the immunity in
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our bodies that competes against foreign entities
to protect us sometimes turns on itself leading
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to autoimmune diseases, our intra-species
competition is threatening to wipe us out.
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What we need today is a world-wide
cooperation or else, we will run
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our species out of existence. It will be nothing
less than a suicidal act on our collective part.
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Cooperation over competition! Brain over
mind!! Even better, an empty mind!!!
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Okay, what does the mind
do when it is left emptied?
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It gives a cognizable meaning to the psychedelic
perceptions and spontaneous actions of the brain
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without generating beliefs around them.
We need to go agnostic in the truest sense
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of the word. When that happens, we stop living in
our past and/ or future with emotional attachments
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to them. Passion replaces emotions. We are able
to centrally fixate our passionate attention on
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the perception and action of the very present
moment. Central fixation makes it possible for
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the brain to spontaneously think the best without
being distorted by emotional thoughts of the mind.
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When this happens, action is the next spontaneous
step taken by the brain instantaneously. Even
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artificial intelligence (AI) will never
be able to match the human brain since,
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even at its best, it can only
achieve speed but never spontaneity.
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In my first language named Hindi, past is named
‘bhoot’ meaning ’ghost’. I find that hilarious.
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It seems to me to be the best description of
the past. Past is dead and we keep emotionally
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clinging to its ghost or to its cousin,
i.e., its own projection as the future.
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These ghosts masquerading as thoughts possess
our brain and limit or distort its capability
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to spontaneously think without any deterrents.
Thinking is the handiwork of the brain. Chewing
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the cud of thoughts is the handiwork of
the mind. Thinking and chewing the cud of
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thoughts are two diametrically opposite
actions. Let us start thinking as real
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intelligent organisms. Let us stop chewing
the cud of thoughts as stupid dead ghosts.
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Let us tackle these impending emergencies of
human-induced climate change in an absolutely
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intelligent way…while we still can! And that
absolute intelligence can only arise from an
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empty mind.
But what’s
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the modus operandi of emptying the mind?
We have already discussed this in all its
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conceptual details as Skeletal Leap in Episode 26
and Episode 27. However, that is at the level of
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an individual. It is my contention that a similar
approach can be extended to society, as a whole.
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Thanks for listening to this episode
of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
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In the next episode, I will tell you about
sociocultural chakras on the lines of Maslow’s
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hierarchy of needs turning to wants and thus
affecting sociocultural evolution negatively.
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